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Q: Realm Swift: any way to move Object from one List to other? I've been doing my checklist app with local Realm database and stuck with code where I need to change category of item in the list.
There are several checklists and I would like to move my Objects (checklist items) between checklists. To give you an idea of my data structure: trip.checklist[indexPath.section].sectionChecklist[indexPath.row]
I've tried a method to delete Object and immediately add it to other list, but it expectedly comes to the error:

"Adding a deleted or invalidated object to a Realm is not permitted"

The code was:
func updateChecklistCategory(checklistSection: ChecklistSection, checklistItem: ChecklistElement) {
    let realm = getRealm()

    deleteObject(object: checklistItem)
    addItemToCategory(checklistSection: checklistSection, checklistItem: checklistItem)
}

func addItemToCategory(checklistSection: ChecklistSection, checklistItem: ChecklistElement) {
    let realm = getRealm()

    do {
        try realm.write {
            checklistSection.sectionChecklist.append(checklistItem)
        }
    }
    catch {
        print("Error updating objects")
    }
}

Is there any elegant way to do such movements? I understand it's possible if I initialize completely new Object with the same data, but it seems wrong.

A: This is a great question.
Lists do not contain objects, only references to objects. So you can add and remove objects freely from Lists without affecting the actual object.
If you want to 'move' an object from one list to another, here's an example of moving a dog object from one person's List to another.
If you know the index to the object within the List you can get a reference the dog object directly from the list. If not, query for that object, find it in the list, remove it from the List and then add the dog to the new List. Do NOT delete or do anything to the actual dog object.
class PersonClass: Object {
   @Persisted var name = ""
   @Persisted var dogList: List<Dog>()
}

class DogClass: Object {
   @Persted var dogName = ""
}

then let's add a dog 'Spot' to Jay's dogList
let dog = DogClass()
dog.name = "Spot"

let jay = PersonClass()
jay.name = "Jay"
jay.dogList.append(dog) //Jay has a dog

let cindy = PersonClass()
cindy.name = "Cindy" //Cindy has no dog

try! realm.write {
    realm.add([jay, cindy])
}

then later we want to move the dog Spot from Jay to Cindy
let spot = realm.objects(DogClass.self).first! //get the spot object

//or: if you know the index you can get a dog reference from the list
//  let spot = jay.dogList[0] //a reference to the dog at index 0 in this case

let jay = realm.objects(PersonClass.self).where { $0.name == "Jay"}.first!
let cindy = realm.objects(PersonClass.self).where { $0.name == "Cindy"}.first!

try! realm.write {
    //if you don't know the index of the dog, get it
    if let dogIndex = jay.dogList.firstIndex(of: spot) { //get spots position in the dogList
        jay.dogList.remove(at: dogIndex) //removed dog from jay's dogList - this does not alter the dog object
        cindy.dogList.append(spot) //and then add the dog to cindy's dogList
    }

    //if you know the index of the dog, get a reference to it
    // let spot = jay.dogList[0] //a reference to the dog at index 0 in this case
    // jay.dogList.remove(at: 0) //removed dog from jay's dogList - this does not alter the dog object
    // cindy.dogList.append(spot) //and then add the dog to cindy's dogList
}

The key is that Realm List collection objects only contains references to the actual object stored on disk - not the actual object - those references can be added or removed without affecting the object itself.
Keep in mind though, that if you want to modify the actual object within the List, you'll need to use the reference to get the actual object, and then modify it within a write transaction. That change will reflect in ALL other Lists that reference that object.
So in the above example, if Spot was in both Jay and Cindys List, and Spot's name was modified to be "Buttons", then it changes the name on disk and Jay and Cindy's dog would now be Buttons


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The street was fairy-like. The first trees on the left are chestnut trees.
A peanut feeder, a wire-mesh, cylindrical cage, with holes for shelled peanuts. Several species, including titmouses Eurasian Jay, and woodpeckers, consume peanuts. I 've made some holes larger. So it is easier for the birds to get the peanuts.
A grey heron is watching the pond from the roof of the neighbours.
The left photograph has been made 3rd February. On the marguerite daisy (chrysanthemum frutescens) a drone fly thought spring had already started. A flowering marguerite daisy is also unusual.
One photo of the garden. And some photos of the berries and flowers in winter.
The pound and the bamboo. The dried flowers of the hortensia are also beautiful in winter.
Each winter a rose is still flowering. The heath is very early flowering.
Berries of a gold-dust plant. They are not red yet. Berries of the holly. Berries of the privet.
There are many birds in the garden. But in summer they are less shy. The robin I photographed through the window.
The heron flew away immediately when it saw me.
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There was snow and the sky looked beautiful. This time I did not walk to the dunes. But to the forest and to the meadow opposite the forest.
. The first picture is from the front garden. In the second picture, I look back. Our house is about five minutes walk away from the forest.
Over the wooden bridge you come to a forest path. I've taken the high road.
In the forest on the right. If the ice is thick enough, especially young children enjoy skating here. I walked back to the road. On the left are meadows. There is also a footpath.
Now you have wonderful views.
If you enlarge the last photo, you can read on the board "paddenpad" . That means toad path. But now you will not see toads. I walked back home.
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They breed in the Netherlands in Limburg. Here you see them only as a winter host.
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December 20 the weather was much better . Here is a picture of the chestnut next to the garage. December 20. The palm overwinters next to the house.


