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Spycraft and Sundaes with the Stranger Things ARG
July 14, 2019 / Michael Andersen / 0 Comments
Ahoy! Last July, Netflix released a teaser trailer for Stranger Things season 3…by releasing a period-appropriate commercial for Starcourt Mall, a recent addition to the town. Why worry about multi-dimensional portals to hell dimensions that might lie dormant under the town when thriving businesses like Sam Goody, Waldenbooks, and Chess King are just a stone's throw away? The only direct reference to prior seasons of Stranger Things that appeared in the trailer was the reluctantly chipper appearance of Scoops Ahoy ice cream parlor employee Steve Harrington, forced to cover up his signature hair for the sake of American capitalism. With Scoops Ahoy featuring so prominently in early marketing for the show, it was only slightly surprising to learn that Netflix partnered with Baskin Robbins to create Scoops Ahoy pop-up locations in Burbank and Toronto to bring back a taste of the 80s for fans of the show. The fact that these pop-up shops served as the trailhead for a binge-worthy alternate reality game that mixed spycraft and ice cream? That was the real surprise.
The Rocky Road to Scoop Snoop: All Aboard the USS Butterscotch
The new season of Stranger Things premiered on July 4th, but Scoops Ahoy was open for business two days earlier – so when Buzzfeed's Crystal Ro went to the Burbank location, Ro knew enough to be suspicious of the morse code appended to the tub of U.S.S. Butterscotch ice cream and the Russian cipher wheel innocuously placed on the plexiglass. Players extracted the password CEREBRO from the phone call and received the instructions 'SSH 34.68.105.48 -p 1985', but were asked to return on July 5th. Once the first episode dropped, players realized that the password to get through to the next stage of the game was the name of Dustin's communications system.
Outside of the brief mention of CERBERO and thematic similarities, the Stranger Things ARG is something that runs in parallel with the new season of the show, so players didn't have to binge-watch the full season before diving into the show's companion game. However, the rest of this article will dive fairly deeply into an experience that is still available as a single-player experience, so be warned.
Global Crypto Hunt Tracks Down "Satoshi's Treasure"
April 17, 2019 / Michael Andersen / 2 Comments
On April 16th, the first three keys to a global scavenger hunt with a million dollar prize were released. To win Satoshi's Treasure, players must chase after 1,000 keys with clues scattered across the world. The first individual or team to assemble 400 of these keys will be able to stitch them together using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme to claim the private key to a Bitcoin wallet, and control over the hefty sum.
Finding the First Keys
The first three keys were released in dramatic fashion: on the SatoshisTreasure.xyz website, the following clue was posted on April 15th:
The first of one thousand, they are hidden in locations around the earth, in places where many dwell and one with only a small number of inhabitants. These locations can be discovered by monitoring the output of the primitive orbitals known in your time as GALAXY18, EUTELSAT 113, TELSTAR 11N, and TELSTAR18V at 1PM EST, APRIL 14th in the year 2019.
Searching for those "primitive orbitals" turned up Blockstream's Satellite network, which provides a service that lets users pay to send messages via satellite to receivers trained to listen to them. A good Samaritan posted the message to an encrypted PasteBin alternative, revealing a series of GPS coordinates for locations around the world, and instructions to appear at noon, local time on April 16th. When I went to the Times Square location, the first key was wrapped around a QR code on a sandwich board a man was wearing.
Scanning the QR code leads to a page asking for the passphrase, and entering the phrase unlocks the first key fragment, along with puzzle-themed quotes.
In a recent newsletter post, Satoshi's Treasure co-creator and face of the game Eric Meltzer notes,
People showed up to the 10 spots we indicated around the world where keys would appear en masse—some drove over 3 hours to get to a spot. Others figured out how to brute force the encryption we used and solved the clues without having to travel (something which we hoped would happen, but thought would take weeks—in reality it took 30 minutes..)
People are forming teams, talking strategy, speculating on the value of keys and where the next clues will show up… and our hypothesis that Bitcoin and cryptography enable a new type of online/offline game experience seems to be getting validated. Subreddits are being created. Telegram groups are forming. Our poor mongoDB is getting hammered with signups. We're all a bit exhausted after this first day, but we're also incredibly excited to see what people do with the next set of clues.
The Times Square location had one player travel from Virginia to find out what was going to happen, and one enterprising team got to the location early to post flyers with QR codes driving to a recruitment page for their particular crew. As for the brute-forcing, John Cantrell released a write-up of his process solving the first three keys without needing to travel to the locations, making the initial set available to everyone committed enough to read through the post.
A Game of Trust, and Hints of Things to Come
The first three keys were released publicly with little fanfare. But in an interview with the Citizen Bitcoin podcast, Meltzer explains one of the challenges of Satoshi's Treasure that will likely unfold as the game progresses, explaining "there's a really tricky problem with this…if you want to join a team, you actually have to prove that you have keys they don't, but you don't want to reveal the keys." Rather than relying on players to develop tools to manage this verification process, Meltzer and the team behind the hunt will be releasing a tool in the coming weeks that will let players prove that they have keys without revealing the keys themselves. However, since this challenge is as much about collecting people capable of finding future keys as it is about collecting already uncovered keys, that will only solve part of the challenge here. During the podcast, Meltzer also provides a brief explanation of two test hunts conducted on the MIT and USC campuses to work out the more obvious gameplay bugs before going global. Vestiges of these hunts remain on the @ToshiTreasure Twitter account, for those who are curious.
When DARPA ran its Red Balloon Network Challenge in 2009, the MIT Media Lab won by creating a referral-based incentive structure reminiscent of pyramid schemes for the first person to find the locations of 10 red weather balloons scattered across the country, with smaller payouts made to individuals who referred them into the system. The winning team explained that additional manual analysis was needed to separate the wheat from the chaff by identifying patterns in how multiple parties submitted location data from real locations versus faked attempts at throwing the team off their trail.
The hunt is still young, so it's almost impossible to say what types of challenges will be thrown at players: however, the game's rules page provides a few hints of what's to come, with a strong focus on conduct in public places implying the trend of location-specific key drops is likely to continue, although "the general public will never suspect they are in the presence of a Key". The Rules do instruct players that clues will never be hidden on private property, and that finding clues in publicly accessible locations will never involve breaking or destroying objects. Should players be caught destroying clues to interfere with other teams, the Satoshi's Treasure team may make that key public, along with any other keys the clan or player has gathered along the way.
Help Finally Solve a Satoshi-Themed Challenge
In 2005, the alternate reality game Perplex City released a card named "Billion to One", asking players to track down a man named Satoshi with only a first name and a photograph from his vacation in Kaysersberg, France as clues. That mystery remains unsolved, almost 15 years later. Five years later, a different Satoshi played a formative role in developing Bitcoin, before retreating further from the public eye. His location and identity has also remained secret for over a decade. Neither of these Satoshi-related "puzzles" are likely to be solved in the near future. But with a sizable prize on the line and hundreds of clues designed to be found, Satoshi's Treasure is likely going to find its way into capable hands.
To sign up for updates when new clues to Satoshi's Treasure drop, go to the game's website and follow @ToshiTreasure on Twitter. Multiple groups are playing this online, including the "Secret" Escape Room Enthusiasts Slack channel (the link to join can be found on The Codex).
The Kickstarter to End All Maze of Games Kickstarters
March 14, 2019 / Michael Andersen / Comments Off on The Kickstarter to End All Maze of Games Kickstarters
In 1897, Colleen and Samuel Quaice discovered a mysterious book in the Upper Wolverhampton Bibliothèque. As soon as the two siblings opened the book, the skeletal Gatekeeper emerged and pulled the pair into The Maze of Games. In 2014, readers discovered copies of The Maze of Games, documenting the sibling's passage through that labyrinth. Readers were tasked with squaring off against each of the puzzles the Quaices faced along the way, with every solve unlocking the next page of the story. This "interactive puzzle novel" format added a welcome twist to the gamebook genre without infringing on the litigious Choose Your Own Adventure franchise's intellectual property.
After four long years, the first group of readers successfully completed The Maze of Games' puzzles, finally freeing the Quaice siblings and unlocking one final Maze of Games Kickstarter campaign, The Maze of Games Omnibus and Escape Room Experience. The campaign allows backers to obtain an in-universe answer key, as well as a chance to buy in for the full experience, with components including a soundtrack composed by Austin Wintory, an audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton, a radio show, and even a Maze of Games themed escape room in Seattle.
How Exactly Does The Maze of Games Work?
The Maze of Games prologue starts off like a traditional book, with a brief introduction to the Quaices and their plight. Once the pair encounter the Gatekeeper, they are charged with solving an initial puzzle to gain entry to the Castle Maze. The Maze of Games is themed around a deck of cards, with each suit representing a "chapter" of the story.
With standard Choose Your Own Adventure novels, players are given multiple choices. However, The Maze of Games only has one correct pathway through its pages, determined by the four mazes contained within. Figuring the optimal path through each maze will provide each chapter's intended reading (and solving) order, with each suit getting increasingly difficult.
Even readers tackling the book alone should be able to make it through the initial Castle Maze of Diamonds…it's the Cloud Maze of Spades and its final meta-puzzle that had readers confounded for the past four years. Lone Shark Games even released The Theseus Guide to the Final Maze, a chapbook that offered hints to see Colleen and Samuel through to the finish with yet another series of puzzles. And while audio-inclined readers couldn't solve the Maze of Games audiobook, Wil Wheaton's acting quickly made the audio edition my preferred way of experiencing the story, showing off an impressive range as he embodies the host of helpful (and somewhat less-than helpful) characters the siblings encounter along the way. Conveniently, the audiobook comes in "solved" and "unsolved" ordering, so listeners can appreciate the narrative in the style of their choosing.
