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Harry Styles and Niall Horan: The Lost Interview
In a never-before-published 2012 interview, Harry Styles and Niall Horan talk about their childhoods, the future of One Direction, and much more
Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles from British boy band 'One Direction' pose during a photo shoot at the Intercontinental Hotel on April 11, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. Toby Zerna/Newspix/Getty Images
In the spring of 2012, I spent a few entertaining days hanging out with the five young members of a British boy band who were just breaking big in the United States. The guys from One Direction were unjaded, unguarded, totally charming, and a puppy pile of optimism and energy. On April 8th, in a New York City hotel room, Harry Styles and Niall Horan, both 18, sat down with me for a joint interview, published here for the first time. (The reporting was intended for a Rolling Stone cover story that never ran.)
It was late morning, and they had both just rolled out of bed. Styles wore a hotel bathrobe; Horan, with braces still on his teeth, was in sweatpants, a T-shirt, and a Dallas Mavericks hat a fan had given him during a recent trip to Texas. The conversation was casual, full of laughs, and focused on their formative years.
What did you do at the gym last night?
Harry: One of our security guys, his friend's over, he's a personal trainer, so I was working with him, and he ripped me to shreds.
In 12 hours, you have to do Saturday Night Live. Are you ready?
Harry: Yeah, I think so. I think it's going to be a fun day. It's just really exciting, obviously. The show is so huge. For us to get the opportunity to be on it at all was just amazing, and to us, to be performing and just be involved with the show is amazing.
Have you seen whole episodes of it?
Harry: I've watched a lot of clips on YouTube. They don't show it in the U.K.
Growing up, when did you realize you could sing or that you wanted to sing?
Harry: I sang in primary school, like the school productions, plays and stuff.
What was your first one?
Harry: The first one was … I was five, and there was a story about a mouse who lived in a church, and I was Barney, the mouse. I had to wear my sister's tights, and a headband with ears on it, and I had to sing a song all by myself. I remember it was just like, whatever.… In the second, I was Buzz Lightyear in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. So you know when they run and hide in the toy shop? Buzz Lightyear was in the toy shop, so they just created my character. The last one, I was in … you know Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat? I was the pharaoh, but I was an Elvis pharaoh.
Did you have a sense that this is what you wanted to do in your life?
Harry: I think in school I was OK, I wasn't a bad student. I think I just knew I wanted to entertain people and stuff. I was a bit of an attention-seeker at school.
Niall: Me too. I just talked too much, sang too much.
You were onstage as a kid and were like, "This is what I like"?
Harry: I knew it was fun, I had a lot of fun doing it, and I stopped when I started high school. And then I didn't really do anything. I just sang at home, in the shower, in your bedroom, that type of thing. I guess it started again when my friends were in a band and they wanted to do this battle of the bands competition that was at school, and they needed a singer, and one of my friends asked me.
What did you sing?
Harry: We sang "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," by Jet, and "Summer of '69." We did it more towards the Bowling for Soup version.
How about you, Niall?
Niall: I always knew I wanted to sing. I was academic.… I was one of those people that if I'm not interested in something, I don't really care. If I'm not interested in school, I would have never trained or done my homework or anything, I'd have just gone outside and played football or whatever.
Harry: [Helpfully translating] Soccer.
Niall: So I always wanted to sing. I was singing here and there, not gigs or anything, but I always sang around the house or whatever, and I played Oliver in a school play. And then I just did that, and people told me I should do something … I was only 10, what could I do at 10? I just did a couple of gigs, and when I got to high school, they told me that I should just try out for The X-Factor.
Who told you?
Niall: My French teacher. We used to do talent shows and stuff at school. She was like, "You should do it." So I did it.
What did that entail? What were the steps from being a kid in high school to getting on the show?
Niall: It was the final of The X-Factor the year before, and at the end credits of the final, it says, "If you want to apply for 2010, go online." So a couple of weeks later, I said, "Right, I'm going to do it," and I filled in the form online. We were sending emails back and forth, going to this place, at this time. The first one is at a big stadium. Then, if you get through that, you come back the next day. Is that the way they did it with you?
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Harry: I had to wait a little bit, I think.
Niall: I was there at 5 a.m., I got seen at 12, and I was out of there by quarter past 12. And the next day I came back at 10 in the morning. You get through the first round, then they do a round where they don't tell you if you got through after that.
Harry: They film it.
Niall: The producer and someone from the label. They film it and show it to whoever. Then if you got through that, it takes about two or three weeks until you find out. I was in Spain. Then you just go through the audition.
Harry, how did you wind up on X-Factor?
Harry: I basically said — the same as Niall, I was watching the year before, and I remember looking at the young guys on there — and I was kind of like, "I'd love to have a go at it just to see what happens," and that was kind of it. My mum actually did the application. And then three weeks later, I walked upstairs and she said, "Oh, you've got your X-Factor audition Sunday," and I was like, "OK."
Niall: In England, it's the biggest thing ever. It took a while to build.
Harry: The two or three years were steady, and third or fourth, it just blew up.
Niall: It works [out] that one in three people in the U.K. watch it. There's 60 million people in the U.K., and 21 million people watched the final the year we were in it.
Harry, your band also played at least one wedding, right?
Harry: Yeah. We actually said that we'd do the wedding gig, and …
Niall: You get paid for it?
Harry: Yeah. One hundred sixty quid, between all four of us. Forty quid each.… We said we'd do it, and then we found out it was the weekend coming up, and we hadn't done anything for it. So we asked the bride what kind of stuff she wanted, and she said she didn't mind, but she wanted some Bob Marley songs. Literally in three days, not even three, probably two days, we learned like 25 songs. We might have known like three of them before. I was 16, maybe 15, singing these Bob Marley songs. There was a girl a couple of years below us, and it was her mum. She said she wanted us to play.
Niall: Can you imagine you're at a wedding and you have 16-year-old kids up on the stage?
Maybe you were really good!
Harry: Yeah, the drummer is one of my best friends from school. He's a sick drummer, he's so good.
Did you think the band could be something?
Harry: A bit. My friend's mum was a radio presenter, and she did a radio show for a bit, so she was trying to sort us out a little bit of studio time. We were going to go in and record.
What do your parents do?
Harry: My mum is a PA. My dad is a financial adviser.
Niall: My dad works at a supermarket, he's the head manager, general manager of an area, not just one, and my mum is unemployed now, so I try to help them out whenever I can.
You probably can. That must be nice.
Niall: Yeah, it's nice, it's good.
Plus, now you can tell them what to do.
Harry: [Laughs] "Now you go to bed."
Were you happy as kids? Did you have adolescent angst and stuff? Did you go through depressed periods?
Harry: Not really. I think at one point, I started acting like I was … I had a phase of listening to really heavy music.
Niall: I never went through that.
Harry: Not stupid heavy, but a bit … just because I thought it was cool.
Harry: Like Nirvana T-shirts, wore black all the time, pretty much.
Were you pretty happy-go-lucky?
Niall: Yeah, I was always happy. I think me and Harry were lucky. Our parents got divorced quite early, didn't they, when we were really young. I was four. I didn't know much, so I was always a happy kid, always up for a laugh, very carefree. And I'm a bit like that now.
Did you both grow up in your moms' houses?
Harry: Yeah.
Niall: I went between both. My mum moved to the country and I didn't have any interest in it. I always felt like the country is for when you're older. I was with my mom for a while but got bored. All my friends were in town, I went to school in town, and all that stuff. It was more like that.
Harry: I lived with both parents, and then moved with my mum, and we owned a pub for, like, five years. I remember the first night, it was like a night where a band was playing, and I just thought, "How am I going to get to sleep?" I was three stories up, I was like, "How am I going to get to sleep with this noise?" I was next to a road in Sussex, in the middle of nowhere, and by the end, I could fall asleep next to the band, I was so used to the noise.
Was it imprinting your brain?
Harry: Maybe. One of the guys who used to play every so often, he used to be in Deep Purple or something … he started teaching me guitar when I was like 10 — I think 10, maybe nine. I loved it. I was 10, 11, all of the regulars, I got on with them. I'd walk behind the bar and my head would barely go over the bar. It's still going now. We sold it to my best friend. We go in all the time still.
People say you come off as more mature than your age, you come off wiser. Did hanging around all those people as a kid help you mature?
Harry: I don't know, maybe. I moved, when I was seven or eight, from Cheshire, and it was still Cheshire, but half an hour away. But in terms of not driving and stuff, all my friends lived near my school, so that was a bit further out. One of my friends there was my sister's age — he was 16 when I was 10. It was so tiny, they were the only teenage boys.… We'd ride our bikes and go to the driving range and stuff. It was good, it was fun.
