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From: 70th Birthday Tribute, January 2005
by Phil Arnold
It's been a real kick contributing to Elvis International magazine for six years, and my best fringe benefit so far happened in Memphis during Elvis Week 2004. It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Darwin Lamm, Editor/Publisher of Elvis International, put on the two biggest concerts of the week … back to back on one night. Darwin is exceptionally organized, and he has been promoting concerts since 1988, but he still needed two "Production Assistants" for these shows.
Gary Olsen, a Vancouver, BC, disc jockey and experienced concert promoter, was the number one man. I was the go-fer. Gary carried around a stack of papers, referred to them often, made decisions and gave orders. I went for ice. I also went for sandwiches, sodas, and Xerox copies (three different times). If Scotty Moore wanted a bottle of water from the VIP room, I was tickled to go-fer it.
The first of the two concerts was "The Legends Salute the 50th Anniversary of Rock & Roll." The title, of course, was tied to the theme for this year's festivities, a celebration of the 50 years since Elvis recorded his first release "That's All Right (Mama)" in 1954. The Legends concert was scheduled to start at 6:30 PM, but Darwin, Gary and I got to the venue at 9:30 AM. And what a venue — The Cannon Center for The Performing Arts. This theater is almost brand new and there isn't a bad seat in the place. It is home to the Memphis Symphony, so you know it has superb acoustics.
When we arrived backstage, the two biggest names on the whole program, Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana, were already there. There wasn't any of that big-star-late-arrival stuff for these good old boys.
Also on the scene were several members of Ronnie McDowell's band. Steve Shepherd, keyboard player in the band, quickly assumed the role of floor manager, as he put tape down on the stage to mark where the vocalists and other performers were to stand. It looked like he had plenty of experience doing this. Later, I learned he is also a superb keyboard player, and he contributed significantly to the quality of the music that evening.
Scotty and DJ supervised the construction of the riser, which is an elevated platform, three steps above the floor, on which DJ would do his magic. It was at the back of the stage, but the height enabled the audience to see him.
As time went by, other performers strolled in. Bob Moore, who was Elvis' bass man for 18 years, was an early arrival. Billy Swan, one of five featured vocalists, showed up soon afterward. One by one, the four Jordanaires joined the group. Millie Kirkham, who did back-up vocals for Elvis for 15 years, was warmly received by all the men. Everyone was in a happy mood, catching up with the others. It began to resemble a family affair. Each new arrival made the rounds, talking with the rest, just like at a reunion. Obviously these folks were dear old friends.
Lee Rocker, fresh off the Straycats reunion tour in Europe, added his unique presence to the swelling crowd of performers. He sported black leather and lots of sterling silver ear-rings. Ronnie McDowell, who would be the surprise vocal guest of the night, dressed another way with shorts, tee-shirt and sandals.
Stan Perkins, oldest son of rockabilly legend Carl Perkins, arrived with a few friends and had a good time shaking hands and talking with everyone. Eddie Miles, the great Elvis tribute artist, showed up wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. His entourage blended into the growing group of people who displayed all-access badges, but who had no specific part in the performances. It just added more to the party atmosphere.
Finally, the one man everybody adores, Boots Randolph, strolled on stage. It didn't take long to figure out that Mr Yakety-Sax is a super nice guy. Boots was so friendly and had lots of stories to tell. Later, backstage at the second concert, when a chair next to Boots became available, I wasted no time claiming that prized spot.
Actually, the entire day at the theater was a prize, one that gave me the opportunity to go autograph hunting. For a fifteen hour period I carried with me the 50th Anniversary issue of Elvis International. Darwin Lamm had honored me by publishing in this milestone issue three articles I had written. One was about Scotty, DJ, and the Jordanaires, plus a nice sidebar piece on Bill Black. Another was about all the singers and other musicians who joined them in the Legends concert. Finally, I wrote about the four members of the TCB Band, plus Terry Mike Jeffrey. He handled the vocal duties for the second concert, "The TCB Band Salutes Elvis and the 50th Anniversary of Rock & Roll."
In total, the three articles featured short biographies and other commentary on 21 performers. My goal was to get each one to sign their name over the text I had written about them. In my mind, every performer was a legend with a connection to Elvis, and I was out to get all their autographs in my magazine.
First, and most important to me, were Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana. I got them early while the concert hall's crewmen were assembling DJ's riser. By the time the Legends Salute rehearsals and sound checks began, I had the autographs of everybody appearing in the first concert.
Rehearsals were interesting, but these folks had all worked with each other enough times in the past that not much rehearsing was needed. Sound checks were kind of boring. I was surprised to learn that there is so much difference in the settings each singer specifies to the guy up in the sound booth.
In between the autograph seeking, I did various Production Assistant jobs. I helped to set up lunch in the VIP room. I was blown away when Elvis' long-time nurse and friend Marion Cocke pulled into the backstage loading zone with a car full of sandwiches. This wonderful 78 year-old woman made them all in her kitchen. There were four different kinds (but no peanut butter and 'naner). Later, after the thirsty crowd of performers and their guests consumed all the cases of bottled water, we solved that problem by loading the large bottled water unit in the venue office on a cart and taking it to a prime spot just off-stage.
By the time the first group of performers finished rehearsals, Terry Mike Jeffrey and the four TCB Band members were ready to do their thing. Drummer Ronnie Tutt had been hanging around for several hours spending time with old buddies, and I got his autograph early. Terry Mike was another early arrival, so it was easy to get his signature.
However, guitarist James Burton, bass player Jerry Scheff, and piano player Glen D Hardin got right to business before I could shove my magazine and black Sharpie pen in front of them. The TCB boys really didn't have to do any rehearsing, as they have played together so many times in the "Elvis, The Concert" shows. Terry Mike Jeffrey has performed with them numerous times in the past few years. I decided to skip their sound check and went back to the hotel for a little nap. It would be a long night, and I wanted to be sharp for all of it. I'd get their autographs later, before the show.
The nap was great, but it turned out to be poorly timed. By the time I returned to The VIP room, a catered hot supper had been delivered … and consumed. I settled for two slices of bread, some potato chips and a soda for my meal. Soon, all thoughts of food vanished as other responsibilities called. My favorite Production Assistant assignment of the night occurred when the son and daughter of the late Bill Black couldn't get their will-call tickets at the window. I went out front and was able to save the day by talking some sense to the ticket lady. I felt so proud of myself. It also gave me the opportunity to get both of Bill's children to sign my magazine over the paragraphs I had written about their dad.
The only other non-performer to sign my magazine was Red Robinson, another Vancouver DJ, who served as master of ceremonies and announcer for both concerts. Red turned out to be a real buddy and a great guy to hang out with on Beale Street.
Other writers in this magazine will regale you with accounts of the two concerts as they experienced them from their seats in the audience. My vantage point was backstage, or should I say side-stage. True backstage would be behind the tall black curtain. However, there was a series of parallel side curtains which allowed us to look at the bands from the side, but the audience couldn't see us. With so many singers and musicians in the Legends Salute, there were a lot of folks backstage. It was so much fun being part of this group.
When the first concert ended, another important Production Assistant job was to guide the performers out to tables in the lobby where they would sign autographs for the fans. We had to be firm with several determined folks who wanted to get autographs before the musicians got to the tables. Once everybody was seated and the line of fans was moving nicely, my assignment was to help out at one of the doors. The venue employee there was overwhelmed trying to take tickets from new fans while trying to keep track of those coming back into the building after a smoke break.
I helped him for twenty minutes, then I begged off to go backstage again and pursue more TCB Band autographs. I got Glen D Hardin's, but James Burton and Ronnie Scheff were on center stage working out some stuff, so I didn't bother them. I returned to the lobby and helped escort the Jordanaires back to the VIP room. It was almost 10 PM, and Gordon Stoker needed to get some food before diabetic problems got to him. We literally had to push our way through fans who wanted him to pose with them for pictures. Gordon is too nice to ever say no to fans, so us Production Assistants had to be the bad guys and say, "Sorry, can't do it." Gordon paid me back the next night, buying me a meatloaf dinner at the hotel restaurant. Did he ever tell some funny Elvis stories that will never make it to print.
The second concert was also terrific, but it seemed a bit more business-like than the first. There were fewer musicians and only one singer. Terry Mike Jeffrey meshed his traveling band with the TCB boys, and his off-stage entourage consisted of only his daughter-in-law. This time, hardly anybody was backstage, because the whole gang from the Legends show was now in the audience to watch the second concert.
That was good because it gave me a chance to talk more with Boots Randolph. This distinguished 78-year-old gentleman was the only performer to wear a coat and tie. He had been a huge audience favorite during the first concert when he played a down and dirty sax part on the Elvis blues classic, "Reconsider Baby," followed by an energetic romp with his own hit, "Yakety Sax." I yelled and cheered during both songs, just like most other folks backstage. Boots was impressive.
Terry Mike Jeffrey certainly thought so, too, because he cornered Boots between the shows and talked him into doing the songs again during the second concert. As we sat together backstage, waiting for Boots' time to go on, I asked him which he preferred, the keyboard we heard in the first concert, or the piano playing in the second. Boots started out saying he liked both equally well, but the more he talked, the more he realized he liked the keyboard sound better. So did I.
I actually got to walk out on stage during the TCB Salute. Between songs, Jerry Scheff signaled he was thirsty, and I carried a paper cup of cold water to him. It was fun later when a friend of mine from Canada said she saw me on stage.
It was past midnight when the TCB Band Salute ended. I still lacked the autographs of Jerry Scheff and James Burton. I wasn't sure they were going out to the lobby, because they had a 7AM flight departure that morning for Las Vegas. I hated to bug them, but the window of opportunity was about to close. My new friend Red Robinson helped me get Scheff's autograph, and I found the nerve to approach James Burton as he was putting his guitar in the case. Both musicians were pleasant while doing my little favor.
So, my magical night backstage with 21 genuine music legends ended on a high note. I went back to my hotel room exhausted, but I was too hyper to sleep. Before finally dozing off, I pondered whether the health of all these people will hold up for another couple of years so we can do this again. I sure hope so. I know where they can get an experienced go-fer.
© 2005 Philip R Arnold