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David James Archuleta (born December 28, 1990) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. At ten years old, he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007, at sixteen years old, he became one of the youngest contestants on the seventh season of American Idol. In May 2008 he finished as the runner-up, receiving 44 percent of over 97 million votes.
In March 2012, Archuleta released his fourth album, Forevermore, exclusively in the Philippines. This was his first Original Pilipino Music album, composed of several covers of Filipino songs. The album was certified gold in the Philippines (10,000 units) as of June 2012. Archuleta's fifth album, Begin, was released on August 7, 2012, in the United States. His sixth album, No Matter How Far, was released on March 26, 2013.
Archuleta was born on December 28, 1990 in salsa singer and dancer, and Jeff Archuleta, a jazz musician. His mother is from Honduras and his father is of Spanish–Basque, Danish, Irish, German, and Iroquois descent. He speaks fluent Spanish. Archuleta has four siblings. His family moved to the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, Utah when he was six years old. He now lives in Murray where he attended Murray High School. Archuleta earned his Eagle Scout award in 2010 of the Boy Scouts of America. When Archuleta, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was 21, he volunteered for two years as a full-time missionary in Santiago, Chile. Archuleta is also a graduate of Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Salt Lake City.
Archuleta started singing at the age of six, inspired by a Les Misérables video. "That musical is what started all of this," he said. He started performing publicly at age ten when he participated in the Utah Talent Competition, singing "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton; he received a standing ovation and won the Child Division.
In 2003, when he was twelve years old, Archuleta sang on several episodes of the television show Star Search. He ended up as the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2, losing the Junior Grand Champion title to Tiffany Evans. On one episode, he sang against then-11-year-old Alexandréa Lushington, who became a "top 20" semi-finalist on American Idol alongside Archuleta. Around the second year of being on Star Search he started focusing on the lyrics, "I didn't even pay attention to the lyrics when I was 12, 13".
Archuleta's competing on Star Search was preceded by an appearance on The Jenny Jones Show, meeting the finalists from American Idol's first season, for whom he performed a spontaneous a cappella rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls. He received praise from Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson, and the episode led to appearances on CBS's The Early Show. The year after Star Search, he found out he had partial vocal paralysis but declined risky surgery and has said he feels he is almost fully recovered. He limited his singing for specific occasions like Stadium of Fire, the Independence Day celebration at Brigham Young University Stadium.
Archuleta made initial attempts at songwriting and arranging music after his Star Search experience and has written at least three songs. His first singles in 2002 written by his father and Sunny Hilden "Dream Sky High" and a song he had written by Yani Gileadi "Don't Tell Me".
Archuleta received his ticket to the Hollywood auditions at the San Diego tryouts – held at Qualcomm Stadium at the end of July 2007 – with a performance of John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change" with judge Randy Jackson spontaneously joining in to sing the background "waiting" in the song. He was sixteen during the Hollywood auditions and attended school while a part of American Idol's seventh season. A parent/guardian was required to be there because he was a minor. Archuleta also took advantage of the decision to allow contestants to play musical instruments when he accompanied himself on piano for his performances of "Crazy", "Another Day in Paradise", and "Angels".
During the 1970s themed week Archuleta sang the John Lennon song "Imagine", omitting the earlier verses in favor of the last one. Los Angeles Times columnist Ann Powers speculated that he wanted to avoid singing "no religion too" because of his faith. "As a Mormon, he's unlikely to espouse the song's agnostic ideal", she wrote. However, he did sing the entire song on Good Things Utah when he was thirteen. When asked by judge Randy Jackson why he didn't sing the first verse, Archuleta said the third verse was his favorite because it has "a great message."
After his performance of "We Can Work It Out", which judge Simon Cowell called "a mess", Entertainment Tonight reported that Archuleta was feeling pressure from his father, Jeff Archuleta, who "reportedly yelled at" his son after a recording session the previous night. Jeff Archuleta, in an interview with Us Weekly, denied the claim. A May 2008 Associated Press article reported that Jeff Archuleta had his son add a lyric from the Sean Kingston song "Beautiful Girls" into an interpretation of "Stand by Me" (from which "Beautiful Girls" samples its bass line), increasing the costs for licensing, and that this had resulted in Jeff Archuleta being banned from American Idol backstage rehearsals. Archuleta defended his father calling him "a great guy" who keeps him grounded.
During the Top 7 results show, the contestants were split into two groups. In one group was Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, and Kristy Lee Cook. In the other group was David Cook, Carly Smithson, and Jason Castro. Archuleta was the only one not sorted into a group. He was declared safe after the groups were formed, then was asked to choose the group he thought was safe. He refused, and sat down on the floor of the stage, much like Melinda Doolittle had done the previous season.
In the finale he sang "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "In This Moment" and "Imagine". Judge Simon Cowell declared that Archuleta won the evening and even David Cook, who ultimately won, thought Archuleta would win: "I have to concede it, the kid came out all three songs and nailed it", said Cook. In the final tally, Archuleta received 44 percent of the votes. During the finale show, identical commercials featuring Archuleta and fellow finalist Cook mimicked the Tom Cruise scene from Risky Business where he dances in his underwear playing an air guitar; they were promoting the game franchise Guitar Hero.
(mentor: Neil Diamond) "Sweet Caroline"
Music of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "Stand by Me"
Producers' Choice "And So It Goes"
Archuleta's first appearances on music ranking charts were with the three songs he performed in the American Idol finale; "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "In This Moment", and "Imagine", debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of June 7, 2008. "Imagine" entered at number 36 (giving Archuleta his first top forty hit), "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" at number 58, and "In This Moment" entered at number 60. That same week he had three songs on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart as well, where his versions of "Longer", "Think of Me", and "Angels" debuted at number 15, number 19, and number 24 respectively. In July 2008 So You Think You Can Dance, a dance competition reality show, Archuleta's cover of "Imagine" by John Lennon was the featured music for contestants Katee Shean and William Wingfield with their pas de deux performance.
Archuleta signed with Jive Records in June 2008. His self-titled album, David Archuleta, was released in November 2008. His first single "Crush" was released in August 2008 on Z100, a New York radio station. On August 12 "Crush" became available on iTunes. It debuted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, beaten only by Rihanna's "Disturbia". It was the best chart debut in more than 18 months. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the track sold 166,000 downloads in the first week in the United States. It has sold 1.92 million digital copies in the US.
Along with American Idol winner David Cook, Archuleta placed second on Forbes' list of "Breakout Stars of 2008". The two co-presented an award at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards in August 2008. Archuleta also received the Teen Choice Award surfboard for "Most Fanatic Fans".
Archuleta signs autographs while serving as Grand Marshal at the Krewe of Caesar Mardi Gras parade in Metairie, Louisiana, on Valentine's Day, 2009.
Since the release of his debut album, Archuleta has released three new songs: "Let's Talk About Love (The Build-A-Bear theme song)", "Save the Day (released only in Japan as a bonus track in his album)", and "Zero Gravity." In February, it was announced that Archuleta will be touring the United Kingdom supporting British band McFly on their "Up Close...And This Time It's Personal" tour. The tour began on April 21, 2009 and continued until May. Archuleta became the opening act for Demi Lovato's tour which began June 21, 2009.
On April 22, 2009, Archuleta returned to the American Idol stage in its eighth season and performed the third single from his debut album, "Touch My Hand". On April 30, 2009 he made his first UK television appearance, on The Paul O'Grady Show, performing "Crush" and chatting about his album, which was released there in May. In May, Archuleta and fellow American Idol David Cook, visited the Philippines. Two days later he made live appearances on two of GMA-7's shows, Sis and Eat Bulaga!. He also confirmed that month that he was working on two new albums, his sophomore pop album and a Christmas album. In August 2009, Archuleta won three Teen Choice Awards for Breakout Artist, Love Song, and the Music Tour category with Demi Lovato. In September he won the Year in Music – Rising Male Star award at the ALMA Awards and performed a cover of the standard "Contigo en la Distancia".
Archuleta's acting debut was when he appeared as himself on Nickelodeon's show iCarly titled "iRocked the Vote". The episode aired February 7, 2009. He made a special guest appearance in Season 3 of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana In the episode "Promma Mia" as himself and he sang a duet: "I Wanna Know You" with Miley Cyrus who plays title character. The song was featured on the soundtrack Hannah Montana 3 and also appeared later on the compilation Best of Hannah Montana.
On May 16, 2009, Archuleta and David Cook performed in the Mall of Asia: Concert Grounds for their Back-to-Back Concert in Manila, Philippines. On June 1, 2010, Archuleta released Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song, and the Power of Perseverance, a memoir which refers to "the partial vocal paralysis he suffered in 2004 but has now fully recovered from". He went on a book signing tour beginning in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The book was a bestseller.
Archuleta came back to the American Idol stage on April 7, 2010 on the show's ninth season and performed John Lennon's "Imagine", which David had performed previously in the Top 20 Week when he was a contestant on the show. After his performance, he mentioned that he was working on his third studio album. Archuleta sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Stand by Me" at the 30th anniversary of the annual A Capitol Fourth concert in Washington, D.C. on the Fourth of July. The show was aired on PBS at 8pm EST live and tape delay PT.
Archuleta sang live at the Tejano Music Awards covering Selena's songs, Como La Flor and No Me Queda Más at the event as a tribute on July 11, 2010. In an interview with AOL's Something Pitchy, Archuleta revealed that the release of his next album was planned for Fall 2010 (he did mention a late September release, but then went back to the Fall). On June 24, 2010 Jive Records announced that his new single would be released on DavidArchuleta.com on July 13, and iTunes on July 20. However, on June 30, 2010 the full version of "Something 'Bout Love" became available to play on his website. His album The Other Side of Down was released on October 5, 2010.
On October 7, 2010, it was announced that David Archuleta would be the guest star at the annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Archuleta sang in performances on December 16–19. On September 6, 2011, Glad Christmas Tidings, a concert CD and DVD of the choir and Arhculeta's performance was released.
On February 18, 2011 it was announced by Jive Records that David Archuleta had been released from his contract with them. It was also announced on February 17, 2011 that Archuleta left his management Wright Entertainment Group. Archuleta intends to spend time working on writing original material. On July 2, 2011, Archuleta joined Brad Paisley to perform at the Stadium of Fire, where he performed the national anthem in addition to his five song set. From July 16 to 26, 2011, Archuleta toured Asia, performing in Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh), and Malaysia.
At the conclusion of the December 19, 2011 show of the My Kind of Christmas Tour, Archuleta announced his intention to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years. He stated that he would return to music upon the completion of his mission.
In early 2012, Archuleta signed a contract with TV5 to shoot a prime-time mini series in the Philippines titled Nandito Ako (Here I Am), which was broadcast from February to March 2012. An Original Pilipino Music album was released in March 26, 2012 in the Philippines, titled Forevermore. This album contains covers of classic Filipino songs, including "Nandito Ako" by Ogie Alcasid, "Forevermore" by Side A, and South Border's "Rainbow".