The Maze of Games wiki has hints for every puzzle (including the final challenge) to nudge readers on to the solutions should they find themselves stuck. What Lone Shark Games' 2019 Maze of Games Kickstarter campaign is adding to the mix is The Keymaster's Tome, a reproduction of the journal the Quaice siblings might have used to navigate The Maze of Games, with "answers, conversations, and tidbits hand-written in the margins". The campaign also introduces an audio recording of The Theseus Guide to the Final Maze and a radio play, The Gatekeeper's Variety Hour, featuring both musical and puzzle guests.
The Maze of Games: Now a Physical Escape Room?
Readers of the newest edition of Puzzlecraft may already be familiar with the concept of a Maze of Games-themed escape room, as Gaby Weidling used the idea to illustrate the process of escape room development in the book. Lone Shark Games partnered with Epic Team Adventures to transform that idea into a reality, with a themed escape room in Seattle that opens up…today, March 14th. The room's construction is a bit atypical for escape rooms, with four different rooms all making use of the same space. As with all Maze of Games productions with an audio component, Wil Wheaton is reprising his role to narrate the escape room.
All backers who contribute $15 or more will receive a $35 discount code for the room in which Selinker and Weidling find themselves trapped. Which brings us to the Kickstarter campaign.
Going Beyond the Text with the Subtext Game
Jonathan is in trouble. After receiving a phone call warning that his apartment wasn't safe and needed to be evacuated, a guy in a black ski mask kidnapped him, and the next thing he knows, he finds himself locked up in an office building. There's a list of phone numbers there…and yours is one of them. Can you help him escape, and figure out why you were looped into this slightly menacing predicament? That's the open question of Subtext, an SMS-driven experience that comes off as equal parts alternate reality game and virtual escape room, with a healthy side of paranoia.
In Subtext, players take on the role of Jonathan's off-site support squad, serving as his virtual assistant in escapeology by completing tasks ranging from conducting research on fictional companies, solving light puzzles to help Jonathan navigate the building, and using social engineering to smooth the path. In terms of gameplay, Subtext is similar to its single player ARG counterpart The Black Watchmen, with the narrative guiding players through a string of linear challenges in service of a larger narrative. Where it differs is in its framing – by using chatbot functionalities to power Subtext, the hero of the story is the writing. While The Black Watchmen has a strong narrative focused on players joining up with a secret organization and climbing through the ranks by completing tasks, its strongest point is translating ARG style challenges into a single-player video game experience, with the narrative serving as an added bonus. And while mobile apps like Simulacra and Another Lost Phone place more of their focus on the narrative, those stories' framing focuses on the phone as found object, making gameplay feel like an exercise in digital archaeology. Subtext taskes advantage of the low fidelity nature of the text messages that form the backbone of the story to create a more active immersion, and the experience has numerous moments of clever writing that makes it all too easy for players to fall into the conceit that they're chatting with another honest to goodness person in need.
The full Subtext experience takes a few days to complete, but is designed to work around the player's life. Since Subtext's forward momentum is fueled by successful solves, inactivity allows players to put the game on pause at any time – and if players get stuck, continuing to text with Jonathan will often yield hints which range from helpful to practically essential on one or two of the more frustrating tasks. There are a few developer-imposed breaks in the narrative so it would be a difficult if not impossible game to competitively speedrun on the first pass, but that doesn't stop me from being curious about whether players are rushing through, or taking their time to savor the experience.
The full Subtext experience is sold as pay-what-you-want-as-long-as-you-want-to-pay-at-least-$6, although there is a free demo that will give you a 5-minute taste of the experience that has quickly become my favorite introductory example of alternate reality games in action. The delightfully creative challenge perfectly encapsulates what makes Subtext special, both in terms of writing and tone. And while none of the moments in the full experience exceed the rush of adrenaline at finishing the demo puzzle, there were one or two moments that were on par. Subtext asks players to imagine "what if the game was real", and it lives up to that promise – especially if you opt in for the full experience, which opens up the potential for phone calls or even physical mail to round things out. Those additions aren't necessary to the story, but they do contribute to the world-building, particularly when it comes to bringing closure to the story.
If you're interested in learning more about Subtext, play the demo. Even if you don't think you're interested in the full experience, play the demo: it's that good, and will help you decide whether the full game might be up your alley, at a negligible investment of time.
Literally Give Your Heart Away on Tender This Valentine's Day
February 14, 2019 / Michael Andersen / Comments Off on Literally Give Your Heart Away on Tender This Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day! Are you single? Interested in not being single? If so, you should consider signing up for Tender. It's an AI-driven dating site designed to help you find your soul mate, and it almost certainly hasn't been co-opted by vampires looking to hunt down suitably compliant blood bags at the click of a button. Just answer a few completely innocuous questions about your emotional state, loneliness levels, interests, and blood type, and Tender will procedurally generate a profile guaranteed to find you that special someone who, again, is probably not a vampire. Even if it is part of what looks to be an official Vampire: the Masquerade alternate reality game.
Let's take a step back. In early January, a handful of established YouTubers and Twitch streamers started tweeting about their good buddy Knox coming out of the woodwork and asking them to check out this new closed beta dating site, Tender. In between jet-setting around the world, Knox released a series of puzzles on his Twitter account that led to a website, Trust No More. Posts on that site from a writer going by the pseudonym "Manchuria" In parallel, he started receiving messages from the user "BetrayedMind1", warning that something was amiss with Tender. Players helped Knox solve a series of puzzles left by the person, leading to a meetup at Griffith Observatory where players laid claim to a conspicuously guarded briefcase. The contents alluded to Tender's experiments with gamification and operant conditioning to get users hooked on the website. Even more foreboding, documents allude to a secret "Regent Dashboard" known only to select employees at the company. An unidentified Tender engineer's notes indicate the Regent Dashboard is actively manipulating its users:
Weird. The conditioning reminds me of the effects of the Toxoplasma parasite on rodents. Doesn't completely change them. Doesn't make them suicidal exactly. Just a subtle shift. Less afraid of open spaces. Inhibited risk judgement. Willingness to step into danger. Behavior that makes them easier to catch for predators.
Soon after, players unlocked access to the Tender Beta app, allowing them to interact with the perfectly innocuous dating site that's probably not conditioning its users to be more trustworthy and docile. Under the guise of finding a soulmate, users are rewarded for completing "quests" with experience points, to level up. Some tasks ask players to complete basic research tasks, while others ask users to share simple fill-in-the-blanks status updates about their plans.
Back to Earth Makes Its Microtransactional Debut With an ARG Short
November 30, 2018 / Michael Andersen / 2 Comments
StarFate Corporation is in the business of making mankind a better version of itself. The company's flagship product, the StarChip, allows its owners to record and analyze every experience they ever had, capturing details unassisted humans couldn't dream of securing. Just implant a simple little chip into the back of your neck, and the ability to tap into the network is unlocked. It's really a damn shame someone figured out how to hack the chips.
In the coming months, Back to Earth will describe what happens to the world in 2023 when presumably unhackable chips become compromised, as told through a short film, a graphic novel, and a television show in development. Our introduction to the storyworld of Back to Earth starts before the cataclysm with StarFate.Tech, a short immersive experience that lets players ride shotgun with StarFate Corporation engineer Jono Walters as he investigates a train derailment that shouldn't have been possible.
The short immersive story plays out across StarFate Corporation's internal systems, with an unidentified assistant guiding players in unlocking Jono's chip-enhanced memories through a series of nine "Mindchain" blocks. Each block contains clues to unlock the next in the sequence, leading players to hunt down file IDs, timestamps, and user IDs using contextual cues in the text, audio, and video files that document Jono's investigation in addition to the occasional research task requiring players to hack into the occasional voicemail box. There's something to be said for an ARG that can be completed in less time than it takes to watch a movie, and Back to Earth's debut starts off with an experience that packs in enough surprises to whet the appetite without the time investment of a AAA video game.
Due in part to this brevity, the StarFate.Tech immersive experience has the feel of a finely crafted tutorial mission, gradually introducing players to the skills necessary to unlock each new block, with new complications added every few rounds. It also serves to introduce the game's StarCredits, a blockchain-based digital currency that exists both in-world and out of world to provide a micro-transaction based backbone to the free-to-play experience. Upon registering, players receive 1 StarCredit. Fractions of a credit can be used to ask "SysOps" for hints along the way, or to unlock a short video that provides a graphic end to Jono's tale.
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"Vauxhall has been injecting a serious dose of styling into its cars," says the Sun's Ken Gibson. "It all started with the Insignia, followed by the Astra, Zafira and more recently the funky ADAM and Mokka. But the Vauxhall that's set to turn heads is the Cascada, a four-seat convertible that looks as toned as Jess Ennis in Lycra. Like Jess, the Cascada has a wellsculpted, muscular body." The Vauxhall is nearly £8,000 less than the popular Audi A5. "But judge the Cascada on merit alone, whether on style, quality or engineering capabilities and it stands favourable comparison." Gibson drove the Cascada 400 miles over two days, in wet and dry. "It was a relaxing, stress-free and enjoyable experience, which marked out the Cascada as a convertible that is a useable everyday car and a genuine four-seater." If the sun's out, the fabric roof drops in "just 17 seconds at speeds up to 30mph", and goes up in the same time "so you can avoid being soaked in a sudden shower". The Cascada is as "quiet as a hard-top coupé" even at high speeds. "What is most impressive is the quality of the interior, which doesn't look out of place against top-notch German opposition." Gibson was left most impressed with the 1.6-litre petrol "which delivered a nice mix of performance – 0-62mph in 9.2 seconds, a top speed of 135mph and just under 40mpg. "Crisp handling and responsive steering mean the Cascada has the agility to make a mountain drive good fun with the roof down and easy to drive in city traffic or on long motorway trips." Gibson believes Vauxhall has done "a brilliant job making the Cascada a genuinely desirable and affordable" convertible.


