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Harvard's historic Fox Club back to all-male after 'provisional' membership revoked for women
Daniella Silva
Jul 6th 2017 1:01PM
Harvard University's exclusive and historic Fox Club — whose members have included Bill Gates and T.S. Eliot — has reverted to male-only after revoking membership for its nine "provisional" female members, according to The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper.
The traditionally all-male social club had given the nine women "provisional" status in the face of looming sanctions by Harvard on single-gender groups, The Crimson reported on Monday. But screenshots obtained by the newspaper of messages allegedly among recent graduates indicate that the club's graduate board revoked membership for all of its provisional members and invited only the men to reapply for full membership.
The decision follows Harvard's announcement of sanctions in May 2016 against students who become members of single-gender groups. The new rules are set to take effect in the fall of 2017, according to Harvard's website.
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But as of this May, only four of the 23 single-gender clubs, fraternities and sororities had adopted successful gender-neutral membership since the announcement of the sanctions, according to The Crimson. One other all-male group, the Spee Club, added women before the announcement, becoming the first of the eight remaining male-only clubs to become co-ed.
In 1984, nine all-male "final clubs" voted to sever their official ties with the school rather than admit women members. The university itself didn't become co-ed until the late 1970s.
Traditionally, such elite and often secretive Ivy League groups drew upon wealthy male students and family backgrounds for admission, said Maris Vinovskis, a professor of history and public policy at the University of Michigan.
"Ivy League schools, until recently, basically attracted privileged individuals," Vinovskis said. "That began changing in the 1960s, and they became more meritocracy-oriented as opposed to solely picking up people from prep schools and highly prestigious areas."
Since then, institutions of higher education have been grappling with how to reconcile their push for diversity with the sometimes century-old clubs, he said.
"As these students come in, will they feel as welcome in these kind of social clubs?" Vinovskis asked.
In the correspondence obtained by The Crimson, former Fox Club undergraduate President Daniel Skarzynski allegedly said graduate board President Hugh M. Nesbit had told him that provisional members were no longer a part of the club.
"For the concerned parties, [Nesbit] also said that if you'd like to be re-considered for membership, you should send an email to that effect ... and that the grad board will vote individually," Skarzynski wrote in the message, according to The Crimson. "However, he said this invite for reapplication does not apply to female members until such a time as the club votes successfully to add women to its membership."
A club graduate vote that would have allowed the club to admit women narrowly failed the two-thirds threshold needed to pass last year, The Crimson reported.
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Skarzynski and Nesbit didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
Fox Club first became co-ed in October 2015, when its undergraduate members admitted a group of junior and senior female students. But the Rev. Douglas W. Sears, who served as graduate board president when the women joined the club, told NBC News that the decision drew protests from some of the graduate board leaders.
The club's graduate leadership ended up letting the young women remain, but only as "provisional" members. Some male members became provisional members, as well, "in solidarity with the women," he said.
"A minority of the graduates inclusive of the graduate board are not in favor of women joining the club, so in this case. We have an example of a republic prevailing over a democracy," he said.
"The young women who came in the club were just such wonderful people in this instance and tremendously accomplished," he said, adding that he felt the club was on the wrong side of history.
John Thelin, a professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Kentucky and author of "A History of American Higher Education," said the incident was reminiscent of rifts among secret societies in the 1960s and '70s after universities became co-ed. Some, including Yale University's highly secretive Skull and Bones society, chose to remain all male.
"There began to be men who were tapped for these societies who turned them down," he said.
Thelin said that historically, Ivy League schools have benefited from opening their campuses and clubs to women and minorities.
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"By extending their talent net beyond their traditional constituents, these institutions have become so much more talented and more vibrant,' he said.
"With these kind of internal squabbles, I think there are some pretty serious values involved," he said, later adding, "I would say that the dinosaurs seemed to have come to life, maybe, in Cambridge."
Harvard's planned sanctions would not permit students who join "unrecognized single-gender social organizations" to hold leadership positions on recognized school organizations and teams.
"These organizations remain free to establish their membership practices and students will continue to have the discretion whether to join them," the university says on its website. "Rather, Harvard is focused on ensuring that the student activities it funds and sponsors advance the College's commitment to non-discrimination."
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In addition, students who join such groups will not be eligible for certain prestigious fellowships, such as the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.
At the time, the dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, said keeping women out of the traditionally all-male final clubs was a "discriminatory practice."
But the sanctions have drawn criticism from those who say they violate students' right to freedom of association.
And Sears said they may have an unintended consequence: "killing the female clubs."
"These clubs formed a microcosm to be supportive of women at Harvard," he said, adding that the female clubs weren't consulted before the decision.
"Harvard is so upset, so concerned with the role of women, that they pull out the rug from underneath them on this issue," he said.
"I would say the whole thing is being very clumsily done," he added.
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Steve Bannon's Heart Doesn't Matter. His Actions Do.
Steve Bannon at Trump Tower, November 11, 2016.Drew Angerer/Getty Image
The man tapped to be Donald Trump's Karl Rove provided the bullhorn for the alt-right, which relentlessly identifies Jews as the champions of the country's most nefarious forces
Bari Weiss
If Steve Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist, is really an anti-Semite, why is the ZOA hosting him at its annual dinner? If Bannon is an anti-Semite, then how come Alan Dershowitz is defending him on CNN? If Bannon is an anti-Semite, why did he employ a man who wears a kippah? How did he fund Seinfeld, that pinnacle of American Jewishness? How did he work among so many members of the tribe at Goldman Sachs? And what about Ivanka and Jared?
These are a few of the questions that I've been fielding from right-leaning friends, Jewish and not, since Trump announced that the chairman of Breitbart News would become his Karl Rove.
In making the case that Bannon is a menace to the Jewish people, many are pointing to the fact that his ex-wife accused him of anti-Semitism in their divorce proceedings. She said, in sworn testimony, that when they went on a tour of the tony Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles: "The biggest problem" he had with the school "is the number of Jews that attend. He said that he doesn't like Jews and that he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiny brats' and that he didn't want the girls going to school with Jews." At another school, again according to his ex-wife, he apparently asked why there were so many Hanukkah books in the library.
Divorces are ugly. We'll never know if he said any of this. But it's totally irrelevant.
There is only one statement relevant to answering the Bannon question. It's a single sentence he declared proudly last summer at the Republican National Convention when a reporter asked him about Breitbart: "We're the platform for the alt-right."
During the election, when I was just beginning to hear about the alt-right, I turned to—where else?—Breitbart to get a sense of the movement's leadership and how it understood itself. In March, Milo Yiannopoulos and Allum Bokhari published this helpful guide.
"Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies," the pair wrote, "they have become public enemy No. 1 to Beltway conservatives—more hated, even, than Democrats or loopy progressives."
They go on: "There are many things that separate the alternative right from old-school racist skinheads … but one thing stands out above all else: intelligence. Skinheads, by and large, are low-information, low-IQ thugs driven by the thrill of violence and tribal hatred. The alternative right are a much smarter group of people—which perhaps suggests why the left hates them so much. They're dangerously bright."
Two of the brightest stars in the alt-right's constellation, I learned from this article published on Bannon's website, are Steve Sailer and Richard Spencer.
Who are these men?
Sailer is the author of a book titled America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance." I won't link to the book here. But the book's argument is that Obama's deepest commitment is not to the country but to his race—or more accurately, half of his race: "Obama's primal need for team triumph explains much about his life, both its dramatic political ascent and its pervasive racialism. To Obama, the black race was always his team, and he would do anything to see them win."
Race is one of Sailer's favorite subjects. In the aftermath of Katrina, he wrote on Vdare, a publication that describes itself as "the voice of the Historic American Nation," of black Americans: "The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society."
When a person is obsessed with race, the Jews are never far behind.
Last year Sailer wrote an article titled "Are Jews Losing Control of the Media?" in which he wrote:
It's uncomfortable for liberal Jews to admit that the massive immigration they've backed so viscerally is destabilizing the America in which they've attained such a central role. They'd rather continue to portray themselves as unprivileged outsiders, a strategy that has worked well with American gentiles. But with about one-third of American billionaires and about one-sixth of global billionaires being Jewish, it's not a marketing tactic that's very convincing.
Richard Spencer may be a more familiar name: He's making headlines this week because Twitter just banned him. Spencer calls himself a "racial idealist" and believes, as he's put it, "race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity." Give him credit for ambition: "Our dream is a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence."
How will this white ethno-state be built? Simple. Ethnic cleansing: "Today, in the public imagination, ethnic cleansing has been associated with civil war and mass murder, understandably so. But this does not need to be the case."
Eugenics can also play a critical role: "In the popular imagination, the word 'eugenics' conjures up images of death panels, concentration camps, and piles of bodies."
That's mistaken, says Spencer. Eugenics isn't so bad: "Ultimately, the 'totalitarian' connection to eugenics has never held much water. For instance, the eugenics programs in Nazi Germany were, historically speaking, quite unremarkable: They were begun during the Weimar Republic and were no more advanced than those of Sweden or the state of California."
How would the Jews fit into this racial breakdown? "Ashkenazi Jews are not white," according to Spencer. "Every time I read about a Jew somewhere identifying as a white person, I cringe."
We will never know what's in Steve Bannon's heart. What we know is that he is proud to have provided the bullhorn for a movement that unabashedly promotes white nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the relentless identification of Jews as the champions of the country's most nefarious forces, like "globalism" and "elitism," that the alt-right seeks to destroy. It's no coincidence that a publication that identifies as the "platform" for this movement thinks nothing of calling Bill Kristol "a renegade Jew" or smearing Anne Applebaum: "Hell hath no fury like a Polish, Jewish, American elitist scorned."
Last time I checked, we Jews come from a faith that judges not by intention but by deed.
Yet Jews on the center-right seem to be facing a particular challenge when it comes to Bannon and this administration. The anti-Semitism coming from the left is worse, they say. Let's hold our fire. Maybe it's not worth it to use our political capital on this guy. Maybe he's not so bad.
Is it frustrating to watch left-wingers who remained mum about Jeremiah Wright now protesting in the streets about the president-elect's appointment? Is it maddening to witness the sudden sensitivity to anti-Semitism of so many Jews who are willfully blind to it among their political ranks? Who have nothing to say about the BDS movement, the bullying of pro-Israel students on college campuses across this country, the bellicosity of Iran, and of a nuclear deal that so clearly emboldened the ayatollahs?
Get over it. We don't have the luxury of holding political grudges in an age where Steve Bannon is going to be the president's right-hand man.
Hawkishness on Israel is not the litmus test of a person's decency. To hold your tongue as the godfather of the alt-right is installed in the West Wing is deplorable.
Bari Weiss is the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism (Penguin Random House). She is a former opinion editor and writer at The New York Times. From 2011-2013, she was a senior editor at Tablet.
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Q: How to assign values to ndarray variable using loops in python Defined an ndarray a with dtype as object and filled it with a dictionary
a = np.ndarray(shape=(2,3,4), dtype=object)
a.fill({'position':(0,0,0)})

