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The Pandemic Has Cost Airbnb $1 Billion In Bookings - And Maybe Its Future
As it focused on scale and its stock valuation, Airbnb emphasized big commercial owners over its original base of homeowners renting out a room or small guest accomodation. The negative reaction by those commercial operators to the company's order to refund traveler's deposits when the pandemic hit is causing a reappraisal of that strategy as the company's reputation has taken a further hit. JL
Vidhi Choudhary reports in Forbes:
Airbnb lost $1 billion in bookings driven by a global travel shutdown. "We need to think through our impact on cities and communities." Airbnb does not normally do refunds, but with borders closed and guests unable to travel, (it) had to hand back guests' deposits and so he had to raise funds — $2 billion from investors, at a 10% interest rate. (It) has axed 25% of staff.
Airbnb lost $1 billion in bookings driven by a global travel shutdown, its founder, Brian Chesky told The Times, saying he wants to go back to the basics and focus on hosting in local property markets and lesser-known travel destinations as he tries to save his company.
"We grew so fast, we made mistakes," Chesky told The Times. "We drifted. We really need to think through our impact on cities and communities. A reset for everything and everyone." Airbnb does not normally do refunds, allowing hosts to set their own cancellation policies, but with borders closed and guests unable to travel, Chesky had to hand back guests' deposits and so he had to raise funds — $2 billion from investors, including private-equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, at a hefty 10% interest rate.
Chesky as part of a "really serious audit" of who should — and should not — be on the platform has suggested prioritising small-scale, everyday hosts over larger commercial operators. "We stand for accommodation and services that are unique. Whether they are offered by a business or sole proprietor, they have to feel authentic."
Chesky also gave an additional $250 million to cover one-quarter of the immediate losses of its estimated 700,000 hosts.
Chesky has axed 25% of his staff, almost 2,000 people, many of whom were working on new projects as he rethinks his decision to own the "whole travel experience".
Chesky sees growth in the post-lockdown recession: "Our business for last month has been at or above last year's levels from a gross booking value (standpoint)."
Chesky, who late last year was said to be worth more than $3 billion, is planning to forgo a salary for the next six months according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Chesky describes the "trauma, complete madness and frantic panic" of shutdown. "There I was, a captain of a ship, a nice ship. It was really sunny and all of a sudden a torpedo hit. We lost the vast majority of our business. We got over $1 billion of cancellations."
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When the pandemic hit Airbnb was forced to rethink its stock market debut and raise $2 billion from investors. Confusion over cancellation policies at its seven million properties world-wide has frayed relationships with its guests and hosts. After guests complained about not being able to get full refunds for bookings in quarantined cities, Chesky approved a plan to refund guest stays booked through mid-May.
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Home Parenting Motherhood
Just Days After His Mother's Death, 14-YO Boy Wins Global Award For His Painting on Moms & We Are Heartbroken
It was more than two years ago that Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal, a 14-year-old, completed the beautiful painting titled "My mother and neighboring mothers". But this young boy didn't create it for any competition or contest. Rather he created this beautiful piece for his mother out of love.
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But life had other plans. Hardly he knew this beautiful painting would win an international award and his best supporter – his mother won't be with him to celebrate this special moment.
When Anujath's painting won the international competition held by Shankar's Academy of Art and Book Publishing, his father Vinaylal quietly put a status on WhatsApp about his son winning the award just days after the passing of Sindhu, Anujath's mother.
He shared with a heavy heart how things have changed since they received the news about his son's great achievement:
"She knew he got the award. The news had come earlier and she was quite happy about it. But by the time he got the certificate of recognition she had passed away. Sindhu had a heart problem."
But, it isn't the first time that Anujath made his mother and father proud.
Born as a natural artist, when Anujath was only nine, he got the Clint Memorial International Award for painting. And, many more awards followed including UN recognition in 2015 for paintings on the theme 'We have energy'.
The proudest moment for the family was the honor bestowed on him from India's former President Pranab Mukherjee. The family flew to Delhi to collect the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement on Children's Day in 2016. The father shared with TBI:
"He won Rs 10,000 and books worth Rs 3,000, a silver medal, a certificate, and a memento. It was an honour for us to meet our President. We always knew Anujath was talented but accomplishing this at such a tender age was beyond our imaginations."
This was Anujath's last participation, after which he took a break for three years. During this time, Anujath painted only for himself:
"Painting gives me peace. I am transported to a different world every time I paint, and the best part is I can create my own rules and break the conventional routine."
Sharing details on this break, the father Vinay Lal further added:
"With competitions, there is the pressure to perform and win. We did not want to impose this on him. His real happiness lies in drawing without any expectations. It was only after he convinced us that he loved the spirit of participation because it made him a better artist, that we returned to it."
Anujath started painting when he was barely four, and it was his mother who identified his talent.
While sharing how it was none other than his own mother, who inspired his award-winning painting. Anujath shared:
"The idea to paint on mothers came from seeing her and other women like her work, in the kitchen and the rest of the house, all day long. It's basically a collage of the activities a mother does all day."
Recalling how Sindhu had liked the painting after he showed it to her, Vinaylal further added:
"As the Shankar Academy competition took art work in two categories – work of art that children sent, and on the spot contests. Since this painting on mothers was lying around, we thought we should send that."
Though the result was announced when his mother, Sindhu, was alive, however, by the time certificate and medal arrived, she had passed away due to a heart condition. Today, the medal lies on her photo-frame, Anujath's passion for painting has become stronger. Sharing his future plan with TBI, he added:
"My mother was my biggest cheerleader, and she would always encourage me to make each painting better than the previous one. With her faith and my father's support, I hope to pursue this professionally after I complete my studies."
It is never easy to lose a mother. But, bearing that pain at such a young age requires a lot of strength.
At IFORHER, we are in awe of this 14-year-old's courage, who is utilizing the pain of his mother's loss to power his passion for painting. We wish him loads of luck and hope his story will give strength to many more to battle their life struggles.
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Q: Recursive indexing of lists with variable index value per recursion step Puh... even trying to frame the title properly already gives me a headache.
I have a config.yml with nested values and I would like to define an indexing function get_config() that accepts "path-like" value strings.
The "path entities" of the value string match the nested entity structure of the config file. Based on the path-like value the function should then go and grab the corresponding hierarchy entity (either "branches" or "leaves") from the config file.
Example
Suppose this is the structure of the config.yml:
default:
  column_names:
    col_id: "id"
    col_value: "value"
  column_orders:
    data_structure_a: [
      column_names/col_id,
      column_names/col_value
    ]
    data_structure_b: [
      column_names/col_value,
      column_names/col_id
    ]

