I look at myself as an artist; I paint with light, and shadow. My medium is very fluid and relies heavily on surfaces. If there wasn't a surface to reflect the light then no one would see my work. A surface can be as small as a drop of water; such as created by a haze machine so that you see the beams of light. Color also plays a significant role in creating art; and again the surface texture and color must be looked at as part of the whole. A good scenic artist knows that the lighting designer can make the painted scenery either beautiful and show off all of the work that the artist put into the design, or make that same painting look like mud.
So how does all of that relate to a lighting script? Well, just as a writer not only writes out the words for the actors to speak, they also detail the setting and the action that they see the actors taking as they say the words. When we read the playwrights script, it is the job of the lighting designer to figure out how to bring the scene to life. So where do you start in this process? I always tell my classes that the first thing to do when you are given the script is to just read it for pleasure. During the first reading, don't worry about taking notes, try to get a view of the play as a whole entity. This will not be the first time you read this script, so take the time to enjoy the play.
After a period of digesting the play, go back and start an in-depth reading of the script for specific lighting information. In order to provide plenty of room for notes, I like to copy the script onto 8 1/2" x 11" paper centered in the middle. This gives me writing room on the right for notes and leaves the left side for the cue information.
In the second and subsequent readings, I develop a series of notes on the right that describe the setting, and I begin to develop the lighting concepts for each scene.
At this point you should develop a concept, or "hook", to define the whole play in a few sentences. In the musical illustrated in the diagrams throughout this article, the concept was fairly basic to the Christian existence. I based my lighting design on the concept of times of light and darkness, and that in the end if we choose, we too can see the light. Based on this concept I made choices as to when to create a well-lit scene or when to make the darkness oppressive.
All of that sounds wonderful on paper, but how will a script help me to realize my concept? As I read through the script, I detail the points where the concept applies. Now also at this point in the development of your script you need input from outside sources. As a lighting designer, you are not the star of the show; lighting is an ancillary art. We are subordinate to the main focus, our job is to enhance and help deliver the message. So at this point, you need to get input from the director, scene designer, and costume designer. Up until this point you have been working only in the world of the playwright, and now you need to find out how the director is going to interpret the playwright's ideas.
As an example of this, I was doing a play that was being performed in a black box theatre. The script called for a very realistic set of two stories on a turntable. When I met with the director, I was told that the set would be very minimalistic, consisting of one large platform and several flats set up in a disconnected fashion. He was relying on me to help establish the different locations. While this didn't change my concept of the play, it added a new dimension to how I would approach the lighting. Other bits of information you need to get which are of importance to developing your script are the colors, and not just the colors of the scenery but also of the costumes. Remember, we light surfaces, and the people provide the most important surfaces we have to light.
One of the most important roles we have as lighting designers is to provide adequate face light, which helps with speech intelligibility. So the people provide the most important surfaces we deal with, and what they will be wearing impacts what colors we choose and how much illumination is needed. Also, the skin color of the actors is important in deciding how much illumination is needed. The darker the skin the more lumens are required to properly light the face, and the wrong costume or background lighting can sometimes make it nearly impossible to see the face.
So back to the script. With this additional information, we can go back through the script again. In this reading we can incorporate the information from these other sources and add detail that will flesh out our ideas on what will happen in each scene lighting wise. Now that we have a solid understanding of the requirements for lighting in the script, we can move from the conceptual stage to the physical design. The information in the script will provide us with a starting point to lay out the lighting plot and hook up the actual fixtures. We can calculate the number of areas and color washes required, and most importantly the number of specials we will need.
While you have been doing your work the actors have been rehearsing. Even though you met with the director and he told you how he was going to direct the play, it is always good to go visit a rehearsal or two, preferably when they are near the end of the rehearsal period and are doing run thru's. At this point you can begin to see the play come to life, and see if the director has deviated from what he told you weeks before. Also, you begin to see the movement of the actors in the space. While watching the rehearsal you can begin to place cues. The notes on the right side of the page will guide you as to when you think a lighting change needs to occur, but wait until you are in a run thru to actually begin to make notes on the left side of the page. I recommend that you only write a "Q" at each location in pencil. Later you can add numbers, but for now this is just the first crack at cue placement.
After seeing a run thru, try to schedule a meeting with the director and the stage manager to go through the script page by page and talk through the cue sequence and what the lighting will be for each moment. You will find it better to have this meeting before you are in the theatre while you still have time to make changes to the plot, rather then waiting to find out that a special needs to be cut or added. By taking this time you can get a good handle on the cues and what the lighting will look like. In this meeting take the time to add to your notes so that when you are in the theatre programming the cues, you will have a detailed script of your own to follow.
As I said in the beginning I am an artist that works in light. I find that by spending time on a solid script and good paperwork, the work becomes very freeing. I can concentrate on the pictures I am painting and not worry about what channel that fixture is connected to or worry about remembering what was happening in this scene. (did Joe go right or left? How did the director want that sequence of storm cues to go?) If i deal with the little details that distract me from the creative process in advance, then I am free to unleash all of my creative energies.
Programming time in the theatre is precious. Typically we are programming at odd hours or under tight time constraints. The more work I can do away form the theatre to prepare, the more I free myself, and the less stress I have to work under. We only get a short time to create art and I would prefer to make the most of my time. Typically the duration of time available to appreciate the work is also short. Before you know it the play has ended it's run and your creation is gone. Lighting is such a transitory art form that the more we can free ourselves to just sit back and enjoy, the better.
So to review; read the script multiple times, each time adding more and more to your note to flesh out the concept of the design. Get plenty of input from the other designers and the director. Go see the rehearsals and get as much detail from the stage manager as possible. The stage manager is your friend and in the end controls the execution of the timing of the show. Lastly, the more you do away from the theatre in the comfort of your bathrobe and a cup of coffee, the more time you will have to be creative.


Happy Monday S+S lovers! How was your weekend? Fabulous we hope. Our latest fancy is definitely abstract art. There is something about the lack of uniformity of brushstrokes and random hues that we beyond adore. It adds such interest and authenticity to any space. Let's look at some serious spaces.
We love the color and statement abstract art brings to a room, clearly. What is your most loved art for a space?? Do tell, we'd love to hear from you!
It is dramatic and often can stand alone. I have seen it used very successully and I like seeing it in a mixed room of mixed styles...makes for a very interseting and eclectic room...beautiful examples!
I have recently begun to appreciate abstract art and have been stalking a few abstract landscape paintings on etsy. Nice inspiration!
Love these pictures! Looks like I'm not the only one hunting for a great abstract on etsy.
I'm loving the purple piece with all of that gorgeous navy furniture.... great post!
I am in total agreement with the use of Abstract Art..what a smashing accent and sometimes a total surprise!
Art can totally transform a room! I'm a fan of abstract art and these images are beautiful!
Art and pillows just compete a room. Like icing on a cake!
So pretty. I like art in my dining room.
moderate to rough. This glass would cost less than $1000 and would be available to almost all the people in Britain.


Is there any way to auto calculate the due date based on SLA clock changes.
Currently the due date populates based on priority.
In our instance, for priority 1 SLA is 4 hours. My clock will pauses if we choose the status as waiting for customer.
Suppose the customer responded after 4 hours, the new due date to be calculated as actual due date + 4 hours.
I just did a test of this.
If Priority = 1 Resolution Time is 15 minutes.
I have the global setting "Use Opened Date instead of Current Date to recalculate Due Date" checked.
I created a Priority 1 Incident.
After 5 minutes, I changed the Status from OPENED to PENDING. I waited for 15 minutes and changed the Status from PENDING back to OPENED. This effectively starts the clock again.
Is that what you're looking for? If so, it would be easy to miss setting the "Pause the Clock When" section in Measurements as we don't set that by default.
This is what we need. But I configured the measurements correctly for start, pause and stop the clock.
Below one is the pause clock criteria in our org. Everything is fine. But I hope it's the problem with the BETA version of winter'14.
So what's your process? Ticket comes in with a default status of OPENED right?
Then the staff sends an acknowledgement to the Client and changes the Status to WAITING FOR CUSTOMER.
When the customer finally responds, what's the next status that the staff changes the record to? If it's anything other than OPENED, that may be the issue. You may want to look at adding those additional status' to "start the clock".
Okay. You mean I have to specify the other status where I want to restart the clock in start clock once the client responds??
Yes...once the clock is paused the system needs to know what will "re-start" the clock! Hopefully that'll help you out!
Is it a good practice to change the due date of the incident on which SLA is applied?
Re: Some user report that the "Due date" is getting reset on Status or Queue reassignment.


