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January 20, 2014 JRock Tagged with: color bottle, hyde, JRock, jrockers, l'arc en ciel, miyavi, uverworld, vamps No Responses »
I started running (instead of spin cycling) last November. I realized at some point that I needed a nice rockin' playlist to run to, so I could run faster and make it up the many hills in my town. So, of course I included lots of JRock and I figured, hey, maybe someone would be interested in seeing it? It's quite a collection, LOL. So here goes:
1. Clocks by Coldplay
2. Evanescent by Vamps (with Hyde of course!)
3. D-techno Life by UVERworld
4. My Heart Draws a Dream by L'Arc en Ciel
5. Dear My Friend by Miyavi
6.Ready Steady Go by L'Arc en Ciel (this song kicks my ass;) )
7. Aoi Hana by Color Bottle
8. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Anyone else out there listen to JRock while they work out? Or am I the only one?
Why Can't JRockers Come Here?
June 28, 2011 JRock Tagged with: jade x japan, japanese rock, JRock, jrockers, malice mizer, mana, x japan, yoshiki 2 Responses »
Okay, so I live in the desert and it's like, 115 degrees today. I get it. It's hot. But so what? We have air conditioning. Yoshiki's hair will not go limp.
So everytime I see that one of my favorite JRock groups are on a "World Tour" it seems they never make it to the center of the USA. Sure, they make stops in New York and Los Angeles (lucky bastards), but never come to Phoenix, Arizona or God forbid, Nebraska. We interior folks like our JRock, too. Right? I mean, when X Japan played Chicago at the Lollapalooza last year all the headlines were that X Japan stunned and awed the fans. Think of how many new fans they'd make if they simply went a little further inside America, like to Phoenix, where I live:)
I have a theory. Maybe they're afraid. Yes, Afraid. Maybe they know about our conservative, speak English or die, wear your USA t-shirt and jeans with your cowboy hat types who spit chew and still call the Japanese all those terrible slang names that I can't bring myself to write. Maybe Mana thinks if he comes over here and plays somewhere in the interior US in his Lolita outfit someone will beat the crap out of him. You know? He may be right. But… don't they have body guards, LOL?
I'll tell you a funny story. So my boyfriend is in this rock band and they play at all these clubs in the Phoenix metro area. Of course, they play your typical Lynerd Skynerd and Rolling Stones, but they also, thank God (not a big fan of hearing those songs over and over and over…) play some newer music like Matchbox 20. Anyway, the guitar player for the band is a big metal head. You know the type, Metallica all the way. Death metal. Lots of thumping guitars. He asked over Facebook if anyone had any new rock bands they could send his way because he was looking for new music to add to his iPod. So I did. You know what I sent him *snicker, snicker*. I sent him Dir en Gray and X Japan and D'espairs Ray. You know what he said? Great music, but they don't speak English. He's the speak English or die type, I guess. Think of all the world-wide music you miss out on when you say, "but they don't speak English." Wow.
So today I found out about X Japan's new single, Jade, which is in freaking English. I sent this guy the YouTube link via Facebook and he liked it. He also said, "those chicks can rock." WTF??? They may be pretty and dress in the kind of clothes American rock stars should be wearing (see my other blog on that), but they do not look like chicks (okay, Mana in his Lolita outfit does, I guess – but he was NOT in the video!).
So what do you think? Why don't they come farther into the interior? And should they? I know I wish they did…
And here's the video – Jade by X Japan. It's awesome!
Lolita in JRock: What's Up with That?
January 22, 2011 JRock Tagged with: boy george, cross-dressers, cross-dressing, JRock, jrockers, lolita, lolita fashion, visual kei, x japan 8 Responses »
If we're going to have a quick discussion on Lolita and how it pertains to JRock, I suppose we have to talk about what it is first. Historically, the term Lolita can be referenced back to a book. Wikipedia says, "Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged Humbert Humbert, who becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze."
Okay, so the first "Lolita" was a fictitious, 12-year-old, sexually active girl who had a thing for much older men. Got it.
Anyone who knows anything about JRock and anime culture knows that "Lolita" is a term for a certain type of fashion – frilly, lacey dresses that are similar to something you'd see in "Gone with the Wind", but have a decided sexually provocative and sometimes Gothic flare to them and we've seen some of our favorite JRockers sporting these dresses on stage. It sprung up amongst the Visual Kei (Visual Style, translated) thing back in the late 1980s, when all rock stars at least wore make-up. Except, the Japanese took this to an extreme.
