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Monica Tap
Teufelsmoor
Six Ways from Sunday
Shadow & Ghost
Going to the Sun
Split Seconds
One-second Hudson
Artist Writings
by Cliff Eyland
This article appeared in Arts Atlantic magazine, Summer 2001 (issue 68, pp. 16-21)
Amazingly, when a similar poll was conducted in other countries, Komar and Melamid discovered that throughout the world people want exactly the same stuff, with local variations… A global majority of respondents also shared Americans' aversion to abstract art. The exception was the Dutch, who disliked everything you might have expected to find in a typical Dutch realistic painting. They loved abstract geometrical patterns instead.
— Zinovy Zink describing the results of a set of professionally conducted polls commissioned by the Russian artists Komar and Melamid in Wanted: Komar and Melamid Modern Painters, Spring 1999, p.66.
Monica Tap is of Dutch extraction. She was born in 1962 and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Tap began her career with work based on rich still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, especially the work of the Dutch seventeenth-century painter Rachel Ruysch: "Tap has a personal attachment to the neglected works of her long-dead countrywoman and a feminist interest in their revival…" — Susan Gibson Garvey in an essay for Monica Tap: Reprise (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1996). In her more recent work, Tap incorporates Baroque landscape drawings into her paintings using a layer technique that more-or-less effaces the original landscape slide-projected (re)drawings under layer upon layer of overpainted images.
The effort at historical recovery in these paintings makes Tap's Dutch connection plain, but her more recent work, based on reproductions from the book The Northern Landscape, Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections by Dennis Farr and William Bradford (London: Trefoil Books,1986) is less obviously Dutch. In these pieces she traces multiple projections of historical European landscape drawings onto a single canvas. The result is a dense web of lines within which the source drawings can seldom be picked out.
Recently, in Lifetime brush-marked by a child's-eye view (The National Post 30 Jan 1999, N.P. Weekend p.5) Tap wrote about the impression she had of an Edmonton Art Gallery painting she saw as a child called The Approaching Storm by the nineteenth-century artist Adolphe Vogt. She thought it "formulaic" and "academic," and yet "When I think of Vogt's painting today," she continues, "I see a good example of some of the more melodramatic tendencies in Romantic landscape painting. Also, his figures are recognizably stock characters that can be found ambling through countless landscapes since the mid-1600s. I know this because these same charming figures lurk in the dense layers that make up my own work."
Tap's painting is as much a part of the recent tradition of so-called "layer" or "process" painting as it is related to her Dutchness. Nova Scotian Gerald Ferguson, and several Alberta-based artists, including Eric Cameron, Jeffrey Spalding and Angela Inglis, make or have made layer paintings that are linked to process and conceptual art.
"Process painting" grew out of the gesturalism of Abstract Expressionist painting, particularly that of Jackson Pollock. Debates about the Abstract Expressionist gesture led to a succession of artists including Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Robert Ryman and others, using various media to make art that concerned itself with processes of art production.
A "layer painter" breaks the components of a work down into discreet units of paint layers the way a post-impressionist painter such as Georges Seurat used discreet primary-coloured dots to make a painting. Layers are added as if counting out a procedure (in fact, layer painters Eric Cameron and Bruce Campbell do literally count paint layers), or as if to make visible the amount of time taken up in the work's making. Layer painting can show counting and evidence of time passing like a clock.
Process art highlighted industrial working methods, but in more recent work — not only Tap's Baroque layering, but also Gerald Ferguson's and Eric Cameron's increasingly fraught layer painting — process painting has taken an existentialist and humanistic turn as iconic content competes for attention with evidence of the layering process.
Monica Tap's layer painting adds an imagistic surplus to an art that usually revels in a scarcity of imagery. Early layer painters such as Jeffrey Spalding and Patrick Kelly made monochromes, whereas more recent layer painters often use charged imagery.
Layer painting can make the artist's personal touch disappear: Gerald Ferguson for example, employs assistants to make his work under supervision. (Ferguson has even made paintings with instructions to an "end user" to "maintain" the painting by doing their own layering.) Tap's touch, however, can't be imitated without being "forged."
Yve-Alain Bois insists that process art, layer painting's antecedent, needn't be allegorized into an art "without qualities":
Like the hunt for sources that used to take place in literary studies, or the search for the motif in art history … the narrative of process establishes a primary meaning, an ultimate, originating referent that cuts off the interpretative chain. That is, an aesthetic of causality is reintroduced, a positivist monologue that we thought modern art was supposed to have gotten rid of: A (paintbrush) + B (paint) + C (support) + D (the manner in which these are combined) give E (painting). There would be nothing left over in this equation. Given E, ABCD could be deciphered, absolutely. By making the artist a kind of engineer who solves a problem of many parameters in his work…, the discussion of process in art is refitted to this heuristic mold. The object of this critical discourse then would seem to be: given the solution (the painter's eureka), find the problem.
— Yve-Alain Bois, Painting as Model , Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990, 216.
At its iconic extremes — in David Salle, Sigmar Polke and late Picabia — a layered or transparent palimpsest painting technique produces dissonant effects that hysterically contradict layer painting's minimalist origins, but in Monica Tap's paintings the strict procedural order of process art lends an obsessional gravity to all sorts of loaded imagery.
INTERVIEW conducted by post, e-mail and fax between Guelph and Winnipeg in 1999
Cliff Eyland: Can you talk about the work's Dutch connection?
Monica Tap: There are several Dutch connections in this work. Most obviously, many of the artists whose works I reference are Dutch (Gaspar van Wittel, Herbert Swanevelt, Jan Lievens, Paul Bril, etc.) While I have used other sources, it intrigues me that many of the conventions of landscape painting developed in seventeenth-century Holland. The word "landscape" itself derives from the Dutch "landschap." Many Dutch artists in this period travelled to Italy, where they impressed other artists with their "typically" Northern attention to detail and careful observation of nature. For example, Claude Lorraine was influenced by the work of Dutch and Flemish artists living in Rome around 1600 — and even roomed for a time with Swanevelt. (Swanevelt's own work was significantly influenced by Lorraine's approach in turn.) Landscape developed into a subject in its own right during this period: it no longer served merely as a backdrop for an allegorical or religious theme. My interest is in the point of origin of this genre and in the significant mutations it underwent in its early history. As a painter living in a country with a long-standing commitment to landscape as subject, and as a painter whose own origins are in Holland, the connection resonated strongly.
CE: What about the prairies and your recent work?
MT: A couple of anecdotes may best answer this question. Last summer while travelling between Red Deer and Edmonton, I was surprised to notice that the passing landscape bore more than a passing resemblance to the early European panoramic landscape drawings that I had been working from. Both are characterised by vast spaces that dwarf but do not overwhelm their inhabitants. People, their homes, farms, towns and roads are miniaturized by that immense space.
Another memory — riding in the back seat of my parents' Pontiac when I was a kid, watching the prairies roll past through a blurred screen of trees, my focus fixed on the distant horizon so that the narrow band of trees bordering the field would blur as we drove by. Different layers of focus and detail described the space (and traced our movement through that space). After completing the first few works in this series, I noticed that some of the paintings reminded me of what it looked like to watch the prairie scenery roll by at car speed.
CE: What about the "charming figures lurking in my own work" you allude to in a National Post article that you recently wrote?
MT: Tiny figures populate almost all early landscape drawings. Little figures cross bridges, tend cattle, haul fishing nets, relax under serpentine trees, and sometimes commit crimes in the corners of the drawings. Close examination of original drawings and early drawing instruction books reveals a transnational and transgenerational "clip art" of stock characters. In referencing the drawings of this period I have often transcribed these figures into the dense layers of my work. It pleases me to know that sustained study of an apparently abstract painting will reward the patient viewer who may discover a frolicking dog, an observant rabbit, a tiny traveller, or, most likely, an artist quietly sitting, drawing the landscape.
CE: Can you talk a little bit about your technical method of tracing projections?
MT: In paint, I layer drawings done by different hands in different centuries, bringing together images from different times within the same space. I assign to each layer or drawing a colour, and to each painting or group of paintings a plan that indicates the layering sequence; a sequence that may be "curatorial", historical, aesthetic, or happily random. As a "post-conceptual" artist I allow myself to stray from the strict dictums of process-based art. I am buoyed by Sol LeWit's statement that "Conceptual art is not necessarily logical. The logic of a piece or a series of pieces is a device that is used at times only to be ruined."
Aware of past pedagogical technique in which students learned to draw by steadily copying the work of the masters, I (ironically?) situate myself as novice to the grammar of early landscape drawing, enacting the ritual of copying while simultaneously getting it "all wrong." My choices of colour, medium, square format, scale, and my decision to layer the "copies" to the point of indecipherability belong to contemporary practice. I use projections to facilitate this process, to suspend aesthetic choice while painting, and to keep myself quite literally "in the dark" regarding the outcome of each layer until it is complete.
CE: How do you associate your work with the tradition of so-called "layer" or "process" painting?
I see the tradition of process painting as a source for the work, much as the tradition of seventeenth-century landscape drawing is a source for the work. Initially I adopted a process-based approach for purely pragmatic reasons — the oil paint required drying time between layers and setting out instructions and a schedule made it easier to remember what I intended to do next. My association with the tradition is, I suppose, respectfully cavalier — working procedurally provides a framework and structure in which I can explore questions of paint, space and history. My work differs from 1970s process art in the specificity of its fine art referents (marginal though they are) and in my continued engagement with the 'pleasure principle' in painting, especially in finding ways to play with the notion of the "authentic mark."
CE: Could you characterize the look of your work?
MT: This is how I tried to describe it in an artist's statement: "My work hovers at the threshold between abstraction and representation — the suspended moment when an abstract collection of dots and dashes coalesces into a recognizable image. Ideally the paintings also operate at a metaphoric threshold between past and present — obscure bits of the past collected to construct a present that includes memory but refuses nostalgia."
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Future engineer. John Xia, a Palo Alto high school graduate, made his own bamboo bike.
We're all familiar with steel, carbon-fiber, and aluminum bike frames, and then there's bamboo. Classified in the plant world as a grass, you'd never guess as much from its size.
Bamboo bikes have been around for a long time, probably since the first bikes were made, but even today they have a following among cycling enthusiasts.
One of the better known companies is Calfee Design in Santa Cruz, Calif. Many cycling names have come out of Santa Cruz, including Craig Calfee, Jim Gentes (Giro helmets),and Keith Bontrager (mtn bikes and equipment). Craig's company has been building bamboo bicycles since 2005. He has also traveled to Ghana to show people how to build bamboo bicycles.
Craig was one of the original builders of carbon-fiber bikes in 1989. In 1991, Greg LeMond contracted with Craig's business to have his team supplied with carbon-fiber frames. Craig continues to sell carbon-fiber frames today.
Equally important, he's one of the few suppliers in the region who repairs carbon-fiber frames.
I've never ridden a bamboo bicycle, but I can imagine it gives a smooth ride, much as the Vitus aluminum bicycles of the 1980s.
Are these frames going to last as long as steel? I'm not going to hazard a guess, but rest assured termites won't bother them, since the tubes are coated with polyurethane. If you want a bamboo bike, you can build your own and save some money.
Another company that has just started selling bamboo bikes is Panda Bicycles, based in Fort Collins, Colorado. I'm not sure they're in full production, but they have a website.
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I worked at Calfee Design, then called Carbonframes in 1995 and we had a bamboo bike there then. It rode really nice.
The young man with the bamboo bike in the photo you posted last year is named John Xia. He now goes to the University of Chicago.