We have a very unique issue related to AMQERROR03.log issue under /data/mqm/qmgrs/QmgrName/errors.
Issue: As we have created new Qmgr on IBM MQ 9 , We could see that 3 error log file were created. AMQERROR01/2/3.
But as the MQ transactions started , we observed that AMQ logs were properly filled AMQ1.LOG ----->AMQ2.LOG when AMQ1 reached 2MB but as soon as AMQ2.LOG becomes 2MB ideally it should push to AMQ3.LOG either by creating the new file in case it does not exist or push the old logs if it exists.
Irrespective of servers or Qmgr , i.e the issue persists across all our DEV / QA and now we are going to Production.
What Action did we take so far for the testing?
2. Verified whether mqm user and group have proper access to write the logs, everything looks good.
3. Just to ensure whether Qmgr is generating AMQERROR03.LOG or not. We have deleted AMQERROR03.log and stopped and started the Qmgr as well. We have found that AMQ3.log being generated.
4.We have manaully pushed logs to AMQ3.log to see for any right issues etc, but we can do the same. PMR is not raised yet. We have not defined anything in qm.ini or any variables about QMerrorStana values.
Do you people have any idea, or faced similar kind of issues ?
Are you sure you have the correct file names?
No other names can be used.
Can you provide an 'ls -l' of the errors directory?
I like to increase the error log file size as the default is far too low and allow repeating errors to wrap the logs too quickly.
But in general terms, why are you getting errors anyway?
amqerr logs are error logs. Not sure why you would care if one of them got deleted - other than that you lost the data in them.
Easiest way, and possible safest way to fill them is to keep making telnet connections to the listener port... or otherwise send junk data to it in new connections.
The listener will throw error messages - more than one, I think? - every time it gets non-mq traffic on the port.
Likely the "probelm" you are seeing is that MQ keeps a persistent file handle, once it's open, to each of the amqerr files. when you delete the file, that doesn't close the handle.
Or don't actually recreate the deleted file. That might cause MQ to notice it's file handle is bad and then create a new file.
Once the log is full, AMQERR02.LOG gets copied/renamed to AMQERR03.LOG; AMQERR01.LOG get copied/renamed to AMQERR02.LOG and the queue manager continues to log into a new AMQERR01.LOG.
In general we are not getting too much errors.. but you must be aware that , these error logs will also capture channel start and stop etc as well.. if we have too much frequent transactions, logs would get generated. In this case by default is 2MB which is sufficient i believe and regularly we are having backup of AMQEROR03 log , hope now it makes bit more sense about the issue..
I do understand how logs works in MQ, but the strange thing here is once AMQ2 is full, by default it must get copied to AMQ3 once it reaches 2MB or more.. thing to be noted AMQ1 got copied to AMQ2 without any issue after AMQ1 reached 2MB..! really strange ! one of out architect tried RHEL V7 and IBM MQ 9 on VM.. he is stating each time we need to stop and start Qmgr to ensure AMQ1 gets copied to AMQ2 and again stop and start Qmgr to AMQ2 -->AMQ3 ...We were totally confused! something really wrong with IBM MQ 9 and RHEL V7 combination?
Your understanding is wrong. AMQERR02.LOG can be full and it will not get copied / renamed to AMQERR03.LOG until AMQERR01.LOG is full.
I do understand how logs works in MQ, but the strange thing here is once AMQ2 is full, by default it must get copied to AMQ3 once it reaches 2MB or more.. thing to be noted AMQ1 got copied to AMQ2 without any issue after AMQ1 reached 2MB..! really strange !
The error logs aren't copied at rollover, that would be too ineffiecent. Size management is only done on log 1. When it reaches the threshold, log 3 is deleted, log 2 is renamed to log 3, log 1 is renamed to log 2, and a new log 1 is created and used.
The KC and IBM training doc continue to imprecisely use 'copy' and 'copied' to describe the mq error log file rotation process.
As error messages are generated, they are placed in AMQERR01. When AMQERR01 gets bigger than 2 MB (2 097 152 bytes) it is copied to AMQERR02. Before the copy, AMQERR02 is copied to AMQERR03.LOG. The previous contents, if any, of AMQERR03 are discarded.
I now understand clearly AMQ1--->AMQ2-->AMQ3 : once AMQ1 is 2MB it will be renamed to AMQ2, and earlier AMQ2 will get renamed to AMQ3 .
Lets come to real issue!.
IBM MQ 9.0.2 and IBM MQ 9.0.3 CD has the AMQ Error log issue. below is APAR link.
Issue would be fixed in IBM MQ 9.0.5(not yet released!).
They have provided the Ifix for IBM MQ 9.0.2 and IBM MQ 9.0.3 currently after raising the PMR.
Thanks to all who have given suggestions and gyaan on how IBM MQ Logs works!


