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Dalhousie and King's students share small town dating woes
By Elizabeth Foster
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For some Dalhousie University and University of King's College students, moving to Halifax from their hometowns was a big change in more ways than one — especially when it came to dating.
Woodstock, N.B. is one of many small towns in Atlantic Canada. Dalhousie and King's students describe dating as difficult in small towns like this one, often due to a lack of people and rural location. Photo by Elizabeth Foster
Small town Nova Scotia
Addie Burkam, a second-year King's student, is from Mahone Bay. Located on Nova Scotia's south shore, the town has a population of just over a thousand people. Burkam attended high school in Bridgewater, just a 20-minute drive from Mahone Bay. Even though an estimated 2,000 students from surrounding towns attend the school, Burkam says pursuing relationships and meeting people was still a struggle.
"There's not a lot of options because everybody knows everybody," Burkam says.
Margaret Mclennon, also a second-year King's student, describes a similar experience of living in rural Nova Scotia. Mclennon grew up in Sydney, a town of about 29,900 in Cape Breton. She graduated high school with a class of nine people.
"I went to the French school there, which is a very small community in Sydney, because we don't have a very large French-dominant speaking population," Mclennon says. "In my class specifically, there was a total of two guys, one of which was gay. So yeah, not much choice. I did have a boyfriend in Grade 11 and 12, but he was from Eskasoni … so, if we wanted to see each other, it was a 40-minute drive, and it was so hard to coordinate all the time. So annoying, and not convenient at all."
Burkam and Mclennon both agree that despite the relatively small student population at King's, moving to Halifax was a bit of a culture shock.
"I'm so used to knowing all the people my age," Burkam says. "It's kind of shocking to me. I'll go somewhere and expect to know all the people, you know? I'll be surprised if I don't recognize them because I'm so used to just recognizing every young person I know."
Nova Scotia is among the more rural provinces in Canada, with 43 per cent of its population living in towns with less than 1,000 inhabitants. However, it is not the most rural province in the Atlantic region. Newfoundland and Labrador has an estimated 60 per cent of its population living in rural areas.
Growing up in Gander
Reaghan MacLean is a third-year Dal student from Gander, N.L. Gander is among the more populous towns in the region, despite only having a population of roughly 11,700. MacLean describes how she felt stuck in a relationship she had back home with someone who cheated on her twice.
"I feel like this is a universal high school thing, but everything feels like the end of the world," MacLean says. "If you don't date someone in high school, you will never find anyone. So, I really felt like the people in my town were the only options. Like, no one else exists in the world."
Living in a small town also made MacLean feel like she couldn't be open about her bisexuality.
"I never pursued any girls until I got to university because I knew people in my grade didn't like that," says MacLean. "People would tear pride flags that teachers put on their doors."
MacLean says she's still nervous to talk about her sexuality openly on social media due to people from her hometown following her.
"I'm sure, and I hope, there are other people in other small towns who have had different experiences," MacLean says. "I don't really think about it anymore because I'm here, but yeah, it prevented me from doing something that I wanted to do."
MacLean, Burkam and Mclennon all mention one key aspect of small town dating: people in school — and in town — are bound to talk.
"One of my friends who went to one of the other high schools, she had a messy breakup," Mclennon says. "It kind of made her reputation bad because everybody knew what happened. I guess rumors go around quicker."
"I feel like dating in a small town is becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable," Burkam says. "You have to be civil about it. Because you're going to run into your ex, and you're going to run into that random guy you hooked up with."
"And you're gonna see their parents everywhere you go," adds Mclennon.
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The Concept of Law and Justice
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2020), Review Articles
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Law, Justice, State, Society and Norms.
QABRATI, I. (2020). The Concept of Law and Justice. PRIZREN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, 4(3), 69-73. https://doi.org/10.32936/pssj.v4i3.188
From the views and changes that have followed the dynamism of our society, undoubtedly, law and justice have played a crucial role as a very abstract term that has been consumed almost from the first beginnings of human society to our modern days. Beyond the events and circumstances that societies in the past have had and organized by defining and choosing the way of life, and often times the right has been personalized by a certain group of people, or by a military division that has given rights and has created justice, in certain interests and for personal and charismatic purposes it has been denied a certain part of society, and has often been deformed in scandalous ways by reflecting, on the fact that the giver of this right has often been pointed out to be the man, but this convulsion in no case has lasted long, and often this theory has remained unrealized, reflecting that right is something natural and that the individual gains at the moment of birth and enjoys it to death, this divergence and complexity of the way of perceiving the law has often resulted in wars and the acquisition of this vital right.
Through this paper we will draw philosophical and legal paradigms, analyzing from a retrospective way of the application of law and the applicability of justice, as an important mechanism of regulation of social relations.
Law and justice have a common path of development, one by regulating the way of life of the people, that is, by issuing norms and the other by giving justice to the relative complexity and cohesion of interpersonal relations.
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Euromonitor International recently named Hong Kong the most visited city in the world by international tourists.
Though it's technically part of China, Hong Kong has its own culture and personality. The cosmopolitan city is spread out over several small islands, many of which are very densely populated and full of incredible attractions, restaurants, and shops.