You both wanted to entertain. If it hadn't worked out, would you have been really unhappy?
Harry: Yeah, I think it would be kind of like … one of the reasons you go for X-Factor in the first place is that you want to do this, and it kind of helps you get out of the life that you were doing before. I worked in a bakery for two years. Obviously, I didn't want to do that for ages!
If you'd asked people at school, would they have said, "Yeah, they're probably going to be famous," or would they never have guessed that?
Niall: My aunt, I was in the back of her car. We used to go across Ireland to go to the beach for a couple of weeks, and I remember we were in the car, I was singing, and she thought I was the radio. And she told me — I never forgot it — that she thought I was going to be famous since I was six, seven. She was the only person who told me that, so I always remembered that.
Harry: My dad said it. I used to listen to a lot of the music he was playing. He'd play Elvis Presley to death, the Stones. I'd sing along to that and he'd say, "You're going to be famous," or whatever. He came on tour with us for a few days out here. He came to the Radio City show. He just said, for him, it was so educational. Obviously, he hears about what happens when I call him, but to see it and see it actually happen and how everything works was so good for him. He really enjoyed it, so that was nice.
So you grew up on Elvis and the Stones?
Harry: Yeah, pretty much. My dad was a massive Stones fan, so it was pretty much Beatles and Stones in terms of what my dad played.
People say you kind of look like Mick.
Niall: He gets that a lot.
Harry: I get it more here, probably, than I do at home. It's because of the British thing.
What have you learned about life from the past few years? What didn't you know? What advice would you give yourself?
Niall: How much more independent we actually are — me, anyway. Your mum attends to your every need, and does your food and washing and gives you somewhere to live. Then you go into the real world, as you're told as a kid …
Harry: We're living on our own now.
Niall: We just started living on our own in the last six months, really.
Harry: I'm moving when I get back.
Niall: We do our own washing, we make our own food, we rent places, we're out on our own now. You mature so quick. You're dealing with big businessmen every day, you're not dealing with school, people your own age. It's a bit different.
Harry: You seem to learn so many life lessons, but in such a short space of time. If I speak to my friends and they're having problems with girls, whatever it is, now I seem to just have the answer. I don't know, it's just different. Or I think I have the answer. In terms of … one of my friends was trying to decide what to do with school, stuff like that, and I would have had no idea what to say to him before.
The past two years must feel like 10.
Harry: Yeah, but at the same time, it feels like six months. It's weird: X-Factor was two years ago, but it seems like five years ago. But at the same time, it's gone so quick. It's a really strange dynamic of how it feels.
Do you have a sense of how this is going to go? Does it matter if it's two years, five years, or forever?
Harry: I think how much we all enjoy it, because we love what we do — if you have to call it a job, it's an incredible job to have, and we love it. We'll all want to do it for as long as possible. If we have the opportunity to have a Take That kind of career, I don't see any reason why we wouldn't want to do that. If we don't, I don't know.… We've done some amazing things already, but we don't want to stop there, we want to keep going. I guess if we didn't, I think we'd probably want to still be involved in … I'd just write, I guess.
Do you want to act? It feels like you could have your own TV show.
Harry: I think it would be more of a documentary because, obviously, we're not actors.
People must want you to try.
Niall: Watch tonight, tell us what you think. Watch SNL.
Will you all make solo albums? Is that inevitable?
Harry: No, I don't think so.
Niall: Let's do a swing album!
Harry: [Laughs] We'll all do swing albums. We're just so focused on this. We all feel so lucky just to be part of this opportunity that we've all been given. It's incredible. We're just loving it. It's sick.
People make a lot of assumptions about people in your position. They think you're puppets and do what you're told. What do you do when people make those assumptions?
Harry: When you look from the outside, especially if you're a skeptic of groups made through TV shows, which is fair enough, people don't see what we do on a daily basis, people don't see … I think from the outside, it looks so glamorous — they see us do TV performances every now and again, see us doing an interview every now and again — but they don't know that we work seven days a week.
Niall: If there was eight days, we'd fit it in.
Harry: It's not as completely glamorous all the time — of course it's not, [and] it would be stupid to think that it would be. But it's hard work.
Niall: You've got to remember that you've got people on your team that have been doing this for many years and have been through the mill. You have all that experience around you, even from our tour manager, who's been doing this for 20 years. They know what's right. But at the same time, we want to have creative control, because at the end of the day, it's us stepping out onto the stage of SNL tonight and have to sing these songs. We want to be singing what we enjoy, as we said last night. The music we all listen to is what we try and blend together to make this One Direction sound.
Harry: We obviously want to make it authentic and have our say without going, "People say we don't control it, so we need to take control." We're not … we haven't been writing songs for 20 years, we're not producers. We've got an incredible team around us. Luckily, we've been given a lot of freedom, so we don't go, "OK, we just need more and more control," because we have a lot of control already. I think we find a really good balance in the way we work with our record label and our management, and it's just how we work together, I think.
In any case, it's probably better than the bakery.
Harry: Yeah. But I don't get a nice bun on my break anymore, that's the thing.
Did you wear an apron?
Harry: Oh, yeah, I wore a white polo shirt and a maroon apron with white stripes. "What would you like? 78 pence, thank you very much."
Were you behind the counter?
Harry: Yeah, I was behind the counter. It was good. It was Saturday morning. I started at five and finished at four in the afternoon, and got like 30 quid. It was a joke.
Niall, did you have a job?
Niall: No, never.
So this is your first job.
Niall: Yeah, not bad at all. I was chilling, I was being a kid.
Harry: I had a paper route before that. It gave me a bad back, bad posture. It was a heavy bag.
I interviewed some fans downstairs, and asked if they knew who you were six months ago, and they all said yes, and from a year ago.… They were all early adopters: heard you from the internet, watched X Factor on YouTube …
Harry: It's the internet. People have friends over here that might tell their friends and look on YouTube and show their friends. It's insane how it's blown up. We've had the opportunity to come over to America and do shows, and release our music over here, which is amazing. Through the power of social media, we already had a bit of a following before we'd ever been over here, we hadn't done any shows. We had some fans out here, which was amazing but weird, really strange. I don't know, it's gone crazy. We don't really see loads of it. We do the shows, then we're in hotels, then we fly somewhere else. We don't see massive amounts of it, we just go with it. This whole thing has gone on, and it's sick.
Do you ever feel anxious through all of this?
Harry: Yeah, I think, obviously, just naturally, you think about what's going to happen in the future. We're 18, 19, 20 years old. We're young. I wouldn't say anxious. We're just excited most of the time and having so much fun, that if stuff were to finish and you were to look back on your time, and all you did the whole time throughout this amazing stuff was shitting yourself about what's going to happen next, then it would just be … I think you have to enjoy it while it's going on. I think you should be wary about the future, but not worrying about it all the time. We still enjoy it and have fun, but, obviously, you do think, "What am I going to be doing in 20 years, 30 years?" I'll have kids by then.
Harry, I saw a tabloid with pictures of everyone smiling, and you were looking thoughtful. Do you get down sometimes? While everyone else is having fun, do you start drifting off?
Harry: No, I think I'm naturally … not everyone is happy all of the time. I think you always have times when … like when you've just landed off a really long flight or miss home or something. They got a picture of me where I wasn't smiling. I usually smile, but they got one where I wasn't smiling and used that, and then said I wasn't happy. They did that for a few days. That's when we were in L.A. last time. It goes with the morbid voice.
Ringo would say, "It's just me face."
Niall: [Quoting A Hard Day's Night] "Who's that little old man?"
Harry: "That's Paul's grandfather. He's very clean."
Sometimes you can drift off, that's just your thing.
Harry: [Laughs] I'm just soulful, man, I try.
Harry, do you mind when you're singled out for attention?
Harry: I don't know. I don't really … I don't know. We're a band. Everything we do is together. I don't take much notice of it.
So you're not the Justin.
Harry: No.
Niall: J.C. was popular, too, wasn't he?
It's not like that for you guys.
Harry: Not at all.
There was an imbalance in that group.
Harry: I think we find it important that people get to know all of our individual personalities, because …
Niall: I think that's what's good about it: People see us as individuals as well as a band. We all have our own personality and we all give something to a band. Previous bands, they go around and can never explain themselves, they can explain the band. But as individuals, what we bring to the band and stuff …
Harry: We all know that we all have our roles, and we all know that without one of us, it wouldn't work.
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import type SlSwitch from './switch';