Here's a parsed version for you to play around with:
x <- yaml::yaml.load(
'default:
  column_names:
    col_id: "id"
    col_value: "value"
  column_orders:
    data_structure_a: [
      column_names/col_id,
      column_names/col_value
    ]
    data_structure_b: [
      column_names/col_value,
      column_names/col_id
    ]'
)

Accessing top-level entities is easy with config::get(value):
config::get("column_names")
# $col_id
# [1] "id"
#
# $col_value
# [1] "value"

config::get("column_orders")
# [1] "hello" "world"

But I would also like to access deeper entities, e.g. column_names: col_id.
In pseudo code:
config::get("column_names:col_id")

or
config::get("column_orders/data_structure_a")

The best I could come up with so far: relying on unlist()
get_config <- function(value, sep = ":") {
  if (value %>% stringr::str_detect(sep)) {
    value <- value %>% stringr::str_replace(sep, ".")
    configs <- config::get() %>% unlist()
    configs[value]
  } else {
    config::get(value)
  }
}

get_config("column_names")
# $col_id
# [1] "id"
#
# $col_value
# [1] "value"

get_config("column_names:col_id")
# column_names.col_id
# "id"

Though not elegant, it works for most use cases, but fails for unnamed list entities in the config file
get_config("column_orders:data_structure_a")
# <NA>
#   NA

as my indexing approach doesn't play well with the result of unlist() on unnamed lists:
config::get() %>% unlist()
# column_names.col_id          column_names.col_value
# "id"                         "value"
# column_orders.data_structure_a1 column_orders.data_structure_a2
# "column_names/col_id"        "column_names/col_value"
# column_orders.data_structure_b1 column_orders.data_structure_b2
# "column_names/col_value"           "column_names/col_id"

Thus, I'd like to "go recursive" but my brain says: "no way, dude"
Due diligence
This solution comes close (I guess).
But I keep thinking that I need something like purrr::map2_if() or purrr::pmap_if() (which AFAIK don't exist) instead of purrr::map_if(), as I need to not only traverse the list behind config::get() recursively, but also a  listified version of value (e.g. via stringr::str_split(value, sep) %>% unlist() %>% as.list())?

A: You could also use purrr::pluck to index into a nested list by name if that is what you are after:
x <- yaml::yaml.load('
  column_names:
    col_id: "id"
    col_value: "value"
  column_orders:
    data_structure_a: [
      column_names/col_id,
      column_names/col_value
    ]
    data_structure_b: [
      column_names/col_value,
      column_names/col_id
    ]
  nested_list:
    element_1:
      element_2:
        value: "hello world"
  ')

purrr::pluck(x, "column_names", "col_id")
#> [1] "id"

purrr::pluck(x, "column_names")
#> $col_id
#> [1] "id"
#>
#> $col_value
#> [1] "value"

purrr::pluck(x, "column_orders", "data_structure_a")
#> [1] "column_names/col_id"    "column_names/col_value"

purrr::pluck(x, "column_names", "col_notthere")
#> NULL

A: I came up with a solution based on Recall().
However, while digging up the internet in trying to get here, I recall having read somewhere that Recall() is generally not a very (memory) efficient way of doing recursion in R? Also would appreciate additional hints on how to do recursion the tidy way with purrr and friends.
Config file content
Being able to call get_config() implies that you have a config.yml file with above content in your project's root directory given by here::here(), but you can test get_list_element_recursively() with this workaround:
x <- yaml::yaml.load('
  column_names:
    col_id: "id"
    col_value: "value"
  column_orders:
    data_structure_a: [
      column_names/col_id,
      column_names/col_value
    ]
    data_structure_b: [
      column_names/col_value,
      column_names/col_id
    ]
  nested_list:
    element_1:
      element_2:
        value: "hello world"
  ')

Function defs
get_config <- function(value, sep = "/") {
  get_list_element_recursively(
    config::get(),
    stringr::str_split(value, sep, simplify = TRUE)
  )
}

get_list_element_recursively <- function(
  lst,
  el,
  .el_trace = el,
  .level_trace = 1
) {
  # Reached leaf:
  if (!is.list(lst)) {
    return(lst)
  }

  # Element not in list:
  if (!(el[1] %in% names(lst))) {
    message("Current list branch:")
    # print(lst)
    message(str(lst))
    message("Trace of indexing vec (last element is invalid):")
    message(stringr::str_c(.el_trace[.level_trace], collapse = "/"))
    stop(stringr::str_glue("No such element in list: {el[1]}"))
  }

  lst <- lst[[ el[1] ]]

  if (!is.na(el[2])) {
    # Continue if there are additional elements in `el` vec
    Recall(lst, el[-1], .el_trace, .level_trace = 1:(.level_trace + 1))
  } else {
    # Otherwise return last indexing result:
    lst
  }
}

Testing get_config()
get_config("column_names")
# $col_id
# [1] "id"
#
# $col_value
# [1] "value"

get_config("column_names/col_id")
# [1] "id"

get_config("column_names/col_nonexisting")
# Current list branch:
#   List of 6
# $ col_id                    : chr "id"
# $ col_value                 : chr "value"
#
# Trace of indexing vec (last element is invalid):
#   column_names/col_nonexisting
# Error in get_list_element_recursively(config::get(), stringr::str_split(value,  :
#     No such element in list: col_nonexisting

get_config("column_orders")
# $data_structure_a
# [1] "column_names/col_id"    "column_names/col_value"
#
# $data_structure_b
# [1] "column_names/col_value" "column_names/col_id"

get_config("column_orders/data_structure_a")
# [1] "column_names/col_id"    "column_names/col_value"

Testing get_list_element_recursively()
get_list_element_recursively(x, c("column_names"))
# $col_id
# [1] "id"
#
# $col_value
# [1] "value"

get_list_element_recursively(x, c("column_names", "col_id"))
# [1] "id"

get_list_element_recursively(x, c("column_names", "col_notthere"))
# Current list branch:
#   List of 2
# $ col_id   : chr "id"
# $ col_value: chr "value"
#
# Trace of indexing vec (last element is invalid):
#   column_names/col_notthere
# Error in get_list_element_recursively(x$default, c("column_names", "col_notthere")) :
#   No such element in list: col_notthere