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More than 50 million people – more players than all the previous Fallout games combined – have downloaded the free app in the past year and experienced the challenges of running an underground vault in a post-nuclear wasteland. Since Fallout Shelter's surprise launch last E3, Bethesda Game Studios has added new features like Pets; Crafting, Scrapping and Junk; additional rooms; Fallout 4 characters; and special Dweller customization options.
nd now Bethesda Game Studios is bringing Fallout Shelter to a brand new audience (and a way bigger screen) on PC as a free download on Bethesda.net. Whether you're a seasoned Overseer or just starting out, the PC version offers the full Fallout Shelter experience, complete with every update – including Update 1.6. We'll have more details on the PC version soon.
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Joan Krotenberg will have to make it through the winter with her driveway.
In the fall of 2013, Krotenberg hired North Jersey Paving and Construction to redo her driveway. One of the owners at the time, James Gorman, was the guy in charge of the job, she said.
But before long, Krotenberg said, the $2,500 job was crumbling and needed to be replaced.
She tried calling Gorman, but he wouldn't return her phone calls, she said.
An estimate by another company found the driveway couldn't be repaired, but needed to be ripped up and redone. The cost? $4,500.
Krotenberg started working with a mediator from the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, who reached out to Gorman, documents show.
Gorman promised in an email he'd stop by the house to see what could be done, but he never showed, Krotenberg said.
The case got more complicated when we learned Gorman was no longer part of the business. His partner, William Mesker, bought Gorman out, and Mesker said he knew nothing about the job or the complaints.
Mesker said he has since moved out-of-state, but the company is still operating, and he promised he'd fix the job.
He also promised to have his attorney send Krotenberg a letter saying so.
Several weeks passed, and Krotenberg finally received the letter, dated Oct. 13, via the Consumer Affairs mediator.
Joan Krotenberg stands in her driveway. She said she paid $2,500 a year ago for a new driveway, but it's already cracking and crumbling.
Krotenberg said knowing that Mesker moved made her nervous, so she asked via Consumer Affairs for the $2,500 she had paid for the job to be put into an escrow account to be held by Mesker's attorney.
Several more letters passed. In the end, Mesker's attorney declined the escrow idea, but said the driveway would be completed by March 15, 2015.
We do hope the weather is nice and warm around then.
Around the same time the attorney's letters were going back and forth with Consumer Affairs, Mesker sent us an email to express his dissatisfaction with the original story. We asked him about the escrow idea and if there was anything else he wanted to say on the matter.
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Smile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way. For example, John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and couldn't help grinning like a Cheshire cat. The ultimate origin of this expression, appearing in print since the late 1700s, is disputed, but its most famous exponent was Lewis Carroll, in whose Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the grinning cat gradually vanished from view, with its grin the last part to vanish.
Words nearby grin like a Cheshire cat
grind rock, grindstone, grind to a halt, gringa, gringo, grin like a Cheshire cat, griot, grip, gripe, gripe water, gripey
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Laser annealing of donor implanted gallium arsenide.
The effects of ruby laser irradiation on the electrical and physical properties of coated (SiN) and uncoated semi-insulating GaAs, implanted with selenium ions have been studied. The thermal stability of laser annealed GaAs implanted with tellurium ions has been studied, in the temperature range 200-800°C. Electrical, Rutherford backscattering, electron and optical microscopy measurements coupled with electron microprobe analysis have been used to study the properties of GaAs samples before and after laser irradiation. It has been shown that SiN encapsulants act as a source of n-type doping of the underlying GaAs for Q-switched laser energy densities greater than 0.3 J/cm . Silicon atoms from SiN were shown to be responsible for the doping effect, possibly due to laser induced indiffusion of silicon atoms. It was shown that selenium ions implanted into GaAs to doses less than or equal to 1x10/cm did not become electrically active after Q-switched laser irradiation, with the substrate held at room temperature, most probably due to laser induced compensating defects. However, selenium implants of doses of at least 5x10/cm became electrically active when the substrate was held at elevated temperatures (≥200°C) during laser irradiation. The measured electrical properties which were found to depend on the ion dose and energy, the laser energy density, the number of pulses and the substrate temperature during laser annealing were rather poor. The electron mobilities in all laser annealed samples were lower than predicted by Sze and Irvin. Q-switched laser irradiation of GaAs implanted with tellurium ions, followed by heat treatment at 200°C and above caused a significant reduction in the electron concentration and the extent of the reduction was found to depend on the annealing temperature. Laser induced surface damage was observed, which could be minimised by improving the spatial non-uniformity of energy across the laser beam using a beam diffuser.
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Author: Matthias Cramer
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We are the chiefs of several isolated Swiss villages, shortly after the end of the Napoleonic occupation. The villagers long to build a thriving community after years of suppression. How this could be achieved is incorporated as a hint in the box cover illustration: "Dörfer bauen, Paare trauen". In other words, players try to achieve something by herding cows and goats, and marry their children into a neighbouring village, preferably to someone who does something creative with bread or ore. Of course love and marriage is followed by the proverbial baby carriage, and so the village grows and prospers.
Each player gets his own village center, and three starting buildings that produce a simple (basic) good. Everybody receives a collection of villagers in his colour, men and women. A production building can only produce goods when occupied by a villager; at the start of the game, all starting buildings are already occupied. All players start with four coins in their colour. In a player's turn, he places his coin(s) on one of the five characters depicted on the main board.
The builder allows players to build one building per coin; by placing two coins simultaneously, the player may therefore buy two buildings at once. The buildings have to be paid with goods, depicted in the upper left corner. To pay a good, an 'awake' villager (= standing) of his own colour on a building producing the desired good is laid down on his side, indicating that he has fallen asleep after the hard labour. To pay for a building that requires a wood and a stone, a villager on a wood producing building and on a stone producing building have to be 'put to sleep'. It is not important whether the building is situated in your own village or a neighbouring village, which can happen after marriage.
But it is not quite this simple! There are also 'complex goods' that are made from another good. For example, a goat is 'produced' using a bucket of water, so when paying with a goat, you also have to supply the water! There are even more complex goods that require two other goods, like grain becomes cow becomes butter. The new building is placed in the city immediately, and if there is a villager present in the village center, he moves into the building and it can be used from now on.
The trader delivers goods to the market in the next big town in exchange for victory points. For each coin placed on the trader character, the player may transport one good to the market. This comes down to inactivating the appropriate villager(s) and placing a cube of his colour on the delivered good on the central board.
But how do we wake all these sleepy villagers? With the night watchman! For each coin the player places on this character, he may wake up an entire quarter of a village, either his own village or somebody else's. Everybody is awoken, also the villagers of other players!
The priest can be used to marry one of your unattached villagers. The villager can come from the village center, or even directly from school! You are never too young to marry, and what can you learn in a simple village school anyway... You have to marry someone in a neighbouring village, and of the opposite sex: gay marriage is still controversial nowadays, so in 1800 this was out of the question. If there happens to be a coin of your colour in the village center of the village you married into, you may take this coin as dowry and as such have an additional action to spend. In total every player can collect two additional coins this way.
And after marriage comes: the midwife. This character can be used to produce babies in your own village. Each couple can have one baby per action. You are allowed to choose the gender; if you tip over a man or woman from your supply, a baby becomes visible, or rather: a scary, disfigured monstrosity without lower arms...
When there is only one player left that still has coins to spend, the round is over. This player becomes the new starting player. Of each character a small bonus tile is available, which is now awarded to the player having the highest number of coins on the corresponding character. This tile enables the player to perform the corresponding action once in the next round, without spending any coins. Next, the victory points are counted. Special buildings are worth 3 points, each cube on the market, the bonus character tiles and starting player tile al score one point, and the special bonus tiles score as many points as depicted. If a player has reached 20 points, the game is over, but if not, the next round commences. New buildings are added to the display, children leave school and go to the village center, and the newborn babies go to school.
Although the trendy, stylish bright red box cover, showing a Swiss cross and a silhouette of the Matterhorn, suggests something totally, absolutely and completely different, Helvetia has beautiful and realistic illustrations. Unfortunately this compromises playability. The icons indicating the building costs and especially the function of the buildings are too small and seem to disappear against the dark and chaotic background.
Add to this a man, a woman and a baby on top of the building tiles, and it becomes completely impossible to see what building is doing what. Since the idea of the game is to marry into neighbouring villages and use their buildings, this is a major drawback. 'Can you tell me what my villager over there in your village is producing?' -that's no way to plan your turn.
Additionally, there are too many buildings with different costs, goods and possibilities, resulting in a tremendous headache. It happens all too often that a player thinks he has it all figured out, but on the way realises that he is still lacking one good for his master plan. And then, after already countless villagers have been deactivated, it is a nice challenge to return the game board to its original state... This plethora of possibilities results in very long turns: analysis paralysis! Especially the 'trade' buildings that allow the exchange of one depicted good for another add to the chaos, since they result in virtually endless possibilities that all have to be considered. And the complex goods, especially in combination with 'trade' buildings, can require inactivation of as much as five villagers for the production of just one good! The night watchman can hardly compete with this rate of inactivation! In conclusion, Helvetia is a chaotic game, with hard work and little play.
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Helvetia, Matthias Cramer, Kosmos, 2011 - 2 to 4 players, 12 years and up, 60-90 minutes
Very flat and difficult to distinguish symbols; Vohwinkel does not draw, he merely sculpts -not quite my style
Original mechanism; plays smoothly after the initial hurdle is taken. A game that captivates
OK game, but too much of a hassle


