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Q: Set 'maxActiveInstances' error I am using AWS data-pipeline to export a DDB table, but when I activate I get an error:
Web service limit exceeded: Exceeded number of concurrent executions. Please set the field 'maxActiveInstances' to a higher value in your pipeline or wait for the currenly running executions to complete before trying again (Service: DataPipeline; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidRequestException; Request ID: efbf9847-49fb-11e8-abef-1da37c3550b5)

How do I set this maxActiveInstances property using the AWS UI?

A: You can set it as a property on your Ec2Resource[1] (or EmrActivity[2]) object. Using the UI, click Edit Pipeline, click on Resources on the right hand side of the screen (it's a collapsable menu). There should be an Ec2Resource object. There should be a drop down on this object called "Add an additional field" and you should see max active instances in the drop down.
[1]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/latest/DeveloperGuide/dp-object-ec2resource.html
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/latest/DeveloperGuide/dp-object-emractivity.html

A: We ran into this too. For an on-demand pipeline, it looks like after a certain number of retries, you have to give it time to finish terminating the provisioned resources before you will be allowed to try again.
Solution: Patience.

A: With an on-demand pipline you can specify it in the 'Default object', like this
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "failureAndRerunMode": "CASCADE",
      "scheduleType": "ONDEMAND",
      "name": "Default",
      "id": "Default",
      "maxActiveInstances": "5"
    },
...

I couldn't add it in Architect, I had to create another pipeline from the json. But once that was done I could edit it in Architect (under 'Others' section).


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VOL. 43 | NO. 15 | Friday, April 12, 2019
Tennessee State Museum to mark 20 years of NFL's Titans
NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee State Museum is marking 20 years of the NFL's Titans in the state with a special display.
A museum news release says the display will be shown from April 23 until May 5, coinciding with the NFL Draft in Nashville from April 25-27.
The museum will include a variety of memorabilia that marks moments dating back to the team's arrival as the Tennessee Oilers in 1997. The first season as the Titans was in 1999.
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CHARITY CASE?
Employer wants 'kindness' to others to excuse stiffing workers
TRYING TO DO GOOD DOESN'T LET YOU OFF THE HOOK. A group of seven baristas used that argument to make, and win, their case for pay owed them by the owners of the Nook Espresso Bar in Bedford, NS.
The Nook closed down without warning in late July. The owners gave no notice at all to their seven baristas. The owners did try to do the right thing by their workers but got it wrong.
The pay they offered to the workers in lieu of notice was not calculated correctly. "This left several of the baristas without the notice pay they were legally entitled to,"says Shannon Power, one of the a barista's at The Nook.
The group of seven female baristas challenged their notice payments in an email to the owners. The owners replied by email, and then made the dispute very public with a long post on Facebook.
'Charity' should begin at work
In their Facebook post the Nook owners played up the charitable work that they do in the community such as, a food token system to support poor people and posters promoting kindness and acceptance. But this friendly and charitable approach did not reflect their employment practices, says Shannon.
Nook owners "charity" was to encourage customers to buy tokens to give away to "poor people" to redeem at their business
"They used the cafe's small business status to garner sympathy from customers," says Shannon. "They also tried to discredit any future attempts made by the staff to expose the cafe's conduct by calling it defamation."
Many of the baristas were only earning a minimum wage of $11.55 per hour, which is almost $8 less than the $20 per hour that is considered to be a living wage for the city of Halifax. "If you are a business that is trying to promote an ethical image, you don't just do the bare minimum," Shannon says.
Big, little victory
The baristas won in the end. They got help from the new Halifax Worker's Action Centre to make their case with NS Labour Board. The board worked with the Nook owners to calculate, and then pay, the correct amounts to their former workers.
Shannon says she is all for any effort to improve educating workers about their rights. But she says enforcing and improving workers rights would be even better: "As long as workers' rights remain so poor, legal education alone isn't sufficient. The basic employment standards in the province need to improve."
Labour Standards in Nova Scotia fall far below those of most other provinces in Canada. Having employers understand and comply with this weak legislation should not be an unreasonable expectation. Yet, it is.
Application and enforcement of labour laws should never be left to workers alone, particularly low-wage earners who are vulnerable to abuse and unfair treatment, and who never have the money it takes to pursue employers through the courts.
The Halifax-Workers Action Centre is a not-for-profit committed to improving the lives and working conditions of low-waged and marginalized workers.
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Summer is just around the corner and I thought it might be nice to use the lights to create a decorative display that would add night light next to a garden bench, allowing me to sit outside on balmy evenings. You can use any solar light that will fit on top of a 69 x 69mm block of pine, or even drill a hole in the top to mount stake-type solar lights. You will find 69 x 69mm pine at your local hardware store or timber merchant.
A length of 69 x 69mm pine was cut into lengths of different heights to make the staggered display stand. This design is also quite sturdy and you won't have to worry about it falling over.
The pine blocks were glued together using contact adhesive. I did all the glueing outdoors.
Where you are joining together two blocks, apply glue to both surfaces to be joined. Use a scrap of wood or something similar to spread the glue over the surface and leave for 5 minutes.
Once all the blocks are joined apply two to three light coats of Rust-Oleum MultiColor Textured spray. This gives the wood a stone effect. Allow each coat to dry before spraying on the next coat.
Use contact adhesive to secure your solar lights on top of the blocks. They don't provide a lot of light, but they do provide just enough to sit outside and take in the evening air.
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Students - I did a little bit of tumbleweed reading to write today's poem. I've never seen a tumbleweed in real life, and now I want to see one (and hear one) very much. Tumbleweeds are parts of certain plants that break off and tumble away in the wind, bringing their seeds and/or spores with them.
You can hear a simulated tumbleweed sound...or perhaps it is a real tumbleweed sound...below, recorded by McCosbury Studios.
You may have noticed that this month's poems are all centered around one child's life and around the apartment building in which this child lives. Sounds play an important part in our days, and so thinking about the color tumbleweed made me think about the sound a true tumbleweed would make. One never knows the path one's writing mind will take when tickled by color!
If you write a poem today, you might choose to think about sound too. Is your color associated with a sound? Might you make this sound the central idea for your poem?
Colors can take us anywhere. And if you'd like to join in with us on our WRITING THE RAINBOW PADLET, please do! It is growing like crazy, with calendars and videos and poems and book suggestions. Please join us! We're only 1/6 of the way through our month-long poetry rainbow!
Don't miss the links to all kinds of Poetry Month goodness up there in my upper left sidebar. Happy fifth day of National Poetry Month.
A crayon color of tumbleweed? I think I might need to purchase a new box of crayons! I love the turn in your poem, Amy, from busy & noisy to imagining that quiet hush of tumbleweeds. We found a purple one long ago, & I had it on a shelf. Finally, it faded, but it was so pretty!
Amy, your poems are amazing. You are so talented!
First of all, Tumbleweed is a COLOR?
Second of all, it cracks me up that you had to do research on tumbleweeds. I grew up with tumbleweed reality: fencerows obscured by tumbleweeds, pulling tumbleweeds out of the iris after a windstorm, tumbleweeds rolling down the streets of town, the song "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds."
Thirdly, LOVE that your city character imagines a place so very different than her own! I like this kid!


