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Q: Using useEffect (or the equivalent) for class component (making a loading screen) I am fairly new to React. I have currently made a loading screen in React with useEffect, but I'm not sure how to make it with class Components. This is my functional component which works.
const [sourceLoading, setSourceLoading] = React.useState(true);

// control when to stop loading
useEffect(() => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    setSourceLoading(false);
  }, 1000);
}, [])

  return (

    {sourceLoading ? (<LoadingScreen />): (
      <>

      </>
      )}

  );

I'm currently converting the function like so, however it isn't working, and my loading screen never appears. Where am I going wrong? is componentDidMount not the correct substitution for useEffect here?
this.state = {
  sourceLoading: true,
};

this.componentDidMount = this.componentDidMount.bind(this);

componentDidMount() {
  setTimeout(() => {
    this.setState({ sourceLoading: false});
  }, 1000);
}

  render() {
    return (

      {this.sourceLoading ? (<LoadingScreen />) : (<>

       </>
      )}

    );
  }

A: You need to access the state in render function like
{this.state.sourceLoading ? (<LoadingScreen />) : null}

A: It works for me, if you change this line:
{this.sourceLoading ? (content) : ""}
// should be
{this.state.sourceLoading ? (content) : ""}

class App extends React.Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
      sourceLoading: true,
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    setTimeout(() => {
      this.setState({
        sourceLoading: false
      });
    }, 1000);
  }

  render() {
    return (

        {this.state.sourceLoading ? "loading" : "not"}

    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render( <App /> , document.getElementById("root"));


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200 Central Park South
800 Fifth Avenue: Outdoor Dining at UES Restaurants
Uncategorized / By marketing
One of the great pleasures of living in New York City is enjoying its extraordinary selection of celebrated restaurants. And, recently, these fine establishments have worked tirelessly and creatively to bring New Yorkers opportunities for al fresco dining, contactless delivery, and pickup options, and to keep them safe by employing health safety protocols. While residents of the Central Park apartments for rent at 800 Fifth Avenue have gourmet kitchens at their disposal, nothing is as quintessentially New York as sharing a meal and a bottle of wine with family or friends at a beloved neighborhood restaurant. La Goulue, Serafina, and Avra Madison Estiatorio are just a few local high-end favorites that showcase the range of cuisines found on the Upper East Side.
Paris-born chef Antoine Camin helms the renowned French restaurant La Goulue, which is just around the corner from 800 Fifth Avenue, on 61st Street. This new incarnation, which opened four blocks from its original Michelin-starred location, perfectly embodies the ideal of their self-described "bistro chic" ambience, with exquisite French cuisine and charming Old World service. Diners can enjoy decadent French classics like steak au poivre smothered with a delectable green peppercorn sauce, or perfectly crisp and flavorful duck breast with roasted apricot. But it's best to leave room for profiteroles to savor while people watching as the evening winds down. La Goulue is open for lunch during the week, for brunch on weekends, and for dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. every night — all with outdoor seating!
Serafina may be one of the most recognizable names in the city for casual Italian dining, with two locations in close proximity to 800 Fifth Avenue: Serafina Always and Serafina Osteria. And its origin story is a tale for the ages. Two friends, Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato were stranded at sea without food, and to keep their spirits and hopes of survival alive, they made a pact to open a restaurant that would serve the world's best pizza and pasta. After they were rescued, they made good on their promise and opened the acclaimed Serafina Fabulous Pizza. Today, Serafina has expanded to 10 locations in New York, with others around the world, which feature Northern Italian cuisine and a menu of staples like their perfectly creamy risottos and free-range filet mignon — and, of course, their signature pizzas and pastas. Serafina Always and Serafina Osteria both offer outdoor dining by reservation and walk-in every day from 12-10 p.m., as well as curbside pickup and delivery.
Avra Madison Estiatorio may be the city's ultimate upscale destination for fresh seafood. This authentic Greek eatery is known for its fish by the pound and its impressive offerings of crustaceans and fish from around the world, such as Greek snapper and Icelandic char. Appetizers include familiar Greek favorites, like a medley of spreads, including tzatziki, scordalia, and fava; succulent calamari; and their signature Greek salad. The knowledgeable staff can explain the seafood offerings, and suggest the best wine pairings from their list of Greek and other European vintages. While the chic bi-level indoor seating is temporarily closed, expansive outdoor seating is available, allowing diners to soak in the Upper East Side scenery.
Each of these eateries is just around the corner from the 800 Fifth Avenue apartments, which means residents can return home with a short, scenic stroll along Central Park, having enjoyed an evening of fine dining in the city.
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There may seem a rather tenuous connection between Dickens and home exchange but, as Home Base Holidays is based in London, we find many home exchange members from overseas in particular are keen to trace family roots and visit places of historical and literary interest while on home swaps in the UK.
Dickens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and spent much of his life in various homes in London and Kent until his death in 1870 at Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent. To find homes for exchange in these areas, do searches choosing England and counties (one at a time) of Hampshire, London and Kent.
See Dickens 2012 for information on events around the world this year and, if you are in London, do visit The Charles Dickens Museum. Based in 48 Doughty Street, it is the author's only surviving London house and gives a fascinating insight into his life and work.


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Mildura project seeks to address better care model for people with chronic disease
The Violet Vines Marshman Centre for Rural Health Research (VVMCRHR) first partnership funding has been awarded to a Mildura based pilot study that will investigate how to better support people with chronic disease.
The study will explore how social, community, genetic and environmental factors influence the health outcomes of people with chronic disease and look to establish an innovative care model.
Sunraysia Community Health Services (SCHS) has been awarded $50,000 for the pilot study from the VVMCRHR and SCHS will also contribute $50,000. The funding will be used to set up, conduct and evaluate a pilot model over two years with intention of expanding the trial to other rural community service organisations.
The pilot study builds on work completed by SCHS Pain Rehabilitation Physiotherapist, Ruth Hardman, who has been investigating the same topic as part of her Industry PhD studies with La Trobe University and SCHS.
SCHS CEO Simone Heald says people from rural areas living with chronic diseases, often face barriers to self-manage their health concerns.
"SCHS is a progressive organisation that understands the community in which we work. We are experts in health and wellbeing, and feel the current health system we operate in does not always meet the needs of all community members, particularly our clients who live in lower socio-economic conditions. Our clinicians witness this in their everyday practice, and to now have the opportunity to be involved in establishing an innovative care model specific to this cohort is extremely valuable.
"I have personally been so appreciative of the work and dedication of Ruth Hardman during the completion of her PhD, as Ruth has evidenced what clinicians have anecdotally experienced with their clients, and there is now an opportunity to enhance the care delivered, ensuring it meets the needs of community and improves their health and wellbeing," said Ms Heald.
The VVMCRHR is a research centre within the La Trobe Rural Health School. The Centre was established in 2019 and its mission is to undertake world class research aimed at narrowing the gap between metropolitan health outcomes and those in rural areas.
Media contact: Rebecca Crossling – 0484 600 060, r.crossling@latrobe.edu.au
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People are shivering in cold and mouldy homes – how did that happen?
New housing models could prevent shocking abuse


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Jagoče este un sat din comuna Bijelo Polje, Muntenegru. Conform datelor de la recensământul din 2003, localitatea are 133 de locuitori (la recensământul din 1991 erau 189 de locuitori).

Demografie
În satul Jagoče locuiesc 100 de persoane adulte, iar vârsta medie a populației este de 37,5 de ani (34,8 la bărbați și 40,7 la femei). În localitate sunt 36 de gospodării, iar numărul mediu de membri în gospodărie este de 3,69.

Această localitate este populată majoritar de sârbi (conform recensământului din 2003).

Referințe

Legături externe
 Jagoče (Bijelo Polje) Map — Satellite Images of Jagoče (Bijelo Polje) (Maplandia)

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Chicago-based private equity firm William Blair Capital Partners has invested $6 million in a Boston predictive analytics company that specializes in studying consumer behavior online to predict consumer purchases both on the Web and offline.
Compete Inc. raised a total of $13 million in an oversubscribed second round of financing led by William Blair Capital Partners VII. Existing investors include Charles River Ventures, St. Paul Venture Capital and North Hill Ventures.
Compete officials say the new funding will enable the company to meet a growing demand for its services to marketers as they seek to understand consumer pre-purchase behavior on the Internet.
"Members of (Compete) management have proven their ability to create successful information businesses with previous William Blair portfolio companies," Mio Stojkovich, vice-president of the private equity firm and now a new Compete board member, said in a statement Friday.
Since 1982 William Blair Capital Partners has invested some $1 billion in about 170 U.S. companies States. The firm is the private equity group of William Blair & Co. LLC, one of the top investment banks in Chicago.


