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Physical dimensions 7.80"W x 4.77"H x 1.0D (19.81 x 12.11 x 2.55 cm). Display size, WxH 6.0"W x 3.4"H (15.3 x 8.5 cm); 7.0 diag (17.6 cm). Display resolution, WxH 800 x 480 pixels. Display type multi-touch, capacitive; WVGA color TFT with white backlight.
Weight 15.4 ounces (438.0 g). Battery life up to 1 hour.
Includes lifetime map updates: yes. Built-in memory internal solid state.
Accepts data cards microSD card (not included): yes. Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): yes. Turn right ON ELM STREET in 500 ft.
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7.80W x 4.77H x 1.0 inches (19.81 x 12.11 x 2.55 cm). 6.0W x 3.4H inches (15.3 x 8.5 cm); 7.0 inch diag (17.6 cm).
Multi-touch, capacitive; WVGA color TFT with white backlight. 15.4 ounces (438.0 g). Bluechart g2 Vision Map Compatible.
Trucking-friendly (provides specialized routing to support truck-related restrictions). Garmin Connect compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data). Turn right in 500 ft.
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Scotland set for a 'revolution in rail'
Transport Minister Derek Mackay has announced significant improvements to rail passenger services.
Kevin McRoberts
Much of Scotland is set to experience a "revolution in rail" which will deliver the largest programme of benefits to passengers seen in a generation.
ScotRail will introduce 200 new services and provide 20,000 more seats per day, with passengers across Tayside, Stirlingshire, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Glasgow, Fife and the Borders set to feel the benefits.
This represents a significant enhancement to ScotRail's current timetable, which currently runs 2300 services per day.
Timetable improvements have been made possible by the decision by the Scottish Government to retain 13 additional Class 170 diesel trains (39 additional carriages) beyond the terms of their current leases, which were due to end in 2018.
More rolling stock means ScotRail ca run more frequent services, both for commuters and city to city passengers, whilst the increased flexibility offers time savings on popular routes.
From 2018 there will be more services for Tayside, Stirlingshire, Perthsire Aberdeenshire.
There will also be increased peak capacity across Fife and the Borders, relieving some of the pressure on commuter services, along with more commuter options linking towns between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Cumbernauld and Falkirk.
Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "We have initiated a revolution in rail services across Scotland. From 2018 passengers will benefit from more seats, more services and faster journey times as a direct result of the increased funding that we are putting into the rail network.
"The retention of these units will complement the arrival of our new high speed trains, which will allow for new and improved intercity connections.
"They will also make our rail network more resilient, creating opportunities to run faster services on key commuter routes and offering better connectivity for regional areas.
"This funding is in addition to the £475m investment in Scotland's rolling stock over the lifetime of the franchise, meaning Scotland's rail passengers have never been better served, both in terms of the quality of the trains they travel on, and the number of services running on the network."
Phil Verster, managing director of Abellio ScotRail, added: "This is a significant moment in our mission to transform Scotland's railway. In three years' time, the service that we provide to our customers will be unrecognisable. Our new electric fleet will be running between Glasgow and Edinburgh, our high speed trains will be linking our seven cities and, thanks to this announcement today, we will have hundreds more services and thousands more seats available to customers across Scotland – particularly in Aberdeen, the North East and Fife.
"I really cannot overstate just how big a change to our service that this announcement represents. This is not a slight amendment to the way we do business, it is a fundamental change. These new trains will allow us to completely recast our timetables, meaning more regular, local services combined with a high speed intercity offering.
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"This transformation means that we can set about delivering on our vision of a railway that connects people with jobs, businesses with customers and communities with the opportunity to grow and prosper.
"A railway that delivers for Scotland – not just because of what it is, but because of what it allows our country to do."

