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Introducing our new 2 for 4K offering.
Simple DCP is proud to offer complementary 2K packaging for 4K DCPs! When you purchase a 4K DCP conversion, we will create a 2K copy of the DCP free of charge giving you ideal flexibility and control over your film's exhibition.
But wait, why?
One of the more common questions we get at the lab is whether it is worth it to create a 2K or 4K version of a DCP when starting from a 4K source master. The answer is . . . it depends. There's nothing quite like First, we need to understand a bit about the technology.
2K vs. 4K
Image Encoding
The specifications for digital cinema packaging were developed long before powerful Graphic Processing Units became available let alone affordable. Many of the functions that GPUs handle effortlessly today were, and still are, monumental tasks for floating point processors. To eliminate bottlenecks in the decoding process, engineers chose JPEG2000 to form the backbone of the DCI spec. Apart from being an extremely high fidelity, open source codec, JPEG2000 was purpose-built for maximum flexibility in decoding. This is in part because JPEG2000 uses a technique called progressive decoding to reorder the information in the codestream to allow for optimal decompression both at the pixel accuracy level and resolution level.
Example of progressive decoding across multiple levels of resolution
Simply put, your JPEG2000 application can stop reading and decoding a file once it has enough information to effectively render that content per your input specifications. Let's assume you're watching a DCP which encodes colors at 12-bit color accuracy, on a monitor with 10-bit color accuracy. Rather than render out a lot of color information you don't need, your player can bypass that data and free up resources for smoother playback. The same holds true for image resolution. If you start with a 4K image and play back that image 2K, the player simply discards that extra data and renders a 2K image with zero additional overhead!
These innovations allow 2K and 4K digital cinema to be completely interoperable. 2K DCPs can play back on 4K projectors and 4K DCPs can play back on 2K projectors.
The trade off comes when taking bitrate into consideration. DCPs, whether 4K or 2K, must be encoded at a maximum bitrate of 250Mbps for DCI compliance. As anyone uploading videos to YouTube will confirm, larger images require higher bitrates to maintain the same quality. To play back a 4K DCP on a 2K projector requires discarding a layer of resolution. This is akin to removing that data entirely from the rendered image and effectively reduces the maximum possible bitrate from your final 2K projected image. Strictly speaking, you'd be better off encoding the file natively at 2K.
The good news is that the average viewer (and many professionals) really cannot tell the difference. JPEG2000 is a wavelet codec, which means that you won't see a lot of the standard compression artifacts you get with codecs like H.264. At most you'll see blurring around edges and a general loss of detail. That may not be great news if you shot on 35mm and were REALLY aiming for that high contrast, fine grainy detail, but the effects are otherwise indeterminable.
If there's anything that a 4K DCP does better than a 2K DCP, it's take up space on a hard drive. The maximum bitrate for a DCP allows for data rates to reach up to 2GB/min of run time. It's not uncommon for feature length 4K DCPs to exceed 200GB in size. This presents major logistical concerns for yourself and your exhibitor alike. The larger your file is, the larger the likelihood that something may go wrong in transit. Even if it gets to the theater on time and in one piece, ingest time and storage space will be the prescient consideration for your projectionist. The show must go on, even if it means co-opting the experience by playing off of a Blu-Ray.
Rest assured, your film will look fabulous in 2K and 4K. When in doubt, come prepared. At the end of the day, your audience will remember the story you tell and not the number of pixels.
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John Robshaw is a New York textile designer who after visiting India got the "Asian bug." Ronshaw spent years learning the local artisans' fabric-making traditions. India, Thailand, Indonesia and to a lesser extent the Philippines are the countries where he found inspiration. Mixing a variety of techniques and traditions he created his own style and developed a line of block printed linens and a bedding collection that are mostly produced by Indian workshops.


In the last year I've realized that I'm legitimately happy.
That sentence alone might seem crazy because I don't think I've ever been in a deep depression or unhappy with life (although I still wish a few things would have gone differently), but I am really happy, have a great outlook on life and feel different. I tried to pinpoint this happiness on something and came up with some great options — being financially independent, having a great boyfriend, a loving and adorable kitty, an awesome job, close friends, great relationships with my family — but none of those actually answered it. However, after thinking about this several nights I realized it came down to one thing: kindness.
I made a mental decision to simply be nice, and my life has changed for the better.
I can't remember when or why, but I do remember thinking about trying the whole "be nice to everyone" thing out (Disclaimer: I would like to think I was never mean in my life, but like most children, teenagers and girls, I'm sure I have been very selfish and, unfortunately, mean in my life). This meant making small chat, not rolling my eyes, listening, having (lots of) patience, being optimistic and actually caring about people. Trust me, it was harder than I thought, and I haven't been an angel (sorry to my apartment complex about the attitude with the mold ordeal), but my outlook on life has changed. I'm not as negative as I was, I truly do care about the baggers at Publix, and how the intern on my team's weekend was and basically I have a new appreciation for the relationships in my life.
Recently I read this article about the 12 things happy people do and it made me want to talk about my new-ish found happiness. So, my challenge to you for the week is to be nice, especially when you don't want to be, and see where that leads you! Oh, and drink some water — it's good for you too!
This post makes me happy. I'm happy you are happy. And I love your kindness inspired attitude.


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News14 May 2014
A new wave of talent for a new two-mile distance in Eugene – IAAF Diamond League
Mercy Cherono wins the 3000m at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco (© Gladys Chai van der Laage)
A new wave of the world's best distance runners seeks to run the fastest women's two miles ever on US soil at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on 30-31 May. Most are young, and all will be the first women to race an American classic distance at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field.
The two-mile field is led by several distance-rich countries – especially Kenya and Ethiopia – whose athletes could possibly better the US all-comers' record of 9:10.47, set by Ethiopia's Meseret Defar in 2007. Given the right conditions, the field could even challenge the world best of 8:58.58 set by Defar later that same year.
Mercy Cherono is a new-wave runner. The 23-year-old Kenyan earned silver last year in the 5000m at the IAAF World Championships, but is no stranger to winning gold, having won one world youth and two world junior 3000m titles on the track, as well as a world junior cross-country title.
Last week she set a 3000m PB of 8:21.14 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha, moving to sixth on the world all-time list and becoming the second-fastest African of all time. In that race she finished half a second behind Hellen Obiri, who broke the African record and will run the 1500m in Eugene.
Distance fans won't overlook two-time world 1500m champion Maryam Jamal of Bahrain. The Olympic bronze medallist is now 29, but is still a strong contender and took bronze in the 3000m at the recent IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana, only 22, is already a world bronze medallist, from the 5000m in Moscow last year. The world junior steeplechase record-holder smashed her 3000m flat PB in Doha last weekend with 8:24.58, just 0.07 shy of the Ethiopian record.
One of the race favourites lives and trains in Eugene. Sally Kipyego won silver medals at the London Olympics and 2011 World Championships in the 10,000m, but she also knows how to step on the pedal in shorter distances, finishing second in the 3000m in Eugene two years ago with a PB of 8:35.89.
More than a decade ago, Viola Kibiwot won three global junior titles – two in cross-country and one on the track – but the Kenyan continues to go from strength to strength. Last year she finished fourth in the 5000m at the World Championships and in Doha last week she smashed her 3000m PB with 8:24.41. She also has the fastest two-mile PB of the field with 9:18.26.
Another global medallist, Belaynesh Oljira, is also in the field. The Ethiopian took bronze in the 10,000m at last year's World Championships, but will step down in distance in Eugene.
European under-23 cross-country champion Sifan Hassan is still only 21 but has recorded impressive PBs across a range of distances. She could even challenge the European two-mile best of 9:19.56 set by Sonia O'Sullivan in 1998.
Other athletes in the field include 2010 Asian Games champion Mimi Belete, world junior 5000m champion Buze Diriba, African 1500m bronze medallist Margaret Muriuki, 2009 NCAA 1500m champion Susan Kuijken, six-time Polish champion Renata Plis, double Asian champion Bethlhem Desalgen and 2011 NCAA indoor champion Jordan Hasay.
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In response to excuses that adding local food to the menu in restaurants or institutions would be too expensive, American local food group SCALE developed a 'Local food cost calculator'.
The calculator can be used as a budgeting tool or as an educational tool showing that adding local ingredients doesn't make a substantial difference to the cost of the final meal.
The calculators one for restaurants and another for institutional food service such as college dining halls, are both available for download from SCALE's website.


