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A non-profit volunteer organization, the TTOS has been fulfilling its mandate by presenting public concerts since 197 4, most recently under the banner Wurlitzer Pops at Casa Loma because these are no ordinary pipe organ recitals. Musically our presentations are more like symphony pops concerts performed by a single musician who is at once an orchestrator, arranger, improvisor and recitalist - usually from memory! Geoffrey Paterson, president 38 Clareville Cres., Toronto ON M2J 2Cl 416-499-6262 www.theatreorgans.com/toronto/ TORONTO WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir was founded in 1995 to kindle the tradition of four-part Welsh male voice singing in Toronto. Practices are held Wed. 7:30- 10.00pm (September -June) at Dewi Sant Welsh United Church, Toronto (Yonge/Lawrence). Membership requires a love of, and ear for, choral music and an elementary voice test. Being Welsh is not mandatory! The choir's key personnel are: David Low - director; Lenard Whiting - associate director; and Kathryn Tremills - accompanist. The choir performs approximately 10 concerts a year featuring traditional Welsh music, spirituals, operatic choruses, North American folk songs and show tunes. Gordon Brown: 416-482-0292 president@twmvc.com www.twmvc.com TRILLIUM BRASS QUINTET The Trillium Brass Quintet - Philip Seguin and Scott Harrison, trumpets; Christine Passmore, horn; Cathy Stone, trombone; and Karen Bulmer, tuba - is a versatile professional chamber ensemble. Committed to commissioning new works as well as transcribing music from many styles and eras, TBQ actively seeks to expand the diversity of repertoire available to the modern brass quintet. Formed in 1996, TBQ has performed throughout southern Ontario including recital appearances at the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, the inaugural Brass in the Crass Festival, and the Toronto International Chamber Music Festival. The quintet has collaborated with the Exultate Chamber Singers, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Pax Christi Chorale, and the Cantores Celestes Women's Chamber Choir, among others. During the summers of 2002 and 2003, TBQ attended the Musicians at Large programme at the prestigious Banff Centre. TBQ's recordings include their debut CD, Revecy. and Seasons of the Spi1itwith the Pax Christi Chorale. Please visit our website for audio and video samples, and more information about this dynamic ensemble. information@trilliumbrass.com www.trilliumbrass.com TRUE NORTH BRASS True North Brass is: Jim Gardiner, Raymond Tizzard - trumpets.Joan Watson -horn, Alastair Kay-trombone, andJ. Scott Irvine - tuba. • Truly Musical: True North Brass is comprised of five of Canada's most virtuosic soloists, whose wealth and diversity of experience give the group its brilliant presentations. • Truly Canadian: True North Brass takes pride in its Canadian roots. Composer/arrangers Alastair Kay and J. Scott Irvine have created wonderful music for the group together with friends/writers like Howard Cable, Jim McGrath, Gary Kulesha and Laryssa Kuzmenko. • Truly Unique: In 8 years, True North Brass has developed standing ovation recitals, 3 brilliant CD's, a stunning orchestra show, an equally electric show with band, the marvellous TNB Magic- an educational tool for keeping the fun in learning to play a musical instrument, a library of sheet music and a website featuring (among other things) articles on Canada's brass legends! The members of True North Brass are Yamaha artists, working passionately with Yamaha to keep the joy in music and music education. 39-37th St., Etobicoke ON MSW 3L5 866-509-0724 www.truenorthbrass.com TRYPTYCH TrypTych, Canada's passionate advocate of the vocal arts was formed in 1999 by the three co-directors. All are well-known performers, producers and directors (stage and music) who bring a wealth of experience to concert and operatic production. TrypTych's mission is to present concerts, theatre and opera featuring the best of Canadian vocal talent and to provide educational and developmental opportunities for young and upcoming singers. The repertoire ranges from Baroque to the new music of the 21st century. Since its inception TrypTych has presented many works including Handel's Saul, Fri d's The Diary of Anne Frank (a Canadian premiere and an appearance in Prague, Czech Republic), Wolf's only opera Der Corregidor (a Canadian premiere) and Britten's The Beggar's Opera in Chichester, Great Britain. Entering its seventh exciting season, TrypTych will again produce concerts featuring our own Ensemble TrypTych Chamber Choir, including Bach's St. John Passion in March. As well, we will present the third annual Toronto International Chamber Music Festival Wholenote MEMBERS' PROFILES 2005-2006 823 (in celebration of the 250th birthday of Mozart) in January 2006 at the Isabel Bader Theatre. Edward Franko, William Shookhoff, Lenard Whiting, co-directors Barbara Goodbody, administrator 583 Durie Street,Toronto ON M6S 3H2 416-763-5066 info@tryptych.org www.tryptych.org u FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (MUSIC FACULTY OF Music ,,- The University ofToronto Faculty of ,-.1 ., Music is widely regarded as a leading ~ • centre for the scholarly and profes- ~ ~ sional study of music in North America. u NI vrns In For almost a century, many of Cana- OF TORONTO da's greatest musicians have studied and taught at the Faculty, including John Weinzweig, Lois Marshall, Elmer Iseler, Teresa Stratas, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The Faculty presents over 100 events annually featuring its students, faculty and distinguished guests. The goal is to enrich the University and its surrounding community with music presentations of the highest professional calibre. Highlighting the 2005-2006 season are appearances by baritone Russell Braun, composers Steve Reich and Brian Cherney; music educator Patricia Shehan Campbell; violinists Erika Raum, Lara St. John and Mayumi Seiler; conductor Raffi Armenian; pianists James Parker, Cameron Stowe, Midori Koga and Lydia Wong; cellist Shauna Rolston;jazz artist Renee Rosnes; chamber ensembles Borromeo Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, St. Lawrence String Quartet and Gryphon Trio. For more information visit our website, or call the Faculty of Music box office. Dr. Gage Averill, dean Dr. Cameron Walter, associate dean & performance coordinator Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto ON M5S 2C5 Box office: 416-978-3744 www.music.utoronto.ca UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO OPERA DIVISION, FACULTY OF Music The fall production features four performances of Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, November 10 - 13, conducted by Sandra Horst, with stage direction by Michael Patrick Albano. The spring production will feature Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, March 9 -12, conducted by Raffi Armenian, with stage direction by Michael Patrick Albano. The Division's highly successful (and often sold-out) Opera Tea Series at 2.30 on the stage of MacMillan Theatre features Puccini's La Boheme on November 27, and The Art of the Prima Donna, on January 22. Concluding the opera season are two performances of operetta and musical theatre, titled Kurt WeiII in Amelica: A Musical Theatre Entertainment on April 22 & 23, 2006. For performance times, venues, tickets or other info, please visit the website or call the box office. Stephen Ralls, musical director and coordinator, Opera Division Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto ON M5S 2C5 Box office: 416-978-3744 www.music.utoronto.ca CONTINU ED ON PAGE 824