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Q: Input desde datos entregados por un usb en c++ mi duda es sencilla y trata sobre leer los datos que llegan desde un USB al computador desde un lector de código de barras, la cosa es que nunca antes había usado un input de ese tipo y quería saber como se hace ya que siempre e usado de input el teclado, pensé que seria como rb3 en pero con puertos USB pero la verdad creo que no ya que no encentro nada de información por internet.
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Add drama and interest to your favorite room! These pendants provide plenty of accent light and unique shadow play off nearby walls, objects, and surfaces.
Includes three spherical corrugated cardboard luminaries with genuine Feit Electric Vintage Style 4W (60W Equivalent) LED Edison Bulbs, black fabric covered wire, black phenolic bulb receptacles, and standard three-prong plugs on each termination end.
Manufactured in the U.S.A. This light fixture is made-to-order to suit your custom specifications. Contact us directly for custom variants not listed here.
Removable Lamp Shade Ring inner-diameter: 1-1/2" outer-diameter: 2-3/16"
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overall cord with jacket diameter: approx. 1/4"
Canopy is secured with two side screws, leaving a clean minimalistic bottom surface.
All of the corrugated lights manufactured by Detroit Laser Company are treated with a Flamex fire retardant chemical after laser cutting. Remember that nothing is flame proof; anything will burn if it gets hot enough. Most fire retardants - including the type used by DLC - do not prevent a material from igniting and burning. The goal of fire retardant treatment is to retard ignition and slow the spread of fire. Flamex works in two ways to achieve this - raising the ignition temperature of the treated material and retarding the production of flame. When burned, materials treated with Flamex produces inert gases which starve the fire of oxygen and also develop a non-combustible char. The corrugated fixture may ignite if exposed to flame, but will self-extinguish within two seconds after the flame has been withdrawn.


When using a version of Venafi Encryption Director that uses the VICE 2 VeriSign Driver, Extended Validation (EV) Certificates cannot be enrolled.
Symantec has a bug in their VICE 2 API and erroneously reports in the API's that a customer's organization is not EV Enabled when in the Symantec system they really are. Symantec's internal reference number to this bug is artf124259.
Having the symptoms doesn't mean the Symantec bug is effecting you. One additional test needs to be done to confirm that the Symantec API bug is effecting your ability to enroll EV certificates through Director.
After you have a copy of the admin certificate, double click on it to have the certificate and private key installed in the Current User Windows CAPI store.
You should be prompted by your browser to present a certificate to Symantec. Select the VICE 2 Admin certificate that you just imported.
Look at the output, does it show domains that state "EV_Enabled="Yes" but for the organization that the domains belong to state EV_Enabled="No" ? If so, you are effected by this bug.
First step is to reach out to your Symantec Account Representative and let them know that you are effected by this bug. It is important that Symantec track how many customers are impacted. Currently Symantec states that this bug should be patched in their API production code on April 9, 2014.
Depending upon the format your organization attribute value is in.
Note: Do not change the organization to read "Venafi, Inc." please leave this organization name as it is. The Venafi, Inc. above is listed just as an example.
Until Symantec fixes the bug in their VICE 2 API, do not click "Validate" on the CA template object. Doing so will over-write the changes made to the Organization attribute and remove EV templates as an option.


