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Trade Secret protection and big data
An Italian view
Access to big data is currently regulated through rights in rem, by granting license rights. However, rights in rem are not enforceable against third parties. The upcoming national implementations of the EU Trade Secret Directive will provide an opportunity to Member States to facilitate suitable protection to investments made in big data and data science.
Trade Secret's protection and big data: an Italian view
The aim of intellectual property law is to reward investments made towards innovation. Nowadays, one of the most relevant drivers of innovation is data science, i.e. the techniques of analytics (models and algorithms) applied to 'big data' which is mined from several data lakes and collected from a number of sources (e.g. social networks, apps, web traffic, Internet-of-Things, etc).
However, the very concept of big data does not easily lend itself to 'classic' intellectual property protection. As such, enforcing rights in big data may prove to be a difficult task.
Enforcing rights in big data through 'classic' intellectual property rights
As far as patent law is concerned, courts subject patentability to the narrow condition that software solves a technical issue or improves a process (e.g. by reconfiguring data into different display sets, or by reformatting data from disparate sources), and not just executes routine operations (e.g. collecting or listing data) which an individual may do by hand.
The copyright protection to databases also only offers a limited scope of protection, since copyright covers the way data is compiled and not the content of the compilation (data) or the algorithm used. As recently confirmed in the EU Commission's report following the consultation on the Database Directive, the sui generis right in a database also provides limited protection. According to CJEU case-law on the matter, the creation of a database must be excluded from the relevant investment. Furthermore, the territorial limitation imposed on sui generis rights in databases (only enforceable within the European Union and few additional countries) clashes with the global nature of big data operations.
From a civil law standpoint, data per se cannot be owned as clarified by a number of case precedents all around Europe. That being said, access to data can be regulated: when granting access to a third party pursuant to a license agreement – in order to maximise the value of big data – contract law may provide legal basis for the data right holder to both seek reward for its investment in and to maintain control over data. However, competitors who are not party to the license agreement may still aim at taking a free ride off the back of the right holder who may then not be in a position to rapidly enforce its rights against these free riders.
Trade Secrets: can secrecy protect investment in big data?
Some Italian jurists are debating whether trade secrets could ensure confidentiality over algorithms and processes.
The issue is of particular interest in the EU, since Member States are about to implement the Trade Secret Directive. Implementing this directive may change the way trade secrets have previously been dealt with by affording a greater level of protection to big data processes and data science techniques.
The current Italian approach to trade secrets already considers these issues and could therefore be seen as an appropriate model for national implementation of the Trade Secret Directive. In particular, data mining and data analytics processes can meet the ordinary requirements imposed by articles 98-99 of Italian Code of Industrial Property which cover both 'commercial' (e.g., customer lists andmailing lists) and 'technical' know-how (e.g., data mining and data analytics, formulae, procedures, and techniques ).
Data mining and data analytics processes will likely fall under 'technical know-how'. These processes are secrets, i.e. they are not, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of the components, generally known among or readily accessible to persons within the circles. Data mining often entails a high degree of subjective judgment. These processes also have commercial value, in that the very goal of big data is to give the data holder a competitive advantage lying in the insights that can be inferred from data. Lastly, the data holder can easily adopt reasonable steps to keep the data secret, by employing technical measures of protection and/or legal measures, such as confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, which, in any event, allow additional protection and easy-to-enforce contractual remedies against breaches of confidential processes.
In addition to license agreements, which can help the right holder regulate rights in and access to data, protection under trade secrets rules seems to be the best candidate to afford legal protection against third-parties' unauthorised use of big data and data science. The upcoming national implementation of the Trade Secret Directive into the EU Member States' regulations could be the first opportunity to expressly confirm this expectation.
See Also: -
Andrea Ottolia, Big Data e innovazione computazionale: http://www.giappichelli.it/big-data-e-innovazione-computazionale,9211234
Andrea Tuninetti Ferrari, Big Data: Balancing the Web User's and the Service Provider's Rights in the Big Data Era: http://dspace-unipr.cineca.it/bitstream/1889/3333/1/Andrea%20Tuninetti%20Ferrari%20-%20Tesi%20dottorato%20-%20Big%20Data.pdf
Andrea Tuninetti Ferrari
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Danishka Esterhazy
Celebrated for her female-driven stories, filmmaker DANISHKA ESTERHAZY is a graduate of the Directors' Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, the Talent Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival, the National Screen Institute and Women in the Director's Chair. Esterhazy's films have screened in festivals and theaters around the world and have been broadcast on CBC, Bravo, Super Channel, Movie Central, Showtime and NetflixUK. In 2017, Esterhazy was awarded the Amazon Video Filmmaker Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her independent film Black Field. Her dystopian feature Level 16 premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2018 to excellent reviews. Level 16 also screened at FrightFest Glasgow, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, PanicFest and Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2019, Esterhazy's horror feature The Banana Splits Movie premiered at San Diego Comic Con and New York Comic Con before its broadcast release on SyFy and home video release by Warner Bros. In 2019, she also directed two episodes of the new female-driven science fiction series "Vagrant Queen" for Syfy – which will premiere in March 2020. Most recently, Esterhazy completed principal photography on the biopic I Was Lorena Bobbitt for Lifetime. A dual American and Canadian citizen, Esterhazy splits her time between Toronto and California.
www.DanishkaEsterhazy.com
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AT WHAT AGE DO BRITISH STUDENTS START AND FINISH COLLEGE?
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Concerts to feature choirs, orchestra
November 28, 2018 | Arts, Events, UToday, Arts and Letters
The University of Toledo Department of Music will present two choral concerts in December.
On Saturday, Dec. 1, the Chamber Singers will perform with the UT Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Corpus Christi Parish on Dorr Street, across from Main Campus.
Selections to be performed will be "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" by Purcell and Stucky; "The Rumor of a Secret King" by John Mackey; "Da Pacem, Domine" by Peteris Vasks; "Dance of the Tumblers" from "The Snow Maiden" by Rimsky-Korsakov; "Fun and Games" by Dr. Lee Heritage, UT associate professor of music; "Alleluia Laus et Gloria" by Tarik O'Regan; and "Cantata in Nativitate Domini" by Rihards Dubra.
On Friday, Dec. 7, the UT Rocket Choristers and the Glee Club will perform along with the Children's Choir of Northwest Ohio. The concert will be at 7 p.m. in Doermann Theatre.
The concert will feature a blend of secular and seasonal music.
Tickets —$5 to $10 — will be available at the door or in advance from the UT Center for Performing Arts Box Office by calling 419.530.2787 or visiting the School of Visual and Performing Arts website.
Parking will be free for both concerts.