We asked locals to send us their suggestions for the real best things to do in Hong Kong.
From gorgeous hiking trails in the mountains to bustling night markets, here are the 24 real best things to do in Hong Kong.
Have high tea in the elegant lobby of the Peninsula Hotel.
Drink with the expats at a bar or restaurant in Hong Kong's high-end Soho district.
Take the funicular up to Victoria Peak, the highest mountain on Hong Kong island, and look out over the towering city skyline.
Party on a junk boat while sailing through Hong Kong Harbor.
Feast on some Chinese barbecue, especially at celebrity chef Kylie Kwong's West Villa Restaurant.
Climb over 200 steps to view the bronze Tian Tian Big Buddha statue.
Relax with a foot massage at one of many of Hong Kong's day spas, like Ten Feet Tall. The two-story building features reflexology treatments, manicures, pedicures, and a juice bar.
Start your day with a dim sum feast of dumplings, buns, noodles, and more. Maxim's is the most famous dim sum spot in Hong Kong.
Stroll through Nan Lian Garden, a peaceful public garden with tidy trails and classical architecture.
Haggle with a vendor at the Temple Street Night Market, a bustling market where you can buy clothes, jewelry and other wares or grab a late night bite at a food stand.
See a dragon boat race. The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival usually takes place in May or June.
Grab a pint or two at a pub in Lan Kwai Fong, an upbeat nightlife district popular with expats.
Escape the city with a trip to Sai Kung County Park, where you can hike any number of gorgeous trails or spend time at the beach.
Shop at one of Hong Kong's upscale malls, like the multi-story Times Square.
Slurp up a bowl of Hong Kong-style noodles at Tsim Chai Kee Noodles or another noodle shop.
Have a drink on a rooftop bar and watch the sun set over the city skyline. Sugar at East hotel is a great rooftop bar.
Learn more about Hong Kong's past at the Hong Kong Museum of History.
Stay at the lavish InterContinental Hotel and take a dip in their three infinity pools, ranging from hot and warm to cool temperatures.
Take in the tranquil Chi Lin Nunnery and admire its Tang dynasty-style architecture.
Explore the hip neighborhood of Sheung Wan, which is dominated by traditional Chinese culture.
Hike the Dragon's Back Trail, a popular, hilly, waterfront destination just outside of the city.
Enjoy some fresh seafood at the old fishing village on Lamma Island.
Take the Star Ferry across the water from Hong Kong to Kowloon, particularly at night when you get to see the Symphony of Lights show.
Cheer on the winning horse at a horse race at Happy Valley Racecourse.
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Haslett School Board Elections
By meridiantimes | November 3, 2014
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Haslett Public Schools' Board of Education has three open seats. Two people will be elected for 4-year terms and two others for the 6-year term.
Current Trustee and Incumbent for the 6-year term Christine Coady, who is running for a 6-year term, said, "Most people don't really know what a school board does. The school board only has a couple of responsibilities and they are very big picture. We are responsible to set policies for the district, we are responsible to set the goals for the district, we hire and evaluate the superintendent, and we provide a link to the community."
The board's main goal is to ensure that students are gaining top quality education on all levels.
"As we look toward the future, we will continue to be focused on student achievement, enhanced technology and providing safe and secure facilities that can be enjoyed by the entire community." said vice president of the Haslett Board of Education Kristen Beltzer.
Molly Polverento, running for a 4-year term said, "The Board of Education is responsible for providing oversight of the schools and district as a whole. This includes financial oversight, which I think is the most important responsibility for the Board. Without closely monitoring the district's finances none of the other goals for the district can be achieved."
Coady says a few important skills that make up a good school board include acting with a consensus, careful consideration and a good relationship with the superintendent.
Coady says it will be one of her responsibilities to help get the new members comfortable and confident once they start their term in the middle of the school year. "One thing that's unique about a school board is that we're a group of seven and all of our authority rests in that group,//period, nw sentence here. You don't have an ounce of authority as an individual," said Coady.
Beltzer said, "The people that are running will be bring new energy and new ideas which will be instrumental in keeping the district moving forward and will complement the existing board."
Tammy Lemmer, another trustee said, "Haslett has strong, positive relationships across all buildings and between administration and staff. I would like to see that continue. We also have to continue minimize the impact of funding cuts on students and classrooms."
Heather Stuht Meingast, candidate for a 6-year term said, "Teachers, administrators and the superintendent all seem to function together very well. There's good cohesiveness and team spirit going on."
"I have got some great opponents and we'll see what happens. All of us would make great choices. It's too bad we can't all be elected," said Meingast.
"I think it is important for people to vote in every election. It is the way that we can all participate in the decision-making process at all levels and the outcomes of elections do have a very tangible impact on everyone. In regard to the Haslett School Board, it is particularly important because we will be electing at least three new members for the Board. This is almost half of the members and we need to make sure we elect members that are ready to help shape the future of our District and to make decisions that will help it continue to be successful in years to come," said Polverento.
"I believe it is critical for all citizens to vote in all elections. Representative democracy is the platform for our system of government. No race is too small," said Lemmer.
