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Sharp-tailed Grouse
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The Sharp-tailed Grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus, is a medium-sized prairie grouse. Males weigh an average of 33.5 oz. (951 g) and females average 29 oz. (815 g). The Greater Prairie-Chicken, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, and Sharp-tailed Grouse make up the genus Tympanuchus, a genus of grouse found only in North America.
There are six subspecies:
T. p. phasianellus: the nominate race or Northern sharp-tailed grouse is found in Manitoba, northern Ontario, and central Quebec. Partially migratory.
T. p. kennicotti: the Northwestern sharp-tailed grouse, resident from the Mackenzie River to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
T. p. caurus: the Alaska sharp-tailed grouse, north-central Alaska east to the southern Yukon, northern British Columbia, and northern Alberta.
T. p. columbianus: the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse can be found in isolated pockets of native sagebrush and bunchgrass plains of Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and British Columbia.
T. p. campestris: the Prairie sharp-tailed grouse, lives in southeastern Manitoba, southwestern Ontario, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. This subspecies coexists with the Plains race around the northern Red River valley and prefers low seral stages of recently converted forests to shrubland.
T. p. jamesi: the Plains sharp-tailed grouse makes its home in the northern Great Plains in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, eastern Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and northeastern Wyoming. This race lives in the mixed grass prairie preferring a mosaic of native grasslands, cropland, and brushy/woody riparian draws, creeks, and rivers for a winter food source above the snow cover as buds and berries.
Adults have a relatively short tail with the two central (deck) feathers being square-tipped and somewhat longer than their lighter, outer tail feathers giving the bird its distinctive name. The plumage is mottled dark and light browns against a white background, they are lighter on the underparts with a white belly uniformly covered in faint "V"-shaped markings. Adult males have a yellow comb over their eyes and a violet display patch on their neck. The female is smaller than the male and can be distinguished by the regular horizontal markings across the deck feathers as opposed to the irregular markings on the males deck feathers which run parallel to the feather shaft. Females also tend to have less obvious combs.
These birds forage on the ground in summer, in trees in winter. They eat seeds, buds, berries, forbs, and leaves, also insects, especially grasshoppers, in summer.
These birds display in open areas known as leks with other males, anywhere from a single male to upwards of 20 will occupy one lek (averaging 8-12). Males stamp their feet rapidly, about 20 times per second, and rattle their tail feathers while turning in circles or dancing forward. Purple neck sacs are inflated and deflated during display. The females select the most dominant one or two males in the center of the lek, copulate, and then leave to nest and raise the young in solitary from the male. Occasionally a low-rank male may disguise himself as a female and walk to where the dominant male is and fight him.
These birds are declining in numbers and range due to habitat loss.
This is the provincial bird of Saskatchewan.
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As a full-time outdoor writer and TV host, I work out regularly, year-round to stay in shape for all my hunts. My dedication to working out and the benefits from it were realized back in my high school and college football days, and have remained an important part of my life.
Even today, at 48, I still dedicate six days a week to working out, sometimes twice a day. I also eat a balanced diet, for that plays a crucial role in keeping my body in good condition.
Over the past two years I experimented with two different workout approaches, and want to share what I learned…Read the entire article in the summer issue of Western Whitetail Magazine.