describe('<sl-switch>', () => {
  it('should be disabled with the disabled attribute', async () => {
    const el = await fixture<SlSwitch>(html` <sl-switch disabled></sl-switch> `);
    const input = el.shadowRoot!.querySelector<HTMLInputElement>('input')!;

    expect(input.disabled).to.be.true;
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Photo exhibition celebrating Kingdom's historical buildings
Chapel of the Sisters of Providence Hospice, one of the capital's few Catholic churches when it was built in 1930s. Photo supplied
Raksmey Hong
If historical buildings pique your interest but you don't have time to explore the length and breadth of Cambodia, a photo exhibition set to be held in Phnom Penh will offer the chance to see a collection of photos featuring the country's unearthed architectural gems.
The Underrated Heritage Buildings Exhibition, a collection of 50 photos of 50 lesser-known historical buildings, is being organised by 26-year-old Sokmean Srin over three days at Factory's Kbach Gallery in August.
Srin, a young amateur researcher, is displaying his solo research conducted over the course of a decade as he travelled to the Kingdom's hidden architectural masterpieces, from Phnom Penh to obscure buildings in remote provincial areas.
"The main objective of this exhibition is to raise the public's awareness of the underrated heritage buildings all over Cambodia. Those buildings have their own unique values, but tragically most of them are overshadowed by the famous tourist attractions in the same provinces," said Srin, who has photographed the buildings before they are potentially demolished in fast evolving Cambodia.
Srin, who has been obsessed with old buildings since childhood, told The Post: "By helping promote the buildings through this exhibition, these architectural treasures will be more greatly valued and well-preserved. Hopefully, more visitors, researchers, architecture students and even filmmakers will go to explore them, and the local communities will directly benefit."
Srin is a journalist for Cambodian fashion and lifestyle magazine SOVRIN and an English teacher at a private school. In 2012, he also started the Amazing Cambodia Facebook page that aims to document the Kingdom's cultural heritage.
With a strong personal interest in national culture and architecture, Srin has been self-funding his research, travelling to the provinces at least once or twice a month to explore and photograph historical places.
"I started collecting photos of old buildings when I was in high school. First, I found the photos in books or magazines, and then around 2009-2010 I searched the Internet. In 2013, I started my solo research trips," he said.
Srin has photographed neglected hidden gems, including Phnom Penh's Kim Son Theatre on Street 144 that operated from the 1930s until it closed in 1975, while further out of town on National Road 5 he has photographed the colonial-era Pteas Boran Cafe, built in 1931. There is also the Chapel of the Sisters of Providence Hospice, one of the capital's few Catholic churches when it was built in 1930s, located along Sisowath Quay.
"It is very important to preserve old buildings to let the young generations know their ancestors' legacies and appreciate these masterpieces. They also help reflect the country's economy and people's lifestyles in different periods of history," said Srin, who in 2013 also held an exhibition at Meta House on Cambodia's 1960s architectural 'golden era'.
After ten years' research, on display are 50 photos of 50 historical buildings in Phnom Penh and Kandal, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Thom, Pursat, Battambang, Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey, Kratie, Kampot, Tboung Khmum and Prey Veng provinces.
"All of the pictures are my own," said Srin, who interviewed villagers and monks, as well read the inscribed information at the site and researched online to gather information about each building.
"I think Cambodian people in general give less value to old buildings than Western people do. Foreigners, especially researchers and culture-lovers, seem to understand deeply and are likely to explore hidden architectural places more. As locals don't care much about old buildings, they usually destroy or renovate buildings poorly."
The exhibition will also celebrate Khmer culture, with folk dances, poems and film screenings to accompany the photography.
"Every guest will receive a souvenir postcard for free. We need to raise funds from the ticket sales to be able to publish our upcoming books called Phnom Penh: 50-years Then & Now and Phnom Penh's Former Cinema Buildings," he said.
The Underrated Heritage Buildings Exhibition will be held at Factory's Kbach Gallery in Phnom Penh from August 10 to 12. Tickets cost $5. For more information, the event organiser can be contacted by telephone (069 664 869).
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Danke an alle, die uns in Wigoltingen besucht haben. Es war ein tolles Konzert auf dem Hof von Lukas Ammann, organisiert vom Theater Ping Pong mit super Ambiente.
Wir haben auf Facebook einen Like-Run, Danke fürs teilen und "gefällt mir" klicken.
Thanks to all visitors of our concert in Wigoltingen. It was a wonderful concert. We played in a superb Location on Lukas Ammanns Farm. Special thanks to the Crew of Theater Ping Pong.
By the way, thanks to you all, for liking and sharing our Facebook Feeds.


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Q: Seed fill using recursive call in Java - Stackoverflow error I am implementing a simple Seed fill algorithm using recursive call. The problem is that its throwing this exception on the recursive call:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.StackOverflowError
I am trying to fill only small spaces, so the Stack size shouldn't be a problem. Can someone figure out, why the exception is being thrown?
The seedfill class
    package rasterops;

import rasterdata.RasterImage;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.Raster;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Optional;

public class SeedFill<PixelType> {

    public RasterImage fill(final RasterImage<PixelType> img, final int x, final int y, PixelType borderColor, PixelType fillColor, PixelType bcgColor) {

        RasterImage<PixelType> result = img;

        PixelType color = (PixelType) img.getPixel(x,y);

        if(bcgColor == color || color != borderColor){

            result = result.withPixel(x,y, fillColor);

            fill(img, x+1, y, borderColor, fillColor,bcgColor);
            fill(img, x-1, y, borderColor, fillColor,bcgColor);
            fill(img, x, y+1, borderColor, fillColor,bcgColor);
            fill(img, x, y-1, borderColor, fillColor,bcgColor);

        }

            return result;

        }

    }

The use of the fill() method in Canvas
if(tool == 3){
                        rasterImage = seedfill.fill(rasterImage, e.getX(), e.getY(), 0xffff00, 0x00ff00, 0x2f2f2f);
                        panel.repaint();

                    }

A: I believe you have an issue in your recursion base case.
Here's your if statement: bcgColor == color || color != borderColor
Which means that regardless of what borderColor is if bcgColor is the same as color you will start to fill.
I think you want this to be bcgColor == color && color != borderColor
Because you want to know that both conditions are true before starting to recurse, rather than both being false which is what would be necessary for the or statement to be false.

