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This page carries the older Indian reports, much of which is now history unfortunately.
Click here for links to the older Darjeeling reports.
The end of steam on the main line was a long timing coming and is recorded in the reports below:
It really is the end. Dileep Prakash tells me (20th February 2000). "The steam at Wankaner in India has at last passed away. The last steam hauled train was hauled on Feb 4, 2000. Since then the diesel rail-bus is running between Wankaner and Morbi while the track beyond Morbi till Maliya Miyana has been blocked for broad-gauging."
Heinrich Hubbert reported on the latest position (4th February 2000) "When I arrived on the 6th January in Wankaner, I was happy to find the place still steam. The weather was excellent, and due to the lower temperatures it was more convenient than in March or April. I never got so many nice shots here for so little sweat. So I stayed for 9 days. Three nights in the Retiring-room and three in Thakar. Then I also stayed in the Dariyalal and even used one of the pools during the day. They drained the water the night before. Lars is completly right about this place. I wish they would have opened it some years earlier. The famous sand-stone arch-bridges are now photographically ruined due to re-enforcements, leaving them half or totally covered with concrete. Only some small and the big one in Morbi were still uncomplete. They have cleared the narrow dirt-road along the railway to get construction material along the line. You can use the ballast-hills or sleeper-staples for an elevated position against the vegetation. The newly erected colour light signal poles can also provide a new perspective. Assuming from the progress of work one wonders when the regauging will take place and how long the steam on Indian Railways will last." For some 2000 pictures of steam in action, click here.
Steam was still working at Wankaner in late October 1999 - read Pietro's report, (More pictures/reports added 14th December 1999) which includes two other September reports. Lars-Åke Holst has sent me a number of pictures (21st December 1999) which are a nice tribute to the end of steam (21st December 1999) on the main line in India.
Earlier Takahide Yamamoto reported (28th September 1999):
"Wankaner (WR India) I was in this area on 25-27th September and confirmed that temporary Barwala Road return had come to an end and steam activity was limited to Wankaner-Morbi only."
Check out Apurva Bahadur's and Viraf Mulla's many pictures of Western Railway steam on http://members.tripod.com/~ApuB/index.htm (more pictures added 20th April 2000). Also Dileep's site http://indiasteam.tripod.com.(link added 20th April 2000)
Takahide Yamamoto reported (30th March 1999): "I am just back from short trip to Gujarat. Sadly steam operations on Jetalsar-Dhola line and Junagadh-Dhari line were finished. Preparation for gauge conversion in Wankaner area is underway. What with ballast and what with PC ties on trackside, it has become difficult to get good shots. The worst thing is concrete reinforcing of beautiful stone viaducts!" Heinrich Hubbert (25th April 1999) confirms this and brings news from elsewhere, Lars-Åke Holst's report of a visit to Wankaner is also included. I finally got hold of Tim Murray's report of his end of 1998 trip to the Western Railway metre gauge steam lines (21st March 1999). There is an account of a visit to Wankaner on http://members.tripod.com/steelwheel/Wankaner/Trip.htm. Charles Whetmath sent me (24th February 1999) a report of the Steam and Safaris trip to Northern India in January 1999.
Heinrich Hubbert reports (5th November 1998) with some new photographs (19th December 1998).
Berndt Seiler's group report from India (April 1998) is now available (pictures added 16th May 1998 and 11th June 1998). Richard Grove (May 29th 1998) now provides some more information and fascinating speculation. There is a New Year 1998 reports from the Western Railway metre gauge from a new correspondent, John Tickner and also Tim Murray and, as usual, Heinrich Hubbert.
The following reports are now illustrated - Heinrich Hubbert's October 1997, Bernd Seiler's New Year 1997 and March 1997 reports.
There are full reports from Christoph Oboth for September 1997 and Heinrich Hubbert's for October 1997. They also hold out the possibility of photographic tours - definitely drinking in the last chance saloon here! The Western Railway of Indian Railways is the only certain user of steam on the metre gauge. Here Mhow, Ahmadebad (very little), Wankaner and Jetalsar still have steam but Udaipur has finished. Steam has probably finished on the North Eastern Railway with the closure of Saharsa and the North East Frontier Railways probably has none now. More recent are
Bernd Seiler contributed New Year 1997 and March 1997 reports. Bernd is the overseas editor of Lok Report which gives includes information on active steam around the world. We have Heinrich Hubbert's reports from April 1997, November 1996 and New Year 1997.
On the industrial front, exciting discoveries continue to be made like the ex-Ghat locos at Hindustan Aluminium (WS 96/2). Chris West found these and has been exploring again in 1997 and you can read his findings. The sugar season in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is short and visitors have to be lucky to find steam working apart from Saraya which has an extended season. The following mills were known to have had working steam recently (WS 96/7 and CRJ 110):
Saraya, Hathua, Sakri (1996), Motipur, Riga.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is now a World Heritage Site (11th December 1999). This will not only protect it against closure but will make it easier to obtain grants to conserve and develop it. It is no longer under the control of Indian Railways but now comes under Indian Tourism, the diesels mentioned below will definitely appear on trains. Heinrich Hubbert was here in late 1999 (4th February 2000) and reports: "I arrived in New Jalpaiguri on Christmas Day. I found a good driver in Siliguri with a new Maruti van at the taxi-stand, Hillchart Road. I got him for 800 Rs a day plus petrol. The line is open, but only one N.G.-train is running through. It was even cancelled on Christmas Day but ran again on Boxing Day. One hour before the departure I got our present: The Hill's first diesel locomotive was running a test-train. While I stuck with my steam train, I saw it again in the afternoon coming down from Kurseong. I was told, that it was intended to run it from 1st January 2000 on the Kurseong-Darjeeling section. If the trials are successful, 2 more NDM6 are expected. From a copy of the IR-magazine, I saw a picture with similar locos for use in Neral. The steam trains can be very delayed. On the following day, I chased the morning-train from Kurseong, where I stayed in the West Bengal Tourist Lodge to Darjeeling and then I visited Tindaria Workshops. I was not permitted to take pictures, because the CME in charge was absent. However, two more delightful presents are waiting for us: 'Baby Shivok', built 1881, dumped in 1954 and plinthed in Siliguri is receiving attention to get it in running condition. It was already almost complete from the outside, and apparently, they had set in in light steam for checking. This must be one of the first Generation 0-4-0ST from the DHR!? (The CRC India book says it is an OK with Tindaria additions possibly 5130/1911. RD) The second surprise for us is a little more encouraging to the future of steam, because 'Baby Shivok' once the repairs have carried out successful, is not intended to work in regular use but for special duties. There was another "B-Type" around with a boiler, that returned recently from Golden Rock Workshops in the South! There its copper firebox was replaced by one made of steel. The worksplate indicated '6 -1999'. "
Dileep Prakash reports (22nd March 2000): "Am just back from an exhilarating trip into the North East of India covering DHR and private steam lines in upper Assam at the N E Coalfields at Tipong and Ledo. DHR had about 10 working B class saddle tanks in operation. One train was hauled from New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling (with a change of engine at Tindharia) and one train came down from Darj to NJP. The Kurseong -Darj passenger also ran everyday. Apart from this there is a Darj-Ghoom special hauled by the oldest loco the 779 B . This is available on booking at Darj station. The fare is Rs. 250 inclusive of refreshments and soft-drinks. Pretty good deal!! Two NDM 6's have arrived at NJP and have been tested on the sector. The tracks are in a bad shape and the diesels did not perform too well. Anyhow the Railway Minister is supposed to inaugurate the diesels soon. The steam shed at NJP will be converted into a diesel one and all steam locos will be maintained at Tindharia. Also the Kuseong-Darj passenger and the Ghoom special will remain on steam. Of course any special booking of an entire steam hauled train is most welcome. The Baby Sivok is up and running. I footplated on it on a short distance out of the Tindharia shed and the loco sounds good. That too is available on special request."
A friend of my mine spent 4 days on the Darjeeling line (8th April 1999). Contrary to all other expectations, he found the line recently opened throughout!!! Duncan Cotterrill reports on the truncated service on the Darjeeling Himalayans Railway (19th March 1999 - 4 pictures from Mike Tyack added 26th March 1999)
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Анато́лій Йосипович Кос-Анатольський (1 грудня 1909, Коломия, нині Івано-Франківська область — 30 листопада 1983, Львів) — український композитор, народний артист України (1969), лавреат Державної премії УРСР імені Т. Г. Шевченка (1980). Депутат Верховної Ради СРСР 8–9-го скликань. Рідний брат американського інженера-механіка Михайла Коса.

