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TINFO-blogi
Zooming into theatre
Two national theatres' strategic approaches to digital formats - now amidst the pandemic they are more noticeable than ever.
The unprecedented times. That's all we've been hearing about since last March. Our current reality has certainly been nothing short of absurd, but perhaps the most bizarre element of this is how quickly we have adjusted to drastic changes and made peace with the knowledge that the concept of normalcy will remain stuck in a limbo indefinitely. If anyone had any doubts about the crucial role and impact that digitization has had in our lives before this, these doubts have now undeniably at least been reconsidered on a massive scale. One direction we can seek such reconsiderations is the performing arts.
Without the element of the live, we must reposition ourselves to new methods of consuming theatre, accepting that this experience of art cannot solely rely on physical presence. In order to create theatre during this time, we must also redefine what elements we consider crucial to what Benjamin has famously referred to as the 'aura' of an artwork. So how are we to consume theatre when we already have this built-in idea that digitized forms are a secondary experience? One idea is waiting for the dust to settle and returning back to normal. Another is using this moment as a turning point and a chance for new approaches (such as implementing telepresence) to thrive.
Two countries, two perspectives
Every country and their theatre scenes have made their own choices regarding what digital advancements to implement into their repertoires and general approaches to the dramatic arts, both before and after Covid. Something I found interesting was looking at the different strategies that national theatres have had, possibly providing us with clues about how they view the future of their post-pandemic theatre scene. For example, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki appear to have branched in different directions.
The Abbey Theatre has emphasized the importance of having a digital presence already in its five-year strategy (or full version). Emphasis on this is especially crucial for the purpose of showcasing Irish theatre on an international scale as well as enhancing visibility of national works while the theatre is under construction.
This digital presence refers to at least the Abbey Theatre's digital archive which contains digitized material (such as scripts, set plans, playbills, audio files etc) from as early as the 1800's. This was one option they provided audiences during lockdown, others being their telepresence-focused Dear Ireland-series and most recently a digital play named This Beautiful Virtual Village, both of which were created during the lockdown and gave people the opportunity to reflect on the current situation through the arts.
The Finnish National Theatre does not have a publicly accessible five-year strategy. However, based on its mission statement, the emphasis appears to be more on returning to traditional forms of staging and focusing on domestic audiences. As global outreach does not appear to be a similar concern to the FNT as it is to the Abbey, digital materials would be for a much smaller, Finnish-speaking target audience and niche, implying that the benefit is not worth the cost and effort. Its main 'new' digital performance (which has only come to life during Covid) with elements of telepresence was its audio channeI. In terms of digital archiving or accessing older materials from theatres and plays, the FNT does not have its own database or digital archive for this purpose, as the ILONA database (a collaboration between TINFO and the Theatre Museum) would be the closest resource to something similar to what the Abbey has.
October has just rolled up, and currently theatres in Finland are carefully letting audiences and performers back in. Stricter hygiene and safety protocols have been implemented to ensure safer experiences, but the theatres are still holding their breaths each week waiting for further restrictions. This may very well be the beginning of a time when theatre as an art form is reinvented and revolutionized entirely - or perhaps it will remain as a relic of 'the time before', an escapist physical space in which we can reflect on how things used to be.
We still have yet to comprehend what we will take from all of this with us into the future; only time will provide us with enough distance to put things into perspective. Artists now play a crucial role in putting our experiences and thoughts into the words that we ourselves cannot utter. I believe that now is the time to listen. Theatre and the arts now need us more than ever, and perhaps the reverse is true as well.
To reiterate the already-clichéd mantras of the present: stay safe, wash your hands, support the arts however you can, and have hope in the future. It's what will keep us going.
Pia Malinen is a second-year M.A. (FM) student majoring in Theatre Art Research (TaM) at the University of Helsinki writing her pro gradu -thesis on the intersectionality between theatre and the digital space. Pia graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2019 with a B.A. majoring in Theatre Studies, minoring in Film Studies.
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Some people believe animals aren't conscious and that they don't have empathy or feel pain. Other people believe that humans are above animals and that we can do with...
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Teen Vaping?
Home Teen Vaping?
December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 , Drugs, Good Health and Well-Being, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, teens, vaping, 0
There is a growing number of people suffering from lung problems, most of which can be answered to the global problem of vaping. Vaping is most common in teenagers and young adults. To some, it is seen as cool, a trend, or safer, but that's not necessarily the case. Vaping contains a harmful product that is both addictive and toxic. "Nicotine is the primary substance in both traditional and electronic cigarettes, and it has been shown to increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease."
Many teens see vaping as a safer way of smoking. They believe that it's not as harmful and won't have the same outcome. But vaping could potentially lead to smoking or usage of even more dangerous drugs. "Data suggests that vaping, even if nicotine or illicit drugs are not present in the vapor, predisposes teenagers to future addictive behaviors." Not only that, but they could also cause mental health problems and addiction.
Now there are many ways in which we could stop and help teens who suffer from an addiction to vaping. Some would include informing and educating the substance user. Inform teens through social media or the most used forms of media. Let them know the dangers and potential issues it could cause. Another would include informing parents. Have them become aware of changes in mood and the different types of vapes teens get a hold of.
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Göktürk–2 török földmegfigyelő és felderítő műhold.

Jellemzői
Legfőbb célja, hogy földrajzi korlátozás nélkül, minden régióból nagy felbontású képeket készítsen
hírszerzési célokra. További feladata elősegíteni a gazdasági (földtani szerkezet), katasztrófavédelmi, mezőgazdasági (belvíz, erdészet), halászati tevékenységet.

Küldetés
Gyártó a török Tudományos és Technológiai Kutatási Tanács (TUBITAK) vállalata a
TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TUBITAK SPACE) és a Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). Üzemeltető a Török Honvédelmi Minisztérium. Az izraeli tiltakozás ellenére – bár a Göktürk–1 elindítása komoly késedelmet szenvedett – pályára állították az űregységet.

Megnevezései:  COSPAR: 2012-073A; SATCAT kódja: 39030.

2012. december 18-án a kínai Csiucsüan Űrközpontból LA-4/SLS-2 (LC–Launch Complex) jelű indítóállványról egy CZ–2D hordozórakétával állították alacsony Föld körüli pályára (LEO = Low-Earth Orbit). Az orbitális pályája 93 perces, 98,2° hajlásszögű, geocentrikus pálya, perigeuma 669 kilométer, az apogeuma 689 km volt.

Tömege 450 kilogramm. Szolgálati idejét 5 évre tervezték. GPS (Global Positioning System) helymeghatározó segítségével követték a pályáját. A technológia 80%-a, a programot szolgáltató számítógép 100%-a hazai fejlesztés. A pankromatikus felbontás 10 méter, a multispektrális felbontás 20 méter. A 2,5 méter felbontású felvételeket a telemetriai egység antennái segítségével a kiépített földi vevőállomásokra továbbították, ahol elvégezték az adatgyűjtést és a feldolgozást. Az űreszközhöz három napelemtáblát rögzítettek, éjszakai (földárnyék) energia ellátását újratölthető kémiai akkumulátorok biztosították.

