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THE SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN & GIRLS
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Listen, they can't all be perfect, okay??
"I am a feminist. I am an anarchist. To me, any discussion of power is essentially one about freedom, and talk of freedom is impossible without a reckoning with power.
In 'Rethinking Anarchy,' the Spanish social theorist Carlos Taibo reminds us that "anarchists have frequently defined themselves first on the basis of what they reject — the state, capitalism, inequality, patriarchal society, war, militarism, repression in all its forms, authority."
So what is the power that my freedom requires?
As a woman of color, I define power initially by what it is not. To be powerful is not to be what a man can do or be. Men are not my yardstick. If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them. As long as patriarchy remains unchallenged, men will continue to be the default and the standard against which everything is measured."
–Mona Eltahawy, "Enough With Crumbs – I Want the Cake." (The New York Times)
Feminist Giant Mona Eltahawy's
SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
In the order I am most-to-least likely to commit them:
Profanity
I know… I know… it's too many now, right?? Listen, the ebook holds from the BPL just keep coming and you can only put them off for so long before they just ask you to place the hold again anyway I might as well dip in.
In the Men's Room(s)
When I was young I believed in intellectual conversation:
I thought the patterns we wove on stale smoke
floated off to the heavens of ideas.
To be certified worthy of high masculine discourse
like a potato on a grater I would rub off contempt,
suck snubs, wade proudly through the brown stuff on the floor.
They were talking of integrity and existential ennui
while the women ran out for six-packs and had abortions
in the kitchen and fed the children and were auctioned off.
Eventually of course I learned how their eyes perceived me:
when I bore to them cupped in my hands a new poem to nibble,
when I brought my aerial maps of Satre or Marx,
they said, she is trying to attract our attention,
she is offering up her breasts and thighs.
I walked on eggs, their tremulous equal:
they saw a fish peddler hawking in the street.
Now I get coarse when the abstract nouns start flashing.
I go out to the kitchen to talk cabbages and habits.
I try hard to remember to watch what people do.
Yes, keep your eyes on the hands, let the voice go buzzing.
Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat,
watch who they relieve themselves on, watch who they own.
The rest is decoration.
-Marge Piercy
Peach Upsidonuts & Cobbler Muffins
I have controversial donuts opinions: the cruller is my one true donut, chocolate-glazed Dunkin' will do in a pinch, and most others are just cake disguised for breakfast. So, why do I have a donut pan? Sometimes I get the hankering to try dumb shit like this. It's got a crumble… bottom? And an upside-down peach ring top? Is this a donut or just a personal bundt cake? Is there a difference? Frankly, right-ways-up the upsidonuts resemble "muffies" (bottomless muffin tops.)
The principal batter recipe from The Busy Baker I modified a bit, seasoning the batter itself and switching it up in the cobbler topping. I saw a NYT chicken recipe with peach, basil, and ginger; that sounded like a flavor combination I'd be willing to try in any number of other forms.
Combine 1.25 c flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, & 2/3 c sugar in a large bowl. I prefer the spice flavor IN my muffin: a mix of 1 tbs cinnamon, 1/4 tsp cloves and nutmeg, 1 tsp ginger. Add 2 c fresh peaches in small cubes and coat in the dry ingredients. Combine 1/2 c whole milk, 1 egg, 1/4 c veg oil and stir into the dry-dusted peaches until the flour disappears.
Line donut pan with sprinkle of butter and brown sugar, topped with peach ring before covering with batter. If using a muffin tin, line with parchment paper squares or liners.
For the crumble topping, combine 1/4 c of flour, 1/4 c of sugar, 3 tablespoons of butter, 1 tsp of dried basil and 1 tsp of of powdered ginger. Break the butter up into the flour mixture with your fingers until it looks like crumbs and sprinkle atop the liquid batter.
Bake at 350 F, 20 minutes for the muffins and roughly 30 for the upsidonuts. Since I overfilled them, the holeless middle of these bundt babies are very good for ice cream.
Corn Relish (Short Stack, Corn by Jessica Battilana)
I'm looking for new ways to make my produce last longer, condiments or pre-prepped items I can keep in the fridge and use for different meals. In her intro to this recipe, Battilana says she initially misconceived of corn relish as a "dowdy condiment," and after a terrible jar bought apple picking last year, I would have agreed. But this sweet, crunchy, chaotic topping brought a little zest and joie de vivre to this August. Hoping to make some more to save for the cold weather!
Combine 1 c cider vinegar, 1/3 c of sugar, 1.5 tsp salt in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring until dissolved. Stir in 2 c corn kernels (about 3 ears), 1 diced bell pepper (I used invisible yellow), 1/2 c diced yellow onion, 1 cucumber (Battilana uses celery, but I like cucumber better and wanted a little pickle kick), 1.5 tsp dry mustard, 1 tsp whole coriander, 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes. Stir until the sugar has dissolved, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. The results can be kept in the refrigerator for several months, longer if jarred and sealed with a water bath.
Pico's Passatelli
A few years ago my partner and I visited one of the Italian publishers I consulted for as a scout. She made us this delicious, simple, Italian soup that is essentially Parmesan schnitzel had a baby with some matzah balls. A comforting bowl of surprisingly lemony sunshine for those rainy quarantine days.
Combine 4 eggs, 200 g of breadcrumbs, 200 g of finely grated parmesan, a pinch of nutmeg, and the zest of one lemon. Mix together into a firm ball and press through a large cheese grater, microplane, or other holed device. (It takes a lot of muscle after such an easy dough.) They should look like, "worms," unfortunately. Boil for a few minutes in chicken stock, enjoy.
Nectarine Compote
These beautiful nectarines we got from my parents' house in Ohio were already squishy and sweet when we inherited them. In lieu of making a whole pie out of these squishers, I used the handful of nectarines to make a simple fruit compote. It's great with pumpkin seeds on oatmeal and with crushed peanuts in a lazy-man's vanilla sundae!
Combine 2 c chunked nectarine, 2 tbs brown sugar, 1 tablespoons of cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg in a frying pan and heat slowly until the sugar dissolves into the fruit juices and the syrup thickens the back of a spoon or spatula.
Lemony Cornmeal Pound… Cake? (Short Stack, Abrams)
*Sigh.* This was going to be a cool birthday cake for me and my babe to share. I was even going to make the frosting Mona Magenta to match the pink-and-yellow cover of SEVEN SINS, a shoutout to our fellow Leo. Because I def want the whole cake on my birthday.
Obviously, cake is not my forte. The loaf was both under-greased and undercooked: when I put my fingers underneath to turn it over, they sunk into the molten lemon goo at the center. But, fuck it! I worked hard on it, the edges were still tasty, and life is too short to try and make everything blog-perfect, especially when you could be eating cake instead.
In a medium bowl, whisk together 1 c flour, 1/2 c fine-ground cornmeal, 1/4 tsp baking soda, & 1/4 tsp sea salt. In a large bowl, use a hand mixer to cream 1/2 c (1 stick) butter @ room temp and 1.5 c granulated sugar until fluffy (about 5 min.) beat in 3 large eggs @ room temp one at a time, "beating after each addition only until the yellow disappears into the batter." Add 2 tbs fresh lemon juice, 2 tsp finely grated lemon zest, and then stir in flour mixture with a rubber spatula just until smooth. Add 1/2 c sour cream and, again, stir until smooth.
Scrape into pre-greased pan and bake at 350 F for 60 minutes. (I took the short end at 50 and it was under done, stick your tester toothpick in THE MIDDLE.)
Meanwhile, combine 3 tbs each of lemon juice and sugar in a small pan over medium-low heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves and the syrup thickens the back of a spoon. Tip the cake out onto a rack (woof) and brush with lemon syrup before leaving to cool at room temperature.
You're supposed to combine 1 c sifted confectioners sugar (I did not have enough) with 1 tbs lemon juice and let it drip down the sides: my food-colored pink frosting sucked right into the thick cake. Then rub 1 tbs lightly packed lemon zest into and 1 tbs sugar with your fingers and sprinkle over top (frankly, I don't think it needs this, this is a very sweet lemon cake.)
"I'm angry that I can't not generalize about men anymore, because there have been too many occasions in which heeding generalizations would have served me better than my instinct to trust that everyone is capable of acting outside the temptations that privileges afford them. But enough about men. But what isn't about men?"
-Natasha Stagg, "Out of State" from SLEEVELESS
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Balancing Feminism and Domesticity
I discovered Mona Eltahawy where you meet all the coolest, most badass women in New York: the bathroom.
Last October, hovering in a yoga-squat above the toilet, I rested my hands on my knees and began to read the events calendar on the back of the stall door at The Strand.1
Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, huh?
While I recognized her name from Twitter, it was undoubtedly the catchy title of Mona's most recent book – like a listicle of ancient, feminist curiositas (which, I'll vouch, it delivers on) – that brought me to the rare books room that night. The other young women in attendance wore looks of awe and determination, the air of community in the room palpable. With effervescent Leo charm, Mona makes it easy to lean into the magic of The Moment. But that Moment could be… any moment! Her mind is bright and present, her voice warm and mellifluous. In everything, she commands attention with both genius and style; that night, in voluminous magenta curls and a floor-length, powder-pink sequin gown. She has questions for the patriarchy and for the rest of us in society doing our best to compromise with it, namely: WHY THE FUCK??
Every avid reader knows the magic of reading your feelings in someone else's words (especially when that person's experience is different from your own); listening to Mona speak reminded me that hearing someone's thoughts live is its own kind of connective magic. She is queer, Muslim, and "an enemy to patriarchy everywhere I go," she said, explaining the simple directive behind her anarchism. Arrested multiple times, both of her arms were broken in police custody during the Egyptian uprising of 2011. The frustration she articulated about feminists feeling shunned from Islam has helped me cultivate a spiritual combination of Catholicism and mysticism that I find, familiar, courageous, and wholesome. It's that literary magic of New York (like all City Magic); the physical presence of artists and thinkers that challenge the status quo. Their ideas, once spoken, hang in the atmosphere like storm clouds heralding change.
And in That Moment, self-truths I'd been habitually worrying for months suddenly snapped into clarity and confidence. A path to new forms of allyship and solace opened before me as easily as Mona's book.
One of the most integral pieces of advice I carried away (and with me to countless temp-work assignments in the crazy year since) was the permission to occasionally keep my head down. There are times, Mona said, when you can't live your values openly – especially as a queer person and feminist2 – and secrecy is the key to safety. Like Mona, my fire and feminism are wired directly into my loud, lady-Leo mouth; risky business when you're administering to, cleaning up after, and making coffee for finance and tech bros to pay rent. Sometimes, in order to survive in a capitalist patriarchy, there are situations in which one must put on one's big-girl pants, bite one's bad-bitch tongue, and make a buck…
And that's okay.
Even the companies that were (ostensibly) politically liberal tended to be palpably "elite," a word that has become (for me) synonymous with those who espouse theoretical solidarity, but practice actual oppression. At one such assignment, I was invited by one of the (female) senior managers to sit in on a seminar about sketchnoting. Afterwards, one of the (male) designers (whose response to the prompt "one thing no one here knows about me" was to draw himself as a college skinhead, ignoring his colleague's inquiries as to "which kind") began to grumble and argue with the manager that the exercise was silly, Instagram bullshit.
"Like embroidery" he spat under his breath as he turned away from her.
"What did you say?" I asked, watching him quietly from her side.
He looked caught, guilty: "I- I said it's crafty."
"You said it's like embroidery," I corrected, patiently. "That's incredibly sexist."
"Now! Now… let's calm down." He threw up a hand as if placating a wild animal, which is (always, somehow) both offensive and exasperating3. "I take it you embroider?"
"No." But as a writer and illustrator I do sketchnote (or my version of it).
He recovered quickly, plowing on to establish his superior knowledge on the subject: "Well, I have friends in the Embroiderers' Guild-"
"So, it's not sexist because you have friends who embroider?"
Of course, I still had to listen to the excuses that followed, sputtering out like verbal incontinence; but no temp gig pays me enough to do the emotional labor of gender equity consulting along with the filing. (Just sayin'.)
This stranger – this cis-het, white, misogynist in the flavor of "middle-aged Brit" – is not my responsibility, thank fuck. And, as luck or Karma or the great They in the sky would have it: a major, online news outlet just published an exposé about their cripplingly-obvious, ongoing issues with racism… On my birthday.
Nevertheless, these are the men I imagine Sam Sifton, Food Editor at the New York Times, is addressing in his newsletters. Cajoling them off the couch (and for this, at least, I thank him) with the sing-song promise of a personal fulfillment they only vaguely acknowledge or regard with constipated distaste.
In his August 3rd email, Sifton recommended philosopher/mechanic Matthew Crawford's 2010 book "Shop Class as Soul Craft: an Inquiry into the Value of work," which extolls the virtues of trade work (specifically auto-mechanics) and, according to Sifton, "finds in it an argument that celebrates responsibility and personal agency." He continues: "The work that we do in the kitchen is at its best an exhibition of manual competence…and a salute to the responsibility we take on in feeding ourselves and our families. There's no question it's good to be able to work with your hands to make something useful like dinner. And it is meaningful, too, both for you and those you serve."
Though I agree that "there's no question it's good," there is still to society-wide question of whether or not it's "appreciated" at a value that will translate into something the average capitalist male can contextualize. My beef is, in part, a personal problem: reading something that seems obvious to me, but must be couched in mealy-mouthed humility and cross-reference with more "masculine" labor in order the make its argument land with its target audience. Nevertheless, this pastoral lionization of domestic labor carries with it the bourgeoisie fascination of vacationing in forms of labor that (for some of us) is inescapable.
