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Business strategy, Finance and economics, Football Business, Manchester City, Stadiums and events
Why Stadiums Are Increasingly Crucial to Football Clubs' Commercial Strategies
February 21, 2014 Vince Siu 1 Comment
The Santiago Bernabeu revamp, the Etihad Stadium and the Anfield regeneration—it's been a busy few weeks for high-profile stadium projects for high-profile football clubs.
From rebranding, modernization to capacity increases, stadium refurbishments and new stadium projects are becoming headline hitters for the amount of money they involve and the scale of commercial ambition they suggest.
The three examples above are some of the biggest news involving football stadia in recent weeks, but are by no means isolated cases: A big part of the discussions involving New York City FC and David Beckham's fellow new Major League Soccer venture in Miami also revolve around the kind of venue and arena they select and subsequently develop.
It's not just about Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool: A look across the top clubs in Europe shows that besides stadium capacity and modern architecture, stadium experience also matters to fans and, increasingly, football clubs.
We've always known that the live experience of a football match inside a stadium is a defining part of being a football fan, and one of the key factors that continue to pull in match-day revenue despite rising ticket prices, especially in the Premier League.
But now we're seeing that football stadia are increasingly crucial to the commercial strategies of football clubs for a variety of different reasons. Let's explore some of them with a few brief case studies.
Matt Dunham/Associated PressCorporate Sponsorships: Arsenal's Emirates Stadium
The first example that comes to mind is Arsenal's move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium in 2006.
Known as the "Home of Football" previously, Highbury was famous for its small pitch and the proximity of the pitch to the stands, and thus for its atmosphere.
While its peak capacity was in excess of 70,000, Highbury had to be reworked due to the Taylor report on the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which recommended that football stadia in England become all-seaters. For the majority of the Premier League era, Highbury was known for being one of the most compact stadia for a top football club: They only seated around 38,000 fans every week.
Naturally, this posed problems for the Gunners, especially as they were building their fanbase and were looking to challenge Manchester United on the domestic front. While Arsenal were scraping by with gate receipts from 38,000 fans a week, Old Trafford had expanded to 55,000 seats by 1996, which meant a corresponding increase of matchday revenue for United.
With Arsenal's decision to move into a new stadium at Ashburton Grove, so they leapt forward into the 21st century and fully embraced any corporate sponsorship and strategic partnerships as they came forward.
Not only did they start fully adopting a transfer policy of buying young and cheap and selling high to maximize financial return—helped by the astute Arsene Wenger, who holds a degree in economics—but they also explored commercial initiatives to alleviate a significant potential burden in financing their new stadium.
Granada Media took a 5 percent stake in the club by investing £47 million, as reported by the Guardian, while Nike signed a new shirt sponsorship deal with Arsenal for a reported £130 million, according to the BBC. (Puma have since replaced Nike as kit makers in a lucrative deal announced this January by the BBC.)
In 2004, Arsenal added to their coffers with a £100 million naming rights deal with Emirates Airlines, which at the time was reportedly "by far the biggest deal ever undertaken in English football," according to the BBC.
Out of the total £390 million that the Emirates Stadium cost, three major sponsorships footed at least £277 million, and in January last year, Arsene Wenger publicly stated that Arsenal had finally finished paying off their loans for their new stadium and would be ready to finance big-name signings, as reported by the Daily Mail. He stayed true to his word by smashing the Gunners' transfer record with the deadline-day signing of Mesut Ozil.
As seen from their stadium move, Arsenal transitioned into the corporate age of football and became a commercial giant in the process. With their existing deals set to end and new, lucrative partnerships about to kick in, the Gunners may finally realize their full potential on the pitch with their advances off the pitch. The Emirates Stadium provided a platform and opportunity for Arsenal to become a modern, commercial organization.
Jan Pitman/Getty ImagesTournaments and International Prestige: Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena
This January, Bayern Munich revealed plans to increase its Allianz Arena home stadium from its current capacity of 71,137 to 75,000, as reported by ESPNFC.
The expansion plans will only boost Bayern up the stadium capacity ranks in Germany by one position, above Hertha Berlin's Olympiastadium and behind Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park, but Bayern's ambitions, as we saw from their summer appointment of Pep Guardiola to take over from treble-winning Jupp Heynckes, aren't limited to domestic triumph.
Consider the stadium's use planned from the get-go: Since opening in 2005 with one of the most widely recognized exterior stadium designs in world football, it has been the home stadium of both of Munich's professional football clubs, Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munchen, as well as a frequent host of the German national team.
Then there are the finances. In this 2013 article by the Economist, Bayern's total revenue in 2012 was the fourth highest in the world, after Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United. The nearest challenger from within Germany was Borussia Dortmund with €189.1 million, about half of Bayern's €368.4 million.
Yes: The same Borussia Dortmund who finished second to Bayern in both the Champions League and the Bundesliga in 2013 had just half the total revenue of Bayern.
Having conquered home soil, Bayern are going after world domination, and with a new stadium, they can place themselves at the forefront of German football—if they weren't there already.
They have 2020 in their sights. Named as Germany's candidate city for the 2020 European Championships, which will be taking place across European cities, Munich will be bidding for "Package A," which includes three group-stage matches and one last-16 or quarterfinal fixture, and "Package B," which includes both semifinals and the final.
The problem at the moment is that UEFA's requirements are that stadia must meet 70,000 seats to qualify to host matches in the tournament: As Allianz Arena's capacity is reduced to 67,812 for international games and UEFA competitions, it currently falls just shy.
Of course, there's no stadium expansion or corporate super-club that doesn't have its fair share of commercial deals and strategic alliances: The Economist article quoted above has plenty of coverage of Bayern's considerable financial might as a result of their sponsorship deals, all the while operating in the Bundesliga context that mandates not more than 49 percent of football clubs can be owned by corporations.
Denis Doyle/Getty ImagesThe Next Level: Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu
For around just £60 million (lower than what Cristiano Ronaldo cost) less than what Arsenal's Emirates Stadium cost to build, Real Madrid are redeveloping their iconic Santiago Bernabeu stadium for a whopping £328 million (€400 million).
According to the Guardian, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez didn't mince any words in his proclamations for his club's goals: "It's time to face another challenge; we want to make the Santiago Bernabeu the best stadium in the world."
Currently seating 81,044, the Bernabeu is already one of the biggest in world football, but with the planned redevelopments, according to Marca, it will become the third-largest five-star stadium in the world with 93,000 seats, behind Barcelona's Camp Nou and the Azteca Stadium.
But it's not purely about capacity expansion: A quick look at the mockups shown by the Mirror shows the sheer scale of Los Blancos' ambitions. They will be building an entirely new exterior and adding a retractable roof, in addition to expanding the lucrative VIP areas and corporate box offerings like those at the new Wembley, which Marcasay generate at least €10 million a year alone.
As ever with football stadia these days, the Mirror claim that Real Madrid are looking to negotiate a lucrative naming rights partnership, with Microsoft and Coca-Cola as strong contenders to land a potentially record-breaking deal.
In a league where Real Madrid and Barcelona dominate television revenues due to a lopsided arrangement that earn them about 6.5 times the smallest team in La Liga, according to Bloomberg, despite an impending law that is expected to reduce this inequity, the dominance of Madrid will continue to hold when their redeveloped stadium opens for use.
The politics and implications of reducing the financial duopoly of theel Clasico teams are best left for another article to dissect, but while Madrid may not be able to recoup their eye-watering TV revenues in the short to medium term, their new stadium may provide a very comfortable cushion.
Not that Barcelona will be left behind, though. They've already put their own stadium expansion proposal to a vote this April: The upgraded Camp Nou would seat 105,000 fans, surpassing the Azteca Stadium's capacity and becoming the biggest football stadium in the world. It would cost a whopping €600 million, according to ESPNFC.
The duopoly goes on.
Sharon Latham/Associated PressA Footballing Empire: Manchester City's Etihad Stadium
Football clubs don't seem to be content on just winning on the pitch anymore. Our last case study will be on Manchester City, who have caught the eye not just with their achievements in the Premier League and their star-studded squad, but also with their remarkable expansions across the globe.
Their entry into Major League Soccer with New York City FC has already been well-publicized and much anticipated, and just this January they extended their already considerable footballing might into Australia with their acquisition of the A-League's Melbourne Heart, as reported by the Guardian.
With their tentacles spreading across the globe, City are well and truly building a footballing empire, and right at the middle of this are a few architectural projects back in Manchester.
If Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have all capitalized on their existing fanbases and historical success and catapulted into the 21st-century super-club, Manchester City have broken emphatically into that category in just a few years.
According to the Manchester Evening News, City's commercial deals in 2012 helped them to increase revenue by 51 percent to become the seventh highest-earning club in the world, behind Arsenal, Chelsea and the aforementioned big three.
Besides City's well-regarded social media campaigns and money-spinning world tours, they are also going ahead with plans to increase the capacity of their Etihad Stadium from 48,000 to 62,000, which would make it the second-largest stadium in the English top flight and take them into the realm of the European footballing elite.
And just like Florentino Perez of Real Madrid, City's power brokers have been vocal in their ambitions for their team: Chief operating officer Tom Glick claimed that Manchester would have two of the top-five clubs in terms of worldwide revenues by the end of 2014.
If, as reported by the BBC, the Etihad expansion will be completed by the 2015-2016 season, then City will have with them a mighty financial arsenal in just a couple of seasons' time. A far cry from its initial capacity of 38,000, and a development fit for an empire.
By that time, however, they might have a new competitor to deal with: Liverpool, who have continued to be a fixture in the top 10 of Deloitte's Money League for the past few years, despite being the only club there without Champions League football, look ready to return to the European big time.
And, according to the Telegraph, they are planning to submit their own redevelopment proposals for Anfield by the end of the 2013/14 season.
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The art of questioning: A complete set of predictions for 2023
Edmund Wilson History, Music, Philosophy, Society 27th December 2022 27th December 2022 10 Minutes
I would like to give a systematic set of predictions — some general and abstract, some more precise and concrete — for the coming year. I make predictions not principally to make a 'prophecy' about the future. Rather, I wish to test, in a very loose way, my analysis of the present by extending current trends into the future. That way, how right or wrong my predictions are will indicate flaws or merits in my analysis and underlying assumptions. With better analysis, comes better predictions. Or at least, that is my present assumption — subject to revision. So here goes: my predictions for 2023. … Ready for it?
Socrates, philosopher of the ancient world.
A. Music
1. Lalisa Manobal (from K-Pop group BLACKPINK), a.k.a. Lisa, will rise to prominence as a pop star in her own right. A major new record deal is on the cards, as is Lisa's entry into western markets on the back of her existing single 'Lalisa', with the B-side 'Money'. Expect a new single, at least, and a new album, perhaps, but also magazine covers and general recognition of new pop star status. The coveted 'Best New Artist' award at the Grammys may be on the cards for 2024, but that is going beyond the remit of my predictions for the year of 2023.