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This article is about a language. For Russian research institute, see Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
Aari (also rendered Ari, Ara, Aro, Aarai) is an Omotic language of a tribe of Ethiopia. The speakers of this language are sometimes called "Shankilla" (or Shanqella), a name which is considered derogatory. Most speakers of Aari are illiterate, and the language does not have its own writing system.
Dialects are Bako, Biyo (Biya), Laydo, Seyki, Shangama, Sido, Wubahamer, Zeddo. Literacy in Aari is about 10%. The first translation of the New Testament into Aari was published in 1997.
In the late 1800s, Amhara rulers were sent to the Omo River region by Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia. By the early 1900s, the Amhara rulers had become owners of the region and the Aari became serfs. In addition, a strong alcoholic beverage known as 'araqe was introduced to the area and the Aari culture began to decline. The decline was reverted in 1974 when the monarchy was overthrown and the Aari were able to reclaim their traditional lands. Since then, social and economic situations have improved dramatically and interest in education has flourished; most Aari towns today have at least one school. Faith is also a way of life in all Aari communities and most towns have an Orthodox church; there is a significant population of Aari who practice their traditional beliefs as well.
Aari has a population of 235,000 first language speakers as of 2007, of which 129,350 are monolingual. 13,319 second language users were also recorded in 2007. The ethnic population is 155,002 as of 1989.
Aari is used at home and at local markets. The size of the Aari tribe is growing, and thus the Aari language has seen an increase in language use and development in recent years. The language is learned by all of the Aari people and some members of neighboring tribes as well. Many Aari speakers also use Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, or Wolaytta, the language of a neighboring Omotic people.
There are nine dialects of the Aari language, each dialect being associated with a former chiefdom. While these dialects are mutually intelligible with one another, some also have distinct features.
The following are dialects of Aari. Alternate names are given in parenthesis.
Aari is a subject-object-verb language (SOV), meaning that the English sentence "the cow (subject) ate (verb) the grass (object)" would translate back from Aari as "cow (subject) grass (object) ate (verb)."
In Aari, causative forms of most verbs can be made by adding the suffix -sis- to the verb stem. For example: the verb stem buruk, meaning "boil." The causative stem of buruk- is burukš-, making this verb irregular. If we want to say "to boil," we add the infinitive to the stem buruk; in this case the infinitive (also called the verbal noun suffix) is -inti, translating "to boil" as burukinti. The causative third-person singular perfect (past tense) of burukinti is búrukse ("it boiled"). To put the verb into the present tense, one would say búrukše, "he boils [something]."
With the verb buruk, we can use a vocabulary word to describe something being boiled (thus making a simple sentence). Búrukše... means "he boiled...", so "he boiled water" would be noqá búrukše. Note that in Aari the subject comes before the verb; búrukše noqá is not correct.
Aari uses a Latin script and an Ethiopic script, but below 10% of Aari speakers can read. Schooling is not well developed in this region of the world, so Aari is mostly spoken rather than written down and most speakers have no use for the language's two writing systems. However, despite this, there are schools in numerous villages and there are efforts to promote education and literacy. At present, 8% of second language users are literate in Aari. The New Testament was translated into Aari in 1997. Additionally, some other books have been translated into Aari to help promote literacy; Genesis Exodus, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, Esther, Ruth, Psalms, Leviticus, Joshua and Judges have all been translated into Aari, but at present only Genesis has been published. Some external organizations are working with Aari churches to write a complete Aari Bible and increase the literacy rate.
laqimiu? - how are you?
Richard Hayward (1990). "Notes on the Aari Language," Omotic Language Studies, Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 425–493. London: SOAS.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Aari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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One of my Favorite Homemade 3 Point Attachments!
Today we do some quick chores and I'll show you one of my favorite three point attachments.


It's never too soon to start planning for long-term care, and waiting until the last minute can result in undue stress and the need to make snap decisions that may not be the best for your situation.
Full Service Private Duty/Private Pay Agencies are usually "non-medical" services and can range from companionship, housekeeping, transportation, personal care, and dementia care to 24-hour or respite care. A private duty home care agency, like A-Abiding Care, provides non-medical care by employees of the agency who are screened, trained, monitored and typically bonded and insured. There is far more safety in this model, and far less potential liability for the care recipient than with a nursing registry.
With a long-term care plan in place, you can rest assured that the aging experience for yourself or your loved ones will be according to your wishes, enhancing quality of life and wellbeing. A-Abiding Care provides compassionate, highly skilled care for seniors at home throughout the greater Chicago area, with services including meal planning and preparation, light housekeeping, shopping and running errands, personal care such as bathing and shower assistance, grooming, hair and skin care, help with eating, and so much more. Contact us when you're ready to take the next step in fulfilling your long-term care plan.
Home Care Agency, a Registry, or Privately Hired Caregivers – What's the Difference?
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Rest assured in the competency of the caregiver. An agency often provides ongoing caregiver training as well as an orientation. Ongoing monitoring means that any needed changes or assistance can be identified and corrected.
Tax responsibilities fall on the agency – not on you. If a client hires a home health caregiver through a registry or independent hire, the client is responsible for the caregiver's payroll taxes (which often is not disclosed). Alternatively, because all caregivers from an agency are employees of the agency, all payroll taxes are paid for by the agency.
Caregiver illness and vacation time are covered. It's inevitable that at some point, a chosen home health caregiver will become ill or wish to take a vacation. An agency provides a backup caregiver if your regular caregiver is ill or on vacation. Additionally, an agency handles all worker discipline, to assist with situations such as showing up late for work.
Leave the supervision to us. An agency provides supervision of all home health caregivers by a qualified individual. With a registry or independent hire, there is no oversight of care, opening up a client to potential financial, mental or physical abuse.
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Tyrannosaurus rex on display at the American Museum of Natural History.
Barnum Brown was arguably the greatest fossil hunter of all time. Working for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he had a career spanning more than 60 years. The museum boasts the largest collection of fossil dinosaurs in the world, thanks in large part to Brown's collection efforts. Mr. Bones, as he was affectionately known by admirers, had his discoveries plastered on the front page of newspapers across the country and had been on so many radio programs and given so many lectures that he was considered one of the most famous scientists in the world during the first half of the twentieth century.
Brown embarked on the month-long sail to Punta Arenas, during which he was so taken with sea sickness that he was "…first hoping I would die, then afraid I wouldn't". He managed to survive the journey, and collected fossils for the next year and a half. Months would pass without word and at times the only evidence of Brown's continued survival would be the shipment of tons of fossils back to the museum. Mr. Bones would face blizzards, evade quicksand, and even survive being shipwrecked near Tierra del Fuego before heading home.
Brown's greatest discovery came in 1902. Brown and his team had been sent to the badlands of Montana to search through the Cretaceous rock beds of Hell Creek for Triceratops fossils, in particular an intact skull. This rugged terrain was explored by Louis and Clark and is known as the Missouri Breaks today. After supplying themselves at Miles City, Montana, they traveled by wagon for five days to Hell Creek where they made camp at the base of Mount Sheba. Before dinner on the first night, Brown found bone fragments that had fallen down the hill into the creek. After tracing them up the hillside to their point of origin, they started digging, first with plows and scrapers to remove the overlying sediment, then with dynamite when the sandstone became too hard. It would take two years to excavate, and in the end they left a hole that was nine meters long, nine meters wide and six meters deep. The surrounding rock was so hard that they removed everything in large stone blocks which were transported, first by wagon, then by train, back to the museum. The pelvis was massive—it's block weighed over two tons and was too big to put on a wagon. Brown had to build a sled and drag it with a team of horses the 200 km back to Miles City. It turns out he had discovered the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex. A few years later, Brown would return to Hell Creek and discover another, even more perfectly preserved Tyrannosaurus rex which would allow the museum to fully characterize the dinosaur that has captured the imagination of so many in the hundred plus years since its discovery. This "favorite child" of Mr. Bones is still on display in the Museum's Fossil Hall and speaks volumes about the incredible power of Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest carnivores to ever walk the planet.


