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Q: Does C++ have ordered hash? Perl has a structure called "ordered hash" Tie::IxHash. One can use it as a hashtable/map. The entries are in the order of insertion.
Wonder if there is such a thing in C++.
Here is a sample Perl snippet:
use Tie::IxHash;

tie %food_color, "Tie::IxHash";
$food_color{Banana} = "Yellow";
$food_color{Apple}  = "Green";
$food_color{Lemon}  = "Yellow";

print "In insertion order, the foods are:\n";
foreach $food (keys %food_color) {
    print "  $food\n"; #will print the entries in order
}

Update 1
As @kerrek-sb pointed out, one can use Boost Multi-index Containers Library.  Just wonder if it is possible to do it with STL.

A: Yes and no. No, there's no one that that's specifically intended to provide precisely the same functionality. But yes, you can do the same in a couple of different ways. If you expect to access the data primarily in the order inserted, then the obvious way to go would be a simple vector of pairs:
std::vector<std::string, std::string> food_colors;

food_colors.push_back({"banana", "yellow"});
food_colors.push_back({"apple", "green"});
food_colors.push_back({"lemon", "yellow"});

for (auto const &f : food_colors)
    std::cout << f.first << ": " << f.second << "\n";

This preserves order by simply storing the items in order. If you need to access them by key, you can use std::find to do a linear search for a particular item. That minimizes extra memory used, at the expense of slow access by key if you get a lot of items.
If you want faster access by key with a large number of items, you could use a Boost MultiIndex. If you really want to avoid that, you can create an index of your own pretty easily. To do this, you'd start by inserting your items into a  std::unordered_map (or perhaps an std::map). This gives fast access by key, but no access in insertion order. It does, however, return an iterator to each items as it's inserted into the map. You can simply store those iterators into a vector to get access in the order of insertion. Although the principle of this is fairly simple, the code is a bit on the clumsy side, to put it nicely:
std::map<std::string, std::string> fruit;
std::vector<std::map<std::string, std::string>::iterator> in_order;

in_order.push_back(fruit.insert(std::make_pair("banana", "yellow")).first);
in_order.push_back(fruit.insert(std::make_pair("apple", "green")).first);
in_order.push_back(fruit.insert(std::make_pair("lemon", "yellow")).first);

This allows access either by key:
// ripen the apple:
fruit["apple"] = "red";

...or in insertion order:
for (auto i : in_order)
    std::cout << i->first << ": " << i->second << "\n";

For the moment, I've shown the basic mechanism for doing this--if you wanted to use it much, you'd probably want to wrap that up into a nice class to hide some of the ugliness and the keep things pretty and clean in normal use.

A: An associative container that remembers insertion order does not come with the C++ standard library, but it is straightforward to implement one using existing STL containers.
For example, a combination of std::map (for fast lookup) and std::list (to maintain key ordering) can be used to emulate an insertion-ordered map. Here is an example that demonstrates the idea:
#include <unordered_map>
#include <list>
#include <stdexcept>

template<typename K, typename V>
class InsOrderMap {
  struct value_pos {
    V value;
    typename std::list<K>::iterator pos_iter;
    value_pos(V value, typename std::list<K>::iterator pos_iter):
      value(value), pos_iter(pos_iter) {}
  };

  std::list<K> order;
  std::unordered_map<K, value_pos> map;

  const value_pos& locate(K key) const {
    auto iter = map.find(key);
    if (iter == map.end())
      throw std::out_of_range("key not found");
    return iter->second;
  }

public:
  void set(K key, V value) {
    auto iter = map.find(key);
    if (iter != map.end()) {
      // no order change, just update value
      iter->second.value = value;
      return;
    }
    order.push_back(key);
    map.insert(std::make_pair(key, value_pos(value, --order.end())));
  }

  void erase(K key) {
    order.erase(locate(key).pos_iter);
    map.erase(key);
  }

  V operator[](K key) const {
    return locate(key).value;
  }

  // iterate over the mapping with a function object
  // (writing a real iterator is too much code for this example)
  template<typename F>
  void walk(F fn) const {
    for (auto key: order)
      fn(key, (*this)[key]);
  }
};

// TEST

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <cassert>

int main()
{
  typedef InsOrderMap<std::string, std::string> IxHash;

  IxHash food_color;
  food_color.set("Banana", "Yellow");
  food_color.set("Apple", "Green");
  food_color.set("Lemon", "Yellow");

  assert(food_color["Banana"] == std::string("Yellow"));
  assert(food_color["Apple"] == std::string("Green"));
  assert(food_color["Lemon"] == std::string("Yellow"));

  auto print = [](std::string k, std::string v) {
    std::cout << k << ' ' << v << std::endl;
  };
  food_color.walk(print);
  food_color.erase("Apple");
  std::cout << "-- without apple" << std::endl;
  food_color.walk(print);
  return 0;
}

Developing this code into a drop-in replacement for a full-fledged container such as std::map requires considerable effort.

A: C++ has standard containers for this.  An unordered map seems like what you are looking for:
std::unordered_map <std::string, std::string> mymap = {{"Banana", "Yellow" }, {"Orange","orange" } }