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Народився 1 грудня 1909 року в місті Коломия нині Івано-Франківської області в родині відомого галицького лікаря Йосифа Коса.

Навчаючись у Станиславській гімназії, створив хор, почав записувати пісні. У 1931 закінчив юридичний факультет Львівського університету, а в 1934 — Львівську консерваторію. У 1930-х разом з Леонідом Яблонським, Богданом Весоловським та Степаном Гумініловичем входив до складу популярної тоді на Львівщині «Джаз-капели Яблонського» («Ябцьо-джаз»). З 1934 по 1937 рік викладав у Стрийській філії Вищого музичного інституту імені Миколи Лисенка. У 1938—1939 роках працював адвокатом у містечку Залізці.

Першою самостійною творчою роботою стало музичне оформлення спектаклів Львівського музично-драматичного театру (1941). В часі війни перебував на теренах Західної України. З 1939 року працював концертмейстером львівського Будинку піонерів, викладачем музичної школи. Після другої світової війни став членом та з 1951 року головою правління Львівського обласного відділення Спілки радянських композиторів України, працював концертмейстером Львівського драматичного театру, а від 1952 — викладачем Львівської консерваторії імені М. Лисенка (з 1973 року — професор).

Помер 30 листопада 1983 року у Львові. Похований на Личаківському цвинтарі Львова (поле № 3). Надгробний пам'ятник виконав скульптор Еммануїл Мисько.

Твори
Анатолій Кос-Анатольський є автором опери, трьох балетів, симфонічних творів, низки концертів та популярних хорів («Нова Верховина», «На горах Карпатах» та ін.), сольних пісень, романсів. Він широко використовував пісенні здобутки лемків, обробляв лемківські пісні, які успішно виконує хорова капела «Лемковина ».

Список творів

Опера
 «Назустріч сонцю» (лібр. Ростислава Братуня, 1957, 2-а ред. «Заграва», 1959);

Балети
 «Хустка Довбуша» (лібр. П.Ковинєва, 1950),
 «Сойчине крило» (лібр. О. Гериновича за І. Франком, 1956),
 «Орися» (лібр. О. Гериновича, 1964, 2-а ред. 1967);

Оперета
 «Весняні грози» (лібр. Є. Кравченка, 1960);

Вокально-симфонічні твори
 Кантати «Давно те минуло» (сл. Т. Шевченка, 1961), «Безсмертний заповіт» (сл. власні, 1963),
 Ораторія «Від Ніагари до Дніпра» (сл. Р. Братуня, 1969),
 Поема «Львівська легенда» (сл. Р. Братуня, 1970) та інші;

Для симфонічного оркестру
 Сюїти з власних балетів (1950—1964),
 Концертна увертюра «Гаудеамус» (1961),

Інструментальні концерти
 Для фортепіано — 2 концерти (1955, 1962),
 Для арфи — концерт (1954),
 Поема для скрипки з оркестром (1966),
 Для скрипки з оркестром — рапсодія «На верховині» (1982);

Для інструментів соло
 Для скрипки — «Закарпатська рапсодія» (1952), Поема (1962);
 Для фортепіано — «Гомін Верховини» (1954), 12 прелюдій (1955), «Гуцульська токата» (1958), Скерцо (1959), «Буковинська сюїта» (1982);

Хори
Романси — «Солов'їний романс» (сл. власні, 1954), «Ой ти, дівчино, з горіха зерня» (сл. І. Франка, 1956), «Ой піду я межи гори» (слова власні, 1958), «Два потоки з Чорногори» (сл. Петренка) та ін.

Пісні — «Думи німі» (слова Лесі Українки), «На горах Карпатах», «Зустріч на стерні» (обидва на сл. П. Воронька, 1949), «Коломия-місто» (1954), «Ой коли б я сокіл» (обидва на власні слова, 1957), «Гей, браття опришки» (слова М. Устияновича, 1965, «Лукашева сопілка» (слова Й. Струцюка, 1981).

Естрадні пісні — «Білі троянди» (слова Р. Братуня), танго — «Зоряна ніч» (1965) та ін.

 Обробки народних пісень.
 музика до театральних вистав.

Музикознавчі праці
 Кос-Анатольський А. «С. П. Людкевич» — Київ, 1951.

Дискографія
 2016: Фортепіянна музика Анатоля Кос-Анатольського у виконанні Олександра Козаренка. — Львів, 2016. — 56 хв. 43 сек.