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Computing at CERN: the mainframe era
Chris Jones takes a look back at the heyday of the computer mainframe through a selection of "memory bytes".
In June 1996 computing staff at CERN turned off the IBM 3090 for the last time, so marking the end of an era that had lasted 40 years. In May 1956 CERN had signed the purchasing contract for its first mainframe computer – a Ferranti Mercury with a clock cycle 200,000 times slower than modern PCs. Now, the age of the mainframe is gone, replaced by "scalable solutions" based on Unix "boxes" and PCs, and CERN and its collaborating institutes are in the process of installing several tens of thousands of PCs to help satisfy computing requirements for the Large Hadron Collider.
The Mercury was a first-generation vacuum tube (valve) machine with a 60 microsecond clock cycle. It took five cycles – 300 microseconds – to multiply 40-bit words and had no hardware division, a function that had to be programmed. The machine took two years to build, arriving at CERN in 1958, which was a year later than originally foreseen. Programming by users was possible from the end of 1958 with a language called Autocode. Input and output (I/O) was by paper tape, although magnetic tape units were added in 1962. Indeed, the I/O proved something of a limitation, for example when the Mercury was put to use in the analysis of paper tape produced by the instruments used to scan and measure bubble-chamber film. The work of the fast and powerful central processing unit (CPU) was held up by the sluggish I/O. By 1959 it was already clear that a more powerful system was needed to deal with the streams of data coming from the experiments at CERN.
A panoramic view of CERN's computer centre in the mid-1980s, during the era of the combined service provided by IBM and Siemens. (Courtesy Chris Jones.)
The 1960s arrived at the computing centre initially in the form of an IBM 709 in January 1961. Although it was still based on valves, it could be programmed in FORTRAN, read instructions written on cards, and read and write magnetic tape. Its CPU was four to five times faster than that of the Mercury, but it came with a price tag of 10 millions Swiss francs (in 1960 prices!). Only two years later it was replaced by an IBM 7090, a transistorized version of the same machine with a 2.18 microsecond clock cycle. This marked the end for the valve machines, and after a period in which it was dedicated to a single experiment at CERN (the Missing Mass Spectrometer), the Mercury was given to the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow. With the 7090 the physicists could really take advantage of all the developments that had begun on the 709, such as on-line connection to devices including the flying spot digitizers to measure film from bubble and spark chambers. More than 300,000 frames of spark-chamber film were automatically scanned and measured in record time with the 7090. This period also saw the first on-line connection to film-less detectors, recording data on magnetic tape.
CERN's IBM 709 computer is unloaded at Geneva's Cointrin Airport in 1961, under the watchful eye of a Swiss customs officer, at right.
In 1965 the first CDC machine arrived at CERN – the 6600 designed by computer pioneer Seymour Cray, with a CPU clock cycle of 100 ns and a processing power 10 times that of the IBM 7090. With serial number 3, it was a pre-production series machine. It had disks more than 1 m in diameter – which could hold 500 million bits (64 megabytes) and subsequently made neat coffee tables – tape units and a high-speed card reader. However, as Paolo Zanella, who became division leader from 1976 until 1988, recalled, "The introduction of such a complex system was by no means trivial and CERN experienced one of the most painful periods in its computing history. The coupling of unstable hardware to shaky software resulted in a long traumatic effort to offer a reliable service." Eventually the 6600 was able to realise its potential, but only after less-powerful machines had been brought in to cope with the increasing demands of the users. Then in 1972 it was joined by a still more powerful sibling, the CDC 7600, the most powerful computer of the time and five times faster than the 6600, but again there were similar painful "teething problems".
With a speed of just over 10 Mips (millions of instructions per second) and superb floating-point performance, the 7600 was, for its time, a veritable "Ferrari" of computing. But it was a Ferrari with a very difficult running-in period. The system software was again late and inadequate. In the first months the machine had a bad ground-loop problem causing intermittent faults and eventually requiring all modules to be fitted with sheathed rubber bands. It was a magnificent engine for its time whose reliability and tape handling just did not perform to the levels needed, in particular by the electronic experiments. Its superior floating-point capabilities were valuable for processing data from bubble-chamber experiments with their relatively low data rates, but for the fast electronic experiments the "log jam" of the tape drives was a major problem.
So a second revolution occurred with the reintroduction of an IBM system, the 370/168, in 1976, which was able to meet a wider range of users' requirements. Not only did this machine bring dependable modern tape drives, it also demonstrated that computer hardware could work reliably and it ushered in the heyday of the mainframe, with its robotic mass storage system and a laser printer operating at 19,000 lines per minute. With a CPU cycle of 80 ns, 4 megabytes (later 5) of semiconductor memory and a high-speed multiply unit, it became the "CERN unit" of physics data-processing power, corresponding to 3-4 Mips. Moreover, the advent of the laser printer, with its ability to print bitmaps rather than simple mono-spaced characters, heralded the beginning of scientific text processing and the end for the plotters with their coloured pens (to say nothing of typewriters).
The arrival of the IBM 370/168 in 1976 ushered in the heyday of the mainframe and the "CERN unit" of physics data processing.
The IBM also brought with it the MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) operating system, with its pedantic Job Control Language, and it provided the opportunity for CERN to introduce WYLBUR, the well-loved, cleverly designed and friendly time-sharing system developed at SLAC, together with its beautifully handwritten and illustrated manual by John Ehrman. WYLBUR was a masterpiece of design, achieving miracles with little power (at the time) shared amongst many simultaneous users. It won friends with its accommodating character and began the exit of punch-card machinery as computer terminals were introduced across the lab. It was also well interfaced with the IBM Mass Store, a unique file storage device, and this provided great convenience for file handling and physics data sample processing. At its peak WYLBUR served around 1200 users per week.
The IBM 370/168 was the starting point for the IBM-based services in the computer centre and was followed by a series of more powerful machines: the 3032, the 3081, several 3090s and finally the ES/9000. In addition, a sister line of compatible machines from Siemens/Fujitsu was introduced and together they provided a single system in a manner transparent to the users. This service carried the bulk of the computer users, more than 6000 per week, and most of the data handing right up to the end of its life in 1996. At its peak around 1995 the IBM service provided a central processor power around a quarter of a top PC today, but the data-processing capacity was outstanding.
During this period CERN's project for the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider brought its own challenges, together with a planning review in 1983 of the computing requirements for the LEP era. Attractive alternative systems to the mainframe began to appear over the horizon, presenting computing services with some difficult choices. The DEC VAX machines, used by many physics groups – and subsequently introduced as a successful central facility – were well liked for the excellent VMS operating system. On another scale the technical jump in functionality that was appearing on the new personal workstations, for example from Apollo – such as a fully bit-mapped screen and a "whole half a megabyte of memory" for a single user – were an obvious major attraction for serious computer-code developers, albeit at a cost that was not yet within the reach of many. It is perhaps worth reflecting that in 1983 the PC used the DOS operating system and a character-based screen, whilst the Macintosh had not yet been announced, so bit-mapped screens were a major step forward. (To put that in context, another recommendation of the above planning review was that CERN should install a local-area network and that Ethernet was the best candidate for this.)
The user-friendly nature of the WYLBUR time-sharing system, which was developed at SLAC, was reflected in its beautifully handwritten and illustrated manual by John Ehrman.
The future clearly held exciting times, but some pragmatic decisions about finances, functionality, capacity and tape handling capacity had to be made. It was agreed that for the LEP era the IBM-based services would move to the truly interactive VM/CMS operating system as used at SLAC. (WYLBUR was really a clever editor submitting jobs to batch processing.) This led to a most important development, the HEPVM collaboration. It was possible and indeed desirable to modify the VM/CMS operating system to suit the needs of the user community. All the high-energy physics (HEP) sites running VM/CMS were setting out to do exactly this, as indeed they had done with many previous operating systems. To some extent each site started off as if it were their sovereign right to do this better than the others. In order to defend the rights of the itinerant physicist, in 1983 Norman McCubbin from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory made the radical but irresistible proposal: "don't do it better, do it the same!"
The HEPVM collaboration comprised most of the sites who ran VM/CMS as an operating system and who had LEP physicists as clients. This ranged from large dedicated sites such as SLAC, CERN and IN2P3, to university sites where the physicists were far from being the only clients. It was of course impossible to impose upon the diverse managements involved, so it was a question of discussion and explanation and working at the issues. Two important products resulted from this collaboration. A HEPVM tape was distributed to more than 30 sites, containing all the code necessary for producing a unified HEP environment, and the "concept of collaboration between sites" was established as a normal way to proceed. The subsequent off-spring, HEPiX and HEPNT, have continued the tradition of collaboration and it goes without saying that such collaboration will have to take a higher level again in order to make Grid computing successful.