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT Music AND ARTS SCHOOL The University Settlement Music and Arts School has been providing quality, affordable music lessons and group classes for over 80 years in downtown Toronto. We believe that the arts are a right, not a privilege and we offer music and arts programs to everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, perceived talent, disability or ability to pay. Individual lessons are available on a wide variety of musical instruments, in voice and theory. Group activities include: Children's Choir, Teen Drama, Community Choir, Community Orchestra, Chamber Music, Ear Training for Kids and Adults, and Dance Qazz, tap and ballet). Our faculty consists of highly qualified professionals. Lesson fees are modest, and we offer subsidies to lowincome families who qualify. Scholarships, practice facilities and instrument rentals are also available to our students. Regular student recitals offer excellent performance opportunities to our students in a family environment. We also present faculty concerts, special events with special guests, and workshops. For specific information, call the office. Office hours are: Monday 9:30- 4:30, Tuesday to Friday 9:30- 7:30, and Saturday 10:30- 2:30pm. Anne Yardley, music & arts director Natasha Bartels, program assistant 23 Grange Road, Toronto ON MST 1C3 416-598-3444 #243 /244 UPPER CANADA CHORISTERS The Upper Canada Choristers is a mixed voice community choir in Toronto committed to musical excellence and community service within a joyful, co-operative learning culture. The choir numbers about 50 and is in its 12th year of operation. Founding artistic director, Laurie Evan Fraser and accompanist, Nicole Belamy provide the professional musical leadership for this vibrant, growing organization. The choir performs regularly in a variety of community venues - hospitals, nursing homes, seniors' residences, schools, churches -as well as singing at special events and other public concerts. The members' diversity is reflected in a wide range of choral repertoire. Highlights of our 2005-2006 season will be Gloria, a concert on December 2, 2005 at Eglinton-St. George's United Church featuring Vivaldi's Gloria and songs of the season including our traditional carol sing along; and Opera, Anyone?showcasing famous operatic choruses as well as Benjamin Britten's Noyes Fludde on May 12, 2006. Laurie Evan Fraser, conductor/artistic director: 2 Romar Crescent, Toronto ON M6B 1R8 416-256-0510 www.chorister.org URBAN ARTS BRASS ENSEMBLE The Urban Arts Brass Ensemble is dedicated to the creation and development of new music. Comprised of Brian O'Kane and James Freeman - trumpets, David Haskins - horn, William Carn - trombone, Al Carter - tuba, and Roger Travassos - drums, the UABE represents a broad spectrum of musical talent. In collaboration with composers such as Scott Godin, Michael Oesterle, Andrew Downing, and Richard Underhill the UABE has embarked on a journey of fearless musical exploration, cultivating new sounds drawn from many diverse stylistic influences. James Freeman, artistic director 416-929-4704 info@urbanartsbrass.com v VESNIVKA CHOIR Founding director Halyna K vitka Kondracki established Vesnivka Choir in 1965. This award-winning 40-member women's ensemble has delighted audiences around the world with its rich repertoire ofUkrainian liturgical, classical, contemporary and traditional folk music. Vesnivka opens its 40'h anniversary concert season with Women in Song, featuring selected works from four contemporary women composers, one of which is Toronto's own Laryssa Kuzmenko. A special highlight of this concert will be the premiere performances of two recently commissioned works. The New Year commences with Vesnivka and The Toronto Ukrainian Male Chamber Choir presenting their ever-popular annual A Ukrainian Christmas on January 8, 2006. On April 9, 2006, Vesnivka and TUM CC will join forces with The Elmer Iseler Singers, Amadeus Choir, Orpheus Choir and the Gryphon Trio, with a special guest appearance by international opera singer Pavlo Hunka, in a concert commemorating the 20 1 h anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, being held at Roy Thomson Hall. Vesnivka also sings Christmas and Easter Liturgies on January 7, 2006 and April 23, 2006 at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto. Halyna K vitka Kondracki, artistic director Nykola Parzei, administrator 78 Brule Gardens, Toronto ON M6S 4J2 416-763-2197: nykola@vesnivka.com www.vesnivka.com VICTORIA SCHOLARS MEN'S CHORAL ENSEMBLE The namesake of the Victoria Scholars, Tomas Luis de Victoria, was an outstanding composer of the Renaissance period whose music is renowned for both its spirituality and emotional expressiveness. The essence of the Scholars' music is an emphasis on the clarity and balance of sound so characteristic of Renaissance music, which the ensemble presents through the unique sonority of male voices. Their repertoire encompasses medieval plainchant, works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, contemporary and newly commissioned works. Past winners of the Canada Council Healey Willan Grand Prize in the CBC Radio National Competition for Amateur Choirs, the Victoria Scholars have performed with many of Canada's exceptional vocal soloists, including Michael Schade, Russell Braun, Richard Margison, Monica Whicher, and Norine Burgess, have recorded two widely acclaimed recordings and have been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio, most recently an all Canadian programme for In Performance. Auditions for the ensemble take place in the fall each season. 2005/2006 concert series: Christmas ComesAnew(Dec. 18); Canadian Scholars (Mar. 5); Let Tour Voice Be Heard Oun. 11). Jerzy Cichocki, music director 146 Willowridge Rd., Toronto ON M9R 3Z7 416-761-7776 info@victoriascholars.ca www.victoriascholars.ca VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS NEWMARKET Visual and Performing Arts Newmarket was organized in 1988 with the aim of bringing together arts lovers and campaigning for a performing arts facility. In 1997, VPAN was able to take advantage of a new state-of-theart theatre in Newmarket and created Three For The Show, a three-concert series of classical music on Sunday afternoons. Many outstanding artists have a p peared on stage, including John Arpin, Maureen Forrester, Mimi Blais, Antonin Kubalek, Alexander Tselyakov, True North Brass, Susan Hoeppner, Beverley Johnston, Trio Lyra and Toronto Children's Chorus. Five years ago, VPAN added a popular fourth concert, Young Artists' Showcase, featuring talented young musicians, many of whom plan to make their careers in music. This ninth season VPAN proudly presents Vadim Serebryany (piano) November 6, 2005; Ensemble Vivan! (piano trio with Catherine Wilson) February 12, 2006; and Quartango April 2, 2006. All concerts take place at 2:00 p.m. at the Newmarket Theatre. Subscription tickets are (adults), (seniors) and (students). Single tickets (after October 15) are , , . For tickets, call 905-953-5122. Judy Craig, president PO Box 95524, 350 Davis Dr., Newmarket, ON L3Y 8J8 VIVA! YOUTH SINGERS OF TORONTO VIVA! Youth Singers ofToronto was founded in 2000 at a time of widespread cuts to school arts programs. VfVA! is comprised of four choirs organized by age, experience, and ability. The Preparatory Chorus is composed of children ages 5-7. These young singers engage in fun, age-appropriate, musical activities. Singers in Main Chorus I, ages 7 -10, and Main Chorus II, ages 10-16, receive regular structured instruction in vocal technique, theory, and sight-singing. The fourth level is a projectbased SATB Youth Choir devoted to large choral works with orchestra, and is a choir from which vocal coaches, voice teachers, and teaching assistants are drawn. All choristers produce a beautiful singing tone as they work through a varied repertoire. VIVA! is committed to providing young singers with the opportunity to participate in artistically excellent endeavours with an integrated arts approach, to commission original works annually, and to support Canadian musicians and artists. Rehearsals are Monday nights at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church. Carol Woodward Ratzlaff, artistic director Susan Suchard, Prep. Chorus conductor Brad Ratzlaff, co-conductor and accompanist Sarah Morrison, assistant conductor Laura Menard, general manager 427 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 5, Toronto ON M5S 1X7 416-788-8482 vivayouth@vivayouthsingers.com www.vivayouthsingers.com VOCAL ART FORUM The Vocal Art Forum was founded in 1999 to provide an opportunity for instructors of the highest competence to conduct workshops in their fields of expertise in the realm of classical vocal performance. 