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President-elect Joe Biden's main goal in The Biden Plan is to stem climate change by reaching by 2050 carbon neutrality, which means emissions released are offset by being absorbed by an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
To help achieve this goal, the President-elect aims to have U.S. electricity production carbon-free by 2035. "It's attainable, yes, I think it is, but there are many prohibiting factors that could prevent it from happening," said Bruno Takahashi, a research director at MSU's Knight Center of Environmental Journalism and associate professor in the School of Journalism.


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Basketball counts on withdrawals for African Games slot
Sunday August 18 2019
Strathmore University Blades coach Tony Ochieng gives instructions during their Kenya Basketball Federation Premier League match against Thunder at Nyayo Gymnasium on August 17, 2019. Ochieng is also the national basketball Under-23 team coach. The team is still uncertain of participating in the African Games in Rabat, Morocco from August 16-31, 2019. PHOTO | CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The Kenyan teams had been put on standby, having been ranked 13th, just a place outside the cut off
Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) vice president Hilmi Ali said they were waiting for the technical meeting where the draw will be done
Nyaberi disclosed that they were still waiting for the decision from the technical meeting to decide the fate of the basketball teams
By AYUMBA AYODI
Kenya's participation in basketball at the African Games that started on Friday in Rabat, Morocco hangs in balance.
Team Kenya Chief Executive Officer, Charles Nyaberi, disclosed that the African Games Organising Committee, COJA, had by Saturday morning not cleared the men and women teams.
The Kenyan teams had been put on standby, having been ranked 13th, just a place outside the cut off but Nyaberi was optimistic that they would be allowed after the basketball technical committee meeting that was planned for Saturday evening.
"We shall process their tickets immediately we receive the greenlight from Morocco," said Nyaberi from the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani as teams continued to leave for the Games.
Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) vice president Hilmi Ali said they were waiting for the technical meeting where the draw will be done adding that Kenya will definitely participate following the withdrawal of Uganda and Togo.
Kenya is ranked 13th in the continent by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after Niger, Uganda, Togo, Egypt, Senegal, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Tunisia, Niger and Botswana.
"We are confident that we shall be pooled. Our teams have been training at Kasarani and are raring to go," said Ali.
Nyaberi disclosed that they were still waiting for the decision from the technical meeting to decide the fate of the basketball teams.
Nyaberi said so far from the 22 disciplines that Kenya will take part, boxing, tae kwon-do, judo, beach volleyball, swimming and shooting have left the country for the games with volleyball, badminton and table tennis scheduled to leave on Sunday.
"We have received 80 visas today (Saturday) after having processed 69. We are processing tickets for them based on priorities," said Nyaberi.
Athletics, archery, basketball, canoe kayak, rowing, chess, cycling, handball, karate, lawn tennis, triathlon, weight lifting and wrestling are in camp and due for departure.
Athletics will be the last team to leave on Friday for their calendar that runs from August 26- to 31 in Rabat.
A total of 234 athletes representing 22 disciplines have been approved to participate in the competitions of which, 17 of these disciplines will serve as Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifiers.
A budget of Sh 335,773,111 has been set aside to cater for all expenses pertaining to the Games as approved by the Sports Fund Oversight Board.
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I've tried changing my keyboard languages, but my compose key always produces the same behavior -- that of a US (intl) keyboard. I don't know why.
I've tried setting my compose key to different things, like LWin or RAlt, no luck.
Ideally, I want the same key behavior as that on Mac. My current keyboard layout is English (Macintosh). Everything works, except for all of the compose key combos / accents, which all seem to produce US(intl) dead key outputs.
Things I've tried:

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*Failing to understand how to manually force set the accent keys I want via xmodmap :(

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Under the general name of AIDS Anarchive, the collective Equipo re has been developing a research and production work on the cultural and social dimension of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in Spain and Chile, as well as on selected case studies from other Latin American contexts. This exhibition gives continuity to the project, taking into account the local context – the city of Barcelona – as a spatial axis, and the 1990s as a temporal axis.
Being both close and distant, the decade of the 1990s helps us to understand the present. Indeed, with the appearance of antiretroviral drugs, the year 1996 functions as a pivotal point in the so-called AIDS pandemic. As HIV/AIDS ceased to be a matter of life or death, this constituted a point of inflection in the spaces of struggle.
In the exhibition, this framework will be presented through the tracing of two story lines: the ways of doing in/the public sphere and the pharmacologisation of life. From the intersection of these two lines three case studies arise: the work of the cultural activist group Act Up-Barcelona; the making of artist Keith Haring's mural Together We Can Stop AIDS; and the encounter between heroin and AIDS.
The first of these will tell the story of Act Up-Barcelona through public and unpublished documents, together with the interlocution of several members of the group, avoiding binary reductions such as north-south, global-local, self-other.
Marking the 30th anniversary of Keith Haring's mural in Barcelona, the second case study reviews the intersections taking place between the politics of urban transformation, cultural politics and the politics of the night, in relation to the AIDS crisis.