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Britney Spears Net Worth, Salary and Earnings 2023
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Britney Spears' net worth 2023: Britney Spears is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Curious to learn more about Britney Spears? Read on as we take you through the biography, age, height, family, house, personal life, education, income, salary, earnings, and net worth of Britney Spears. You'll also learn how Britney Spears made her fortune as a bonus.
1. Biography and Net Worth of Britney Spears
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8. Britney Spears' House
Biography and Net Worth of Britney Spears
Full Name Britney Jean Spears
Date of Birth December 2, 1981
Profession Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, and Actress
Height 5 ft. 3 in (1.60 m)
Source of Wealth Music
Annual Salary $12 Million
Britney Spears is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress with an estimated net worth of $70 million. Spears is often referred to as the "Princess of Pop" due to her influence on the revival of teen pop during the later 1990s and early 2000s. She is also one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Ever since she made her music debut, Spears has released a number of hit singles and chart-topping albums. Her first two studio albums, "…Baby One More Time" and "Oops!… I Did It Again" are among the best-selling albums of all time. Spears has also earned quite a fortune over the course of her career.
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Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in McComb, Mississippi, United States. Her father's name is James "Jamie" Parnell Spears and her mother's name is Lynne Irene Bridges.
Britney has two siblings: brothers, Bryan James Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears. Spears was baptized as a Southern Baptist but she converted to Catholicism.
Britney Spears attended Professional Performing Arts School. Spears graduated from high school via distance learning from the University of Nebraska High School.
Spears was signed to Jive Records after impressing the executives from Jive Records. On January 12, 1999, Spears released her debut studio album, "…Baby One More Time". The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was certified two-time platinum by the RIAA.
The album's lead single, "…Baby One More Time" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
In May 2000, Spears released her second studio album "Oops!… I Did It Again". The album debuted at number one in the US. It became one of the best-selling albums of all time. Spears also released her first book titled Britney Spear's Heart to Heart, co-written with her mother.
In February 2001, Spears signed a promotion deal with Pepsi and her second book titled A Mother's Gift co-written with her mother. In November 2001, she released her self-titled studio album "Britney". The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling over 10 million copies worldwide.
In February 2002, Spears landed her first starring role in the film "Crossroads". A few months later, she opened her first restaurant, Nyla, in New York City. She also released her fourth studio album, "In the Zone" in November 2003.
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Spears released her first perfume, Curious, with Elizabeth Arden in 2004. She also released her first compilation album, "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative". In October 2007, Spears released her fifth studio album, "Blackout". The album debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200.
In December 2008, Spears released her sixth studio album, "Circus".She also released her second greatest hits album, "The Singles Collection" in November 2009.
On February 21, 2021, Spears signed a $15 million book deal for her upcoming memoir.
Britney Spears is married to Asghari. The couple tied the knot on June 9, 2022, in Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles. Previously, she was married to Jason Alexander in 2004 but the marriage was annulled.
In 2004, she married Kevin Federline. Together, they have two sons Sean and Jayden. The couple divorced in 2007.
Britney Spears has an impressive number of fans on her social media pages where she shares a bit of her personal life and work-related stuff. Britney Spears has over 41.6 million Instagram followers as of the time of writing. Spears has over 55.8 million Twitter followers. On Facebook, Britney Spears has over 41 million followers. What's more, Britney Spears has over 6.7 million TikTok followers.
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As of January 2023, Britney Spears has an estimated net worth of $70 million. Spears earns her wealth from her singing and acting career. She also makes money through brand promotion, endorsement, and sponsorship.
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Britney Spears has an annual income and salary of $12 million which is accrued through her music, acting and business ventures.
Britney Spears' House
Spears has numerous investments in real estate. In 2012, Spears paid $6.7 million for a mansion in the LA suburb of Westlake Village. Five years later, she sold the home for $7 million.
In 2015, she bought a 21-acre property in Westlake Village for $7.5 million. The property features a 12,500 square-foot house, library, game room, infinity pool, pool house, tennis court, three-hole golf course and wine cellar with room for 4,000 bottles. The home is reportedly worth at least $10 million.
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Новопіскі́вська сільська рада () — сільське поселення у складі Мішкинського району Курганської області Росії.

Адміністративний центр та єдиний населений пункт — село Нові Піски.

Населення сільського поселення становить 193 особи (2017; 243 у 2010, 362 у 2002).

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console.log("This is fun.");
console.log('Yay! Printing.');
console.log("I'd much rather you 'not'.");
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Minimum Sensor or Sampling Height 65.71 m
RB0901 CTD Originator's Data Processing
In total, 60 CTD stations were completed on cruise RB0901 to produce full depth vertical profiles of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen concentration. In addition, Lowered Acoustic Current Dopplers (LADCPs) were attached to the CTD frame. CTDs were performed at stations along the 26.5N transect from 69.5W towards Abaco Island, a section across the Northwest Providence Channel and sections across the Straits of Florida.
A description of all the instruments on the CTD frame, including serial numbers can be found in Hooper and Baringer (2015).
The data were processed using Sea-Bird SBE data processing and AOML Matlab processing software. The temperature, conductivity and dissolved oxygen sensors were calibrated post-cruise against independent discrete samples taken from water bottles attached to the CTD frame. Of the pairs of sensors, it was determined that the primary sensors behaved more stably and are the ones included in the final data files for temperature and conductivity. For oxygen the secondary sensor was chosen to be included in the final data file. Further details on the processing and calibrations can be found in Hooper and Baringer (2015).
Hooper, J.A., and Baringer, M.O. (2015). Hydrographic measurements collected aboard the NOAA Ship R/V Ronald H Brown, 16 April - 5 May 2009: Western Boundary Time Series Cruise RB0901 (AB0904) NOAA Data Report, OAR-AOML-52 Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL. doi:10.7289/V59021sc
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Q: Split a dataframe column on non-ASCII characters This is a column with data and non ascii characters
Summary 1

United Kingdom - ��Global Consumer Technology - ��American Express
United Kingdom - ��VP Technology - Founder - ��Hogarth Worldwide
Aberdeen - ��SeniorCore Analysis Specialist - ��COREX Group
London, - ��ED, Equit Technology, London - ��Morgan Stanley
United Kingdom - ��Chief Officer, Group Technology - ��BP

How split them and save in different column
The code i used is:
import io
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("/home/vipul/Desktop/dataminer.csv", sep='\s*\+.*?-\s*')
df = df.reset_index()
df.columns = ["First Name", "Last Name", "Email", "Profile URL", "Summary 1", "Summary 2"]

df.to_csv("/home/vipul/Desktop/new.csv")

A: Say, you have a column in a series like this:
s

0    United Kingdom - ��Global Consumer Technolog...
1    United Kingdom - ��VP Technology - Founder -...
2    Aberdeen - ��SeniorCore Analysis Specialist ...
3    London, - ��ED, Equit Technology, London - �...
4    United Kingdom - ��Chief Officer, Group Tech...
Name: Summary 1, dtype: object

Option 1
Expanding on this answer, you can split on non-ascii characters using str.split:
s.str.split(r'-\s*[^\x00-\x7f]+', expand=True)

                 0                                 1                  2
0  United Kingdom        Global Consumer Technology    American Express
1  United Kingdom           VP Technology - Founder   Hogarth Worldwide
2        Aberdeen    SeniorCore Analysis Specialist         COREX Group
3         London,      ED, Equit Technology, London      Morgan Stanley
4  United Kingdom   Chief Officer, Group Technology                  BP

Option 2
str.extractall + unstack:
s.str.extractall('([\x00-\x7f]+)')[0].str.rstrip(r'- ').unstack()

match               0                                1                  2
0      United Kingdom       Global Consumer Technology   American Express
1      United Kingdom          VP Technology - Founder  Hogarth Worldwide
2            Aberdeen   SeniorCore Analysis Specialist        COREX Group
3             London,     ED, Equit Technology, London     Morgan Stanley
4      United Kingdom  Chief Officer, Group Technology                 BP

A: Another approach :
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0   United Kingdom - ��Global Consumer Technolog...
1   United Kingdom - ��VP Technology - Founder -...
2   Aberdeen - ��SeniorCore Analysis Specialist ...
3   London, - ��ED, Equit Technology, London - �...
4   United Kingdom - ��Chief Officer, Group Tech...

Use this  function to extract assci char (where Unicode code point  is superior to 128 ) using ord build-in function
def extract_ascii(x):
    string_list = filter(lambda y : ord(y) < 128, x)
    return ''.join(string_list)

and apply it to columns.
df1.a.apply(extract_ascii).str.split('-', expand=True)

here is the results :
             0          1                              2           3
0   United Kingdom  Global Consumer Technology  American Express    None
1   United Kingdom  VP Technology   Founder Hogarth Worldwide
2   Aberdeen    SeniorCore Analysis Specialist  COREX Group None
3   London, ED, Equit Technology, London    Morgan Stanley  None
4   United Kingdom  Chief Officer, Group Technology BP  None

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Sony Xperia Z2 Sirius Caught on a Video
February 18, 2014 by Arpit Verma
Sony has been known to make smartphones with desirable chassis for a while now. The Xperia Z and the Z1 were both brilliant phones and perhaps the only thing that really pulled them down from being a downright success were issues related to the software or updates. Both the devices were drop dead gorgeous in the same breath as the likes of HTC One and the iPhone 4/5.
Buoyed by the success of these two devices, Sony has been working on a successor to the Xperia Z1. There have been leaked images and rumours about the device for a while in the ever expanding gossip columns of consumer technology. However, with MWC literally days away, the news about a potential successor to the Honami is getting stringently more definite. The device, codenamed 'Sirius' has now been leaked out on what is a rather detailed 12 minute video on Youtube by Rimas Flyil. The poster has gone on to label the model number of the device as D6503- Sirius giving it an evidence that this indeed is the final device.
On the first look, the device looks similar to the Xperia Z1 and sports the same 20.1 MP Camera which is able to shoot in 4:3 AR. Not just this, you can also reduce the count to 15.5 MP to shoot in a 16:9 AR. Most notable hardware changes from looking at the video has been the shifting of security latch to the opposite side as seen on the Z1, the Camera Shutter key being slightly enlarged and also the left side of the phone is covered by a single door.
The icons from the first look give impressions of KitKat running on the device, giving an indication that the device will run KitKat right out of the box. Not just this, there is new boot animation as well as wallpapers on the device. With such a detailed video leaked out, you got to believe that the phone is very close to being put final touches on and there certainly would not be any better place than MWC for the device to be unveiled. Check out the video of the device here:
Filed Under: Android Tagged With: KitKat, sony, Sony Mobile, Tech rumors, Xperia, Xperia Z2


A maid in 1970's Mexico experiences personal and political upheaval.
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron returns to his homeland for Roma, an autobiographical film about an upper class family in Mexico City. Cuaron last filmed in Mexico for Y Tu Mama Tambien, an all-timer that also backdropped Mexican political strife against regular people living their lives. Roma features less horny teenagers than his first masterpiece, and instead focuses on the family maid caught in the throes of her own personal drama, the family's dissolution, and protests in the streets. Like the best films, Roma gives the impression that concurrent stories are happening around the one being told here, and I went into this film sure that it would knock me out. However, Roma somehow never breaks through my emotional barriers, leaving me to praise and admire it but not exalt it as the modern masterpiece that so many critics have hailed it as.
A depressed priest finds an outlet in doomsday environmentalism.
If a theme had to be forced onto the films that just happen to have been released in 2018, despair comes to mind. It's been present in works ranging from arthouse indies like Eighth Grade and You Were Never Really Here to the big-budget spectacles of Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2. Nowhere is despair more prevalent than in Paul Schrader's haunting First Reformed, where all forms and all scales of dread are encapsulated by another of Schrader's 'god's lonely men.' Calling to mind the spare, religious-inflected introspection of mid-century masters like Robert Bresson, First Reformed is a bleak rebuke of hope and a dense treatise in search of it.