As announced at the end of 2011, Archuleta would serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The singer, who has reportedly been assigned to Chile, entered the Provo, Utah Missionary Training Center on March 28, 2012. On August 7, 2012, a pre-recorded album titled Begin was released in the United States. The album consists of cover songs as well as a new original track titled "Broken". On February 12, 2013 a new song called "Don't Run Away", which had leaked online back in October 2012, was released on iTunes as the lead single from Archuleta's second release while serving on his mission. The album titled No Matter How Far, which consists of tracks previously only available in Asia and two newly released original songs, was released on March 26, 2013. Archuleta confirmed on March 24, 2014 that his mission is now completed and he is back home in Utah.
Archuleta embarked on a Military Tribute Tour.
Archuleta has been reportedly shooting a music video in Costa Rica for an untitled track following a tweet from his manager Kari Sellards attached with a picture that shows sets for shooting concluded with hashtag #DA2014, which fans have been tweeting on his absence for 2 years. On September 25, photos surfaced online at the set of the music video shoot, which is as of that moment, title remains unrevealed. The said song and it's music video will debut on February 12-15, 2015 to perform at RootsTech 2015 with comedy sketch group Studio C. On September 28, he released a new single as a free download titled "Glorious". The song was used in the motion picture Meet the Mormons.
Along with denim to homeless teenagers nationwide. In January 2010, Haiti was hit with a major earthquake. On January 22, 2010, Archuleta joined other celebrities for a 2-hour fundraising telethon where he answered phones, and even stayed longer afterward to keep answering the phones.
In January 2011, Archuleta travelled to Chennai, India with Rising Star Outreach, a non-profit charity giving children from leper colonies a first-class education and a chance at a future in India.
Archuleta was one of the many Latino singers who participated in Somos El Mundo, the Spanish version of "We Are the World 25 for Haiti". The song and video premiered on the Cristina Show in March 2010, funds raised benefit Haiti relief.
Archuleta's mother is from Honduras, and much of the music he listened to as a child was Latin-influenced, including watching his mom sing at events with her sisters. She also "was big on dancing" according to Archuleta, and would "make" him dance to traditional music with his older sister. He also listened to jazz music, he said, from his father's collection as well as gospel, pop, rock and "soulful music." In a later interview, he revealed that his father was a jazz musician. Archuleta also said he enjoys Broadway musicals.
On his American Idol "Fast Facts" page, Archuleta cited his musical influences as Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams. Like Elliott Yamin and another singer he admires, John Mayer, Archuleta tries to infuse his pop selections with a soulful vibe. In a Seventeen interview, he cited Sara Bareilles as a clever singer-songwriter whom he looks up to.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Himself/Guest Interview and live performance of "Crush"
2010 Tosh.0 Himself Cameo "Episode 21 - American Idol Girls"
^ The performance of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" wasn't aired due to licensing issues with American Idol and the original artist(s).
^ John Farnham released "You're the Voice" in 1985; it was re-arranged and released as a cover version by David Foster with vocalist Jeff Pescetto in 1990. Archuleta was born that same year so was able to use it for the week's theme – "Songs from birth year of contestants".
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^ David Archuleta Explains Break From Jive, Management Company (Video) – Idol Worship. Hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-23.
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^ Shirley Halperin, "Catching up with David Archuleta", Los Angeles Times, 8 March 2010.
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Three killed, one wounded in Palmdale shooting [updated]
by The AV Times Staff • January 17, 2019
Authorities set up a command post near Ranch Center Drive and 40th Street West in Palmdale, where four men in two parked cars were found suffering from gunshot wounds. Three of the men were pronounced dead at the scene and the fourth was taken to a hospital in unknown condition. [Image by APRIL JENKINS]
PALMDALE – Three men were killed and one man was wounded Wednesday night in a shooting in Palmdale, authorities said.
It happened around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the area of Ranch Center Drive and 40th Street West, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Information Bureau.
"Detectives have learned that deputies responded to the area of Ranch Center Drive and 40th Street West regarding a call of a gunshot victim. Upon arriving, they discovered four male adult victims in two cars parked at the location, suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds. Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the fourth victim was transported to a nearby hospital. His condition is unknown," the sheriff's news release states.
A description of the shooter or shooters as well as a motive was not immediately available. The murder weapon was not recovered, sheriff's officials said.
The victims' names have not yet been released.
No further information on the shooting was immediately released.
Anyone with information about the shooting is encouraged to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222- 8477.
UPDATE: The victims were identified as Olukayode Owolabi, 27, of Los Angeles; Sean Cowen, 24, of Van Nuys and David Hernandez-Licona, 25, of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
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Better to stay home and t.v.
Brad says
Any further updates? Just wondering if there is a killer on the loose. I wonder why they didn't go public with this case.
Back to what this article is about. A jewelry designer; a skilled rollerblader; a Latino from Boyle Heights, and a fourth unidentified man were in a rather remote part of Palmdale late at night in two cars, to meet up with unidentified person or persons. Three of these young men were murdered, and one is still living, (shot in the face). The fourth man called 911, and told the dispatcher he did not know where he was, so law enforcement used technology to locate them. Hopefully the facts will come out, and justice will prevail for these young men that got way in over their heads.
Amethyst says
People keep saying drug deal, and anything else that implies they were at fault for being there. How is it that people can say such things when they don't know what actually happened. And who knows if it will ever be REALLY KNOWN. All I know is I lost my boyfriend to this, on a night I was supposed to see him and it sucks that there isn't more coverage or information other than this one article and the one with the witness statement
Tim Scott says
Sorry for your loss.
I've said drug deal as a possibility, and though I regret that it hurts your feelings I only suggested it as one possible explanation for a highly unlikely situation. People who are familiar with the location would be very hard pressed to come up with a good, wholesome explanation for people in two cars stopping at that place late at night.
You are likely right that no one will ever know for a fact what it was about, but at the very least it supports a lesson for young people that good things don't happen in strange places very often. In that, their deaths won't be totally in vain.
Damien says
I have friends close to this investigation. Drugs and money were found in one of the vehicles but it's not being reported until the investigation is complete. More to follow.
Hey, here's a thought…post who your friends are so we can watch them all justifiably lose their jobs.
Trumpist#1 says
Wow, Tim, you're really mellowing out in our old age.
One of them was a real close friend, I read one was your bf, do you know any more information about this as of today? I'm so sorry for your loss also btw
Concerned AF says
Any updates???
Just wondering says
if a possible antidote for our road rage epidemic would be to have all transportation vehicles 3/4 ton and under have a horn which plays bird chirps instead of the annoying honking sound. Vehicles over 3/4 ton would have a bird whistle, which can not in any way be mistaken for a wolf whistle.
William says
Be careful, Just Wondering.
rex will steal your idea and claim it as his own kinda like the stuff that his role model trump does.
Reyna says
I know it's hard for a lot of people to believe, but crime in Palmdale is actually down for 2018. It has been on a downward trend for the past 6 years. LASD is still running the numbers and they should be finalized soon. Word is that the Palmdale crime rate went down (again) from the 2017 rate.
A lot of things are contributing to the decline in crime:
1.) More jobs in the local area now
2.) Appreciation in home values
3.) More retail choices
4.) More education among the populace than previous generations
5.) Improved security cameras
6.) Better crime-reporting technology and deterrence
In order to keep this momentum going, we have to cooperate regionally with Lancaster and the unincorporated areas around us (Leona Valley, Green Valley, the Lakes, Acton, Littlerock, Lake Los Angeles, Pearblossom, etc.)
Doc Rivers says
Why do we need the Lancaster cooperation? We have lowered our crime rate without Lancaster and it will go down again without the Lancaster Cooperation. Why now do we need them?? Palmdale will get under 200 crime rate so lets see Lancasters numbers as they do not use community based policing like Palmdale has for the last 25 years. Marvin and Rex telling their new police chief how to chase crime hasn't worked yet and its suppose to start working now that were cooperating.
Informed says
Cooperate with Lancaster implies that Lancaster is interested in cooperation…other than in 'cooperating' on dragging everyone down to their level, of course.
You mean we should have a drone too? I don't trust any dealings with Lancaster. None whatsoever.
Since Palmdale's crime rate has decreased WITHOUT cooperation from Lancaster, why bother adding their bad ideas to our good policies and progress. .
Plus, we have to keep on eye on Hofbauer, Carrillo, Bishop and Loa in Palmdale. A very close eye as they can't be trusted either.
It would be great for the Antelope Valley if Palmdale and Lancaster had a good working relationship but history has shown that one side of that relationship is corrupt and untrustworthy in addition to normalizing the pathologies of Lancaster's mayor.
Like trump, rex has a coterie of sycophants around him that enable his despicable behavior. And, for some reason, they've all grown beards. When Hofbauer and his crew grow them, watch out.
To emphasize how bad it is in Lancaster, Palmdale lost a satellite campus for the Antelope Valley College when the college stole the money voted for it to build their auditorium. Then, Antelope Valley Hospital fought and fought the building of Palmdale Regional Medical Center. I don't know if rex had anything to do with the above but it just shows that the whole city suffers from the same sickness as rex. Dishonesty.
So, it's not just rex & co. that is a problem but other entities in Lancaster. The change of CEOs at that hospital reminds me of the furniture stores in Lancaster that go out of business every year and are replaced by another one that will do the same in another year. Those CEOs get a big buy out and move to another city to do the same I guess. Therefore, they are essentially double-dipping by drawing a new salary somewhere else while at the same time having a large farewell payment to boot. It's been happening for decades.
The point is. Steer clear of Lancaster and it's leaders. They are no good for Palmdale nor Lancaster either.
William, and the other commenters letting Rex live rent free in their heads all day long. They never talk about what the article is about. Obsessed all day long, every day for years.
DC says
please think about the grieving families of these victims. They were all sons, grandsons, brothers, family! before you post
If you read witness statements over 20 shots fired then after ten minutes a single shot…. 3 were murdered immediately then somehow there was a pause before 4th got shot with single gun shot to face….. as a detectives daughter I'd say the injured one got to live with a threat for the rest of his life and to send a message to others he probably was the lay man shot which means there was a ten minute conversation before the single last shot…. shrug but that is a big question mark in my mind… why a ten minute delay and then a single shot to the face?
Your 'ten minute conversation' theory is certainly exciting, but rooted in flimsy assumptions and highly implausible.
First off, witness statements should always be viewed with skepticism. A witness that "hears a gunshot" could have actually heard a whole bunch of things ten minutes after they heard a bunch of shots. Knowing that there was in fact a shooting since they are being asked about it they are going to think everything they heard that might have been a gunshot actually was, but that doesn't make it so.
Second, even if there was a shot after a ten minute delay, there's no certainty that it was a gunshot that had anything to do with the shooting. A bunch of keyed up Anaverde residents hear a barrage of gunfire, and ten minutes later someone sees a shadow move in their back yard and pops off a round is at least as plausible as your tales of gangland warnings.
