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Ally's Blog: "Buddy Rose is Now My Gecko"
"Buddy Rose is Now My Gecko"
I did this with my mom, she helped me do the techie stuff.
First we got the karaoke version of Billie Jean.
Then we got an app for the computer called Garage Band.
Next we recorded my voice to the song.
Finally we made the video.
This is me meeting Mrs. Fuglestad, who helped me do this project. Thank you, Mrs. Fuglestad!
You did an awesome job on your new version of the song. I am sure Buddy Rose feels lucky to be your pet! Keep up the creative work!
this is amazing- you are very talented and lucky to have these wonderfully creative people guide your work. Great job!


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In a First, Bowler Takes 5 Wickets in 6 balls in T20 Cricket
Bahrain's Rizwan Butt on Wednesday became the first player to take a five-wicket haul in T20I cricket in six consecutive deliveries. Rizwan made the record against Singapore in a T20I in Bangi, Malaysia. The bowler picked wickets on the third, fourth and sixth delivery of Singapore's 18th over and then took two wickets off the first two deliveries in the 20th over.
Rizwan Butt did not take any wicket in his first 14 balls. However, he took five wickets in the next 6 balls. The bowler took the wicket on the third and fourth balls of the 18th over, but could not take any wicket on the fifth ball, thus missing a hat-trick. The bowler took another wicket on the sixth ball of the 18th over. The bowler then returned to bowl the 20th over, and completed his hat-trick by taking wickets on the first two balls.
The Singapore team was all out for 168 runs, which the Bahrain team achieved by losing just 4 wickets in the 18th over.
In this ongoing series in Malaysia, the host country is in first place with 5 wins in 6 matches. Bahrain has won 3 out of 5 matches and is at number two. The Singapore team has lost all 6 matches and is at the last position. Qatar is at number three after winning 2 out of 5 matches.
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A thorough article and interview with Mark Seymour about the Human Frailty album from Sonics magazine.
They have built their reputation as a live band but have been slow to inflame the record-buying public. But with their new album, Human Frailty, the Hunters and Collectors say they have bridged the gap at last, encasing the raw emotional power of performance in the sweet shell of multitrack production. Vocalist/guitarist/lyricist, Mark Seymour explains to Lesley Sly.
The Hunters have been streamlining the detail of their music for a year now. Everything has been condensed from line-up to lyrics.
Two years ago they were nine piece now they are six. Last year they were firm advocates of live-to-digital recording; now they've turned out a studio album. Previous records were described by lyrics abstract and metaphysical; now they are more graphic and fundamental.
Q. Gavin McKillop seems to have played an important role in mapping out this new direction. Why did you choose him as producer?
A. We were lucky to get him. We didn't want to work with anyone local. We'd given Deborah Conway (Do Re Mi, also produced by McKillop) a copy of Jaws of Life and she gave us a big pitch with him. So he came over, basically as a tourist, and did the album at the same time.
Q. How much influence did he have on the shape of the album?
A. He did have strong ideas but they were all really musical ones, not related specifically to technology. He made it very clear from the start that he wanted to make an organic album, a record based on how we play – both drummers' bands, with music based on rhythm.
His role became more apparent near the end when we were doing the vocals and guitars. We'd sit in the studio and work out extra guitar arrangements, and I spent a lot more time on the vocals than I have on previous records.
Q. Would it have been very different if you (the band) had produced it?
A. We've toyed with the idea but… it takes time for musicians to learn how to operate a multitrack studio. You have to use someone who understands the technology.
Q. In 1985 (Sonics interview with John Archer) you were committed to the live-to-digital recording method. Why did you go over to multitrack for this?
A. We wanted to capture this live ambience of the band, but we also wanted to make a studio record that would work on commercial radio stations. The power of the drum sound, the vocals, these were all logical reasons for using multitrack.
Q. What's the recording process?
A. Usually John and Doug and I just play – that's the basic core of our songs. We record like that as a guide and then do all the guitars again. John did a lot more with his bass this time post-rhythm-track too, a lot of overdubbing.
Q. Are the songs heavily structured when you go it?
A. They went down pretty much the same as we had planned. About half of the stuff had been played live and that's where the songs grow and change radically.
Q. You've been quoted as saying, "Our gigs are so intense, we haven't always had enough detachment to produce vinyl that sells." Do you mean the live intensity doesn't transmit, that those dynamics become confusing on vinyl?
We wanted then to make a well produced record and not worry about being faithful to our live sound.
Q. You've said that record sales don't reflect your popularity in Australia. Why?
A. In order to have a profile in this country you do a lot of live work. The perception the punter has of a live band isn't the same as seeing one on Countdown and going out and getting the record. We've had a strong live following and that hasn't translated into record sales. But that's changing now.
Q. You use the word 'prosaic' frequently to describe the band's new direction. Are you aiming to be more accessible?
A. The band has reached a musical peak and I thought it was important to strip the lyrics back, make them more skeletal, more communicative. I've never written lyrics before on our musical level… I've been off on Cloud Nine, you know, writing metaphysical poetry.
I've tried to sculpture the lyrics on this album – to be as direct and commonplace as possible – so that they blend with the music.
Q. There's certainly a sense of harsh reality on this album. I like the way you mix images like the downtrodden mother at the sink and the "white flag of peace limp and useless" (in the song Relief).
A. Yeah… they're all domestic because politics begins and ends in the home. I was also… well, someone in my position can write about world peace with a certain detachment. But what about someone so embroiled in domestic tasks that they haven't got time to intellectualise about these things? So, I was bringing my perception of the world back to that level – the kitchen sink.
Q. You say Human Frailty is the point at which you finally recorded the emotional and physical power of your music. Why has it taken so long?
A. We've tried to develop out music out of the idiosyncrasies of the musicians rather than relying on technical ability. We've relied on our character and it's been a gradual growth. We've been honing those idiosyncrasies down knowing that we would reach a point where we were making music that didn't sound like anything else.
It meant that recording was a mysterious process – we weren't sure what was going to happen. It still is, but we've learned to translate it (the idiosyncratic sound) better.
Q. What about your Aboriginal funk; reviewers seem constantly to describe you this way?
A. Americans really wanted to believe that there was some special purity about Australian bands because 'we're in touch with the earth'. We kept on saying, 'We're just middle-class boys from the suburbs'. I've never had contact with Aborigines. But, I think there is a strong sense of landscape in our music.
We've never pursued this… I can't stand jingoistic Australian pop bands.
A. And they end up sounding like English bands… they get that whinge in their music. The bands that survive here have a different approach, they're more celebratory and outward-looking. I've been to a lot of countries and I've never seen anything like the degree of commitment from band or audience as a Midnight Oil gig.
It's important for us to be recognised as an Australian group.
Q. How do you write songs?
A. I'm always writing lyrics which I take along when they gell into something. Jack and I are working more closely on arrangements. John and Doug tend to work out their dynamics separately.
All our songs are based on feel of bass and drums and we just work that out together. There are some orientated around me (for example, Throw Your Arms Around Me) but they're not the majority.
Q. Are you a one-take vocalist?
A. No, not on this album. Gavin convinced me I was a singer and we spent a lot of time on vocals In some songs I put down half a dozen vocal takes and we took bits out of each.
Robert puts so much stuff on my voice live, it's unbelievable – Aural Exciter, compression, several forms of reverb and some delay.
Q. And the guitar sound is the same throughout, which gives the album continuity?
A. I've always thought the best way to survive musically is to go for what is definitive at the time. The most definitive thing I can do is not put effects on my guitar because everyone else does. My guitar has a natural, warm sound that I really like. But if everyone had a sound like that I'd use effects!
Q. What was the big lesson in making this album?
A. The biggest thing I learned was hoe to song. But the biggest effect overall was on my perception of the other people in the band; it's drawn us in really close.
We've crossed that line where bands break up.
Q. How does it most succeed?
Q. You said you say it as a document of a time in history, not just of the band but of the place where the band lives. Would you feel it has failed if it ends up in mint condition in a secondhand rack?
A. The first album was in secondhand racks six weeks after we released it. That's a natural part of this business. But I still believe it is an artefact in cultural terms. I'm acutely aware of the effect records have years and years down the track.
I had a loose chord progression and lyric – the song was inspired by the conversation of a guy and girl I heard through a wall. They'd just come back from overseas and she said that ("You don't make me feel like I'm a woman any more") to him. I found that particularly perverse because of the state of my own relationship at the time, so I wanted to structure a pop song around it.
I said to Doug, "Let's get a very up, aggressive tom-tom rhythm', then we worked out the bassline, with John putting in those little clicks to give the rhythm tension.