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5 Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from German Soccer
On Sunday, Germany became the champion of the soccer world, winning the World Cup for the 4th time, defeating a rugged Argentina team with Lionel Messi as its star. Germany's surge through the tournament – undefeated in seven games with only a tie with Ghana marring its record – wasn't a fluke, nor was it lucky. It was the result of 14-year rebuilding program that began in 2000 when soccer was at a low point in Germany's vaunted history.
In 2000, Germany had been embarrassed by being ousted in the group stage of the European Cup, finishing in 14th place. Its aging greats were retiring and no young stars were emerging. When Coach Erich Ribbeck resigned, the German Federation decided it needed to overhaul its entire player development system. It took 14 years for these decisions to pay off fully. On Sunday Germany's dreams were fulfilled, thanks to 22-year-old Mario Götze's brilliant goal in overtime, assisted by 23-year-old André Schürrle, both of whom entered the game as substitutes.
Here are five lessons that business leaders can learn from the German soccer experience that apply to running your business.
#1 – The team is more important than any individual. This maxim was evident throughout the tournament as Germany prevailed over such extraordinary individuals as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, holding both scoreless. The German victory was definitely a team effort, thanks to the coaching of Joachim Löw, who took over in 2006. Germany was such a well-unified team that FIFA could not single out one player as MVP, so it gave the award to a disappointed Lionel Messi. Is your organization truly a team effort, with the leader as coach, not director, or is it directed from the top? If the latter, you will never get the best efforts from your teammates or enable them to develop fully.
#2 – Develop a broadly-based cadre of emerging stars for the long-term. Germany's youth movement was launched by former star Jürgen Klinsmann, now coach of the U.S. national team, when he became coach in 2004. It has been carried on by his former assistant and now head coach, Joachim Löw, for the past 8 years. They deserve credit for producing such great players as Thomas Müller (24), Mesut Özil (25), Toni Kroos (25), Jérôme Boateng (25), Mats Hummels (25), and Benedikt Höwedes (26) as well as Götze and Schürrle. Business leaders need to think less about immediate succession plans and more about long-term development of outstanding future leaders. That takes intense work with young leaders in their twenties and thirties who will have the breadth and depth of leadership experiences to be prepared for top-level assignments.
#3 – Rely on your veterans, but give emerging stars their chance to shine. Unlike Klinsmann who dropped Landon Donovan, America's all-time leading scorer at age 32, Löw moved 36-year-old Miroslav Klose, Germany's all-time leading scorer into the starting lineup, for the final two games. He responded with the winning goal against Brazil, making him the leading goal scorer in World Cup history. Yet when Germany desperately needed a goal with the clock ticking down, Löw called on young Götze, who responded with the goal that won the Cup. All too often, business leaders fail to take risks on their best young leaders by giving them the big opportunity to step up in the most challenging situations. An exception is former Novartis CEO Dan Vasella, who promoted two leaders in their thirties to run the company's most challenging divisions.
#4 – As the coach, position your players in their "sweet spot" on the field. The key to leading a business organization or team is very similar to soccer: the leader needs to ensure that the players are positioned on the field in their optimal positions, where their strengths can be maximized and their weaknesses not exposed. That's what Germany's Löw did in starting three forwards, while keeping his rock-solid defenders in place. Midway through the tournament he made a key tactical move to get Captain Philipp Lahm back to his "sweet spot" at left defense, moving Bastian Schweinsteiger to center midfield, which strengthened both positions. Business leaders need to ensure they get their key leaders into the right positions so their strengths can be fully utilized.
#5 – You're building for the long-term, but you must win today's game. Business leaders often complain about the pressures of quarterly earnings reports while they are investing for the long-term. Every great soccer coach knows you have to win today's game to have a shot at building for the long-term. As well as Germany has done in developing its cadre of talented players, it still had to beat Argentina to establish its success. Had it lost in a shootout, I doubt everyone would be hailing German soccer today. It's the same for companies: performance matters. But the key is not to win a single tournament or have a great year; it's to sustain that performance year-after-year. As in soccer, that's hard to do with new competitors constantly nipping at your heels. Most important of all, it is essential to invest in your people for the long-term, and to know how to use an aging star like Klose and when to trust a young star like Götze.


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Track and XC
Penn Relays Day 4 Live Stream on FloPro
By Gary Smith, Lead Sports Writer On April 24, 2015 No Comments
PHILADELPHIA (Sporting Alert) — Day four at the 2015 Penn Relays gets underway on Friday with another loaded schedule, with FloPro providing live streaming coverage of the event.
Jamaican supporters can also follow all the Jamaican athletes and schools during the meet on TrackAlerts live blog updates, while live results updates will also be on the Penn Relays official website. Watch LIVE on FloPro
Among the highlights on the schedule for Friday are the College women and high school girls' Championship of American 4x100m races.
In the high school section, defending champions Edwin Allen start as the favourites to defend their title, following their impressive run in the heats on Thursday.
They will be joined by St. Jago, Holmwood Tech and Wolmer's Girls, who are all also from Jamaica, with Long Beach Poly and Riverdale Baptist among the American schools booking a place in the final.
Texas, University of Technology (UTech) and South Carolina head into the collegiate race with the fastest times of the qualifying round, but defending champion Texas A&M, who have won six in a row, come at Penn Relays with the nation's leading time at 43.03 seconds and will have to start as the side to beat base on those form.
UTech are also having a good season and with a time of 43.13 secs coming into this meet, they too must be feared.
In the high school girls' 4x400m Championship of America race, St. Jago lead all qualifiers and carry a wealth of confidence into this race, following their winning performance at Champs 2015.
Columbia (Maplewood, NJ) qualified second quickest, while Vere Tech, who have the most titles in this event at Penn Relays, former champions Holmwood Tech and defending champs Edwin Allen are also among the teams to watch in the decider.
Action on the men's side also gets going on Friday with the 4×800 and 4×100 all set to go off in the high and college sections.
Jamaican schools St. Jago, Calabar, Jamaica College and Kingston College will lead the hunt for the high school title, with Michael O'Hara, who was cleared to join his teammates, expected to lead Calabar to another crown this season.
With O'Hara running the second leg, Calabar flashed to a record-breaking 39.08 seconds to win the gold medal at Champs and they start as the overwhelming favourites to deliver something special again.
The college men's and women's 100m heats are also on the schedule for Friday's busy day of competition.
The 121st Penn Relays conclude on Saturday with a host of high-profile events, including the USA v the World listed schedule.
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Q: error in file_get_content() in php I m trying to generate a QR code with form values my problem is it's showing some error like:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.test.com/chart?chs=100x100&cht=qr&chl=test1,test2 , test3): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in local path.

When I m running this code it will generate a QR-code with no data.
So far I have done this:
$datas = $_POST['data'];
$width = $height = 100;
$url   = implode(", ",$datas);
$qr_img = "";

$filename = "images/qr-code/qr-code.png";
$qr  = file_get_contents("http://www.test.com/chart?chs={$width}x{$height}&cht=qr&chl=$url");
file_put_contents($filename, $qr);

Please help me to solve this.

A: I assume that this line:
$url   = implode(", ",$datas);

is generating an invalid url. URLs passed as argument to another URL must be url-encoded:
$datas = $_POST['data'];
$width = $height = 100;

$url   = urlencode(implode(", ",$datas)); // encode invalid chars

$qr_img = "";

$qr  = file_get_contents("http://www.test.com/chart?chs={$width}x{$height}&cht=qr&chl=$url");

$filename = "images/qr-code/qr-code.png";
file_put_contents($filename, $qr);