I've personally seen many a woman wearing a Lolita outfit at an anime/yaoi con and I must say I've investigated getting one for myself to wear on Halloween, my favorite holiday. A forty-something mother of two wearing a Gothic Lolita outfit for anything but Halloween seems a bit strange, dont' you think? Not that I'm above that, LOL. There are also many an anime in which boys are forced to wear princess outfits that look suspiciously similar to Lolita outfits. Hmmm…
So how did this 12-year-old-girl named Dolores inspire a fashion culture in Japan that culimnated in cross-dressing Japanese rock musicians? I have no idea. But I do know one thing, it's both intriguing and just plain silly, at least in my opinion. I have to say, I find these Japanese cross-dressing rock stars courageous. There is no way any respectable American rock musician would have the balls to prance around onstage with his guitar in a Lolita dress. Okay, maybe Marilyn Manson… but do you really want to see that? I think the closest we did get to seeing something like that was Boy George in the 80s, LOL.
My main question here becomes: what's up with Lolita fashion and male JRockers? Are the Japanese really insane? Are they just doing these things to make us say, "What the fuck?" I'm laughing to myself on that one. I'd love to hear your comments and views on the subject. Do you like it, hate it, want to be it?
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What does it mean to be "ready" for college?
What is the package of skills and core knowledge that makes your average 18-year old equipped to handle higher education? How many of those are talents, abilities and information that teenagers typically acquire--via practice and application--in their high school classes? Does maturity play a part in making someone ready for college?
Recently there's been a spate of articles on how unsuspecting students are wasting their money by a) going to the wrong college and b) pursuing the wrong major. Why are these colleges and disciplines "wrong?" Because the return on investment, based on reported annual income of graduates of these programs, is less (sometimes a lot less) than the earnings of graduates of other, presumably better, institutions and fields of study.
Debunking these so-called studies is akin to plugging a King salmon in a tiny barrel. Cedar Reiner has done so, deftly and comprehensively, here and here. Besides, anyone who ever pursued a degree in, say, theology or philosophy, out of a deep-seated desire to experience rich, personally meaningful learning could easily explain why ROI isn't always (or even usually) measured in annual salary.
There are plenty of important, life-changing career directions-- teaching --where the big bucks are neither expected nor an issue, over the long term. And thank goodness for that. Thank goodness for all those in social-helper careers who got post-secondary degrees or vocational training, then took up the important work of making life comfortable, safe and rewarding for others, rather than playing the odds of college/career monetary roulette.
And, of course, we're crafting policy to support this trifecta, under the assumption that everyone wants or needs a college degree, because it's the ticket to a better life. This is how we end up with professional degree-holders who have six-figure liabilities and no professional job prospects. This is how we end up with our next sub-prime loan crisis, student debt.
What do we expect to get out of a college degree? It's very rare to hear policymakers or thought leaders talk about depth of disciplinary knowledge, exposure to diverse viewpoints and the art of argument, guidance in learning to create or solve problems--or lead. Instead, we get lifetime salary estimates as payoff for slogging our way to a credential. Nobody talks about personal satisfaction or the benefits of an educated populace.
College ready? It's not about test scores. It's about having the self-awareness to choose IHEs and fields of study wisely, in an era when people are likely to have more than a dozen grown-up jobs. It's about having a clear purpose for attending college. If the primary purpose is cashing in, OK. But there are other reasons to get a rich and varied education.
I have always been intrigued by the European practice of a gap year between secondary school and the university. There are programs like this in the United States, but a quick Google of "gap year" yields a plethora of pre-packaged "opportunities" for students who have the financial backstop of a place to live, a stipend for travel and someone to support them while they, umm, find their passion.
What I'm thinking looks more like this: Get a Joe job. Move out and live independently, or with roommates. Pay your own utility bills. Sponge off your parents for home-cooked leftovers and access to the washing machine. Travel to places you've never been. Think about how you'd like to live, as an adult. Dream. Read. Make mistakes.
I'm not sure many young people are ready to take full advantage of four years of intense academic study, no matter what their ACT/SAT scores say.
It's a cliche' to say that college is wasted on the young. But what would happen if we weren't pushing high school grads to compete for slots in top-tier colleges and high-ticket degree programs? What if we valued a college education for its own sweet self, rather than as the most efficient training to enter the rat race?