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Cory Kennedy
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Take a look at key moments from Wednesday's press conferences with Brandon Staley, Justin Herbert, and Kyzir White as the Bolts prepare to host the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday's home opener.
Focus is on Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, who has Brandon Staley's 'attention'
In the Cowboys' Week 1 matchup against Tampa Bay, Dallas put their passing attack on full display by throwing the ball 58 times. Although Cowboy's running back Ezekiel Elliott rushed for just 33 yards on 11 carries, Chargers' head coach Brandon Staley explained why his focus is still on the Cowboy's lead back.
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Staley went on to explain the type of quarterback he believes Dak Prescott is for the Cowboys and the excitement the Bolts have to face a quarterback of that caliber.
"This guy has been a proven guy for a long time," he said. "Since he's played for the Cowboys, their record speaks for itself with him as the quarterback — and their production. Going back to last year, they were number one in the NFL in total offense the year before I was with the Rams. Then, they were leading the NFL in offense through four or five weeks, and then he got hurt. Then, he lit it up Week 1 against the defensive Super Bowl champions, against a defense that's really, really good. His track record speaks for itself. He's a guy that's very worthy of that contract. He's an elite competitor. We're excited to be able to face him this week."
From one quarterback to another, Justin Herbert echoed what Staley said about Prescott.
"I think he's really smart," Herbert said. "He's able to make all the places athletic. His arm strength is off the charts. He's got all the tools and weapons, especially when you put him with some pretty good running backs and some receivers. He's going to be able to do some impressive things."
Linebacker Kyzir White also talked about the smarts of Prescott and what he thinks the defense has to do in order to slow down Elliott.
"I think Ezekiel Elliott is one of the best running backs in the game," White said. "He runs hard, he usually always gets positive yards on contact, so you know we gotta wrap up, run our feet and all rally to the ball."
White was pleased with the run defense against Washington in Week 1 and said he is 'excited for the challenge' on Sunday, whether it be a heavy run or pass attack.
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One of last Sunday's biggest plays in Washington came from White. White was able to force a fumble and give the ball back to Herbert and co. inside the five-yard line. During Monday's press conference, White talked about making that big play for the team and how he can improve his game. As White's role on the defense continues to evolve, he has the mind-set of getting '1% better each day.'
White talked about a specific play from Week 1 where he can improve on and learn from heading into Week 2.
"Last game for example, they threw a checkdown to [RB Antonio] Gibson, I made good contact on him, but I stopped my feet and he got up out of there," he said. "So, you know limit the missed tackles and get my hands on more balls. I know I had two forced fumbles last game but just trying to impact the game better, get better at my pass rush, things like that."
Herbert also talked about ways he feels he can improve as the season progresses, No. 10 has put his focus on getting the job done on the road this season.
"I think going on the road and having our road record be better than it was last year," he said. "Being a road team that's able to go and put up a good fight. Being able to take a win like that on Sunday, especially on the road, is definitely tough for us."
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"I think that you make a big jump every week," he said. "I really do, because you learned so much. Out there on the walk-through, we were just so much better than we were on Sunday because we just had so much to learn from."
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Sunday marks a big day for Bolts fans and players alike. Sunday's home opener will be the first-time fans get to witness a regular season game in the brand new SoFi Stadium. White talked about what he expects the atmosphere to be like on gameday.
"I feel like it's gonna be a crazy environment," White said. "I was kind of shocked when we played the Rams in the preseason game the energy was real good so I can only imagine what it's gonna be like for a regular season game against a good opponent in the Cowboys."
When Herbert made his debut at SoFi Stadium last season in Week 2, he did so in front of empty chairs. For the second year QB, fans at home gamedays are a huge part of football that he's missed.
"[I'm expecting] a lot of excitement," Herbert said. "It's been a lot of fun being able to play at that place and last year was awesome but to not have fans and kind of go through that was a little weird, some aspects you miss about football. So having fans there this Sunday, I think it will definitely be a cool experience."
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Marc Bolieau, FourKites' Senior Vice President of Sales and Carrier Operations for the EMEA region, says better working conditions are key to alleviating Europe's driver shortage. He believes real-time visibility tools can give carriers the means to give their drivers a better work-life balance.
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The driver shortage seen in the UK and elsewhere in Europe has grabbed the headlines in recent weeks, with industry representatives proposing a myriad of solutions including increased pay, free training, and relaxed immigration rules among other things. However, in the meantime, the road transport industry must make do with the pool of talent that is currently in the labour market.
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It's something that can be implemented reasonably quickly. If you've got the technology and you can apply it, then that can take effect faster than adding drivers to the workforce. Although these implementations are often fraught with problems, if you've got to really scale solutions, that could be an important part of the solution.
We do see when you look at use cases or case studies of implementations of route planning and route management, in some cases you can see very large efficiency gains, depending on the point from which organizations are starting from.
There obviously is a lot of variation between road freight companies on how much route planning they'll do in a sophisticated or technologically enabled way. There can be some quite big gains though, say 10-20% reductions in miles driven and fuel consumed if you do that very well. Sometimes if you're starting from a relatively basic position, there's some big changes that could be made in that way."
Of course, merely having tools at one's disposal is not a magic wand for waving the driver shortage problem away. For starters, the technology has to be used in the right way.
From a driver's perspective, supply chain visibility platforms and other digital tracking software can seem like an intrusion. Some truckers talk about being lectured about economic driving by people who have no idea how to drive a truck. Others may feel like they are constantly being monitored and don't have the means to make common sense diversions from pre-determined plans.
However, in the opinion of FourKites' Marc Bolieau, real-time supply chain visibility tools can actually be used to better a lorry driver's work-life balance.
Mr Bolieau told Trans.INFO that driver shortages "are on a downward spiral" caused by existing shortages pushing drivers harder, thereby creating more shortages as drivers become unhappy with their work. He added:
"The shortages tend to result in carriers putting more pressure on the drivers, who are told that they have to work for longer. This pressure tends to discourage people from wanting to be drivers, and so we're seeing people leave the industry and the problem gets worse. The answer is to plan better, allowing drivers to be more efficient, getting the rest they need and working reasonable hours. Eliminating snafus at loading stations, making sure their routes avoid bottlenecks, and giving them reasonable targets also make drivers' working lives happier (and the roads safer!)."
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Kempyt wrote: Has anyone on here done this? and would anyone do it again for cash? I have 3 different players that require this now?
I am curious about this as well. My newly acquired 450 has a dead battery, too.
I think the person I bought my CD-i player from does this. It will take me a bit of digging to get their contact info, but I'm gonna try. They are located in the States.
Heya, I could do this if you want.
I've done this before for "qw4t0r" (Who's also a member on this forum) and myself.
Though, we both live in The Netherlands, so that could be quite a bit of a problem for you guys.
I don't know anyone who does this in the States, but there must be someone for sure.