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Void Tyrant available on Android!
Since its release on iOS earlier this year, Quite Fresh Games Void Tyrant has been a hit, and now it's finally landed on Android, complete with a beefy new update for users of both platforms to enjoy. Battle your way across the galaxy to go toe-to-toe with a seemingly unstoppable force, with over 500 cards […]
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Much like their narrative counterparts, the games of this genre often find themselves focusing on an imagined future of scientific or technological marvel. We've compiled some of our highest rated and top performing Sci-Fi titles here for you, to enjoy. Take a look when you get a moment! #5: HEART OF GALAXY: HORIZONS In this […]
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No pressure, you've got this! Today Armor Games Studios is proud to release the hardcore iterative platformer Never Give Up on Nintendo Switch, Windows PC and Mac. Hang in there with the latest and greatest entry in the *Give Up* game series for $14.99. Never Give Up is a death-defying, twitch-based platformer that lets you […]
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Launching on August 13th for Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac. We are proud to showcase Massive Monster's Never Give Up! This successor to the classic flash series, Give Up, it includes over 150 stages, huge boss-battles, dozens of collectibles, and even full voice acting by none other than Egoraptor! Find our more about Never Give […]
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Don't Escape Trilogy on Steam!
Earlier this year, veteran indie developer scriptwelder released Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive. The point-and-click adventure, about a post-apocalyptic mystery and prophetic dreams, has quickly become a hit with both players and critics. But that's not where the series began. Fans have asked for a way to collect and compile the original three web […]
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Swords & Souls: Neverseen
Earlier this year Soul Game Studio's first premium title launched exclusively on Kartridge, and now, Swords & Souls: Neverseen is available on Steam, GOG, and Humble Store with a big new update! This release features an online leaderboard for high scores on Steam and GOG, Steam and GOG achievements, a post-game endless mode, and includes […]
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Market and Auction News
May 11, 2021 in Market and Auction
BMW 507 Series II Sold for $2,200,000 at Gooding's, full results
Gooding & Company Totals Over $16 Million at Its Successful Geared Online May Auction
Gooding & Company have closed out yet another successful installment of its Geared Online sale series which took place from May 3 to May 7.
Several high-value and rare cars, including the top seller, a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Alloy, were sold at the company's online sale.
Gooding & Company, the highly acclaimed auction house revered for consistently selling prized collector cars and automobilia, closed out yet another successful installment of its Geared Online sales which took place from May 3 to May 7. The company realized $16,202,500 from 84 of 87 lots, resulting in a 97% sell-through rate and an average price of $192,886 per lot sold. Five cars were sold for prices well over $1,000,000 each.
The latest auction presented a host of prized vehicles from notable European and American marques. The top sale was a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Alloy, which achieved a total price of $3,586,000. A rare garage find, the 1955 Ferrari 250 Europa GT also proved impressive, achieving a selling price of $2,222,000. The company also achieved exceptional numbers with a 1968 Meyers Manx, selling at $59,400, and a stunning black over black 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder, selling at $1,144,000. A beautifully restored 1957 BMW 507 Series II sold for a high value at $2,200,000, along with a stunning 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster that sold for $1,232,000. One of the best performers of the sale was a 1966 Jaguar E-Type Series I 4.2-Litre Fixed Head Coupe, which kept bidders enticed up until the last moment and sold well over its high estimate at $253,000.
Gooding & Company also sold 100% of its automobilia lots in addition to its curated collection of premium collector cars. One highlight was a Jaguar D-Type Child's Car, which sold for $25,625. Other items sold included International Mutoscope coin-operated driving games from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as assorted Ferrari brochures, manuals, and press kits.
"Our team did an exceptional job curating and consigning this collection of cars" states Gooding & Company
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One million more in fuel poverty
Rising gas and electricity prices pushed another million households across the UK into fuel poverty, figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) show today.
The number of households suffering from fuel poverty – judged as spending more than 10% of income on keeping homes warm – reached 5.5 million in 2009, the latest year for which figures are available.
Lobby groups estimate the figure is likely to soar when prices hikes in August come into effect.
Decc says the latest rise in fuel poverty levels, which have been increasing since 2004, was largely due to rising fuel prices which saw gas costs jump by 14% and electricity by 5% that year.
The majority of fuel poor households across the UK were considered to be vulnerable - those with elderly, disabled or long-term sick people or children.
There were 4.5 million UK households classed as vulnerable who spent more than a 10th of their income on heating their homes in 2009, a rise of 750,000 from 2008 figures. A vulnerable household is one that contains the elderly, children or somebody who is disabled or long term sick.
Mark Todd, director of price comparison site Energyhelpline.com, says: "These figures represent an absolute tragedy for such a supposedly advanced nation as the UK."
Price rises
The latest data on the struggle people are facing over fuel bills comes just days after British Gas announced another price hike, citing rises in wholesale gas costs, which will see gas and electricity bills jump by 18% and 16%, respectively, on average.
Last month, Scottish Power announced a similar hike in bills and the rest of the "big six" suppliers are expected to follow in the coming weeks.
Lobby group Consumer Focus says as many as 6.4 million households could be in fuel poverty following the rises expected in the coming months.
Audrey Gallacher, director of energy at Consumer Focus, says: "Fuel poverty levels are set to soar as energy price hikes and the cost of investment in making our energy supply more secure and sustainable kick in.
"Increasing energy costs create hardship for millions of the poorest pensioners, families and disabled people, leaving many cutting back on heating or other essentials. It is an issue which cannot be left on the backburner."
However, Decc says figures for the levels of fuel poverty for 2010 and 2011 would only be known in the next couple of years, and the effect of the latest rises in household energy bills would not be fully felt until 2012.
The department estimates that in 2010, there were still 4 million homes in England in fuel poverty, a figure which was expected to rise slightly to 4.1 million homes in 2011.
Officials say rising incomes, improvements in energy efficiency of housing and social and discounted tariffs had prevented some people from falling into fuel poverty, and had even lifted some homes out of the situation.
But Climate Change minister Greg Barker says: "I know rising energy prices are hitting households hard. These new figures show the old policies to help the most vulnerable were not working.
"That's why, this year, we've introduced the Warm Home Discount which will require the Big Six energy companies to provide discounts of at least £120 to about 600,000 of the poorest pensioners.
"We're also pushing for stronger competition to keep price rises as low as possible.
"In the longer term, we'll be helping people use less energy with the Green Deal which will provide extra support for the poorest and most vulnerable to benefit from energy efficiency measures."
The Green Deal is the Government's flagship energy efficiency programme, which aims to cover the upfront costs of work on homes to make them more efficient, for example, by installing new boilers, insulation and small scale renewables.
1 million more in fuel poverty
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Gaither M. Keener ('77), chief legal officer of Lowe's Companies Inc., is the recipient of the 2012 Professional Achievement Award from Western Carolina University.
Keener, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, is active in veterans affairs, providing pro bono counsel to a veterans organization and traveling to Washington and Raleigh to seek additional funding for veterans. He also is the judge advocate for the American Legion Department of North Carolina and is a senior member of the national American Legion finance committee.
In 2010, Keener and his wife, Beverly Bogle Keener, endowed a scholarship to support one WCU track or cross country distance runner each year in recognition of the late Terry Helms, Keener's college roommate at WCU and longtime friend, and Keener recently announced his intention to endow another scholarship, this one for education students named in honor of former WCU professors.
Keener is active in his community in a number of volunteer capacities. He has served as assistant national director for the American Legion Little World Series and director of the Wilkes County Youth Baseball League and spent decades as a coach of community baseball and YMCA teams. He served with the nonprofit Wilkes Health Foundation and on the board of the Wilkes Regional Medical Center. Keener is a member of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state's highest civilian honor, presented by the governor of North Carolina to individuals with a record of extraordinary service to the state.
Also receiving university awards were the following WCU alumni: Bob Buckner, WCU's former director of athletic bands, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award; Ronald G. Morrow, chief executive officer of the nonprofit North Carolina In-school Prevention of Obesity and Disease Inc., recipient of the Academic Achievement Award; and Wade G. Livingston, an assistant professor in the department of leadership, counselor education, and human and organizational development at Clemson University, recipient of the Young Alumnus Award.
"These awards recognize and honor four of WCU's most distinguished and successful alumni, and they have all made us so very proud," said Marty Ramsey, WCU director of alumni affairs.