The era of the supercomputer
The 1980s also saw the advent of the supercomputer. The CRAY X-MP supercomputer, which arrived at CERN in January 1988, was the logical successor to Seymour Cray's CDC 7600 at CERN, and a triumph of price negotiation. The combined scalar performance of its four processors was about a quarter of the largest IBM installed at CERN, but it had strong vector floating-point performance. Its colourful presence resolved the question as to whether the physics codes could really profit from vector capabilities, and probably the greatest benefit to CERN from the CRAY was to the engineers whose applications, for example in finite element analysis and accelerator design, excelled on this machine. The decision was also taken to work together with CRAY to pioneer Unix as the operating system, and this work was no doubt of use to later generations of machines running Unix at CERN.
The CRAY X-MP brought vector capabilities – and a colourful presence – to CERN's computer centre with its arrival in 1988.
Throughout most of the mainframe period the power delivered to users had doubled approximately every 3.5 years – the CDC 7600 lasted an astonishing 12 years. The arrival of the complete processor on a CMOS chip, which conformed to Moore's law of doubling speed every 18 months, was an irresistible force that sounded the eventual replacement of mainframe systems, although a number of other issues had to be solved first, including notably the provision of reliable tape-handling facilities. The heyday of the mainframe thus eventually came to an inevitable end.
One very positive feature of the mainframe era at CERN was the joint project teams with the major manufacturers, in particular those of IBM and DEC. The presence of around say 20 engineers from such a company on-site led to extremely good service, not only from the local staff but also through direct contacts to the development teams in America. It was not unknown for a critical bug, discovered during the evening at CERN, to be fixed overnight by the development team in America and installed for the CERN service the next morning, a sharp contrast to the service available in these days of commodity computing. The manufacturers on their side saw the physicists' use of their computers as pushing the limits of what was possible and pointing the way to the needs of other more straightforward customers in several years time. Hence their willingness to install completely new products, sometimes from their research laboratories, and often free of charge, as a way of getting them used, appraised and de-bugged. The requirements from the physicists made their way back into products and into the operating systems. This was one particular and successful way for particle physics to transfer its technology and expertise to the world at large. In addition, the joint projects provided a framework for excellent pricing, allowing particle physics to receive much more computer equipment than they could normally have paid for.
This article has been a personal look at some of the aspects of mainframe computing at CERN, and could not in the space available provide anything more than a few snapshots. It has benefited from some of the details contained in the more in-depth look at the first 30 years of computing at CERN written for the CERN Computing Newsletter by Paolo Zanella in 1990 and available on the Web in three parts at: http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/002/cern-computing; http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30; http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30-last.
Chris Jones, CERN.
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Window to the Soul
Delaware Today July 11, 2008
Whether your pictures are taken professionally or are the product of an impromptu photo shoot in the park, creativity is key when deciding how to incorporate them into your home.
Photographer Laura Novak suggests buying a plain wood frame and hand-painting, stenciling or illustrating it to match the decor of a room. This technique works especially well with black-and-white prints.
When you get around to hanging those photos, it's perfectly fine to adorn your foyer with that close-up shot of your son sporting his characteristic happy-go-lucky grin.
"It's important to capture the expressions of the kids," says Novak, owner of Laura Novak Photography in Wilmington. "Something different really calls people's attention more than just a traditional approach."
Novak strives to capture the best in her clients' personalities through photography, and she says you can follow the same approach in your own backyard.
"Take your kids out and play with them. Dress them in their normal, everyday clothing and let them be themselves," she says. "Just let them be."
Photos should come to life with an essence of the people they portray adding their own personal touch to a room, she says.
"By putting framed portraits in a house, it lets you know who lives there and what they're all about," Novak says. "It's really the art of a family that makes a house a home." —Stephanie Ostroff
Refinish Your Furniture
Local experts explain the dos and don'ts.
If you've never had furniture refinished, the process can be confusing. Here are some tips to help you get started.
• Know the difference between refinishing and restoration. Replacing only the finish? You are refinishing. The stain may or may not match the original. In a restoration, the finish should match. "We restore it to the original specifications," says Robert Moore of R.J. Moore Furniture Refinishing in New Castle.
"Restoring almost always means touch-ups, blemish repairs, not taking it down to bare wood, but working with the finish that's there," says Scott Alexander of New Life Furniture Systems in Newport.
• Evaluate the worth. Some pieces retain their value better without work. Generally, bench-made furniture—made by hand prior to the Industrial Revolution—requires delicate handling. Furniture from the 1900s usually gets a boost from refinishing, Alexander says.
• To dip or not to dip? In cold-tank dipping, furniture is immersed in a tank of stripper. The finish is then removed with water or a lacquer rinse. Hot-tank dipping involves first a bath of lye, then oxalic acid. It's best for architectural items with several coats.
"Never dip," Alexander says. Moore has seen pieces fall apart, so he uses a paint remover and putty knife. Alexander uses a flow-tray system that employs acid-neutral liquid stripper. The piece is never submerged. "You're dissolving the finish off," Alexander says.
• Be patient. After you get a price, it might be months before the worker can take the job. "A lot of these pieces have sat in disrepair for so many years," Alexander says. "If it takes another six months to see the job through, it all makes sense to me." —Pam George
A Perfect Marriage
When Gail Angelucci, a stained glass artist, and her husband, Scott Angelucci, a fine wood craftsman, opened Angelucci's Fine Woodworking and Stained Glass Gallery in Milford last year, they hoped to hone their skills while selling their wares.
But when customers began requesting pieces that combined wood and stained glass, the couple discovered that joining forces was a good business strategy.
Scott started designing custom windows to frame Gail's stained glass. Their personalized wood and glass work is limited only by a client's imagination.
At Christmas a merchant marine and his wife, a teacher, ordered custom doors with stained glass panels. One panel portrayed a man going to sea. The other was of a woman looking to sea.
The Angeluccis prefer to visit customers' homes to discuss lifestyle and decor. Scott offers a manual of wood types and albums of his work.
Though the Angeluccis' combined work sells well, their individual pieces remain noteworthy. Scott reproduces decorative moldings, furniture, bookcases and desks. Gail's stained glass graces hallways, foyers and living rooms.
Furnishing a home with custom work is an investment that pays off. Most wood pieces sold in stores are either stapled or nailed. Scott advocates traditional joinery.
"Imported stained glass is not made properly and doesn't last," Gail says. "When you do stained glass, you're hand-cutting, grinding and wrapping in foil, then soldering. Traditional glass has a nice smooth bead around it. It won't fall apart.
"You may pay more for our art," she says. "But it will last forever, and it will tell your story."
For more, email angeluccigallery@aol.com or call 422-4533. —Maria Hess
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R Massé 1 , C Ayotte, H G Bi, R Dugal
1 Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-Santé), Université du Québec, Pointe-Claire, Canada.
The metabolism of stanozolol (17 beta-hydroxy-17 alpha-methyl-5 alpha-androstano[3,2-c]pyrazole), an androgenic-anabolic steroid widely used in sport for the purpose of enhancing performance, was investigated in humans. The analysis method was based on the use of solid-phase extraction on the Sep-Pak C18 cartridge, enzymic hydrolysis of steroid conjugates and high-resolution gas chromatograph-mass spectrometric (GC-MS) analysis of trimethylsilylated steroid extracts. After administration of a single 20-mg oral dose, twelve metabolites including unchanged stanozolol were recovered predominantly from the conjugated steroid fraction and characterized by GC-MS. In the unconjugated fraction, 16 alpha-hydroxystanozolol, 17-epistanozolol, stanozolol and 3'-hydroxy-17-epistanozolol were the most abundant metabolites. In the aglycone fraction, 16 alpha- and 16 beta-hydroxystanozolol, stanozolol and 3'-hydroxystanozolol were the most abundant metabolites. Other metabolites resulted from regioselective hydroxylation of stanozolol at C-4, whereas other were 17-epimers of 3'- and 16 alpha-hydroxystanozolol. Further hydroxylation leading to the formation of four isomeric dihydroxylated metabolites was also observed. They were tentatively assigned the structures of 3',16 alpha-, 4 beta,16 alpha-, 3',16 beta- and 4 beta,16 beta-dihydroxystanozolol. The mass spectral features of their bis-N,O-trimethylsilyl derivatives obtained under electron-impact ionization are presented. The effect of pH on the relative recovery of some of these metabolites is also presented. The usefulness of this analytical methodology for the detection and identification of stanozolol urinary metabolites in doping-control situations is demonstrated. The metabolism of stanozolol is also discussed, and metabolic pathways accounting for the formation of its biotransformation products are proposed.
Anabolic Agents / metabolism*
Doping in Sports
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Stanozolol / pharmacokinetics
Stanozolol / urine*
Anabolic Agents


