MakerBot has already established a pretty comprehensive positioning in the 3D printing world. The company, a subsidiary of Stratasys and the parent of Thingiverse, produces some of the most popular desktop 3D printers on the market and is gaining an appreciable presence in user-friendly technology through apps.
Today, December 9, MakerBot has announced the launch of their new MakerBot-Ready Apps Portal, through which all eight current MakerBot-Ready Apps are now available. As more apps are developed and ideas emerge from MakerBot's Developer Program, the Portal will only grow larger and more comprehensive.
"We are really thrilled to be able to seamlessly incorporate educational, entertaining and useful 3D printing applications into the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem," said CEO of MakerBot Jenny Lawton.
The MakerBot Developer Program has been around since this summer, and has now brought about some impressive expansion to MakerBot's 3D ecosystem. Apps developed through this initiative are now available for use on your favorite tech platforms, including desktop, mobile, tablet, and web-based systems. The apps' developers benefit from the system by gaining expansive access to iOS, Android, web, and other MakerBot Replicator 3D Printing Platforms.
Immediate access to all your favorite MakerBot-Ready Apps is now yours, bringing together a series of programs that are both fun and educational — and all integrated into 3D printing. The apps currently available include educational, design, entertainment, and useful programs that integrate MakerBot technology.
Modio — Users can design and 3D print their own characters through the app's library of parts and customize textures and shapes, mixing and matching parts and accessories to create all-new figures on their MakerBot Replicator 3D printer.
Robot Factory for MakerBot — Robots are pretty cool and certainly futuristic; using this app, you can create your very own. Robot Factory was designed by Chile-based Thinker Thing to use their mobile device to design a custom genetically modeled robot.
World of Rabbit — The promise of rabbit islands, seas filled with robots, and treasure hunts brings entertainment all around to this app. The Breakdesign-created app, through a collaboration with Trobok Toys, lets players earn rewards in the form of 3D printable models and accessories.
Cookie Caster — Ever wanted to make dessert, but not in a mundane shape? Cookie Caster, developed by Dreamforge, lets you design your own 3D printable cookie cutter, either selecting a design from their gallery or drawing/tracing your very own cookie design. See if you have what it takes to become a cookie designer that your friends envy!
Leopoly — Leanar3Do designed this browser-based app for those just getting into 3D design. Intuitive modeling tools let you create a range of customized objects that you can share, download, export, and store.
Zotebook — This mobile design app is also geared toward 3D designers who don't yet have a ton of experience, letting you turn 2D drawings into 3D printings, by simply specifying a height for the model.
Makers Empire — Easy enough to use that primary students and novice 3D designers alike can bring their concepts to life, Makers Empire is designed to be the "world's easiest to use 3D printing software." Themed modules lead you through the necessary steps to design, and align to school curricula in the US, UK, and Australia.
Fraemes — Dreamforge created Fraemes to allow you to create your own custom iPhone case. Artist-created designs can be personalized to your preference in an easy-to-use format, complete with a wide range of themes. Keep your phone safe from harm while also looking pretty snazzy.
We will definitely be keeping an eye out for further developments on this front. What other types of apps would you like to see in the Portal? Let us know what you think in the MakerBot-Ready App Portal forum thread at 3DPB.com.


What's next for markets on Thursday. From CNN Business' Anneken Tappe. The US session is over and traders are getting ready for Thursday. So are we.
IBM is shedding some businesses and swallowing Red Hat in a $34 billion deal. Its stock slid 3% after missing Wall Street expectations for its revenue.


Would you recommend Think Stand to a friend?
Now that's a great simple project! I just backed it on Kickstarter.
When I first heard about Think Stand I couldn't believe this product didn't already exist. Such an elegant solution to the problem of long-term iPad use. Very curious to hear what other people think.
@Chikodi I have a stand that's very similar and unless it's on a super flat surface, it still falls over. I want to find something that doesn't necessarily require sitting at a desk/table.
Kitae KwonMaker@kitaekwon · Founder & CEO, Think Stand, Inc.
@nikkielizdemere @Chikodi You are right when you use iPad in high angle position (like 40 or higher degrees). but when people use iPad on their laps. they use low angle (like 30 or less degrees) position. in this case, iPad can be balanced by its own weight as you can see in the Kickstarter video.
Pretty cool that the Logitech Keys-To-Go was posted the same day: http://www.producthunt.com/posts... Think Stand and Keys-To-Go are the perfect complement for one another.
Hi, I am the creator of Think Stand. Thank you for your interest and support!


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NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs
December 1, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth HPC 2
At this point in supercomputing, it's becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU, but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the "Kestrel" machine.
The newly announced system will be capable of 44 petaflops peak performance when it goes live in 2023. Even though we might expect the HPE Cray EX supercomputer to sport a future Intel Xeon processor like "Granite Rapids," NREL and HPE confirmed today that Intel "Sapphire Rapids" will be the host CPU, with acceleration coming from a forthcoming Nvidia A100 GPU, called A100NEXT Tensor Core GPU.
This is the first we have heard the term A100NEXT, so we have to assume this will be one of Nvidia's GPUs in the lineup for the next round of improvements which will likely be announced formally next year. Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, says the company will unveil new GPUs, CPUs, and networks every two years and it could very well be that this A100NEXT is that news in advance – albeit without much detail.
If we were to speculate on the A100NEXT Tensor Core GPU, the A100 will probably have a die shrink to 5nm and include more compute units, perhaps doubling via a chiplet design. After all, Nvidia is already at 54 billion transistors, which starts to get tricky yield-wise. By breaking those into four 25 billion transistor chips, odds of success go up – just in time for real-world exascale and ever-growing AI training.
Aside from NREL using what will be an "older" CPU via the Sapphire Rapids choice, we also have to wonder why NREL did not decide on Nvidia's "Grace" CPU, which will be available in the 2023 timeframe. It is likely a matter of guaranteeing delivery of the system, which does real mission-critical work and can't be subject to Intel-driven delays as with the "Aurora" supercomputer at Argonne. Further, while an Arm-based supercomputer of this magnitude would be quite the story, it could be that no-one wants to go first – that is, no one with such a clear practical science mission as NREL has.
Even though Huang says large-scale supercomputers only drive around one percent of the company's datacenter business, these are still important symbolically for the company that created the concept of GPU supercomputing over a decade back. AMD is a credible threat to Nvidia's GPU dominance at the upper end of HPC and Intel has a strong enough story to keep that two-year cadence a driving force.
NREL chooses to spend its innovation points, so to speak, less on novel compute and more on energy efficiency, which is no surprise given its mission within the US Department of Energy. This has meant firm commitment to vendors including Intel and HPE, although the introduction of Nvidia GPUs might mean a new loyalty will build, depending on how many codes can benefit from GPU acceleration.
As for NREL, the Intel tradition is strong. The current 8 petaflop Intel Skylake-based "Eagle" supercomputer is an all-CPU machine, which replaced the "Peregrine" system. The HPE commitment is also strong at NREL with the previous systems based on HPE designs with unique regard to power and cooling efficiency ("Peregrine" was the first supercomputer deployed with HPE's "Apollo" warm water cooling technology, which was used to keep nearby buildings warm in cold Colorado winters, capturing 97 percent of datacenter heat).
While this is not NREL's first dance with HPE, it is its first foray into the Cray system architecture via HPE's purchase of Cray. All of this delivered via an HPE Cray EX system with Slingshot fabric, which should help NREL handle both data-intensive and AI workloads. NREL went all-HPE/Cray with its storage infrastructure as well, opting for over 75 petabytes in a Cray Clusterstor E1000 system.
The HPE Cray EX system NREL chose is built around liquid cooling, which will lead to an annualized average PUE rating of 1.036 for the datacenter facility. Showcasing high energy efficiency is key for NREL, as is pioneering new research in that area. NREL supports energy research in renewables as well as areas like transportation, manufacturing, materials science, and more.
With that in mind, the last few years have shown speedy progress in blending HPC and AI. With the addition of advanced GPUs for training, we can expect NREL to blaze some new trails in HPC applications with a deep learning component.
According to HPE, there has already been collaboration with NREL on AI/ML technologies to monitor, automate and improve operational efficiency, including resiliency and energy usage, in datacenters, and an initiative to demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell-powered datacenters to deliver smarter, more energy-conscious computing environments.
"HPE has a long-standing collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where we have developed joint high performance computing and AI solutions to innovate new approaches that reduce energy consumption and lower operating costs," said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC, at HPE. "We look forward to continuing our relationship with NREL and are honored to have been selected to deliver an advanced supercomputer with Kestrel that will significantly augment the laboratory's efforts in making breakthrough discoveries of new, affordable energy sources to prepare for a sustainable future."
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
November 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 3
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. And while the collapse of the PC market and the Dot Coin Bust has not done its financials any favors in recent quarters, Nvidia's datacenter business …
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May 14, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 8
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore's Law …
The Local Maxima Ascension Of Datacenter At Nvidia
August 21, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 0
When we said thirteen weeks ago that we thought that Nvidia's datacenter business would be its largest operating division before too long, we didn't think it would only take a quarter to do that. But, as the gamers are awaiting the next-generation GPUs to power their ever-more-lifelike experiences and as …
For a renewable energy company it seems they chose a higher power use over energy efficiency.
Eric Olson says:
I think one thing overlooked with the AMD GPU offerings, at least journalistically, is that the supercomputing centers at the national labs may want more control of the software stack to ensure the longevity of their software development. In particular, for the expertise levels associated with exascale performance the fact that AMD ROCm is open source may be a significant advantage while for petascale configurations much less so.