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Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop
Jiandong Zhang, Faming Zhang, Douglas Ebert, Melanie H. Cobb, Elizabeth J. Goldsmith
Pharmacology - Cobb Lab
Background: The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, ERK2, is a tightly regulated enzyme in the ubiquitous Ras-activated protein kinase cascade. ERK2 is activated by phosphorylation at two sites, Y185 and T183, that lie in the phosphorylation lip at the mouth of the catalytic site. To ascertain the role of these two residues in securing the low-activity conformation of the enzymes we have carried out crystallographic analyses and assays of phosphorylation-site mutants of ERK2. Results The crystal structures of four mutants, T183E (threonine at residue 183 is replaced by glutamate), Y185E, Y185F and the double mutant T183E/Y185E, were determined. When T183 is replaced by glutamate, few conformational changes are observed. By contrast, when Y185 is replaced by glutamate, 19 residues become disordered, including the entire phosphorylation lip and an adjacent loop. The conservative substitution of phenylalanine for Y185 also induces relatively large conformational changes. A binding site for phosphotyrosine in the active enzyme is putatively identified on the basis of the high-resolution refinement of the structure of wild-type ERK2. Conclusion The remarkable disorder observed throughout the phosphorylation lip when Y185 is mutated shows that the stability of the phosphorylation lip is rather low. Therefore, only modest amounts of binding energy will be required to dislodge the lip for phosphorylation, and it is likely that these residues will be involved in conformational changes associated both with binding to kinases and phosphatases and with activation. Furthermore, the low-activity structure is specifically dependent on Y185, whereas there is no such dependency on T183. Both residues, however, participate in forming the active enzyme, contributing to its tight control.
ras Proteins
Phosphotyrosine
Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases
Catalytic Domain
MAP kinase ERK2
phosphorylation sites
Zhang, J., Zhang, F., Ebert, D., Cobb, M. H., & Goldsmith, E. J. (1995). Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop. Structure, 3(3), 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00160-5
Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop. / Zhang, Jiandong; Zhang, Faming; Ebert, Douglas; Cobb, Melanie H.; Goldsmith, Elizabeth J.
In: Structure, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1995, p. 299-307.
Zhang, J, Zhang, F, Ebert, D, Cobb, MH & Goldsmith, EJ 1995, 'Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop', Structure, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00160-5
Zhang J, Zhang F, Ebert D, Cobb MH, Goldsmith EJ. Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop. Structure. 1995;3(3):299-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00160-5
Zhang, Jiandong ; Zhang, Faming ; Ebert, Douglas ; Cobb, Melanie H. ; Goldsmith, Elizabeth J. / Activity of the MAP kinase ERK2 is controlled by a flexible surface loop. In: Structure. 1995 ; Vol. 3, No. 3. pp. 299-307.
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Q: Need to get time 1 hour ago with 0 minutes and seconds in in RFC-3339 format I need to get time 1 hour ago with 0 minutes and seconds in RFC-3339 format
so
2020-11-09T16:05:30-05:00

would be
2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00

A: tl;dr
OffsetDateTime
.parse( "2020-11-09T16:05:30-05:00" )
.truncatedTo( ChronoUnit.HOURS )
.toString()

ISO 8601
By the way, RFC 3339 is really just a self-declared "profile" of the ISO 8601 standard. RFC 3339 makes some poor decisions where it departs from ISO 8601, so I suggest sticking with ISO 8601.
OffsetDateTime
Parse your input as an OffsetDateTime.
Your input complies with the standard ISO 8601 formats used by default in java.time for parsing date-time strings. So no need to specify a formatting pattern.
OffsetDateTime odt = OffsetDateTime.parse( "2020-11-09T16:05:30-05:00" ) ;

Truncate
Clear the smaller parts by truncating to a larger part. Truncating to hours will lop off any minutes, seconds, and fractional second (nanoseconds), leaving zero values in their place.
OffsetDateTime truncated = odt.truncatedTo( ChronoUnit.HOURS ) ;  // Zero-out minutes, seconds, and nanoseconds.

A: Using ZonedDateTime, you will need to reset the minutes and seconds, then use the formatter:
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = ZonedDateTime.now();
ZonedDateTime newTime = zonedDateTime.withMinute(0)
         .withSecond(0)
         .withNano(0);

System.out.println(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX").format(newTime)); // RFC 3339

Output:
2021-04-27T09:00:00+03:00

A: One hour ago in a specific time zone
    ZoneId zone = ZoneId.of("America/Panama");
    String oneHourAgoInRfc3339 = ZonedDateTime.now(zone)     // Now in Panama
            .minusHours(1)                                   // 1 hour ago
            .truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.HOURS)                   // Without minutes, seconds
            .format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME); // RFC-3339
    System.out.println(oneHourAgoInRfc3339);

Output when I ran the code just now:

2021-04-26T21:00:00-05:00

If you want the offset for your own time zone, set zone to ZoneId.systemDefault().
Basil Bourque is basically correct that for your output with an offset, -05:00, and no time zone like America/Lima, you just need an OffsetDateTime. So why am I using ZonedDateTime? This is just to take the corner case of a summer time transition (DST transition) into account. By subtracting one hour from a ZonedDateTime I get the offset that was valid in the specified time zone 1 hour ago, not the offset that is valid now.
DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME produces ISO 8601 format (hence ISO in the name). RFC-3339 is a simplified ISO 8601. In our case the two agree: the output you get with the formatter does fall within RFC-3339 too, so is fine for your purpose.