Dealing with OCD cleaning compulsions as a kid, providing principal care for younger siblings and auxiliary care for ill grandparents as a teen, subsequently feeling pressured to perform certain aspects of stereotypical femininity as a 20-something4, capitalizing on that even as I felt it chafing in order to get by; maybe these are the reasons I find the self-congratulatory air of having "found an argument" for celebrating domestic responsibility to be a preposterous luxury. Female patience precariously maintained as a matter of course, not a matter of choice, is itself a symptom of patriarchy.
In Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis has a chapter on "The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective," wherein she dissects the ways in which housework has been "an essential ingredient of women's oppression" and the social methods by which this might be corrected.
Tracing and contrasting both white and Black women's experiences with housework through America's industrial history, the work is principally an indictment of capitalism that ultimately argues for the socialisation of domestic labor or a universal basic income5 (por qué no los dos?) in order to facilitate growth and community. She stresses the pre-industrial value of the female homemaker as skilled artisan – spinner, weaver, seamstress, baker, even candle and soap maker (all items that could be used both at home or sold at market if necessary) – and as community health leader. Which is why the first American industrial factories – the infamously exploitative and abusive New England textile mills – set the stage to undermine women's authority as family figures as well as their economic value as producers. "Their exploitation was even more intense than the exploitation suffered by their male counterparts," Davis says later in the essay. "Needless to say, sexism emerged as a source of outrageous super-profits for the capitalists."
White-collar culture6 still has the audacity to bump people to the bottom of the ladder for specializing in certain forms of labor it deems "unskilled," even though it could never. The soft skills encouraged in girls by Christian patriarchy (and, by extension, American patriarchy), like organization, communication, and hospitality are among the most grossly undervalued.
Where would New York City's many millionaires and billionaires (a disproportionate number of them white men) be without their secretaries screening their calls, arranging their calendars, and reserving their lunch tables? The hardworking (predominantly women of color) who clean their offices, homes, and tend to their children? Those classmates who could never be counted on to finish a group project don't just disappear after college, they continue being good at letting other people catch the shit they let fall by the wayside and are frequently rewarded for it with further resources and responsibilities. Begging the question, how many of those are personally completed and how many of those are delegated away?
The simple administration of their lives and care of their own bodies is outside the capabilities of these captains of industry: a leadership style that takes "do as I say, not as I do" and tacks on an unspoken possibility-presented-as-promise that, distantly, that same bourgeoisie leisuretime to actually enjoy cooking could be yours. This – if you can catch it – is the ephemeral carrot of capitalism, and the manufactured, systemic stress of meritocratic hierarchy6 is the bludgeoning stick. The American Dream.
"Professional" environments naturally lend themselves to the sins of Ambition and Power: the transgressions of women working up the ladder, carving their own path if they're smart and following the carrot if not. But, as a lowly temp, I've found these words Mona has on Anger broadly describe what I have seen: "patriarchy keeps us terrified, demanding from us an endless supply of patience, passivity, and obedience, as it pathologizes and snuffs out our justifiable rage." For a long time, the only way I could sustain my rage under the constant pressure of patriarchy was by constantly stoking it to its brightest burn.
I've found my limits in this way. The diminishing returns and (currently) idle nature of my anger manifest as long spells of despondency, allowing that self-flagellating voice of patriarchal perfection to fill the back of my mind like noxious gas, only to be violently punctuated when my temper ignites. I'm patient, until I'm not. And the resulting outburst not only hurts me, but the loved ones huddled around me in these difficult times. (Usually we agree and I still end up picking the fight for its own sake.) I can see how it would be tempting to turn that anger away from you and yours, towards "the other."
Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls takes white feminism to task in a myriad of constructive and valid ways, particularly highlighting the ways in which white women pull themselves up by pushing other minorities down, intentional or no (which I also noted as a feature of toxic, white feminism in my last post). It doesn't excuse the abuse of the sin of power by a long shot, but I would hypothesize that it is that psychologically imposed meekness enforced by industrial capitalism that paves the way for them to become volatile "foot soldiers of the patriarchy," as Mona puts it. Punching down because they've been punched: not simply snuffing rage, but bottling it up and paying it forward. Capitalizing on and exploiting it on behalf of the patriarchy.
Mona talks extensively about confronting Patriarchy in the state, "street" (socially, professionally), and home, where trauma unfolds in subtle and/or familiar ways. With Americans' (ideally) restricted by Coronavirus, the three settings of patriarchy have merged into one. There is a lot of discussion of the unequal distribution of domestic labor7 during the pandemic and how women are shouldering a disproportionate amount of it, especially childcare.8 Under this enormous pressure, it seems like an unnecessary uphill battle to use Coronavirus quarantine as the catalyst for a revolutionary overhaul of the division, expectations, and (frankly) standards of domestic labor. (No one is going to see your baseboards until 2021, Becky.) Nevertheless, I find myself thinking… if patriarchy is so blithely eager to relinquish its hold on "the home," there may be an opportunity there.
Mona entreats her readers to "defy, disobey, and disrupt" the patriarchy: she blasts her own hole in the binary. No matter who your are what roles you serve in the state, street, and home, the Seven Sins she outlines encourage women experiencing trauma and self-doubt under patriarchy to buck its behavioral and moral conditioning, and embrace these acts and attitudes as multifaceted tools of empowerment instead of shameful deficiencies.
In re-engaging with Catholicism, I have been looking for a sin-ergy (if you will) between these feminist ideals and the many "virtues" prescribed to me as a child: grace, faith, constance. I'm trying to bring them to "the conversations we need to be having" with our white family members along with the Seven Sins; evolving my tactics, tired of running again and again at the same wall. Conversation, community, and change develop over time, knowing when to listen or even walk away, leaving people to consider and reconsider the facts on their own can be more effective in making the point than the point itself. No one likes the suspended discomfort of walking away from an important conversation (often leaving oneself hanging in the balance as the target of collective family frustration) much less following up on it, but giving things time to marinate is necessary.
I have always felt the keen connection between my feminism and my domesticity. Even though the latter was a virtue patriarchy demands, my super-strength has always been comfort (food, usually) and emotional care, in building people up. I think of Hestia, Greek goddess of the hearth and home, and the dual skills of patience and engagement required to tend an eternal flame. I imagine hers is a working kitchen. I scold my inner perfectionist like a child now that I recognize her as a footsoldier of the patriarchy (even- especially when she uses me to speak on feminism). I do one (1) chore a day, if I feel like it. I forgive myself for indulging the days of rest I refused to ask for when I needed them, but now have in plenty. And when my attempt at baking a cake for this post in Mona's honor literally fell through, I decided that was how it was meant to be.
1 The store's owner recently received a payout from the government to retain her staff, then fired most of them. Not to mention investing in massive amounts of Amazon stock at the beginning of Covid quarantine in March. Support her whistle-blowing employees
2 One temp gig was suspiciously truncated after I casually outlined my feminist beliefs to another assistant over lunch.
3 But not entirely uncalled for, see again: this Leo bitch will eat you alive, sir.
4 Look at this blog for fuck's sake, do I need to tell you how many douchebags have asked to "taste" my pie unsolicited?
5 I was particularly intrigued by The Wages for Housework Movement, and an essay by Mariarosa Dalla Costa entitled 'Women and the Subversion of the community,' from which Davis extracts the idea that a housewife's dometic value should be valued by capitalism by the process which births, raises, disciplines, and "[services] the worker for production," and shakes it out into something non-gendered. "If the industrial revolution resulted in the structural separation of the home economy from the public economy," Davis says, "then housework cannot be defined as an integral component of capitalist production. It is, rather, related to production as a precondition. The employer is not concerned in the least about the way labor-power is produced and sustained, he is only concerned about its availability and its ability to generate profit. In other words, the capitalist production process presupposes the existence of a body of exploitable workers."
6 Read: white supremacist, patriarchal, late-stage capitalism, but let's engage with the ideal of meritocracy for the sake of argument; for any "devil's advocates" reading.
7 Of course all these articles (and the many more floating around) are written by women, just once I'd like a man to repeat the directions back to me, smh.
8 This is to say nothing of the women (and children in their care) enduring abusive conditions at the hand of a partner or male family member.
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FARFETCH'S NEW CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS HOW THE PLATFORM CONNECTS PEOPLE THROUGH FASHION
Exactly a year after its #supportboutiques initiative, which provided marketing and logistical support to smaller boutique partners during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Farfetch continues its commitment to the boutique community at its heart with a new campaign celebrating the power of technology to connect people through a love of fashion. This new campaign, dubbed "The Perfect Match #onlyonfarfetch," is the latest communication of its "Only on Farfetch" brand mantra, inspired by its unique business model.
Unfolding through a multi-layered narrative, and with disarming simplicity, honesty and warmth, The Perfect Match #onlyonfarfetch shows how Farfetch works and what it enables: giving millions of customers around the globe access to the world's best fashion boutiques, retailers, and brands. At a time when physical retail has been challenged, the campaign reminds us of the influence of independent boutiques – and of the passion, individuality, and curation they represent.
A multimedia series of portraits and films, all shot remotely across five continents during lockdown by photographer and director Frank Lebon and styled by Max Pearmain, tells the uplifting stories behind six very different shopping experiences. The creative reins were handed to notable customers and cherished boutiques from the Farfetch family.
Actor Huang Jingyu, artist Chloe Wise, entrepreneur Tamu McPherson, writer and curator Antwuan Sargent, filmmaker Pam Nasr, and musician Tsunaina present journeys that juxtapose the global with the personal via their purchases from legendary London concept store Browns' new flagship, Carla Sozzani's iconic 10 Corso Como in Milan, Stadium Goods' Chicago sneaker emporium, pre-owned vintage archive Dot Comme in Melbourne, Hong Kong cutting-edge retail destination Joyce and Telsha Anderson's T.A., which opened in New York City during the pandemic.
"Farfetch operates a unique business around a very clear proposition: connecting the world's best fashion boutiques and stores to a global audience," said Ronojoy Dam, brand and culture director at Farfetch. "Our boutique community is at the heart of Farfetch and this campaign gives our platform over to them, putting them front and centre of our message and our media in a very simple way. People want to connect to something real and discover something new. The campaign is very true to who we are and what we do, and I think that's very important today."
As the world – and these boutiques – slowly begins to re-open, The Perfect Match #onlyonfarfetch celebrates the joy of both physical and digital retail and Farfetch's role as a platform that proudly champions and facilitates innovation between both. This is reflected in the campaign being activated across today's new hybrid virtual and IRL lifestyles across New York, London, Beijing, and Dubai from lockdown's de facto media habits of on-demand TV including the choice of three TV commercials, WeTransfer takeovers, and TikTok to digital billboards in the heart of major capitals beginning to buzz again.
There will be intimate in-store music performances bringing customers together again, live-streamed via Farfetch's YouTube channel and curated by progressive music platform NTS, plus Instagram filters and a special partnership with the forthcoming issue of System magazine celebrating the world's best boutique directory. Farfetch has also introduced new site functionality and navigation for customers to be able to shop their favorite boutiques and discover new ones more easily with more than 80 featured across Farfetch's content throughout the campaign month alone.
"We are hopeful that a new normal and getting back to doing what we love best is around the corner for us all; especially our retail partners that have been hugely affected by the closing of brick-and-mortar stores worldwide," added Holli Rogers, chief brand officer at Farfetch. "As a platform for the luxury fashion industry, Farfetch has had the honour of championing our partners during this difficult time, and this campaign celebrates them, our customer's love of fashion, and the customer-centric innovation at the core of everything that we do."
The campaign was developed by Farfetch with New Systems for Ideas, a recently formed collective focused on pioneering the interaction between fashion and technology through innovative ideas designed to shape this ever-evolving landscape. New Systems for Ideas comprises a cross-disciplinary collective of talent, operating between New York, London, and Milan, that couples brand positioning and fashion art direction through a creative technology lens. Farfetch is partnering with New Systems for Ideas on a long-term strategy dubbed "Data Romance", a storytelling program that explores the space between data and emotion, presenting Farfetch's digital services as a tool to amplify the voices and perspectives of the community it serves.

