This photo from the early 1900s was taken by Edward Curtis on the banks of the Little Big Horn river south of Billings, Montana, on the reservation of the Crow nation. In the middle distance are the horses on which the Crow men prided themselves and the white tipis that are present as abstractions in the art of the Crow women. Where once they roamed over a vast area, the Crow, who are also known as the Apsáalooke and the Apsaroke, are now confined to a 3600 square mile reservation. After Edward Curtis, they were visited by the great Boasian anthropologist Robert Lowie, whose work we have taken up in other classes. This paper is about the visual art of the Crow and the different ways Crow men and Crow women meet the world.
Men and women, separate and together.
The Crow economy was based on the roaming buffalo herds, and men and women worked together closely when they needed to break camp and move to another location. However, for the rest of the time Crow men and women had to work apart, the men to hunt buffalo and other game and battle the unfriendly bands of Dakota Sioux, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne, and the women to rear children, gather roots and berries, trade for the things they needed, and care for the horses.
Problems in the way Crow men and women saw difference, and each other, are told of in the legends passed down from one Crow generation to the next. There is a vivid story, "The Woman Who Married Worms-in-His-Face," that describes the trouble a woman gets into when she feels that no man in her community is good enough for her and marries a stranger. I think this story is critical of the desire in a woman to stop thinking about a man and to have contempt for him. After a long series of perilous adventures, she manages to return home, but with a child, a supernatural being, that puts her people in danger. She needs to warn them about the child, but she keeps forgetting. A mouse asks her to put a feather in her hair so she will remember. And when she does, she is able at last to return to the community where she belongs.
Rest and motion, arrest and overflow are opposites that Crow men and Crow women put together in different ways.
In Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites, Eli Siegel asks: DOES every successful example of visual art have a oneness of outward line and interior mass and color? — does the harmony of line and color in a painting show a oneness of arrest and overflow, containing and contained, without and within?
The beaded objects for which the Crow are celebrated are the work of the Crow women. There's no denying that the ceremonial lance scabbard in gorgeous color, above left, has thrust from the use of the triangular forms and expansiveness from the use of the fringes. However, simultaneously, there is a containment through the geometry that is not felt in the same way in the men's works nearby. The beading on this scabbard case skillfully relates complementary colors, blue and yellow, red and green. Up close the beading is dazzling, yet there is an overall modesty, a subtle arrangement of the design elements that is very pleasing. Crow women restricted themselves to a certain limited number of traditional designs that they rearranged in imaginative ways. The makers of this scabbard may have wanted to suggest the body and head of a horse and its flowing mane, and in the white triangles along the handle, the white tipis along the banks of the Little Big Horn. As the women worked, was it a way of keeping in mind the distant men who would carry a lance into battle? In the beauty of the design, were they expressing a good hope, perhaps, that their men would not have to fight? According to Aesthetic Realism, the care they showed expresses a desire that the men be ethical and fair.
The work of the men, while including contained forms, emphasizes individuality, daring, and expansiveness. There is the use of organic forms, both animal and human. The tomahawk at the right is the work of White Swan, a Crow warrior who became a Scout for the US Army and was wounded at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The design came to White Swan in a vision. The thrusting head of the tomahawk is a delicately carved swan in lustrous metal that shines out beyond its borders.
Another amazing work, the shield of Chief Arapoosh (Rotten Belly, 1795-1834), is also the espression of a vision. The design starts in two dimensions, from a center that is also the navel of a human figure, and expands in all directions. A medicine bundle and an eagle feather move it from flatness into depth.
A successful collaboration by men and women artists does what men and women are hoping to do in their lives. A highlight of the exhibition is a warrior's exploits robe that tells a story: "I took a gun. I took a bow. I was wounded by the enemy. I killed one. I brought back eleven guns." The drawings, the work of a Crow warrior, are expansive, filled with activity and motion. Meanwhile there is a lovely, tender feeling in the way the horses are drawn.
At left is a series of closeups from the full robe, which is made from a buffalo hide. In the full robe a long rectangular strip with beaded rosettes made by the Crow women runs down the center. It is the geometry of that strip we see first, and the containing outline, but the beading and the ribbon have a luminosity that is unconfined. The red triangle, its saw-tooth edge black and white containing a patch of fiery color, represents a horse's head. The saw-tooth edge contributes to a feeling of energy radiating out from a center, which is otherwise not so common in the women's work, and there are the delicate loops coming from the centers of the rosettes that do the same thing. We feel a coherence between the buffalo hide with its drawn figures and way the women have embellished it. In this work Crow men and women meet respectfully, as they are hoping to do in their lives.
Edward S. Curtis's work – a biography, chronology, and archives of his writings and photographs – is available in an online archive, and is the source of the Crow legend.
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian is an ongoing exhibition at The National Museum of the American Indian, Bowling Green, lower Manhattan.