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Cleveland swim coach André offers free lessons for people of all ages to face their swimming fears
CLEVELAND — 3,500 people die in the water every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Take a closer look at those numbers and you'll find that Black children are more than five times more likely to drown in a pool than White children of the same age.
"Black folks swim, too," Coach André said.
Coach André makes sure they can in a course called "Do it Afraid." It's an open invitation to anyone willing to learn how to swim, run through his business Rhythm and Stroke.
"My biggest fear was not knowing if I'd be able to breathe underwater," said 12-year-old swimmer Lauryn.
In generations before Lauryn, the fear was deeper than that. Black people waded through troubled waters.
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Like an heirloom, the burden was passed down.
"African-Americans in the United States, we have the highest drowning rates of any groups," Coach André said.
According to the YMCA, 64 percent of Black children can't swim. 40 percent of white children can't either. Even so, it doesn't stop many from getting in the pool— and consequentially drowning.
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Coach Andre taught Young how to swim and now, she's making sure her grandkids know how too.
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#1: This week, I can't help but remember my brother-in-law Byron who passed away 6 years ago on October 21. It's a pretty weird thing. I am happy and excited, because I am 6 years closer to being able to see and talk to him again. I feel like I have grown and become so much better in the past 6 years since his death. I feel like he would be proud of me if he was still around and saw all that I am doing or have done. At the same time, I am 6 years away from his memory. I find myself forgetting the small things, which makes me sad. Sometimes I feel bad, because I don't remember him enough or think about him as often as I used to. Either way, it's a weird week and I miss him so much.
I woke up this morning at 7:30 to go to my 7:30 class.
I skipped class this afternoon to take a nap.
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Although it stopped its operation, now many contemporary artists come to the pottery and make their works for promoting this local community. I also started to make local-specific works. In my residency program, I asked many people in Arita for their help, and got great helps by very skilled people.
I made 5 masks of Arita porcelain as 5 power rangers.
Finally, Heroes were born to get Tomiemon Pottery out of difficulty.


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Q: Query Subset of two tabs only returns #N/A I am trying to combine two tabs of data to plan a daily routine. One tab is for recurring tasks and one for adhoc tasks.
The data on the tabs are mostly similar except on Sheet1 Col4 is a day of the week, whereas on Sheet2 Col4 is a date
What I would like is to choose the current day of the week and have the query return all recurring tasks for that day, as well as any adhoc tasks for that specific date
I can return both sets of data individually however I can't get the query to return both subsets together
Sheet1 Data
ID,TASK NAME,LOCATION,TASK DAY
REC1,Task 1,Office,Monday
REC2,Task 2,Office,Tuesday
REC3,Task 3,Field,Wednesday
REC4,Task 4,Office,Thursday
REC5,Task 5,Field,Friday
REC6,Task 6,Field,Monday
REC7,Task 7,Field,Tuesday

Sheet2 Data
ID,TASK NAME,LOCATION,TASK DATE
ADH1,AdHoc 1,Office,25/Jun/2019
ADH2,AdHoc 2,Office,26/Jun/2019
ADH3,AdHoc 3,Field,27/Jun/2019
ADH4,AdHoc 4,Office,28/Jun/2019
ADH5,AdHoc 5,Field,29/Jun/2019
ADH6,AdHoc 6,Field,30/Jun/2019
ADH7,AdHoc 7,Field,1/Jul/2019