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Historical Reminiscing with Robert B. Hitchings
Chief Justice John Marshall's Robe
How many of you ever wondered why all the American judges in our country wear black robes? Are they in mourning for the defendant? Why do they all wear black?
It all started with John Marshall, (1755-1835) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In the recent article (Fall/Winter 2021) magazine of Virginia History & Culture, there is a most interesting article on John Marshall's judicial robe. John Marshall's judicial robe has been returned back to his residence (The John Marshall House) in Richmond, Virginia. The silk garment robe was given to the John Marshall House by his granddaughter in 1913. However, due to its frailness, a group of conservationists decided that this historic robe needed extensive restoration to remove the brittleness caused by the use of an unstable dye that darkened the garment. This old silk garment is the property of Preservation Virginia which also owns the John Marshall House and is on display there for many to see.
John Marshall (1755-1835) was the longest serving Chief Justice on the Supreme Court. He had a remarkable 34 years of service. When John Marshall was named the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by John Adams in 1800, many politicians were upset that President Adams filled the vacancy of chief Justice at the stroke midnight just before he left the office of Presidency. Years later Adam would state that "My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life."
Marshall was born in a log cabin in German Town, a rural county in Virginia. He died in Philadelphia and is buried next to his wife Mary "Polly" Willis Ambler (1783-1835) in Shocko Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. When he died the Liberty Bell mourned his loss and the bell cracked.
As a young man John Marshall was present at the Battle of Great Bridge along with his father Thomas Marshall. It was here he was known as Silver Heels because his socks had a silver color on the heels that were knitted by his mother. Marshall was also present at the Battle of Brandywine and Valley Forge during the harsh winter.
During Marshall's first session of court in 1801, all the justices came into court with their red garments like those used in England. They quickly noticed that Chief Justice Marshall wore a simple plain black robe. Marshall chose this color introducing black robes to represent republican simplicity. By the next session of court all justices wore black.
Today all judges in America wear black robes and it was one individual man who started it all, Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia in 1801.
Robert B. Hitchings is a seventh generation Norfolk resident, graduating with an Associate's Degree in Biology from Old Dominion University and BA in history from Virginia Wesleyan University. During his studies he was awarded a scholarship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and he was an exchange student at Brooks-Westminster College, Oxford, England. From 1999-2014 he worked as head of the Sargeant Memorial History Room at Norfolk Public Library, and since then has headed the Wallace History Room at Chesapeake Public Library. He is also the President of the Norfolk County Historical Society, and for six years was a columnist for The Virginian-Pilot. Robert may be reached at nchs.wallaceroom@gmail.com