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using DevOffice.Common.ViewModels;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceModel.Syndication;
using System.Xml;

namespace DevOffice.Common.Services
{
    public class RSSDataService : IRssDataService
    {
        public List<Article> GetRssFeed(string rssUrl, int numberOfItems = 3)
        {
            //RSS feed failing intermitently

            var retries = 1;

            while (retries-- > 0)
            {
                try
                {
                    return getRssFeed(rssUrl, numberOfItems);
                }
                catch (Exception ex) { }
            }

            return null;
        }

        private List<Article> getRssFeed(string rssUrl, int numberOfItems)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(rssUrl))
            {
                return null;
            }

            var articles = new List<Article>();
            var reader = XmlReader.Create(rssUrl);
            var feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(reader);

            reader.Close();

            if (feed == null)
            {
                return null;
            }

            for (var i = 0; i < numberOfItems; i++)
            {
                var item = feed.Items.ElementAt(i);
                var url = new Uri(item.Id);
                var baseUrl = (item.BaseUri != null && item.BaseUri.Host != "") ? item.BaseUri.Host : url.Host;

                articles.Add(new Article()
                {
                    Title = item.Title.Text,
                    SubText = item.Summary.Text,
                    Url = item.Id,
                    BaseUrl = "http://" + baseUrl
                });
            }

            return articles;
        }
    }
}

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Situated in a quiet street only a few minutes walk from Ballater town centre, this newly built holiday cottage is a wonderful base from which to enjoy Royal Deeside. Traditional in style the house fits perfectly in its surroundings whilst the interior is modern and bright, where every thought has been given to ensure a comfortable and easy stay. A spacious sunny kitchen diner is a wonderful hub for this house with a well designed and equipped kitchen area and large dining table together with French doors to an enclosed patio area with garden furniture. A comfortable sitting room and four stylish bedrooms, one of which is en-suite, makes this the perfect family holiday home.


PS: Akihiro San,I'm sorry, but this time I disagree a little bit with the Monday's Riddle... don't you think it is possible to dream while beeing awake?
Hello Akihiro San! Good evening from Europe!
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When you think of Revolution Beauty - (previously Makeup Revolution) you think of just makeup right? In the past year they've been on this mission to branch out to every aspect of beauty and they've just launched their skincare range which has intrigued me greatly.
If you've noticed in the past few months I'd say, I've gotten more and more into skincare and I've found a new love for serums - they're just so much nicer to my skin than moisturisers and to be honest, the pippet makes me feel all fancy too! Out of the skincare range, I decided to go for the 'Fine Line Correcting Serum' which has 0.2% retinol in it which is a form of Vitamin A, this helps the skins natural cell turnover and in turn will soften the appearance of fine lines and the skincare world is going crazy for retinol at the moment. You just have to be mindful to use SPF the next day and after applying this as it makes your skin slightly more reactive to the sun's rays.
This serum has become a regular nighttime feature in my routine since I recently ran out of my Vitamin C serum and I've been loving it, I wake up with super soft skin every day! For £6 you just can't go wrong and you can buy it here or from your local Superdrug.


The FCRT began on 16th November 1976 as "Project Fortune". It was founded by a small group of people led by Jenny Baillie (1933-2014) and Yvonne Nelson (1925-2015). "Fortune" was the name of a 12.2 hh grey pony belonging to the Baillie family, who first worked at a course for PHAB (Physically Handicapped Able Bodied) in 1964 and subsequently in the formative years of the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA).
The therapeutic value of riding for people with disabilities was well known to the Greeks as early as the 5th Century B.C. Historians quote Hippocrates as saying, "Riding in clean air strengthens body muscles and keeps them in good form". In the first half of the 20th century Lis Hartel, an accomplished Danish horsewoman, was determined to ride independently again after polio left her unable to walk without the aid of crutches. Subsequently she brought attention to riding for people with disabilities when she won the silver medal for Dressage at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
In more recent times the value of horses for people – both riding and caring for horses – has become widely recognised throughout the world. Horses are known to make a valuable contribution in the fields of both mental and physical health and as an alternative seat of learning in education. The FCRT has played a large part in the growing recognition of the role of horses in education. At the FCRT the focus is on the way in which naturally occurring learning opportunities, in an environment that prospers learning, can be of use to people.


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Q: Angular 11 : multiple fields form in stepper So I'm using angular 11 and struggling to get the following behavior : A stepper, with two inputs in a single steps, that are a datepicker and a select (a dropdown menu). Then I want the stepControl to validate that both fields have been filled, and be able to retrieve their values.
In my example I have many steps, but here is the one that give me troubles.
HTML :
<mat-vertical-stepper>

   <mat-step state="date" [stepControl]="fourthFormGroup">
       <form [formGroup]="fourthFormGroup">
         <mat-form-field>
           <ng-template matStepLabel>Placeholder Text Date</ng-template>
           <input matInput [min]="minDate" [matDatepicker]="picker" [formControl]="date">
           <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="picker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
           <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
         </mat-form-field>

         <mat-form-field>
           <mat-label>Placeholder Text Hour</mat-label>
            <mat-select [formControl]="hours" required>
             <mat-option *ngFor="let j of hours" [value]="j[0]">
               {{j[1]}}
             </mat-option>
           </mat-select>
         </mat-form-field>
       </form>

         <button mat-button matStepperPrevious>Back</button>
         <button mat-button (click)="searchNow()">Search</button>

     </mat-step>

</mat-vertical-stepper>

TS declaration :
public fourthFormGroup: FormGroup;

TS in ngOnInit :
this.fourthFormGroup = this._formBuilder.group({
  date: new FormControl(new Date()),
  hours: new FormControl('', Validators.required)
});

Why it doesn't work :
I am unable to retrieve the values from this form. Also, validating the form with empty fields generate backend error but is not prevented by the frontend-component as you would expect it (to light up in the red and say the field is required).
Many thanks for your help !
Kev'.

A: The Problem you are facing is that you are mixing the directives. You are binding a [FormControl] to undefined values e.g [formControl]='date' will definitely not work.
Change [formControl]='date' to formControlName='date' and formControl="hours" to formControlName="hours"
See this demo
NB
I believe a better approach would simply to have one formGroup for all your inputs
  myForm = this.formBuilder.group({
    thirdFormControl: ['', [Validators.required]],
    date: [new Date(), [Validators.required]],
    hours: ["", [Validators.required]]
  })

And amend your html
<form [formGroup]='myForm'>
    <mat-vertical-stepper [linear]="true" #stepper>
        <mat-step [stepControl]="step[0]" [optional]="true">

            <ng-template matStepLabel>Placeholder title</ng-template>
            <mat-form-field>
                <mat-label>Placeholder label</mat-label>
                <textarea
          matInput
          cdkTextareaAutosize
          #autosize="cdkTextareaAutosize"
          cdkAutosizeMinRows="2"
          cdkAutosizeMaxRows="10"
          placeholder="Optionnel"
          formControlName="thirdFormControl"
        ></textarea>
            </mat-form-field>

                <button mat-button matStepperPrevious>Back</button>
                <button mat-button matStepperNext>Next</button>