2. Hip hop will enter its terminal phase as a genre. Everything ends. Such is the case in the history of politics — and the history of music is, I think, no exception. This is not to say that hip hop will not continue expanding as a genre. But hip hop itself will not generate much that is genuinely new. This is because hip hop is being surpassed by a new genre, which will pick up where hip hop left off in 2022.
3. Wambop will begin in earnest. Don't get me wrong — the charts will remain dominated by hip hop and other more established genres. But just as hip hop becomes more widely accepted and entrenched as a musical art form in its own right, on the level of jazz, rock, and classical music, we will see the early fits and starts of wambop as its own controversial, trailblazing genre in its own right, the new fountain of originality in modern music.
4. Sabrina Carpenter will emerge as the all-American pop star that billboards have been looking for for years. I am not sure how this will play out. The details do not seem to be in Sabrina's favour. But as with Lisa, I think Sabrina's raw talent looks set to overcome the odds and pave an untrodden path towards superstardom, bridging between pop luminaries like Taylor Swift in the mainstream and Billie Eilish in the alternative pop space. Dove Cameron was the industry's first bet on the new synthesis. I think 2023 is Carpenter's year to try her luck in centre stage.
5. Kendrick Lamar will make one last bid at hip hop hegemony. Honestly, this prediction is least likely to come to fruition, given Kendrick's album-closing statement in 2022: 'I choose me, I'm sorry.' But after wearing a crown of thorns on his world tour this year, echoing the Rolling Stone cover of Ye (the artist/musician/rapper formerly known as Kanye West) in 2010 on the eve of his coronation at the helm of hip hop (during the release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy), Kendrick's ambition to rule over the end of hip hop remains. He did withdraw his ambition to surpass Michael Jackson, but he remains competent and original as an artist. I think he has a chance of being the central late bloomer of hip hop, akin to Pink Floyd and the progressive rock movement, together with the Radiohead-infused aftermath of this moment. His elusive pgLang company may make waves, too.
B. Politics
6. The war in Ukraine will continue, with no clear end in sight. The conflict will echo the proxy war between the West and Russia in Syria. Russian bombing will increase. Military aid from the West to Ukraine will continue. What happens next is anyone's guess: probably either an escalation to a near-fatal level for the planet if the conflict intensifies severely due to increased ammunitions and arms on both sides, or an eventual ceasefire resulting in a division of Ukraine between Western- and Russian-aligned sides. The ideal outcome of a neutral Ukraine will be avoided, and no-one will win. This will be the result of an application of the prisoner's dilemma to the conflict, which resulted from causes predicted by realists such as John J. Mearsheimer, and whose results will also vindicate the effects predicted by Mearsheimer's theory.
7. China will not invade Taiwan, yet, unless something big changes in 2023. A spring invasion would seem logical given Russia's fateful decision in 2022, but observation of Russia's lack of success will make China hesitate. China will prefer to launch an invasion when its success is almost guaranteed. I think its chances of success are quite high, anyway, so an invasion is not off the cards. I just think it will bide its time. Escalation of sanctions may or may not change its view; it is quite possible more western sanctions lead China to refocus on its domestic economy rather than resorting to military means of shoring up its political legitimacy, which matters in autocracies just as much as in democracies, as noted by theorist Francis Fukuyama, who has a domestic equivalent to Mearsheimer's international 'realism', which rightly emphasises the economic foundations of military might. In general, China will remain the greater threat to world peace in 2023, even if (as in 2022) this seems contradicted by daily news cycle, which thrives off particular events rather than general trends.
8. The international economy will continue its tendency towards 1970s-style stagflation, a combination of inflation driven by supply constraints centring on energy and risks of recession driven by the lethargy of demand and heightening of inequality in recent years. Recovery from coronavirus-related economic woes will remain slow. I expect 2022 trends to continue into 2023 here. A temporary return to global economic growth is not, however, inconceivable — it is on schedule, after all. However, I sense the beginnings of a new finance-centred crisis on the horizon. Coronavirus lockdowns halted world trade except in capital goods. Even China has responded to the Trump/Biden trade war by integrating itself into western finance circuits more closely than ever before. China's own domestic equivalent of Lehman Brothers has not abated, and the overleveraged state of western economies has not been remedied. In 2019 I was worried about levels of corporate debt, a worry demonstrated in the effects of lockdown on many businesses. In the mist of the first ecological crisis of our era of ultracapitalism, I think a classical crisis of finance capitalism is on the horizon. The birth pangs of this crisis will be shown in 2023 as banks, investors, entrepreneurs, and corporations attempt to imitate the early successes (and avoid the more recent failures) of cryptocurrency. But dollar hegemony will endure, and the renminbi will fail to be completely internationalised. As Gramsci said about interregnums: 'The old is dying and the new cannot yet be born. This is the time of monsters.' The idiosyncratic monstrosities of the market will rear their heads in 2023, in a way that returns us to the science of political economy, in the shadow of culture war.
9. Nuclear fusion reaction will continue to make scientific progress, and nuclear fission reactors will make some commercial improvements as concerns about climate change rise. Renewable energy will be disseminated more widely, but overall results on emissions will be negligible. Conspiracy theories about climate change will abound, as the use of science in political ways during the coronavirus crisis end up delegitimising the scientific discipline in the fight against climate change. However, coal will decline, and certain emissions-saving technologies may be circulated more. Overall progress on tackling the fundamental energy dilemmas of our time will remain elusive. Renewable energy and nuclear fission will remain impossible to provide the energic foundation for economic progress. Rather, oil and gas, particularly in the shadow of the American shale revolution, will remain dominant internationally, as the world awaits the scientists of fusion to find the knowledge or (more importantly) the (government-provided, or if necessary privately funded) resources for scaling up fusion from the Quantum level to the economic level in the coming decades. In 2023, climate change will remain the plaything of states and classes, but will not be tackled until the laboratory really cracks the code of our nuclear DNA of social evolution: technology, especially pertaining to nuclear fusion.
10 (i). The rise of Caesarism in western democracies will continue unabated. The age of populism and of technocracy will fade from view, though the wounds will remain prominent. A future conflict between Caesarism and centrism will begin to rise, echoing the 2010s conflict between populism and technocracy, where technocracy won hands-down. I think the 2020s conflict is less likely to favour the elites, whose stranglehold over western democracies is weakening by the day. Proto-Caesar figures such as Trump will resurface, while bridging figures such as Musk will continue to cause havoc in circles of middle-class opinion. The capitalist class will continue to fund centrism, but some fragments, led by such individuals as Musk's old PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, will lead a 'Straussian' pacific insurrection, fuelling the (again, potentially pacifying) fires of Caesaropopulism. Technocentrism will remain hegemonic in mass media, but as alternative media sources rise in popularity this stranglehold will lessen.
10 (ii). The ongoing war between the elites and the people, echoing the Roman Republic's conflict between the senatorial oligarchy and the people of Rome and surrounding areas of the germinating empire (the Senate and the People of Rome, or the 'grandi' and the 'popolo', in Machiavelli's Renaissance terms), will continue. Its implicit character in trade competition will become explicit in conflicts of class, accompanying the return of the old logic of interstate war in the international arena. Machiavellianism, economic and geopolitical, will rise in the shadow of liberal utopianism. But new religious movements will also rise, just as the old religions spread — Islam in the Western Hemisphere, and Christianity in the Eastern Hemisphere, with China facing a potential new Taiping-style Rebellion in the future, centring on a Christian movement. This political translation of religious tidal change will not occur for some years, or even decades, however. In 2023, the tides will continue to turn, slowly but surely.
10 (iii). Meanwhile we will see the intellectual return of what Eric Nelsen referred to as the Hebrew Republic of early modernity, centring then on figures like James Harrington, and now on hitherto-unannounced prophets of new beginnings in history. The old Manichean division between 'good' and 'evil' will continue to face inversions in popular culture, but any attempt to bridge the divide between the Yin and Yang of modernity will remain elusive so long as the central institutions of capitalism, the modern state, and representative democracy endure — which, I think, they will, so long as Caesarism can be contained (which, in 2023, it will, even as it grows under — and over — the radar of political mass media).
C. Synthesis?
11 (i). In popular culture, the rise of 'woke liberalism' and conservative reaction to this movement will reach a boiling point. We will see a wholesale deconstruction of prominent university and media talking points, even as the neo-liberal revolution in culture continues unabated. So even as the flaws in the movements are exposed, its underlying successes will remain and expand. Just as a new cynicism about new dogmas emerges, so will an acceptance of their inevitability. But similarly, just as the 'alt-right' faces critique, some of its underlying resentments will come to be accepted, even on a subliminal level. The possibility of a reconciliation between the movements for progress or reform and conservation or reaction will rise to the fore, but a true synthesis will elude us in 2023. Conflict will trump concord in reality and therefore also in consciousness. The possibility of unity will remain a distant, but real, hope for a divided humanity.
11 (ii). Meanwhile, the political conflict between centrism and Caesarism will heighten in its contradiction even as the cultural conflict starts to show faint signs of softening in tone. The transition from a market conflict over values to a political conflict over interests will begin, but we will also therefore see the beginnings of a new bronze, silver, or even golden age in capitalist culture. Such an age occurs every twenty years or so, and sometimes centres around a crisis such as the one of 2008, bordered by such artistic expressions as Lord of the Rings films in the early 2000s and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and its aftermath for music in the early 2010s. The political failure of capitalism will be masked by the appearance of cultural success. The economic endurance of capitalism remains. Whether we can do things differently this time — economically, politically, aesthetically, or even substantially / philosophically / morally — depends both on ourselves and on the world around us.
11 (iii). As human beings, we have little to offer but our will and representation of the world, to echo Schopenhauer. We play language games, as Wittgenstein noted, to move beyond good and evil, but these games often entrench us in the 'slave morality' of this distinction, as Nietzsche emphasised beforehand. Marx's class conflicts will continue alongside Mearsheimer's interstate conflicts, and disciplines of Aristotle's naturalism flourish even as glimmers of Platonic form shine through the dark clouds of nihilism and 'capitalist realism' (Mark Fisher's classic, ironic description of the idealism of liberalism). But as Socrates found in the shadow of Homer's poetry, philosophy can only do so much. Making predictions is but a shadow of the art of Socratic questioning, which has been parodied in the modern day by inquisition-ing, akin to the trial which led to Socrates' execution by hemlock.
11 (iv). But totalitarianism, while tempting for a tired world, cannot endure in a world of change. Peace cannot last forever, but neither can servitude. War, tragically, seems to be the only condition where people are free from higher authority, but it also produces servitude to higher authority, and is itself a tyranny of grotesque proportions. To find a middle way between the personality of Caesar and impersonality of capital — this is surely the task of the twenty-first century. To find a peace and indeed some freedom in the union between Homo sapiens and the cosmos we inhabit is the great journey of the third millennium. In 2023, we shall not end this journey. Nor shall we properly begin it, for it has already begun. But we shall continue our journey, in frequent conflict and occasional concord, into the light of the stars. The only question left for my predictive sketch of 2023 is: Shall we start?
Children of Eden
Wambop
Published 27th December 2022 27th December 2022
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package org.apache.lucene.index;

