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Der Schwarzschwanz-Präriehund (Cynomys ludovicianus) ist eine in Nordamerika lebende, zur Ordnung der Nagetiere gehörende Art der Präriehunde aus der Unterfamilie der Erdhörnchen. Er verdankt den Namen "Präriehund" seinem Lebensraum, der Prärie, und seinen Warnrufen, die die frühen Siedler an das Bellen von Haushunden erinnerten.

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Mehr als ein Jahr alte und adulte Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde haben eine Kopf-Rumpf-Länge von 28–33 cm und eine Schwanzlänge von 7–11,5 cm. Die Gesamtlänge beträgt 35,5–41,5 cm, aufgerichtet erreichen sie eine Höhe von etwa 30 cm. Das Gewicht von 253–1390 Gramm variiert jahreszeitlich, die Männchen sind gewöhnlich 5 %–15 % schwerer als die Weibchen.

Abgesehen von seltenen Albinos ist die Oberseite der Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde braun oder rötlich braun, die Unterseite weißlich. Manchmal ähnelt die Fellfarbe durch das Graben der Farbe des Bodens. Das Fell wird zweimal im Jahr gewechselt, der Wechsel dauert etwa zwei Wochen. Die meisten Haare sind im Winter an der Basis schwarz, dann blass gelbbraun, mit subterminalem zimtfarbenen Band und weißer Spitze. Im Sommer sind die meisten Haare an der Basis schwarz, dann weißlich, anschließend zimtfarben, gefolgt von einem subterminalen gelbbraunem Band und schmal schwarzer Spitze. Die Sommerhaare sind mit zahlreichen, eher längeren, vollständig schwarzen oder zur Hälfte schwarzen Haare gemischt. Die Tasthaare und das letzte Schwanzdrittel sind schwarz.

Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde haben fünf Finger mit schwarzen, etwas gekrümmten Krallen. Der kantige Kopf ist breit mit großen Augen, die Iris ist dunkelbraun.

Verbreitung und Lebensraum
Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde sind primär eine Tierart der Great Plains. Ursprünglich kamen sie vom Frenchman River Valley im extremen Süden der Provinz Saskatchewan in Kanada und von Montana in den USA nach Süden durch die westlichen und zentralen Great Plains zu den Desert Grasslands von Texas, New Mexico und Südosten von Arizona in den USA bis in das nordöstliche Sonora und nördliche Chihuahua in Mexiko vor. Die Art ist heute im Südosten von Arizona, im südwestlichen New Mexico und lokal in vielen anderen Gebieten des ursprünglichen Verbreitungsgebietes ausgerottet. Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde kommen in isolierten Kolonien innerhalb des ursprünglichen Verbreitungsgebietes vor, viele davon in Nationalparks, State Parks und National Wildlife Refuge.

Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde bewohnen trockenes, flach oder leicht abfallendes, offenes Grasland mit niedriger, relativ spärlicher Vegetation, einschließlich von Rindern überweideten Flächen. In einigen Gebieten kommt die Art auch in unbebauten Grundstücken an Stadträndern vor. Ihr Habitat umfasst mit Langgras-, Mixedgras- und die Kurzgrasprärie alle Grünlandarten.

Lebensweise
Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde sind tagaktiv und halten wie die Mexikanischen Präriehunde, im Gegensatz zu anderen Arten, keinen Winterschlaf. Bei extrem kaltem Wetter bleiben sie allerdings manchmal für mehrere aufeinanderfolgende Tage unter der Erde. Präriehunde leben in sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Erdhöhlen. Die Gänge haben typischerweise einen Durchmesser von 10 bis 30 cm und sind gewöhnlich 5–10 m lang und ein bis zwei Meter tief. Es gibt mehrere elliptische, mit trockenem Gras ausgepolsterte Kammern, bei den Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunden ist jede Kammer annähernd 30 cm hoch mit einer Weite von 50 cm.

Mit etwa zwei Jahren sind Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde geschlechtsreif, gewöhnlich findet die erste Kopulation im zweiten Februar oder März nach der Geburt statt. Nach einer Tragzeit von 33–38 Tagen werden bis zu acht Junge geboren.

Sozialstruktur

Präriehunde sind soziale, gregäre Tiere die in Kolonien, auch Städte genannt, leben. Die größte Kolonie soll sich um 1900 bei Vernon Bailey in Texas befunden und auf einer Fläche von 100 auf 250 Meilen annähernd 400 Millionen Individuen gezählt haben. Die größte heutige Kolonie mit etwa 15.000 ha liegt in der Nähe von Janos, Mexiko. Die meisten bestehenden Kolonien sind durch Landwirtschaft und Stadtentwicklung fragmentiert, die Populationsdichte variiert von 5 bis 35 Tieren pro Acre. Die Familieneinheiten, Cliquen (coteries) genannt, bestehen aus einem Männchen, bis zu fünf Weibchen und ihren Jungen.

Nahrung
Die Nahrung der Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde variiert je nach Jahreszeit. Sie ernähren sich im Sommer von Süßgräsern wie Kammquecken (Agropyron), Bouteloua Arten und Büffelgras (Buchloe dactyloides), von Chrysothamnus Arten und Sphaeralcea coccinea. Im Winter fressem sie Opuntien Arten, Kratzdisteln und unterirdische Wurzeln. Bei der Art treten auch Fälle von Kannibalismus auf. Schwarzschwanz-Präriehunde töten und fressen konspezifische Jungtiere. Gefressen werden auch Artgenossen die unter der Erde verenden.

Der Wassergehalt der Nahrung ist für den täglichen Wasserbedarf ausreichend, aber auch Stoffwechselwasser trägt zur Deckung des Bedarfs bei.

Systematik
Vor 1975 wurden zwei Unterarten nach Hollister (1916) anerkannt:
Cynomys ludovicianus ludovicianus
Cynomys ludovicianus arizonensis Mearns 1890
Basierend auf morphometrischen Analysen kam Pizzimenti (1975) zu dem Schluss, dass es keinen Grund gibt Unterarten zu befürworten. Hoffmeister (1986) folgte der Empfehlung, so dass Cynomys ludovicianus als monotypisch gilt.

Gefährdung
Auf Grund des sehr großen Verbreitungsgebietes, der geschätzten mehreren Millionen Individuen und da die Population nicht so schnell zurückgeht, dass eine Einstufung in eine höhere Kategorie gerechtfertigt wäre, wird der Schwarzschwanz-Präriehund von der International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) als nicht gefährdet (Least Concern, LC) eingestuft.