But, let's say it was another shot from the same gun. Bullets don't take a number as they leave the gun, so assuming that the guy who got hit in the face took the last bullet is not supported in any way at all. Here's an alternative theory for you that has no more support, but at least doesn't rely on the fanciful TV script 'gangland warning' concept.
I find out through someone's loose talk that a drug exchange is going down at a somewhat remote parking lot, so I set up in ambush. I shoot EVERYBODY. Dude gets shot in the face because if I'm shooting at someone who is sitting in a car I ain't shooting them in the foot. It takes me a few minutes to find the envelope with the cash, and to make sure I got all the dope, and at some point (probably not really ten minutes, but who's counting?) somebody moves, or moans, or otherwise lets it be known they aren't dead, so I pop another round into their head. Then I'm gone. One dude makes it, because he had the luck or good sense to not move after he got hit the first time.
The key difference in these two theories is plausibility. Start with a fact. There's a whole neighborhood full of people not a quarter mile away, and the shooting is in a location with very limited access.
There are only three ways out, one of them means driving right through the neighborhood where who knows how many people are peeping out their windows and identifying cars. Another involves driving a fair distance down the road that cops are likely to be taking to the scene, again identifying cars for future investigation. So there's really only one way out, and one way is never a good way.
IF there's a delay and a final shot, under those circumstances there would have to be a really good reason for someone who just shot up a bunch of people to hang around at all. They want to get GONE. Taking time to collect cash and valuable dope is vaguely plausible. "Sending a message" is straight from television.
The light says
This was a hit
3 mins from my house in Anaverde. Cops need to be harder in the AV. They just kick back and wait for big things to happen. Ive seen people run stop signs in front of them and they do nothing. Hating Sheriffs.
tm says
Dumb [removed] lifestyle choices , gangs are a waste of time and sorry for the idiots that are dumb enough to believe that its worth following as a lifestyle … stupid [removed] get recruited at a young age for a reason cuz they re naive and dumb enough to take orders from older [removed] that don't even care about them in the first place… do better in your life , you only live once don't waste it on a " gang" !
EC says
Shut up. I know one of the victims. He wasn't in a gang. He was a well known jewelry designer. Only idiot is the murderer and you.
Marc says
What is a "jewelry designer" doing out in the middle of nowhere at 11:15 pm on a rainy/windy night in January???? Please tell !
Laughing says
Enjoying life? Or trying to.
Mando says
"Enjoying life" …Nonsense!
One of the victims was the owner of KayodeCo(jewelry designer) so it was for a fact not gang related!!!
Really? says
Please explain what the hell he was doing at 11:15 PM in a remote area in the rain?
Drug deal went bad.
Gowchong says
Drug deal gone bad? Payback for drug deal ripoff?
Streetracertaskforce says
Ugh these damn street racers are getting out of hand. The 3 dudes that died had loud exhausts and the guy the lived was a warning because he was thinking about doing an exhaust ugh
Where the heck is Ranch Center Drive?
Out Lake Elizabeth Road a ways. It's the back way into Anaverde.
Behind Lazy T Ranch
While this is an accurate answer I'd guess most people would respond "cool…so where's Lazy T ranch?"
Fred Gladstone says
You sure it isnt Lazy N Ranch cause it sure sounds like it
Exactly, It's migrating over here now. First 6 months I lived here, no police activity at all in my area of Desert View Highlands. Last three weeks, much more. One house is being monitored by the sheriff's office on Elizabeth Lake Rd. Three weeks ago, five black and whites, 2 detective cars and two more big SUV's were at the house for hours and they were questioning a man outside. Then a week later I saw more heavy police activity on an adjacent road.
The Lancaster crime wave is creeping south.
Crime wave creeping north.
They came from L.A., Doc Rivers.
I Believe says
We need more bird sounds to drive away the crime. Rex told the Wall Street Journal that his bird sounds were lowering crime city wide. I say we pipe bird sounds all across the Valley and finally eliminate crime.
why stop in the valley. Pipe bird sounds around the globe and have world peace and harmony.
BLVD Worker says
From the looks of the BLVD, the bird sounds did not lower crime. The bird sounds attracted panhandlers.
Focus says
Can't any of you comment on this article. This article is NOT about the BLVD, Rex, or bird sounds! Stay on topic, please. What a shame that three young men lost their lives, and the 4th is shot in the face.
Bird sounds can reduce cortisol and adrenaline, which are produced by the human body in response to stress. Ever since early man had to worry about forest predators, people found singing birds reassuring.
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Bird sounds will save us.
if more research should be done on bird sounds before we expand them. Perhaps one of the sounds is actually the reason for the increased crime as of late.
Mr. Focus, I find the dialogue on bird sounds to be exceedingly helpful in the context of this story. Bird sounds can reduce cortisol and adrenaline, which are produced by the human body in response to stress. Ever since early man had to worry about forest predators, people have found singing birds reassuring. If society had an increase in bird sounds it would reduce and eliminate aggressive actions which cause such tragic events.
Bird sounds don't work to eliminate crime. You obviously think they do, Julian. Maybe a Cockatoo or two should be blasted from loud hailers up and down the crime ridden streets.
Alexis, Rex said bird sounds lowered crime in Lancaster. He would never lie.
You should be glad, Ellen! This means that the Sheriffs are doing their job.
Concerned resident says
Why is there no media coverage ? Why is there no manhunt being made public or asking help from the public ?
This is a big deal .. 3 dead , one in hospital and no suspect or suspects.. no description of the cars they were found in.. why no briefing ? Was this an isolated incident or are lunatics with high powered weapons on hand out on the loose? were they from our area ? Community has questions .. I get it , they are still investigating but some briefing would be nice to ease our minds or some may be able to help
Yes it really bothers me that there is no manhunt apparently or any fuss over this. They must need to keep this under wraps for some reason.
While We're Speculating says
The survivor shot the other three then put a round in a non lethal area of his body is my guess
Another concerned citizen says
The article says no weapon was recovered.
AV Scanners said the weapon used was a rifle, casing had been found and the guy was shot in face. Sooooo… yeah. Not likely he shot himself.
There must be a reason they can't disclose any information. It's highly possible they do have a lead but in order to follow up on it they need to keep it hush hush.
Relax,,,,,, it's the good old Antelope Valley,,,,, the new Compton!
Don't you have a few crosses to burn there in Tehachapi ?
So much for "all the crime is on the east side."
Jeny says
That was about 10+ years ago. Now blacks are destroying the tranquility of all sides of palmdale and lancaster.
Rick Ross says
where are all the poor whites going to move now ?
Tamika r. says
The Black population of Lancaster and Palmdale (both) has dropped since 2010. More are moving out to Kern County (Cal City, Ridgecrest, Mojave, Boron) and to Victorville/Hesperia and even to Las Vegas, Arizona and Texas.
California and even the AV are too expensive now for most black people to stay. I know 8 people moving out of the AV as soon as their leases are up.
I think you are mixing percentages with raw numbers. Growth in that demographic hasn't kept up with other demographics, so the percentage has gone down, but the overall number is up…despite this claim that you happen to know a bunch of people who are moving out.
There is not that much "growth" here in the AV that I know of. But yeah, tons of my friends have moved out of state to Atlanta, Houston and Vegas. Houston and Vegas are really hot right now and tons of AA ppl moving to both! And like I said, a bunch more is gonna be going when they're lease up. You can talk about raw numbers and stuff all you want, but I actually talk to people all of the time and they want to go to other places where AA people feel better and fit in more. California isn't the end-all/be all for most of us.
R says
Same here Tamika. Moving to Vegas in March as soon as my lease there get approved. They got more jobs out there, more things to do
Current census estimates (wait until 2020 for actual data) have Palmdale up about 5000 people, Lancaster up about 3500, since the 2010 census. I'm not saying that people aren't leaving, just that more people are apparently arriving than leaving. I doubt that there is any demographic, including African American, that is actually shrinking in raw number. I wouldn't be surprised if African Americans, as a percentage of total, are shrinking, but that's a result of slower growth, not actual declining numbers.
I know way more people who have moved here than have moved away, myself, but my anecdotal evidence is no better than yours.
Many bIacks leaving the AV now. Too expensive here.
Yes, more and more crime is migrating to Desert View Highlands and Rancho Vista. It's sad.
Mike P. says
Not really. This was more of an anomaly. No different than the guy who killed his wife, her parents and then himself in Valencia two years ago.
Smh says
Except for the location, motive, weapon, and pretty much EVERYTHING ELSE. The fact that you can say that they are no different is truly amazing. Thanks, I really enjoyed the laugh.
QH Holdover says
New Palmdale council is soft on crime.
Johnnie vamp says
Thought isis claimed this
Cynic…. Idiot. People suck..
Triple Murder says
Drugs.
OG says
Gay pick up spot? The things you learn on the comment section lol
Sharron says
Gay pick up spot
Street Racer says
Street racing ? Don't be a moron @ Cynic lmao
Anthony says
That's a gay sex pickup spot
smartass says
personal experience??
SavetheHorses says
Hey… stay away from them horses at the Lazy T… they don't want your [removed] either.
Cynic says
Weird because there's nothing over there. I wonder if it was some sort of argument related to street racing?
Pooppoop says
maybe it was self defense maybe these out of area people negotiated something and came here with things they should have and a vegilante shot them and stole their goods….
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PRS for Music sues LIVENow for a series of livestreaming shows without licenses
PRS for Music distributed over £200m in royalties in December 2022
PRS for Music renews licensing agreement with Jamaican society JACAP
British neighbouring rights society PPL has distributed £244.9 million (€278.3m) to its members — performers and owners of sound recordings — and other collective management organisations in 2022, up 7.1% over 2021's £228.7m.
PPL said the figure marks the second highest total of monies paid out by PPL in a calendar year, the highest being £260.2m in 2020, a total achieved thanks to the record collections of £271.8m the previous year in 2019, before the adverse impact of the COVID pandemic.
French creators' organisations and film/TV producers sign accord ensuring minimum remuneration for documentary authorship
French professional organisations representing authors (SCAM, GARRD, La Boucle documentaire) and audiovisual producers (SATEV, SPECT, SPI and USPA) have signed a professional agreement which will guarantee for the first time a minimum remuneration for authors of documentaries.
The agreement concerns more specifically the authorship of documentaries scripts. It enshrines the principle of a minimum remuneration for authors of €2,000 gross, of which €1,000 will be paid to authors regardless of...
SPPF reports collections up 9% to €35.4m
French neighbouring rights society SPPF has collected €35.4 million in 2022, up 9% compared to 2021 (€32.5 million), on behalf of independent music companies.
The Paris-based society distributed €29.7m to all of its members as part of distributed rights, financial advances and financial products. SPPF said its admin rates remained unchanged, at 6% for video rights and 8.5% for phonographic rights, and claims to have "the lowest rates at European level." The figures are provisional and will ...
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We use one GENI account (through Flukes) to create slices for all students, and distribute the SSH private key as well as the assigned IP address to each of them.
The Flukes tool is really convenient. I just spend a few hours to figure out how to use it and how to create a Hadoop cluster. Only one thing is that I have to poll the status of the slice myself to know if it is ready or not. As far as I know, the Flack GUI of ProtoGENI can poll it automatically and show users the changing status until it is ready.
I have heard no complaint from students about connection problem, meaning that the testbed resources are relatively stable whether accessing on campus or not. Some students cannot log into the testbed just because they are not familiar with SSH. However, one grader said that he couldn't log into the testbed on May 3rd (around midnight) using one OSF slice, but he can log in again the next morning.