import org.apache.lucene.document.*;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.zip.DataFormatException;
import java.util.zip.Inflater;

/**
 * Class responsible for access to stored document fields.
 * <p/>
 * It uses <segment>.fdt and <segment>.fdx; files.
 *
 * @version $Id$
 */
final class FieldsReader {
  private final FieldInfos fieldInfos;

  // The main fieldStream, used only for cloning.
  private final IndexInput cloneableFieldsStream;

  // This is a clone of cloneableFieldsStream used for reading documents.
  // It should not be cloned outside of a synchronized context.
  private final IndexInput fieldsStream;

  private final IndexInput indexStream;
  private int size;

  private ThreadLocal fieldsStreamTL = new ThreadLocal();

  FieldsReader(Directory d, String segment, FieldInfos fn) throws IOException {
    fieldInfos = fn;

    cloneableFieldsStream = d.openInput(segment + ".fdt");
    fieldsStream = (IndexInput)cloneableFieldsStream.clone();
    indexStream = d.openInput(segment + ".fdx");
    size = (int) (indexStream.length() / 8);
  }

  /**
   * Closes the underlying {@link org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput} streams, including any ones associated with a
   * lazy implementation of a Field.  This means that the Fields values will not be accessible.
   *
   * @throws IOException
   */
  final void close() throws IOException {
    fieldsStream.close();
    cloneableFieldsStream.close();
    indexStream.close();
    IndexInput localFieldsStream = (IndexInput) fieldsStreamTL.get();
    if (localFieldsStream != null) {
      localFieldsStream.close();
      fieldsStreamTL.set(null);
    }
  }

  final int size() {
    return size;
  }

  final Document doc(int n, FieldSelector fieldSelector) throws IOException {
    indexStream.seek(n * 8L);
    long position = indexStream.readLong();
    fieldsStream.seek(position);