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/**
 * Performs all domain logic related to correlations and other statistical techniques.
 *
 * @author Christine Gerpheide <cgerpheide@box.com>
 * @since 9/16/13
 */

namespace Risk\Metrics;

class Correlator
{
    protected $bugginess_values;
    protected $metric_values;

    protected static $cached_boundaries_suffix = '_boundaries';

    public function __construct()
    {
       $this->witness = new \Risk\Witness();
    }

    /**
     * Correlate a given metric with bugginess
     *
     * @param string $key
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function correlate($key)
    {
        $metrics = new \Risk\Metrics();
        if($metrics->is_categorical_metric($key))
        {
            $this->witness->log_error('Correlations can only be performed on numerical metrics');
            return;
        }

        $this->init_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key);

        $bugginess_values = $this->bugginess_values[$key];
        $metric_values = $this->metric_values[$key];

        $this->witness->log_information('Performing normality test.');

        // < 3 data points also doesn't make sense
        if(sizeof($metric_values) > 5000 || sizeof($metric_values) < 3)
        {
            $this->witness->log_verbose('Skipping normality test since >5000 data points, so your data will never be normal.');
        }
        else
        {
            $output = \Risk\R\API::normality($metric_values);
            $this->witness->log_verbose($output);
            $this->witness->log_information('If the p-value of the normality test is less than .05, we reject normality.');
        }

        $this->witness->log_information('Calculating correlation!');

        $output = \Risk\R\API::correlation($bugginess_values, $metric_values);

        $this->witness->log_information('Correlation between ' . $key . ' and bugginess is:');
        $this->witness->log_verbose($output);

        $this->witness->log_information('The Pearson correlation is only applicable if the data are normal.');
        $this->witness->log_information('A very generalized guideline for interpreting the correlation coefficients:
                0 : no relation
                0.1 - 0.3 : weak relation
                0.3 - 0.7 : moderate relation
                0.7 - 1.0 : strong relation');
        $this->witness->log_information('where the sign indicates the direction of the relation.');
        $this->witness->log_information('To be significant, the p-value must also be less than 0.05.');
    }

    public function plot($key)
    {
        $metrics = new \Risk\Metrics();
        if($metrics->is_categorical_metric($key))
        {
            $this->witness->log_error('Plots can only be currently be created for numerical metrics');
            return;
        }

        list($bugginess_values, $metric_values) = $this->get_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key);

        $file_path = \Risk\R\API::plot($metric_values, $bugginess_values, $key);
        $this->witness->log_verbose('Plot created at ' . $file_path . ' in your current working directory.');
    }

    /**
     * Correlate the given metric with bugginess using the multiple comparisons method.
     *
     * @param $key
     */
    public function multiple_comparisons($key)
    {
        $this->init_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key);

        $bugginess_values = $this->bugginess_values[$key];
        $metric_values = $this->metric_values[$key];

        $this->witness->log_information('Calculating correlation using multiple comparisons method.');

        // If this is a numerical metric, then we need to split it up in quantiles first

        $class_name = \Risk\Metrics::get_class_name_for_key($key);
        if(!is_subclass_of($class_name, 'Categorical'))
        {
            $this->witness->log_warning('Converting metric values to quantiles.');
            $metric_values = $this->partition_into_quantiles($metric_values);
        }

        if(count(array_unique($metric_values)) > 2)
        {
            $output = \Risk\R\API::multiple_comparisons($bugginess_values, $metric_values);
        }
        else
        {
            $this->witness->log_verbose('Only two unique values, performing npartest.');
            $output = \Risk\R\API::npartest($bugginess_values, $metric_values);
        }

        $this->witness->log_information('Comparisons between ' . $key . ' and bugginess is:');
        $this->witness->log_verbose($output);

        $this->witness->log_information('In general, the goal is to find the ordering between categories suggested by the estimator values.');
    }

    /**
     * Assign each value to a quantile.
     *
     * @param $values
     * @param $num_partitions
     * @return array of same length of values with quantile names.
     */
    public function partition_into_quantiles($values, $num_partitions = 4, $key = '')
    {
        $boundaries = \Risk\R\API::quantile($values, $num_partitions);

        // Duplicates happen if there are too few distinct values for the number of partitions
        $boundaries = $this->remove_duplicate_boundaries($boundaries);

        $this->witness->log_information('Boundaries used for quantiles are: ' . implode(',', $boundaries));