We played on that for a while, tried going up to the D, and then we got that gap in the song. Jack worked out the brass intro, then the really aggressive percussive brass in the middle. It all came together very quickly, in about two days.
Gavin mixes through the transistor radio – a normal AM radio which is hooked up to the monitors and the music goes right through the radio circuitry and speaker. So the mix sounds like it would being broadcast. This was the final test for each round mix.
John overdubbed the bass, as I said, to accentuate the percussive aspects; I whispered by own vocal lines again beneath the main vocal to give it that sibilance.
Verdict: It's great, a really good song. The thing about Hunters' songs is that they never come out the way I want them to. And that's great. The only part of this that turned out as I expected was the opening rave.
This is a pretty simple lyric. The music began with John doing a wacking E-G riff – where he bends the string almost off the neck – and a really solid backbeat. We wanted the backbeat to sound interesting because Doug doesn't like doing them otherwise. Then Jack introduced one of this unusual chord progressions – semitone key chances, which we've never used before. The instrumentation of this is basically Jack's.
Yeah, there's a Roy Orbison song that uses that ascending harmony, it's a bit like Twist and Shout too.
We put glockenspiel in the brass break and the guitars are quite artificial, very studio. I used a super-clean Sheik sort of sound, which I don't use live. I regret it a bit, but it has a better sound through small speakers when it is clean like that.
Yeah. Gavin was really good at rationalising that.
Verdict: I was disturbed by that clinical guitar, but I don't think I would change it. This is one of our big songs live. No, there's nothing I would change.
We've recorded this song three times. First was the two-track single, and the production wasn't good enough; next time we got a better feel. But it's such a strong melody and strong optimistic sentiment that we thought it was worth recording again.
Q. This song sounds different to the others, from another time?
It inspired a lot of the other lyrics, and it was like a touchstone for a new direction of the band. It sounds difference because I basically wrote it on an acoustic guitar. I don't often take such a complete song to the band. It's a definitive, folky love song.
We double-tracked acoustic guitars, put acoustic harmonies on the electric guitar parts. We really went to town on this – real strings. At the end we just invented all these vocal harmonies in the studiol the whole band is singing there.
Verdict: It's great, one of the best things we've ever done. I just wish we'd recorded it like this the first time.
Q. My criticism of this is that, at the end where it really opens out with the brass, the drums are too pedestrian.
Yeah. I think the main problem is that it is too long at the end; if we had shortened it, that wouldn't have been so prominent. We really did sit on that groove, longer, I think, than the interest level can be sustained.
It came about with me, John and Doug playing a Stones sort of feel. We wanted to write a soul sort of song. It's had a mercurial life; we've played with it and dropped it at various times.
I re-did all the guitars to get a crisper rhythm, keeping them cleaner and back in the mix. It will be edited for a single.
We wrote this about a year ago. It had a turgid backbeat rhythm – grungy, and I had this meandering guitar line under the vocal. It wasn't working for me and we dropped it.
When we came to recording we were able to stand back from it; the bass and drums went down as they are live, and we were able to give it more colour. Then I worked out with Gavin, a three-chord melody under the voice for guitar and organ, and clean slide guitar and organ, and clean slide guitar sound. This lifted the song out.
We put piano at the end with guitar and brass.
Verdict: The recording of this has taught us how to play it live. It's been a surprise, this song. I really like playing it now and it's probably one of the strongest songs on the record.
That's good, because that's what it's about. This and Throw Your Arms are the oldest songs on the record. Here I was trying to describe coming in from the landscape to a tiny little room. It's the closest to our old style.
We started with a slow rhythm and just two notes and I wanted an elegant melody, which came from trumpet and guitar. It's a real jam song.
We didn't do that much to it, we tried other riffs on piano and guitar and they didn't work.
Verdict: I'm not that curious about this song; it's not quite as fresh as the others. It's the least successful in translation.
We wrote this in the studio. It started with the drums. I'd been harping on about having an up-tempo song and John started playing this tom-tom rhythm and a few songs later we had the bassline. We wrote the whole thing in about three hours.
I'd found a book on square dancing, published in the 50's, and one of the terms they use is 'Home Position', the position the couple always comes back to. It said the man must bring the woman back to his home position because if the woman goes to hers there will be a heap of trouble. That's actually what the book said – a very '50's way of looking at relationships. The whole thing was a metaphor for courtship, so I thought I would write a lyric about Home Position, such that no matter what happens in life the man and the woman always have to come back together again.
To keep it simple we kept this song as a three-piece – John, Doug and me. I used my straight Fender sound and treated it.
Verdict: The guitar could be a bit louder. It's my second favourite track.
At soundchecks John had been playing a riff on the E string – it sounded like a 3/4 rhythm but it resolved. I had a lyric and when we went into the studio I asked him to play that riff. Then Doug added the soul rhythm with that anticipated kick beat at the beginning of every second bar, and I played like an ACDC guitar – a straight chord over a root note, which is a traditional rock 'n' roll device, but because of the tug in the rhythm, it sounded like Hunters underneath.
We were listening to ACDC a lot at this time – liking the really simple tension between guitars and drums in their music. And, the fact that their songs are so skeletal.
We were going to bring the bass in but decided to keep it as a three-piece which was a good idea.
Lyrics-wise, I tried to get tuned into being an animal, really subservient to someone.
Verdict: It's the most successful lyrically, from my point of view.
Music and lyrics by Ian and Stephanie Rilen (ex-Sardine, Ian still plays with X). We wanted to do a cover version; it keeps us on our toes. It allows us to define what our approach to music is, and puts our interpretive power to the test because we can look at our version relative to the original.
It doesn't sound like our kind of melody but it gives a different perspective to the band.
We wrote the middle section. Their version is not as heavy in the bottom-end, and our vocals are harsher (though if we recorded it again I might do them softer). We cut it up and made it more of a pop arrangement with lots of guitar parts, and we used a raw viola to get a similar effect to the Farfisa organ sound Stephanie had used on the original.
Verdict: I'd like to do a softer vocal.
Epic, the big one. This is an old song, written about a year ago. I had a melody idea and John put a simple blues progression bass under that, and we jammed for a while and realised we didn't want it to be a straight ballad.
So we disrupted the whole thing, going into a totally different mood with that semi-shuffle on the snare. We didn't try to write it too quickly, left it for a while because when we got into that feel we had to figure out how to climax the song.
After a few rehearsals it settled, but live it took a while to shift gear, make the changes positive.
We've shortened it a lot from the live version and I organised my guitar more clearly in the buildups. It was hard to get the backing track down; we really had to concentrate.
Yeah, that's fantastic live. I think in this song we've galvanised the new Hunters.
Verdict: It's a really powerful recording – an overstatement of a simple idea. The strings helped to do that.
With this whole record we've tried to bring everything down to its skeletal elements. It's a very rational album.
Q. Your cover symbol, what's that about?
Hunters: John Archer bass; Doug Falconer drums; Jack Howard, trumpet, string arrangements; Robert Miles, sound-mixing, artwork; Mark Seymour, lead vocals, guitar, lyrics; Jeremy Smith, french horn, keyboards; Michael Waters, trombone, keyboards. All – backing vocals.
Outboard players: Gavin McKillop, Shellie Conway – backing vocals. The Como Quartet – Adam Duncan, viola, 'psychedelic credibility'; Alex Black, violin; George Vi, violin; Peter O'Reilly, Sue Hadlee, cello; Dianne Howard, piano; Debbie Waugh, marimba/xylophone.
The Album: Human Frailty, recorded in three-week block at Allan Eaton's Studio, St Kilda; mixed (two and a half weeks) at AAV South Melbourne; cut at Town House Studios. Produced by Gavin MacKillop and Hunters and Collectors, engineered and mixed by Gavin MacKillop, assisted by Robert Miles; assistant engineers, Michael Streefkerk, Doug Brady.
Backtrack: Former 1980, started playing Melbourne, 1981, released self-produced EP's World of Stone and Payload, followed by debut album Talking to a Stranger in 1982. Video for the album picked up by MTV and band builds up a hard-core audience through dance club and college radio exposure of the album. 1983 – tour of England, North America and New Zealand; second album, Fireman's Curse, and EP, Judas Sheep are released. 1984 – album Jaws of Life released and band sheds three members to arrive at present six-piece line-up. Band now negotiating with several labels for UK/European releases, Japanese release for the new album settled via CBS Sony.
Hardware: Mark – Fender Twin Fender Telecaster (1971) with Seymour Duncan pick-up; no effects. John – Marshall bass head, JBL J bin, Aural Exciter, Boss graphic, Fernandez bass with EMG pick-up. Doug – Singerland kit, Paiste and Zidjian cymbals. Jack – trumpet; Jeremy – french form; Michael – trombone. Brass players – use a Korg ordan, with lots of EQ too. Studio hardware: six-string Fender Coranado bass used to overdub basslines to reinforce percussive aspect; ancient Hammond organ Ibanez acoustic, glockenspiel, marimba strings.
Songwriting Tools: A Walkman-style recorder and acoustic guitar occasionally a drum machine. Band works out all arrangements live with Robert (sound-mixer) building songs with effects.