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Boston College vs. Texas State: Final Thoughts and Predictions
A preview and prediction for this weekend's game against the Texas State Bobcats.
A.J. Black
Boston College came out last Saturday and answered many questions surrounding their football team in a decisive 26-6 win over Duke. The defense looked strong forcing five turnovers, while Jeff Hafley made adjustments at halftime that opened up the offense and allowed transfer quarterback Phil Jurkovec to throw for 300 yards. This weekend the Eagles are home, for their first game at an empty Alumni Stadium. On the other sideline will be the Texas State Bobcats, a team looking for an upset. It will be up to the new head coach to prevent that, and keep his team sharp.
Three Biggest Questions
1. Can BC stay focused on the game and avoid a letdown? Jeff Hafley has stressed focus all week, and keeping his team razor sharp for this weekend's matchup. This is an important game for Hafley. He needs to make sure his team isn't looking ahead to UNC and takes care of business against the Bobcats.
2. Can the offensive line dominate all game? If there is any strength Boston College has that they can lean on in this game it's the offensive line. This group started slow against a very good Duke defensive line, but dominated by the end of the game. Texas State's defensive line is not as strong as Duke's. This should be a game where BC's front five bullies the Bobcats, but can they do it?
3. Can the defense stop a stronger offense? It's always hard to compare an offense from the ACC to an offense in the Sun Belt. On paper though, Texas State looks like they have a much more explosive offense than Duke. This should be another good barometer of how much BC's defense has improved.
Matchups:
When Boston College Runs The Ball: Edge- Boston College. The Eagles will most likely try and establish the run right off the bat. Texas State's rushing defense is near the bottom in the country right now, averaging 191 yards per game. BC's offensive line should be able to dominate in the trenches and this would be the perfect game for David Bailey to break out.
When Boston College Throws The Ball: Edge- Boston College. Last weekend Phil Jurkovec looked very strong in the second half when he settled in. Texas State's pass rush should not be as strong as Duke's, meaning Jurkovec will have more time to go through his progressions and hit his targets. The Bobcats have allowed almost 300 yards a game through the air. And I don't think Texas State has an answer for Zay Flowers and Hunter Long.
When Texas State Throws The Ball: Edge- Boston College. Last weekend BC's secondary bullied Duke's wide receivers for four quarters. Texas State has some talented wide receivers, such as Jeremiah Haydel and Jah'Marae Sheread, but BC's defense has enough power to shut them down. This matchup is probably as close to even as it gets this weekend.
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When Texas State Runs The Ball: Edge- Boston College. Texas State is a stronger passing team, and BC should have the edge in the trenches.
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Song of the Game
For many who have followed my predictions post, you know I usually pick a rap song. This season I'm changing it up, and showing off my versatility. For a season that is unusual, and frankly, weird, we are going to go with funk and soul all season long.
Fan Excitement: 7/10
Normally fans wouldn't get too excited about a game against a Sun Belt team, but given what happened against Duke the buzz around the program is palpable. The sad part is that the stadium will be empty minus the teams, refs, personnel and cardboard cut outs of BC fans.
If you haven't followed us on the socials what are you waiting for? Like us on Facebook, and you can also follow BC Bulletin on Twitter, follow AJ Black on Twitter as well. And we now have an Instagram account, so check that out as well.
We will have a live game thread for Saturday's game and instant reactions as soon as it's over.
AJ's Prediction: This is the type of matchup that has trap game written all over it. I think Texas State will get some points on this defense, who may come back down to earth after last week's stellar performance. While I don't think the game will be particularly close and the Eagles will cover, it will be closer than many expect. Boston College 42 Texas State 21
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Ronald Wilson Reagan : A President Who Professed Strong Moral Faith…
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Long before he became one of the most revered and successful presidents in the history of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan was revealing his true evangelical nature in radio and television commentaries, speeches and appearances, along the lines of another iconic radio personality of the same era, Paul Harvey. As early as 1964 he was also laying the foundation of his conservative roots by supporting Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and nothing more represents his political positions at the time than A Time For Choosing which aired on NBC October 27th 1964.
By 1977 he was a full-blown advocate of the efficacy of the Bible (especially of the original King James Version) and in one of his famous radio addresses from September 6th 1977 he eloquently gives his thoughts on the "Good News Bible" (also called the Good News for Modern Man and Today's English Version) in comparison to the Authorized Version known as the King James Bible. Without going into the entire transcript, here is the content which begins at the 3:24 mark of the video following the introduction of the roots of biblical history…
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Mr. Hanser has quoted from both the St. James Version & the Good News Bible some well known passages for us to compare. A few thousand years ago Job said "How forcible are right words!" [Job 6:25] The new translators have him saying "Honest words are convincing." That's only for openers. There is the passage [Eccl. 1:18], "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow". Is it really an improvement to say instead, "The wiser you are, the more worries you have; the more you know the more it hurts?" In the New Testament, in Mathew, we read "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way." [Matthew 3:3] The Good News version translates that, "Someone is shouting in the desert. Get the road ready." It sounds like a straw boss announcing lunch hour is over.
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The hauntingly beautiful 23rd Psalm is the same in both versions, for a few words, "The Lord is my shepherd" but instead of continuing "I shall not want" we are supposed to say "I have everything I need." The Christmas story has undergone some modernizing but one can hardly call it improved. The wondrous words "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy" [Luke 2:10] has become, "Don't be afraid! I am here with good news for you." The sponsors of the Good News version boast that their Bible is as readable as the daily paper – and so it is. But do readers of the daily news find themselves moved to wonder, "at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth?" [Luke 4:22] Mr. Hanser suggests that sadly the "tinkering and general horsing around with the sacred texts will no doubt continue" as pious drudges try to get it right. "It will not dawn on them that it has already been gotten right."
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And everyone said "Amen" to that! Which allows us a nice segue` into the most important period of Ronald Wilson Reagan and his evangelicalism, and that would be the eight years of his remarkable presidency. Following the attempted assassination on his life before he was barely in office (ie 69 days into his first term) he reflected on the incident as described in Wikipedia: "The attempt had great influence on Reagan's popularity; polls indicated his approval rating to be around 73 percent.[61] Reagan believed that God had spared his life so that he might go on to fulfill a greater purpose[38]and, although not a Catholic, meetings with Mother Teresa, Cardinal Terence Cooke, and fellow shooting survivor Pope John Paul II reinforced this belief.[62] Agent Parr came to believe that God had directed his life to save Reagan, and became a pastor.[9] (Agent Parr has since died in October 2015) … The attack seriously wounded the President's Press Secretary, James Brady, who sustained a serious head wound and became permanently disabled. Brady remained as Press Secretary for the remainder of Reagan's administration, but this was primarily a titular role. Brady died on August 4, 2014, in Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of 73. His death was ruled a homicide, a consequence of this shooting".[67]
A president who spoke of "reading the Bible" and who presented Jesus with admiration, truth and love? Contrast that with what has come since in the form of the Clinton religious, cultural, and criminal calamity, and the past eight years of the Obama Administration declension into the dark abyss of delusional efficacy. A stark illustration that it doesn't take long for a nation to stagger into child killing, sodomy, godlessness, depravity, and derangement; then perish for ever.
If ever we needed an incoming president with the biblical qualities of a Ronald Wilson Reagan, then now is the hour. The biblical clock is poised at 3 minutes to midnight and tick, tick, ticking on into eternity… NOW is the hour!
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to Thee we sing! Long may our land be bright
with Freedom's Holy light; protect us by Thy might,
great God, our King!
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The Osborne County Community Foundation awarded $68,005 during its spring grant cycle. Projects were funded through the Dane G. Hansen Community Grant Fund and Osborne County Community Action Fund.
City of Portis, $16,000, for new playground equipment at Portis Community Park.
Osborne County Sheriff's Office, $9,000, to obtain equipment and training that will allow for the forensic examination of cell phones and tablets by local law enforcement agencies.
City of Alton/ Alton PRIDE Committee, $5,000, for updates to the Alton Community Room.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 109, Natoma, $4,950, to repair and restore the Natoma American Legion Hall.
Osborne Rural Fire Dist. #1, $4,850, for a fire truck water tank replacement.
City of Natoma, $3,815, to install a new ADA ramp and sidewalks at the park.
Osborne County Schools, $3,300, to update the audio system in the gymnasium.
Downs Senior Center, $3,000, to replace two existing heating and air conditioning units.
Grace Brethern Church – Shine, $3,000, to address the impact of adverse childhood experiences on school-aged children in Osborne, Natoma and Lakeside school districts.
Beta Sigma Phi, $2,500, to add street signs with recreational and cultural interests signs on Morgan Ave.
Downs Chamber of Commerce, $2,450, to help pay for entertainment at the upcoming annual festival.
Osborne Community Foundation, $2,000, to continue with efforts to build a new pool for the City of Osborne.
Bull City Roughriders Saddle Club by Bull City Community Foundation, $2,000, to purchase panels to create individual horse pens to safely contain horses overnight and during shows.
Osborne Chamber of Commerce, $1,830, to establish a new Osborne County Leadership Program.
Osborne Community Foundation, $1,160, to purchase 20 hanging flower baskets for the street lights on Main Street in Osborne.
Osborne Public Library, $1,000, to purchase resources for STEAM programming for the 2018-19 school year.
Osborne United Christian Church, $900, for improvements to the church's fellowship area.
Outside the Lines Inc, $750, to engage multiple generations in community service, renew existing programs and establish captivating activities.
Osborne Chamber of Commerce, $500, to purchase website domains for a county-wide Google calendar, as well as offer educational classes on Google calendars.
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Q: what is causing "AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'diff'" I am new to numpy and I am NOT understanding the documentation as regards diff. the code below throws the error. I am baffled any help would be appreciated.
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/dave/Desktop/mcmtest/testhv calc.py", line 11, in <module>
     r =  np.log(close_prices).diff()
 AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'diff'