Participants can make use of the shuttle services being arranged during the event days.
buses will be leaving from Chennai in the morning to IFMR GSB, one in the morning and one around noon.
buses will be leaving IFMR GSB campus to Chennai at night.
Participants from outside Chennai will be given preference for availing the shuttle service.
The pick up and drop points in Chennai will be Koyambedu CMBT Bus Stand and Chennai Central Railway Station. Requests for other points will not be entertained.
The exact timing of shuttle services will be decided depending on the number of participants expected and the timing of events.
There will be a travel co-ordinator in each of the buses. Details of travel co-ordinator will be informed soon.
IFMR Graduate School of Business warmly welcomes all the participants at Sri City Campus.
Accommodation is provided at the campus to all the participants free of cost in the hostels.
We understand that competitions can make you hungry and crave for delicious food, to satiate your cravings and hunger we have a variety of delicious food stalls till midnight.
Buses from CMBT to Madhavaram Andhra Bus Stand - 162, 121B, 121C, 121D, 121G, 58V.
Buses from Madhavaram to Tada - All Andhra buses going to Nellore, Tirupati, Hyderabad via Tada. Get down at Tada junction.
Train From Chennai Suburban Railway Station (near Chennai Central Railway station) to Tada. Get down at Tada.
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Jayhawks Return Home for Border Showdown
LAWRENCE, Kan. – After two straight road matches, the Kansas volleyball team will return home Saturday as the Border Showdown continues when Missouri visits the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Kansas (11-6, 2-6 Big 12 Conference) is coming off a win at Iowa State while the Tigers were handed a 3-0 loss at No. 9 Texas Wednesday.
With a KU soccer win last week, the Jayhawks lead the 2004 Border Showdown series 3.0-0. Match time is set for 7 p.m. Gametracker and post-match results will be available on kuathletics.com.
Quick Notes
Missouri Preview
The Tigers (10-5, 5-3 Big 12) received 69 votes in this week's USA Today/CSTV Coaches' Poll. MU, which defeated previously ranked Wisconsin and Colorado and No. 15 Texas A&M, had a four-match win streak snapped Wednesday night with a loss at undefeated Texas.
Missouri is a physical, aggressive hitting team. The Tigers lead the league in kills (17.87 kpg) and assists (16.25 apg) and rank third in hitting percentage (.271). However, the Tigers are eighth in the league in blocking (2.53 bpg) and opponent hitting percentage (.197).
With a 5-3 record, MU is tied for third in the conference with Colorado, Kansas State and Texas A&M.
The Kansas/Missouri Series
The Tigers lead the all-time series against KU 36-33. The Jayhawks won the last meeting (Nov. 5, 2003 at home) but neither team has held more than a three-match win streak over the other in the last decade.
KU Probable Starters
L – #1 Jill Dorsey (5-9, Sr., Wellsville, Kan.)
MB – #10 Josi Lima (6-0, Jr., Sao Paulo, Brazil)
MB – #2 Ashley Michaels (6-1, Sr., Wathena, Kan.)
S – #9 Andi Rozum (5-10, Jr., Loveland, Colo.)
OPP – #7 Emily Brown (6-2, Fr., Baldwin, Kan.)
OH – #8 Paula Caten (6-3, Jr.-Tr., Canarana, Brazil)
OH – #4 Jana Correa (6-0, So., Macapa, Brazil)
KU at Home
The Jayhawks are 5-3 at home this season with its three setbacks coming to ranked opponents Texas, Nebraska and Kansas State. KU is 52-30 overall and 28-26 in Big 12 matches at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center (opened in 1999).
Career Watch
Some of the 2004 Jayhawks are quickly making their way up KU's all-time career lists. Here's a brief look at their numbers:
1. Sarah Rome (2001-03) 1,306
2. Amanda Reves (1996-98) 1,264
3. Mary Beth Albrecht (1996-99) 1,171
4. Judy Desch (1984-87) 1,146
5. Cyndee Kanabel (1990-93) 1,122
6. Moira Donovan (1995-98) 1,081
7. Kris Kleinschmidt (1988-91) 936
Josi Lima (2002-present) 936
1. Julie Woodruff (1988-91) 4,209
2. Molly LaMere (1998-2001) 4,108
3. Laura Rhode (1995-98) 3,646
4. Andi Rozum (2002-present) 2,848
10. Ashley Bechard (2001-present) 684
1. Adrian Powell (1988-91) 1,325
3. Jill Dorsey (2001-present) 1,128
BLOCK SOLOS
1. Julie Easter (1983-86) 136
2. Amanda Reves (1996-99) 87
3. Tammy Hill (1984-87) 83
4. Judy Desch (1984-87) 71
5. Ashley Michaels (2001-present) 67
BLOCK ASSISTS
1. Amanda Reves (1996-99) 427
2. Cyndee Kanabel (1990-93) 311
3. Anne Kreimer (1995-98) 287
Ashley Michaels (2001-present) 287
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Haggai Carmon, Contributor
International lawyer, author
A Russian-U.S. Spy Swap: What's the Rush?
07/08/2010 05:51 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011
At this very moment, there are growing rumors about plans for a prisoner swap that would return ten suspected Russian spies to Russia, in exchange for an imprisoned Russian military researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was convicted of espionage in 2004. The rumors also suggest that the U.S. has compiled a list of 11 Russian prisoners for the swap, including Sutyagin, Sergei Skripal, a former intelligence officer convicted of espionage, Alexander Zaporozhsky, convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 18 years for espionage, and Alexander Sypachyov, identified as a CIA agent and convicted in 2002.
If the rumors are substantiated, then the swap would be the biggest since the end of the Cold War. There are, however, a few questions that must be asked. First and foremost: What's the rush?
It has been barely two weeks since the alleged Russian sleeper cell was arrested. The investigation is probably still at its embryonic stage, although the sleepers have been under FBI surveillance for several years. Nonetheless, once 10 of the 11 suspects are in custody, the FBI and other law enforcement agents have a unique opportunity to question the suspects and get answers to tough questions. The most important being: What other Russian spies are working clandestinely in the U.S.?
Given the poor compartmentalization of the sleepers, the FBI should be able to obtain from them investigative leads to find additional spies and "deep cover" Russian agents of influence. Avoiding the risk of facing up to 20 years in a federal prison is a strong enough incentive for the sleepers to sing songs for the FBI. However, if the suspected sleepers find out about Moscow's rushed activity to conduct a swap with the U.S., their mouths will be permanently sealed.
Why bother to talk or cooperate? Why bother to negotiate a plea bargain if they know that soon the U.S. federal prison's doors will open, and that they will walk with impunity?
The U.S. has a clear interest in the release of its own spies who are languishing in Russian prisons. However, these spies were already interrogated, tried, convicted and sentenced years ago. They were "peeled like an onion" as per Intel speak; therefore the Russians have no use for them. In contrast, there's the question about the Russian sleepers. Why are the Russians rushing to swap them? Do they care that their citizens might find the prison's food inedible? Perhaps they won't have enough blankets? Or are the Russians concerned that the sleepers will talk and talk and turn in other Russian plants thus far uncovered by the U.S.? Maybe the Russians are concerned that the sleepers will reveal Russian training methods? Names of others trained with them in Russia? Emergency procedures?
These are golden nuggets of information that U.S. investigators are mining as these words are written. And if this is the case, the U.S. should not rush the swap and should definitely keep the sleepers who are currently in custody in isolation without outside contact. A Bedouin proverb says: "The rush is a satanic trait." There's a world of truth in these words.
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Download free liner notes below
Part of the Lyrichord Archive Series - Never before released recordings on CD from the Lyrichord vaults
A broad panorama of the bagpipe in Italy was presented for the first time in this significant collection, and contains: examples of the Southern bagpipe (zampogna), both as solo instrument and accompanying the oboe (piffero); the piva from Istria, the launeddas from Sardinia (that extraordinary clarinet which requires that the cheeks of the player serve as air-sacks); the oboe (piffero) from the Liguian-Lombard Apennines; and finally, the organetto (a concertina-type instrument), in its function as a "competitor" and substitute for the bagpipe. Available for the first time since 1978, this important recording, now digitally remastered, continues to inform and fascinate, and bring back to life the unique and traditional sounds of the bagpipe in Italy.
1. Melodies - 3:23
2. Saltarello - 3:19
3. Pastorale - 1:23
4. Christmas Carol - 2:03
5. Castroregio, You're Beautiful - 2:27
7. Tarantella (A) - 3:18
8. Tarantella (B) - 3:21
9. Litany and Pastoral - 3:29
10. Dances - 3:55
11. Christmas Eve Pastoral - 3:23
12. Dance - 4:35
13. Acompaniment for the Procession - 4:14
14. Furlana - 1:45
15. Song with Bagpipe - 3:22
16. Monferrina - 1:49
17. PIANA - 0:59
18. Wedding Music - 1:34
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The Broad: A new Art Museum in the Digital Age
Rich Cherry, Museum Operations, USA
John Cotton Dana said in The New Museum: "The new museum…does not build on an educational superstition. It examines its community's life first, and then straightway bends its energies to supplying some the material which that community needs, and to making that material's presence widely known, and to presenting it in such a way as to secure it for the maximum of use and the maximum efficiency of that use." If we take that suggestion to heart, and bring forth a new art museum into today's digital culture, into today's all ways on – always connected community that has rapidly adopted digital, mobile and social media tools, what are the things we need to consider? In this closing keynote, Rich will discuss the creation of The Broad art museum in downtown LA and the plans the museum has for using technology in both visitor engagement and efficient operations.
Keywords: new, art, museum, technology
A new Art Museum in the Digital Age
John Cotton Dana said in The New Museum:
"The new museum…does not build on an educational superstition. It examines its community's life first, and then straightway bends its energies to supplying some the material which that community needs, and to making that material's presence widely known, and to presenting it in such a way as to secure it for the maximum of use and the maximum efficiency of that use."1
If we take that suggestion to heart, and bring forth a new art museum into today's digital culture, into todays always on – always connected community that has rapidly adopted digital, mobile and social media tools, what are the things we need to consider?
Digital in museum is not new. In 1967, an informal grouping of museums in the New York City area established the Museum Computer Network (MCN) with the goal of automating their registration records.2 Nonetheless, the Internet's coming of age in the 1990s and the social media and mobile revolutions of the 2000's, and the adoption of both by the general public has driven its adoption in museums. Museums that already existed had to retrofit the infrastructure necessary to support this rapid expansion of digital since museums built during the last century had hardly taken this kind of expansion into account. Older buildings make it hard to add the digital infrastructure and old staffing structures make it hard to add the staffing.
What about new museums opening now or museums expanding or restructuring? What considerations when planning buildings and new staffs should be considered?
Over the past 20 years certain digital areas have emerged and stabilized. Almost all museums consider a website as necessary as a building… in fact many museums lack a building and exist only in the digital realm. Museums with permanent collection often have a database of their entire holdings and often publish this to the web or at a minimum post a selection of highlights on the website. Ticketing and customer relationship management are driven by the need to communicate with visitors, develop members and donors and track interactions. Email, email newsletters, social media and distributed content (like artist videos) have taken over while mailed newsletters and print publications have begun to taper off. Audio tours with proprietary hardware have given way to bring your own device cell phone tours and more recently smart phone and tablet applications. Phone systems have shifted from dedicated wired devices to Voice over IP and to bring your own mobile and some organizations have migrated to telecommunication applications like Skype leapfrogging even VOIP phones. Security cameras with VHS tapes and key based security systems have also shifted to digital with Digital Video Recorders and Video over IP and RFID based keycards and bio metrics. A relatively new system in the museum digital ecosystem is the Digital Asset Management System which consists of a set of software tools that are used for the ingestion, tagging, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital content such as digital photographs, audio and videos to other systems. Backups and disaster recovery has moved from tape, to near line storage to cloud backup and archiving systems. Last but not least, some early adopters are working with the ideas of loyalty systems and gamification to enhance engagement, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and Learning Management Systems to teach web visitors and more recently staff as well as venturing into cloud services, digital signage and e-paper labels.