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Split-Screen Multiplayer Returns To Switch Version Of Rocket League In The Next Update
Was originally removed from the game in September. Psyonix has announced season two of Rocket...
Was originally removed from the game in September.
Psyonix has announced season two of Rocket League will be kicking off next week on 9th December.
It will include a new arena, new customisation options, new music and content, and much more. For players on Switch, it also sees the return of the game's split-screen. This was confirmed over on the official subreddit by one of the Pysonix developers.
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Illuminated opening leaf from the Bamberg Breviary of 14 October 1501 on vellum. Germany, Nuremberg, Schreyer workshop, dated 1502.
This leaf was originally the frontispiece to a Breviary. The half-page miniature on recto shows two Nuremberg citizens kneeling in front of St. Sebaldus. On the verso, one can see the printed authorization of Bishop Vitus of Bamberg ("Vitus dei gratia..."), followed by a hand-coloured, half-page size woodcut of Emperor Henry II and his wife Kunegundis, patrons of the diocese of Bamberg, accompanied by the coat of arms of Veit Truchsess von Pommersfelden, prince-bishop of Bamberg (1501-1503).
Miniature. Tempera, ink and gold on vellum; on verso: handpainted woodcut.
Leaf: 310 x 230 mm; miniature: 159 x 180 mm.
Nuremberg's citizens prodigiously fostered the cult of St. Sebald, who is represented here as a pilgrim with a model of his church and flanked by two donors. The patrons are the leading citizens Paul Volckammer (d. 1505) and Sebald Schreyer (d. 1520), respectively tutor and custos (aedilis) of St. Sebaldus Church. Although the books were given in honour of God and the Holy Trinity for use in Holy Office, the images were included to remember the priest to say prayers for the salvation of the souls of the donors – such images, but also epitaphs, triptychs and stained-glass windows were part of the medieval system of memoria.
Volckammer and Sebald Schreyer commissioned various works of art for their parish church. Schreyer also took the initiative in several printing projects: in Bamberg, he commissioned two breviaries on vellum, dated 21 February 1484, which he had illuminated and bound in Nuremberg. In 1490, he ordered, again in Bamberg, twenty-one Missals printed on vellum. In six of these, a hand-painted portrait of St. Sebald with both donors was added on the recto of the canon illustration; and this was repeated in 1496. Of these two series, only six donor portraits are known to have survived. In 1501, Schreyer again ordered new Breviaries in Nuremberg to be printed on vellum and again donor images were added. One year later, in 1502, similar hand-painted donor images were added as a frontispiece to the book (on the blank recto of the printed authorization on the verso). Two single donor portraits of 1502 have survived intact. Although similar, none of the illuminated miniatures are the same, but over the years, all were presumably executed in the so-called 'Schreyer workshop' in Nuremberg. Sebald Schreyer, who is mostly known for his role in the production of Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicle, comes forward as a fascinating Nuremberg burgher. The donor portraits are part of a more comprehensive and quite interesting memoria culture in which Schreyer was the leading protagonist – also supporting the memoria of family members and friends.
Read more about this miniature in our blog post on memoria culture.


Great Atlantic Resources Corp., an exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of mineral properties in Atlantic Canada. The company explores for gold, zinc, tungsten, and antimony, as well as copper, lead, and silver deposits. The company holds a 100% interest in the Keymet property located near Bathurst, northeast New Brunswick; and an interest in the Golden Promise property covering an area of 1000 hectares located in Newfoundland gold belt. It holds an option to acquire a 100% interest in the MacDougal Road antimony property comprising 15 contiguous mineral claim units covering an area of approximately 330 hectares located in western New Brunswick; and the South Quarry tungsten property covering 3,600 hectares situated in east-central Newfoundland. The company was formerly known as Greenlight Resources Inc. and changed its name to Great Atlantic Resources Corp. in June 2012. Great Atlantic Resources Corp. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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Great Atlantic Resources trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CVE) under the ticker symbol "GR."
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Press coverage about GR stock has been trending positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Great Atlantic Resources earned a news impact score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.
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Some companies that are related to Great Atlantic Resources include Castillo Copper (CCZ), White Rock Minerals (WRM), Roscan Gold (ROS), Nevada Clean Magnesium (NVM), Freegold Ventures (FVL), Firestone Diamonds (FDI), Renaissance Gold (REN), Kalamazoo Resources (KZR), Carpentaria Resources (CAP), Marmota (MEU), Sokoman Minerals (SIC), Celamin (CNL), Nova Minerals (NVA), Korab Resources (KOR) and Titanium Sands (TSL).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Great Atlantic Resources investors own include Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Otelco (OTEL), Universal Display (OLED), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Fate Therapeutics (FATE), Meridian Bancorp (EBSB), Donegal Group (DGICB) and AtriCure (ATRC).
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Q: oozie rest api for specific job names aka appname I am trying to get the workflow info for specific jobs using the Rest API.
http://xxxxx:11000/oozie/v1/jobs?appName=oozie_job_1

This is returning all the jobs along with oozie_job_1. I want to somehow filter the info shown only to oozie_job_1.
I also tried using
http://xxxxx:11000/oozie/v1/jobs?filter=appName%3Doozie_job_1
but this throws an error.

A: I am also facing this issue.
I want to get details of a particular workflow/appName from the Oozie Rest API and thus tried to find some documentation/reference about the parameters that we can pass like appName, user etc to the Oozie rest endpoints which could filter down the results in the json from all the workflows running in the Oozie server to the one I want.
As of now there isn't any way in which you can get the data about a particular workflow/appName from Oozie Rest API.
I referred to your post and to the cloudera and passed appName and user as param name in the URL but still got all jobs in json.
This problem is also present in ver2 of the API as well.
This issue would slow the program to some seconds as the json content would be big with information of all the appNames that have succeeded/failed/running on the Oozie server on that day. But that is the only option we have now until this is fixed.
The solution would be to get the json containing all the workflows and parse it and get the required info.
Hope it helps


Although the Punjabi Wedding is quite a simple ceremony held in Gurdwara, the rituals associated with it are truly engaging. In fact, the rituals themselves make the wedding ceremony this special and interesting. A Punjabi or Sikh wedding ceremony starts from the Shagun (engagement) itself. Apart from the religious traditions, the Shagun ceremony specially attracts attention due to the exchange of gifts between two families. The gifts are considered auspicious, which are often showered as blessing to the bride-to-be for her nupital journey. The bride's family also sends a "Thaali" graced with sweets, silks, and riches to the groom's family as a part of the auspicious ceremony.
The choora or the bangle ceremony is an important pre wedding ritual. Traditionally, the bride's maternal uncle embellishes the bride's wrist with white and red bangles and a special ornament known as Kalirein. It is made of gold or silver and is supposed to pass on from generation to generation.
Gharoli , observed in the morning of the wedding day is essentially a function performed by the groom's family. The ritual itself is extremely graceful, with groom and his family going to Gurdwara in order to fill the earthier pitcher (Gharoli) with water. This water is considered auspicious and is used for bathing on the wedding day. It is followed by the milni ceremony, in which the groom's sisters fasten a sehera (floral veil) around his forehead. Garland of currency notes is also graced around his neck. Following this, the groom's procession, popularly called baraat gears up for the wedding venue.
All the auspicios Punjabi wedding rituals are organized in the Gurdwara, although many people prefer organizing these at home.
Needless to say , Punjabi Weddings are one of their kinds, which are more enriched than any other communities in India. Malabar Gold and Diamonds, proudly caters to the diverse needs of the Punjabi Wedding.