see also here: urlencode in PHP

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Category Archives: slate
how not to be wrong, math, slate, writing
Should Andrew Gelman have stayed a math major?
Andrew writes:
As I've written before, I was a math and physics major in college but I switched to statistics because math seemed pointless if you weren't the best (and I knew there were people better than me), and I just didn't feel like I had a good physical understanding.
But every single mathematician, except one, is not the best (and even that person probably has to concede that there are still greater mathematicians who happen to be dead.) Surely that doesn't make our work pointless.
This myth — that the only people who matter in math are people at the very top of a fixed mental pyramid, people who are identified near birth and increase their lead over time, that math is for them and not for us — is what I write about in today's Wall Street Journal, in a piece that's mostly drawn from How Not To Be Wrong. I quote both Mark Twain and Terry Tao — how's that for appeal to authority? The corresponding book section also has stuff about Hilbert and Minkowski (guess which one was the prodigy!) Ramanujan, and an extended football metaphor which I really like but which was too much of a digression for a newspaper piece.
There's also a short video interview on WSJ Live where I talk a bit about the idea of the genius.
In other launch-related publicity, I was on Slate's podcast, The Gist, talking to Mike Pesca about the Laffer curve and the dangers of mindless linear regression.
More book-related stuff coming next week; stay tuned!
Update: Seems like I misread Andrew's post; I thought when he said "switched" he meant "switched majors," but actually he meant he kept studying math and then moved into a (slightly!) different career, statistics, where he used the math he learned: exactly what I say in the WSJ piece I want more people to do!
Tagged andrew gelman, genius, wsj
bad statistics, education, ethics, politics, slate
Statistical chutzpah in the Indiana school grade-changing scandal
I wrote a piece for Slate yesterday about Tony Bennett, the former Indiana schools czar who intervened in the state's school-grading system to ensure that a politically connected public charter got an A instead of a C. (The AP's Tom LoBianco broke the original story.) Bennett offered interviewers an explanation for the last-minute grade change which was plainly contradicted by the figures in the internal e-mails LoBianco had obtained and released. Presumably, Bennett figured nobody would bother to look at the actual numbers. That is incredibly annoying.
Summary of what actually happened in Indiana, by analogy:
Suppose the syllabus for my math class said that the final grade would be determined by averaging the homework grade and the exam grade, and that the exam grade was itself the average of the grades on the three tests I gave. Now imagine a student gets a B on the homework, gets a D-minus on the first two tests, and misses the third. She then comes to me and says, "Professor, your syllabus says the exam component of the grade is the average of my grade on the three tests—but I only took twotests, so that line of the syllabus doesn't apply to my special case, and the only fair thing is to drop the entire exam component and give me a B for the course."
I would laugh her out of the office. Or maybe suggest that she apply for a job as a state superintendent of instruction.
Tagged accountability, grading, indiana, standardized tests, testing, tony bennett
math, slate
Natural logs and products of no primes
The e-mail you get after you write an article about number theory is very interesting. For one thing, you're reminded of phrasings which have one meaning among mathematicians, but a slightly different one outside the tribe.
The majority of the e-mail I've gotten about the bounded gaps piece concerns two questions of this kind: I'll answer them both here, in case other readers are following the link from Slate to the blog.
Q: You say that the number of primes less than X is about X/log(X), but don't you mean X/ln(X)?
A: When mathematicians say "log" we mean the natural log, the thing which in some other contexts (e.g. Google's search bar calculator) is denoted "ln." But mathematicians never say "ln." (To be honest, we kind of think the base-10 logarithm should be called "lu.")
Q: You say that every positive number is the product of primes, but this is not true for prime numbers themselves, which can't be expressed as products.
A: A prime number is indeed the product of prime numbers! It is the product of just one prime number, itself.
What about 1? It's the product of zero prime numbers.
books, slate
Make no mistake
Choire Sicha in Slate, in the course of correctly praising Ursula K. LeGuin, remarks:
The literary novel is, make no mistake, as much a pileup of inherited conventions as the worst werewolf cash-in. There are now thousands of young, MFA-toting writers, so many of them aping the weak generation of literary male novelists now in their 50s: pallid and insufferable teachers and idols, in light of the strong and inventive generation before them.
When you find yourself inserting "make no mistake" into an assertion, you should consider the possibility that you're doing so because you subconsciously recognize that your assertion is not sufficiently well-justified.
Also: Sicha packs an amazingly dense tangle of sexual politics into just a few sentences! Literary fiction is stultifying because it's tied to the cultural practices of men in their 50s. But they aren't real men like their forbears, they are instead weak and pallid! (Katie Roiphe called and she wants her tendentious generalizations back. But then while she was on the phone Camille Paglia cut in on call-waiting and then things got really ugly.)
And the people with MFAs don't just have MFAs — they tote them! Probably in a tote bag! Probably while drinking some insufferable kind of coffee drink!
Literary fiction — even literary fiction written by MFA-toters — is a big, rich, complicated zone. At the moment I am reading Peter Carey's crazy Illywhacker — Carey is indeed a male of the old persuasion, but pallid he is not — and Heidi Julavits's new book The Vanishers, which is unquestionably literary fiction but which has lots of psychic phenomena and astral travel in it. It's a delight. And I started Justin Cronin's vampire-apocalypse book The Passage, whose more "literary" parts are better than the other parts. I was promised it would be as good as The Stand, a great book whose status as literature is an interesting thing to think about.
I keep meaning to write a post about the ways in which Stephen King and Jonathan Franzen have converged on each other as writers, and how this fact helped me think about what "literary" means w/r/t novels. But there is no time to do it today, only time to snark about something I read in Slate. There is a lesson here.
Tagged choire sicha, genre, sf
books, movies, nostalgia, offhand, slate, the grasshopper king, writing
From Rosecrans Baldwin in Slate:
As a reader of novels and not much else, I keep a running list of authorial whims. Male writers of the Roth/Updike generation, for example, love the word cunt. Also, where novelists once adorned their prose with offhand French bon mots, Spanish now appears. Here's another: Novelists can't resist including a dog barking in the distance. I've seen it happen across the spectrum—Jackie Collins, William Faulkner, and Chuck Palahniuk: "There was no more rain, just an eerie stillness, a deathly silence. Somewhere a dog barked mournfully." (American Star) "She did not answer for a time. The fireflies drifted; somewhere a dog barked, mellow sad, faraway." (Light in August) "This is such a fine neighborhood. I jump the fence to the next backyard and land on my head in somebody's rose bush. Somewhere a dog's barking." (Choke)
I checked The Grasshopper King, and nope: no barking dogs. There's a ceramic dog, and one dog who howls (but who appears moments later, and is named) and finally, near the end, a talking dog. Me 1, cliche 0.
In other Slate literary coverage, Dan Kois reviews Ben H. Winter's novel The Last Policeman, a detective story set in a future where Earth is six months away from certain destruction by asteroid collision. When I was in college I took Spike Lee's screenwriting course, and my screenplay was roughly on the same theme. It was a meteor heading for the earth, not an asteroid, and the atmosphere was supposed to be roughly that of After Hours or Into the Night. It was called Planet Earth. Lee's total commentary on the screenplay, written on page 3, was "Some parts I laughed, some parts I didn't," and he gave me an A-.
Tagged apocalypse, asteroid, cliche, dogs, spike lee
books, harvard, news, slate, writing
Jonah Lehrer, Niall Ferguson, the lecture economy
They apparently had the same problem — their brand was "person who writes books" but their actual business model became "person who gives lectures for five-figure fees." The demands of the two roles are very different.
Josh Levin on Jonah Lehrer: "He stopped being a writer and became an idea man"
Stephen Marche on Niall Ferguson: "Articles and ideas are only as good as the fees you can get for talking about them"
Ideally, a public lecture should be an advertisement inducing people to read your book and engage with your argument presented in full. What a disaster if the book becomes an advertisement for the lecture instead.
Update: Stuff on this theme is all over the place today: here's Daniel Drezner on "Intellectual Power and Responsibility in an Age of Superstars" and Justin Fox on "the rage against the thought-leader machine." Both pieces are great.
Tagged advertising, jonah lehrer, lectures, niall ferguson
The much-deserved death of the perfect 10
Slate just re-posted my 2008 article in praise of the new gymnastics scoring system. I stand by it.
"The new 'open-ended' scoring system was designed in part to prevent us from outgrowing the rules," international gymnastics judge Judy Schalk told me via e-mail. Before the new system, just about all elite competitors performed routines difficult enough to bring the start value up to a 10.0; sailing over that threshold earned you no more points than barely clearing it. With the new system, gymnasts have the incentive to keep making their routines tougher and more complex. In every other sport, the competitors in Beijing are superior to their predecessors and get better scores to prove it. Why should gymnastics be the only sport without world records?
With the new system, gymnastics comes into compliance with the Olympic motto. That's "faster, higher, stronger," not "more graceful, more beautiful, closer to perfect." It's no coincidence that the Olympic sports that have historically chased the latter ideal are the same ones in which the women's game overshadows the men's: gymnastics and figure skating.
Figure skating ditched the perfect 6.0 after crooked judging in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics embarrassed the sport. The old scoring system already had many discontents, most famously great French champion Surya Bonaly, who showed her disdain for the judges at the 1998 Olympics by landing a backflip on one skate. It was illegal, it carried a mandatory deduction, and she was the only woman in the world who could do it.
Tagged gymnastics, olympics, sports, surya bonaly
baseball, slate
I say two sentences about the World Series on NPR
Transcript and recording here.
This was based on a much longer conversation. I'll just add that yes, not only do wild card teams not always get blown out, they sometimes win! The larger point stands, though — if the pennant winners are drawn somewhat uniformly from the best four teams in the league, you're more likely to have a mismatched World Series than you were in olden times, when the pennant winner was usually the best team in its league.
Here's my old Slate piece on why the World Series should be stopped when one team goes up 3-0, but should go to best of 9 if the first six games split 3-3.
If you like Mike Pesca's voice and you like smart sports talk, I highly recommend Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast.
Tagged game 7, mike pesca, npr, radio, world series
language, slate
Revenge of the intersentence double space
Farhad Manjoo, in Slate, delivers a spirited attack on double-spacers like me. Apparently the intersentence double space is irrational and unbeautiful. My readers mostly disagree, and more importantly, so does LaTeX. This argument reminds me of books I used to read as a kid about the forthcoming rationalization of English spelling. The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, Melville Dewey — excuse me, Melvil Dui — was a big player here. Anyway, it didn't happen. Our lumpy, irrational language, with its silent gh and its intersentence lacunae, trundles on its own track.
Tagged farhad manjoo, latex, melvil dui, space
math, psychology, slate
Narcissistic personality disorder, the NRC rankings, and finite metric spaces in Slate
I have a piece in Slate today about the classification of personality disorders in the new DSM, and the NRC graduate school rankings. OK, they don't really let me mention finite metric spaces in Slate. But that's what's going on behind the lines, and it's a problem I've been wrestling with. Let's say you have a finite metric space M; that is, a finite set of points with assigned distances between them. Now there's a whole world of algorithms (multidimensional scaling and its many cousins) to embed M in a Euclidean space of some reasonably small dimension without messing up the metric too much. And there's a whole world of heirarchical clustering algorithms that embed M in the set of leaves of a tree.
But I don't really know a principled way to decide which one of these things to do.
Stuff there wasn't room for in the piece — I should have mentioned Ian Hacking's book Mad Travelers, which gives a very rich humanistic account of the process by which categories of mental illness are generated. And when I talked about the difficulty of crushing a finite metric down to one dimension, I should have linked to Cosma Shalizi's "g, a statistical myth"
Tagged clustering, dimension reduction, dsm, metric spaces, nrc, nrc rankings, personality disorders
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Reader survey: do you cut, butt, or budge in line?