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Q: Convert bitmap to Base64 using Base64InputStream I'm working on an Android app that will send a Base64 encoded image to a backend. Since some images are large (and I've been getting Out of Memory errors because of this) I want to use the Base64InputStream to encode the images.
I currently have the following:
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import android.util.Base64;
import android.util.Base64InputStream;

...
public static String convertBitmapToBase64String(Context context, Bitmap bmp)
{

    try {

        ByteArrayOutputStream fos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, fos);
        fos.close();
        byte[] bmpInByteArray = fos.toByteArray();

        InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(bmpInByteArray);
        final InputStream base64InputStream = new Base64InputStream(in, Base64.DEFAULT);

        //Now that we have the InputStream, we can read it and put it into the String
        final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        IOUtils.copy(base64InputStream, writer, "UTF-8");

        String res = writer.toString();

        DataUtils.log("Base64 is: " + res);
        return res;

    } catch (Exception e) {

        DataUtils.log(e.getMessage());
        return "";
    }
}

However this isn't working. I'm always getting an exception on the IOUtils.copy(base64InputStream, writer, "UTF-8"); line with a message saying "bad base-64".
Any tips?

A: You must use Base64OutputStream, instead of Base64InputStream.
// Convert bitmap to base-64 png
ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Base64OutputStream base64FilterStream = new Base64OutputStream(byteStream, 0);
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, base64FilterStream);

base64FilterStream.flush();
byteStream.flush();
base64FilterStream.close();
byteStream.close();

String base64String = byteStream.toString();

A: final InputStream base64InputStream = new Base64InputStream(in, Base64.DEFAULT);
i think you should use  final InputStream base64InputStream= = new Base64InputStream(in, Base64.DEFAULT,true);   instead;
because you are doing encode job.
public Base64InputStream(InputStream in, int flags) {
    this(in, flags, false);
}
/**
 * Performs Base64 encoding or decoding on the data read from the
 * wrapped InputStream.
 *
 * @param in the InputStream to read the source data from
 * @param flags bit flags for controlling the decoder; see the
 *        constants in {@link Base64}
 * @param encode true to encode, false to decode
 *
 * @hide
 */
public Base64InputStream(InputStream in, int flags, boolean encode)

A: Try this to convert bitmap to base64 string
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream);
 byte[] byteArray = byteArrayOutputStream .toByteArray();
    String encoded = Base64.encodeToString(byteArray, Base64.DEFAULT);


Climate change and increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the next century may alter the ability of woody species to germinate and compete with grasses and forbs in temperate old fields. To investigate the responses of seed germination and seedling growth to warming and nitrogen addition, I transplanted seeds and seedlings into plots of a field experiment and conducted a greenhouse experiment. The combination of warming and nitrogen allowed seeds to germinate earlier, although there was no effect on final germination. In the greenhouse nitrogen increased seedling growth, and warming had little effect. However, in the field, warming significantly decreased the growth and survival of M. coronaria seedlings. Overall, my results suggest that while warming and nitrogen may have direct effects on germination and establishment of seedlings, these effects may be outweighed by indirect effects via interactions with drought and herbivory.
McWhirter, Bryana D., "Tree Seedling Establishment in Response to Warming and Nitrogen Addition in a Temperate Old Field" (2013). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 1466.


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Q: "[Plural] are one of them" I don't think I found this question on the site.
I read in a game tip "Most of the animals are not dangerous. Bears are not one of them."
Is it grammatically correct? It feels off, I would have said "Bears are not part of them." or "Bears are not of those."
Additional info: I'm french, and for the curious the game is Among Trees

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"Most of animals are not dangerous. Bears are not one of them."

The part you are asking about is correct (second sentence).
The first sentence, however, is not. There would be possibilities:

"Most of the animals are not dangerous."

or

"Most animals are not dangerous."

Contrary to French, English uses plural for «il y a», for example:

«Il y a trois ours»

becomes:

"There are three bears"

in English.
While talking, though, it's often that someone will start with "There is ..." and not correct themselves (no real need). This happens when what comes after is not yet fully thought of.
Next, the "one" in "one of them" refer to a group or category or species (notice that the word "species" is always plural).
They could also have written:

"A Bear is not one of them"

But that would be wrong in that we want to talk about all the bears, not just one specific bear. We could also rewrite that sentence like so to make it clearer grammatically:

"Bears are not one of these animals"

I would think we'd say it the same way in French:

«Les ours ne sont pas un de ces animaux.»

Post Scriptum: Bears can kill you, but most are not dangerous when well fed and unprovoked. The fact that we stand up makes bear think you want to attack them (because that's what they do when they fight between each other). Older bears are more likely to have trouble feeding themselves in nature and this is one reason for them attacking humans: they're hungry. Females with cubs will also attack if they think you are after their cubs.


The Sphinx is a super strong and accurate easy to assemble CNC machine. It takes advantage of the inside tracks of the C-Beam linear rail using Xtreme Mini Solid V Wheels and utilizes the top of the rail with full size Xtreme Solid V wheels.
Many thanks go out to OpenBuilds member Kyo for sharing this awesome open source design!
NOTE: Although the original Sphinx and the OpenBuilds Sphinx may look similar the OpenBuilds Sphinx incorporates many changes that make it unique in its own way, so be sure to follow the OpenBuilds Build Video for assembly.


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"It's our job as educators to make this relevant as far as [ensuring that] graduation requirements line up with [students'] dreams and aspirations."
Over the past 17 years….
Students who completed the Walden Project in Vermont were much more likely to be accepted to college or post secondary education than general education students from the same high school. Students who are accepted to college or post secondary education from Vergennes Union High School 2000-2017
General Education = 53%
Walden Project Students = 80-100%
Additionally:
100% of alumni surveyed said they would recommend Walden to their friends.
98% of alumni surveyed say that their experience in Walden helped them learn theories, skills, and information that I would not have learned in the regular classroom.
96% of alumni describe Walden as a caring and supportive community.
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100% of alumni surveyed said that they would send their kids -- real or hypothetical -- to a program like the Walden Project.
"I don't learn in a normal way and was being smothered in the regular system . . . Walden allowed me the space to figure out how to learn in a way that worked for me."
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Edible Gifts & "Sugar Candy"
This is the weekend I begin to think of the edible gifts I can make to give with the usual bottle of bubbly we bring to friends. These tidings of joy -- inexpensive, quick and festive -- are especially fun to prepare with any children who happen to be around. And while it's better to give than receive, I always look forward to the cranberry-nut bread baked yearly by our business partner, Dennis Sweeney, the box of Pittman & Davis pears from Texas sent by Diana and Bryan; the world's best dry-roasted peanuts sent by our broker from North Carolina, the bittersweet chocolate bark made by my best friend Dale, and the Middle Eastern pastries from Dearborn, Michigan that my father used to send to everyone he knew. These are the gifts we rarely give ourselves. Eight years ago I wrote a cookbook called Christmas 1-2-3. Tiny and beautifully designed it looks like an edible gift itself! (I think it may still be in print and would make a great stocking stuffer!) Featured within are many ideas for edible presents. My favorite is White Chocolate-Peppermint Crunch and you will find that recipe below. Equally simple to make is Pignoli Brittle, Apricot Sweetmeats -- filled with almond paste and pistachios, Peppery spiced pecans, and Foie gras kisses. These can all be made up to two weeks in advance and ready for holiday partying. Equally compelling comestibles (from my other books) include Chocolate-Pecan Fudge, Chickpea Flour Cookies, and "Sugar Candy" -- a recipe I found in the Alice B. Toklas cookbook, published in 1954. Alice, of course, was lover, confidante, and constant dining companion to the celebrated writer Gertrude Stein. "During the war there was a shortage of sugar, however this simple candy remained a staple of our household," commented Alice. I found making this confection a bit like watching paint dry, but the results were worth it! (recipe below) Top each piece with a small candied violet and wrap in cellophane.
Put the first three ingredients and a pinch of salt in a heavy medium saucepan. Heat the mixture until it just begins to bubble then reduce the heat to low. Stir almost constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture is the color of coffee with cream. This will take 45 to 50 minutes. Remove from the flame and pour into a lightly oiled square pan so that the candy is 1/2-inch thick. Cool and cut into small squares. Place a small piece of a candied violet on each, if desired. Makes 24 to 32 pieces.