Ордени, премії та відзнаки
 орден Леніна
 орден Трудового Червоного Прапора
 орден Дружби народів
 лауреат Сталінської премії СРСР (1951)
 лауреат Державної премії УРСР імені Т. Г. Шевченка (1980)

Вшанування
Вулиця в Сихівському районі Львова.

Музична школа № 3 в Івано-Франківську ім. Кос-Анатольського

Бібліографія

 Волинський І. Анатолій Йосипович Кос-Анатольський. — К., 1965.
 Колодій Я., Полек В. Композитор Кос-Анатольський. — К., 1974.
 Терещенко А. А. Кос-Анатольський. — К., 1986.
 Сусловський О. Митці Львова. — Львів, 1959.

Примітки

Джерела
 Галайчак Т. Ю. Кос-Анатольський Анатолій Йосипович  //
  — містить інформацію про допомогу композитора Марії Крушельницькій.
 Жадько В. О. Український некрополь. — К., 2005. — С. 205.

Посилання

 Діячі науки і культури Лемківщини Лемківщину
 Інтерв'ю з Анатолієм Кос-Анатольським  (аудіо)
 Народний ансамбль пісні і танцю «Лемковина»

Українські композитори
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 8-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 9-го скликання
Уродженці Коломиї
Персоналії:Залізці
Померли у Львові
Поховані на Личаківському цвинтарі
Українська опера
Люди, на честь яких названі вулиці
Артисти, відомі під псевдонімами

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Q: Rudin Functional analysis, theorem 4.12 corollary (b)
Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces, and $T \in \mathcal{B}(X,Y)$ Then
  $$
\mathcal{N}(T^*) = \mathcal{R}(T)^{\perp} \;\;\text{and}\;\; \mathcal{N}(T) = ^{\perp}\mathcal{R}(T^*)
$$

The corollary in the title

b) $\mathcal{R}(T)$ is dense in $Y$ iff $T^*$ is one-to-one

The proof is really short but there's a specific bit I don't get (fully at least)

$\mathcal{R}(T)$ is dense in $Y$ iff $\mathcal{R}(T)^{\perp} = \left\{ 0\right\}$

I've tried to prove this bit by exercise, and I think the most promosing was to show that
$$
^{\perp}(\mathcal{R}(T)^{\perp}) = Y \iff \mathcal{R}(T) = \left\{0\right\}
$$
The reason of the equality on the left of the double implication is because of theorem 4.7, which states that the orthogonal of the orthogonal of a set is the norm closure of a set.
However I'm not entirely sure how to exploit this, can you help?

A: Here is another approach:
Suppose $R(T)$ is dense. Any linear functional that vanishes on $R(T)$ must vanish on the entire space by continuity considerations. That is, $R(T)^\perp$ consists only of the zero functional.
Conversely suppose $R(T)$ is not dense. Then $\overline{R(T)}$ is a proper closed subspace of $Y$ and there exists (per e.g. Hahn-Banach) a nontrivial linear function $\phi$ that vanishes on $\overline{R(T)}$, meaning $R(T)^\perp \not= \{0\}$.