The final case study examines the emergence of HIV in Barcelona, which through heroin abuse found a deadly route of contamination leading to a complex and diffuse network of stigmatisation, neglect, control, invisibilisation and death.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a study group whose central focus will follow the two story lines of the project: the pharmacologisation of life and the debate about the so-called public sphere, in the present context. A programme of parallel activities will also be organised covering different formats and based upon documents, literature and audiovisual materials.
While for the first twenty years the priorities of the HIV/AIDS crisis were prevention and survival, this project is aware that living with HIV depends on who you are and where you live. In Barcelona in 2018, being HIV-positive does not necessarily imply transmission, having treatment or dying. Yet reality can be quite different in other places. In Chile, for instance, HIV has been declared 'a national emergency' due to a new outbreak of transmissions added to the lack of up-to-date therapies. While this HIV crisis continues, answers will have to be found.
Lista de agentes y documentación: Act Up-Barcelona; Xoán Anleo; Arxiu Centre d'Art Santa Mònica; CASM; Arxiu Sida Studi; Águeda Bañón; Miguel Benlloch; CEPSS_ Centro de Educación y Prevención en Salud Social y Sida; EZLN Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Chiapas México; FAGC, Front d'Alliberament Gai de Catalunya; General Idea; Félix González-Torres; Gran Fury; Juan Guzmán and Daniel Palma; Keith Haring; Lulu Martorell and Roger la Puente with the collaboration of César Melero; Pepe Miralles; MUMS Movimiento de Disidencia Sexual, Chile; José Osorio; Miguel Parra Urrutia; Ferran Pujol; Silvia T. Colmenero; The Carrying Society/Prospecciones Urbanas S.A VISUAL AIDS; among others.
*Photo Equipo re: Anarchive AIDS, research image (clockwise): Act Up-Barcelona, bulletin Vida no. 4 (1994), cover detail. Courtesy of Sida Studi; Keith Haring making the mural Together We Can Stop AIDS, 1989. Author: Ferran Pujol. Courtesy of Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona; kits of preventive syringes available at Sida Studi.
Actividad entorno al 30 aniversario del mural de Keith Haring, dentro del programa de actividades de "Anarchivo Sida"
Actividad en torno al Día Mundial del Sida, dentro del programa de actividades de la exposición "Anarchivo sida"


Tetra is a simple 2D game framework written in Rust. It uses SDL2 for event handling and OpenGL 3.2+ for rendering.
Tetra currently requires Rust 1.31 or higher.
You will also need to install the SDL2 native libraries - full details are provided in the documentation.
You can see this example in action by running cargo run --example hello_world.
The full list of examples is available here.
As mentioned above, Tetra is fairly early in development, so there's likely to be bugs/flaky docs/general weirdness. Please feel free to open an issue/PR if you find something, or leave a question in the Gitter chat.
You can also contact me via Twitter, or find me lurking in the #gamedev channel on the Rust Community Discord.
Most of this is one-time setup, so let's get it out of the way!
Installing Rust is pretty simple - just go to the website and download the Rustup toolchain manager.
Note that if you're developing on Windows with the default toolchain, you'll also need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools, as Rust uses the MSVC linker when building.
Tetra uses SDL for windowing and input, so you will need to have both the runtime and development libraries installed.
The instructions below are adapted from the README of the sdl2 crate - further information can be found there.
Go to the SDL website and download the Visual C++ version of the development libraries.
Copy the .lib files from the SDL2-2.0.x/lib/x64 folder of the zip to the %USERPROFILE/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/lib folder on your machine. If you are building on a beta/nightly toolchain, adjust the location accordingly.
Go to the SDL website and download the MinGW version of the development libraries.
Copy the .lib files from the SDL2-2.0.x/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib folder of the zip to the %USERPROFILE/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib folder on your machine. If you are building on a beta/nightly toolchain, adjust the location accordingly.
You will also need to add the following to your ~/.bash_profile, if it is not already present.
Now that you've got the dependencies set up, we can start making a game!
If you're on Windows, you'll need to place the SDL2 .dll in the root of your project (and alongside your .exe when distributing your game). You can download this from the 'runtime binaries' section of the SDL website.
Once those steps are complete, you're ready to start writing your first game with Tetra!
Once you have installed the native dependencies and set up your project, you're ready to start writing a game!
Now that we have some data, we need a way to manipulate it. In Tetra, you do this by implementing the State trait.
State has two methods - update, which is where you write your game logic, and draw, which is where you draw things to the screen. By default, the former is called 60 times a second, and the latter is called in sync with your monitor's refresh rate.
What's that Context object that we're passing around? Where does it come from?
Why do we return Ok(()) from the methods?
To answer these, we'll need to write our program's main function, and actually start our game!
Context is the object that represents all the global state in the framework (the window settings, the rendering engine, etc.). Most functions provided by Tetra will require you to pass the current context, so that they can read from/write to it. As your game grows, you'll probably write your own functions that pass around Context, too.
Note that both our main function and the run method return tetra::Result, just like our update and draw did. If we'd returned an error from update or draw instead of Ok(()), the game would stop running, and run would return that error to be handled or logged out. In our case, we just pass it on as main's return value too - Rust will automatically print errors in this case.