Check-In at Paradise begins after 3pm! You will arrive to the ranch on a Sunday and we will take you to your cozy cabin to get settled in. Once you are settled and rested, we will have introductions in the saloon followed by a big turkey dinner! After dinner there is an orientation so that you can learn about all the fun activities our dude ranch offers during the week.
After a delicious Monday morning breakfast, walk down to the barn to meet our guest ranch wranglers and hit the trail for your first horseback ride!
On Monday night we all walk up the hill past French Creek to a picnic where you will enjoy mouthwatering pulled pork and a breathtaking view!
Later that evening we have a sing-a-long and marshmallow roast in the saloon.
Or--why not-- just relaxing by the pool!
Or simply take in the view beside the pool!
On Tuesday night we have a Swing Dance party in the saloon. Grab a wrangler and hold on tight!
Talent show is every Wednesday night. You can bring anything to share... a joke, an impersonation, a song, or something else. The more we have, the more FUN it is!
On Thursday we give our horses the afternooon off. Be sure to catch the turn out right after lunch!
We offer a beautiful hike down Crazy Woman Canyon on Thursday afternoon. Many people prefer to rest or enjoy the pool or hot tub during this afternoon!
On Thursday night the Kids Program heads out with all the kids to an overnight sleepover, and the adults have the ranch to themselves! We have a gourmet meal and live entertainment in the saloon. It's always a great party!
Morning, afternoon, or all-day rides on Friday. After the rides we have a chuckwagon dinner with delicious BBQ that night.
Saturday afternoon wraps up the week with a Kid's Rodeo! We cheer the kids on as they barrel race and pole race around the arena, and there are even some clowns with crazy antics.
The final night at the guest ranch ends with an old fashioned Square Dance. Don't forget your cowboy boots!
Sunday morning we say good bye to our friends, old and new. One week is not enough for many friends, so they come back year after year. We hope you will come spend a week at Paradise to experience the ranch vacation yourself. We know your whole family will love it and cherish this family vacation --building FUN memories for life!
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Can You Die From Sleep-Deprivation?
Robbie Gonzalez and Levi Gadye
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The short answer? Yes, total sleep deprivation can almost certainly kill you. What's less clear is how it does it.
Before we get to the experimental and hypothetical ramifications of total sleep deprivation, let's pause briefly to address the much more pressing and pernicious issue of poor sleep hygiene, the long-term effects of which can also be deadly. THE MORE YOU KNOW, PEOPLE.
The Real Risk
The short-term consequences of poor or insufficient sleep have been well-documented, and include diminished cognitive and motor performance, impaired memory, blunted alertness, and an increased risk of injury – not to mention blighted sex lives. If you've ever pulled an all-nighter, you've experienced these effects firsthand. But even if you rarely go a night without sleep, there's a good chance you've suffered the ill-effects of sleep deprivation.
10 Reasons to go Back to Bed
It's Monday. For most of us, that means it's back to the grind — whether that grind be work,…
The exact figures vary from study to study, but according to a 2011 poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, 43% of Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 "rarely or never get a good night's sleep on weeknights." Nearly two-thirds of Americans said their sleep needs were not being met during the week. Sixty percent reported experiencing a sleep problem on an almost nightly basis.
The side-effects associated with prolonged periods of inadequate shuteye have been shown to be cumulative, and exact a harmful toll. In one of the most extensive human sleep deprivation studies ever conducted, test subjects restricted to six hours of sleep per night for 14 consecutive days performed just as poorly on cognitive and motor tasks as test subjects who had forgone sleep entirely for two nights in a row. In the long term, poor sleep hygiene has been shown to negatively impact "the heart, lungs and kidneys; appetite, metabolism and weight control; immune function and disease resistance; sensitivity to pain; reaction time; mood; and brain function." It is a risk factor for depression and substance abuse, and has been linked to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and certain forms of cancer.
Most of us need seven-to-eight hours of solid sleep per night to function properly, and many of us simply aren't getting it. Falling short of sleep requirements night after night is almost certainly compromising the health of hundreds of millions of people. Though its impacts are often gradual to the point of invisibility, experts suspect that lack of sleep is, in a very real way, killing us.
This is why you aren't sleeping right
Why can't you get a good night's sleep? The problem is that you probably don't realize what makes…
The Secrets Of Highly Efficient Napping
Not all naps are created equal. Some naps have been shown to rejuvenate where others boost…
Enough With The Lecture – What If I Just Stopped Sleeping? What Then?
Yes, you say, bored with our disquisition on the perils of poor sleep hygiene, but what about total sleep deprivation? What if I were to just stop sleeping completely? Would it kill me?
Well, yes. Almost certainly. As far as we know, however, no human has ever died due to intentional or forced sleep-deprivation. (Animals, however, have – more on that below.)
Unsurprisingly, the consequences of prolonged periods of absolute sleep deprivation are less thoroughly documented than those of merely insufficient slumber. What we do know has been cobbled together from a handful of studies, world-record attempts, and harrowing accounts like this one from psychotherapist John Schlapobersky, a consultant to the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture who was himself tormented with sleep deprivation:
I was kept without sleep for a week in all. I can remember the details of the experience, although it took place 35 years ago. After two nights without sleep, the hallucinations start, and after three nights, people are having dreams while fairly awake, which is a form of psychosis.
By the week's end, people lose their orientation in place and time — the people you're speaking to become people from your past; a window might become a view of the sea seen in your younger days. To deprive someone of sleep is to tamper with their equilibrium and their sanity.
Accounts from victims like Schlapobersky align with those of more formal test subjects. In her 2011 essay "Up All Night," Elizabeth Kolbert recounts one of the earliest studies of Nathaniel Kleitman, a 20th Century physiologist widely recognized as the father of modern sleep research. His chosen discipline could barely be called a field at the time, but Kleitman was, by the 1930s, wholly dedicated to the systematic investigation of sleep and wakefulness. As disrupting a system is often the best way to figure out how that system works, Kleitmen's initial experiments centered largely on sleep deprivation:
In one of Kleitman's first experiments, he kept half a dozen young men awake for days at a stretch, then ran them through a battery of physical and psychological tests. Frequently, he used himself as a subject. As a participant in the sleep-deprivation experiment, Kleitman stayed awake longer than anyone else—a hundred and fifteen hours straight. At one point, exhausted and apparently hallucinating, he declared, apropos of nothing in particular, "It is because they are against the system." (Asked what he meant, he said he'd been under the impression that he was "having a heated argument with the observer on the subject of labor unions.")
Fatal Familial Insomnia
115 hours is a long time, but humans have been known to tolerate significantly longer periods of wakefulness. Depending on who you ask, the world record for intentional sleep deprivation is somewhere between 11 and 19 days. The people who endure these long bouts of sleeplessness reportedly recover within a few days. No human death has been attributed to forced or intentional wakefulness... at least, not that we know of. Outcomes have, however, been fatal in rare instances when humans have been literally unable to sleep. Such is the case with fatal familial insomnia (FFI).
What happens when you really can't sleep — ever.
Stress, deadlines, or caffeine can give people a few sleepless nights, but there are some people…
FFI is an exceedingly rare prion disease of the brain. Its progression is marked by a complete inability to sleep, dementia, and eventually death, with the typical survival span for FFI patients being between 7 and 36 months. Its most simplified cause is damage to the thalamus, which receives input from many sensory systems, often via the spinal cord, and relays these signals to the rest of the brain.
The disease progresses like this: insomnia, hallucinations and temperature fluctuations (sweating); complete loss of sleep; rapid weight loss; dementia and irresponsiveness, followed by sudden death.
These symptoms, and others observed in studies of sleep loss, suggest prolonged periods of wakefulness may hasten death's arrival by "the disruption of critical functions," including ones related to hypometabolism. The hypometabolic body becomes unable to appropriately manage its energy intake and expenditure. It is accompanied by dysautonomia, in which the autonomic nervous system (fight or flight) goes into overdrive, further wasting energy.
These symptoms resemble those observed in animal investigations that have looked at the detrimental effects of prolonged wakefulness. Among these investigations is a series of experiments, led by University of Chicago researcher Allan Rechtschaffen, that showed definitively that sleep deprivation could prove fatal in rats.
Killing Rats With Total (And Partial) Sleep Deprivation
Results from a series of Rechtschaffen's experiments, published in 1989, showed that "all rats subjected to unrelenting total sleep deprivation died, usually after 2–3 weeks."
However, rats who were allowed no sleep at all were not the only ones to perish in the course of the experiments. The study's methods are worth recounting in detail – though, fair warning, animal lovers may wish to skip the next few paragraphs.
The researchers developed a simple mechanism to deprive rats of sleep. A 46-cm disk, divided along its diameter, was suspended over a shallow tray of water 2–3 centimeters deep. On one side of the disk the researchers would place a control rat, on the opposite side an experimental rat (the one to be deprived of sleep). The status of the rats – whether they were asleep or awake – was monitored via EEG, which measured brain activity, and EMG, which measured muscle movement. Whenever the experimental rat's brain and muscle activity indicated it was dozing off, the disk, stationary moments before, would spring to life, spinning in place a rate of 3.3 rpm. That might seem slow, but it was fast enough to bring both rats to attention and force them to move to avoid falling into the water below. In sleep-research circles, the technique is known as the "disk-over-water method." Its construction is roughly reproduced here, on the cover of Clete Anthony Kushida's Sleep Deprivation: Basic Science, Physiology, and Behavior.
The researchers tested three degrees of sleep deprivation, namely total sleep deprivation (TSD); paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD, in which the disk turned only when the sleep deprived animal drifted into REM sleep); and high EEG amplitude non-REM (HS2D) sleep deprivation. Though none of their protocols was able to eliminate its target form of sleep completely, no sleep-deprived animal could survive any of the three forms of sleep deprivation for long. TSD animals lasted 2–3 weeks; PSD animals persisted for about 5 week; HS2D animals endured for just shy of seven weeks.
The results suggested that different parts of sleep help preserve the body's necessary functions in different ways, but all are probably required, in general. As for how sleep deprivation contributed to the rats' demise, the researchers do not present a definitive cause of death. Possible explanations include severe drops in body temperature, catabolism (the breakdown of bodily molecules prior to death), and bacterial infection. While all three of these symptoms correlated with death via sleep-deprivation, none was shown to be necessary; keeping sleep-deprived rats warm, for instance, could not save them, and artificially cooling the bodies of control rats did not kill them. The results are perplexing, and contribute to sleep's status as one of biology's most baffling mysteries.
There's More Than One Way to Sleep
Sleep remains one of biology's most confounding mysteries. We are just beginning to understand how…
The effects of prolonged sleep deprivation were various and troubling. The sleep-deprived rats ate more food, but lost weight. They lost the ability to maintain a healthy body temperature. Their skin deteriorated. Many sleep-deprived rats contracted bacterial diseases, though their immune systems varied when it came to type and severity of degradation. The researchers reported no obvious brain damage. If sleep-deprived rats were granted reprieve before it was too late, they could avoid death, albeit with some problems with REM sleep during their recovery.
In short, losing sleep overall killed the rats quickly; losing certain types of sleep killed the rats a little less quickly, but still resulted in death; and the various changes in physiology that were observed could not be proven to be the actual cause of death. It stands to reason that you or I would suffer the same fate, were we, heaven forbid, subjected to some scaled-up version of the disk-over-water device.
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Q: iOS - Floating Single Button I need a floating button in my iPhone app, I saw many libraries online like this one: https://cocoapods.org/pods/LiquidFloatingActionButton
But I need it to be just a single button, not a menu - Do you know of any other libraries that do this? Or a way to customise one of the current libraries to do what I need?
Thanks!