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First days of classes for Harvard Law School was starting getting Olivia prepared. One more night before the class started and she would be working her second job until 2 am. She had a nine o'clock class, then another at noon, then at four, then off to her first job at the law firm, then finally her diner shift. It had been this way for four years for Olivia. Since she left high school four years ago, leaving in the middle of the night from Cyrus and James's house to pack her things and be gone. Olivia had never gone back since then. Cyrus and James would fly out to see her on the major holidays and she appreciated that. Her breakup with Fitz was one sided but mandatory for the situation. "You cannot be a mistress" Liv reminded herself every time she would think of him. Several times she wanted to go back and make everything right but it would never matter because he was happy with his wife and son and whatever other children they had.
Olivia hadn't dated anyone since him. She felt too heartbroken to get invested in anything like that again, though she would never admit it.
"Good afternoon, Henry, getting home early to Maria and the kids tonight?" she asked her boss. Henry was the biggest lawyer in most of Massachusetts and she managed to get the job as his head paralegal assistant, his right hand woman, the first month she moved to Cambridge.
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Henry rushed out of his office heading home for the night. Olivia started to read the intake interviews as she sat in his chair. There had to be at least two hundred that she had to read front to back and then decide on. It wasn't a simple job but it was one she was going to take on.
When the clock turned to 7 pm, she went to her office and changed for her next job, leaving Henry the pile of clients she already decided yes on.
The diner was an easy shift for the night, mostly a few tourists. Usually, the place was jammed with Harvard students getting coffee and Wi-Fi. But since it was the last night before classes started they were all at the fraternity parties.