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In this issue, we spotlight Clint Burgher, Roseanne Vaccaro, and Danelle Miley! Clint is a Research Farm Manager in the Animal Care department and is located in Bartlett Hall. Roseanne is a Business Assistant II in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (DAFRE) and is located in the Cook Office Building. Danelle works in the Cook Office Building as a Secretary for DAFRE. Below, they share a little about themselves and their work with us!
How long have you been working at the school and experiment station and what other positions have you held, if any? I have been working at the farm since 1994. I received both my B.S. (1989) and M.S. (1991) in Animal Science.
What do you like best about your job? Seeing and helping the students; I'm impressed with their eagerness to learn, mature, and grow.
How long have you been working at the school and experiment station and what other positions have you held, if any? I came to work for Rutgers University 14 years ago after managing the N.J. Museum of Agriculture, a 501c3 organization, on the Cook Campus.
Have you worked on any major projects/grants/events that are noteworthy? I was employed at Rutgers in November 1999 as an Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper and have worked in the departments of Entomology, Nutritional Sciences, Animal Sciences, and Human Ecology prior to joining DAFRE. My position is challenging. I work with a leading team of economists managing state funds and grant awards and perform other duties to keep my department running smoothly. I am now a Business Assistant II and I earned a Business/Accounting Certificate. I bring diverse bookkeeping, office and management skills from years of banking and insurance to the university.
What do you like best about your job? The thing I love most about my position is seeing the wonderful work our faculty do in regards to their teaching and research all over the world and the impact they've made on the people whose lives they have touched! I am very proud to be a part of the DAFRE team.
How long have you been working at the school and experiment station and what other positions have you held, if any? I've been working at SEBS/NJAES for almost five years. In fact, August 27 marked my five-year anniversary. Prior to DAFRE, I worked on the College Ave Campus in the Campus Information Services department and I was there for six years.
Have you worked on any major projects/grants/events that are noteworthy? As the departmental secretary, I assist in many of the DAFRE projects, all equally major and noteworthy.
What do you like best about your job? There are so many areas of my job that I thoroughly enjoy. I especially like having the opportunity to work with great faculty members and assisting in areas within the department that enhance my knowledge.