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Q: Javascript Comparing Booleans Currently, I have an mongo database that keeps track of answers users submit. When a user makes an input for an answer they already did, that is yes or no I want to check to see if there answer has changed. The issue is this only working half of the time.
Below I have a sails service called Questions Service which is called from the Questions Controller when a user send an answer to the node.js server.
QuestionServer.js
var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;

module.exports = {

submitAnswer: function(tokenKey, questionId, answer, done) {

    User.findOne({tokenKey: tokenKey}).exec(function (err, findOneRecord){
        if(findOneRecord) {
            var qId = ObjectID(questionId);
            QuestionsAnswered.findOrCreate({question: qId, user: findOneRecord.id}).exec(function createFindCB(error, createdOrFoundRecord){
                if(error) {
                    done(error, findOneRecord, null);
                }else if(createdOrFoundRecord){
                    var oldAnswerChanged = QuestionService.submitAnswerCheck(createdOrFoundRecord.answer, answer);
                    console.log("Old Changed Answer = " + oldAnswerChanged);

                    createdOrFoundRecord.answer = answer;
                    createdOrFoundRecord.save(function(saveErr) {
                        QuestionService.submitCount(questionId, answer, oldAnswerChanged, done);
                    });
                }
            });
        }
    });
},

submitAnswerCheck: function(recordAnswer, answer) {
    console.log("recordAnswer = " + recordAnswer);
    console.log("answer = " + answer);

    recordAnswer = Boolean(recordAnswer);
    answer = Boolean(answer);

    if(recordAnswer != answer){
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}
}