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Q: PostgreSQL WITH RECURSIVE query to get ordered parent-child chain by a Partition Key I have the issue writing a sql script on PostgreSQL 9.6.6 which orders steps in a process by using the steps' parent-child ID's, and this grouped/partitioned per process ID. I couldn't find this special case here, so I apologize if I missed it and would please you to provide me the link to the solution in the comments.
The case: I have a table which looks like this:
processID | stepID | parentID
     1         1          NULL
     1         3           5
     1         2           4
     1         4           3
     1         5           1
     2         1          NULL
     2         3           5
     2         2           4
     2         4           3
     2         5           1

Now I have to order the steps by starting with the step where parentID is NULL for each processID .
Note: I cannot simply order StepID or parentID as new steps I put within the whole process get a higher stepID then the last step in the process (continuous generating surrogate key).
I have to order the steps for every processID, that I will receive the following output:
processID | stepID | parentID
     1         1          NULL
     1         5           1
     1         3           5
     1         4           3
     1         2           4
     2         1          NULL
     2         5           1
     2         3           5
     2         4           3
     2         2           4

I tried to do this with the CTE function WITH RECURSIVE:
    WITH RECURSIVE
starting (processID,stepID, parentID) AS
  (
    SELECT b.processID,b.stepID, b.parentID
    FROM process b
    WHERE b.parentID ISNULL
  ),
  descendants (processID,stepID, parentID) AS
  (
    SELECT b.processID,b.stepID, b.stepparentID
    FROM starting b
    UNION ALL
    SELECT b.processID,b.stepID, b.parentID
    FROM process b

    JOIN descendants AS c ON b.parentID = c.stepID
)
SELECT * FROM descendants

The result is not what I am searching for. As we have hundreds of processes, I receive a list where the first records are the different processIDs which have a NULL value as parentID.
I guess I have to recursive the whole script on the processID again, but have no idea how.
Thank you for your help!

A: You should calculate the level of each step:
with recursive starting as (
    select processid, stepid, parentid, 0 as level
    from process
    where parentid is null
union all
    select p.processid, p.stepid, p.parentid, level+ 1
    from starting s
    join process p on s.stepid = p.parentid and s.processid = p.processid
)
select *
from starting
order by processid, level

 processid | stepid | parentid | level
-----------+--------+----------+-------
         1 |      1 |          |     0
         1 |      5 |        1 |     1
         1 |      3 |        5 |     2
         1 |      4 |        3 |     3
         1 |      2 |        4 |     4
         2 |      1 |          |     0
         2 |      5 |        1 |     1
         2 |      3 |        5 |     2
         2 |      4 |        3 |     3
         2 |      2 |        4 |     4
(10 rows)

Of course, you can skip the last column in the final select if you do not need it.

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package at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.experiment;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.config.TrecConfig;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.evaluator.TrecEval;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.evaluator.TrecWriter;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.model.Result;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.model.ResultList;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.model.Topic;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.model.TopicSet;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.query.Query;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.stats.CSVStatsWriter;
import at.medunigraz.imi.bst.trec.stats.XMLStatsWriter;

public class Experiment extends Thread {

	private static final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger();

	@Deprecated
	private String id = null;

	private Query decorator;

	private Task task;

	private GoldStandard goldStandard;

	public static enum Task {
		CLINICAL_TRIALS, PUBMED
	}

	public static enum GoldStandard {
		EXAMPLE, EXTRA, FINAL
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		final String collection = getExperimentId().substring(0, getExperimentId().indexOf('-'));

		final String name = getExperimentId() + " with decorators " + decorator.getName();

		LOG.info("Running collection " + name + "...");

		File example = new File(CSVStatsWriter.class.getResource("/topics/" + collection + ".xml").getPath());
		TopicSet topicSet = new TopicSet(example);

		File output = new File("results/" + getExperimentId() + ".trec_results");
		TrecWriter tw = new TrecWriter(output);

		// TODO DRY Issue #53
		Set<ResultList> resultListSet = new HashSet<>();
		for (Topic topic : topicSet.getTopics()) {
			List<Result> results = decorator.query(topic);

			ResultList resultList = new ResultList(topic);
			resultList.setResults(results);
			resultListSet.add(resultList);
		}

		tw.write(resultListSet);
		tw.close();

		File goldStandard = new File(CSVStatsWriter.class.getResource("/gold-standard/" + getExperimentId() + ".qrels").getPath());
		TrecEval te = new TrecEval(goldStandard, output);

		XMLStatsWriter xsw = new XMLStatsWriter(new File("stats/" + getExperimentId() + ".xml"));
		xsw.write(te.getMetrics());
		xsw.close();

		CSVStatsWriter csw = new CSVStatsWriter(new File("stats/" + getExperimentId() + ".csv"));
		csw.write(te.getMetrics());
		csw.close();

		LOG.info("Got NDCG: " + te.getNDCG() + " for collection " + name);
		LOG.trace(te.getMetricsByTopic("all"));

		// TODO Experiment API #53
		System.out.println(te.getNDCG() + ";" + name);
	}

	@Deprecated
	public void setExperimentId(String id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public void setDecorator(Query decorator) {
		this.decorator = decorator;
	}

	public String getExperimentId() {
		if (id != null) {
			return id;
		}

		return getCollectionName() + "-" + getShortTaskName();