Hi. I'm sure this is a pretty simple question... but I'm trying to essentially perform a calculation that considers the values of the entire table/column in addition to the values that are in the pill for the criterion.
The formula should essentially be a count of all of the unique values (countd) of the first column (Entity ID in my data set below), and then subtract the count of another set of values where the value is 100%, and then subtract the count where the values are not equal to 100%. The final value set (and where I am having trouble with) is the sum of the unique values in the first column less the values in the first and second calculation. I can get everything to work where I input manually the number of unique iterations of entity ID (ie perform the count myself), but it needs to be scalable.
(where NA is the count of unique values in Column A, less the count of complete and not complete values). In this case, the count of entity ID would be 7 (there are 7 unique entity IDs). For each Workstep ID (the pill I slide onto the rows/col shelf), I want to determine the complete, not complete, and NA counts.
For workstep AAA for example, the complete count is 6, the incomplete count is 1, and the NA count is 0 (7 - 6 - 1) = 0.
For workstep DDD for example, the complete count is 3 and the incomplete count is 0. Consequently, the NA count is 4 (7 - 3 - 0) = 4.
My challenge (and the crux of the issue) is that I cannot figure out how to calculate the count of the total values (essentially 7 in this case) for the entire dataset as opposed to just the one that shows up in the pill. Does anyone have any guidance in doing this? Again, I can statically set the value to be 7, but I need it to be scalable if I pop in a different dataset.
I've attached a workbook that shows one possible way of approaching the problem. It has some inline documentation, but I'd be happy to explain or answer any questions you might have!
Thanks so much for your help, this is a good start!
However, when I create a stacked bar graph, the value (for some reason) doesn't seem to populate (the total for NA seems to be 0). Any idea whats going on?
I'll take a look - but I'm actually out of commission for another day so please feel free to ping me on this thread if I don't get back to you on Thursday.