Two games into Curt Onalfo's first year as coach and the only certainty for the Galaxy has been the constant changes in the starting lineup.
Due to injuries and suspensions, Onalfo has yet to field his projected starting lineup this year as the Galaxy has dropped their first two games this season. Tonight's game against Real Salt Lake will be more of the same with Jelle Van Damme suspended and Giovani dos Santos likely out with a hamstring issue.
One of those young players eager to grab the opportunity for playing time is defender Nathan Smith. Smith, 22, made his Galaxy debut Sunday against Portland.
He replaced Dave Romney on the backline and went 90 minutes.
Smith left UCLA after his junior season. He said it wasn't an easy decision to make. He signed with the Galaxy II and this year he was promoted to the first team.
Smith is currently still in class at UCLA, taking two courses per quarter, in the afternoon following training.
His on-the-field course has been aided by being on the practice field next to veterans like Van Damme, Ashley Cole and Jermaine Jones.
The way the lineup has been rotating so far this season, Smith knows that he has to stay prepared at any time.
On the back line alone, Ashley Cole (calf) and Robbie Rogers (ankle) have yet to make their season debut. Dave Romney was suspended for last week's game and Van Damme is out tonight.
"It has been the story of the season," Onalfo said of early season absences. "What are you going to do? You can't sit here and complain about it. You have to find solutions and keep moving forward, focus on the positive and go into the game with a good game plan.
Having Jones back on the field tonight will certainly help the Galaxy. Jones was suspended for last week's game following a foul he committed against FC Dallas in the season opener.
He watched last week's game from one of the suites at the StubHub Center.
The Galaxy hope that it starts tonight.
Update: RSL opened the season with a scoreless draw against Toronto FC and last week a 2-0 loss to the Chicago Fire. Last year, the Galaxy went undefeated against RSL, winning two of the three, including a 3-1 defeat in the MLS playoffs. There is some good news on the injury front, as both Gyasi Zardes (knee) and Cole are close to returning. The Galaxy is off next week and will not play again until April 1, so both could benefit from the extra time off.


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As LED technology continues to manifest in different facets of our daily lives, one place that they are becoming increasingly more popular are the streets. Traditionally, our streets have been illuminated by high-pressure sodium lamps, which utilize excited sodium particles to produce light. LED street lights have proven to have several benefits over these lamps, including producing more light per watt and sporting longer lifetimes; however, there are some drawbacks to these lights, such as glare. Let's get a better understanding of LED street lights and how they are quickly becoming the new lights that guide our paths.
Currently there are a little over a dozen cities and states in the U.S. that have installed some form of LED street lighting. Although more cities and states are jumping on the LED bandwagon, much of the apprehension can be attributed to cost. The initial cost for installing LEDs can be 4-6 times more expensive than HPS lamps. For example, the cost to install 1000 new LED luminaires that is meant to replace 1000, 100 watt HPS street lamps is approximately $215,000; this amount includes the installation, cost of LED luminaries, and crew. However, the savings in energy and maintenance are around $55,000 annually.
The money it costs to retrofit street lights can come from a variety of sources. For example, some cities offer conversion programs, state government, and federal grants to pay for the lights. Another option is manufacturing programs where large street lighting manufacturers finance retrofitting, similar to a loan, and the money is paid back over a number of years.
LED street lights offer a number of benefits. They have a longer lamp life than HPS lamps. The lights currently last between 10-15 years and, unlike HPS lamps, they do not experience lumen depreciation as sharply. Lumen depreciation is a process that occurs when the lumen output produced by a light source begins to diminish over time. HPS lamps experience quicker lumen depreciation after as little as 2,000 hours, creating higher maintenance costs.
As we have learned from numerous posts, LEDs are an incredibly energy-efficient light source. According to the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), after monitoring HPS street lights for a year and then retrofitting them with comparable LED street lights, they found that the LED system consumed around 75% less electricity than the previous HPS street lights. Another major benefit in LED street lights is they have a high light output regardless of temperature, as HPS lamps typically produce less visible light during colder temperatures. Not only is the light output of an LED street light better than an HPS lamp, but the CRI is much higher and light is spread more evenly with an LED. Most LEDs have a CRI rating between 70-92 whereas HPS lamps fall between 20-30 on the CRI scale. The scale measures light quality from 0-100. Lastly, it should be noted that HPS lamps do not start at full brightness. They slowly generate light after the preliminary ignition, whereas LEDs turn off and on without a ramping or light generating phase.
As we have already discussed, the initial cost of installing LED street lights is rather expensive, which is one of the issues many cities and states face when choosing to retrofit their street lights. Another major concern for these lights is their tendency to glare.
In some cities, overly bright LED's are being installed as opposed to the warm glow that you're used to seeing. The excessive glare and brightness produced from blue-white or uneven LED street lights can be disruptive to drivers, and even those walking at night or sleeping in nearby homes. The blue spectrum of light emitted by LEDs can also negatively affect your natural circadian rhythm, requiring an adjustment to daily life. In New York for example, there is a $75 million plan to change all street lights in the five boroughs to LEDs, a change many people are complaining about because the lights are too bright, and do not emit a warm glow, but rather a more stark white light. Citizens claim that the new lights are causing the streets to appear more like daytime than night.
Even with some of the complaints surrounding LED street lights, there are ways to combat these issues. Cities can choose to use more ambient toned LEDs or LEDs with lower illumination levels. Using street lights with a narrower field of illumination to maintain beam control may also be an option. Another possibility being considered is incorporating a special diffuser lens on the lights to reduce glare.
Whatever your take on LED street lamps may be, one thing is certain: their brightness is growing. What are your opinions on the rise of LED street lights? Leave your questions in the section below or drop us a line on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Instagram!