As you can see from my code above in my submitAnswerCheck function I want to make sure that the booleans being passed to this function are always primitives and never boolean objects.
Below you will find the output of all the console logs going to the server.
Additional note about the output below, changing != to !== does not change the out from the console. Answers below were still the same.
Output to console:
recordAnswer = true
answer = true
Old Changed Answer = false

recordAnswer = true
answer = false
Old Changed Answer = false

recordAnswer = false
answer = false
Old Changed Answer = true

recordAnswer = false
answer = true
Old Changed Answer = true

recordAnswer = true
answer = true
Old Changed Answer = false

What I would like to see is example output 2 and 4 both return true for the "Old Changed Answer", but what seems to be happening is that whenever the recordAnswer is false the submitAnswerCheck is always returning true.
Lastly here is the model that is saving the boolean to mongodb:
QuestionsAnswered.js
module.exports = {

attributes: {

question: {
    model: "question",
    required: true
},
user: {
    model: "user",
    required: true
},
answer: {
    type: "boolean",
    boolean: true
}
}
};

I am not sure if I am miss understanding the difference between boolean primitives and boolean objects or if there is something else I am missing when setting up a boolean in my model. Have other people been having this problem when comparing boolean in javascript/sails.js?

A: Found the problem
1st off as this article explains using Boolean function is very dangerous because it turns out JavaScript is pretty aggressive about type coercion. Which means you can't relay on the Boolean function to convert your variables to primitives.
From this I found out that Postman was sending my answer booleans as string example:
debug: answer = 'true'

The solution was as simple as checking if answer equals 'true' as shown below:
Correct way (QuestionController.js):
module.exports = {

answer: function(req, res) {

    var tokenKey = req.param("tokenKey");
    var questionId = req.param("questionId");
    var answer = (req.param("answer") == 'true');

    QuestionService.submitAnswer(tokenKey, questionId, answer, function(err, yes, no){
        return res.json({
            countYes: yes,
            countNo: no,
            err: err
        });
    });
}
};

Incorrect way:
module.exports = {

answer: function(req, res) {

    var tokenKey = req.param("tokenKey");
    var questionId = req.param("questionId");
    var answer = req.param("answer");

    QuestionService.submitAnswer(tokenKey, questionId, answer, function(err, yes, no){
        return res.json({
            countYes: yes,
            countNo: no,
            err: err
        });
    });
}
};

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Initiation of Biosceptre's Phase 1 Clinical Trial for First-in-Class Oncology Vaccine BIL06v
Biosceptre has initiated its Phase I clinical trial of the peptide vaccine BIL06v, with the first patient treated at the initial trial site on 16th of August 2018. The first patient was recruited at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Sydney, Australia, under treating physician and Principal Investigator Associate Professor Gavin Marx. Other clinical sites will be added to the trial in the coming months, and competitive recruitment for the minimum 6 month treatment is anticipated to proceed to the full cohort (20-30) within 12 months.
The trial will accept broad cancer indications with primary focus on prostate and lung cancer patients who are refractory to, or have refused, standard of care treatment. Breast, colorectal and other cancer patients will also be accepted.
The trial has been designed by Dr Bob Li, attending oncologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Li is a recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award, and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Young Investigator Translational Cancer Research Award.
The trial will be overseen by Biosceptre's Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul De Souza, who is Foundation Chair of Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, at Western Sydney University, and Honorary Professor of the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney.
Biosceptre's BIL06v therapy is a peptide protein conjugate vaccine, administered in the presence of an adjuvant. Primary endpoints include evaluation of safety and immunogenicity, with secondary endpoints including dose limiting toxicity and/or maximum tolerated dose as well as recommended Phase II dose. Disease control rate at 12 weeks as well as progression free survival will also be examined.
Exploratory endpoints will include quality of life and overall survival, as well as serum tumour biomarkers and cellular immunogenicity. Archived tissue will be screened for expression of the nfP2X7 target.
Biosceptre Acting Chairman Sir Gregory Winter said
"The relationship between P2X7 and cancer is a field of increasing research interest, and supports the potential of targeting nfP2X7 in human cancer in the clinic."
Chief Executive Officer Gavin Currie said
"It is a long journey from discovery of a novel target like nfP2X7 in oncology to eventually putting a first-in-class drug into the clinical setting, and I am delighted that all the hard work has come to fruition. We are very optimistic that this trial will meet its primary endpoints, a critical inflection point for value for our shareholders."
Chief Medical Officer Paul de Souza said
"I am delighted that the first patient has been treated on our Phase I trial. I look forward to reviewing the data and to taking BIL06v into further clinical studies".
About Biosceptre
Biosceptre is a Cambridge UK headquartered biotechnology company focused on developing next generation cancer treatments targeting nfP2X7. Biosceptre's product pipeline includes a range of biologic therapeutics to treat a range of cancer types. For more information visit www.biosceptre.com.
About nP2X7
Biosceptres' pipeline, including clinical stage peptide vaccine BIL06v, all target nfP2X7, a "non-functional" form of the P2X7 receptor in which cell death signalling (pore functionality) is absent, but ability to sustain ion channel driven proliferation signalling remains.
Expression of nfP2X7 is important in the avoidance of cell death by cancer cells. The target allows cells to avoid programmed cell death signals in the tumour micro-environment, and provides growth and metastatic advantages to cancer cells.
Biosceptre's focus is on validation and exploitation of this novel immuno-oncology target by multiple therapeutic modalities including vaccine, antibody, and cell therapy (Car-T).
A paper describing Biosceptres' recent discoveries of the relationship between nfP2X7 and the tumour microenvironment, and confirming the role of nfP2X7 in cancer cell biology has been published by the journal Oncogene.
Biosceptre2019-12-12T16:01:47+11:00August 21st, 2018|News|