        </mat-step>

        <mat-step state="date" [stepControl]="step[1]">
            <mat-form-field>
                <ng-template matStepLabel>Placeholder label 0</ng-template>
                <input
          matInput
          [min]="minDate"
          [matDatepicker]="picker"
          formControlName="date"
        />
                <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="picker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
                <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
            </mat-form-field>

            <mat-form-field>
                <mat-label>Placeholder label 1</mat-label>
                <mat-select formControlName="hours" required>
                    <mat-option *ngFor="let j of hours" [value]="j[0]">
                        {{j[1]}}
                    </mat-option>
                </mat-select>
            </mat-form-field>

                <button mat-button matStepperPrevious>Back</button>
                <button mat-button (click)="searchNow()">Search</button>

        </mat-step>
    </mat-vertical-stepper>
</form>

Now the form will be invalid if any of the inputs is not captured
Sample Here

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China Supports West Africa's Efforts in Counter-Terrorism
By Chao Xiaoliang
Since assumption of office as Chinese Consul General in Lagos, my admiration toward Nigerian People's endeavours to develop their own country has grown with each passing day.
Recently, with the gallant efforts from Nigerian Army and people, 82 Chibok girls were successfully rescued. I, same as other Chinese people, share the happiness and joyfulness of the great news. However, suicidal bombings and terrorist attacks still often occupy the local newspaper's headlines. I can feel the pain and sorrow of Nigerian people.
China and Nigeria are both developing countries sharing a lot of similarities. We are once cradles of civilizations in the history and now most populous country and biggest economy in our respective regions. We are both striving for the great rejuvenation of our nations and have to face similar difficulties and challenges, and terrorism, undoubtedly, is one of the biggest challenges for both of us.
Just like Nigeria, China is a victim suffered from terrorism. The main terrorism threats in China originate from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest of the country. "East Turkestan Islamic Movement" has committed numerous atrocities in many Chinese cities for the past decades. Chinese Government has put great efforts to curb or even eradicate the terrorism in China, but as a transnational problem, Counter terrorism requires for international cooperation.
The international community has made tremendous efforts in combating terrorism, but terrorism is far from being eradicated. It still seriously threatens international peace and security and it has evolved in forms and means. With regard to strengthening counter-terrorism cooperation, Chinese Government has put its positions as follows:
First, we need to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries concerned. In combating terrorism, it is important to adhere to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries, fully listen to their views and opinions, and carry out international cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.
Without global support, the fight against terrorism cannot be sustained. Therefore, the international community should provide more assistance to those developing countries who suffer from a lack of capacity while respecting the wishes of these countries.
Second, we need to leverage the role of the UN and its Security Council as the main channel of cooperation. Terrorism is a threat to global peace and security. China supports the important role of the UN and its Security Council in coordinating national efforts and shaping a global response.it is important for countries to strictly abide by the relevant Security Council resolutions and fully implement the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
We welcome the establishment of the UN Counter-Terrorism Center, and we hope that there will be better coordination and greater synergy among the various counter-terrorism agencies of the UN.
Third, we need to adopt a comprehensive approach to address the root cause as well as the symptoms of this scourge. Terrorism is the result of a complex array of political, economic and social factors: it cannot be resolved by military means alone. Counter-terrorism efforts must be combined with economic growth and proper settlement of regional conflict.
There should also be more dialogues and exchanges between different civilizations, religions and ethnic groups so as to promote mutual understanding, tolerance and harmonious coexistence. A comprehensive approach involving political, economic and diplomatic means should be employed, if terrorism is to be rooted out altogether.
Fourth, we need to reject double standards. Terrorism is the enemy of all mankind.All terrorist activities, regardless of who commits them under what pretext and no matter where and when they take place, should be condemned and fought back. There should not be different standards for different attacks.
We should not bring ideology into the fight against terrorism or link it to any specific country, government, nationality and religion. On this point, the international community should build more consensus and speak in one voice.
To West Africa Specifically, counter-terrorism efforts in this region constitute a very important component of international counter-terrorism endeavors. China supports more assistance from international community in the region in their capacity building to fight terrorism and to enable the multinational joint task force to effectively conduct operations to further eliminate the sources of terrorism in the region.
The international community must respect the leading role of the regional organizations in addressing problems and make good use of the unique expertise and advantages of those organizations; the international community also should provide financial and technical assistance to those countries on the basis of respecting their sovereignty so that they could truly build their capacities to promote economic and social development.
Over decades, as a peace-loving and responsible country, China has continued to abide by its principled stand on counter-terrorism and expanded its role in international counter-terrorism cooperation, which has won worldwide respect. China is ready to work with the international community and countries concerned to support countries in West Africa in their efforts to achieve lasting peace and common prosperity and make contributions to peace and development in Africa.
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Q: getting inconsistent behaviour when passing timestamp between spark and pandas I'm trying to share a dataframe between spark and pandas, and encounter strange behaviour in handling time stamps (for time stamps generated in non configuration UTC)
given a data frame with both a time stamp top level field, and a timestamp in the nested field, they will treated differently
df1.show(vertical=True, truncate=False)
-RECORD 0---------------------------
 id  | 1
 ts1 | 2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449
 ts2 | {2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449}
-RECORD 1---------------------------
 id  | 2
 ts1 | 2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449
 ts2 | {2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449}
-RECORD 2---------------------------
 id  | 3
 ts1 | 2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449
 ts2 | {2021-05-02 04:21:15.918449}

df1.toPandas()
    id  ts1 ts2
0   1   2021-05-02 04:23:36.438987  (2021-05-02 11:23:36.438987,)
1   2   2021-05-02 04:23:36.438987  (2021-05-02 11:23:36.438987,)
2   3   2021-05-02 04:23:36.438987  (2021-05-02 11:23:36.438987,)

in a top level field the timestamp is displayed as a local time, and in the nested as UTC.
when trying to save the dataframe to parquet and read it from pandas results are changed even more, and the nested values is converted to int (nanoseconds from epoch), and the top level value remains as it was.
notebook with runnable example:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QWivTFHR7SS91pVBvCAbpJ3lYWgw0Nk1?usp=sharing
any idea what is the source of the inconsistency?
EDIT
some more data
the schema of the dataframe:
root
 |-- id: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- ts1: timestamp (nullable = false)
 |-- ts2: struct (nullable = false)
 |    |-- col1: timestamp (nullable = false)

df1.head()
Row(id=1, ts1=datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 2, 12, 3, 25, 809113), ts2=Row(col1=datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 2, 12, 3, 25, 809113)))

A: I believe the source of inconsistency is the representation of the struct, which is a Spark Row object containing a Python datetime object. So in the pandas dataframe, ts1 column has a pandas datetime type, while ts2 column has a Spark Row type (you can confirm this by selecting df1.toPandas().t2[0]).
The problem with Spark Row types is that it uses the Python datetime object, which follows the Python timezone rather than the Spark Session timezone. Spark is perhaps too smart to realize that, and so during the conversion from a dataframe to the Row object, it will take into account the difference between the Spark Session timezone and the Python timezone, thus giving the difference you observed.
To get around this issue, you can set the Python timezone as below, before you call .toPandas():
import os
import time

os.environ['TZ'] = 'America/Los_Angeles'
time.tzset()


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Q: Access a Jquery function after a click on a button I am having this html code:

<form class="add-to-cart-form">
         <input type="hidden" name="product-code" value="2" />
         <input type="submit" value="Add" class="button" onclick="addToCart('2');"/>
    </form>

And a javascript code:

function addToCart(product_id, quantity) {
        quantity = typeof(quantity) != 'undefined' ? quantity : 1;

        $.ajax({
            url: 'test.php',
            type: 'post',
            data: 'product_id=' + product_id + '&quantity=' + quantity,
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function(json) {
                alert(json.message);
            }
        });
    }

IN the html file anytime, I click on the submit button, instead of taking me to the function addToCart, the form is submitted.
I am new to javascript and really don't know the source of the problem. Kindly help me solve this problem.