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Tech Firms And Consultancies Are Winning Digital Marketing
by Sean Hargrave , Staff Writer, October 21, 2019
Interesting reading for the weekend arrived on Friday, and it suggests digital marketing is in rude health.
The annual "Top 100 Digital Agencies" report from Econsultancy is a useful guide for industry players to see where they appear in the table, and as a disclaimer, I should point out that I write articles for the company, including one added to the report.
The big news for me this year lies in the figures I had no part in researching, but not necessarily in the headline numbers showing impressive growth.
But that overall growth level is worth covering off first.
As with all things involving digital marketing, the outlook remains sunny. Total billings from the top one hundred have risen from GBP2.8 to GBP3.2bn. It's a 15% rise for 2019 which is not quite a as much as the 20% uptick between 2017 and 2018, but in a turbulent year, you are unlikely to find an industry that would be disappointed with 15% revenue growth.
This growth looks set to continue next year with nine in ten agencies predicting more income next year, with more than two in three agreeing the rise will be up to either 10% or 20%, in keeping with the growth seen over the past two years.
The good news comes with a secondary finding, however, and whether people look on it as good news will depend on whether they are a top 10 agency or one of the other 90.
Take a closer look at the figures and it becomes clear that the top ten are pulling away from the rest of the pack.
Looking at fee income since 2015, the top 10 agencies have more than doubled their average earnings from GBP73m to GBP185m. Meanwhile, for the other 90, growth has been more steady, a 50% increase from GBP10m to GBP15m, on average.
The trajectory of the chart showing the rest of the pack as a slight incline compared to the steep rise of the big names in the industry at the top of the league table speaks volumes.
The identities of those at the top of the pile make interesting reading because in the main, they are the tech players and consultancies.
Accenture and IBM top the overall "Top 100" with an acknowledgement that the huge consultancies are always likely to dominate because they are already massive and they offer a far wider array of digital services, compared to digital agencies that will generally have a speciality.
The only holding company agency that makes it into the top 10 is Dentsu's Merkle -- Digitas and Tribal make it into 11th and 12th spot for Publicis and Omnicom, respectively.
So that means the top 10 who are pulling away are generally massive technology and consultancy firms such as Atos, Capgemini and Cognizant Interactive, which make up the top five, behind Accenture and IBM.
The big guys are pulling away and those big players are not, for the most part, agencies working within the big holding companies as one might expect.
The massive money that is following this breakaway group is going to tech firms and consultancies, not the digital offerings from the familiar names in advertising.
advertising, agency, digital, holding company, london, research, uk
Sean Hargrave is MediaPost's London Editor. You can reach him at seanhargrave@btinternet.com.
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import { mutationWithClientMutationId } from 'graphql-relay'
import { GraphQLString, GraphQLNonNull } from 'graphql'

import ViewerType from '../../../rb-appbase-server/graphql/type/ViewerType'

export default mutationWithClientMutationId({
  name: 'UserUpdate',

  inputFields: {
    User_DisplayName: { type: new GraphQLNonNull( GraphQLString ) },
    User_PrimaryEmail: { type: new GraphQLNonNull( GraphQLString ) },
    User_PrimaryPhone: { type: new GraphQLNonNull( GraphQLString ) },
  },

  outputFields: {
    Viewer: {
      type: ViewerType,
      resolve: ( params, { ...args }, context, { rootValue: objectManager }) =>
        objectManager.getOneObject_async( 'User', { id: objectManager.getViewerUserId() }),
    },
  },

  mutateAndGetPayload: async(
    { User_DisplayName, User_PrimaryEmail, User_PrimaryPhone },
    context,
    { rootValue: objectManager },
  ) => {
    await objectManager.update( 'User', {
      id: objectManager.getViewerUserId(),
      User_DisplayName,
      User_PrimaryEmail,
      User_PrimaryPhone,
    })

    return {}
  },
})

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Dwarf clumping palms popular as indoor and very shady landscape plants.
Each leaf is characteristic of a split fan-like hand, with leaflets radiating from a central point.
Mostly suited to tropics and warm temperate climates.
Can be very slow growing.
Preferred mode to propagate the plant is by division of the clump, severing the underground rhizome.
R. excelsa (Lady Palm) – highly variable palm with many cultivars and variegated leaf sports. Leaflets can be narrow or broad. Most commonly grown of the Rhapis palms.
R. humilis (Slender Lady Palm) – elegant clumper with slender fingered leaflets. More sun hardy than R. excelsa.
Easily sun burnt due to too much exposure.


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Toccami/Piccolo slam – singolo di Stefania Rotolo e Sammy Barbot del 1977
 Toccami/Go Today – singolo di Tom Hooker del 1981


Video: Terrace Martin f/ Wiz Khalifa and Kendrick Lamar "Do It Again"
One of the standout tracks from Terrace Martin's latest album Locke High 2 gets some outside-the-box visuals. The APLUS Filmz-directed video takes a trip into outerspace for "Do It Again" as Kendrick and Wiz rap about how they do things in their day-to-day life. Space out to their latest video above.


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Playback Magazine May 2022 Number 548 46th Birthday edition
May 3, 2022 by Peter Fraser Leave a Comment
Intro – John Cavanagh
Eye Level Interview – Peter Fraser
In this 46th Birthday edition, Margaret Cowie talks to one of the founder members also long time Producer/presenter of Playback Magazine and Secretary of Playback Charity Peter Fraser MBE. Peter has been involved from the start in May 1976. He has also been involved for 63 years recording material for the visually impaired, going back to 1959. He has made hundreds of recordings for Playback and received the MBE from her Majesty the Queen in 1994.
After the first part of the interview Peter presents some of the programmes he has been involved in over the years, in this longer that usual Playback Magazine.
Glasgow Sound Magazine – 1st Edition of Playback Magazine
Visit to Ivy Cross Centre for the Blind in South Africa
Music Hymn tune Gwahoddiad which on his visit was sung by all the Employees to welcome Peter to South Africa in 1975.
Harry Mortimer at 80
Peter spoke to Man O Brass Harry Mortimer at his home in London about is book which will be recorded on Talking Book, proceeds of the sale of the print edition goes to Guide Dogs for the Blind. Recorded 1982
Louis Freeman
Peter talks to Louie age 90, and still playing the piano, a former director of music for the Kelvin Hall Circus in Glasgow and for many theatres in Scotland. Recorded May 1985
Christopher Timothy
Peter spoke to 'All Creatures Great and Small' actor Christopher Timothy – October 1985
Opening of Blindcraft by the Queen
Peter reports on the opening of the new Blindcraft Workshop in Glasgow, recorded 1994
Max Bygraves
Peter talked to Max at the Civic Theatre in Motherwell in May 1988
John Cavanagh
John has been presenting the Magazine for over 20 years, he is only the 3rd presenter, Ken Lindsay talks to him about his first presentation of the Magazine in June 2000
Braille Institute of Los Angeles
On one of many world wide travels, Peter spoke to Carmen Aplegren of the Braille Institute of LA about some of the services they provide. – August 2000
BBC Songs of Praise celebrating 100th Birthday of the Queen Mother
Peter records an interview with Andrew Barr producer of this special Songs of Praise Programme from Glamis Castle. July 2000
Finish with comments from John Cavanagh
Filed Under: Episodes, Playback