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Modern Ethiopian History and Geography
Starting with the fascist Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935, Ethiopian history has been characterized as turbulent. In 1915, as the World War I allies discussed possible land divisions in Africa, Italy focused its attention on the horn of Africa. On October 3, 1935, Italy crossed into Ethiopia and launched a full scale invasion.[1]
Haile Selassie came to power in Ethiopia in 1930. During this time period, Ethiopia became known as the island of independence during an era of European colonization of African lands. Selassie would stay in power from 1930 to 1974. Selassie introduced Ethiopia's first written constitution in 1931, which provided a bicameral legislature. The constitution kept power with the nobility, but it also set democratic standards among the nobility. However, human rights under Selassie's regime were lacking. Adding to the turmoil, a famine ripped through the nation between 1972 and 1974 and killed thousands of Ethiopians. These factors along with economic hardships caused a revolution to take place in 1974 and ended Selassie's reign as emperor.[2]
The 1974 revolution established a socialist state in Ethiopia. From 1974 to 1991, Ethiopia engaged in a Civil War, also known as the "Red Terror," causing thousands to die. Many Ethiopians were able to flee to the west and many immigrated to the United States. According to professor Solomon Addis Getabun of the University of Central Michigan, "The majority of the African refugees of the past decade have come from the Horn of Africa, an area that has been in 'permanent emergence' for decades."[3] Ethiopia has accounted for 1,743,800 of these refugees, mostly caused by the misfortune of the "Red Terror."[4]
[1] Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1855-1991 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006), 152-53.
[2] Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopians (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers), 264-70.
[3] Solomon Addis Getabun, The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000. (New York: LFB Publishing, 2007), 48.
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[5] British Broadcasting Corporation. "Ethiopia Profile Timeline. accessed November 12, 2016. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13351397.