The Broad is a new contemporary art museum being built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museum, which is designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will open to the public in 2015. The museum will be home to the nearly 2,000 works of art in The Broad Art Foundation and the Broads' personal collections, which are among the most prominent holdings of postwar and contemporary art worldwide. With its innovative "veil-and-vault" concept, the 120,000-square-foot, $140 million building will feature two floors of gallery space to showcase The Broad's comprehensive collections and will be the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation's worldwide lending library.
As The Broad is being built we are not only interested in the physical space but also in digital space and thus we are active in all the areas outlined above.
The Broad has launched a state of the art website on Drupal 7 and moved to a new Collection Management system called Embark. Work is underway to create a responsive mobile site for use on the multitude of devices used to access the site. We are also working to deploy a public collection interface that syncs with our collection management. The Broad uses cloud based hosting services and cloud based backup with geographic diversity.
In addition to our mobile website we are planning a mobile app system for the iPhone and Android platforms that is location and contextually aware. Imagine an app that knows where you are and acts accordingly:
At home it offers you:
museum hours,
page to reserve timed tickets, buy event tickets, and buy tickets to other venues, parking and fine dinning
saved content in your reading/listening/viewing queue
neighborhood dining options
In front of the museum it offers you:
your ticket (or an option to reserve timed tickets, buy event tickets, and buy tickets to other venues, parking and fine dining)
a tour planning feature
In the lobby it offers you:
your ticket (or an option to buy tickets)
the indoor architecture tour
an audio tour of the collection pieces in the lobby
upcoming events including a tour of the storage area
In the gallery it offers you:
audio stops from various tours related to the artworks nearest to you
the ability to send high resolution images to social media
access to related art works that may be in storage or online
related content to add to your reading/listening/viewing queue
in your car it offers you:
Broad for the road.. long format audio pod cast to listen to in the car
The Broad is also creating a thoughtful plan for mobile ticketing point of sale to improve guest service.
Guests will meet a Broad guest services staff near the entrance to the museum. This staff person will check to see if the guest is pre-registered for a free timed ticket and if not provide them with the next available ticket and also provide them with parking validation, tickets for events and other local venues, special deals as well as timed tickets for dinning in our partner restaurant. An additional check will be made upon final entry to the gallery.
While flexibility of customer checkout and line busting are key benefits this plan, allowing guest services staff to better help guests have a smooth and fulfilling visit by highlighting local offerings, or sharing deals on the spot.
The Broad is a digital first environment. Email, email newsletters, social media and distributed content (like artist lecture videos) are the preferred form of outreach. Digital advertisements take precedent over print and broadcast.
Work is underway to tie our email list generation to a cloud based Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) called Salesforce which in turn would be tied to the ticketing and mobile systems. Data generated by actions of the visitor would be used to offer the visitor auto segmented, relevant and timely marketing messaging and offer the staff a holistic view of the visitor's engagement. For example when someone buys an advance ticket through the ticketing system, their info is then sent to the CRM which would trigger an email to be sent from the email system as reminder about the event… the email is tracked for opening and that info is stored in the CRM.
A state of the art wired and wireless networking system has been installed in the museum. Every location including outdoors will have a wireless coverage. Our voice over IP phone system supports both traditional phones, desktop clients and mobile app access to incoming and outgoing calls and voice mail. Web content for tour applications are locally cached to limit download times.
Significantly, the museum has run a high speed fiber network to The University of Southern California and has joined the Los Nettos Regional Network. Our gigabit speed network to Los Nettos provides high speed internet access via their dual 10GB public internet connection as well as connections networks such as the state regional network CalREN( California Research and Education Network) to which the vast majority of the state's K-20 educational institutions are connected, and institutions and industry research networks such as Internet2, high-speed networks in Mexico and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Networks.
Security and Visitor Management
Our security system with over 125 cameras indoor and outdoor cameras also takes advantage of the advanced network and transmits and stores digital video and audio on digital video recorders (DVR) providing real time detection and documentation. Our DVRs allow video searches by motion, time, date and camera include video analytics software which enable motion detection, 'virtual alarms on objects' and even the detection of abandoned bags in the museum via "lack of motion detection". Storage systems automatically compresses video based on the desired quality of playback and the desired length of storage. The system automatically clears old video to make room for the newest video on a first in first out schedule. Secure remote access is available over the internet. Additional sensors record events like breaking glass, key card access, open doors, panic buttons, motion and thermal imaging. Special systems track entry and exit motion using thermal imaging and give us accurate real time counts of visitor attendance by gallery and staff in the museum.
Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) include computer software and hardware systems that aid in the management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets like digital photographs, videos and other digital media. Once deployed our system will integrate with collection management, web based collection access, mobile platforms, learning platforms, digital signage, e-paper systems and DAM marketing and communication workflow needs.
The Broad is developing an online Learning Management System (LMS) training tool for gallery guides and front-of-house staff. Our goal is to build a robust, core training environment that will support training at least 100 individuals with diverse background and experiences in service, hospitality, contemporary art, and museum education to be the front line staff of the museum. As we ramp up to open the museum the first stage of the LMS rollout would be to require applicants to complete an initial training module and complete online tests as well as to upload a video of themselves taking about an artwork that they learned about. Applicants that are successful with this would then have onsite interviews. Once hired staff would be required to complete several additional training modules before they are ready to go into the galleries.
The online Broad Training System will be built around a tiered-approach which motivates staff to:
enhance and broaden a set of professional skills
acquire deeper art knowledge
increase their ability to self-manage
Incentives for progression through this tiered system include:
increases in compensation
promotion to a higher tier
earning badges or some form non-tangible recognition
ability to give tours
Progression through each tier of the system will ensure Broad gallery staff are practiced, knowledgeable, and able to engage visitors and using their personal tablet they can provide more than information about the art and archtecture. They can provide the same services as lobby staff including providing tickets to a lecture about an artist that the visitor has taken and interest in, tickets to local institution or being able to add points to their loyalty card. This is more than normal museum gallery staffit like the museum version of a concierge service at 5 start hotel. Training will meet institutional needs for staffing and visitor relations. It will also provide staff with motivation and opportunities to refine understanding and experience in museum education, audience engagement, and team management.
Training modules will include but are not limited to Customer service, Engagement, Emergency/Crisis management, how people learn, teamwork as well as specific art knowledge about the collection.
The Broad sees a number of opportunities for collaboration with contemporary art organizations and education and culture-focused organizations nationally, including MCA Chicago, Google Cultural Institute, Coursera, Khan Academy as well as other potential partnerships,
E-paper labels
The Broad in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art at Chicago is exploring the use of E-paper labels in the galleries and the potential for engagement that is possible with dynamic wall text, be it for a special children's treasure hunt tour, large text for tour with visually impaired guests, dynamically displaying tweets, temporary content , an artist intervention or some use yet to be defined. With the recent release of new e-paper technology that claims 300 dpi resolution with the similar low power of existing E-paper systems. We are exploring first the ability for art museums to create E-paper wall labels that do not look particularly technology based, i.e. they cannot easily be noticed when used with regular print labels. This involves industrial design and testing of the graphic quality of the screen. Next we will explore the systems we need to drive multiple screens in a museum environment and how to tie the screens back to the collection information system and then finally explore the ability to allow visitor interaction with the labels via a smartphone or other interface.
Loyalty Systems and Gamification
In 2012, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) launched an effort to transparently and continuously monitor the long-term engagement of visitors with the museum. Dubbed DMA Friends, the approach emphasizes the repeat participation of visitors with the museum's collections and programs, offering customized rewards in return for frequent engagement.3 The Broad, like many other free museums including the DMA, is interested in the data that can be collected and how it can assist in making information available to repeat visitors in a contextual way as well as reinforcing engagement and learning. We are exploring the creation a simple loyalty system as part of our app deployment which would generate points for repeat visitation, event attendance, partner visitation and cultural engagement overall.
The Broad is also exploring digital signage opportunities for Digital Signage in its lobby where its curved walls would take particular advantage of new curved LCD technology as well as in outdoor areas near the museum.
When The Broad opens in 2015 it will exhibit many contemporary artworks by living artists. As a collection it has a simple legacy of being one of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art in the world and as a pioneering lending library of contemporary artworks since 1984, dedicated to increasing access to contemporary art for audiences worldwide, the foundation has made more than 8,000 loans to over 500 museums and galleries around the world.
With this a new 120,000 square feet (11,100 square meter) museum featuring 50,000 sq ft (4650 square meters ) of pubic galleries opening in 2015, The Broad has the opportunity to create a new legacy as a contemporary art museum that connects with its global community and focuses its energies to provide what that community needs, on their terms and to efficiently making public access to its collections onsite, through loans and online pervasively available. What more could John Cotton Dana ask for?
Dana, John Cotton. The New Museum (Woodstock, VT: The Elm Tree Press, 1917), 32.