Literatur
 David Burnie (Hrsg.): Tiere. (Die große Bild-Enzyklopädie mit über 2000 Arten). Dorling Kindersley, München 2001, ISBN 3-8310-0202-9.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Nancy Shefferly: Cynomys ludovicianus. In: Animal Diversity Web, 1999.

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I know I have featured this one a few times but it is a must in this collection of Farmhouse Organizing DIYS. It's a stylish way to get all those pots and pans organized and WOW does it look great! Laura will show you exactly how to make this beauty and I have a feeling you will treasure it for many years to come.
Where do you get the plans and directions to make the wooden cart?
I love every one of these ideas, and I was getting tired of the farmhouse trend. I think it's because some farmhouse stuff is more cute than it is utilitarian. However, every idea here is clever AND attractive.
Lovely DIYs… those jars that are painted with copper are so pretty!


Text files are easy to maintain, back up, and otherwise deal with. Categories and tags and lists of related posts are easier to manage with a database, but given that they should change infrequently, it's not really defensible to run a database continually and query it live for those things.
The text file backend would have to support reStructuredText as an input format. In a sense, my current blog meets this requirement, as I write in reStructuredText and have a toolchain that handles posting to it directly from Vim. But that's a process that should be simpler.
Your request is turned into a series of parameters by the underlying web server and handed off to the blog software.
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Given that people visit the site far more often than I update it, it's rather inefficient to do all that work every time. Using something like WP Super Cache is possible—it turns a WordPress site into a lot of flat files—but I don't want to maintain that on top of WordPress, I want that approach to be the core of the blog platform itself.
The blog software reads the page corresponding to your request off of disk.
The writing and other content, possibly including comments.
The source files for the layout.
The rendered flat files—so that the site itself is backed up independently of changes to the build framework, and so that restoring the site is merely a question of deploying a checkout.
Copies of downloaded external content as part of handling linkrot.
This is the first requirement that doesn't appear to be addressed by blog software out there—like Pelican, for example, which would be on my list of candidates. The other flat-file approaches I've seen rely on third-party centralized comment handling, mostly Disqus. I don't want to give control of my comments to a third party, however, and would want easy integration with some comment service that I host myself, such as perhaps Discourse (which I haven't looked at closely yet).
I also want support for showing blog-wide recent comments.
ID numbers are not good enough anymore, and haven't been for about a decade.
I probably also want short URL support.
All content that's ever been hosted on your site should be accessible via any URL that it's ever been accessible by, unless you've deliberately chosen to delete that content. Changing software on your side is not a good enough excuse for breaking links.
Currently, my blog has a 404 handler that has a set of key-value pairs, where the key is the old URL (some going back a very long time) and the value is the new URL. So while earlier versions of my site used completely different software and a completely different URL scheme, those links still work. Any new platform would have to support this.
It would also have to support delivering a reasonable 404 page (something my site doesn't actually do very well right now, but that's my fault and isn't because of WordPress).
The software would have to know how to read other metadata, such as timestamps, and also arbitrary things I might come up with later.
My Related Posts by Tags plugin is one of the few features of my blog that a database is really helpful for. It looks at the tags for the current post, and then at the tags for every post I've published, and returns posts sorted by how many of their tags match the tags of the current post. Using a database to make that calculation is reasonable—but doing it live every single time a page is requested, when that information only changes when a new post is added (and even then only if the tags overlap) is not at all reasonable. I suspect this would be tricky to add to the build process of existing flat-file platforms, but it should be possible. It's also possible to do it client-side, but that again seems wasteful since it won't change very often.
Links cease being accurate with appalling frequency, and that can make some blog posts incomprehensible later on. (This seems to be even more true of YouTube clips than other content.) So I want blog software that notes what links are in posts and downloads their content as part of the blog's assets, and later does automatic link-checking. If a link has disappeared, then it should take some action to allow the stored version to be used instead of the now-dead link.
This includes options for including full content in RSS feeds, and being able to include arbitrary other content (such as links to related posts) in the RSS, and also RSS feeds for the comments on individual posts.
Code snippets should have language-specific CSS applied to them.
Eventually I'll find time to determine whether I could make Pelican, or some alternative, do the above (or enough of it), and then I'll switch over. This blog certainly needs a technical overhaul and a redesign, and I'm not willing to do the latter until I do the former—partly because terrible performance is more important than subpar design.
I might still want some kind of administrative interface, but that would be a separate service, one that would write to the repositories and kick off rebuilds, rather than something coupled with the blog content. One key use of that interface would be to allow scheduling of future posts.
 I last did that over a decade ago, in PHP backed by MySQL. Any new project would not be written in PHP.
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import { compose, createStore } from 'redux';
import { persistState } from 'redux-devtools';
import DevTools from './devtools';
import { reducer } from './state';

const makeStore = compose(
  DevTools.instrument(),
  persistState(window.location.href.match(/[?&]debug_session=([^&]+)\b/)),
)(createStore);

const store = makeStore(reducer);

export default store;