Jan. 23, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
The Dragon enjoys a very high reputation in Chinese culture. Chinese people regard themselves as descendents of the dragon. In Chinese daily language, excellent and outstanding people are compared to a dragon and A number of Chinese proverbs and idiomsfeature references to a dragon, such as "Hoping one's son will become a dragon".
So we hope our company could like as a Dragon to make wonders in the year of the Dragon, but it can't do without your cooperate with us much closer in the New Year.
In order to having sufficient power to fly in the Year of the Dragon, our company need to take a break from Jan. 21 to Jan. 28, and will come back to full power us on Jan. 29, 2012.
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Q: HCL in userdata.sh unable to interpret shell script variables Terraform I have this kind of userdata.sh (plz see below) that is used to spin up an EC2 instance. However, hcl file is unable to interpret the shell script variable.
I intend to set tls_disable = true, but this part keeps getting skipped as hcl seems unable to interpret BOUNDARY_TLS_DISABLED this variable. Any help would be grateful !
#!/bin/bash

BOUNDARY_TLS_DISABLED=true
...

cat > /home/ubuntu/boundary-worker.hcl << EOF
listener "tcp" {
  address = "$BOUNDARY_PRIVATE_IP:9202"
    purpose = "proxy"
%{ if "$BOUNDARY_TLS_DISABLED" == true }
    tls_disable                       = true
%{ else }
  tls_disable   = false
  tls_cert_file = "$BOUNDARY_TLS_CERT_PATH"
  tls_key_file  = "$BOUNDARY_TLS_KEY_PATH"
%{ endif }

    #proxy_protocol_behavior = "allow_authorized"
    #proxy_protocol_authorized_addrs = "127.0.0.1"
}

worker {
  # Name attr must be unique
    public_addr = "$BOUNDARY_PUBLIC_IP"
    name = "demo-worker-$BOUNDARY_NAME_SUFFIX"
    description = "A default worker created for demonstration"
    controllers = [
    $NEW_VAR
  ]
}

%{ if "$BOUNDARY_KMS_TYPE" == "aws" }
kms "awskms" {
    purpose    = "worker-auth"
    key_id     = "global_root"
  kms_key_id = "$BOUNDARY_KMS_WORKER_AUTH_KEY_ID"
}
%{ else }
kms "aead" {
    purpose = "worker-auth"
    aead_type = "aes-gcm"
    key = "8fZBjCUfN0TzjEGLQldGY4+iE9AkOvCfjh7+p0GtRBQ="
    key_id = "global_worker-auth"
}
%{ endif }
EOF

sudo mv /home/ubuntu/boundary-worker.hcl /etc/boundary-worker.hcl

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I worked for three months to put together an initial meeting with The Grand Angels in Grand Rapids Michigan at the brand new Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences.
One of the investors at that meeting tore up my business plan and threw it in my face.
I closed the deal with that same group three months later.
I understood this was a big chess game with all kinds of players who needed to sense risk and imminent fear of losing in order to keep forward progress. Emotions were just the playing pieces, not the players. Suddenly I was pulling strings, applying pressure and threatening to walk, not meaning one word of it.
I could have never done it without the help of Smart Money.
The question was: would other women be able to do this? And who would teach them how?


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Q: Image is not Displaying at center in QtForm Hi I am using QLabel to show an image in QtForm.
My code goes like this
QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout;
QHBoxLayout *hLayout = new QHBoxLayout;
layout->setMargin(5);
QLabel *imageLabel = new QLabel;
QPixmap pixmap("/images/test.jpg");
imageLabel->setPixmap(pixmap);
imageLabel->setMask(pixmap.mask());
imageLabel->setMinimumSize(160, 160);
imageLabel->resize(500, 320);

layout->addWidget(imageLabel,0,Qt::AlignTop | Qt::AlignCenter);
hLayout->addItem(layout);

widget->setLayout(hLayout);

scrollArea->setWidget(widget);
setCentralWidget(scrollArea);

but the image is displaying at the left corner can any one suggest me to bring the image to centre to the form

A: I got solution,
QPixmap pixmap("images/test.png");
imageLabel->setPixmap(pixmap);
imageLabel->setMinimumSize(160, 160);
imageLabel->resize(500, 320);
imageLabel->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);

scrollArea->setWidget(widget);
setCentralWidget(imageLabel);

A: Change the alignment of your QLabel's content:
imageLabel->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);

A: If the setAlignment function didn't work alone, then use it with setSizePolicy.
imageLabel->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Preferred);
imageLabel->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);


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Q: Proving a Mathematical hypothesis using Physics I've asked the question below on mathexchange here about 2 weeks ago. while I did not satisfied with the comments and answer there specially because the lack of examples and references that I was demanded for and also IMO it did not logically well discussed there, I've decided to put it as an inquiry on Physics community.
"We know that mathematical models of physical phenomena need to becomes more and more sophisticated as our observations become more precise and comprehensive by utilizing more advanced instruments that we upgrade over time. Also extending the mathematical models by means of mathematical tools and logical inferences lead us to predict and control physical incidents until observations confirm validity of the predictions. The problem arises where we couldn't find a comprehensive consistent mathematical model which fits over observations data and justify all of them. In such a case, the necessity of evolving mathematical theories seems crucial.
Questions here come to mind considering examples related to content above, imagine the observation data of Mercury's movement that could not be justified by Newtonian mechanics achieved sooner than the appearance of non-Euclidean geometry, then wouldn't it be influential on the advent of a different fifth postulate of geometry? Maybe the physics(or in more general term "the mother nature") can lead us for example to an axiom in order to make a mathematical hypothesis provable by adding it to our axiomatic system? How and under what circumstances can mathematics benefit from physics' experimental achievements in order to evolve mathematical theories in a way that is not just be helpful for modelling physics but also useful for proving a mathematical hypotheses or altering a fundamental postulate of an axiomatic system?
Question : To what extent can advances in physics measurements and observations (not just ideas) aid mathematicians with proving a mathematical hypothesis that is based on an effectively generated and consistent axiomatic system like PA or ZFC?
For example consider dimensionless physical constant $\alpha$ "fine-structure constant" characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles ,which Michael Atiyah has stated in his attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis. Any precise explanation of this and other examples or references related to the topic are welcome."

A: "Questions here come to mind considering examples related to content above, imagine the observation data of Mercury's movement that could not be justified by Newtonian mechanics achieved sooner than the appearance of non-Euclidean geometry, then wouldn't it be influential on the advent of a different fifth postulate of geometry?"
I am pretty sure that this was the case, this observation was known before Riemann and Einstein (though I cannot cite a reference it may be discussed in 300 years of Gravitation).  But why would the failure of Newtonian gravity and physics to describe Mercury's orbit lead to a questioning of Euclid's laws (if I understood your thesis correctly)?  This would not mean that the postulates of Euclidean geometry are wrong, merely that the laws of motion and gravity are misunderstood.
On another note I do recall that techniques developed by physicists are sometimes useful in proving mathematical theorems or as computational tools.  An example of this is super symmetric quantum mechanics and the use of operator ordering to generate solutions to new ODE's that may have previously been unsolved.  Again, I cannot recall a specific citation but in graduate school I knew a group of theorists who were very good at this.  They used QM principles and SUSY QM to (1) find exact solutions to previously unsolved ODE's, and (2) use QM Postulates to develop proofs of theorems in ODE theory.  But I would not call this physics leading or inspiring mathematics as these results could have and eventually would have been found in math.