on the P&L, why I can't hover over the line item to get details?
not all line items will show the magnify glass and double click for details. Is there a preference that needs to be set up ?
Pleased to have you here in the Community, sue.
Let's perform some troubleshooting steps so you'll be able to hover the line items on the P&L report.
It's possible the columns won't resize or the QuickZoom feature doesn't work when viewing a report in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).
QBDT looks at individual transaction lines. It also uses a concept called Source and Targets to apply accounting principles and processes. To learn more about how QBDT manages reports, you can check out this helpful article: Understand Reports.
If you're running the Profit & Loss Detail report, all line items can be hovered to get the details. You can see the first screenshot to serve as your visual reference.
If you're generating other P&L types, such as the Profit & Loss Standard report, only the amounts can be hovered. Please see the second screenshot below for your reference.
Since not all items aren't showing the magnifying glasses, there isn't an option to set this up on the preferences since this is a default report set.
To help fix this, let's first change the double-click speed on your computer if you're using a single monitor.
On your keyboard, press Windows+R to open the Run Command.
Type in Control, then choose OK.
Open the Mouse control panel.
Lower the Double Click Speed and choose OK.
Second, let's run the reboot.bat. This way, it e-registers QuickBooks-related .DLL and .OCX files in Microsoft Windows.
Third, let's repair Microsoft .Net Framework. By doing so, it will automatically diagnose and fix damaged .NET Framework issues.
With QuickBooks on your secondary monitor, select the Restore button in the top right corner.
Manually move all the edges of your QuickBooks window to the viewable edge of your secondary monitor.
Please update me how it goes on your end, sue. I'd encourage dropping a comment below if you need further assistance. I'll gladly help. Thank you for doing business with QuickBooks!


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Tricadia Capital Management, LLC ("Tricadia Capital") was a New York based asset management company. As of July 17, 2020, its primary website is offline.

History
Tricadia Capital is a multi-strategy credit manager for hedge funds and alternative investment accounts. Tricadia Capital's predecessor was formed in 2003 by Michael Barnes and Arif Inayatullah. Tricadia Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tricadia Holdings, L.P. ("Tricadia Holdings"), which is controlled by Messrs, Barnes and Inayatullah. Tricadia Holdings also owns Tricadia CDO Management, LLC. Tricadia Holdings is associated with Mariner Investment Group, LLC, which provides certain support services for the firm.

Before founding Tricadia Holdings, Mr. Barnes had worked at UBS and Paine Webber,  and Bear Stearns. Mr. Inayatullah had worked at UBS, BroadStreet Group, and Credit Agricole Indosuez.

In December 2018, Management of Tricadia Capital is closing its hedge funds. The closures come after assets plummeted from a high of over $4 billion in 2014 in its flagship credit strategy. Tricadia will return around $800 million to investors in its Credit Strategy Fund and the company has already given customers over $150 million to its Convexity fund.

In August 2019, Tricadia buys First Midwest Bancorp Inc, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF. As of the 2nd Quarter of 2019, Tricadia Capital Management, LLC owns 3 stocks with value totalling $43 million.

Synthetic CDO
In 2004, Tricadia CDO Management, LLC was the first North American organization to issue a "synthetic CDO-squared" deal, which it did in conjunction with Citibank.

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If you want anything life, you have to hustle for it. Straight up!
Diddy isn't just a rap mogul, he's a cultural icon. He also has three sons who want to create their own legacies.
Diddy is an ageless wonder.
The call for Black entrepreneurship has been loud in the urban and hip-hop community over the past couple of years.
Diddy copping the Panthers would be the ultimate flex. But of course haters gonna hate!