This is the value of a
array([[[{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}],
    [{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}],
    [{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}]],

   [[{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}],
    [{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}],
    [{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 0)}]]], dtype=object)

I want to replace each tuple in the dictionary to a tuple(X-index, Y-index, Z-index). I tried numpy.ndenumerate loop to assign values as in following code
for (x_index, y_index, z_index), temp in np.ndenumerate(a):
    a[x_index][y_index][z_index]['position'] = (x_index, y_index, z_index)

Each tuple gets assigned to the latest value (1, 2, 3). The value of a is
array([[[{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}]],

   [[{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 3)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}]]], dtype=object)

How can I get the desired output as
array([[[{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 1)},
     {'position': (0, 0, 2)}, {'position': (0, 0, 3)}],
    [{'position': (0, 1, 0)}, {'position': (0, 1, 1)},
     {'position': (0, 1, 2)}, {'position': (0, 1, 3)}],
    [{'position': (0, 2, 0)}, {'position': (0, 2, 1)},
     {'position': (0, 2, 2)}, {'position': (0, 2, 3)}]],

   [[{'position': (1, 0, 0)}, {'position': (1, 0, 1)},
     {'position': (1, 0, 2)}, {'position': (1, 0, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 1, 0)}, {'position': (1, 1, 1)},
     {'position': (1, 1, 2)}, {'position': (1, 1, 3)}],
    [{'position': (1, 2, 0)}, {'position': (1, 2, 1)},
     {'position': (1, 2, 2)}, {'position': (1, 2, 3)}]]], dtype=object)