If you run cargo run from the command line, you should now see your text scrolling across the screen!
In the next chapter, we'll try loading a texture to display on the screen.
In the last chapter, we got a basic window on the screen, and displayed some text. Now let's take it one step further, and display an image from a file.
If you didn't follow along with the previous chapter, copy the final code into your main.rs.
We now need to pass the Context into the constructor so that we can pass it to Texture::new - this is so the texture can be loaded into your GPU memory.
Texture::new can fail (e.g. if you enter the wrong path), so we need to return tetra::Result<GameState> instead of just GameState.
The game logic should pretty much stay the same, although you'll need to amend your draw method to replace self.text with self.texture.
Much nicer! If you run the game now, you should see our little knight running across the screen!
This is currently the last chapter of the tutorial (although more will be added in the future). To learn more about using Tetra, check out the API documentation, or look at the examples on GitHub.
You can also click on the name of the example below to view the source code.
hello_world Basic Opens a window and clears it with a solid color.
texture Graphics Loads and displays a texture.
animation Graphics Displays an animation, made up of regions from a texture.
text Graphics Displays text using a TTF font.
nineslice Graphics Slices a texture into nine segments to display a dialog box.
scaling Graphics Demonstrates the different screen scaling algorithms.
shaders Graphics Uses a custom shader to render a texture.
canvas Graphics Uses a custom render target to apply post-processing effects.
audio Audio Plays back an audio file.
keyboard Input Moves a texture around based on keyboard input.
animation_controller Input Moves a sprite around, with the animation changing based on keyboard input.
mouse Input Moves a texture around based on mouse input.
gamepad Input Displays the input from a connected gamepad.
text_input Input Displays text as it is typed in by the player.
bunnymark Benchmark Benchmarks rendering performance by rendering lots of bunnies.
tetras Game A full example game (which is entirely legally distinct from a certain other block-based puzzle game cough).
Will Tetra be written in pure Rust eventually?
Probably not - SDL2 is a stable and well-tested foundation for building games, and it runs on basically every platform under the sun, so I'm hesitant to replace it. That's likely to remain the only non-Rust dependency, however.
If you're looking for a similar engine that is working towards being pure Rust, GGEZ and Quicksilver are excellent options.
Why is it called Tetra?
Do I have to install SDL manually?
This is more convienent, but does however require you to have various build tools installed on your machine (e.g. a C compiler, CMake, etc). In particular, this can be a pain on Windows - hence why it's not the default!
Can I static link SDL?
This comes with some trade-offs, however - make sure you read this document in the SDL2 repository so that you understand what you're doing!
First, check the debug output on the console to see which OpenGL version your drivers are using - Tetra primarily aims to support 3.2 and above, and explicitly will not work with anything lower than 3.0.
If your OpenGL version is higher than 3.0 and you're still getting a black screen, that may indicate a bug - I currently only have access to a Windows machine with a reasonably modern graphics card, so it's not outside the realms of possibility that something that works for me might be broken for others! Please submit an issue, and I'll try to fix it and release a patch version.
Rust's performance isn't great in debug mode by default, so if you haven't tweaked your optimization settings, Tetra can get CPU-bound quite quickly. Other Rust game engines run into this issue too.
The impact of this can be observed by running the bunnymark example both with and without the --release flag. This example adds 100 new sprites to the screen every time the user clicks, until rendering conistently drops below 60fps.


Fashion With A Conscience has moved. Visit www.fashionwithaconscience.org: Changing the weather!
We can hardly wait. Today is lift off and we don't plan to come down for several weeks. Don't fret, we are taking you with us on this trip to Miami! Beaches, good food, a tan to die for and shopping are all on our to do list! Ready, set, fly!


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K is for Kafkaesque
The term Kafkaesque suggests surreal, nightmare-like situations, which have a malign sense of foreboding underpinning them. Kafka's stories included: the dystopian, particularly political and social nightmares (the powerless immigrant, the arrestee); the surreal punishment (like Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, later beautifully taken off by Rhys Hughes's The Fury Machine); the magic realist take on gritty blue-collar life (Metamorphosis). We have come to see in his works the Orwellian dystopia, the surreal nightmare and the hopeless daily struggle, but in his wide range of works he combined a relentless realism and a beautiful elegance of language that made him one of the giants of 20th Century literature.
Many of Franz Kafka's characters suffer at the hands of a bizarre and tragic fate, but just because their circumstances aren't familiar doesn't mean we feel any less when misfortune befalls the characters. The absurdity adds to the sense of hopelessness that surrounds them.
In Metamorphosis Kafka turns the hard-working and exploited Gregor Samsa into an insect. Gregor's freeloading family quickly forget all the sacrifices he made for them once he assumes such a shocking and, to them, repulsive form. In this way, Kafka weaves a gritty but intensely detailed magical realism by twisting one element in reality and then taking the situation that ensues very seriously. It's a beautiful story, horrifying in its inhumanity, but astonishing in its attention to detail and emotional engagement.