A: import UIKit

final class AppDelegate: NSObject, UIApplicationDelegate {
    var window: UIWindow?

    func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

        let buttonDiameter: CGFloat = 44.0
        let floatingButton = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: buttonDiameter, height: buttonDiameter))
        floatingButton.layer.cornerRadius = buttonDiameter / 2.0
        floatingButton.backgroundColor = .redColor()
        window?.addSubview(floatingButton)

        return true
    }
}

This example would add a floating button to the top left corner of your app.
The important aspect of this code is that I am adding the button the UIWindow.
You can access the window of the app from any UIViewController whose view is added to the window via the property window.
To get notifications when a view controller is added to the window you can override the function:
didMoveToWindow()

A: There is an approach to this by using KCFloating action button and adding a tapGestureRecognizer to a view containing this button.
So, just adding KCFloatingActionButton's pod and adding another view containing it it's possible to have a single floating action button just as androids.
If you require more detail to solve this issue tell me and I'll try to help
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A: only copy and paste this code
    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {

            layoutFAB()
        }

        func layoutFAB() {
            let item = KCFloatingActionButton()
            item.buttonColor = UIColor(red: 188/255, green: 46/255, blue: 35/255, alpha: 1)
        }

        override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()

            let Fab = KCFloatingActionButton()

            Fab.addItem("a", icon: UIImage(named: "a")){ item in
               print("a")
            }
            }

            self.view.addSubview(Fab)
        }


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Our story starts in 1947 when President Harry Truman gave the first presidential address telecasted from the White House, Howard Hughes performed the maiden flight of the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built, and Bernard ("Bernie") Robinson, former Assistant District Director for the IRS, hung out his shingle by renting a one room office in the Jefferson Standard Life building in downtown Greensboro.
Bernie was diligent in his intent to deliver unparalleled client service. He built a legacy by bringing others into the firm who shared that same passion for making clients expect to receive the unexpected by delivering exceptional value. With the addition of Joe Robinson, Bernie's brother, in 1949 and Joe Kent the following year a partnership was born. Bernie, Joe R. and Joe K. practiced and prospered together for nearly 40 years. The firm developed a reputation for excellence in the services performed and advice given. The bond between the firm and its clients was unique and could be described as more of a collaboration of efforts than just providing accounting and tax services.
The firm moved from its downtown location to Muirs Chapel Road in December 1986. Joe R. retired in 1988 and Joe K. in 1989. Although Bernie Robinson retired in 1989, he remained with the firm as a consultant and advisor until he passed away in 1994. The original founding partners transitioned the firm to a successor group consisting of Freddy Robinson (Bernie's son), Patricia Price and Dan Hayes. These partners and the partners that have since joined the group have adopted the same values of quality and service as the original partners in addition to a commitment to firm growth in order to continually attract high quality professional staff.
Through prosperous and challenging economic times, Bernard Robinson & Company's focus has been consistent with Bernie's initial vision. We are honored to still service the descendants of our first three clients since 1947. With our client service driven focus, we have never strived to be the largest public accounting firm, simply the best at exceeding client expectations.
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Q: pandas groupby converts dtype of grouped columns from string to object I am facing an issue with the fact that pandas groupby is coercing a string column into an object column for no good reason.
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({"x":["a", "b"], "y":[1, 2]})
>>> df = df.astype({"x":"string", "y":"Int64"})
>>> df.dtypes
x    string
y     Int64
dtype: object
>>> df.groupby(["x"], as_index=False).sum().dtypes
x    object
y     Int64
dtype: object
>>> df.groupby(["x"]).sum().reset_index().dtypes
x    object
y     Int64
dtype: object

Is this a bug or an expected behaviour?
I can of course convert dtypes again after the groupby, but that's very annoying.
And not keeping the string dtype is causing issues in merges later in the code due to inconsistent column dtypes...
Any help to resolve this would be appreciated.

A: It is not a bug. string will be consider as object class in pandas while calculation. You can also check the type of each cell
df.applymap(type)
Out[72]:
               x              y
0  <class 'str'>  <class 'int'>
1  <class 'str'>  <class 'int'>
df.groupby(["x"], as_index=False).sum().applymap(type)
Out[73]:
               x              y
0  <class 'str'>  <class 'int'>
1  <class 'str'>  <class 'int'>

Ans you could also convert the column back to your original follow with astype
d = {"x":"string", "y":"Int64"})
df.groupby(["x"], as_index=False).sum().astype(d)


What is it that we do? Simple, we are Architects. But what does that mean? In our experience, everyone has heard of Architects and architecture, but few really know what we do.
Architecture is the art of creating space for habitation. Using the principles and elements of design and construction we design structures which define the places where people live, work and play.
It is a subtle difference to be sure from what people generally think of as the role of the architect. Most people we talk to think that we design and build buildings. That is part of it, but to look at it that way is to miss the essence of our expertise. We help you to analyze the patterns in which you want to live, work and play, and then we design spaces to promote those patterns in buildings that are beautiful, efficient and responsible.
The building is the instrument that we use to exercise our craft. Ours is not a building business, it is a people business.
For those who want some more fact based information about us, we are licensed to practice in 15 states, we've worked in the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota since 2000 and have recently relocated to Minnesota and Utah, our partners have 40+ years of combined experience and we can design just about anything including landscapes, graphics, renderings and so on.
But our passion is designing homes. A bespoke home for you.


It is so much fun to live with Dominic. The things that come out of that boy's mouth are hilarious.
During the last competition, said to one of our instructors, who was competing, "I hope you don't get disqualified." Of course, most people would have said, "Good luck."
Yesterday morning, Dominic was wanting to cuddle with his cat, who had decided to take up residence against my leg, on my bed. He started pushing at my leg and asked, "Are these your lower appendages?"
He keeps me laughing all day.