A: This is a copy by reference problem. You update one dictionary every other will get updated with the same value. That is why every value comes out to be {'position': (1, 2, 3)} as it was the last update. To solve this problem create new dictionary every time.
>>> a = np.ndarray(shape=(2,3,4), dtype=object)
>>> for (x_index, y_index, z_index), temp in np.ndenumerate(a):
...     a[x_index][y_index][z_index] = {'position':(x_index, y_index, z_index)}
...
>>> a
array([[[{'position': (0, 0, 0)}, {'position': (0, 0, 1)},
         {'position': (0, 0, 2)}, {'position': (0, 0, 3)}],
        [{'position': (0, 1, 0)}, {'position': (0, 1, 1)},
         {'position': (0, 1, 2)}, {'position': (0, 1, 3)}],
        [{'position': (0, 2, 0)}, {'position': (0, 2, 1)},
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KCMG lost its LMP2 pole position post-qualifying at Circuit of The Americas, and will instead have to start from the back of the pack.
Neel Jani, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb are set to start the 2015 6 Hours of Circuit of The Americas from pole position, with KCMG, Aston Martin and Dempsey-Proton leading the other classes.
KCMG finished the 6 Hours of Nurburgring a minute ahead of second place, which was occupied by G-Drive, thus increasing the Hong Kong team's points lead.
Mark Webber drove the #17 Porsche 919 Hybrid to the Nurburgring 6 Hours chequered flag for his, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley's first victory since Porsche's return to the series in 2014.
The all-British line-up of LMP2 points leaders KCMG is back together and hoping to extend their championship stranglehold.
Although a single car led for almost the entire race, the LMP2 category was packed full of exciting moments, including troubles for winners KCMG.
KCMG dominated all week at Le Mans, and took a well-earned victory in the 24 hours.
Despite starting from a penalty, KCMG managed to work its way up to fourth in LMP2 before the race end.
KCMG finished the 6 Hours of Silverstone 4th in LMP2 on the ORECA 05's race debut.


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'Basket of Deplorables'? What Happened to Hillary the Uniter?
By Debra Heine 2016-09-10T16:00:12
Hillary Clinton insulted a huge swath of the American public on Friday after she for months portrayed herself as a "uniter" and bashed Trump for his "name-calling rhetoric."
Speaking at a big-ticket fundraiser in New York City yesterday, Hillary Clinton called half of Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables" because they hold "irredeemable" views on on pretty much everything.
"To just be grossly generalist, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call 'the basket of deplorables,'" Clinton told donors gathered at a Manhattan restaurant. "Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up."
"He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million," she continued, referencing Trump's campaign hire of Breitbart News' Steve Bannon. "He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."
Apparently it is a line she has been using behind closed doors for weeks:
5 days ago https://t.co/OCPQKhXETb pic.twitter.com/OWh4XSbi4b
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 10, 2016
Donald Trump and his son hit back hard on Twitter:
Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people. I think it will cost her at the Polls!
Look at the #BasketOfDeplorables in Pensacola Florida last night! What a horrible statement. #CrookedHillary pic.twitter.com/GfevT0KUjd
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 10, 2016
Clinton's insulting, divisive rhetoric stands in stark contrast to her admirable, unifying remarks at the Democratic National Convention:
"I will be a President for Democrats, Republicans, and independents," Clinton promised during her Democratic nomination acceptance speech on July 28. "For the struggling, the striving and the successful. For those who vote for me and those who don't. For all Americans together."
After living through eight years of "Divider-in-Chief" Barack Obama's divisive "community organizing," in which he pitted Americans against each other for political gain, many Americans considered her comments to be a breath of fresh air.
Clinton-the-Uniter also made a point of rejecting Trump's "name-calling" and "temper tantrums."
Via Twitchy:
The last thing we need is a president who brings more name-calling and temper tantrums to Washington.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 31, 2016
Yet a Clinton spokesman last night on Twitter stood by Clinton's insulting name-calling:
(3/3) And their supporters appear to make up half his crowd when you observe the tone of his events.
— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) September 10, 2016
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/10/basket-of-deplorables-what-happened-to-hillary-the-uniter/