here is the test code.
import numpy as np
from numpy import sqrt,mean,log,diff
import pandas as pd

close_prices = [178.97,175.5,171.07,171.85,172.43,172.99,167.37,164.34,162.71,\
                    156.41,155.15,159.54,163.03,156.49,160.5,167.78,167.43,166.97,167.96,171.51,171.11]

print (close_prices)

r =  np.log(close_prices).diff()
print(r)

A: Given that numpy.ndarray is the Python type of "numpy arrays", the error is just saying that arrays don't have a diff method. diff is a function defined in the numpy module.
Instead of np.log(close_prices).diff(), do
np.diff(np.log(close_prices))

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We readers of books are few and far between, not just in Turkey, but increasingly in the US. A look in a Borders or a Barnes & Noble will tell you this. For Christmas I got a gift certificate for one of these (I can't remember which, as I can't tell them apart except for perhaps their color schemes), and I had a terrible time finding anything I might want to read, or that I hadn't already read. Books with pictures are big there, and coffee table books, how-to books, self help books, and spiritual books, but there is very little by way of literary fiction or meaningful non-fiction. Plenty of spy novels and bodice rippers though. At the moment (I'm back in America now), we have a particularly difficult relative visiting. She's a lot of baggage and we deal with her as best as we can, for my mother's sake. After a particularly trying evening, I whispered to my dad the rather cruel fact that this woman doesn't really have any redeeming qualities. Then, despite everything, I had to take this statement back. This relative is in the minority of Americans who reads books, proper books. She's reading one right now. It's not Faulkner or anything, but it's not a bodice-ripper either.
In Turkish films, foreigners are often (somewhat comically) portrayed alone in a cafe reading, as though no one can quite figure out this bizarre foreign behavior (though is it reading or being alone they can't figure out? Turks don't seem big on either one). Illiteracy in Turkey is high (I'm too lazy to look up the numbers and it varies wildly by region and gender, according to this), and in general, it's not really a 'reading' culture. This isn't meant exactly negatively. Turkey is just more of an oral culture, where the written word doesn't play as big of a big role as it does in Western countries. As a small example, I think I've only seen a fellow shopper with a list in the grocery store once. I think it's interesting though, to see where one skill is less used, another is more emphasized. In general, Turks are way better at memorizing things than Americans are. Students impressed me with their memorized oral presentations. Sometimes the presentations were pretty good, where it was obvious the student knew what he or she was talking about. Other times, a student would have memorized an entire ten-minute presentation of text cut-pasted from the Internet of which he or she understood next to nothing. This didn't bode well for learning English or for their grades, but it absolutely astounded me how these kids could memorize this much of something which amounted to nonsense for them. I suppose this came in handy for them in reciting the Koran in Arabic. Finding a clever way to use these memorization skills to actually help them learn English was something I never quite got around to while I was teaching, but there must be a way.
Memorization is a skill that Americans are losing. Those of my parents' generation had to memorize poetry or Shakespeare, which they can still recite to this day. Even my high school still relied on somewhat old-fashioned and traditional approaches to teaching literature, so I also memorized bits here and there, though nothing like what my predecessors had to do. In America though, people are reading less and less without having other skills to make up for it. One thing that never fails to surprise me here (and something I manage to conveniently forget while I'm away) is many Americans' seeming pride in their ignorance, and their fierce determination to avoid having knowledge of any kind foisted upon them. It's like some people actually get personally offended by people who know things, or who read more in the newspaper besides the sports stats and celebrity gossip. In Turkey, uneducated people often strike me as a little ashamed of their ignorance, and are somewhat deferent towards people they perceive as learned. In America a lot of people are, as a friend of mine once said, "Ign'ant and lovin' it." This same friend was recently confronted with an adult American student who got belligerent about his name (an easily pronounceable Norwegian variation of a common English name). When he told her where his family and name come from, she huffily responded, "That means nothing to me."
And remember, people like this vote, though Americans are notoriously lackluster in that department as well. But I'd say the Bush administration is a symptom of Americans' willful ignorance, rather than the cause.
I have this really cool friend who passes through Turkey a few times a year, and has been doing so since the early 90s. He's of my father's generation, and like me, he's a reader. When you live in a foreign country and you read a lot, books in English become one of the most valuable things you can find. Sure, they can be had in Istanbul, but they're expensive. It's an extravagant cost I'm always willing to eat, but my appetite for books exceeds some people's monthly incomes, and shrinking weight limits for baggage make it hard to haul enough books to tide me over until my next trip home. My friend has the same problem, so whenever we meet up, we swap a pile of books. I'm always happy to let a book go once I've read it. They don't serve any decorative purpose in my house. The shelves get so full they just start to be a hazard for the little one, and the books are in danger of getting abused and nibbled at.
It always feels a little funny, handing our sacks of books across the table once our coffee is finished and we're waiting for the bill. I feel a little like a secret agent or a drug dealer. I last met my friend a couple of weeks ago in Sultanahmet. When we swapped the books, the restaurant manager, still bleary-eyed from being up the night before for the European cup quarter-finals, came up and said in jolly Sultanahmet English, "School!" My friend and I must have looked a little confused because the waiter clarified. "Books! Books! School!" He then asked in Turkish what we could possibly be doing with so many books, as though that much reading material was somehow suspicious.
I look forward to these books swaps every few months (though admittedly it's been longer than that with the birth of LE). I like that my friend, on his way from Saudi Arabia to Bulgaria, takes the trouble during his 24-hour Istanbul stop to meet up, discuss teaching and politics and whatever else under the sun, and trade books.
We bookworms of the world are few and far between, and we have to stick together.
I've just finished a book which I recommend. I bought it at DnR, where I'm sometimes forced to buy books for lack of reading material. Occasionally, whilst I gaze at the shelves in amazement at their total lack of system and conclude from the selection that orders must be made in a totally random way too, I find a gem. The book is Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. It's about a cliquey high-school group and the mysterious suicide of their teacher. It is reminiscent of The Secret History. It is narrated by one of the students, sort of like an academic paper. There are certain unanswered questions by the end of a book and it finishes with an exam. I thought it was such an original approach to narration.
Sounds brilliant! Go ahead and pass it along to someone there, and I'll pick up a copy here.
When I was teaching in Istanbul, teachers would swap books all the time. The problem with me is that when I get a book I love, I don't want to part with it. I've been trying to find one of those books that I lent out ever since I got back but have had no luck.
It was just interesting how it took weeks to get rid of the books.
Hope you're having a blast back in the USA - what's it like to be home? Any culture shock?
It's something like culture shock. Last week we were in San Francisco, and there was a huge line of people snaking around the street. My dad went and found out they were all lining up for i-phones. I asked what the hell an i-phone is, and he sort of shook his head and said there's so much I'm missing. Not that he thinks i-phones are so important, but there are a lot of things in the American common consciousness that I'm missing out on.
Like American Idol. I didn't even realize Paris Hilton was a person until about 2 years ago. And then there's this new brand Tommy Bahama everyone is so excited about. So I'm not entirely sure missing out on this stuff is such a bad thing.
A table full of free books sounds like a sweet, sweet dream.