    Document doc = new Document();
    int numFields = fieldsStream.readVInt();
    for (int i = 0; i < numFields; i++) {
      int fieldNumber = fieldsStream.readVInt();
      FieldInfo fi = fieldInfos.fieldInfo(fieldNumber);
      FieldSelectorResult acceptField = fieldSelector == null ? FieldSelectorResult.LOAD : fieldSelector.accept(fi.name);

      byte bits = fieldsStream.readByte();
      boolean compressed = (bits & FieldsWriter.FIELD_IS_COMPRESSED) != 0;
      boolean tokenize = (bits & FieldsWriter.FIELD_IS_TOKENIZED) != 0;
      boolean binary = (bits & FieldsWriter.FIELD_IS_BINARY) != 0;
      //TODO: Find an alternative approach here if this list continues to grow beyond the
      //list of 5 or 6 currently here.  See Lucene 762 for discussion
      if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.LOAD)) {
        addField(doc, fi, binary, compressed, tokenize);
      }
      else if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.LOAD_FOR_MERGE)) {
        addFieldForMerge(doc, fi, binary, compressed, tokenize);
      }
      else if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.LOAD_AND_BREAK)){
        addField(doc, fi, binary, compressed, tokenize);
        break;//Get out of this loop
      }
      else if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.LAZY_LOAD)) {
        addFieldLazy(doc, fi, binary, compressed, tokenize);
      }
      else if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.SIZE)){
        skipField(binary, compressed, addFieldSize(doc, fi, binary, compressed));
      }
      else if (acceptField.equals(FieldSelectorResult.SIZE_AND_BREAK)){
        addFieldSize(doc, fi, binary, compressed);
        break;
      }
      else {
        skipField(binary, compressed);
      }
    }

    return doc;
  }

  /**
   * Skip the field.  We still have to read some of the information about the field, but can skip past the actual content.
   * This will have the most payoff on large fields.
   */
  private void skipField(boolean binary, boolean compressed) throws IOException {
    skipField(binary, compressed, fieldsStream.readVInt());
  }

  private void skipField(boolean binary, boolean compressed, int toRead) throws IOException {
    if (binary || compressed) {
      long pointer = fieldsStream.getFilePointer();
      fieldsStream.seek(pointer + toRead);
    } else {
      //We need to skip chars.  This will slow us down, but still better
      fieldsStream.skipChars(toRead);
    }
  }

  private void addFieldLazy(Document doc, FieldInfo fi, boolean binary, boolean compressed, boolean tokenize) throws IOException {
    if (binary == true) {
      int toRead = fieldsStream.readVInt();
      long pointer = fieldsStream.getFilePointer();
      if (compressed) {
        //was: doc.add(new Fieldable(fi.name, uncompress(b), Fieldable.Store.COMPRESS));
        doc.add(new LazyField(fi.name, Field.Store.COMPRESS, toRead, pointer));
      } else {
        //was: doc.add(new Fieldable(fi.name, b, Fieldable.Store.YES));
        doc.add(new LazyField(fi.name, Field.Store.YES, toRead, pointer));
      }
      //Need to move the pointer ahead by toRead positions
      fieldsStream.seek(pointer + toRead);
    } else {
      Field.Store store = Field.Store.YES;
      Field.Index index = getIndexType(fi, tokenize);
      Field.TermVector termVector = getTermVectorType(fi);

      Fieldable f;
      if (compressed) {
        store = Field.Store.COMPRESS;
        int toRead = fieldsStream.readVInt();
        long pointer = fieldsStream.getFilePointer();
        f = new LazyField(fi.name, store, toRead, pointer);
        //skip over the part that we aren't loading
        fieldsStream.seek(pointer + toRead);
        f.setOmitNorms(fi.omitNorms);
      } else {
        int length = fieldsStream.readVInt();
        long pointer = fieldsStream.getFilePointer();
        //Skip ahead of where we are by the length of what is stored
        fieldsStream.skipChars(length);
        f = new LazyField(fi.name, store, index, termVector, length, pointer);
        f.setOmitNorms(fi.omitNorms);
      }
      doc.add(f);
    }

  }

  // in merge mode we don't uncompress the data of a compressed field
  private void addFieldForMerge(Document doc, FieldInfo fi, boolean binary, boolean compressed, boolean tokenize) throws IOException {
    Object data;

    if (binary || compressed) {
      int toRead = fieldsStream.readVInt();
      final byte[] b = new byte[toRead];
      fieldsStream.readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
      data = b;
    } else {
      data = fieldsStream.readString();
    }

    doc.add(new FieldForMerge(data, fi, binary, compressed, tokenize));
  }

  private void addField(Document doc, FieldInfo fi, boolean binary, boolean compressed, boolean tokenize) throws IOException {

    //we have a binary stored field, and it may be compressed
    if (binary) {
      int toRead = fieldsStream.readVInt();
      final byte[] b = new byte[toRead];
      fieldsStream.readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
      if (compressed)
        doc.add(new Field(fi.name, uncompress(b), Field.Store.COMPRESS));
      else
        doc.add(new Field(fi.name, b, Field.Store.YES));

    } else {
      Field.Store store = Field.Store.YES;
      Field.Index index = getIndexType(fi, tokenize);
      Field.TermVector termVector = getTermVectorType(fi);

      Fieldable f;
      if (compressed) {
        store = Field.Store.COMPRESS;
        int toRead = fieldsStream.readVInt();

        final byte[] b = new byte[toRead];
        fieldsStream.readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
        f = new Field(fi.name,      // field name
                new String(uncompress(b), "UTF-8"), // uncompress the value and add as string
                store,
                index,
                termVector);
        f.setOmitNorms(fi.omitNorms);
      } else {
        f = new Field(fi.name,     // name
                fieldsStream.readString(), // read value
                store,
                index,
                termVector);
        f.setOmitNorms(fi.omitNorms);
      }
      doc.add(f);
    }
  }

  // Add the size of field as a byte[] containing the 4 bytes of the integer byte size (high order byte first; char = 2 bytes)
  // Read just the size -- caller must skip the field content to continue reading fields
  // Return the size in bytes or chars, depending on field type
  private int addFieldSize(Document doc, FieldInfo fi, boolean binary, boolean compressed) throws IOException {
    int size = fieldsStream.readVInt(), bytesize = binary || compressed ? size : 2*size;
    byte[] sizebytes = new byte[4];
    sizebytes[0] = (byte) (bytesize>>>24);
    sizebytes[1] = (byte) (bytesize>>>16);
    sizebytes[2] = (byte) (bytesize>>> 8);
    sizebytes[3] = (byte)  bytesize      ;
    doc.add(new Field(fi.name, sizebytes, Field.Store.YES));
    return size;
  }

  private Field.TermVector getTermVectorType(FieldInfo fi) {
    Field.TermVector termVector = null;
    if (fi.storeTermVector) {
      if (fi.storeOffsetWithTermVector) {
        if (fi.storePositionWithTermVector) {
          termVector = Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS;
        } else {
          termVector = Field.TermVector.WITH_OFFSETS;
        }
      } else if (fi.storePositionWithTermVector) {
        termVector = Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS;
      } else {
        termVector = Field.TermVector.YES;
      }
    } else {
      termVector = Field.TermVector.NO;
    }
    return termVector;
  }

  private Field.Index getIndexType(FieldInfo fi, boolean tokenize) {
    Field.Index index;
    if (fi.isIndexed && tokenize)
      index = Field.Index.TOKENIZED;
    else if (fi.isIndexed && !tokenize)
      index = Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED;
    else
      index = Field.Index.NO;
    return index;
  }

  /**
   * A Lazy implementation of Fieldable that differs loading of fields until asked for, instead of when the Document is
   * loaded.
   */
  private class LazyField extends AbstractField implements Fieldable {
    private int toRead;
    private long pointer;

    public LazyField(String name, Field.Store store, int toRead, long pointer) {
      super(name, store, Field.Index.NO, Field.TermVector.NO);
      this.toRead = toRead;
      this.pointer = pointer;
      lazy = true;
    }

    public LazyField(String name, Field.Store store, Field.Index index, Field.TermVector termVector, int toRead, long pointer) {
      super(name, store, index, termVector);
      this.toRead = toRead;
      this.pointer = pointer;
      lazy = true;
    }

    private IndexInput getFieldStream() {
      IndexInput localFieldsStream = (IndexInput) fieldsStreamTL.get();
      if (localFieldsStream == null) {
        localFieldsStream = (IndexInput) cloneableFieldsStream.clone();
        fieldsStreamTL.set(localFieldsStream);
      }
      return localFieldsStream;
    }

    /**
     * The value of the field in Binary, or null.  If null, the Reader or
     * String value is used.  Exactly one of stringValue(), readerValue() and
     * binaryValue() must be set.
     */
    public byte[] binaryValue() {
      if (fieldsData == null) {
        final byte[] b = new byte[toRead];
        IndexInput localFieldsStream = getFieldStream();
        //Throw this IO Exception since IndexREader.document does so anyway, so probably not that big of a change for people
        //since they are already handling this exception when getting the document
        try {
          localFieldsStream.seek(pointer);
          localFieldsStream.readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
          if (isCompressed == true) {
            fieldsData = uncompress(b);
          } else {
            fieldsData = b;
          }
        } catch (IOException e) {
          throw new FieldReaderException(e);
        }
      }
      return fieldsData instanceof byte[] ? (byte[]) fieldsData : null;
    }