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Here's the new EP from mysterious experimental electronic artist As I Am entitled Progress. If you've never listened to the music of As I Am or his previous incarnation Big Two-Hearted, you can expect, well, the unexpected. This new EP is just as experimental as his previous ones with four otherworldly-sounding instrumentals, but with a huge upgrade in production quality. Stream it below.


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Some of our special stories in February focused on the good and the bad of past U.S. presidents — and on the resurgence of the neocons as they seek new wars in the Middle East and provoked a U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine.
"Neocons Seek New Ultimatum on Syria" by Robert Parry, Feb. 2, 2014.
"Hugo Chavez's Legacy at Risk" by Andres Cala, Feb. 4, 2014.
"Fear Itself: Democrats Duck FDR's Lessons" by Beverly Bandler, Feb. 4, 2014.
"Big Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars" by Robert Parry, Feb. 4, 2014.
"When the CIA's Empire Struck Back" by Lisa Pease, Feb. 6, 2014.
"Shameful History of Jeff Davis Highway" by Robert Parry, Feb. 7, 2014.
"Israeli Rabbis Warn Kerry of God's Wrath" by Robert Parry, Feb. 7, 2014.
"Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?" by Robert Parry, Feb. 10, 2014.
"Hectoring Obama Over Syria" by Paul R. Pillar, Feb. 13, 2014.
"Tea Party and Thomas Jefferson" by Robert Parry, Feb. 13, 2014.
"Obama Deflects Neocon Pressure on Syria" by Robert Parry, Feb. 14, 2014.
"Syria at the Edge of 'Shock Doctrine'" by Rob Prince, Feb. 15, 2014.
"Does Nixon's 'Treason' Boost LBJ's Legacy" by Robert Parry, Feb. 16, 2014.
"Cuba Inches Toward New Future" by Andres Cala, Feb. 17, 2014.
"The Best and Worst US Presidents" by Robert Parry, Feb. 18, 2014.
"How GOP Sabotaged a Union Vote" by Stephen Crockett, Feb. 20, 2014.
"Hillary Clinton's Unlearned Lessons" by Robert Parry, Feb. 20. 2014.
"Oklahoma as Vanguard of the Right" by Richard L. Fricker, Feb. 21, 2014.
"Seeing Evil in the New Russia" by Danny Schechter, Feb. 23, 2014.
"Neocons and the Ukraine Coup" by Robert Parry, Feb. 23, 2014.
"Six Decades of H-Bomb Cover-ups" by Beverly Deepe Keever, Feb. 24, 2014.
"A New Neocon Push for Syrian War" by Coleen Rowley, Feb. 24, 2014.
"Cheering a 'Democratic' Coup in Ukraine" by Robert Parry, Feb. 26, 2014.
"A Shadow US Foreign Policy" by Robert Parry, Feb. 27. 2014.


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Haute Watch of the Week: Zenith's El Primero 410
by Arthur Touchot
Before I review the new Zenith El Primero 410 Triple Calendar, I think it's only fair to mention Zenith is one of the brands that triggered my passion for watches, and the iconic El Primero, which debuted in 1969, remains my Achilles' heal. Of course, this also means that I feel reserved whenever Zenith announces a new El Primero. But I must confess the new 410 may be one of my favorite timepieces this year.
El Primero Historique, 1969
Zenith carved a special place in the watchmaking industry when, in 1969, it released the Calibre 410, one of the world's first automatic chronographs. This column-wheel chronograph movement saw more than three decades of regular production, and became an icon among watch collectors because of its reliability, but in 2000, it was finally retired.
Zenith's Calibre 3019 PHC, known as Calibre 410, released in 1969.
Perhaps spurred on by the demand for their vintage pieces, the small manufacture from Le Locle ultimately decided to bring it back for the El Primero 410, a watch that respects the heritage of the Calibre it houses, while embracing modern trends. Specifically, the new El Primero 410 takes after a 1970s prototype by Zenith, which sold at Christie's for over $40,000 on May 14th, 2012. Two years on, Zenith has released what looks like a finished version of said prototype.
Zenith-made 1970s prototype which sold at Christie's for over $40,000 on May 14th, 2012.
While the placement of subdials, calendar apertures, and tachymeter remains the same in the El Primero 410 Triple Calendar, the size of the case is significantly increased, from 38mm to 42mm. Zenith also threw out the two-tone white and grey color scheme for a stunning silver sunburst patterned dial. This combines beautifully with the blues of the moonphase display and chronograph seconds hands.
The new Zenith El Primero 410 Triple Calendar.
The changes in size and color bring a little more clarity and readability to an otherwise multi-functional dial, which displays a 30-minute register at 3 o'clock, a 12-hour register with integrated moonphase at 6 o'clock, and a sub-seconds dial at 9 o'clock.
The new El Primero features a stunning silver sunburst patterned dial.
The column-wheel chronograph movement, viewable through a sapphire case back, and beating at 5hz with 390 components, provides power to the triple calendar and chronograph functions, and it's a stunning movement to watch.
The Calibre 410, viewable through a sapphire case back.
The only disappointment comes from a lack of focus on the details. The day and month apertures are a little too small for my taste, and get buried underneath the hour and minute hands, while, the Zenith star at the end of the central chronograph hand partially blocks the moonphase when it's not flying around the dial.
A modern man's watch with soulful past.
Overall, the new Zenith El Primero 410 is still one of my favorite watches this year. It's a modern man's watch with the soul of a vintage icon. The El Primero 410, limited to 500 pieces worldwide, is priced at $11,000. It comes with an alligator leather strap and a signed deployant buckle. For more details, visit Zenith online.
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Ole Döring (* 21. April 1965 in Karlsruhe) ist ein deutscher Philosoph, Sinologe und Schriftsteller.

International ist er durch seine Beiträge zu kulturellen und philosophischen Fragen der Medizin- und Bioethik bekannt. In Deutschland setzt er sich für die Anerkennung chinesischer Philosophie als reguläres universitäres Fach ein und ist Vordenker einer globalen Gesundheits-Ethik.

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Nach dem Magister Artium der Philosophie mit einer Arbeit zur Ethik Immanuel Kants an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1993) übernahm Ole Döring am Institut für Asienkunde in Hamburg Forschungsaufträge zu Humangenetik und Ethik in China und zur Verfassung der Ostasienforschung in Deutschland. 2003 wurde er an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mit einer Arbeit zur chinesischen Bioethik in den Ostasienwissenschaften zum Doktor der Philosophie promoviert. Seine Habilitation mit der Lehrerlaubnis für Philosophie (mit Spezialgebiet Interkulturelle Philosophie) erhielt er 2012 am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Döring wirkt im In- und Ausland als Privatdozent, Gastprofessor, Wissenschaftsmanager und Buchautor. Auf dieser Grundlage betätigt er sich auch als Gründer und Berater.

Seit 1995 arbeitet Döring an einer Serie von Forschungsprojekten zu den kulturellen Grundlagen der europäisch-chinesischen Zusammenarbeit in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Seine Forschung verfasst Döring als Kulturphilosoph und Technik-Ethiker trans-disziplinär, interkulturell und Verstehens-orientiert. Aus seinem Schaffen sind bislang ca. 100 Veröffentlichungen hervorgegangen.

Zu seinen wichtigsten akademischen Auszeichnungen zählen der Outstanding Contributions Award in Medical Ethics der chinesischen Zeitschrift Yixue yu zhexue ("Medizin und Philosophie") als erstem Europäer und die William Evans Fellowship for Bioethics der University of Otago, Neuseeland.

Als Gastprofessor an der Freien Universität Berlin hat er 2015/16 die Grundlagen für den Aufbau eines Curriculums für Chinesische Philosophie im Rahmen der akademischen Philosophie gelegt. Im ibidem-Verlag (Hannover) gibt Ole Döring die Reihe "Chinesische Perspektiven: Philosophie" heraus.