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Deep Brain Stimulation brings new life to patients with movement disorders
Written by Rebecca Budde | Photographs by James Hawker
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Diagnosed with essential tremor at age 10, Don Klinker of Decatur has always had a hard time with daily tasks that most people do without thinking. "I love to play golf," says the 73-year-old father of four and grandfather of five. "But by the time I could take my hand off the ball, I'd knock it off the tee." So his friends would tee up for him. And drinking coffee or signing checks? Forget it. He gave up coffee and had a name stamp made. Sometimes his wife or friends would do the writing for him.
But in February 2011, Klinker underwent an innovative surgery called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) that he says has been "life-changing." So life-changing that he had his second DBS surgery the following April. DBS offers hope for those like Klinker who suffer from movement disorders such as essential tremor and Parkinson's disease. SIU School of Medicine's Jeffrey Cozzens, M.D., professor and chair of neurosurgery, is the only surgeon offering it to patients in central and southern Illinois.
"Now I tee up the ball for a couple of the guys instead of them teeing up for me," says Klinker, who estimates his symptoms have improved more than 90 percent since his DBS surgeries.
DBS is a stereotactic surgery that has been proven to significantly reduce the tremors and other symptoms for those who suffer from movement disorders. The surgery involves drilling a hole slightly smaller than a nickel into the skull. Electrodes attached to fine wires are inserted in the brain, usually in the subthalamic nucleus or ventrolateral thalamus, depending on the symptoms being treated. These wires are attached to a small stimulator, which controls the electrical impulses to the brain that help reduce the tremors.
DBS usually requires operations on both sides of the brain; however, the surgery is performed one side at a time with an approximate 6-week wait time in between. Since symptoms are not always symmetrical, Dr. Cozzens says that some patients see so much improvement with surgery on one side that it's not necessary to operate on the other.
Deep Brain Stimulation was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1997 for essential tremor and in 2002 for Parkinson's disease. Studies since then show that the positive effects of the surgery are long-lasting. Diagnosed patients whose symptoms are not controlled well enough by the medication can be candidates for the surgery. However, not everyone with these conditions is eligible for DBS.
Dr. Cozzens has performed more than 350 DBS surgeries, most recently at St. John's Hospital. He brought his skills with this innovative surgery to Springfield when he joined the School in February 2010. Though similar surgeries are being performed in the St. Louis and Chicago areas, "the only place that would have more experience is Cleveland Clinic or San Francisco," claims Dr. Cozzens. Having this procedure available in Springfield means that patients don't have to travel far to receive its life-changing benefits.
For more than 30 years, Dr. Cozzens has studied diseases of the brain and spine and has a special affinity for DBS. "These are the happiest patients I have. They're thrilled to get their lives back," Dr. Cozzens says. "They're able to do things that they couldn't do before."
Dr. Cozzens isn't alone in helping these patients improve their quality of life. He and the School's neurology team work together to provide the best possible results for the patient. "Very few conditions can be dealt with by one physician," says Rodger Elble, M.D., professor and chair of the neurology department and director of the neurology residency program. "Many diseases take a team effort because they are multifaceted. This is especially true with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease." Dr. Elble has assisted in all but one of Dr. Cozzens's Springfield DBS surgeries.
For Dr. Cozzens, Tuesday mornings often begin in the operating room listening to the sounds of Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt coming from the small Bose speaker where he has docked his iPhone. He cracks some jokes and makes some small talk to lighten the mood as he begins to prepare the patient's head for DBS surgery. Less than an hour later, the sound of jazz is replaced by quiet anticipation. Dr. Cozzens breaks the silence with, "We're in."
Under local anesthesia, the patient is conscious for most of the 7-hour procedure. This allows the team to interact with the patient so that they can determine the effectiveness of the electrode placement by monitoring the patient's tremor and any side effects. Dr. Elble and Yen-Yi Peng, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, monitor the neural activity from the electrode that Dr Cozzens inserts into the brain. Dr. Elble examines the patient for improvement and side effects when the electrode is used to stimulate the brain.
Thomas Fearday of Teutopolis, 61, vividly recalls the procedure. Fearday had DBS on both sides of his brain — the first side in October of 2010 and then the other side in December 2010. He remembers Dr. Elble constantly moving his left arm and shoulder. "He could feel it loosen up when they got the electrode in the right place in my brain," he says. "I heard static as they fine-tuned it to the right spot." That static he refers to is the sound Dr. Cozzens calls "raindrops on a tent."
Dr. Elble's manipulation of the limbs ensures that the electrodes stimulate only the neurons that affect the patient's symptoms. "It's really important that we're in the best possible spot, or it'll be less effective when we stimulate, and more likely to produce side effects," says Dr. Elble. The team works carefully to find the location that will have the most positive results.
Once the doctors find the precise location and the electrodes are placed, the patient is put under general anesthesia. A small stimulator pulse generator, much like a pacemaker, is then connected and placed in a pouch of skin just below the collarbone. The connecting cable is threaded to an area behind the ear where an incision has been made and then attached to the electrode emerging from the brain.
Though patients are understandably nervous about having brain surgery, they look forward to the results. "I was pretty shook up the night before the first surgery," admits Fearday. But the second surgery two months later was much easier. "I was calmer. I knew what to expect."
The risks of DBS — stroke, brain damage or infection — are rare; and according to Dr. Cozzens, even those who get an infection often want to have the surgery again. The results are that significant. "[DBS] can make them so much better and the results are so much better than using only medication," says Dr. Cozzens.
A few weeks later at the post-surgery appointment, the neurologist adjusts the patient's medications and stimulator to provide the best possible results for that person's symptoms. "It's exciting to see," Dr. Elble says of the results of the surgery. "In the O.R. you can tell if you're producing a beneficial effect, but you don't really know the magnitude of the effect until you see the patient in the outpatient clinic and adjust the device."
Fearday says that most of his progress came in the first two weeks after the surgery, but looking back over the year, he and his wife agree that his quality of life has improved tremendously. They are amazed at all that he can do now that he couldn't before the surgery — drive a car and "even going to church on Sundays was getting to be really hard," his wife notes.
"Now, I can go to family functions and not have to leave early. I don't worry about freezing up when I go somewhere, and I can spend quality time with the kids and grandkids," he says.
Dr. Cozzens's youngest DBS patient was a man in his 40s. His tremors were so severe that he'd have a glass of water spilled by the time he got it up to his mouth. According to Dr. Cozzens, he couldn't feed himself; he was losing weight and was unable to do many other daily activities on his own. "He was just devastated," says Dr. Cozzens. "After the surgery, he was so much better, that he was out playing hockey!"
Fearday and Klinker aren't rarities among DBS patients. According to Dr. Cozzens, approximately 80-90 percent of DBS patients notice some improvement in their symptoms, and about 70-80 percent notice great improvement. Some of the improvement is noticed quickly, while other improvements can be gradual. Fine-tuning the dosage of medication and the impulses of the stimulator can take some time.
The physicians caution that DBS does not cure Parkinson disease. "If you stop the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, people do pretty well," says Dr. Cozzens. "But the disease can still progress."
Investigations are ongoing for DBS in the treatment of depression, epilepsy, eating disorders, cluster headaches, chronic and phantom limb pain, Tourette syndrome, post-traumatic coma, memory disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Cozzens is hoping for FDA approval to participate in a study that uses Deep Brain Stimulation for the treatment of morbid obesity. "Procedures for morbid obesity just try to fool the brain into saying, 'don't eat anymore.' But if you can tell the brain directly not to eat anymore, that's like the "holy grail" of deep brain stimulation surgery."
With so many advances in neuroscience, Dr. Cozzens and Dr. Elble share a common goal for the future – a neuroscience institute. "I think we're very close," says Dr. Elble. "We've got a good team of neurosurgeons who do a variety of procedures that dovetail quite nicely with the interests in the neurology department." Dr. Cozzens agrees that a neuroscience institute, which would include a neurosurgery residency program, is a priority. "We don't want people to be forced to go to Chicago or St. Louis to get good neurological care," he says. "We want to make Springfield a medical destination for neurological care."
Fearday knows that coming to SIU to have his surgeries was the right decision. "Dr. Cozzens asked me if I could think of any reason not to have the surgery," says Fearday. "I couldn't, so I told him I would do it. I would never go back and NOT have it done. It's been such a big change for me." And to Fearday's wife, it's been "like a miracle."
Don Klinker also knows about big changes. After nearly 62 years of living with tremors, he finally can do everyday tasks that most people take for granted. "After the surgery, when I was back in my room, they brought me some food," says Klinker. "I took the soup in the spoon and held it there — still — and looked at it ... and I cried."