Misunas M. and Urban, R. (2007) "A Brief History of the Museum Computer Network," written for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Consulted September 20, 2014. Available http://www.mcn.edu/brief-history
Stein and B. Wyman, "Seeing the Forest and the Trees: How Engagement Analytics Can Help Museums Connect to Audiences at Scale." In Museums and the Web 2014, N. Proctor & R. Cherry (eds). Silver Spring, MD: Museums and the Web. Published February 1, 2014. Consulted September 27, 2014 .
R. Cherry, The Broad: A new Art Museum in the Digital Age. In Museums and the Web Asia 2014, N. Proctor & R. Cherry (eds). Silver Spring, MD: Museums and the Web. Published September 28, 2014. Consulted .
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I just finished Jeff Hawkins' book, On Intelligence.
I first became interested in computers in the late 1970s because I thought it might be a way to make me smarter. At the time this led naturally to an interest in Artificial Intelligence (which was much more fashionable then than now) and I hung out with friends who were interested in neurology. For college I applied to Stanford and MIT, the two Centers of the Universe for that sort of thing, and I soaked it all up. After graduation I considered AI grad schools and I moved to Japan because I thought it was the place where a lot of the new innovation would happen. Eventually, partly out of the influence of people like Terry Winograd and others, I gave up on AI and moved into the mainstream of PC software.
Jeff Hawkins is just like me! Well, almost. He's a bit older, so he had more exposure to the Real World than I did, and he turned his natural entrepreneurial talents toward start-ups, eventually founding Palm and then Treo. His business success enabled him to devote all his time to his real passions, including an in-depth look at how to make computers intelligent. That's what I admire most about him: in contrast to other successful people, he is devoting his money and time to an intellectual passion rather than, say, collecting big boats or houses. In short, he's doing what I would be doing if more good fortune had come my way.
I mention all of this to say that I am naturally sympathetic to the cause, and I think I understand Hawkins' Mission. I wish more people with the means to explore these topics would do what he is doing.
He is heavily influenced by the observations of Vernon Mountcastle, who notes that the uniformity of the neocortex is best explained by a uniformity in the way all our senses operate. Sight, sound, touch—by the time they hit your neocortex, they might as well be the same thing.
By the way, you have more than the five senses than you were taught in grade school: Vision is really the separate senses of motion, color, and luminance; Touch is pressure, temperature, pain, and vibration; you have a sense of balance; and there is an entire sense called the proprioceptive system that tells you about joint angles and the body position. But all of these senses enter and are processed by the brain in the same way.
Hawkins then argues that sensory inputs are tied to another rich channel of predictive outputs that he calls the memory-prediction framework of intelligence. In short, your brain is constantly outputting predictions for how the world works, which it then confirms with your sensory inputs: if the two match, the inputs are ignored. If they don't match, then more high-level
processing is applied until you reach a state where your senses match your expectations.
He suggests that if you built a similar system in silicon, you'd have a brain—intelligence. It would be infinitely scalable and could be applied to super-human problems like weather forecasting, which depend on massive pattern recognition of the type that humans can do instantly.
I'm not up to date on modern neuroscience or studies of intelligence, so I don't know how Hawkins' ideas have been received by "mainstream" academics, but I have no quibbles with his basic idea, which seems plausible to me. The one big hole I see is that he doesn't allow for all the hard-wired aspects of intelligence. To be "intelligent" is not just to be able to do massive pattern recognition or the other cool things that Hawkins machine would do. Human intelligence is much
more, and it's far more hard-wired than I think Hawkins' framework allows.
Why do all cultures have a taboo against incest? Why do all humans know what it means to sing and dance? Why do most girl babies throw balls under-handed while boys throw over-hand? Many (and I argue, most) activities that we often think of as arbitrary consequences of our intelligence are really hard-wired and built into our brains as much as the more abstract aspects of intelligence that Hawkins' framework explains.
I bet someday, when all of this is eventually explained, we'll realize that you can't make something recognizably intelligent unless you make it human. To be intelligent is to have human experiences: unless that computer had the experience of getting dumped by his girlfriend the night before his algebra test, nobody will recognize it as intelligent. Very clever, yes; able to solve extremely complicated general-purpose problems like Chess or Go, sure. But you still won't think of it as intelligent, and humans will still be able to outsmart it in areas that we think of as important.
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6851 General / The Forum / Re: Old into new on: October 21, 2002, 21:16:44
Golden brown might be quite interesting. Shifting time signatures to 7/4 for sections of the tune might be just what d'n'b needs. Maybe a speedy broken beat rework, hmm..
Anyone remember Suv's foray into 3/4?
Maybe 'Bike' and 'Money' by Pink Floyd would provide useful warm-ups for the weird-time-signature-remix kru...
That's 5 and 7 beats per bar respectively for all you non-Floydites
Howzabout Mozart's queen of the night aria in a cheesy jump-up stylee?
6853 General / The Forum / Re: Downloading unreleased material on: October 21, 2002, 18:01:22
Interesting comments -we seem to agree that sharing dubs is inevitable given the current scene... Do other club-based music genres have dubplate culture? I suspect so, but I don't ever remember hearing complaints about them.
Personally, when I'm in a club I generally don't recognise a tune as being a dub. I do, however, recognise a storming plate that tears up the dancefloor. Which I would rather hear should be obvious. I don't care whether it's a dub, or was released in 1983. If the same is true of most clubbers, then the days of weak DJs playing dub heavy sets without really getting the dancefloor going, will thankfully be numbered.
Jem seems to be suggesting that a tighter distribution of dubs amongst the big boys & girls would be a bad thing, but I'm not so sure. I have no problem with good producers holding on tightly to their own material. Hearing someone showcase their own unreleased music can be pretty damn good, and often as close to a live set as you get these days. If most DJs relied more on promo releases to obtain their tunes (as I believe the case is with house, for example), perhaps everyone would be happier. I can go and buy a promo release, and satiate my desire to own good tunes asap. The producers are happy, because their DJ sets are far more exclusive. Good, up and coming DJs should be happier, because with dubs out of the picture, DJ bookings are based on talent rather than what's in their record box. The only people who aren't happy are talentless DJs who don't produce...
If we as clubbers continue to shell out to see lame DJs playing tedious, yet dub heavy, sets then we only have ourselves to blame.
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6854 General / The Forum / Re: Tomatoes on: October 21, 2002, 14:47:12
Yeah, you'll end up with a dire chi-squared with only 3 female responses. In order to even it up a bit, I can tell you that my friend Liz refuses to eat raw tomatoes, and will only eat cooked ones if etiquette dictates she must.
6855 General / The Forum / Re: The board is nothing but a page of adverts on: October 18, 2002, 21:02:57
But the real meaning is in the squares. There are four digits in the number 4444. 4 is a square number, as is the sum of the digits, 16.
4+4+4+4 = 16
4x4x4x4 = 256, another square number, whose root is actually 16, weird eh?
Well quite, but it's all because 2+2=4 :
((x^2) ^ (x^2)) ^ 1/2 = (x^2)^x = x ^ x
In general, the ratio of the product to the sum of the digits of an n digit number, where each digit has the value n and n<10, is n^(n-2).
Lata mate, you really have been burning the candle at both ends for too long.... :barmy-emoticon:
FYI, I happen to think the tomato is the best fruit going, raw or cooked .
And I'm male.
6857 General / The Forum / Re: defining Broken Beat on: October 09, 2002, 15:53:38
Actually, that sounds unfair; if you delve beyond the ornamentation, the article is pretty interesting
After pondering the maiden stanzas of this pandect for a few rotations of the sand-glass, I failed to fathom their tenor. The author seems to gravitate toward prolixity, rather than pithiness...
But then again, what can you expect from a music academic/hack Actually, I love the words 'diaspora' and 'simulcrea', even when they appear with a frequency approaching once per paragraph
6859 General / The Forum / Re: Sigur Ros and Son of Bastard Pop at the Cube on: October 07, 2002, 15:16:58
'Ere, the Osymyso site is currently content-free (apart from the classic intro-inspection mp3) and the other link doesn't appear to exist. The Cube site (http://www.cubecinema.com) does have some useful info, though...
6860 General / The Forum / Re: NITIN SAWHNEY - 17th Oct at the Academy on: October 03, 2002, 21:18:54
Jimma, sounds like you've had too many beers already.... You said you'd be going, and you also said it would be good EZ Roller's - I believe you've heard of them?
And I can't go to Reaction either because I have to go home that day - that's two owwies!
Well you'll just have to party twice as hard at Rukkus the day before, then, won't you I assume the Jimma will be reprazentin, and I can't make Reaction either...
No, it don't look good. On further inspection http://www.nitinsawhney.com says that his Autumn tour has been postponed until 2003, due to the recording schedule for his new album 'Human'. And http://www.bristol-academy.co.uk has 'Comeplay' listed for the 17th...
Sure you got the right date? nitinsawhney.com webting says it's the 29th...
--- ignore the jinx monopoly massiv ---
6864 General / The Forum / Re: Soul in Jungle on: September 25, 2002, 16:20:20
Well, I don't have a particularly strong opinion about the other tracks, and I'm not his biggest fan, but I got a bit hooked by the riff on Closer In an attempt stay on topic, I should say that I don't think it has a great deal of soul, but that doesn't stop it being fun...
So there to you too. Twice. And no returns.
Haha, Jim! You crack me up, man! But yeah, a good point; I think that it's slowing down again now; you can only go so far beyone 180 before you get to techno, and then you can't even make out the breakbeats. I think that we're going to turn a corner and slow down again, return to the old junglist cheapo keyboard riffs and raw sawage basslines.
Hmmm, that would be cool. I like the idea of revamping the old stylez. But I wonder if 180 really is a limit? I remember someone writing in '95ish about how drum n bass couldn't get any faster, but it's gone at least 10bpm faster since. And it doesn't sound too fast to me. Take the 60 minute man Summertime EP for example - 'Closer' is a wicked track - but it's going at the best part of 180 well before jimma speeds it up by +2...
Maybe im getting old (or its because i listen to breaks) but when i listen to it these days it just all seems so sped up! Not just the actual tempo but it sounds as if the whole master has been pitched up before being pressed because all the drum sounds and reverb tails coming off the sounds appear sped up. Has it actually got faster?
Oh yeah, massively. It's interesting playing with Traktor (which does a pretty good job of calculating the tempo). The old stuff from '94/5 tends to be in the 160bpm range, whereas everything I've heard this year is at least 170bpm, and often approaching 180... The thing about this kind of speed is that normal reverb lengths etc. will make the pattern sound messy, so you have to use a shorter sound (I think, but then I'm not a programmer, so this probably is all bollocks....) Also, a more complex break is going to sound messy, which is maybe why the patterns sound a bit formulaic to some people.
I must say I found some of the 170+ stuff a bit silly at first, but you get used to it. Dnb has always had the half-tempo thing going on, too - the thing most people actually dance to.
Anyway, keep it up - this thread is a lot more interesting than many...
@jimma - the definitions came from www.dictionary.com, which often does provide slightly peculiar quotes.
6867 General / The Forum / Re: HIGH CONTRAST on: September 23, 2002, 21:42:28
Have fun tonight, you bunch of lucky gets. I would be down there, but I'm languishing in Geneva, a city utterly devoid of drum n bass....
6868 General / The Forum / Re: SKYHOOK - Insiders, Freakeasy, Skitz and Rodne on: September 23, 2002, 13:37:56