We are going to delve deep into this one. We have a demon dimension where time moves super-fast, and we have so much to talk about: Relativity, Energies, Biology… We're talking "Anne" — season 3 episode 1 — an episode that deals with Time.
Note: If you haven't watched Season 3 Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, be aware that this post will contain spoilers. Even though it was released in 1998 (twenty years, y'all!) it's a super fun watch, so go watch it first, and come back for some science.
Buffy encounters a demon that unceremoniously throws teenagers into a portal to another dimension where they are forced into hard labor. When they're too old, they're tossed out into our universe again.
Except in demon-dimension, time passes super fast compared to ours; 100 years in demon-verse is only 1 day in our universe, so what was 70 or so years for the poor teenager doing hard labor, is less than a day for Buffy.
We learn that fighting demons is time consuming, which leads to an extremely important existential question: If Buffy created a belt out of wrist watches, would it be a complete waist of time?
… Okay okay, I'll stop while I'm ahead. Let's jump into the science of Time.
Here's the thing. Time is important — nay, fundamental — to our understanding of the universe. The way our universe behaves is closely connected to how time moves and how we perceive it.
If we are throwing random mostly-unsuspecting teenagers into a portal where they rapidly move from regular-time to fast-time, we have some 'splainin to do.
Energy: Time affects movement and speed, so if an object moves from slow-time to fast-time, it becomes faster… How much energy is required? What happens to this energy, where does it go?
Biology: What happens to the human body as it climbs in or out of that portal? What happens when it's halfway through?
As always, we're using the (fictional) events in this episode to examine real science, while acknowledging the universal laws of physics inside Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which are, pretty clearly, different in some aspects than the real world.
That means we can examine what our known science tells us, and then examine how the universe of the show solves any inconsistencies. That's right, there are ways to solve all the problems I'm raising, so bear with me through this exploration, and we'll see how Buffy not only wins over demons, but wins over physics, too.
Strap in, scoobies, we're going in fast!
When we look at our universe and how it behaves, we describe it through a four-dimensional model: Three spacial dimensions (x, y and z) and a time dimension (t). That is, we look not only at where things are, but at where they are at any given time. This allows us to predict phenomena.
While in our current known universe we haven't yet found any portals that lead to demon dimensions (I'm looking at you, CERN,) we do have examples where time does change and shift on us.
It is well established, proven, and demonstrated time and time again: Our perception of reality, and the mechanics of time, depend on who's looking, where they are, and how fast they go.
Yup. Welcome to my favorite theory in all of Physics: Special Relativity.
Special relativity is one of my most favorite physical theories. It's well established, well accepted, and was demonstrated time and time again through… well… time.
These two statements sound pretty straight forward, but what they actually mean revolutionized the entire field of Physics and the way we examine our universe.
I experience physics the same no matter how fast I am.
If I am on a moving train and I throw a ball up in the air, it will fall down to my hand as if I was standing still. That means the ball gains my (and my train's) speed along with me. If I throw that ball forward, it will have the speed I tossed it at plus the speed of the train.
Light travels at light-speed no matter what frame it is in.
Light, no matter what, never goes faster than \(2.99*10^8\) meters per second, 'c'.
If I shine a flashlight forward on a moving train, the light will go at speed 'c' and not c+train-speed, because light speed never changes.
Unlike the ball I tossed in #1, light beam does not care it starts out already moving.
Makes sense? It took a bit to convince the scientific community — but these are absolutely and undeniably proven. They're true!
The best way to explain Special Relativity is through visual examples. I was going to delve deep, but to be honest, there's a really cool video, by PBS, that does a bang-up job, and seeing these effects on the screen is a lot more effective than reading theoretical claims.
The two main phenomena that Special Relativity describes are time dilation and length contraction. They both stem from the two fundamental claims above, and their effects are mind boggling and incredible to think about.
The faster you go, the slower time passes for you, relative to an observe in a slower reference frame.
The "Twin Paradox" (that isn't a paradox at all) explains this best. Think of a pair of twins. One goes on a spaceship for a trip around the solar system, and one stays on Earth.
The traveling twin experiences a trip that takes, say, a month to complete. She gets back to Earth, excited to share her experiences — only to meet her sibling, who's waited for years. Maybe even decades.
Yeah — it's that meaningful. Time slows down for the traveling twin, significantly. Are they even twins anymore? This isn't the type of paradox that implodes the universe — it's the type that makes you stare at your clocks in confusion. You may not have even believed it, had it not be so incredibly repeatedly proven to be true.
Yeah, I know, Oz, but it's true!
This is the first part of why Relativity is awesome.
And here's the second part: The faster you go, the more space is contracting for you, relative to me, the slower observer.
I look at Bob in his train, but what I see isn't a regular Bob — I see a squished Bob in a squished train. The faster Bob goes relative to me, the more squished I'll see him and his train.
The Physics Classroom has a really good article with some animations demonstrating these effect.
These effects happen in any speed. Even when you're in a regular car, your time is dilated and your length is contracted compared to a bystander looking at you from the sidewalk, but the difference in these speeds is so minuscule, we never notice it.
When you travel really really fast, though, we do notice. And it has significant effect. So significant, that we have to account for time dilation and length contraction in instruments we send to space.
Physics is awesome, y'all. Seriously. I could go on forever, in any frame of reference.
So what does this have to do with Buffy?
Right, right, we're not just here to gush about the incredibly awesome effects of Special Relativity (good thing you stopped me, guys) we're here to examine the specific science of demons throwing teenagers into demon dimensions.
So here it is: We have normal-time dimension (our world) and super-fast-time dimension (demon) so we have two frames of reference, and we have relativistic effects. Huzzah!
…. except the portal is opaque, which means we don't see into it, which means we wouldn't really see any length contraction or time dilation. Good on the writers for preventing themselves a visual effects nightmare.
But that doesn't mean relativity isn't in effect in this episode. In fact, it's a major driver for the plot.
What makes time move faster in the demon dimension?
See, this is a great question.
As we've seen from looking into Special Relativity, the perception of time (the actual passing of time) changes based on reference frames. We, in the regular universe, experience time a lot slower than the demons in the demon-universe.
This would happen if we are travelling really really fast relative to the demon-dimension; so fast, that the time dilation we experience is 36525 times slower than demon-dimension.
But, you ask (I know you do) — How fast are we going relative to the demon-dimension?
Another great question, and we can find this out through some calculations..
We are told in the episode that our universe experiences 1 day for every 100 years in demon universe — that's how much we are "time dilated". If we know this, we can figure out how fast our universe is going relative to the demon universe. You can expand the calculation below, or look directly at the result.
We use the time dilation calculation to see how fast we're going. Since time passes slowly on our world, we assume the demon world is our observer, and we're the ones who are moving.
We're going at 0.99999999962 times the speed of light, compared to demon dimension.
Whoosh! Hold on to your beany, Willow! No wonder time's so slow here compared to there. We're flyyyyying!
Before we close this specific segment of the explanation (and move to the next) we should acknowledge another way for the time differential to exist.
You thought you were done, didn't you? Ha, I say. Ha. It's time to go over an alternative theory, and check if it's valid.
General relativity describes the relation of spacetime as it touches gravity. The higher the gravitational pull, the slower time goes.
If you've seen the movie "Interstellar", you might remember the planet near the black hole, where the water tides were pretty insane. Not only did the black hole wreck havoc on the tides, it also dilated time pretty significantly. That's because it's a massive piece of mass, right nearby, and it warps spacetime itself.
For this to be the reason of the time differential, though, we — in our real universe — would have to be the ones affected by the massive gravitational pull. Without going into too much of a magical stretch here, that seems completely implausible, even when we take into account Buffyverse magic stuff.
We don't have, anywhere in the series or the real world, any acknowledgement or observation or any other sort of data suggesting that we're near a big enough mass to produce the time difference. And since we have an alternative theory (that we're moving really fast compared to demon-world) we can accept that, instead.
Back to the actual point of this post.
We've spent all this time examining special relativity, some aspects of general relativity, and figuring out how fast we are moving compared to demon-universe. What does that mean for Buffyverse physics?
Our universe is travelling at almost the speed of light, compared to demon-universe, which is why time moves so slow for us. We are inside a time-dilated universe compared to demon-world. HOW COOL IS THAT!
The portal serves as a doorway to the other frame of reference. We're moving, the entry point of the portal moves with us, but its other side is moving at demon-dimension's speed.
One side moves at one speed, the other at another, which means that anything that passes through will go through a (quick) change of velocities before they completely pass.
Where's the energy to change speeds coming from? What changes the velocity? What happens to people who are climbing through when they're halfway in and halfway out? Does it affect them? Their bodies? WHAT WILL HAPPEN!
… All of these are excellent questions, and I'm so glad you're asking them because I thought about them too while watching the episode.
In the next posts, we're going to continue exploring the science behind those multiple dimensions, and figure out how our not-so-merry band of teenage laborers deal with their predicament, the science way!
After all — we have Time!
Have something to say? Think I made a mistake, or found an error in the calculations? Speak up in the comments! You can also send me a direct message or say hi on Twitter!
If you're wondering what would be the difference if the demon universe had a different time effect (or, maybe, if we find an alternative demon universe with a different time differential) you can check it out for yourselves, with my dynamic relativity calculator.
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The Blowing Rock Attraction NC is exactly the place that the Village of Blowing Rock where you can find it, is named after. It is an unusual rock formation that overlooks the Johns River Gorge just off the Blue Ridge Parkway NC. Many years ago, before settlers ever arrived, American Indian tribes fought over the hunting grounds in and around locations in Watauga County. According to Native American legend, the Catawba and Cherokee tribes were warring and two lovers, who each belonged to one of the tribes, were walking near the rocks when the young warrior received notification that his tribe was going to battle. The young Indian maiden urged her lover not to go and he became to confused as to what to do and torn that he threw himself over the rock into the gorge below.
The young woman called out and prayed to the Great Spirit to return her lover and all of a sudden a great gust of wind blew the young warrior back to the top of the rocks. Today, visitors to the Blowing Rock Attraction can walk out atop the observation deck and see excellent views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Johns River Gorge. Most often remark at the strange, high wind pattern that exists atop this location. The views jut out 1,500 feet above the gorge and its easy to believe the ancient story that is still told at the Blowing Rock Attraction.
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United States, Los Angeles
Going Strong
Away from you
why we make
Through the wind
Not for me
Singer/songwriter and musician Bota, Originally from Kazakhstan. Her mother a professional singer and transferred her passion for music to her daughter. From an early age Bota gravitated toward the arts and human rights issues. She started to play guitar at age of 9 and at the age 15 she formed her first band "Undersky" with which she performed next 4 years. "Undersky" performed in many venues around the city and won first prize at the "Hi-Fi-Front" Rock Festival in 1997 with the song "Not For me" written by Bota. To experience new music and to expand her musical horizons Bota moved to London in 2007 and performed there for 2 years at different clubs and bars. Though life in London was tough sometimes her high spirits and humor kept her passion for music intact. She was writing songs about what she saw around, incorporating her raw emotions into her songs. In 1998 she participated in a Folk Festival in Sweden where she was exposed to big crowds and where she gained new confidence in her ability to communicate to large audiences. From this point on she started to build her solo career. She wrote and recorder 4 new songs and produced 4 videos for these songs. Her efforts paid off and she got two number 1 hits singles in Kazahstan. With the experienced gained from producing her own music she started producing other young and famous artists in Kazahstan who were attracted to her talent as a producer. Now Bota lives in New York. Working on a new material and performing.