In verantwortlicher Funktion war er in zahlreichen Projekten aktiv. Darunter als Direktor der deutsch-chinesischen Wissenschaftsplattform "Sino-German Network for Public Health and Bioethics" (SIGENET). Hier wurden seit 2009 in deutsch-chinesischer Zusammenarbeit (Workshops, Forschung, Wissenschaftleraustausch) am Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der chinesischen Lebenswissenschaften der Charité Universitätsmedizin
Schwerpunktprojekte zur weiteren Förderung vorbereitet, insbesondere zu den Themen "philosophische Grundlagen", "Genetische Information und genetische Diskriminierung", "Aufbau einer nachhaltigen Pflege-Infrastruktur", "Medizin-Ethisches Curriculum" und "Gesundheitssystemvergleich".

Im Europäisch-Chinesischen Konsortium "Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese - European Co-operation" (BIONET) war Döring 2006–2009 für die Gesamtleitung (Steering Committee), die kultur-wissenschaftliche Konzeption und ethische Fachexpertise (Expert Group) sowie als Organisator von Konferenzen und Wissenschaftleraustausch verantwortlich. Das Projekt befasste sich im Rahmen einer Förderung im 6. Rahmenprogramm der EU mit kulturellen, rechtlichen und ethischen Fragen der Steuerung (Governance) wissenschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit zwischen China und Europa, in den Schwerpunktfeldern Reproduktionsmedizin (z. B. In-vitro-Fertilisation), Regenerative Medizin (z. B. Stammzellforschung), Klinische Forschung und Biobanken. Döring ist Herausgeber des BIONET-Textbooks mit einer Auswahl von Originalarbeiten und Dokumenten aus dieser Zusammenarbeit.

Im von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) unterstützten Forschergruppenprojekt "Kulturübergreifende Bioethik" (KBE) unterstützte Döring 2002 bis 2006 den Sprecher, Heiner Roetz im zentralen Wissenschaftsmanagement und bearbeitete verantwortlich das Teilprojekt "Menschenbilder in der aktuellen bioethischen Diskussion in China".

Zuvor hatte er am Institut für Asienkunde in Hamburg zwischen 1996 und 2002 u. a. durch Förderung der Dr. Helmut Storz Stiftung im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft eine Reihe interdisziplinärer Pilotprojekte im Anschluss an Untersuchungen zur "Humangenetik und Ethik in China" mit einer Vielzahl von Themen durchgeführt. Dabei entwickelte er an ethischen Problemen wie Eugenik, Genmanipulation, Diskriminierung und Governance eine hermeneutische Methodologie qualitativer Verständigung in zeitgenössischen Kultur-übergreifenden Zusammenhängen. (Zu den daraus hervorgegangenen Publikationen: siehe unten die Literatur bis 2003).

Im März 2019 erschien sein politisch-philosophischer Essay "Das Luther-Gen", in dem er vorschlägt, durch die praktischen Philosophien von Kant und Konfuzius eine Grundlage für aufgeklärte Gesellschaftssysteme zu entwickeln. Anhand der Entwicklung der politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geht er der Frage nach, was Deutschland getan hat, um sich die Vorschusslorbeeren seines Grundgesetzes nach und nach zu verdienen. Er kommt zu einem gemischten Fazit, das auf die offene Zukunft im Zusammenspiel mit den Mächten der neuen Weltordnung verweist.

Neben Forschungs-, Lehr- und Vortragsaktivitäten schreibt Döring regelmäßig in öffentlichen Foren; British Medical Journal Health Blog und Zeitungen (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, German.China.Org) zu Themen der Zeit.

Gründungen

Zur wissenschaftlichen Begleitung der Strategie der Bundesregierung für "Globale Gesundheit" und zur Weiterentwicklung der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen dieses neuen Forschungsfeldes engagiert sich Döring seit 2018 als Gründungsvorstand im Institut für Globale Gesundheit Berlin (IGGB), einem gemeinnützigen eingetragenen Verein. Zu den Schwerpunkten gehört die Kohärenz-Bildung sowohl in der transdisziplinären wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit als auch in der politisch-administrativen Organisation von Maßnahmen der Globalen Gesundheit vor dem Hintergrund der Verwirklichung der Nachhaltigkeits-Entwicklungsziele der Vereinten Nationen (SDG).

2017 gründete er gemeinsam mit   Thilo von Trotha ein Institut für Weiterbildung: Die Europäische Akademie für Chinesisches Denken bietet aus philosophischer und praktischer Kompetenz Seminare zur Geschichte, Struktur und Besonderheit des chinesischen Geistes an, die sich insbesondere an führende Entscheidungsträger wenden.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

Wissenschaft
 "Auf Augenhöhe. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Heiner Roetz." (Herausgeber, mit: Wolfgang Behr, Licia Di Giacinto, Christine Moll-Murata); Bochumer Jahrbuch für Ostasienforschung (Herausgegeben von der Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften der Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Band 38; Iudicium Verlag, München, 2015, ISBN 9783862051809.
 "Kultur und Bioethik. Eigentum am eigenen Körper" (Herausgeber, mit Christian Steineck), Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2., überarbeitete Auflage 2009, ISBN 9783832944797.
 "Chinas Bioethik verstehen. Ergebnisse, Analysen und Überlegungen aus einem Forschungsprojekt zur kulturell aufgeklärten Bioethik", Abera Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 9783934376588.
 "Advances in Chinese Medical Ethics. Chinese and International Perspectives", (Herausgeber, mit CHEN Renbiao), Curzon Press / Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg (MIA 355), 2003, ISBN 9780700717095.
 "Chinese Scientists and Responsibility: Ethical issues of Human Genetics in Chinese and International Contexts", Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg (MIA 314), ISBN 3889102271.
 "Zur Modernisierung der Ostasienforschung: Konzepte, Strukturen, Empfehlungen", (mit Anja Osiander), Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg (MIA 305), ISBN 9783889102164.
 "Technischer Fortschritt und kulturelle Werte in China: Humangenetik und Ethik in Taiwan, Hongkong und der Volksrepublik China", Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg (MIA 280), 1997, ISBN 9783889101860.

Lyrik
 "Die Weltliche Komödie", Verlag Röschnar, Klagenfurt, 1989, ISBN 9783900735241.

Essay
 "Das Luther-Gen. Zur Position der Integrität in der Welt", ibidem-Verlag, Hannover, 2019, ISBN 3838212975.

Weblinks

 Homepage des Instituts für Globale Gesundheit Berlin (IGGB): https://institut-fuer-globale-gesundheit.de
 Homepage der Europäischen Akademie für Chinesisches Denken: https://chinadenken.de