The pissed bird that collapsed on me was definitely on the wrong (jailbait) side of 20... I ended up carrying her off the dancefloor, cos it seemed like she was gonna get stomped on otherwise. She was well out of it, and well embarassed when she came round!
But yeah, no respect going out to the unconscious massive.
i dont think that straight-forward d'n'b has soul ever, but i find that jungle and more innovative d'n'b that makes you think and can almost take youon a journey definitely has soul.
Whilst we're on the subject of defintions, you seem to be drawing quite a clear distinction between "straight-forward d'n'b" and "jungle". You shouldn't assume that everyone else makes the same distinction; I don't and this is as clear as mud to me.
Anyway, I found this defintion of 'soul' :
1. The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
4. A human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor).
5. The central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb).
6. A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.
7. A person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" (Alec Guinness).
8. A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
9. A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist.
10. Soul music.
Presumably we're talking about #9 here?
6870 General / The Forum / Re: METRIC >>> New Weekly D&B session in Bristol on: September 20, 2002, 19:14:43
Nah, she's blatantly caned and blowing smoke rings
6871 General / The Forum / Re: the history of jungle on: September 20, 2002, 17:26:17
"we are e" (or whatever it's called) is SUCH a wicked tune
I'm sure I've even heard it down Shades quite recently...
And it was on a 1xtra promo CD too... it's everywhere!
Distinctive released about a dozen remixes of it a few years ago, which might have had something to do with it.... It is a wicked choon, tho
Much though I hate to be pedantic, that's not debate, it's just a series of questions....
Mmmm, nice. These 80's tracks aren't just the history of drum n bass, though, they're the history of techno & house & trance & lots of other shit. Some seriously influencial tracks here....
Keep it coming guys... All bumps appreciated...
If the debate here gets any hotter my screen will catch fire.
Respec to Freakeasy. I never heard em before, and they were a lot better than I expected, being the cynic that I am. And apart from random pissed-up kids collapsing everywhere, last night was a good 'un.
6876 General / The Forum / Re: MAX TUNRDA @ the cube, friday 20th september on: September 20, 2002, 13:51:36
@jimma - add user ElPoussah in slsk, and grab his latest album from me if ya want...
or you could leave it as a nice surprise for this evening, of course
Oh yeah, nice line-up too Specially at £3 a pop...
ohmygollygoshi'msolookingforwardtotherestofthisyear...
Mmmm, like the flyer!
At the moment Im feeling that Jungle is not nearly as exciting as it has been. without a doubt there is far more diversity nowadays than ever before. And All styles still excite me. But nothing will get me going as hearing tunes like R-type, Studio One Lick. Mash dem down or the Burial.
It's hardly surprising that you're less excited by current tunes than you were in the good ole' days. The music was less well established then, and the more ground that gets broken, the more exciting the track is, right? I don't think it's really fair to compare current tunes with stuff that has sentimental value without trying to be obective in some way.
In some respects I know what you're saying about formulaic beat patterns, though. Jungle has depended heavily in the past on maintaining interest through innovative rhythym, but this is naturally going to be increasingly difficult to keep up. This is probably a good thing, though, because it forces people to explore new directions. In music, good always comes through diversity. I think.
Sorry, none of this has much to do with soul....
6880 General / The Forum / Re: Infidelity Vs Drive By..... Round1: Fight! on: September 18, 2002, 21:37:01
Where is Infidelity, and who is playing - are these things all going on this weekend?
Yep, too much to choose from mate. Infidelity is at the Academy, costs a tenner, and the flyer says :
Hype, Andy C, Ed Rush, Darren Jay, Skibadee, Dett, Shabba D, Blaze
6881 General / The Forum / Re: LOCUS/Metalheadz - Fri 27 Sept - J Majik & DJ on: September 13, 2002, 23:17:36
i'm lookin forward to this one ...got some FAT new tunes to play...you really don't want to miss this event people
No, I bloody well don't. Somehow I'm gonna have to get there from Geneva, though. Maybe it'll count as another tick in Rit's LOCUS international guest book....
6882 General / The Forum / Re: laurent garnier anyone? on: September 06, 2002, 14:54:25
Now that really IS tempting I saw him play at Lakota back in the good ole days ('95 I think - yeah, I feel pretty fuckin old...)
Anyway, it was one of the most memorable nights I've been to. He was dropping bits of disco classics into the most thumping techno set I'd ever heard and the crowd was going absolutely mental. Don't think I've really experienced anything like it since...
6883 General / The Forum / Re: Does DNB actually have any musical longevity?? on: September 04, 2002, 19:51:56
just thought of something
we will all be deaf in 5 to 10 years anyway so what's the point.
cain it while it lasts people
I'm deaf (no seriously, I am) but I can still enjoy a good night of dnb. And the deafer I get, the more I can appreciate other forms of music. Acid techno nights at the Depot make so much sense to me now
6884 General / The Forum / Re: What the funk...? on: September 04, 2002, 18:59:19
Damn. I must learn to type faster. I'm always about four posts behind the argument....
I don't think there's really a problem in 1-xtra being promoted as a black radio station, as long as it really does represent something the black community can identify with. This, presumably, is the point of 1-xtra; it's not actually about playing 'black' music, but playing music that black people want to listen to. There's a subtle difference. And the need for this, and Lata's family's Indian radio, is because the likes of Radio 1,2,3&4 aren't already achieving this.
What I think I'm saying is that catering for ethnic minorities, and catering for junglists are two *completely* different things. And the fact that I'm a white bloke who likes the music played on 1-xtra (I've absolutely no idea if this is true, cos I've never tuned in) is irrelevant as far as the point of 1-xtra is concerned....?
6886 General / The Forum / Re: Your thoughts on this line up please!!!!! on: September 03, 2002, 17:54:09
We have to do something about these damn trolls...see the "guest posting" sticky topic.
Get some hobgoblins to beat em up....
We should try and ignore the likes of 'ilovenickyblackmarket'. They might then fuck off back to Dogs where they belong... Anyone with a serious point to make will/should post under the same name every time...
6887 General / The Forum / Re: LOCUS presents Swerve Bristol - Fri 30 Aug 20 on: August 31, 2002, 22:22:28
Oh my golly gosh, was it good. I haven't had an experience like that for years; felt like every single goddamn tune put a great big across my face.... Respect to all the DJs, producers and promoters who give us this music, I love it! Nice one Rit
6888 General / The Forum / Re: tuesday night - my last gig in town on: August 28, 2002, 20:02:27
Awwww sheeit. Only got back from foreign parts today, so I missed it Dunno what I'm gonna do on Tuesday nights now but hope the Italian job goes well, Ben...
6889 General / The Forum / Re: Lakota on: August 14, 2002, 15:56:10
Yeah, it'll be a shame if Lakota goes, I've had some truly wicked nights there. But I'd almost rather have seen it remain shut when it closed a few years ago. It's pretty sad going there now and seeing it so empty, when the queues used to reach right round the block. Maybe people expect more than it can provide - because of its history - but going to Lakota never seems quite as good as it might any more...
6890 General / The Forum / Re: clean cut @ cosies friday 23rd august on: August 12, 2002, 20:47:10
@jonnies - go to www.streetmap.co.uk and type in "pritchard street" - it's near there.
The square is Portland Square, and Cosie's is near where Surrey St. joins the square. And it's a cellar bar - worth knowing what you're looking for. Oh, and it's a top joint too....
6891 General / The Forum / Re: CITIZEN KANED - a more liquid offering from PM on: August 11, 2002, 23:40:52
Sounds like a good choon, but it's hard to say cos I can only give it a proper listen with the download - which doesn't seem to be working (whichever link I use, I only get to save the .m3u rather than the .mp3)
6892 General / The Forum / Re: Drive By on: August 10, 2002, 22:33:42
No i do totally see what you are saying. It is just a common thing that from the origins of rave the last set has always been the privelege set i assume cos all the people are at their most buzzing by then or something?
Yeah, this struck me a while ago. Back in the day (well, when I first discovered clubbing), there were fewer nights to choose from, so you'd often find 90% of the crowd were on one and everyone would stay right til the end. And a 10-minute standing ovation for the headline DJ wasn't uncommon, so it definitely *was* a privilege to play last.
But these days, there are more nights and a greater cross section of society going to them. So a smaller proportion of the crowd are taking drugs, and people tend to leave much earlier. Lakota used to remain seriously packed until 4 every Saturday night, whereas now you see people leaving a club well before the night ends. This isn't neccessarily a bad thing, but I guess it makes the promoter's job more difficult because they're trying to please more than one type of crowd...
Still, I prefer to put me feet up in front of the fire with a pipe and a mug of cocoa these days anyway. Now where are me slippers?
6893 General / The Forum / Re: Could it be? on: August 08, 2002, 21:51:24
Dilly did "cover me", Photek did "I miss you", Goldie did "Isobels lonely heart", so there.
Ah yes, just found that out for myself, using the magic of google... And using the magic of soulseek, I've just listened to the first two. But they just sound a bit dated and dull to be honest, which can't be said for most Bjork original versions of that era, IMO
@Lata - Krust did a remix of Björk's "So Broken" - it's kinda quirky.
Mmmm, I like it, along with Grooverider's mix of 'Bachelorette' - which is even more quirky if anything
Didn't Dillinja do a mix of one of her tracks, years ago? I forget which one, or whether it was any good. I'm sure there were a couple, actually...
6895 General / The Forum / Re: howdy people on: August 08, 2002, 17:13:51
PLUR
Do you guys share the same opinion?
Well, I don't share spikE's opinion. He says 'i give peace when given peace', which I think rather misses the whole point...
As for Britney, whilst we should of course respect her as a human being, I think a certain amount of disgust for the music industry that values $$$ above art is entirely reasonable... If anyone genuinely thinks Britney's tunes have artistic merit, then I respect that opinion. But I suspect most people who buy it don't really hold strong views on the music - it's entertainment so you're not supposed to think about it.
So yeah, we should have respect, but it's respect for different things and for different reasons, innit?
6896 General / The Forum / Re: Grooverider ft Lifford - What you do on: August 07, 2002, 17:10:27
Not a bad little number. It's not really my kinda cuppa, but should do well in the charts...
Thing is, after LK, and now this offering, Joe Public's gonna end up thinking DnB is all about twangy guitar riffs Maybe benj_b should get on the case - jazzid guitar noodling is clearly next on the list
6897 General / The Forum / Re: Is it just me or on: August 05, 2002, 17:13:29
No mate, I agree... I thought all those moaning-woman tunes were shite first time round (there was a whole bunch of 'em, I seem to remember). And while the new bits of the remix are perfectly acceptable, the moaning is as cheap and tacky as it ever was, and that stupid organ really pisses me off... </rant>
6898 General / The Forum / Re: DnB or booze? on: July 19, 2002, 20:10:45
Oh no, now it's getting really messy. Not sure I like this game any more....
If it was
all breakbeat music vs the best of the rest
there'd be no contest. Not entirely sure who'd be on the opposing tag team, but breakbeat would wipe it's ass with 'em easy... But, I reckon jungle ain't strong enough to stand up to ALL it's breakbeat chums right now. Shit, what a thing to say on Hijack......
It's always jungle, Jem. No-one's ever gonna say booze, are they?
You have to add reefer (at least) to booze to get something anywhere near jungle. Then you could get very, very caned and listen to downtempo breakbeat all day....
6900 General / The Forum / Re: TeeBee Tunes on: July 10, 2002, 16:46:06
Probably realplayer only, Jimma. Makes it harder for those naughty little mp3 sharing fiends to rip it off, see...
BUT, it's probably worth installing Real just to listen to Evil Ways. Nice track