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L'Christian Smith prepares to pass the ball to Chazz George (5) positioned along the sideline.
Ben Schmiesing tries to block a shot by Trey Landers.
CENTERVILLE — Wayne scored the first 20 points of the game en route to a 97-47 blowout of Piqua in the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division 1 sectional tournament Friday night at Centerville High School.
The Warriors looked like a team on a mission as they rolled over Piqua and recorded another decisive victory while improving to a perfect 25-0 record. Six Warriors scored in double figures giving Wayne a balanced offensive attack that also connected on twelve 3-pointers. Roderick Caldwell led all scorers with 20 points, 17 of those points coming in the first half, along with four 3-pointers. Trey Landers scored 17 points, Deshon Parker had 13 points, Demond Parker added 12 points, Chandler Fointno and L'Christian Smith had 10 points each to contribute to the win.
Wayne started the game with a Caldwell 3-pointer as the Warriors sought to set the tone early in the first quarter. Wayne took a quick 20-0 lead as Caldwell hit two more 3-pointers, Demond Parker added another 3-pointer and Smith got a steal and slam dunk. The Warrior defense was intense making it difficult for Piqua to get into any offensive rhythm. Piqua finally scored at the 1:17 mark as Nate Monnin drove to the hoop getting the basket then hitting the free throw. Wayne pushed out to a commanding 24-6 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Piqua came out in the second quarter settling into a groove as Colton Bachman hit a 3-pointer and Monnin scored to cut the Wayne lead to 15 points at the 6:00 mark. But Wayne kept pushing forward as Landers nailed a 3-pointer and Caldwell put up a soft jumper in the lane to stay in control. Piqua came back with three consecutive baskets at the end of the quarter, but Wayne held to a 43-24 advantage to end the first half.
Piqua scored the first basket of the third quarter as CJ Davis hit a 3-pointer and then Bradley Hohlbein got a layup on the next possession to get things rolling. But Wayne surged forward with an 18-2 run sparked by a Smith dunk with authority, a Demond Parker 3-pointer, a Landers drive to the hoop and another 3-pointer from George. The Warriors turned it up both offensively as well as defensively to take a 63-32 advantage with 3:00 remaining in the third quarter. Wayne scored the final thirteen points of the quarter as Fointno made two consecutive baskets to help give the Warriors a 76-36 lead.
Wayne continued to roll out to a large lead which so far in the tournament has been very familiar territory. In the first three games of the postseason Wayne has averaged 96 points per game with a margin of victory of 62 points per game. Leading scorers for Piqua were Nate Monnin with 13 points and CJ Davis with 11 points.
Wayne now advances to the district tournament and will play the winner of the Lakota East vs Walnut Hills game that is taking place on Saturday. Wayne's next game will be played on Saturday, March 5 at Wright State University. Game time is 3 p.m.
Piqua: Bradley Hohlbein 5, Derrick Gullett 5, C.J. Davis 11, Nate Monnin 13, Ben Schmiesing 8, Tyren Cox 2, Colton Bachman 3. Totals: 15-3-47.
Wayne: L'Christian Smith 10, Deshon Parker 13, Chandler Fointno 10, Trey Landers 17, Chazz George 5, Roderick Caldwell 20, Ronnie Hampton 1, Matt Palma 2, Isaiah Trice 5, Yannick Olma 2, Demond Parker 12. Totals: 25-11-97.
3-point goals: Piqua 5 (Davis 3, Gullett, Bachman); Wayne 12 (Caldwell 4, Demond Parker 3, Deshon Parker, Fointno, Landers, George, Trice).


In order to detect the ability of ALEC policies to produce growth since 2007, it is important to look not simply at the correlation between the EOR and growth, but to examine that relationship while controlling for other important factors influencing economic performance.
State economies are thoroughly integrated within the national and international economies. One would expect that the state economies faring best from 2007 through 2013 would be those poised at the start with a higher concentration of growing industries, and/or those states least exposed to declining sectors.
To understand why this is important, consider the effects of the oil boom in North Dakota and other states. Suppose the states that happened to have huge shale oil reserves destined to be opened by fracking technology, fueling an economic boom in that sector, also were among the states adhering to ALEC's favored policies. A simple correlation between the EOR and state growth might well show a significant relationship, but it could be driven entirely by the oil economy and not by ALEC policies. Correlation is not causality.
To test the argument about ALEC policies and growth, we adopted the approach of Kolko et al2 in devising a measure of how well a state was poised to grow. State economic structure in 2006 – the shares of state GDP accounted for by each of 20 economic sectors – was used to predict state GDP in 2013 if each state sector were to grow (or decline) at the same rate as that sector did nationally between 2007 and 2013. If our hypothesis is valid, actual state growth should be highly related to this measure of predicted growth based on economic structure. Of course, some states grew more rapidly than predicted, some more slowly, and the pertinent question is: Are there state policies that influenced whether a state did better or worse than would be expected based on economic structure?
The economic structure variable was entered in a multiple regression equation, along with the 2007 ALEC-Laffer EOR ranking to see how well the two variables explained actual state growth differences from 2007 to 2013. Additionally, we controlled for the degree of urbanization (percent of population living in metropolitan areas) because of the long term trend for growth to concentrate in urban areas, the education level of the population (because jobs with different skill levels could be growing at different rates), and climate (to reflect the long trend in population shifts towards the sunbelt).
Our Results: What Didn't Matter?
We examined growth in economic output (state Gross Domestic Product), jobs (non-farm employment), income (per capita personal income and median family income), and wages (median annual earnings), as well as changes in the poverty rate. The results show that the state policies embodied in the ALEC-Laffer EOR ranking did not influence the rate at which the state grew. The EOR failed to have a statistically significant effect on any of the measures of growth.
Our Results: What Did Matter?
The structure of the state economy, on the other hand, had a great deal to do with how fast a state grew; the variable had a statistically significant effect on growth in GDP, jobs and wages. Much of this effect, no doubt, has to do with the resilience of economies with natural resources like oil during this period. It is also consistent, of course, with many reports that as oil prices have risen, states with large oil reserves (e.g., North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas and Alaska) have experienced large increases in drilling and transmission-related jobs. Education level and degree of urbanization were also significant determinants of growth for some variables.
To see if the 2007 EOR ranking was an anomaly, we substituted the average EOR for the first four years of the period, 2007-2010, and the results were not changed.
There is a modest correlation between the EOR and average education level, with less educated states doing better on the ALEC-Laffer index, and a correlation between the EOR and climate, with sun-belt states having better EOR. It is possible these correlations were making it difficult to separate the independent effects of the EOR from the effects of the other two variables. Omitting education and climate from the equation, however, did not result in the EOR having a significant effect on any of the growth variables, with one exception: slow growth in median family income. The better a state's ranking according to the EOR, the slower the growth in median family income, though this result was only mildly significant.
We also tested the relationship between a state's adherence to ALEC-Laffer policies and the level of income or poverty in the state. Here we used the average ranking on the EOR from 2007 to 2014, along with the education and urbanization measures as controls, to predict the average level of per capita income, median family income, median annual wage, and poverty rate from 2007 to 2013. The EOR was statistically significant (but only at the 10 percent level) only in predicting the median annual wage: the worse a state ranked according to the EOR over the period, the higher the annual wage.
2. Jed Kolko, David Neumark, and Marisol Mejia. "Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth."Working Paper 16968.Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2011.