Tuesday, March 29, 2005 System Error Error code 100000ea, parameter1 818f5678, parameter2 8193da78, parameter3 81f09258, parameter4 00000001. Verify that your time and time zone are correct, and that the time source time.windows.com (ntp.m|0x1|192.168.123.138:123 ->207.46.130.100:123) is working properly. My Vcore is 1.39, whatever that might be. I feel like I have tried everything.
Rollin' Rog, Jun 12, 2007 #14 rainforest123 Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Messages: 8,250 Which motherboard & CPU? I would keep away from big all-in-one programs like Norton Internet Security, they're usually ressource hogs and can cause such compatibility issues. Finally, downloading the newset drivers isn't always a good idea, as they can sometimes have more bugs than older, more stable drivers. Looks pretty damn bad to me.
Fredrik: At least one of your sticks of memory is faulty.Maesus also asked about your PSU. Tuesday, March 29, 2005 System Error Error code 0000004e, parameter1 00000099, parameter2 00002402, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000. TechSpot is a registered trademark. Thread Status: Not open for further replies.
Attached Files: Mini010106-01.zip File size: 23.3 KB Views: 11 Jan 1, 2006 #6 Ruder TS Rookie Posts: 98 This last dump is too generic to be meaningful. Tuesday, March 29, 2005 System Error Error code 000000c5, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 8053a29d. Power supplies and faulty ram are possibilities - not in this case though. To be honest uninstalling hardware etc is all a bit beyond me (and it voids my warranty).
Jan 1, 2006 #2 bra201 TS Rookie Topic Starter Posts: 18 minidump zip files Here are the five most previous dumps attached as a zip file. Windows will continue to try to establish a connection. Data: 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 Please HELP!
I think I'll also contact ASUS for a new board since it makes no sense why memory shouldn't work in slots 1 and 3. I have also updated the drivers for the wireless network card and turned off Windows Update. I looked at the Advanced System Information - Error Log section and found a lot of error codes. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Then I'll go back to reinstalling all the peripheral devices I removed, and see what happens from there. Also, the system sometimes hangs on the LanParty screen before the POST and needs to be restarted a few times for it to boot properly. I use windows XP home edition. All Rights Reserved.
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 8051e106. Today I had her uninstall Norton Anti-Virus 2005 and install AVG free. I have 512MB Corsair memory installed in slots 1 and 3 with slots 2 and 4 empty. You only need one firewall and one antivirus.
He can run Memtest86+ and Prime95 for 12 hours without any errors. I looked under system information, hardware resources, I/O and found the range of the most reoccuring error of the hex numbers correspond to "motherboard resources" am I on the right track Try Speedfan: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php Rollin' Rog, Jun 5, 2007 #12 squirrel_1956 Thread Starter Joined: May 26, 2007 Messages: 8 I have installed speedfan and it reports temperature no higher than 40degrees, For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
If you still get STOP errors, then it's almost certainly some piece of hardware that's about to die on you (most likely your mobo). Parameter 00000002, 3. Thursday, March 31, 2005 Applicatio n Error Faulting application windowsxp product key viewer.exe, version 1.0.0.0, faulting module windowsxp product key viewer.exe, version 1.0.0.0, fault address 0x00001138. I've been using this BIOS revision with my memory in dual-channel mode for the last 2 1/2 weeks and my PC has been running 24/7 ever since.
I have Panda internet security 2008 and my first crash happened after playing BF1942 so i think that might be more than a coincidence, anyways i re-installed panda with no problems Have you installed new hardware? If windows does not crash, the removed memory stick is faulty. If you're not already familiar with forums, watch our Welcome Guide to get started.
Also, I just realized that I may have inadvertantly turned off the HD cooler that I installed, but I'm not sure if the error started soon after that. Apr 1, 2005 at 8:26 AM #1 serat New Member Joined: Apr 1, 2005 Messages: 4 (0.00/day) Thanks Received: 0 I am trying to understand why I keep getting BLUE SCREEN Make sure you have installed all the latest drivers for your hardware and all the critical updates from Windows update. Sign up for a new account or log in here: Forgot your password?
Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community. Battlefield Vietnam problem. Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 8051e106. Now this time instead of reinstalling XP I removed the 512MB RAM from slot 3 and it worked!


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Catholic Church in Australia
Catholic Church in Australia: Catholic Church in Australia
Year 9 Religion
Catholic Brothers
Catholic Sisters
Significant Locations/Events
Bennies Resources
Referencing/Bibliographies
Evaluating Resources
Here are some books that you may find useful during your studies. Search the Bennies catalogue Accessit for more, or browse the Non-fiction collection NFS.
Meet Mary MacKillop by Sally Murphy; Sonia Martinez (Illustrator)
Mary MacKillop is Australia's first saint. She was born in the 1800s and devoted her life to teaching children. Mary believed everyone should have the chance to learn, no matter how rich or poor they are. In 1866 she set up her first school and founded an order of nuns called the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. The Sisters continue to do the good work Mary started. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary Mackillop, Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who shaped Australian history.
Significant People by Barrett, Rees
Call Number: NFS 994.0099 BAR
The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia by Michael Glazier; Monika Hellwig
This authoritative encyclopedia combines a wealth of information with an attractive, easy-to-read format into a reference of value for professionals, parishes, and families alike.
You Tube-
A short presentation illustrating the historical changes to Catholic Church during late modernity and post-modernity periods and their implications for the Religious Education classrooms of Australia.
Trove- Catholic Church in Australia
The Catholic Church in Australia is served by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, which is the permanent collegial assembly of the Bishops of Australia.
Time Line of the Catholic Church in Australia
A timeline of key events in the Church's history in Australia
Catholics in Australia
The first Catholics to reside in Australia arrived with the First Fleet in 1788. They were mostly Irish convicts, together with a few Royal Marines. One-tenth of all convicts transported to Australia were Catholic, and half of these were born in Ireland, while a good proportion of the others were English-born but of Irish extraction.
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Last Updated: May 1, 2019 12:17 PM
URL: https://libguides.msben.nsw.edu.au/catholicchurchinoz


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Q: remove all instances of words in array out of string I am wondering what is the best way to do the following in PHP.
I have an array of words to ignore and I want to remove all instances of those words out of a string. But it has to words regardless what the words that are each an element in the array are.
An example:
If the array is:
$ignoreList = array(
    "1" => "one",
    "2" => "at",
    "3" => "chicken",
    "4" => "the"
);

and the string is
$str = "The one quick brown fox, at the farm, jumped over the lazy dog and ate a chicken";

after this operation, the string would be "quick brown fox, farm, jumped over lazy dog and ate a".
The string doesn't have to contain those words, but if it does then they are removed.
How would one do this?

A: You could use a quick regex:
$str = preg_replace('/\b('. implode('|',$ignoreList) .')\b/i', '', $str);

\b are word delimiters.


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Moonlight Becomes You (Abridged / CD-Audio)
By Mary Higgins Clark, Megan Gallagher (Read by)
Special Order - Arrival Times Vary
From Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a thriller "that grabs you with the first paragraph and never lets go" (USA TODAY) about a woman desperate to uncover the truth behind her beloved stepmother's death.
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world's most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar.
Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala's stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala's death was not random, but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind. When Nuala's dear old friend, Greta Shipley, dies suddenly of supposedly natural causes, Maggie is convinced that there is a link between these two and other recent deaths among the older women of Newport. What she doesn't realize is that she has now become a target for the killer as well, and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer to an unimaginable fate.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir, and two children's books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, and You Don't Own Me. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five more suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Mystery & Detective
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy


Rehoboth was originally the first beach choice for a short getaway from Maryland. However, since we brought our Siberian Husky and my online search returned zero results for hotels in or near the beach, Dewey Beach was the next, and ultimate, choice. I have come to make it a point that for beach vacations, to truly enjoy the experience, your reservations must be by or near the beach, and if one is found by the beach, at least an ocean view if price permits. This has been the case for my beach travels in Honolulu and Ocean City. Despite not being in Rehoboth, Dewey was just a short drive away from its more popular sister beach.
The Rehoboth Boardwalk is about a mile long with hotels, restaurants, and novelty shops that stretch the boardwalk. It also has benches to rest your tired feet and access to the beach, whose waters was at one point (not sure if it still is) ranked number one for its water quality. The side and main streets also offer a lot of eclectic shops and restaurants, better and more choices than its Maryland counterpart Ocean City. Finding parking and parking meters was easy too, maybe because of the inclement weather.
As it was the first time to bring Kira to the beach ever, we were unaware of pet regulations on the boardwalk and on the beach itself. We were able to walk Kira for about a fourth of the boardwalk stretch until we were approached by the Beach Patrol saying that dogs are not allowed. Looking it up online, from May 1 to September 30 your pets are not permitted on the areas earlier mentioned. One lady said that the fee was a hefty $75. Thankfully, we were left off the hook by the Beach Patrol. Also, be mindful that the city has leash and pooper scooper laws, so don't forget to bring those poopy pouches with you.