This pulls the data from sheet 1 based on the day of the week in cell J1
=query({Sheet1!A:D}, "select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4 where Col4 = """&J1&""" ",0)

This pulls the data from sheet 2 based on today()
=query({Sheet2!A:D}, "select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4 where Col4 = date '" & text(today(),"yyyy-mm-dd") & "' ",0)

Thought this would work but merely returns an empty set
=query({Sheet2!A:D;Sheet1!A:D}, "select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4 where Col4 = date '" & text(today(),"yyyy-mm-dd") & "' OR Col4="""&J1&""" and Col1<>'' ",0)

When J1 = Tuesday and date = 25/Jun/2019 I should get
ID,TASK NAME,LOCATION,TASK DAY
ADH1,AdHoc 1,Office,25/Jun/2019
REC2,Task 2,Office,Tuesday
REC7,Task 7,Field,Tuesday

but instead, merely get #N/A

A: You almost had it.
Rather than put the array inside the queries; put the queries inside the array.

={QUERY(Sheet1!A:D, "SELECT A, B, C, D WHERE D = """&J1&""" ");
  QUERY(Sheet2!A2:D, "SELECT A, B, C, D WHERE D = date '" & text(today(),"yyyy-mm-dd") & "'")}

Credit - Stacking multiple query output in one sheet:

A: Might be too late but issue was in date column after converting it to text query works as well :
 =query({Sheet2!A:D; Sheet1!A:D}, "select Col2,Col1,Col3,Col4 where (Col4='"&Sheet1!J1&"' OR Col4 = '" & to_text(today()) & "')",0)

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Inexperienced car drivers is the sweat on the forehead, if you think of a traffic circle. Even worse-lane roundabout, even some of the seasoned riders before the challenges are more. Those who stick to a few rules, not to be afraid of, but.
multi-lane roundabout: Who should go first?
Before entering a multi-lane roundabout, you should make yourself aware of the exit you want to take. You must, for example, the first or second exit out of this, should you shift completely to the right on the outermost track.
your goal Is a future exit, it is useful on the inner track. In this way, a good flow of traffic is ensured. You change in a timely manner on the outer track. Do not forget to reset when changing lanes the turn signal.
the lane change doesn't Work immediately, you have to turn an extra lap in the roundabout. You remain calm and do not panic. If you switch abruptly, the track, increasing the risk of an accident. Cars on the outer lane have the right of way.
also read: traffic circle – when I must flash and what is the penalty?
One of the largest multi-lane roundabouts in the UK Swindon – called the Magic Roundabout, so the "magic roundabout". This is the final boss of each car is likely to be a driver. He is not of one but of six gyroscopes. In the middle of a large traffic circle around the inner roundabout, five more ring-shaped.
Also of interest: EU decides to Tempo-brakes for new cars and other safety systems.