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Q: Flex: image switching place in tilelist I'm running into an odd issue with itemRenderers inside a TileList.
Here is a working example without an itemRenderer: 152.org/flex/
Here is the broken version with an itemRenderer: 152.org/brokenExample/
(I don't have the rep to make both of these a link)
Both examples have "View Source" enabled.
To see the problem use the broken example, select an album and scroll down one row. Scroll back up and the images will be switched. If you try this on the working example it's fine.
This seems to be a widely known bug, but I can't find a solution for it.
UPDATE
I started playing with this example again and found out something else. Turns out you don't have to override the data setter. You can create a new method in the itemRenderer that is set whenever the tile wants to refresh. So the trick is to not rely on the initialize or creationComplete methods.
This is what I have for the itemRenderer in the Application.
<itemRenderers:ImageTile img="{data}"/>

This is the code I have in the itemRenderer.
public function set img(value:String) : void {
  trace("setting source: " + value);
  this.source = value;
  this.name = value.toString().split("/").pop().split(".").shift();
}

I updated my example to reflex this change.

A: I don't have your app handy, so I can't test end-to-end, but I've looked at your source.  You probably need to override the data setter in your itemRenderer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Image xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" initialize="init()">

 <mx:Script>
  <![CDATA[

   override public function set data(value:Object):void
   {
    super.data = value;
    this.source = data;
    this.name = data.toString().split("/").pop().split(".").shift();
   }

   private function init() : void {
    // Removed from your source and transplanted above
   }

  ]]>
 </mx:Script>

</mx:Image>

Flex will attempt to re-use item renderers in lists (which means the lifecycle events you might be expecting -- initialize, creationComplete, etc. -- won't always fire), so if you want to be sure your renderer gets updated when the data item changes (as it will when scroll events happen), the best practice is to override the renderer's data property.  That'll most likely fix the problem.

A: Maybe try to invalidate on creationComplete?
From what I recall with DataGrids (which work somewhat similarly to a tilelist), when an item comes into focus its recreated.
<mx:itemRenderer>
  <mx:Image id="myImage" creationComplete="myImage.invalidate()" />
</mx:itemRenderer>

Haven't tried this code but I think this is where you want to start looking. I took a look at your itemRenderer component. Try creationComplete instead of initialize to call your function


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using namespace std;
using namespace chr;
using namespace gl;
using namespace draw;

Sketch::Sketch()
:
shader(InputSource::resource("Shader.vert"), InputSource::resource("Shader.frag"))
{}

void Sketch::setup()
{
  Texture texture = Texture::ImageRequest("checker.png")
    .setWrap(GL_REPEAT, GL_REPEAT)
    .setFilters(GL_NEAREST, GL_NEAREST);

  geometryBatch.setTexture(texture);

  torusBatch
    .setShaderColor(1.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f, 1)
    .setTexture(texture);

  Box()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setColor(0.75f, 0.75f, 0.75f, 1)
    .setSize(300, 0, 300)
    .append(geometryBatch, Matrix());

  Box()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setColor(1, 0.25f, 0, 1)
    .setSize(60)
    .append(geometryBatch, Matrix().translate(0, 30, 0));

  Sphere()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setColor(0.25f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1)
    .setSectorCount(60)
    .setStackCount(30)
    .setRadius(40)
    .append(geometryBatch, Matrix().translate(-75, 40, 100));

  Cylinder()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setColor(0.25f, 0.25f, 1.0f, 1)
    .setSectorCount(30)
    .setStackCount(1)
    .setBaseRadius(40)
    .setTopRadius(0)
    .setHeight(80)
    .append(geometryBatch, Matrix().translate(75, 40, -100).rotateX(-HALF_PI));

  Cylinder()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setColor(0.25f, 0.25f, 1.0f, 1)
    .setSectorCount(30)
    .setStackCount(1)
    .setBaseRadius(40)
    .setTopRadius(40)
    .setHeight(80)
    .append(geometryBatch, Matrix().translate(-75, 40, -100).rotateX(-HALF_PI));

  Torus()
    .setFrontFace(CW)
    .setSliceCount(20)
    .setLoopCount(60)
    .setInnerRadius(12)
    .setOuterRadius(48)
    .append(torusBatch, Matrix());

  // ---

  glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
  glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
  glDepthMask(GL_TRUE);

  glEnable(GL_BLEND);
  glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
}

void Sketch::resize()
{
  camera
    .setFov(45)
    .setClip(0.1f, 1000.0f)
    .setWindowSize(windowInfo.size);
}

void Sketch::draw()
{
  glClearColor(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1);
  glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

  // ---

  camera.getViewMatrix()
    .setIdentity()
    .translate(0, 0, -400)
    .rotateX(30 * D2R)
    .rotateY(15 * D2R);

  Matrix modelMatrix;

  State state;
  state
    .setShader(shader)
    .setShaderMatrix<MODEL>(modelMatrix)
    .setShaderMatrix<VIEW>(camera.getViewMatrix())
    .setShaderMatrix<PROJECTION>(camera.getProjectionMatrix())
    .setShaderMatrix<NORMAL>(modelMatrix.getNormalMatrix())
    .setShaderUniform("u_view_pos", camera.getEyePosition())
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.point_light_count", 1)
    .setShaderUniform("u_point_lights[0].position", camera.getEyePosition())
    .setShaderUniform("u_point_lights[0].color", glm::vec3(1, 1, 1))
    .setShaderUniform("u_point_lights[0].intensity", 1.0f)
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.ambient", glm::vec3(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f))
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.specular", glm::vec3(1, 1, 1))
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.shininess", 25.0f)
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.has_color", true) // i.e. do not use diffuse color but vertex color instead
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.has_texture", true)
    .setShaderUniform("u_material.texture", 0)
    .apply();

  geometryBatch.flush();

  modelMatrix
    .translate(75, 60, 100)
    .rotateY(clock()->getTime());

  state
    .setShaderMatrix<MODEL>(modelMatrix)
    .setShaderMatrix<NORMAL>(modelMatrix.getNormalMatrix())
    .apply();

  torusBatch.flush();
}

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By Gia Branciforte
Click here to see the website for UNC Bonner Scholars
About UNC Bonner Scholars
The flagship Bonner Leaders Program at UNC is part of a nationwide network of more than 80 colleges and universities that provide service-based scholarships and leverage federal community service work-study funds to support intensive undergraduate community service and social justice activities throughout students' college careers. Each year, a diverse group of incoming first-year students are chosen through a competitive application process emphasizing service and leadership.
The sustained service program, housed in and staffed by the Campus Y, follows a four-year model designed to engage students in addressing community-identified needs. They initially work as direct-service volunteers, grow into project and site coordinators, and ultimately engage in public policy and community-based research.
The service requirement is significant – more than 250 hours per year – and is complemented by weekly meetings, leadership workshops, and capacity building seminars. It is a campus-wide, interdisciplinary initiative involving both Student Affairs and Academic Affairs.


A sedentary lifestyle, which often means sitting for long periods of time, isn't good for your overall health and may increase your risk of heart disease or diabetes. This isn't particularly welcome news if you have a desk job where you typically spend 8 hours a day sitting at a desk in front of a screen.
Fortunately, there's a way to counteract the negative health effects of sitting — and it's pretty simple. Research shows you can undo some of the damage by taking short, regular walking breaks.
Published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, this recent study found when people sat uninterrupted for 3 hours, it negatively impacted the ability of the of the lining within their leg arteries to expand and dilate as needed in response to blood flow. This problematic symptom may be a precursor to heart disease.
When people broke up their 3 hours of sitting with 5-minute walking breaks once an hour, the function of the arteries in their legs was not negatively impacted. "Breaking sitting time with short walking breaks is a countermeasure that protects arterial function against the harmful effects of prolonged sitting," says study author Saurabh Thosar, PhD, an assistant professor at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Because the study participants didn't exercise vigorously or work up a sweat, it's easy enough to replicate their efforts in an office setting to reap similar rewards. Set a reminder on your phone or computer every hour to stand up and walk around the office for 5 minutes, whether it's to the water cooler to hydrate or simply a big loop around your department. You can even grab a fellow co-worker and walk the stairs for an extra challenge. "While the study focused on the effects of an hourly break during a 3-hour period of sitting, hourly breaks will likely have similar effects during an 8-hour workday," explains Thosar.