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A tortured father kidnaps a shady businessman and brings him to a nurse's house. After the businessman calls for help, the trio become entangled in a violent power grab. They will have to band together to survive the night or die trying.
Directors Gabriel Carrer (The Demolisher, In the House of Flies) and Reese Eveneshen (Defective, Dead Genesis) bring their latest film to Fantasia International Film Festival. With a story by Carrer and screenplay by Eveneshen, For the Sake of Vicious wastes no time throwing the audience into suspense. We watch as the tortured father kidnaps the shady businessman and takes him to the nurse's house in order to keep him alive. From there the filmmakers gradually reveal how these three very different people ended up in the house together and the way they're all connected. It's when the businessman is able to call for help that things really take a dire turn. It quickly throws the characters into chaos and blood. The ensuing fight for survival is action-packed, suspenseful, and will keep the audience on the edge of their seats. It's a generally straightforward plot with great fight sequences to delight the gore hounds. While the action makes for a lot of excitement, the film still stays emotionally grounded with the relationships between the three main characters.
All three leads in For the Sake of Vicious deliver emotionally-driven performances to offset the physical brutality. Lora Burke (Lifechanger, Poor Agnes) plays Romina, the nurse whose home is invaded. As a nurse, it's obvious Romina has a strong impulse to help others. Burke does a great job of conveying the conflict Romina feels because she can't decide which of these two men she should really be helping. Nick Smyth (The Covenant, The Flying Man) plays Chris, the tortured father who brings the chaos into Romina's home. There are two aspects of Smyth's performance that truly blow me away. First, Chris's determination to right a wrong comes through so clearly and powerfully. Second, Smyth has a great physicality to his performance. Between showing his emotions with facial expressions and body language to his physical prowess during the fight scenes, Smyth truly gives it his all. Colin Paradine (Defective, Kingdom Come) plays the shady businessman, Alan. Throughout the course of the film, Paradine keeps the audience guessing as to whether or not Alan is the villain of the story or not. Paradine does a perfect balance and cool and collected with a bit of a sinister edge that makes his intentions unclear. Together, this trio helps ground the film with their stellar performances.
Delightful practical effects, production design, and music add to the appeal of this film. Of all the films at this year's Fantasia International Film Festival, For the Sake of Vicious stands out as one of the more gore-filled. In the beginning, there are only minor wounds, but when all hell breaks loose the film becomes a bloody, violent nightmare. The practical effects are shockingly well done and had me gasping and maniacally laughing in turn. From the moment the three main characters come together to the shocking end, the film takes place in Romina's small rental. The small home is a nice, quiet place for the three characters to work through their issues. Yet when the cavalry arrives, it becomes a claustrophobic nightmare as it fills with murderous bad guys. The very well-choreographed fight scenes become even more exciting with the Carpenter-esque musical score by Carrer and Foxgrndr (If a Tree Falls). Each individual artistic element weaves together to make this film even more exciting.
For the Sake of Vicious is a delightfully violent thrill ride from start to finish. Carrer and Eveneshen make a fantastic team and create a simple yet effective story. To make the film even more suspenseful and shocking, the filmmakers utilized a claustrophobic set, an electrifying musical score, fantastic fight choreography, and jaw-dropping practical effects. Throughout all the thrills and gore, the performances from the three leads manage to keep the film rooted at an emotional core, making the film more than just an action thriller. For the Sake of Vicious ends up being a shot of adrenaline to the system.
OVERALL RATING: 7.5/10
Posted in Horror Movie Review, Thriller/Suspense and tagged Colin Paradine, Fantasia 2020, Fantasia International Film Festival, FIFF, film, For the Sake of Vicious, Gabrial Carrer, Horror, Lora Burke, movie, Nick SMyth, Reese Eveneshen, Review, Suspense, thriller on September 2, 2020 by Molly Henery. 1 Comment
A shapeshifter has the ability to transform into another person, but only at the expense of that person's life. After existing in different forms for decades, the bodies he takes over are decaying at a much more rapid rate. This shapeshifter's time is running out. Yet he goes through body after body in an attempt to reconnect with the woman he loves.
Writer and director Justin McConnell (Broken Mile, Collapsed) brings audiences an interesting take on shapeshifters, love, and morality in Lifechanger. There have been films in the past about shapeshifters and things that need to take over the body/life of another human in order to survive. There are aspects of this plot that help to differentiate it from those other films. One way is that the plot is told from the point of view of the shapeshifter, giving us a more empathetic look into the mind and life of this being. The shapeshifter has to kill in order to live, and there is a moral question nagging at the audience as to whether or not he should continue living. Another way this film is different is that the shapeshifting itself isn't the focus of the story. It does play a very important role, but the film is more about the shapeshifter's loneliness and desire to be with the one he loves. This plays into the morality issue as well. Is what he does okay because he is doing it for love?
In the third act the film takes a bit of a turn. Without giving too many details, this act changes your perspective of the shapeshifter a bit and makes the audience realize his motives might not be quite what we are lead to believe. I have mixed feelings about how the final moments of this film plays out. Part of me loves it because the end left me with a feeling similar to how the end of The Mist left me. Whether you enjoyed the end of that film or not, you have to admit it packed quite a punch that stuck with you long after the film ended, and Lifechanger ends with a similar impact. It won't appeal to all viewers, but it is at least thought-provoking. On the other hand, I found the last half of the film, including the final act, almost romanticizes stalking and abusive relationships. I don't think this was intentional on the part of the filmmakers, but it stands out in my mind when I think about some of the shapeshifter's actions throughout the film.
Considering how many different actors played the shapeshifter in Lifechanger, there are a number of great performances in this film. While each actor did a great job as the shapeshifter, the standout performances come from Rachel VanDuzer in her first feature film and Jack Foley (Fugue). We spend the most time with the shapeshifter in these bodies, and both VanDuzer and Foley portray the character in a way that is a combination of cold, lonely, loving, and frightening. The character is able to take on the memories of its victims when he transforms so the portrayals are meant to be a mix of who the person was and who the shapeshifter is. My one qualm is that I wish there had been some personality trait or tick that made a more obvious connection between all the actors playing the shapeshifter. There is an internal voice the audience hears, the love he feels for a woman, and a marble we see him play with in a few scenes. While those help to connected the different actors, they feel external or separate. Another great performance comes from Lora Burke (Poor Agnes) as the love interest, Julia. Burke portrays Julia in a way that she comes across as broken yet extremely personable. She is someone who could become a best friend overnight. It makes it easy to see why the shapeshifter fell in love with her.
There are many interesting visuals throughout the film. The opening sequence has some gorgeous cinematography. There are many scenes shot beautifully, but the opening stands out the most. The filmmakers opted to use primarily practical effects. This works very well and gives the film a timeless look. The effects themselves are used to create the bodies of the shapeshifter's victims. They go through a bizarre transformation that is somewhat grotesque, but it is also quite eye-catching. The cinematography and the effects work well together in a way that shows the filmmakers took care to make sure the film had quite a bit of visual interest. They also help set the bleak tone of the film.
Lifechanger is a film that holds nothing back as it takes the audience on an unexpected journey with a shapeshifter. The stunning cinematography and the practical effects help to build the dreary reality of a very unique character. Compelling performances from an array of actors allow the audience to understand the shapeshifter on a more human level with an equally compelling performance from Burke as the love interest. Lifechanger has a fascinating plot with a few rough patches, but the only aspect that truly bothers me is the way stalking is used in the film. An element of the unknown will leave some things unanswered in a way that works well. This is a thought-provoking film that is definitely worth checking out.
Posted in Creature Feature, Horror Movie Review, Thriller/Suspense and tagged Creature Feature, film, Horror, Jack Foley, Justin McConnell, Lifechanger, Lora Burke, movie, Rachel VanDuzer, Review, shapeshifter, Suspense, thriller on January 8, 2019 by Molly Henery. 1 Comment


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El municipio de Van Buren (en inglés: Van Buren Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Kosciusko en el estado estadounidense de Indiana. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 4168 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 44,12 personas por km².

Geografía
Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, tiene una superficie total de 94.46 km², de la cual 91,24 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (3,41 %) 3,22 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 4168 personas residiendo en el municipio de Van Buren. La densidad de población era de 44,12 hab./km². De los 4168 habitantes, el municipio de Van Buren estaba compuesto por el 92,42 % blancos, el 0,46 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,31 % eran amerindios, el 0,38 % eran asiáticos, el 5,37 % eran de otras razas y el 1,06 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 9,69 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Municipios de Indiana
Localidades del condado de Kosciusko (Indiana)

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Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture
September 15–December 4, 2021
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
In Slide / Lecture, Guelph-based photographer Susan Dobson reconsiders the materiality, physicality, and meaning of abandoned university slide libraries. Her precisely composed images of these outdated photographic transparencies, originally made to be projected in art history lectures, expose the canonical biases of traditional visual culture—dominated by Western male artists, while marginalizing or excluding art by those outside the establishment. Slide / Lecture gleans revelations about outdated views from these obsolete materials, hinting a way forward toward more diverse and inclusive representations.
Artist Talk with Susan Dobson
A Core Exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Susan Dobson, Robert Frank: The Americans, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery
Susan Dobson, Eastman, George. Unknown Photographer with a No.2 Kodak. Bathing, c. 1888, 2018, lightbox with Fujilith film. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery
Susan Dobson, Monument #3, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery
Susan Dobson, Rembrandt – Rembrandt, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery
Susan Dobson
Susan Dobson (Canadian, b. 1965) is a lens-based media artist working on the ontological, technological, and material qualities of photography. Dobson's photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and festivals, including the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Fotoseptiembre in Mexico City, Images Festival in Vevey (Switzerland), Festival international de la photographie actuelle Bitume-Bitumen in Brussels (Belgium), and Fotonoviembre in Tenerife (Spain). Her work can be found in numerous institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the City of Toronto Archives, the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in Spain, and the Portland Art Museum in the United States. Dobson is a professor at the University of Guelph (Ontario). Her work is represented by Michael Gibson Gallery (London, Ontario).
Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture (installation view), 2021 © James Morley, Ryerson Image Centre