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Afghanistan Veteran Reunited With Bomb-Sniffing Dog Partner In The United States
By Mike Clark
When Marine Sam Wettstein returned home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan, he felt that something was missing in his life. He had spent 19 months working with Belle T634, a contract bomb-sniffing dog used to detect improvised explosive devices or IEDs. And when he got back to his life in the United States, he knew that the thing he was missing was his Labrador Retriever partner.
Handlers are warned not to get too emotionally attached to their dogs, as it can compromise the training. But as many of us know, it's very hard not to fall in love with a good dog. Belle was one of the best, earning the "Top Dog Award" in training class. She provided Wettstein with a way to keep his mind occupied, but she was more than that. As the desert nights plummeted to freezing temperatures, Belle slept in her partners sleeping bag with him and even pulled the covers over him when he fell asleep before zipping them up.
Wettstein couldn't deny their bond. He applied to adopt Belle while they were still deployed, knowing that the odds of tracking down a contract military dog were close to zero. When he got home to the United States, he made several calls per week to find Belle. Finally, he found out Belle was suffering from PTSD and wouldn't work with other handlers. She was retiring, and she would be allowed to live with Wettstein. She flew back to the U.S. thanks to Mission K9 Rescue. She's made a lot of progress with her PTSD in the years since she was adopted, and she couldn't be happier to have her forever home with the partner that she bonded with.
Do you think it should be easier for soldiers to adopt their former dog partners once they get home? Are you happy to see these two reunited? Let us know in the comments below!
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Facilitation is about the process of moving something from point A to point B in an effective way. Using a multi-step-process, spiral2grow, located in New York City, collaborates with its clients to design and deliver a facilitated session(s) that meets their unique objectives.
When an organization or a team within an organization has an important challenge or problem that is needed to be addressed or resolved, a decision is needed to be made. This is where a facilitation expert can play a major role in bringing about the necessary skills to move toward healthy discussion toward resolution. A successful and professional facilitator allows a team identify objectives and desired outcomes, develop a strong and effective agenda to make the team focus on engaging with the subject-matter at hand.
The facilitator helps design an optimal structure for discussion, creates agreed upon agenda, keeps people on the topic, promotes participation of members, asks provocative and probing questions to elicit deeper thinking, and identifies action items and accountability. By the end of the process, a summary of results and recommendation ensures a healthy and constructive closer of this step and allowing teams to move to the implementation phase. Part of the implementation process is the creation of tasks and responsibility and timeframe as part of project management. The bottom line is to enable teams and organizations gain the full benefit from their investment of time, money, and talent and seeing the actual results come to life on the job.
Our professionals bring a deep understanding of the facilitation process and are experts in creating a working environment that stimulate the group members and encourages them to think, exchange and assimilate knowledge and experience. The facilitator(s) also integrates group dynamics, improves problem-solving while reaching the desired goals.


The Filigree and Flame tee is named for the Rita Dove poem entitled "Testimonial". The photograph in this design was taken by Sierra Leonean photographer Alphonso Lisk-Carew who dedicated his life to documenting the cultural history of his peoples. Originally captioned "Bondu Girls, Sierra Leone", Lisk-Carew Brothers, circa 1905.


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YouTube lets some advertisers buy masthead ads on CPM basis
Previously, YouTube Masthead ads (that run at the top of YouTube's Home feed) were only available on cost-per-day buying terms.
Amy Gesenhues on February 5, 2019 at 9:54 am
YouTube is testing a new way for advertisers to purchase masthead ads. The company on Tuesday said it is experimenting with allowing advertisers to purchase the ads displayed at the top of its home feed through a cost-per-thousand (CPM) buying model, versus the standard cost-per-day by country purchasing terms.
YouTube masthead ads run at the top of is home feed on both desktop and mobile, so the high-impact placement is obviously coveted real estate for marketers. In addition to getting the flexibility of a CPM model, advertisers will be able to customize the audiences, and ad placements will remain as a "reserved buy" through a Google ads rep. YouTube says the ads come with impression guarantees across campaign flights that can run for a single day up to seven days.
TurboTax VP of Marketing Cathleen Ryan said YouTube's masthead ads were a key component of the brands' Super Bowl strategy this year.
"The Masthead is a great way to introduce the new way of doing taxes with TurboTax Live," said Ryan, "It's very timely and relevant to be front and center on YouTube, the biggest online video platform, on the day after the Super Bowl."
More on the news
YouTube is giving advertisers the ability to preview what their masthead ad would look like on its "YouTube Masthead Preview" page.
A Google-Ipsos lab experiment in March 2018 that tested 30 ads among 3,000 U.S. residents age 18 to 64-years-old found masthead ads delivered an average lift of 92 percent for ad recall, and an average 46 percent lift for purchase intent.
According to YouTube's internal global data, watch-time for content discovered on the site's home feed has grown ten-fold during the last three years.
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Today, Samantha Stein, a long time, faraway friend of mine told me to write about long distance friendships for 60 minutes. Here goes.
Friends come and go. You learn that pretty quickly, even if it takes awhile to sink in. It's one of the those bitter pills of wisdom your parents give you, even if you don't ask them for it. You watch them gaze wistfully toward the flat line in the distance, and their words trail off into the descending melancholic pall they've cast. But you don't really listen, say, when you're younger and you're in the midst of a particularly prosperous social juncture teeming with friends and acquaintances and all sorts of spirited gatherings that affirm your personal value and validity (even if most of those friendships and acquaintanceships are as hollow and rickety as the pyramid of empty beer cans you built). Because your parents were never as cool as you are, so you think. And your parents never had as many friends as you do, so you think. And I will keep up with all my friends, so you think.
And then high-school ends. And everyone scatters off to college. And then you transfer colleges. And then you go abroad for a semester. And then you take a semester off. And then you transfer colleges again. And then you have an identity/existential crisis and you get a job slinging booze and gout-conducive fare at a restaurant. And then, eventually, maybe, you go back and you graduate. Then you get a different job. Then you have another crisis. And you go to grad school. Then you get a different job. And through all of that, by sheer physics, you've made friends and left most of them behind (and they, you).
But you say, by God, that you'll keep in touch. Because everything in the moment feels eternal somehow, because your immediate consciousness can't or refuses to admit that whatever's defining you one moment will evaporate like a dream does upon waking to make room for the things that will define you later. And you'll genuinely try to keep in touch if they are good friends–people who enriched your life, whose spirit wove itself into yours, who helped keep you afloat and who didn't drag you down into their personal dramas, people who climbed out of their own egos on occasion and really absorbed you and your experience and helped you and, more importantly, were mindful of how their actions affected you and who apologized if they lapsed into carelessness. Those are the ones you try to keep in touch with.
But long distance friendships are difficult. Not because of a lack of tools. There are a surplus of tools in our lives. Email. Facebook. Smart phones. Skype. Er, letters? It's almost impossible not to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances of chapters past. Long distance friendships are difficult, rather, because they're common, and in my case, as common if not more common than immediate friendships. We're so mobile these days. (God, I hate that phrase, "these days"). We've been uber mobile for awhile now. We're pretty used to it. It's expected. Families rarely occupy the same house anymore, let alone the same state, region, or country, and they're the ones who are supposed to stick around while others come and go. It's a modern norm. So it's common to have friends and family you don't see on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. And hitched to that reality, like all realities, is a trailer full of subsequent emotion.
In my case, long distant friendships are rife with bittersweetness. I have several friends–very dear friends from different places, different jobs, schools, experiences–whom I never see. They are far flung, across the state, across the nation, across the globe. They exist almost exclusively in the disembodied form of words in an email or message box, a voice on the telephone, or pixels in a digitally uploaded image. In a way, this is nice. Almost every correspondence is meaningful and laced with sincere, open-hearted "Remember whens", "I miss yous", and "I wish you were heres". There is no bogging down, no growing weary of the friction-building day-to-day vicissitudes of each others' quirks or habits or moods, no conflict (typically), and thus, no attending emotional messiness. There's only pristine sharing and support… Okay, usually. There's usually pristine sharing and support. There are always exceptions.
But no matter the frequency or depth of our contact, how uplifting it is to know that we've beaten the odds, that my long-distance friend(s) and I have done a sterling job managing our relationship, of keeping it honest and healthy, no matter how immediately gratifying it is to connect via online instant chats, emails, or phone calls, it still feels as though I've lost them, that they are ghosts, forever estranged from my world and I theirs.