DALLAS — Michael Hinojosa was about to enter the ninth grade in Dallas when a federal judge ordered the city's public schools to integrate.
Two years ago, under Mr. Hinojosa's predecessor, the Dallas schools set a goal of starting more than 35 new schools by 2020. Through this effort, Mr. Hinojosa hopes to reverse enrollment declines and increase student achievement, while wooing college-educated and white families that may have never before considered public education in Dallas.
Some of the schools, in fact, make no secret of whom they are trying to draw: Half of their seats are reserved for students from middle- or higher-income families, and some are set aside for students living outside the district.
Dallas is one of just a handful of cities trying ambitious integration programs, even though nationwide, public schools are more segregated today than they were in 1970.
A third of black and Hispanic students attend schools that are more than 90 percent nonwhite, according to research from the Century Foundation, and those racially segregated schools are overwhelmingly low-performing. Research shows that poor children who attend school alongside more privileged peers score higher on standardized tests and earn more money as adults.
But fearful of stoking a fresh round of middle-class flight or another busing revolt like Boston's in the 1970s, most cities have shied away from addressing the issue.
A typical approach is New York's, where gifted programs and magnet schools have not made a great dent. This month, Mayor Bill de Blasio released a diversity plan that promised to decrease the number of schools in which low-income children are isolated from middle-class peers.
There has historically been little interest in the issue in Washington. In March, the Trump administration announced that it would end a small grant program for districts hoping to diversify their student bodies.
That makes Dallas, which has even produced a marketing campaign to promote its integration efforts, an outlier.
The effort is small for now, involving fewer than one in 10 city schools, and has not been a total success. One strategy, called "innovation schools," tries to make neighborhood schools more attractive by installing programs like the International Baccalaureate curriculum, similar to Advanced Placement. It has improved test scores, but has not yet significantly changed the demographics of the schools, many of which are in middle-class areas but serve few middle-class children.
Another, more expensive strategy, called "transformation schools," is getting faster results.
Dallas has plenty of white and college-educated parents to draw from. The region is the nation's second-fastest-growing, with an economic boom driven by the financial services and health sectors. On weekday evenings, throngs of well-heeled, mostly white urbanites take to the Katy Trail, an elevated, tree-lined path north of downtown. They walk their dogs, stroll with their babies and jog while wearing university T-shirts and expensive sneakers.
But these people have not enrolled their children in public schools, with the exception of a few coveted neighborhood schools and selective magnet programs. The district's student population is 93 percent Hispanic and black. In the 1960s, before court-ordered desegregation, more than half the students were white.
The Rev. Andrew C. Stoker, senior minister of First United Methodist Church of Dallas, sends his two sons, who are white, to Hispanic-majority public schools. But he estimates that three-quarters of his congregants send their children to private schools.
The idea of catering to parents like these was, at first, controversial. Past desegregation efforts, based on involuntary busing and selective schools, offered little to poor, nonwhite children. The transformation program is also costly; the district renovated several school buildings and is busing students — voluntarily — across the city.
Joyce Foreman, a school board member who represents working-class southwest Dallas, said she supported the integration push and believed the new schools gave her constituents more options. But she said the cost of expanding these programs must be weighed against the needs of older schools that serve largely poor families.
Mr. Hinojosa, who is on his second stint as superintendent, began his education career in 1979 as a Dallas middle school history teacher and basketball coach. He sent all three of his sons to Dallas public schools.
He inherited the desegregation plan from the previous superintendent, Mike Miles. Several staff members working on integration have recently left the district, but Mr. Hinojosa said he was nevertheless expanding the effort.
This spring, 1,705 students applied for 613 spots in the five existing transformation schools. More than a quarter of applicants are currently enrolled in private or charter schools or live outside the district, and 15 percent are white, a demographic profile very much outside the district's norm.
The most lauded of the new schools is Solar Preparatory School for Girls, which emphasizes the sciences and art. On a recent morning, a teacher, Nicolette Luna, asked her uniform-clad first graders to pair up to discuss the meaning of a new vocabulary word: "humility." Later in the day, the class took a trip to an environmental center.
The school has become so popular with well-off families that administrators have had to step up recruitment in low-income neighborhoods, in order to meet the requirement that half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The student body is 51 percent Hispanic, 22 percent black, 22 percent white and 2 percent Asian.
Not all of the transformation schools are that diverse. At the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy, or IDEA, a high school that places students in professional internships as early as 10th grade, about 80 percent of students receive free or reduced-price lunches, and only eight students are white.
One of the eight, an aspiring architect named Aiden Dornback, left a popular charter school because he and his parents did not like what they considered its emphasis on test preparation.
Aiden's mother, Sarah Dornback, said she was comfortable with her son's being in the demographic minority at his new school — even though it makes their family a subject of curiosity among people in their social circle, many of whom send their children to private schools or have moved to suburbs like Frisco or Prosper.
Mr. Hinojosa acknowledged that for now, families like the Dornbacks were the exception. Some principals have complained, he said, that while college-educated parents are increasingly "window shopping" at their schools, they do not necessarily return to enroll their children.


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Shell Energy and SMS extend smart meter exclusivity agreement
SMS has now installed 1.4 million smart meters in UK homes. Image: SMS.
Molly Lempriere
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Supplier Shell Energy and smart energy infrastructure company SMS have extended their exclusivity agreement for the installation of smart meters.
SMS initially served as Shell's Meter Asset Provider (MAP) from 2016, and has since become its fully-integrated smart meter installer and operator.
The new exclusivity deal was initially agreed in October 2018, and will now extend until December 2025. This will coincide with the government's smart meter rollout deadline, and include provision of asset funding for the meters.
Shell Energy took on an additional 22,000 domestic energy customers from shuttered supplier Goto Energy in October, as well as having taken on customers from Colorado and Daligas as suppliers continue to exit the market amidst high power prices.
"Shell has significantly grown its market share in the UK retail energy supply in recent months," said Tony Keeling, CEO, Shell Energy. "The extension of our partnership with SMS is key to us safely continuing to deliver the smart meter roll-out programme – a critical enabler to digitalise and decarbonise the UK energy system."
Keeling took over as CEO from Ed Kamm at the beginning of December.
SMS has installed over 1.4 million smart meters in the UK, and earlier this year announced c.900,000 of new meter contract wins. This increased its contracted order pipeline for UK energy suppliers to 2.75 million, as of June 2021.
In June, it also became the first meter installer, manager and operator to offer Aclara's complete portfolio of SMETS2 gas and electric smart meters to the UK utilities market.
"The extension of the exclusivity agreement is a testament to the strength of our long-term relationship with Shell Energy, underpinned by our well established end-to-end integrated model," added Alan Foy, CEO of SMS.
In February, SMS committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030, targeting on-site renewable generation, battery storage and electric vehicles (EVs).
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Sometimes the default pipes in Revit just won't cut it. Similar to adding a PVC pipe type, we can add a threaded pipe type as well. It's not too tricky, but there's some fittings we'll need to load and place before we can get started. To create a new pipe type, we'll need to load some families into our model. These fittings will be threaded class 150Ts crosses and couplings. So to get started, let's make sure in our sprinkler plan, ceiling plans, 1 ceiling sprinkler. Let's zoom in on this area here where we already have some sprinkler heads.
On the Systems tab, let's click the Pipe button. In the Properties, let's click the Edit Type button. And for the chilled water type let's click Duplicate. Let's simply call it Sprinkler. Let's click OK. Under routing preferences, click the Edit button in the value column. In the routing preferences dialog, click Load Family. Scroll down to Pipe.
Go to Fittings. Go to Malleable Iron. Class 150, threaded. On your keyboard, hit Ctrl+A. This selects every fitting we have. Click Open. Wait for the fittings to load, then we can get on our way. For the pipe segment, instead of copper, let's go with Iron > Ductile class 150. For the elbows click the drop down. Let's go elbow threaded mi class 150, do it for both.
Preferred junction type is going to be a Tee. For our junction let's go Tee Threaded mi class 150. Repeat. For our crosses, Threaded, and Threaded. For our transitions, let's go Concentric Reducing Threaded. Let's do the same thing. For our unions, we'll go Coupling Threaded.
And for our caps we'll keep it the same for now. Hit OK, then hit OK. What I like to do now is just draw some dummy pipes in, we'll keep the diameter at 3, let's give it an offset of 9 feet. I'm going to pick a point here to draw my pipe, pick a point here, I'm going to pick a point here, and I'm going to hit Escape a couple times. Let's change our detail level to Fine. Let's make sure that our thin lines are turned on.
Let's zoom in to our pipe type. Let's just make sure our fitting's the way we want it. It looks pretty good to me, so I'm going to delete this pipe by selecting it, holding down my Control key, selecting all three, and clicking Delete. Zoom all the way out, and I think we've got it. So, it may be redundant at this point, but these pipe types should be in your companies templates when you start each project. If not, it looks like you're the one who needs to put them there.