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Hiroaki Takenouchi (Piano)
more about our October concert
Mozart:
Fantasia in D minor K. 397
Rondo in D major K. 485
Piano Sonata no. 16 in C major, K. 545, Sonata Facile
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13, Pathétique
Chopin:
Nocturne in B Major, op. 62, no. 1
Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31
Schubert:
Fantasy in C major, D. 760, Wanderer
Hiroaki Takenouchi
About Hiroaki Takenouchi (Piano)
Heralded by The Times as "just the sort of champion the newest of new music needs", while being praised as "impeccable in his pianism and unfailing in his idiomatic grasp" by Gramophone, Takenouchi's curiosity and a natural penchant for integrity makes his playing and vast repertoire unique amongst his generation of pianists. His love for the music of classical masters – particularly Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin – sits side by side with his passion for the music of Medtner, lesser-known British composers such as Sterndale Bennett and Parry, and the contemporary repertoire.
As a soloist, Takenouchi has appeared on many concert platforms including Wigmore Hall, Tokyo Opera City and the South Bank Centre. He has also performed at festivals in Bath, Cheltenham and Salzburg and given recitals in the UK, Japan, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and Canada. His more unusual recent projects include: a recital for the Rarities of Piano Repertoire Festival in Husum (Germany), a BBC Four documentary The Prince and the Composer on the life and music of Parry alongside HRH The Prince of Wales, and BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week, for which Hiroaki recorded solo piano works by Sterndale Bennett (broadcast in April 2016) and Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (broadcast in February 2017).
Takenouchi's discography includes Schumann & Sterndale Bennett (Artalinna), Haydn: 4 Sonatas (Artalinna), Cosmos Haptic: Contemporary Piano Music from Japan (LORELT), as well as world première recordings of works by James Dillon (NMC), Edwin Roxburgh (NMC) and Jeremy Dale Roberts (LORELT). Upcoming recordings in 2019 include two-piano arrangements of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony and of piano sonatas by Chopin and Liszt for Lyrita, as part of the Parnassius Piano Duo with Simon Callaghan. The duo has also recorded works by Percy Sherwood and Parry (Lyrita), and two-piano arrangements of Delius's orchestral works (SOMM).
The Russian composer Georgy Catoire's music is somewhat neglected today but Takenouchi is a passionate advocate of his Piano Concerto and recorded the work with Martin Yates and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Their recording was released in 2012 on Dutton Epoch along with Percy Sherwood's Piano Concerto, in another world première recording, which garnered excellent reviews in the press. Towards the end of 2016 Takenouchi went on to give the modern-day première of the Piano Concerto with London Phoenix Orchestra, the first performance since its première in 1920 at The Proms.
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Rachmaninov Symphony No.2
Schubert Sonata in C major, D. 812
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Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova was one of the most famous and influential ballerinas of all time. She was born on the 12th February [O.S. 31st January] 1881 in Saint Petersburg and was introduced to the art form of ballet by her mother, who took her to see The Sleeping Beauty in 1890, shortly after the première. From that moment, it was her dream to become a ballerina. Pavlova was accepted into the Imperial Ballet School at the age of 10, but was taunted by her classmates for her unusual and rather sickly physique. They even gave her cruel nicknames such as "the broom" and "la petite sauvage", but the young Pavlova was undeterred and trained hard to improve her technique. She was taught by the great teachers of the time – Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt and Enrico Cecchetti and finally entered the classe de perfection of Ekaterina Vazem in 1898. Upon Pavlova's graduation from the school in 1899, it was clear to her teachers that she was a different kind of ballerina, with many critics raving that her style greatly resembled that of the Romantic ballerinas of the early 1840s.
Anna Pavlova (ca. 1905)
Petipa first noticed Pavlova when she was a student and fell completely in love with her dancing. When she was 10 years old, she danced in his ballet A Fairy Tale, which was choreographed for the Imperial Ballet School and later danced a leading role in his ballet The Two Stars for her graduation performance. Petipa took the young ballerina under his wing, for upon her graduation in 1899, Pavlova bypassed the corps de ballet and joined the Imperial Ballet as a coryphée. It was in her first season with the company that signs of a promising career already began to show. One of Pavlova's earliest roles with the Imperial Ballet was the Fairy Candide in The Sleeping Beauty. However, on the night of her début in the role, the 18 year old ballerina was so nervous about performing the variation, fearing that she was not technically accomplished enough to dance it. During the performance, when the time was approaching for her to perform her variation, Pavlova panicked in the wings, so to calm her down, two of the other fairies, Lyubov Egorova and Marie Petipa, quickly came up with new steps for her to perform, which she did. However, during one of the intervals, Petipa approached Pavlova and scolded her for changing the steps, telling her to dance his choreography only in future. Subsequently, Pavlova was apparently never cast as the Fairy Candide again.
Another of her earliest roles was Zulma, one of the attendants of the Queen of the Wilis in Giselle. In February 1900, she created the role of Frost in The Seasons and in April, she débuted as Eos in The Awakening of Flora, which, that same year, became the ballet in which she danced her first principal role. In the 1900-01 season, Petipa upgraded her to the leading role of Flora. The young ballerina was very nervous and was having trouble with her technique for the role proved to be a real challenge for her since it had been created by the virtuosa Matilda Kschessinskaya. Nevertheless, the 19 year old Pavlova débuted as Flora on the 23rd September [O.S. 10th September] 1900 and her performance was a huge success. The critic Bezobrazov described her as "light and graceful" and the role of the Goddess of the Flowers became one of her favourites.
Anna Pavlova as Nikiya (1902)
The following season, Pavlova débuted in roles such as Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Anne and Venus in Bluebeard, the Pas de trois in Paquita, Gulnare in Le Corsaire and Henriette in Raymonda and finally, her breakthrough came in 1902 when Petipa cast her as Nikiya in La Bayadère. Petipa coached Pavlova, himself, for the role of the temple dancer and she was also rehearsed by Eugenia Sokolova. Matilda Kschessinskaya, who was pregnant at the time, writes in her memoirs that Pavlova débuting as Nikiya was all her idea and that she gave the girl special coaching in her private studio. In reality, however, Kschessinskaya only gave Pavlova some tips for the role and simultaneously made a spectacle of her pregnancy, ensuring that those close to her were present to inform the press of her alleged "act of generosity." Pavlova's début as Nikiya in April 1902 was hugely successful; the audience were enraptured by the ethereal, frail-looking young ballerina and a new star was born. In the aftermath, Pavlova's repertoire expanded further with more leading roles that best suited her dramatic gifts, in which Petipa coached her, even after his forced retirement. From 1902 to 1906, Pavlova debuted in roles such as Queen Nisia, Paquita and Princess Aspicia. In 1903, she debuted as Giselle and Ondine in Petipa's final revival of Giselle and Alexander Shiryaev's revival of The Naiad and the Fisherman, with both respective revivals staged especially for her.
Anna Pavlova as Princess Aspicia (1906)
Anna Pavlova became Prima Ballerina in 1906. In 1904, she made her first appearance outside Russia when she danced the title role in Giselle in Warsaw. From 1908, she further danced outside her home country when she and a troupe of her Imperial Ballet colleagues, including Nikolai Legat and Shiryaev, toured the west. In 1909, Pavlova danced with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she danced leading roles in several ballets by Mikhail Fokine, including Le Pavillon d'Armide, Egyptian Nights and Les Sylphides. However, due to various dissatisfactions with Diaghilev's directorship, she pulled out of the 1910 Ballets Russes season. Afterwards, she founded her own company, with whom she would tour across the world. She would later dance again with the Ballets Russes as a guest ballerina and made her final appearance with the Imperial Ballet in 1913.
Anna Pavlova in Les Sylphides (1909)
For her own company, Pavlova added abridgements of many of her favourite ballets and passages to their repertoire including Giselle, The Magic Flute, La Fille mal gardée, The Awakening of Flora, The Fairy Doll and Chopiniana (Les Sylphides). She also added new short ballets that were based on scenes from full-length ballets such as Snowflakes, which was based on the snowy forest scene from The Nutcracker. It was also for her company's repertoire that her famous solo dances, choreographed by Ivan Clustine, were created, including The Dragonfly, The California Poppy and Invitation to the Valse. But the most famous piece in the repertoire that Pavlova performed many times in many different places was her signature ballet and most famous role – The Swan (known today as The Dying Swan), which had been created for her by Mikhail Fokine in 1905.
Anna Pavlova as the Swan (1907)
After her departure from Russia, Pavlova permanently settled in London when she purchased her famous London home, Ivy House in the North-west London area of Golders Green in 1912. Following her successful tours of Britain and the United States from 1910 to 1914 and her final appearance in Russia, she launched an aggressive ballet marathon that would last the rest of her life. Together with her company, she set out on tours across the world, visiting many places including Mexico, South America, India, China, Japan and Australia, bringing the art form of ballet to places it had yet to touch.
Anna Pavlova in the garden of Ivy House with her favourite pet swan, Jack
Twenty years of touring around the world had granted Pavlova with much recognition and stardom and gave a greatly important contribution to the art form of ballet, but it all took its toll on her. In 1931, while Pavlova was touring the Netherlands, she contracted pneumonia on a broken-down train. She was brought to the Hotel Des Indes in the Hague and when the Queen of the Netherlands learned of Pavlova's illness, she sent her best doctor to treat the ballerina. However, by then, Pavlova's illness was too advanced and had developed into pleurisy.
Anna Pavlova died on the 23rd January 1931, aged 49, three weeks before her 50th birthday. According to her common-law husband, Victor Dandré, as she lay on her deathbed, her last words were "Get my Swan costume ready." She was cremated and her ashes are retained at Golders Green Crematorium.
Anna Pavlova's urn at Golders Green Crematorium (2015)
Pavlova had a very strong view on what music was suitable for ballet, so strong was her view that she greatly detested the music of Igor Stravinsky. One of the reasons she left the Ballets Russes in 1910 was because she refused to dance the title role in Fokine's ballet The Firebird due to her dislike of Stravinsky's avante garde score.
Pavlova was a great animal lover and had many pets, including two swans named Jack and Clara.
Pavlova was a huge inspiration to Sir Frederick Ashton and the famous so-called "Fred step" that appears in most of his ballets was a sequence that he borrowed from her. The sequence is 'arabesque, fondu, coupé, petit developpé, pas de bourée, pas de chat.' This has become Ashton's choreographic signature, but he, himself, referred to this sequence as the "Pavlova", paying homage to the great ballerina. Ashton often thought of Pavlova when he created new leading ballerina roles and there is a quote from the Australian dancer and actor, Sir Robert Helpmann that says "every ballerina role that Ashton created could've been danced by Anna Pavlova."
Anna Pavlova's Imperial Ballet repertoire
The Fairy Candide in The Sleeping Beauty (**1899)
Zulma in Giselle (**1899)
Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn in The Awakening of Flora (**1900)
Frost in The Seasons (1900)
Diana, the Goddess of the Hunt in Le Roi Candaule (**1900)
Flora, the Goddess of the Spring in The Awakening of Flora (**1900)
The Third Solo Shade in La Bayadère (1900)
Anne in Bluebeard (**1901)
Venus in Bluebeard (**1901)
Gulnare in Le Corsaire (**1901)
Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty (**1901)
Henrietta in Raymonda (**1901)
Lise in The Magic Flute (**1902)
Nikiya in La Bayadère (**1902)
Queen Nisia in Le Roi Candaule (**1903)
The Spanish Doll in The Fairy Doll (1903)
The Princess's Retinue in The Magic Mirror (1903)
Giselle in Giselle (*1903)
Ondine in The Naiad and the Fisherman (*1903)
Paquita in Paquita (**1904)
Medora in Le Corsaire (**1904)
Kitri/Dulcinea in Don Quixote (**1905)
Princess Aspicia in The Pharaoh's Daughter (**1905)
Swanhilda in Coppélia
Lise in La Fille mal gardée
Colombine in Harlequinade
The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (**1907)
Madeleine in Le Pavillon d'Armide (1907)
Bacchante in The Seasons (*1907)
(* – original cast member of role in revival)
(** – year of début performance in role)
Money, Keith (1982) Anna Pavlova: Her Life and Art. UK: Alfred A. Knopf
Pritchard, Jane with Hamilton, Caroline (2012) Anna Pavlova: Twentieth-Century Ballerina. London, UK: Booth-Clibborn Editions