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H1 profits at Irish dairy group Kerry rose by 9%. Kerry Group continues to show good growth with a strong US performance boosting its results. The company will also benefit strongly from its E398 million takeover of Irish rival Golden Vale. However, it will need to ensure it continues to grow organically, rather than becoming reliant on acquisitions.


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Keeping communication channels open is critical for airlines during a crisis
By Linda Fox | March 23, 2020
In a situation that is changing hour by hour, it has never been more critical for travel companies to keep in touch with their customers.
This is particularly true of the airline industry, with governments issuing updates around travel restrictions all the time.
Over the weekend, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian reinforced this message when he said: "Amid the stress and uncertainty, it's never been more critical to stay connected with one another, even as we practice social distancing to reduce transmission and keep each other healthy and safe. I remain dedicated to keeping you informed about the actions Delta is taking for you during this uncertain time."
In an interview with 15below CEO Nicholas Key, he discusses the role technology is playing in real-time communications with passengers, lessons learned from previous experiences and the need to meet customer expectations during a crisis.
Give us a snapshot of what you're seeing currently.
We are seeing the airlines, really similar to us as a business, having to react quite differently, almost day by day as the different governments around the world issue different advice and as the situation unfolds.
Unfortunately, it is more than ever before, a changing situation for the airlines and of course for their impacted passengers.
Airlines are certainly struggling with the massive dip in people wanting to travel, be that new bookings and revenue from new bookings or having to handle passengers who are booked and who either can't travel because of restrictions or don't want to because of the outbreak. They're really struggling with the impacts on their business.
Everyone knows the margins in the airline industry are very slim at the best of times and unfortunately some of those airlines who were financially on not so good a footing coming into this crisis are struggling or have gone.
That's very sad and everybody expects to see more of that depending on how long the outbreak, and the restrictions, and the downturn in travel continues for.
Traditionally in airline disruption, 15below might be helping with reputational issues, how is it helping now?
With coronavirus we are seeing a lot of the airlines reducing their capacity on different routes. Where they had four flights, they are reducing down to two.
That obviously requires a lot of operational change around the passengers who were on different flights being moved around and being put on to alternative flights.
The airlines, if you went back 20 years ago, would have had large reservation call centers who would be able to manage all that change to the inventory and the passengers. Now, because they don't have that human workforce they have to rely on technology like 15below to really allow them to make these changes very quickly and react to different situation like Trump's announcement that travel from Europe to America was going to be restricted.
That obviously impacts all of the mainland Europe carriers and all of those passengers who were on those flights needs to be re-accommodated on to alternative flights or they need to be contacted to ask if they want a refund or to postpone their travel to a later date when hopefully the restrictions will be lifted and that's a lot of communication with the passengers.
Operationally there is a big requirement for 15below systems to help keep the airlines' operational systems and processes going at this time when there is a massive strain on them because normally an airline would change 10% of passengers throughout a year, now we're seeing 50% plus of passengers being impacted and a lot higher in some areas of the world.
Then there's the passenger experience side of things which means that a lot of passengers due to travel either want to change their travel voluntarily or they need to know whether they are still able to fly, there's a real requirement for airlines to be communicating with their passengers and that communication needs to be happening almost in real time as the different situations unfold.
That's really where we come in, we have the ability to communicate in real-time with the passengers, the ability to tailor those messages to really give the passengers the information they need and the automation to deal with the massive volume of passengers that are impacted by this kind of situation.
Is there a glimmer of hope of recovery in Asia?
Everybody is holding on to what we have seen with the statistics around the cases in South Korea and China stabilizing.
Whilst the airline industry is very vulnerable to these kinds of situations it's also very resilient in its abilty to bounce back.
In today's world people need to and want to travel and if we start to see these glimmers of hope, travel will start up again relatively quickly.
The airlines we are working with in that region such as Cathay are really focusing on coming out the other side of this crisis and making sure they have retained the loyalty of the passengers and can go back to business as usual very quickly and we've minimized the amount of time this impacts us as much as possible.
Those strong airlines with good long-term passenger focus and loyal passengers will start to see the recovery very quickly as soon as the world gets some sort of control and there is light at the end of the tunnel.
What we're seeing in Asia is hopeful but at the moment the focus seems to be on Europe and whether it's going to grow even further in Europe or whether we're starting to see it peak and all we can do is take advice from the governments and see what they say.
In the past we have had all sorts of disruption, weather, the Icelandic Ash Cloud volcano, etc. - is the process the same in terms of managing them?
It starts the same. I think from what we see from year-to-year is passenger expectations of what their travel company provides them are changing.
When we look back at the Ash Cloud, firstly there were a lot of lessons learned about how operationally that was dealt with in the airline industry. A lot of those lessons were learnt in the years after so systems like the 15below platform were put in place for that reason.
As we approach another big crisis for the airline industry, this time coronavirus, we can look back on those incidents and learn from them but passengers expectations have also evolved, they expect a lot more information in real time, a lot more detailed information and accurate information. Back in 2009 with the Ash Cloud it was completely different.
When we go into a big situation like this it is approached in the same way that someone like Cathay would approach a typhoon hitting Hong Kong island which happens three or four times a year. It's pretty much guaranteed that it will happen but they don't know when.
The processes they go through in terms of passenger communication and passenger re-accommodation are fairly similar for a fairly confined event like a typhoon, that might impact their business in a huge way but for a fairly short period of time, to this which is unprecedented in the impact in terms of the length of time.
It's the same processes, the same objectives in terms of trying to personalize the message and trying to understand the different passenger requirements, different routes, different cultural needs of passengers.
You talk about real-time, detailed, accurate information - how difficult is that right now given how quickly it is moving?
It's difficult for the airline because their scheduling department and their yield management department have got to make decisions based on the advice and the restrictions being imposed on them by different governments. That is changing on a day-by-day business.
It's a moving target where different markets are imposing different restrictions several times a day. Once those decisions have been made, the technology kicks in fairly quickly and because of the automated nature it's very easy for it to be real-time and accurate because the airlines we work with have invested in making sure they have that capability to accurately and quickly communicate with passengers.
What they are struggling with is the ability to know what's next. What we're seeing is them literally treating this crisis on a day-by-day basis and saying: "What's the situation today?" They set up their cross-functional teams to respond to the crisis and it's all hands on deck to make sure that operationally they can carry on.
They are protecting their yields as much as possible and delivering the service to the passengers that still want to or are able to fly and that when the restrictions are lifted they can come out of it still flying.