camera and linuxmce for access control and security!
I plan to install linuxmce for security purpose and need some help from the masters of linuxmce.
1-a/ and b/ I found xcam camera (http://www.intellihome.be/francais/store.asp?pag=newsletter&nr=114) but don't know how linuxmce deal with.
I though also about an ip camera (wifi) but don't know exactly which one are recognise (cheapest one). On pluto website there is compatibility list (Panasonic IP Cameras,Dlink IP Camera,Axis IP Camera) but it is very expensive camera !! Are these one compatible: trendnet camera ip wifi tv ip100w, DCS-950G... which are very cheap !!
2/ I'd like to make a control access for peaople who want to enter in my house based on a camera, and an switch. When people press the button, the camera of the celling appears then I can speak with the person and press on the touch screen to open if I agree. My question is how to make it possible to b e hear by the visitor?? Do I need to wire HP cables... My aim is to use the electriq line only and not using any more cable, is it possible???
Re: camera and linuxmce for access control and security!
Any IP camera with java will be compatible with linux, and I am guessing with linuxmce too. Just stay away with the ones that only have active X. They wont work.
For the two cameras you ask, I've never used the trendnet but my experience with ip cameras is that you get what you pay for. The image and color quality depens a lot on what you pay. There is an Axis indor camera for 200 euros that is quite good, if you want to go cheap.
I don't really mather with quality !!!!
I think you are wright with the java applet, I guess it control it with java. The trend camera (Trendnet TV-IP 100) is compatible with java and other (here is the code http://www.touslesreseaux.com/test-dossier/Test-de-la-camera-IP-Sitecom-WL-400.html). I don't know if I will use it or another one (is xcam - compatible - i think it's working with x10 but is it hard to make it control by linuxmce).
- x10 technologie (switch MS13 + rf receptor + cm11 interface). People come, press button, then x10 info is send to the linuxmce computer. A screen open with the trendnet tv-ip201W camera which have a microphone. So it 's possible to see the visitor and to listen. Then if ok, I send a x10 command to the door to open (electrical open). However, how to interract with the visitor How to speak with him, is it possible with linuxmce, or to hard !!!! I was thinking about some message already recorded close to the entrance in a leatle player, and button on screen to send playback order to the intercom (for exemple yes, no, you can enter...).
Any idea !! Is there someone who make it possible to speak with the visitor, like a video intercom but with tha possibility of doing it in linuxmce on each tv set !!!
interesting idea. for the linuxmce part it should not be so difficult, only to implement a software for network conferencing. the other part, for intercom device for the visitor could be a little difficult.
Good solution. I'm waiting for delivering of three analog doorphones from USA. So, probably I'll start implement this under Pluto next week.
Your idea is great, I didn't though about it. I'd like to hear your project in detail, and why not a process !!!
Another solution could be to put an IP phone in front !!!
After what, we need to add a switch in the call view, if the caller is intercom. The view would be from the door ip camera !!!
I think the addition between SIP IP phone + camera.. should be great. Ohhh, I forgot, the aim is not to have to put more wire. I just want to use cpl, wifi, and power supply !!!
Thanks for feedback or advice.
I put a Pan/Tilt IP camera on my front door, it's also got a mic.. works well..
some of the ActiveX cameras will also support cgi.. Mine is from Gadspot, IP9604, it's touted as an ActiveX camera, but a bit of digging I found you can control it via http requests..
you're wright, however you only can hear people, you can't reply !!!! I was thinking of this solution, however, I needed to install some pre-recorded messages, in electrical-board, then control messages with X10 (like for the water control), for example with some buton on the screen !!
However, your camera is expensive and I think a VOIP-intercom would be greater (but expensive too). I was thinking about a SIP voip cell phone, then sold wired for header and mic (the phone would be hidden).
The SVN for MythTv includes a plugin MythZoneminder for use with the popular Zoneminder security software. It also include a telnet interface that allows you to switch the display to a particular interface.
Once they release .21 which will include this plugin, and LinuxMCE moves to this version, it would be relatively easy to have LinuxMCE respond to an X10 or EIB door bell by starting MythTv on your Media Directors and switch to the Video.
Wouldn't give you 2 way audio, but would be a cheap easy way to get what you and I are looking for.
yes but if zone minder and mythtv become compatible, what will be the interrest in linuxmce ??
Simple and look's great !!


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MOBTOWN NEWS ANCHOR EXPIRES For 21 years Jack Bowden is a familiar face on Baltimore, MD TV screens. In 1988, Jack exits his news anchor position on WMAR TV ABC CH 2 in a contract dispute. In December 1989 Bowden joins Hearst News Talk WBAL-1090 to host an afternoon news journal program. Richard Sher, WJZ TV newscaster, brags: He had class and he was a gentleman. He was also a brilliant journalist. On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Jack Bowden dies of leukemia at 82 in Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
GODFATHER MAFIA SOLDIER EXPIRES How can we ever forget the sad face of Abe Vigoda as the doomed Mafia soldier in The Godfather? Many remember Abe as the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in 1970s TV series Barney Miller. On May 16, 2012 Abe Vigoda attends the Friars Club Roast of another beloved senior citizen actress Betty White in New York City. On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 actor Abe Vigoda dies in his sleep at 94. At the time, Abe stays at daughter Carol Vigoda Fuchs' home in Woodland Park, NJ.
JOHNNY GOES DARK ON WCAO For 10 years Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak owns WTTR-1470 with a license to Westminster MD. In 2013, Hilltop Communications buys WTTR-1470. For the past two years, Jeff Laird is WTTR-1470 GM. Radio legend Johnny Dark, who is on the air in the Maryland region for more than 50 years resigns from suburban WTTR-1470 due to a management dispute. GM Jeff Laird says: Dark is being immature. They have been replaced, and we are moving forward. I wish him luck.
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Q: read value from method in a python class in c# using ironpython I want to read the area method from this python class in c#
Does anybody know what I have to do next to achieve this:
Python class:
class Shape(object):
def __init__(self,x, y):

     self.x = x
     self.y = y

def area(self):
    return self.x * self.y

C# code:
        ScriptEngine engine1 = Python.CreateEngine();
        ScriptSource source1 = engine1.CreateScriptSourceFromFile("C:\\C#Projects\\ExcelAddIn\\ExcelAddIn\\Shape.py");
        ScriptScope scope1 = engine1.CreateScope();
        source1.Execute(scope1);

        dynamic class_object1 = scope1.GetVariable("Shape");
        dynamic class_instance1 = class_object1();

A: You'll have to use the CreateInstance method for this (available here: https://github.com/jdhardy/ironpython/blob/master/Runtime/Microsoft.Scripting/Hosting/ObjectOperations.cs).
ScriptEngine engine1 = Python.CreateEngine();
ScriptSource source1 = engine1.CreateScriptSourceFromFile("C:\\C#Projects\\ExcelAddIn\\ExcelAddIn\\Shape.py");
ScriptScope scope1 = engine1.CreateScope();
source1.Execute(scope1);

var class_object1 = scope1.GetVariable("Shape");
var class_instance1 = engine1.Operations.CreateInstance(class_object1, 1, 1); // This should create a shape with x = 1 and y = 1

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Q: How to get closest point on cubic spline for Robotics project? I've got a robot and I want to make this robot follow a predefined path in the form of an eight figure on a field outside. The robot is not easy to steer and there are some external factors such as wind which make it very likely that the robot will not follow the exact path so it will often be next to the path.
The path I want to make it follow was formed by defining five points and create a line over those points using a cubic spline (the code I used to define this path is below this message):

I always want to be able to supply the robot a point to steer to which is on the cubic spline line. To be able to do this I thought the easiest way is to:

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*Calculate the nearest point on the cubic spline from the current location of the robot

*Advance 0.2 units along the cubic spline line to determine the new waypoint for the robot to aim at.