	}

	public void setTask(Task task) {
		this.task = task;
	}

	public void setGoldStandard(GoldStandard goldStandard) {
		this.goldStandard = goldStandard;
	}

	public String getCollectionName() {
		switch (goldStandard) {
		case EXAMPLE:
			return "example";
		case EXTRA:
			return "extra";
		case FINAL:
			return "topics2017";
		default:
			return "";
		}
	}

	public String getTaskName() {
		switch (task) {
		case CLINICAL_TRIALS:
			return "clinicaltrials";
		case PUBMED:
			return "trec";
		default:
			return "";
		}
	}

	public String[] getTypes() {
		String[] ret = new String[0];	// Everything

		if (task == Task.CLINICAL_TRIALS) {
			return new String[] { TrecConfig.TRIALS_TYPE };
		}

		if (task == Task.PUBMED && goldStandard == GoldStandard.FINAL) {
			return new String[] { TrecConfig.EXTRA_TYPE, TrecConfig.MEDLINE_TYPE };
		}

		return ret;
	}

	public String getShortTaskName() {
		switch (task) {
		case CLINICAL_TRIALS:
			return "ct";
		case PUBMED:
			return "pmid";
		default:
			return "";
		}
	}

	public Query getDecorator() {
		return decorator;
	}

}

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The issue is mostly impacting our Virtual devices.
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We are looking into the root cause.


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A: This template hidden in Templates -> Visual C# -> Windows -> Classic Desktop


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Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the h day of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "O" things.
I am especially grateful for: Oxygen. Unless one's lungs are compromised or the air is too polluted to breathe, we take oxygen for granted. It is the most common element on earth, making up almost 50% of the earth's mass, approximately 25% of the air, 90% of water and 65% of the human body. Without oxygen, we simply could not live. We couldn't breathe, our bodies would desiccate, and the earth itself would be hostile. As I sip my bottle of spring water and breathe deeply of the mostly fresh air, I will give thanks for the simple and common element that makes our lives possible.
Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the fourteenth post for this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "N" things.
Night. This is the time of year I used to unhappily call the "creeping darkness," when the nights get progressively longer. And yet, without night, we'd be left with unremitting sun, no moon and stars, a life that would be glaringly the same day after day after day. I won't be taking night for granted tonight but will take it for gratitude.
Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the thirteenth post of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "M" things.
Moon. Moons go through cycles, from full moons to gibbous moons to crescent moons to new moons and back through the cycle night after night across the eons. Ancient lore speaks of a time when there was no moon, before the earth captured this satellite into its orbit, but whether the moon has always been a companion to earth or is a relative newcomer, the fact is that the moon now affects us more than we ever know. Seems fitting that just a few days past the full moon, I am evoking a mood of gratitude for the moon and for everything in my life that is valuable.
Miracles. We take life's little miracles for granted. The other day I happened to notice a fiery red rose in the chill December air, which reminded me that we often can't predict the joys that life will bring or when life will bring them. Even if this flower bloomed because of turmoil in the earth's ecosystem, it is still a miracle. Other miracles are the connections we feel when we exchange smiles or laughter; the miracle of reading — we can read the strange symbols called the alphabet, and understand what is in a writer's mind; the miracle of the internet. What I write here, people all over the world can read. Truly a miracle! So today I will be taking for gratitude life's little miracles (though truly, is there such a thing as a little miracle?).
When you are making out your Christmas lists, be sure to browse the catalog of books from Indigo Sea Press. Below is the collection of my titles for you to consider for your bookish friends, and for yourself too, of course, if you haven't already read these books.
Grief: The Great Yearning for those who need the comfort of knowing they are not alone in their sorrow and those want to or need to learn more about the mystery of grief.
Daughter Am I for those who love road trips, treasure hunts, buried family secrets, mysteries, gangsters, young women coming of age and old folks who refuse to admit their age.
Light Bringer for those who love precocious babies, aliens, conspiracy theories, secret underground laboratories, lost identities, and manipulative international corporations.
A Spark of Heavenly Fire for those who love conspiracies with a medical twist and for those who wonder what it would be like if the world were to go through another pandemic.
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Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the twelfth such post of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "L" things.
Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the eleventh such post of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "K" things.
Kindness. We are all kinder than we think we are, though often that kindness is offhand since we become too distracted by the demands of our lives to focus on others. I was fortunate to find much kindness online after the death of my life mate/soul mate. Because I blogged about the maelstrom of emotions we call grief, trying to make sense of what I was going through, I met others who were dealing with the same process. The kindness of these strangers, these women I've never met, gave me the courage to embrace the agony of losing my mate, to face it head on, arms open wide. They gave me hope when it seemed I'd never move past the agony of loss, helped me make sense of the senselessness of death (or at least to accept it). They opened their hearts to me. I never took their kindness for granted — I appreciated every word of support — I've even expressed my appreciation, but today I want to make it official that I am not taking kindness for granted, but am taking it for gratitude.
Kindred spirits: Those women (and a few men) who offered support in my grief were kindred spirits, walking the same path I did, feeling the same losses, honoring our dead with our sorrow. I am very grateful to these kindred spirits and to the authors (kindred spirits indeed!) who have enriched my life with their words.
Kn owledge. We are all knowledgeable in many ways, though we often take this knowledge for granted. We know how to walk, yet only a few of us ever remember the laborious process of learning first how to crawl and then how to stand on our own two feet. I am not one of those who remember, so I tend to take this basic knowledge for granted, as I do most of what I know. I know how to read and write, to add and subtract, to talk and listen. I know how it feels to dance and to grieve, to love and to laugh. I know even more esoteric things, such as mythology, secret histories, quantum mechanics (well, not a lot, just the basics, which I learned for the fun of it). I am always seeking more knowledge in my quest for wisdom, so I tend to take for granted what I have already learned. But today, I will take my knowledge for gratitude.
Knobs. I take knobs for granted, but they sure do make it easier to open cabinets and drawers, so today, I will take knobs for gratitude.
So, what "K" things are you taking for gratitude today?
Just because Thanksgiving is over and November gone, there is no reason to stop being grateful, so I am going to continue with my alphabet of gratitude. Since today is the tenth such post of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "J" things. Well, one "J" thing.
For the past few days, I have been taking many things for gratitude. Since today is the ninth day of this surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "I" things.
Integrity. We often hear that people have no honor or integrity, that we can't trust anyone, and yet the truth is, most of us do have integrity. Barbara Killinger defined integrity as "a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honour moral, ethical, spiritual and artistic values and principles." I have made such a choice, and so have most people. So today, I have the integrity to say I am taking integrity for gratitude.
Indulgence. Too much indulgence can be a bad thing, making us fat and sick and miserable and integrity-less, but being able to indulge ourselves is something to be grateful for, especially today of all days.
Since today is the eighth day of my current surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "H" things.
Since today is the seventh day of my current surge of gratitude, I am giving thanks for "G" things.
I am especially grateful for grief and the gifts that grief brings.
Grief seems a strange thing for which to be grateful, but I am truly grateful that I experienced such deep grief after the death of my life mate/soul mate. He was a special man, someone who knew how to appreciate even the littlest thing, and I am grateful I was able to show the world how much he would be missed by writing about the grief he left behind. My grief was a way of appreciating him, honoring him, proving that even though he lived a private life, his life had worth to others.
Grief has also taught me to be grateful for life's gifts — the friendships that sail into our life, the mystical moments and connections, the chance to experience the world through our senses, the capacity for appreciation, the ability to think and the power to feel thoughts too deep to put into words.
So, what "G" things are you taking for gratitude today?