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Kuwait Detains Political Activist Over Tweets Against Saudi Arabia
Tariq al-Mutairi, head of the liberal Civil Democratic Movement was detained on his way home early on Wednesday.
Kuwait arrested an opposition activist on suspicion of insulting Saudi Arabia on his Twitter account, the state news agency KUNA reported, extending a crackdown on social media.
Tariq al-Mutairi, head of the liberal Civil Democratic Movement (CDM), was detained on his way home early on Wednesday by men in plainclothes believed to be from the state security service, the alaan.cc news website said, quoting another activist who was in the same car.
KUNA, quoting an Interior Ministry statement, said Mutairi was arrested for "publishing a number of tweets insulting the sister Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". The content of the posts was not clear. Kuwaiti law bans insults of friendly states.
CDM condemned the overnight arrest as a "kidnapping" that aimed to intimidate the group. "What the security elements have done by kidnapping the head of the movement in such a way is clearly intended to send a message of terror in the hearts of the young men and women of the movement," a CDM statement said.
Last week, Hakem al-Mutairi, a member of the same extended tribe who heads the Islamist political group al-Umma, was detained on charges of insulting Saudi Arabia in a television interview last year. Hakem was freed two days later on bail.
Kuwait bans political parties although political societies of various shades are tolerated in the country of 4 million.
The Western-allied Gulf oil exporter allows more political expression than other Gulf Arab states, with a lively press and an elected parliament, but bans public gatherings of more than 20 people without a permit.
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Greenwich High girls volleyball team raises record to 14-0 win win vs. Ridgefield
By David Fierro on October 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Photo by David Fierro: Greenwich swept Ridgefield, 3-0, in an FCIAC match held on Oct. 15, 2021 in Greenwich.
The streak is 14 and counting.
That's how many matches the undefeated Greenwich High School girls volleyball team has won so far this season.
The soaring Cardinals completed another successful week Friday with a 3-0 win against visiting Ridgefield. After defeating New Canaan on Monday, Darien Wednesday and Ridgefield Friday, Greenwich's record is a perfect 14-0.
Greenwich, which defeated Ridgefield by game scores of 25-20, 25-22, 25-15, is one of only two undefeated teams in Class LL – Cheshire (15-0) being the other team.
"It feels really good to be this far in the season, we weren't expecting to be 14-0, especially after losing so many seniors," Greenwich senior tri-captain Liana Sarkissian said. "We're happy and excited and we want to see how far we could get with this team."
Senior tri-captain Adele Sotgiu registered 12 kills and four aces, while Sarkissian tallied 10 kills, 12 digs and five blocks for the Cardinals. Katherine Ford posted seven kills and 13 digs and Lucia Spanjol notched 34 assists and four digs to also highlight the winning effort.
Greenwich's volleyball team is riding a 14-game winning streak in its 2021 season.
After winning the first two sets against Ridgefield, Greenwich held a 10-8 lead on Ridgefield in the third set, then increased it to 14-8 on strong serving by Sotgiu. Later in the set, a kill by Sarkissian put the Cards ahead, 20-11. Another Sarkissian kill made it 24-12.
"I think Ridgefield had really good defense, they were really scrappy," Sotgiu said. "We had a little bit of trouble putting the ball down. But once we got into a rhythm and our defense was good, we were picking up a lot. We were waiting for them to make mistakes and we were keeping the ball in play."
Said Greenwich coach Steve Lapham: "We knew they (Ridgefield) were going to be good. We jumped out to leads and then we stalled. But it's a good win. It was a big win against Darien and so was today. Our passing was really good, Adele was great. I thought we did a good job of passing their serve."
Greenwich, which is 26-0 dating back to the 2020 season, entered Friday's match against Ridgefield with a lot of energy after defeating rival Darien, 3-1, in Wednesday's road matchup.
"That definitely brought our energy up, that was our most competitive game so far," Sotgiu said of the squad's competition against Darien. "We were really hyped for it. Going to four sets, instead of five, we were really excited and happy about that."
Adele Sotgiu, Kassidy Bonney and Sophie Jones get ready for Ridgefield to serve during a match at Greenwich High.
The Cards, who host Bridgeport Central on Monday and Danbury on Wednesday, have indeed, risen to the occasion against their rival opponents.
"We thrive on playing the hard teams and strong teams," GHS senior tri-captain Sophie Jones said. "When we get to play high-level volleyball that's what we enjoy most. When it's high-level games, high speed games, that's when we play our best and are having the most fun. Coming into the season, we had a brand new team and we wanted to show our best and unite as one team."
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so im from nj and the cops in my area are jerks about not having a front plate. i used to not have one till i got a warning and i showed my f.o.p card and got off the hook. but i wanted to know if anybody has some good excuses for not having one. for example i think i'm gonna use the," the bracket is on backorder from japan" next time i decide to take off my front plate and a cop stops me.. but what else you guys got?!
An excuse only works the first time the cop sees you. Chances are you will be seen again by the inquiring officer who wont appreciate your deception. I have a friend who is married to a cop. They hold grudges.
i just replaced the bumper..
haha that state trooper got super butthurt the third time he pulled me over for a license plate cover. We can legaly drive a tracked car/truck on the roads here (aka tank) but cant have a plate cover. right?
How dare you be able to beat the red light and private security cameras with your reflective plastic coverings on your license plates that the state/county makes massive revenues on without the old school manpower it once needed to do so!
Haha I'm in Wyoming. We have none of those things. Still get tickets the old fashioned way here. Reminds me - I still need to pull apart my radar jammer and see if I can split it up and hide it somewhere.
"It was there when I left to work this morning."
There really is no valid excuse. I had mine stolen in April, thought it fell off, they racked up $850 in parking violations before I found out about it. Yay!
Haha I've been driving around with no front plate for 2 years now. Got pulled over for speeding last year and the cop saw it chillin in the passenger door pocket where I keep it. Told him I don't have the bracket for it (which I don't). Didn't write me up for it though.
trust me dude, i'm from jersey too, and it's just a thousand times easier to keep the plate on and deal with it.
on my first car (true story) i got it back from the body shop with the new WWRS lip kit installed and painted with a CF hood, so that's the excuse that i used, which worked once, but not the other 3-4 times. i eventually got fed up enough to just put the plate back on. i was even getting harassed for it being in the front windshield.
the good thing about living in north Texas is we have lots of ppl from Oklahoma that come down and they don't have front front plates up there so they tend to just assume that ur from there most of the time.
yeah i get you man, but i just love how it looks with it off. i only got stopped for it once and i wasnt even speeding and idk if your familiar with the town scotch plains, well its a bunch of stuck up cops that have nothing better to do and he stopped me with my mom in the car lol. so if it wasnt for that i woulda still kept it off but she told me to put it on once we got home. but i took it off again today and if i get stopped again for it then i guess ill jst leave it on for good. and im from union and the cops arent that bad its just when i go into other towns.. im driving with the bracket thats on the bottom two screws and if they ask why i dont have it on ill just say im waiting for a new one of these or something..
I have a mugen kit all around and the holes just don't match up, that's why i just put my plate on the dash, haven't been pulled over yet.
but your exhause can not be sticking out of your bumper more then 2"
No front plate in Louisiana.