    /**
     * The value of the field as a Reader, or null.  If null, the String value
     * or binary value is  used.  Exactly one of stringValue(), readerValue(),
     * and binaryValue() must be set.
     */
    public Reader readerValue() {
      return fieldsData instanceof Reader ? (Reader) fieldsData : null;
    }

    /**
     * The value of the field as a String, or null.  If null, the Reader value
     * or binary value is used.  Exactly one of stringValue(), readerValue(), and
     * binaryValue() must be set.
     */
    public String stringValue() {
      if (fieldsData == null) {
        IndexInput localFieldsStream = getFieldStream();
        try {
          localFieldsStream.seek(pointer);
          if (isCompressed) {
            final byte[] b = new byte[toRead];
            localFieldsStream.readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
            fieldsData = new String(uncompress(b), "UTF-8");
          } else {
            //read in chars b/c we already know the length we need to read
            char[] chars = new char[toRead];
            localFieldsStream.readChars(chars, 0, toRead);
            fieldsData = new String(chars);
          }
        } catch (IOException e) {
          throw new FieldReaderException(e);
        }
      }
      return fieldsData instanceof String ? (String) fieldsData : null;
    }

    public long getPointer() {
      return pointer;
    }

    public void setPointer(long pointer) {
      this.pointer = pointer;
    }

    public int getToRead() {
      return toRead;
    }

    public void setToRead(int toRead) {
      this.toRead = toRead;
    }
  }

  private final byte[] uncompress(final byte[] input)
          throws IOException {

    Inflater decompressor = new Inflater();
    decompressor.setInput(input);

    // Create an expandable byte array to hold the decompressed data
    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(input.length);

    // Decompress the data
    byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
    while (!decompressor.finished()) {
      try {
        int count = decompressor.inflate(buf);
        bos.write(buf, 0, count);
      }
      catch (DataFormatException e) {
        // this will happen if the field is not compressed
        IOException newException = new IOException("field data are in wrong format: " + e.toString());
        newException.initCause(e);
        throw newException;
      }
    }

    decompressor.end();

    // Get the decompressed data
    return bos.toByteArray();
  }

  // Instances of this class hold field properties and data
  // for merge
  final static class FieldForMerge extends AbstractField {
    public String stringValue() {
      return (String) this.fieldsData;
    }

    public Reader readerValue() {
      // not needed for merge
      return null;
    }

    public byte[] binaryValue() {
      return (byte[]) this.fieldsData;
    }

    public FieldForMerge(Object value, FieldInfo fi, boolean binary, boolean compressed, boolean tokenize) {
      this.isStored = true;
      this.fieldsData = value;
      this.isCompressed = compressed;
      this.isBinary = binary;
      this.isTokenized = tokenize;

      this.name = fi.name.intern();
      this.isIndexed = fi.isIndexed;
      this.omitNorms = fi.omitNorms;
      this.storeOffsetWithTermVector = fi.storeOffsetWithTermVector;
      this.storePositionWithTermVector = fi.storePositionWithTermVector;
      this.storeTermVector = fi.storeTermVector;
    }

  }
}

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Portrait of Cannonball est un album du saxophoniste de jazz Cannonball Adderley enregistré et édité en 1958.

Historique
Les titres qui composent cet album ont été enregistrés le  à New York.

Cet album, produit par Orrin Keepnews, a été publié pour la première fois en 1958 par le label Riverside Records (RPL 12-269).

Titres de l'album
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Note : Les pistes 2, 3 et 9 étaient absentes de l'album original.

Personnel
 Cannonball Adderley : saxophone alto
 Blue Mitchell : trompette
 Bill Evans : piano
 Sam Jones : contrebasse
 Philly Joe Jones : batterie

Notes

Lien externe
Analyse détaillée :
http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/475.htm

Album de Julian Cannonball Adderley
Album musical sorti en 1958
Album publié par Riverside Records

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Posts Tagged 'dead milkmen'
Threesome: Namecheck nation
[embedded YouTube video; if you can't see it, click here]
Three songs that namecheck bands, with three different intentions.
The Dead Milkmen had a minor college radio hit in 1987 with their song, "Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything)," which lampoons listeners of a number of (iterated) post-punk bands, such as The Communards. The best line in the song is, "I came to drink not to get laid." (I've often thought that it would be useful to have a t-shirt with this line, although I'd probably substitute 'dance' for 'drink.')
In contrast to "Instant Club Hit," which ridicules music fans for their taste, LCD Soundsystem's first A-side, 2002's "Losing My Edge," simultaneously celebrates and mocks obsessive music fans with its iteration of bands and repeated refrain of "I was there…" James Murphy slyly mixes reality in with the hyperbole – "I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City" (probably not, since he was four) is alongside "I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids. I played it at CBGB's' (yup). But the best phrase is undeniably the description of "art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.'
Finally, Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip rail against taking music too seriously in "Thou Shalt Always Kill," off Angles, which was just released in the US. The best part of this song is definitely the visual-pun-laden video [above]. While the lyrics are self-consciously countercultural and more than a tiny bit preachy, Dan et Scroobius get props for the line, "Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry." Advocating spelling 'phoenix' as 'pheonix,' however, is suspect, to say the least.
For the record, The Smiths show up in both "Instant Club Hit" and "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and Public Image Ltd shows up in both "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and "Losing My Edge."
MP3: Dead Milkmen – Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything) (warning: contains homophobic language)
MP3: LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
MP3: Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
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When the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade wrote "Lira Itabirana" in 1984, he certainly didn't think of it as a prophecy. "The river? It's sweet. Vale? Bitter", the poem goes.
On 5 November, the collapse of a dam belonging to mining company Samarco, a joint venture between Vale (Brazil) and BHP Billinton (Australia), poured an avalanche of 62 billion liters of mining waste into the Rio Doce (the "sweet river") watershed in the southeastern region of Brazil. "If only the load was lighter," Drummond de Andrade wrote 30 years ago.
After flowing more than 600 kilometers down the Sweet River, bringing despair to several cities bathed by it, the mud started to empty into the Atlantic Ocean in the week of 23 of November.
And if the impact of the toxic waste on the riverbed was extremely worrying, experts warn that the damage to the marine ecosystem could be even bigger, since it is more vulnerable than its terrestrial counterpart. Biologist André Ruschi, director of the school Biologic Station Augusto Ruschi in the state of Espírito Santo, says that the damage could be equivalent of "decimating the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland area.
The mouth of the Sweet River is close to a nesting ground for the leatherback sea turtle, the biggest turtle species to inhabit the Brazilian coast. The timing couldn't be worst: November is mating season for those turtles. The Tamar Project has taken the initiative to move the nests away from the beach, but no one is sure of what the longer-term effects will be, since turtles always come back to the same place to lay their eggs year after year.
The collapsed dam, called "Fundão", is located on the eastern part of Minas Gerais state near the city of Mariana. Around Mariana lies Bento Rodrigues, a village home to 600 people that was completely engulfed by the toxic avalanche and risks disappearing off the map. Seven people have died and 12 are still missing, nine of whom are Samarco employees.
The mud merciless swam down the Rio Doce, hitting other towns and reaching the state of Espírito Santo. In total, about 800,000 people were affected by water supply interruptions in those places.
Samarco and Vale managed to deliver 250,000 liters of water in tank trucks to the population of Governador Valadares, home to 240,000 people (the largest population center in eastern Minas Gerais), but the water was soon discovered to contain large amounts of kerosene, making it unsuitable for drinking.
This was not the only clumsy attempt by Samarco to mitigate the impact since November 5. In the week after the dam collapsed, the company gave a press conference asserting that the mud wasn't toxic, but two lab analyses conducted by the towns of Governador Valadares and Baixo Guandu detected high levels of iron and other metals such as mercury in it.
Experts explained that even if the composition of the waste isn't toxic in itself, the mud acts as a "sponge", attracting other pollutants to the river.
That's exactly what happened in my state. Governor Fernando Pimentel, doing some public relations for the company, walks down to Samarco and from there gives a press conference saying that the same company that caused this ecocide is doing everything it can and that "we can't point fingers before a technical investigation is conducted".
The Brazilian press has had restricted access to affected sites, controlled by Samarco. The citizens of the villages hit by the mud have been removed to hotels, which also makes press access difficult since visiting hours are controlled. All the clean-up work is being conducted by Samarco/Vale, who, until now, still hasn't explained the causes of the accident.
The federal government has established a fine for Samarco of R$250 million (US$70 million). In 2014, the company had revenues of about R$7.6 billion (US$2 billion).
The end of the Rio Doce?
The Mariana disaster is already being nicknamed the "Brazilian Fukushima". The shocking images of the devastation, the lack of answers about the causes of the accident and the passive attitude of the federal and state governments have scandalized and angered the public.
I think about the lives that don't exist anymore, about their lives and the lives of so many other people affected by this tragedy. I think about the little villages that we're not even hearing about, about the animals, about the countryside songs, the vanished afternoons, the ease that will never be again, and I feel an enormous sadness, a profound anger and unspeakable shame to live in a such negligent and irresponsible country.
The toxic mud contaminated land and water, killing a large part of the fauna and flora in its path. Biologists and ecologists fear that it might alter the course of the river and its fauna forever, since the mud will likely settle on its riverbed, altering the morphology of the water. Worries that endemic species from the region might go extinct are also circulating.
Biologist Maurício Ehrlich told newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the mud might transform the river banks into "deserts of mud" and that the reconstitution of the soil might take hundreds of years (the geological timeframe for a new soil to form).
But if Brazilian authorities are accused of a lack of leadership to mitigate the impacts of the disaster, ordinary citizens promptly took the matter into their own hands. Residents, fishermen, scouts and biologists set up operations nicknamed "Noah's Arc", salvaging different species from the river before the mud arrived. Neighboring cities also quickly donated water to the towns hit by the waste.
The Independent Group for Analysis of Environmental Impact (GIAIA) created a Facebook group to mobilize a task force of citizen scientists, guiding those interested on the basic protocols for collecting water samples from the river, so that they could independently analyse its quality later on.
GIAIA also launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of an independent study of the environmental impacts caused by the mud. In a few days, the groups raised more than R$70,000 (US$18,000), almost 50% above its original target.
Citizen efforts aside, many are pointing out that it's crucial to punish those responsible for the tragedy: online petitions have been circulating demanding from the company and the government justice for victims, and the hashtag #NotAnAccident (#NãoFoiAcidente) has been appearing on social media in the past weeks.
Minas Gerais literally translates to "general mines". The name is no accident: since colonial times, mining activity has been crucial to the public revenue of this state, which prompted a cosy relationship between government and extractive industries.
This relationship is even more evident in the cities closer to the mines themselves. About 80% of the public revenue of the city of Mariana, for example, comes from the Germano mine, owned by Samarco. However, in the whole of Minas Gerais state there are only four public inspectors to supervise more than 700 waste dams. According to one member of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), Minas Gerais has at least 50 dams under alert for risk of collapse.
On 18 November, the company acknowledged that two other dams in the region, Santarém and Germano, risk collapsing as well. The Germano dam, the largest of them, is the one in the most critical state.
The newspaper of the Institute of Arts and Social Communication of Fluminense Federal University highlighted a technical report from 2013, requested by the state prosecutor's office of Minas Gerais, that warned of the risks of collapse among Samarco dams.
They also pointed out that Australian BHP Billinton was involved in a similar disaster in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s, where billions of liters of mining waste were poured into the river Ok Tedi, affecting the lives of about 50,000 people.
Vale, the other company behind Samarco, also isn't just some small enterprise. It's the third biggest mining company in the world by some measures, with operations on five continents. Originally a state company, it was privatized in 1997 in a process allegedly clouded by irregularities that were never investigated.
Though both companies, in theory, have know-how when it comes to disaster management, they have been accused of using Samarco as a shield to distance themselves from the media after the tragedy.
Accident or not, the pain of the people is clear. In the minidocumentary "Doce Rio" uploaded a week ago, Governador Valadares native Caíque Castro assures that "with all we're going through, faith must not falter".