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Pi Pies, Dancing, and Love Squares: Twisted Recap
President July 12, 2013
Alicia Carroll '16/ Emertainment Monthly Writer
Things got heated during this week's "Twisted Tuesday." Relationships formed. Relationships ended. Nightmares became real, and we still don't know who is to blame for Regina's murder. For those of you that missed it all, here is a quick recap.
Lacey has been second-guessing everything she knows recently. How reliable is Archie? Is Danny guilty? Does he deserve the second chance Jo has given him? Her dreams are telling her she thinks Danny may have killed Regina and took her necklace, but she is having trouble believing that. After dreaming of Regina, she begins to ask around about the necklace that was taken from her the night she died. No one seems to know where it came from. All they know is that Regina always said it was a gift. What everyone is wondering is from whom?
The Fall Festival is the biggest event of the year in Green Grove. It's right around the corner, and (to no one's surprise) nobody wants Danny there. Members of the community are giving Chief Masterson flack for not having solved Regina's case. He assured the crowd that nothing bad is going to happen at the festival to endanger the town. One persistent heckler, Tim, insists Danny is a murderer and has no business going to the festival, especially now that he is hanging out with the Chief's daughter. The Mayor stepped in and calmed everyone down long enough to tell Chief Masterson to deal with the situation before it ruins the festival.
In yet another attempt at rebellion and righteousness, Jo decides to go to the festival with Danny. This time it wasn't to prove anything to her father or Lacey or the town. Rico likes Jo. Jo likes Danny. Lacey, regrettably, likes Danny. Danny doesn't really know whom he likes, but I am sure he will find a way to make this "Love Square" into a hexagon. Against the better judgment of almost everyone in Green Grove, Jo asked Danny out to the festival…"as friends."
Before the festival Danny and Jo run into Lacey at the diner. In the spirit of full disclosure, Danny tells her about the necklace belonging to Tara. Lacey feels like her fears from her nightmare have been validated and calls him selfish for wanting to go to the festival. She couldn't blame them or thinking Danny did it, after finding that out.
After asking about the necklace, Lacey offers to go through Regina's recent mail for her mother. In the pile, she finds a letter with hundreds of dollars in it. There was a note saying Regina was getting paid to keep her mouth shut about something. The letter was sent two days before her death. Lacey begins to wonder if this gag order had something to do with the necklace, or her murder.
The Fall Festival ends in a formal dance for the town, which is one of the most anticipated events of the season. Jo asks Danny to the formal and her mom gets so excited she offered to buy her a dress, but Jo nips that in the bud.
Rico seems jealous of Danny because Jo is spending more and more time with Danny, and Rico doesn't fully trust him. Rico asked Jo to help him with his Mathletes "pi pie" booth and gets even more irritated when he finds Jo invited Danny to help too. Tim sees Danny and starts screaming at him in the middle of the festival. Danny tried to diffuse the situation but Tim pushes Danny into the booth and knocks over the pies. Surprisingly, Chief Masterson comes to Danny's aid, and makes Tim back off. Rico's booth is ruined, his Mathletes have to figure out another way to fundraise, the girl he likes is going to the dance with a murderer…he is understandably angry.
Danny goes to get replacement pies for Rico when he runs into Chief Masterson. Danny thanks him for helping him back at the festival; he didn't realize protecting a murderer was in his job description. Chief Masterson explains it is his job to protect everyone, but if Danny goes to the Festival, his job doesn't exactly get easier. Danny understands, so he tries to back out of the formal. Jo is bummed, but she agreed.
Tess gets upset that she isn't going and talked to her about it. She said if going to the formal would really make her happy, she should go. Jo decided to attend, but she makes Danny go with her. The festival meant a lot to both of them, so she wants him to be there. Tess sees that Jo is happier since Danny came back. Even though Danny may or may not be dangerous, he makes Jo happy and Tess believes that is worth it. Chief Masterson doesn't see it the same way.
Later, at the formal, the mayor sees Danny and Jo arrive and politely asks them to leave. Danny convinces him otherwise, seeing as the camera crew from the local news was there, and if he kicks them out, that will be the top story tomorrow. They stay and have a wonderful time until Danny suddenly gets an alarming text. He leaves and we find out it was Lacey. She tells him about the money she found in Regina's mail. He tells her to take it to Chief Masterson because it may help with the investigation, but she refuses because she isn't ready to ruin how people remember Regina, whatever that envelop means could derail her good memory. They argue about it…and then make out…words cannot express my rage.
Meanwhile Jo talks to Rico at the formal and Rico is finally honest with her. Not about the him loving her part, but his feelings towards her getting involved with Danny part. Danny lied to them about the necklace and withheld information, what else could he be hiding? Rico sees that he is not going to convincer her, so he gives up and goes home. On his way he sees Karen Desai, in the dark of night, throwing Tara's…or Regina's necklace in the water (because getting her fingerprints on it and disposing of evidence is always a good idea).
The episode ends with a slightly more heartwarming visual when Danny meets Jo at the diner and brings Lacey along. Despite Lacey's wishes, Danny refused to keep the money that was sent to Regina a secret. They meet at the diner to tell her about it. Even though all three of them working together may be a good thing, Jo wasn't too hot on the idea of Danny and Lacey together (predictable teen conflict alert.)
For more secrets, mysteries, and drama, tune into Twisted Tuesdays at 9pm EST on ABC Family.
MVP: Tess Masterson, played by Kimberly Quinn. I love her character and how she loves her husband so much, but isn't willing to compromise her principals or what she thinks is best for Jo, just to help his appearance at his job. I really felt her motherly love in this episode. Kudos to her.
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)