Einzelnachweise

Sinologe
Philosoph
Bioethiker
Hochschullehrer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sachbuchautor
Autor
Deutscher
Geboren 1965
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Our home is a wonderful combination of Western comfort and Japenese flavour. Situated in a Japanese neighbourhood, we experience Japan with all the comforts of a foreigner sized/styled home. The house has 4 bedrooms, a master with en suite bathroom, a children's bedroom with a single bed as well as a toddler bed, a study with a futon that sleeps 2 and the last bedroom is a playroom stocked with toys for young children. We have a spacious and light filled main floor with a large living room, dining room and kitchen. There is a deck off of the living room to relax or enjoy a meal on and it's surrounded by a lovely garden filled with flowers and many toys (including a sandbox, swing and slide) for young children to enjoy. Take a peek at the photos for a better idea.
We are Corry and James, a married Canadian couple with two smaller children and a third child due summer 2007. We have lived overseas in Asia for about 10 years. We have not done a home exchange before but are keen to try what sounds a great way to see another country as a resident - and allow someone to see yours. We would expect to arrange an exchange some way in advance in order to get to know our fellow exchangers via email first to see how best we can facilitate their stay in Japan.
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Smiley's People
Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
Length: 180 Minutes
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes to a thrilling conclusion his career-long, serpentine battle with the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Anna Chancellor, Lindsay Duncan, Maggie Steed, Alex Jennings and Kenneth Cranham, this enthralling dramatisation captures every nuance of le Carré's complex and compelling novel - the final book in John le Carré's Karla trilogy. 'a radio triumph... Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy' - Financial Times.
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John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
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Some helpful thoughts on recovery and navigating life's hurts, habits, and hangups.
I don't know what brought you here to this page.
I don't know what's been making you curious about CR.
What I want to do is give you a little introduction to CR and what's in store for you the coming year, should you decide to participate.
For whatever reason, through whatever means, God has brought you here to this page.
I think He is preparing you for something big.
He's preparing you for change.
Change is scary, we find comfort in the things we know, even if that thing is something that's bad for us. It's also scary because we know that God doesn't do the easy thing. He rarely, if ever, takes the easy way.
This year you're going to step out of your denial and into the grace and will of God.
You're going to turn your life over to him. A hands up, all out quit kind of surrender.
You're going to make an inventory. List your hurts from your life. This is a scary hard thing to do.
You're going to confess to someone you trust how you've wronged and hurt others.
You're going to make yourself ready to have God remove your character defects.
This sounds like a lot to take in, and it is.
It's not going to be easy, and some of you will quit.
One thing I will promise you is that we will be here.
Every Friday same time, same place.
We are here to support you, not fix you.
We are here to do life with you and struggle together.
No, you won't ever be perfect.
Yes, you will still struggle with hurts, habits, and hangups.
We exist to be a place where you can find healing.
We are a hospital for this spiritually ill, but we serve the great physician, who can heal all hurts.
Thank you for trusting us with your hurts.
Thanks for doing life with us.
We want to assure you that this is a safe place.
Our struggles may look different, but we are all broken people in need of a savior.
I wan't to share this passage with you because I think it truly encapsulates what and who our ministry is.
11 Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too.
12 Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart.
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
At the end of 2015 God put it on the hearts of 4 of us to start a Celebrate Recovery ministry at West Side. We had all been touched by the ministry at another local church, and felt God was calling us to bring it to West Side to bless our home church.
So that's what we did. At the beginning of 2016 we did a "soft launch" of CR here at West Side. Our goal was to create an environment where the members of West Side felt comfortable coming and sharing their lives with eachother.
Our other primary goal was to develop leaders within our church to be able to lead CR when we would eventually launch in the community. It's a lengthy process, but that is what 2016 has been about for us.
God has truly blessed us. We've had quite a number of people finish step studies, and working the program. We have a solid group of leaders and volunteers and on January 6th of 2016 we will be officially launching CR at West Side to our community.
God has already been blessing us with members of our community who don't attend our church. Without one advertisement in 2016 God has lead people to our doors to find healing. I can only imagine what he's going to do as we begin this intentional journey to reach our community.
All our welcome to join us as we CELEBRATE RECOVERY on January 6th at 5:45 in the West Side Family Center.
We are going to have good food, fun stuff for kids to do, and live music.
We appreciate all of the support that our church has given us this year, and we are so excited to see what God will do in 2017.


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Challenging perceptions of dyslexic children and how to support them
Teachers, support staff, SENCOs and parents are being urged to do more to help dyslexic children in school, in a new campaign launched by Made by Dyslexia and supported by Zinc Network.
Why perceptions of AI matter
The UK government has made improving and boosting research and innovation in both the public and private sectors a priority. Boris Johnson has committed to doubling the public R&D budget over 5 years, on the way to meeting a pledge of spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D by 2027. And investment in AI is an important element of these plans.
Privacy concerns threaten viability of track-and-trace app
Will Brits use a track-and-trace app?
With the opening of gyms, beauty salons and pubs, British society is tentatively emerging from lockdown. After months of restrictions, more and more of us are reacquainting ourselves with much-loved aspects of daily life.
Our future relationship with China
How do young people in the UK think we should engage with China in the years ahead? New research from The British Foreign Policy Group has revealed some surprising results.
How the alt-right is using Covid-19 as cover to spread propaganda
Earlier in the year, posters and stickers spouting racist messages began appearing in some London tube stations.
The stickers, which used the logo of Extinction Rebellion, the campaign group, implored people to "preserve an endangered species of white Brits". They described coronavirus as a "cure" to end the "disease" that was mankind.
Far right hijack coronavirus crisis to push agenda and boost support
Extremists are using the pandemic to promote themselves as supporters of the community and spread fake information. Far-right movements are exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push their anti-minority...
Tackling the rising threat of online child sexual abuse
Among the unintended consequences of lockdown has been a rise in online child sexual abuse, as our ECD Margherita Watt recently explained in The Independent.
Forces sweetheart supports Zinc lockdown film
At the start of lockdown, the late Dame Vera Lynn took to the pages of the Daily Mirror to support our film promoting social distancing.
Reducing the impact of harmful web content
Users of the Bing search engine who seek out potentially harmful web content will be served advertising that aims to build their resilience to this material, using a plan developed by Zinc Network....
How Russia spreads disinformation via RT is more nuanced than we realise
Monitoring the output of state-controlled media allows us to counter its power – the Ofcom fine for RT is a start The £200,000 fine handed out by Ofcom to the TV network RT (formerly Russia Today)...
Why we joined the fight against plastics
It's hard to believe now, but back in 2016 hardly anyone was talking about plastic. With 'Blue Planet 2' still a year and a half away from being released, only NGOs were talking about the devastating effect...
GravityLight powers 38 million views
An electric light powered solely by gravity? It's an astonishing story — and when it landed in my inbox last year, I knew I had to commission a film about it for our Facebook video channel, Zinc. After all,...


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Inside Highgrove, Prince Charles' Cotswolds house (and its very unusual feature)
The country house of the Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is set in the idyllic Gloucestershire countryside. Here we take a look at the house and garden through the ages, plus its rather surprising security feature
The Prince of Wales may have a grand London residence at Clarence House, but his heart does seem to be in the countryside, where he has a Scottish estate, Birkhall, a Welsh farmhouse, Llwynywermod, and of course, his main family home, Highgrove in Gloucestershire. Having bought the estate in 1980 prior to his marriage to Princess Diana, he renovated the house, installed an organic farm in the grounds, and raised his sons there. It is still his main residence with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and in the name of protecting the royal couple, we've learned of a very interesting design feature - a steel-lined panic room.
According to the royal biographer Brian Hoey in his new book Not in Front of the Corgis, the room was installed in order to provide a safe place of escape for the future king and his wife in the event of a terrorist attack Now, a royal biographer says security has been increased at Highgrove, with the addition of a steel-lined room. The feature, Brian Hoey claims, is to keep the heir-to-the-throne and his wife safe during a terrorist attack.
As Country Living reports, the so-called 'iron room' on the first floor "measures 20ft by 20ft, and "has been so built that even if the rest of the house is destroyed, it will drop intact to the ground floor".
"Inside are medical supplies," says Hoey. "Including containers of Charles and Camilla's blood group, long-lasting food and drinks, an armoury, radio transmitters equipped to obtain a signal even within its steel walls, air purifiers and chemical lavatories."
That's not the only security feature protecting the couple - there is also a no-fly zone around the house, a high stone wall, and laws making the estate a criminal trespass zone.
Aside from these stringent measures, the house sounds like a very pleasant place to be, with interiors by Robert Kime (who also decorated rooms at Clarence House, wild, formal, and kitchen gardens, and sustainable practices (including solar panels and a natural sewage filtering system) governing the running of the house and grounds.
Take a look through the highlights of Highgrove below, including some very cute throwback photos of Prince William and Harry.
The Prince and Princess of Wales with Prince William and Prince Harry in the flower meadow in July 1986.
Prince Charles and Prince Harry by the swimming pool at Highgrove in 1986.
Princess Diana and Prince William on a pony, 1986.
Prince Charles in the Highgrove garden, 1986.
An aerial view of Highgrove in autumn, 2007.
The family at Highgrove in 1999.
Prince Charles and Prince William at Highgrove in 2000.
Prince William gets to grips with a sheep on the organic farm at Highgrove in 2004.
Highgrove House on June 5, 2013.
Prince Charles in his living room at Highgrove, 1982.
Prince Louis' christening portraits were taken inside Clarence House, a residence with quite a history
Inside Prince Charles' Welsh Home
By Susan Crewe
Prince Charles' 2008 essay on the role design has to play in environmental conservation still rings true
The royal family has opened a new bed and breakfast