February 8, 2019, Kissimmee, Florida– American Baseball Camps ( American Baseball Camps) is back in the Kissimmee, Florida area. American Baseball Camps veteran coach Victor Martinez is the lead instructor at this camp. Victor is a prominent coach in the area and we are happy to get him at this camp!
Coaching is highlighted by Coach Victor Martinez who is assisted by Coach Sal Freytes. ABC Summer Camps will be offering pro-grade video evaluations (add-on) with recommendations & pro-grade drills & competitions (included) designed to take strides in a young player's baseball career.Sessions are available now for players of all skill levels.
Early registration discounts are available now – an introductory rate of $179.99 will be placed on the camp and it will rise to $199.99 on April 1st. Camps are tailored for serious little league, high school, and travel team players throughout the Kissimmee area.
This year's program is an opportunity for players from Kissimmee, St Cloud, Orlando and Hunter's Creek areas to get better and learn the game from great coaches.The four-day instruction program is led by local and non-local professional and high-end Coaches through American Baseball Camps. Get better & gain confidence in baseball, whether you are on a travel team or high school team already or aspire to be on one.


1 :: How do Sockets Work?
The implementation is left up to the vendor of your particular unix, but from the point of view of the programmer, connection-oriented sockets work a lot like files, or pipes. The most noticeable difference, once you have your file descriptor is that read() or write() calls may actually read or write fewer bytes than requested. If this happens, then you will have to make a second call for the rest of the data. There are examples of this in the source code that accompanies the faq.
2 :: What is with the second parameter in bind()?
s_addr which is a u_long.
3 :: If bind() fails, what should I do with the socket descriptor?
If you are exiting, I have been assured by Andrew that all unixes will close open file descriptors on exit. If you are not exiting though, you can just close it with a regular close() call.
4 :: When should I use shutdown()?
shutdown() is useful for deliniating when you are done providing a request to a server using TCP. A typical use is to send a request to a server followed by a shutdown(). The server will read your request followed by an EOF (read of 0 on most unix implementations). This tells the server that it has your full request. You then go read blocked on the socket. The server will process your request and send the necessary data back to you followed by a close. When you have finished reading all of the response to your request you will read an EOF thus signifying that you have the whole response. It should be noted the TTCP (TCP for Transactions -- see R. Steven's home page) provides for a better method of tcp transaction management.
5 :: Code Sample: a very simple client process.
* a very simple client process.
* the parent receives answers from the server.
What do we expect? The child detects an EOF from its stdin, it closes the socket (assuming connection break) and exits. The server in its turn detects EOF, closes connection and exits. The parent detects EOF, makes the wait() system call and exits. What do we see instead? The socket instance in the parent process is still opened for writing and reading, though the parent never writes. The server never detects EOF and waits for more data from the client forever. The parent never sees the connection is closed and hangs forever and the server hangs too. Unexpected deadlock!
for writing, The server will detect EOF now.
Note: reading from the socket is still allowed.
6 :: What are Sockets?
Sockets are just like "worm holes" in science fiction. When things go into one end, they (should) come out of the other. Different kinds of sockets have different properties. Sockets are either connection- oriented or connectionless. Connection-oriented sockets allow for data to flow back and forth as needed, while connectionless sockets (also known as datagram sockets) allow only one message at a time to be transmitted, without an open connection. There are also different socket families. The two most common are AF_INET for internet connections, and AF_UNIX for unix IPC (interprocess communication). As stated earlier, this FAQ deals only with AF_INET sockets.
7 :: How can I tell when a socket is closed on the other end?
on the next call, but the one after.
read(), or EPIPE from write().
handle or ignore the signal.
we should get some other error.
So yes, you must expect read() to return 0.
8 :: How do I get the port number for a given service?
9 :: How do I properly close a socket?
This question is usually asked by people who try close(), because they have seen that that is what they are supposed to do, and then run netstat and see that their socket is still active. Yes, close() is the correct method. To read about the TIME_WAIT state, and why it is important, refer to ``2.7 Please explain the TIME_WAIT state.''.
10 :: What is the difference between close() and shutdown()?
Generally the difference between close() and shutdown() is: close() closes the socket id for the process but the connection is still opened if another process shares this socket id. The connection stays opened both for read and write, and sometimes this is very important. shutdown() breaks the connection for all processes sharing the socket id. Those who try to read will detect EOF, and those who try to write will reseive SIGPIPE, possibly delayed while the kernel socket buffer will be filled. Additionally, shutdown() has a second argument which denotes how to close the connection: 0 means to disable further reading, 1 to disable writing and 2 disables both.


iMCO Technology happens to be the maker of the world's 1st Alexa smartwatch, and the CoBand K4 is a fine addition to their portfolio of devices. Costing a fraction of brand name prices, the CoBand K4 will not skimp when it comes to quality and features. The asking price of $32.95 is certainly an eyebrow raiser, and when you take into consideration how it is now on sale at just $19.95, this is definitely something to mull over. At this price point, just what kind of hardware features will the user be able to expect?
It will obviously be able to keep track of all your fitness movements, such as number of steps taken, distance walked/run, and calories expended. In terms of health tracking, expect it to keep track of your heart rate, while being able to measure the quality of sleep that you are getting each day. Obviously, this means wearing it even at night while you snooze away. The large OLED screen is nifty in reading scrolling text messages, where you can choose to have it showcase information in either a horizontal or vertical display. When connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth (through its freeiOS and Android apps), it is able to receive a range of phone notifications. Turning on the display is as simple as raising your arm, and with IP65 water resistance rating and a 5 day battery life on a single charge, certainly the CoBand K4 has more than meets the eye.