type VirtualMachineInstanceHandler func(string, *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)

type VirtualMachineInstanceController interface {
	generic.ControllerMeta
	VirtualMachineInstanceClient

	OnChange(ctx context.Context, name string, sync VirtualMachineInstanceHandler)
	OnRemove(ctx context.Context, name string, sync VirtualMachineInstanceHandler)
	Enqueue(namespace, name string)
	EnqueueAfter(namespace, name string, duration time.Duration)

	Cache() VirtualMachineInstanceCache
}

type VirtualMachineInstanceClient interface {
	Create(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
	Update(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
	UpdateStatus(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
	Delete(namespace, name string, options *metav1.DeleteOptions) error
	Get(namespace, name string, options metav1.GetOptions) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
	List(namespace string, opts metav1.ListOptions) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceList, error)
	Watch(namespace string, opts metav1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)
	Patch(namespace, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, subresources ...string) (result *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, err error)
}

type VirtualMachineInstanceCache interface {
	Get(namespace, name string) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
	List(namespace string, selector labels.Selector) ([]*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)

	AddIndexer(indexName string, indexer VirtualMachineInstanceIndexer)
	GetByIndex(indexName, key string) ([]*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)
}

type VirtualMachineInstanceIndexer func(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) ([]string, error)

type virtualMachineInstanceController struct {
	controller    controller.SharedController
	client        *client.Client
	gvk           schema.GroupVersionKind
	groupResource schema.GroupResource
}

func NewVirtualMachineInstanceController(gvk schema.GroupVersionKind, resource string, namespaced bool, controller controller.SharedControllerFactory) VirtualMachineInstanceController {
	c := controller.ForResourceKind(gvk.GroupVersion().WithResource(resource), gvk.Kind, namespaced)
	return &virtualMachineInstanceController{
		controller: c,
		client:     c.Client(),
		gvk:        gvk,
		groupResource: schema.GroupResource{
			Group:    gvk.Group,
			Resource: resource,
		},
	}
}

func FromVirtualMachineInstanceHandlerToHandler(sync VirtualMachineInstanceHandler) generic.Handler {
	return func(key string, obj runtime.Object) (ret runtime.Object, err error) {
		var v *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance
		if obj == nil {
			v, err = sync(key, nil)
		} else {
			v, err = sync(key, obj.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance))
		}
		if v == nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return v, err
	}
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Updater() generic.Updater {
	return func(obj runtime.Object) (runtime.Object, error) {
		newObj, err := c.Update(obj.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance))
		if newObj == nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return newObj, err
	}
}

func UpdateVirtualMachineInstanceDeepCopyOnChange(client VirtualMachineInstanceClient, obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, handler func(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error)) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	if obj == nil {
		return obj, nil
	}

	copyObj := obj.DeepCopy()
	newObj, err := handler(copyObj)
	if newObj != nil {
		copyObj = newObj
	}
	if obj.ResourceVersion == copyObj.ResourceVersion && !equality.Semantic.DeepEqual(obj, copyObj) {
		return client.Update(copyObj)
	}

	return copyObj, err
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) AddGenericHandler(ctx context.Context, name string, handler generic.Handler) {
	c.controller.RegisterHandler(ctx, name, controller.SharedControllerHandlerFunc(handler))
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) AddGenericRemoveHandler(ctx context.Context, name string, handler generic.Handler) {
	c.AddGenericHandler(ctx, name, generic.NewRemoveHandler(name, c.Updater(), handler))
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) OnChange(ctx context.Context, name string, sync VirtualMachineInstanceHandler) {
	c.AddGenericHandler(ctx, name, FromVirtualMachineInstanceHandlerToHandler(sync))
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) OnRemove(ctx context.Context, name string, sync VirtualMachineInstanceHandler) {
	c.AddGenericHandler(ctx, name, generic.NewRemoveHandler(name, c.Updater(), FromVirtualMachineInstanceHandlerToHandler(sync)))
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Enqueue(namespace, name string) {
	c.controller.Enqueue(namespace, name)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) EnqueueAfter(namespace, name string, duration time.Duration) {
	c.controller.EnqueueAfter(namespace, name, duration)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Informer() cache.SharedIndexInformer {
	return c.controller.Informer()
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) GroupVersionKind() schema.GroupVersionKind {
	return c.gvk
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Cache() VirtualMachineInstanceCache {
	return &virtualMachineInstanceCache{
		indexer:  c.Informer().GetIndexer(),
		resource: c.groupResource,
	}
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Create(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	return result, c.client.Create(context.TODO(), obj.Namespace, obj, result, metav1.CreateOptions{})
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Update(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	return result, c.client.Update(context.TODO(), obj.Namespace, obj, result, metav1.UpdateOptions{})
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) UpdateStatus(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	return result, c.client.UpdateStatus(context.TODO(), obj.Namespace, obj, result, metav1.UpdateOptions{})
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Delete(namespace, name string, options *metav1.DeleteOptions) error {
	if options == nil {
		options = &metav1.DeleteOptions{}
	}
	return c.client.Delete(context.TODO(), namespace, name, *options)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Get(namespace, name string, options metav1.GetOptions) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	return result, c.client.Get(context.TODO(), namespace, name, result, options)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) List(namespace string, opts metav1.ListOptions) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceList, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceList{}
	return result, c.client.List(context.TODO(), namespace, result, opts)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Watch(namespace string, opts metav1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
	return c.client.Watch(context.TODO(), namespace, opts)
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceController) Patch(namespace, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, subresources ...string) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	result := &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	return result, c.client.Patch(context.TODO(), namespace, name, pt, data, result, metav1.PatchOptions{}, subresources...)
}