Right now, what's your best advice for airlines?
To make sure they continue to proactively communicate with all passengers and their staff. It's very easy to overlook some groups of passengers or to feel like you are over-communicating with passengers.
In this kind of scenario the more information they can get the better, providing that information is accurate at the time you are pushing it out and you are proactively telling the passenger to expect more information at a certain frequency, that is what they really need to be doing.
All the passengers understand this is a situation that is not the airlines' fault but as with all these kind of situations it's an opportunity to build loyalty to show passengers they are looking after them.
The number one way to look after them I believe is by clear, accurate communications to give them the options, to allow them to self-serve to give them the waivers and the different vehicles airlines have to enable or empower their passengers to make those decisions.
When we do surveys of the industry, when we talk to passengers and talk to staff, people still talk about what happened in the Ash Cloud. They don't remember when everything went smoothly so this is the time to build that loyalty and that is really valuable stuff to the airline industry.
How important are integrations with the GDS and other technology providers right now?
There are key pieces of information that we need and key systems in the airline world such as reservations systems and the GDS that are absolutely integral to everything we do. Through our interfaces to Sabre, Amadeus, Navitaire, etc., we can get hold of that data.
Some of the travel agents clients we have they want to be able to identify passengers in certain markets very quickly. Our airlines also want to be able to tailor the information in a very accurate and very quick way. For example, European airlines want to be able to identify those flying to the US and get a message to them following Trump's announcement.
The only way that can be done with any kind of speed and accuracy is relying on the technology and we have to have the interfaces in place to access the data we need to push those messages out.
The good thing about the airline industry is that the vast majority use a small number of reservation systems and GDS so by having established links with all of those, when we get new airlines on board, it allows us to implement them very quickly and give them that capability very quickly.
So, broadly speaking, the three things that are happening are - the news goes out, you communicate with passengers and re-booking is going on in the background?
Trump will have made the announcement and passengers planning to fly are seeing that very quickly. Rather than flooding the call center, the European airlines are getting the message out really quickly saying they are aware of the announcement, that it is going to impact travel and they're working out the options and will present them in the next few hours.
They are then using the 15below systems or GDS to work out what options can be presented might depend on their itinerary, their tier status, different options, different destinations the passengers could still go to. h
Having the tech provided by Amadeus and others in conjunction with 15below means they can manage these different passenger types so a proactive informational message is first followed by an automated message around different options for what that individual passenger can do and a heavy amount of personalization according to their itinerary, tier status, language or culture.
One European airline sent over 800,000 messages through our systems on the first day of last week. There are very, very high volumes of messages going out to pretty much all the passengers but they still need to be highly personalized if you want them to be impactful and to have the benefit to the passenger. There's not point in just sending spam messages out that are the same.
Are you seeing any opportunity for airlines right now, could be geographically based or something else?
It comes back to that building of passenger loyalty. When we look back on the other widespread disruption and the passengers that were impacted but have a positive message about the airline that looked after them, that lasts for years and years and the value of that in monetary terms should not be overlooked.
There are various studies in regards to that kind of formula of how much that passenger is worth and this is the opportunity, if we're looking for a positive, to really capitalize and build that loyalty among that passenger base.
The airlines that are surviving this are the ones that will manage their passengers well and will work through and reduce the cost of what they are doing at the moment, the logistical cost, but continue to build that loyalty.
Do actions such as flexible terms and conditions act as a stimulus or what effect do that have?
That kind of flexibility is really needed. Passengers are looking for their chosen airline brands to react in that way. There was a little bit of a backlash against some airlines around dates applicable so it has to be managed very well and really quickly.
Again, it comes down to the communication with the passengers around that - if they didn't book within the dates announced then what are the options but those kind of flexible T&Cs are going a long way to help passengers on an individual basis and that's where that loyalty will be bred.
What is the process for when we see some tangible shoots of recovery?
Then, certainly our airlines are trying to get back to a position of competitive advantage that they were working on before. The big international brands see the customer experience as being from the point when the passenger makes the booking all the way through to when they arrive back at home.
There is a really important period up until that passenger is in the safe hands of airline staff on the day of travel where that passenger experience can really be enhanced in a thousand different ways when you look at the different types of communication that are possible and when you look at some of the services that are offered to enhance their experience.
I think the airline industry has really got that in the past few years. They looked outside the industry at the likes of Amazon and Netflix and said how can we enhance this experience and communicate individually with passengers and give them that thing that our rivals are not.
It's a real shame coronavirus has come along and had such a massive hit because they were making huge inroads in that area last year.
Is there any concern that because they will all be fighting for survival that they might let go for nice passenger experience things?
That's a real danger and it comes down to the individual airline's prioritization and strategy. The bigger airlines are very aware of not losing that ground and not de-prioritizing passenger experience in hard times such as these. It will come down to the CFO's decision and some budgetary compromises in different airlines but certainly the big airlines doing it well are very aware of picking it back up as soon as possible.
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When I was very young I was diagnosed with what they thought was autism, but the more I learn about Aspergers the more it seems like maybe it was closer to that. It's the same but it's a little more functional, I guess.
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Have you ever felt there were some advantages to having Aspergers?
I have a couple of things in my life that have been considered potential hindrances, but to me those things have always seemed to give you an extra perception or a more empathetic set of circumstances you have a little bit of a higher sensitivity to certain areas. It can definitely be a gift as much as it can be an obstacle.
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Saudi Arabia releases another 28 Pakistani prisoners
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has released another 28 Pakistani prisoners in Damam city of the Kingdom.
Pakistan International Airline's flight 9246 with 28 released Pakistani will arrive in Lahore on Tuesday (today). These prisoners were involved in minor offenses in Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Bilal Akbar at the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan has been striving to get freedom of the Pakistanis detained in minor cases.
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Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib in a tweet has also said, "Pakistanis imprisoned in Saudi Arabia are returning home today."
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Miami Hurricanes sophomore guard James Palmer has decided to transfer.
Palmer is from Washington and played in 34 games as a reserve this season. He averaged 12 minutes and 3.4 points.
The Hurricanes reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament last week before losing to Villanova.