        $quantiled_values = $this->place_in_quantiles_with_boundaries($values, $boundaries);

        if($key)
        {
            $this->set_cached_boundaries($key, $boundaries);
        }

        return $quantiled_values;
    }

    protected function set_cached_boundaries($key, $boundaries)
    {
        $cache = new \Risk\Cache();
        $cache->cache($key . self::$cached_boundaries_suffix, $boundaries);
    }

    public function retrieve_cached_boundaries($key)
    {
        $cache = new \Risk\Cache();
        return $cache->retrieve($key . self::$cached_boundaries_suffix);
    }

    public function place_in_quantiles_with_boundaries($values, $boundaries)
    {
        $quantile_values = [];
        $counts = [];
        foreach($values as $value)
        {
            $q = 1;
            while($boundaries[$q] < $value)
            {
                if(!isset($boundaries[$q+1])) break;
                $q++;
            }

            $quantile = 'Q' . $q;
            $quantile_values[] = $quantile;

            // Maintain a count to report later
            if(!isset($counts[$quantile])) $counts[$quantile] = 0;
            $counts[$quantile]++;
        }

        // Print number of elements in each quantile
        foreach($counts as $quantile => $count)
        {
            $this->witness->log_information('Quantile ' . $quantile . ' contains ' . $count . ' elements');
        }

        return $quantile_values;
    }

    /**
     * Remove any duplicate boundary values.
     *
     * @param $boundaries of the form [min, some, quantile, values, max]
     * @return the form [min, unique, quantile, values, max]
     */
    protected function remove_duplicate_boundaries($boundaries)
    {
        $min = array_shift($boundaries);
        $max = array_pop($boundaries);
        return array_merge([$min], array_unique($boundaries), [$max]);
    }

    /**
     * Get arrays of bugginess and metric values for the given metric.
     *
     * Speeds up processing in case correlate and multiple comparisons are done
     * back to back.
     *
     * @param $key
     * @throws Exception
     */
    protected function init_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key)
    {
        if(isset($this->bugginess_values[$key])) return;

        $bugginess_metrics_datastore = new \Risk\Datastore\BugginessMetricsView();
        $bugginess_metrics = $bugginess_metrics_datastore->select_by_key($key);

        $this->witness->log_information('Found ' . count($bugginess_metrics) . ' values with bugginess');

        foreach($bugginess_metrics as $bugginess_metric)
        {
            $bugginess_values[] = $bugginess_metric->bugginess();
            $metric_values[] = $bugginess_metric->value();
        }

        $this->bugginess_values[$key] = $bugginess_values;
        $this->metric_values[$key] = $metric_values;
    }

    protected function get_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key)
    {
        $this->init_bugginess_and_metric_values_for_key($key);

        return [$this->bugginess_values[$key], $this->metric_values[$key]];
    }

}

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A care estate has recently been opened on the former Stegerveld military site in Ommen. 24 clients of the Baalderborg Group can now stay in the former military bunkers.
The former ammunition storage complex on the Coevorderweg has undergone a transformation in recent months. The meters high barbed wire fence is gone and care facilities can now be found in the old ammunition bunkers. This facility provides day care for residents who need peace, quiet and space.
Of the 22 bunkers that were built here in the fifties, 7 are left. Four of these have been converted and extended into care homes. Three bunkers are used for storage and day care. One of these bunkers has a nature function, as it has been made suitable for bats.