Kafka switches from positioning the enemy within to one without in The Trial, when the main character K. is victim to a dark, totalitarian dystopia where bureaucracy and secrecy means that nobody knows what's really going on, but of course, the little guy is made to pay the price regardless. This is political speculative fiction par excellence: warning at the dangers that lack of transparency in politics and judicial process hold for our civilization.
These works highlight what's quintessentially Kafkaesque: the murky, unclear threat befalling a regular, relatable character. This danger is life-threatening, and in both these examples, terminal.
The most Kafkaesque piece of art I have experienced is David Lynch's film, Inland Empire, with its oppressive soundtrack, the shadowy lighting and the horrible and demeaning fate of the female lead, Nikki Grace / Sue. As Nikki / Sue suffers one horror after the next, the film takes on a hallucinogenic quality as the plot goes down a series of rabbit holes (one really does include rabbits), disorientating the viewer. Nikki / Sue loses everything she has and just when she thinks things can't get any worse she finds out 'rock bottom' has a false bottom... Like Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire explores the shadow side of the Hollywood dream.
One of TFF's stories that strikes me as particularly Kafkaesque is Kemistry by Terry Grimwood. The main character, Judy, is plunged into a dangerous situation that she doesn't understand, one that in turn opens out into an even worse, lifelong nightmare as she is forced to return to her violent ex-husband.
Kafka's works are beautifully written thanks to his poetic language, innovative styles and story structures, not to mention his creativity and artisanship. He never sacrifices medium to message, which may be his most enduring legacy to world literature.
All of the elements we identify as Kafkaesque in literature—the grim, dystopian setting; the attention to detail and unflinching realism; the range of story structures and willingness to experiment; the masterful proficiency with language and style; the keen awareness of social detail and political observation—are things we would like to see more of in TFF. We don't insist that a story be dark and gritty, but we also don't expect every socio-political piece to have a happy denouement. So don't try to emulate one of Kafka's short stories; rather follow his example and use beautiful language to warn of hazards in a surreal and dream-like way... Use elements such as beautiful language, surreal and dream-like features or gritty realism to comment on political agendas or warn of the dangers in our civilization.
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Labels: David Lynch, dystopia, Inland Empire, Kafka, magical realism, relaunch, terry grimwood
The Future Fire is open to fiction
Z is for Zombie
Y is for Young Adult
X is for X-Rated SF
W is for World SF
V is for Vampires
U is for Uploaded Minds
T is for Transhumanism
S is for Surrealism
R is for Race in SF
Q is for Queer SF
P is for Postapocalypse
O is for Occultists
N is for Noir
M is for Magical Realism
L is for Low Fantasy
J is for Juvenile
I is for Identity Crisis
H is for Hardcore Horror
G is for Gestalt
F is for Feminist SF
E is for Eco-SF
D is for Dystopian
C is for Cyberpunk
B is for Borgesian
A is for Alternate History


We invite you to the March episode of Dialogues with Cinema. And this month we discuss Korean Cinema.
"Good cinema does more than entertain or fill seats at the cinema. It has the power to change hearts and minds and sometimes society more widely."
The idea of Dialogues with Cinema is to bring together a group of people with a taste of quality cinema. In this event the participants would discuss, share and exchange information about good movies from the selected genre. As a participant, you do not have to be a scholar in the movies, you just want to share, enjoy or build your knowledge about good movies.
It will be a 3 hour informal and engaging event where we divide time amongst participants who wish to share their favourite movie from the selected genre with the group.
Shivankar Jay formerly worked as an entertainment writer, currently works as a copywriter and is a cinema buff. He spent his summer vacations in a little island in Kerala called Vypin where, as he puts it, "he grew up at regular intervals."
Shivankar now lives in a basement, spending his waking hours watching films and talking about them. To his imaginary friends.


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Business · February 16, 2018
From Billions to Bust: How the Stroh Family Fortune Was Lost
In 1988, Stroh's Beer was one of America's most impressive family fortunes, estimated by Forbes to be worth $9 billion in today's dollars.
Just two decades later, however, the massive beer empire, along with all of the family's wealth, would disappear.
Poor business decisions and bad investments were the primary cause of the company's downfall. But dig a little deeper, and it becomes clear that the business wasn't properly prepared to be passed from one generation to the next, especially over the course of 150 years.
Developing a solid business succession plan is at the heart of estate planning when a family business is involved. And even if your company and wealth are nowhere near the size of the Stroh's clan, it's crucial to heed the lessons that can be learned from the demise of this once-mighty American brewery.
An Empire is Born
Bernhard Stroh immigrated from Germany to Detroit in 1849. He arrived with $150 and a secret family beer recipe, and began selling his lager door-to-door from a wheelbarrow a year later.
In 1890, the business was passed to his sons, Bernhard Jr. and Julius. They made the brew into a regional favorite among working-class Midwesterners, and navigated the company through Prohibition by manufacturing ice cream when the country was dry.
Julius's son, Gari, took control in 1939, and he was succeeded by his brother, John, in 1950. In the '50s and '60s, John was famous for treating his employees like family, and sales soared under his watch from 500,000 barrels in 1950 to 2.7 million in 1956.
Gari's son, Peter, became president in 1968 and CEO in 1980, and during his tenure, the privately-owned Stroh's became America's third-largest brewing company, behind publicly traded corporations Anheuser-Busch and Miller.