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Brightline Hosts First Onboard Wedding
First wedding on Brightline (Brightline Photo)
(BRIGHTLINE NEWS)_Saturday, August 24, marked another Brightline, soon to be Virgin Trains, milestone as the rail service hosted its first onboard wedding. Paul Ward and Jules Bandiera of Wilton Manors said "I do" on the train between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in front of 40 invited guests. The couple are huge fans of Brightline, connecting with friends in Miami and West Palm Beach, and thought what better place for the occasion.
Brightline also gifted the happy couple with a commemorative Red Spike from the Orlando groundbreaking marking the beginning of the "Red Spike Era," a pair of Brightline annual passes, champagne flutes and other Brightline memorabilia.
Here's the backstory:
From Wilton Manors, celebrated LGBT neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Paul Ward was introduced to Jules Bandiera about a year ago. Paul, a retired ship captain and pilot and transportation buff, now works at The Pride Center at Equality Park in Wilton Manors as a facilities and IT manager. Jules is a former flight attendant from Gol Airlines and from Brazil, who decided to take his 6 month furlow to learn English in Fort Lauderdale. During Jules' time in Fort Lauderdale, he attended many of the LGBT events hosted by The Pride Center where Paul first noticed him. Their courtship was quite funny and endearing.
For 2 ½ years, they brushed shoulders into each other at various events around town. Paul was shy about approaching Jules, assuming that he was off the market. Jules, interested in Paul, made the assumption that Paul was straight. Jules hadn't dated anyone in 13 years and Paul 9 years.
After Paul made it known to a mutual friend that he was interested in Jules, but was too shy to ask him out. As Paul says, "I'm 6'2, 244 pounds but I'm not bold." This friend was standing with Jules one day and decided to call Paul directly putting him on the spot to ask if he was really interested in Jules. Paul of course admitted and the friend handed the phone to Jules, and Paul was finally connected with Jules on the phone and asked him on their first date.
Their first date was in Fort Lauderdale on October 30 and ended up being 3 hours of them getting to know each other. Towards the end of the date they held hands and as Paul says "there was this wonderful energy
that was impalpable when he held hands."
It wasn't easy at first, as they traveled constantly back and forth between South Florida + Brazil, using up any and all vacation days to spend as much time together as possible. When Jules had a month off once, they decided to spend the entire month together (half in Brazil, half in Florida) to spend more time together and explore their future.
After the month together, Jules was offered a buyout in March when Delta bought Gol Airlines. Jules called Paul and already knew what he wanted to do. Paul agreed and Jules moved to Fort Lauderdale.
Paul proposed several months later on June 30th during sunset at Fort Lauderdale Beach
As Paul says, the entire courtship and life situations that ended up putting them together was "organic."
"Everything just fell into place, it almost feels like divine intervention."
Referring to the events that brought them to find each other, despite long distances and miscommunication between the two.
Why Brightline? Paul was a huge fan of all things transportation, especially Brightline which he has been riding in South Florida since day 1. In the beginning of summer 2019, he was outside The Pride Center where the Brightline passes through, thinking of where they can pronounce their love. They were considering a yacht wedding. Suddenly the Brightline came passing through and Paul saw it as a sign.
"I was stopped in my tracks!"
They were married on Brightline on Saturday, August 24 by Pastor Leslie Rutland-Tipton of the LGBT Christian Church and joined by 40 of their closest friends and family from Brazil to Sarasota. Pastor Leslie announced their official marriage right as they pull into the West Palm Beach station.
Their first date was in Fort Lauderdale on October 30 and ended up being 3 hours of them getting to know each other. Towards the end of the date they held hands and as Paul says "there was this wonderful energy that was impalpable when he held hands."
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Шестият сезон на щатския ситком "Приятели", създаден от Дейвид Крейн и Марта Кауфман, премиерата се състои по NBC на 23 септември 1999 г. "Приятели" е продуциран от Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions съвместно с Warner Bros. Television. Сезонът съдържа 24 епизода и завършва излъчването на 18 май 2000 г.

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PizzaRev expanding in Central Valley and Southern California to meet growing demand
published by Franchising USA on 29 March 2019 - 6:55pm
Fan favorite PizzaRev plans to build on its success in key markets by adding new locations to meet growing consumer demand. The brand has awarded key growth territories to existing franchisee Ajay Maini, who plans to open additional locations in Kern and Orange Counties.
Maini, who is an experienced multi-unit restaurant franchisee, owns two existing PizzaRev locations in Bakersfield and one in Palmdale, California.
"I love the concept of custom-made pizzas, and the level of quality and customer service PizzaRev offers made my decision to invest an easy one – I was hooked from the beginning," said Maini. "The support that PizzaRev offers its franchisees got me off to a great start, they have set me up for success to grow my three existing locations as well as expand my portfolio with the brand."
In addition to his three PizzaRev restaurants, Maini has owned multiple franchise units of a top sandwich chain since 2006.
"Ajay's industry experience and operations knowhow has been integral to establishing his Bakersfield and Palmdale restaurants as local favorites," said Tyan Swanson, senior manager of marketing and franchise sales at PizzaRev. "His existing connections in the community and previous success in the restaurant franchising industry made him the ideal PizzaRev partner. It is great to see our footprint growing in the Central Valley and we're excited to help Ajay expand PizzaRev's presence in Southern California, as well."
For more information, visit pizzarev.com/franchise.


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DUNDALK Rugby Football Club have been granted conditional planning permission by Dundalk Town Council to retain and complete four 20 metre high floodlights, a generator and an equipment storage building at their pitch at the Mill Road.
The application also allows them to retain and complete a 2.7m high palisade type perimeter fence and entrance gate at their home pitch.
In their report, the planning authority found that Dundalk RFC had been granted permission for similar type works in 2008 but they had not implemented this permission in accordance with the plans, hence the reason for this most recent application.
The most recent proposal also included a new 2.7 metre palisade perimeter fence and gate along the roadside boundary, which was not part of the previous applications.
The council found that the generator and equipment storage building is well set back from the public road and that the finishes of the building and its scale, height and design are acceptable.
They also found that the floodlights were acceptable but set out a condition prohibiting the columns from being used for advertising purposes.
They said: "In the interest of visual amenity a more appropriate type of fencing such as weld-mesh panel fencing should be erected behind the row of trees" which are around the boundary of the site.
The council agreed to grant Dundalk RFC retention permission subject to nine conditions in total. Other areas mention in the conditions include that the existing roadside stone wall be retained with the palisade fencing not permitted.
The club must also submit drawings showing the precise specification of the floodlights to the planning authority and it is not permitted that the floodlights be used or left switched on between the hours of 10pm and sunrise each day.


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Q: Access UINavigationController from UIView Subclass I have a subclass of UIScrollView. This custom subclass has a method that is supposed to initialize opening of a new UINavigationController. I understand that subclasses do not deal with this type of approach but how would I handle this kind of scenario in an ideal way?