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Q: Add CoreMotion Framework With Theos I am trying to use the CoreMotion framework and am compiling with theos on my jailbroken iphone4. I noticed in Add Twitter.framework to Theos on iPhone that the makefile needed to be modified to include the necessary frameworks (which I have done). The error that I am getting is:
RootViewController.h:1:23: error: CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h: No such file or directory
which comes from the line:
#import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h>
This is what my makefile looks like:
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APPLICATION_NAME = SensorTest
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Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 17.5°C (63.5°F)
Two Adelie penguins stand atop a block of melting ice on a rocky shoreline at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East Antarctica in this January 1, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Pauline Askin/File Photo
OSLO (Reuters) - An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 17.5 degrees Celsius (63.5° Fahrenheit), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.
The Experanza base set the high on March 24, 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said after reviewing data around Antarctica to set benchmarks to help track future global warming and natural variations.
"Verification of maximum and minimum temperatures help us to build up a picture of the weather and climate in one of Earth's final frontiers," said Michael Sparrow, a polar expert with the WMO co-sponsored World Climate Research Programme.
Antarctica locks up 90 percent of the world's fresh water as ice and would raise sea levels by about 60 metres (200 ft) if it were all to melt, meaning scientists are concerned to know even about extremes around the fringes.
The heat record for the broader Antarctic region, defined as anywhere south of 60 degrees latitude, was 19.8°C (67.6°F) on Jan. 30, 1982 on Signy Island in the South Atlantic, it said.
And the warmest temperature recorded on the Antarctic plateau, above 2,500 metres (8,202 feet), was -7.0°C (19.4°F) on Dec. 28, 1980, it said.
Wednesday's WMO report only examined the highs.
The lowest temperature set anywhere on the planet was a numbing -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at the Soviet Union's Vostok station in central Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Louise Ireland