Had a chat recently with some dude that liked this circuit very much. So … I took a closer look at it, and came to the conclusion that there are a few things that I would enhance / modify, and maybe it will perform just a little bit better.
But first things first … Let us start off with a simplified drawing of the whole concept, just to put things in perspective.
The concept of DHT heated tubes is linked to the notion that the cathode (which is the heater at the same time ==> hence "directly heated") is subjected to the voltage swings of the signal.
Since Cathode = Heater, as it is one and the same thing, it is obvious that the signal swings are directly galvanically linked with the "heater subcircuit".
The dream of each and every DHT based audiophile is to achieve a state, where the audo signal is not contaminated by the heating subsystem. Or to put it differently, that the filament heating subsystem does not give right of passage for those signal swings which exist upon that audiophile cathode, via some sort of stray currents, or parasitic and unwanted "paths", to ground, to the AC mains … or to whatever "elsewhere".
The concept of this design is based on the fundamental idea so as to ENCAPSULATE the filament / heater within a "box" of high impedance, via which no portion of the highly audiophilia signal may escape, and hence do loss incurred, no harm is done. We need a room without doors. Or, maybe, a room with two doors, but with no door knobs. Sealed tight, closed up, and the keys thrown away. Shut off from any and all surrounding environment. Separated. A room constituting protective seclusion. Encapsulation. A nut-house prison cell.
Actually, a current source has an infinite (∞) dynamic impedance. We need TWO of such infinite impedances, as any and all filament has two ends. Each a possible route of "escape" of the audiophilia music signal to the land of … elsewhere.
Kill them stray currents at the source, before they escape and do some damage to the golden ear of that critical listener down south on the sofa.
The Encapsulation BOX is created by means of two current sources. Regulated current sources. But to make things more interesting, it is a know phenomena, that two "independent" current sources, when connected in series, tend to go "wild" and fight with each other, each trying to superimpose "IT's" current upon the other. Not good.
So, in essence, these need to be "cooperating" current sources. Ones that do not "fight" with each other, but "complement" each other, like man and wife in a perfect marriage (ha, ha, ha !!!).
This is represented by that gray double arrow, establishing a "logical" link between the two current sources, just to point out that they cooperate with each other.
Ok. Having leveled the playing field and straightened out the basic notions, concepts, and perceptions, of where I am coming from, now we return back to the subject of where I am heading.
Back to the revised circuit diagram….
The thing is, in the "original design", I had specifically built in a boosted positive power supply, just for the sole purpose of providing the driver transistor of the voltage regulating mosfet some headroom, enabling it to provide a healthy amount of voltage to the mosfets gate, enabling a state of very intensive conduction (and hence: low voltage drop) upon it. A lesser voltage drop on the mosfet would translate to a lower power dissipation and a smaller radiator for this mosfet.
But Hey ! Wait a minute. There are two OTHER mosfets in this original design, which I sort of "ommited" in this line of thinking. These other mosfets, working in tandem as a floating regulated current source, these mosfets could also benefit from the possibility of driving their gates with a healthy surplus voltage with ample headroom overhead. If I can reduce the voltage drop on these conducting mosfets, then they will also benefit from smaller power dissipation and smaller radiators.
Now, very similarly to the "plus" side voltage booster / doubler circuit, I have now added a mirrored network from the "minus" side, providing a negative voltage booster / doubler circuit.
In order to keep things well in focus, I used thick black lines to highlight the heavy current path.
The "positive" booster voltage is now used as an ample overhead voltage to power the collector of the BJT driver transistor for the Mosfet acting as voltage regulator, but also, additionally, it plays a similar role in the contest of the collector of the BJT driver transistor for the top-side Mosfet of the current source hybrid.
Similarly the new "negative" booster voltage, as obtained from added third, bottom rectifier bridge, now serves to provide overhead negative voltage to the collector of the BJT driver transistor for the bottom-side Mosfet of the current source hybrid.
Both the "positive" and "negative" booster voltage circuits need only supply a very small current for some driver transistors. Considering their very light loads, It is fairly easy to provide a very well regulated and stable output from these circuits, with minimal ripple.
So, now we have the three rectifiers. The middle one, a heavy current type of rectifier and filtering circuit, and additionally, a top-side voltage booster, and a bottom side voltage booster. All in all, that is in total close to three times the voltage than from a single rectifier and filter circuit.
Hence, indeed, the two driver transistors of the floating current source hybrid now seem to be getting a beating in terms of substantial collector voltages. But then again, these transistors do not conduct excessive currents, so the power dissipation will not be critical. It suffice that the transistors have a voltage sufficient voltage rating, say of a value of the sum of the total top-to-bottom rail voltages (i.e. the "tripple" voltage).
Two resistors fell out, in comparison to the original circuit, as their added value was questionable. Now the current source tandem is fully afloat, including the bias spread regulator circuit, the two complementary driver BJT's, and the two mosfets.
The bias multiplier circuit is used to establish a total bias voltage for the following string of recipients: The top-side BJT base-emitter voltage drop, the top-side Mosfet gate-source voltage, the voltage drop on the tube filament, the bottom-side Mosfet gate-source voltage, and the bottom side BJT base-emitter voltage drop. One would think that that is a hell of an extended voltages string, with two non-trivial mosfet gate-source voltages adding up along the way. But hey, that is all peanuts in comparison to say 12,6V on the filament of the tube itself.
In other words, the current regulation and stability will be superb, because the 12,6V drop on the filament itself is a substantial part of the total sum of the bias voltage drops, hence assuring good current regulation of the contraption.
Any fluctuation or change of the current flow through the filament, say, an increase of current, will result in an increase of the voltage drop on that filament. This increase will bite into the total sum of the preset bias spread, and will diminish the bias voltages upon the BJT's and the gates of the mosfets, hence forcing them to decrease conduction. So we see that stability of current flow in ensured. At the same time, thanks to the ample headroom of the boosted "plus" and "minus" voltages, which are available from the separate supply rails, allows to keep the overall voltage dropout on all of the mosfets at reasonably low values, whilst still keeping them within the range of useful regulation.
The two capacitors from gate to drain are there just in case, as antiparasitics, to cut out any tendencies towards self oscillations.
The resistor in parallel to the tube filament is supposed to serve as a dummy / standby load for the circuit, in case that the tube is removed from the circuit or a loss of contact on the tube pins occurs.
Now, here is a yet slightly more revamped version of the prior. The voltage regulator is pretty much static in terms of "nothing happening there" in terms of dynamics, so I totally threw out the controlling transistor, and now provide the reference voltage directly to the gate of the mosfet.
As for the current-source-hybrid, this is now enhanced with a slow-start feature. Two additional, electrolytic capacitors now span cross-wise between the gate of the respective mosfet and the "other end" of the filament. In connection with the newly added resistors within the collector cirquits of the driver transistors, they form RC circuits of sorts, with the possibility of achieving substantial time constants, by means of using some heavy collector resistors.
This is possible thanks to the voltage drive nature of the mosfet gates, as well as to the excessive and abundant booster voltages at each driver's collector. In essence, the complementary driver transistors path does not need excessive bias current. Hence, in combination with the two electrolytic capacitors, the gate voltage drive on both of the mosfets will build up only very gradually, providing for a graceful soft-start of the filament current.
By putting the current limiting resistors on the collector side of the transistors, rather than on the emitter side, we are capable of maintaining a well defined voltage drop of 2x Vbe between the bases of the driver transistors, where the bias voltage generator reference resides, and the actual voltage spread between the gates of the power mosfets, hence for allowing to maintain a good current regulation, within the hybrid floating current source, irrespectively of the slow-start feature at circuit start-up.
What if we were to heat DHT output tubes with a fixed DC **current**, and not with *voltage*.
What if this whole circuit were to be totally afloat on top of the swaying music signal, with absolutely no direct connection to ground.
What if both of the filament terminals see a very high impedance of the source circuit that is driving them and heating the filament.
In such a case, the "music signal" would have no possibility of "escaping" from the output stage circuit, wandering around and finding some stray paths, via the DHT filament heater power supply. Not even through the winding-to-core parasitic capacitances of the filament power supply transformer. The high impedances of the drain of Q1 and Q2 would constitute a high impedance wall, impenetrable for the music signal.
Imagine that we say STOP to any and all stray and wandering music signals.
Kill them before they grow.
Right at the filament terminal taps.
Just a vague concept of mine.