I spend a lot of time in my office and kitchen working. If I am not working on a project, I am editing images or video, which can be kind of boring. One thing that I love to do when working is listen to music. The problem is my phone battery is less than stellar, so finding a way to listen to music while my phone is charging in another room was a big problem.
I was lucky enough to find the solution to this problem. The Google Chromecast Audio! I have used the Google Chromecast for my television, but I had no idea that they made one for just audio! It runs over Wifi, not Bluetooth, so the sound quality is amazing! I can control everything from my phone and even make phone calls without interrupting the flow of music.
I am not just limited to using my phone though. I can use my tablet or computer to stream music!
You can stream millions of songs, radio stations, and even audio from applications like Pandora, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Google Play Music.
If you have multiple Google Chromecast audio devices, you can steam music through your entire home that is synced! Now I can have music playing in my office and kitchen at the same time by grouping each of my Chromecast Audio devices together.
I think that this may be my new favorite gadget.
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From The Editor | March 2, 2016
At Biogen, Three Keys To Outsourcing
By Louis Garguilo, Chief Editor, Outsourced Pharma
Thomas Holmes stays close to home. He grew up 10 miles north of Boston, and now lives 10 miles north of there. He also stays put. He's been at Biogen for over 20 years, timing his arrival to preparing the Cambridge biologics manufacturing facility for the 1996 launch of AVONEX (interferon beta-1a), for the treatment of certain forms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
On this midwinter's day, less white than usual in the Boston area, Holmes, now senior director for Global External Manufacturing, speaks enthusiastically about Biogen's outsourcing strategy. Most notably, he tells me: (a) cost has never been a strategic driver in CMO selection; (b) Biogen's concept of "dual sourcing" is revenue independent; and (c) the expected time from drug approval to market launch is all of 48 to 72 hours.
48 Hours To Liftoff
Holmes starts our conversation with the last of the three points, and adds a bit of Biogen lore. That calculation actually originates with AVONEX, Biogen's own first commercial launch. (In 1986, Schering-Plough launched INTRON A (interferon alfa-2b), the first Biogen-developed product brought to market.) At the time of regulatory filing for AVONEX (for multiple sclerosis (MS)), a company in the marketplace was questioning Biogen's patents.
"This spurred us, on behalf of our patients and company, to work out a detailed, 18-month pre-launch initiative for everything from product manufacturing to artwork approval, and final packaging to distribution," recalls Holmes. That planning worked; Biogen was ready for launch when the FDA approved.
"I still remember it," says Holmes. "It was 33 hours from approval to the time we sold our first dose. We handed out little trophies to commemorate the achievement." Since then, Biogen's expectation for all product launches has been 48 to 72 hours from approval.
Holmes believes this initial success has had a positive influence on the entire industry. "Packaging CMOs tell me they have been adapting our model, at least trying to get to launch in days or weeks, rather than months." He adds, "When our patients see how important it is for us to make their critical medicines available at approval, it sends a powerful message."
Obviously, speed to launch is also sound strategy for revenue accumulation. However, as we'll see below, Holmes says that Biogen has become a profitable public company, and bio-industry leader, by putting science and patients before profits. And let's not overlook the real risks to these truncated timelines. Addressing this, I say to Holmes, "This would have to mean that …" but he finishes the sentence for me: "we're basically preparing supply at some risk."
That risk is acceptable to Biogen. The next is not.
Cost Won't Impact The Supply Chain
Risk is far less tolerable regarding the reliability and security of the supply chain, be that internal or external. Biogen has continued to build out its own biologics manufacturing assets, which are already substantial by most measures. And while outsourcing is a key stratagem for the company – particularly for non-core capabilities, such as small-molecule products – it does so carefully and selectively.
"Cost has not been a strategic driver in terms of our CMO selection criteria," Holmes explains. "For some of the more global options available today, lower cost is the purported big win. But since that's not paramount in our decision-making, we are still somewhat hesitant, for example, to really test the Far Eastern service companies. That's not to say, though, we don't have starting materials for API from sources in China or India."
Biogen views outsourcing opportunities in the U.S. and Europe favorably, and equivalently. Part of the reason is the facilitation of close oversight of external partners. According to Holmes, Biogen has nearly equally ample management resources in its Swiss offices outside of Zurich, as well as in Cambridge (Massachusetts). Of course the company's roots are in both Switzerland and the Bay State. Biogen's own manufacturing facilities are in Hillerød, Denmark, Cambridge, and Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina.
"The ability to be on the local time zone, to physically be at any location the same day if we need to, is important to us when it comes to externalizing parts of the supply chain," says Holmes. In a second part to this article, we'll capture Biogen's specific approach to Strategic Relationship Management (SRM). For now, suffice to say detailed CMO management and close partner oversight is of vital importance to the company's entire approach to outsourcing.
Dual Sourcing … For Materials And Knowledge
Dual sourcing – the strategy of ensuring at least two reliable suppliers for materials and drug product – can also apply to more general areas of business, such as ensuring a company has various sources of industry information and knowledge. For example, Holmes mentions an upcoming Outsourced Pharma Conference in Boston, at which he'll be a panelist on a session devoted to best practices in supply chain mitigation. He says Biogen has strategized mightily about how to tackle supply-chain risk, both as a smaller biotech and now as a "Big Bio," but always looks to network with other companies to discuss the subject, and find partners.
"The fundamental starting point for us in any discussion," says Holmes, "is asking: 'How do you deal with risk mitigation in the outsourced environment given that outsourcing, because it is outside of your facilities, is by definition a less-controlled situation?' Next, you need to deal early in the process with understanding and overcoming challenges with regulatory change management, timelines to make amendments, add sites, validate processes, and get approvals. And the third point brings us back to geographic, or even geopolitical, considerations. The world changes routinely. Are you in the best geographies to serve your clients and customers from a manufacturing standpoint?"
Holmes says even Biogen has tried some different strategies. "So I like the idea of prompting deliberate, even provocative, conversations among my peers and the CMOs themselves, at a setting like Outsourced Pharma Boston."
Regarding dual sourcing of material and product, Holmes says this is a fully accepted and definitive strategy for supply-chain integrity at Biogen. "Dual sourcing is not strategically driven by product revenue considerations," says Holmes. "Among other considerations, this creates valuable opportunities by ensuring you have validated your processes in two different locations."
Easily said, but requiring a lot of work. Particularly for smaller, cash-tight biotechs, qualifying and establishing two (or more) suppliers can extract a heavy toll in time and resources. Holmes insists in most cases it's well worth the effort. "Along the way, and while it's all about reducing risk, you may end up learning more about your processes, and even ultimately reducing costs as well."
Holmes concludes: "Earlier in our conversation, I did not mean to say cost is not important, it's just not a value driver in terms of our selection process. However, once you have multiple suppliers, it does become an elegant way to ensure that you are having market-tested, value discussions around the services you are getting for your money."
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Warhawk Alley is a recreational area on the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater campus. This area is located in the James R. Connor University Center. Warhawk Alley hosts various tournaments and specials throughout the year.