The car industry is really big. If you want to calculate the total number of motor vehicles on the planet it will be an inexact science, but the number is growing rapidly.
The automotive trade journal Ward's Auto had estimated that the total crossed 1 billion vehicles sometime during 2010. Less than four years later there were more than 1.2 billion cars on the road.
By 2035, a record 2 billion cars will be beaten. According to a report from Macquarie Bank, 88.1 million cars and light commercial vehicles were sold worldwide in 2016, up 4.8% from a year earlier.
Scientists suggest that it will be necessary to cut average carbon emissions 80 percent if we wish to stabilize the impact of climate change.
With such a large car index in the world for 1000 residents, we should focus on car sharing alternatives that will make private cars available to other users. This is the reason why DriveSurfing promotes the idea of car sharing and sustainability.


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Innovation, Partnerships
Sound & vibration engineering process for the Lightyear One
By vibes
Lightyear and VIBES join forces
Dutch companies Lightyear and VIBES.technology will work together on the sound & vibration engineering of Lightyear One. Lightyear One is an innovative solar car with a focus on range and efficiency. The goal of this engineering development is to make Lightyear One an acoustically comfortable car to drive in. Within this collaboration, VIBES' expertise is used to set up a robust sound & vibration engineering process, which is an important step towards further growth and acceptance of electric vehicles.
Focus on efficiency and performance within Lightyear
Lightyear One is engineered with a strong focus to improve efficiency. Therefore, it is designed to be a low-weight vehicle, with integrated solar panels in the roof and hood and it has a low aerodynamic drag. The car is built to perform well in long-distance travels with little to no opportunities to use charging infrastructure, such as long treks through the Outback or uninhabited tundra's. The result is a car with an exceptional range of 725km and four advanced in-wheel motors. The sound and vibration engineering is an important aspect to ensure a pleasant experience while driving long distances, it is crucial to deal with potential issues before the production is at full scale.
In the development of the Lightyear One, VIBES can show its full potential by improving the acoustic experience in the passenger cabin for the customer. I'm confident that this will boost Lightyear to a next level by the use of state-of-the-art measuring techniques.
– Caspar Boerlage, NVH Engineer at Lightyear –
The Lightyear One interior
Sound & Vibration engineering in electric vehicle development
VIBES is a renowned expert in sound & vibration engineering for the automotive industry (the industry term is 'NVH', Noise and Vibration Harshness), and typically works with premium automotive OEMs in Europe, the US and Asia . VIBES uses an innovative methodology where test-data and computer models are combined in the NVH engineering process, which is especially relevant for electric vehicles. Electric vehicles lack the masking effects of a combustion engine and require a different engineering approach. The fact that Lightyear, as a young and innovative OEM, is not bound by restrictive historical processes intended for combustion-engine development, makes it an ideal partner for the VIBES way-of-working.
The focus of this collaboration is vibration source characterization: a process where measurement-data is converted to a model of the vibration source. This model is then used to optimize the full-vehicle NVH of the Lightyear One. The Lightyear One has several advanced components, such as the in-wheel electric engine, which are difficult to optimize using traditional NVH methods. VIBES will work together with Lightyear on these challenging components and distill the learnings into a software application to manage the process in the future. VIBES and Lightyear are both excited about this collaboration, which is also made possible by the province of South Holland.
This collaboration is a great opportunity to create a state-of-art NVH engineering process at Lightyear, one which tackles specifically the challenges in electric vehicle development. This is a win-win collaboration, which shows the Netherlands has a lot to offer in automotive.
– Maarten van der Kooij, CEO VIBES.technology –
F.l.t.r.: Caspar Boerlage (Lightyear), Andrea Carpi (Lightyear), Maarten van der Kooij (VIBES), Maarten van der Seijs (VIBES), Eric Pasma (VIBES).
About Lightyear
Lightyear is on a mission to make clean mobility available to everyone, everywhere in the world. Lightyear develops electric cars with an energy-efficient design and integrated solar panels. This allows motorists, depending on the climate, to drive up to twenty thousand kilometres per year on sunlight. The fast-growing tech company was founded in 2016 and currently employs more than one hundred employees. The team is made up out of a mix of young talent and experience from the automotive industry, including former employees of Tesla and Ferrari. In less than three years, the company raised funding of more than thirty million euros through reservations, investments and grants. Lightyear also won the CES Climate Change Innovator award and became a finalist in the Postcode Lottery's Green Challenge. Lightyear recently received the Horizon 2020 grant from the European Commission under grant agreement number 848620. In the summer of 2019, Lightyear launched its first driving prototype, Lightyear One and opened a new office.
www.lightyear.one
About VIBES
VIBES.technology is a global expert in modular sound & vibration engineering for the automotive industry. Using the VIBES methodology, vibration issues are apparent before physical full-vehicle prototypes are built. Therefore they can be solved during the design phase rather than the late and expensive troubleshooting phase. With the VIBES methodology, computer simulations and test-based measurement data are combined, which enables a hybrid design strategy.
VIBES develops user-friendly software applications to perform complex sound & vibration measurements and analyses 'first time right' in the initial design phase of vehicle engineering. VIBES also provides training and works as an engineering consultant for automotive OEMs and suppliers around the world. VIBES has offices in Delft, the Netherlands and Munich, Germany.
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In behind the overgrowth of branches in this photo you can see a basketball net. The backboard is well worn from over two decades of weather and bank shots. The ground pounded down from heavy footsteps and layup pathways.
Hours were spent here in every season. Even waist deep winter storms could never stop me from my overactive imagination. Multiple fake NBA championships were won at this net. Mostly because the game-winning three-pointer would be called back on "fouls" from the opposing team. This would give the "refs" the chance to "reset" the clock and allow for one more long-distance shot at the net. Many of these "games" would go on well past 2 regulation NBA games without "players" getting fouled out or the refs getting called for some seriously questionable calls.
As a kid this was one of my sanctuaries. A short walk outside the door of Dad's house. I remember many nights walking out here after supper and coming in only when it was way too late to even think. By the late hours the court was only lit by the faint overcast of a nearby street light. It barely allowed for a decent clear view of the basket.
One evening, my brother and I wasted several hours attempting to connect a football throw from the opposite end of the yard. He succeeded after at least two hours of throwing. Did not even strike the backboard or the rim on that winning shot. Clear sailing through the mesh.
The court has not been used for some time. Branches have taken over the once clear and wide air paths for flying basketballs. Many have walked the grass in front and sank many shots while launching them from almost every piece of the land.
My parents rarely every called me in during a school night that I was out here. Why would they? I was getting decent exercise and doing something that I found calming. For the brief period that I moved back into the old house before leaving Nova Scotia, I took to this old court again. How great it was to again find peace while playing sport just for fun.
I was always grateful that Dad cemented this into the ground. The old court net still stands there today, strong and solid. If the new owners were to tear it down I certainly would understand. I'm happier knowing that the memories of all those shots, all those games, all that time outdoors, will outlast almost anything.
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Majna černokřídlá (Acridotheres melanopterus) je ohrožený druh z čeledi špačkovití (Sturnidae) a rodu Acridotheres, historicky zástupce rodu Sturnus. Jsou známy celkem tři poddruhy: Acridotheres melanopterus melanopterus, Acridotheres melanopterus tertius a Acridotheres melanopterus tricolor. Někdy bývají osamostatněny na samostatné druhy.