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What does Turkey want by sending troops to Libya?
By Dong Manyuan
Turkey is planning to step into the ongoing proxy war in Libya through military means, a significant step to expand its geopolitical and geo-economic boundaries and the latest manifestation of the upgraded geopolitical game between Ankara and Riyadh.
Two regimes currently co-exist in Libya - the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli that's recognized by the UN and the Tobruk regime led by warlord General Haftar, which is militarily strong but hasn't been recognized by the UN yet. The Tobruk regime has intensified attacks of Tripoli in the second half of this year in attempt to overthrow the National Accord government and unify the whole country. The situation is in disfavor for the National Accord government now, which, however, has the support of Turkey that hopes to keep alive the maritime delimitation agreement they signed at the end of November. The agreement gives Turkey a larger exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in east Mediterranean.
The east Mediterranean region has seen surging contentions for natural gas resources recently. Israel, to divide and conquer Arabian countries one by one, has exploited two natural gas fields in that region by a tough way. These natural gas fields can not only meet Israel's own gas supply demands, but also provide a lot of extra natural gas for export. Israel thus joined forces with Egypt and Jordan, and then with Cyprus and Greece, to set up a Mediterranean gas cooperative alliance.
Israeli preemptive steps in regional economic development left Turkey being on edge. In the first place, Turkey expanded the scope of its maritime exclusive economic zone as much as possible through legal means, by signing the Turkey-Libya Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement, which displeased Greece, Cyprus and Egypt. On the other hand, Turkey sent drilling vessels for exploratory natural gas drilling in Cyprus' EEZ, which further aggravated conflicts.
Turkey's interference in the proxy war in Libya will escalate its geopolitical game with Saudi Arabia, which first became acute in 2018 when Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman described Turkey as part of a "triangle of evil" along with Iran and hardline Islamist groups, accused Turkey of trying to reinstate the Islamic Caliphate, abolished nearly a century ago when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and accused Erdogan of acting like an "Ottoman sultan". This has left little room to ease the relation between the two countries. The media reported that the Libyan warlord Haftar is endorsed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which gives Turkey the reason to support the Government of National Accord.
To obtain strategic supremacy over Saudi Arabia, Turkey has taken moves in northern and eastern Africa. It set up a military base in Somali to deter Saudi Arabia on the south; now it has assigned troops to Libya on the south of the Mediterranean Sea. The series of steps had something to do with the Turkish leader's "2023" and "2053" strategic visions and constituted an important part of them.
Predictably, Ankara will send troops to Libya step by step, first the Special Forces and coaches to help train the National Accord troops to enhance their combat force and provide weapons and ammunition. If this doesn't prove effective, Ankara will probably send a large group of ground forces to fight side by side with the government soldiers to foil Haftar's offensives. An intact GNA will help the Turks secure the agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea.
Whether Haftar will occupy Tripoli, the capital city, and whether the National Accord Government will thwart Haftar's attacks will depend on the resources Turkey and Saudi Arabia will invest in the two proxies, which is to be observed.
(The author is a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies.)
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Tennis|Nadal Equals Borg's Record With Sixth French Open Title
Nadal Equals Borg's Record With Sixth French Open Title
Rafael Nadal after clinching his record sixth French Open championship.Credit...Alex Livesey/Getty Images
By Christopher Clarey
PARIS — Bjorn Borg could not make it to Roland Garros on Sunday, which turned out to be a missed opportunity. It would have made for just the right photograph: Borg handing over the Coupe des Mousquetaires to his successor in the soft evening light in Paris.
It has been 30 years since Borg won his sixth and last French Open, and it was possible to imagine then that no other relentless baseliner would be able to match Borg's domination at the world's greatest clay-court tournament.
In fact, the man who would manage it had not yet been born. But Rafael Nadal is in the prime of life now, and on Sunday, he reeled in Borg and won his sixth title here by holding off his customary French Open foil: Roger Federer.
"It's an honor to say that I won as many French Opens as Borg," Nadal said after his 7-5, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-1 victory. "It's extraordinary. There is a lot of emotion, but the real satisfaction comes from all the work you do before you get there. There were difficult moments and some very good moments."
There were tougher moments than usual this year for Nadal. He was pushed to five sets for the first time at the French Open in the first round against John Isner of the United States and struggled with his timing, depth and confidence into the second week.
"This one was the most difficult of all of them," said Nadal's uncle and coach, Toni Nadal. "Rafa was more nervous. He couldn't manage to really hit the ball well and that gives you a real sense of insecurity."
But Federer has been quite a French Open security blanket for Nadal. Their rivalry is one of the greatest in tennis history, yet it has been decidedly short on suspense here.
Nadal is now 5-0 against Federer at Roland Garros. Four of those victories have come in finals, and though this match was a thriller in comparison with Nadal's 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 victory in 2008, it still ended with Nadal's imposing his topspin forehand and Federer slumping toward the trophy ceremony with most of the crowd commiserating.
They do love the French-speaking Federer in Paris, the only Grand Slam city where he has been an underdog during his glory years. But though the chants of "Ro-ger, Ro-ger" helped him scale revivalist heights on Friday in his magnificent ambush of Novak Djokovic, they were not enough to lift the 29-year-old Federer past the 25-year-old Nadal, who had a solid, vocal minority chanting "Ra-fa" his way, too.
Federer had his chances, none more significant than the set point he failed to convert with Nadal serving at 2-5 in the first set. Taking the opening set from Nadal in his year of living dangerously at Roland Garros might have caused more doubts to surface. But Federer's backhand drop shot — a stroke he would use often and effectively throughout the match — landed just wide.
Nadal held serve, then broke Federer in the next game and gathered momentum.
"That's how it goes; Rafa is tough," Federer said. "I definitely thought I got maybe a touch unlucky there and he got a touch lucky."
Nadal then shrugged off a false step late in the second set. Serving for a two-set lead at 5-4, 40-30, heavy rain began to fall. Federer saved a set point to deuce, but the players were forced to leave the court as the rain intensified. When they returned little more than 10 minutes later, Federer saved another set point and broke Nadal for 5-5. Though it felt like foreshadowing, it proved nothing more than a brief respite for Federer, who played a mediocre tie breaker, pressing and making errors in bunches.
"Obviously I'm the one who's playing with smaller margins, so obviously I'm always going to go through a bit more ups and downs," Federer said. "Whereas Rafa is content doing the one thing the entire time. So it's always me who's going to dictate play and decide how the outcome is going to be. If I play well, I will most likely win in the score or beat him. If I'm not playing so well, that's when he wins."
Nadal is certainly capable of dictating terms, but Federer's quality of play fluctuated drastically on Sunday.
He would rise up for one more meaningful surge in the third set, rallying from a 2-4 deficit. But the match turned again in the opening game of the fourth set when Nadal escaped from a 0-40 deficit on his serve. He later broke Federer at love to go ahead, 3-1. The rest felt like a processional, and when the match ended with a forehand error, Nadal dropped to his knees and cradled his head in his hands before jogging forward to offer his hand and condolences to Federer once more.
A thank-you would have been appropriate, too. Nadal held on to his No. 1 ranking because of Federer's win over Djokovic in the semifinals. Even if the duopoly of Federer and Nadal appears to be over for good, they managed to restore order in Paris this year, and it would be no surprise to see them playing in the Wimbledon final in four weeks.
Nadal leads their series, 17-8, and has won their last four matches in Grand Slam tournaments. The last time they played in a major event — in the 2009 Australian Open final — Federer broke down in tears at the awards ceremony after his five-set defeat, muttering, "God, it's killing me."
This loss did not look nearly so traumatic. Federer is ranked No. 3 now, but he proved here that, when in form and inspired, he remains a member of the ruling class, even with his 30th birthday looming.
"It' s too bad I couldn't win, but I'm very proud of my run here the last two weeks," he said in his postmatch remarks to the crowd.
Federer remains the leader in Grand Slam singles titles with 16, but Nadal now has 10, and is the second-youngest man to hit that number. The youngest was Borg, who was 24 when he won his 10th at Wimbledon in 1980.
Nadal and Borg, who won his titles in Paris between 1974 and 1981, were at their most dominant at Roland Garros. Nadal and Borg lost to just one man here: Borg to the Italian Adriano Panatta (twice); Nadal to the Swedish slugger Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009.
But Borg and Nadal have more in common than such numbers. They were both long-haired teen idols who maintained career-long connections to their early coaches (Borg had Lennart Bergelin, Nadal has Toni). They each redefined the forehand with their technique and topspin. They were the best movers on clay of their generations and possessed fine two-handed backhands, underrated touch, superb endurance and an ability to block out the distractions and momentum shifts and focus, again and again, on the challenge at hand.
Perhaps Borg will make it to Roland Garros when Nadal breaks their tie. Watching Nadal win in Paris even in an off year, it is hard to imagine him not getting to seven.