type virtualMachineInstanceCache struct {
	indexer  cache.Indexer
	resource schema.GroupResource
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceCache) Get(namespace, name string) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	obj, exists, err := c.indexer.GetByKey(namespace + "/" + name)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if !exists {
		return nil, errors.NewNotFound(c.resource, name)
	}
	return obj.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance), nil
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceCache) List(namespace string, selector labels.Selector) (ret []*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, err error) {

	err = cache.ListAllByNamespace(c.indexer, namespace, selector, func(m interface{}) {
		ret = append(ret, m.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance))
	})

	return ret, err
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceCache) AddIndexer(indexName string, indexer VirtualMachineInstanceIndexer) {
	utilruntime.Must(c.indexer.AddIndexers(map[string]cache.IndexFunc{
		indexName: func(obj interface{}) (strings []string, e error) {
			return indexer(obj.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance))
		},
	}))
}

func (c *virtualMachineInstanceCache) GetByIndex(indexName, key string) (result []*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, err error) {
	objs, err := c.indexer.ByIndex(indexName, key)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	result = make([]*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, 0, len(objs))
	for _, obj := range objs {
		result = append(result, obj.(*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance))
	}
	return result, nil
}

type VirtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler func(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, status v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus) (v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus, error)

type VirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler func(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, status v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus) ([]runtime.Object, v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus, error)

func RegisterVirtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler(ctx context.Context, controller VirtualMachineInstanceController, condition condition.Cond, name string, handler VirtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler) {
	statusHandler := &virtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler{
		client:    controller,
		condition: condition,
		handler:   handler,
	}
	controller.AddGenericHandler(ctx, name, FromVirtualMachineInstanceHandlerToHandler(statusHandler.sync))
}

func RegisterVirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler(ctx context.Context, controller VirtualMachineInstanceController, apply apply.Apply,
	condition condition.Cond, name string, handler VirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler, opts *generic.GeneratingHandlerOptions) {
	statusHandler := &virtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler{
		VirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler: handler,
		apply:                                   apply,
		name:                                    name,
		gvk:                                     controller.GroupVersionKind(),
	}
	if opts != nil {
		statusHandler.opts = *opts
	}
	controller.OnChange(ctx, name, statusHandler.Remove)
	RegisterVirtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler(ctx, controller, condition, name, statusHandler.Handle)
}

type virtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler struct {
	client    VirtualMachineInstanceClient
	condition condition.Cond
	handler   VirtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler
}

func (a *virtualMachineInstanceStatusHandler) sync(key string, obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	if obj == nil {
		return obj, nil
	}

	origStatus := obj.Status.DeepCopy()
	obj = obj.DeepCopy()
	newStatus, err := a.handler(obj, obj.Status)
	if err != nil {
		// Revert to old status on error
		newStatus = *origStatus.DeepCopy()
	}

	if a.condition != "" {
		if errors.IsConflict(err) {
			a.condition.SetError(&newStatus, "", nil)
		} else {
			a.condition.SetError(&newStatus, "", err)
		}
	}
	if !equality.Semantic.DeepEqual(origStatus, &newStatus) {
		var newErr error
		obj.Status = newStatus
		obj, newErr = a.client.UpdateStatus(obj)
		if err == nil {
			err = newErr
		}
	}
	return obj, err
}

type virtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler struct {
	VirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler
	apply apply.Apply
	opts  generic.GeneratingHandlerOptions
	gvk   schema.GroupVersionKind
	name  string
}

func (a *virtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler) Remove(key string, obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance) (*v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, error) {
	if obj != nil {
		return obj, nil
	}

	obj = &v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance{}
	obj.Namespace, obj.Name = kv.RSplit(key, "/")
	obj.SetGroupVersionKind(a.gvk)

	return nil, generic.ConfigureApplyForObject(a.apply, obj, &a.opts).
		WithOwner(obj).
		WithSetID(a.name).
		ApplyObjects()
}

func (a *virtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler) Handle(obj *v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstance, status v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus) (v1alpha3.VirtualMachineInstanceStatus, error) {
	objs, newStatus, err := a.VirtualMachineInstanceGeneratingHandler(obj, status)
	if err != nil {
		return newStatus, err
	}

	return newStatus, generic.ConfigureApplyForObject(a.apply, obj, &a.opts).
		WithOwner(obj).
		WithSetID(a.name).
		ApplyObjects(objs...)
}