The Storm MA450 is a world 1st, a 5in1 low profile, heavy-duty, fully IP67 waterproof external antenna for use in worldwide telematics and IoT applications which require best in class LTE, GNSS, and Wi-Fi performance. Until the arrival of the Storm, to achieve high efficiency in LTE and Wi-Fi has required the use of large dome antennas typically 80mm+ in height.
Only 31mm high, it delivers powerful worldwide 4G LTE MIMO antenna technology, plus GPS-GLONASS-BEIDOU for next-gen location accuracy. Covers legacy 2G and 3G bands at for devices that fallback where 4G is unavailable. Dual-band MIMO Wi-Fi antennas enable high throughput Wi-Fi speeds.
LTE 4G applications demand high speed data uplink and downlink. High efficiency and high gain MIMO antennas are necessary to achieve the required signal to noise ratio and throughput required to solve these challenges. Taoglas also takes care to have high isolation between the two MIMO antennas to prevent self-interference. Low loss cables are used to keep efficiency high over long cable lengths. In contrast, smaller MIMO antennas with poorer quality thinner cables will have much reduced efficiency and isolation, which would lead to a large drop in system throughput or drops, and may not make a system connection at all.


Spring is finally here! Is it time for a little website spring cleaning?
We all know that first impressions really DO count. In fact, research has confirmed that folks visiting your website form an impression in one-twentieth of a second, influencing their rating of the site. So it makes you wonder - what are potential members, supporters or donors thinking about your website? Does it inspire trust? Are they motivated to stay a while or come back for more?
Is it time for a little refresh?
We've created a Website Spring Cleaning To Do List - to help get you started. This free resource in our Membership Knowledge Hub, offers a quick checklist you can use to identify some tasks that might help enhance your site so it grabs your visitors' attention and builds trust.
Have a look at our "To Do" list and let us know if we've missed any important steps you should take to freshen up your site.


Astronics AES's CorePower – comprising an Induction Starter Generator System and Electronic Circuit Breaker Units (ECBUs) – has been certified by Pilatus Aircraft on the new PC-24.
The Induction Starter Generator System has a brushless design intended to reduce the need for maintenance, has a configurable starting capability and provides up to 400A of power at ground idle. "After more than 2,000 hours of flight testing, the new starter generator will improve aircraft dispatch reliability, particularly for those aircraft operators with high use, and provide significant long-term cost savings," said Kellsey Justus, vice president of Astronics AES Airborne Power & Control.
The solid-state ECBUs – Astronics' 1426 Series – provide a secondary power distribution system. Features of the system include fault detection, circuit protection and programmable load management through automated power control.
CorePower will also enable the PC-24 to use the Quiet Power Mode offered for its Williams FJ44 engines. This is designed to ensure quiet and efficient ground power without a traditional APU.


LAS VEGAS - Metro Police are looking for a man who was involved in a carjacking turned shootout in a northeast Las Vegas neighborhood. It happened Tuesday evening near Owens and Pecos.
According to officers, a neighbor tried to stop the crime and exchanged gunfire with the suspect.


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Zygmunt Szpaderski (ur. 1914, zm. 9 marca 2008) – polski skrzypek, producent instrumentów perkusyjnych.

W okresie międzywojennym pracował jako elektrotechnik w PZL w Warszawie, a w czasie wolnym grał na skrzypcach między innymi występując na weselach. Od 1945 r. mieszkał w Łodzi. Wraz z kolegą występował w obecnie nieistniejącej już restauracji u zbiegu ulic Andrzeja Struga i Tadeusza Kościuszki. Niebawem pomógł koledze w złożeniu perkusji i sam zrobił werbel, skłoniło go to do skonstruowania własnej perkusji, którą wykonał kilka miesięcy później, a następnie sprzedał. Założył własny zakład przy ulicy Piotrkowskiej 86 w Łodzi. W połowie lat 60. XX w., wraz z wybuchem mody na bigbit, zestawy perkusyjne produkcji Szpaderskiego cieszyły się w Polsce ogromną popularnością i renomą (w tym okresie składał nawet do dwóch zestawów perkusyjnych dziennie). W czasie swojej kariery wykonał kilka tysięcy perkusji. Był również znanym wytwórcą pałek perkusyjnych oraz kotłów orkiestrowych.

Na perkusji Szpaderskiego grali między innymi tacy perkusiści jak Jerzy Skrzypczyk z zespołu Czerwone Gitary, Marian Lichtman z Trubadurów, Tomasz Zeliszewski z Budki Suflera, Piotr Szkudelski z Perfectu, Jacek Frąś z Cool Kids of Death, Michał Kochmański z RSC, muzycy SBB czy Zenon Sybilski z zespołu Trofeum.

Pochowany został 13 marca 2008 r. na Starym Cmentarzu przy ul. Ogrodowej w Łodzi.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Artykuł Krzysztofa Kowalewicza pt. Pożegnanie Zygmunta Szpaderskiego w Gazecie Wyborczej-Łódź (13.03.2008)

Linki zewnętrzne
 Kultura Express Ilustrowany, Bohdan Dmochowski – Jego bębny wciąż grają
 Film dokumentalny o Zygmuncie Szpaderskim (cz.1). Youtube
 Film dokumentalny o Zygmuncie Szpaderskim (cz.2). Youtube
Podcast na temat Zygmunta Szpaderskiego. Spotify

Budowniczowie instrumentów muzycznych
Polscy przedsiębiorcy XX wieku
Polscy skrzypkowie
Urodzeni w 1914
Zmarli w 2008
Pochowani na Starym Cmentarzu w Łodzi


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Four years after Philadelphia decriminalized cannabis for personal use, this city could stop testing parolees for marijuana. City Councilman Derek S. Green announced recently that he will seek hearings to explore the potential change in city policy.
In 2014 the City of Philadelphia decriminalized possession and use of less than 30 grams of cannabis. Thirty grams is about one ounce.
But if parolees subjected to a drug screening test positive for THC, the main psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana, a judge can send them back to jail or into a drug rehab program.
Green believes that is too harsh a punishment for behavior that is no longer a criminal offense. And it's an expensive burden for taxpayers, as well. It can cost as much as $42,000 to keep a person in jail for a year.
The councilman noted that there are more pressing priorities for the city's precious tax dollars.
"That takes away resources we could be using to treat opioid addiction," Green said, according to reports in local media.
Cannabis activist Chris Goldstein echoed that sentiment.
"Criminal justice is the single largest referral to drug treatment in Pennsylvania. Thirty-eight percent of those receiving treatment comes from the courts, and 25 percent of them are sent there for marijuana. In the middle of an opioid crisis, we can't take up a quarter of treatment resources for marijuana," he said.
The change in policy would also be in line with a program to reduce Philadelphia's prison population. For more than 15 years the municipal jail system operated under severely overcrowded conditions.
"Sending people to jail runs counter to the city's stated goal of reducing the prison population," Green said.
In 2016 the city embarked on a plan to cut prison rolls by 34 percent over three years. The MacArthur Foundation awarded the local government a grant of $3.5 million to help implement the plan.
When the city announced that program to reduce the jail population, Acting Prisons Commissioner Mike Resnick told reporters the new funding would allow the city to accomplish lasting criminal justice reform.
Kier Bradford-Grey is the chief of legal association the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She said that some other jurisdictions have already stopped testing parolees for THC.
And after the State of Washington legalized recreational cannabis in 2012, the Department of Corrections (DOC) stopped testing its parolees for THC in 2014.
"We're putting some changes into effect so that we don't routinely test offenders in the community for THC," DOC Assistant Secretary Annmarie Alyward announced at the time.
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Swimming with these marine mammals one of those ultimate bucket list experiences. But as our swimming with whales and dolphins travel guide reveals, there are some things you can do to make it far more enjoyable. Visiting the creatures in the wild is a must, as you'll experience their true behaviour, and traveling with experienced guides means that both you and the cetaceans are happy, safe and enjoying the encounter.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reason"
Unlike captive cetaceans, meeting their wild cousins lets you discover their natural behaviour and become, for a moment, part of their underwater world. And when you realise just how much fun it is down there, you may just decide that Douglas Adams' clever dolphins were right. Their wave surfing, deep diving, joyous song and gentle nature recall a more innocent time, one of carefree childhood frolics and storybooks where animals and people understood each other.
Swimming with these marine mammals is spiritual for some, an adrenaline rush for others, made all the more magical by the knowledge that with wild animals, encounters are on their terms. The feeling of bobbing beside a pod of spinner dolphins or snorkelling above a 40-ton humpback whose fins alone are the length of three grown men may be tough to capture on camera, but it's sure to be imprinted on your memory for years to come. Our guide to swimming with whales and dolphins shows you how to encounter these creatures responsibly.
Is this type of vacation for you?
… you want to learn more about the behaviour of whales and dolphins. Many trips are accompanied by marine biologists who share their knowledge of the species, and your photos may be used to support research projects. ... you want to experience an animal which some consider as intelligent as humans. However clever they really are, and whether or not their clicks, squeaks and "songs" are in fact a language, encountering a wild cetacean convinces many of their intuitive abilities, and changes our perception of "dumb animals". ... you want more than just a cetacean selfie. This is something you absolutely have to experience in person – not through a lens.
…you are expecting SeaWorld-style acrobatics. These are wild animals, and they'll approach your boat if and when they wish. Sometimes the dolphins will leap into the air, or the whales will introduce you to their calves; sometimes they're little bumps in the distance. This is the beauty of nature – you're not in control, the animals are. ... you aren't particularly confident in the water – and in your snorkelling equipment. This is the big wide ocean, the animals are wild, and panicking is not ideal for other travelers – or for the whales and dolphins.
Dolphins are present here year round, but the exposed, mid-Atlantic setting means the winter weather is cold wet and blustery – with wicked sea conditions. May-September, then are the best months with the calmest seas and least chance of being rained off. The weather can still change by the hour, though – so layers, waterproofs, sunscreen and hats are recommended!
Humpback whales migrate to the tropical Tongan waters from late July to early October. Here, they give birth and suckle their calves, fattening them up before the long journey back to Antarctica. While sightings can never be guaranteed, there is a very high chance of being able to snorkel alongside them during this period – trips usually include at least five days on the water to increase the chance of this.
The best destination for year-round encounters, due to the warm, dry climate and sheltered waters. Dec-Feb will be cooler and slightly less pleasant – while any school vacations will bring bigger crowds and higher prices (as well as searing heat in July-Aug) – so we recommend spring and autumn as the best months.
If you'd like to chat about Swimming with whales & wild dolphins or need help finding a vacation to suit you we're very happy to help.
"People need to be fit and agile enough to get up a ladder in choppy water. They also need to be able to snorkel 50m at quite a good speed and be confident with their snorkelling gear, not just go out and think they will be able to do it. If they can't, our guides then have to look after one person and it affects the whole group. So we ask them to start getting fit in the swimming pool, to go to there with their snorkel and fins, do lengths to get their speed up and get confident. That way they're not worried about getting water in their snorkel when they're in the water, and they can focus 100 percent on the experience with the whales."
Cetaceans inhabit waters around the world - but not everywhere is suitable for swimming with them, due to frequency of viewings, sea conditions and habituation.