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/*
 * (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1999-2000 - All Rights Reserved
 *
 * The original version of this source code and documentation is
 * copyrighted and owned by IBM. These materials are provided
 * under terms of a License Agreement between IBM and Sun.
 * This technology is protected by multiple US and International
 * patents. This notice and attribution to IBM may not be removed.
 */

package sun.font;

import java.text.Bidi;

public final class BidiUtils {

    /**
     * Return the level of each character into the levels array starting at start.
     * This is a convenience method for clients who prefer to use an explicit levels
     * array instead of iterating over the runs.
     *
     * @param levels the array to receive the character levels
     * @param start the starting offset into the array
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if {@code start} is less than 0 or
     * {@code start + getLength()} is greater than {@code levels.length}.
     */
    public static void getLevels(Bidi bidi, byte[] levels, int start) {
        int limit = start + bidi.getLength();

        if (start < 0 || limit > levels.length) {
            throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException("levels.length = " + levels.length +
                " start: " + start + " limit: " + limit);
        }

        int runCount = bidi.getRunCount();
        int p = start;
        for (int i = 0; i < runCount; ++i) {
            int rlimit = start + bidi.getRunLimit(i);
            byte rlevel = (byte)bidi.getRunLevel(i);

            while (p < rlimit) {
                levels[p++] = rlevel;
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Return an array containing the resolved bidi level of each character, in logical order.
     * @return an array containing the level of each character, in logical order.
     */
    public static byte[] getLevels(Bidi bidi) {
        byte[] levels = new byte[bidi.getLength()];
        getLevels(bidi, levels, 0);
        return levels;
    }

    static final char NUMLEVELS = 62;

    /**
     * Given level data, compute a a visual to logical mapping.
     * The leftmost (or topmost) character is at visual index zero.  The
     * logical index of the character is derived from the visual index
     * by the expression {@code li = map[vi];}.
     * @param levels the levels array
     * @return the mapping array from visual to logical
     */
    public static int[] createVisualToLogicalMap(byte[] levels) {
        int len = levels.length;
        int[] mapping = new int[len];

        byte lowestOddLevel = (byte)(NUMLEVELS + 1);
        byte highestLevel = 0;

        // initialize mapping and levels

        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            mapping[i] = i;

            byte level = levels[i];
            if (level > highestLevel) {
                highestLevel = level;
            }

            if ((level & 0x01) != 0 && level < lowestOddLevel) {
                lowestOddLevel = level;
            }
        }

        while (highestLevel >= lowestOddLevel) {
            int i = 0;
            for (;;) {
                while (i < len && levels[i] < highestLevel) {
                    i++;
                }
                int begin = i++;

                if (begin == levels.length) {
                    break; // no more runs at this level
                }

                while (i < len && levels[i] >= highestLevel) {
                    i++;
                }
                int end = i - 1;

                while (begin < end) {
                    int temp = mapping[begin];
                    mapping[begin] = mapping[end];
                    mapping[end] = temp;
                    ++begin;
                    --end;
                }
            }

            --highestLevel;
        }

        return mapping;
    }

    /**
     * Return the inverse position map.  The source array must map one-to-one (each value
     * is distinct and the values run from zero to the length of the array minus one).
     * For example, if {@code values[i] = j}, then {@code inverse[j] = i}.
     * @param values the source ordering array
     * @return the inverse array
     */
    public static int[] createInverseMap(int[] values) {
        if (values == null) {
            return null;
        }

        int[] result = new int[values.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
            result[values[i]] = i;
        }

        return result;
    }

    /**
     * Return an array containing contiguous values from 0 to length
     * having the same ordering as the source array. If this would be
     * a canonical ltr ordering, return null.  The data in values[] is NOT
     * required to be a permutation, but elements in values are required
     * to be distinct.
     * @param values an array containing the discontiguous values
     * @return the contiguous values
     */
    public static int[] createContiguousOrder(int[] values) {
        if (values != null) {
            return computeContiguousOrder(values, 0, values.length);
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Compute a contiguous order for the range start, limit.
     */
    private static int[] computeContiguousOrder(int[] values, int start,
                                                int limit) {

        int[] result = new int[limit-start];
        for (int i=0; i < result.length; i++) {
            result[i] = i + start;
        }

        // now we'll sort result[], with the following comparison:
        // result[i] lessthan result[j] iff values[result[i]] < values[result[j]]

        // selection sort for now;  use more elaborate sorts if desired
        for (int i=0; i < result.length-1; i++) {
            int minIndex = i;
            int currentValue = values[result[minIndex]];
            for (int j=i; j < result.length; j++) {
                if (values[result[j]] < currentValue) {
                    minIndex = j;
                    currentValue = values[result[minIndex]];
                }
            }
            int temp = result[i];
            result[i] = result[minIndex];
            result[minIndex] = temp;
        }

        // shift result by start:
        if (start != 0) {
            for (int i=0; i < result.length; i++) {
                result[i] -= start;
            }
        }

        // next, check for canonical order:
        int k;
        for (k=0; k < result.length; k++) {
            if (result[k] != k) {
                break;
            }
        }

        if (k == result.length) {
            return null;
        }

        // now return inverse of result:
        return createInverseMap(result);
    }

    /**
     * Return an array containing the data in the values array from start up to limit,
     * normalized to fall within the range from 0 up to limit - start.
     * If this would be a canonical ltr ordering, return null.
     * NOTE: This method assumes that values[] is a logical to visual map
     * generated from levels[].
     * @param values the source mapping
     * @param levels the levels corresponding to the values
     * @param start the starting offset in the values and levels arrays
     * @param limit the limiting offset in the values and levels arrays
     * @return the normlized map
     */
    public static int[] createNormalizedMap(int[] values, byte[] levels,
                                           int start, int limit) {

        if (values != null) {
            if (start != 0 || limit != values.length) {
                // levels optimization
                boolean copyRange, canonical;
                byte primaryLevel;

                if (levels == null) {
                    primaryLevel = (byte) 0x0;
                    copyRange = true;
                    canonical = true;
                }
                else {
                    if (levels[start] == levels[limit-1]) {
                        primaryLevel = levels[start];
                        canonical = (primaryLevel & (byte)0x1) == 0;

                        // scan for levels below primary
                        int i;
                        for (i=start; i < limit; i++) {
                            if (levels[i] < primaryLevel) {
                                break;
                            }
                            if (canonical) {
                                canonical = levels[i] == primaryLevel;
                            }
                        }

                        copyRange = (i == limit);
                    }
                    else {
                        copyRange = false;

                        // these don't matter;  but the compiler cares:
                        primaryLevel = (byte) 0x0;
                        canonical = false;
                    }
                }

                if (copyRange) {
                    if (canonical) {
                        return null;
                    }

                    int[] result = new int[limit-start];
                    int baseValue;

                    if ((primaryLevel & (byte)0x1) != 0) {
                        baseValue = values[limit-1];
                    } else {
                        baseValue = values[start];
                    }

                    if (baseValue == 0) {
                        System.arraycopy(values, start, result, 0, limit-start);
                    }
                    else {
                        for (int j=0; j < result.length; j++) {
                            result[j] = values[j+start] - baseValue;
                        }
                    }

                    return result;
                }
                else {
                    return computeContiguousOrder(values, start, limit);
                }
            }
            else {
                return values;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Reorder the objects in the array into visual order based on their levels.
     * This is a utility function to use when you have a collection of objects
     * representing runs of text in logical order, each run containing text
     * at a single level.  The elements in the objects array will be reordered
     * into visual order assuming each run of text has the level provided
     * by the corresponding element in the levels array.
     * @param levels an array representing the bidi level of each object
     * @param objects the array of objects to be reordered into visual order
     */
    public static void reorderVisually(byte[] levels, Object[] objects) {
        int len = levels.length;

        byte lowestOddLevel = (byte)(NUMLEVELS + 1);
        byte highestLevel = 0;

        // initialize mapping and levels

        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            byte level = levels[i];
            if (level > highestLevel) {
                highestLevel = level;
            }

            if ((level & 0x01) != 0 && level < lowestOddLevel) {
                lowestOddLevel = level;
            }
        }

        while (highestLevel >= lowestOddLevel) {
            int i = 0;
            for (;;) {
                while (i < len && levels[i] < highestLevel) {
                    i++;
                }
                int begin = i++;

                if (begin == levels.length) {
                    break; // no more runs at this level
                }

                while (i < len && levels[i] >= highestLevel) {
                    i++;
                }
                int end = i - 1;

                while (begin < end) {
                    Object temp = objects[begin];
                    objects[begin] = objects[end];
                    objects[end] = temp;
                    ++begin;
                    --end;
                }
            }

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}


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In developing our observation software we took on-board the problems that providers were experiencing in maintaining an effective system for monitoring, supporting and developing their staff in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning throughout their organisation. These included their current procedure being a drain on staff time, the need to update numerous databases, difficulty in producing meaningful analytical reports , staff not having ownership of their own development, not readily being able to readily show the impact of staff support, training and development that has been provided.