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pilferingapples:
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Les Mis fandom where did Floreal come from like I'm so confused
She's the woman Grantaire is talking about during one of his (long) rants, during Preliminary Gayeties! As Grantaire says:
I met a pretty girl of my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called Floreal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces left upon them by caterpillars are visible. (Hapgood translation)
So we never meet her, exactly, but we hear a lot about her– she's a working woman who makes a living setting the eyelets in corsets, who's currently dating a banker. (Grantaire disapproves, and is pretty gross about doing so, but literally no one asked you, Grantaire.)
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Tagged because i always wondered who she was too, floreal, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, reblogging to read later, ^_____________^
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okay this is important @adamsveins and i disagree over feuilly's height. please tell me your opinions & reblog to spread the word
Canon-era, I always assume he's pretty small?
urgh cut for discussion of canon-era poverty side effects
Tagged at best i picture him average height, but before i do i just wanted to say i agree, but mostly i picture him on the smaller side of average or on the taller side of small, feuilly, i never picture feuilly as particularly tall, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, reblogging to read later, ^_^
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OKAY GUYS I feel like we don't acknowledge enough that one line Grantaire says! I mean besides all the other lines that Grantaire says! The one that comes right after "I understand only love and liberty" remember that line (my favorite line)???
Yeah after that is my SECOND favorite line: "Never having had any money, I never got used to it, and therefore I've never felt the need of it; but if I'd been rich, there would have been no more poor!" THAT LINE.
He's drunk here and still thinks of how he would help people if only he'd been in the position.
And it's so interesting to me because Grantaire is speaking of how if he had the chance he would help, but meanwhile there is an actual barricade there with an actual hopeful revolution occurring. And he is not helping.
Enjolras and the other amis have their method of doing things, which is to demand more from the government. But GRANTAIRE (my beautiful son) doesn't think that way. He doesn't think going to the government will get them anywhere. He would go directly to the people suffering from the problem and help them with what he has, personally.
He's surrounded by a bunch of rich schoolboys who have the money to help the poor directly (and also gain their devotion and to raise spirits) but who instead reject the money and challenge a powerful government. But he speaks of how if he was in their economic position he would do something guaranteed to help.
And this is from someone who says he "never (…) had any money" so he probably knows better than them how it feels to be like the rest of society, hardly making it through.
Idk man, this is my son and I love him.
This was in the tags, so I decided to go ahead a comment on this post.
Because I don't think this way about the situation at all.
Grantaire is a sh*ttalker. That's his thing (apart from literally 2-3 lines in all of his appearances in the book), and nothing he says should be taken at face value.
Sure, Grantaire seem to be favouring the theory of Valjean's way of helping. And yes, helping the occasional citizen may help that citizen through the day, but what about the rest of their life? They'll still die poor, powerless, subject to the whims of another King. Never masters of their own life.
Grantaire is thinking he is being theoretically kind, but he is but prolonging the status quo. Charity is never the way forward.
But even beyond that, he is not talking about being in the Amis' economic position, because he is in their economic position – he is a wealthy bourgeois student, who can afford drinking and gambling through the day, and then wake up in his nice furnished apartment, with his nice clothes, to do more of the same on the next day. He knows every day from where his next meal is coming.
He's talking about yet another fantasy, a Rotschilds-like fortune, basically something like 'If I was King'.
From what we see of Grantaire, it's all either a swollen-head self-aggrandizement, or meek fake-modesty. I think this is an instance of the latter.
Grantaire is troubled by society, and I am certain, and have always been certain, while reading the brick, that he has a good heart––but he does absolutely nothing, in the course of the brick, that puts him on a moral pedestal above the rest of the amis. Far from it. "Shittalker" sums it up.
It is TOTALLY shittalking. Well-meant and hopeful bluster, but bluster all the same.
FWIW it's worth, I don't think it's either false modesty or self-aggrandizement, though. I think it's fear.
Grantaire's "if I won the lottery" style lamenting here is like Gillenormand's complaining that if HE were rich, he'd have SO many young mistresses, totally, you don't even know. Gillenormand IS rich, incredibly rich! The reason he can't have young mistresses is totally unrelated to that! But it's face-saving to blame it on money. Grantaire is, at the least, solidly middle-class– he COULD give to charity, or toss money to beggars in the street. Heck, he probably even does, when he thinks of it. But his conviction that he can't *really* change anything has nothing to do with money.
Tagged grantaire, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, reblogging to read later
ok i hope this doesn't come off as uninformed? But its been some time since I last dabbled into the Les Mis fandom, and it always makes me so happy to hear you "defend" Feuilly in a way, concerning how he's usually portrayed in FF – I would really like to know your view on his personality, because i feel like he usually gets swept aside when everyone talks about les amis its usually just like Enjolras, Combeferre, Jehan (and maybe if you squint an alright not too cliche Courf)
AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT FEUILLY! thank you friend 😀
so. he's a complete nerd. like, he really is. His Brick description is not so much a list of personality traits as a list of special interests. That, actually, says a lot about his personality. He's passionate, and enthusiastic, and a giant nerd.
kind of awkward too? he's pretty confident about his knowledge of said interests, but he talks about them – all the time. even when it's not really related to the subject at hand. He rants whenever someone – willingly or not – gives him the opportunity to. he gets so offended on the behalf of others and injustices and betrayal. every single time. Bless him.
He considers his own education as a way to deliver himself. He learned to read and write by himself, and while this would be impressive about anyone, but it's even more knowing what we do about Feuilly's background. He probably started working/apprenticeship really young, because the orphanage or wherever he was staying wouldn't – couldn't – have kept him on forever. But he still taught himself to read, seeing it as a mean to rise up beyond his circumstances. That's more than hard work – that's hope and ambition and dedication and desparation all blended together.
and he never loses that? it's liked to his passion, really – he knows he/the world can be better, and he holds on to that, always strives towards that, even though his life must have been really difficult sometimes.
honestly he's like the opposite of Grantaire in many ways – he has every reason in the world to be bitter and cynical, but he's not. he's so passionate (I've said it like three times oops) and he's so. trusting? like. even more than Combeferre, who wasn't surprised when the generals didn't come to their aid. Feuilly was genuinely heartbroken over it, like – you'd have totally expected him to know that these higher-ups would have let them down like they've let them all down before, and he's been let down a lot in his life, but he didn't. whether he's instinctively trusting or makes himself trust because he refuses to be bitter is a matter of interpretation, but. that's really something.
it's one of the reasons I picture him as a bit younger than most of the fandom does, really, because 1) being a worker in the 1820s/1830s (or today really) doesn't at all mean that he has to be older than students, especially if it's such a big deal that he never got to go to school in the first place, and 2) that idealism and trust and enthusiasm sentimental aspect of his personality just seems different than the sort of laid-back experience of the older members like Bahorel and Bossuet, idk.
oh man this is already so long why.
I haven't even gotten to fanon/improvised traits I like to give him.
he's just. a cutie. okay I'll try to find other posts I've written about this before and reblog them.
my gripes about the way Feuilly is portrayed in fandom is usually when two (often related) things happen: his canon personality gets replaced by a bunch of classist cliches, like grumpy, swearing, fighting, macho, rude, close-minded etc, or when he becomes a sort of Bahorel-lite, with fighting, drinking, swearing, loud, and always mentionned as part of 'BahorelandFeuilly', never as an individual person (I dislike Bahorel's characterisation in that too, but he usually is at least a little better? closer to his actual personality? anyway)
besides these two frankly terrible trends, I think, as with every character in this fandom, we have some leeway when it comes to personality traits. We have the descriptions in the book, which are frankly both precise and vague at the same time it's kind of beautiful, as well as the way they're played in the musical, different movies/shows/etc. so. my take on characters is not more valid than any other that's done with, you know, some thoughts and consideration for the material and implications.
Tagged ...AGREE, BUT IT BEARS REPEATING, except i think i said that already, except that i love this, feuilly, honestly i don't even think i have anything to add, I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS, I'M HAVING FEUILLINGS, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, SO MUCH AGREE, yessssssss, ^_^, ^_____________^
oresteschilling:
Javert's the type of cop that would miss out on a high-speed chase because he's too busy trying to catch a jaywalker the next street over.
Tagged *shakes head fondly*, javert, javert gets so focused on the little details that he constantly misses the bigger picture, les mis headcanons, les mis meta, les miserables, oh javert, omg, pfft, queue you hear the people sing?, that's so true though, you tried
but literally every time I read a description of Feuilly that goes along the line of 'has big strong muscles because he's a worker and working makes you buff', I think of like. all those skinny kids working at Starbucks getting big strong muscles from operating the espresso machines. The cashiers at the grocery stores and their big strong muscles from putting food in bags. The people working in clothing stores and their big strong muscles from folding clothes and giving customers thumbs-up on their outfits. Me, getting big strong muscles from typing all day. even in canon era – painting tiny little fans, what a show of brute strenght.
Ahh, working, always such great muscle-building work-out.
Tagged accurate post is accurate, but yes, feuilly, idek, it's like people think the only kind of work available is construction work?, les mis meta, les miserables, OMG VE, pfft, queue you hear the people sing?, THANK YOU
library discoveries: the e/R outtakes edition
prouvairings:
so we all know there's a bunch of stuff from hugo's papers and notebooks that never made it into the novel, yes? here are a lot of them (look at them if you haven't! it's an adventure) but i've made it my mission in life to find more and today at the library i came across this book and in it, there were more. and guys. guys. one of them is my absolute favourite piece of e/R dialogue that never was. please have a look at this:
GRANTAIRE, smoking his pipe and tipsy
People think me situated at the height of philosophy. They are wrong. I am a pig.
– That's true, said Enjolras.
just picture this exchange. grantaire, smoking a pipe, saying mean stuff about himself, as he does. enjolras, listening, calmly nodding, "yeah….tru….you're saying it like it is." combeferre really has some competition in the whole "completely destroy ur opponent using two words or less" department, and grantaire arguably has unlocked a whole new level of putting his own intellect down for fun
(seriously, though, it's interesting that he wrote this bit in 1861 – so shortly before publication – because around that time, he also made a work note that said "increase enjolras' harshness toward grantaire. near contempt" so this might have been an idea of how to do that, but he ended up not using it? you can always argue about how intentional the whole e/R dynamic is, but there was a lot of thought put into its details, because that's the hugo way)
Ooh, I've seen this exchange before but without the work note! It's interesting that he didn't use it, then! I've often thought that the way Enjolras is actually shown treating Grantaire doesn't really line up with Hugo's description– except at the barricades, Enjolras never seems to be much besides "reasonably annoyed" about him.
…I gotta say though, that in combination with what we see of Grantaire's other exchanges, this bit of dialogue does actually read as more familiar and friendly than what we're given in the book. Grantaire does a lot of Play Insulting and boundary-testing with his friends–including Enjolras– in-book, and is sarcastic and insulting about the whole world in general a lot. This seems to be on that level– which I know is not a comfortable way of expressing closeness for everyone, but we've got lots of evidence that it is *for Grantaire*–which to me makes it seem that Enjolras, who's otherwise pretty serious and direct, is to some extent meeting him halfway on that . I mean, I could see this being part of a series of bantering dialogue between R and Courfeyrac or Bossuet, no problem. (Grantaire of course has much more complicated feelings about Enjolras, but it's hardly Enjolras' job to know that when Grantaire himself doesn't.)
Anyway, it is a great little bit of dialogue! Thank you for bringing it back!
Tagged enjolras, enjolras & grantaire, enjolras x grantaire, grantaire, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, that's pretty cool, the brick, victor hugo
vintage-jehan:
Friendly reminder that the first person Marius talks to after he had just fallen out with his grandfather is Bossuet.
Marius who has to be absolutely heart-broken and angry, whose father has recently died, who has just made his grandfather kick him out, who has just left his financialy stable, secure life, the only life he's ever had, who has no idea where to go, what to do, with next to no money and literally no one left.
Marius who then hears this random stranger calling out his name, a man he has never even met before and who just got kicked out of law school for someone he didn't even know. A completely poor, young man who doesn't even has a place to live, who does something nice for someone he has never met without expecting anything in return simply out of the sheer goodwill of his heart.
Bossuet is literally the first good thing that happens to Marius in this new, probably absolutely terrifying part of his life that just started.
He is like, the epitome hope here, that things might not be as bad as they seem. That even in the most hopeless times, there's the brightness of unconditional human kindness.
I just. Love. Bossuet. So. Much.
Tagged awwwwww, bossuet, bossuet & marius, i just love bossuet so so much, les mis meta, les miserables, marius pontmercy, nuuuuuuuuu, oh gosh, oh no, oh..., ooooooooh no, queue you hear the people sing?, the brick, TT^TT, WHAT A GOOD, ^_____________^
In regards to Hugo and his name puns….would you be able to make a masterlist of all of them? (the known ones at least). if you have the time :3
yourcouragetothestickingplace:
vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo:
robertawickham:
WHOOOWOW that is a big order
But here, I have done what I can !
Notes: This is more or less in the order of character appearance.I've only included puns and references , not direct translations or name meanings (like "Felix" meaning "lucky"). I also haven't sourced everything, because then I would really take forever answering this'; I've tried to get SOME sources linked in; if there's any source someone's especially curious about, let me know and I'll add it.
ALSO I am in NO way saying this is a complete list of references or puns. I know right now Im', missing some really good references about Fantine and Eponine! It is possible it will never be complete. But if anyone would like to help complete it, and sees a reference or a joke I've missed, please message me and let me know! I want to know about these things too!
Anyway. Here goes:
This is great! Fantine, I'm pretty sure, is derivative of enfant or enfantin (child or childish). She's a stray kid on the streets, people just call her "kid", eventually some version of that becomes her name.
Éponine is the French version of Eponina, wife of Julius Sabinus, who was a leader of the Gauls. Sabinus led a revolt against the Roman Empire, lost, and became a fugitive. Eponina visited him in secret, and sought a pardon for him, but he was caught and executed. Eponina then demanded the Roman emperor Vespasian execute her too, and he obliged. The story became popular in late 18th and 19th century France, and inspired many creative works, including a novel, plays, and an opera. Wikipedia (linked above) says its appeal was due to its connotations of "wifely virtue, patriotism and anti-imperialism." So, a really obvious reference there! There's probably something subversive about Hugo applying the story of a virtuous Roman matron to a girl who'd be considered a common criminal in her society, too.
Oooh! Yay for all of the puns! And other origins.
Oh I can help with the Enjolras bit! It's originally an Occitan name so the actual meaning comes from Occitan enjeura = to terrify. But it also happens to sound a LOT like the French word enjôler = to charm. Also the Enj part is pronounced like ange = angel.
"Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome."
Victor Hugo you cheaky devil you.
As for the Jeanne part… I really doubt that. Enj is the phonological palindrome of Jean (this was pointed out by the annotated edition of Les Mis that I own) but to have anything to do with Jeanne there would have to be an n sound somewhere. (I don't even think the Jean link is very likely. But it would make it sound pretty funny if his first name was Jean which it probably is let's face it.)
I don't know about Courf puns but I do know that there's a castle called Fayrac (pronounced exactly the same as Feyrac) in
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle in Dordogne and another one in
Beynac-et-Cazenac and possibly even another one in La Roque-Gageac. EDIT: Or… in fact more probably now that I found all these three communes on the map: it's the same castle.
Also cour means either courtyard or court so both relate to a castle. In any case I've been told by at least two actual French people that it's a very obviously Gascon name… if you ever wondered which area of France Courfeyrac was from (aside from just generally the south).
So, I've been digging around about the Fayrac castle. The castle was a part of the lands of the comte de Périgord.
The comtes de Périgord belonged to the House of Talleyrand (hence the name de Talleyrand-Périgord).
If Courf's using the castle name as territorial designation/surname, then he's related to Talleyrand
#let me repeat #courfeyrac is related to talleyrand #i don't even know if that's better or worse than my headcanon of courf being lafayette's reckless reprobate of a grandson #who used to idolise him as a child then slowly grew disillusioned with his grandfather over time #culminating in courf cutting off all their ties after what he did in '30 #but a courfeyrac related to talleyrand #this opens a whole new can of worms #which i do actually want to touch with a ten-foot metal pole #maybe that's where courf got his thing with the ladies? #but i digress #because their political opinions are so vastly different #that is #if talleyrand even has a permanent political opinion #jesus #this is looking to be more promising than a laf/courf familial dynamic #les mis
VITAL UPDATE
Tagged ;D, courfeyrac, enjolras, especially french ones, fantine, i just really love puns ok?, les mis meta, les miserables, names, oh i like this, queue you hear the people sing?, SO MUCH
Drink With Me
June 9, 2016 eirenical17Leave a comment
humanity-is-a-quality:
I don't think that Grantaire's solo in Drink With Me is
actually as sad as one may think. There's a strong juxtaposition between him
singing about how they won't be remembered and the reality of thousands of people commemorating their death. Perhaps the
best example of this is George Blagden's video: the words of the song
are contradicted by the actual video, in which he returns to the site
of the barricade almost two centuries later and has now been viewed by thousands of
people. In other words, Grantaire's solo is beautiful because he was wrong. Their
deaths did mean something and almost
two centuries later, the people who lost their lives in the June rebellion are
still remembered. Because ultimately the June rebellion has been immortalised
by Les Miserables, and I doubt anyone will ever forget it.
Tagged ...that's a really really beautiful sentiment, drink with me, french history, grantaire, june rebellion, les mis meta, les miserables, queue you hear the people sing?, SO TRUE, ^_____________^