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Partido Socialismo y Libertad
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Nahuel Moreno
Cuarta Internacional
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Interim leaders have a shorter term scope of issues, and thus act accordingly, though they typically serve the same cause and work towards similar goals.
There are several key differences between interim and nonprofit leaders.
By nature, an interim leadership role is temporary. That means a part of that person's job will be setting up for the next person to take charge. Great interims look at all the systems of the organization, help the board to understand what is needed in its next leader, and apply appropriate fixes to organizational issues that are standing in the way of its functionality and viability.
These can include a clearer planning focus, resolution of financial issues, policy review, or restructured fundraising practices. Interims are important third-party evaluators and experienced nonprofit leaders that help organizations get the organization ready for making the right hire for leading its future with a solid foundation of organizational functionality in place.
There are few issues that an interim would encounter that would be different from that of a permanent person. It's how the two individuals would go about managing those circumstances that would be quite different. For example, an interim who is helping a nonprofit organization to dissolve or merge with another nonprofit organization would view the entire process differently. A permanent leader might view the situation as the end of his or her career.
The interim, on the other hand, would simply see the transaction as a completion of his or her current assignment.
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Q: What does this error mean? "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Test Page" When I visit http://www.mycompwebsite.com/ I get this page:

I dont know why I am getting this. How cna I get rid of this?

A: Have a look what it says on the right-hand column:

You may now add content to the
  directory /var/www/html/... follow
  the instructions in the file
  /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

I suggest you heed its advice

A: As the error states in the right hand column there is no content in the /var/www/html directory. The web server will display this page as long as you don't replace it from the /var/www/html directory.
This is the document root or the point where your website is hosted. If you this isn't on your computer, contact the site admin to put up content or wait :)


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Does a dominant seventh chord always have to function as a secondary dominant/cadence?
Does a dominant seventh chord always have to function as a secondary dominant/cadence? In "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" they play a B7-C and a B7-G instead of resolving to an E. Does this just work as a bluesy kind of sound?
Are there cadences that work well besides the perfect cadence and plagal cadence?
theory harmony cadence
Bill SmithBill Smith
Both your examples use dominant sevenths. Unless this is specifically what you are targeting, the answers will not tell you what you want. There are four different 'sevenths'. – Tim Nov 30 '15 at 8:49
No, a 'dominant 7th' shaped chord doesn't HAVE to function as a dominant seventh, secondary or otherwise. You gave a couple of examples that prove this! THEORY DESCRIBES, IT DOES NOT COMMAND. – Laurence Payne Aug 2 '16 at 18:17
Does a seventh chord always have to function as a secondary dominant/cadence?
In traditional western harmony dominant seventh chords are reserved mostly for dominants and secondary dominants while fully diminished seventh chords have a similarly dominant function. However in romantic-and-onward harmony seventh chords (as well as 9th, 11th, etc.) are often used coloristically, meaning they are used to color the root triad or add harmonic richness and ambiguity.
See, for example, the amazing harmonic colorings Prokofiev does here in the second movement of his Sixth Piano Sonata:
(Cued recording here)
Here he takes a melody and harmonic progression which simply goes back and forth between I and V and makes all kinds of alterations to it, adding and modifying pitches left and right which don't have much intuitive voice leading to speak of (parallel fifths abound). The object of his game here is to take simple material and make unexpected and surprising transformations on it. The underlying harmonic structure remains the same despite the various sevenths and non-chord tones added everywhere.
There are as many cadences as there are melodies - just try things out and see what works!
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No; this isn't really the case in modern music (including but not limited to pop, rock, jazz etc). I'll take Jazz as a reference point, because jazzists make every chord a 7th chord. You can add another third in any triad (chord), and you would have a 7th chord. This won't make it necessarily a (secondary) dominant. It will add color to the chord.
There are the deceptive (or Interrupted ) cadences. To quote Wikipedia:
V to vi. The most important irregular resolution,most commonly V7–vi (or V7–♭VI) in major or V7–VI in minor.
This is really really common in popular music (and common practice period as well). The first cadence you mentioned, B7-C falls in this category.
Now, jazzists have more deceptive cadences. Pretty much any chord that sounds right after a dominant, fits.
There is (at least) one chord in Common Practice Period harmony that has the same interval-pattern as a dominant seventh that behaves differently, the German Sixth. It's normally written differently (Ab-C-Eb-F# in C rather than Ab-C-Eb-Gb) but it's possible to play enharmonic games with the chord.
Whether a chord is a dominant seventh is more accurately determined by its resolution. The above chord (Ab-C-Eb-F#) normally resolves to a C64 (major or minor) followed by a G chord when acting like a German Sixth but to a Db chord when acting like dominant seventh. In the first case, the chord has a pre-dominant or sub-dominant function, in the second, a dominant function. As a sub-dominant, the augmented sixth resolves outward to a duplicated dominant note (not necessarily the chord) and as a dominant, the root moves down a fifth like any other dominant.
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Q: Getting NullPointerException with equals im having trouble with null pointer errors in java, im trying to make a breakout game and i know what the problem is its this.
    GObject collider = getElementAt( ballX, ballspeed);