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Q: Can you install an ActiveX control in IE without having administrator privileges? I'm working on a web app that needs an ActiveX control to function. It installs just fine when the user has admin privileges, but fails to load otherwise. Is this by design and if so, is this documented somewhere? (preferably MSDN)

A: Actually, none of these answers are completely correct; if you install an ActiveX control in a per-user basis it will work just fine without Administrative privileges, regardless of the group that the user is in. Bascially this involves installing it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Depending on what  your activex control is written in this may be easy or it may be hard to change; with ATL 9 it's pretty easy, as you just have to call a function:
AtlSetPerUserRegistration(perUser);

FireBreath does this by default so that admin privileges aren't neccesary to install the plugin/control; it also has a workaround for older versions of ATL (ATL 9 is VS 2008). This is all C++, so if your control is written in something else I don't know how to fix it, but that should at least get you started.

A: Complex answer: Yes.  The user's account needs to be part of a group that affords the privelege of registering libraries (dll) or controls (ocx) or needs to be directly assigned the privelege.
Simple answer: No. Only accounts with the administrative privelege to install OCXs or DLLs can install Active-X controls (by default those accounts are part of the Administrators, Domain Administrators or Power Users groups).
Edit: I guess this question was changed... Yes, this is by design.

A: You can if using Vista with IE8.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd433049%28VS.85%29.aspx

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using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Configgy.Validation
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An <see cref="IValueValidator"/> that matches the raw value against a <see cref="Regex"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public class RegexValidatorAttribute : ValueValidatorAttributeBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The expression to validate the raw value against.
        /// </summary>
        public Regex Expression { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new RegexValidator with the given expression.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="expression"></param>
        public RegexValidatorAttribute(string expression)
        {
            Expression = new Regex(expression);
        }

        /// <inheritdoc cref="IValueValidator.Validate{T}"/>
        public override bool Validate<T>(IConfigProperty property, string value, out T result)
        {
            if (!Expression.IsMatch(value))
            {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(value));
            }

            result = default;
            return false;
        }
    }
}

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The water & the blood [sound recording] / Dustin Kensrue.
Kensrue, Dustin. (Composer, Performer). Mansen, Peter. (Added Author). Mansen, Jessica. (Performer). Phelps, Dan. (Performer). Eichelberger, Brian. (Performer). Walkingstick, Zack. (Performer). Gue, Garrett. (Performer). Burke, Nathan. (Performer). Butcher, Jordan. (Performer). Garvey, Hannah. (Performer). Bolen, Zach. (Performer). Gardner, Chad. (Performer). Moore, Lance. (Performer). Risser, Caitlin. (Performer). Vander Pol, Beth. (Performer). Yoo, Grace. (Performer). Kim, James. (Performer). Matley, Kevin. (Performer).
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Rejoice -- Rock of ages -- Suffering servant -- My one comfort -- God is good -- Grace alone -- The voice of the Lord -- It's not enough -- Come Lord Jesus -- Oh God -- It is finished.
Dustin Kensrue, lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys, percussion ; with accompanying musicians.


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05 Nov Invictus Bank Insights – April 2018
Posted at 23:55h in April 2018, Bank Insights by billie jackson
CECL TRENDS The Biggest CECL Mistake Most Banks will Make — and How to Avoid It
By Adam Mustafa and Lisa Getter, Invictus Group
Five years from now, every bank will have undergone at least one full year under the current expected credit loss (CECL) standard, and most public banks will have three years under their belts. Best practices will begin to emerge, and so will the biggest blunders.
Mistakes will be very expensive; the price to pay will include wasted shareholder value from grossly excessive loan loss reserves, unnecessary expenditures and needless time on implementing the wrong system, and ultimately, the need to start over to get it right. For community banks, these CECL mistakes will cost many millions of dollars, with multiples even higher for larger banks.
REGULATIONS Disruptive Thinking: Is the Community Bank Leverage Ratio Fool's Gold?
By Adam Mustafa, Invictus Group President and CEO
The financial regulatory reform bill that recently passed in the Senate contains a number of so-called goodies for community banks. But one of those provisions is actually fool's gold: the "capital simplification" that calls for a new community bank leverage ratio.
Senate bill 2155, known as the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, calls for bank regulators to develop a community bank ratio, based on tangible equity capital, "of not less than 8 percent and not more than 10 percent."
Exclusive Study: Banks Don't Need More Than 8 Percent Capital Leverage Ratios An Example of Why Data Matters In CECL
Example: A bank has a significant concentration of its commercial real estate loans risk rated a 4. Those loans will have a range of debt service coverage ratios (DSCRs). Some will have DSCRs greater than 2
10 Percent Capital Should Be the Norm: Hoenig
Rolling back post-crisis capital standards on the largest banks is a big mistake that will "undermine the long-term resilience of not only the banking system, but the broader economy as well," outgoing FDIC Vice Chairman Thomas M. Hoenig warned in a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. Hoenig repeated his call for a capital ratio of 10 percent equity to total assets as "the minimum standard for every bank wishing to operate in the United States." He said studies show stronger bank capital contributes to a more sustainable economic growth, despite widespread views to the contrary. "The failure to better understand the nature and disparate effect of regulations on the industry will be to increase the costs of banking and encourage ever-greater consolidation of the industry," he said.
CECL Trends – The Biggest CECL Mistake Most Banks will Make — and How to Avoid It
Regulations – Disruptive Thinking: Is the Community Bank Leverage Ratio Fool's Gold?
Exclusive Study: Banks Don't Need More Than 8 Percent Capital Leverage Ratios
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Last week there was a lot of talk of Hulu becoming a subscription service. The reaction to this has been all over the map. Everything from it is a great idea to everyone will go back to being a pirate. Of course no one know anything until the details come out.
If you look at Hulu now, you will see that most of the A-level content only goes back a few episodes. You cannot catch up for a whole season on Hulu. It is there if you missed an episode or if you want to watch episodes on the internet around when they air on TV. The premium content, like the Showtime Show Weeds, you only get clips.
In the best of all worlds the current free content stays free. Subscription content is only for things you would otherwise have to buy the DVD to get or full episodes of premium content. If that was the subscription service Hulu offered, it might be successful.
The problem with this model is clear. A successful pay wall will cause more programs to go behind that pay wall. In part because networks control the shows, there are still lots of hands in those pockets. If someone sees a new revenue stream, everyone will want to swim in it.
This year people have been talking a lot about cutting the cord of cable TV. This works, as long as not many people do it. TV networks and producers count on the revenue from cable subscriptions to make their business work. If enough people stop paying cable bills the whole business model will stop working. Right now cutting the cord works, if you want less content to watch. Yeah, I cannot watch all the networks that get with my cable, but I sure watch a lot of them.
I think that people who are looking at Hulu as source of free TV will be upset in a while. If everyone wants TV for free we will be stuck like crap like I'm a Celebrity get me Out of Here and The Hills as the only new content to watch. That is not really the world I am looking forward to.