However, in 1999, following a series of poorly planned acquisitions and business deals, Peter was forced to sell off the family beer business in parts to Miller and Pabst. Most of the money from the $350 million sale went to pay off business debts, while the remainder was put into a fund for the surviving family members, which was completely tapped out by 2008.
Though building a family business of this magnitude took more than a century's worth of hard work and dedication, it was surprisingly easy for one successor to wipe it out. That said, many of the business mistakes might've been prevented, or at least mitigated, with proper planning and guidance.
The Empire Crumbles
The most devastating events to befall the company occurred while Peter was at the helm. Unlike his forefathers, who grew the business slowly, Peter sought to rapidly expand by buying out competitors like Schaefer, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, and others.
The problem was, Peter acquired his rivals even when the company couldn't afford it. Peter's acquisition of Schlitz in 1982 was particularly damning, as he borrowed $500 million to buy the brand, when Stroh's Beer itself was worth only $100 million.
Saddled with massive debt, Stroh's was unable to keep up with its big-name competitors and even missed the light beer trend of the 1980s. From there, Peter made a series of other mistakes related to packaging, marketing, and pricing that would hasten the company's collapse.
In hindsight, it's obvious Peter wasn't the best choice to run the family business, but this might've been prevented if the company had a comprehensive business succession plan. Such a plan can include strict requirements for choosing a successor, rather than simply passing control through patriarchal bloodlines.
Indeed, a well-drafted succession plan can stipulate that the successor must demonstrate a specific level of education and/or business competence before taking over. Moreover, the plan can also require the succession take place in a phased transition, so the new boss has time to learn the ropes before being handed the keys to the kingdom.
Finally, if slow growth had been a recipe for the Stroh's success in the past, the succession plan could have included terms to prevent such foolhardy acquisitions. Indeed, the plan can obligate new leadership to honor the family legacy by requiring him or her to strictly follow the time-proven business strategies that led to the company's initial success.
With us as your Family Business Lawyer™, we can help you avoid making similar mistakes as the Strohs by protecting your family business with solid estate planning. A foundational part of this process is to develop a comprehensive business succession plan. This plan will help ensure the business assets and wealth you worked so hard to build will survive—and thrive—for generations to come.
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Not So Savage Aela the Huntress Costume « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
The clothing portion of the costume was probably the most difficult. I patterned everything essentially from scratch and tried to work a V-plunge bra into her weirdly oriented strap thing in order to feel more secure….
I sewed the skirt portion separate of the bodice portion and attached those and began figuring out how to strap it together. The belt around the waist actually snaps in place and the top halter piece snaps as well so I can easily take it off/on.
See more photos of the construction of Aela on Facebook.


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Q: Dissolve doesn't work with empty layers I have this model:
The tool dissolve has this precondition of the Calculate Tool in order not to run with empty layers:
However, when it runs with a empty layer it returns the following error:

ERROR 000953: Extent of the overlay operation will be empty. Failed to
  execute (Dissolve).

I put the extent: union of imputs in every tool and in the model.
How can I run the model in this serie of layers (Layers_A),some of them with no features?

A: You can use Get Count alone to prevent a tool from running if a dataset is empty:


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Museum Expansion
The Mandarin Museum building in Walter Jones Historical Park was opened in 2004, and since then we have collected many historical objects, photographs, documents and pieces of Mandarin art. We want to show the community more of what we have, but we have, in fact, outgrown our space.
To that end, we launched a museum expansion campaign that will give us one more exhibit room and a larger archive and collections workroom. The new exhibit space will be a designated Maple Leaf gallery, which will allow us to expand and refresh the fascinating Maple Leaf story with more artifacts and documents. Adding this space will also allow us to reopen our Art Gallery with rotating art featuring Mandarin scenes and Mandarin artists. We will also be able to expand our Harriet Beecher Stowe displays and add new stories and objects that have never been displayed before. And, we are very excited that we will be telling " The Untold History of Black Mandarin" in a brand new permanent exhibit in the main exhibit hall.
We are grateful to the generous Bhide & Hall Architects, for the architectural plans. Thanks to generous donations from private individuals, and fundraising events, we have raised the funds for the matching grant. Sixty percent of the funds raised by the sale of Mandarin frogs have gone towards the expansion, thanks to the Frog Man, Don Bowden. In addition, the Rotary Club of Mandarin selected the museum expansion project as the designated recipient of its "Laughs for Charity" fundraising event in April 2018. In August 2018, the Rotary Club gifted MMHS with a $25,000 donation for the Museum Expansion Project, raised through that event. We are grateful indeed to all private and corporate donors, including the in-kind expertise of Bob White of R.G. White Construction.
In 2019-21, MMHS received a Facilities Grant for museum expansion from the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, which enables us to undertake the expansion project. We are very grateful to the Division of Cultural Affairs for offering and managing grants like this that allow even small organizations like ours to benefit. We had hoped to start building in March or April, 2020, but The COVID 19 pandemic has caused much delay. Now we are expecting to start building in February, 2021.