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Bill Maher Asks Kal Penn to Nudge Obama About Pot
Kal Penn on "Real Time" tells Bill Maher he'll see what he can do about persuading Pres. Obama to change his tune about pot.
During an interview on Real Time, Bill Maher appealed to Kal Penn, known best to stoners as Kumar but who's actually worked in the White House, to talk to Pres. Obama about marijuana.
Kal Penn with ganja burgers in High Times in 2004.
Maher: When you see Obama, as half of the Cheech & Chong of your generation, ask him why he's so bad on the issue of pot. Because he was part of the Choom Gang (Penn cracks up laughing). He must know that there's a lot of people who can't vote, can't get housing, can't do a lot of things, get jobs because they have that on their record, that he could have on his record because of what he did. And that's just a hypocrisy I don't think he should be able to live with. Will you take that message to him?"
Penn: I may phrase it differently, but I'll see what I can do.
Maher: Otherwise I'm with him.
During the interview Maher notes how ironic it is that Penn, who played the stoner character Kumar in the three Harold & Kumar movies, doesn't smoke pot. This is not quite true. Penn asked this writer for several joints at the High Times Stony Awards in 2005, during which Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was named Stoner Movie of the Year.
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Publisher of CelebStoner.com, former editor of High Times and Freedom Leaf and co-author of Pot Culture and Reefer Movie Madness.
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We are taught as children to be selfless, to be okay when someone treats us badly and maybe this exists more in Asian culture, where patriarchal culture is dominant. However, being cheated upon is a global phenomena. More prevalent and common across geographies and countries. The importance of it of course, varies. Unfortunately, the impact uniformly stays as devastating and heart breaking for anyone hurt.
Post the mishap, when the you manage to crawl out of the mess and stand over the rubble, you need to shake off the dust so you can breathe freely again. But this isn't always easy to do. You will wonder at the wisdom of removing your emotional armor. You will remember the wound, the pain and your foolishness of walking unarmored and maybe choose not to make the same mistake again believing it's keeping you safe from harm, heartache, and pain.
Unfortunately, we can't numb selectively. The numbing of pain also numbs our ability to love deeply and authentically. Leaving the armor on negates our ability to be in tune with life and experience it to the fullest – making the armor an unnecessary weight weighing us down.
What if I told you there's a mantra which will allow you to love and be protected as well – one that gives more protection and yet doesn't weigh you down ?
Of course, you will get hurt if you choose to live life to the fullest but, you'll survive.
It begins with accepting yourself, listening to that voice in your gut or your higher voice, trust it and always treat yourself with love, respect, compassion, and kindness.
Once you do this, you can bring forward your vulnerabilities, your true self, and know it's okay to drop the armor and fight for your chance at meaningful relationships.
Our self esteem gets hit the most when we are betrayed by people we love. You may begin to question yourself and your sense of worth in this world. Maybe you secretly tell yourself that you deserved the heart break, that you are either not worthy of being loved or that you were somehow responsible for it.
You've probably read or heard countless times that you have to love yourself first in order to love others. Or that you have to be enough for yourself . You need to practice this especially after you've been hurt because if you truly love yourself, the pain won't run so deep. Your sense of self will hold you. It won't matter how others view you, because you'll be aware of and open to your vulnerabilities allowing healing to take place quickly and also be receptive to love from others. The same love will work as your armor to be able to trust again.
Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness that we need to be ashamed of. Once you learn to take care of yourself, not allow yourself to be disrespected, you'll be better able to make intimate connections with people.
Don't rush your process and don't allow anyone to tell you otherwise. It's important to take the time to heal, learn from the past, feel the pain of loss, and then let go. Draw strength from within you, quit complaining or feeling victimised – you are enough.


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Q: Comparing Distance within an Array I have a question in comparing values within an Array and drawing a line to the points that have the largest distance.
   Point2D[] pts = new Point2D[N];
        for (int i = 0; i < pts.length; i++){
            pts[i] = new Point2D(Math.random(), Math.random());
            StdDraw.setPenColor(StdDraw.RED);
            StdDraw.setPenRadius(0.008);
            pts[i].draw();
            if(SOMETHING){
                StdDraw.setPenColor(StdDraw.BLACK);
                StdDraw.setPenRadius(0.002);
                pts[i].drawTo(SOMETHING);

so far that's part of my code that generates the random points, but I have no clue how to approach measuring the distance and then drawing it.
Would I have to create a nested loop?
Any advice would be great!

A: It is likely that, if you only want to draw the longest edge (a graph theory term), your draw call will not be inside of your for loop.  Rather, your loop (and possibly with a second nested loop) will run through all of your possibilities and find the longest edge first, by saving and overwriting data on whichever is the most-longest it has found thus far every time it breaks the previous record, and then commence drawing once after the loop.

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Currently residing in East Van with her husband and adorable pup Reggie, Alicia is a full-time blogger whose stylist roots really shone through while collaborating on this design. Meet the swimsuit top of your dreams: where the support of your favourite bra meets the effortless style of your favourite tee.
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IRLA Deputy Secretary General Promotes Religious Freedom in Romania
Calarasi, Romania, September 26, 2002. Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Deputy Secretary General for the International Religious Liberty Association has just returned from Romania to promote religious freedom in the country.
At a special meeting in the prefecture of the regional town of Calarasi, Gallagher spoke to representatives of local government, social agencies, and church communities on the vital importance of developing religious freedom and human rights.
"It's easy to forget that until twelve years ago, Romania was under a dictatorship," comments Gallagher. "As a result there's a great need to continue the development of democratic principles, especially the concepts of extending freedom of conscience to every citizen. It was my privilege to share our values and beliefs in this extremely relevant area, and to learn of progress to date."
Organized by the Romanian Religious Liberty Association leader Viorel Dima with the participation of other local religious leaders, the meeting was hosted by the regional council vice-president Marian Dragan.
In a personal conversation with Gallagher, Dragan commended the work to promote religious freedom and identified this as of considerable interest in his district. "We appreciate what you are doing and will work with you to develop understanding of human rights and religious freedom."
"This was an excellent opportunity to develop our external strategy of contacts with outside organizations and other faith communities," say Dima. "We value the contributions that such meetings make to the improvement of religious freedom in our country."
A meeting of minority faith groups has already agreed to work together in formulating comments and proposals to those charged with developing the new law. Several more meetings and seminars are planned.
"Our intention is to create a network of all religious organizations so that the proposed new law on religion is the best it can be and that it defends religious freedom," Dima concludes.
Gallagher will be making presentations to authorities and officials in the town of Matca as well.
How Can We Forget the Past? Violence Against Christians Continue in Pakistan French Officials May Have Second Thoughts Over "Anti-Sect" Policy


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Blood Money är ett musikalbum av den amerikanske musikern Tom Waits från 2002. Albumet släpptes tillsammans med Alice.

Låtlista
Låtarna skrivna av Tom Waits och Kathleen Brennan.

 "Misery Is the River of the World" - 4:25
 "Everything Goes to Hell" - 3:45
 "Coney Island Baby" - 4:02
 "All the World Is Green" - 4:36
 "God's Away on Business" - 2:59
 "Another Man's Vine" - 2:28
 "Knife Chase" - 2:26
 "Lullaby" - 2:09
 "Starving in the Belly of a Whale" - 3:41
 "The Part You Throw Away" - 4:22
 "Woe" - 1:20
 "Calliope" - 1:59
 "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" - 3:57

Musikalbum 2002
Album av Tom Waits
Album utgivna på ANTI-

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using System.Threading.Tasks;
using AzureStorage;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table;

namespace CompetitionPlatform.Data.AzureRepositories.Project
{
    public class ProjectFileInfoEntity : TableEntity, IProjectFileInfoData
    {
        public static string GeneratePartitionKey()
        {
            return "ProjectFileInfo";
        }

        public static string GenerateRowKey(string projectId)
        {
            return projectId;
        }

        public string ProjectId => RowKey;
        public string FileName { get; set; }
        public string ContentType { get; set; }

        public static ProjectFileInfoEntity Create(IProjectFileInfoData src)
        {
            var result = new ProjectFileInfoEntity
            {
                PartitionKey = GeneratePartitionKey(),
                RowKey = GenerateRowKey(src.ProjectId),
                FileName = src.FileName,
                ContentType = src.ContentType
            };

            return result;
        }

        public static ProjectFileInfoEntity Create(IFormFile file, string projectId)
        {
            var result = new ProjectFileInfoEntity
            {
                PartitionKey = GeneratePartitionKey(),
                RowKey = GenerateRowKey(projectId),
                FileName = file.FileName,
                ContentType = file.ContentType
            };

            return result;
        }
    }

    public class ProjectFileInfoRepository : IProjectFileInfoRepository
    {
        private readonly INoSQLTableStorage<ProjectFileInfoEntity> _projectFileInfoTableStorage;

        public ProjectFileInfoRepository(INoSQLTableStorage<ProjectFileInfoEntity> projectFileInfoTableStorage)
        {
            _projectFileInfoTableStorage = projectFileInfoTableStorage;
        }

        public async Task<IProjectFileInfoData> GetAsync(string projectId)
        {
            var partitionKey = ProjectFileInfoEntity.GeneratePartitionKey();
            var rowKey = ProjectFileInfoEntity.GenerateRowKey(projectId);

            return await _projectFileInfoTableStorage.GetDataAsync(partitionKey, rowKey);
        }

        public async Task SaveAsync(IProjectFileInfoData fileInfoData)
        {
            var newEntity = ProjectFileInfoEntity.Create(fileInfoData);
            await _projectFileInfoTableStorage.InsertOrReplaceAsync(newEntity);
        }
    }
}