Bowling
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The Men's Bowling Team is a Club Sport team that requires individuals to compete with other bowler's in a tryout. The team travels to compete with other bowling teams.

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17/Apr/2014 · 21:47
Foreign Special Operations Roundup, News, and Future projects
One of my favorite subjects to research is foreign Special Operations units. Many of our allied SOF units are very professional and I think much more proficient than we often give them credit for. Some of them have literally been fighting and dying alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, a fact that the American public is painfully unaware of. One of my main goals is to cut through the misinformation and bring some of the realities of foreign SOF to American readers.
This includes a two-pronged approach. First, writing articles about these units with as much insight as I'm able to dig up via my sources and research. Second, actually buying the foreign rights to books written by and about foreign SOF and having them published in America. The current project that I'm working on is Jaeger: At War with the Elite by Thomas Rathsack. The book is written by a former member of Denmark's Jaeger Corps who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. I've read the translation and it is an amazing book that I can't wait to bring to American readers.
Currently, we are discussing having our company, SOFREP.com, actually open our own publishing house for Special Operations books like this. Mainstream publishers won't bring these books to America because they haven't been able to make money on them. That's a shame and the English speaking world is missing out on some great books from Denmark, Poland, France, and beyond. No wonder why Americans don't know about this stuff…
So on that note, here is a roundup of some of the foreign SOF material I've worked on recently.
Swiss DRA-10
In our coverage of foreign Special Operations units, there is one country which is easily overlooked. When we think of SOF in the Western world, it is Rangers, SEALs, SAS, KSK, or somewhat more obscure units like SOG or FSK that come to mind. In a conversation about international Special Operations units, few would mention Switzerland's DRA-10. In a country famous for neutrality and chocolate, fewer still would be aware of the Swiss hostage rescue mission that almost got off the ground in Libya several years ago.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/34395/switzerland-dra-10-libya/#ixzz2zCJA4Zcj
Israeli S13
Shayetet 13, the Israeli answer to the US Navy SEALs, executed a ship seizure operation off the coast of Sudan yesterday. The ship was carrying Syrian made rockets that were en route from Iran to the Gaza strip. These are the type of rockets that would be used if we saw a repeat of the 2006 offensive against Israel. I had the opportunity to meet a S13 veteran about two years ago in New York City. He was a cocky little guy who gave a friend of mine (a former US Navy SEAL) a t-shirt that said, "Don't worry America, we got your back!" I always recognize SOF guys, doesn't matter what country they come from!
Read more: http://sofrep.com/33652/israeli-s13-maritime-commandos-capture-ship-carrying-iranian-missiles/#ixzz2zCHwluYO
Swedish SOG
We hear little about the Special Operations units of Scandinavian nations, but in recent days the veil has been lifted, if only just a little, to give us a small look at what our allied SOF units have been up to in Afghanistan. Policy-makers in Sweden have refused to confirm or deny any operations that Swedish troops may have participated in, but by correlating martyr biographies of dead jihadists, at least one newspaper has been able to put two and two together.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/32212/swedens-sog-takes-taliban/#ixzz2zCIZGvTj
Australian Commandos
By all accounts Corporal Cameron Baird was true warrior and is greatly missed by his team mates in 2 Commando. Corporal Baird is Australia's 40th KIA in Afghanistan during the War on Terror and is now Australia's 100th Victoria's Cross recipient.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/33001/australias-100th-victorias-cross-corporal-cameron-baird/#ixzz2zCI8gteY
Norwegian FSK/MJK
Tom Bakkeli is a Norwegian writer and journalist who has written extensively about Norway's Special Operations units, MJK and FSK. Unfortunately, his books are not available in English, but Tom was gracious enough to spare SOFREP a few minutes of his time to answer some questions about Norway's allied Special Operations units, which have been helping us fight the War on Terror.
Q: What is the Norwegian approach to special operations? Is it roughly along the same lines as other NATO member nations, or do the Norwegian units feature historical and cultural traits unique to their country?
A: As a country with a five million population, we have a quite small defense force. It has undergone a huge modernization after the cold war. In this process, the special operations forces, Forsvarets Spesialkommando (FSK) and Marinejegerkommandoen (MJK), have been strengthened. The operations in the former Yugoslavia – Bosnia and Kosovo – and especially in Afghanistan, have shown that they are capable. The Norwegian SOF traditions go back to Second World War, when they were established under British command in Special Operations Executive. Company Linge executed several spectacular operations in Nazi-occupied Norway; one of the best known is the heavy water operation in Vemork in 1943.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/33876/inside-fsk-norwegian-special-forces-command-interview-tom-bakkeli/#ixzz2zCHhdiFd
Peruvian SOF
On the 17th of December this past year, a joint police and military operation commenced in the Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM) in which Peruvian forces launched multiple synchronized strikes against clandestine airfields used to smuggle an estimated 1.2 tons of cocaine per day. Four 30-man teams were reportedly launched from a base in Pichari to begin the process of disabling the illegal airfields with explosives, probably cratering charges in this case. The Peruvian troops were drawn from the police counter-terrorism directorate known as Dircote, a counter-narcotics units called Dirandro, and a Special Forces unit reported as being called FEC, however as Navy personnel are reported to be conducting the operation with law enforcement, it seems more likely that this unit was actually Fuerza de Operaciones Especiales which is more akin to America's Navy SEALs.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/31564/peruvian-sof-strikes-narco-traffickers/#ixzz2zCIkvQFT
Canadian CSOR
W5′s Mercedes Stephenson recently filmed a rare documentary about Canadian SOF, specifically about CSOR conducting Foreign Internal Defense operations in Niger. The Canadians are very tight lipped about their SOF units, the other being JTF-2, so it is surprising that they were willing to publicize their involvement in Flintlock. One of the interesting things about foreign SOF units is that what the US government considers to be the most low grade operations are often considered to be the most sensitive by foreign governments like Canada. While the US military openly publicizes SOF's involvement in Flintlock, allied nations treat it like a closely held state secret.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/34370/canadian-sof-operation-flintlock-niger/#ixzz2zCHQ6kEd
Hope you enjoyed the articles. In addition to the Jaeger book, there are a few other projects in the works. SOFREP will be publishing a ebook about the history of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, we've got an account from the Australian Commandos coming, and I may be participating in a military exercise abroad later this year. More on that soon!
Tagged as Australia, Canada, Norway, Peru, SOF, Special Forces, Special Operations, Sweden, Switzerland
07/May/2013 · 17:46
The Activity #12
Today's recommended reading material. Delta Force in Fallujah, 5APR04. The Activity is a comic book about Special Operations, one that mother Army wishes I would stop promoting…
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Tagged as Comic Books, Comics, Delta Force, ISA, Marines, Special Forces, Special Operations, The Activity
Special Forces Versus PETA Whackjobs
The public has always been fascinated by the training that US Special Operations Forces receive. What goes in to making an elite warrior? What skill sets are cultivated and polished in these young men?
To sum it up, we train as we fight.At places like the JFK Special Warfare Center and School, our Special Operations personnel train for the austere environments which they will face overseas. Contrary to popular belief, the majority of the training is not secretive in nature. However, there is one closely held training secret within the Special Operations community. That secret is out now, and activist groups and politicians are now trying to prevent our soldiers from receiving this life saving training.
It is called Live Tissue Training (LTT), or more often known as the "Goat Lab." Rumors have persisted in the public sphere about the goat lab for decades. Journalists like Jon Ronson heard bits of information about it, but had no idea what live tissue training was actually about. This led him to come up with some completely absurd conclusions about why Special Forces medics maintain a stock of live goats on Ft. Bragg.
The reality is that these goats are used by the SOCM (Special Operations Combat Medic) course to help train our Special Operations medics to work on casualties under the most realistic conditions possible in a simulated environment; training them as we fight. SOCM does not just train Special Forces medics, but also Navy SEAL and Ranger medics as well. These are the very best combat medics in the world. I've seen them in action myself, and have 100% confidence in the product that comes out of the SOCM course at Ft. Bragg.
Read more: http://sofrep.com/20004/why-does-peta-want-to-kill-our-special-operators/#ixzz2RyjUCJ7V
Tagged as Animal Rights, PETA, Special Forces, Special Operations
Is Special Forces Dead in the Water?
When I heard about Linda Robinson's Council on Foreign Relations sponsored white paper I was expecting another abstract academic work which was frighteningly detached from anything resembling reality but was pleasantly surprised at Robinson's down to earth recommendations. Her outline of SOF and policy recommendations are impressively on target, especially for someone on the outside looking in, without getting into classified aspects of the Special Operations community. You can read Robinson's paper, The Future of US Special Operations Forces on the CFR website.
As someone who was an insider, I felt that I had a bit of an opportunity to expand on a few of her points from a soldier's perspective. I should note up front that what you will read here are my personal opinions and in no way represent official statements from SOCOM or for that matter the unofficial opinion of the Special Operations community as a whole.
Direct vs. Indirect Approaches
Much have been made over the last ten years about Special Operations Forces, in particular Special Forces, getting fixated on Direct Action operations. While units such as SEALs and Rangers are designed for Direct Action, Special Forces is designed for Unconventional Warfare. Unconventional Warfare emphasizes a long term approach to influencing the battle space by developing host nation military forces (Foreign Internal Defense) and engaging with the local community on various civil projects among other activities. The accusation has been made that SOF has gotten obsessed with conducting Direct Action High Value Target raids at the expense of keeping an eye on the long game.