When you go to get a deep tissue massage, you should talk with the therapist about any issues you might have and like to see addressed during your massage. I am happy to concentrate on a single body part of an entire massage to achieve lasting results and in fact, half of my clients want just that! It is also important to communicate with me about pain; The massage may be intense, but if a client starts to feel pain, he or she should communicate that immediately. I work on a scale of 1 – 10, where 7 is on your comfortability edge for that day and 10 is a very uncomfortable pain. A lot of my clients take the deep tissue pain or even like the pain in order to get the quickest results for their body type. At the end of the session, lots of water should be consumed to help the body express the toxins released during the massage. You will probably be sore for a few days after the intense deep tissue treatment but that's normal. Remember that ice is your friend.
What is Barefoot Deep Tissue?
I offer barefoot deep tissue massage techniques. Ancient barefoot massage have been around in different cultures (Thailand, Japan, and Australia) for hundreds of years, an organic form of touch, barefoot is rich in history and tradition, and now is available in Santa Barbara. Barefoot is not something you typically see at local spas or massage places. I've used Barefoot Massage on athletes to the elderly and my clients are loving the long-lasting effects of prolonged ischemic (Restriction of blood due to factors in the blood vessels with damage to the tissue) pressure.


Life has been crazy the past couple weeks. I've moved from my place on Dovercourt to a brand new condo near University/Spadina (Nelson/Simcoe to be precise). It's great to be living on my own again, the past few months it's felt like my life has been on hold.
That's the view from my balcony. Pretty nice.