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Topic: Michigan Environment Watch
Bird flu has killed nearly 1,500 Caspian terns on Lake Michigan islands
Caspian terns are the largest terns in the world. They migrate to the Great Lakes region to nest. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
Great Lakes, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Rural Michigan
Bird flu is the likely culprit in the deaths of nearly 1,500 Caspian terns, black-crowned seabirds that feed along islands in Lake Michigan.
Wildlife biologists are finding whole colonies of birds dead or dying on the islands. Caspian terns are listed as threatened in Michigan and endangered in Wisconsin.
This article is part of The Great Lakes News Collaborative, which includes Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television, and Michigan Radio. It unites newsroom resources to report on the most pressing threats to the Great Lakes and drinking water supplies, including pollution, climate change, and aging infrastructure. The independent journalism is supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
"Seeing hundreds of dead birds scattered in a line before you with others dying among those…it's a feeling of helplessness, knowing that there's nothing, absolutely nothing you can do for those birds," said Sumner Matteson, an avian ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
The bird flu: Clean your birdfeeder right now
Wash your hands: Highly contagious bird flu reaches Michigan wild flocks
Matteson said he's never seen anything so traumatic in his 42 years on the job.
On Bellow Island in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay, another scientist discovered colonies that were wiped out.
"Last count prior to the time we were out there was 201 nests and we found 255 dead adults," said Jim Ludwig, an environmental consultant who has studied Great Lakes birds for decades.
In the distance, a worker is picking up dead Caspian terns. Hundreds of them died from bird flu on this Wisconsin island. (Courtesy of Sumner Matteson, WI DNR)
He guessed that more than that died elsewhere, including in the lake, while scavengers might have carried off other remains.
Found along the coasts of oceans and large lakes, the crow-sized birds are white and gray in color, with long, reddish-orange, black-tipped bills. Long-lived and slow to procreate, they can survive 30 years but don't breed until they're at least three years old. The terns eat mostly fish, with a particular taste for alewife in the Great Lakes, and nest in dense ground colonies, which could make them particularly vulnerable to spreading disease.
"Caspian terns are magnificent birds. They've got that striking black cap and they fly along, looking down at the water while they fly and then suddenly plunge into the water to catch fish. They're exciting to watch," said Lisa Williams, a Contaminants Specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
A line of dead Caspian terns with their exposed nests full of eggs in the foreground. (Courtesy of Sumner Matteson, WI DNR)
In recent years, the bird's population has been growing. In 2018 they peaked at about 10,000 Caspian terns in the Great Lakes region. Then high water levels made nesting difficult for the birds.
Now it appears that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza known as bird flu is killing them by the hundreds.
"Caspian terns nest very close together," Williams said. "And for a disease that's transmitted through the air, they're in close enough proximity that that can happen fairly readily on their colonies."
The result is that at least 1,476 adult terns are dead on Lake Michigan islands
A Herring gull chick finds shelter under the wing of a dead Caspian tern. (Courtesy of Sumner Matteson, WI DNR)
Sadie O'Dell, a wildlife biologist at Wisconsin's Gravel Island National Wildlife Refuge, a protected breeding ground for colonial nesting birds, said the terns discovered still alive could barely hold their heads up. They were experiencing tremors from the neurological damage caused by the bird flu virus. Some were in their nests, still trying to incubate eggs when they died.
Matteson said at this point, as estimated 64 percent of the adult Caspian terns in Wisconsin are dead.
"Absolutely devastating. Catastrophic. It's going to take years for the Wisconsin population to recover," he said, or perhaps decades.
Such a massive die-off will mean the loss of a new generation of Caspian terns, said Francie Cuthbert, a professor with the University of Minnesota's Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology.
"No young are being produced," Cuthbert said. "And then the loss of all of these adults is serious."
"Losing all these older, experienced breeders is also very important because they tend to increase in terms of their productivity and just their knowledge of how to raise young," Cuthbert said.
Why Caspian terns are being hit so hard by avian influenza, while other close-nesting seabirds have not experienced the same kind of devastation is baffling to the scientists. There have been deaths among ring-billed gulls, cormorants, and others, but not at the rate of Caspian tern deaths.
Cuthbert said it's hard to say how critical the deaths will be to the future of the bird. "Until we really have a full tally on how many birds have died, we're not going to be able to model the impact on the population, but it's definitely going to have a deep drop."
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Combine ingredients (except chives) into a medium sized bowl and stir well to combine. Top with chives and place in the fridge for at least 15 minutes before serving.
Combine all ingredients into a bowl and stir well to combine.
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Sounds delicious...I can hardly wait to try it!
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The Aletheia Foundation, registered charity no 1110096 (formerly True Vision Foundation) was founded by Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley and Jezza Neumann, producers of BAFTA award winning films and Directors of True Vision Productions.
True Vision Productions has an extensive track record producing Emmy, BAFTA and Grierson award-winning films for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and HBO with a special interest in giving a voice to young people and socially disadvantaged groups. We have a reputation for combining journalistic rigour with sensitively-made programming, often working with vulnerable individuals involved in a variety of difficult circumstances.
Because of this, we understand that our films can ignite passions in our viewers who may want to help the people featured in the films or help the cause we are highlighting. When donations can be channelled through existing NGOs, we direct our audience straight to these organisations, however, there have been many occasions where no charities are working in the particular area where we have highlighted an issue, or there are compelling reasons why we cannot make direct links to organisations on the ground.
Historically, we would grow charities out of the films that were made, such as – COCOA, Care Of China's Orphaned and Abandoned, The Orphans of Nkandla Trust and The Campaign for Bulgaria's Abandoned Children. When we realized that films had the power to raise awareness and support for social issues and injustice, we decided that instead of repeatedly creating new bespoke charities, we would launch The Aletheia Foundation so that anyone who wished to help the people featured in our films would be able to, safely in the knowledge that their donations would help those individuals and the causes directly.
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As dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Bill Boulding has been going back-and-forth to India twice annually for the past eight years. But only in the past 12 months has he been hearing a disturbing, even hurtful, question.
Yet, behind the question is an increasingly important concern among U.S. educators: the pipeline of international students is shrinking dramatically as anti-immigration rhetoric and uncertainly over work visas has made the U.S. a less desirable place to earn a degree (see MBA Applications Take A Shocking Plunge At Leading U.S. Business Schools).
This year, many of the most highly selective business schools in the U.S. are reporting substantial declines in MBA applications, largely as a result of fewer candidates from abroad. "Many schools got clobbered," adds Boulding, who says the decline of internationals in U.S. business school applicant pools has become a major topic at gatherings of B-school deans.
As the new chairman of the board of the Graduate Management Admission Council, Boulding says he is making it his mission to speak out on immigration policy because of its long-term impact on U.S. competitiveness. "When you think about keeping the business school industry healthy, there are two things we need to pay attention to," he says.
"One, wherever you go in the world, there is a steady drip of bad news about business. That it is immoral, greedy and slimey. Business continues to be attacked from all sides in all corners of the world. We have an obligation to show that business can be a force for good in the world. We need to think proactively about our collective reputation. People want meaning and purpose in their lives. If they perceive business as evil, the talent pipeline will dry up.
Boulding says Fuqua's recent 6.2% decline in applications to its full-time MBA program was largely driven by a drop in international applicants. He attributes the fall off at his school and other peer institutions to two major concerns, one a long simmering issue over H1b visas and one that is relatively new and related to the feelings that prompt the question about safety he keeps getting on his overseas trips.
"Outbound issues hve been perculating for many years," he says. "It's difficult for companies to hire internationals so we have seen a slow moving train of companies that are not long willing to go through that process and that has had a cumulative effect.
To counter the fears, Boulding says he is more deeply engaging the community so students and alumni have these conversations with prospective students. He's also doubling down on events outside the U.S. to show "our commitment to maintain the pipelines of the best and brightest." In welcoming the latest crop of MBA students to Fuqua last month, Boulding reminded them of the need for open communication and the value of the school's openly supportive culture.
The question cuts deeply because the culture of Duke's business school has been one of support and inclusion. At the heart of "Team Fuqua" is the belief that the more diverse the team, the better the results. Academic research, Boulding notes, has shown that diverse teams outperform ones in which members are all alike—if each member identifies with the team and has a sense of belonging. That is why he believes it is essential for business leaders to be able to unlock the power that lies in those differences.
For Boulding, a one-time marketing professor who counts among his former students Apple's Tim Cook and Melinda Gates, it is an issue that runs deep. His parents were immigrants to the U.S., and he is a first generation American. His father escaped the slums of Liverpool, while his mother left Norway because her family faced limited prospects for a good life.
"A key to economic prosperity in this country is immigration," he maintains. "Many of our Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants. Many of the most promising startups in Silicon Valley have been created by immigrants. We are now entering a period of time when everyone is talking about massive shifts in the world of work due to new technology.
Asked how optimistic he is for change, Boulding says he isn't sure. On the one hand, he notes, Trump seems ready to listen to business leaders who are telling him that closing the doors to immigration will hurt the economy and make it more difficult for them to attract the necessary talent for growth. But Trump seems heavily invested in an anti-immigration stance.
"It would be very difficult for the current administration to reverse course because they have made immigration a flagship issue," believes Boulding. "The President believes it helped get him elected and his base of support strongly believes that immigration is bad.