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Tag Archive: Donnie Brasco
Advance review–Cruise at his best as 1980s drug smuggler in American Made
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Once again Tom Cruise proves he can't make a bad action movie. This Friday his latest, American Made, opens in theaters nationwide. It is absolutely a Tom Cruise movie for anyone that loves Tom Cruise movies, and everyone else will find a 1980s flashback blast waiting for them. Cruise has had starring or recognizable roles in 42 movies. As with star actors like John Wayne and Arnold Schwarzenegger, many expect to see Cruise play Cruise in every new film, but that's not quite what happens. Like many actors you can bundle their performances into categories, although it's easy to find some overlap. There are Cruise's cocky maverick hotshots in Jack Reacher, Collateral, Mission: Impossible, Days of Thunder, Rain Man, Cocktail, The Color of Money, and The Outsiders. That's a bit different Cruise than the renegades of Top Gun, Oblivion, Valkyrie, Minority Report, Born on the Fourth of July, and The Last Samurai. But that's not the Cruise you'll find in American Made. This is Cruise as flawed, cavalier everyman–and a bit of a dope–the kind of roles you could see Gary Cooper or Kevin Costner cast in. Early buzz suggests this new role is Cruise as cocky maverick hotshot, but that's only on the surface because he's playing a pilot. In American Made you'll find the more casual but layered Cruise of War of the Worlds, Far and Away, Edge of Tomorrow, A Few Good Men, The Firm, and Jerry Maguire. This is also the more likeable, more relatable Cruise persona.
Cruise's character Barry Seal was a real person who fell into some crazy, impossibly outlandish situations as a pilot in the 1970s and 1980s. This isn't a true biography–the real events in Seal's life are far different than as portrayed in the first half of the film, but the second half tracks much closer. The Barry Seal of the film begins as a well-trained pilot that gets bored with the mundane. He starts small, smuggling cigars from Cuba into the states while a TWA pilot. Then a CIA agent named Schafer catches him and offers him a deal: Seal's evasive techniques are perfect to take spy photos in Central America. For Seal it beats boredom, and it's a breeze for him, despite the frequent heavy gunfire. Seal gets in deep but never really seems to understand how deep, because underneath what would appear to be your typical hotshot pilot is that bit of a dope. He is so clueless he can't fathom that his wife, played by Sarah Wright Olsen (Parks and Recreation, Enchanted, 7th Heaven), won't respond affirmatively that she trusts him when he gives her a smile and asks "do you trust me?" Twice. He's actually taken aback, despite the impossible situation he drags his wife into (like Jerry Maguire trying to convince his new girlfriend that all isn't as bad as it seems). And his new pal list includes Manuel Noriega.
CIA agent Schafer (an amalgam of agents the real-life Seal had worked with) is played by Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex Machina, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Gleeson is a ringer for Timothy Busfield in Field of Dreams or Sneakers and has great chemistry with Cruise–and he's surprisingly strong directing the much older Cruise's actions in scene after scene despite his youth. Together Schafer and Seal build-up some CIA successes, but Seal has a growing family and needs some extra money on the side–and Schafer isn't providing more money–so the CIA success is coupled with Seal's casual assistance in the rise of the Medellin Cartel as he begins smuggling cocaine. The DEA learns about it and Seal bounces back and forth, playing for both sides, ultimately smuggling weapons for the White House and Ollie North in what became the Iran-Contra scandal. And then the FBI gets involved. And all the while Seal literally can't figure out what to do with all his proceeds from his smuggling, burying some piles of cash in the yard, his wife stuffing shoe boxes full of money in closets, after buying up much of the small town they arrive at in Arkansas.
Tags: A Fifth of Beethoven, advance review American Made, Air America, Alejandro Edda, American Made, American Made movie review, Barry Seal, Caleb Landry Jones, Catch Me If You Can, César Charlone, Christophe Beck, Connor Trinneer, Donnie Brasco, Doug Liman, Gary Spinelli, Hooked on Classics, Jayma Mays, Jed Rees, Jesse Plemons, Linda Ronstadt, The Big Apple Band, The Informant!, Timothy Busfield, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise movies
Preview–Johnny Depp returns to the mobster genre in Black Mass
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Just last week we discussed here at borg.com the 2015 return of mob stories to the big and small screen, previewing the British movie Legend starring Tom Hardy and the new TNT series Public Morals with an all-star cast of supporting roles. Now Johnny Depp is returning to the mob/gangster genre after his superb showing in 1997's Donnie Brasco opposite Al Pacino and Bruno Kirby, and his 2009 role as John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
This time Depp will again play a real-life mob boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, the Boston crime lord who became an FBI informant to take down a mob family trying to invade his territory. Black Mass also features notable actors Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, The Hobbit, Star Trek Into Darkness) as Whitey's state senator brother Bill Bulger, Joel Edgerton (the Star Wars prequels), Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13, R.I.P.D., X-Men: First Class, A Few Good Men), Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern, Orphan, The Skeleton Key), Dakota Johnson (21 Jump Street, Fifty Shades of Grey), and Corey Stoll (Ant-Man, Law and Order: LA).
Check out the trailer for Black Mass:
Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Black Mass, Black Mass preview, Black Mass trailer, Corey Stoll, Donnie Brasco, Joel Edgerton, Johnny Depp, Kevin Bacon, mob movies, mobster movies, Peter Sarsgaard
Trailer Park–The Mobster Story Edition
Timothy Hutton. Brian Dennehy. Christopher Eccleston. Paul Bettany. Neal McDonough. Tom Hardy. David Thewlis. Tara Fitzgerald. Robert Knepper. Chazz Palminteri.
That's a pretty impressive roster of actors taking to mobster stories this year, in only two productions. One a television series, the other a big screen release. What draws us to gangster stories anyway? Even before the film classics The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Hollywood was pumping out–and audiences were devouring–movies about gangsters back to black and white pictures starring screen legends like James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. More recent, modern classics like Goodfellas and Donnie Brasco have defined what we all look for in a mob story. Coming 2015 releases continue to look at this popular sub-genre.
First up is Public Morals, an in-your-face, no-holds-barred series showing all the ugliness of a 1960s New York City, and a police division with corrupt a corrupt force led by show creator and star Edward Burns. Public Morals is TNT's latest effort to produce a show to compete with the sex and violence you'd find on HBO or Showtime.
You'll find top-notch genre actors Hutton, Dennehy, McDonough, and Knepper on this series.
Next up is a British movie, Legend, which tells the true story of twin brother mobsters Reggie and Ronald Kray, played by The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max: Fury Road's Tom Hardy.
Tags: Brian Dennehy, Chazz Palminteri, Christopher Eccleston, David Thewlis, Donnie Brasco, Edward Burns, gangster movies, Godfather 2, Goodfellas, Legend, Legend trailer 2015, mob movies, mobster movies, Neal McDonough, Public Morals, Public Morals preview, Robert Knepper, Studiocanal, Tara Fitzgerald, The Godfather, Timothy Hutton, TNT, Tom Hardy


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using Crypton.TPLinkPlug;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Crypton.TPLinkPlug.DeviceEnroll
{

    /// <summary>
    /// Defines an enrollment profile file containing several devices
    /// </summary>
    public class EnrollProfile
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Defines a profile entry for each device
        /// </summary>
        public class DeviceSettings
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// Matches device by its MAC address
            /// </summary>
            public string mac
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines device IP for configuration (ignored for actual devices as they are DHCP)
            /// </summary>
            public string ip
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines device SSID to connect to
            /// </summary>
            public string ssid
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines AP station password
            /// </summary>
            public string password
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines AP encryption type
            /// </summary>
            public WLanKeyType? encryptionType
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines device alias (e.g. name of device for identification)
            /// </summary>
            public string alias
            {
                get;
                set;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Sets device time to local computer's time
            /// </summary>
            public bool setTime
            {
                get;
                set;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies defaults to use for all devices
        /// </summary>
        public DeviceSettings defaults
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies list of devices to enroll
        /// </summary>
        public List<DeviceSettings> devices
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public EnrollProfile()
        {
            defaults = new DeviceSettings();
            devices = new List<DeviceSettings>();
        }

        public void EnrollDevices()
        {
            if (devices.Count == 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Single-device enrollment");
                devices.Add(new DeviceSettings
                {
                    alias = defaults.alias,
                    encryptionType = defaults.encryptionType,
                    ip = defaults.ip,
                    mac = defaults.mac,
                    password = defaults.password,
                    setTime = defaults.setTime,
                    ssid = defaults.ssid
                });
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Multi-device enrollment");
            }

            foreach (var device in devices)
            {
                EnrollDevice(device);
            }