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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations
published by jeremyhelligar on December 16th 2011 in Features and Pop
"I get high with a little help from my friends," Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles' 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music's top stars. Two's company, and so is three and sometimes four. The more the merrier, the higher and higher they get.
On the charts, that is.
In the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 for the week ending December 10, seventeen songs were collaborations between separate recording entities. Four of them featured Drake, and three apiece featured Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, who both appeared on tracks with Drake and with each other. But will.i.am featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger"and debuting at No. 36 with "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)," which the threesome performed on the November 20 American Music Awards"was probably the one that nobody saw coming.
Old-school Rolling Stones fans must be cringing at the idea of Jagger going anywhere near Lopez and will.i.am so soon after Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera went to No. 1 by invoking his hallowed name on "Moves Like Jagger." But for a sixty-something legend like him, hit records"even if in name only, a la Duck Sauce's GRAMMY-nominated "Barbra Streisand"are a near-impossible dream unless they're in tandem with other, often younger, stars.
Sound And Vision: Foster the People's Chart Challenge — Is There Life After "Pumped Up Kicks"?
published by jeremyhelligar on December 2nd 2011 in Features and Pop
Foster the People just might be the pop anomaly of 2011.
The trio of Los Angeles-based twentysomethings led by founder and namesake Mark Foster looks like a boy band (only cuter), plays instruments like rockers and produces music with beats that thump as hard as any backing up those fierce divas currently ruling every dance floor in clubland. And then there's FTP's breakthrough single, an insanely catchy song called "Pumped Up Kicks" about cool shoes and a youth with homicidal tendencies.
I mean, really?
Even more surprising than the song's smash status despite its decidedly un-poppy protagonist"that troubled kid contemplating a shooting spree"is the fact that it's created barely a ripple of controversy throughout its lengthy chart run. Did the clever lyrics fly over the heads of the country's guardians of morality and decency in songwriting? Were we all just too lost in the beat to notice the finger on the trigger?
Or perhaps for the first time since the second British invasion of the 1980s brought such alternative pop acts as Duran Duran,
Depeche Mode and indie-pop pioneers the Smiths into and around the mainstream, both the masses and the pop-music establishment (radio and retail) are ready to support music that touches on more complex subject matters than "dance music sex romance""to quote a track on pop iconoclast supreme Prince's 1982 album, 1999, one of the records that launched the censorship wars of the early '80s that would hardly raise an eyebrow today.)
Sound And Vision: Britney Spears At 30 — Where Does She Go From Here?
published by jeremyhelligar on November 25th 2011 in Features and Pop
It seems like just yesterday: She was invading the dreams of pedophiles and lusty teenage boys everywhere. But that was 1998, the year Britney Spears, then sixteen, broke with her No. 1 debut single, "…Baby One More Time," and its accompanying video, in which the singer made an unforgettable first impression as Lolita-lite, a sexy school girl who was up for just about anything.
At the time, Britney seemed destined for the cut-out bin in two years flat. Her synthetic pop sound didn't sound built for longevity. And didn't the name Britney Spears, which was too close for comfort to that of '80s hair metal heads Britny Fox, have one-hit wonder written all over it?
Boy, was I wrong! Thirteen years later, she's still with us. Her albums may no longer be as huge as they were at the dawn of the century, but she's still one of the leading ladies of pop. Super-stardom, however, isn't everything. Even an act with a hit list that's as thematically shallow as Britney's must crave a little artistic growth. She'll turn thirty on Dec. 2, but to me, she's still seventeen"partly because I don't want to admit that I'm getting so old, but mostly because Britney herself still doesn't sound as if she's a day over twenty.
Sure she's lived a lot. There have been two marriages, two divorces (actually, one divorce, one annulment), two children and countless scandals. I interviewed Britney for Teen People right after the release of her second album, Oops!… I Did It Again, in 2000, back when she still hearted Justin Timberlake. She struck me as a sweet teenage girl with a maturity level that matched her age. I don't know what she's like today, but her music doesn't make her sound much older.
Sound And Vision: Why I'm Seriously Considering Boycotting Music Award Shows
On November 9, Nashville celebrated itself (again!) with the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. For the fourth consecutive year, the event was hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, but the masters of ceremonies weren't the only thing that gave me that old deja vu feeling. Hadn't these accolades already been handed out just a few months ago?
Wait, those were the Country Music Television (CMT) Music Awards in June. And before that, there were the Academy of Country Music Awards. And, just in case that's not enough Music City honors for you, there are the 2nd annual American Country Awards coming up on December 5.
Pop and R&B are just as self-congratulatory, offering the MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards, the Billboard Awards, the American Music Awards, the Teen Choice Awards, the BET Awards, the BET Hip Hop Awards, the NAACP Image Awards and the Soul Train Music Awards.
Then, of course, there are the GRAMMYs, which following so many other back-slapping fests, have been losing their lustre for years now"though that's hardly the only reason. Winning one used to be the musical equivalent of snagging an Oscar, but now its just more clutter for the awards shelf.
In a few weeks (November 30, to be exact), the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 2012 GRAMMY Awards (to be held on February 12). Doesn't it already feel like we've been there and done that over and over and over already this year? Am I the only one who doesn't doubt that we're in for another repeat of The Adele Show, with a very special appearance by Lady Gaga. Good as it is, like Christmas, I only need to sit through it once a year.
Sound And Vision: Why Bieber Fever Can't Touch Beatlemania?
published by jeremyhelligar on November 11th 2011 in Pop
Don't believe everything you read.
No matter what the media say"and for more than a year now, they've been declaring Justin Bieber as big as, if not bigger than, the Beatles"Bieber Fever is no match for Beatlemania. Even if Bieber's new holiday album, Under the Mistletoe, which was released November 1, ends up being the biggest one ever (the first single, "Mistletoe," just debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 11, immediately making it the seventeen-year-old's biggest solo hit yet), remember this: The Beatles never released a Christmas album. (Thank God!)
Obviously, Bieber Fever does have one thing in common with Beatlemania, a movement launched by The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 that continued long after the Beatles broke up in 1970: girls, girls, girls (all screaming at the top of their lungs). They are the cornerstone of Bieber's success, but Beatlemania involved so much more than overzealous female fans caught up in the rapture of hot musical act.
Thanks to his largely underage female following, Bieber does reasonably well commercially, though he lacks the opening-week clout of Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne or even Coldplay (to name the artists behind the Top 3 debuts of 2011). In the US, he's sold some 5 million copies of one full-length studio album, three compilations and one EP. That may barely be on par with the sales standards set by pop's top divas, but it would put him in the running for modern pop's most commercially viable male star.
Still, Bieber is no chart phenomenon. For all of the hysteria he spawned in his first two and a half years in circulation, he only hit the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 twice in his first eight tries. The highest-peaking of those was "Baby" (No. 5 in 2010), and both were collaborations with rappers (Ludacris on "Baby," Jaden Smith on "Never Say Never"), which means Bieber has yet to score a massive hit based on his star power alone.
Sound And Vision: How LMFAO, David Guetta and Lady Gaga Are Making Dance Music Cool (and Bankable) Again
published by jeremyhelligar on November 4th 2011 in Pop
"She wants to party. She wants to get down. All she wants do to is, all she wants to do is dance."
So sang then-ex-Eagle Don Henley in 1985. Ironically, "All She Wants to Do Is Dance," Henley's third great solo Top 10 hit, was neither particularly danceable nor was it actually about about a woman who lived to shake her groove thing underneath the strobelight (no matter what the video says). The careless, carefree dancing queen was a metaphor for a United States that was more concerned with buying thrills than curing societal and political ills.
More than twenty-five years later, in the world of pop music, it's all about movement"and not as an ambitious political metaphor. With the possible exception of Bruno Mars (who's really going to have to toughen up and speed up the tempo if he's ever going to get my love), all everyone"male and female, from Lady Gaga to Rihanna to Foster the People"wants to do is dance (and make romance). Red Hot Chili Peppers even closes its latest album, I'm With You, with a song titled, fittingly, "Dance Dance Dance."
When Henley offered his biting political commentary with a beat, "disco" was still a dirty word. That's probably why he was able to use it as a stand in for hedonism and get away with it. The truth, though, is that disco never really left the building: In the '80s, a number of artists"from Michael Jackson to Madonna to Prince to Janet Jackson"were incorporating it into their pop.