Výskyt
Majna černokřídlá se vyskytuje na ostrově Jáva; pokud jsou k ní připočítávány i poddruhy tertius a tricolor, pak její areál výskytu zahrnuje rovněž ostrovy Bali a Lombok. Všechny tyto populace jsou ohroženy vyhynutím. Do 60. let 20. století byl na Jávě pták značně rozšířen po celé střední a západní části ostrova, a obýval i ostrov Madura, od té doby ale stavy značně poklesly, přičemž ve většině oblastí byl druh již vyhuben. Majna v současnosti obývá převážně mangrovníkové porosty, přičemž se vyskytuje od hladiny moře do maximální nadmořské výšky 2 400 m n. m.

Druh byl zřídka objeven i v některých státech Malajského poloostrova, například ze singapurského ostrova Pulau Sekijang Bendera pochází záznam o prosperující populaci z 80. let 20. století.

Popis
Majna černokřídlá je středně velký druh majny, dosahuje velikosti asi 23 cm. Má bíle zbarvené peří s černými letkami, plášť však může být břidlicově šedavý. Okolo oka se rozprostírá žlutavá až růžová skvrna, která se táhne od spodní strany zobáku až k uchu. Na hlavě má tento druh krátkou chocholku z peří. Vzhledem se podobá majně Rothschildově (Leucopsar rothschildi), která má však skvrnu kolem oka modrou, méně černého peří a větší chocholku. Mladí jedinci majn černokřídlých se podobají dospělcům, mají i skvrnu kolem oka, ale peří je převážně pískové.

Chování
Majna černokřídlá patrně hnízdí ve stromových dutinách, o odchovu mláďat či životním cyklu nebyly získány téměř žádné informace. Dle pozorování si nicméně druh připravuje hnízdo okolo ledna, přičemž nedospělé jedince lze spatřit v září. Na základě pozorování z ostrova Pulau Sekijang Bendera ptáci sháněli potravu v párech nebo samostatně, často ve společnosti jiných majn. Lovili drobné bezobratlé, často ve stromoví, konzumovali rovněž plody rostlin Fagraea fragrans a Eugenia longiflora, pili nejspíš také nektar. Ptáci v páru spolu vzájemně komunikovali zvedáním chocholky a pohyby hlavou a těla. Píseň tvořila hlasitá směs pískavých a krákavých zvuků.

Ohrožení
Hlavním důvodem ohrožení se stal lov ptáků pro klecový chov. Majna je jedním z nejpopulárnějších klecových ptáků na Jávě a ulovení jedinci jsou na místních trzích stále žádaní. Ptáci jsou proto i přes zákonnou ochranu stále odchytáváni. Jakartský průzkum (2014) na třech největších místních ptačích trzích v Pramuku, Baritu a Jatinegaře objevil pravidelně několik majn v Baritu a až čtrnáct ptáků najednou na trhu v Pramuku; žádní ptáci se neprodávali pouze na trzích v Jatinegaře. Jednotlivci byli na trzích v Jakartě prodáváni za průměrných 220 amerických dolarů, přičemž jedinci odchycení z volné přírody jsou nejdražší.

Historickou hrozbu mohla představovat chemizace zemědělství, protože druh byl kdysi hojný v zemědělských oblastech.

Následkem těchto faktorů populace druhu rychle klesla a divoká populace je odhadována na méně než 250 dospělých jedinců. Mezinárodní svaz ochrany přírody (IUCN) jej považuje za ohrožený taxon. IUCN k roku 2021 uvádí očekávaný pokles populací od 10 do 49 % během 10 let. Majna černokřídlá rovněž spadá od roku 1979 pod zákony Indonésie. Ochranná opatření zahrnují především chov v zajetí, přičemž někteří ptáci jsou zpětně vypouštěni do volné přírody. IUCN nicméně považuje za klíčová ochranná opatření, jež by zastavila neudržitelný odchyt pro klecový chov.

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NH Man Searches Through 20 Tons of Trash to Find Wife's Wedding Ring: 'I Would Do It a Thousand Times'
Talia Wise
A stalk of celery helped a New Hampshire man locate his wife's wedding ring after he accidentally tossed it in his city's dump.
Kevin Butler lost the rings last week after his wife cleaned and then placed her rings in a napkin to dry.
He tossed the napkin in the trash and took the bag to the Windham trash transfer station.
Hours later, he and his wife realized what happened.
"She looked around for her rings. I said, 'I've got a good feeling they may be in the trash that I just took to the transfer station,'" Butler told WMUR-TV.
He rushed back to the transfer station where employees were more than willing to help him hunt for the ring among 20 tons of trash.
"He said, 'I'm pretty sure I threw the rings out,'" Dennis Senibaldi, the transfer station supervisor, said.
Senibaldi and his crew reviewed surveillance video to see what time Butler showed up at the transfer station and determine where the bag could be located. They used an excavator to start scooping up trash from the trailer.
After a few scoops, they found a clue.
"One of the things he said was [inside the bag] was celery stalks, and I could see a celery stalk sticking out the side of the bag," Senibaldi said.
The bag was pulled from the pile, but Butler got discouraged after searching the bag and not immediately seeing the ring.
"As we were going through the bag that we knew was his, he actually said, 'It's not in here.' And I said, 'No, there's a couple little pieces left,'" Senibaldi said. "I had my rubber gloves on, I moved a few items out of the way and saw literally the very last napkin and I opened it up."
Inside were his wife's rings.
Butler hugged jumped up and hugged Senibaldi for his discovery.
"Wouldn't recommend anyone else do it," Butler said. "But, you know, to get the rings back, I would do it a thousand times over."
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Steele to Perry: 'Just lay it out there' like Herman Cain [VIDEO]
Nicholas Ballasy Senior Video Reporter
October 01, 2011 11:27 AM ET
Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that 2012 presidential candidate Rick Perry should campaign more like fellow candidate Herman Cain.
TheDC asked Steele if has advice for Perry, given that the Texas governor's poll numbers have been dropping in the race for the White House.
"I think part of it is the idea of running for the presidency and getting up a campaign, you've got a lot of folks running around, whispering in your ears telling you how great you are and how much money you're going to raise and all of that stuff. The reality of standing on a stage next to someone who's lobbing bombs at you, that you've got to respond to, becomes very real and I think then again, your record becomes a big part of the discussion and you've got to be prepared to defend that," Steele said in Washington on Friday.
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Steele advises Perry to "stand his ground, lock his feet in, in the earth and be honest with folks and don't back down for what he believes in and you know, you don't need to be cute by half or trying to put out a quip – just lay it out there like a Herman Cain and others."
A new Rasmussen Reports poll from this week finds that in a general election Obama would earn 39 percent support while Cain would attract 34 percent. TheDC also asked Steele why he thinks Cain's message is resonating with voters.
"Folks have seen the amount of spending, the amount of waste, the amount of you know, frustration that certainly a lot of Americans have about all of that and I think he's responded to it in a very honest way," Steele answered.
"He's laid out a plan, you could agree or disagree with the plan, but he's laid out something as far as folks are concerned, concrete, they can identify with it, it makes sense. You know, 9-9-9 is fairly easy to grasp, you know, so I think in that sense he's laid down some markers and he's been very specific and he's been very direct and I think that helps in this climate."
Cain's 9-9-9 plan would implement a flat 9 percent household income tax, a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent corporate tax.
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Let's face it, Italian food is the number one thing that makes life worth living.
But what do you know about the people responsible for it all, the Italians who actually work in the food and beverage industry?Well, we were curious ourselves, so we did some research into the group who make and serve the food we love most.
1. There are 270,000 Italians food industry workers on LinkedIn
Overall, that represents about 3.4 percent of the Italian membership base.
2. With a chocolate company employing the largest percentage of them
Interestingly, the largest employer for Italians in the food industry with LinkedIn profiles isn't a pasta company or a wine company but a company that makes chocolates, Ferrero. Overall, the company, which makes a wide variety of convections including Nutella, employs 22,000 people.
3. And a lot working as wine tasters and sommeliers
Of the 270,000 Italian food workers with LinkedIn profiles, 21,800 work as wine tasters and sommeliers. That's nearly three times as many as the 7,300 who work as pizza makers.
4. A lot of Italian food workers majored in economics
The most popular university major among Italians in the food industry with a LinkedIn profile? Something in economics or business management, which was just ahead of social sciences and communications.
5. And attended the University of Milan
The number one school attended by Italian food workers with LinkedIn profiles was the University of Milan, which isn't too surprising considering it's one of the largest universities in Europe with 60,000 students. The second most common university attended by the group was the University of Bologna, which is also the world's oldest continuously-operating university.
6. Most Italians working in the food industry want to be challenged
According to a LinkedIn survey, 71.5 percent of Italian food workers wanted a challenging work environment, the most popular response. Tied for second on the list was Italian food workers wanted to work for a company that had a long-term vision and a place that they'd be proud to work for, which were both cited by 53.9 percent of those surveyed.
7. And a lot went to the Milan Expo
The Milan Expo is a six-month exhibition where organizations from 140 nations showcase new technologies that aspire to provide healthy, safe and sufficient food for a planet with seven billion people. Apparently, it's highly popular among Italians, as 6,600 mentioned it in their LinkedIn profiles.
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Q: How to close all Finder windows using JXA I basically want to port this code from AS to JXA:
tell application "Finder"
    close every window
    open folder "Projects" of folder "Documents" of home
    tell the front Finder window
        set the bounds to {0, 0, 1920, 1080}
        set the current view to list view
    end tell
end tell