For example, if the location of the robot in the grid above is x=0.4, y=-0.5, the nearest point is approximately x=0.4, y=-0.28 and the new waypoint would be approximately x=0.22, y=-0.18:

Now I've got three questions:

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*How do I find the nearest point on the cubic spline?

*How do I "advance" 0.2 units from the found point on the cubic spline?

*How do I stay on the given path, even when the path crosses itself in the middle?

All tips are welcome!
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy import interpolate

x = [-0.5, 0, 0.5, 0.5,  0, -0.5,  -0.5, 0, 0.5]
y = [0.25, 0, -0.25, 0.25, 0, -0.25, 0.25, 0, -0.25]

tck, u = interpolate.splprep([x, y], s=0)
unew = np.arange(0, 1.01, 0.01)
out = interpolate.splev(unew, tck)

plt.figure()
plt.plot(x, y, 'o', out[0], out[1])
plt.legend(['Predefined points', 'Cubic Spline'])
plt.axis([-0.75, 0.75, -0.75, 0.75])
plt.show()

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Now I've got three questions:
How do I find the nearest point on the cubic spline? How do I
  "advance" 0.2 units from the found point on the cubic spline? How do I
  stay on the given path, even when the path crosses itself in the
  middle?

I believe a help would be to take advantage of the spline array index as a navigaion dimension
with no initial info, a crude but not that slow startup step would be to simply find the min distance to the whole spline x, y trace, out - many SE ans for finding closest
then use that point's index as a state variable, and along with direction (increasing or decreasing out index) find the next index you want to head for
if you have started up, are close, and know your last index position (or estimated target point's index), then you could just search for "closest" in a slice near (in whatever is the current "forward" direction) your internal state index, updating your internal out index as you step...
with state involved I would consider a OOP Robot Class with XY position, heading, move magnitude, out spline index estimate, index direction
and some fun to be had with actual programming
[edits:]
1st pass at "closest"
# out is a list of arrays, covert to 2d array
aout=np.array(out)

tpoint = np.array([[0.5],[-0.7]])

diff = aout-tpoint

sd = diff[0]*diff[0] + diff[1]*diff[1]  # squared distance

np.min(sd)
cpi=np.where(sd<=np.min(sd)+0.00001)[0]
plt.plot((aout[0, cpi],tpoint[0]),( aout[1, cpi], tpoint[1]), linewidth=2)

just checking if out index is srictly montonic/cyclic - and it is, but the linspace gives more than one exact cycle, I eyeballed ~ 75 points for a full cycle:
   # animate plotting of spline points by index
#import numpy as np
#import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation

fig1, ax = plt.subplots()
xdata, ydata = [], []
ln, = plt.plot([], [], 'ro', animated=True)

def update(frame):
    xdata.append(aout[0][frame])
    ydata.append(aout[1][frame])
    ln.set_data(xdata, ydata)
    return ln,

def init():
    ax.set_xlim(-1, 1)
    ax.set_ylim(-1, 1)
    return ln,

data = np.array(out) #np.random.rand(2, 25)
l, = plt.plot([], [], 'r-')
plt.xlim(0, 1)
plt.ylim(0, 1)
ani = FuncAnimation(fig, update,
                              frames=np.array(range(74)),
                               init_func=init, blit=True)
plt.show()


Earth Hour is an annual global campaign that encourages people and businesses around the world to switch off electricity at the same time for one hour. Earth Hour started in Australia in 2007 when 2.2 million people in the city of Sydney turned off all non-essential lights for an hour. Since then it has grown to a massive global event. In 2013, millions of people in 7,000 cities and towns around the world switched off their lights for 60 minutes at the end of March. Every year landmarks and well-known buildings around the world such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, the Petronas towers in Malaysia, the UK Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Empire State Building take part and 'go dark' for Earth Hour. The campaign even went into space when astronauts reduced power on the International Space Station in 2011.
Earth Hour is organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It was started by Andy Ridley, originally from Britain, who is executive director of Earth Hour Global, WWF. He came up with the idea of Earth Hour because he wanted to raise awareness of environmental issues by asking people to do something positive to help the planet. Switching off the lights for an hour can make a small difference to the amount of energy we use but Earth Hour is also a symbolic event to make people think about the problems of climate change.
The end of March is around the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes in the northern and southern hemispheres respectively, so sunset times in both hemispheres are at similar times. This means that a global 'lights out' event has most visual impact at this time of year.
In 2013 in the UK, the pop group McFly gave a live acoustic performance (using no electricity!) dressed in panda costumes (the WWF's logo is a panda) for Earth Hour. Celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Raymond Blanc created special recipes for families to prepare and eat by candlelight. Actors and TV personalities including Kevin McCloud and Miranda Richardson recorded Rudyard Kipling's famous Just So Stories for families to listen to by candlelight.
As well as famous London landmarks such as Big Ben, the London Eye and Buckingham Palace switching off their lights, there are many other events around Britain. On the WWF's interactive map you can see which people, businesses, schools, organisations and landmarks are taking part this year and what they are doing: http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/#uk-map.
The WWF's famous panda logo recently helped to promote Earth Hour. In 2014, the WWF asked their Facebook users to name a panda – not a real animal but a cute panda teddy bear. They chose some of the suggestions to name 60 panda teddy bears. These pandas were then passed around in the UK so that people could take photos of themselves with a bear and tweet a #passthepanda selfie to @wwf_uk. The WWF also encouraged everyone to join in by tweeting a #passthepanda selfie of themselves either in panda costume or wearing panda face paints!
Do you take part in Earth Hour?
I took part of this event last year.I switched off my smartphone ,pc,other unnecessary electricity. Modern life too much use electricity as well as internet . I occasionally switched off computer and smartphone to reduce electric power and spend online .
I don't take part in this event, but I would really love to. I think it is great idea!
Besides, its for a noble cause, so I support this wholeheartedly. Let's show our love to our Mother Earth!
I would love to, but I'm not sure if my parents would agree! In my country, people do celebrate this, but in a kinda boring way.
I'd love to take part on Earth Hour 2015, because it's sounds like a great idea and I've never done it before.
Try to realize the importance of this world .This world give us so many gifts .Now its time to give some sweet gifts to our own beloved world.Love you, my planet .I would try to do something that can make my world and the sweet people of my world much happier than ever.May GOD give me success in my intention.
I'm very happy in the world.
Yes of course.Thos very goods.
this event is very interesting but i've never taken part. I think we not only turned off the electricity for one hour but also for many hour to protect the environment. Who agree with me ?
This event is great. I've heard for the Earth hour before, but I've never taken part. This year I'd love to do that, cause the Earth deserves that. It's a beautiful way to show that we love and care about our planet.
Yes, I will, because I took part of this event last year too and it was funny.
Yes, i'd love to take a part! It's amazing event that encourages people to do small thing to save the earth. Unfortunately, my country doesn't celebrate this event like in the UK.
Yes, of course. It`s a small thing for one person but if all people around the world do that it will be important thing for our planet.
I'd love to do something like that to show my love for this planet!