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Updated: July 22, 2019 05:05 PM
Fort St. John city councillors gave approval to a fifth private cannabis retailer on Monday, though the province is dragging its feet on issuing its first license to local retailers.
Canna Cabana is slated for the former home of NEAT near the Whole Wheat and Honey cafe. The city received 19 letters of support after a public notice appeared in the Alaska Highway News in early June, and city staff have no concerns with the proposal.
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Canna Cabana is a brand of Alberta-based cannabis company High Tide, also known for its Smoker's Corner stores. It is the fifth private retailer to come before council for its blessing before heading to the province for final screening and approval.
By all indications, however, the province appears to be cornering the Fort St. John market with the pending opening of its government branded BC Cannabis Store at North Gate Place, also home to the Bank of Montreal and Dominos. A job fair for that store was held July 9, though provincial officials say there is no firm date for its opening.
Recreational cannabis was legalized in October 2018, with four interested retailers quick to receive approval from the city over the following five months.
The provincial delays have frustrated proponents, whose costs have been mounting as they await approval.
One local proponent, Cannabis Corner, submitted its application for a licence nearly 11 months at a cost of $7,500. It has been paying lease on an empty storefront downtown for nine months, along with utilities, legal fees, and building plans. The province will not provide the company with any timeline for its application.
"We are completely in limbo with no idea as to when we will be approved to even start renovations etc. before we could even consider hiring employees," Danny Lepine, one of the partners, said in an email.
Another proponent, Glory Cannabis, said their financial checks have been extended to family members and its investors.
"There should be a great deal of due diligence put forth in the investigation of candidates, and we have been extremely cooperative with the LCRB as they have done so in our case," said company co-founder Sheldon James.
"On another level, we as a company are dismayed at the ongoing expense that we have continued to incur throughout this process."
HIVE Cannabis and West Coast Cannabis have also applied to operate in Fort St. John.
The province has approved four cannabis stores in the Peace, including a second store in Dawson Creek that opened on July 6. There is also a store in Pouce Coupe and Tumbler Ridge.
Across the Interior and the North, the province has approved four stores in Salmon Arm, three each in Castlegar and Trail, two in Vernon, and one in Prince George.
The province says it is processing more than 400 applications for stores throughout B.C., and said it could not comment on the status of applications for companies waiting for an answer in Fort St. John.
Applications are placed in the queue as they are received, according to the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch, with priority is given to applications with correct information and documentation. Outstanding documentation and complex corporate structures could affect the timelines of an application, the province noted.
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Of Flag Warz, United Vandals, and Mayan Prophecy
Photos are mixed from March, 2004 to December, 2006.
The first actual downtown Detroit building that I ever infiltrated was the 18-story United Artists Theater at 150 Bagley. It was on the "Dirty Dozen" list of most offensive abandoned skyscrapers c.2004, according to the Detroit Free Press. We were casually scouting the area and happened to notice that the board covering the front door had somehow been blown clear off, and out into the street—as if the mammoth building had suddenly sneezed. We parked across the street and blinked in disbelief at our good fortune.
As we did this, we observed a lone, backpack-wearing white guy amble up to the entrance, then glance up and down the desolate street before walking right in without noticing us at all. The wind was bitter, and hinting of sleet as we crossed the empty, silent street. He was obviously up to the same crap as us, since there could be no other reason for a young white kid to be in downtown Detroit by himself on a cold, grey March morning in the early 2000s.
We finished gearing-up and hurried toward the yawning, darkened hole to make our own hopefully more-nonchalant entrance. In those days downtown Detroit was not the bustling Gilbertopolis of seamless surveillance that it is today; it was a smorgasbord of vacant towers with wide-open entrances, and so little human presence on weekends that you could probably lay down and take a nap in the middle of any given street. And the homeless often did just that.
We used to say that we were going "window-shopping" downtown...that was our euphemism for browsing the weekly selection of what abandoned skyscrapers had a window open for us to get in, or that we could coax our way into easily enough. Back then there were enough of them routinely sitting open to trespass that you could actually be that choosy of a shopper, or even bring your coupons too if needed (i.e., crowbars). These days a little more discretion is called for, and the selection is nothing like it was. In those days of pervasive downtown silence, the sudden sound of peeling plywood could echo clamorously for blocks around, but there was no one there to hear it.
The United Artists Building was the one that had all the colorful graffitied windows, painted in the early 2000s by the United Vandals, or KJ5 (real name Kevin Joy). The "United Vandals" thing was of course a cynical play on the United Artists name.
I'm not sure who first came up with the theory that the Mayan-themed glyphs painted on the windows were done that way in order to represent a calendar to count down to the Mayan doomsday, but the interior of the building was certainly plastered with the number 2012, which was the year of this supposed Mayan apocalypse. It was December 12th, 2012 to be exact, but perhaps because the glyphs were buffed from the windows in 2005 the world did not come to an end on that day. In fact, it only seems to keep getting steadily worse.
Detroit's connection to the Mayan theme comes from architecture found in the Fisher Theater and Vanity Ballroom, which might be where KJ5 drew his inspiration from.
Once inside the front door we noticed that the lobby had been modernized, and reeked of 1960s mod. I apparently did not even bother to take a photo of this lobby. We then found our way into a strange, wedge-shaped alley with a door leading into the theater portion of the building.
Upon crossing the threshold, the most jaw-dropping sight I had yet beheld in all my days of exploring abandoned buildings opened up before me with a suddenness I was not prepared for. We stood, gaping stupidly in disbelief beside the stage area of the most cavernous, monumental, otherworldly space any of us had ever laid eyes on.
It was a moment I won't forget as long as I live...a thin, blue stream of light briefly trickled in through the hole in the roof, shining through the oculus directly onto the rotted stage like a ghostly limelight, and as our eyes adjusted we could make out from its ambient luminescence the mind-bogglingly extravagant ornamentation lavished on the interior of this world-class theater.
Utterly dumbfounded as to how I should go about trying to photographically document this tremendous place, I spent many minutes agog, merely shuffling around in confusion, neck craned upward in awe and reverence for this chance to view a piece of splendor from a lost time so removed from my own that my modern sensibilities were totally unequipped to understand how such a thing ever came into being. This was my introduction to downtown Detroit exploration; up to this point my asbestos diet had consisted solely of relatively small, banal structures, so this was a bit of a culture shock.
While the grandeur of the spacious theater was overwhelming, so too was the level to which it had been allowed to decay. The floor was piled high with fallen, rotted plasterwork, and the remains of the stage curtains hung down in tatters. Near the back of the main floor was a massive chandelier, weighing possibly 200lbs.
Everything else had been stripped. We fanned out, and each spent the next 20 minutes or so independently doing our best to capture all this on film, despite the low light (back then only one of us had a tripod or a digital camera, and it was a crude, early model). Though I felt that there was no possible way anything could possibly top this experience, my excitement grew as I realized that we had only scratched the surface of this monumental building—an entire skyscraper still loomed above us waiting to be explored.
Here is one of the lovely recessed house lights with colored glass, still almost perfectly intact:
My colleague David Kohrman took many photos of this building that are infinitely better than mine, so I exhort you to check them out HERE.
According to his website forgottendetroit.com, Detroit claims "one of the greatest theater districts in the world, even surpassing that of Chicago." As they say, poverty is one of the greatest preservers of history. The total lack of interest in Detroit real estate for 30 years means virtually nothing was demolished here as compared to cities like Chicago, and thus "Detroiters of today can enjoy the same opulent movie palaces that their grandparents enjoyed"...provided of course someone restores them before they topple over from neglect.
The United Artists theater chain was established in the 1920s by actress Mary Pickford, actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, and director D.W. Griffith. Incidentally, Mary Pickford starred in the first movie ever to be shown in Detroit's first dedicated movie house, the Madison Theater, and she was also a regular guest at Granot Loma, the palatial Upper Michigan castle of Louis Kaufman, perched on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior in the Huron Mountains.
United Artists had already built 16 theaters nationwide by the time they decided on a Detroit location, and they hired the renowned Detroit-based theater architect C. Howard Crane to design it, as well as their theaters in Los Angeles and Chicago. All three were designed in the same Spanish-Gothic architectural style, and some of the same molds were even used, but as David Kohrman notes, the Detroit United Artists was unique from all others, partly because of its oddly-angled lot.
C. Howard Crane designed almost all of Detroit's most prominent theaters, including the State Theater, and the Fox Theater, which today still stands in the top three most extravagant theaters ever built in America.