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By David C. Antonucci
The 1960 Olympic Winter Games were a long-shot effort that succeeded beyond the wildest expectations. Working in a sparsely populated valley in the Sierra Nevada with only rudimentary facilities, organizers created a world-class Olympic site in four short years. For the only time in Olympic history, the venues and athlete residence halls were located in a compact, intimate setting that encouraged sportsmanship and interaction between athletes. There was elaborate pageantry in the ceremonies and decorations. The underdog American ice hockey team won the first-ever USA gold medal in that sport. American figure skaters swept gold in the individual events. Well-trained Soviet and Scandinavian athletes dominated the speed skating and cross-country skiing events. American women proved their mettle in the Alpine skiing events. German skiers made surprise upsets in the Nordic combined and ski jumping contests. And CBS-TV was there to capture the most exciting moments and make groundbreaking live broadcasts to American audiences.
Images of Sports
This book features rare images taken by official Olympic photographer Bill Briner that are complemented with images from public and private collections, some never before published. Using extensive research and oral histories from Olympic athletes and officials, award-winning author David C. Antonucci brings the VIII Olympic Winter Games to life.
The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games
Del Mar Fairgrounds
Skiing in the Mad River Valley
Skiing in Massachusetts
Detroit's Michigan Central Station
Rim of the World Drive
Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age


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Can anyone vett this guy?
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DoD regulation prohibiting contractors from wearing camo armor?
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AT SOlutions and RFI Questions?


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Home Business Western rivers face pinch as another dry year takes shape
Western rivers face pinch as another dry year takes shape
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As several states in the American West face intense drought, it's shaping up to be a very difficult year for New Mexico farmers because of limited irrigation supplies, with some saying conditions haven't been this dire since the 1950s.
Snowpack and precipitation are below average, spring runoff is trailing, and New Mexico comes in last among nearly a dozen Western states for dismal reservoir storage levels. Along the Rio Grande, New Mexico's largest reservoir stands at less than 11% capacity, meaning the irrigation season for farmers in the southern part of the state will likely start late and include only small allotments.
Further north, managers with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District are in a position not seen in decades. There's no extra water in the reservoirs and interstate water-sharing agreements are restricting both storage and releases from upstream reservoirs since New Mexico has fallen short of what it owes Texas.
The district was forced to wait a month — until April 1 — to start its irrigation season due to the meager supplies. Farmers were encouraged to consider resting their fields given that demand will surely outpace supply, but many are used to the risk that comes with planting each season so just a fraction of the acres throughout the Middle Rio Grande valley have been fallowed.
Feast or famine — it's the way of life in the Rio Grande basin.
The lack of water is the culmination of a sequence of unfortunate spring runoffs over recent years, not just a single year, said David Gensler, water operations manager for the conservancy district.
"We continue to be dealt losing hands, hydrologically speaking. We've played them for all they were worth, but we just continue to draw bad cards," he said, noting that water managers could not have done anything differently to get a positive outcome.
Statewide, more than half of New Mexico is dealing with exceptional drought — the worst category. A year ago, there was no exceptional or even extreme drought in the state.
Utah and Arizona are worse off in terms of drought severity, and Nevada is not far behind. California also appears to be in the midst of another drought.
In New Mexico's largest city, utility officials have issued a drought declaration. Outdoor watering in Albuquerque is limited to twice a week, and fines for wasting water have doubled. Watering restrictions also went into effect Thursday in Las Cruces.
Water managers are warning that it will be a struggle to meet irrigation demands if spring and summer rains do not develop, leaving the Rio Grande to potentially go dry through Albuquerque. The threat of drying this far north isn't new, but officials do not have any extra water to move around like they did in previous years.
In southeastern New Mexico, on the Pecos River, irrigation allotments haven't been this low in a century. Meanwhile, officials with the Elephant Butte Irrigation District recently told farmers to plan for a short year, "recognizing that we will all need to make difficult decisions."
That district went through a similar season in 2013, when farmers were allotted less than a few inches and water was released from a dam for only 47 days. This year, district managers anticipate running for one month.
But the hydrology of the Rio Grande can be volatile and turn on a dime, Gensler said. One well-positioned spring storm could change things or monsoons could develop just in time to keep the river flowing.
"As the saying goes, hope is not a plan," he said. "It is entirely possible we will hit the wall later this spring, have no water, and the Rio Grande will stop flowing. But until it does, we will manage every drop as carefully as humanly possible for the benefit of farmers, fish, the bosque, the cities, downstream water users, and this fascinating river we all love so much."
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A documentary last night by the actress Sally Phillips explored some attitudes towards Downs Syndrome. It was called a World Without Downs. I read some preview interviews with her and decided I couldn't watch it. But my Twitter feed was filled with watchers. I'm glad they found positive messages in it. And I tried not to protest at the comments.
I've blogged about my miscarriage before.
What's lesser known is that the reason I miscarried is because we had the test for Down's Syndrome. The invasive test. With the big needle.
The pregnancy was not planned. For the 17 weeks it lasted, many of my thoughts were of sheer panic, about what might happen if the baby died, about how I was not sure how to manage as a parent. I knew nothing about parenthood. Both me and S were in low paid jobs with few prospects and our families lived far away. It was just us and our meagre income. And no clue about children.
Because I wanted to know, either way, if the baby was alright. For me, a baby with extra needs was even more terrifying than the prospect of a baby. Because I had enough to deal with.
Because you play the odds.
The invasive test is terrifying. You see the baby in the scan, she's doing somersaults and you have a moment where you think you should just trust her to be ok. But you don't say anything and then you see the needle heading straight towards her. You turn away because you get queasy with needles and you hear "has the baby grasped the needle?" You turn back. She's fine. You throw up. Everywhere.
There is now an non-invasive test. How different would life be if we'd had that.
If the test had been positive, my mother had already decided she would up sticks to help us. So we needed time. But when it comes down to it, I'm pretty certain I would have aborted. I don't know what I would do if in that situation now. But back then, younger, less experienced, less well off and scared out of my mind, I was certain.
I know several parents, friends of mine, with disabled children. One has a daughter with Downs. My admiration and awe for all of them is beyond bounds. I'm just not sure if I could've done it, or what my life would have been like. And what the baby's life would've been like.
Our society today is less tolerant of disability and health issues than it was 12 years ago. But even then, a full and fulfilling life with a child with Downs is easier with money, support, tolerance and time. You don't have an Olympic gymnast with Downs without giving up your entire life for them. Very few people can do that. I also know that people with Downs don't all have the same symptoms, health issues or attitudes. There are wild variances. You hear a lot about amazing families with wonderful lives treasuring their disabled children. But not everyone is like that. There can be terrible complications, there can be stress, depression, violence, despair.
I think we should talk about our attitudes towards people with Downs Syndrome or with any disability. We need to discuss how we support parents. We need to discuss how many times a mother needs to jump out of a plane to fundraise for her child's wheelchair.
But from the comments I heard last night, two things became clear to me. We shouldn't be blaming health professionals for talking about the possibilities. The possibilities can be awful, or not, and you can't know this in advance. This is not eugenics. This isn't Gattaca. Any child can have severe health difficulties, Downs or not. The screening process should be seen as something that can be used to prepare parents if they want to go ahead with the birth, and many will. Especially if we can have a sensible discussion about the issues. And if we can as a society provide more support to parents with disabled children.
But some parents won't want to go ahead. And so the other thing that was clear was that we cannot, should never, start blaming parents for the decision they make about their own children. We shouldn't be sitting in their kitchens asking them to justify why they had an abortion. Every person is different. I stand by my decision to take the test, to find out that my girl was ok. It cost her life. Don't think I don't still grieve for her. But I also stand by what I would have done if she had been Downs.
We need a proper debate. I'm not strong enough to lead it. I admire Sally Phillips for trying to start one. Let's hope others join in.
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We have a frittata quite often and this one of yours with the asparagus sounds very nice.
I just started making frittatas because I always enjoyed baking quiches.
Wow! I love how quick this recipe is to put together! Plus it looks so beautiful and delicious!
I can't imagine one not cooking either! Your frittata in 20 minutes looks great. Usually I make quiche but I should really give frittatas a try! The muffin recipe looked good too.
Looks perfect, just the sort of meal I love!! Thanks.
Thanks Darlene, it's an easy meal.
Tom and I enjoy frittatas for breakfast, lunch or dinner Gerlinde! And I also love how quick and easy they are. Yours looks delicious!
Thanks MaryAnn, my husband is not crazy about quiche but liked the asparagus frittata.
*smile* Probably my shortest recipe! I can manage in 10 if pushed :) ! I am both a doctor and nutritionist (to me no difference :) ! ) Don't really think food allergies or digestive problems come into play . . . so many people read and imagine !!! Cannot understand as most info so easily available if you can talk to dear Mr Google . . .
Maybe you are right !
What a delicious way to use that beautiful asparagus! I haven't made a frittata in such a long time. I have some Swiss chard growing in a pot right now so may try one for dinner tonight using the chard!
That's sounds like a great idea Susan. My husband doesn't like chard or spinach but he is starting to eat salads.
I'm not sure what I like better, the ease of the recipe or the fresh, seasonal spring ingredients! Spring asparagus is such a joy!
Talking about food allergies, and even different kinds of food preferences, can be such a volatile subject. Only those of us fortunate enough to have more than enough to eat can indulge in these conversations. Each day, without fail, I remember to be grateful for the abundance in my life.
Deb, you make a good point and I agree with you. I remember bringing food my mother gave me to refugees that had just escaped the DDR (East Geermany ). Nothing was thrown away or wasted and nobody had any food allergies. I, however, was spoiled and a picky eater.
I love your version of this beautiful fritata ! And not only am I shocked that some people to cook, I'm equally shocked that there are some people who don't care about eating good food. Not being a scientist either, I think you may be onto something! People are eating way too much processed food, and I believe that could be causing some major problems.
People indeed eat too much processed food these days. I am saying this while devouvring a bag of cheetos , my absolute favorite junk food.
How did you get your asparagus to all line up perfectly? Too cute! This is one of those kinds of meals that is good any time of the day.
I don't know how the asparagus lined up this way, is was pourly accidental.
I love eggs and asparagus also. I believe you when young people can't be bothered to wash the bowls. I think cooking today is more of a hobby than a necessity.
very nice and good helpful post i like it.
Thank you for your comment Najimul.
Give me frittata any day of the week. This looks delicious and what a treat with asparagus. Here in the UK they are in season now and I am making the most of them. I love your recipes!
I have not made very many frittatas but I am learning to love and appreciate them. Thank you for your nice comment.
As I print this asparagus recipe I'm laughing - I have so many or=f your recipes in my kitchen nook drawer. Some of them intimidate me, I'll admit, but the frittata I can do - and I can eat it breakfast, lunch or dinner. I agree about how many people don't cook, particularly my kids' age. They all have full time jobs with children and stresses that I would never have handled when I was their age (or at least I chose not to). I find cooking therapeutic as well as a loving activity for my family. But many in their 30s and 40s 'take out' from Whole Foods or restaurants. Sigh.
Let me know whenever you need help with any of my recipes. I remember posting the roasted vegetables with you in mind. I let you in on a little secrect, the frittata recipes always intimitated me because you have to get the consistancy right. I dont know how the kids do it today eiher. As always, I appreciate yur comments . Have a great week.
Your desserts entice me so much, but those intimidate me the most. I must tell you - I roasted Cauliflower recently, and they were fabulous. You and your cooking inspire me!
Perfect for spring and I DO love a frittata! Yours looks lovely!
Thanks Liz, the asparagus pieces decided to arrange themselves nicely. I just added them to the egg mixture.
Never met a frittata I didn't like! One of those dishes we have quite a lot for dinner. Asparagus is a wonderful flavor in a dish like this -- nice way to showcase it. Thanks!
I am going to experiment with kinds of frittatas since both my husband and I like them. Thanks for the comment.
I totally agree Greg, cooking brings me joy.
I was actually on a plane yesterday talking with a woman next to me about this very same thing. She said she loved to cook, but she and her husband both worked so much that they rarely cook at home anymore. She said she wanted to change that, but I agree that today's society is just so fast-paced that folks forget to stop and enjoy the fun that is cooking! Speaking of fun, I love this recipe. Asparagus is on a good sale at our local market right now, too...perfect timing!!
One of the reasons I enjoy cooking is that my husband always does the dishes and chops my onions.
I have to experiment a little bit more with my frittatas and using up old veggies is a great idea.
What a lovely recipe for asparagus! I love the way the asparagus show on every piece.