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USAF Band Holiday Show: Saturday, Dec 9th at 3:00pm
2015 Tuba-Euphonium Workshop - Grand Concert with The U.S. Army Concert Band
LIVE - The U.S. Army Concert Band presents "Music from the Stage and Screen"
100 Marches of the World (Full Album)
LIVE - American Trombone Workshop 2015 - The U.S. Army Concert Band
LIVE - The U.S. Army Concert Band, Army Chorus, and Herald Trumpets
LIVE - The U.S. Army Concert Band and Army Voices | A Musical Masquerade
LIVE - H. Robert Reynolds Conducts The U.S. Army Concert Band
Banda dell'Arma dei Carabinieri - Millennium Stage (April 18, 2016)
American Holiday Festival Concert 2012
Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band - 2015 Pasadena Bandfest
Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band - 2015 Green Band Festival Benefit Concert
The Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre - HMS Cambria Farewell Parade
The U.S. Army All-Brass Big Band | A Stan Kenton Christmas
2016 VIT HD TOP SECRET DRUM CORPS
AIR FORCE VS ARMY DRUMLINE BATTLE
A real doozy to make, here is 100 Marches from around the world Track Listing Record 1- Side 1 Great Britain 1. Colonel Bogey March (0:00) 2. Sons of the Brave (3:03) 3. Old Comrades (5:55) 4. The Shanghai Sailor (8:47) 5. Airborne Division (11:20) 6. Aida (14:34) 7. College of Heralds (16:30) Record 1- Side 2 Great Britain and Ireland 8. The March Past Melody (Nine marches) (21:17) 9. The Household Cavalry Medley (Six Marches) (30:30) Scotland 10. Amazing Grace (35:24) 11. Kitchener's Army, Balkan Hills, The Rhodesian Regiment (38:36) 12. Scotland the Brave, Auld Lang Syne, The Black Bear (43:06) Record 2- Side 1 Germany 13. Deutschland Uber Alles (45:20) 14. Marsch Des Yorckschen Korps (46:44) 15. Des Grossen Kurfuersten Reitermarsch (47:50) 16. Helenenmarsch (51:04) 17. Mussinan Marsch (53:04) 18. Bayrischer Defiliermarsch (56:00) 19. Frei Weg (57:46) 20. Waidmannsheil (59:43) 21. Petersbruger Marsch (1:01:55) 22. Fehrbeliner Reitenmarsch (1:03:33) Austria 23. Land Der Berge, Land Am Frame (1:05:54) 24. Castaldo (1:07:19) 25. Friedlander Marsch (1:09:54) Norway 26. Ja Vi Elsker Dette Lahdet (1:12:30) 27. Medley (Gardemarsi, Horse Defiler Marsi, Hall of the Mountain King) (1:13:29) Sweden 28. Du Camia, Du Fria (1:18:14) Finland 29. Friedrich Factus (1:19:22) Belgium 30. La Hradancunne (1:20:42) Holland 31. Wileimus Van Nassouve (1:21:38) Record 3- Side 1 France 32. La Marseillaise (1:22:28) 33. Marche De La 2e D.B. (1:23:31) 34. Alsace Lorraine (1:27:22) 35. Marche Consulaire (1:29:39) 36. Marche De La Gendarmerie (1:33:34) 37. Marche Du 1er Regiment Des Chasseurs Ardennais (1:38:10) 38. Sambre Et Meuse (1:41:56) 39. Marche De La Legion (1:46:14) Spain 40. Marcha Real (1:49:29) 41. Los Generales (1:50:19) 42. Las Corsarias (1:52:19) 43. Madrid (1:55:00) 44. La Dolores (1:57:17) Italy 45. Inno DI Mameri (2:00:56) 46. Bapoli (2:02:34) 47. La Bora (2:05:22) Turkey 48: Independence Day (2:08:15) Record 4-Side 1 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 49. Hymn of the Soviet Union (2:09:26) 50. March of the Cavalry of the Steppes (2:11:37) 51. Moscow Parade March (2:14:47) 52. Sky-Guards (2:17:11) 53. Heroes of Stalingrad (2:20:19) China 54. The Red Detachment of Women (2:22:22) Poland 55. Warsaw Parade March (2:23:17) Rumania 56. New Life (2:26:05) Record 4- Side 2 Czechoslovakia 57. Filipovich (2:28:22) 58. Olympia (2:30:38) 59. Military March (2:32:55) 60. Our Commander (2:35:09) 61. March of the Submarine Gunners (2:37:28) Bulgaria 62. Our Banner (2:40:37) 63. Marching Straight Ahead (2:43:49) Hungary 64. Rakoczy March (2:46:04) 65. Friendship (2:49:04) Record 5- Side 1 United States of America 66. Fairest of the Fair (2:51:36) 67. El Capitan (2:54:26) 68. Under the Double Eagle (2:57:31) 69. American Patrol (3:00:06) 70. Manhatten Beach March (3:03:00) 71. Free Lance March (3:05:23) 72. My Maryland March (3:07:55) 73. Jack Tar March (3:10:00) Side 2 United States of America 74. Entry of the Gladiators (3:12:13) 75. High School Cadets (3:15:24) 76. Battle Hymn of the Republic (3:17:57) 77. Stars and Stripes Forever (3:21:22) 78. Liberty Bell March (3:24:20) 79. Washington Post March (3:27:05) 80. The Thunderer (3:29:45)
With special guests Brian Hecht, Megumi Kanda, The Triton Brass Quintet
Featuring Army Band Alumni and former Band Conductors
The U.S. Army Concert Band performs under the baton of USC Thornton School of Music and University of Michigan professor and maestro, H. Robert Reynolds!
Created in 1820 the band of the Carabinieri, the national military police of Italy, has been playing in military parades and concert halls worldwide. Their splendid uniforms and the formal precision of their musical performances will bring to life traditional marches and classical music. The concert is part of the "Protecting our Heritage" series of events organized by the Washington cluster of the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC). In partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C., it will be dedicated to those who risk their lives to preserve the Cultural Heritage of Humanity for future generations. With the support of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Banca Intesa Sanpaolo.
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" performs its "American Holiday Festival Concert" from DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on December 20, 2012. U.S. Army video by Jennifer Maly Note: Ads associated with this video are due to the use of one or more 3rd party music arrangements with no revenues earned by the U.S. Army, video's producer, or this channel.
From Hornbaeck, Denmark Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band performing their musical selections at the 35th Annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Bandfest on Tuesday, December 30th 2014.
From Hornbaeck, Denmark Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band performing their musical selections at the annual Green Band Festival Benefit Concert on Friday, January 2nd 2015. Proceeds from this concert go to the Los Angeles County Fire Department to be used for scholarships for the children of the firefighters who lost their lives while fighting fires on our behalf. On Thursday, January 1st 2015, the Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band represented Denmark in the 126th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. Program: 00:05 - Entering the stage 01:26 - Welcome remarks 01:42 - Marching Unit performance 03:25 - Marching Unit exiting stage 03:59 - Marche de Bataille 07:09 - Marching Unit entering stage 07:23 - Navy Cut 10:44 - Marching Unit exiting stage 11:00 - Panthom of the Opera 17:37 - Marching Unit entering stage 17:52 - Gøngemarch 20:27 - Marching Unit exiting stage 20:48 - Dixieland Jamboree 20:55 - Final Acknowledgments 28:10 - Band exiting stage
The Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre Lympstone led members of HMS Cambria through the streets of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales for a Farewell Parade ahead of their move from the Vale to their new purpose built facility in Cardiff Bay. The Royal Navy Reservists of HMS Cambria were joined by members of HMS Flying Fox, Bristol Royal Marine Reservists, Wales University Royal Navy Unit, local Sea Cadets and Veterans. The Band played: Farewell Ceremony: Heart of Oak - March on (00:03) Band of Brothers - Inspection (04:35) National Anthems (07:26) The Parade: On Parade (09:59) Chimes of Liberty (13:55) Hart of Oak (16:06) A Life on the Ocean Wave (17:43) Glorious Victory (18:34) The National Emblem March (20:14) The parade commenced at the King's Square at 11:25 and after a short ceremony with speeches from the Mayor and Commander Fry of HMS Cambria the parade marched down Holton Road to the Civic Offices where the parade was dismissed.
The U.S. Army All-Brass Big Band presents A Stan Kenton Christmas: an annual holiday musical tradition featuring many holiday standards arranged by and made famous by Jazz great Stan Kenton.
Air Force Academy vs West Point Drumline. The drumlines from USAFA and USMA battle it out before the annual football game between these two academies.