The United Artists (or UA) had a seating capacity of 2,070 people, which was comparatively small considering the Fox held over 5,000. It was one of the first theaters built for film only, screening first-run films--no accomodations for live stage productions were included. This was unique for the time, and a testament to the fact that the motion picture was steadily gaining in popularity. Since it opened when silent movies were still being made an orchestra pit was included, though it wasn't long before talkies made their way into the UA. The theater opened on February 3, 1928, with the film Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson.
An entire chapter in the book Detroit's Downtown Movie Palaces, by Michael Hauser and Marianne Weldon is devoted to the United Artists Theater. According to that, the UA claimed Michigan's first glass fiber screen as part of an extensive 1950 renovation, and it was also the first to screen movies in 70mm format, in 1956. The premiere of Otto Preminger's classic Upper Michigan-based film, Anatomy of a Murder was held here in 1950. United Artists also paid "an astonishing $550,000 advance" to 20th Century Fox in 1963 for the exclusive Detroit engagement of the movie Cleopatra.
Vast bronze or iron grilles covered the massive radiators of the theater, sporting a decorative pattern of course:
Making our way up into the highest reaches of the balcony felt like climbing a mountain; an open fire exit door allowed a spill of light to come in:
Along the outer walls of the theater was the greatest water damage, as seen here by this totally stripped wall:
A plaster statue of an Indian maiden, once smiling but now disfigured, stands on her own detritus-covered pedestal:
Here is a historic photo of what that statue once looked like.
The arced shape of the roof no doubt caused all the water to collect in the troughs at its sides and eventually filter down the walls once it rotted-through, washing the plaster right off of them:
Back on the main floor, walking out through some doors into an even darker room, we found ourselves swallowed into a large, seemingly dimensionless space, treading on mounds upon mounds of fallen plaster ornament, slowly dissolving into mush under our feet:
I shined my feeble flashlight beam upwards to reveal what little still clung to the walls, and realized that we must be standing in what was actually the theater's lobby or atrium. The few scraps of plaster that still remained intact were enough evidence to tell me that this room was once absolutely boffo with ornamentation...even a few mirrors remained to suggest that this was once a dazzling place of unimaginable beauty (or gaudiness):
Since we had entered through the office portion and then stepped through a hole in the wall into the theater first, we didn't realize that there was also a lobby for the theater portion, and we were kind of seeing things in backwards order from what a movie patron would have experienced in the days of yore.
Most of the ceiling and walls of this octagonal room were stripped to bare brick and lath however, water damage having apparently been awfully severe in this part of the structure. I stepped up some stairs to look out over the mezzanine for a few flash photos:
Sadly the camera flash washes all the magic of the scene, presenting the details in stark, brutal honesty, but it was so dark in there I had little other choice. Forgottendetroit.com has a historic photo of what this room once looked like.
After a few minutes of standing in this disorienting, circular pitch-black space, we realized there was a doorway leading to yet another lobby beyond this one:
This was what was called the "storm lobby"...once again the plaster ornamentation was off the hook, but for some reason much better-preserved in here.
Unfortunately there wasn't any more light here than in the previous lobby, so more harsh flash photography was necessary.
More "Indian" maidens were the star attractions in this room. These were each about 20 feet tall.
In the vestibule I looked up to find a high but narrow ceiling that was filled with more mirrors, and more of those frilly conical structures seen in the theater, called "fan" vaults:
The mirrors are there to give the impression of spaciousness, since exterior windows can not be used on a theater, which depends upon darkness. Looks like a plaster patch was even done to the ceiling here as part of the failed restoration / development attempt in the early 1990s:
Having drooled over this outrageous wedding-cake lobby orgy long enough, we made our way back toward the theater.
A huge grand staircase led up from the octagonal lobby to the loge level, though it barely contained even a scrap of its former glory any longer...cascades of water damage had stripped it to the bone.
The loge level, the most sumptuous patron area, was originally outfitted with tapestries and silk curtains according to Hauser & Weldon's book:
The antechamber to the men's bathroom on the loge level had these beautiful--and pristinely preserved--plaster panels on the ceiling:
That look...when you realize that another historic building has been demolished by neglect:
We eventually moved back into the blandly renovated lobby where we had first entered the building, so that we could investigate a stairway we saw. We were stunned by what we found down there...
In the pitch-dark and oppressive stillness of the basement we came across a gigantic bank vault...like something straight out of an action movie. The circular door was about seven feet tall, and about two feet thick of machined steel. The hinges alone were stout enough to have been used as hardware on a battleship:
It had a back door too, which was open...
Inside was a crazy mirror-walled room of deposit boxes and safes, almost all completely covered in surface rust from the dampness down here.
Naturally we began instinctively checking all the nooks for anything good left behind, but quickly surmised that the deadline on that free-for-all had already long expired.
In 1991 a nightclub named the "Currency Exchange" opened in this former bank. According to David Kohrman the old bank vault itself was used as a club within a club I suppose, named "The Vault," naturally. That sounds like the kind of genius scheme that someone would hatch in Detroit in 2015. Well, I guess the 1990s weren't all that long ago.
Returning from the depths of the vault up to the bank lobby again I found myself noticing a small, odd closet tucked away somewhere in the back. Upon peeking inside I noticed there to be nothing but a small ladder that led up into some kind of attic space.
Naturally I had to see where this went, and lo & behold I popped out above the crappy modern drop ceiling into the original 1920s lobby!
Wires held up the fake ceiling, and were anchored into the old original ceiling, which still bore its finely gilded wooden rafters. What an incredible find!
It seemed like the walls had been whitewashed from their original coloration, but their plaster details were in perfect condition. Behind me was a huge archway, which I suppose once mimicked the large arched windows that made up the ground-floor facade of this building before the renovation:
The UA was extensively remodeled during the early 1960s, which meant totally covering up these old 1920s lobby details, removing the fanciful terra cotta cornice, and sheathing the base of the tower with sleek dark marble, similar to what was done with the Peoples' Outfitting Building.
This plaster medallion was about four feet across if I recall correctly:
These remnants of the old lobby remained hidden for another year or so until Illitch Holdings cleaned out the building, during the process of which they decided to remove the junky drop-ceiling to reveal the original splendor.
Starting the ascent into the tower of the building, we found typical sorts of junk. Hauser & Weldon cite the American Automobile Club (AAA) as the main tenant of the office tower, whose rotating sign was long a recognizable landmark spinning at its pinnacle, but when they moved to the suburb of Dearborn the entire building was left essentially vacant. I have seen both 1974 and 1984 listed in various sources as the year of their departure; either way, the UA was in lean times during both of those decades. (Judging by the appearance of AAA's Dearborn headquarters on Auto Club Drive, I would say it looks more like it was designed in 1984 than 1974).
One of the great things about exploring this building was that despite its almost complete emptiness of any interesting artifacts to look at was the fact that most of the interior was bathed in gratuitous spills of colored light, thanks to the Mayan glyphs painted on the windows, turning what would otherwise be a mid-'70s snoozefest into an enjoyable 18-story climb.
As Detroitblog noted, "the paintings were also a thumb in the eye of Mike Illitch," who clearly neglected the building for the first several years he owned it, and failed to seal it up or abate its hazards until he was forced to do so by the city. The window graffiti made his derelict building into a tourist attraction, and it got the attention of the international media, so naturally the glyphs had to go.
KJ5 eventually changed the name of the United Vandals to the Dead House Painters after the UA windows were buffed. After leaving the UA behind, he went on to paint the windows of the Ternstedt Mfg. Plant offices on Fort Street, the Lafayette Building, the Hotel Strathmore, the Philby Apartments in Highland Park, and the Park Avenue Building.
The United Artists Theater itself stopped showing films in 1971 according to David Kohrman, and its fixtures were auctioned off in 1975. Like its other Grand Circus Theater District brethren, the UA resorted to screening pornos and slasher flicks toward the end, but saw negligible profit.
For a district that was established upon the notion that entertainment was a grand affair which should be housed in haut palaces dedicated to it, once the grandeur and novelty faded from the act of going to the theater, the market for such palaces ceased to exist, which is why today's theaters are sterile utilitarian structures devoid of any of the ostentation that the UA possesses. Today we can watch movies while we drive, or take a shower, or ignore important meetings at work--why would we need a soaring baroque temple to the art of cinema when we have that ability at our jaded fingertips?
For some of us, the answer is because we seek something more out of life than just direct stimulus input--we want a more enriching experience, we want the pomp and circumstance, the organic authenticity of doing things the way they were done in the "good old days." But for many others, I think they don't give a rip about such things, sadly, wanting only convenience and expedience.
From 1978 to 1984 the UA's theater was used by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for recording sessions, because its acoustics were better than those found in their Ford Auditorium or the decayed Orchestra Hall (also designed by C. Howard Crane). I have a vinyl album of the DSO playing Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," which was recorded in the UA. I also heard an interview with a DSO musician on WRCJ (Detroit's classical music station) several years back, who remembered recording there in those days with snow coming in through the roof in the winter, and pigeons fluttering around them while trying to play.