their life easier. And we all know the happier the editor, the better the content, and better content make for more visitors, right?
Anyways, the EPi 6 system we built was a bit of a hack, we added a ControlAdapter to the PageTree control to inject css classes on the different nodes depending on what page type it was.
Now in EPiServer 7.5 there are systems in place to make this a lot cleaner, using the tools provided by the CMS UI we can avoid using hacks, which make for a cleaner approach that will hopefully not break as easily should the underlying structure change in future updates.
Now this approach will get tedious once you start adding page types as you will need one UI descriptor for each page type. There are several ways to make this more streamlined. This post will show you one approach using attributes on your page type classes.
We are going to use the EPiServer.Shell.UIDescriptor objects registered for all content types, these are added to the EPiServer.Shell.UIDescriptorRegistry during site startup. The UIDescriptor contain one important property that makes all of this work, IconClass. This class is added to the icon shown for each item in the page tree.
I used EPiServer CMS v7.14.1 and EPiServer CMS UI version 7.15.0 when building this.
The initialization module is invoked after the EPiServer.Shell.UIDescriptorRegistry is populated, and for each content type that have our custom attribute, append the css class to the IConClass attribute. This is, as per usual for attributes, done using reflection, but as it only happen once during site startup, the preformance impact is of no issue.
/// Used in conjunction with <see cref="ContentIconAttribute"/> to add custom content icons for the page tree.
The initializer is pretty straightforward, it finds all classes with out ContentIcon attribute and use that to modify the registered UIDescriptors by appending our IconClass. One important detail is that it has a dependency on EPiServer.Cms.Shell.InitializableModule, which ensure it is initialized after the UIDescriptorRegistry is populated with all the UIDescriptors.
This approach is almost as tedious as making one UI descriptor class for each page type, this is no good. A faster way is to use a icon library, where all icons are already configured. Here, we picked Icomoon (https://icomoon.io/), they have a free library of about 400 icons in a convenient woff font format.
As you can see, I prefixed each icon with icomoon, and also modified the font directive in the base class slightly.