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US and Nigeria sign five year Feed the Future Country Plan to boost agricultural output
July 21st, 2019 Business, News, Nigerian, Politics, World comments
NIGERIA and the US have signed a Declaration of Partnership agreement as part of a five-year Feed the Future Nigeria Country Plan aimed at boosting agricultural production and ensuring food security.
A US government initiative coordinated by the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid), the plan seeks to sustainably reduce global poverty, malnutrition and hunger. According to Colin Dreizin, the Usaid director of economic growth and environment, the plan serves as a blueprint for inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth and strengthening resilience among people and the system.
Mr Dreizin added that the plan would seek to improve household nutrition especially for women and children in 11 states where the programme would be implemented. These states include Adamawa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Gombe, Kaduna, Kebbi, Niger, and Yobe.
He explained that Feed the Future Country Plan will address food security challenges in Nigeria and stimulate the country's economy through broad-based partnership with stakeholders from government and private sector. Mr Dreizin listed other partners to include universities, research institutes, international organisations, local and international non-governmental organisations, civil society, the media and donors.
According to Mr Dreizin, since inception, the initiative has strengthened efforts at ensuring food security for millions by working to address the root causes of poverty and hunger. He, however, said that in spite of the progress recorded, significant work still needed to be done.
Mr Dreizin added: "Food security is a priority for the US government and feed the future is our commitment to help the most vulnerable. According to the UN last year, 113m people across 53 countries faced food security crisis level of acute food insecurity or worse.
"Food security is linked with crisis and natural disaster and the message of feed the future focuses on resilience. The strategy describes it as strengthening the resilience of communities to shocks that can lead to famine and political unrest.
"Usaid considers this a critical priority and supporting every country's journey to self reliance. We want to draw from the breadth and depth of experience, including the NGOs, donors, the UN and private sector to define what is needed to better achieve outcomes for the communities we serve."
He stressed that the launch of the country plan is an important milestone in the relationship between the two countries and it integrates Nigeria into the global food security strategy. US charge d'affairs, Kathleen FitzGibbon, added that the plan would also help improve resilience, nutritional status and the health of Nigerians in rural communities in the 11 states.
Ms FitzGibbon said: "The US government has invested $165m in agriculture in the past four years and this new country plan anticipates continuing our investments in Nigeria over the next five years. The country plan combines new and existing projects and will connect farmers with suppliers, improve agriculture extension services and inputs, and stimulate market growth.
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Kenins - Violin Concerto, Concerto for 5 Percussionists, Beatae voces tenebrae
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Label: Skani
Cat No: LMIC088
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 6th November 2020
Kenins, Talivaldis
Beatae voces tenebrae
Concerto for 5 percussionists and orchestra
Violin Concerto
Eva Bindere (violin)
Guntars Freibergs (percussion)
Ernest Medins (percussion)
Elvijs Endelis (percussion)
Mikus Balins (percussion)
Elina Endzele (percussion)
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Andris Poga
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš is one of the most notable Latvian composers - a neo-romantic, harsh, full of life, a technical virtuoso. Born in Latvia and having studied in France, he lived in Canada for the remainder of his life.
His Violin Concerto, Beatae voces tenebrae and the Concerto for 5 Percussionists and Orchestra see their world premiere release in form of studio recordings with this SKANi release.
Ķeniņš is one of Canada's most performed composers. He was a long-time lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and a full professor from 1973. He was active in the Canadian League of Composers, serving as its president for two years. He also participated in radio broadcasts and served as a jury member for countless competitions.
Ķeniņš' contributions have been important from both the academic and practical aspect and have been recognised by the university leadership as well as the Government of Canada. Ķeniņš predominantly wrote instrumental music - eight symphonies, symphonic miniatures, more than ten instrumental concertos, an impressive number of compositions for chamber ensemble, piano and organ - but he also composed solo and choral music, three cantatas and an oratorio.
Most importantly, if Ķeniņš had remained in Latvia, he would possibly have become one of our many composers to professionally write music but never truly escape the comfortable yet anachronistic style of national romanticism. By having decided to study in Paris, he paved his way to becoming a highly professional composer on a global level.
"Ķeniņš is stylistically related to many: Stravinsky, the New Vienna School, Messiaen, Neoclassicism. All of this can be heard in his music. He is one of the most eclectic of Latvian composers, but, if we compare his early work with that from the end of his career, his musical style became ever more vivid, unique and also recognisable in his latter period.
"Ķeniņš trademark is diversity - touches of modernism, expressionism and also jazz permeate most of his compositions, yet each of them is autonomous and fairly precisely defined in its intent. The Concerto for 5 Percussionists is like a bright, attractive performance; the Concerto for Violin features a fully developed concertante principle yet also has a very powerful narrative; Beatae voces tenebrae sounds like a contemplative poem and confirms Ķeniņš' loyalty to Bach, one of the grandest of geniuses."
- Andris Poga
excellent performances and the extra Beatae voces tenebrae is no mere filler – an unsettling monolith that's worth hearing alone, perhaps first. This disc is unmissable. Andrew Mellor
The Strad
Kenins - Symphonies 5 & 8, Aria
(Ondine)
Born in 1906: Orchestral Works by Darzins & Ivanovs
(Skani)
Ivanovs. Karlsons. 1945
Kenins - Symphony no.1, 2 Concertos


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Simon Goldhill (* 17. März 1957) ist ein englischer Gräzist und Professor für Griechische Literatur und Kultur an der University of Cambridge und Fellow des King's College, Cambridge.