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Q: Vaadin basic layout: fixed header and footer + scrollable content I am new to Vaadin and trying to know if it can suit my needs for a webapp project migration.
Actually I'm already loosing my time on a simple goal: to have a layout with fixed headers and footers, and a scrollable content in the middle.
I made a very basic fiddle with what I want:
jsfiddle
Here is the main Vaadin class I came up with:
public class MyVaadinUI extends UI {

// attributes

@WebServlet(value = "/*", asyncSupported = true)
@VaadinServletConfiguration(productionMode = false, ui = MyVaadinUI.class, widgetset = "testvaadin.aep.com.AppWidgetSet")
public static class Servlet extends VaadinServlet {
}

@Override
protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {

    buildMainLayout();
}

private void buildMainLayout() {

    final VerticalLayout mainLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    mainLayout.setSizeFull();

    //HEADER
    final VerticalLayout headerLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    final Resource res = new ThemeResource("img/logo.png");
    final Image image = new Image(null, res);
    headerLayout.addComponent(image);

    //CONTENT
    final VerticalLayout contentLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    for(int i=0; i<80; i++){
        contentLayout.addComponent(new Button("TEST " + i));
    }

    //FOOTER
    final VerticalLayout footerLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    footerLayout.addComponent(new Label("--------------------------- footer --------------------------"));

    mainLayout.addComponent(headerLayout);
    mainLayout.addComponent(contentLayout);
    mainLayout.addComponent(footerLayout);
    mainLayout.setExpandRatio(contentLayout, 1);
    setContent(mainLayout);
}

}
The displayed page is OK on startup, but when I scroll down, the footer also scrolls (it is not fixed).
On startup:

When scrolled:

I browsed a lot of pages on this topic, but I did never see any correct answer. This seems to be rather complicated in Vaadin, although it is very simple in HTML; Vaadin may not suit my needs.
Anyway, do you know how can I achieve this behaviour?
Thanks!

A: You can use a Panel to create a scrollable center content area.  See the example below.
For the panel to work, everything in the component hierarchy must be setSizeFull (or equivalent) and the content of the panel must not (in the example mainLayout and contentPanel are 100%, but contentLayout is not (implicit))
@Grapes([
        @Grab('org.vaadin.spring:spring-boot-vaadin:0.0.3'),
        @Grab('com.vaadin:vaadin-client-compiled:7.4.0.beta1'),
        @Grab('com.vaadin:vaadin-themes:7.4.0.beta1'),
       ])
import com.vaadin.ui.*

@org.vaadin.spring.VaadinUI
class MyUI extends UI {

    protected void init(com.vaadin.server.VaadinRequest request) {
        final headerLayout = new VerticalLayout(new Label('HEADER'))
        final footerLayout = new VerticalLayout(new Label('FOOTER'))

        final contentLayout = new VerticalLayout()
        80.times{ contentLayout.addComponent(new Button("TEST $it")) }
        // XXX: place the center layout into a panel, which allows scrollbars
        final contentPanel = new Panel(contentLayout)
        contentPanel.setSizeFull()

        // XXX: add the panel instead of the layout
        final mainLayout = new VerticalLayout(headerLayout, contentPanel, footerLayout)
        mainLayout.setSizeFull()
        mainLayout.setExpandRatio(contentPanel, 1)
        setContent(mainLayout)
    }

}

(runs standalone with spring run vaadin.groovy)

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Several weeks ago, my face decided to stage a little rebellion. I've had acne-prone skin since my teens, but I have managed to keep a pretty clear complexion for the past few years thanks to regular dermatology visits. When suddenly I was invaded by a small army of pimples accompanied by a couple painful nodules, I freaked.
I remembered what esthetician Lindsey Blondin recently shared with Verily. She said, "Fifty percent of what is happening to your skin is genetics, 25 percent is what you're ingesting, 15 percent is environmental (sun, pollution, dirt, air, stress, hormones), and 10 percent is your regimen."
I decided the quickest fix might be option two: what I was ingesting. So I did what anyone would do; I Googled it. "What to eat for clear skin" was my search. Suddenly I was inundated by articles touting the complexion-saving benefits of drinking liquid chlorophyll.
Sounds like a science experiment, not a skin care routine, right? Here's what this new craze is all about.
Flashback to grade school science class, and you'll remember a little thing called photosynthesis—that is, when plants use chlorophyll to process sunlight into energy. So, yes, if you decide to give it a try, that very same chlorophyll, or a synthetic version of it, is what you'll be gulping down.
Wendy Rowe, makeup and skin expert and author of a new book, Eat Beautiful: Food and Recipes to Nourish Your Skin From The Inside Out, told me she drinks chlorophyll as part of her regular routine. "Chlorophyll works to purify the blood; when the blood is cleaner, it is better equipped to protect the body and it also helps to carry oxygen around the body more efficiently, which has the external effect of fresher, healthier looking skin." You already get some of the good green stuff from leafy vegetables like spinach or kale. It's chock full of vitamins and antioxidants, hence why it makes plants happy and also your skin.
Studies have proven that chlorophyll, in its various forms, has been proven to fight carcinogens in the body and reduce cancer risk. It also helps detoxify the liver and can expedite the healing of wounds. On top of all that, some have attributed improved digestion and weight management to a chlorophyll routine. Are you intrigued yet?
This is where things get interesting. Trendy juice shops sell chlorophyll water pre-bottled for upward of $9 a pop, but I went in search of liquid chlorophyll at Whole Foods in order to make my own at home. The store stocked a few options, so I opted for the cheapest—a 16-ounce bottle from a brand called Nature's Way for about $12. I had read about how chlorophyll had this delightfully minty flavor, so I chose to embrace that and buy the mint-flavored variety as opposed to the original. That was a mistake, but more on that later.
The bottle recommended taking 2 tablespoons once or twice a day. I poured a tall glass of water and added 1 tablespoon because I wanted to start slow. The water turned a deep shade of swampy green. I liken the experience of drinking this water to eating purple ketchup back in the day when that was a thing. It's mind-bending but ultimately harmless. The first time I drank the water, I sort of enjoyed it. It definitely tasted very synthetically minty—like I had put a little squirt of Crest in my drink. (This, friends, is why I recommend you not get the mint flavor.) But it was bearable, and I wanted those zits gone!
On day three, I added it to my hot tea. I figured this was a normal way to enjoy a mint flavor, so I might like it—and I was right. This quickly became my preferred method of consumption, although I have yet to be able to determine whether heat alters the properties of the chlorophyll. I also tried adding it to smoothies, hoping for a camouflage effect. The smoothies were better than the water but worse than the tea.
I continued to consume chlorophyll once per day for two weeks, and I definitely noticed some of the effects. Chlorophyll reportedly offers a little energy boost, which I felt. Things seemed to be operating very well in my intestinal department, which I also felt chlorophyll played a role in. And as for my skin, well, on day three someone complimented my complexion. I laughed, but I thought, maybe, just maybe, it was working after all. By week two, my breakout had subsided and nothing new had emerged. Some of that is just the natural course of things, but I felt like the chlorophyll gave my skin a little nudge in the right direction.
My journey with chlorophyll has been tenuous. At times I've wanted to gag; at others I've wanted to jump for joy. I think I felt (and saw) enough to stick with it. I'm eager to finish this mint-flavored bottle so I can try the "original" variety instead. I'm hoping it will be subtle enough to enjoy with just water, as that's the easiest way for my lifestyle. I definitely think that what's happening inside our bodies is equally, if not more, important than what we do on the surface, as Blondin suggested, so I'm not going to go back to relying solely on topical treatments for my skin just yet.
Wendy, like many skin experts, says one of the best things a person can do for his or her skin is to eat more probiotics and drink water. "A great habit to get into in the mornings is drinking a glass of hot water with lemon, or take apple cider vinegar; they both work to neutralize the body's pH and reduce acid levels naturally," she says. Countless chlorophyll converts have said one of the reasons they love it is simply that it encourages them to drink more water. Whether it's drinking warm lemon water or green chlorophyll water, if it'll make my skin clearer and more hydrated, I'm on board.