        }

        private bool EnrollDevice(DeviceSettings device)
        {
            string alias = device.alias ?? defaults.alias;
            string mac = device.mac ?? defaults.mac;
            string ip = device.ip ?? defaults.ip;
            string ssid = device.ssid ?? defaults.ssid;
            string password = device.password ?? defaults.password;
            var enctype = device.encryptionType ?? defaults.encryptionType ?? WLanKeyType.WPA;

            var iface = new PlugInterface(ip);
            try
            {
                var sysconfig = new PlugSystem(iface);
                var clock = new Clock(iface);
                var wlan = new WLan(iface);
                sysconfig.Refresh();

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(mac))
                {
                    if (mac != sysconfig.MacAddress)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"Skipping device (mac mismatch {mac} != {sysconfig.MacAddress}");
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                Console.WriteLine($"MAC={sysconfig.MacAddress} DID={sysconfig.DeviceId} FID={sysconfig.FirmwareId} Alias={sysconfig.Alias}");

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(alias))
                {
                    Console.Write("Setting alias...");
                    sysconfig.SetAlias(alias);
                    Console.WriteLine("OK");
                }

                Console.Write("Setting date/time...");
                clock.DateTime = DateTime.Now;
                Console.WriteLine("OK");

                Console.Write("Setting WLAN params...");
                wlan.AssociateWithStation(ssid, password, enctype);
                Console.WriteLine("OK");
                return true;
            }
            catch (Exception any)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"error: {any.Message}");
                return false;
            }

        }

    }
}


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The VOX Lil' Looper looper multi-effect pedal combines two independent loops with a dozen onboard effects and shares many of the winning features of the VOX Dynamic Looper. The easy-to-use design, solid footswitches, 12 versatile effects and layering loops are ideal for guitarists who want to break new ground in looped performances. The Loop Quantize feature creates perfect length loops on the beat and lets you synchronize the two loops to a specified tempo. Lil' Looper offers the additional convenience of being compact, lightweight and battery operated. A Mic input allows any mic'd instrument or vocalist to enjoy the power of the Lil' Looper.


[JRASERVER-3774] User Management: Disable user accounts - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.
The Users cannot be deleted as they are either raised issues or being assigned. I would suggest to have a option of disabling the user so that he cannot access the project.
I know there is a work around here by removing the user groups assigned to the user. But it would again take time to reassign the required groups. just by disabling the user i can avoid some time spend on reassigning. This will be further difficult if the user is assigned to too many projects at different levels.
Also i would like you to ask is there any work around for deleting the user permanently having the issues assigned to him earlier. Which should not change.


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Random Career News
Brandon Roy: Andre Miller Brings The Leadership I Need
Brandon Roy: Andre Miller Brings The Leadership I NeedI know the money is just stupid, but in sports terms, Brandon Roy deserved every dollar of thatmillion extension. He is a franchise player, he lives for those fourth quarter moments, and he will always be his team's number one option. This three year trial run since he came in to the league has made it clear to Blazers' brass that he will work to get better at all times.Kevin Pritchard ended up with the best player in that '06 draft – maybe the best two when all is said and done considering LaMarcus Aldridge's progress – and there was no choice but to pay him as such. It's nice to see an extremely hard-working man improve so much at his trade and be rewarded for it. When he came out of the University of Washington, no one expected him to be close to this good; Brandon decided to work and its paid off, literally. Roy joined 95.5 The Game in Portland to discuss the contract negotiations from his point of view, what he's working on this summer, and why Andre Miller will make a difference on the Blazers.
On How The Negotiations Went For Him:
I told my agent and said, 'Hey, look, just call me when you feel like we're close again.' So, that way, I wasn't just spending every day worrying about the contract, thinking about the contract. I just wanted to get away and say, 'Hey, look, I'm gonna enjoy my family and call me when both sides are moving closer towards an agreement.' I think towards the end of the month, both sides got re-engaged in it again, and he started to begin to call me again and said, 'Look, we're getting closer, and you can start to relax a little bit.' So, that's kinda how my process went."
On Whether Or Not The Money Will Change Him:
"I'm gonna keep being Brandon Roy. I think I'm gonna improve, I know a lot of things I'm gonna work on this offseason and continue to make my mid-range game much better so I don't have to take as many bumps when I get to the basket. My thing is to never play for money or to try to go out there and not get injured, I just try to play as hard as I can to win every game. I just think the longer I've been in this league, I've learned how to take care of my body a little bit more. I know something I'm gonna do this year is hire a personal chef to make sure I'm eating properly throughout the season, and then maybe even to get involved with some yoga or some pilates, just to continue to give myself some kind of edge to go out there and continue to improve."
On What Andre Miller Brings To The Blazers:
"I think the biggest thing he'll bring is leadership to our team. Me, and LaMarcus, and coach Nate of course have tried to do that; even coach Nate would say that you need a player out there to do it. I would go to coach Nate a number of times this season and say, 'You know, coach, there's times during the game I wish there was an older, veteran guy around to help maybe show me the way.' I think that Andre Miller, he's the perfect guy for that. And, not only help me out, I think Greg and LaMarcus will benefit extremely from having a pass first point guard, and a point guard that has an aura about himself. He's a crafty guy, he's been in this league for a number of years, and he's excited about being here, and he's excited about making us better. So, that makes me think that, 'Eh, this guy's gonna help make this team even better than a 54-win team."
Mercury Morris And The '72 Dolphins Can Rest Easy For At Least Another Year
Charles Barkley Never Shies Away From The Truth