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How to Apply for Equity for a Home Financed Through FHA
By Karina C. Hernandez
How to Increase a Mortgage to Fix Up a House
What Is the Function of the FHA?
How to Add Names to a Mortgage Refinance
How to Take a Spouse Off of a Deed of Trust
How to Calculate the Most Expensive House You Can Buy
Federal Housing Administration borrowers enjoy a low down payment and flexible qualifying guidelines when buying a home. The government agency, which insures loans made by approved lenders, also offers refinance programs. It allows you to tap into your home's equity by paying off a current FHA-insured loan with proceeds from a new mortgage and cashing out on a portion of your home's value. To meet the FHA's basic requirements for a cash-out refinance, you must occupy the home as your primary residence, verify income and borrow within the FHA loan limit for your area.
Locate a lender approved to do business with the FHA. Contact your current FHA lender or mortgage servicing company by calling the phone number on your monthly mortgage statement. Comparing cash-out refinance offers from at least two lenders can help you find the best loan terms. Shop among FHA-approved credit unions, commercial banks, mortgage lending companies and mortgage brokers to find a lender or visit the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website and use the FHA lender look-up tool.
Complete and sign the Uniform Residential Loan Application -- URLA -- provided by the FHA lender. The application requires identification, income, asset and liability information from all borrowers who will be obligated on the refinance loan. In general, you may remove a co-borrower from the existing FHA loan with a cash-out refinance, but may not add a new borrower or cosigner to help you qualify. You must also sign an authorization form that allows the lender to run a credit check, verify assets with your banks and verify employment and income.
Provide the lender with documentation that supports the information on your application. Standard paperwork includes the most recent month of pay stubs or income documents; the previous two years of tax returns and the past two months of bank statements. You must also provide asset and income information for investments.
Pay an FHA-approved appraiser to conduct an inspection of your home. The lender bills you for the appraisal up-front or at closing and orders the appraisal. The appraiser walks through your home, taking photos of it and its components. It also researches market data to discern comparable homes recently sold in the area to estimate your home's value. The appraiser also denotes defects that may affect your home's value, safety and future marketability.
Determine the amount you want to cash out by considering the loan-to-value -- LTV -- and FHA loan limitations. The FHA allows you to borrow up to 85 percent of your home's value, or 85 percent LTV. This means that you must have sufficient equity in your home to pay off your previous loan balance, cover closing costs and the amount of cash back you want at closing. The total of these can't exceed 85 percent LTV. Additionally, your lender limits the amount you can borrow based on where the home is located. As one of the country's most expensive areas, San Francisco has the highest FHA loan limits at $729,750 for single-family home.
HUD: FHA Mortgage Limits
FHA.com: FHA Cash-Out Refinance
HUD: Handbook 4155.1
Bankrate.com: California Closing Costs
HUD: FHA Mortgage Limits: San Francisco County
When your paperwork is unclear or insufficient, the lender may require you to provide a letter of explanation for discrepancies. The explanation must supplement or back up the information you provided on the application.
Your lender must provide you with an estimate of your closing costs within three days of your submission of a loan application. As of 2012, the average closing cost total on a $200,000 mortgage in California was $3,854, according to Bankrate.com.
Lenders may not ask you to sign a blank or incomplete application, disclosures or other loan-related documents.
The lender may request repair of certain defects that affect structural soundness, such as termite damage, roof leaks or faulty electrical and plumbing systems. Cash-out funds may be used to complete necessary repairs when invoiced and paid from the proceeds at closing.
K.C. Hernandez has covered real estate topics since 2009. She is a licensed real estate salesperson in San Diego since 2004. Her articles have appeared in community newspapers but her work is mostly online. Hernandez has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA and works as the real estate expert for Demand Media Studios.
How to Apply for an FHA 203(b) Loan
How to Convert Conventional Loans Into VA Loans
How to Refinance from an Interest-Only to a Traditional Mortgage
How to Estimate Your Escrow Closing Cost
How to Lower Mortgage Interest Rates
How Do I Determine the Amount of a Home Equity Loan?
How to Refinance a Mortgage for a Lower Payment in Retirement
How Do I Get Out of an FHA Mortgage?
How to Refinance My Mortgage With a Different Bank
1 How to Apply for an FHA 203(b) Loan
2 How to Convert Conventional Loans Into VA Loans
3 How to Refinance from an Interest-Only to a Traditional Mortgage
4 How to Estimate Your Escrow Closing Cost


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If you're stuck in Shinsou Sekai Grinsia, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
A family of treasure hunters hears the news that an ancient ruin has been uncovered. They creep into the ruins, where they are certain they'll discover some wonderful treasures. But in the end, will they be successful in their hunt for the treasure?
*- Grinsia' is a fantasy RPG, with a quest involving twin Goddesses, and six pieces of treasure. The main characters are a family of treasure hunters, and they are joined by a wide range of other characters.
- In 'Grinsia', you can choose your allies from a wide range of characters.
- When the number of characters passes a certain point, you can choose which of your allies to take with you by going to a tavern in one of the towns or villages.
- Each character reacts differently to each event, so by changing the members of your party, you can play the game again and again, enjoying the different reactions of the members.
- In the main story, there are characters who won't become allies, too.
- Journey across the world, in search of allies!
- As time passes, the game changes between day and night. The appearance of towns and open land, and the way the game progresses, differ between day and night.
- The beautiful graphics support high-resolution screens.
- You can select the graphics quality from the Options menu. By choosing a lower graphics quality, it is possible to make the game faster.
- You can choose from two types of game control, to make the game as comfortable to play as possible. The options are touch control, and a virtual cursor pad control.
- The treasure you gain has special powers, and can be used during battle. When you use a piece of treasure as an accessory, you become able to use 'EX Skills'.
- The game supports OpenFeint, with a large number of achievements to aim for!


These are some of the CSR initiatives by well known companies / our clients. Govt. of India has made it mandatory for the profit making company to spend a small part of their profit in CSR activity for the benefit of the society, in which these companies operate.
If you are a company want to reach out to wider area and needful clients, you may like to post your CSR activity and the area of interest. We shall be very happy to connect you to our wide network of well-wishers, clients and NGOs.
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This is the second lecture on what is called "control flow" in programming. We will use IF statements to control what Matlab excecutes.
Help on IF statements can be found here.
executes a group of statements when the expression is true.
previous expressions in the if block are false.
An if block can include multiple elseif statements.
Here is a sample script which demonstrates more complex flow control.
This example for IF statements and For loops comes directly from the Matlab documentation on IF.
This example applies to a question from last class: How to control plotting of text.


The end of 2017 is in sight, who will be named 2017's Extreme Racer Champion? November brought in 2,360.31 miles for the month and a year total of 24,986.5 miles for 2017. This update is through the end of November, just 1 month left in the competition. The top 2 are all really close. If you forgot to enter your race miles we will include them in the next update so be sure to get them in. Looking for races to enter? Be sure to check out the Run It Fast – Club Race Discounts in the Facebook group.
Leading the women is RIF #644 Ila Brandli with 2,179.2 points. Second place, RIF #450 Patricia Klein with 1,604.7 points. Coming in third place is RIF #525 Karen Vollan with 1,482.9 points.
Leading the men is RIF #263 Denis McCarthy with 2,025.29 points. Second place, RIF #638 Ken Fattmann with 1,644 points. Coming in third place is RIF #279 George Southgate with 1,266.6 points.


The following is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT's new Solve initiative recently announced the finalists for the Global Challenge Finals live pitch event during the United Nations General Assembly Week. Sixteen innovators and entrepreneurs, including Maplewood-based solution team StrongMinds, were selected as finalists for the Brain Health Challenge and will pitch their solutions to a live audience and a panel of expert judges including Khaliya, a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare and cofounder of Falkora, and Alvaro Fernandez, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of SharpBrains, on Sunday, September 17.
The finalists' exciting and creative solutions provide technology-based solutions for improving brain health and mental resilience.
Coding Autism: An in-person coding boot camp that aims to empowers those on the autism spectrum to improve overall brain health, mental well-being, and mental resilience through education and employment in the technology industry.
YouthCare: A program that trains undergraduate students to provide care for Alzheimer's patients to give primary caregivers respite time. YouthCare proposed an app that will reduce administrative costs and ease of communication for students and caregivers.
Autism Detection at Birth: A brain test for autism, which is based on a test that screens hearing impairment on 4,000,000 newborns a year. Modifying those hearing tests to also test autism would allow earlier treatment that decreases autism severity and increases the ability to join the workforce.
Tomo: A chatbot that helps manage the habits that keep people healthy. Tomo uses an anonymous, distributed buddy system, to help users help each other. Tomo is designed to provide scalable, personalized mental health support to the ~700 million people worldwide struggling with depression.
Immediately following the live pitch session, the finalists chosen by the judges will be announced as Solvers and join the Solve community to build partnerships with cross-sector leaders that help pilot, scale and implement their solutions. Along with joining the Solve community, the finalists have an opportunity to win incredible prizes including a mentorship prize curated by world-class cellist yo-Yo Ma for Solvers who present a solution based in arts and culture.
Solve is a community that brings together technologists, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, policymakers, researchers, and other change agents to unearth and implement solutions to specific, actionable challenges facing the world. More than 950 solutions from all over the world were submitted to Solve's 2017 Global Challenges: (1) Brain Health, (2) Sustainable Urban Communities, (3) Women and Technology, and (4) Youth, Skills, and the Workforce of the Future.
To attend the Solve Challenge Finals in New York City on September 17, apply for a press pass to the event here and view the schedule here. Additional details will be released in the weeks leading up to the Challenge Finals.