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With: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Macy, Udo Kier, Stephen Root, Josh Zuckerman, Sy Richardson
Written by: Deobrah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Joshau Sternin
Directed by: Mike Mitchell
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, language and a brief drug reference
Surviving Christmas (2004)
1/2 Star (out of 4)
No Survivors
How bad can a Christmas movie get? How about Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Or the $50 million flop Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)? What about the granddaddy of them all, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)? Forget them. We have a new champion, Surviving Christmas, easily the worst Christmas movie of all time, and a surefire contender for the worst film of 2004.
Surviving Christmas starts with a horrible, horrible performance by Ben Affleck as a soulless corporate advertising exec, Drew Latham. Someone must have told Affleck to ignore the rest of the character and to talk as fast as he could to make the sagging, lethargic plot seem like it was moving.
Drew's girlfriend dumps him just before Christmas. Faced with the prospect of spending the holidays alone, and with the advice of his ex-girlfriend's shrink, he visits his childhood home. Upon meeting the family that lives there now, he offers them $250,000 to let him stay for the holidays. The unhappy Valco family includes Tom (James Gandolfini), Christine (Catherine O'Hara), teenage Brian (Josh Zuckerman) and wayward daughter Alicia (Christina Applegate). In addition, Drew hires an actor to play a loving, doting old granddad, nicknamed Doo-Dah (Bill Macy).
Of course, earning this huge paycheck requires utter and complete humiliation on the part of the witless family. Drew forces them to do all kinds of kooky and unfunny things. Tom must wear a Santa hat, and they must install a gaudy Christmas tree that would light up Times Square. The film moves inexorably toward its inevitable conclusion, in which Drew and the family find the real Christmas spirit among their squabbling, and Drew and Alicia fall improbably in love with absolutely no chemistry or interest whatsoever.
The film tries desperately to shove stale jokes at us, not knowing whether it wants to be sweet or cynical. The opening title montage contains both kinds of jokes, establishing a tone of confusion and stupidity that the rest of the movie dutifully upholds. Probably the worst, most offensive and insulting joke comes when Doo-Dah can't work one evening and sends in an understudy who happens to be black.
Sprinkled in and among the dialogue is a huge collection of classic Christmas songs including Judy Garland's mournful "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from the masterpiece Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and these songs are so badly misused that their sentimental value may be rubbed out forever.
I've given Affleck the benefit of the doubt in recent years. He was miscast in action films like The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil and Paycheck, and the misguided Jersey Girl probably wasn't his fault. Certainly Gigli wasn't his fault -- even Al Pacino couldn't make that garbage work. But in Surviving Christmas, yes, it's Affleck's fault. He completely fails to give his character any depth or comic timing, nor does he give us a sense of emotional change over the course of the film. He can't even pull off one second of human interaction.
But Surviving Christmas is so bad that even superb actors like Gandolfini, O'Hara and Applegate just wind up looking stunned. Applegate is the only one with enough presence to appear untouched by the wretchedness around her.
It all becomes clear when we discover that director Mike Mitchell's previous film was Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo. Four screenwriters are credited, beginning with Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, who wrote and co-directed the funny pop music satire Josie and the Pussycats -- a guilty pleasure of mine -- and including Jeffrey Ventimilia and Joshua Sternin, who wrote for "The Simpsons." Clearly one team was called in to fix whatever the other team wrote, but I can't see how this thing could be any worse.