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import { observer } from 'mobx-react-lite'
import React, { FC, useEffect } from 'react'
import { intoView } from '../../handler/dom/intoView'
import Branch from '../../model/kifu/Branch'
import History, { isBranch, KifuComponent } from '../../model/kifu/History'
import { Move } from '../../model/kifu/Move'
import { StoreContext } from '../../store/Store'
import './Kifu.scss'

const CURRENT_KIFU_ELM_ID = 'Move-Current'

const Kifu: FC = () => {
  const { gameState } = React.useContext(StoreContext)

  useEffect(() => {
    // 自動スクロール
    // TODO: スマホで使いにくいし自前実装した方がいいかも
    //       まぁスマホサポートしてないけど
    intoView(CURRENT_KIFU_ELM_ID)
  })

  const { moves } = gameState.kifu.history
  const elms: JSX.Element[] = renderKifu(moves, 0)
  return (

{elms}

  )

  function renderKifu(moves: KifuComponent[], n: number): JSX.Element[] {
    return moves.flatMap((kc: KifuComponent, i: number) => {
      if (isBranch(kc)) return renderBranch(kc, n + i)
      return renderMove(kc, n + i)
    })
  }

  function renderBranch(b: Branch, n: number): JSX.Element[] {
    const main: History = b.branches[b.index]
    const [head, ...rest] = main.moves // head は必ず Move

    const otherHeadsDom: JSX.Element[] = []
    for (let i = 0; i < b.branches.length; i++) {
      if (i === b.index) continue
      const m: Move = b.branches[i].moves[0] as Move // head は必ず Move
      const key: string = `${n}-${i}`
      const txt: string = `-- ${kifuText(m)}`
      const onClick = () => gameState.clickKifu(n, i)
      otherHeadsDom.push(

          {txt}

      )
    }

    const restDom = rest.length !== 0 ? renderKifu(rest, n + 1) : []

    return [renderMove(head as Move, n)].concat(otherHeadsDom).concat(restDom)
  }

  function renderMove(m: Move, n: number): JSX.Element {
    const { currentMove } = gameState
    const id = currentMove.index === n ? CURRENT_KIFU_ELM_ID : undefined
    const onClick = () => gameState.clickKifu(n)

    return (

{n + '.'}

{kifuText(m)}

    )
  }

  function kifuText(m: Move): string {
    const s = m.str
    // 同 で始まっていて2文字だったら空白を入れる
    if (s.length === 2 && s[0] === '同') return `同 ${s[1]}`
    return s
  }
}

export default observer(Kifu)


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/**
 * @fileoverview This module provides classes to uncompress zip files and streams.
 * @since 0.5
 */

var fs = require('fs');
var {Stream} = require('io');

export('ZipFile', 'ZipIterator');

/**
 * A class to read and unpack a local zip file.
 * @param {String} path the location of the zip file
 */
function ZipFile(path) {
    var zipfile = new java.util.zip.ZipFile(path);
    var entries = [];
    var map = {};
    var e = zipfile.entries();
    while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
        var entry = e.nextElement();
        map[entry.name] = entry;
        entries.push(entry.name);
    }

    function getEntry(name) {
        var entry = map[name];
        if (!entry) {
            throw new Error("Invalid zip entry: " + name);
        }
        return entry;
    }

    /**
     * An array containing the names of all entries in this zip file.
     * @type Array
     */
    this.entries = entries;

    /**
     * Get an input stream to read the entry with the given name.
     * @param {String} name the entry name
     */
    this.open = function(name) {
        return new Stream(zipfile.getInputStream(getEntry(name)));
    };

    /**
     * Returns true if the entry with the given name represents a directory.
     * @param {String} name the entry name
     */
    this.isDirectory = function(name) {
        var entry = map[name];
        return entry && entry.isDirectory();
    };

    /**
     * Returns true if the entry with the given name represents a file.
     * @param {String} name the entry name
     */
    this.isFile = function(name) {
        var entry = map[name];
        return entry && !entry.isDirectory();
    };

    /**
     * Returns the uncompressed size in bytes in the given entry, or -1 if not known.
     * @param {String} name the entry name
     */
    this.getSize = function(name) {
        return getEntry(name).getSize();
    };

    /**
     * Returns the last modification timestamp of the given entry, or -1 if not available.
     * @param {String} name the entry name
     */
    this.getTime = function(name) {
        return getEntry(name).getTime();
    };

    /**
     * Close the zip file.
     */
    this.close = function() {
        zipfile.close();
    };
}

/**
 * A streaming iterator over a zip file or stream. Each item yielded
 * by this iterator is an input stream to read a single zip entry.
 * Each entry stream has additional name, isDirectory, isFile, size, and time
 * properties with the same semantics of the corresponding methods in ZipFile.
 * @param {Stream|String} resource an input stream or file name
 * @see #ZipFile
 */
function ZipIterator(resource) {
    var stream = typeof resource == "string" ?
            fs.openRaw(resource) : resource;
    var zipstream = new java.util.zip.ZipInputStream(stream);
    stream = new Stream(zipstream);
    try {
        var entry = zipstream.getNextEntry();
        while (entry) {
            stream.name = entry.getName();
            stream.isDirectory = entry.isDirectory();
            stream.isFile = !stream.isDirectory;
            stream.size = entry.getSize();
            stream.time = entry.getTime();
            yield stream;
            entry = zipstream.getNextEntry();
        }
    } finally {
        stream.close();
    }
}


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Many educators have started the school year feeling refreshed and excited to create new learning opportunities for their students. Along with this comes the chance to upgrade how things have been done in the past in designing better lessons and musical experiences.
Zeswitz Music has been named a Top 100 Dealer in the world by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM). NAMM, a not-for-profit organization comprised of approximately 10,300 member companies located throughout 87 countries, promotes the pleasures and benefits of making music to people of all ages.
The Top 100 Dealer Award is an "honor and a privilege of which we are so proud," says Zeswitz owner Randy Shayler.
One of the goals of the Danielson Framework for Teaching used by many districts for teacher evaluation was to create a common language for its users. Many teachers and administrators have been speaking this new language over the past few years during pre- and post-observation conferences. Some schools have expanded the use of this language to PLC groups, where teachers meet to discuss student data and learning. These areas can provide pathways to teacher and student growth.
A letter from Mr. David Carroll, Band Director at Northern Lehigh: "...we adopted a new aggressive and dynamic approach to recruiting new members to the band program in the Northern Lehigh School District. These changes have been successful and are part of a larger plan to make our music programs one of the most dynamic educational systems in the school district."
William Zeswitz Sr., a master luthier and maker of world-class violins, created the company to serve the Reading Symphony Orchestra and local musicians. Over 90 years later, their work continues as they support music educators across Eastern PA, NJ, and MD. Their mission, however, has not been without bumps.
This July 28th marks the two-year anniversary of the company's independence from its former corporate owners.


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Q: How to extract integer from C style const char* array I'm trying to extract an integer from a C style const char* array.
So far I have this:
int Suite::extractParameter(const char* data)
{
    //Example data "s_reg2=96"

    const char *ptr = strchr(data, '=');
    if(ptr)
    {
        int index = ptr - data;

        //Get substring ie. "96"

        //Convert substring to int and return
    }
    else return -1;
}

But I can't figure out how to extract the sub string and then convert it to an integer.
The integer to be extracted is between 0 and 9999.

A: If the string always comes at the end, right after the '=' character, you could use std::atoi:
const char *ptr = strchr(data, '=');
if(ptr && *(ptr+1)) { // it's not NULL and not the last character
    int val = std::atoi(ptr+1);
}

Demo.


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Азей — село в Тулунском районе Иркутской области России. Административный центр Азейского сельского поселения. Находится примерно в 17 км к юго-востоку от районного центра — города Тулун.

Ближайшие населённые пункты: Гадалей, Бадар, Перфилово, Ермаки.

В селе четыре улицы:
 Подгорная
 Привокзальная
 Российская
 Центральная

Топонимика
Название Азей относится к труднообъяснимым. Предположительно, оно может быть связано с якутским аһыы — кислый, горький, терпкий, крепкий.

История
В 1927 год деревня Листвянка входила в состав Нюринского сельского Совета. В 1969 году здесь была построена железнодорожная станция Азей, а позже деревня Листвянка была переименована в станцию Азей. 1987 году был образован Азейский сельский Совет. В ноябре 1998 года населённый пункт станция Азей был переименован в село Азей.

Станция
Станция Азей относится к Иркутскому отделению Восточно-Сибирской железной дороги. Код станции: 92220. Выполняются коммерческие операции:
 Прием и выдача грузов повагонными и мелкими отправками (подъездные пути);
 Продажа пассажирских билетов.

Также есть пункт технического обслуживания (Эксплуатационное вагонное депо).

Связь
В селе Азей осуществляется эфирное вещание пяти аналоговых каналов (ФГУП «РТРС»). Имеется один пункт коллективного доступа в сеть интернет. Село покрыто мобильными сетями «GSM» трёх операторов связи:
 ЗАО «Байкалвестком»,  теперь сотовый оператор Tele2
 ОАО «МегаФон»
 ОАО «МТС»
Это ложь

Таксофоны отсутствуют. Одно отделение связи.

Население
По данным Всероссийской переписи, в 2010 году в селе проживало 677 человек (314 мужчин и 363 женщины).

Известные жители
Дрозд Алевтина Ивановна — советская писательница, детская поэтесса.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Тулунского района


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By Barbara Murray (As Amended by ISAF)
Marseille Hosts 346 Sailors At Europa Cup
Racing in Marseille
© Gilles Martin Raget
Laser Europa Cup - France
The second leg of the 2014 Europa Cup series was held in Marseille, France over the weekend ending on 15 April.
Racing got off most days at around noon except for the third day when the first start was at about five and saliors docking as the sun went down.
There was a bit of everything wind wise including shifty light to around 15 knots at times.
A total of 346 sailors with ages ranging from 15 to 79 competed in this edition of the 2014 series.
First place on the podium for the Standard fleet went to Maxim Nikolaev (RUS) who after 8 races and one discard finished on 17 points.
There was a tie of 19 points for second and third place. Antony Munos (FRA) with two bullets on the final day grabbed second overall and Thorbjorn Schierup (DEN) took third.
French sailor Romain Simonnot (FRA) took the title in the Radial fleet finishing on 21 points followed by another tie between second and third place. Marie Bolou (FRA) and William De Smet (BEL) were tied on 25 points with the French sailor breaking the tie having recorded more third place finishes.
The largest fleet of all with a total of 119 competitors was the Laser 4.7. Racing was dominated by Federico Fornasari (ITA) who finished on 10 points from 7 races including one discard. Second place went to Seref Unlu (TUR) on 33 points and Aurelien Pierroz (FRA) with 35 points wrapped up the podium.