Read the rest on SOFREP!
Tagged as FID, Irregular Warfare, Special Forces, Special Operations, unconventional warfare, UW
PROMIS: Rhodesia, now .99 cents!
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In addition to my novels and non-fiction work I also write a historical fiction series called PROMIS. The books are about a MACV-SOG veteran who becomes a mercenary and takes the reader through little known conflicts and operations that actually happened in the 1980's. Public perception is that Grenada and Panama happened in the 80's and not much else so there is plenty of fertile material for someone like me to work with that has not been done to death in this genre. The first is the series is PROMIS: Vietnam about the protagonist, Sean Deckard, fighting with SOG in the Vietnam War. The sequel is novella length and takes Sean Deckard to the Rhodesian SAS during the height of the bush war. Since I first released the novella it has sold very well, especially with UK readers, but I have gone ahead and lowered the price to .99 cents like the first PROMIS installment in hopes of grabbing up some new readers! If you enjoy it, remember that #3 in the series, PROMIS: South Africa is also available.
Tagged as books, MACV-SOG, Military Fiction, Rhodesia, SAS, Special Forces
17/Feb/2013 · 16:22
Sabah/Malaysia/Filippino/Abu Sayaaf/Military Stand Off
Two weeks ago the MNLF, one of the Muslim groups, kicked off a major offensive against the Abu Sayaaf group, another Muslim organization/terrorist group in Sulu. It seems that Abu Sayaaf got pushed right to the waterline on the coast and without anywhere else to go they hopped on a boat to the Sabah region of Malaysia. For those who have been keeping score, these groups are completely different than the others I've written about previously such as the Ampatuans and BIFF which is Kato's Islamic faction that broke away from the MILF…which in turn had broken away from the MNLF. Confused yet?
Read more: http://sofrep.com/17375/filipino-rebels-in-standoff-with-malaysian-military/#ixzz2LArCGWEo
Filed under News, Special Forces
Tagged as Abu Sayaaf, Philippines, Sabah, Special Forces
05/Jan/2013 · 15:42
The Weapons and Equipment of "Target Deck"
Grayman Sub-Saharan
The Sub-Saharan from Grayman knives is made for killing. I searched far and wide but was unable to find a Nazi, communist, or terrorist to sink this blade into. I killed the s**t out of a downed tree for you though to give you an idea of the kind of damage this knife can deal out. The picture above shows the tree after maybe five or six chops on each side. The Sub-Saharan has more in common with a Roman short sword than the type of fixed blade knives that most of us are familiar with. Deckard makes short work of some cartel trash in Target Deck. It is also the knife depicted on the cover of the book.
Carl Gustav
Admittedly, the M3 Carl Gustaf isn't the sexiest of weapons among the 75th Ranger Regiment's rather extensive arsenal. This is especially true when you have to pack this giant metal tube into an AT4 jump pack with cardboard honeycomb and exit a C-17 during a Mass-Tactical airborne jump at night. Getting hung up in a MH-60 with the Goose slung over your back while fast roping and dangling 50ft in the air ain't sexy either. Don't ask me how I know that… I've written about being Tank Sniper and elaborated on the training and tactical issues surrounding the Gustaf in the past, so take a look!
In Target Deck, the mercenaries of Samruk International utilize the flechette round against a hoard of cartel gunmen.
The HK 417 is the 7.62 big brother of the 5.56 HK 416 developed at the request of a certain Special Mission Unit and now used in various SOF units. Chambered for the larger 7.62 round, Nikita makes good use of the 417 as a sniper rifle in Target Deck. You will also get a lesson in the intricacies of making a high angle shot.
Hooligan tool
Basically the Hooligan tool, or Hoolie, is a high speed pry bar for mechanical breaches. Useful for making a quiet entry…
The most memorable remark about the Mk48 that I ever heard was, "That is the lightest heavy machine gun I've ever seen!" As a Corporal, I was a Gun Team Leader in Ranger Battalion where my team made great use of the Mk48 in training as well as combat. The Mk48 is the size of a SAW but packs the 7.62 punch of a M240B. It's small size makes it perfect for immediate support by fire in dismounted, urban environments.
Chromacamo
Chromacamo is a name I invented for the next generation of camouflage uniforms, those that actually change their color to mimic their surrounds. The idea for it is based on SMARTCAMO developed by Hypersteath which I have written about previously on this blog.
Improvised breaching charge
Ever wonder what you can do with a flashbang and an IV bag? Some MacGuyver shit, that's what.
Alone and un-armed, Deckard has to improvise a solution when trapped in a room with a very dangerous Lebanese money launderer and his bodyguard. A pencil laying on his desk makes a handy weapon, especially when jabbed into the soft tissue of the body guard's neck.
On my last deployment, we were no longer permitted to use the MK19 inside the cities, so these were left to collect dust in my weapons shed until myself or my Junior Weapons Sergeant gave them a cleaning every so often. While fun to shoot, I always found the 40mm rounds to be under powered, not providing sufficient explosive impact. Then again, I never had the chance to use the MK19 against dismounted infantry. I did have a friend who was a MK19 gunner in Afghanistan when his convoy was ambushed. He rotated his turret and let it rip on the enemy positions to devastating effect. One point to remember with the MK19 is that you have to charge it twice, that is to say, rack the charging handles, drop the bolt, and then repeat the procedure once more to seat the first round all the way down onto the bolt face. Not knowing how to do this properly can result in an accidental discharge, or worse yet, leave you firing on an empty chamber during a firefight!
Improvised tank
Yeah, this bad boy makes an appearance in the book as well…
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conhIT: The future place to be for healthcare IT providers?
by Guido Gebhardt
From 2004 to 2007 VHitG (Verband der Hersteller von IT-Systemen im Gesundheitswesen) and Messe Frankfurt jointly organised ITeG (IT-Messe und Dialog im Gesundheitswesen). When VhitG moved the event to Berlin, this cooperation ended and Messe Berlin came on board as new partner for what is now called conhIT. The organisation team headed by Jens Naumann, VhitG chairman, developed an entirely new concept - which aims at making conhIT the prime congress venue for healthcare IT providers.
Things, however, got off to a bad start. The lobby area emanated the charm of a train station. While at the German radiology congress, for example, the guests were greeted in the lobby of Messe Berlin with coffee to sweeten their start into a stressful congress day no such thing at conhIT. Nothing, not even a chair so sit down and wait for colleagues or business partners. "The place to be" felt more like "the place to flee".
Unfortunately, it went from bad to worse. About half of the roughly 600 seats in the room where the opening session was scheduled remained empty. Plenty of space and time to speculate about the development of ITeG and conhIT. Was the move to Berlin, the decision for a new partner, really wise? The fact that many healthcare IT decision makers chose to stay home, however, is neither due to a poor event concept nor to the venue. Both Frankfurt (2004 to 2006) and Berlin (2007 and 2008) are easy to reach and IT is and will remain the key to success in hospital management.
At the opening session, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder, State Secretary with the German Federal Ministry of Health, announced the next roll-out phase for the electronic patient card. "In the second half of 2008 we want to deploy card readers as well as cards so we can realise the full potential of the system", he underlined. Jens Naumann is also convinced that the IT infrastructure of the healthcare systems is a major success factor. "Consistent use of IT will allow us to cut the red tape surrounding work flows, reduce time to generate documentation and result in substantial efficiency gains and – above all – in improved medical care for the patients", the VHitG chairman said. Estimates indicate that in Germany alone the costs for avoidable hospital stays might amount to 350 to 400 mio. Euro.
Raimund Hosch, CEO of Messe Berlin, emphasised the exchange character of the conhIT concept: Due to the timing of trade fair, congress and academy exhibitors as well as visitors are provided with the opportunity to collect and exchange information. conhIT, therefore, not only intends to become the prime e-health fair in Germany but also, as Hosch put it, "step by step an important event in Europe".
The highlight of the opening session was no doubt keynote speaker Peter Waegemann, CEO of the Medical Records Institute in Boston, who demonstrated that even a rather unsexy issue such as the e-health card can be presented with wit and verve. In the US, Waegemann explains, electronic patient files on the cell phone or as xml file, telemedical therapies or computer-assisted medicine are no longer visions, they are reality. And he recommends, "the major goal has to be the introduction of computer-controlled therapy support." A physician can no longer exclusively rely on what he or she learnt in medical school and what experience has taught. New medical knowledge is permanently springing from a wide variety of information sources: "We have to move away from intuitive treatment to healthcare which is science-and computer-based", Waegemann urges. In an e-healthcare system physicians and nursing staff, no matter whether they are located in Bavaria or Iowa, will have access to patient data. Today, this is impossible because we are dealing with data silos that are not networked. "We have to ensure treatment continuity by offering the electronic patient file." In the US, a data standard has already been introduced: Continuity of Care Record (CCR). It provides encrypted data sets in xml which contain data on previous therapies, medication and even a list of physicians the patient has seen so far. The patient can call up his CCR data sets per cell phone and forward them to a physician. "Sooner or later, we will all have a digital patient companion", Waegemann concluded.
Both in terms of issues and content, conhIT 2008 was on a high level. Why then the lack of acceptance by the healthcare IT professionals? Since neither the venue nor the organisers seems to be the problem, VhitG might want to reconsider the dates. In Germany, a major portion of healthcare IT investments currently go into radiology. In March, ECR (European Congress of Radiology) in Vienna is on the agenda, followed in early May – at ICC Berlin – by the German radiology congress (DRK). The third event takes place only four weeks later, again in Berlin, the so-called Hauptstadtkongress. In 2007, there was also CARS (Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery) which means within a few weeks five congresses on healthcare IT were scheduled. And even if focus and details of the events are different – the targeted users are always identical.
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Q: Function works correctly, except through another module, no visible reason There is an issue I don't understand. I have two customized modules in a directory.
Note the following codes were voluntarily shorten. I give the function that does not work, and another one which is similar but works.
Let's see:
module_parsing.py
import re