    if(collider.equals(paddle) && collider){
        ballspeed = -ballspeed;
    }

When the if statement it null the program gets the error.
Ive try this too but no luck
    GObject collider = getElementAt( ballX, ballspeed);

    if(collider.equals(paddle) && collider != null){
        ballspeed = -ballspeed;
    }

A: Try other way:
if(collider != null && collider.equals(paddle) ){
        ballspeed = -ballspeed;
    }

Read more about operators in java

A: You must do the null-check before you try to call equals(..).
The conditions are evaluated from left to right: if the first one is false, the others are not evaluated at all, because the && cannot be true anymore independent what the other conditions are.
  if(collider != null && collider.equals(paddle)){
    ballspeed = -ballspeed;
  }

If you feel insecure about the evaluation order, you can also do the following:
  if(collider != null){
      if(collider.equals(paddle)){
          ballspeed = -ballspeed;
      }
  }

A: Like others said :
if(collider != null && collider.equals(paddle) ) {

should do the trick. so an expression of this form:
if (condition1 && condition2)

Condition2 will be evaluation only if condition1 is true. In this case, if condition 1 is null, condition2 will not be evaluated and this would prevent null pointer exception.

A: Try changing the order of your second if statement to
if(collider != null && collider.equals(paddle))
If statements are evaluated left to right, if collider is null, the first statement will evaluate to false and the second statement won't be executed. Alternatively you could do something like
if(collider == null) {
    //do nothing or attempt to get non null collider
}
else if(collider.equals(paddle))
{
   ballspeed = -ballspeed;
}

A: Try this
if(collider != null  &&  collider.equals(paddle) )

This should work.