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Q: How can I reauthenticate with Facebook after the OAuth 2.0 changes to the sdk? In our app we had some actions that we required the user to reauthenticate before proceeding. We used code like below to make this happen.
FB.login(
  function(response) { /* code here */ },
  {auth_type: 'reauthenticate', auth_nonce: '...'}
);

It looks like the auth_type option is no longer supported, because I am getting the following log message: 'FB.login() called when user is already connected.' and the user is not being asked to reauthenticate.
Does anyone have any ideas how to reauthenticate after the changes for OAuth 2.0?

A: It appears that, for the time being (and I qualify that because Facebook seems to change their API response on a whim), you can get auth_type: reauthenticate to work properly IF you also specify permissions (the scope parameter in OAuth 2.0). Check out this example:
http://www.fbrell.com/saved/a78ba61535bbec6bc7a3136a7ae7dea1
In the example, click Run Code, and then try the "FB.login()" and "FB.login() with Permissions" buttons. Both are coded to use auth_type: reauthenticate, but only the latter actually gives you the FB prompt once you are logged in.
Here are the relevant examples:
// DOES NOT PROMPT
document.getElementById('fb-login').onclick = function() {
  FB.login(
    function(response) {
      Log.info('FB.login callback', response);
    },
    { auth_type: 'reauthenticate' }
  );
};