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If you love Murphy's Stout you will love this recipe. Our version of Murphy's Stout which originates from Cork in Ireland is a big rich malt stout and a little less bitter than the Guinness style stouts. It is smooth creamy dark and delicious. Our recipe has 3.5kg of dark malts plus corn syrup for extra richness and a thick creamy head. Crucially it is all fermented using a premium Ale yeast perfect for stout brewing.


The CPC Deluxe 800 HD combines Celestron's newly designed fork mount with its new EdgeHD optical system and is the most portable of Celestron's top-of-the-line fork-mounted astronomical telescopes.
This telescope is at home as a superb visual instrument or with optional Pro Wedge and CCD cameras, as a serious astro imager's tool. With over 8 inches of aperture and our premium StarBright XLT coatings, the CPC Deluxe 800 HD gives you over 800 times the light gathering power than the unaided eye. Turn this scope to planets and see amazing detail on the surface of Jupiter, see Cassini's Division in the rings of Saturn and resolve details on the surface of Mars. Even the distant Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are within your reach. Although large in aperture, with its conveniently located carrying handles and an instrument weight of only 43 lbs, this telescope is portable enough to set up in your backyard or take with you to your favourite dark sky location.
The CPC Deluxe HD Series' internal GPS receiver automatically downloads the date and time from orbiting satellites and pinpoints its exact location on Earth. This eliminates the need for you to manually enter the date, time, longitude and latitude.
Once the CPC's internal GPS has established the telescope's position, aligning the telescope is as easy as 1-2-3! Simply locate and use the hand control to manually point (slew) the telescope to three bright celestial objects. You do not need to know the names of the stars. You may even pick the Moon or bright planets! Celestron's NexStar™ software technology will model the night sky to determine the position of every star, planet and celestial object above the horizon. Once aligned, the remote hand control allows direct access to each of the celestial catalogs in its user-friendly database.
The CPC database contains over 40,000 celestial objects including Messier objects, the Caldwell Catalogue, as well as NGC Galaxies, nebulae and planets. User-definable filter limits make navigating through this expansive database quicker and easier. Filter Limits let you filter out objects that are outside of your local horizon (ie, if trees or mountains were in the way). There's also "Solar System Align" that lets you align on the Sun or Moon for daytime observing – it is easy to use this to see planets or bright stars in the day.
All EdgeHD optical tubes are equipped with a removable secondary mirror for fast f/2 CCD imaging. Not only does imaging in the FASTAR configuration allow for exposure times that are 25 times faster than at f/10, but also yields a field of view five times wider. A perfect combination for imaging your favourite wide field objects in a fraction of the time. (FASTAR imaging requires a third party lens assembly in place of the secondary mirror).
Design With the introduction of the CPC Deluxe HD series, Celestron has gone back to the drawing board and re-designed and re-engineered the drive train with a larger 6 inch, 180 tooth brass gear and .75" stainless steel worm gear and unique roller bearing design with both Steel and Nylon ball bearings rotating around a wide 9.8 track designed for smoother tracking accuracy for long exposure astrophotography.
Innovation The CPC Deluxe HD series uses the innovative All-Star™ Polar alignment procedure. Coupled with Celestron's optional Pro Wedge, All-Star allows users to choose any bright star, while the software calculates and assists with polar alignment. Another great feature of the CPC, sure to please astro imagers, is the Permanent Periodic Error Correction (PEC), which allows users to train out the worm gears periodic errors, while the mount retains the PEC recordings.
Power Management Redesigned electronics deliver constant regulated power to the motors making them capable of driving the telescope, even when not perfectly balanced, without sacrificing smooth tracking motion and pointing accuracy across the entire sky.
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In general I'm OK with optics quality and mount construction (sturdy as a rock), but I found some things that seems to be overworked (may be not hight enough quality control level or just only my scope).
I noticed wholes from the both sides where two telescope forks are fixing with mount base so if it's bacome rain, snow or wind with dust, all will easy get inside the mount. Same with control panel, if you have a look into wire connectors, you will see mount electronic in wholes, no idea why it's left opened for environment so again - you should think by yourself about protection from water and dust.
Hand control. 3 mount moving bottoms (right, up and down) were not so sensitive as other ones, so I fixed it by gluing on extra larger rubber pads for more sensitivity.
Would I recommend the scope? If you are looking for good scope for visual work, I'll recommend to take a look at standard CPC line because this scope is more expensive than the original one, and the only big difference is that Deluxe have optics, which is more suitable for astrophotography, but since we know, that for astrophotography EQ mount is preferably, this model for its price is not worth it.
The first 8" computer guided scope that I have owned. Unfortunately, I have a restricted "letter box" North - South sky view but the SkyAlign system worked well without any problems. The views offered by this scope were stunning, razor sharp to the edge of the field.
The CPC800 Delux appeared well made and I found it easy to set up. I have no hesitation in recommending it any person thinking of acquiring one.
As normal, superb service from First Light Optics.


text:
package com.alibaba.jstorm.hbase;

import com.alibaba.jstorm.metric.KVSerializable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Delete;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTableInterface;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTablePool;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ResultScanner;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import static com.alibaba.jstorm.daemon.nimbus.metric.uploader.MetricUploader.*;
import static com.alibaba.jstorm.daemon.nimbus.metric.uploader.MetricUploader.NIMBUS_CONF_PREFIX;

/**
 * @author Cody (weiyue.wy@alibaba-inc.com)
 * @since 2.1.1
 */
public abstract class AbstractHBaseClient {
    protected final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());

    protected static final String HBASE_QUORUM_KEY = "hbase.zookeeper.quorum";
    protected static final String HBASE_QUORUM_CONF_KEY = NIMBUS_CONF_PREFIX + HBASE_QUORUM_KEY;
    protected static final String HBASE_PORT_KEY = "hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort";
    protected static final String HBASE_PORT_CONF_KEY = NIMBUS_CONF_PREFIX + HBASE_PORT_KEY;
    protected static final String HBASE_ZK_PARENT_KEY = "zookeeper.znode.parent";
    protected static final String HBASE_ZK_PARENT_CONF_KEY = NIMBUS_CONF_PREFIX + HBASE_ZK_PARENT_KEY;

    protected static final String TABLE_TASK_TRACK = "koala_task_track";
    protected static final String TABLE_TOPOLOGY_HISTORY = "koala_topology_history";
    protected static final String TABLE_METRIC_META = "koala_metric_meta";
    protected static final String TABLE_METRIC_DATA = "koala_metric_data";

    protected static final byte[] CF = Bytes.toBytes("v");
    protected static final byte[] V_DATA = Bytes.toBytes("d");

    protected static final long BUFFER_SIZE = 256 * 1024;
    protected static final int TABLE_POOL_SIZE = 4;
    protected static final int CACHE_SIZE = 100;
    protected static final int MAX_SCAN_ROWS = 500;
    protected static final int MAX_SCAN_META_ROWS = 100000;

    protected HTablePool hTablePool;

    public HTableInterface getHTableInterface(String tableName) {
        try {
            HTableInterface table = hTablePool.getTable(tableName);
            // disable auto flush, use buffer size: 256KB
            table.setAutoFlush(false);
            table.setWriteBufferSize(BUFFER_SIZE);

            return table;
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            logger.error("getHTableInterface error:", ex);
        }
        return null;
    }

    public void closeTable(HTableInterface table) {
        if (table != null) {
            try {
                table.close();
            } catch (Exception ignored) {
            }
        }
    }

    public Configuration makeConf(Map stormConf) {
        Configuration hbaseConf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
        String hbaseQuorum = (String) stormConf.get(HBASE_QUORUM_CONF_KEY);
        hbaseConf.set(HBASE_QUORUM_KEY, hbaseQuorum);

        String hbasePort = stormConf.get(HBASE_PORT_CONF_KEY) + "";
        hbaseConf.set(HBASE_PORT_KEY, hbasePort);

        String hbaseParent = (String) stormConf.get(HBASE_ZK_PARENT_CONF_KEY);
        hbaseConf.set(HBASE_ZK_PARENT_KEY, hbaseParent);