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Elephant seals have a shocking similarity with humans who are heavy smokers. Both seals and frequent smokers have high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood. Scientists think that the elevated carbon monoxide levels come from holding their breath while diving deep into the ocean.
Remember the scene in Clueless when Cher refuses to get on the ground while being robbed at gunpoint because she doesn't want to ruin her designer dress? The scene and the classic line "You don't understand. This is an Alaïa!" were inspired by a true story. Writer-director Amy Heckerling told Interview magazine that she was at dinner with a group of agents who were talking about their colleague whose wife made him start wearing designer suits.
"He had all these Armani suits. He wasn't the kind of guy that felt comfortable in any of this, and he just knew that this was what he was doing because she wanted it and insisted on it," she said. "Suddenly he had to go out wearing this stuff, and he got held up, and the mugger said, 'Get on the ground!' He said, 'But this is Armani!' It wasn't like he loves Armani — it was more like he was more afraid of his wife than a guy with a gun." Heckerling thought the story was so funny that she decided to write her own version into the movie.
While I can't say I've ever felt the need to top a piece of apple pie with a slice of cheese, in some places, it's a traditional way to enjoy the dessert. In 1999, a law was put on the books in Vermont requiring bakers to make "a good faith effort" to "serve it with ice cream, cold milk, or a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce."
Starting in 1880, US presidents had the use of numerous presidential boats. The longest-running boat was the USS Sequoia, which set sail in 1933 and was known as the "floating White House." The US government purchased the Sequoia from a Texas oil tycoon. Before becoming the presidential yacht, the boat was used as a decoy ship to catch rum runners in the Mississippi River during Prohibition. In 1933, the boat was officially commissioned by the Navy and was first used for a fishing trip by President Herbert Hoover, who was criticized for using such a luxurious boat while the country was in the middle of the Great Depression.
From then on, every president used the boat and made special accommodations to suit his needs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt installed an elevator on board, while Harry Truman added a piano. John F. Kennedy added a king-size bed to the boat, and some even suspected that Marilyn Monroe was a guest on board. When Lyndon B. Johnson took office, he took out the elevator and added a bar in its place. Richard Nixon was the president who used the boat most frequently, clocking in 88 trips during his time in office. In fact, he even announced his plans to resign the presidency to his family on the Sequoia. When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977, he learned that the boat cost $880,000 a year to maintain and staff. Carter ran on a campaign that promised to eliminate unnecessary luxuries of the presidency, and auctioned off the boat for $236,000.
Throughout the 1980s, the boat was rented out often, commanding fees of more than $10,000 a day because of its presidential history. Despite the fact that there was a demand for the Sequoia, the boat needed constant maintenance and repairs. In 2000, Gary Silversmith, an attorney, purchased the boat. Silversmith could not afford the repairs and borrowed $5 million from an Indian group called FE Partners to fix the boat, which had fallen into disarray and reportedly had a colony of raccoons living on board. After he failed to pay back the loan, FE Partners wanted to purchase the yacht from Silversmith, who sued. In 2016, FE Partners won the case and was granted the right to purchase the yacht for $0. FE Partners said they are committed to restoring the yacht.
As a big brunch fan myself, I was curious about how the best meal of the week was created. Turns out, the word "brunch" first appeared in Hunter's Weekly in 1895, according to Smithsonian magazine, and was described as being a meal "that's cheerful, sociable and inciting." Brunch became an even bigger deal following World War II. Many women entered the workforce for the first time during the war, and saw Sunday brunch as an opportunity to get out of the house and enjoy themselves ahead of the upcoming workweek.
Although blue is now regarded as the most popular color, historian Michel Pastoureau said it was originally seen as a marker of the working class and rarely appeared in ancient art or clothing. In the 12th century, people began to associate the color blue with the Virgin Mary because her cloak was often depicted as blue. Through the association with the Virgin Mary, people began to see the color in a new light and started using it in other religious imagery.
In 1917, the British royal family renounced all of their ties to Germany and decided to change their name to "Windsor." Prior to this, the royals didn't have a public last name, although the British National Archives said they used "Wettin" as their formal name. Before landing on Windsor, names like "Tudor-Stewart," "Plantagenet," "York," "Lancaster," "D'Este," "Fitzroy," and even "England" were considered.
The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" was written from the perspective of Satan. The song's lyrics discuss events like the life and death of Jesus Christ, the Russian Revolution, World War II, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The song originally included the line, "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'" While they were recording the track in 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated. As a result, the band changed the original Kennedy reference to "Who killed the Kennedys?"
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The song also added to the speculation that the Rolling Stones were involved with the occult. The band had already released an album called Their Satanic Majesties Request. The album was supposed to compete with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured psychedelic rock. The Stones originally wanted the album art to feature a photo of Mick Jagger naked and nailed to a cross, but their label nixed the idea. Of course, both Jagger and Keith Richards added fuel to the fire, with Jagger ripping off his shirt to reveal a Lucifer tattoo during a TV special, and Richards telling Rolling Stone magazine that he believed "everybody should give Satan a try."
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In the late 1800s, John Newell Hurty, a chief public health official in Indiana, started a crusade to lower disease rates in the state, which he believed were linked to dirty milk. He knew that many of the prevalent diseases like typhoid and dysentery were spread because of a lack of sanitation, and had begun to notice that the American dairy industry had a history of being "notoriously careless."
He found that in addition to the carelessness surrounding production, US dairy producers had taken to mixing their milk with water, chalk, embalming fluid, and cow brains in order to boost the flavor and appearance of the milk and, in some cases, prevent it from going bad. By the 1890s, newspapers had begun to report on "embalmed milk" scandals. They linked hundreds of deaths to milk that had been tainted by formaldehyde, dirt, and bacteria.
In 1899, Hurty's research helped get the Pure Food Law passed in Indiana. Despite the passage of the law, dairy producers continued to use formaldehyde in their products, and even began creating new mixtures that included the compound. As more deaths became linked to the use of formaldehyde, the state started prosecuting the dairy producers. Finally, in 1906, the federal Pure Food and Drug Act officially banned the use of formaldehyde in dairy products and paved the way for pasteurization to become a common practice.
While you probably remember learning that butterflies feed on nectar, it turns out that they also have quite the wild diet. In addition to nectar, butterflies have been known to feed on mud, sweat, tears, urine, poop, and even rotting animal flesh. Butterflies actually get a ton of useful nutrients from each of these substances, as disgusting as they might be.