Choe Ryong Hae, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a consolatory message to Maithripala Sirisena, president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on Monday over many casualties caused by terrorist attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Offering deep sympathy and condolences to the president and victims and their bereaved families, the message said it is the consistent principled stand of the government of the DPRK to oppose all forms of terrorism.
It hoped the president and government of Sri Lanka would do away with the aftermath of the incident as early as possible and maintain social stability.
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), received a message of greetings from Jeronimo Osa Osa Ecoro, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (DPEG), on April 12.
The general secretary in his message said that all the members and supporters of the DPEG extended the warmest greetings to Kim Jong Un and, through him, to the WPK and all the Korean people on behalf of Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, founder-chairman of the DPEG, on the occasion of the 107th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
He sincerely wished Kim Jong Un happiness in good health and splendid celebration of the anniversary.
Choe Ryong Hae, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message of sympathy to Felix Antoine Tshilombo Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 19 over a capsize that caused huge casualties in DR Congo.
Expressing deep sympathy and condolences to the president and victims and their bereaved families, the message wished the government and people of DR Congo success in their work of eradicating the aftermath of the accident as early as possible.
A delegation of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade headed by Secretary of State D. Davaasuren left here for home on Friday.
A delegation of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade headed by Secretary of State D. Davaasuren visited the Tower of the Juche Idea on Friday.
Being briefed on the grand monument telling about the ideological and theoretical exploits of President Kim Il Sung, they made rounds of the body of the tower and groups of sculptures.
They went up to the observation deck of the tower to have a bird's-eye view of Pyongyang City.