He said that for the winter recording sessions space heaters would be brought in to keep the musicians comfortable and to keep their instruments from going out of tune, but because they made noise they had to be shut down during actual recording. Once they were turned off of course the heat dissipated immediately, funneling up through the hole in the roof, or out into the rest of the huge vacant building, so it hardly offered much of a real comfort for the players. There was no electricity either, so generators had to be set up outside and cables strung in through the doors.
Again, the office tower had closed for good by 1984, though some of the ground-floor shops remained. In the early '90s the building was bought by a developer who was interested in bringing it back as loft apartments, with nightclubs in the theater and storefronts. It was around that time that the Currency Exchange club was operating in the bank portion of the building.
In 1997 the UA was sold to Don Barden, one of America's top black businessmen, who owned casinos in other states. He planned to turn it into a casino but he was denied one of the three casino licenses available in Detroit at the time. He was essentially forced to sell the UA to the Illitch family who wanted it for either a parking lot or for the new Comerica Park development. Mike Illitch was already sitting on the abandoned Adams Theater at the time, with no plans for it.
Barden fought the deal in court but lost, and the Illitches took ownership. According to one article, Barden said that he believed the city was screwing itself when it turned him down for the casino license, saying that the owners of the other Detroit casinos at the time "were taking profits out of the city when he would have reinvested profits into the city." The Illitches have not announced any plans for the UA since they acquired it, and that was 20 years ago. For reference, the Illitches renovated the Fox Theater from 1987 to 2006, at a cost of $10 million.
The old Detroitblog reminded me that there was a homeless guy living in a room on the 16th floor...
A closer examination of the scene suggested that it was occupied by two different people at different times. The first seems to have been the person who decorated it nicely, who made a bookshelf for themselves, kept a closet with toiletries such as deodorant, and fashioned a sort of apartment out of it, even setting up a corner with decorative elements near a window with drapes. The second tenant seems to have been a drug addict who lived in filth. Newspapers were strewn about, mixed with bits of food and food wrappers, and jugs of dried something. Other rooms on the same floor were designated trash rooms, with the same mix of food wrappers and newspapers thrown around in giant piles. A pile of receipts showed small quantities of food purchased with food stamps. A note from Detroit Receiving Hospital showed the person was treated for an abscess in the throat. Another letter was from a Wayne County Pre-Trial Diversionary Program.
I remember wandering through this room myself, though I don't generally take photos of people's abodes, since I don't find them too novel, but I am often confused as to why a homeless person would choose to live on the upper floors of a skyscraper. If I were living on the streets I would choose a home with a lot less stairs separating me from my resources, though I imagine it would certainly be nice to stay up there once in a while.
The UA was mentioned in the short story Snow Angel by E.J. Olsen, as a place where a man had been hired as security guard while it sat vacant in the 1980s, who had a cot and a heater set up on the top floor. Most likely the building did have a paid watchman during that time.
Climbing through a random hole in the wall on the 2nd floor one day, I found myself...outside the building, but inside the marquee!
I was hovering over the sidewalk while pedestrians passed below me, and what was even more incredible was these two terra cotta guys--Comedy and Tragedy--who had been hidden behind this marquee since 1950 when it was installed. Looking at historic photos of the original c.1928 marquee, it also looks like they were obscured by that one too...what a trip that these two fancy details have been in hiding for basically the entire 80-year history of the building.
When the painted windows of the UA were scrubbed for the Super Bowl in 2005, this marquee was also removed, they were exposed to the light of day for the first time, and many architecture enthusiasts took note--but I had already known about them thanks to this little chance encounter.
The crumbling UA has dropped loose bricks on cars at least twice over the years, and has been cited for defective or hazardous window sashes, which explains why large sections of exterior brick have been shucked off of the upper reaches of the tower.
The UA's abandoned hulk also starred in the first Transformers movie and/or The Island (a remake of Logan's Run). I dunno, it was one of those ones that was made during that period where Michael Bay was all up on Detroit's jock.
Another view of that weird little internal alley between the tower and the theater portions:
Immediately across the street was the office tower of the equally magnificent Michigan Theater:
Looking straight down to Bagley Avenue and the marquee:
The Statler Hotel, in its last days:
Here is the building's swinging flagpole, which served as the focal point of a strange rivalry that involved the placing, and replacing of different flags by two opposing groups:
You might remember seeing it play out over the course of a few months if you were downtown much around 2005 before the UA's windows got buffed. In fact, it was almost sort of like the final straw of absurdity before Illitch finally had enough and cleaned up the building, and locked it down for good.
I was involved in the flag wars, but it's a really long story. If you look back at the fourth photo in this post, you can see one of the flags flying at the top of the building. There was also a Mexican flag, a UN flag, and a gay pride flag. Like I said...long story.
This was the base of the rotating AAA sign that twirled on the roof for many years:
Here's the top of the Kresge / Kales Building, which had just started to undergo renovation at the time:
Here along the UA's cornice, you can see the tarred-over stubs where more florid ornaments had once graced the building's roofline, in a more gilded time, but which were removed by the 1960s:
Some of the carnage from more recent masonry failures still remained strewn about the roof deck:
The bottom of the Cass Corridor, stretching up to New Center...
...in that photo it is easy to note the proximity of the Film Exchange Building to the Grand Circus Park Theater District.
Hotel Briggs, also known as The Park Apartments (left), and the vacant Park Avenue Building (right), with the still-standing Donovan Building visible in the distance:
Another odd viewpoint, showing the Fine Arts Building before it was reduced to a standing facade:
One day I was hanging around on the roof of the Statler Hotel when I noticed an old rusty 35mm film canister sitting up there that someone had lost. So I picked it up and decided to have it developed, hoping that I would finally have my hands on lost blackmail photos of Mike Illitch having intercourse with a monkey dressed as "Little Caesar" or something.
When my developer guy handed the prints back to me a day later however, it was then that I figured out that this lost roll of film had in fact been one of my own! I guess that explained why I always had a weird feeling like I was missing a lot of shots from the Statler. These two photos of the UA taken from Statler's roof were on that roll.
I made my last visit to the United Artists at night in December of 2006, with a friend. I still didn't get any decent photos of the octagonal main lobby, so I'll post some of his:
Photo by a friend.
By the way, this lobby space was renovated in 1950 so that a snack bar could be installed, according to Hauser & Weldon. If I thought it was dark in here before, it was even darker at night, and light-painting with flashlights became mandatory.
And here is another from the storm lobby, again lit by the weak incandescent lightbulbs we still had in our Maglites back then.
Then one more trip into the auditorium...I brought my violin that night to play a few tunes, because I wanted to sample these much-touted United Artists acoustics for myself if they still remained to be had in this decrepit hall. But the sound I heard as I played on the stage alone in the dark that night was dead...of damp and missing plaster. It was nothing compared to the lively echoes I previously experienced in the waiting room of the Michigan Central Station. Oh well.
Behind these grilles is where the organ pipes to the mighty Wurlitzer were once held:
After the big cleanup of the building in 2005, Illitch Holdings hung a huge mesh banner on the northeastern face of the building, advertising available space for lease. As we passed a certain set of windows where the telephone number to call just happened to line up, we couldn't resist taking a vanity photo or two:
313, bitchiz.
That also just so happened to be the floor that had a window which opened up onto the theater portion's roof, if I'm not mistaken. So we ended up taking a shortcut to the projection room:
Then we stepped out onto the theater's roof to take in the nighttime view of quiet Grand Circus Park and enjoy the cold, shitty Michigan weather with a few brews.
Here you can see the Elizabeth Street Garage before it was demolished, with ambient night light coming through its large windows:
Awfully quiet at night around the holidays in Detroit. Even quieter than usual.
Finishing one last-ever climb of the 18-story tower, we hung out and snapped a few longer exposures of the ambient light coming in through the arched windows to play across the ceiling, while cracking some more brews and chilling the hell out.
Those were the nights.
Oh, one more thing...
Detroit's Downtown Movie Palaces, by Michael Hauser, Marianne Weldon, p. 91-102
"Now Showing," Detroitblog.org, February 25th, 2004
"Paint It Black," Detroitblog.org, December 16th, 2005
http://forgottendetroit.com/uat/index.html
http://kohrman.blogspot.com/2007/01/curtain-call.html
Detroit Noir, edited by E.J. Olsen, John C. Hocking, p. 156
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Q: C# Reading Stream I want to read a .txt file in C# but I will not read all the lines at the same time. For example, consider 500 lines of text file. I want a function to run 25 times and read 20 consecutive lines each time. In the first call of function, lines from 1 to 20 will be read, and second time it is called, 21-40 will be read.
Below simple code does this in c++ but I don't know how to achieve it in C#:
string readLines(ifstream& i)
{
     string totalLine="", line = "";
     for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++){
          getline(i, line);