I had a similar problem with my X-T20 in october 2017. I had to update the firmware of my Fuji to clear the problem. But in your case, it's probably due to Affinity that does not support X-T3 yet.
Good news ! Last version 1.7.0.188 fixed the problem.
Yes... this is an improvement... But I was expecting a better converter that could avoid the use of Iridient X-Transformer. A RAF file opened in On1 Photo RAW or Exposure X4 is really sharper than in Affinity Photo. What is the C1 v12 Beta you're talking about ?
Any Fuji X shooters out there...?
I'm a Fuji X-T20 owner. With affinity, I use Iridient X-Transformer. It really improves the RAW conversion. I read that there is an improvement of X-trans conversion in the next 1.7 version of Affinity Photo. Capture One Express Fuji is a really good RAW converter. You can tweak ligh, colors contrast and details. On1 Photo RAW 2019 is an excellent RAW converter for Fuji users. No need to use the Iridient X-Transformer tool with it. But it needs a really powerfull computer if you want to go on deep retouching. One excellent thing in On 1 is that you have a full non destructive retouching of your RAW (witch is not the case in Affinity Photo). You can save many versions of your retouching since all the changes are just written in an XML file. And finally, you can export your job as a PSD file that can easily open in Affinity to go further. When using Affinity as a RAW converter with my X-T20, I found that I had a small magenta color cast in the blue of the skies that was difficult to remove using only white balance tool. I found last night that the problem seems to come from the curve applied by the developp wizard. To avoid it, I must disabled this curve and then create a custom one in the Develop Personna where I act on the red channel and push it down a little bit. The other solution is to open the RAF file in On1, make basic adjustments or more and save it as a PSD file to open it in Affinity. Then there is no more magenta color cast and I can finish je job in Affinity. See you guys !
another bump for this post.
I definitly agree... View a mask is really use full. The On1 tool is really amazing and a similar tool for Luminosity masking would be a great improvement.
Affinity Photo 1.5 has launched!
I agree with Karl Works. Does someone have any idea of the roadmap for the next updates in Affinity photo ? But in my case, I've turned to ON1 Photo Raw which is also a great alternative to Lightroom.
Hi, thanks for your answer. Sounds pretty tricky. In that case, to avoid any problem, is it better to apply sharppening in the Develop Persona or in the PHoto mode ?
Hello, since I don't have a PayPal account, I would like to buy my Affinity Photo licence with my e-card. It's a service from bank that provide me a "fake" credit card number that can only be used once. This "fake credit card" is linked to my bank account. It's transparent for the shop and avoid me to give my real credit card number on the web. I've read on this forum that you first test the account by asking for a payment of around $1 then if everything is ok, you complete the process. I don't think that it would work with my e-card, since after the first call for payment, the cradit card number is desactivated... Do you have a solution for me ?


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Spitz: Retiree takes pride in becoming American
Julia Spitz/Daily News columnist
Hot ticket.
Val Moore uses the phrase to describe others. I'd use it to describe her.
At an age when many would be looking to rest on their laurels, she's focused on making the most of her new identity.
``Guess who's going to be voting for the first time? Yes, yes, yes, yes,'' she said with an enthusiasm more likely to accompany a winning scratch ticket.
``Even though I'm 73, I'm still 30.''
Plenty of time ahead to enjoy life as a full-fledged American.
Not that she's a newcomer. She's lived in Framingham long enough to call the paper The Middlesex News. She helped set up the day surgery program at UMass Medical Center in Worcester. She was here for the Great Blackout of 1965.
She's been an American much of her life. On June 20, she became a citizen in the eyes of the law.
``I had the paperwork for a long time,'' said Moore. ``The reason I didn't act on it is it would acknowledge my mother had died,'' and though she loved her adopted homeland, she hadn't wanted to cut all ties to the country where her mom lived.
``I've often thought, what would my life be like if I'd stayed in Australia?'' The answer took only a moment to verbalize Thursday morning. ``Oowf,'' the sound that accompanies a shudder.
``The American experience is something I totally embrace. The Australian experience is something I don't.''
It wouldn't seem they'd be all that different. Isn't the Land Down Under a lot like our Wild West with kangaroos and crocs instead buffalos? Aren't Aussies like Californians with cooler accents?
``There's being there as a tourist and there's living there.''
Economic opportunities were limited when she was growing up, she said, and ``I realized I came from one of the most bigoted places on Earth.
``Australia had a white Australia policy'' for immigrants until the 1970s. Growing up in Melbourne, she didn't see a black person until she was a young adult. ``I felt awkward dealing with the first black nurse's aide'' she met in America during a two-year student exchange program.
But when Moore returned to Australia in 1966, she realized America was home.
She had to wait three years for the paperwork before she ``arrived with $1,000 and a green card.''
She didn't have to learn an entirely new language, but ``I had to learn the inflections and idioms.''
Her accent was hard for American ears to decipher. Sometimes simple concepts were lost in translation. One half means 50 percent of a whole in America. To Australians, there's a comma between the two words and it means one and a half.
Then there was the matter of starting from scratch.
She'd been an operating room nurse at Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and trained in Queensland as a midwife, but American hospitals didn't recognize her credentials. So she took a job as an operating room technician at Deaconness Hospital and started working on her high school equivalency diploma and nursing exams.
``I left work (on a) Friday as an OR tech and returned Monday as head OR nurse,'' she said.
From there, she went on to get a bachelor's degree at Emmanuel College, a master's from Framingham State. She worked at UMass and Waltham-Weston hospitals, bought a home near Saxonville Beach and fixed up the house on her own.
Still, something was missing.
``I kept saying `we' or `us,' and yet I wasn't a `we' or an `us.' I was a transplanted Australian.
``I owned the house, but I never had the key. This is the key,'' she said, pointing to her citizenship certificate.
Her affection for her new homeland goes beyond the flag mounted on her garage or the red, white and purplish-blue petunias by the doorstep.
In America, ``doors opened because ...'' you knock on them, ``and people said, `come in.'
``You play by the rules, and the country is wide open to you.
``Life is choices,'' she said. ``You come because you can get everything you can out of (the country),'' then return home, or ``you can come because you love this country and you want to be part of the experience.''
Her advice: Embrace the experience. ``Learn English. Move out as you can'' to broader venues, and ``don't build walls'' around yourself.
To those unwilling to follow the advice, and those unwilling to go through legal channels, she has words as well.
``You guys are missing so much. You could have it all.''
(Julia Spitz can be reached at 508-626-3968 or jspitz@cnc.com. Check metrowestdailynews.com or milforddailynews.com for the Spitz Bitz blog.)


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We administer estates and help to expedite the transfer of property.
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Matt Mays - "Move Your Mind"
After listening to Halifax's Matt Mays' debut album, one thing is made abundantly clear: the band has seasoned gusto, singing of wanderlust and old thwarted loves. "Move Your Mind" is a down-to-earth roots jam, and a tremendous warmup track.
Be sure to check out all the great songs released for today's C3X concert right here.
Hot damn. Matt Mays makes his debut in Rock Band. I appreciate this very much! Thank you!