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Airwindows: Clean Guitar DI, Dirty Guitar DI | Tape Op Magazine | Longform candid interviews with music producers and audio engineers covering mixing, mastering, recording and music production.
Every town of any size has at least one guitar tech guy slaving away in a garage and making cool stuff. Amps or pedals - creating, tweaking, figuring out how things work. I saw one guy build stomp boxes from old tuna cans. There are some bizarre things out there that sound great and are far off the beaten path. Two such products are from Chris Johnson of Wilmington, Vermont. He has built a couple of guitar DIs that add their own tone to the signal - sort of like a SansAmp or POD. He was kind enough to let me try out both the Clean and Dirty versions. Physically, they are nearly identical: Black plastic boxes, roughly the size of a garage-door opener, with an input jack, an output jack, and a 9V battery compartment. That's it. No knobs, lights, buttons or controls. Think minimalism. The Clean DI I liked a lot. It had just a bit of grain, or drive, but not too much. I tracked a bunch of rhythm parts with it and they sat very well with the rest of the instruments. My favorite use was on a "tack guitar" part that doubled the bassline in some country swing stuff. Tonally, it was perfect. It was also pretty cool with a steel guitar. The Dirty DI I found a bit too heavy in the fuzz/grind dept. I'm sure it'll be useful in some situations, just not the ones I've been doing lately. These boxes do not follow the "one box does everything" premise. Instead, each box aims to do one thing and do that one thing well. The only way to modify tone is by changing the volume/tone on the guitar (or duh, by trying a different axe). Pretty cool stuff. At this writing, only the Clean and Dirty models were available - a Bass DI was in the works. $100 each.


It's Christmas Eve. I hurried to my friend's home along the busy snowy streets for celebration. When I entered the home with gifts, no one is there. When I tried to open the door, it has jammed. There's something scary about the air inside the room. I have to escape before something happens terribly.


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[EXCLUSIVE] Melanie Fiona Gives Children Hope During Her First Appearance as Hyundai Hope Ambassador
by Gary Gentles April 6, 2015
Melanie Fiona made her debut appearance as a Hyundai Hope On Wheels Celebrity Hope Ambassador during the 2015 national grant program announcement at the Jacob Javits Center last week.
"Hyundai actually reached out to us. I've done a lot of work with cancer, women's organization; I've lended my time and my talents to many different organizations. I guess they had known that I wanted to get further into philanthropy," Fiona told Singersroom on how her partnership with Hyundai started. "This particular program is for pediatric cancer, which is something I haven't done, but I'm very passionate about any research or support any awareness for cancer research. When they approached me and asked me to be the Ambassador of Hope, I was absolutely honored and definitely on board because it's for children… They are like the little lights of the world, and I feel like they deserve to have the awareness and the concern of as many people as possible. A child should never have to think about cancer or mortality or living or dying. They deserve that hope."
Fiona, who performed several songs during the heartfelt event, also received an award for her dedication and commitment to the great cause.
Popular TV host, Rosci Diaz, who was also tapped to be Hope Ambassador, also received an honorary award for her services. She also hosted the event.
As Ambassadors, Fiona and Diaz will get involved in multiple activities on various platforms to bring awareness to pediatric cancer, including meeting with pediatric cancer survivors in the New York City area.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels is committed to finding a cure for childhood cancer. Launched in 1998, Hyundai Hope On Wheels provides grants to eligible institutions nationwide that are pursuing life-saving research and innovative treatments for the disease. Primary funding for Hyundai Hope On Wheels comes from Hyundai Motor America and its more than 800 U.S. dealers. At the end of its 17th year, Hyundai Hope On Wheels will have awarded more than $100 million towards childhood cancer research in pursuit of a cure.
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John "Tull" Dunne (26 December 1911 – 12 May 1990) was an Irish Gaelic football coach, player, referee and Gaelic games administrator. His football championship career at senior level with the Galway county team lasted ten seasons from 1932 until 1941.

Born in Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Dunne was the second child and eldest son born to William and Katie Dunne (née Donelan). The son of a carpenter, he was educated locally before finding employment in the local post office.

Dunne first played competitive Gaelic football with the St Grellan's club. He first played for the senior team at the age of seventeen, winning a county senior championship medal in his debut season in 1929. Dunne won three more county senior championship medals.

Dunne made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Galway junior team. He enjoyed one championship season with the junior team, culminating with the winning of an All-Ireland medal. He subsequently joined the Galway senior team and made his debut during the 1932 championship. Over the course of the next decade Dunne won All-Ireland medals in 1934 and as captain of the team in 1938. He also won five Connacht medals and one National Football League medal.