Edinburgh Worldwide is the often overlooked younger sibling of Monks and Scottish Mortgage, the two big investment trusts in the Baillie Gifford stable. It was launched 20 years ago and has a market value of £350 million, so ranks as a comparative upstart compared with the £1.6 billion Monks, set up in 1929, or the £6 billion Scottish Mortgage, which began life in 1909.
Yet its performance puts it right up there with its larger and better-known stablemates. In the five years to January 2018, it produced a thumping return of 163.1 per cent, putting it fourth of the 24 funds in the global investment trust sector, just behind Scottish Mortgage, in third place, and just in front of Monks, in fifth.


This program covers the fundamentals of architectural acoustics as well as some commonly misunderstood principles. Topics include: sound generation and travel; human sound perceptions; sound level descriptors; and acoustic properties of materials.
Universities, corporations, and healthcare institutions are increasingly providing live or recorded lecture videos to not only students and colleagues but also a wide range of on and off campus audiences. This content may be produced in a purpose-built video studio, or it may be captured during a conventional in-person classroom lecture. It may be distributed live to participatory audiences around the world (Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC) or recorded for on-demand use (classroom capture). This seminar covers the acoustical, audiovisual, and information technology requirements for studios and lecture rooms used to produce video content. For instance, careful room acoustics design and quiet background noise are required to ensure speech intelligibility for both in-room and remote audiences. Cameras and microphones must be selected and placed with care, and a dedicated control room is often required. Content capture and distribution requires specialized information technology design. The Seminar will include a live demonstration.
More and more clients are requesting the collaborative spaces from designers. This includes both collaborating with each other within the same room, and collaborating with peers across the globe. Sometimes this is a flexible-use space that allows users to mobilize and have group discussions, and other times it is more of a lecture-style space that must also accommodate for group discussions from the audience. These rooms not only have technology requirements to house, but also have acoustic challenges that need to be addressed in order to make these rooms successful. Acoustics, noise control, room size/shape, and thoughtful AV design greatly enhance the professors', students', and distant learners' experiences and, in many instances, make the difference between a favored room and an unused room. We will describe what those requirements and challenges are and give you some tools to help create a space your clients will enjoy using. Numerous project examples will be shown, along with demonstrations of online collaboration tools.
The National Fire Protection Association mandates that within public acoustically distinguishable spaces (ADS) where voice communication systems are required, the system can reproduce pre-recorded, synthesized, or live messages with voice intelligibility. Meeting NFPA's criteria requires careful design, especially for facilities with acoustically dissimilar spaces, like mass transit, healthcare, higher education, and convention centers. A case study describes the process of achieving voice intelligibility in ADS from preliminary design to final testing.
With the release of NFPA 72-2010, opportunities for mass notification technology have increased. Today, alarm and mass notification systems must provide threat-specific verbal guidance and instruction for a variety of threats and hazards, not only within a building, but also outdoors (across a campus for example). Learn about the main components of a mass notification system: identifying acoustically distinguishable spaces, audio system and data network design including fault-tolerance, redundancy and survivability, high-power speaker areas and voice intelligibility testing.
AV and IT technologies enhance the rooms people depend on for some of the most important conversations conducted in academic and professional environments. Learn how boardrooms, auditoria, classrooms, and videoconference facilities can function better with designs which harmonize the needs technology and aesthetics together. See examples where choices as simple as loudspeaker placement, screen size, sightlines, and IT considerations can turn ordinary gatherings into extraordinary experiences.


You might have noticed that your comments don't show up immediately. This is because I have to filter them out manually ( I get a lot of spam comments. ) So sorry for the delays! I'm investigating services that can filter out spam comments for me.
Below you'll find a list of all the tutorials with a list of part and a short description of each part.
A tutorial about making games. Focuses a lot on SDL 2, but also other topics related to game programming. Some parts are pretty extensive so that you'll get a deeper understanding about what's going on.
This part gives you a quick introduction to SDL 2. It'll help you set up SDL2 including header files, linking and everything you need to get SDL 2 up and running. It also contains a bare-boned SDL2 program.
Here we take a look at SDL_Rect and how to render it with SDL_RenderDrawRect and SDL_RenderFillRect.
About events in SDL 2. How to get the events, how the event structure, SDL_Event laid out, and how we do we handle the event.
Part 5 – Collision detection and our first game!
We learn how to check for collisions and make a simple game out of it.
Part 6 – Let's load some textures!
In this part we take a look at SDL_Textures and how to create them from image files ( bmp. ) We also look at how to render SDL_Textures.
We look at, and set up, SDL_Image library. This is used to load png files which then can be rendered with the transparency layer.
Part 8 – It's TIME for another update!
Here we look at a new rendering function, SDL_RenderCopyEx. The function lets us render textures rotated. We use it to make a simple analog clock.
Part 9 – No more delays!
Up until now we've used SDL_Delay to limit framerate to ~16 FPS. We look at how to render using a delta time.
Text rendering in games can be tricky. Luckily, SDL2_TTF does this for us. This part talks about SDL2_TTF, how to set it up and how to use it.
A series about the new features of C++11. I will try to explain everything thoroughly and extensively. The goal is to learn about C++11, how the various parts of it works and why you should use them.
This part is very extensive and covers the new timing features of C++11, chrono. It will help you when you're dealing with timing in games and other applications.
My SDL2 Tutorial part 9 ( No more delays! ) also deals with chron but this part covers it more extensively.
About smart pointers in C++11 ( unique_ptr, shared_ptr and weak_ptr ) what they are, how they work and how to use them. You should always use smart pointers unless you have a really good to.