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Brand trust is wavering. Despite all the review sites and access to information consumers have today versus in 2013, 6 out of 10 are less sure or not sure about their trust in brands today.
Approximately 38% rank 24/7 access to a human agent as "influential" to their trust versus only 25% citing visibility to company's leadership as influencing their trust.
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Ben Whishaw is patiently waiting for a 'James Bond 25' update, too
The Paddington star has a rough idea when production will begin, though
By Gregory Wakeman
Published : January 09, 2018
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It has now been over two years since the last James Bond film came out.
But even though "Spectre" was met with middling reviews it still provided enough spectacle and action to remind moviegoers why the franchise has remained so popular for so long.
Audiences have been waiting with bated breath for news on James Bond 25 for quite some time. But over the last few months little bits of information regarding the blockbuster have finally started to emerge.
The most startling revelation came earlier this summer when Daniel Craig confirmed he would be making his fifth and final appearance as 007 in the film, as it was heavily speculated that Spectre would marks his farewll. We now also know that "James Bond 25" will be written once again by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have contributed to the last six entries to the franchise, while it has also been announced that the film will be released on November 8, 2019.
Having made his debut as Q in "Skyfall," and reprised the role in "Spectre," Ben Whishaw will return as Quartermaster in the still to be titled film, too. But when I spoke to the British actor over the weekend he admitted that he's still not quite sure when production will actually begin.
In fact, like the rest of us, he is still patiently waiting for an update on the film.
"I haven't had an update for a while. I would imagine, I think they have a release date for next year, so I think by the end of this year we have to have started filming something. Although it has gone strangely quiet, but that's often the way it goes."
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Musician Jon Seiger's return from hearing loss while reclaiming his story of abuse
By Jeff Spevak • Jul 24, 2020
Jon Seiger lost his hearing -- and his music -- when he was 32. Arts editor Jeff Spevak talked to Seiger about his journey back to his world of music in this story produced by WXXI's Veronica Volk.
Jazz musician Jon Seiger lost his hearing when he was 32 and said he had to stop playing music. He later had cochlear implants in both ears, taught his brain how to interpret the electronic signals and started performing again.
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Jon Seiger was 32 years old when he lost his hearing to an infection. He calls the experience "surreal."
"Just walking through the world and breathing and not hearing your own breath all of the sudden was very odd," he says. "And it made life feel bizarre and surreal, and I was kind of separated from the world."
Medical science -- in his case, a cochlear implant in both ears -- has allowed Seiger to return to his world: music. The Rochester musician plays trumpet and piano in the style of classic New Orleans jazz, and sings with the immediately recognizable gravel of Louis Armstrong. He's been busy on the local club scene for years. And even with much of that shot down by the coronavirus pandemic, he still plays virtual gigs on his Facebook page every Saturday at 5 p.m.
The road to recovery was not easy to navigate. But the 59-year-old Seiger draws an interesting connection between the determination he had to call upon and an ongoing darkness throughout his life.
"The silver lining to having been abused by dozens, hundreds of adults growing up," he says, "is I was pretty resilient."
He had the best of music educations. The New England Conservatory of Music. And the nightclubs of New York City.
"I was very fortunate to still get to see and hear and work with a lot of the older first-wave jazz musicians who were around," Seiger says. "And befriend some of them. All of the guys from Louis Armstrong's band who survived when Louis died in '71, I got to work with.
Jon Seiger plays trumpet and piano and sings like Louis Armstrong. "I hope ... I can keep just a little bit of the joy he wanted to give the world," he says.
"It certainly brought it to life a lot more for me. I could look on TV and see The Beatles or, you know, Elvis Presley, or whatever. But I was there at Jimmy Ryan's nightclub any night I wanted of the week to be there, listening to Roy Eldridge and Sarah Vaughan would come in, or Earl Hines would come in, Dizzy would come in. So these were the legends of jazz and there they were, introduced to them, sitting down with them, and learning from them."
Seiger was a young music prodigy, but there was an early foreshadowing of what was to come. It was the Fourth of July, he fell and hit his head on a door frame and was taken to the emergency room. "There were lots of kids who were totally burned up from fireworks in the street," he says. "I remember that vividly from 8 years old."
Taking a back seat to more pressing cases, Seiger says careless treatment left him with an ear infection. He recovered. But much the same thing happened years later, while flying with his band to a gig in Columbus, Ohio. He felt pressure in his head and, "I did what you're not supposed to do," he says. "Hold your nose and blow."
He popped both eardrums. With blood flowing out of his ears, he was taken to the hospital after the plane landed. "There was kind of a Doogie Howser kind of emergency room guy and, again, people with, like, heart attacks and limbs missing got the A-list doctors. And I was not gonna die, so he's, 'Yeah, here, take some painkillers and you'll be fine.' "
A fever and infection set in. Several operations couldn't undo the damage. Seiger was a deaf musician.
"I had to stop playing music," he says. "I didn't know sign language and lip reading." And New York City "was like a million nightclubs that I could and should be playing at."
So he came to Rochester "for its high percentage of deaf people."
He had resigned himself to the reality that, "I'll be part of the deaf world at the time."
The cochlear implant was a new reality. Electrical impulses carried to the brain by 22 tiny wires -- plus two spares -- replacing the 1,500 hairlike cilia of the middle ear.
It's not quite hearing; it's called "hearing awareness."
"One thing that people don't know -- I didn't -- is that they'll put cochlear implants in babies and they'll put them in formerly hearing people like myself," Seiger says. "Implants are highly unrecommended for people who are born deaf and who are now adults and have absolutely no concept of what sound is. And what a dog sounds like and what a human voice sounds like and what a woman sounds like and what music sounds like and what a door slamming sounds like.
The traumas of Jon Seiger's life took a toll, he says. He openly shares his story about being abused in his childhood as a way of taking control of the story.
"And the few people I know who were born deaf and got implants as adults hated them and it was an absolute cacophony of noise and they just never used them again. Or even went to the extent to have the implant removed, just because it was so terrible."