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Goldhill wurde mit einer Dissertation promoviert, die im Jahr 1984 unter dem Titel Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia erschien, eine Arbeit, die bereits deutliches Interesse an der Anwendung moderner Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, insbesondere des Denkens von Michel Foucault zeigt. Es folgten weitere innovative Arbeiten zur antiken griechischen Tragödie wie zu anderen Literaturgattungen (zum antiken griechischen Liebesroman, zur Prosa, deren Erfindung Goldhill den Griechen zuschreibt, zum Platonischen Dialog und insbesondere zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Gesellschaft im antiken Griechenland von der klassischen Zeit bis zur Zweiten Sophistik). In zwei neueren Büchern beschäftigt sich Goldhill mit der Stadt Jerusalem als dreamscape, als Projektionsfläche für die Träume der konfligierenden abrahamitischen Religionen. Der Rezeptionsgeschichte der antiken Literatur und Kultur widmet sich Goldhill in vielfältiger und engagierter Weise, zuletzt in dem Buch Love, Sex and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.

2009 wurde Goldlhill zum Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt, 2016 zum Mitglied der British Academy. Für Sophocles and the language of tragedy erhielt er 2013 den Runciman Award.

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Monographien
 Sophocles and the language of tragedy, Oxford University Press 2012.
 The End of Dialogue in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 0-521-88774-7.
 Jerusalem: City of Longing. Harvard University Press 2008 ISBN 0-674-02866-X – Verlagsanzeige  – Google Bücher  – Buchbesprechung: Donald Macintyre, A tour guide, not a road map, in: The Independent, Friday 30 May 2008
 How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. University of Chicago Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-30128-0 – Google Bücher
 The Temple of Jerusalem. Harvard University Press 2005, ISBN 0-674-01797-8 – Google Bücher  – Buchbesprechung:  Julia Pascal, The eternal city of warring dreams, in: The Independent, Thursday 2 September 2004
 Love, Sex and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. University of Chicago Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-226-30117-4 – The Perfect Body: Auszug aus Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. University of Chicago Press  – Buchbesprechung: Joan Smith, Why Nike is still kicking us. in: The Independent, Friday 21 May 2004
 The Invention of Prose (Greece & Rome: new surveys in the classics, 32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0-19-852523-0 – Google Bücher
 Who Needs Greek? Contests in the cultural history of Hellenism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0-521-01176-0 – Google Bücher
 Foucault's virginity: ancient erotic fiction and the history of sexuality (The Stanford memorial lectures). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995, ISBN 0-521-47934-7 – Google Bücher
 Aeschylus: The Oresteia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992, 2. Aufl. 2004, ISBN 0-521-53981-1 – Google Bücher
 The poet's voice: essays on poetics and Greek literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991, ISBN 0-521-39570-4 – Google Bücher
 Reading Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986, ISBN 0-521-31579-4 – Google Bücher
 Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984, Ndr. 2004, ISBN 0-521-60430-3 – Google Bücher
Herausgeberschaften
 (Hg., mit Robin Osborne): Rethinking revolutions through ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 0-521-86212-4 – Google Bücher  Rez. v. Bernhard Smarczyk, in: Sehepunkte 8 (2008), Nr. 3
 (Hg.): Being Greek under Rome: cultural identity, the Second Sophistic, and the development of empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001, ISBN 0-521-66317-2
 (Hg., mit Robin Osborne): Performance culture and Athenian democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999, ISBN 0-521-64247-7 – Google Bücher
 (Hg., mit Robin Osborne): Art and Text in Greek Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994.

Aufsätze und Beiträge
 Religion, Wissenschaftlichkeit und griechische Identität. in: Dorothee Elm von der Osten, Jörg Rüpke, Katharina Waldner (Hgg.): Texte als Medium und Reflexion von Religion im römischen Reich (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Bd. 14). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, 125–140, ISBN 3-515-08641-2 – Google Bücher

Rezensionen
 The Greeks and Greek Love, Rezension von: James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-81997-4, in: Times Higher Education, 10 January 2008 .
 Women at the Mercy of Men. Rezension von: Helen King, Hippocrates' Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece, Routledge, 1998, in: London Review of Books Vol. 21 No. 5, 4 March 1999 .

Weblinks
 Simon Goldhill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (mit Photographie)

 ABC Radio Interview mit Julie Browning zum Buch Jerusalem: City of Longing Download Audio
 Luke Slattery, Ancients back from the dead, in: The Australian, September 24, 2008 , auch:

Einzelnachweise

Altphilologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Altphilologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Gräzist
Hochschullehrer (University of Cambridge)
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Brite
Geboren 1957
Mann
Mitglied der British Academy

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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package com.hubspot.singularity.data;

import static java.lang.String.format;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
import org.apache.curator.utils.ZKPaths;
import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.NoNodeException;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.hubspot.singularity.SingularityCreateResult;
import com.hubspot.singularity.SingularityDeleteResult;
import com.hubspot.singularity.SingularityMachineAbstraction;
import com.hubspot.singularity.SingularityMachineAbstraction.SingularityMachineState;
import com.hubspot.singularity.data.transcoders.Transcoder;

public abstract class AbstractMachineManager<T extends SingularityMachineAbstraction> extends CuratorAsyncManager {