A: I would think the ideal way to handle this would be to declare a custom delegate protocol method for your subclassed UIScrollView. You would then set your UIViewController which I assume is the parent to the custom scroll view and when it intercepts this delegate callback just do a simple:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];


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package org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.cache;

import java.io.Externalizable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInput;
import java.io.ObjectOutput;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import javax.cache.processor.MutableEntry;
import org.apache.ignite.Ignite;
import org.apache.ignite.IgniteCache;
import org.apache.ignite.binary.BinaryObject;
import org.apache.ignite.cache.CacheAtomicityMode;
import org.apache.ignite.cache.CacheEntryProcessor;
import org.apache.ignite.configuration.CacheConfiguration;
import org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.binary.BinaryMarshaller;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.internal.CU;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.internal.U;
import org.apache.ignite.testframework.junits.common.GridCommonAbstractTest;

/**
 * Test for value copy in entry processor.
 */
public class CacheEntryProcessorCopySelfTest extends GridCommonAbstractTest {
    /** Old value. */
    private static final int OLD_VAL = 100;

    /** New value. */
    private static final int NEW_VAL = 200;

    /** Empty array. */
    private static final int[] EMPTY_ARR = new int[0];

    /** Deserializations counter. */
    private static final AtomicInteger cnt = new AtomicInteger();

    /** p2p enabled. */
    private boolean p2pEnabled;

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override protected IgniteConfiguration getConfiguration(String gridName) throws Exception {
        IgniteConfiguration cfg = super.getConfiguration(gridName);

        cfg.setIncludeEventTypes(EMPTY_ARR);

        cfg.setPeerClassLoadingEnabled(p2pEnabled);

        return cfg;
    }

    /**
     * @throws Exception If failed.
     */
    public void testMutableEntryWithP2PEnabled() throws Exception {
        doTestMutableEntry(true);
    }

    /**
     * @throws Exception If failed.
     */
    public void testMutableEntryWithP2PDisabled() throws Exception {
        doTestMutableEntry(false);
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    private void doTestMutableEntry(boolean p2pEnabled) throws Exception {
        this.p2pEnabled = p2pEnabled;

        Ignite grid = startGrid();

        assertEquals(p2pEnabled, grid.configuration().isPeerClassLoadingEnabled());

        try {
            // One deserialization due to copyOnRead == true.
            doTest(true, false, OLD_VAL, 1);

            // One deserialization due to copyOnRead == true.
            // Additional deserialization in case p2p enabled and not BinaryMarshaller due to storeValue == true on update entry.
            doTest(true, true, NEW_VAL, p2pEnabled &&
                !(grid.configuration().getMarshaller() instanceof BinaryMarshaller) ? 2 : 1);

            // No deserialization.
            doTest(false, false, NEW_VAL, 0);

            // One deserialization due to storeValue == true.
            doTest(false, true, NEW_VAL, 1);
        }
        finally {
            stopAllGrids();
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param cpOnRead Copy on read.
     * @param mutate Mutate.
     * @param expVal Expected value.
     * @param expCnt Expected deserializations count.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private void doTest(boolean cpOnRead, final boolean mutate, int expVal, int expCnt) throws Exception {

        Ignite ignite = grid();

        CacheConfiguration ccfg = defaultCacheConfiguration();
        ccfg.setAtomicityMode(CacheAtomicityMode.ATOMIC);
        ccfg.setCopyOnRead(cpOnRead);
        ccfg.setNearConfiguration(null);

        IgniteCache<Integer, Value> cache = null;

        try {
            cache = ignite.createCache(ccfg);

            cache.put(0, new Value(OLD_VAL));

            cache.get(0);

            cnt.set(0);

            cache.invoke(0, new CacheEntryProcessor<Integer, Value, Object>() {
                @Override public Object process(MutableEntry<Integer, Value> entry, Object... args) {
                    Value val = entry.getValue();

                    val.i = NEW_VAL;

                    if (mutate)
                        entry.setValue(val);

                    return null;
                }
            });

            CacheObject obj = ((GridCacheAdapter)((IgniteCacheProxy)cache).delegate()).peekEx(0).peekVisibleValue();

            int actCnt = cnt.get();

            if (obj instanceof BinaryObject)
                if (cpOnRead)
                    assertEquals(expVal, (int)((BinaryObject)obj).field("i"));
                else
                    assertEquals(expVal, ((Value)U.field(obj, "obj")).i);
            else {
                if (storeValue(cache))
                    assertEquals(expVal, U.<Value>field(obj, "val").i);
                else
                    assertEquals(expVal, CU.<Value>value(obj, ((IgniteCacheProxy)cache).context(), false).i);
            }

            assertEquals(expCnt, actCnt);
        }
        finally {
            if (cache != null)
                cache.destroy();
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param cache Cache.
     */
    private static boolean storeValue(IgniteCache cache) {
        return ((IgniteCacheProxy)cache).context().cacheObjectContext().storeValue();
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    private static class Value implements Externalizable {
        /**  */
        private int i;

        /**
         * Default constructor (required by Externalizable).
         */
        public Value() {
        }

        /**
         * @param i I.
         */
        public Value(int i) {
            this.i = i;
        }

        /** {@inheritDoc} */
        @Override public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out) throws IOException {
            out.writeInt(i);
        }

        /** {@inheritDoc} */
        @Override public void readExternal(ObjectInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
            i = in.readInt();