That was Seiger's initial experience.
"It was absolute electronic and noise and sounded like nothing I had ever heard before," he says. "Everything, especially human voices, sounded like one of those larynx boxes."
Yet Seiger persevered, and taught his brain how to interpret the electronic signals.
There was another challenge.
"The deaf culture, world, was not all that inviting to formerly hearing people," he says. "If you weren't born deaf and didn't have deaf family members, you were not part of the club. Being physically deaf and not hearing was not the passkey to being in that thing.
"Does that mean all deaf people are like that? Of course not, I had and still have deaf friends," he says. "Then when I got the cochlear implant that was another like, you know, Dracula, you know, hold-the-cross-up moment against the vampire thing. Because, at the time -- this has changed a lot, this was 1999 -- it was viewed as, people viewed the cochlear implants as a way to try to ruin, to kill deaf culture.
"Hey, it's a personal choice for everybody."
Seiger made his choice. But the traumas of his life had taken a serious toll.
"I kind of withdrew a little, I had to, because of the factor of it, made me withdraw a little," he says. "And I was drinking and using drugs, and becoming depressed. Also the abuse stuff was coming back to me, so, that was when I had a 'trying to kill myself' moment. Not specifically about not playing music anymore, but just the limitations on my life, really in a larger sense."
The abuse stuff. It first happened when Seiger was 6 years old, at the hands of an uncle who said he'd cut Seiger into pieces if he told. Like his hearing loss, it was a foreshadowing of what was to come. It caught up to him again at the Horace Mann School in the Bronx. A prestigious school whose graduates included U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and a pretty good football player for the school who would go on to write a little bit, Jack Kerouac.
"The downside was, of all these school sex scandals where there was one teacher abusing kids, there were over 30 teachers at our school abusing the guys," Seiger says. "I got abused by eight of the teachers, and stuff. They made some of us be in porn films and do escort stuff."
"As a musician I will never be rich," says Jon Seiger. "But that's how I get rich, in an emotional way. That's how I get rich."
In 2013, a group of former Horace Mann students, including Seiger, hired the high-profile attorney Gloria Allred to represent them in a suit against the school. But the statute of limitations had passed, and the suit went nowhere. But now, backed by the 2019 Child Victims Act, Seiger is currently involved in a lawsuit against a handful of New York City and New Jersey churches, where he alleges he was sexually abused while a member of the institutions' choir and bands.
The details are horrifying. The story of a talented child, seeking approval, encouraged by elders, drawn behind closed doors, shamed into silence. His parents, divorced when Seiger was in the ninth grade, were disengaged, in another world; in fact, his mother wrote for the TV soap "Another World." Seiger's story has been repeated in The New York Times, The New York Post and People magazine. He talks about it freely now. It is his way of taking control of his own story.
It's the abuse story that draws the attention. The music story is the one that moves Seiger forward.
"And whenever I am fortunate enough to play some of Louis' music," he says. "I hope and like and want to think that maybe I can keep just a little bit of the joy he wanted to give the world alive, and sometimes it works out. People say, 'Man, I heard Louis live in 1954,' they'll tell me about it, it was, 'I closed my eyes and it was just like I was there.'
"As a musician I will never be rich. But that's how I get rich, in an emotional way. That's how I get rich."
Jeff Spevak is WXXI's Arts & Life editor and reporter. He can be reached at jspevak@wxxi.org.
This story is part of Move to Include, an initiative that uses the power of public media to inform and transform attitudes and behaviors about inclusion. Move to Include was founded by WXXI and the Golisano Foundation and expanded with a grant by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.
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Stories of Rain, the South African leg of the Global Nomadic Art Project (GNAP) 2016 initiated by Yatoo – the South Korean Nature Arts Association, follows in the steps of the First Peoples of South Africa, featuring local and international artists.
Stories of Rain is a non-profit initiative hosted by volunteers of the Site_Specific Collective – a land and nature art initiative based in South Africa.
Stories of Rain Conversations reflects the experiences and work of artists traversing the South African landscape, engaging environmental issues, history and place. In this time of palpable climate change, humanity finds itself at the cusp of profound natural and cultural transformation.
For a month we travelled as artists, coordinators, hosts and nomads through the country, creating art wherever we went. With 10 international visiting artists and about 70 local artists involved, this was one of the biggest projects I've ever been involved with! I was co-coordinator, host for various parts of the trip, and did the graphic design/layout for some of the materials we needed. Most importantly for me, however, is that I was there as an artist too – I had the opportunity to create these land art works, learn from the other artists, and deepen my understanding of the world around me. In some ways it also challenged a lot of my preconceptions! And that is how we grow, isn't it?
My routes included visiting the Cederberg, Gifberg, Langebaan, !Khwa ttu, Cape Point, Wildekrans Country House in Houw Hoek and Porcupine Hills. I am not going to be able to name absolutely everybody here, but mainly I travelled, lived and created alongside (in order of appearance on the project) Hamish Niven, István Erőss, Ulrika Sparre, Ingrid Coerlin, Soonim Kim, Andrea Stallbom, Mr. Ko (Ko, Seung-hyun), Jasmine Lee, Nastasha Daniels and Yazeed Kamaldien.
Find out more about the project:
Site_Specific website >>
The project facebook page >>
Watch a video by Louis Bolton with Kim Goodwin at Sanddrif in the Cederberg >>
Thank you to the countless participants, sponsors and partners involved in this project!! Personally I'd like to specifically thank Strijdom van der Merwe, Anni Snyman, Hamish Niven, Virginia MacKenny for your incredible commitment and hard work; a heartfelt thank you to Pierre Bezuidenhout, Janet Ranson, Jennifer Reynolds, Elma Giliomee, Alison Green, Jessica Schnehage, Adri Bezuidenhout, and Joppie and Susan Botes for all your support and making sure I have food and a bed during this project!! A special thank you also to Andrea Stallbom, PC van Rensburg, and Nastasha Daniels. There's SO many people I'm not mentioning that played an incredible role in making this project so successful – trust me, I'm very grateful to you!!
The map showing the travel routes for the project.
Project Stories of Rain | Global Nomadic Art Project: South Africa
Sites Koringberg, Cederberg, Gifberg, Langebaan, Houw Hoek, Cape Point
Date 8 September - 2 October 2016