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News > Medscape Medical News > Conference News > AAAAI 2021
Masks Don't Affect Oxygen Saturation in People With Asthma
Fran Lowry
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
Wearing a mask to protect against transmission of COVID-19 does not decrease oxygen saturation, according to a new study.
Oxygen saturation did not decline in more than 200 mask-wearing individuals attending an asthma and allergy clinic, regardless of the type of mask they were wearing and how long they had been wearing the mask.
Dr Marisa Hodges
The study was presented in a late breaking poster session by Marisa Hodges, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
Dr Alan P. Baptist
"In patients with or without asthma, wearing a mask does not decrease your oxygen level," co-author Alan P. Baptist, MD, MPH, Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Asthma Program, told Medscape Medical News.
"Some of my asthma patients had called me requesting an exemption from wearing a mask because they feared that their oxygen intake may be affected, and that got me thinking," said Malika Gupta, MBBS, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the study's lead investigator.
"We say masks are safe, but I couldn't find any data to support that statement, and we wanted to provide them with evidence, so they could feel comfortable about wearing their masks," Gupta added.
The study collected 223 surveys from adult and pediatric patients presenting to the University of Michigan Medicine Allergy Clinic between September 10 and October 23, 2020.
The patients were asked whether they had a diagnosis of asthma, their degree of perceived control if they did have asthma, the type of mask they were wearing, and how long they had been wearing it.
Investigators obtained resting pulse oximetry readings to measure oxygen saturation (SpO2) from all study participants.
Forty percent of the participants were male, 46% reported having asthma, and 27% were age 19 years or younger.
Overall, the mean SpO2 was 98% (range, 93%–100%) in both asthma and nonasthma groups.
The study also looked at SpO2 with 3 different types of masks: fabric, surgical, and N95.
The mean SpO2 for a fabric mask was 98% (119 patients), for a surgical mask it was also 98% (83 patients), and for the N95 mask it was 99% (3 patients).
Similar results were found with duration of mask use, with the mean SpO2 98% in those wearing a mask for 1 hour or less and 99% in those wearing a mask for 1 hour or longer.
People with asthma who reported they were well controlled showed similar mean SpO2 levels (98%) compared with those who reported they were not well controlled (96.5%)
"No effect on oxygen saturation was noted in any patients, whether they had asthma or not, whether it was well controlled or not, and this was also true regardless of what masks they wore and how long they wore the masks for. So our data reinforce that wearing a mask, whether it be a surgical mask, cloth mask, or N95, is completely safe," Baptist said.
"We know wearing a mask is an essential step we can all take to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and we hope these data will give peace of mind to individuals who fear that wearing a mask will adversely affect their oxygen levels," Gupta added.
Dr Leonard B. Bacharier
Leonard B. Bacharier, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Pediatric Asthma, Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, agreed with the investigators' conclusions.
"The authors found no differences in oxygen saturations between asthmatic and non-asthmatic patients, nor was there a difference based upon mask use or type," Bacharier, who was not part of the study, told Medscape Medical News.
"These findings provide reassurance that patients, including those with stable asthma, do not experience impaired oxygenation while wearing a mask."
Hodges, Baptist, and Bacharier have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
2021 AAAAI Virtual Annual Meeting: Abstract #L18. Presented February 27–March 1, 2021.
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England are designated for conservation in a special list of natural objects due their significant value. You will never make a mistake choosing to spend a day or even a month visiting such places.
In the County of Devon there are an amazing variety of beautiful landscapes. In North Devon just the area of natural beauty covers 66 square miles. Here you can admire huge wild heaths dotted with giant boulders of granite, the stunning coastline of the Severn estuary and the Atlantic Ocean with fascinating views of bays, rocky cliffs and dramatic capes. You will marvel at the unique forms of sculpted trees formed by the winds. You can stroll along cosy little coves with overhanging mystical rocks, enjoy the peace and quiet in a harbour with boats, discover the harmony of sand dunes, or simply spend time on the golden sands along the expanses of sandy beaches.
Travelling to beautiful places, a person fills with a special contentment; life seems to become more beautiful regardless of events. Landscape therapy is the best invention of our life. Nothing raises spiritual vibration as the contemplation of natural beauty.
Near the coastal town of Ilfracomb in North Devon, the village of Combe Martin is located in an enclosed bay, where a long street in a narrow valley and the name of the village comes from the Old English word "cumb" meaning a "wooded valley". Martin is derived from the name of the Barons who owned the estate in Combe. Here silver used to be mined, from which, among other things, the Royal Jewels were made. A few disused silver mines are still preserved to this day.
The most unusual story in the village is about the Pack of Cards Inn, built by George Ley in 1700 to celebrate a big win at cards. The building resembles a deck of cards; it has 4 floors, for the number of suits and exactly 52 windows, same as the number of cards in a deck.
One of the old traditions in this village is a race with wheelbarrows along the main street from pub to pub, where one has to stop and drink a glass of beer. There are many legends about drunken traditions in the local valley. Some traditions were even cancelled due to "licentiousness and drunken behaviour".
The main attraction of this place is a bay with a coastal strip of outstanding natural beauty. A concrete pedestrian path leads to the west of the beach along rocky ledges and caves where natural water baths are formed in the rocks.
The most desperate tourists can walk along the coast through three counties by The South West Coast Path that leads through Combe Martin. At 600 miles this is longest walking trail in England, it begins in Minehead, Somerset and finishes in Poole, Dorset. Along the way you will admire many other beautiful bays and beaches and pass along the Devon and Dorset Coast known as the Jurassic Coast.
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My research examines the foreign policy of refugee protection. The refugee protection regime in major resettlement countries is characterized by delegation to existing bureaucratic actors, most of which are designed to be neither humanitarian nor foreign policy-oriented. These include judges, law enforcement officers, and municipal governments. Nonetheless, they are the primary conduit through which international humanitarian law and individual states' foreign policy priorities interact with the individuals these rules are meant to protect. In the absence of explicitly international- and humanitarian-oriented agencies, domestic institutions are repurposed for conducting humanitarian foreign policy. My research seeks to understand 1) why executives delegate humanitarian foreign policy in this way, 2) when executives will recapture control of humanitarian foreign policy from the bureaucracy, and 3) the impact of this delegation on compliance with international norms and laws.


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Kamasi Washington: Harmony of Difference EP Review
By Sarah Lawson | September 25, 2017 | 9:11am
Music Reviews Kamasi Washington
Note by note and phrase by phrase, Harmony of Difference, the new EP by saxophonist Kamasi Washington, builds a towering euphoria within the short span of six songs. The follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 debut, The Epic, Harmony was premiered at the 2017 Whitney Biennial with an accompanying film and related paintings, but the music is rich and resonant on its own in this release.
Harmony of Difference is the ideal outgrowth of The Epic, an extension and expansion of the sounds, themes, and expressions of black identity in America that make Washington's compositions relevant and riveting. Conceived as a six-part suite exploring the concept of counterpoint, the EP synthesizes rhythms, melodies, and improv to create a polyphonic soundscape that is vast and ocean-like, rushing at you in swells before bearing you out to sea to succumb to complete submersion. Though it approaches smooth jazz at times, Harmony of Difference is tempered by driving percussion and brassy horns that burble and exclaim. The first five songs of the EP—"Desire," "Humility," "Knowledge," "Perspective," and "Integrity"—complement and build on one another, eventually culminating in "Truth," the sixth and final track.
Highlights include "Humility," which fuses a big band sound with jazz improv, opening up onto tight sections of piano and horn solos that wail and churn to create an energy that is no less than electric. "Integrity" echoes with calypso- and Tropicália-inspired rhythms and percussion, including the soft squeaks of a cuíca.
More than thirteen minutes long, "Truth" is the heart of the EP, heavy on strings and choral interludes, woven together by an additional four violinists; two viola players; two cellists; flute, alto saxophone, electric bass, guitar, and vibraphone players; and a nine-person choir. That's on top of Washington's band for the other five songs, which features trombone, trumpet, piano, keyboards, upright bass, drums, and other percussion—certainly nothing to sneeze at, but practically barebones compared to the 60+ musicians and singers it took to record The Epic. The choral components of this song also harken back to Washington's debut, sonorous and melodramatic in a manner that would sound right at home on the soundtrack of a 1950s Hollywood epic. The result is a complex and textural song that combines elements of the first five songs, layering the familiar melodies and rhythms to create something new and greater than the individual components.
Like Washington's earlier work, this is a release that unabashedly expresses and probes the musician's love of John Coltrane, from the horn stylings to the subtler spiritual and philosophical layers in every phrasing. Echoes of Pharoah Sanders and McCoy Tyner are also present here but Washington's music is a far cry from hero-worshipping or derivative. As a composer and musician, he suffuses his work with the sounds of his influences while breathing new energy and relevancy into their styles. On Harmony of Difference, Washington's work remains as substantial and compelling as ever, and with any luck this EP is setting the scene for another, longer release from him soon.
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This paper describes a transformation-based learning approach to disfluency detection in speech transcripts using primarily lexical features. Our method produces comparable results to two other systems that make heavy use of prosodic features, thus demonstrating that reasonable performance can be achieved without extensive prosodic cues. In addition, we show that it is possible to facilitate the identification of less frequently disfluent discourse markers by taking speaker style into account.