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Honda Unveils New Model Of Unicycle - Electrical
Japan introduces a new model of unicycle. The electric battery-powered device, shaped like a figure eight, is sure to gain popularity around the world due to it simplisity.
A unicycle is a one-wheeled human-powered vehicle. Unicycles are similar to, but less complex than, bicycles.
Usual unicycles are composed of a few key parts: the wheel (which includes the tire, tube, rim, spokes, hub and axle), the cranks, pedals, fork-style frame, seatpost, and saddle (the seat of the unicycle). The wheel is usually similar to a bicycle wheel with a special hub designed so the axle is a fixed part of the hub. This means the rotation of the cranks directly controls the rotation of the wheel (called direct drive). The frame sits on top of the axle bearings, while the cranks attach to the ends of the axle. The seatpost links the frame to the saddle.
There are many different types of unicycles, which can include (but are not limited to): freestyle unicycles, trial unicycles, MUnis, giraffes, and long distance unicycles, which all have special components unique to that type of unicycle.
The new unicycle unit U3-X, produced by Honda Motor Co, can be steered by leaning in the direction the rider wants to go.
The vehicle, which is in the development stage, has a maximum speed of 6 km per hour (3.7 mph) and weighs less than 10 kilos, according to BBC News' report.


The Montessori classroom offers a multi-aged grouping whereby students learn "horizontally" from observing the work of other students, both directly and indirectly.
To begin the enrollment process for students in Junior high or High School at FLC an application and interview is required. We will request a referral letter from the last school your child attended. To hold your child's spot, a one-time $150 registration fee must be paid by check and is refundable if your child is not accepted into our program. Upon completion of the enrollment process you will be notified if your child has been accepted.


Do any of you guys drive an ATV right to your deer stand? My dad has a pretty banged up hip and definitely can't walk the 1/4 mile to where he would normally sit. A friend of mine has offered for me to borrow his ranger. Is driving that in going to just spook the deer out? we would be driving the ATV in from the East and all the deer we ever see are always located to the north and west of the stand.
Biggest concern might be driving off trail which is a big No-no.
I have deer at my place and routinely see them where I was just five minutes earlier with my UTV.
Remember how quickly deer can cover ground even when not in a hurry. Unless you are driving right through where they are bedded and you run them out of the area, I say there's no issue so long as you are able to do it in a legal manner. Depending on the established trails in your area, keep in mind that even if it's your land you can/will get a ticket for driving off an established trail if you drive up to a hunting blind with a rifle in your possession.
After watching from afar as some guys ransacked the back of my truck a number of years ago, I no longer park on the approach to my hunting area if I'm entering the pasture from the public roadway. Instead I park in a hundred yards to discourage anyone else from checking out my toys. It's pretty clear I'm not hunting out of the truck when doing this, but it still gives me pause as to how far the GW would think is reasonable for me to park inside the gate.
Permission from landowner is all you need to drive off trail.
I never thought about the driving off trail because we've only done it to retrieve game, but the land is owned by family of ours.
I drive close (pickup) but within 200 yards and I do not think it would brother much. try and hide somewhat but maybe the driving off a trail as sdmf said could be a concern. Side by side is bigger than a atv and a friend with his atv drives next to stand to hunt.
Yes the deer will notice it and yes depending on where the deer are one may scare some off if they live at your stand. It seems over the years one can drive his tractor/combine next to deer but if it is a vehicle they move before one gets close.
Deer don't mind atvs at all.
Yes the main thing is getting him out there, seeing deer would be a huge plus. He's not a trophy hunter, he just enjoys to be out there. He was approved to shoot from a vehicle, but the land we hunt would not have very good odds at shooting a deer from the road.
100% False for big game.
See if a handicap permit from the game and fish can fix the off road issue.
I'm not sure on what the regulations say, but if it's legal, I'd make sure I was in position well before first light.
Opening weekend it probably won't be a problem to bring him to the stand with an ATV, but after a week of getting chased around, I think the deer will react much differently to vehicle traffic. Good Luck!!
unless things have changed, i have to concur. but, i've been wrong before.
If he's approved to shoot from a vehicle the driving to/from a blind is no biggie as I believe they're approved for off-trail travel as well. That said, he has to be the only person with a firearm when he's off-trail. Anyone going to sit with him will have to walk in with their gun.
Motor-driven vehicles may be used only on established roads or trails. Exception: After a deer has been killed and properly tagged, a motor-driven vehicle may be used to make the retrieve by leaving the established road or trail and proceeding to the carcass by the shortest accessible route, and returning to the road or trail immediately by the same route. Motor-driven vehicles may not be used off established roads and trails for retrieval on state wildlife management areas, U.S. Forest Service national grasslands, Bureau of Land Management lands, federal waterfowl production areas, federal refuges, state school trust lands, and any areas where motor-driven vehicles are restricted. Except for persons having a special disability permit, no person may use a motor-driven vehicle while in the process of hunting deer or aid another in the process of hunting deer including travel to and from the hunting location unless the motor-driven vehicle is on an established road or trail.
Last edited by SDMF; 11-05-2018 at 05:32 PM.
If you start driving it a couple times a day now, in this slop, it should be a trail by Friday.
Make a trail like ^^^^^^ said. You got until Friday.


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Kourtney Kardashian Hit with Paternity Suit by Male Model Who Claims Mason is His Son?
Updated August 9th, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Now there's something we didn't see coming. With all eyes are Kim's post baby body and rumors swirling as to whether or not Lamar Odom has been cheating on Khloe, Kourtney Kardashian has unexpectedly taken the limelight.
TMZ is reporting that the reality star's son Mason, who she famously welcomed with boyfriend Scott Disick in 2009, may have been fathered by another man.
Holy sh*t!
Now, before I heard any more on the matter, something struck me as odd. Mason is 3, meaning it took this guy three years to realize he was possibly Kourtney's baby daddy. In all fairness, the man making the claim, Michael Girgenti — a male model — did come after Kourt before. Back in March, he went to In Touch Weekly with his claims.
But anyhow … the model is reportedly seeking joint custody of Mason, alleging that he and Kourtney had a tryst nine months before he was born.
According to the legal documents he supposedly filed in court, Girgenti claims the pair hooked up after meeting at a photo shoot in 2008. They then had "unprotected vaginal sex" and nine months later … Mason was born.
Now I accidentally (I swear!) watched the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" episode in which Kourtney finds out she's preggers. If I recall, her and Scott were on-again off-again at the time and Kourt claimed she was with child because she forgot to take her birth control once a day like a woman who doesn't want to get pregnant is supposed to. So… IDK.
Here's a comparison shot, just for the hell of it:
But alas, Kourtney's lawyers have dismissed the accusation as "preposterous and an outrageous lie." Her attorney Todd Wilson told TMZ:
"This individual has been selling false and fabricated stories to the tabloids for years about Kourtney Kardashian and her son, Mason. Scott Disick is Mason's father.
"We have not seen the reported court filing, but we are informed that this individual has been seeking to get paid to publish his ridiculous pleading. His claims are absurd and this is simply another shameful attempt to gain publicity and profit from fictional stories about my client."
Whatever the truth is, at least we get this great quote from Girgenti where he says, "I ejaculated inside [Kourtney's] vagina."
Priceless.
Published August 9th, 2013 at 6:48 pm
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Thorbjorn Olesen to Face Trial on Charges in Alleged Sexual Assault on Airplane
Adam Wells@adamwells1985Twitter LogoFeatured ColumnistAugust 21, 2019
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European Tour golfer Thorbjorn Olesen will face trial after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on a flight in July.
Per the Associated Press, Olesen appeared in magistrates' court in Uxbridge Wednesday to indicate he will plead not guilty to charges of sexual assault, common assault and being drunk on an aircraft. His next court date is scheduled for Sept. 18 at Isleworth Crown Court in London.
Olesen was arrested July 29 in London on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female passenger while she was sleeping on a British Airways flight.
Per The Sun's Nick Pisa, Ian Poulter also stepped in to calm Olesen down when he was verbally abusing passengers and the flight crew.
On Aug. 6, Olesen was formally charged with sexual assault, common assault and being drunk on an aircraft. The 29-year-old was also suspended by the European Tour pending the result of an investigation into his arrest.
Olesen has been a regular on the European Tour since 2011.