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A joint Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders task force has recommended rescheduling marijuana on a federal basis, legalizing medical marijuana nationwide and allowing states to decide about recreational cannabis.
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Southern Pacific passenger train crosses to Salton Sea, August 1906. Photo via USBR.
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The heat will reduce the enlarged tissue of your prostate.
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Q: How to conditionally show bottom navigation bar when changing upper tab bar in flutter I have the following test screen on my app:

As seen, my intention is that I will have 3 widgets connected to each upper tab. And I also want to have a bottom navigation bar but I only want it to be visible when the user is under Upper Tab 3. For instance, the user is under Upper Tab 1 in the screenshot above but the bottom navigation bar is still visible.
Here is my code that I have written to achieve this but it just does not work. I keep seeing the bottom navigation bar no matter under which upper tab bar I am. What am I supposed to do to achieve that my bottom navigation bar is only seen when the user is under Upper Tab 3 tab bar?
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class TestPage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _TestPageState createState() => _TestPageState();
}

class _TestPageState extends State<TestPage>
    with AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin {
  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  bool get wantKeepAlive => true;

  int _currentBottomBarIndex = 0;
  bool _showBottomBar = false;

  final _tabs = [
    Center(child: Text('Bottom Tab 1')),
    Center(child: Text('Bottom Tab 2')),
  ];

  Widget _changeUpperTab(upperTabIdx, isBottomBar) {
    setState(() {
      _showBottomBar = isBottomBar;
    });

    if (_showBottomBar) {
      return _tabs[_currentBottomBarIndex];
    } else {
      return Center(child: Text('Tab ' + upperTabIdx.toString()));
    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    super.build(context);
    return DefaultTabController(
      length: 3,
      child: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Test App'),
          bottom: TabBar(
            indicatorColor: Colors.white,
            tabs: [
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                'Upper Tab 1',
                style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
              )),
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                'Upper Tab 2',
                style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
              )),
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                'Upper Tab 3',
                style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
              )),
            ],
          ),
        ),
        body: TabBarView(
          children: [
            _changeUpperTab(1, false),
            _changeUpperTab(2, false),
            _changeUpperTab(3, true),
          ],
        ),
        bottomNavigationBar: (_showBottomBar)
            ? BottomNavigationBar(
                currentIndex: _currentBottomBarIndex,
                items: [
                  BottomNavigationBarItem(
                      icon: Icon(Icons.search),
                      label: 'Search',
                      backgroundColor: Colors.yellow),
                  BottomNavigationBarItem(
                      icon: Icon(Icons.home),
                      label: 'Home',
                      backgroundColor: Colors.red),
                ],
                onTap: (index) {
                  setState(() {
                    _currentBottomBarIndex = index;
                  });
                },
              )
            : null,
      ),
    );
  }
}