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There Will Soon Be No Buttons On Your iPhone, According To New Rumours
Posted by Susan Kowal 12 January 2023
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Apple is committed to developing an iPhone without physical buttons. A well-known industry expert has said unequivocally that the revolutionary upgrade may initially appear on the iPhone 15 Pro that will be released this year, before Apple incorporates it into the iPad tablets as well.
Cirrus Logic is the primary winner for canceling physical buttons and the change to adopt solid-state buttons on the 2H23 high-end iPhone 15 models. https://t.co/CNfZOYwRXn
— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 11, 2023
It was previously revealed the year before that the Cupertino company intends to swap the physical buttons on iPhones with solid-state versions of the same sort of button. It is reasonable to anticipate that certain components, such as the tactile feedback, will be modified to resemble that of the home button on Apple's iPhone SE 3. (2022). The power/lock key as well as the volume controls should then be removed and these buttons should take their place on both sides.
Design for the iPhone and iPad that lacks any ports or buttons
Apple has selected a supplier for its solid-state buttons, according to a report by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to the information provided by the source, this design will only be implemented in the most premium or professional versions of the iPhone 15. However, he also suggests that the adoption of this technology in future iterations of the iPhone and iPad might be contingent on how well it is received by consumers.
There have been rumors that Apple will introduce a gadget that does not have a connection port in addition to eliminating the buttons. The reason for this, despite the fact that it may seem silly, is that a legislation mandating USB-C standards was only recently passed. Instead of hurrying to produce a port-less handset, however, Apple is complying to the initiative of the EU by substituting Lightning with USB-C beginning with the iPhone 15.
Titanium might be used for the chassis of either the iPhone 15 Pro Max or the upcoming Ultra edition, which would be another way in which the two models are differentiated from one another. It is also possible that there will be a fourth back camera in the shape of a periscopic sensor. In the meanwhile, it is reported that every model in the lineup will launch with Dynamic Island before Apple implements its concealed Face ID on the iPhone 16.
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Rebirth of the Tyrant's Pet: Regent Prince is too Fierce
Fierce Chapter 33 – First Kiss
Gong Jue thought he knew what kind of book this was.
Still, he maintained an innocent face and seriously asked, "Sister Gong, why do you read this kind of book?"
His watery dark eyes were very pure while his head was tilted to the side as if in thought. His appearance deceived Gong Yi Mo, and she lowered her head, feeling a tinge of guilt.
"…I don't."
Gong Jue smirked to himself, but on the surface, his face expressed sincere curiosity. "Then, who is it for?"
Remembering her intentions, Gong Yi Mo looked straight at her brother. "Naturally, this book is for you!"
She felt even more concerned when she saw her brother staring blankly at her. "Now that you are eleven years old, it's time that I teach you about matters between men and women!"
If Gong Jue's mother was still alive, naturally she would be the one to teach him these things. Since the concubine had passed away, Gong Yi Mo took the responsibility of educating him upon herself. She didn't want Gong Jue to be ignorant of such matters–no, she needed to make sure that he doesn't get fooled by other girls when he leaves the palace!
"Teach me?" This time, it was Gong Jue's face that blushed red, while Gong Yi Mo smiled with enthusiasm.
"Yes, come here. You're such a pure boy that, as your sister, I need to make sure you understand affairs between men and women!"
(T/N: LOL sex education from Gong Yi Mo hahahah…) (Ed/N: o_o )
Affairs between men and women…
Gong Jue was really such a nervous little chick. When Gong Yi Mo took the initiative in such a way, he still started trembling no matter how cool-headed he was. She pulled him to her side while he was in a daze and had him sit down on the bed.
But when she was about to start talking, Gong Yi Mo actually didn't know how to begin.
The atmosphere turned awkward between the two siblings… Gong Yi Mo's body felt stiff, but she didn't know how to get out of her predicament, and Gong Jue didn't want to miss any opportunity to be close to her.
"It's like this…" She finally spoke.
Having gathered her thoughts, Gong Yi Mo patted Gong Jue's back and said, "You've grown up, and in a few years, you'll reach marriageable age… Since you'll be away from home for a long time, you need to keep your integrity, especially when it comes to girls. Be careful not to touch them and have children with them."
What was she trying to say? The more Gong Jue listened, the more he felt her logic was wrong. So he couldn't touch any woman, or else the girl will end up being pregnant? (T/N: I think he's confused by her meaning of the word "touch" LOL)
Seeing his look of disagreement, Gong Yi Mo assumed he wasn't taking her words to heart. Wanting to scare him, she jokingly said, "It's true! It's very easy for a girl to have a baby. You just have to kiss a girl, and she will be pregnant!"
Just as she finished speaking, Gong Jue suddenly leaned over and kissed those long coveted lips. His heart paused for a moment, then started beating wildly.
"You mean… like this?"
Time seemed to stop. He could only hear his heartbeat.
The first time they touched, Gong Jue had only wanted to savor her taste, but his sudden action made Gong Yi Mo freeze! Seeing her moistened lips, he gulped. Only God knew how much effort he put into preventing himself from indulging in his desires. Gong Jue feared that she would be disgusted with him, so he quickly pulled away after a light kiss. Afterward, he stared at Sister Gong with bright and pure eyes and muttered, "Like this?"
If a simple kiss could truly bring forth children, how happy he would be…
If Gong Jue had been raised with a mother and a eunuch to guard him, he would have remained a simple child. Unfortunately, he had to endure too many schemes from the harem. Gong Jue first encountered aphrodisiac at the age of nine when a palace maid tried to drug him, although the scheme to seduce him had failed in the end. Since then, he personally read books regarding the matter for his self-preservation.
Gong Jue did not want any accidents to happen, especially concerning affairs between men and women. In recent years, although he had never personally tried it, Gong Jue had already seen many things and later, escaped many plots initiated by women. It was just that he never mentioned these experiences to Gong Yi Mo.
Furthermore, Gong Yi Mo had long forgotten the poisoning Gong Jue experienced when he was nine years old. She thought that his growth was within her expectations. Never did she imagine that his innocence was merely a pretense, and he had already reached a place that she could not see. As he matured… he grew an uncontrollable desire to possess her!
Gong Yi Mo was in a state of shock after she realized what had just happened. Was she just kissed by the baby she raised? When she saw the young boy's curious eyes, she was left unable to chastise him. After a long time, she snapped back to reality and replied, "Yes… but there's more to it."
Gong Jue's eyes lit up. "What else?"
Gong Yi Mo responded in a grave tone. "You have to sleep in bed together, then show your sincerity, and then… it will happen."
God knows how hard it was for her to say this before Gong Jue's eager eyes.
"In summary…. you have to remain clean for the next few years. And… and you can't do what you just did no matter who it is!"
Seeing her feet shift nervously, Gong Jue once again felt his desires provoked. The look in his eye deepened, and he said in a low voice,
"I know, Sister Gong."
The expression on his face gave Gong Yi Mo goosebumps.
After the disaster relief materials were fully prepared, many officials rushed to offer Gong Jue gifts for his journey, giving the emperor face for his decision. However, Gong Che chose to instead first come to the Taiji Palace. Everyone knew that Gong Jue was Gong Yi Mo's shadow and that he only gained his position because of her. Nevertheless, Gong Che was still very happy to see Gong Yi Mo.
It was evening, yet the sky was still very bright. Gong Yi Mo was excitedly leaving her palace while carrying a few bottles of medicine when she spotted the brocade box in Gong Che's hands. "Did Elder Brother Crown Prince also come to offer Gong Jue gifts for his journey?"
Acting like a spoiled little sister, Gong Yi Mo affectionately grabbed his arm and pulled him along. "I happened to be going too. Let's walk there together!"
Today she was in a good mood. She was always so enthusiastic when it came to Gong Jue, but she seldom took the initiative when it came to him. Feeling her warmth, Gong Che tensed up slightly. However, he could not bear to refuse her, so he let her pull him along.
Once they left the vicinity of Taiji Palace, Gong Yi Mo paid more attention to her image and let go of him. She curiously glanced at the box in his hands. "What did Elder Brother bring?"
Gong Che didn't shy away and directly opened the box. In it was a dagger decorated with gemstones, pearls, and jades. The design was exquisite, but with just a glance, Gong Yi Mo knew the blade's sharpness was far less than that of the one she had given.
"Wow, it's beautiful!" She said with sincere admiration. "Gong Jue will surely like it!" Yes, something so valuable could be sold for a lot of money.
Seeing Gong Yi Mo's delighted expression, Gong Che's heart softened. He smiled at her. He wanted to say that he would give her a better dagger in the future, but before he could speak, Gong Yi Mo, fascinated by the blooming lotus flowers, had already run off in excitement.
She was such a clever and active young girl, and she could see the beauty in everything.
Gong Che's gaze followed her as she ran… There were eight other ponds just like this one in the palace, however, for some reason, he felt like no other place had lotus blooming as beautifully as the ones here. The flowers were a rich pink and green color, and the clouds were a red glow gradually smearing across the sky. Amidst all of this, Gong Yi Mo wore a blue dress, and as her skirt fluttered in the wind, it seemed as if she were a butterfly fairy.
"Elder Brother! Come over here–there's a lotus!"
The lotus was still growing tenderly in the water, but that didn't prevent Gong Yi Mo from destroying it!
With a light tap of her foot, she flew into the air like a swallow. Then, she spun around and picked a lotus before landing on a boat that was left on the lake. After gaining her balance, she turned to smile at him.
Gong Che felt as if his heart had stood still… A smile that could overturn cities–It was nothing less than that.


Ah sorry I will update the post to clarify. This is just an enhancement to WebForms. So if you point your iPhone at your server using safari, you can then select the WebForms menu on the server followed by the name of the survey that you want to complete.