Featuring four decks of complete DJ software control, with timecode capability.
The Numark N4 is the latest in DJ software control technology. The N4 features four decks of software control, plus a built-in mixer that can be used with or without a computer. This complete DJ controller has everything you need for peak performance including large, touch-sensitive platters, four decks of software control that have loop and effects operation, a built-in USB audio interface and a comprehensive mixer with both EQ and gain controls for each channel. The N4 also includes a copy of both Serato DJ Intro and a 4-deck version of Virtual DJ LE so you can get the most out of the controller's multiple mixing options.
In addition to its four decks of MIDI software control, you get the ability to use CD players or turntables to control your advanced DJ software by employing turntables with time-coded vinyl or CD players with time-coded CDs. Turn N4 into a four-platter controller by adding on additional controllers, CD players, or turntables.
N4 comes equipped with an intuitive layout of faders, knobs, and buttons that feel great, provide just the right amount of resistance, and are built to withstand abuse. Each deck is outfitted with standard DJ tools including a pitch fader with key-lock control, looping controls, and effect and sampling controls. Four Video Fade selectors are also on-board to give you video mixing capability when using Virtual DJ.
N4 does not require any additional drivers to be installed, so just plug it in to your laptop, load the software and you're ready to go. N4 enables USB recording of all your analog and digital sources. Whether you're using four decks or software or combining software and externals sources from N4's mixer section, your entire performance can be recorded, saved and posted to your website or social media. For your live audience, N4 has balanced XLR outputs, giving you a solid, professional connection to virtually any sound system.
*Note, you will need to upgrade to Virtual DJ Pro in order to use the N4 with time-coded vinyl or CD's, and if you want to output full-screen video.
4-Deck controller and DJ Mixer that works with or without the computer, so you can just start mixing whenever and wherever you want to set up.
External mixing (2 CD/Turntable + 2 Mic), will allow you to have multiple options when setting up your DJ rig.
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The record label of legendary duo Gabriel & Dresden, Organized Nature, has joined forces with Armada Music. Last year, Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden made a successful comeback, signing to Armada Music Management and releasing their new compilation series 'Mixed For Feet'.
"After such a great year of touring for the reunion, we are very excited to finally unleash the sound of Gabriel & Dresden 2.0. We have spent the entire year on the road in hotel rooms, airport lounges and our own home studios, zeroing in on where we want to take our sound.
"While the sounds and styles of dance music have changed so much since we last released an original G&D single, the ethics to both our sound and the kinds of music Organized Nature will release has not. We are very excited to partner with Armada on the rebirth of our label. They helped us with the success of our classic 'As the Rush Comes' (as Motorcycle) and now it feels like we are poised and ready for the next stage of musical life. See you on the dancefloor."
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For most of us who've been through 8th grade long ago, we may think we have no issue passing a test for 8th graders in present day. But how about an 8th grade exam in 1895? Would you be able to correctly answer the questions from more than 120 years ago?
An 1895 exam from Saline County, Kansas has resurfaced on the internet, stirring up questions about its authenticity. People were curious if the 14-year-olds back then really had to answer these difficult questions. Some historians unearthed early school records from Saline County with the actual names of students and their recorded scores, proving that this examination did in fact take place on April 13, 1895!
We've included some questions from that very test in this quiz, and added multiple-choice options. The students had to score 50% on this exam to get promoted to the next grade! See if you know the correct answers, despite the outdated information, and manage to pass the test. Can your 20th or 21st century education handle it?
Which sentence correctly uses the word "cite"?
Highly regarded authors tend to be cited.
John was a familiar sight in the bar.
The proposed cite of a dam.
Which of these is a republic of Europe?
Define what is a paragraph.
A distinct section or subdivision of a chapter or letter, usually dealing with a particular point.
A poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.
Which sentence correctly uses the word "vain"?
Their flattery made him vain.
You could see his vains bulging.
The vains of that windmill rotated.
Which of these is NOT a use of rivers?
The study of the origin and development of a word.
The study of earthquake movements.
The study of dormant volcanoes.
Which of these events occurred in 1607?
Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7%.
Who was Samuel F.B. Morse?
What is a dighthong in grammar?
What is the cost of 40 boards, that are 12 inches wide and 16 feet long, at $0.20 per inch?
Which sentence correctly uses the word "feign"?
He was heading to the feign.
The traveller was feign to proceed.
Find the cost of 6720 lbs. of coal at $6 per ton.
A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many struck bushels of wheat will it hold?
What is the word for a silent or nearly silent sound in grammar?
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It is scary to see your life's investment shave half its value in a free fall in stock prices. Indian stock market investors saw such an episode starting January 2008. If you had ₹1 crore in an index fund linked to the Sensex as on 9 January 2008, by 9 March 2009, its value was down to just under ₹41 lakh. It is gut wrenching no matter how strong your stomach for risk is. The whole time over the year you were driven by sheer panic to sell as the signals about an imminent global financial crisis caused markets to teeter on the edge and periodically belch out another giant fall in stock prices. Some brave hearts held on to their investments during the bloodbath, married as they were to "long-term" investing. By 4 November 2010, they saw their money recover as the Sensex regained its 2008 peak. The market since has given an 8% average annual return. Who are the people who came out on top and what did they do right? A decade, and nearly another 20,000 points on the Sensex later, there are three lessons that we, as retail investors, can draw from the North Atlantic Financial Crisis that had a trigger point when the $639 billion multinational behemoth Lehman Brothers went bankrupt on 15 September 2008.
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Elon Musk Owes $507 Million to Banks Helping Tesla Raise Capital
Musk, who owns 20 percent of Tesla, has taken personal loans from Wall Street banks for years.
By Reuters | Updated: 3 May 2019 14:01 IST
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk personally owes $507 million (roughly Rs. 3,500 crores) to Wall Street banks involved in Tesla's stock and debt sale, backed by his stake in the electric car maker, a company filing showed on Thursday.
The lending was disclosed in Tesla's prospectus on Thursday to raise up to $2.3 billion (roughly Rs. 16,000 crores) with new shares and convertible debt, and it was $117 million less than the personal loans to Musk disclosed in Tesla's previous prospectus in 2017.
Still, Tesla said that if the price of its stock falls and the banks force Musk to sell some of his shares, that could create additional pressure on the stock.
Tesla jumped over 4% after Tesla disclosed capital raising plans, which soothed investors' recent concerns about the Palo Alto, California company and pulled its stock up from two-year lows.
Musk, who owns 20% of Tesla, has taken personal loans from Wall Street banks for years. A Tesla 2017 prospectus showed $624 million in loans to Musk.
The filing on Thursday showed Musk owed money to three banks working on the capital increase.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has $213 million in loans outstanding to Musk, while he owes Morgan Stanley $209 million, and another $85 million to Bank of America. Goldman was not mentioned as a personal lender to Musk in the 2017 filing.
Those loans are backed by Musk's shares in Tesla, currently worth a total of around $8 billion. If Tesla's stock declines, then Musk could be forced to sell some of those shares under terms of the loan, according to the Tesla filing.
Mark Williams, a professor of finance at Boston University, said that investment banks can run into conflicts of interest with their deals with companies, their founders and CEOs, testing their rules to keep different businesses separate.
"This is particularly true in the case of Tesla where you have an aggressive and vocal CEO who is prone to pushing the legal limits and gain terms that might run counter to Goldman's conflict of interest policies," Williams said.
Goldman and Citigroup, the top-line book runners in Thursday's capital raise, both have "sell" ratings on Tesla's stock, which is unusual but not exceptional on Wall Street.
At the end of 2018, Musk and his trust had 13.4 million Tesla shares pledged as collateral for personal debts, according to another filing. That is down from 13.8 million shares at the end of 2017.
Tesla, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs declined to talk about the loans. Tesla has a policy that caps executives' borrowings at a quarter of the value of the shares pledged as collateral.
With Tesla repeatedly pushing back forecasts for turning a profit, its stock has dropped 27% year to date.
Musk plans to buy another $10 million worth of shares as part of the sale announced on Thursday.
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By Anne Ju, Cornell University March 1, 2012
Jeremy Blum '12 holds one version of a prototype robot that can autonomously climb, assemble and disassemble truss structures.
Researchers at Cornell University are designing robots that can autonomously traverse and manipulate a 3-D truss structure by using specially designed gears and joints to assemble and disassemble the structure as it climbs. Researchers believe this technology may someday lead to safer construction zones and could be used for repairs on the International Space Station.
Like something straight out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don't have to.
That's just one thing researchers in Hod Lipson's Creative Machines Lab envision with their latest robot prototype. It can autonomously traverse and manipulate a 3-D truss structure, using specially designed gears and joints to assemble and disassemble the structure as it climbs.
The robot's design is detailed in a paper accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation, to appear later online and in print. Its co-authors include former visiting scientist Franz Nigl, former visiting Ph.D. student Shuguang Li, and undergraduate Jeremy Blum '12.
"Here, we are exploring the idea of machines making structures larger than themselves," said Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of computing and information science.
The project is part of a National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant jointly awarded to Lipson at Cornell, Daniela Rus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark Yim of the University of Pennsylvania, and Eric Klavins of the University of Washington. The project explores the idea of automation of construction processes in uncertain conditions.
"What gets me most excited is this idea of safety," said Blum, a student researcher working on the project. Having a robot able to climb and reconfigure building structures, even just to deliver materials, would be a step toward making construction zones safer for humans, he said.
Furthermore, the researchers point to space-exploration applications. Instead of sending astronauts out on a dangerous spacewalk at the International Space Station, a robot could be deployed to repair a damaged truss.
Cornell's test robot has gone through several design iterations. The latest one employs 3-D printing to make a bi-directional gearing system that allows the robot to lock onto pieces of the truss with several degrees of freedom in movement.
The design of the truss pieces, which have ridges and specially designed locks so the robot can manipulate them, is as important as the robot itself, Blum explained. Ideally, in the future such robot-friendly building components would be standardized for widespread use.
The robot is equipped with an onboard power system, as well as reflectivity sensors so it can identify where it is on the structure. This allows it to maneuver accurately without explicit commands, Blum added.
Lipson said he envisions transforming the built environment with the help of these kinds of technologies. Instead of making buildings out of concrete or other non-recyclable materials, components designed specifically for robots could be used to build or reconfigure structures more efficiently — for example, after an earthquake, or if an outdated building needed to be torn down in favor of something better. While the short-term investment in materials would be more costly, the longer-term ability to reuse and adapt these materials would be worthwhile, he added.
"Right now, we are very bad at recycling construction materials," Lipson said. "We are exploring a smarter way to allow the assembly, disassembly and reconfiguration of structures."
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Teacher In Ghana Teaches MS Word On Chalkboard, And You Have To See It From Up Close To Really Appreciate It
February 28, 2018 700-page, computer, donations, ghana, ghana school, ICT, improvisation, kumasi, school, teacher, teaching, without computer
A Facebook post by a teacher in Ghana has gone viral and won the hearts of many people, thanks to his unusual and improvised methods of teaching ICT (Information and Communications Technology), without a computer!
Owura Kwadwo, originally from Kumasi, Ghana, spoke to Bored Panda about his experiences teaching ICT in a rural farming community, which lacks basic equipment and resources for the task. "Every teacher has a way of presenting his subject to his students. This is my way," he told us.
Having studied visual arts he decided to put his skills to good use when teaching the creation of a Word document, by drawing a complete screenshot on the chalkboard for his students to copy and learn from. "I do it to make my students understand what I'm teaching, he said. "At least to give a picture of what they will see assuming they were behind a computer." His method seems to work well, as the kids enjoy his classes a lot and are able to learn effectively. "I do make sure they understand everything well before they leave the class."
The post has provoked heated discussion in Ghana. While most people rightly praise Mr. Kwadwo for his dedication to his students and genius improvisation, there has been outrage as to why he should have to go to these lengths in the first place. Why, in 2018, are schools still without a computer? Mr. Kwadwo himself thinks that things are slowly improving. "The government is helpful and I believe in them, they are trying to make ICT better for the teachers and students," he said. While in the big cities like Accra and Kumasi this may be happening, progress is clearly slow in coming to rural areas. "We need well-equipped infrastructures and teaching and learning aids, and a government who has education at its heart."
Since his post went viral, Mr. Kwadwo has received offers of donations for laptops and projectors, which is great news for the kids and the school. Mr. Kwadwo is grateful for any assistance in making a better experience for his students, and also plans to help out other schools in the region. "There are many schools facing this same problem," he told Bored Panda. "I can also help out and give some of the donations to them, so they can also benefit through teaching ICT."
Mr. Kwadwo's efforts and commitment are a good example for teachers in developing countries like Ghana, when sometimes a bit of improvisation is needed to fill the gaps that governments are unable to provide. ICT is a vital subject for the next generation to be proficient in if Ghana is going to compete in the global marketplace, and with teachers like Mr. Kwadwo there to inspire students, things are looking up!
Owura Kwadwo from Kumasi, Ghana, has to improvise when teaching ICT to kids without access to computers
When teaching Microsoft Word, he draws a complete screenshot on the chalkboard for his students to copy and learn from
Mr. Kwadwo studied visual arts and he puts his skills to good use
"I do it to make my students understand what I'm teaching. At least to give a picture of what they will see if they were behind a computer," he told Bored Panda
Sadly, "there are many schools facing this same problem"
His Facebook post has captured the hearts of many people, impressed with his commitment and dedication to his students
Since his post went viral, Mr. Kwadwo has received offers of donations for laptops and projectors!
Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/teacher-draws-computer-screen-chalkboard-owura-kwadwo-hottish-ghana/
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Q: MVC view model text data lost after the post, how to display them in the case of failed validation? I've got a view model that has some text properties. And I use Html.DisplayFor to display them on the screen. But those text data won't be post back, so in the case of failed validation, the returned view won't have those data. How do I handle this kind of situation?
Thanks