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D1 Champ Carly Rinko: Fast & Even Fiercer
By hollysouter'21 on December 3, 2020
On October 31st, in freezing temperatures and with more than an inch of snow on the ground, Carly Rinko defeated all the other D1 female athletes in NH. Winning the individual title of D1 State Champ! Rinko is the first female cross country athlete from BHS to ever win a D1 State Title. The only other person in BHS history to have this title was Tristam Winship, an athlete from 2013, so this is clearly big news for BHS athletics and more importantly for Carly Rinko.
Rinko has been running cross country since 7th grade and has consistently been a top competitor. She has run on varsity since her freshman year and has earned herself an immensely respected role on the team. Rinko's outstanding performances and positive mindset over the past four years have easily allowed her to become someone all the girls on the cross country team can look up to.
Rinko's finish at the state meet only proves how fierce of a competitor she truly is. For the majority of the 5k race Rinko was not even in the top two leading spots. At the first mile of the race she was in about seventh place, and at the second mile she made her way to third place, yet still a good 30 seconds behind the leading runner. Rinko was able to pull out an incredible finish, passing the leading runner with only about 100 meters to go in the race securing her D1 title. Rinko admits that she "really did not think [she] could win until the final sprint to the finish." Rinko describes how, "that was the moment where I decided to turn it on and see if I could catch her."
Carly's killer finish allowed her to pass two girls within the last minutes of the race, but what makes her finish even more impressive is that she was able to finish sprinting on New Hampshire's most infamous course: Derryfield. Derryfield is simply not made for the weak, Rinko describes it as "an incredibly challenging course…[that] only gets harder from the start." The heart of this course lies on a ski mountain with a start and finish on a grassy uphill. Rinko even states how she believes the course "is more mentally challenging than physically." Clearly showing that her win came from a great amount of grit and perseverance. Rinko even states that although she was a bit surprised to win, "I always have confidence in myself", a key factor in her victory.
Having been a teammate of Carly's since 7th grade, I can say that her motivations go far beyond personal success and what makes her such an amazing competitor is that her true inspiration stems from her team. Her selfless mindset can be seen when asked about having any expectations going into the state meet. "I did not expect to win, but like every race I go into it hoping to do my personal best and the best for the team." Rinko also adds that when crossing the finish line she "felt excited and grateful…but I could not wait to see how my teammates did." Rinko's team oriented mindset proves how valuable of a runner she truly is for the BHS cross country team.
Carly Rinko will definitely be missed next year but her future with running is definitely bright.
Click the video below to watch an interview with Carly right after winning the race!
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One of CBC Music's 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 for 2016, Matthew Emery says he specializes in composing music for choirs because they've been part of his life since he was 10.
On Thursday September 14, 2017 our golf tournament at RiverBend Golf Club was a great day of golf, fun, and music on the course. Dinner in RiverBend's dining room was an elegant affair with performances by the choirs. Thank you to our sponsors and silent auction donors. our event supports Amabile choristers and ensures that no deserving singer is ever turned away from our legendary choirs!
Denise received her Bachelor and Master Degrees in music  from the University of Western Ontario.   She has a diploma in Chamber Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto.  She is currently the music director at Calvary United Church and an occasional teacher with the TVDSB.


A Worcestershire man has donated a set of memory boxes to neonatal units at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for parents who have suffered the loss of a child.
The specially made keepsake boxes include some baby blankets, a fleece, teddies, forget-me-not flowers, little angel candles, and a sleeve for a lock of hair among other things.
The donation came from Richard Atkinson, who donated the boxes on behalf of Baby Ava's Support Foundation, a charity they set up following the tragic loss of his child, Ava, who was born prematurely at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch.
The idea to make their own memory boxes came from their experience at the Alexandra Hospital after being given a keepsake box by the neonatal unit to remember Ava by.
Richard Atkinson, founder of the foundation, who delivered the boxes in person said: "We were given a memory box at the Alexandra Hospital where we were able to keep memories of Ava.
Richard plans on continuing his fundraising for Baby Ava's Support Foundation so that it can keep supplying the memory boxes to neonatal units. The next fundraiser is a charity boxing event on Friday 24 July.
Richard and six friends will also be riding 1267 miles in 14 days from Spain to Redditch in July 2016 to raise money for the charity.


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In this screenshot, Kenyan Police Chief David Kimaiyo holds a press conference on October 23 in which he harshly criticizes the press. (K24TV)
Kenyan police threaten press — Press fights back!
By Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative on October 24, 2013 6:06 PM EDT
On Wednesday, David Kimaiyo, Kenya's inspector general of police, launched a tirade at the Kenyan press, threatening to arrest and prosecute two journalists for their coverage of the Westgate Mall rescue operation.
Around 1 p.m., Kimaiyo held a press conference accusing the reporters of "provoking propaganda" and inciting Kenyans against authorities in their coverage of the Westgate Mall security operations, according to news reports. The inspector general singled out two investigative reporters, John-Allan Namu and Mohamed Ali, for their story on Westgate aired by KTN Television called "The Inside Story" or "Jechu Pivo" last Friday, Namu told CPJ.
"If you are one of the people in KTN carrying out such offences, we cannot fail to come for you, we will deal with you firmly," Kimaiyo said at the press conference. Namu was perplexed at the warnings since all media houses covered the Westgate operations. "They seem to think we maligned the military, spinning a narrative against the KDF [Kenya Defense Force], but I cannot see where these accusations are rooted in reality," Namu said.
Authorities were incensed over reporting that exposed command confusion during the Westgate mall operations, and which revealed at least one police officer was shot and killed by the Kenyan army and CCTV footage appeared to show soldiers looting the shopping mall.
The chief of Kenya's defense forces, Gen. Julius Karanji, denied the claims, according to news reports, saying the soldiers had merely taken drinking water "to quench their thirst" and opened safes in a "sanitization exercise." Kenyans on social media also were quick to identify failures in the operation, including conflicting government reports in the wake of the Westgate mall attack, a four-day siege that left at least 67 people dead. Official claims of five attackers killed without any evidence of the bodies, for instance, were highlighted in the press and mocked via Twitter. In reaction, Joseph Ole Lenku, the cabinet secretary for the interior, charged bloggers were "not patriotic enough" during an interview on Citizen TV in late September. The police chief expressed similar sentiments to the press on Wednesday, telling reporters that "we must be loyal to the system and the government of the day," according to news reports.
Self-censorship took hold of the American press in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack to the point where few questioned the lack of evidence to justify invading Iraq. It would appear authorities in Kenya expect similar broad, unquestioning media support for their handling of terrorist attacks here.
Fortunately, the Kenyan press cannot be intimidated. Kenya's media fraternity protested loudly today with the Kenya Editors' Guild challenging the inspector general to prove his allegation of incitement and to clarify why his officers were harassing journalists in the course of their duty, news reports said. The privately owned Daily Nation ran the headline "Intimidation" on the front page, while The Standard published a cartoon with a journalist's lips sealed with a padlock…and a government official walking away with the key. "It's a sad day for the media in Kenya," leading private broadcaster Citizen TV said in a strong editorial, "who are witnessing the unacceptable return of the outdated repression of the fundamental freedoms and rights integral to the industry."
After considerable protest by the media, the police rescinded the threat of arrest late Thursday, according to news reports. But the battle to protect Kenya's vibrant press continues. The police warning came as Parliament published two media bills that the private Nation Media Group describes as "draconian" for allowing authorities too much control over media operations and content, the Daily Nation reported.
Tom Rhodes is CPJ's East Africa representative, based in Nairobi. Rhodes is a founder of southern Sudan's first independent newspaper. Follow him on Twitter: @africamedia_CPJ
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Terrorist Tort Travesty
By John Yoo
Jan. 19, 2008 12:01 am ET
War is a continuation of politics by other means, the German strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously observed in his 19th-century treatise, "On War." Clausewitz surely could never have imagined that politics, pursued through our own courts, would be the continuation of war.
Last week, I (a former Bush administration official) was sued by José Padilla -- a 37-year-old al Qaeda operative convicted last summer of setting up a terrorist cell in Miami. Padilla wants a declaration that his detention by the U.S. government was unconstitutional, $1 in damages, and all of the fees charged by his own attorneys.
The lawsuit by Padilla and his Yale Law School lawyers is an effort to open another front against U.S. anti-terrorism policies. If he succeeds, it won't be long before opponents of the war on terror use the courtroom to reverse the wartime measures needed to defeat those responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
On Thursday, a federal judge moved closer to sentencing Padilla to life in prison. After being recruited by al Qaeda agents in the late 1990s, Padilla left for Egypt in 1998 and reached terrorist training camps in Afghanistan in 2000. American officials stopped him at Chicago O'Hare airport in 2002, based on intelligence gained from captured al Qaeda leaders that he was plotting a dirty bomb attack.
President Bush declared Padilla an enemy combatant and ordered him sent to a naval brig in South Carolina. After a federal appeals court rejected Padilla's plea for release, the government transferred him to Miami for trial for al Qaeda conspiracies unrelated to the dirty bomb plot. Federal prosecutors described Padilla as "a trained al-Qaeda killer," and a jury convicted him of conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping and maiming, and of providing material support to terrorists.


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