The Northwestern Vermont Board of REALTORS® (NVBR) has released its market statistics for December 2017. The information is derived from data contained in the New England Real Estate Network and covers Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties.
New Listings were down 25.2 percent for Single Family homes but increased 3.4 percent for Townhouse-Condo properties.
Pending Sales increased 13.1 percent for Single Family homes and 26.7 percent for Townhouse-Condo properties.
The median sales price was up 4.3 percent to $297,079 for Single Family homes and 12.7 percent to $247,000 for townhouse-condo properties.
Closed sales increased 16.9 percent for Single Family properties but decreased 12.9 percent for townhouse- condo properties.
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Comment: Do you know that God knows you by name, and He knows what you are passing through right now? Think about it!
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Jude vs 20-21).
And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. If someone claims, "I know God," but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.
But those who obey God's word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. ( 1 John 2:3-6, NLT).
Dear friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors.
1. Even in prison custody, Paul preached the gospel and made converts, what about you who are free.
2. Onesimus, the slave was unprofitable, but God's Word made Onesimus to become profitable.
Are you getting tired of doing good? Please be encouraged, for the Lord sees your good works and will reward you in due season!
Do you frustrate the grace of God by your conduct and actions?
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord . (1 Corinthians 15:58).
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Brethren, be of good cheer in the midst of these challenging times, for God has assured us, that there shall be no loss, if we rest on His Word..
How often do you praise God in that situation? Praise Him today and see your prison doors and shackles shaken and broken loose in Jesus name.
Brethren! Have you discovered the potency of the Name ''JESUS''? Call upon Him whether in the morning, at noon or night. He shall salvage every situation!
What then Brethren? What do you desire from the Lord?
Would you rather not abide in Him first?
Brethren let us continue in God's Word, until the knowledge of the TRUTH brings victory to us in that situation!
Have you received him into your life as your Lord and personal saviour or are you just a church member?
Have you consciously judged yourself by this scripture? How do you fare today by it?
37 "For with God nothing shall be impossible.
It is your faith in Christ, and not another's that brings wholeness.
Is your heart with the Lord in your worship or do you just pay lip service to the Lord? Consider.
"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Do you confess Christ boldly before men or do you deny him by keeping quiet?
Have you considered that purity is one of the states of your heart which determines the level of God's manifestation/ intervention in your life and situation?


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Q: R-Caret : Not-meaningful class probabilities and AUC value I am very new to ML therefore my question might be primitive. I am working on a binary-class problem. The response (target) variable is occurrence : a factor variable with two levels : oui and non (french equivalents of yes and no). The trainset has 175 rows (of which 173 rows with non and 2 rows with oui target values) and looks like :
occurrence  QMAX    deve    tm  P15M  P30M  P1H  P4H  P6H  P12H  P24H   P48H
non         35.6    72.0    34.3 5.5 10.2  12.9 17.3  18.4 18.7  18.7   18.7
non        238.9   143.3    49.5 3.9 6.6   11.5 20.7  28.5 42.3  48.9   65.6
non         23.5    72.0    39.3 6.6 8.8   12.0 17.6  17.6 25.4  26.5   28.4
....
oui        2396.5   72.0   34.1  28.5 47.7 68.6 112.1 112.3 125.8 125.9 126.0

the testset has exactly the same structure but of 19 rows of which 18 rows with non and 1 rows with oui target values). I use rf (random forest) of caret package to predict testset based on trainset :
train.control <- trainControl(method = "none",
                              search = "grid",
                              classProbs = TRUE)
expandgrid  <- expand.grid(.mtry = 4)
model.train <- train(occurrence ~ .,
                     data = trainset,
                     method = "rf",
                     trControl = train.control,
                     tuneGrid = expandgrid)
predict.class <- predict(model.train, testset)

I need to get classe probabilities for each row in my trainset, so I do :
classprobs <- predict(model.train, testset, type = "prob")

What I get is as follows :
non oui
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0
1   0

as probability, it gives either 1 or 0 values and no values in between.
So, when I construct roc object using pROC package :
ROC <- roc(testset$occurrence, classprobs$oui, levels = c("oui", "non"), auc = TRUE)
thresh <- coords(ROC, x = "best", best.method = "closest.topleft", ret = "threshold", transpose = FALSE)

the returned AUC value and best threshold are :
ROC$auc
Area under the curve: 0.5

thresh
[1] -Inf  Inf

When I use other data sets such as iris (after subsetting it to a data.frame with binary versicolor and virginica response variables) and use the same script, reported probabilities values are not exclusively 0 and 1, i.e. there are probability values such as 0.04, 0.96 and the corresponding roc has a non-Inf best.threshold value.
I would be thankful if you could help me find what is wrong with my case.

A: This is a very imbalanced dataset. As you have stated:

The trainset has 175 rows (of which 173 rows with non and 2 rows with
  oui target values)

When you run any ML model in caret, by default it is trained to improve accuracy, which means getting the labels correct in your training set. When most of your data set is "non", the model simply needs to assign everything to "non" and its accuracy will be 173/175.
When this happens, the AUC etc simply doesn't make sense anymore, because the other label is missing.
You need to have more of the other label before you go on...


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We hadn't done any drawing since secondary school, so when we saw the opportunity to try out still life drawing for free we thought why not.
Every first Thursday of the month the Royal Drawing School sets up some easels in Selfridges and welcomes anyone to drop in to have a crack. The lessons are guided by expert tutors.
The other efforts are pretty good and it can be a little intimidating at first.
We sit down at a large blank piece of paper; aptly our mind goes blank. This drawing malarkey is intimidating at first, as all those around us seem much more talented than we are.
But as we sit there looking lost, Anna — one of the tutors — comes over, plies us with materials and encourages us to make a start. Charcoal seems far too sophisticated for us, and pen too permanent, so we stick with the humble pencil.
We pick the easy subjects at first — after all how wrong can you go with lamp shades and rectangular shelves? Best to leave the flowers until later, for when we've worked up a bit of confidence.
Our shaky start involves tackling a few lamp shades to start with.
Then we find out that you can collaborate on a piece of work. We quickly rope in Elizabeth from the Royal Drawing School. After all, if you're going to screw something up, it's never as bad if you can share the blame. One person draws and the other is the 'corrector' who embellishes the original drawing, and you alternate with a few minutes each.
We realise that shared drawing could be a fun first date activity. Then again, if correcting someone's grammar is a big no-no, correcting a drawing could be a blood bath.
Here we are learning all about perspective and how we got it completely wrong.
Time flies and before we know it we've been at it for 50 minutes. Nikki, another one of the tutors, comes over and mentions how we've got the perspective completely wrong. But after spotting the forlorn look on our face she quickly adds that it makes our artwork more interesting, and that it reminds her of Pierre Bonnard. We look up Bonnard's paintings and realise Nikki is being extremely generous.
We try to save any remaining face by claiming it's an isometric view — like you'd get in the video game Command & Conquer. This is met with a blank stare that suggests Nikki has never played a real time strategy game, and that she may not be old enough to know what Command & Conquer is.
Having a crack at drawing, and enjoying our mixed effort.
We're also taught how to divide a work into zones, which brings to mind the Crystal Maze and zonal marking in football. It actually refers to the fact that warm and dark colours can really draw the eye to and away from certain parts of the picture.
We only have five minutes left now, and as our work doesn't have any colour in it yet, we attack the canvas with coloured pencils. The splashes of colour definitely made it look more interesting and lively.
We're proud of our flawed final work.
The National Gallery may not be giving us a ring any time soon, nor is any art school likely to accept us based on our output. But we had a lot of fun, learnt a lot about the art of drawing and we'd definitely come back and give it another try.
And if it all gets a bit too much, it's directly opposite a bar so you can give your liver, and your wallet, a good seeing to afterwards.
First Thursdays - Easy Easels is on at Selfridges on the first Thursday of every month. Every session runs from 5-7.30pm and all are free to drop in.