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Sitting on a makeshift chair created from a pile of books in a room that's entirely too small to accommodate the seven people in it, I waited patiently for my turn to arrive. After what seemed like an eternity, I was finally passed the Gamecube controller and was ready to smash some fools. Between the laughs of jubilation and the sighs of utter defeat, the thing that I remember most vividly was winning a 2 v 1 against two of my especially loud friends in a money match. It was the toughest $10 I ever made but naturally, I would never tell them that.
Despite my many fond memories of Smash Bros Melee, I must admit that I played very little of its successors, Smash Brawl and Smash Wii U. It was most likely the environment that I was in, as by that point, it became difficult to get more than two people together at once. However, given some new circumstances with work, I now find no shortage of willing competitors ready to throw down. Given such a golden opportunity, I thought this would be the perfect chance to dive head first into all things Smash with the release of Ultimate for the Switch.
The opening cinematic is a large slice of fan service heaven.
While I did play the previous two entries of Smash, I did not do so in any significant length to be able to compare the titles in a meaningful way so I'll approach this game mostly as a standalone title.
To those unfamiliar, Super Smash Bros is a series that pits characters from Nintendo IPs as well as various third party guest characters in a fight to knock the opponent off the stage by increasing their damage %, making them more susceptible to being knocked around. Even though there is also the option to play with a more traditional fighting game rule of reducing a character's HP% to 0, I find that most people don't play with that rule set as the game's various mechanics have been designed with the off stage KO in mind.
After booting up the game for the first time, I was disappointed to see only a handful of less than ten characters were available, but as I continued to play both the Versus and the Adventure modes, I was unlocking new combatants left and right until after about 15~ hours of gameplay, I had unlocked all of them. The full playable roster of over 70+ characters is absolutely massive and it was enough to make my head spin thinking about who I wanted to learn how to play first.
Personally, I found myself using the bigger, heavier characters that packed a punch with each of their attacks like the mercenary hero Ike and the calamity of evil, Ganondorf. Then again, after dozens of hours played at this point, I find that I can use half of the roster with some measure of success.
This roster is approaching Mugen levels of ridiculousness and I can't wait to see it grow even bigger.
One of the main selling points of the Smash Bros series is the easy to grasp control scheme, and that tradition continues in Ultimate with only two buttons being associated with offensive moves along with a third option to grab. Holding a direction and attacking yielding a tilt attacks, aptly named as when one gets juggled by that fourth up-tilt attack, they will most likely be tilted. Tapping a direction with the attack resulted in a smash move which often dealt more damage but often times took longer to come out and slower to recover. The same applied for the special moves except there was no smash/tilt variations minus a few cases.
As the enemy was able to guard against my attacks, I could predict this by dashing up to them and throwing them, and given throwing was one of the fastest ways to punish certain blocked moves, I became quite familiar with switching back between all of my offensive options.
While Ultimate is certainly easy to pick up and play without much difficulty after at least figuring out that generally, Up-Special will help get you get back to the stage, it's very difficult to master as there are a slew of mechanics that hide just beneath the surface to welcome those who are willing to put the hours into figuring out what each of the characters are truly capable of. I don't ask you to believe me on blind faith, I encourage those interested to check out the high level competitive players in action and it'll become abundantly clear that there's more to Smash than meets the eye.
The adventure mode is long, longer than I expected anyway.
As for the single player content, the Adventure mode that begins with all the heroes except for Kirby being captured and it's up to him to free his friends and well, bring balance to the "Nintenforce".
It's a silly set up but in reality, it's as good as any to set the stage for such a wild crossover of characters. Journeying around in a large over world, I was able to move to different nodes which would have me fight under a particular rule set, and when victorious I was rewarded with a spirit or sometimes a new playable character. The new combatants could be used immediately and the various spirits could be assigned as a load out to increase my Strength and Defense as well as offer a slew of special functionalities like the ability to triple jump or use the ultimate smash super twice in quick succession.
There are over 700 spirits to collect in all, and once I saw the full list of spirits, I was happy I wasn't a completionist. While the adventure mode offers up some challenging fights, I found that it lasted a bit too long, overstaying its welcome as by the time I was whisked away to another large over world map, I was just about ready to done with the whole thing.
Outside of the adventure mode, the classic mode filled the spot for an arcade experience as there were a few stages to tackle which changed based on my fighter of choice and challenging myself to get that 9.9 intensity by the end was more difficult and fun than I expected. I also spent an unhealthy amount of time in training mode trying to find true combos and option selects off the most common scenarios. There were some other modes as well including gauntlet types of matches and the spirit board where I could get more spirits, but I didn't find them too interesting and stuck mostly with Classic and Smash for the most part.
Lastly, I was able to test the online multiplayer after signing up for a year of the Nintendo online services, and contrary to what many others have claimed, I found it to be serviceable. Most of the time, I got into matches with the rules I specified against players that had fair connections. Of course, there were those cases where I ended up against someone who kept freezing and desyncing, rending the match nigh impossible to play but those were infrequent. Given I have a rather extensive amount of experience playing fighting games online, I never expect it to be perfect so this more or less fell within my expectations for Nintendo. However, given that online multiplayer is now a paid service, I was hoping for an improvement which I did not see.
The online worked fine for the most part even on Wifi for me. However, it's worth noting that my Wifi is notably stable and it's probably best to pick up the hard wire adapter if the plan is to play a lot of online multiplayer.
Fun Tidbit: Speaking of content, unlocking the HUNDREDS of songs from the various game series featured in Ultimate to listen to during play was a blessing.
Review copy of game provided by publisher.
Jae has been a gamer ever since he got a Nintendo when he was just a child. He has a passion for games and enjoys writing. While he worries about the direction gaming as a medium might be headed, he's too busy playing games to do anything about it.