We are still seeking donations to assist with our exhibition materials and displays.
・If you would like to talk with us about a major personal or business gift or a fundraising idea, please give us a call at 904-268-0784 or send an email to mandarinmuseum@bellsouth.net. A Board member will be happy to meet with you.
・If you would like to make a designated donation of any size, please select the "Donate" button at the bottom right of this page, or send a check to MMHS, PO Box 23601, Jacksonville, FL 32241.
All donations are tax deductible. Thank you for your support of our mission.
Mandarin Museum & Historical Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, and is registered with the Fla. Div. of Consumer Affairs, Registration No. CH16204. A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer services by calling toll-free within the state (800-5435-7352) or by contacting the Division at http://www.freshfromflorida.com/. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the state.


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music@mills.edu
Home / Academics / Undergraduate Programs / Majors & Minors / Music
Major (BA)
A community of master musicians with a global reputation for developing revolutionary sounds and ideas. A collaborative, experimental spirit. State-of-the-art facilities. At Mills, you'll find the support you need to unleash your creativity.
About the Music Program
Here, you'll work one-on-one with faculty who have active careers as composers, performers, and researchers—and who are dedicated to fostering every student's unique talents. In small classes, you'll study music of diverse styles and traditions—from early music to electronic sound art, opera to African drumming—examining its global, historical, and cultural contexts. Your professors will help you chart an individualized course of study, choosing from course work that explores performance and improvisation, cultural studies, composition, and sound technology. They'll encourage you to explore interdisciplinary interests through course work in other departments. If you major in music, your program will culminate with a festival of works by graduating Mills musicians. View our music program details for in-depth information on the major and minor.
You'll also enjoy opportunities to collaborate with other students and with world-renowned composers and performers in the studio and on stage, gaining exposure to the highest levels of professional excellence. The Music Department is especially committed to empowering women for roles in music technology, recording engineering, and composition. All students have 24/7 access to the department's Center for Contemporary Music, an internationally recognized facility for electronic and computer music that has influenced innovation in contemporary music for more than 50 years.
Courses You Could Take
Music and Migration
Women, Gender & Musical Creativity
Sound Techniques of Recording
Introduction to Electronic Music
Music Instrument Building
Faculty & Staff List
Affording a Mills Education
Learning isn't limited to the classroom at Mills. Take a look at some of the opportunities you can have while studying music.
Performances & Collaborations
X-Sound Festival—Graduating Mills music majors present their original compositions and sound art during this annual spring concert.
Thursday Night Special—This biweekly, student-run, cross-disciplinary performance event fosters experimentation, creative collaboration, and community among undergraduate and graduate students.
Campus Ensembles—Renowned Mills faculty lead groups of students in practicing and performing early music, chamber music, contemporary music, improvisation, jazz vocals, percussion pieces, African drumming, and gamelan.
Composers-in-Residence—Each year, guest artists are invited to campus to involve students in performing concerts of their work, building instruments and installations, and more.
Off-Campus Concerts—Discover the San Francisco Bay Area's myriad venues for new music, including the Luggage Store Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley Arts Festival, and Garden of Memory Walk. Mills students, alumnae and faculty frequently perform in these venues.
Mills College X-Sound Music Festival
Concert Series & Sound Art
Mills Music Now—This fall-through-spring concert series in Littlefield Concert Hall features contemporary composers and performers from around the world as well as Mills' own faculty and campus ensembles.
Songlines—The Music Department brings composers, musicologists, instrumentalists, and others to campus for this series of experimental music talks and informal performances.
Signal Flow—Representing the cutting edge of contemporary music practices, graduating MA and MFA music students present their culminating work at this annual four-day event.
Access to Unique Facilities & Equipment
As a Mills music student, you have round-the-clock access to a wealth of facilities and unique equipment, including:
The 450-seat Littlefield Concert Hall in our historic Music Building
Individual practice rooms
The Music Building also contains the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), which encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, hands-on engineering, and aesthetic risk. Among other resources, it offers:
Instrument-building workshop to create your own circuits and synthesizers
Studios for recording, editing, rehearsing, and experimenting with computer and electronic music
High-quality mics, an analog mixing console, tape and digital recorders, Mac Pro systems with programming and editing software, and other sophisticated equipment
An array of new and historic synthesizers, including the pioneering Buchla 100 built in 1963
What Can I Do with a Music Degree from Mills?
Graduates of our Music Program include distinguished composer Elinor Armer, Latin jazz band leader Rebeca Mauleón, film composer Willow Williamson, video/sound artist Betsey Biggs, and guitarist Ava Mendoza. In addition to working as independent composers, performers, and artists, our alumnae pursue careers in business, education, law, media, technology, and the music industry. Recent graduates have used skills gained at Mills in critical analysis, creative thinking, collaboration, and communication to succeed in such positions as:
Vice President, Commercial Credit
East River Bank
Musical Director and Singer
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble
O'Reilly Media
Wealth Associate
Trilogy Financial Services
Attorney Advisor
US Copyright Office
International Contemporary Ensemble
Marin Girls Chorus
Seattle Music Partners
Assistant Professor of Music