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Kawasaki Café Racer by Seth Hensler
Ben Branch January 19, 2012
Reading time: about 1 minute.
It's always great to discover an amateur builder who's talent is easily on par with the larger custom motorcycle garages, Seth Hensler is a stand-out example of this breed of home-based vintage café racer builder.
This bike started life as a 1978 Kawasaki KZ400, it was discovered by Seth 3 years ago sitting in pieces in the front yard of a Frat house he drove past each day on his way home from work, it wasn't long before he went and knocked on the door, offered the guys a hundred bucks for it and wheeled it home to begin creating a café racer.
With a small machine shop in his basement Seth set about fabricating all of the custom elements on the bike, from the rear sets to the clip-ons, everything was made by hand in the winter of 2011. The fuel tank was pulled off an old Honda CB350F and the rear cowl was custom moulded from fibreglass using an old BMX helmet to get the shape.
By far and away my favourite feature of this particular café racer is the speedometer. You probably haven't noticed yet, but it's an airspeed gauge off of an old propeller plane. It's fully functional and Seth installed the required pitot tube underneath the headlight on the left hand side to ensure accurate airflow readings. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen on a motorcycle since Françoise Hardy.
The speedo is an airspeed gauge off an old propeller plane. And it actually works.
If you're interested, you can follow the build process in detail from start to finish here, courtesy of the Do The Ton Forum, easily one of the best café racer forums on the intertubes.
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Then, from 6:30PM to 7:15PM, a featured speaker will offer a presentation from their expertise.
Richard Roth: Presenting "People-Centered Agriculture" to improve your garden, a synopsis of an OLLI class now available.
Past topics include: local hiking trails, the health benefits of olive oil, baking bread, fermentation, permaculture, beer making, viniculture, double-digging, making paper, fracking, do-it-yourself funerals, regulating marijuana, bee hotels, and much, much more.
We've held workshops on vermiculture, herbal essences, making preserves, double-digging, meditation, and much more. Connect with us to set up your next workshop!
Rosa Macias, Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture & founder of "Permafunk" teaching Sustainability Skills, Holistic Planning, Grazing Planning, Biological & Financial Planning for farms & ranches.
Sandy Fisher, Chico Flax Guild, demonstration of processing flax grown in Butte County into clothes and other materials. See Chico Flax Guild on Facebook.
Sharry Hope, American Society of Dowsing, presented a traditional method of finding water, called dowsing.
Take a look at what's going on at Chico Guild Hall.


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Miguel Poveda
Miguel Poveda has achieved a distinguished place among the most appealing andunique voices of Flamenco music.
As an artist, he has been awarded with many prestigious prizes: National Music Award in 2007, National Award for Catalan Culture in 2011, Catedra de Flamencologia de Jerez, Medal of Andalucia in 2012, declared Adoptive Son of Sevilla and Badalona's Favorite Son. During his more than 30 years of career he has managed to build himself with great effort and perseverance, inspired by other music highlights.
Miguel Poveda has toured half the world receiving with modesty and gratitude theaudience and critics' acknowledgement.
After more than 13 albums, Miguel Poveda released "El Tiempo Pasa Volando" (2018), a record that closes the trilogy which had begun that same year with "EnLorquecido", his most committed and personal album. His previous "arteSano" (2012) was GoldRecord and "Coplas del Querer" (2009) won multiple music awards, becoming also Gold and Platinum Records with more than 100.000 copies sold.
Miguel Poveda is now on tour with his last album to celebrate his 30 years in music.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using Algorithms.Common;

namespace Algorithms.Sorting
{
    public static class QuickSorter
    {
        //
        // The public APIs for the quick sort algorithm.
        public static void QuickSort<T>(this IList<T> collection, Comparer<T> comparer = null)
        {
            int startIndex = 0;
            int endIndex = collection.Count - 1;

            //
            // If the comparer is Null, then initialize it using a default typed comparer
            comparer = comparer ?? Comparer<T>.Default;

            collection.InternalQuickSort(startIndex, endIndex, comparer);
        }

        //
        // Private static method
        // The recursive quick sort algorithm
        private static void InternalQuickSort<T>(this IList<T> collection, int leftmostIndex, int rightmostIndex, Comparer<T> comparer)
        {
            //
            // Recursive call check
            if (leftmostIndex < rightmostIndex)
            {
                int wallIndex = collection.InternalPartition(leftmostIndex, rightmostIndex, comparer);
                collection.InternalQuickSort(leftmostIndex, wallIndex - 1, comparer);
                collection.InternalQuickSort(wallIndex + 1, rightmostIndex, comparer);
            }
        }