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Oure Soundtrack out first on PlayStation Store
November 9, 2017 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comment? Share this Oure Soundtrack out first on PlayStation Store
You'd be forgiven if the name Oure sounds familiar but you can't quite place why or from where. It was announced and released during Sony's Paris Games Week show alongside a huge array of flashy PlayStation VR and PlayStation 4 titles. Little Oure, the stylish, skyborn adventure in the vein of Journey, was easy to overlook. The game debuted on PlayStation 4 but it'll also be out on Steam on November 14th. That makes this week the perfect middle ground to release the soundtrack.
The score was composed by Ian Livingstone (Warhammer, Total War) and performed by the Sofia Symphony Orchestra along with renowned cellist, Tina Guo. Naturally, the sound relies heavily on strings to capture the flighty, somber feel of the game's solitary setting and shape-shifting protagonist. You can get a taste of the music through this pair of YouTube clips posted by Ian Livingstone in advance of the album release.
Like the game, the soundtrack is making its debut first on PlayStation where the 10-track album is priced at $5.49. It's promised to hit "all digital platforms" in the coming weeks and months though so keep an eye on Amazon, Google Play, and iTunes if you'd rather pick it up there.
Let us know what you think of the music samples from Oure or the game itself in the comments below.
Just Released: Austin Wintory's Score to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
October 26, 2015 | Ryan Paquet | Comment? Share this Just Released: Austin Wintory's Score to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
If you're on Austin Wintory's mailing list like me, or follow him on Twitter you already know that his score to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is now available for purchase on Bandcamp. Because of the agreement between Mr. Wintory and Ubisoft you cannot stream the soundtrack from Bandcamp – but UbiSoft has made the entire album available on YouTube. I have linked to the album below for your listening pleasure.
In his email Austin Wintory shared his thoughts about working on the music for the game:
To say it's been somewhat of a dream job is a gross understatement. Never in my life did I imagine I would be given such creative freedom, or be encouraged to take such extreme creative risks. My collaborators at Ubisoft were immense joys to work with!
And the musicians who recorded everything, good lord!! I spent nearly a week at Abbey Road with a killer chamber ensemble of strings and winds, before returning to LA and spending time with a few rock star soloists: Sandy Cameron, Tina Guo and Holly Sedillos. All 3 were given absurdly challenging music and rose to the occasion without breaking a sweat.
The other amazing surprise was getting to co-write songs with the legendary Australian trio TRIPOD. These 6 so-called "murder ballads" were a career highlight for me. He's a short video about our collaboration which, if nothing else, shows that these guys have way too much fun. 🙂
Purchasing the album will only set you back $9, and with it comes a bonus of tracks that were included with the collector's edition and sheet music.
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World 1-2: The Complete Collection (Review)
December 23, 2013 | Michael Hoffmann | Comment? Share this World 1-2: The Complete Collection (Review)
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure … the World 1-2: Complete Collection album was promoted by Scarlet Moon Productions, founded by Jayson Napolitano. Below, OSV writer Michael Hoffmann gives his own opinion of the album.
With most remix albums you usually have some idea of what to expect. There are going to be several covers of the usual old-school vidogames, with genres of music that will vary from classical/orchestral to rock and dance remixes. While that is certainly true of World 1-2: Complete Collection, the album does much more. This isn't just a straight forward remix album. Not only are there remixes of familiar game tunes, but this album also features several original pieces written by game composers including Chipzel (Super Hexagon), Austin Wintory (Journey), Manami Matsumae (Mega Man), Keiji Yamagishi (Ninja Gaiden) and Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill). World 1-2: Complete Collection is an album that seeks to create a pairing of newer artists remixing older pieces, and in some cases providing original content of their own, with veteran composers from the earlier gaming generations. It's an ambitious concept and the result is quite impressive. The original World 1-2 album contained 20 tracks that were a mix of original music and remixes. The World 1-2: Encore tracks add another 14 remix tracks to form the World 1-2: Complete Collection. There's a whole lot to cover, so let's dive in. (more…)
Monaco: The Gentleman's Private Collection (Review)
December 9, 2013 | Michael Hoffmann | Comment? Share this Monaco: The Gentleman's Private Collection (Review)
Listening to arrange albums is always an interesting experience. Having a group of artist arrange another musician's work can produce fascinating results, especially when said artists have very different styles of music arranging. Monaco: The Gentleman's Private Collection is an album featuring arrangements of Austin Wintory's soundtrack Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine. In addition to arrangements, the album includes some unused pieces by Wintory that didn't make the cut for the OST. The trickiest thing about reviewing an arrange album like this is that you're bound to find a track in a genre that you have little knowledge about or that doesn't particularly resonate with you. So inevitably, there will be tracks that you will prefer due to preferences for certain genres. With that said, I'd highly recommend giving a listen to all of the tracks on the album. You will easily find something that suits your tastes.
A majority of the arrangements focus on the main theme,"What's Yours is Mine", from the original soundtrack. Tina Guo, the featured solo cellist from Journey, and The Vederi String Quartet take drastically different approaches to arranging the piece for strings. Guo's "The Dark Heart of Monte Carlo" is a slow and somber approach to the material, featuring some wonderfully expressive cello playing. Meanwhile the Vederi String Quartet's "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" sticks with a tone similar to that of the original soundtrack, switching suddenly from an energetic pace to slow and stealthy tempo before speeding back up for the finale. Chis Gale's "Song Of Banque" and Tomoki Miyosh's "The Gentleman's Partita" take a simpler approach to covering the track, using the ocarina and violin respectively for the melody with a simple piano accompaniment in their arrangements. (more…)