def hippodrome_numreu_prix(response):
        """Parse the hippodrome's name, number of the meeting and prize's name.
        response -- html page. Arrival table.
        returns a tuple as (hippdrome's name, nb of meeting, prize's name)
        """
        #hippodrome means racecourse, but this word exists in English
        #There are several races on a hippodrome for a particular day, that's called a meeting("reunion" in French). On a particular day there are several meetings too. So that's why we call it number of meeting: n°1, n°2...
        #A race is for a prize ("prix" in French). This prize has a name.
        hip_num = response.xpath("//html//h1[@class='CourseHeader-title']/text()").extract()
        hip_num = ''.join(hip_num)
        #HIPPODROME
        if re.search('-\s{0,5}([A-zÀ-ÿ|-|\s]+)\s{0,5}/', hip_num):
            hippo = re.search('-\s{0,5}([A-zÀ-ÿ|-|\s]+)\s{0,5}/', hip_num).group(1).lower().replace(' ','')
        else:
            hippo = None
        #NUMBER OF MEETING
        if re.search('R[0-9]+', hip_num):
            num_reunion = re.search('R[0-9]+', hip_num).group()
        else:
            num_reunion = 'PMH'
        #PRIZE
        prix = response.xpath("//html//h1[@class='CourseHeader-title']/strong/text()").extract_first().lower()
        return (hippo,num_reunion,prix)

def allocation_devise(response):
    """Parse the amount of allowance and currency (€, £, $, etc)
    response -- html page. Arrival table.
    returns a tuple as (allowance's amount, currency's symbol)
    """
    #"allocation" means allowance. That's sum of the prizes for winners: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
    #"devise" means currency. Depending of the country of the hippodrome, the allowance are expressed in different currencies.
    alloc_devise = response.xpath("//html//div[@class='row-fluid row-no-margin text-left']/p[2]/text()[2]").extract_first()
    #ALLOWANCE
    if re.search(r'[0-9]+',alloc_devise.replace('.','')):
        alloc = int(re.search(r'[0-9]+',alloc_devise.replace('.','')).group())
    else:
        alloc = None
    #CURRENCY
    if re.search(r'([A-Z|a-z|£|$|€]+)',alloc_devise):
        devise = re.search(r'([A-Z|a-z|£|$|€]+)',alloc_devise).group()
    else:
        devise = None
    return (alloc, devise)

module_correction.py has a dependency with the previous one:
from module_parsing import *

def fonction_parse_correction(
        champ_corrige, response):

    dico_fonction_parse = {
    'allocation': allocation_devise,
    'devise': allocation_devise,
    'hippodrome':hippodrome_numreu_prix,
    'reunion' : hippodrome_numreu_prix,
    'prix': hippodrome_numreu_prix,
    }
    if champ_corrige in {'allocation','hippodrome'}:
        return dico_fonction_parse[champ_corrige](response)[0]
    elif champ_corrige in {'devise','reunion'}:
        return dico_fonction_parse[champ_corrige](response)[1]
    elif champ_corrige in {'prix'}:
        return dico_fonction_parse[champ_corrige](response)[2]

Now when I am in scrapy shell to test my function:
scrapy shell https://www.paris-turf.com/programme-courses/2019-07-09/reunion-chateaubriant/resultats-rapports/prix-synergie-1150124
#Here I change the path with sys.path.insert() and only import module_correction
In [1]: from module_correction import *
In [2]: fonction_parse_correction('hippodrome',response)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-34-e82fe121aab0> in <module>
----> 1 fonction_parse_correction('hippodrome',response)

~/.../scrapy_project/scrapy_project/module_correction.py in fonction_parse_correction(champ_corrige, response)
    103         if champ_corrige in {'allocation','hippodrome'}:
--> 104             return dico_fonction_parse[champ_corrige](response)[0]
    105         elif champ_corrige in {'devise','reunion'}:

~/.../scrapy_project/scrapy_project/module_parsing.py in hippodrome_numreu_prix(response)
    157     #HIPPODROME
--> 158     if re.search('-\s{0,5}([A-zÀ-ÿ|-|\s]+)\s{0,5}/', hip_num):
    160         hippo = re.search('-\s{0,5}([A-zÀ-ÿ|-|\s]+)\s{0,5}/', hip_num).group(1).lower().replace(' ','')
    161     else:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