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Q: Can x86 take advantage of DDR5's 32 bit channels during random access? DDR5's architecture has replaced each of DDR4's 64 bit wide data bus with two 32 bit wide data busses.
Based on this, one would hope that DDR5 can randomly access twice as many entries when working with large tables (> L3) which have individual entries of size <= 32 bits.
However, I've written a benchmark which does a certain amount of random accesses to a table of fixed total byte size of uint32's and uint64's. The benchmarks suggest that my previous assumption is not valid:

benchmark code: https://gist.github.com/L0laapk3/049215bc02e5434b55528955e3e29f11
(Tested on a 13900kf with 4x 5000MHz CL34-38-38 DDR5 ram running gear 2, cpu affinity set to only performance cores)
(compiled using clang 15.0.5 with -Ofast -march=alderlake)
Is there a flaw in my testing methodology, or is my understanding of RAM lacking?

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188. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.
(1) OJ L 350, 29.12.2017, p. 15.
(2) OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23.
(13) OJ C 86, 6.3.2018, p. 62.
(14) OJ C 265, 11.8.2017, p. 7.
(15) OJ C 288, 31.8.2017, p. 10.
(16) OJ C 342, 12.10.2017, p. 10.


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Plan for six new flats in Windsor delayed following tree debate
03:20PM, Friday 29 May 2015
A disagreement between tree officers led to an application at the latest Windsor urban development control panel being deferred for a site visit.
A new building in Barry Avenue in Windsor would provide six flats and would replace a vacant three-storey building.
Councillors were concerned about the council's tree officer concluding there was a possibility the proposed building would come within the Root Protection Area of mature trees which could lead to 'extensive root severance'. But tree officers hired by the developers disagreed.
"This is not an easy decision," said Cllr Jesse Grey (Con, Datchet).
"A site visit may give us a little bit of breathing space and give us a chance to have a look."
The redevelopment of Clarence Hotel in Clarence Road was also subject of an application
The proposal included converting the hotel into housing. Justyn Turnbull, from CSK Architects said competition from surrounding hotels had 'rogued' Clarence Hotel.
Councillors agreed to the officers' recommendations to grant planning permission subject to no objection from the conservation officer.
The final item on the agenda was to give final approval for a conversion, extension and refurbishment of The Sandles and demolition of Rose Cottage in The Gables, Eton Wick, which the panel agreed to.
The meeting took place on Wednesday, May 27 at Windsor Guildhall in High Street.


Getting to know a wine region is not something you do in one or two days. And when you come back from a conference on wine and digital communication and have visited only four wineries, you cannot claim to know that region. However, if at those wineries you have been shown around, have received a warm welcome, tasted the wines and have dined in the restaurant, you can at least tell your fellow #winelovers that in that region – Rioja, in this case – there is excellent wine and delicious food and that there are friendly people and interesting wineries! Moreover, if those wineries are situated in beautiful spots, have a long history or have hired internationally renowned architects, you have developed at least a feel for the area, and you can decide if you want to come back or not.
Well, I would definitely love to come back to the valley of the Ebro between Logroño and Haro, to see more of the historical villages, the big ánd the small wineries and the modern. I want to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostella, gaze at the Cantabrian Mountains, have lunch at a bodega and drink another glass of red, white or rosé Rioja on a sunny terrace. Because at the four wineries I visited here, I had a taste of the region, and I think I have come to know the place, if only a little.
Take for example Bodegas Baigorri in Samaniego. By coincidence, I visited this winery twice: once for a mystery dinner, and once for a visit on Sunday, with lunch. Arriving at Baigorri is not something you will ever forget, whether by day or night. On top of a small hillock next to the road sits a big glass box, which, despite its impressive features, is also very welcoming. Basque architect Iñaki Aspiazu is responsible for this structure (and the rest of the winery): after all, Baigorri is just inside the border of the province of Alava in Euskadi (Basque Country); less than 1 km further on, the road enters the province of La Rioja again. Hence also the name of the winery, which is Basque and refers to 'Red', or even 'Twice Red'.
The glass house is the top of seven levels of winery, dug into the hillside. Each level houses a different aspect of the winery, from the shop to the vinification rooms, cellars and restaurant. Purpose of the seven levels is to make use of gravity for transporting the grapes around the building; no pumps are used! That way, the grapes remain intact from the crates they are harvested in to the fermentation tanks, and oxidation is avoided.
As we were lucky to see, to keep the grapes healthy and whole is also attained by rigorous grape sorting. Baigorri's red wines therefore primarily express fruit, not oak, as is still common in Rioja.
Futuristically looking fermenters I never saw anywhere else provide optimum skin contact. Maturation is in new, one or two year oak barrels for a relatively short time. After the time in barrel follows an extended maturation in bottle.
Both times I visited the winery, the reception was very warm and friendly. And if you think this is because we were an important group of visitors (digital communicators and all…), that might be so, but the winery is also open to the general public from Tuesday to Saturday. You can take a tour, even when you arrive on your own, which includes two glasses of wine with some tapas. Lunch is served daily at 14:00 hours. The chef prepares a full menu, making use of regional products. Expect such delicacies as black pudding with apple chutney, beetroot gazpacho, pork cooked in wine and panna cotta of Baigorri wines! The meals are, off course, accompanied by Baigorri wines, of which my absolute favourite is the barrel-fermented white Rioja, made with 90% viura and 10% malvasia.
During our visit, the 2013 whites were already fermenting in barrels, while upstairs the last of the red grapes were brought in.
Winemaker Simon Arina told me that the white wine is made since 2002, and that Baigorri was one of the first in the area to start making a barrel fermented white again. Now, white wine makes up 5% of production, and it is growing ever more popular; in the last year, production has risen with 40%! An interesting remark, since I encountered a different attitude to Rioja whites elsewhere. But I will come to that in another article.
At Baigorri, nothing is wasted: from the marc (the solid remains after pressing) they make a herbal liquor, called hierbas; local herbs from the vineyards are soaked in the distilled alcohol. Together with the high-quality reds, the white and the rosé, this makes an interesting range of products.
Last but not least, at Baigorri they understand the ways to reach the customer very well! At dinner, we found a voucher next to our plates, valid for a glass of wine in Logroño's famous tapas street Calle Laurel: an excellent marketing tool! Baigorri's PR team maintains an active Facebook page and Twitter account, and they speak good English and German. For tweets and posts on Baigorri, the hash tag #baigorriemotion is used.
While Baigorri might not be Rioja, Rioja is very well represented by Bodegas Baigorri. And I am lucky to have been their guest!