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Q: listbox resizes when label added: tkinter I'm making a GUI using .grid() because it has lot of buttons. I've put those in an interactive Frame at the top of the screen (frameone) and I have frametwo at the bottom where I want to print out messages based on what buttons a user presses. It's a battleship game, for context. but when I make frametwo and put a listbox in it, the listbox is resized to fit the text inside. I don't want to have to resize the window every time more labels are entered. Here's a working example:
from tkinter import *
import tkinter as tk
window = Tk()
window.title("Window")
window.geometry('150x350')     #I wanted the demonstration to work for you.

def addline():                 #Adding sample text
    Label(listbox, text='this is text').grid(sticky=N+W)

frameone = Frame(window, height=10, width=10)
frameone.grid(sticky=N)        #The top where the button goes...

Label(frameone, bg='yellow', text='This is frameone\n\n\n').grid(row=0, column=0)
                               #The yellow here is where all the buttons go...
addtext = Button(frameone, text = 'Add line:', command=addline)
addtext.grid(column=0,row=1)   #Button to add text...

frametwo = Frame(window, bg='red', height=10, width=10)
frametwo.grid(sticky=W)

listbox = Listbox(frametwo)
listbox.grid(sticky=W, pady=3, padx=3)         #This is the listbox that is wrongly resizing.

scrolltwo = Scrollbar(window, orient=HORIZONTAL)
scrolltwo.configure(command=listbox.yview)
scrolltwo.grid(sticky=S+E)     #I got lazy, I will put this on the side w/rowspan etc.

window.mainloop()

If this is a repeat question or somehow super obvious, I apologize. Also, sorry my GUI is hideous... I don't understand why this method isn't working. While looking for solutions, all I found were some very good explanations of .grid and how to make lists resize when they aren't. Everything helps, thanks.

A: You are treating the Listbox, listbox, like a Frame, when in fact it works differently. To add items to a Listbox, use it's insert function. So, to fix your problem, replace:
Label(listbox, text='this is text').grid(sticky=N+W)

With:
listbox.insert(END, 'this is text')

For more information on the tkinter Listbox widget, see the effbot documentation, here.


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TheLutterworthFox – An FM20 Blog
Welcome to my Football Manager Blog
FM20 – The Achievement Hunter v20
FM19 – The Achievement Hunter
FM18 -Hall of FM-ame
Guest Writer – Lewis Voce
(FM20) FK Haugesund – 2025 Season Review – Now Can we Retain it?
Welcome back! That's right another season is down, this is number 7! After last years great campaign where for the first time we won the Norwegian League/Cup double hopes are high for the upcoming season. Can we do the double-double? Let's take a look and see!
First things first let's take a look at the transfers
A lot of outs but no one I was really upset about. Tronstad, one of my originals left the club after falling out of favour. The other first-teamers to go were Oby, Ramadani, Teksum and Ibrahim. None of them were actually in my first XI and I decided to let them go onto new things. The other players to leave were all reserves who really hadn't progressed well
We also lost original player Ben Hansen who left after his contract was up.
So with a lot of midfielders leaving that was were I had to strengthen, I also needed to bring in a new RB to Lovik who returned to Arsenal after his loan ended. I managed to bring in 4 players but I have to say trying to improve this squad, with the tight squad rules, the homegrown rule and without over spending has been bloody tough. We have to have 16 "Homegrown" players leaving us only 9 foreign spots and with the foreign players I have being really the best I could get and for a decent fee it was incredibly hard to "go mad" in the transfer market!
Elvind Helgesen – Right Wing Back – £1.6m from Brann
The RB I needed and for a relatively decent price. Helgesen can also play in central midfield and will be a big player this season. He has 12-13+ in all the attributes I require for a quality attacking RWB.
Tobian Svendsen – Central Midfield – £2m from Molde
Svendsen is guy I've been looking at for a while. The fee is quite high but he looks amazing. Technically a left midfielder but I felt he had everything required to play the attacking Mezzala role in the centre of midfield.
Adrian Hansen – Central Midfield – £700k from Lillestrom
A cock up on my part. Hansen was signed for the first time but what I didn't realise was I put a clause in his contract to send him out on loan. He complained and I eventually caved and let him go out for the season. A good player, young and has some great mentals.
Valentin Antov – Defensive Midfield – £2.5m from CSKA Sofia
The sale of Ramadani happened mid-season and Antov was my replacement. One foreign player out, one in! Antov looks really good, can play DM but can also play as a CB. He will be back-up to Solbakken who tends to like getting booked and therefore suspended a lot!
So 4 transfers in, 3 CMs and 1 RWB! You can see where my gaps are. Like I said it was a frustrating season. I didn't want to lose my foreign players as I felt there were as good as I could get. The players I was looking at to replace them were quality but the fees were just too high. I'm not breaking the bank for no reason!
The 25-Man Squad
So here is my 25-man Squad for the season
With 3 in's to the first team and 6 outs I had some room to promote a couple of reserve players. I put GK Knudsen back into the 2nd team as well meaning 4 players came up from the reserves:
Aleksander Bozic – Goalkeeper – Bozic has really impressed me in the reserves and will come and challenge for the No. 2 spot with Hetle
Stian Overenget – Right Back/Centre Back – The only player in 6 Youth Intakes to actually be any good and I'm really excited by this guy. I mentioned him in the previous post and decided against loaning him out.
Thomas Likeskare – Central Midfield – Another intake recruit but from way back in 2021. He was a squad filler and actually ended up going out on loan midway through the season.
Alexandro Guimaraes – Central Midfield – Another midfielder but this guy I am so excited about, signed in 2023 and improving at a rate of knots. He won't play lots due to the sheer number of midfielders we have but hopefully will keep improving via mentoring.
So signings in place, squad assembled, let's do this!
Europa League II
First up is the conclusion to the Europa League II, the comps overlap two Norwegian season and due to winning our group we bypassed the Last 32 and went straight into the Last 16 where we faced a tricky tie against Rangers. Two tough legs but we made it through 3-2.
In the Quarters we faced what I left was a winnable game against Braga. After drawing the home leg 1-1 (they scored a last gasp equaliser) I was concerned and these concerns came to fruition as we lost the away leg 1-0 to get dumped out.
Now to the main event, the money-maker, the Champions League where once again we went straight into the Group Stage as 3rd seeds. We were handed what looked like a "getoutable" group. Man Utd, Sporting Lisbon and CSKA Moskow stood in our way.
After getting smashed at home to United in our first game I was worried, we then produced a stunning display to hammer Sporting away from home 4-2, after that our form dipped, we only managed 2 more points but this was enough to get us 3rd place and drop us down to the Europa League.
It was frustrating now to give it a better shot but it's a one place improvement from the last time.
Something to note is our co-efficient has now dropped meaning from next season the Norwegian league winners will enter the Champions League at the Play Off Qualifying Round.
Norwegian Cup
Right now for the domestic trophies, I was more determined than ever to do the "Double-Double" so went full strength in both comps.
It really did pay off in the cup!
We eased our way into the final once again, the only struggle was in the 3rd Round where it took us penalties to get past Valarenga. We had some tough looking ties along the way but got past Molde and Viking to get to the final where we would face Rosenborg once more.
It's always a tough game against Rosenborg, and it proved to be just that. Chances were at a premium, the game was poor and at the end it would finish 0-0, extra time came and went with no goals scored and it went to penalties.
The penalties were shocking, we missed out first 2, they missed their first 3! The next 4 were scored meaning it was down to the newest member of the team Antov to win the game, he missed!!
So it went to sudden death and we were helped by an old team mate. Lovik, on loan at Rosenborg from Arsenal stepped up and MISSED! Up steps superstar CB Max Normann Williamsen and he was the calmest man in the ground to slot the ball in the left corner to win the game!
Our 5th cup success in 7 season! Amazing!
So the cup is won but could we win the league. I was confident, the odds had is 4-5 odd-ons to win it. But could we handle the pressure?
Boy could we! I always find the start of the season the hardest, can we get off to flier? Will teams take the game to us? Well they did but we were incredible! In the first 10 games we won 9, drew 1 and conceded absolutely nothing! Never ever have I had a defence as tight as this. But then came the slip up, a 1-0 defeat to Ranheim. It came out of nowhere but it didn't slow the Haugesund train down!
We would go on another incredible unbeaten run, 7 wins followed by a draw at home to Viking would put us clear at the top, we just had to keep winning and the title was ours. The players never ever felt the pressure, after the Viking game we won the next 6 games meaning with 4 games left we had eased to the league title. The title was gained with a fantastic 3-2 home win over Rosenborg.
After this form dipped, I messed about with the team and in the final 5 games we won 2, drew 1 and lost 2. Poor but I wasn't fussed!
League Results – April to July
League Results – August – December
Another incredible season, at one point I really felt we could go unbeaten all season but that Ranheim defeat put pay to that. It was the defensive record that got me. No goals let in over the first 10 games and only 15 conceded over the whole season!
So the double-double gained and boy am I happy!
Star Men
This section is going to be like de-ja-vu unfortunately!
Player of the Season for the 3rd consecutive season went to DM Marcus Solbakken. Another incredible season, this guy is the rock in the middle which everyone seems to feed off. 32 games play, averaging 7.59, chipping in with 2 goals and 5 assists.
And for the 3rd straight season superstar Oscar Aga ended as the clubs top scorer. He overtook Fred Friday as the club record league goalscorer as well!
36 games, 22 goals and 2 assists with an average rating of 7.24. His goals scored have dipped this season but he is still a force to be reckoned with.
And for a 3rd straight season LWB Periera ended with the most assists!
But my player of the season goes to Central Midfielder Joshua Kitolano, this guy was brilliant all season. 30 games, 6 goals, 9 assists, it was his lung bursting runs that got me, time and time again he would break through the lines to get the ball into positions where a goal was inevitable.
Achievement Gained
When I did this challenge last season there was one achievement I just could not get, I had set myself it in FM19 as I have never ever got this Steam Achievement EVER! That achievement was "Do not concede in 10 compeitive games" and guess what? I'VE BLOODY DONE IT!
That run at the start of the season was what did it. 11 games in total without conceding, 8 league games and 3 cup games. AMAZING!
So another season down and you may be able to tell from the tone of this post I've struggled slightly. Not in results, they have been amazing but just with the season in general. I've struggled to improve the team enough over the past few seasons to really be having a proper push at Europe and that's being stifled by the squad rules and the fact either I can't entice better players to join or the fees are too high. I could easily dismantle my whole squad and spend £20m on new players but I feel that would ruin the cohesion we already have.
There are a lot of reasons but I don't want to bore you with it all, the lack of decent youth intakes, the ease of the domestic comps, the squad rules, etc, etc are frustrating me and when I get frustrated I switch off.
So because of this I've decided to leave Haugesund and look for pastures new. With the achievement challenge being the No. 1 priority in this save I have to keep moving to keep ticking achievements off. bar an unbeaten season and winning the Euro Champions League I've pretty much ticked off every single achievement I could get here and due to the fact I have to win all 5 Champions League I feel now is the time to look for a new challenge, move out of Europe and try and quickly tick off the 4 Non-European Champions League's before returning back to Europe and hopefully completing the challenge.
I'm sure there will be many people who are annoyed with this but this save was never about staying at one place. I could stay another 3 seasons to tick off the 10 season achievement but I think another 3 seasons here will completely ruin my love for the save. I'm a journeyman and I have to keep moving to keep up my motivation.
So the next move will be out of Europe and currently I have a few option of where to move to, these are:
So lot's of options to choose from….hopefully. My next post will reveal where I've moved to and will also say a goodbye to Haugesund. I've had an incredible 7 years here, it's been better than I expected and I feel moving now will be the best thing to do to keep those memories of Norway and Haugesund happy ones.
Anyway that's all for now. Thanks for reading!
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require "cmd/style"