It turns weird when I execute allocation_devise() through fonction_parse_correction(), because it works:
In [3]: fonction_parse_correction('allocation',response)
Out[3]: 35000

and this more weird when I simply copy and paste hippodrome_numreu_prix() function in the shell to execute it by itself as:
In [4]: hippodrome_numreu_prix(response)
Out[4]: ('châteaubriant', 'R1', 'prix synergie')

So here, I clearly see there is no problem of None type because search() clearly finds it. Besides, it seems this is not a problem of use it by a dict because the similar function allocation_devise() works well, and even works on the same argument response.
What is wrong that I don't see ?
Notes: Ubuntu 18.04, Scrapy 1.5.2, Python 3.7.1

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Twitter wants you to Check out Super Follow and Ticketed spaces
Twitter wants you to check out super follow and ticketed Spaces as they now accept applications as well as other users on the platform. Now, there is nothing in the way of Twitter trying to monetize its social network. Even if it how successful their attempts really are, it remains to be seen.
It started earlier this month with the launch of the much-rumored twitter Blue subscription that offers features, we both wanted and unwanted, for a particular price. Twitter is now accepting applications for their more exclusive Super follows and ticketed Spaces, but the fine print might just end up getting creators discouraged, and publishers from fully leaving the platform.
About Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows
Ticketed Spaces is a great extension of Twitter's audio-only Spaces feature that was created to directly take on platforms like the Clubhouse. Twitter, however, decided to come up with something that clubhouse does not even have, at least at the moment.
While the Clubhouse and Instagram's new live Room allows users to tip Creators, ticketed Spaces would allow advance ticket sales that would allow an event to feel a lot more special because of its exclusivity.
The criteria for eligibility in this program happen to be much higher, and it includes the US-only requirement. Users are required to be at least above 18 years of age, and have at least 1,000 followers, and possess at least three spaces in the past 30 days. Tickets can range from $1 to $999 and creators can now limit the number of tickets that can be sold.
Super follows, which was been designed after the Patreon business model, might just be a little bit more Problematic for their creators. In exchange for the monthly fee that ranges from $2.99 to $9.99, subscribers are guaranteed a steady flow of Paywalled content. Applicants that are available in the United States are required to have a minimum of 10,000 followers in other to be eligible for the program.
How Twitter Payment Platforms Work
The contention point, however, would be based on how much the creators would be earning from it. Twitter stated that it would only get 3% of the revenue after Google's or apple's 30% cut. If the creators exceed $50,000 of lifetime earnings, however, Twitter would begin to collect about 20% of the future earnings. This would leave the creator with around 67% down to 50% of what they earn, which is lesser than what they would acquire on Patreon.


Norway travel is a haven for nature enthusiasts. This country is naturally preserved with wildlife and bright colors wrapped all throughout the land. The Fjords in Norway are a breathtaking sight attracting a large number of visitors every year. A Fjord is a body of water that is separated by steep cliff sides. Travelers can hike to the peak of the cliffs and view the Fjord below. This country is most remarkably known for its mountain peaks and untouched natural forests and landscapes in the country. The cities and small towns are also inviting to world travelers.
Norway's largest city and capital is found in a city called Oslo. A guide is an informative tool that can help you navigate the area more fully. The city is divided into five main districts and fifteen boroughs. The districts are Sentrum, West, Inner West, Inner East, Outer West, and Outer East. Understanding the different regions will also help you navigate the city. Oslo is the financial commerce center in Norway and is the base for economics and politics in the country. Travel guides can give you more complete travel information on flights and hotel accommodations in Oslo, Norway.
Sightseeing is a pleasure in Oslo with monumental buildings with Parisian architectural styles. The inner city is more prosperous and features sights such as the Royal Palace and the Oslo Cathedral. Other places to visit in Oslo are Kirkeristen, City Hall, Akershus Festning, and Stortinget. Oslo features 14 museums including the Viking Ship Museum, the National Gallery, the Noble Peace Centre, and the Holocaust Center. Parks and gardens are other ways to enjoy the scenery found in Norway.
A lot of the country's activities are centered around the natural beauty of the country as well with swimming in freshwater, hiking exciting trails, or bicycle riding along riding paths. Advice on detailed travel information can be found in a video guide or a book about the country. It is best to learn as much as possible about Norway before traveling there since there is such a wide array of different activities to do and sights to see. The Norwegians use the krone so it will be important to note the currency exchange rates when traveling to Norway. Norwegian is the most widely spoken language in Norway so it might be good to acquire a dictionary to take on your trip in case you need to speak with the natives for information on restaurants, shopping, or sightseeing locations.


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I was a little worried at the beginning of the article, but I have to say I appreciate this. A lot of people believe in the benefits of CBD oil, so consistent, quality product legally procured would be amazing!
Do you think this would work writing in a short story format, instead of actually mailing your…
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I think it's about engaging the creative process, so whatever works for you! I've always believed no time writing is ever really lost.
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There is this mindfulness app out there called Chill you may want to check out.
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Thank you so much for reading my silly ramblings by the way. It means quite a good bit to me.
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Livestream grabbed a lot of attention last year with their new Mevo livestreaming camera, a device that exists between the levels of live from your phone and live from a computer. Max explained that the magic of Mevo is its ability to simulate multi-camera production with a single device, zooming and panning on the fly from a tablet controlling the Mevo. There's been a lot of demand for an SDK, and Max says that is targeted for this summer.
Why reading makes your LIVE streams better!
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Minister of Transport launched SAL
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Minister of Transport launched SAL on December 16th
Sindi: SAL will enhance ground handling services and land-sea cargo operations and link them to Saudi airports
On December 16th the Minister of Transport Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser launched Saudi Arabian Logistics (SAL) Co. to be the new logistics entity and the key cargo gate linking all Kingdom's airports. The event took place at Burj Rafal Hotel Tower Riyadh with the presence of government authorities and top officials.
"SAL will come into operation at the beginning of January 2020 as one of the most powerful logistics and ground handling service provider and will contribute to achieving Vision 2030 aiming to transform the Kingdom into an international logistics platform and invest in the state's strategic location at the crossroads of important international trade routes between three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa," Sindi said.
The Saudi Arabian Logistics aims to strike a balance between air-cargo operations and ground handling services through integrated land and sea transport operations. The company will act as a link between cargo operations and the Kingdom's airports in order to enhance logistics services and ensure smooth flow of goods, and most importantly make the cargo operations more reliable, explained Sindi.
SAL will reflect and implement the efforts towards restructuring the policies of the logistics sector, supply and import chains, and market liberalization in conjunction with the private sector, he added.
Achieving the objectives of the National Industrial Development and Logistics Program is on SAL's top priority list, especially in the light of the major economic transformation the Kingdom has been seeing. Sindi said such transformation should contribute directly to enhancing and advancing the infrastructure including all types of cargo platforms, warehouses and equipment as well as the cargo facilities of international e-commerce goods.
"We are standing at the threshold of a new promising era of logistics services. SAL boasts tremendous capabilities that make it support and provide supply services for different cargo transportation means. This should make us catapult to the forefront of countries leading the logistics field. SAL will definitely play a pioneering and catalytic role in serving the Kingdom's national development objectives and creating more economic opportunities towards enhancing the country's global presence and standing," he said.
Saudia owns 55% of SAL shares while Tarabot Air Cargo Services Company Limited owns 30%, Saudi Airlines Air Transport Company 5%, Saudi Airlines Real Estate Development Company 5%, and Saudi Airlines Company 5%.
SAL acts as the key cargo gate for the Kingdom's airports and logistically links all transportation means to air entry points in terms of ground handling services for different airlines companies, e-commerce activities, land transportation, warehouse management, storage solutions and others. It is the major logistics platform and catalyst which will contribute to accomplishing Vision 2030 objectives.
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This play is centered around the sexual assault of a girl who drank too much at a high school party and went home with kids from the school football team. The story is told from multiple sides that come to light as evidence of the event appears on social media, and people start to form their own opinions. Good Kids is a chilling portrayal of the gravity of sexual assault and the permanence of social media.
This play is presented by the The Good Kids Project, an advocacy branch of the International Thespian Society Troupe #7455 from Toms River High School North in Toms River, NJ. This group of teens aims to spread awareness of the extreme importance of preventing sexual assault/harassment by organizing groups around the state to conduct performances or hold staged readings of Good Kids by Naomi Iizuka.