After being selected for the Connacht inter-provincial team for the first time in 1934, Dunne was a regular choice on the starting fifteen for the rest of the decade. During that time he won three Railway Cup medals.

Even as a player, Dunne became heavily involved in the administration of the game. He was appointed secretary of the Galway Football Board in 1938, a position he held until 1981. He also served on the Connacht Council and was Galway's Central Council delegate from 1971 until 1988. Dunne also refereed the 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final between Cork and Cavan.

Dunne also had a three-decades-long tenure as coach to the Galway minor, under-21, junior and senior teams. During that time he guided the Galway minors to All-Ireland MFC titles in 1952, 1960, and 1970 and the juniors to All-Ireland success in 1958. As coach and selector with the Galway seniors, Dunne guided the team to All-Ireland SFC victories in 1956 and, most notably, the three-in-a-row winning side of 1964–1966, of which his son Cyril was a member. He was still on the sideline when Galway lost three All-Ireland SFCs in four years in the early 1970s.

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While it's often said that black cars require more maintenance and can prove problematic in the summer time, there is no denying the striking appearance of a well-maintained black car. One way to give your car that sleek appearance or to give an already black car a completely blacked out look is chrome delete. Chrome delete is a service that allows you to completely black out everything from the badges and grill to the window trims throughout the vehicle. The result is a uniformed look that is personalized to your preference while maintaining the overall performance and design of your car.
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Q: which video players do not require file format conversion? I want to use a video player using html 5 and flash. Now the video player will be displayed on  online exams and teachers will simply upload video files. I have basic extension validation where the teacher has to choose either .mp4, .ogg, .wav or .flv..
Now I want the video player to work on all major browsers and I do not want users to mess about converting formats. I want a video player which works for the above formats stright away on all browsers without any problems or conversions needed.
Could somebody recommend a video player which can do this? I tried to use jwplayer but realised after uploading an .mp4 file that it would not display the video until I convert the video. I don't want teachers or students who have no knowledge or no access rights to be able to do this so that is why I want a different video player which just works straight away with ease.

A: Check out video.js or mediaelement.
With mediaelement you get an ok coverage of browsers with a single format (via Flash/Silverlight fallbacks), but you can get a wide range of browsers (just oldIE needs flash) playing video natively with both h264 and webm versions of your content. See the chart on the mediaelement homepage for the breakdown.
Ideally you'd take the user's upload and convert it to the necessary formats for them.

A: Unfortunately not all major browsers support all formats.. it's beyond the developer of the players.
The best solution would be to have a server side video converter that converts uploaded videos to 3 formats and displays the links in an html5 video player like projekktor.


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Q: How to use the audio module (SFML-Linux ) I am currently making a video game for school under Arch-linux (Manjaro) with SFML 2.5.1.
But I have an audio problem with the SFML.
I would like to integrate background music into my game in .ogg format (for more compatibility), but when I create an sf :: Music object or load this one, I get the message: "Failed to open the audio device ".
I am attaching screens of my configuration to this message for more details.
I use minimal code to reduce external problems.
If anyone has an idea, that would help me a lot.
Thanks.
Code :
#include <iostream>
#include <SFML/Audio.hpp>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    sf::Music music;

    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "My window");
    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        sf::Event event;
        while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear(sf::Color::Black);
        window.display();
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

I don't have an error message, just the message in the debug console and this message in my build log:

-------------- Build: Debug in Test (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------
Target is up to date.
Nothing to be done (all items are up-to-date).

-------------- Run: Debug in Test (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------
Checking for existence: /home/damien/Bureau/dev_jv/Test/bin/Debug/Test
Set variable: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/home/damien/Bureau/dev_jv/Test/lib/SFML-2.5.1/lib:
Executing: termite -t Test -e " /app/bin/cb_console_runner LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:.:/home/damien/Bureau/dev_jv/Test/lib/SFML-2.5.1/lib /home/damien/Bureau/dev_jv/Test/bin/Debug/Test  (in /home/damien/Bureau/dev_jv/Test/.)

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