A: You can use this code to create it in the tab you want, but i would recommend you to create a separate statelessWidget for that tab and you can have it more organized.
class TestPage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _TestPageState createState() => _TestPageState();
}

class _TestPageState extends State<TestPage>
    with AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin {
  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  bool get wantKeepAlive => true;

  int _currentBottomBarIndex = 0;
  bool _showBottomBar = false;

  final _tabs = [
    Center(child: Text('Bottom Tab 1')),
    Center(child: Text('Bottom Tab 2')),
  ];

  Widget _changeUpperTab(upperTabIdx, isBottomBar) {
    setState(() {
      _showBottomBar = isBottomBar;
    });

    if (_showBottomBar) {
      return Scaffold(
        body: _tabs[_currentBottomBarIndex],
        bottomNavigationBar: BottomNavigationBar(
          currentIndex: _currentBottomBarIndex,
          items: [
            BottomNavigationBarItem(
                icon: Icon(Icons.search),
                label: 'Search',
                backgroundColor: Colors.yellow),
            BottomNavigationBarItem(
                icon: Icon(Icons.home),
                label: 'Home',
                backgroundColor: Colors.red),
          ],
          onTap: (index) {
            setState(() {
              _currentBottomBarIndex = index;
            });
          },
        ),
      );
    } else {
      return Center(child: Text('Tab ' + upperTabIdx.toString()));

    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    super.build(context);
    return DefaultTabController(
      length: 3,
      child: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Test App'),
          bottom: TabBar(
            indicatorColor: Colors.white,
            tabs: [
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                    'Upper Tab 1',
                    style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
                  )),
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                    'Upper Tab 2',
                    style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
                  )),
              Tab(
                  child: Text(
                    'Upper Tab 3',
                    style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
                  )),
            ],
          ),
        ),
        body: TabBarView(
          children: [
            _changeUpperTab(1, false),
            _changeUpperTab(2, false),
            _changeUpperTab(3, true),
          ],
        ),

      ),
    );
  }
}

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I finally made my first batch a few weeks back, but it was gone way before I could write about it. We pretty much ate that batch straight from the jar.
It was that good. So buttery and silky, sweet yet tart. Perfection.
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I used this recipe from Martha Stewart, and it turned out perfectly both times. (I made a single batch the first time and tripled it the 2nd time.) Thanks again, neighbor for those fresh Meyer lemons!
Combine yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and sugar in a small saucepan. Whisk to combine.
Over medium heat, stir constantly with a wooden spoon.
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Remove saucepan from heat. Add butter, a few pieces at a time, stirring until consistency is smooth.
Transfer mixture to serving container. Let cool. Refrigerate for about an hour or until chilled.
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When an option was opened from search results, the appropriate item in the left area (tree) was not selected.
The "reset defaults" toolbar button was available in search results.
Fixed non-working HomeGroup item in Navigation Pane - Default Items.
The option "Old Volume Control" for Windows 10 was displayed as "enabled" by default which is wrong.
The option "Balloon tooltips" for Windows 10 was displayed as "enabled" by default which is wrong.
Fixed app crash and incorrect behavior if the full path to its executable file contains the %5B string.
Fixed app crash when the category view was opened with the keyboard only.
Fixed the flickering cursor in category view and favorites.
I deleted small icons (16x16) in the left pane. They are 24x24 now.
I removed the hover option for the category view and favorites. It is disabled now.
Finally, I implemented High DPI image scaling for icons in the left area and in the toolbar. Users with high resolution displays should benefit from this change.
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It detected a trojan and the advice was to delete the winaero-file.
Was that alert a false-positive?
My system is Windows 10 pro 64-bit.
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I just reported the app as a false positive detection to Microsoft.
If they will find some time to fix their mad dog, then everything will be OK.
When it is unpacked, Defender does not detect it.
Also, it triggers only on Win8/Win10 version. But does not mark Win7 version as Trojan.
I don't know if the new update fixed, if Microsoft fixed WD, or both. But all is good – for now.
Maybe I am wrong, but it looks like it is fixed with new signatures.
I noticed they got updated this evening.


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