            cnt.incrementAndGet();
        }
    }
}

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Student Managers: Backbone of the Basketball Team
Cassie McHugh Co-Editor-in-Chief
Brunson. Bridges. Paschall. Divincenzo. Pinone.
You might not recognize Steve Pinone's name compared to those of Villanova's star players, but make no mistake, he played a key role in helping the team up onto that Championship podium.
Pinone is one of a group of student managers for the men's basketball team, a role that often goes uncelebrated, but is an essential component of the program's success.
Many of the managers' day-to-day responsibilities are unglamorous. They handle the teams' laundry and equipment, assist with preparation for practices, and help to run special events like Hoops Mania and the team's end-of-year banquet. Still, the behind the scenes efforts and hard work pay off.
"The most rewarding part of the job is being a part of the journey of a season," Pinone said. "I've always said basketball is a great metaphor for life. Over the course of the season there are high points, low points and a lot in between. People don't realize just how hard it is to accomplish what this program has in recent years and so for me, when I see our guys celebrating and cutting down the nets, knowing all the time and effort they put into getting to that point is just incredibly rewarding."
For Pinone, his dedication to the program runs deep. Both his father and uncle played on the team, and his father has continued to work in various roles within the program.
"I grew up with a great love for this university and the basketball program," he said. "I also recognize just how special the program is to many in our community and having a small role in something like that just really resonated with me."
The managers work closely with the coaching and operations staffs, including head coach Jay Wright. Pinone says interacting with the acclaimed coach is every bit as influential as you would expect.
"Coach Wright is just one of those people who you know is going to have a major impact on your life long after you leave the university," Pinone said. "He's the type of person that is able to see what your highest potential and demand it from you."
Wright's commitment to a humble and hungry attitude is a guiding force for the players and staff alike, even in the bright spotlight of March Madness.
"Our players and coaches just look at each round in the tournament as nothing more than our next game and prepare as they have all year with the goal of playing 40 minutes of Villanova basketball," Pinone said. "For our staff of managers, we try to keep that same mentality. We are there to do our job, handle our responsibilities and support our players and staff as if it was any other game."
That's not to say the team's successes go uncelebrated.
"There isn't a day I walk into that facility where I don't appreciate just how special the run the program is currently on has been," Pinone said. "I can honestly say it's all attributable to a combination of talented players who have both the hunger to win and the humility to buy into a system of basketball concepts and principles that allows them to do so."
On Monday night, Pinone was courtside as the clock expired and Villanova became National Champions for the second time in three seasons. The experience isn't one he'll soon forget.
"I think for all of us at Villanova right now, ten, twenty years from now, people will say to us, 'Wow, you were a student during the greatest run of a college basketball team in NCAA history,'" Pinone said. "It's an amazing blessing."
America's Future: A Conversation with Nikki Haley
University Celebrates the Start of Christmas Season with Tree Lighting
Finals Season: Students React
Flu Season Has Fallen Upon Campus: The Health Center Responds
Anne Welsh McNulty Institute Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Student Finds Live Bug in Salad
Fall Fest Torch Run Creates Campus Controversy
Letter from the Editors: Response to University of Virginia Shooting
Senior Year Housing Lottery Results Unveiled
The First Member of Generation Z is Elected to the United States Congress


Ostingele system, Placid region. On the 24th of September at 21:00 EVE Standard Time, forces belonging to Pandemic Horde [REKTD] clashed with Snuffed Out [B B C]\Project.Mayhem. [16-13] in the system.
The battle was prompted by an arranged fight between Spectre Fleet and Pandemic Horde which was set to take place in the Mantenault system in the same region. Unfortunately, the Spectre Fleet force had been intercepted en route by WAFFLES. [N0MAD] and Snuffed Out\Project.Mayhem. forces in the Harroule system and quickly dispatched, leaving Pandemic Horde in a bind.
The Pandemic Horde fleet, a 180 pilot Maelstrom battleship fleet, arrived to the Ostingele system only to find its way barred by the Snuffed Out\Project.Mayhem. fleet of 140 pilots in Machariel battleships, loitering on the Agoze gate. Not wishing to engage the Machariel fleet without backup, the Maelstrom fleet warped to a friendly citadel in the system while considering its options.
Pandemic Horde started contacting possible allies in the area, but most had either stood down, were too far or simply did not have the numbers needed to form an effective fighting force. In the meantime, communication channels were opened between the two opposing fleets' commanders to discuss conditions for engagement, as the Pandemic Horde fleet was loath to turn back after making this way so far from its staging system.
In the end, an agreement was reached for both sides to engage without the use of triage support. The Pandemic Horde fleet warped to the Agoze gate, landing 50 kilometers away from the Machariel fleet and opened fire, thus starting the fight.
At this point, opinions differ between the two sides. According to Pandemic Horde, the Machariel fleet commander broke his promise, bringing in 2 Apostle force auxiliaries to the field. On the Snuffed Out\Project.Mayhem. side, they accused Pandemic Horde of breaking the agreement by calling in aide, as several gangs converged on the fight, including a Spectre Fleet electronic warfare wing and a WAFFLES. tactical destroyer gang. Regardless, the 2 Apostles landed on grid and entered triage mode to bolster the logistics wing of the Machariel fleet. In response, Pandemic Horde lit its own cynosural beacon on the field, ushering in a Minokawa force auxiliary.
However, it didn't matter. With more than a hundred Maelstroms on the field, the artillery barrage proved to be overwhelming, with the shells punching through the Machariels' armor plates and detonating inside the fragile hulls. With each volley, a Machariel instantaneously vanished in a ball of fire, leaving behind only a wreck. The Machariels retaliated, their auto cannons pumping round after round into the thicket of Maelstroms, overloading their shield generators and punching through the weak hull as they burned in to shorten the distance between the two fleets.
The Maelstroms did not fancy being overrun by the Machariels, and attempted to pull range, micro warp drives stretching to the limit in vain as the Machariels proved faster. Soon, the Machariels were on top of the Maelstroms, hammering away at them. The Maelstroms returned fire, but at such a close proximity the artillery cannons often had a trouble tracking the fast moving battleships, thus negating some of the fleet's firepower. Whats more, the Pandemic Horde fleet commander was dispatched during the melee, thus forcing the fleet to disengage and warp off to the friendly citadel in the system to re-group.
Rallying on the Citadel, the Pandemic Horde fleet quickly re-formed and warped back to the Agoze gate grid, landing once more at 50 kilometers from the Machariel fleet, which had remained in the spot where it chased the Maelstrom fleet off. Once again, artillery cannons bombarded the Machariels which responded with a hail of auto cannon shells of their own, burning once more into the firestorm. The Maelstroms once more attempted to keep their distance as the Machariels closed in, exchanging fire all the while. By now both fleets had suffered great losses, the exchange proving to be quite bloody. For every 2-3 Maelstroms that perished, a Machariel would go down, and the brutal exchange did not relent for a second.
Burning far from their triage support, the Machariel fleet disengaged, warping back to the gate to gather its Apostles before aligning back to the Maelstroms. Once aligned, its force auxiliaries out of triage mode, the Machariel fleet warped back on top of the Maelstroms with its Apostles in tow. The fight resumed in earnest, but by now the losses of the Pandemic Horde fleet were catching up to it. Losing the critical mass of Maelstroms, their coordinated volleys proved too weak to obliterate the Machariels, so many of them were caught by the Apostles in structure and saved from further harm. The Maelstroms then turned their guns on the support ships of the Machariel fleet and some of the gangs which hovered at the edge of the fight, preying off stragglers.
They managed to inflict further damage, but it soon became apparent that further fighting was futile and would only lead to a disaster. Thus, the Pandemic Horde fleet commander made the decision to withdraw, leaving the field for Snuffed Out\Project.Mayhem. to claim. As for Snuffed Out\Project.Mayhem., their fleet quickly dispatched the last stragglers tackled before looting the field and extracting to safety, ending the fight.
The Battle from the Perspective of the Pandemic Horde Maelstrom Fleet.
Battle report for the Ostingele system can be found here.
The battle lasted 30 minutes with Time Dilation spiking several times during the confrontation, reaching upwards of 50% before subsiding. The system itself hosted 500 pilots at the start of the fight.
Pandemic Horde lost 82 ships in the fight including 57 battleships for a total of 17.39 billion ISK.
Snuffed Out and Project.Mayhem. lost 35 ships in the fight including 26 battleships for a total of 34.02 billion ISK.
Third parties lost 11 ships for a total of 1.23 billion ISK.
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This spatial dataset shows the extent of all woodland of 0.5 ha and over by interpreted forest type and includes interpreted open areas within woodland. The secondary objective is to compare the National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland map with the original NIWT woodland map to identify; real woodland gains, real woodland losses and discrepancies caused by digitising / mapping anomalies.
This data contains Forestry Commission's previous survey, the National Inventory of Woodland & Trees, and includes spatial data for the whole of Great Britain. This dataset shows all areas of woodland over 2ha in Great Britain and the Interpreted forest type (IFT) of those woodlands. The dataset includes FC new planting and new Woodland Grant Schemes as of 31st March 2002.
This dataset illustrates the acquisitions that have created the NRW Forestry Estate as we know it today.
The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provided incentives for people to create and manage woodlands on sites all over Wales. The scheme was run in 3 phases with the last phase ending in 2006. This record covers all of the schemes, detailed metadata for data for each of the schemes can be found in separate entries on the NRW Metadata catalogue (metadata URI 100821, 100822, 100829).