While casting the lead role in 1977's Superman, filmmakers were torn between casting an unknown actor who could make their role his own and going with a big name to draw in a huge audience. The filmmakers allegedly considered a massive range of celebrities. In addition to stars like Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, they considered traditional screen actors like Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Soon, discussions about casting a totally unexpected actor were underway, with names like Elton John and Muhammad Ali thrown around.
One filmmaker even reportedly asked his wife's dentist to take a screen test for the part. Eventually they decided to cast an unknown actor and settled on Christopher Reeve. Reeve, who was an experienced pilot, actually ended up saving the movie. During the initial test shoots, Superman's flying looked very unrealistic. Reeve used his knowledge of aerodynamics to turn his body as if he were really in flight, which filmmakers say saved the movie.
Since the 1980s, the cost of a slice of pizza has remained consistent with the price of a subway ride in New York City. The New York Times first reported on this "pizza principle," which remained intact for nearly four decades. In 2022, however, the average price of a slice of pizza in NYC jumped to $3.14, while a subway ride costs only $2.75.
Janet Frame was an author from New Zealand. As a young girl, she experienced a feeling of alienation and depression following the drowning of her two younger sisters. As a result, Frame had an emotional breakdown in 1945. Her doctors believed she was schizophrenic, and Frame spent years in and out of treatment. Although she had been misdiagnosed, she was scheduled to have a lobotomy in 1952. While in the hospital, Frame wrote extensively and published her first novel shortly before the lobotomy was scheduled. Much to the doctors' surprise, the book won New Zealand's only literary award.
As a result, the hospital decided to cancel Frame's lobotomy, although she remained in the hospital for several more years. By 1955, she had been released and continued writing. Her experience in hospitals informed a lot of her work, and she was praised for her "insights into the world of the insane." Frame never believed that she was schizophrenic. After landing in the hospital in Europe, Frame finally convinced doctors that she was not schizophrenic, and returned to New Zealand with a letter proving that she was not suffering from mental illness, as a rebuttal to the critics who said her work was the result of her being a "mad woman."
Portland, Oregon, almost had a very different name! Asa Lovejoy, who was from Boston, and Francis Pettygrove, who was from Portland, Maine, owned a portion of land in Oregon in the 1800s. They couldn't decide on a name, and decided that a coin toss would reveal whose hometown they would name their land after. The men allegedly decided that a best two-out-of-three was the only fair approach, with Pettygrove and Portland winning out. The coin that was used for the toss is on display in the Oregon Historical Society Museum.
The late 1980s marked the rise in educational computer games, with one of the most successful being Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? In the game, players worked as a detective chasing Carmen around the world as she and her cohorts tried to steal landmarks and monuments from all over the globe. Programmer Dane Bigham began working on the game in 1983. His boss, Gary Carlston, told Bigham he should consider including a copy of The World Almanac and Book of Facts in each game. Carlston had been fascinated with geography as a child and thought that including the almanac and giving the game a geographic spin would set it apart from the competition.
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? was released in 1985 and was one of the first graphics-based games. The inclusion of the almanac made the game accessible to younger players, who could look up the answers to some of the geographic questions that the game posed. The game was a massive hit and spawned several spinoffs, one of which was a game show that aired on PBS and featured middle school students answering questions about geography. PBS was inspired to create the show after reading a National Geographic study that claimed 1 in 4 Americans couldn't locate the Pacific Ocean on a map. In 2019, Netflix debuted a reboot of the animated series that ran for four seasons.
Bacon was a longtime staple of space travel. In the early Gemini missions, it was reportedly always on the menu. During the first trip to the moon, the astronauts celebrated the landing with a meal consisting of "bacon squares, peaches, sugar cookie cubes, pineapple grapefruit drink and coffee." Bacon remained on NASA's menu until 2002, when it was replaced with a freeze-dried sausage patty.
During the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, families were forced to evacuate the area, with many making the hard decision to leave their beloved pets behind. While Soviet soldiers shot many of the remaining animals to reduce the spread of contamination after the meltdown, it is believed that some pets were able to hide. As a result, there are now more than 900 feral dogs within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — a 1,000-square-mile patch of land in Ukraine — that are believed to be descendants of the animals that were left behind.
Visitors to Chernobyl have been warned not to pet the dogs, because it is believed that there are radioactive particles in their fur. Guards at Chernobyl care for the dogs, which often accompany them throughout the day. Some of the guards even refer to the dogs as their "assistants." One guard told the BBC that having the dogs around brings joy to a desolate place. "For me personally, this is a kind of symbol of the continuation of life in this radioactive, postapocalyptic world," he said.
When Christopher Walken was 16 years old, he spent a summer working as a lion tamer. In an interview with the Guardian, Walken recalled working with a lion named Sheba. "I would come into the cage and wave my whip, and she'd lazily get up and sit like a dog and maybe give a little roar," he said. "I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company."
While selling your farts in a jar has now become a moneymaking scheme, back in the days of the Great Plague of London, farting in a jar was a lifesaving measure. In 1655, doctors believed that the plague was a deadly air vapor that was caught by breathing in the atmosphere. They reasoned that if people smelled something equally potent after being exposed to the plague, then it might lessen their chances of actually getting sick. People began farting in jars and keeping them at the ready to smell, although it was most likely just a placebo effect.
And finally, Rigoberta Menchú is a Guatemalan human rights activist who won a Nobel Prize for her work defending Indigenous rights in her country. Menchú was raised K'iche', which is a branch of the Mayan people. As a child, she worked on the family's farm before becoming interested in social issues through the Catholic Church. While Menchú was becoming a key player in the fight for women's rights, a guerrilla organization established itself in her town. Her family was soon accused of taking part in guerrilla activities, and her father was jailed. Upon his release, he joined the Committee of the Peasant Union, known as CUC. Menchú followed in his footsteps and joined in 1979.
Shortly after she joined the CUC, Menchú's brother, father, and mother were all killed, likely because of their political involvement. This prompted Menchú to get even more involved in human rights work. In 1980, she organized strikes for better conditions for farmworkers, protested in the country's capital, and worked on educating peasant populations on their rights. By 1981, she had been forced into hiding because of her work and fled to Mexico, where she still advocated from afar. She helped found the United Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition to fight against oppression. In 1992, Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
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