describe "brew style" do
  around do |example|
    begin
      FileUtils.ln_s HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATH, HOMEBREW_LIBRARY/"Homebrew"
      FileUtils.ln_s HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATH.parent/".rubocop.yml", HOMEBREW_LIBRARY/".rubocop_audit.yml"

      example.run
    ensure
      FileUtils.rm_f HOMEBREW_LIBRARY/"Homebrew"
      FileUtils.rm_f HOMEBREW_LIBRARY/".rubocop_audit.yml"
    end
  end

  describe "Homebrew::check_style_json" do
    let(:dir) { mktmpdir }

    it "returns RubocopResults when RuboCop reports offenses" do
      formula = dir/"my-formula.rb"

      formula.write <<~'EOS'
        class MyFormula < Formula

        end
      EOS

      rubocop_result = Homebrew::Style.check_style_json([formula])

      expect(rubocop_result.file_offenses(formula.realpath.to_s).map(&:message))
        .to include("Extra empty line detected at class body beginning.")
    end
  end

  describe "Homebrew::check_style_and_print" do
    let(:dir) { mktmpdir }

    it "returns false for conforming file with only audit-level violations" do
      # This file is known to use non-rocket hashes and other things that trigger audit,
      # but not regular, cop violations
      target_file = HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATH/"utils.rb"

      rubocop_result = Homebrew::Style.check_style_and_print([target_file])

      expect(rubocop_result).to eq false
    end
  end
end


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SANTA CLARA, CA, July 30, 2015 – The prpl Foundation, an open-source non-profit foundation focused on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures, today announced its sponsorship of the annual Wireless Battle of the Mesh (commonly referred to as 'BattleMesh') event, to be held Aug. 3-9 in Maribor, Slovenia.
BattleMesh brings together mesh networking enthusiasts, community networking activists, and developers of mesh protocols, firmware and management systems from across the world to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX6, OLSR, 802.11s and Static Routing.
The goal of the tournament is to set up hands-on test beds for each available mesh routing protocol with a standard test procedure for the different mesh networks. During the different BattleMesh events, hardware and software configuration based on the OpenWrt Board Support Package will be used along with packages for each protocol implementation. The event also provides an opportunity for participants to develop testing tools for PHY/MAC radio layers (drivers, scripts and PHY analyzers).
"We have created a specific BattleMesh-ready OpenWrt GitHub repository to be the baseline software stack; the hardware that will be used for experiments will be based on Qualcomm Atheros chipsets (as has been the case previously), because we have upstream Wi-Fi driver support – so all participants will be focused on the same starting point as the reference hardware and software stack," said Simon Wunderlich, the event's organizer.
This year's tournament also features talks and workshops to discuss the latest developments and new ideas in OpenWrt, Mesh protocols and network management tools such as map tools, as well as social events.
"The prpl Foundation is delighted to sponsor the BattleMesh event as it aligns with our philosophy of leveraging industry collaboration, open standards and the open source community to drive interoperability and security from device to datacenter," said Art Swift, president of the prpl foundation. "Our involvement with BattleMesh highlights our active support of the OpenWrt community and initiatives with our prplWrt engineering working group – especially since the event leverages hardware from Qualcomm, a prpl member company, to standardize the test platform."
prpl (pronounced "Purple"), is an open-source, community-driven, collaborative, non-profit foundation targeting and supporting the MIPS architecture – and open to others – with a focus on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures. prpl represents leaders in the technology industry investing in innovation in efficiency, portability and compatibility for the good of a broad community of developers, businesses and consumers. Initial domains targeted by prpl include datacenter, networking & storage, connected consumer and embedded/IoT. See: www.prplfoundation.org.


\nTHE country's Legislature will spend most of its time during the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament putting the legal underpinnings that are needed to make the local economy tick, according to the legislative agenda that was presented by President Robert Mugabe on September 15, 2015.
\nGovernment is moving to put the structural framework that is required to accommodate both domestic and foreign capital for the implementation of the country's economic blueprint, Zim-Asset.
No less than 15 of the 24 proposed bills – representing 60 percent of the agenda – are clearly the building blocks of the economic environment that is envisaged by Government.
Not only are the interventions meant to attract and simplify processes for local and international investments, they are also designed to protect it.
There is even a proposed legislative framework that is designed to nurture and grow small and medium enterprises (SMEs) whose importance to the economy is slowly been entrenched.
\nFor quite a long time, the country's institutions and legal framework was considered not to be sensitive to the concerns of the investing public, and it is widely believed that this forced many investors to hold back.
It is therefore unsurprising that the latest World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index, which measures how the business environment is perceived, ranks Zimbabwe 171 out of 183 economies.
However, the proposed overhaul of the Companies Act and the amendments to the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIA) Act, including reforms to the Banking Act, will provide a great deal of assurance to investors.
It is further re-assuring that in the past fortnight, ZIA has been seized with legal aspects of the amendments to the Companies Act.
\nThe statutory body has already invited comments from lawyers and chartered accountants on the amendments, which are expected to be passed by February 2016.
Though Government launched the One-Stop-Shop Investment Centre on December 13, 2010 in order to cut the bureacracy that was inherent in registering investment projects, over the years there has been structural weaknesses that have been noticed. Authorities are moving in to correct them.
The number of days taken to process a business application is considered to have been reduced to five but there currently exists impediments that make this realisation difficult.
For example, most of the officials at the centre do not have the power to make definitive decisions on applications, a development that has been causing some delays.
This is precisely what is driving Government to transform the centre into a "true" One-Stop-Shop Investment Centre.
\nFurthermore, amendments to the Banking Act will be able to guarantee the security of investments.
Crucially, President Mugabe's indication that there was scope for further tax measures to protect the local manufacturing industry is very instructive as to the direction that Government is taking.
"In order to promote the revival and growth of the local manufacturing sector, action is being taken to limit the importation of goods for which there is adequate local production capacity," explained President Mugabe.
Similarly, he provided scope for additional amendment to the Labour Act in order to cater for the concerns of business.
\nA Commission that will fully concentrate on making local industries competitive will be an added benefit for business.
The recently-opened session of Parliament will be seized with all these reforms.
\nZim-Asset makes it clear that mineral value addition and beneficiation is one of the key pillars expected to anchor local economic growth through 2018. It is precisely for this reason that the Mineral Exploration and Marketing Corporation Bill, which is tailored to transform the statutory body into a "full-fledged mineral exploration", and an institution for value addition and beneficiation – the Pan African Minerals University of Science and Technology – is being prioritised.
\nAs a quid pro quo, Government, which is making several far-reaching concessions to industry, expects the latter to reciprocate through offering value to consumers. But in order to protect consumers to the excesses of business, the Consumer Protection Bill will be pushed through the current session of Parliament.
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has for long been pushing this agenda.
\nSo instead of simple moral suasion, Government is putting in place a legal architecture to protect the rights of consumers.While local businesses are being guaranteed the local market, they are also being burdened with the responsibility of treating consumers fairly.
Operationalising the Zimbabwe Standards Regulatory Authority, as Government has set out to do, will also complement this intervention.
\nIn addition, the Cooperative Societies Act (Amendment Bill) will provide an over-arching framework to promote SMEs.
\nThere is, therefore, every indication that Government is determined to put the economy on the growth path.