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Q: How to increase the heap size of WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty Profile in Eclipse? I have a WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty Profile in eclipse. My webapp has been giving java.lang.OutOfMemoryError and thus I need to increase the heap size.
As this and this post suggested I changed the server.xml, by adding jvmEntries tag (It was not previously there):
<server description="new server">

    <!-- Enable features -->
    <featureManager>
        <feature>jsp-2.2</feature>
        <feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
        <feature>jpa-2.0</feature>
    </featureManager>

    <!-- To access this server from a remote client add a host attribute to
        the following element, e.g. host="*" -->
    <httpEndpoint httpPort="9080" httpsPort="9443"  id="defaultHttpEndpoint" />

    <jvmEntries initialHeapSize="1024" maximumHeapSize="2048" />
    <applicationMonitor updateTrigger="mbean" />
    <webApplication id="app" location="app.war"
        name="app" />
</server>

But eclipse shows it as an invalid tag, with following error:

cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with
  element 'jvmEntries'. One of '{include, variable, trustAssociation,
  applicationMonitor, application, classloading, basicRegistry,
  bundleRepository, osgiApplication, authentication, authCache,
  jaasLoginModule,   jaasLoginContextEntry, cdiContainer, channelfw,
  tcpOptions, library, collectiveMember, hostAuthInfo,
  managedExecutorService, connectionManager, contextService,
  distributedMap, enterpriseApplication, webApplication, httpDispatcher,
  mimeTypes, httpEncoding,   virtualHost, httpOptions,
  httpAccessLogging, httpEndpoint, authData, dataSource, jdbcDriver,
  jndiEntry, jpa, jspEngine, fileset, executor, featureManager, config,
  customLdapFilterProperties, edirectoryLdapFilterProperties,
  domino50LdapFilterProperties,   netscapeLdapFilterProperties,
  ldapRegistry, securewayLdapFilterProperties,
  iplanetLdapFilterProperties, idsLdapFilterProperties,
  activedLdapFilterProperties, logging, ltpa, ejbContainer, monitor,
  oauthProvider, oauth-roles, remoteFileAccess, administrator-role,
  quickStartSecurity, pluginConfiguration, webContainer, httpSession,
  httpSessionDatabase, sslDefault, keyStore, ssl, sslOptions,
  timedOperation, transaction, webAppSecurity, federatedRepository,
  zosLogging, authorization-roles}' is expected.

How should I increase the heap size then?

A: Correct way to do it is to create jvm.options file in the server directory with the following content e.g.:
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m

Check this link Customizing the Liberty profile environment
In Eclipse, in the Servers view you can right-click the server, and select New > Server Environment File > jvm.options

A: The Liberty profile is a bit different than the regular WebSphere profile.  You will need to configure a jvm.options file per these instructions:
IBM Setting generic JVM arguments in the WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty profile
Customizing the Liberty profile environment


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Automobile >
May 9, 2022 - 01:47 pm
Tesla wants to introduce third shift in Shanghai Gigafactory
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Tesla is aiming to increase production at its Shanghai plant to 2,600 cars per day starting May 16. The company plans to do so by expanding production to additional shifts.
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Reuters reported, citing an internal memo from the electric car maker. Tesla, which has operated only one shift since resuming production in Shanghai, plans to add more shifts at its Shanghai plant starting May 16 to bring production back to the level it was at before the city shut down to fight Covid-19. In March, the plant was operating with three shifts.
Elon Musk had previously hinted that Giga Shanghai could set a new weekly production record this quarter. Expansion work had been underway since February, before the Corona Shanghai lockdowns, but the full impact of that work was not visible because of the factory closures.
With the information from Reuters, the estimates of analyst Ming-Chi Kuo seem to be confirmed. The latter had stated on the resumption of production that Tesla could "in the best case" switch back to a two-shift system in mid-May.
The limiting factor for Tesla to ramp up production was not the personnel that Tesla was able to bring into the factory with the help of the authorities, but the parts. As Reuters now writes, the wiring harnesses were also a major issue at Tesla, in this case coming from Aptiv. Aptiv itself had received approval to resume production at the end of April. As the supplier confirmed to Reuters, all supplied wiring harnesses are said to come from Aptiv – in the meantime, there were reports that Tesla had also purchased wiring harnesses from other sources in order not to jeopardise the production ramp-up.
At the beginning of May, Tesla had confirmed its intention to build a second plant in Shanghai. That's according to a letter from the automaker to the Lingang Special Area authorities, in which Tesla thanked them for their support in restarting production. The new plant is to be built in the immediate vicinity in the Lingang Industrial Area and will have a capacity of over 450,000 vehicles per year.
Tesla is apparently forced to halt most of its production at its Shanghai plant due to problems sourcing parts. As Reuters writes, citing an internal Tesla memo, fewer than 200 electric cars are to be built in Shanghai on Tuesday, far less than the roughly 1,200 units per day to which the plant ramped it up shortly after reopening on 19 April following a 22-day closure.
This means that the planned increase to 2,600 cars per day from 16 May is probably also in doubt. Tesla would not comment on the information when asked by Reuters.
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VW raises investment sum in Spain
VW ID.3 GTX to release 2023 at earliest
https://www.electrive.com/2022/05/09/tesla-wants-to-introduce-third-shift-in-shanghai-gigafactory/


Herbal nutrition to help improve bladder health, weak bladder control and to help prevent urine leaking in cats and dogs.
In renal challenges, the kidneys need to be supported and nutritional support must be to be rehabilitated but support should also be given to the liver, cardiovascular system and autonomic nervous system.
If your pet is having accidents indoors, it may be wise to explore the underlying cause for loss of bladder control. Some bladder control problems are caused by serious conditions that need treatment, while others may be due to the age and temperament of your pet.
Small puppies and kittens do not have mature bladders and accidents occur commonly while they are being potty trained. Even a trained puppy might have the occasional accident as their bladders are only mature from about 6 months. If your perfectly house-trained pet starts urinating in the house, then it is advisable to seek veterinary attention.
Never punish your pet for accidents. Be patient and loving; there is always an underlying cause, even if that cause is poor house training.
If your pet's bladder control issues are related to house training, use plenty of positive reinforcement and rewards for the correct behavior, rather than punishment for the wrong behavior.
When loss of bladder control occurs during stress, excitement or as a submissive behavior, try not to focus on the accident but ignore it.
If your pet is stressed out, remove the stressor to take steps to calm your pet down.
Reduced bladder control is a common symptom in aging pets, or those suffering from Alzheimer's. Try take your pet outside for "potty breaks" more frequently and reward them when they do urinate outside. For cats, you could try placing additional litter-trays around the house so that they are always readily available.
Many older pets are embarrassed and confused about "accidents" when they do occur, especially if they have been perfectly house trained for years. Try not to react in a way that will make your pet feel more humiliated.
When pets are sick and feeling unwell, they may urinate in an unusual place to get your attention.
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Dentist and haircut and then into the Commons. A busy morning, before hosting a very old mate for PMQs and lunch. That was shortened by the fact I had to attend our weekly European Scrutiny Committee with Sir Bill Cash. PMQs was the normal Corbyn rant, which then gets sent to his followers via social media. This week he targeted Universal Credit, which those working in the Weymouth employment office think is a considerable improvement to the complicated system brought in by the last Labour government. I always listen to Opposition opinions as we don't get it right all the time. Who does? But Corbyn, a Marxist, is sworn to break our country and I'm afraid I just cannot take him or his ilk seriously. Later in the afternoon, a team of former soldiers went to see the new Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC. We were raising the stakes on the Government to resolve this appalling injustice where N Ireland veterans are being dragged by to court some decades after serving there. This must stop and we did not mince our words. Fortunately, Geoffrey, who is a most able barrister, had read up beforehand and was able to give us some reassurance that what action could be taken within the law would be. I reminded him of the case of Marine A, which he did not think would succeed. That was proof in itself that our service men and women do not always get the protection they need after serving our country, in our name, and often in appalling and dangerous circumstances.