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He has earned several degrees with honors from prestigious academic institutions, including the University of Michigan Law School. His professional career includes stints at American Laser Centers (Chief Administrative Officer/General Counsel) the National Association of Evangelicals (Managing Editor), Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, Ameritech/SBC, and three law firms including Cleveland-based Duvin, Kahn & Hutton and the Trowbridge Law Firm in Detroit. Start-up ventures guided include Phototheric of Michigan, BodyLight Fat Loss Centers, and DT Medical (Illinois).
Kevin is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Presbytery of Detroit, and he founded the International Aesthetic and Laser Association (IALA). He is president of the Metropolitan Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA) and executive director of the Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center. And he is a member of the Board of Advisors for the McKinley Technology Equity Fund.
A father of four adult children, Kevin lives in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, with his wife Clarisa and two dogs.
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Smugglers have been cutting down trees in Parsa, Bara and Rautahat districts under the cover of the ongoing Tarai protest and India's unofficial blockade.
Many groups of forest users in Parsa have started felling trees and chopping saplings. The government's decision to distribute firewood in order to tide over an acute shortage of cooking gas and kerosene across the country has encouraged timber smugglers to engage in the illegal business.
Locals claim that timber and firewood have been smuggled to India. "At least 1,500 cycles are being loaded with timber and firewood from a ranger post in the district on a daily basis," sources said, informing that a majority of them reach India.
A person pedalling the load across the border earns Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 per day. Farm workers have left their jobs to take to the forests. "We get more money for timber in urban areas," said a person involved in timber smuggling preferring anonymity. The commodity gets a good price in India as well.
taking advantage of the fragile security situation along the border. "Timber smuggling has been rampant," he admitted.
Security personnel cannot patrol the area as before due to the Tarai unrest. Police have seized 490 cubic feet of timber in the past three months. Parbati Tiwari of the "Hariyo Ban" programme said almost everyone is exploiting the forest resources taking advantage of the fuel crisis. The scale of destruction of the forests is unprecedented, said Tiwari. The trees were cut as the authorities have relaxed restriction on firewood collection in view of the fuel crisis.
Former Biruwaguthi VDC Chairman Gokarna Pathak said logging has been rampant. Even the police cannot arrest them due to political pressure, he added.
smugglers and carriers whenever they are nabbed. Amar Singh Chaudhary, a forest guard at the Madhawal Mathawal Sector Forest, said they are understaffed to guard the forests.
to release them," said Chaudhary.
Sources claimed that some smugglers are armed with automatic guns. The forest guards cannot patrol the forest area during night as a result. Some smugglers are said to be making furniture for sale from illegal wood at Rangapur, Biruwaguthi, Madhawal Mathawal and Bagwana.


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CHICO-TRóPICO is an artistic/musical collective born in 2010. First, as a pioneer festival in the diffusion of Latin American psychedelic music and the new tropical sounds, and then as a hub of artistic actions.
Some of our proyects:
La C.O.S.A – Organized Center of Mobile Sound
La COSA is a 1980's caravan remodelled as a sound studio to record all kinds of music, speech or sound experiments. It is equipped with a drum set, percussion, guitars (electric, acoustic and classic), electric bass, synthesizers and many microphones for voice and acoustic instruments. We can record up to 16 tracks, which are then mixed and released in digital format, creating an archive of the sounds made by the people in the town, neighborhood, square or any other place where we park the "mobile studio". We also shoot videos, and organize workshops in/outside of the caravan. A crowd favourite!
Little Sound Club – The Sound Island
A children-only, 25 m² art-sound installation, where they can explore through action, touch, symbolic play, and music-making. Every part of the island (a boat, a parrot, a bridge, a tunnel…) is designed to create or alter sound in some way or other (the boat's rudder controls bpms, a three-part synthetiser diamond generate monster/ambience/strange sounds).
Two edited vinyls
Relación de Riesgo (Risky Relationship): It's an LP in colaboration with many artist, as Dick el Demasiado, los Pirañas, Los Ganglios, Siquicos Litoraleños, and others.
Pippo & Ricardo: Original music for the pieze of Rodrigo García. Olso we played alive with Grita from Caballito Netlabel.
As music composers we have work with Dick el demasiado, Rodrigo García, Palomo Spain, Icon Design, Canada.
As Djs we made sessions in important places of spain. We use vinyls, digital, and olso lots of sinth and drum machines for our set lives.
Also we play as Pipo el Sucio, Pitch Vicious and others pseudonyms.
For kids we made the musical San Borondón. It's about a leyend of a mistery island that appears and disappears, near canary islands.
Also we made lots of workshops and performances as contructions of piezoelectric microphones, karaoke with vr glasses, autotune festivals and many others.
contact: chicotropico@gmail.com