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Matías de la Peña y Barragán fue un militar mexicano del siglo .

Biografía

De la Peña y Barragán fue general en jefe autoproclamado del «Ejército Salvador de la Independencia y la Libertad» durante la rebelión de los Polkos, sublevándose así contra el gobierno en medio de la invasión estadounidense. Publicó un Plan en contra de los Poderes Legislativo y Ejecutivo que exigía la desaparición de ambos poderes, reconocía el sistema federal y a Antonio López de Santa Anna como general en jefe del Ejército Mexicano, convocaba a un nuevo Congreso bicameral para reformar la Constitución de 1824 y pedía la derogación de las leyes del 11 de enero y 4 de febrero sobre la ocupación de los bienes de manos muertas. En 1843 se involucró en las acciones militares para someter a fuerzas yucatecas en Campeche al reemplazar a José Vicente Miñón.

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Reyes Heroles, Jesús. El liberalismo mexicano. Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1994.

Generales de México

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In Florida we are prone to disaster or conflict, rapid information sharing about preventative measures can save lives and property. This mobile app will contain disaster preparedness information,plan developement, emergency contact, a shelter locator feature, disaster checklist items and social media contacts. This innovative app will help protect citizens of Florida.


Blockchainfirst, a company born from Juergen Schaar's enchantment with blockchain technology, with current headquarters in Singapore, Germany, and Thailand, wishes to bring together IoT devices and blockchain technology.
We're certainly in the future now.
Blockchainfirst, a company born from Juergen Schaar's enchantment with blockchain technology, wishes to bring together IoT devices and blockchain technology.
Blockchainfirst, currently headquartered in Singapore, Germany, and Thailand, has clients that expand all over the globe. Their ideology is to train, consult, and develop for customers of all backgrounds and varieties, specializing in creating amazing ideas in an agile and open-minded fashion. They truly believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) can become a wide-spread reality if IoT Devices are small and able to interact with blockchains. Their ecosystem that they have created that connects IoT to the blockchain, is called Ethan BIoT©.
This light bulb is connected to the Ethereum blockchain and is your standard LED light bulb with the Ethan BIoT© technology inside. A user could send a small amount of Ether to the address of the light bulb and it will turn on after the payment amount is consumed. The idea behind this lightbulb is to show that Blockchainfirst can integrate their Ethan BIoT© device in almost every appliance or machines such as a car or washing machine. They hope that in time consumers will move from the typical purchasing model of buying the standard appliances outright, and over to a free appliance with a pay-per-use model.
Blockchainfirst will also be presenting a number of their projects at Demo Day in Shanghai during International Blockchain Week. They will present the Ethan BIoT© Device, which is a tiny chip with an assortment of possibilities.
Opens a gate or door with Ether payments.
Pay with Ether and get electricity, gas, water, and amounts of heat.
Blockchainfirst's Ethan BIoT© Ecosystem consists of a few moving parts. Smart contracts that interact with devices, mobile apps for easier configuration and user control, device management software, linking abilities, tools to build your own BIoT© Eco System, cloud services, and apps and Dapps.
To learn more about this innovative company and their assortment of products, head to their site and visit them at their booth in Shanghai during International Blockchain Week.
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Project of the Month: European Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment
Each month, we aim to feature a current research topic by a doctoral student or Early Career Researcher. To start off the series, Sarah Fengler (Medieval and Modern Languages / Jesus College, Oxford) talks about her thesis topic on European dramatizations of Old Testament narratives in the Age of Enlightenment.
When Adam sees Eve standing next to the tree and reaching for the forbidden fruit, he is outraged. In an attempt to stop her at the last second, he comes rushing towards her with his arms raised.
The photograph shows an illustration from Johannes Ewald's Adam og Ewa in Johannes Ewald's Samtlige Skrifter, vol. 1, 1780. Drawing by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, engraving by Johann Frederik Clemens.
Eve is about to eat, and Adam will eventually follow her lead. Nicolai Abildgaard's drawing of one of the most famous passages of the Old Testament (Genesis 3:6) belongs to the first volume of the Danish writer Johannes Ewald's Samtlige Skrifter ('Collected Works') from 1780, more specifically to his tragedy Adam og Ewa ('Adam and Eve'), published for the first time in 1769. Based on Genesis and drawing on additional literary sources, such as John Milton's religious epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), Adam og Ewa tells the story of the Fall of Man and the expulsion from Paradise. From Ewald's play, we know that Eve does not act without due consideration. Her reach for the fruit is the result of a long and sophisticated conversation with Satan, culminating in her insight that Adam alone cannot make her happy, only knowledge of God can.
Ewald's inventive dramatization of the Fall is not untypical of the way Old Testament narratives, in the Age of Enlightenment, were adapted for tragedy. In his treatise Von der heiligen Poesie (1755, 'On Sacred Poetry'), the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock claims that biblical narratives have gaps that need to be filled with fiction to emphasize the Christian message. Such a creative approach to the biblical text is legitimate if the poet is pious, and as long as the inventions fit into what Klopstock calls the main plan of religion. Klopstock himself, mainly known for his epic poem Der Messias (1748–1773, 'The Messiah'), also uses this strategy in his own three Old Testament tragedies. Other eighteenth-century writers who explore the tragic nature of Scripture through dramatizing Old Testament stories include the Swiss critic Johann Jakob Bodmer, who also made the first German translation of Paradise Lost, the French deist Voltaire, and the English Christian writer Hannah More. What their plays have in common is that they supplement the biblical record with additional details and dialogues—sometimes based on other historical or literary sources, sometimes pure invention—and owing to divine salvation, their endings are often untragic.
The dramatization of biblical stories is not a new phenomenon that occurs first in the Age of Enlightenment, but has a long and varied history. Already from the Middle Ages, scriptural narratives were adapted for drama, whether in Latin or vernacular. Examples range from medieval mystery plays and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit drama to Spanish autos sacramentales. However, eighteenth-century Old Testament tragedy differs from these traditions in many ways. It emerges in the context of intensive theoretical engagement with ancient drama theory, especially Aristotle's Poetics, known through both French neoclassical doctrine classique and nascent concepts of bourgeois tragedy. Yet there is hardly any theoretical discussion about whether biblical stories should be dramatized, perhaps even because, thanks to Paradise Lost and the Messias, a different literary genre, the epic, had already proven fruitful in adapting Scripture. Thus, the dramatization of Old Testament stories in the eighteenth century culminates not only in a Christian appropriation of an originally pagan genre, but also in a deviation from the established sacred genre, the epic, to tragedy.
In my doctoral thesis, I examine how European dramatizations of Old Testament narratives in the Age of Enlightenment form a distinct mode of tragedy. Based on analyses of selected German, French, Scandinavian, and English plays, my thesis transcends the boundaries of European national literatures and sheds light on the idiosyncratic features of eighteenth-century Old Testament tragedies. At the heart of the analyses lies the nexus between tragic form and biblical content, and as such the untragic ending of many Old Testament tragedies, an innovation rooted in a New Testament perspective on Old Testament stories. That Adam and Eve must leave the garden of Eden after the Fall is common knowledge, but that their expulsion, at least in Adam og Ewa, is a gesture of God's mercy on mankind, is a reframing by Ewald. Untragic endings like that of Ewald's play challenge conventional understandings of the tragic genre and illustrate how the continued interplay between religion and literature in the Age of Enlightenment produced Old Testament tragedies with prolific innovations.
⁓ Sarah Fengler
Aristotle, 'Poetics', in Aristotle: Poetics. Longinus: On the Sublime. Demetrius: On Style [Loeb Classical Library 199], ed. and trans. by Stephen Halliwell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, repr. with co. 1999).
Johannes Ewald, 'Adam og Ewa', in Johannes Ewald: Samlede Skrifter efter tryk og haandskrifter, vol. 1, ed. by Hans Brix and V. Kuhr (Copenhagen: Gyldendal Nordisk Forlag, 1914).
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Werke und Briefe. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, ed. by Adolf Beck and others (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1974– ), IV/1–6: Der Messias, ed. by Elisabeth Höpker-Herberg (1974–1999).
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 'Von der heiligen Poesie', in Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Gedanken über die Natur der Poesie: Dichtungstheoretische Schriften, ed. by Winfried Menninghaus (Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1989), pp. 187–201.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. by Gordon Teskey (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005).
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Hi, thanks for the comment. I've read about the track at the facebook page of The Hit House, but hadn't updated the post yet. Catched up on this now and integrated the info :-).