        return hbaseConf;
    }

    public void initFromStormConf(Map stormConf) {
        logger.info("init hbase client.");
        Configuration conf = makeConf(stormConf);
        hTablePool = new HTablePool(conf, TABLE_POOL_SIZE);
        logger.info("finished init hbase client.");
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    protected <T extends KVSerializable> List<T> scanRows(String tableName, Class<T> clazz, byte[] start, byte[] end, int num) {
        HTableInterface table = getHTableInterface(tableName);
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Youth arts programming continues to be in the news. Just when we hear about new research of how arts programming supports academic progress and the development of important life skills, we hear about programs that are being cut out of schools because of budget woes and the over emphasis on literacy and math.
I had the pleasure recently of watching a high school presentation of Spring Awakening at Berkeley High School. This is the play that was a big success recently on Broadway and gave Lea Michele, star of Glee, her start. Last week, I attended the annual dance performance by students from the San Francisco School of the Arts. The experience was the same - I was bowled over by the young people's intense commitment to mastery and commitment to the goal they shared with their group. Talk about developing a sense of purpose - a sense of mastery and agency - it was quite amazing. So enough of having to defend having arts programming, particularly performing arts, in our afterschool programs.
Bob Cabeza, Vice President of Community Development at the YMCA of Greater Long Beach, passionately agrees: "When you're doing a play, you're learning critical thinking skills, you're learning sequential thinking skills, you're learning group work, and literacy - reading, memorizing that reading - but because it is project-based learning, the enthusiasm and also the focus on learning goes up tremendously."
Want more: Oakland Technical High School's drama program was recently featured on KQED's California Report. It has risen from the ashes to be acknowledged as one of the best in the country and it has had a big effect on students. Take a listen.
Want more: Watch this video of Philadelphia Assistant Superintendent of Schools explain why arts programming is essential to teaching kids how to reach their full potential.
Want more: Read about the rationale for cuts in arts programming and why the arts are essential.
Want more: I do! Let's celebrate the arts in afterschool and shout out all the good reasons why we have saved them.
The post below is a reprint of my Op-Ed that was published in Youth Today on May 5, 2014.
There has been an explosion of interest in providing young people with learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Many have argued correctly that afterschool and summer programs are perfectly situated to respond to this interest. After all, the out-of-school (OST) environment provides the teacher and learner with a flexibility not found in school – the freedom to choose interesting topics, the ability to extend the learning activities across time (days or even weeks), the advantage of working in smaller groups, and use of the larger community and their surroundings as a classroom. However, the rush to offer STEM-related activities has not necessarily resulted in quality programming.
Many OST managers figured that STEM activities meant a focus on content, without an eye on what makes for a good learning experience. But successful STEM activities are more than content. They are designed to ignite young people's imagination and involve them in ways that excite them as learners. Those responsible for providing STEM activities need to provide staff training using a framework for learning and engagement.
Research on learning and engagement suggest several principles to guide the design and implementation of activities. To begin, learning activities must be active. They must be collaborative and meaningful to the participant. They should support mastery and they should expand the horizons of participants. These principles have become influential in how the state of California now defines quality OST learning programs.
SRI International recently published the first part of a 5-year National Science Foundation funded research project, the Afterschool Science Networks study. In this important report, SRI presented case studies of science activities in California afterschool programs and identified "staff capacity" as one of several limitations. Many of the issues in staff capacity involved the failure to engage and can be addressed through staff development on how to engage young people as learners. Part of this is allowing young people to learn in a hands-on fashion and facilitating questions instead of giving answers.
The growing number of afterschool programs focused on STEM is an exciting development. But if children are to develop a growing interest in STEM topics, we need to think about how children learn when we design the activities and prepare adult staff to facilitate them. This can be accomplished through training and materials that offer a framework for learning and engagement.
Those of us who are committed to progressive education principles and their use in classroom and out-of-school learning programs lost a great friend last week with the passing of Tom Little.
Tom was one of three founding teachers of Park Day School in 1976, a progressive K-6 school in Oakland, CA. I had the pleasure of teaching at Park Day School for five years, two of those years as a co-teacher with Tom. Nearly everything I know about youth and youth development came from this experience.
Tom went on to become the Director of Park Day in 1986. Under his leadership, Park Day expanded to include a middle school and managed to buy the property that is now their beautiful campus.
I also had the opportunity to experience Tom's leadership as a parent at Park Day. Tom was masterful at creating a sense of community and ensuring that all children engaged in what we now call social emotional learning (SEL). We used to think of Park Day School as our church in passing along the values of citizenship and social justice.
Tom was a relentless defender of youth development and progressive education. While at CNYD, I led several tours of afterschool practitioners through Park Day classrooms to allow practitioners to see youth development in action within a classroom setting.
In partnership with Temescal Associates and the Learning in Afterschool & Summer project, Tom hosted a public showing of Brooklyn Castle, participated in an LIAS video, speaking in support of the LIAS learning principles, and provided access to the Park Day campus for the taping of several other interviews with afterschool leaders. He was committed to equity in education and freed up teachers and youth to provide support to local public schools.
Last year, Tom used his sabbatical to visit progressive schools across the country. He wrote a book about this experience, which will be published in the near future. Tom's legacy will live on for a long time, through the demonstration by the practices at Park Day School. He was a good friend and inspiration to a large number of East Bay families, youth, and educators. He will be sorely missed.
In 2001, Tom Little was awarded a Klingenstein Visiting Heads Fellowship. From 1997-2003, he served as the Private School Representative on the Mayor's Oakland Education Cabinet. He served on the Board of Directors for the Oakland Academic Stars, an organization providing college scholarships for public school students in Oakland. He also served on the Board of Wingspan, a national organization sponsoring public and private school partnerships. He served on the Board of the Progressive Education Network, a national organization of educators working to advance progressive educational practices throughout the United States. Tom consulted on educational matters with public and private schools in the Bay Area and in Ireland.
The Learning in Afterschool & Summer project is dedicated to ensuring that afterschool and summer youth programs are strong places of learning. To this end, we are promoting five important principles of learning that should be evident in all youth programs.
However, it is also important that practitioners understand not only what promotes learning but the environmental factors that impede learning. These factors are related to complex trauma - children who have experienced physical or sexual abuse, abandonment, domestic and neighborhood violence, and/or having a parent or close family member incarcerated.
"In the brains of traumatized youth, neural pathways associated with fear and survival responses are strongly developed, leaving some children in a state of hyperarousal that causes them to overreact to incidents other children would find nonthreatening, the research shows. Consumed by fear, they find it difficult to achieve a state of calmness that would allow them to process verbal instructions and learn, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
We will explore some of these learning impediments in upcoming blog posts by citing important literature and featuring interviews with field experts.


Here at Brides Up North HQ our features schedule is fully charged, so that we never knowingly miss an opportunity to bring you beautiful wedding inspiration twice a day, every weekday (and sometimes bonus blog posts at the weekends too). The only exception to this rule is our bi-annual break, to re-charge, re-assess and re-focus our efforts to keep bringing you the most precious wedding pretty from our corner of the internet.
We'll be taking our leave for the next fortnight, leaving you with a reduced blogging schedule that will make sure that you still get your daily dose of #weddinggoals, recapping some of our favourite real weddings of the 2017 so far. Check back daily for the most beautiful, unique and inspiring celebrations, and if you're a Brides Up North bride, to see if your day was one of our top picks!
We'll be back soon with a shiny new features edit; to announce some exciting finishing touches to our upcoming autumn events schedule; finish off what looks set to be the super glossiest issue of our print baby, Unveiled magazine, to date and oooh… maybe, just maybe, a whole new look for Brides Up North!
Usual service will recommence on Monday 3rd July 2017, and in the meantime, you can contact us here.
But we wouldn't just stick the out-of-office on and leave it at that. At this halfway point through the year (yes, we can barely believe it too), we're looking to our fabulous featured brides from the first half of 2017 to share what they consider to be the best pieces of advice with those of you soon to be walking down the aisle.
After all, these ladies have been there, done it and got the ring, so can offer words of wisdom on everything from dress shopping, suppliers and venues to emotional advice and tips on how to remain composed (Bridezillarma can strike at any moment!).
Click on the links to see each wedding in full.
Chloe says: Think about what you want and try not to get sucked into the 'wedding must-haves'. Lots of people asked why we weren't 'having this' or 'doing that', but we stuck with what we wanted our wedding to be and we were so glad we did! Also, use Pinterest to collect lots of ideas, but don't feel too disheartened when you can't use them all.
Niamh says: Remember that making a wedding your own doesn't have to cost the world. Small touches are often what people remember. Some of the nicest touches we had cost next to nothing.
Sarah says: Visit your venue lots and take photos; I found the hardest thing was dressing the venue. Also, buy what you can and do some yourself; it's very satisfying seeing it all on the big day and knowing you did it.
Katie says: Firstly, find your bridesmaid dresses early! We planned and delivered our wedding in nine months flat and the fact that I wanted different dresses and colours but couldn't get them on the high street as I had hoped made it more complicated. Next, stick to your guns/gut. I'm not saying be a birdezilla but be really clear about what you want, this is too special and over too fast to not be the way you want it. Also, make lists of the photos that you want and try to ensure that they are taken, and perhaps have the day videoed. I didn't think I was bothered about that but then there's so much you just don't remember when you look back on it because it is such a blur or emotion and adrenaline. Finally, chill and enjoy it.
Rachel says: If you want to save some cash and do some DIY décor, have a crafts party with friends – things can be done so much quicker in groups and it's lovely to involve your mates!
Rowena says: Make sure you find the time in the day to spend a few moments together – it would be very easy to barely talk to each other after your vows! We had a 'sweetheart table' instead of a traditional top table, which meant we got to spend some time just the two of us during the wedding breakfast, and could watch and take in all our family and friends enjoying themselves!
Samantha says: Enjoy the planning and preparation leading up to your special day, it all becomes part of your fond memories of your wedding. I am a very organised person and began planning almost immediately after setting a date. I really enjoyed the planning stages of the wedding but my husband knows that I am very indecisive. He suggested that once I had made a decision, I was not to change it, and not to look for an alternative. And that is exactly what I did. I have no regrets.
Charlotte says: Don't be scared to go a bit crazy and have everything you want. You will (hopefully) only get married once. It will be one of the most important days of your life and you shouldn't hold back. A little bit of extra saving and making small sacrifices is totally worth it so that you can have no regrets. Also, don't get too stressed out about anything. Take each stage in your stride and treat each bit of the planning like a mini-experience in itself – oh and, make sure you enjoy the free champagne everywhere you go!
Laura says: Be very organised and give yourself plenty of time (in excess of a year if possible) and a flexible budget if you want the day to be everything you ever dreamed of. We also recommend a venue with a wedding-planning service as this made things a lot easier for us!
Jennifer says: Plan, plan, plan. Do as much in advance as possible and recruit as many people to help you, especially on the day. We became super-organised (spreadsheets, the whole works!) and this really paid off, especially in the days immediately preceding. The main thing though, is to enjoy it and try not to get too stressed. At the end of the day, the important thing is to get married and have a memorable day. If there are little things that you don't manage to do, it won't ruin it!
Katie says: Don't feel like you have to please all your guests all the time. Yes, some people won't like what you choose to eat, yes someone will probably be sitting there thinking "Well, I wouldn't have done that!" but don't worry. Have your wedding day how you and your husband/wife it, and that will shine through to your guests on the day.
Robyn says: Hire a venue dresser – it made the day before and the day after totally stress free. Cultivate a good relationship with your event planners, too – you'll need them! And finally, pick an amazing photographer that you feel a genuine connection with.
Bekki says: Try to keep the week before the wedding as free as possible – you don't want to spend it rushing around doing jobs you've forgotten. My mum and my mother-in-law took me for a spa day, two days before to help me relax. Also, plan in one last unmarried date night.
Zoe says: Look at your partner and not the vicar or registrar when you're saying your vows. Really listen to the words and what they mean. Also, read Brides Up North for inspiration and get to one of their wedding fairs! I've actually exhibited at one of the Brides Up North fairs at the Bowdon Rooms, so I know what a great help the team are to people – as a supplier and a bride! I looked at the website for ideas on flowers and bridesmaid dresses and how rooms/venues were dressed and found it really helpful.
Carly says: Recommendations can be priceless! Our suppliers played a massive part in making our day so perfect, and over half of them were recommendations.
Sarah says: Make sure you eat – properly! I love my food and we had so much amazing food at our wedding, but I was too nervous to have breakfast in the morning, we missed the canapes because we were off having our pictures taken and during the meal I kept getting up to go and speak to everyone so didn't eat a lot of it! Fail!
Carly says: Try not to let the wedding take over your life. We had a really busy year of nine weddings before ours, so in a way we didn't really have time to get stressed. We also managed to plan a lot of the wedding within a few months.
Becky says: Don't get carried away. It is so easy to and, actually, on the day, although all the little things are lovely, it's more important the people you love are there and that you have fun. We spent more on the 'big' things like the photographer and band, but all the other things we hunted for the best price and we really questioned whether it was really important to the day. I also regularly visited Brides Up North during the planning, in fact I'm still visiting even though our wedding has happened. I love looking at the real weddings and I got loads of ideas from there. It's so nice to see and read how others have done it and any tips they have. Having a resource for local suppliers is so helpful and saves a lot of time finding companies in the right area.
Sarah says: Make sure that you do everything that you've ever dreamed of to make the day extra special; all the little personal touches really make it. And stop thinking about what other people will think. I nearly changed the whole style of our wedding and had a formal sit-down meal. Now looking back, I'm thrilled I didn't: the barbecue was ace!
Catherine says: Choose your suppliers wisely. Take the time to talk to them, ask them questions and get to know them; don't just choose the cheapest. They need to fit with your personalities as well as your vision for your day. We chose suppliers who provided us with an amazing customer service and who were really lovely people, and I definitely think our day was so chilled because I knew they had everything in hand.