        //
        // Private static method
        // The partition function, used in the quick sort algorithm
        private static int InternalPartition<T>(this IList<T> collection, int leftmostIndex, int rightmostIndex, Comparer<T> comparer)
        {
            int wallIndex, pivotIndex;

            // Choose the pivot
            pivotIndex = rightmostIndex;
            T pivotValue = collection[pivotIndex];

            // Compare remaining array elements against pivotValue
            wallIndex = leftmostIndex;

            // Loop until pivot: exclusive!
            for (int i = leftmostIndex; i <= (rightmostIndex - 1); i++)
            {
                // check if collection[i] <= pivotValue
                if (comparer.Compare(collection[i], pivotValue) <= 0)
                {
                    collection.Swap(i, wallIndex);
                    wallIndex++;
                }
            }

            collection.Swap(wallIndex, pivotIndex);

            return wallIndex;
        }

    }

}


This first post is offered by the Reverend Tracy Siegman. Tracy received her M. Div. from LTS in 2010 , and serves First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Bethany, IL.
In my first year of ordained ministry, I met a colleague and we exchanged business cards. My colleague pointed out that I didn't have Reverend, Pastor, or Minister as a title on my card. She encouraged me to redo my business cards, because putting a title on my card would go a long way to claiming my pastoral identity. I then remembered talking about this same issue with my field placement mentor in seminary.
It was hard in the first couple years of ministry to think of myself as a pastor, because no one called me pastor. The senior pastor wasn't called pastor, so it didn't seem appropriate to have people call me pastor. I think it may have helped me perceive myself as a pastor if I thought others saw me as a pastor. I often felt like the girl that got paid to hang out with the kids.
At my second calling, I was asked in the interview what I preferred to be called. I saw that as a defining moment in claiming my pastoral identity. I said I'd like to be called Pastor Tracy. There has been some confusion among the church about why I am called Pastor while previous ministers were called Reverend. There was a big deal made by a group in the church when most of the church started calling me Pastor T. Ironically, the people who had a problem with me being called Pastor T are a group that calls me Tracy.
In my first career, I was laid off from a job I loved. That first day of unemployment I realized that I had no identity, because I had no business card to hand out. I tried hard to define myself in other terms while I was unemployed and was able to find a balance in my identity between who I am and what I do. Unfortunately that lesson didn't carry over into my new career. Once I claimed my identity as a pastor, I had begun to define myself only as pastor.
Over the past year, I have been working to redefine myself apart from my vocation. I realized that part of the reason I only had the identity of pastor was because I had no life outside of my work. I am single and have no kids, so I don't have a family to go home to who knows me as Tracy. I live in a very small town where it is difficult to make friends who don't know me as pastor. I've made meeting people in neighboring towns a priority and making new friends who know me as Tracy. The after-school program I volunteer for where I am called Coach Sassy has helped me get beyond Pastor Tracy.
Now, when I meet new people, who don't know me as pastor, I tell them I am a community organizer. People are very curious about what a community organizer does. They don't assume anything about who I am or what I do as if I had told them I am a pastor. People ask what a community organizer does and how I got into that work. People think I have a really cool job. I tell them I work with an after-school program with elementary aged girls, a food pantry, an energy assistance program, an emergency assistance program, and a team that coordinates Christmas gifts for families in poverty. I tell them I care for the elderly, lonely, and home bound. I say I often get to speak about how to get involved in your community.
Then, I tell them I get to do all that amazing work as the pastor of a great little church. If I weren't a pastor I'd find a way to do all that important work within an organization. I'd find a way to continue to be a community organizer and minister to people in a different capacity. I had a career before ministry, but I couldn't go back to that office work. That's not what I do anymore. I may be more than a pastor, but I will always be a servant of Christ.


There are many expectations for prociding solutions that address the challenges with infomration flow across the air cargo supply chain. The three technology trends highlighted below could possibly help mitigate airfreight logistics risks, reduce costs related to transportation issues and/or temperature excursions and, most importantly, help manufacturers deliver high-quality drugs safely and on time.
While a wide range of industries, from financial services to energy suppliers, use blockchain technology, it has become especially useful in pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution. That is because this industry requires multiple stakeholders to coordinate the shipment and logistics of high-value drugs that could mean life or death for a patient should they receive a product that has been compromised or if they do not receive it at all. Currently, major users of blockchain technology in the logistics industry include UPS, McLeod, DHL, FedEx and Union Pacific.
Not only would access to data improve efficiency and productivity in air cargo shipping for the pharmaceutical supply chain, but the use of AI could empower air cargo supply chain stakeholders facing a rapidly growing market.


The past fiscal year brought some improvements in the Iowa economy that should position the state for stronger hiring in the year ahead. The housing market is on solid footing, and hiring is broader in scope, including a number of the service-providing industries that had been on hold for some time. State and local government fiscal conditions have also stabilized due to a rise in tax revenues. This means that government cutbacks will be less of a drag on overall job growth. During FY 2013, Iowa's non-farm jobs advanced by 19,200 (+1.3 percent) compared to 23,000 (+1.6 percent) for the prior fiscal year. Although manufacturing continued to post the largest over the year job gain at close to 5,600, job growth shifted away from manufacturing to the service providing industries by mid-year. Annual job gains of 2,000 or more were reflected in professional and business services, education and health, leisure and hospitality, retail trade and financial activities. Statewide non-farm employment averaged 1,517,700 in FY 2013, the highest level achieved since the record of 1,524,800 in FY 2008.


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 Afrocypholaelaps africanus (Evans, 1963)
 Afrocypholaelaps ranomafanaensis Haitlinger, 1987