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How to live longer: Olive oil and chocolate could help boost longevity – expert
By Anthony Williams Last updated Dec 2, 2022
The hunt for longevity partly relies on staving off chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer. While colourful fruit and veg usually do this with gusto, some naughty treats might also be up for the job. From wine to chocolate, here are the surprising foods that a 122-year-old woman credits for her long life.
While there's no secret recipe for a longer life, centenarians often have great advice to share.
Findings by Eden's Gate found that Jeanne Louise Calment was reported to have been the oldest person in the world, living up to 122 years old.
When asked about the secret responsible for her long, colourful life, she swore by three simple foods – olive oil, port wine and chocolate.
Celebrated for its anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular powers, olive oil isn't exactly a surprising ingredient on the longevity menu.
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However, chocolate and wine are often deemed as unhealthy treats. According to Wellness expert Tyler Woodard, from Eden's Gate, you could reap some health benefits as long as you stick to the dark stuff and port.
Woodard said: "Chocolate is packed with antioxidants along with anthocyanins and phenolic acids which all play a role in improving brain power, protecting cells from inflammation and boosting your immune system.
"To further this, dark chocolate in particular plays a distinctive role in your health as it is rich in minerals, such as iron, magnesium and zinc."
What's more, research, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, suggests that eating chocolate in combination with nuts lowers high cholesterol – the precursors of heart disease and stroke.
While research and Woodard make a strong case for chocolate, this treat shouldn't be eaten in excess.
Woodard said: "Chocolate should be consumed in moderation, as too much can cause obesity and cardiovascular disease. Research suggests 28-50 grams of chocolate is more than enough to gain the health benefits."
Apart from a sweet fruity taste, port wine offers strong health powers suggested to help with the prevention of heart and autoimmune diseases.
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Packed with antioxidants, olive oil offers countless benefits, ranging from boosting your longevity to lowering your risk of dementia.
Furthermore, conditions like heart disease and cancer don't seem to be immune against its powerful ingredients either.
Woodard added: "This ingredient can be used with nearly everything you cook if necessary, particularly frying vegetables or meat – a very easy ingredient to add into your meals and one you're bound to have at home.
"Between one to two tablespoons a day is enough to consume and maintain a healthy lifestyle."
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Home / News / News roundup – New strategy, new transparency tool for DFIs plus new approaches to networking and merging data
News roundup – New strategy, new transparency tool for DFIs plus new approaches to networking and merging data
By Sam Cavenett | Nov 30, 2021 | News
Here is our usual monthly round up of news from the aid and development transparency world…
We have a new three-year strategy
The way we think and talk about aid transparency is evolving. This month we launched a new three-year strategy for Publish What You Fund – setting out how we want to work and what we want to achieve by 2024. We are moving towards a definition of transparency which includes not just publication but engagement and accountability. We have also been reviewing the language we use and reflecting on our position and power. Our three key focus areas for the next three years are:
Engaging with data: Collaborating to ensure that actors engage around development data and that this data is used to contribute to improved outcomes and achievement of local, national, and global development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Full transparency: Making all aid and development finance data transparent, available and usable.
More quality data: Strengthening and extending our research, advocacy and technical expertise to improve the quality and usability of aid and development finance information.
A new blog from our Chair, Paul Lenz, and CEO, Gary Forster, provides more insights into our thinking, focus areas and goals.
Introducing the DFI Transparency Tool
We are delighted to introduce the DFI Transparency Tool, the culmination of two years of collaboration and research, and our assessment of the disclosure practices of the world's leading multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs). The DFI Transparency Tool will support efforts by DFIs to disclose information to aid understanding of their true impact. The tool provides detailed, granular guidance to DFIs on the information they should disclose and offers an actionable plan to deliver sector-wide improvements in transparency. We will also use the tool as a framework to measure DFI transparency in a public index in late 2022.
Our research highlighted:
The current lack of DFI transparency makes it difficult to see what DFIs are doing, what impact their investments are making, whether they are adhering to their accountability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) responsibilities, and to what extent they are successfully crowding in the private sector.
Enhanced transparency is necessary to understand whether DFIs are fulfilling their mandates including developmental impact, market building, and accountability.
Claims of commercial confidentiality need to be challenged. While there are valid claims of sensitivity that preclude disclosure, much purportedly confidential information is found in the public domain. Investees have shown a willingness to disclose more information and we found examples where some DFIs are providing information that others claim is confidential.
DFIs are open to adopting a new harmonised approach to data disclosure to improve the availability, timeliness and comparability of investment and policy information. The DFI Transparency Tool can contribute to this approach.
Further information on our research findings and the rationale for the tool can be found in our Advancing DFI Transparency report and executive summary.
Watch now: Greater transparency for development finance institutions
In case you missed it, you can catch up on our launch event, hosted by the Brookings Institution, here. As well as keynote remarks from former President and CEO of OPIC, Rob Mosbacher, and a presentation of the tool by our CEO Gary Forster, it features an insightful discussion from DFIs, CSOs and the private sector on the opportunities for improved DFI transparency. Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen from the US Development Finance Corporation described the tool as its 'north star' as it seeks to improve disclosure practices, while Tom Edmonston-Low from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development committed to using the tool for its upcoming review. You can watch a 9-minute clip from the event's conclusion below, when panelists summarized their views on transparency and the tool.
A new blog from the event's host, George Ingram of Brookings Institution, picks out some of the highlights from the launch and considers why the transparency of development finance could be on the cusp of a march forward.
Aid delivery chains, organisation networking and the new Networked data indicator
Towards the end of last year, we began a review of the Aid Transparency Index assessment method. High on our list of priorities was the issue of networking and linking of aid data, and how we might measure this in the Index assessment. If we can understand how money and finance flows through and across delivery chains we can gain insights into how the aid system works, make it more accountable and improve coordination. In this blog, Alex Tilley provides an update on our review and the inclusion of the new Networked data indicator in the 2022 Index.
Who funds women's economic empowerment – a data journey
Our Women's Economic Empowerment team is tracking funding flows to women's economic empowerment, women's financial inclusion and women's empowerment collectives in six country case studies. In order to build a rich and thorough picture of funding flows – including from major OECD-DAC donors and non-traditional donors, NGOs and women's funds, and large US and global philanthropies – we are using a variety of data sources. In this blog, Elma Jenkins describes our journey (and the challenges we encountered) to access, merge, clean and use unique datasets on funding flows for women's economic empowerment in a way not done before.
Gender financing must become more transparent
In a new opinion piece for Devex, AWID's Tenzin Dolker and Publish What You Fund's Jamie Holton and Henry Lewis explore how COVID-19 heightened funding challenges for women's rights organisations, and why it is crucial for donors to engage with feminist movements and organisations, increase the transparency of their funding and support transformative change towards gender equality.
Seeking country-based consultants- women's economic empowerment- Uganda, Ethiopia and Pakistan
We are looking for individual consultants with research and advocacy experience based in Uganda, Ethiopia and Pakistan to support research and advocacy work for our Women's Economic Empowerment project. Our study is mapping funding to women's economic empowerment, women's financial inclusion and women's empowerment collectives, as well as assessing which donors have a gender integration approach. If you are an experienced researcher with expertise in women's economic empowerment, a strong communicator with good stakeholder management skills please get in touch. Full details of the assignment, timeframe and how to apply are available in our terms of reference.
Blended finance and transparency
Publish What You Fund contributed an opinion piece to Convergence's flagship report, The State of Blended Finance 2021. The report surveyed the trends in blended finance operations over the preceding year, and found that blended finance flows were significantly lower compared to historical financing trends (~$4.5 billion in 2020, 50% less compared to 2019). Our contribution highlights the need for transparency from DFIs in their blended finance activities across three themes. First, we argue that DFIs should follow the lead of the IFC in disclosing the levels of concessionality involved in their blended finance deals. Second, DFIs should publish ex-post impact data for their blended finance investments. Finally, DFIs should disclose the levels of private sector mobilisation that their blended finance operations achieve.
Here's a selection of news stories we've been reading over the last few weeks:
In a new report, the World Bank has highlighted the lack of public disclosures about government debt in low-income countries, making it more difficult for governments to restructure their loans. As this Devex article reports, the lack of transparency is also pushing up borrowing costs, making it harder to service the debt.
This Financial Times article looks into the detail of the $100 billion climate finance target, and the lack of agreement on how it should be spent, how to ensure it is used effectively and how it should be measured.
After two years of field testing and feedback, the Centre for Humanitarian Data has finalized the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Data Responsibility Guidelines, which offer principles, processes and tools to support OCHA's data work. Data responsibility is defined as the safe, ethical and effective management of data for operational response.
The Center for Global Development has published new analysis of China's growing participation and investment in multilateral development institutions and funds. China now occupies a uniquely influential role in the multilateral system, as donor, shareholder, client, and commercial partner. This can mean increased buy-in to high standards for transparency, but also raises some governance concerns, such as the growing dominance of Chinese firms in multilateral procurement.
New Eurodad research on tied aid finds that more than one in every five dollars of bilateral and EU aid was reported as tied in 2018.
Research by the World Bank compares data reported by official donors to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and Creditor Reporting System with data reported by recipient governments to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. During 2010-2019, private finance grew by 10% a year while official (i.e., public) finance grew by 2% a year. While in 2010 public finance represented 64% of total financial flows to developing countries, by 2019 public and private flows were almost equal.