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12/08/2019 by Neverland Concerts in news
Rush is undoubtedly a cult group in Spain and much part of Europe. Maybe it's because, despite being one of the big bands of rock worldwide, they never visited our country on their tours during their 41-year career. It is a group revered everywhere and it is a shame that we´ll never again have the opportunity to see them live as Neil Peart (his drumer) is retired from music. Luckily, from Malaga we have 2YY2, a tribute band to the mythical RUSH. The group is composed by Manuel Correro (guitar and voices), Enrique Antequera (bass) and Dani Gut (drums), a total of three musicians imitating the original Canadian trio perfectly.
Do not miss the opportunity to listen to the music of Rush, a reference for progressive rock worldwide. Granada, Barcelona and Madrid are the chosen cities.
September 21th, Granada, sala Planta Baja. Concert conjunt amb Iron Dicks, tribute to Iron Maiden. More info.
Novembre 8th, Barcelona, sala Monasterio. More info.
Novembre 9th, Madrid, Barracudas Rock Bar. More info.


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GOP Gets Top Recruit To Run In Key North Dakota Senate Race
By Jessica Taylor
Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., talks in May 2016 about being one of the first to endorse then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer has reversed course and will challenge Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, finally giving Republicans a top recruit in a state that President Trump won by more than 30 points and making it a prime pickup opportunity for the GOP in 2018.
On Facebook, Cramer posted he will be announcing his Senate candidacy on Friday in Bismarck.
Cramer had initially said last month he wouldn't be challenging Heitkamp, leaving Republicans without a top-tier candidate against what should be one of Democrats' most vulnerable incumbents this year, serving in a consistently red state. The White House even reached out to Cramer to woo him to jump into the contest, but initially he elected instead to remain in his safe House seat.
But in recent days he began to waver on that initial decision. "There's certainly a growing snowball of encouragement coming out of the state," Cramer told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, according to CNN.
Former state party chairman Gary Emineth announced earlier this week he was dropping out of the Senate primary, in anticipation that Cramer was going to run. The Atlanticalso reported that if Cramer did run for Senate, state Sen. Tom Campbell, the other major candidate in the race, was likely to run for Cramer's open House seat instead, clearing the primary field for the congressman.
His change of heart is a bright spot for Senate Republicans who have struggled to find top recruits in other states as well, despite being blessed with a very favorable 2018 map where 10 Democrats are up for re-election in states that Trump won. Republicans hold just a narrow 51-49 Senate majority, and they have two vulnerable seats they're defending in Nevada and Arizona.
There are some other GOP candidates who seem to be reconsidering their Senate decisions as well, which could boost Republicans in the midterm elections. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker is rethinking his decision to retire, with some state Republicans believing he would be a stronger general election candidate than the current GOP front-runner, Rep. Marsha Blackburn. And there have been multiple reports that Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner is being pushed to reconsider her decision not to challenge Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
However, Cramer does bring some baggage to the North Dakota race. When then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer came under fire for favorably comparing Hitler to Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying, "You had someone who was as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Cramer said Spicer's comments were "not without some validity."
Cramer also criticized Democratic women who wore white to Trump's first joint address to Congress last year, in honor of suffragettes, saying that they were "poorly dressed" and that they looked "silly."
Jessica Taylor
Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.
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Squash: Shabana, Darwish keen to clinch JP Morgan title
Seven top Egyptian players - and possibly another three - to compete in one of the world's most prestigious squash competitions on Friday
Eslam Omar, Thursday 19 Jan 2012
Karim Darwish and Amr Shabana will lead a group of seven Egyptian squash players listed in the main draw for this year's J. P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, which will kick off Friday, 20 January, in New York.
In fifth place worldwide, Darwish is eager to win his first title, while world number-six Shabana will try to clinch his third after having taken it home in 2006 and 2007.
A former world champion, the 32-year-old Shabana won his first England-based tournament, the World Series, earlier this month.
The $115,000 prize will not be an easy hunt, especially for seventh-seeded Mohamed El-Shorbagy and four un-seeded Egyptians: Hisham Mohamed Ashour, Tarek Momen, Mohamed Ali Anwar Reda and Wael El-Hindi.
The 32 competitors will include top-seeded English players three-time runner-up Nick Matthew (2006, 2009 and 2011) and James Willstrop (2010 winner and 2008 runner-up).
Three other Egyptians are competing in the qualifiers: British Open and world junior champion Marwan El-Shorbagy, Amr Khaled Khalifa and Mohammed Abbas.
Ramy Ashour, who won the title in 2008 and 2011 and finished second in 2010, will miss this year's Grand Central Terminal event.
The tournament, which represents one of the most coveted titles of the Professional Squash Association, will this year celebrate 15 years of competition.
The round-one draw is as follows:
Nick Matthew (England) vs. Wael El-Hindi (Egypt)
Adrian Grant (England) vs. Qualifier
Olli Tuominen (Finland) vs. Cameron Pilley (Australia)
Aamir Atlas Khan (Pakistan) vs. Mohamed El-Shorbagy (Egypt)
Amr Shabana (Egypt) vs. Mohamed Ali Anwar Reda (Egypt)
Hisham Mohamed Ashour (Egypt) vs. Qualifier
Nicolas Mueller (Switzerland) vs. Qualifier
Borja Golan Santin (Spain) vs. Gregory Gaultier (France)
Karim Darwish (Egypt) vs. Daryl Selby (England)
Simon Rosner (Germany) vs. Tarek Momen (Egypt)
Tom Richards (England) vs. Qualifier
TBC vs. Thierry Lincou (France)
Peter Barker (England) vs. Qualifier
Shahier Razik (Canada) vs. Julian Illingworth (United States)
Alister Walker (Botswana) vs. Qualifier
Qualifier vs. James Willstrop (England)
Amr Shabana
Karim Darwish
Nick Matthew


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Sport-Club Herford – niemiecki klub piłkarski z siedzibą w mieście Herford, występujący w Westfalenlidze, stanowiącej szósty poziom rozgrywek w Niemczech.

Historia
Klub powstał w 1972 roku w wyniku fuzji zespołów SuS 1928 Herford oraz Herforder SC 07/08. Przez cztery sezony występował w 2. Bundeslidze (grupa Nord). Najpierw w sezonach 1976/1977 oraz 1977/1978, a następnie w sezonach 1979/1980 oraz 1980/1981.