          totalLine += line;
     }
     return totalLine;
}

int main()
{

     // ...
     ifstream in;
     in.open(filename.c_str());
     while(true){
         string next20 = readLines(in);
         // so something with 20 lines.
     }
     // ...

}

A: There are various options here, but one simple approach would be:
using (var reader = File.OpenText("file.txt"))
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 25; i++)
    {
        HandleLines(reader);
    }
}

...

private void HandleLines(TextReader reader)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
    {
        string line = reader.ReadLine();
        if (line != null) // Handle the file ending early
        {
            // Process the line
        }
    }
}

A: If are trying to call LineRead() the least number times possible and you want minimum memory usage you could first index the lines in your file:

*

*Parse the file one time and Index the position of each line in the FileStream.

*Call ReadLine() only at the desired location.

eg:
// Parse the file
var indexes = new List<long>();
using (var fs = File.OpenRead("text.txt"))
{
    indexes.Add(fs.Position);
    int chr;
    while ((chr = fs.ReadByte()) != -1)
    {
        if (chr == '\n')
        {
            indexes.Add(fs.Position);
        }
    }
}

int minLine = 21;
int maxLine = 40;

// Read the line
using (var fs = File.OpenRead("text.txt"))
{
    for(int i = minLine ; i <= maxLine ; i++)
    {
        fs.Position = indexes[ i ];
        using (var sr = new StreamReader(fs))
            Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine());

}

Cheers !

A: You could write a Batch() method like so:
public static IEnumerable<string> Batch(IEnumerable<string> input, int batchSize)
{
    int n = 0;
    var block = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (var line in input)
    {
        block.AppendLine(line);

        if (++n != batchSize)
            continue;

        yield return block.ToString();
        block.Clear();
        n = 0;
    }

    if (n != 0)
        yield return block.ToString();
}

And call it like this:
string filename = "<Your filename goes here>";
var batches = Batch(File.ReadLines(filename), 20);

foreach (var block in batches)
{
    Console.Write(block);
    Console.WriteLine("------------------------");
}

A: Oops. GroupBy does not evaluate lazily, so this will greedily consume whole file

var twentyLineGroups =
    File.ReadLines(somePath)
        .Select((line, index) => new {line, index})
        .GroupBy(x => x.index / 20)
        .Select(g => g.Select(x => x.line));

foreach(IEnumerable<string> twentyLineGroup in twentyLineGroups)
{
    foreach(string line in twentyLineGroup)
    {
        //tada!
    }
}

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Ace: King of the Ice World.
This Series will start next year. In 2019. I can't tell you all what it's about but the title gives you a pretty good idea.
What brought about the Age of Romanticism? And how was it different from the Age of Enlightenment or Reason?


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The first tournament will not start until 8 am  this will allow you enough time to eat breakfast.
Tournament fees are $80.00 per tournament ,there is a one time fee for membership of $30.00. Note this circuit will have a seperate classic and you can not qualify for the classic at kentucky lake thru this division.
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That is $30.00 per person for membership.
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mynuttydubai | What happens in the sandpit….
A couple of week's ago a colleague of mine sent out an email asking if anyone would be interested in making a quiz team for a corporate night out.
Somehow I then landed up being in charge of sorting the team out (always happy to be arranging social events LOL) and so a team of 5 was put together and we all then headed down to Dubai Offshore Sailing Club for the inaugural Lighthouse Quiz night.
They had about 13 teams, each with around 5 or 6 people, so it was a fabulous, busy night.
The questions were incredibly difficult and really had us all working hard to guess (yup, most of it was guesswork) the answers.
OK OK… I get it. You're tired of hearing me come up with random excuses as to why I once again haven't updated my something new posts.
I hereby declare there will no longer be any excuses.
Total truth – I just keep letting them slip past.
I am constantly telling my friends: "I need to take photos of this for my something new", so the posts are right there at the front of my thinking… it's just that the execution of them is, well, it's poo. Sorry.
And there you have it folks. Four Three new weeks in life.
I'm not going to promise that I'll be better… but I do promise that you'll get another update from me at some point in the future. Whether it's in one week, or five weeks…. who knows?!
I came across this fun photo challenge and thought I'd have at least one go at it – it is after all, focused around CATS!