A: you might add Html.HiddenFor()
for every field that you want to be posted back

A: You need to create a new instance of the view model, populate it with the values you want to redisplay in the form, and send it back to the view:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult ProcessForm(FormCollection formValues)
{
    ...
    // Perform validation, sending error messages to ModelState
    ...
    if (!Model.IsValid)
    {
        AddressViewModel viewModel = new AddressViewModel
        {
            StreetAddress = formValues["StreetAddress"],
            City = formValues["City"],
            ...
        };

        return View(viewModel);
    }
}

A: ViewModel Preservers the state of what the user attempted to enter so if you simply redisplay the view
return View(); it will return with the errant data in it the Validation Summary if it is being used will then enumerate required fields that do are not correct.


I am a huge space enthusiast so when I saw a few of my favorite sites posting the new video from NASA showing the first video from GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) showing the far side of the moon, I figured I should share it as well. I find the video to be quite stunning although I find the lack of alien moon bases on the back side of the moon to be rather disappointing. I was really hoping for a large colony of aliens to be living on the back side of the moon. Oh well. Maybe someday!
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package com.sdwfqin.mvpseed.util;

import android.content.Context;
import android.net.ConnectivityManager;
import android.net.NetworkInfo;
import android.text.TextUtils;

import com.sdwfqin.mvpseed.base.App;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * 描述:系统工具类
 *
 * @author zhangqin
 */
public class SystemUtil {

    /**
     * 检查WIFI是否连接
     */
    public static boolean isWifiConnected() {
        ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) App.getInstance().getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo wifiInfo = connectivityManager
                .getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI);
        return wifiInfo != null;
    }
    /**
     * 检查手机网络(4G/3G/2G)是否连接
     */
    public static boolean isMobileNetworkConnected() {
        ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) App.getInstance().getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo mobileNetworkInfo = connectivityManager
                .getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE);
        return mobileNetworkInfo != null;
    }
    /**
     * 检查是否有可用网络
     */
    public static boolean isNetworkConnected() {
        ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) App.getInstance().getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        return connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo() != null;
    }

    /**
     * 根据手机的分辨率从 dp 的单位 转成为 px(像素)
     */
    public static int dp2px(Context context, float dpValue) {
        final float scale = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        return (int) (dpValue * scale + 0.5f);
    }

    public static int dp2px(float dpValue) {
        final float scale = App.getInstance().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        return (int) (dpValue * scale + 0.5f);
    }

    /**
     * 根据手机的分辨率从 px(像素) 的单位 转成为 dp
     */
    public static int px2dp(Context context, float pxValue) {
        final float scale = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        return (int) (pxValue / scale + 0.5f);
    }

    public static int px2dp(float pxValue) {
        final float scale = App.getInstance().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        return (int) (pxValue / scale + 0.5f);
    }

    /**
     * 获取进程号对应的进程名
     *
     * @param pid 进程号
     * @return 进程名
     */
    public static String getProcessName(int pid) {
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/proc/" + pid + "/cmdline"));
            String processName = reader.readLine();
            if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(processName)) {
                processName = processName.trim();
            }
            return processName;
        } catch (Throwable throwable) {
            throwable.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (reader != null) {
                    reader.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException exception) {
                exception.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}