Reprezentanci kraju grający w klubie
 John Bonello
 Vesa Mars

Występy w 2. Bundeslidze

Bibliografia
 Oficjalna strona klubu

Kluby piłkarskie w Nadrenii Północnej-Westfalii
Kluby piłkarskie założone w 1972

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Bills 27, Jets 10 | Game recap, highlights & photos
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Jordan Poyer (21) quarterback sack. Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets at Highmark Stadium on January 9, 2022. Photo by Craig Melvin
Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, NY (64,783)
Bills 27, Jets 10
Bills (11-6), Jets (4-13)
Next opponent:
Playoff opponent is TBD
For the full box score from today's game, click >> Link
Here's a list of notable team notes from today's game …
Bills have won their second consecutive AFC East title – the first time they have won back-to-back titles since 1988-91. It's also the third time in team history a team has won consecutive titles (1963-66).
The Bills have claimed the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoffs
The Bills have won 11 games for the 10th time in team history
Bills have swept the Jets for the second-consecutive season
Bills have extended their current winning streak to four consecutive games
Bills are 6-3 at home and have won 6+ games at home in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1998-99
Bills set a franchise record for single-season total yards (previous record 6,343 in 2020)
With his 224th catch since joining the @buffalobills, Stefon Diggs has surpassed Wes Welker (223 with New England from 2007-08) for the most catches by a player in their first two seasons with a team in NFL history. pic.twitter.com/4rKEv14Ivw
— Buffalo Bills PR (@BuffaloBillsPR) January 9, 2022
Ed Oliver with a sack in his third straight game.
That marks the Bills fifth sack today, tied with five sacks last week for the second-most this year by the Bills. The Bills recorded a season-high six sacks at MIA (9/19).
Matt Milano brings Zach Wilson down for the Bills seventh sack today, marking a new season-high for the @BuffaloBills.
— Buffalo Bills PR (@BuffaloBillsPR) January 10, 2022
Here's a list of the top player notes from today's game.
Josh Allen joined Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers as the only quarterbacks with consecutive seasons with 4,000+ passing yards and 35+ touchdown passes
Josh Allen is now the second quarterback in NFL history with 14,000+ passing yards and 2,000+ rushing yards in first four seasons joining Cam Newton
Josh Allen now has 400+ completions on the season and broke his own record for the most completions in a single season in team history (396 in 2020)
Stefon Diggs has become the first Bills player with 10 receiving touchdowns since Stevie Johnson in 2010. Diggs also set a new personal single-season high for touchdowns in a season.
Stefon Diggs set an NFL record for the most catches by a player in his first two seasons with a team (223 – Wes Welker, NE 2007-08)
Stefon Diggs became the first Bills player with 100 receptions in consecutive seasons and it's his third 100-reception season in his career.
Devin Singletary became the first Bills running back with 1,000 scrimmage yards in a season since 2017
Devin Singletary became the first Bill with a rushing touchdown in four straight games since Fred Jackson's five-game streak in 2011 (games 2-6)
Jerry Hughes now sits in sole possession of fourth place on the team's all-time sacks list (passing Cornelius Bennett – 52.5)
Josh Allen now joins Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes (accomplished last week) as the only players to record consecutive seasons with 4,000+ passing yards and 35+ passing touchdowns.
Cam Lewis breaks through for the punt block.
That marks the first punt blocked by the Bills since 2016 (Jerry Hughes @ SEA, 11/7/16).
Bills season concludes with 27-10 loss to the Bengals | Game recap, highlights, and stats
Bills failed to find an offensive rhythm against strong Bengals defense.
Bills stay alive in the postseason with 34-31 Wild Card win | Game recap, highlights, and stats
Buffalo won its fourth-straight home playoff game on Sunday.
Bills come away with an emotional win in regular season finale over the Patriots | Game recap, highlights, and stats
The Bills honored their teammate and locked up the No. 2 seed in the playoffs with a 35-23 win over New England.
Bills use potent running attack to put away Bears on Christmas Eve | Game recap, highlights and stats
Three different players scored rushing TDs to help the Bills beat the Bears
In snowy finish, Bills rally to beat Dolphins 32-29 on Tyler Bass' game-winning FG | Game recap, stats and highlights
The victory assured the Bills (11-3) of a playoff spot and the team can clinch the AFC East with a win next week in Chicago.
Bills edge Jets 20-12 in rematch behind key plays from the defense | Recap, Highlights and Stats
Bills notch 10th win of the season thanks to timely plays from both sides of the ball
Balanced Bills beat Patriots soundly 24-10 in Foxborough | Recap, highlights and stats to know
The Bills have now won five of their last six meetings against New England, including postseason play
Josh Allen leads clutch drive for game-winning FG, Bills beat Lions 28-25 on Thanksgiving | Recap, highlights & stats
The Bills needed only :23 seconds at the end of the game to get the win in Detroit
Bills show resolve, overcome early deficit to beat Browns 31-23 | Recap and highlights
The Bills scored 25 unanswered points during the game to take down the Browns in Detroit.
Vikings stun Bills 33-30 in overtime thriller | Game recap, stats to know and highlights
The Bills drop to 6-3 and 3rd place in the AFC East after another heartbreaking loss
Bills get tripped up by Jets, lose 20-17 | Game recap, highlights and stats to know
Josh Allen had an uncharacteristic day as the Bills' 4-game win streak is snapped
Bills 27, Packers 17 | Game recap, highlights and stats to know
The Bills are off to their best start since 1993


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Buhari: No More Easy Money To Throw Around
Ardent Reader, News Freak, Socio-Political Commentator, Archaeologist & Pro-Democrat.
The era of free money is gone for good, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, said in Gusau, Zamfara State.
Speaking when he commissioned the Wanke- Danjigba-Kucheri-Kigama-Bilbis Road in the North-West state, the president said there is no easy money to throw around again like before.
Buhari, who urged all Nigerians to think closely about the country's situation, said:
"There is no easy money to throw around. We must go back to farming and livestock rearing so that we can develop the industries, we must put our hands on deck to ensure success of our mission in engineering Nigeria".
The president insisted that his administration would not relent in the ongoing anti-graft war, saying corruption had stunted the nation's growth.
While assuring that his administration was not on a deliberate mission to humiliate or disgrace anybody, he promised that recovered loots would be put to public use.
"I also wish to reiterate to the people of Zamfara State and Nigerians in general the commitment of this administration to restore sanity in governance. We shall continue to prosecute the war against corruption. We do not wish or desire to humiliate or disgrace anybody, but we must recover stolen funds and put them to collect public use", he said.
Buhari said since his administration was inaugurated on May 29, 2015, the journey to fix the country and restore the hope of the common man had begun in earnest.
He said the challenge of his government was translating the change promised into reality, noting that this could not happen without the culture of accountability and good governance.
"I assure all Nigerians that the grim economic situations are a passing phase which all societies go through", the president added.
Buhari also stated that the security situation in Nigeria was improving, pointing out his administration's commitment to securing the nation was already yielding results.
The president said the federal government remained committed to dealing decisively with all threats to national security from any quarters, adding that was part of the reasons he was personally in Zamfara to flag-off the military operations aimed at routing out the menace of cattle rustlers and armed bandits, not only in the state, but in the entire axis of the North-west.
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Mimi July 16, 2016 At 3:57 am
Buhari says no more easy money to throw while he,his wife & kids are stil maintaining the rich mans life by wearing expensive material things & celebrating like never b4.It is clear dis man is a hypocrite but God shall soon tackle him accordingly.


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Varpflätan är ingen egentlig fläta i vanlig mening där tre eller fler tampar korsar varandra i ett givet mönster. Varpflätan är den varp som tagits ner från varpställningen genom att man lossar på varpen från den övre varppinnen och där skapar en ögla som man trär handen genom och hämtar upp en ny ögla från resten av varpen och så vidare. (Förfarandet kallas att påta.)

Dessförinnan är det brukligt att knyta omtag om varpen mitt emellan ställningens alla hörn, men i synnerhet över och under skälet, och både framför och bakom skälpinnarna i ställningens nedre del.

Bygdemål
Dialektala namn på varpfläta är:
Fjäte i Västergötland
Fäte i Värmland och Dalsland
Fättja i Närke
Svep i Västergötland
Värpelänk i Skåne