// PROMPTS AS EXPECTED
document.getElementById('fb-permissions').onclick = function() {
  FB.login(
    function(response) {
      Log.info('FB.login with permissions callback', response);
    },
    { scope: 'offline_access', auth_type: 'reauthenticate' }
  );
};

So, the answer is, Yes, auth_type: reauthenticate DOES work, but ONLY if you also specify a valid scope parameter. (And yes, I tried it with an empty scope, and it acted the same as not using scope at all.)

A: You can use an iframe to make sure the cookie is always valid.
facebook auto re-login from cookie php

A: Using FacebookRedirectLoginHelper::getReAuthenticationUrl everything works fine.
Internally the method put 'auth_type' => 'reauthenticate' and pass also all the permissions required.
Now the issue is that only prompt to the user to re-enter the password without the possibility to "switch" between users or without the possibility to insert also the username.
Does someone found a solution for this issue?
I manage an application with multi accounts and when the user need to generate again the token this is an issue :(
Thanks, Alex.

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Q: How do I approximate the Jacobian and Hessian of a function numerically? I have a function in Python:
def f(x):
    return x[0]**3 + x[1]**2 + 7
    # Actually more than this.
    # No analytical expression

It's a scalar valued function of a vector.
How can I approximate the Jacobian and Hessian of this function in numpy or scipy numerically?

A: (Updated in late 2017 because there's been a lot of updates in this space.)
Your best bet is probably automatic differentiation. There are now many packages for this, because it's the standard approach in deep learning:

*

*Autograd works transparently with most numpy code. It's pure-Python, requires almost no code changes for typical functions, and is reasonably fast.

*There are many deep-learning-oriented libraries that can do this.
Some of the most popular are TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, Chainer, and MXNet. Each will require you to rewrite your function in their kind-of-like-numpy-but-needlessly-different API, and in return will give you GPU support and a bunch of deep learning-oriented features that you may or may not care about.

*FuncDesigner is an older package I haven't used whose website is currently down.

Another option is to approximate it with finite differences, basically just evaluating (f(x + eps) - f(x - eps)) / (2 * eps) (but obviously with more effort put into it than that). This will probably be slower and less accurate than the other approaches, especially in moderately high dimensions, but is fully general and requires no code changes. numdifftools seems to be the standard Python package for this.
You could also attempt to find fully symbolic derivatives with SymPy, but this will be a relatively manual process.

A: Restricted to just SciPy, the most convenient way I found was scipy.misc.derivative, within the appropriate loops, with lambdas to curry the function of interest.


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