Sony A7 or Canon 5D - Which is Better for You?
I've had my Sony A7R for about nine months now, and I've been using a Canon 5D Mark II (at work) for three years prior to owning the Sony. I thought I'd do a post to try to help anyone who is agonizing over which full frame camera system to invest in. I don't want to get into crazy technical specs (you can find that stuff elsewhere), I just want to write about my experiences with both cameras and the pros and cons of each. I also want to explain why I chose to go with the Sony A7R as my own personal camera.
TLDR version: if you are looking for a camera for sports or full blown studio work, I'd go with Canon. The Canon system is fast enough to cover sports, and there are simply too many good options for creating an effective studio solution using the Canon system vs the Sony. If you are more of a travel/landscape type of shooter, I'd go with Sony. The portability combined with the quality of the Sony just can't be beat.
If you want to continue reading, from here on I'll go over some of the glaring differences along with pros and cons between each camera types.
Sony wins this one. Not only because there are more megapixels (36 vs 22) but the Sensor on the Sony seems to produce richer, more lifelike images. But also, yeah…more megapixels (on the A7R at least) isn't a bad thing.
Turning the camera on – The Canon just turns on. No fuss. Just – boom – the camera is up and running. The Sony…ehh, not so much if you have either left the camera off for several days or you take the battery out and put a new one in. In either of these situations, it seems like the Sony A7R runs through a bunch of tests before you are able to do anything. First the rear LCD turns on, but none of the buttons work yet. Then after several seconds, you are able to use the EVF (electronic viewfinder), then after a few more seconds, you can finally shoot. It takes about 30 seconds total for the camera to finally power on. It's not a dealbreaker, it's just a bit annoying and could potentially be disastrous in a situation where you only have a few seconds to get "the shot". This is only really an issue when the camera has been sitting for a few days or when swapping out batteries, thankfully. In most situations, while the Sony is still a bit slower than the Canon, you'll be up and running in a few seconds.
Reviewing photos – Canon wins here as well. This is dependent upon the speed of your CF or SD card, but the Canon feels a lot more responsive when you hit the "play" button to review what you just shot. The Sony A7R, on the other hand, has to write that massive 36 megapixel file to your SD card, so seconds are lost as you are waiting for the buffer to clear and for the camera to respond (if the file hasn't finished writing yet, the camera puts up an error message telling you to wait). Another minor annoyance on the Sony is that when you hit "magnify" the photo zooms in 100%, forcing you to back out of the zoom in order to see less of the photo. I'd prefer it if I could just change that setting so it zooms at 10% increments each time I hit the zoom. Again, not a huge deal, just something you need to get used to. The speed can be improved by purchasing the fastest SD cards you can find. Amazon sells this one – 280 MB/S – that's the fastest card I've found so far.
Focusing – Another area where Canon wins. The Sony is slower to focus than the Canon (and most SLRs, for that matter). That's not to say it's horrible, it just lags a bit. Sony does have a "pre focus" feature that I've really been enjoying. It just seems that the Sony takes a little bit longer to "lock on" when you are focusing.
Not a big shock here, but the Canon's battery far outlasts the Sony's. If you plan to buy the Sony, the first accessory you should buy is a pack of spare batteries. The Sony is mirrorless, so it relies entirely on the electronics of the camera to operate. That means a lot more power being drawn. And if you plan to shoot video with the Sony, buy even more batteries. There is an official battery grip available for the Sony, but I haven't tried it yet (it's $300). There is also a cheaper alternative for $79 which includes a wireless remote. Looks interesting, I actually just ordered one. I also recently wrote a post about extending the life of your Sony batteries, if you are interested. Not much to say about the Canon other than that battery lasts forever. I usually bring two of them and I'm good to go.
This is an area where the Sony really shines. I can actually use Canon flashes and flash accessories with the Sony A7R, and with the use of various adapters I can use lenses from practically any lens manufacturer for any brand of camera out there. I've been having a lot of fun asking people if they have any old 35mm cameras sitting around and if they still want them. Usually they say they haven't used "that old junk" in years, which means I get my hands on free, full frame lenses. Score! That alone is something you should seriously consider as a reason to head in the Sony direction. Most of the lenses will be manual aperture/manual focus, but Sony makes manual focusing a lot easier with their focus peaking technology. With Canon, there are obviously a lot of lens manufacturers and a lot more lens choices, but those lenses must be made for a Canon camera. You aren't going to be buying a Sony lens and sticking it on a Canon camera.
Between the two cameras right out of the box, I honestly find that the Canon wins here. It just feels so well balanced and natural when you hold it. The Sony requires a slightly different grip than the Canon, and feels a little less stable. That's the price you pay for portability though. However, I recently bought a battery grip for my Sony, and suddenly I'm finding that I prefer the feel of the Sony now that I have some additional support for my hand. I also love that the magnesium body on the Sony looks and feels very "industrial" and solid.
Sony wins here. While I can do some customization to some of the button functionality on the Canon, I have a ridiculous amount that I can do on the Sony. The Sony has essentially three dials and four "custom" buttons, and I can pick and choose what each one of them does. Do I want the top dial to be for ISO? Done. Do I want to change the button used for focus magnification? No problem. Some people complain that this customization makes the Sony system harder to learn, but I disagree. Once you get the hang of the menu system, it's actually very easy. I also didn't exactly find the Canon menu a walk in the park the first time I saw it – most cameras have fairly in-depth menu systems that require some learning.
I didn't buy the Sony for the fact that it was mirrorless, I just liked the fact that being mirrorless made it a lot easier to carry around and travel with. That said, between the Sony EVF and Canon's good old fashioned optical viewfinder (and subsequent system) there are pros and cons to each which makes this one just about a dead even tie. With the Sony, I had to change the camera settings and increase the brightness on the EVF, which resulted in the previewed exposure not being entirely accurate. Basically the resulting image I'm shown after taking a photo isn't what I'll actually see when I bring my shots into Lightroom (if I'm shooting in RAW). I find that because the preview isn't really accurate, the A7R is about one full stop off (they are usually too dark). Also the only way the EVF is going to work is if the camera is powered on, so if you are used to using an optical viewfinder you'll probably find this a bit odd at first. The Canon system (and its optical viewfinder) have been around for years and it really shows – it just works. For now when I use the Sony I just either compensate for the "over exposed" preview or make adjustments in Lightroom. So why is this a dead even tie? Having an electronic viewfinder opens up a whole array of options in terms of the information you can be presented with while composing your shot. Would you like a histogram that's "live" as you are composing your shot? No problem. How about a level, or zebra stripes? Also no problem. Plus the Sony EVF has plenty of resolution – it's actually a pleasure to use.
Sony all the way here. Both cameras can shoot 1080p HD video with about equal quality. However, the Sony does one thing that I'm shocked that the Canon does not – continuous autofocus while shooting video. The Sony continuously autofocuses in the same way that a regular video camera or camcorder does. The Canon requires you to constantly adjust the focus as you are shooting, which looks pretty bad in the resulting footage. I'm honestly shocked that even at the 5D3 level, this is the case. The 5D3 does at least have separate 1/8 inch mini input and output jacks for audio, but if you are using the 5D Mark II, no such luck. You have an audio input, but the only way you'll be able to monitor your audio levels is to either record a test shot, or install Magic Lantern, which is essentially a hack. The Sony, on the other hand, has both 1/8 inch mini input and output jacks. The Sony also has continuous autofocus when using the LA-EA4 adapter and lenses that are 20 years old!
Sony wins here. The A7 cameras all have wifi and NFC built in. The Canon cameras require you to purchase something like an eyefi card or a battery grip in order for wifi to work. With the Sony, you can download the PlayMemories app for free, which allows you to send lower res jpg versions of your images to your mobile device. This capability is enabled via download of an app from the Sony PlayMemories store. Yup – the camera actually connects to the Sony store via wifi and you can download and install apps directly on it. There are even apps that let you post to facebook directly from the camera! That's not gonna happen on the Canon camera.
Lenses – There are far more native lens choices on the Canon line at various price points. For the Sony, if you want a full frame, native lens, I hope you saved up a good bit of money. There are limited options, and those options aren't cheap. They are all very nice lenses, however. Also keep in mind that Sony bought Minolta years ago, and with the purchase of the LA-EA4 adapter, you have access to a vast array of old Minolta (and Sony) A mount lenses.
Shutter Sound – this might seem like an odd topic to bring up, but the Sony has a very loud shutter. Canon, on the other hand, by default is much quieter and even has a "silent shutter" option on the 5D Mark III and 6D.
I agonized over this decision for months before going with the Sony A7R. What pushed me in the Sony direction was when I considered the type of photographer that I am when I'm not at work. I don't shoot sports. I rarely shoot portraits unless I'm at work (and using the Canon 5D Mark II). My favorite shots that I've ever taken on my personal time have been when traveling, and most of those have been landscape shots. So when looking at the Sony, I realized that the A7R body is cheaper than the 5D Mark III, and the image quality is arguably better. For video shooting, the A7R was also a better choice. Any potential cons that go along with the A7R didn't apply to my kind of photography, for the most part. Also, with the use of various adapters, I was able to utilize the Canon lenses that I have access to, and the Canon flash equipment that I have is compatible with the Sony, minus a few quirks.
I'll also add that I've traveled to several locations using the 5D Mark II (and the heavy, full frame, 24-70mm lens) including Ireland, Oregon, Vermont, and The Outer Banks of North Carolina. Let's just say that after a full day with that camera, it starts to feel an awful lot like dead weight. I recently took the Sony A7R on a week long trip to Oregon, and for the most part only used the tiny 16mm Sony "pancake" lens. That lens forced the camera into a "cropped sensor" mode, but I was still thrilled with the images I came home with. And the camera fit in my coat pocket! I haven't taken the Canon on any trips since.
I also recently picked up a Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens from Amazon. I won't be fitting the camera into my pocket with that lens attached, but I'm absolutely loving what the camera can do now. The lens has image stabilization built into it, has Zeiss coatings, it's full frame and is f/4 all the way through the zoom range. It wasn't cheap, but I feel like my Sony A7R is finally a "complete" camera. If you end up investing in the Sony system, it's absolutely worth it to also invest in some native glass. You won't regret it.
Did I miss anything or do you have anything you'd like to add? Feel free to leave a comment!


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In an alleged case of medical negligence, a doctor was booked for amputating fingers and thumb of a woman after giving a wrong injection to her, police said today.
A case was filed after the victim woman tried to immolate herself in the Kotwali police station complex yesterday.
The accused doctor from district hospital here and another unidentified man have been booked in the case and further probe in on, said Inspector Dhirendra Yadav.