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FILM SPECIAL
The British star of Get Out and Black Panther, Daniel Kaluuya, on his new film about racial prejudice
'I wasn't getting roles because of the colour of my skin': the actor tells Jonathan Dean why he had to go to America to find fame
I'm confusing: Daniel KaluuyaANDREAS KONRATH/THE GUARDIAN
The Sunday Times, January 12 2020, 12:01am
Daniel Kaluuya went to a lot of parties when he was nominated for an Oscar for the satirical race sensation Get Out in 2017. That is how the awards system works. The big stars are paraded until one person wins most of the statuettes and four bored rivals end up with an empty mantelpiece. In Kaluuya's year, Gary Oldman and his Winston Churchill karaoke took home the key gongs, leaving the young British actor with a few smaller accolades and the not inconsiderable sympathy prize of a Hollywood career.
Looking back, was the canapé scoffing and small talk at all fun? "No," Kaluuya says, slumped in a booth in an upmarket Manhattan restaurant, dressed head to toe in sportswear, cap high up on his head.…


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Georgia Tech loses Music City to Ole Miss
BY TERESA M. WALKER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets started the Music City Bowl just as they wanted, running on 11 of their 14 plays as they finished the drive with a touchdown.
Then Mississippi essentially shut down their triple-option offense from there and handed Georgia Tech yet another bowl loss Monday 25-17.
"We never got in sync on offense at all," Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. "Never really got into any kind of rhythm. It was just kind of haphazard. We hit some plays here and there, but nothing to gain any consistency."
Robert Godhigh ran for an 8-yard touchdown, and Vad Lee connected with Darren Waller on a 72-yard TD pass as the Yellow Jackets (7-6) tried to rally late. But the nation's fourth-best rushing offense that came in averaging 311.7 yards a game managed just 151 yards and was outgained 477-298 in total offense.
Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace outrushed Lee 86-24 by himself.
"They played about every kind of defense known to man," Johnson said of how the Rebels stopped Lee. "They were just popping gaps and lining up, and we were really just tossing the ball."
Georgia Tech (7-6) now has lost eight of its last nine bowls.
Ole Miss (8-5) has won six straight bowls and 10 of the last 11 in making up for the lone loss in that stretch in the 2000 Music City Bowl. The Rebels came in tied with Auburn and Florida State, who play Jan. 6 for the BCS national championship, for the nation's longest bowl winning streak.
"I didn't want to screw that up today," Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. "So I'm glad to win two bowl games in our first two years. With what we inherited, I think says we're heading in the right direction for sure. It is a very positive step."
The Yellow Jackets had other issues in the game.
Johnson said he shouldn't have given punter Sean Poole the option to run on a fake punt that ended with Poole tripping up 2 yards shy of the line of scrimmage at midfield. They also had a chance to finish off a 10-point rally in the fourth quarter after Adam Gotsis blocked a 32-yard field goal attempt, giving Georgia Tech the ball with 4:36 left.
But an attempted reverse play with receiver Corey Dennis trying to throw turned into a safety when he fumbled, and Ray Beno covered the ball up in the end zone.
"We'd been waiting for a series-and-a-half to get the ball in the middle of the field because I knew it was going to work," Johnson said. "They made a play, and we didn't. If it worked, you'd be calling me a genius."
Ole Miss finally punted back to Georgia Tech with 37 seconds left. Senquez Golson intercepted Lee on the next play to seal the victory for the Rebels in the bowl, sponsored by Franklin American Mortgage Company.
"We were playing in spurts and really couldn't finish," Lee said. "That's been the thing the whole year. I feel like we were moving the ball and were doing some good things, but we just didn't finish."
With a month to prepare, Ole Miss came up with some new defensive looks for Georgia Tech.
"That's why it's so difficult to play them probably in a short amount of time," Freeze said. "You're going to be forced to play some of your base stuff. We were able to get some different stuff in."
Harrison Butker capped a 64-yard drive with a 38-yard field goal in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter, then D.J. White intercepted a Bo Wallace pass intended for Donte Moncrief. On the next play, Lee found Waller for a 72-yard catch-and-run for a TD with 13:25 left.
Georgia Tech loses Music City 25-17 to Ole Miss
"That was big," Lee said. "The game was slow to that point and it kind of got everybody out of their seats, got our fans into it, got the sideline going and it was huge. It was definitely a confidence builder. The next drive we wanted to score and we were moving the ball well, but something happened."
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Has anyone else had the chance to check out any of the new Hammer productions?
I haven't seen Let Me In yet but will get to it eventually. I liked Wakewood and thought it fit well under the Hammer banner as it felt like a 70s occult/supernatural film without going for an intentionally campy retro vibe. I liked the concept and the performances and most of the effects but was more impressed with the tone and atmosphere than anything else. It felt like a Hammer movie to me, it had the right approach.
And then there's The Resident, which is not a bad movie at all in and of itself but the only 'Hammer'ish quality to it is the presence of Christopher Lee, who is in it for about five minutes tops. It's got some creepy parts to it, it's fairly well paced and the performances are good but there's nothing that distinctly places it under the Hammer banner in my eyes.
And maybe that's the problem. Maybe because I like the old Hammer stuff so much that I want the new stuff to play in the same world. Obviously a lot has changed since the seventies and it's probably unrealistic of me to expect the new Hammer to make the kind of movies that the old Hammer would have made. I guess I should just be happy that there's a new studio out there interested in making reasonably good horror movies rather than retreading tired old slasher motifs over and over again.
I really enjoyed it. But yes, nothing about it felt Hammerish in the least.
Just make sure you avoid Beyond the Rave, as it's utter, utter shite... :puke: If the following Hammers were as bad as the first shot at a reboot, they'd be bankrupt by now.
I didn't bother with Beyond The Rave, in fact, I'd forgotten about it.
Hammer Films did just mention on twitter "Dracula HD 1080 <-- Very clever! (And hopefully coming soon... ;-)" - could that mean some Blu-ray releases of the Hammer classics are coming soon?
Bringing this one back from the dead. Here's the trailer for their latest... The Woman In Black.
This looks pretty good, actually.