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Using the gestation wheel, you'll also get a very visual idea of how much your baby weighs and measures at all times, your likely due date, and other important information such as your baby's star sign, etc. The app also gives you important tips to help with the progression of your pregnancy, and lets you create to-do lists so you can have everything ready to go when the big day comes.
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Q: Trying to build a tvOS form that works like Apples settings my AppleTV app needs a small form to setup a server link. I decided that the best approach was to make it look and feel like Apple's tvOS settings pages. The initial setup to create a split view with the form on the right was no problem, but I've run into some look and feel issues with entering data.
The example I'm using as a base is the settings: AirPlay - Conference Room Display - Custom Message field. This is a text field. Selecting it and tapping the remote activates a text entry field, displaying a keyboard with a title and message.
I have partially achieved the same look and feel by creating a table view with a static cell, which I then add a hidden UITextField to and use the following code for the cell class:
@interface CRXTVOSTextFeildCell: UITableViewCell<UITextFieldDelegate>
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *value;
@end

@implementation CRXTVOSTextFieldCell {
    __weak IBOutlet UITextField *_textField;
}

-(void) awakeFromNib {
    [super awakeFromNib];
    _textField.delegate = self;
    _textField.text = value;
}

-(BOOL) becomeFirstResponder {
    return [_textField becomeFirstResponder];
}

-(void) textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    self.value = textField.text;
}

@end

This is mostly working however I have a problem I've not been able to solve.
When the keyboard activates, it just fades in the full screen over the top of the table view. With Apple's preferences, the keyboard does a zoom in effect. I've tried all sorts of code from stack over flow and other places, but so far nothing seems to work in terms of changing the keyboard animation.
So my question is how can I make the tvOS keyboard zoom in when it appears like Apple does in it's preferences?


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The Best News Democrats Will Hear This Summer: Evidence Confirms That Open Primaries Dilute Tea Party Extremism
Experimenting with Fully Open Primaries
Since 2010, conservative Republicans have gridlocked government, creating the most toxic political environment since the antebellum era. Critical to that tactic has been pay-to-play, enabling staunchly conservative donors to empower party activists including tea partiers holding views outside the mainstream. These activists fight well above their weight because they unduly influence party primaries, selecting candidates in their own image. Recent research suggests that the overrepresentation of right-wing extremists in candidate selection can be muted by making primaries nonpartisan.
With median voters more centrists on most issues than party partisans, expanding the primary electorate has an intuitive appeal as a remedy, but supporting evidence has been sparse - until now. California instituted a full-blown nonpartisan primary system in time for the 2012 elections in which the top two vote recipients regardless of party move on to compete head-to-head in November. The evidence is in from the first session of the 113th Congress and NOTT (Nonpartisan Top Two) had a dramatic impact in moderating votes of the California Republican delegation in 2013.
Held constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008 (Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party, et. al.), NOTT primaries are utilized only in Louisiana, Washington and California. The enormous size and political diversity of the California delegation offered a perfect control groups to test the open primary hypotheses. As it turned out, while Congress has become increasingly polarized, the Republican Congressional delegation from California in 2013 resisted that trend. Statistics compiled by the author from National Journal ratings reveal that the California Republican delegation in 2013 shifted notably toward the center compared to the voting record of all other members of Congress and compared to their own votes during the previous 111th (2009/2010) and 112th Congresses (2011/2012). Redistricting reduced California's Republican delegation in 2013, but eleven of the remaining party members have served in Congress since at least 2009. And the reaction of these seasoned lawmakers to the new NOTT primary system in the 2012 election caused their very conservative voting records compiled in prior years to morph into moderation.
Congressional Republicans Moved Sharply Toward The Center
Most of the shifts were quite sizable. Specifically, the median California Congressional Republican National Journal ranking moved from the quite conservative 85th percentile in 2009/2010 to the 60th percentile in 2013. Put another way, the voting behavior of these political veterans moved from a median position analogous to the 369th most conservative member of the House in 2009/2010 (and 329th in 2011/2012) to one comparable to the 263d most conservative in 2013. The NOTT system saw these career politicians rather dramatically recentering their actual voting behavior by 25 percentage points. Most Congressional Republicans from the central valley and northern and southern California are now voting like moderates representing New England.
The reaction among Democratic politicians to these two reforms was more muted. Those veteran Democrats in office from 2009-2013 moved toward the center in 2013 as well. But their shift was small, from a median position at the 11th percentile (quite liberal) in 2009/2010 to the 14th percentile in 2013.
Breaking the Grip of Tea Partiers on Republican Primaries
NOTT shifted conservative Republicans significantly toward the center, arguably reducing polarization just as political scientists such as Norm Ornstein have long speculated. But questions remain. Even though the results are from California with the largest state Congressional delegation, any one state cannot be dispositive. The sample size is small, drawn from just one year (2013) following one election (2012), and only time will tell is this shift is sustained. Moreover, California also installed a nonpartisan redistricting system in 2011 which may have lowered partisanship in the new Congressional districts. Recentering may hinge on both reforms rather than NOTT alone.
Republicans are held accountable by political scientists for much of the polarization afflicting government now. But at least among the California Republican Congressional delegation, the NOTT system appears to neutralize centrifugal forces that have been pushing them away from the center. NOTT may be a surprisingly powerful tool for reducing polarization and should be at or near the top of any reform agenda designed to ease the grip of powerful donors on candidate behavior and gridlock.
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