Thanks in advance! There is so little information about JXA out there!

A: To close all Finder windows, the script need a loop:
finder.finderWindows().forEach(function(w) {w.close()})

or
var allWindows = finder.finderWindows()
for (var i in allWindows) {allWindows[i].close()}

or with the map method:
var finder = Application('Finder')
finder.finderWindows().map(function(w){w.close()})
finder.home.folders["Documents"].folders["Projects"].open()
finder.finderWindows[0].bounds = {"x":0, "y":0, "width":1920, "height":1000}
finder.finderWindows[0].currentView = 'list view'

A: This one-liner will close every Finder window:
with (Application('Finder')) close(windows)

You could implement the full script like this:
f = Application('Finder')
w = f.windows.first

f.close(f.windows)
f.open(f.home.folders["Documents"].folders["Projects"])
w.bounds = {"x":0, "y":0, "width":1920, "height":1000}
w.currentView = 'list view'

A: The following should work:
Application('Finder').windows.close()

Alas, JXA is made of Lame and Fail † so just throws an error when you run it, so you'll have to use a loop to close each window one at a time.
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† (TBH, for any non-trivial automation work, you're best sticking to AppleScript. The language itself may be crap, but it's the only currently supported option that actually speaks Apple events right.)


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On first login, I can access the auth()->check() then I get false after the app is cancelled. I'm saving the token. I'm saving the token in local storage. How can I get the authenticated user.
controller:
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Two Hearts. Two Lives. One Tragic Love Story. One Fateful Encounter. England, 1849. Princess Elizabeth meets and falls madly in love for Stable Boy, Luka, who feels the same way about her. Engaged to a man she no longer loves, Prince Lance, she and Luka are forced to keep their relationship a secret from everyone. But everyone finds out... In England, 2020, Elizabeth is reincarnated as a schoolgirl, Candice. She lives an ordinary life, until Dennis, Luka's reincarnation, arrives at school. When they meet, memories of her past life begin to resurface...
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"Father, please don't do this!" Elizabeth pleaded while watching the executionist set up the human guillotine. To his right, two Royal Guards stood with her secret lover, Luka Wills, between them, arms held in the guard's grasps. Luka was not only her secret lover, but also the Stable boy of the castle.
"Don't make things worse than they already are, Elizabeth." King Arthur scolded, not even bothering to look in her direction as disgust and disgrace bubbled within him.
"I'll do whatever it takes to see his life spared!" Elizabeth walked closer to Arthur and placed her hands over his, but he shook himself free of her grasp, and slapped her hard across the face, causing her to yelp out in pain and collapse to the ground. She sat up and looked at her father, one hand placed against her red, throbbing cheek as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Enough of this, you insolent child! You're the reason he's being executed in the first place!" Arthur glared at her with fire in his eyes. Elizabeth stood from where she had fallen, glaring at him with the same amount of fire in her own eyes.
"But father-!"
"Elizabeth..." Hearing her name fall from Luka's lips, the fire quickly died out as her heart skipped a beat. "It's okay. We both knew of the consequences when we started this."
"But Luka, my love! It isn't fair for you to die...Not like this!" Elizabeth spun on her heel to face him. A second later, a hand placed itself against her shoulder. Craning her neck to see, she saw it was her father, Arthur.
"You're right, actually." Hearing his words with so much sincerity laced within them, a smile broke across her face. At last. He has seen reason. She thought.
Metal rubbed against metal. Metal scraped against stone and, in that moment, the smile on Elizabeth's face quickly vanished as she looked and saw the executionist dragging a sword over to her. Her heart dropped and all hope she had felt quickly faded to nothing.
With a small bow of his head, he thrust the sword into her hands. Elizabeth had no choice but to accept the metal weapon with dread and fear settling deep within the pits of her stomach. The executionist took a few steps back, leaving her a shaking, fearful mess.
Instantly, she knew what her father wanted her to do...
"Father...Please, no. Don't make me do this." Hot tears rolled down her cheeks.
"You're the one who started this mess. Now you can finish it." Arthur shoved her forwards, making Elizabeth stumble slightly. She clung to the sword, holding it close to her bosom.
The two guards released their hold on Luka and pushed him forwards. He fell to the ground by Elizabeth's feet. He looked up at her and she looked down at him, tears still rolling down her cheeks.
"Luka...I'm so sorry. I tried, but I...I..." She choked on her own words, unable to speak as desperate coughs escaped from her.
"Elizabeth, its fine. No matter what, I still love you and I always will." He smiled which only broke Elizabeth further. She cried harder, begged God to spare his life. But her silent prayers went unanswered.
"Please forgive me, my love." Arthurs hands locked themselves around his daughters, guiding her hands into the air to raise the sword.
"There's nothing to forgive. I love you, my dear Elizabeth."
"I love you too, my sweet Luka." She closed her eyes as the sword was swung downwards, metal connecting with skin and bone, slicing through his neck like it was butter. Luka's head detached itself from his shoulders, rolling to the ground with a heavy thud.
With a grunt of satisfaction, Arthur removed his hands from Elizabeth's before walking away with the two guards and executionist following behind.
Elizabeth let go of the bloodied sword she was still holding onto, allowing it to fall to the ground with a loud clang. Her body followed. She fell to her knees and clutched at her heart; head bowed forwards as loud cries escaped from her.
Luka was dead and with him, a piece of Elizabeth's heart had died along with him.
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