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After the 1: 3 bankruptcy of Borussia Dortmund at Dietmar Hamanning CP and the associated departure from the premier class ex-national player Dietmar Haman once again went hard with the BVB in the court. A little later, the 48-year-old laid. Musical tone of his statements: Coach Marco Rose had little chance from the beginning.
If you go to a club like Dortmund, where there was always the mentality discussion, then as a coach, you need the 100% support of the association. That was not given for Rose with the whereabouts of Eric, says Haman in his column on Sky That the commitment of the 45-year-old at BVB was under no good star.
Edwin Eric moved to 2020/21 from the assistant to the main supervisor coach of black yellow after Lucien Favre had to take his hat. After initial difficulties Eric and BVB swam on a high-performance wave, there was still room for two in the championship and celebrated the victory in the DFB Cup. However, the obligation of Rose, who came for five million euros from Playback, but had brought the Dortmund in the winter before the beginning of the victory train in winter.
BVB leadership acted undecided, half-hearted, hesitant
Conflict potential was bored by the media. Ultimately, the original plan was to reinstall Eric as a co-trainer, discarded, who held young exercise leader as a Dietmar Hamanning director in the club.
It was due to the circumstances that Marco Rose has already been committed to the last winter, only the fact that Edwin Eric has stayed in the club, in my opinion, he has undermined the authority of the coach from the first day, Haman weather. The fact that you have kept Eric further, underpin the inconsistency of the BVB leadership. These have acted as the team currently undecided, half-hearted, hesitant.
The fact that has stayed Eric seemed to look at me as if told, 'Well, we retain, if anything happens.' And that's exactly how they play football, says Haman.
Under Rose, the BVB in the Bundesliga table has two ranked two and stands in the trophy in the second round, footballer was rarely convincing that was rarely convincing that in the Champions League also heavily weighs. According to the Ruhr news, therefore, doubts about Rose should already make the round.
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I Feel Love ist ein Disco-Hit von Donna Summer aus dem Jahr 1977. Produziert wurde der Song von Giorgio Moroder. Aufgrund seiner innovativen Produktionstechnik und seines ausschließlich mit synthetischen Mitteln produzierten Instrumentals gilt der Song als Pionierstück der Elektronischen Tanzmusik und als bedeutender Vorläufer der House- und Techno-Musik.

Geschichte
Der Song erschien auf dem 1976 eingespielten Donna-Summer-Album I Remember Yesterday, auf dem verschiedene Stilrichtungen vergangener Jahrzehnte durchlaufen werden. Der Song und das Album wurden in Moroders Musicland Studios in München aufgenommen.

Mit I Feel Love wird der Entwurf eines futuristischen Titels vorgestellt, dessen musikalischer Gehalt, abgesehen vom Gesang, im Wesentlichen von einer Synthesizer-Sequenz getragen wird. Damit war der Titel eine der ersten von elektronischen Instrumenten dominierten Disco-Produktionen. Während die Album-Version knapp sechs Minuten dauert, erschien der Titel auch in einer über achtminütigen Maxisingle-Version. Brian Eno erkannte bereits kurz nach der Veröffentlichung die innovative Kraft des Titels. Weitere Musiker wie Gabi Delgado-López und Jürgen Engler gaben an, insbesondere durch die Sequenz des Songs geprägt worden zu sein.

Der Titel entwickelte sich nach der Veröffentlichung im Juni 1977 schnell zu einem Clubhit in der Schwulenszene und belegte schließlich Platz 1 der englischen Singlecharts. Es war Donna Summers einziger Nummer-eins-Hit in Großbritannien. In den USA belegte der Titel Platz 6 und wurde mit einer Goldenen Schallplatte ausgezeichnet. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gelangte I Feel Love auf Platz 3 der Singlecharts.

Bekannt ist dieser Titel den Fernsehzuschauern in Deutschland als musikalische Untermalung des Trailers der Science-Fiction-Sendereihe der ARD, die von 1978 bis 1981 in loser Folge samstagabends ausgestrahlt wurde; gezeigt wurden dazu im Wechsel ein  Saturn-V-Raketenstart und Bilder aus Pulp-Magazinen.

Sequenzereinsatz
Beeinflusst durch den Krautrock und die Berliner Schule wollte Moroder für I Remember Yesterday ein zukunftsweisendes Stück produzieren. Der Gebrauch des Sequenzers war bereits durch Tangerine Dream auf den Alben Phaedra (1974) und insbesondere Rubycon (1975) etabliert worden.

I Feel Love basiert im Wesentlichen auf einer Basslinie, die von Robert Wedel (Popol Vuh) programmiert wurde. Wedel, seines Zeichens Toningenieur, Programmierer und Assistent von Eberhard Schoener, hatte dieselbe Sequenzertechnik für das ebenfalls 1977 veröffentlichte Album From Here to Eternity von Giorgio Moroder angewandt. Da Moroder über keine entsprechende Technik verfügte, war er auf den Synthesizer Moog 3p angewiesen, den Schoener 1969 nach Deutschland brachte. In einem Interview mit dem Deutschen Museum äußerte Schoener, dass er hierzu in die USA gereist war, um Bob Moog in seiner Werkstatt in Trumansburg, New York, zu treffen. Moog hatte jedoch seinerzeit kein fertiges Gerät vorrätig und verkaufte Schoener stattdessen den Moog 3p der Beatles, den diese gerade zurückgeschickt hatten, weil John Lennon die neuartige Technik als "zu kompliziert" erschien. In I Feel Love ist folglich derselbe Moog 3p zu hören wie auf dem Beatles-Album Abbey Road. Dieser steht heute im Deutschen Museum in München. Moroder gab später an, vom Moog 3p keine Ahnung gehabt zu haben. Selbst wenn er diesen besäße, "hätte er dem Gerät keinen Ton entlocken können." Hierfür engagierte er Wedel.

Eberhard Schoener legte dar, gemeinsam mit Wedel die Art des Sequenzereinsatzes erfunden und erstmals auf dem 1977er Krautrock-Album Trance-formation verwendet zu haben. Schoener selbst nannte die Technik das "Black-&-Decker-Prinzip".

Verärgert darüber, dass Wedel dieses Konzept an Moroder weitergab, führte Schoener daraufhin einen Rechtsstreit gegen Moroder – verlor diesen aber aufgrund seiner "Unerfahrenheit".

Coverversionen und Remixes

Von dem Titel gab es verschiedene Remixes und Coverversionen. So hatte Patrick Cowley mit einem 15-minütigen Remix 1982 einen Clubhit, und 1984 veröffentlichten Bronski Beat auf ihrem Album The Age of Consent eine Version des Stücks. Die ausgekoppelte Single wurde gemeinsam mit Marc Almond 1985 als Medley eingespielt, bestehend aus den Donna-Summer-Titeln I Feel Love und Love to Love You Baby sowie aus John Leytons Johnny Remember Me. Sie belegte in England Platz 3 der Singlecharts.

Eine Singleveröffentlichung mit neuerlichen Remixes und neuen Vocals von Donna Summer erreichte 1995 nochmals die englischen Top 10.

Die Blue Man Group coverte den Song zusammen mit der US-amerikanischen Synthie-Pop-Band Venus Hum, den Gesangspart übernahm deren Sängerin Annette Strean. Diese percussion- und gitarrenlastige Version erschien auf den Alben The Complex (2003) und How to be a Megastar (2008) und wurde zusammen mit der Band bei den zugehörigen Tourneen live gespielt.

Die Red Hot Chili Peppers haben den Song während ihrer By the Way World Tour mehrmals live angespielt (Gesang John Frusciante).

Weblinks
 Heiko Wandler: in: Michael Fischer, Fernand Hörner (Hg.): Songlexikon. Encyclopedia of Songs, Donna Summer I Feel Love, 18. Mai 2012

Einzelnachweise

Lied 1977
Popsong
Disco-Song
Nummer-eins-Hit
Donna Summer


May be hard for some of you to swallow, but the fact of the matter is I would take either of these two cars in a heartbeat! I always thought the Vega was a cool car, much cooler than the Pinto...too bad they were built like garbage. Does anyone know if the 'Champ' is still around?
54 Champ C5 Hamilton car. In my family since 1958.
It looks longer, as well as the enlarged cutout shape.