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Edmund Burke: Apostle of Justice and Liberty.
The Scottish Enlightenment. An Introduction.
Poems by Allan Ramsey, Selected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by J Logie Robertson.
Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; with Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Mr. Tickell. - Volume 1 and 2 ONLY.
The Life of Robert Burns.
A Time of Sifting. Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century.
Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779 - 1992. The Role of Revivalism and Renewal.
The Myth of the Press Gang. Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century.
Common Wealth, Common Good. The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania.
A Colonial Governor in Maryland 1753 - 1773. Horatio Sharpe and his Times.
Stags and Serpents: Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire.
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How Apps Changed The Leisure Trade
June 4, 2020 October 19, 2019 Jonas
You must take into account Starting an Arcade Business for public entertainment should you take pleasure in entertaining and amusing people! The producer is an entrepreneur who acknowledges how one can spot a valuable product, tips on how to put it collectively into a film and methods to promote it. Since they're in charge of placing the actors together, they must be capable to discover expertise, and talk the artwork and expertise to the individuals concerned in the financing, as well as the production.
Los Angeles and Hollywood, California have had many individuals move there from all around the world if they wish to try to make a residing in the entertainment enterprise. Many of these individuals are subcontracted by numerous corporations, making it tough to establish if they are employed by a production, studio or other "entertainment" associated firm.
The most important success tip for any arcade enterprise beginner would be to promote your gaming parlor in an enormous, big manner. After we're young and filled with ideals, we think about solely the cream on the earth of leisure business jobs and, if we really feel leisure is our calling, goal for performing, directing, or possibly writing roles.
An important thing in running a bar or membership is having experience. The entertainment business is big enterprise. Before buying a bar or night club, investors ought to make themselves conscious of all of the little details that go together with investing on this business.
The Entertainment Trade
Selecting The Right Entertainment Enterprise
Also referred to as a multimedia artist, an animator's job is to assemble visible photographs corresponding to particular effects and animations utilizing computer and electronic media devices.
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An business that has undergone a sea change with the appearance of animation and laptop graphics needs to be leisure. The observers are quick to state that no different area of leisure has tapped the advantages of graphics and animation in a way video games have achieved. The director, producer and main actors are clearly counted as employed by the motion image trade.
When proceeding on loss of wages claims, an lawyer must realize the leisure business is nothing like the normal job market. Go through the leisure business jobs boards as well. Grownup Entertainment many instances is expounded to the sex industry, however this type of entertainment cannot be related solely with the intercourse trade and its branches.
Laptop Graphics And Animations And Entertainment Trade
There are leisure business jobs out there for just about anyone who desires to be an extra in a film. You do not require any kind of formal or skilled training for Beginning an Arcade Enterprise. So as to arrive at an correct damage declare, attorneys should familiarize themselves with the internal workings of the entertainment business and the roles that the varied gamers undertake in getting a movie or tv program made.
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An industry that has undergone a sea change with the appearance of animation and pc graphics has to be leisure. Throughout manufacturing, the producer is accountable for staying inside the price range and spending the cash, with the assistance of the line producer, (the "basic contractor") in one of the best ways possible to accommodate and serve the making of the picture.
Whereas the producer takes a fairly lively function within the manufacturing of a movie, an "Govt Producer" typically takes a more passive one. This kind of connection is heightening the connection between entertainers and the those who watch the reveals, and is just fueling the massive growth that the Android app trade is at present witnessing.
Casinos and entertainment centers are massive companies that involve a number of money circulating. People who work within the leisure business know the value of their profession. These form of entertainment can than be divided into groups based on the age and interest of the folks being entertained.
There are a lot of kinds of entertainment for specific tastes, for instance we've cinema, theatre, sports, games, social dance, concert, comedy reveals, animations, impressionists, clowns and the listing goes on and on. A lot of the work of creating a movie, however, is finished by "under- the-line" employees, akin to individuals who construct sets, design and make costumes, drive vans and carry out the legal work.
The Entertainment Business
Selecting The Right Leisure Enterprise
The observers are quick to state that no different field of entertainment has tapped the advantages of graphics and animation in a method video video games have achieved.
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The leisure business provides a lot of job alternatives that don't obligatory require a school diploma but provide a number of income potential. Aimed for company events, private events, award ceremonies, product launches and it is higher organized by knowledgeable leisure company as most of time these occasions contain hundreds maybe 1000's of individuals and no one higher than the professionals to handle these form of leisure.
In movie, the manager producer is ceaselessly the one that focuses totally on the funding of the undertaking, and is usually times the individual investing within the film or the person representing the financing entity. Some are responsible for the care of slot machines, handling of cash, issuing and operating tickets, dealing of playing cards or running the video games.
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If somebody is trying to spend money on the entertainment enterprise, they need to severely consider buying a bar or night membership. An important factor in working a bar or membership is having expertise. The entertainment trade is big business. Before shopping for a bar or night club, buyers should make themselves conscious of all of the little particulars that go together with investing in this business.
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How Apps Changed The Entertainment Industry
March 5, 2019 October 19, 2019 Jonas
People work so arduous and undergo a whole lot of stress. Just like a real property developer, the producer is responsible for the venture from A to Z. The producer finds the concept, story, script, author, director, financing, distribution, and can be accountable for hiring the actors and the film crew. Additionally referred to as a multimedia artist, an animator's job is to construct visual pictures resembling particular effects and animations using laptop and electronic media gadgets.
The observers are quick to state that no other field of leisure has tapped the benefits of graphics and animation in a means video video games have done. The director, producer and leading actors are clearly counted as employed by the motion picture industry.
Los Angeles and Hollywood, California have had many individuals transfer there from all all over the world if they want to attempt to make a dwelling within the entertainment enterprise. Many of these persons are subcontracted by varied corporations, making it difficult to establish if they are employed by a production, studio or other "entertainment" associated firm.
The largest success tip for any arcade business beginner can be to advertise your gaming parlor in an enormous, massive means. Once we're young and filled with ideals, we contemplate only the cream on this planet of entertainment trade jobs and, if we really feel entertainment is our calling, purpose for acting, directing, or perhaps writing roles.
The Leisure Industry
Choosing The Right Leisure Business
This business also provides numerous job alternatives for the very talented and physically blessed people. The leisure business is large enterprise.
Interested In Entertainment Industry Jobs? Read On!
You need to take into account Beginning an Arcade Enterprise for public entertainment should you get pleasure from entertaining and amusing folks! Aimed for corporate events, personal events, award ceremonies, product launches and it is better organized by knowledgeable leisure company as most of time these occasions contain lots of perhaps 1000's of people and nobody better than the professionals to care for these type of leisure.
Hardly ever is the manager producer concerned in any technical features of the filmmaking course of, but is still a vital part of the overall production of the film. This trade also offers lots of job opportunities for the very gifted and bodily blessed individuals.
Laptop Graphics And Animations And Leisure Business
There are leisure business jobs obtainable for almost anyone who desires to be an extra in a film. While the producer takes a fairly active role in the manufacturing of a film, an "Executive Producer" usually takes a extra passive one. This kind of connection is heightening the relationship between entertainers and the people who watch the reveals, and is simply fueling the massive growth that the Android app industry is at present witnessing.
The producer is an entrepreneur who acknowledges easy methods to spot a useful product, the way to put it collectively into a film and tips on how to market it. Since they're in command of placing … Read More...
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Tashkent - Circus
Like all big cities, Tashkent has its own circus with a history of about 100 years. It dates back to the time when artists from various European countries and Russia performed in Central Asia. At that time, semi-permanent circuses were organised by Shapito in the capital of Uzbekistan and in other cities.
The date of appearance of the real fully functional circus is considered to be 1914, which existed in Tashkent until 1966, in that year there was a terrible earthquake, which completely destroyed the circus.
After 10 years it was rebuilt, the circus was located on Khadra and in 1999 it was completely renovated. The dome of the circus, painted in the colour of the sky, can be seen from far away. The building itself was built according to the traditions of Eastern culture with wood carvings, stained glass windows with interesting patterns and ceramic mosaics.
For a long time, even before the circus was built, artists from different countries toured the park. With the appearance of its own circus, it began to fulfil its main purpose, which was to popularise national circus arts. During its existence, about 20 productions, more than 100 circus acts distinguished by their originality, were performed here.
Jugglers, acrobats and trained animals also performed here. Today, the artists from Uzbekistan tour the world with their programme. They have already performed in 30 countries in Asia and Africa as well as in European countries.
The artists of Circus Tashkent have won prizes at various festivals in the Russian Federation, Germany, China, France and the United Arab Emirates. Every single performance of the circus artists from Tashkent causes a sensation and delights the audience. For this reason, the circus stages are never empty and appreciative spectators applaud the masterpieces of the circus artists at every performance. You can book a hotel in Tashkent on our site in just a few minutes.
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