When I started my Scar Stories Project earlier this year, I wasn't exactly sure where it was going to take me. I knew that I wanted to help people who had experienced trauma find the beauty in their broken-ness. To be able to recognize that (for many) without the marks on their bodies, they might not even be here. To be able to share their stories of pain, fear, trials and their path to acceptance of their scars.
I have partnered with Jenna Bell, heart transplant survivor, former teacher and fellow military spouse to write the stories and our plan is now for a book that should be released sometime in 2019.
The one thing that every participant has had in common is their strength, inner beauty and the ability to find the joy in their lives, however messy they are. I'm so grateful to be able to share in their stories. This little snippet is from beautiful Andrea's reveal a few weeks ago...Enjoy!


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Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames' canonical Powers of Ten, the course explores the relationship between science and engineering through the lens of Design. It examines how transformations in science and technology have influenced design thinking, and vice versa. It offers interdisciplinary tools and methods to represent, model, design and fabricate objects, machines, and systems. Structured as core lectures and charrette sessions, the course is organized by "systems": Design of Interfaces, Design of Representation and Information, Design of Data, Design of Discovery, Design of Transformation, Design of Assemblies, Design of Life, Design of Nature, Design of Desire and Demand, and Design of Agency. World-renowned designers, scientists and engineers will contribute with guest lectures. Within a workshop setting, we will design things – material and immaterial; we will learn new computational and fabrication tools along the way; we will develop methodologies for design research of interdisciplinary problems; we will practice what it means to think, live, and breathe Design.
The course creates a new pedagogical paradigm for learning and education, which cuts across various disciplines and scales to demonstrate that design is not a discipline, but a way of looking at the world; one that promotes the synthesis of interdisciplinary knowledge across scales in order to create objects and systems for the greater good. This is partly due to the fact that big, real-world challenges – such as the race to cure cancer, the mars landing mission and the challenge to design sustainable cities and buildings – require, perhaps more than ever, an interdisciplinary skill set combined with an ability to operate across multiple scales with creativity.
The history of design innovation provides endless examples of cross-disciplinary innovations and individuals. Buckminster Fuller, for instance, was a designer, a futurist, an inventor, an author and a systems theorist. His designs based on the geodesic dome have inspired not only generations of designers, architects, engineers and urban planners but also chemists, material scientists and physicists, who were inspired by his representation of the physical world. Charles and Ray Eames were mid-century American designers working at a range of scales and in a variety of media, from furniture and military aircraft parts to films and exhibitions. Their experiments in design fabrication, and cultural media provide significant references for design education today. An example of the value of learning across disciplines today is found in Siddhartha Mukherjee's book, Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer, which tells the story of how the process of inventing cell dyes to trace the growth of cancerous tissues was actually inspired by textile design.
Design has expanded to include a broad range of scales and disciplines, shifting from the production of objects to the design of experiences, data, networks, territories, and social frameworks. Designers are no longer exclusively committed to design autonomous objects (buildings, cars, furniture and household products), but rather are conceiving and testing whole ecologies of design experiences (robotic construction systems, transportation systems, health care experiences, water distribution, and clean energy). This has prompted Tim Brown, CEO of the design consultancy firm IDEO to state, "Design is too important to be left to designers." The scope of design ecologies is so broad and so integrated with other disciplines that traditionally trained designers are ill equipped to tackle the new breadth of design tasks at hand. Interdisciplinary teams must work together to design the systems, experiences, environments and futures for our increasingly complex world.
Design Across Scales, Disciplines and Problem Contexts responds to this challenge by creating a course that is not a traditional design course for designers, but a design course about culture, science and technology serving as a foundation course for all students regardless of their major.
In addition to one lecture per week by the instructor and guest lecturers, there will be a weekly assignment. Students will be required to select one of three charrette sessions with weekly lab tutorials and workshops to complete the assignment. The readings are highly recommended, particularly for Graduate Students, but not required. Each student is expected to attend all lec- tures, complete weekly assignments, participate in one of three multi-week charrette sessions, and complete assignment.


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-Utilizes React Router and Redux forms
-Axios for API consumption

Based off Stephen Grider's Udemy course.

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