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Dodgers @ Brewers October 12, 2018: NLCS Game 1
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After what seemed like forever, baseball is finally back and the Dodgers are four wins from advancing to the World Series for the first time since 2017. They took out the likely Rookie of the Year in the NLDS, and will have to take out the likely NL MVP in order to get back to the World Series.
Milwaukee is a tough matchup, as Dustin wrote earlier today. They finished with the best record in the National League and have won 11 consecutive games, overcoming a 2.5 game deficit in the NL Central to tie the Cubs with 95-67 records through 162 games. They went into Wrigley and defeated the Cubs to take the Central and the number one seed in the NL before sweeping the Rockies in the NLDS. The Dodgers got the better of the Brewers in the regular season, taking two of three games in Milwaukee and splitting a four-game set in Los Angeles. The last time these two teams met, Chad wrote the word "DONG" in the recap seven title times. Do that again, IMO.
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Clayton Kershaw gets the Game 1 start, meaning the Dodgers aren't pushing him off the team anymore. He was prepared to throw Wednesday had the Dodgers needed game five against the Braves, so he's on extra rest today. Kershaw shoved in Game 2 against the Braves, tossing eight shutout innings while allowing two hits and no walks. He took advantage of the Braves' aggressiveness, needing only 85 pitches to complete eight innings before sorta controversially being pulled after warming up in the ninth. This season, Kershaw saw the Brewers twice. He took the loss in Milwaukee on July 21 after allowing four runs in six innings. Three of those runs were unearned, as the Dodgers made three errors in the game. A catchers' interference cost Kershaw a run in the second, and a sixth inning Max Muncy error cost him two more runs. Kershaw started the Dongfest at Dodger Stadium and allowed two runs in six innings, but left the game up 12-2. The Dodgers added a cool nine runs in the seventh. Kershaw struggled, like most pitchers did this season, against Christian Yelich. The likely NL MVP took Kershaw deep in both games this season and has a .529/.556/.941 triple slash in 18 career plate appearances against him. I'm not saying the Dodgers SHOULD just walk him every time he comes up, but I wouldn't hate that. Kershaw has also struggled against Ryan Braun in his career (.289/.308/.421 triple slash in 40 plate appearances), but 31 of those 40 plate appearances came before 2015.
Gio Gonzalez, who I totally knew was on the Brewers before yesterday, starts for the Brewers today. Gonzalez was a waiver deadline acquisition for the Brewers from the Nationals. He made five starts for Milwaukee in September and didn't allow an earned run in three of those starts. He allowed three runs in both of his other starts. His Brewers numbers were great, as he posted a 2.13 ERA and opponents slashed .157/.240/.270 against him in September. He didn't exactly face the toughest competition, as four of those five starts came against teams in the bottom half of runs scored this season. He also posted a 4.44 ERA in 29 starts for the Nationals this season. His 19.8 percent strikeout rate was the lowest of his career, and his 10.7 percent walk rate was his worst since 2010. This is his first look at the Dodgers this season.
With a lefty on the mound for the Brewers, David Freese starts at first and hits third. Matt Kemp starts in place of Yasiel Puig in right and Chris Taylor gets the start in left. Cody Bellinger and Yasmani Grandal remain in the starting lineup.
In a bit of a surprise, the Dodgers made a change on their roster.
Julio Urías made the Dodgers' NLCS roster. The lone change from the NLDS is Urías instead of Alexander.
— Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) October 12, 2018
Julio Urias is on the roster for this round. Urias was great in September when he appeared, as he allowed one baserunner in four innings spread out across three games and struck out seven. However, the CLOSEST of those three games was the first one, when the Dodgers only led 17-4. In the other two games, they had leads of 14-0 and 15-0. Assuming the Dodgers don't have this type of lead in this series, it's a little tough to throw Urias into the fire like this. More confusing to me, Scott Alexander is off the roster. Lefties (like Yelich, Mike Moustakas and Travis Shaw) slashed .172/.248/.212 against Alexander this season. Alexander also had a 70.9 percent ground ball rate, which was the second-highest among qualified relievers. His control was suspect all season, but it was surprising that he only threw six pitches in the NLDS and is off the roster for the NLCS.
#Dodgers Dave Roberts said Scott Alexander is healthy, not reason he was bumped from #NLCS roster. LAD likes Julio Urias pitch mix to attack righties and lefties in #Brewers lineup.
The Brewers also made one change from their NLDS roster. Keon Broxton was left off this roster with the Brewers opting for another lefty reliever, Xavier Cedeno. The Dodgers will need to jump on Brewers starters, as their bullpen is very strong. It'll be a fun chess match with both managers searching for the platoon advantage.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Screening!
For those looking for something to do Saturday night after the show ends for the day, the Regal Cinemas next door to the expo center is hosting a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark!
This retro screening is sponsored by Cheeburger Cheeburger in Oaks, PA! It is located directly next to the movie theater.
The movie start time is 8pm, which gives plenty of time after the show ends to relax for a while, grab a bite to eat, and then take in a retro classic!
This screening is for anyone, not just Retro Con attendees, and standard ticket prices do apply.


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WEBINAR — Protecting Your Content: The Changes You Need To Know About & The Tools To Help You Get It Done
Throw out that self-addressed, unopened envelope and get ready to toss out a few other things you thought you knew about copyright protection along with it. While it's gotten easier to create, upload, and share content, protecting that content still seems unapproachable, complicated and expensive for most of the creative community. This session — hosted by Cosynd CEO Jessica Sobhraj and North Music Group President Abby North — will tackle the misconceptions around copyright protection, the common practices that are now obsolete, and the critical changes that affect how you can safeguard your rights and revenue. You will also learn more about how companies like Cosynd and North Music Group provide tools and guidance to make copyright protection simpler and affordable for our community.
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