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Lindsey Graham, with the main take-away from the hearing yesterday. More
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In this AEI Events Podcast, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joins AEI's Marc Thiessen for a conversation on how Congress and the White House can work together to advance US interests around the globe and ensure the nation's continued security in the coming year. In the wide-ranging discussion, Sen. Graham lays out his vision for the […]
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg made an interesting remark, referring to Lindsey Graham as one of the women of the Senate: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/11/ruth-bader-ginsburg-refers-to-lindsey-graham-as-one-of-the-women-of-the-senate-video/ More
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Returning from giving the keynote address at the annual Mensa International Symposium in Reykjavik, Iceland, I woke up on the third bounce of the Icelandair Boeing 757 on the main gravel runway at LaGuardia.
I nudged my personal sommelier and bodyguard, Vino Diesel, who had consumed 36 liters of Reyka, Iceland's premier vodka, during our four-day stay, rendering him somewhat less effective as a bodyguard.
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Dave Carter is a former cross country truck driver, retired military veteran, private detective, and radio show host. As a Security Forces member and Senior Historian in the US Air Force, he deployed throughout Asia, Europe & the Middle East. Author of over 40 volumes of Air Force histories, he also accompanied aircrews on combat missions in order to record combat events from a participant's perspective. Dave is a Contributor for Ricochet, The Federalist, Conservative Review, the host of The… [more]
(Note: This is the second of a two-part essay, the first part centered on the proposition that the Republican party, through its own self-destructive tendencies, has reduced conservatism itself to little more than an academic exercise.)
The second proposition is as follows:
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Leading up to the US Election in October, the mainstream press were pushing the narrative that Russia was either behind DNC/Podesta leaks or planning a Cyber Attack on Voting infrastructure. All this was assured by The U.S. Intelligence Community in October which NYT, Newsweek and Washington Post jumped upon. Back 20th September 2016 a declassified DHS report […]
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To Whom It May Concern: Although it seems like Mr. Barack Obama has worked as my president for much longer than seven years, I am thrilled to hear that he is pursuing a new position. You will be very lucky if you can get him to work for you. More
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At last, Lindsey Graham did the right thing. After months of increasingly irrelevant undercard debates and poll numbers in the naughts, South Carolina's littlest senator suspended his campaign. He joins far more promising ex-candidates Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and Bobby Jindal who were unable to capitalize on today's frustrated electorate.
Reviewing the polling this weekend, it's past time for several others to follow their lead. Trump is still leading most surveys, Cruz has surged into prominence, and then there's the amorphous lump of everybody else. Said amorphous lump represents a powerful constituency, as it holds a third of GOP primary voters. But divided among several candidates, these voters will lose out unless several of their current choices step aside.
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News broke sometime this morning: Lindsey Graham's suspending his campaign.
Really, I'm ready for more candidates to start dropping out. After several debates, I think we're pretty familiar with most of the candidates. Time for the field to narrow so the top few can get more airtime. Notable exception: Rand Paul. I'd like him to stay in it, not because he's gonna get close to winning, but because he holds positions significantly different than the other candidates, and I think that the intra-party debate helps us, in the long run.
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Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
This won't be another debate recap post. An army of pundits (Please note: Worst. Army. Ever.) has already dissected last night's proceedings and the emerging consensus seems about right to me: Carly Fiorina dominated, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie both had some pretty good moments, and Donald Trump's pilot light kept shutting off. Everyone else was basically treading water. In the undercard debate, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham both looked serviceable, but c'mon — it's not that big of a deal to win the NIT.
So let's play the story forward: after last night, what dynamics play out over the six weeks until the next GOP debate takes place in Boulder, Colorado? (Seriously, RNC? Boulder? Was George Soros' penthouse booked that night?) Here are some of the trends I'll be watching for:
Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Who Won the First GOP Debate?
The first GOP debate just wrapped up — not the one with Jeb! and The Donald, but the B-team. These are the seven candidates who didn't have enough juice in the polls to make the main debate coming at 9 p.m. ET. All of them entered this JV debate hoping to make enough of an impact to enter the top tier the next time around. I wish Fox News had set it up so the winner of this contest immediately reported to the prime time debate, but alas, this is politics, not "Top Chef."
It is a bit of a misnomer for the RNC to call these proceedings a "debate." None of the candidates interacted, but rather held a low-energy Q-and-A with two Fox reporters. Questions were asked; each candidate had 60 seconds to respond. So how did they do? Here's how I rank the performances:
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By Bill Whalen
Bill Whalen is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, with an emphasis on California's political landscape.
Now that Scott Walker's in the race, with John Kasich on tap for next week, the GOP's 2016 field soon will total 16 presidential candidates. We can rank them, 1-16. Or go by tiers. Or pick names out of a hat. My choice: divide the field into four brackets, four candidates apiece, which I've done in this column over at Forbes.com.
Bracket One — The Non-Conformists
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| June 1, 2015
June having dawned, we're beginning to get a decent sense of what the (enormous) GOP presidential field is going to look like. By my tally, we're probably going to end up with approximately 15 relatively prominent candidates. That's four sitting governors — Christie, Kasich, Jindal, and Walker; four former governors — Bush, Huckabee, Pataki, and Perry; four sitting senators — Cruz, Graham, Paul, and Rubio; Santorum, the lone former senator; and the two who've never held elected office, Carson and Fiorina. I know everyone's focused on how you get all these people onto one stage, but I've been thinking about another dynamic: there are 14 people in that group who aren't going to be the Republican nominee. What do they do next? Here are my thoughts for each of these candidates should they fail to win the big prize. Add yours in the comments.
Bush — Make gobs of money? True, there'll be an open Senate seat in Florida next year with Rubio choosing not to run again, but most former executives don't relish time in the legislative branch — and it's not clear how much cachet Bush still has in the state given that he'll have been out of office for a decade at that point (especially with Florida's high population turnover). Given his record as governor, Bush probably would've been at the top of any Republican president's list for Secretary of Education — but, given how closely identified with Common Core he's become, I doubt that's necessarily true anymore.
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The GOP presidential field continues to swell like Elvis' waistline in the 1970s. Former New York Governor George Pataki jumped into the fray on Thursday, a day after former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 contender Rick Santorum made his intentions known.
Does either candidate stand a chance of making it all the way to the nomination?
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Senator Lindsey Graham is running for president — or close enough to count — and was among the speakers at the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner this past Saturday (as were Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal). Judging from what I've seen of the videos, this was a light-hearted event where the candidates were expected to be self-deprecating and folksy. Graham started his speech as such, but then… well, I'll let him speak for himself:
I've been a lawyer in the military for 33 years. If I don't get court-martialed, I'm going to retire at the end of the month and I've enjoyed every minute of it. I've 6 1/2 years on active duty. I've been in the Guard, Reserves, and it's been a lot of fun. I've been a military judge, I've been a defense attorney, and I've been a prosecutor.
| May 8, 2015
I cannot stand this idiot. The only reason he is running for President is to skew the South Carolina primary results so Jeb doesn't take a big hit. Listen to me, Mr. Graham. As a North Carolina import to this state, I was pleased with your performance during the Clinton impeachment proceedings. However, ever since […]
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| March 18, 2015
Sometimes, late-night television writers have to scrounge for material. Other times, comedy falls right in their laps. For example: news reports that a 68-year-old Mitt Romney plans to climb into the ring with former boxing champ Evander Holyfield.
It's part of a May 15 card in Salt Lake City. And before you think Romney's lost his mind (or suffered damage from too many political campaigns), rest assured that (a) his heart's in the right place (it's a fundraising event for Charity Vision, a humanitarian organization founded by retired Salt Lake physician Bill Jackson) and (b) the former GOP nominee hasn't lost his sense of humor ("It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious," he told reporters. "It won't be much of a fight. We'll both suit up and get in the ring and spar around a little bit.").
Hey Lindsey – go ahead and run for the nomination. Heck, you may even win the Presidency because millions of people will vote for you! But . . . do you want to know why? More
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Tennessee Republican Andy Holt supports domestic terrorists
Tennessee State Rep. Andy Holt (R-Dresden) is the first elected official in the United States that I have been made aware of who has publicly supported the Bundy family and a group of domestic terrorists who have taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. In fact, Holt went as far as to take to Twitter and publicly ask for information about where he could send an unspecified amount and type of support to the Bundy militia (screengrab by Chattanooga City Council member Chris Anderson, Holt deleted the tweet from his account):
.@TheJusticeDept Please investigate TN State Rep @AndyHolt4TN for treason against our nation pic.twitter.com/X2xB8ponr2
— Chris Anderson (@chrismanderson) January 4, 2016
As you can clearly see, Anderson flatly called for a federal investigation into possible treason by Holt. Treason is the only crime that is defined in the U.S. Constitution (Article III, Section 3):
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Both types of treason (levying war against the U.S. and aiding the enemy) either do or may apply in this scenario, the former to the Bundy militia, and the latter to Holt. According to local law enforcement in Oregon who have knowledge of the ongoing siege, the Bundy militia has intentions of attempting an overthrow of the U.S. government and the government of Harney County, Oregon, so that is clearly plotting an act of treason. By intending to send "support" to the Bundy militia, Holt is at least plotting to aid the Bundy militia, unless his remarks are pure hyperbole. If Holt's remarks are more than hyperbole (i.e., sending support to the Bundy militia or actually plotting to do so), then he's committing treason.
However, some of Holt's other tweets are clearly not hyperbole, and give you a general idea of how much of a vile, disgusting human being that he is. Darrell Bouldin, a 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC) delegate from Tennessee, compiled a few of Holt's homophobic remarks towards Anderson, who is openly gay:
https://twitter.com/DarrellBouldin/status/683908639023853568
Andy Holt is even more vile and disgusting than Donald Trump, and I didn't even think that was possible until now. Please use the hashtag #UNFITFORTN when tweeting about how much of a disgusting human being Holt is.
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Rush Limbaugh publicly supports rape
Right-wing talk radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh has a long track record of showing complete disrespect for women on his nationally-syndicated radio program.
This time, however, Limbaugh said something so vile on his radio program, it's even worse than his blatantly sexist tirade in which he called Sandra Fluke, now a Democratic candidate for a seat in the California State Senate, a "slut". Limbaugh publicly supported sexual assault by saying that "no means yes if you know how to spot it":
"How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it?" he asked on "The Rush Limbaugh Show" Monday. "It used to be used as a cliché."
Limbaugh then read off Ohio State University's definition of consent, which outlines how two people should behave once they have decided to engage in a sexual relationship. It states that you and your partner must agree to engage in the activity every step of the way, including agreeing on "why" you are doing so. But that just sucks all the fun out of it, Limbaugh said.
Cumulus Media, which Limbaugh signed a contract with, and Premiere Networks, which syndicates The Rush Limbaugh Show, should fire Limbaugh and cancel the program immediately. When Limbaugh said "no means yes" and then claimed that getting consent from someone to have sex "sucks all the fun" out of having sex, he publicly supported sexual assault. It's highly unacceptable for anyone, especially someone who hosts a talk radio program syndicated across the entire country, to publicly support a horrific criminal act.
When someone says "NO", he or she means "NO". There is nothing fun whatsoever about raping someone.
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