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After Paul had gone to bed she sat thinking of her girlhood days when she lived as a member of her Uncle Henry's household. She saw again the man she loved better than any human being in the world. She saw the old tree by the gate, and felt the kiss which sealed her betrothal to Walter Cecil, and experienced again the thrill of exquisite happiness as she turned to go into the house; and then the bitter pain as she met her uncle at the door, with the demand that she give him up and accept the attentions of Louis Rand. Her whole nature revolted against this, and she went over the whole agonizing scene, that ended with his stating that unless she followed his bidding, the morrow would find her without a home. She lived over the torture of that night, and when the first faint streaks of the gray dawn appeared in the east, she gathered together the few little things she could really call her own, and went out from her uncle's house and had never seen him since.
"Oh, God," she moaned, "perhaps I, too, was to blame. I could have been more gentle in my speech, less hasty in my actions. I do not regret any of my sufferings, but I might have spared him some pain. Perhaps the morning will bring me light."
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--St. James' Church, Dr. Remensnyder, 'pastor, has received another girt, this time of $3,000, to be used toward the reduction of its mortgage debt. The donor, as in the case of the $1,000 received recentiy, is unknown to the congregation.
--The installation of Mr. Paul C. Holter as director of the new Lutheran Hospice in this city occurred in St. John's Church, Christopher street, on Thursday evening, October 10. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. J. J. Heischmann. Rev. Dr. J. B. Remensnyder, and Mr. Charles J. Schlegel representing Hon. Charles A. Schieren, delivered addresses. The ceremony of installation was performed by Rev.
M. Horn, president of the Inner Mission Board. The Hospice has been located in a suitable house at 2040 Fifth avenue, at the corner of 126th street, and is expected to open by the middle of November.
-Rev. F. B. Clausen, formerly pastor of Epiphany Church, has removed from this city to Wilmington, N. C.
-In recognition of a great need, the need of direct and positive Gospel ministration among students in the great universities, the Synod of New York and New England has called Rev. Samuel G. Trexler, of Brooklyn, as students' pastor, to work with Lutheran young men at Cornell, Syracuse, Columbia, Yale and Harvard. Systematic and thorough work is planned. Philadelphia. - Bethlehem Church, Rev.
A. C. Schenck, pastor, has completed a fund of $18,000, necessary to cancel its funded debt. Chicago.
-Rev. W. Gardner has resigned his pastorate in this city and has accepted an urgent call to St. John's Church, at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
-Ebenezer Church, Rev. F. S. Johnston, pastor, celebrated its twentieth anniversary and reconsecrated its new house of worship. Rev. Dr. M. C. Ranseen performed the ceremony of consecration, and many pastors of the city participated in the services that followed. The congregation numbers 1,100 members. Washington.
Rev. W. A. Wade, of Lionville, Pa., has received a call to St. Mark's Church, to succeed Rev J Luther Frantz.
--The financial report of the Church of the Epiphany, of this city, shows an average contribution of $26 for the year from every member--man, woman and child. St. Louis.
-Concordia Theological Seminary (Missouri Synod) opened the scholastic year with 103 new students. The total number enrolled is 322, the largest number in its history. Baltimore.
- St. Paul's Church, after being closed for three and a half months, undergoing extensive repairs, costing $4,000, was reopened on October 20 with a consecration service, consisting
of the holy communion and a sermon by the pastor, Rev. P. A. Heilman, D.D., on "Loyalty 10 the Lord's House." Kansas City.
-The Swedish hospital in this city has broken ground for a new building, to be used for chapel and dormitory for nurses. Sacramento.
--The German Lutheran Church, of this city, served by Rev. Charles F. Oehler, consecrated its large and beautiful new edifice October 6. The edifice is of Gothic design, complete in every respect for modern church work. A committee of the men of the church made a canvass and secured $12,000 to complete the fund of $100,000 which represents the value of the property. The effort of the men made possible the consecration of the building free of debt. Jersey City.
-The Church of the Redeemer, Rev. John E. Heindel, pastor, reconşecrated its enlarged and completed church building, October 6. The sermon was preached by Rev. H. H. Weber, D. D., general secretary of Church Extension, and many neighboring ministers participated in the ceremonies that followed. A thank offering of nearly $6,000 was made. The church property has cost about $40,000 in all. The church was organized in a store in 1898. Rev. Heindel is the only pastor the congregation has ever had. Omaha.
-For the synodical year, Kountze Memorial Church, Rev. Dr. O. D. Baltzly, pastor, added 314 new members to the roll, and overran its apportionment for beneficence by $250. General,
-The Rhodes scholarship examinations for the State of Pennsylvania have just been held at Gettysburg College, under the supervision of President Granville. Candidates from all over the State were present to take the examinations, among whom five were from Gettysburg College. The winners of these scholarships will be educated in English universities at the expense of the Rhodes Foundation.
The establishment of the Stuckenberg Lectureship on Social Science in Gettysburg College has been announced in connection with a gift of $1,000 for its endowment. This is in
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The campaign for raising $230,000 for Gettysburg College is progressing very favorably, $160,000 of which has been secured, leaving $70,000 still to be raised by July, 1913.
-The first bequest from a person outside of the Lutheran Church for the Good Shepherd Home, Allentown, Pa., came from a member of the Reformed Church, Mary Ann Spinner, of Spinnerstown, Pa. Mrs. Spinner was especially interested in the Good Shepherd Home, at Allentown, Pa., because this home takes the most needy, the most helpless orphan children, the crippled, the blind, the infant and the faithful, God-fearing old people, who, on account of some misfortune over which they had no control lost all their earthly possessions, and are now left with no relatives or friends who are able or willing to take them or pay the required admission fee to enter a home. Mrs. Spinner's gift was $500.
-Christ Church, Ellenville, N. Y., Rev. Alvin Yugel, pastor, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary October 20, 1912. 'Six of the charter members are still living.
-By the will of the late Mrs. Flora Stivenson, of Leechburg, Pa., the Home Mission Board, the Foreign Mission Board and the Church Extension Society of the General Council are jointly heirs to one-eleventh part of her estate. This is the share of a deceased daughter, and is given to the Church in her memory instead of being divided among the other ten children. Her estate will be between five and eight thousand dollars.
-Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., opened its fall session on September 4, with about 340 students enrolled in all departments.
-Rev. J. C. Jacoby, D. D., has resigned his pastorate at Boulder, Col., to accept a call to St. John's Church, Wellington, Kan. Dr. Jacoby was president of the Rocky Mountain Synod.
-Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., opened September 12, with 65 new students, bringing the total enrollment up to 170.
-The seventieth anniversary of the founding of the mission at Guntur, India, was celebrated on July 31. Special meetings were held at the different stations to commemorate the occasion.
—The twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the gospel ministry was celebrated by Rev. Samuel E. Greenawalt, D. D., by a special sermon in the Fourth Lutheran Church, Springfield, Ohio, of which he is pastor. Dr. Greenawalt took this occasion to present the call, claims and compensations of the ministry.
home for men who are friendless and temporarily defeated in life's battle is to be established at Mansfield, Ohio, largely through the efforts of Rev. Dr. S. P. Long. A twelveroom house, on a nine-acre plot of land, northeast of the city, has been secured for the purpose, a man will be installed in charge, and good beds and meals will be given free of charge to men in need. The name "Jerruininnjer" has been coined for the home, from ideas suggested by the story of the Good Samaritan.
-Treasurer William Pore, of the General Synod Board of Education, is in receipt of $475 as a legacy from the late G. H. Cribbs, of Indiana, Pa., to the Board.
-Mr. F. W. Petring, Mrs. Fred Rottman and Marcia Rottman, of Nebraska City, Neb., were instantly killed in the accident to the Missouri Pacific Railroad train at Fort Crook, Neb., on October 15. Mr. Fred. Rottmann was seriously injured, but is recovering.
Mr. Rottman is a prominent member of the First Church at Nebraska City, as were also his wife and her father, Mr. Petring. Marcia Rottmann was six and a half years old.
The spring convention in April will be held at Martin Luther Church, East Toledo, Ohio. Rev. William Brenner. pastor.
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church gave a very interesting history of the League, illustrated by lantern slides. Addresses were made by Mr. Wm. C. Stoever, president of the National Luther League, and Mr. Francis C. Leupold, president of the District League. A musical program and refreshments rounded out in a fitting manner the anniversary of one of the most active Leagues in the Philadelphia District. Rev. A. C. Schenck is the pastor and Mr. Frederick A. Bernhardt is the president.
teen Leagues in the district, with a membership of 993. Thirteen of these Leagues hold religious meetings, use the Topic cards, and six subscribe for the Luther League Review. The contributions of these Leagues amounted to $1,020.63.
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disbursements were $51.05, leaving $37.47 in the treasury.
The committee on resolutions was then appointed, as follows: Miss Marion Gray, Mr. Otto Gronau and Rev. P. J. W. Pestke.
The devotional service in the afternoon was conducted by the Rev. P. J. W. Pestke, after which a vocal duet was given by Mrs. Delbert Bradt and Mr. Frank Patten, Gloversville.
The address of the afternoon was by Rev. D. A. Wright, Stone Arabia.
After the report of the committees on credentials and resolutions, the Rev. Oscar Krauch, Albany, spoke of the national convention.
The District League subscribed $65 to the fund for entertainment of the national convention.
The following oflicers were elected: President, Mr.
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Delegates appointed to the national convention are: Mr. C. A. Rockwell, Utica; Mr. A. Coney, Canajoharie, and Mr. C. Ottman, Schenectady. Delegates were also appointed to the State convention, to be held November 12.
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A special meeting of the delegates from Schenectady, Gloversville and Amsterdam was held at the close of the afternoon session. A motion was adopted that those Leagues hold union rallies three four times yearly, the first to be held at Amsterdam some time in December. A committee was appointed to make necessary arrangements.
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pastor, Wednesday, October 23, morning, afternoon and evening. The speakers for the afternoon were Rev. H. A. Kinkle, Allentown; Mrs. Raymond Higgins, Emaus; Prof. James H. S. Bossard, Allentown, and Rev. J. H. Waidelich, Sellersville. The speaker for the evening was Rev. Charles L. Fry, D. D., of Catasauquả. The morning session was devoted principally to business. Catawissa District Luther League.
-The twenty-fourth convention of the Catawissa District Luther League was held October 3 and 4, in St. Paul's Church, Numidia, Pa., Rev. Wm. J. Masser, pastor. The convention was one of great profit. The convention theme was "The Local League." This was discussed by the speakers as follows: "The Musical Factor," Miss Sarah Woodside, Danville; "The Religious Factor," Rev. C. R. Botsford, Berwick; "The Social Factor," W. Grant Beaver, Numidia; "The Financial Factor," Miss Hazel R. Strine, Milton. Rev. George Gebhert, B D., of Tamaqua, delivered a splendid address at the evening session upon
the subject of "Our Church Schools: Their Mission and Purpose." Officers were elected as follows: President, Rev. M. M. Dry, Aristes; vice-president, Lawrence Heddens, Washingtonville; recording secretary, Miss Laura Fahringer, Catawissa, R. D. 3; corresponding and statistical secretary, W. Grant Beaver, Numidia; treasurer, Mrs. J. Swanger, Milton. Delegates to the State convention were elected as follows: Rev. Wm. J. Masser, Mrs. Victor Miller, Miss Elsie Dimmick, Rev. J. L. Yonce, Mrs. J. D. Swanger. An invitation was accepted to hold the 1913 convention in Holy Trinity Church, Berwick, Rev. C. R. Botsford, pastor.. Berks County District.
- The seventy-fifth quarterly convention of the
Berks District Luther League was held October 10, at the Lutheran Orphans' Home, at Topton. There were two sessions, morning and afternoon. It was one of the largest meetings
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia District.
-The Luther League of Bethlehem Church celebrated its fifteenth anniversary Monday evening, September 23. The pastor of the


Mu husband Rich plays the trumpet, flugelhorn, and guitar. Yes, he is a very talented man. He also loves to cook, which is great for me because I really do not cook, except out of a box. Sad, I know.
But I do love to sew and create in several different mediums. One of those mediums is fibers. Thus, the art quilt. An art quilt is by definition three layers stitched together with thread. So you have your top which is usually a design of some sort, batting and a backing. You have seen several of these art quilts of mine. The latest is from a Jazz challenge from the quilting quild I am a member of. The challenge goes out to create a wall quilt, aka art quilt, with the theme of Jazz. It has to be your original creation (no copying from anything else), and has to be 14″ X 14″ sqaure. It was a fun challenge. Now on to the next one. Stay tuned.
It's so good to see you here again. You are wonderful and very talented artist…and my friend-how lucky am I!!!!