  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractMachineManager.class);

  private static final String ACTIVE_PATH = "active";
  private static final String DECOMISSIONING_PATH = "decomissioning";
  private static final String DEAD_PATH = "dead";

  private final Transcoder<T> transcoder;

  public AbstractMachineManager(CuratorFramework curator, long zkAsyncTimeout, Transcoder<T> transcoder) {
    super(curator, zkAsyncTimeout);

    this.transcoder = transcoder;
  }

  public abstract String getRoot();

  protected String getActiveRoot() {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getRoot(), ACTIVE_PATH);
  }

  protected String getActivePath(String objectId) {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getActiveRoot(), objectId);
  }

  protected String getDeadRoot() {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getRoot(), DEAD_PATH);
  }

  protected String getDeadPath(String objectId) {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getDeadRoot(), objectId);
  }

  protected String getDecomissioningRoot() {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getRoot(), DECOMISSIONING_PATH);
  }

  protected String getDecomissioningPath(String objectId) {
    return ZKPaths.makePath(getDecomissioningRoot(), objectId);
  }

  public List<T> getActiveObjects() {
    return getObjects(getActiveRoot());
  }

  public List<T> getDeadObjects() {
    return getObjects(getDeadRoot());
  }

  public List<T> getDecomissioningObjects() {
    return getObjects(getDecomissioningRoot());
  }

  public List<T> getDecomissioningObjectsFiltered(List<T> decomissioning) {
    List<T> filtered = Lists.newArrayListWithCapacity(decomissioning.size());

    for (T object : decomissioning) {
      if (object.getState() == SingularityMachineState.DECOMISSIONING) {
        filtered.add(object);
      }
    }

    return filtered;
  }

  private Optional<T> getObject(String path) {
    return getData(path, transcoder);
  }

  public Optional<T> getActiveObject(String objectId) {
    return getObject(getActivePath(objectId));
  }

  public Optional<T> getDeadObject(String objectId) {
    return getObject(getDeadPath(objectId));
  }

  public Optional<T> getDecomissioning(String objectId) {
    return getObject(getDecomissioningPath(objectId));
  }

  private List<T> getObjects(String root) {
    return getAsyncChildren(root, transcoder);
  }

  public List<String> getActive() {
    return getChildren(getActiveRoot());
  }

  public List<String> getDecomissioning() {
    return getChildren(getDecomissioningRoot());
  }

  public List<String> getDead() {
    return getChildren(getDeadRoot());
  }

  public int getNumActive() {
    return getNumChildren(getActiveRoot());
  }

  public int getNumDecomissioning() {
    return getNumChildren(getDecomissioningRoot());
  }

  public int getNumDead() {
    return getNumChildren(getDeadRoot());
  }

  public void markAsDead(String objectId) {
    Optional<T> objectHolder = getActiveObject(objectId);

    if (!objectHolder.isPresent()) {
      LOG.warn(format("Marking an object %s as dead - but it wasn't active", objectId));
      return;
    }

    if (delete(getActivePath(objectId)) != SingularityDeleteResult.DELETED) {
      LOG.warn(format("Deleting active object at %s failed", getActivePath(objectId)));
    }

    T object = objectHolder.get();

    object.setState(SingularityMachineState.DEAD);
    object.setDeadAt(Optional.of(System.currentTimeMillis()));

    if (create(getDeadPath(objectId), Optional.of(transcoder.toBytes(object))) != SingularityCreateResult.CREATED) {
      LOG.warn(format("Creating dead object at %s failed", getDeadPath(objectId)));
    }
  }

  private void mark(T object, String path, SingularityMachineState state) {
    object.setState(state);

    final byte[] data = transcoder.toBytes(object);

    try {
      curator.setData().forPath(path, data);
    } catch (NoNodeException nne) {
      LOG.warn(format("Unexpected no node exception while storing decomissioned state for %s on path %s", object, path));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw Throwables.propagate(e);
    }
  }

  public void markAsDecomissioned(T object) {
    object.setDecomissionedAt(Optional.of(System.currentTimeMillis()));
    mark(object, getDecomissioningPath(object.getId()), SingularityMachineState.DECOMISSIONED);
  }

  public SingularityDeleteResult removeDecomissioning(String objectId) {
    return delete(getDecomissioningPath(objectId));
  }

  public SingularityDeleteResult removeDead(String objectId) {
    return delete(getDeadPath(objectId));
  }

  public enum DecomissionResult {
    SUCCESS_DECOMISSIONING, FAILURE_NOT_FOUND, FAILURE_ALREADY_DECOMISSIONING, FAILURE_DEAD;
  }

  public DecomissionResult decomission(String objectId, Optional<String> user) {
    Optional<T> objectHolder = getActiveObject(objectId);

    if (!objectHolder.isPresent()) {
      if (isDecomissioning(objectId)) {
        return DecomissionResult.FAILURE_ALREADY_DECOMISSIONING;
      } else if (isDead(objectId)) {
        return DecomissionResult.FAILURE_DEAD;
      }
      return DecomissionResult.FAILURE_NOT_FOUND;
    }

    final T object = objectHolder.get();

    object.setState(SingularityMachineState.DECOMISSIONING);
    object.setDecomissioningAt(Optional.of(System.currentTimeMillis()));
    object.setDecomissioningBy(user);

    create(getDecomissioningPath(objectId), Optional.of(transcoder.toBytes(object)));

    delete(getActivePath(objectId));

    return DecomissionResult.SUCCESS_DECOMISSIONING;
  }

  public boolean isActive(String objectId) {
    return exists(getActivePath(objectId));
  }

  public boolean isDead(String objectId) {
    return exists(getDeadPath(objectId));
  }

  public boolean isDecomissioning(String objectId) {
    return exists(getDecomissioningPath(objectId));
  }

  public int clearActive() {
    int numCleared = 0;

    for (String active : getActive()) {
      numCleared += 1;
      delete(getActivePath(active));
    }

    return numCleared;
  }

  public SingularityCreateResult save(T object) {
    return create(getActivePath(object.getId()), Optional.of(transcoder.toBytes(object)));
  }

}


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Mermaid's tail craze could lead to spike in drownings, say lifesavers
A water sports instructor has already died after using a mermaid-style monofin
Jon BayleyContent Editor
Laura Evans has become a local celebrity with her mermaid's costume
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Warnings have been issued over a new craze which lifesaving organisations fear could lead to drownings across Devon and Cornwall.
The trend of wearing a mermaid tail to swim in pools has led to drowning prevention charity the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) to warn parents to only use them in organised classes run by qualified professionals.
A year on from the Hooe Lake tragedy which claimed a Plymouth couple's lives
Earlier this month, a teenage British water sports instructor died after using a mermaid-style monofin and snorkel in an exclusive beach resort in Greece.
Harry Byatt, 19, was found at a depth of about 30 metres on the seabed on August 6.
The trend has popped up as a result of the popularity of children's television show Mako Mermaids, the Disney classic The Little Mermaid, and the movie Splash.
Parents have been warned over the mermaid's tails
The RLSS UK has teamed up with Fin2Fit, which offers mermaid and shark tail swimming exercise classes for children, to ensure their safe use.
Mike Dunn, of RLSS UK, said: "These activities must be done in a safe and approved environment.
Ten people stranded on a beach rescued by Plymouth lifeboat crew
"We are conscious that there have been a number of incidents caused through improper use of mono-fins and mermaid tails.
"Videos of these incidents, which often occur in back garden and home pools, circulate on social media.
"Consequently, RLSS UK strongly recommends to all parents, that the safest way for children to enjoy and benefit from this new activity is through participation in professionally organised classes, which are delivered by qualified instructors, who are affiliated to a reputable mermaid or mono-fin swimming organisation."
Cornwall has its own 'mermaid' down in St Ives.
Holidaymaker dies after being swept out to sea
Laura Evans grew up in St Ives and has turned her childhood dream into a reality – and a business.
Laura quickly gathered a lot of attention when she was spotted frolicking in St Ives harbour in a full sized mermaid tail two years ago.
As time progressed her special appearances gained popularity, with hundreds heading to the beach to watch as she "washed up" and posed for photographs with excited children. Recently Laura has also made a splash in the business world, with people now able to pay for special appearances at parties, events or a 'hen do'.