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What Do We Know About The Nissan 400Z?
Cars Guides Nissan Nissan Z Coupe Sports cars Future cars 2020 General Knowledge Buyers Guide
It Could Be As Powerful As The 2008 Nissan GT-R R35
by Safet Satara, on June 17, 2019, 08:00
We will get a new Nissan Z-car. The new Nissan Z car is due for a reveal in the coming years, and some suggest we may even see it at the next Tokyo Motor Show or at NAIAS in 2019. Mind you, this information is yet to be confirmed, but we already know that Nissan is working on a replacement for the 370Z. I am telling you again - the new Nissan Z car will come. For me, this is a huge deal as I really liked the 370Z in its purest, least expensive form. Ignore my emotions from now on as I try to elaborate on what the new Nissan Z car should be. Believe me, so many rumors circulate on the Internet that it is almost impossible to separate right from wrong and truth from deception. In that regard, I am going to give you a rundown of the most logical solutions Nissan may employ for the creation of the new Z car.
A New Z Car is Officially in the Works
The Next-Gen Nissan Z and Nissan GT-R Will Be Electrified
Current Nissan 370Z Is Old and Due For Replacement
After almost a decade on the market, the Nissan 370Z is a definite oldie in the realm of sports cars.
It did leave an imprint, not unlike the one the 350Z and its predecessors left, but at this point of time, it seems to be just too old to continue.
A replacement is due, then. We have been waiting for what seems like a lifetime for someone from Nissan to comment on the new Z. Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan Design Chief finally spilled the beans in his talk to Wheels when he said:
"The Z-car, oh my god. Huge pressure. You can imagine I'm completely excited that I am in the position to work on that."
"To work on that." In my mind, this part of the sentence says enough. The new Z car is coming. A year before, in his talk with the UK Autocar, Albaisa also commented on the Z by confirming he is personally advocating the return of the new car. It seems he had it his way. Our way too. Thanks, Albaisa.
Nissan's Partnership with Mercedes On the New Z Car
The development of the new Nissan Z car seems to be quite an interesting one as someone from Nissan apparently reached out to Mercedes to form an agreement for a joint development of the new Z car. A development not unlike what Toyota and BMW did with the new Supra and the Z4. This would actually be an expected turn of events for a number of reasons:
Sports car market is dwindling
Mercedes and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi already have a clearly set up partnership
Infiniti and Mercedes already share a lot of technology
Joint development of the new SLC and the new Z car could lead to significant development cost cuts for both companies
Yet, despite all of this, some suggest that the talks failed.
Meanwhile, others are saying that Mercedes-Benz actually reached out to Nissan with an idea for a joint development of the SLC and the new Z, but Nissan refused due to low market demand for sports roadsters.
Whatever the reason or whatever the outcome, I would find it really unusual if the companies refused to cooperate on the development of the new Nissan 400Z. Due to some other information I came across, some form of cooperation might still be happening.
The Name? Nissan 400Z?
The name 400Z is just a rumor, but it seems perfect for the continuation of the series of cars that started almost 50 years ago.
Up until this point, Nissan linked the engine capacity with the number in the name. The 350Z had a 3.5-liter, V-6. The 370Z had a 3.7-liter V-6. Now, the alleged 400Z won't have an engine of that size. It is more likely to receive a turbocharged six-cylinder with 400 horsepower. In that regard, Nissan may do the only sensible thing and name the car not after the engine capacity, but in accordance with the power of its engine. 400 horsepower for the 400Z. This can create some problems as everyone expects the new Z car to have a number of different versions. Even with the four-cylinder engine and the super powerful Nismo. All of them will have different power outputs. What if the new car name ends up being the Z? I'd like that.
Linked to The Infiniti Q60
While linking the new SLC and the new Nissan 400Z is unlikely, matching it with the Infiniti Q60, on the other hand, seems to be a Vulcan kind of logic. Remember the Nissan 350Z? That one was built on the same platform as the Infiniti G35 (and many other cars, but that is not the point).
The problem with the new Infiniti Q60 platform may be that the car would be just too large.
After all, the Infiniti Q60 measures almost 185 inches in length with a wheelbase of 112.2 inches. The current 370Z is a car with 167 inches in length and a tiny wheelbase of 100 inches. I cannot see the new Z growing by more than a few inches. It would be a shame. Some rumors do suggest that this is going to happen nevertheless. But instead of the new Z becoming too large and too chubby, Nissan will shorten the wheelbase, retain the track, use the rear wheel drive layout of the Infiniti Q60 and adapt it for use on the shorter wheelbase. This leads me to imagine the new Nissan Z car using the engines from the Infiniti Q60 which would, frankly, be awesome.
Possible Versions
Considering that the whole world moves in the direction of electrification, one would assume that the newest Nissan pseudo-hallo Z car could do the same. I will try to imagine something here - a 400Z with a Mercedes-Benz sourced 3.0-liter, turbocharged engine with a mild-hybrid setup.
It already works in the new GLE SUV, numerous Mercedes-Benz cars, and even Mercedes-AMG 53 badged sports cars.
Of course, it is available with various states of tune. As it offers the latest in terms of technology and efficiency with plenty of power, having it in the possible Nissan 400Z hybrid would be nifty. Only if Nissan and Mercedes actually form this level of partnership with the creation of the new Z car.
3.0 V-6 turbocharged from the Q60
While the 3.0-liter, mild-hybrid, I-6 from Mercedes-Benz would be the biggest quirk of the new 400Z, far more likely is the integration of the 3.0-liter, turbocharged V-6 from the Infiniti Q60.
It is a raspy engine capable of things like 405 horsepower and 350 pound-feet of torque in the Q60 Red Sport.
Heck, it seems to be just the right evolution over the naturally aspirated 3.7-liter V-6 from the current car. Don't even consider that the new Z will get an N/A engine. I know you are thinking about it somewhere deep down, but that isn't going to happen, so just stop.
2.0-liter, I-4, turbocharged engine from Mercedes-AMG
Some rumors from before even suggested that the new Zetto will get an AMG developed four cylinder. You know, the most powerful 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine in the world. While I doubt this will ever happen, I may be on board with the 2.0-liter-powered entry level Zed.
The F-Type has one, Porsche 718 cars are only powered by four-cylinder engines, the new BMW Z4 will have a version powered by a small engine. The Supra probably as well. Nissan has to include it.
We still do not know which four-cylinder engine that will be, though. If not that mad AMG A45 one, then the one developed for the upcoming A35 could do. Bear in mind, all of this is only a conjecture. We are still far from knowing which entry-level engine will power the new Nissan Z car.
Nismo Version
Rumors about the new Z car haven't even properly started when Autocar from the UK shocked the Fairlady Z enthusiasts with the news that Nissan officials actually confirmed the creation of the new Nismo version of the car. Heck, I have some of the specs.
The new Nissan Z Nismo will come with a twin-turbocharged, 3.0-liter, V-6 with 475 horsepower and 451 pound-feet of torque.
It will all go to all four wheels. Can you even imagine how much power is this? The first version of the Nissan GT-R R35 developed 485 horsepower. And they were madly quick and strikingly fast. Can the new Z be as fast as the first GT-R R35? Boy, that would be some sick world to live in.
The new Nissan Z car is coming. That is all we know for sure. However, I can deduce some things:
It will probably be based on the upcoming Q60
Power will come from a turbocharged, 3.0-liter, V-6
It will be noticeably bigger compared with the current generation car
It will spawn a roadster version down the road
The hybrid model may be produced more for promotional purposes than for anything else
An entry-level version powered with a four-cylinder motor is likely
The car will have a somewhat adjusted naming nomenclature compared to what we have been accustomed to
The new Z may appear in the concept form next year although some even suggest the Nissan will reveal the production version in 2019
All in all, the next Nissan Z car should be adapted to the world of today where sports cars are fun and hot, but no one finds them appealing enough to spend big bucks on.
Read our full speculative review on the next Nissan Z.
Read our full review on the 2017 Nissan 370Z.
Read more Nissan news.
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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using TestLib.Entities;
using TestLib.UnitOfWork;
using System.Transactions;
using System.Threading;

namespace TestLibTests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitOfWorkTest
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestSimpleJoin()
        {
            using (CarsContext ctx = new CarsContext())
            {
                var q = from c in ctx.Cars
                        join b in ctx.Brands
                        on c.BrandId equals b.BrandId
                        select new
                        {
                            c.RegistrationNumber,
                            NavName = c.Brand.Name,
                            JoinName = b.Name
                        };

                q.ToList();
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestDifferentContexts()
        {
            using (CarsContext ctx1 = new CarsContext())
            using (CarsContext ctx2 = new CarsContext())
            {
                Car c1 = ctx1.Cars.First();
                Car c2 = ctx2.Cars.First();

                Assert.IsFalse(object.ReferenceEquals(c1, c2));
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestNestedScopesShareContext()
        {
            using (var uow1 = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Reading))
            using (var uow2 = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Reading))
            {
                Car c1 = uow1.DbContext.Cars.First();
                Car c2 = uow2.DbContext.Cars.First();

                Assert.IsTrue(object.ReferenceEquals(c1, c2));
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestSubsequentScopesNotShareContext()
        {
            Car c1, c2;

            using (var uow = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Reading))
            {
                c1 = uow.DbContext.Cars.First();
            }
            using (var uow = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Reading))
            {
                c2 = uow.DbContext.Cars.First();
            }

            Assert.IsFalse(object.ReferenceEquals(c1, c2));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void UpdateFirstCar()
        {
            int carId = 4;

            using (var ts = new TransactionScope())
            {
using (var uow = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Writing))
{
    Car c = SharedQueries.GetCar(carId);
    c.Color = "White";
    uow.SaveChanges();
}

                using (var ctx = new CarsContext())
                {
                    Assert.AreEqual("White",
                        ctx.Cars.Single(c => c.CarId == carId).Color);
                }
            }

            using (var ctx = new CarsContext())
            {
                Assert.AreEqual("Red",
                    ctx.Cars.Single(c => c.CarId == carId).Color);
            }
        }

        [TestMethod]
        [ExpectedException(typeof(InvalidOperationException))]
        public void TestWritingChildOfReadScope()
        {
            using (UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>
                uow1 = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Reading),
                uow2 = new UnitOfWorkScope<CarsContext>(UnitOfWorkScopePurpose.Writing))
            {

            }
        }
    }
}


"Chiaroscuro" is the follow-up to this fantastic trumpet player´s debut album, the much acclaimed "Sakuteiki" from 2001 (RCD2021). BBC Online called it "a thing of rare and compelling beauty.... musicmaking as natural and essential as breathing". This time he is joined by drummer Audun Kleive and sound artist Jan Bang to create some very beautiful musical soundscapes where the trumpet is the natural point of focus. There´s also more room for Arve´s wordless singing, sometimes used to stunning effect with Supersilent.