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Omer Yurtseven Transfers to Georgetown
NC State Basketball
Color me confused.
When former NC State big fella Omer Yurtseven asked for his release, I heard from sources that he was 99.5% going pro, and that this transfer thing was extremely unlikely.
Welp. Sometimes unlikely things happen.
Yurtseven is transferring to Georgetown.
I would like to thank Coach Keatts, the entire coaching staff at NC State and the fans of WPN a for all they have done for me, but at this point I have decided to look at other opportunities to further my academic and basketball career.
— Omer Yurtseven (@OmerYurtseven5) April 16, 2018
The Turkish center will sit out one year, and then have two years of remaining eligibility.
From my understanding, Yurt had a great relationship with NC State head coach Kevin Keatts.
I chalk this up to two things.
1) Keatts wants to fully implement his system next year. That system isn't well-suited for a big who doesn't run the court extremely well, and prefers to play with his back to the basket.
2) Yurtseven wants to play for Patrick Ewing, who will run a system that suits his game.


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How This Woman's Attitude About Weight Loss Changed After She Started Running
"I didn't know any runners and the ones I chose to see were always thin and skinny."
By Blake Bakkila
You've probably seen selfies of Kelly Roberts—the 28-year-old runner from Brooklyn, New York who gained social media fame after she posted photos of herself posing with unsuspecting hot guys during a half marathon in 2014.
On Sunday, Roberts posted a more personal and empowering image for her 60K Instagram followers. Wearing leggings and her trademark sports bra while at the finish line of a race, she opened up about rejecting the pressure to be thin and learning to appreciate her body.
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"When I decided to run a marathon, I remember envisioning the weight I'd lose training for a marathon," Roberts, who is the founder of She Can & She Did, recalled. "I didn't know any runners and the ones I chose to see were always thin and skinny. I, like so many others, thought I needed to be thin and skinny in order to be beautiful, desirable, confident, strong, happy, and successful."
She also encouraged people to identify the strength within themselves. "It wasn't until I joined the #SportsBraSquad that I started looking in the mirror or seeing photos of myself and ACTUALLY seeing my strength," she wrote.
Confidence isn't something we have to aspire towards. It's innate. We're born with it. We just lose sight of how strong, beautiful and capable we are after subscribing to our cultural beauty ideals. When I decided to run a marathon, I remember envisioning the weight I'd lose training for a marathon. I didn't know any runners and the ones I chose to see were always thin and skinny. I, like so many others, thought I needed to be thin and skinny in order to be beautiful, desirable, confident, strong, happy, and successful. It wasn't until I joined the #SportsBraSquad that I started looking in the mirror or seeing photos of myself and ACTUALLY seeing my strength. Strength isn't a look. It comes in all shapes and sizes because it isn't just a physical attribute. I like to list the finishing times I work my ass off for because there's this myth that bigger people are lazy. That they should work harder to be thinner. Yeah, fuck that. I'm twirling hard on that BS because that right there is what strength looks like. It hurts. It isn't always fun. But I keep choosing to fight and push myself because I love it. But weight loss isn't my goal. Strength is. It's not tied to a time or a number on a scale. It's the feeling I get knowing I'm giving everything I have towards my best self. The #sportsbrasquad is about being seen because the more we see bodies that look like ours, the easier it is to see and embrace our strength. So say it with me, "THIS is what STRENGH looks like". Global #SportsBraSquad Day. This Sunday June 24th. You in? #BadassLadyGang #SheCanAndSheDid
A post shared by Kelly Roberts (@kellykkroberts) on Jun 20, 2018 at 7:40am PDT
Though she runs a popular blog about her relationship with running, Roberts only went for her first run four years ago, she tells Health.
"I was just desperate enough to start running," she says. "I'd graduated from college, had just lost 75 pounds and was grieving the loss of my brother. I felt like I had nothing to be proud of and didn't know what direction my life was going. Running gave me a reason to get out of bed in the morning."
From there, she entered races in New York. It was during the New York City Half Marathon in March 2014 when her hot guy selfies went viral. Her hashtag? "#hotguysofthenychalf." Needless to say, people couldn't get enough of her man candy-per-mile coverage of the event.
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"I started sharing my story on my blog after I went viral," she says. "Four years later, it's turned into a really empowering storytelling platform where women can join me in my mission to redefine what strength looks like."
For her, strength isn't filtered or Photoshopped. As she described in her Instagram post last week, strength is raw and real.
"It hurts," she explained about her definition of strength. "It isn't always fun. But I keep choosing to fight and push myself because I love it. But weight loss isn't my goal. Strength is. It's not tied to a time or a number on a scale. It's the feeling I get knowing I'm giving everything I have towards my best self."
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The #MeToo campaign has gotten a lot of the credit for the new focus on silenced harassment and abuses. However,the inspiration for the global women's-strike and other initiatives did not come from Hollywood, but from Argentina and the #NiUnaMenos campaign. It is a clear example of the deep paradoxes of the struggle for gender equality in Latin America. This article was originally published on March 8th (in Norwegian) at Bistandsaktuelt.
In one country after the other, leaders of the ever more popular evangelical churches enter politics. As in the rest of the world, a political void has been created by corruption revelations, economic hardships, globalization and inequality. However, in Latin America, the evangelical leaders also lean on long traditions of populism and "caudillismo". This article was originally published on the 27th of February in Dagsavisen (in Norwegian).
Vi tok en prat med postdoktor Kristian Bjørkdahl om det han kaller vår tids viktigste filosof; Richard Rorty.
Den gule høytiden står for døren. Hvorfor ikke gripe anledningen til å utøve forbrukermakt med plomme og hvite?
Medan vietnamesisk mat blir stadig meir populær verda rundt, har Vietnam hamna i ei matkrise.