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Prof Patricia Findlay
British Academy Lecture: Fair work for our future?
Delivered by the most outstanding academics in the UK and beyond, the British Academy's flagship lecture programme showcases the very best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
The quality of work plays an important role in individual well-being and in supporting family and community life. The potential of 'fair' work in addressing key challenges such as low relative productivity and 'innovativeness' and entrenched socio-economic inequality is also increasingly recognised. Yet policy in the UK only lightly shapes the quality of work, leaving employers with considerable discretion to make strategic choices that may or may not deliver for individuals, the economy and society. Given the current and likely disruptions to the world of work caused by the pandemic, future automation and the climate emergency among other factors, how can we best deliver fair work that addresses wicked problems and supports wellbeing?
Professor Patricia Findlay, Distinguished Professor of Work and Employment Relations and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research, University of Strathclyde
Patricia Findlay is Distinguished Professor of Work and Employment Relations at the University of Strathclyde Business School where she is also Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research. Her current research focusses on job quality, workplace innovation, productivity and wellbeing. Patricia is also Co-Chair of Scotland's Fair Work Convention, having been the Convention's Academic Advisor since its inception.
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Flamingos fighting MS in Hazen
It wasn't his birthday – at least that he knew of, anyway, joked Reuben Gutsche, Hazen. But he knew there had to be some special explanation for why he counted 15 pink flamingos milling about his front-yard snow banks Thursday morning.
There was a special explanation, indeed. The pink, plastic lawn ornaments are part of a local fundraising effort to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. The notoriously noble effort is the doing of Lorisa Newman, Hazen.
Each year, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society holds a fundraiser walk to help raise money for the continuing research into a cure for MS, Lorisa explained. Teams organize individual fundraising efforts before gathering for the annual walk, which this year is May 9 in Bismarck.
Lorisa is in her fifth year as a member of a fundraising team started by her sister, LeAnn Bornemann, Center. Last year, the group numbered 77 members and raised the most of any team at the event. This year, Lorisa hopes the team surpasses 100 members.
Each year, team members come up with creative ways to raise money for the cause, and Lorisa is using flamingos to "flock" Hazen residents' yards at the request of others. After a flocking, Lorisa would pick up the flamingos for $10, and for $20 she would flock someone else's yard of the "victim's" choice. For $5, victims can purchase flamingo insurance to ensure the non-native species doesn't infest their yard again. A donation is not required to remove the flamingos. It's all in good fun, Lorisa said, and hopes residents see it as such.
But Lorisa's emotional investment runs much deeper than simply serving as a member of a fundraising team. Her team's name is "Legs for Lorisa."
In December 2004, Lorisa herself was diagnosed with MS.
According to www.nationalmssociety.org, multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Symptoms may be mild, such as numbness in the limbs, or severe, such as paralysis or loss of vision. The progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS are unpredictable and vary from one person to another.
The body's own defense system attacks myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers in the central nervous system. The nerve fibers themselves can also be damaged. The damaged myelin forms scar tissue (sclerosis), which gives the disease its name. When any part of the myelin sheath or nerve fiber is damaged or destroyed, nerve impulses traveling to and from the brain and spinal cord are distorted or interrupted, producing the variety of symptoms that can occur.


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You've probably seen the late night ads and the onslaught of cosmetic marketing – hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan, touted as the "fountain of youth," the best moisturizer or skin plumper on the market. It turns out, this naturally occurring molecule, with high concentrations in the eyes, is necessary for creating stem cells in the limbus, the border of the cornea and whites of the eye (sclera). Limbal stem cells regenerate the cornea after serious corneal injury. Patients who lack these cells and their environment develop a condition called limbal stem cell deficiency which causes opaque corneas.
"Our hope is to use the knowledge of hyaluronan in creating stem cells to improve the treatment of patients with limbal stem cell deficiency," said assistant professor of optometry Vivien Coulson-Thomas whose research is supported by a $1.9M grant from the National Eye Institute.
She previously discovered that hyaluronan in the eyes is present exclusively in the corneal limbus.
"This grant is to look at how the hyaluronan creates limbal stem cells and we will also look at whether we can take a cell, put it on a hyaluronan layer, or substrate, and create new stem cells in the lab," said Coulson-Thomas.
Stem cells, the body's version of cells on reserve, exist in a nonspecific state until called upon to transform into the kind of cell that can produce new body tissue for either maintenance or to repair an injury. Every cell needs the proper environment to grow, and Coulson-Thomas is exploring what environment corneal stem cells need to do their job and then recreate that environment in patients where it has been damaged.
"The environment, called the extracellular matrix, can make a stem cell turn into something else. If you change the environment, you change the cell," said Coulson-Thomson, who has studied the extracellular matrix for 20 years, one of the few researcher experts in this understudied field. The cell itself influences what is in the extracellular matrix and one of those things is hyaluronan.
Substantial evidence shows that the cornea contains a limbal stem cell niche containing limbal stem cells, which are vital for reconstituting the corneal epithelium after injury. Injury to the cornea leading to substantial damage of the niche may decrease the overall number of limbal stem cells, reducing the ability of these cells to resurface the corneal epithelium. In severe cases this can lead to limbal stem cell deficiency, a serious medical condition.
Even if a patient has a few remaining limbal stem cells, its extracellular matrix is filled with scar tissue, so the cells will not remain stem cells. Coulson-Thomas will explore increasing stem cells by determining the ideal substrate layer for their growth in a petri dish.
"If you put the stem cells on plastic dishes with environments completely foreign to the cells, not all the cells will stay stem cells, they're going to become other kinds of cells, and then who knows what kind of cells will eventually be put into a recipient," said Coulson-Thomas. Her method to control the outcome includes expanding substrates with hyaluronan and then measuring the percentage of cells that remain stem cells.