When I worked as a riding instructor at a summer camp, nearly half of the kids who came to ride were named either "Emma" or "Emily." Okay, yes, that's an exaggeration, but it seemed that way.
We recently compiled a list of the top names for mares, geldings and stallions based on Club Horse profiles. Apparently, the equine equivalent of "Emma" is "Buddy". Or perhaps, more accurately, it's the equine equivalent of "Jacob" or whatever the most popular boys' name is now. I've met a few equine Buddys over the years, and it doesn't come as a shock that it is the most common horse name among Club Horse members. It also made the top of SmartPak's list of top ten horse names in 2011.
The top name for mares here on HorseChannel is "Ginger". Must be the timeless influence of Black Beauty.
*Yes, Barbaro's high ranking in the stallions category is primarily due to fan pages for the late racehorse. Because there are relatively few stallions with Club Horse profiles, the fan pages were enough to skew the result. Not that there's anything wrong with naming your horse Barbaro.
If I ever have the opportunity to name a horse, I'd probably avoid the common ones. There's nothing wrong with calling your horse Dusty or Stormy or Star or one of the other popular horse names, but sometimes it's nice having a unique name. I'd also probably avoid any common human names. A boarder at my old barn had a horse named Jake. Her boyfriend was also named Jake. I have to imagine that led to some awkward misunderstandings.
Did your horse's name make the list? How do you go about choosing a horse's name? Let me know in the comments section below.
My son ended up naming our new horse "Morris" after Morris the cat – very appropriate, he's fussy about water, finicky about his food and swishes his tail when annoyed. – Because he's from Canada, my vet calls him "Maurice" – Love my horse!
I agree with choosing a little more uncommon name for your horses, I have 2 mares one is Ambrosia and the other is Nutmeg, both were the names they had when I purchased them, and I love their names and they suit each one of my gilrs !
My horse came with his name… If I could change it though I would probably call him Hawk.
I named my horse Bandit…..because as a 2 yr old he sole my heart. Now I call him Bogee…long o and eeee. He so fits this better. He is 1/4 arabian & rest paint. He chews on everything…..has more personality that anyone I know…go figure….guess it just fits him better.
My horse is a grey Paso Fino, I started calling her Girl when I bought her and it became Siloam Silver Girl. I live in Siloam Springs and she is silver.
My horse had a registered name of Wind Chester Gab sinvr my middle name is Chester as is my dad and gradfather I kept the name. However most folks think he is named after the gun and want to spell it that way. He is my parade, trail and hunt horse.
I have a gelding named Pilot. I've had him from the time he was 4 months old. He has always had a gentle spirit, just as my dad did. Pilot will turn 3 this year. Pilot was named in remembrance of my dad; they share the same birthday, born on April 21st. My dad was an aerial sprayer; he also gave flying lessons, chartered flights, hunted fox and coyote from an airplane in the winter to support our family. He had special skies on the airplane so he could land in fields to retrieve the fox and coyote. My dad passed away in 1995, but his spirit lives on with my horse named Pilot. By the way Pilot is a beautiful buckskin paint!!
My horse's name is Information, and I call him "Info." He got that name because he was trained at the Nevada State Prison in the BLM Mustang program and his number was, the telephone number to call for information.
My horse is named Fletcher, he came with it. I adopted him almost 3 years ago.
I have owned an OTTB for two years and her name is The Third Lady. We called her Lady but now she is known as Lady Bug or just Hug a Bug. Everyone in the barn just loves her since she is so loving and kind!
i have always loved hearing the names of horses out there, and its fun to come up with names as well! and i too like a little more unusual or uncommon names, even tho mine arent or havent been that ususual. but over the years i have had thunder (best horse ever!), hemi, dusty, smokey, domino, whiskey, and sage. right now i have silver and tank. my husband came up with hemi and tank (he's pretty good at naming horses!), my brother and i came up with whiskey, and i came up with sage and domino. thunder, dusty, smokey, and silver were their names when we got them and i liked them so we didnt change them. a friend of mine has a horse named ethan, he was named after the grandson of the people who foaled him. i once seen a horse at a show named elvis, and his registered name was "elvis thank you very much". i thought that was pretty neat and definitely different. i think it would be so fun to pick a unique name like that for registering a foal. maybe one of these days i will!
I renamed my horse from Marchpane(yuck) to Xena, which of course suits her perfectly, she is a black Friesian, and looks like a warrior princess. I sometimes call her princess as a nick name, and belive me, she IS a princess.
My horse's registered name is I'd Rather Risk. He was named Risk after Paul Brandt's song of the same name which talks about living life to to the fullest. He was a total risk when I bought him as he was so malnourished and underweight, we weren't sure he'd even live! He is by far the best risk I've ever taken though!!
I have 5 horses: Cinnamon – she was already named, Jetalitosfinalfantasy – aka: Little Man his sire was Final Fantasy and his dam was Cocoa Jetalito, Fire Cracker – he was suppose to be born on July 4 but came early, Dukes Mountain Breeze – he was 8 weeks late and already half grown!!!, and Colonelz Lucky Britchez – he was 9.5 weeks late and my Little Fella he is the sweetest of them all!! I have had others: Saffire – because of her unique blue eyes, Ellie Mae – love the Beverly Hillbillies!!!, Annie – she was born during the night of our anniversary, Bask In The Darque – Arabian and he was a VERY dark bay,There have been others.
Mary – she came with the name as a 5-year old and it still suits her 20 years on. Strong, gentle, kind, beautiful, no fuss, knows-her-own-mind shire. She's an insitution.
My Daughter has a Paso-Fino named Jose. He was named by the breeder, and first owner. Most know the correct way to pronounce his name, except the lady we got him from. She pronounced in like Josie, as in "Outlaw Josie Wells." I have a Standard Bred that was also named when we got him and saved his life from starvation. Of course that is a different conversation. His name was Bill when we got him. I too don't like the normal names for any thing i get to name. I call him "Wild Bill" due to his very high spirit. I love it when he is in one of his "I wanna go" moods. Our time on horseback is cherished. We ride for hours and miles. Alot of the time, is spent in silence just listening to nature on trail rides, other times we talk so much we actually forget to keep an eye on the time and get caught by dark getting home. I know that was a little off topic, but I just felt like sharing a little bit of my love for horses and what they can bring to a relationship with a 13 year old daughter and her father… Love the articles like this one. Would love to read more articles concerning how relationships have been influenced by horses such as mine and my daughters.
My horses name did make the list on mares. Her name is Bella!
My first horse's name was The Bronx. I called him Bronx. He was already registered so the name stayed. His sire was Pachars Manhattan so Bronx's name fit in with the New York scene. What a sweetheart he was! He is gone now, but the memories he left and the hoof prints on my heart are numerous.
Lots of friends' horses on that list but I'm glad that my horse has a unique enough name not to be on the list!
I have a 17 hand sorrel AM SADDLEBRED — his name is REGAL…AND IT FITS..because he thinks he is the King!
We have a horse at the barn named Moose!Ha!Ha! He is built like one,except without the horns.LOL!
I've owned 4 horses throughout my life, none of their names are on that list surprisingly! I'm only 19, thats why I don't live on a horse farm with 60 horses yet! LOL! My 2 horses, who are now deceased, their names were Cocoa and Simon. I thought that both of those names are pretty common! Cocoa was my little 13.9 HH Crossbred pony (dark bay). Who I got for Christmas at the age of 10. Simon I got during the summer of that year. He was a flea bitten grey Arabian (15 HH). Both were geldings. Now I own a beautiful mare and a gelding. My gelding is a Dutch Warmblood, dark bay/stripe, 16 HH and is 6 years old. His name is Blitz. My mare's name is Brooklyn. She is a black Thoroughbred mare with a star and stands proud and high at the height of 16.8 HH! I love all of my horses (past and present) no matter their names!


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Q: Web music player - how to make scroll bar I want ot make something like this:

So, when I click on part of this line, music in my player will start playing music from chosen moment.
How should I do that (detect where user clicked on this bar)? Use canvas or maybe there is another way?
I think canvas won't be good idea, but what to use instead?

A: Basic idea:

*

*Add a onclick event handler to your "control" (like a <span> or <div>).

*Determine the position the user clicked (this can be tricky based on the browsers you'd like to support; example).

*Compare the clicked position with the width of your "control" to determine the relative position (e.g. start playing at 50%, 75%, etc.; relpos = x / width;).

*Change your playback position based on the determined relative position (playpos = duration * relpos;)

A: Maybe you can try this:
    http://jqueryui.com/slider/#rangemin
When you move the slider, you can detect that event, and possibly ask you player API to go to that instant.
 You can try ans see if it helps.

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