Icebreakers are a great way to make training more engaging. Below we have listed a small sample of 14 activities. These can be used to warm-up a group when they first come into the room or after a break in your training session.
In 3 Words Describe yourself in 3 words.
Optional: Have the participants elaborate on why they chose these particular descriptions.
Who Am I? Split participants into pairs. Have each participant write the name of a famous person on sticky paper and attach it onto the forehead of their partner, so that the person wearing the sticker can't see the name. The participants take turns trying to guess who they are by asking a series of questions (the questions have to be 'Yes' or 'No' answers). If the question is answered with 'yes', you may continue asking questions. If 'no', the other person has their turn. Continue until you correctly guess who you are.
Examples: Am I female? Am I a fictional character? Am I alive?
Lie Detector This exercise can be performed in pairs or small groups. Give 3 facts about yourself – 2 true and 1 a lie. The job of the group or your partner is to guess which one is a lie.
Race for Truth Have the group stand across a starting line. The facilitator's job is to read out a series of statements from a pre-prepared list. If the statement is true about you, move forward one step. If it is false, remain at the start line. If the statement is false and you have advanced beyond the starting line, take one step back. The first person to make it to the finish line is the winner.
Super Powers Ask participants to introduce themselves and share which 1 super power they would want to have and why.
Invisibility? Super Strength? Super Speed? Elasticity? Mind Reading?
If You Won the Lottery Ask participants to consider what they would buy if they won a million dollars in the lottery. Would you buy clothes, gadgets, a nice car, a house, go on a holiday? Would you give some of it away to charity, or would you do something more creative?
Movie of Your Life Ask participants to describe their life if it were turned into a movie OR to think of a movie or TV show that most closely resembles their life.
Who might the cast include? Angelina Jolie, Jim Carey? What genre would it be? Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Horror?
Be outrageous and have fun with it.
Let Me Introduce… Split into pairs. Assume you have never met (it works even better if you haven't). Your job is to recite as many facts about your partner as possible and present these to the group. You have 2 minutes to swap information with your partner. Each correct fact scores 1 point. The team that is able to achieve the highest number of COMBINED facts about each other will be the winners of the exercise. No note taking allowed as this will encourage close listening.
Just 1 Thing Have the group sit in a circle. Ask a question from a pre-made list and then go around the group having each person give their answer. Once each person has answered, proceed with the next question. To make things more interesting, ask participants to share the very first thing that comes to mind in order to speed it up.
Who Could That Be? Distribute a pen and paper to each of the participants. Ask each person to write a sentence about themselves that most of the other team members would not know.
Something like: "I cannot cook" "I have been to Niagara Falls" "I hate exercising"
The facilitator collects all the pieces of paper and reads them out one by one. The job of the team members is to guess which person has written the note.
A brand of soft drink A type of golf club A piece of office equipment A cross between 2 animals ... Any other random thing you can think of!
Sit everyone down and then give each person the name of another participant. They must then try to recall all the answers given by the other participant.
Failure Party Have a "Failure Party" where people share their worst idea, an embarrassing moment or giant failure with the rest of the group. The tone of the exercise should be fun and light-hearted rather than self-defeating and overly serious.
Spectrums You can create a 'spectrum' if you have space to work with by using opposing points in the room as the participants guide to where they are on the spectrum. E.g. From wall to wall or from one object in the room to another. Indicate what the two opposite ends mean and have people line up on the spectrum accordingly.
Examples: Your exercise regime – never to several hours a day. Job preference – totally indoors to totally outdoors. Preferred home – deep inner-city to remote wilderness.


Posted on Apr 24, 2015 by Appleton Downtown Inc.
Returning for the third year in 2015 from August 6-9, Mile of Music has impacted its home of Downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, well beyond the four days artists converge on the community.
The handcrafted festival has branched out to include "Extra Mile" performances with favorite performers returning for shows in Appleton throughout the year, and has also added an annual New Year's Encore Eve performance hosted Downtown. In addition to the summer festival and its hundreds of live music events, the Mile of Music Radio app was also developed for year-round listening.
As Dave Willems, Mile of Music co-founder and marketing executive, explained, the initial idea for bringing music to Appleton just keeps evolving as can the concept of introducing an artisan event to virtually any vibrant downtown or central business district.
"Not every downtown in the U.S. may be laid out perfectly to host a festival similar to Mile of Music, but the beauty of an event like this is that it can be custom-designed and sized to match a community's strengths as well as its needs," Willems said.
Willems shared that Mile of Music continues to have a significant economic impact on Appleton now that its foundation is in place.
An estimated $2 million was pumped back into the community in 2014 alone, with nearly 40,000 attendees from near and far coming to Appleton for the festival.
Mile of Music recently hosted its annual Media Announcement and shared that Mile 3 will include a mix of approximately 175 new and returning artists this summer and welcome The Milk Carton Kids to the stage. With planning for 2015 well underway, the focus this summer will be on making the festival better, not bigger.
This emphasis on making connections went into the planning behind this year's Music Maker Subscription Package – a new feature for 2015. Along with designating pass-holders as festival supporters, the package includes exclusive access to more intimate gatherings like artist pop-up performances and meet-and-greet sessions.
An event designed for the community, Mile of Music will also continue to support two local funds through festival profits – the Mile of Music Education Fund and the Creative Downtown Fund.