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package com.bizosys.hsearch.outpipe;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Row;

import com.bizosys.hsearch.filter.Storable;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.filter.TeaserFilterMerged;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.hbase.HBaseFacade;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.hbase.HTableWrapper;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.query.DocMetaWeight;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.query.DocTeaserWeight;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.query.QueryLog;
import com.bizosys.hsearch.schema.IOConstants;
import com.bizosys.oneline.SystemFault;

/**
 * This implements callable interface for execution in parallel
 * This actually executes and fetches IDs from the HBase table.
 * @author karan
 *
 */
class BuildPreviewMerged {

	private TeaserFilterMerged pf;

	protected BuildPreviewMerged(byte[][] wordsB, short teaserSize) {
		this.pf = new TeaserFilterMerged(wordsB, teaserSize);
	}

	protected List<DocTeaserWeight> filter(Object[] metaL, int pageSize, boolean parallelProcessed ) throws SystemFault {

		QueryLog.l.debug("BuildTeaserMerged > Start");
		if ( null == this.pf) return null;

		/**
		 * Bring the pointer to beginning from the end
		 */
		int metaT = metaL.length;

		/**
		 * Step 1 Identify table, family and column
		 */
		String tableName = IOConstants.TABLE_PREVIEW;
		byte[] familyName = IOConstants.TEASER_BYTES;

		/**
		 * Step 2 Configure Filtering mechanism
		 */
		HTableWrapper table = null;
		HBaseFacade facade = null;

		List<DocTeaserWeight> teasers = new ArrayList<DocTeaserWeight>();
		try {

			facade = HBaseFacade.getInstance();
			table = facade.getTable(tableName);
			DocMetaWeight dw = null;

			int fetchSize = pageSize;
			if ( fetchSize > metaT ) fetchSize = metaT;

			Map<Long, Integer> buckets = null;
			buckets = ( fetchSize < 5 ) ? new HashMap<Long, Integer>(fetchSize) : new HashMap<Long, Integer>();

			/**
			 * Compute how many document available per bucket
			 */
			long tempBucket = -1;
			for (int i=0; i< fetchSize; i++ ) {
				dw = (DocMetaWeight) metaL[i];
				tempBucket = dw.bucketId;
				if ( buckets.containsKey(tempBucket)) {
					buckets.put(tempBucket, buckets.get(tempBucket) + 1);
				} else {
					buckets.put(tempBucket, 1);
				}
			}

			boolean DEBUG_MODE = QueryLog.l.isDebugEnabled();
			if ( DEBUG_MODE ) QueryLog.l.debug(
				"BuildTeaserMerged > Distinct Buckets " + buckets.size());

			List<Row> gets = null;
			if ( parallelProcessed ) gets = new ArrayList<Row>();

			/**
			 * Now create the document list
			 */
			for (long bucket : buckets.keySet()) {
				int docs = buckets.get(bucket);
				if ( 0 == docs) continue;
				int[] serials = new int[docs];

				/**
				 * Now iterate through and populate this docSerial
				 */
				int pos = 0;

				for (int i=0; i< fetchSize; i++ ) {
					dw = (DocMetaWeight) metaL[i];
					if (dw.bucketId.compareTo(bucket) != 0) continue;
					serials[pos] = dw.serialId; pos++;
					docs--; if ( docs == 0 ) break;
				}

				Get getter = new Get(Storable.putLong(bucket));
				getter = getter.addColumn(familyName,IOConstants.TEASER_HEADER);
				getter = getter.addColumn(familyName,IOConstants.TEASER_DETAIL);
				this.pf.setDocSerials(serials);
				getter = getter.setFilter(this.pf);

				if ( parallelProcessed ) {
					TeaserFilterMerged another = this.pf.clone();
					another.setDocSerials(serials);
					getter = getter.setFilter(another);
					gets.add(getter);
				}
				else {
					if ( DEBUG_MODE ) QueryLog.l.debug("BuildTeaserMerged > Sequential Mode Processing");
					this.pf.setDocSerials(serials);
					Result result = table.get(getter);
					if ( null == result) continue;
					fetch(table,result,familyName,bucket, teasers);
				}

			}

			if ( null != gets) {
				if ( DEBUG_MODE ) QueryLog.l.debug("BuildTeaserMerged > Parallel Mode Processing");
				Object[] results = table.batch(gets);
				if ( null != results) {
					for (Object resObj : results) {
						if ( null == resObj) continue;
						Result result = (Result) resObj;
						fetch(table,result,familyName,teasers);
					}
				}
			}

			if ( DEBUG_MODE ) {
				int size = ( null == teasers) ? 0 : teasers.size();
				QueryLog.l.debug("BuildTeaserMerged > Total Teasers:" + size);
			}

			/**
			 * Assign the static weights as base to dynamic weights
			 */
			int lastSeq = 0;
			int i=0;
			for (DocTeaserWeight dt : teasers) {
				i=lastSeq;
				for (; i< fetchSize; i++ ) {
					dw = (DocMetaWeight) metaL[i];
					if ( dt.bucketId.compareTo(dw.bucketId) == 0 ) {
						if ( dt.serialId.compareTo(dw.serialId) == 0) {
							dt.weight = dw.weight;
							break;
						}
					}
				}
				if ( lastSeq == i) lastSeq++;
			}
			return teasers;

		} catch ( InterruptedException ex) {
			QueryLog.l.fatal("BuildTeaserMerged:", ex);
			throw new SystemFault(ex);
		} catch ( IOException ex) {
			QueryLog.l.fatal("BuildTeaserMerged:", ex);
			throw new SystemFault(ex);
		} finally {
			if ( null != table ) facade.putTable(table);
		}
	}

	public void fetch(HTableWrapper table, Result result,
			byte[] familyName, List<DocTeaserWeight> teasers) throws IOException{

		long bucket = Storable.getLong(0, result.getRow());
		fetch(table, result, familyName, bucket, teasers);
	}

	public void fetch(HTableWrapper table, Result result,
			byte[] familyName, long bucket, List<DocTeaserWeight> teasers) throws IOException{

		byte[] teaserHeader = result.getValue(familyName,IOConstants.TEASER_HEADER);
		if ( null == teaserHeader) return;
		byte[] teaserData = result.getValue(familyName,IOConstants.TEASER_DETAIL);
		if ( null == teaserData) return;

		int totalDocs = teaserHeader.length / 2; /** Document serial is short */
		int beginPos = 0;
		short docPos = 0;
		for ( short x=0; x< totalDocs; x++) {
			docPos = Storable.getShort(x * 2, teaserHeader);
			DocTeaserWeight docTeaser = new DocTeaserWeight(bucket, docPos);
			beginPos = docTeaser.fromBytes(teaserData, beginPos);
			teasers.add(docTeaser);
		}
	}

}


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Möseke (also: Mösecke, in its upper course Haferriede) is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Südaue north of Barsinghausen.

See also
List of rivers of Lower Saxony

References

Rivers of Lower Saxony
Rivers of Germany