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To mask or not to mask; choice is yours
Published 9:27 pm Tuesday, August 10, 2021
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For a second time on Monday, the Adams County Board of Supervisors were approached about implementing a mask mandate in county buildings and chose not to do so.
Unlike the mask mandates adopted last year under a COVID-19 emergency proclamation, the mandate would only apply inside county buildings such as the courthouses and county offices and would only apply to those inside these facilities.
Therein lies the question of what would happen to those who don't obey this mandate. This exact discussion ensued when the county and state tried to implement mask mandates in all public facilities, including inside local businesses. When it came to enforcing it, the state graciously left it up to the local officials, police and sheriff's departments to figure it out.
There is this notion that a mask mandate is a tactic used to fearmonger people so the government can take away an individual's rights.
This notion is ludicrous. The fact that officials have been unwilling to enforce mandates up to this point it is proof enough of that. It's a far cry from asking someone to wear a mask to requiring someone to take a shot in their arm.
After considering all that has taken place in the past year, when Supervisor Kevin Wilson openly stated, "I don't want to wear a mask and I'm not wearing one," can anyone blame him? It's uncomfortable and no one wants to wear them. Those that do wear them do so because they want to protect their own health and the health of their fellow human beings.
A mask is not a political statement, though many seem to mistake it for one.
While Wilson and Wes Middleton were the first among Adams County supervisors to start voting against mask mandates, there was a time when the decision to have a mandate in the first place — before COVID-19 vaccines were so widely available — was unanimous.
While many national, state health officers and local doctors disagree, a few physicians have said they think that masks are not effective at stopping Delta from spreading. If masks do not stop you from sharing germs, then why have physicians worn them at every clinic and hospital for ages before there was a pandemic?
Mask debate aside, Wilson and those physicians have still strongly urged people to be vaccinated, with strong statistics backing its effectiveness.
If you don't feel comfortable getting vaccinated, you can still help by choosing to wear a mask. It's a choice that you make that could turn this pandemic around or lead this community to its own destruction.
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And, although some would claim that the 529 tax shelter was used by more than rich or very well-off people, it's still a very lopsided regressive tax, because the majority of Americans can barely scrape by on their income, never mind saving for their kids' college funds. But that's not exactly the point I'm trying to make, although it's a very important point.
The result of our federal loan programs, which were started with good intentions, is that whereas before college was out of reach for lots of people, now it's still out of reach, they go anyway, and then emerge loaded with debt. It's not actually a huge improvement for the vast majority of the middle class, but it's become a requirement to get a reasonable job so people are forced to go through it, kind of like a hazing ritual.
There's another related reason why college tuition goes up, namely because we have stopped funding state schools, so their tuition is higher, and the other colleges also rise to meet them. But part of the reasoning behind that is because we have all these federal loans available, so why would we need to fund the state schools.
We need to put into place ways for tuition to go down. First, we make paying for college harder, and that includes for upper middle class folks. The reasoning is this: if you're the only person having trouble paying for something, that's bad. But if everyone has trouble paying for something, the price goes down.
Second, we make state schools much cheaper, or even free, by funding them.
The same thing happened in healthcare. A few short years ago a doctor could by an Electronic Medical Record program or Practice Management program for around $5000. After meaningful use kicked in and doctors started getting upwards of $44,000 for implementing a certified EMR, the prices of those programs shot up like rockets. Now they are $20,000 or higher in many cases.
So progressive economics comes down to "Let's screw everybody?" I just don't get the logic.
Actually, the goal would be to starve the colleges.
The problem is that the reverse could occur. While colleges raise tuition as more money from customers is available, the colleges can't just lower tuition later on. Colleges purchase more equipment that requires more maintenance, hire more professors who then get tenure and cannot be fired, and start more programs. Therefore, when less money suddenly becomes available, the colleges may then RAISE TUITION HIGHER STILL to make those who are able to go pay even more to cover fixed costs. Hotels, for example, do this in some areas. Rates may go up in the off season because the hotels still have to have a base income to cover fixed operating costs. So when fewer patrons come in, those fewer pay more to help make up the difference. Supply and demand can be counter-intuitive.
Certainly that's what happened to Cooper Union. The administration stupidly took on massive debts to finance investments in things it didn't really need, and then when it faced a fiscal crisis, it passed the cost of its mistakes on to its students.
If colleges are going to charge as much as they possibly can, then funding schools won't reduce tuition.
Just two separate effects, which as I said are linked by political rhetoric.
I think this requires more careful analysis, and I'm not sure that making it harder to pay for college will help. If we make it harder to pay for college, then it is expensive and obscure private schools that will be squeezed first. More kids will have to (try to) go to public schools, and this might make their tuition rise further. I think the main reason tuition has sharply risen at the public school that I work at is that state support is declining while at the same time enrollment keeps growing.
If government tries to subsidize college education on the demand side by giving grants or loans or tax breaks, it essentially just increases the amount that people are willing to pay (to whatever they were willing to pay before, plus the subsidy). So this moves the demand curve, meaning we get some combination of increased prices and increased supply. And as supply is relatively constrained, especially for elite schools*, it will mostly be the former.
On the other hand, if the government subsidizes college education by providing cheap or free public schools, it moves the supply curve, which should result in lower prices and more people going to college, which are the desired outcomes.
*In a more detailed analysis we could look at different types of colleges separately, as Harvard and the University of Phoenix aren't really in the same business. At the high end, supply is fixed, so we should expect prices to just go up. At the lower end of colleges that are more or less vocational schools (or in some cases, little more than scams), there are fewer barriers to entry, and between the ubiquity of government-guaranteed student loans and the de-funding of community colleges, we should expect an increase in the number and size of for-profit schools taking advantage of the system. And in both cases, that is exactly what we have gotten over the past couple of decades.
I'm unclear whether you're saying you're disappointed with Obama's retraction of his plan to scale back 529s, or with his plan to "retract" 529s in the first place? Possibly first couple paragraphs need editing?
More like the ritual application of a collar that marks you as an indentured servant. The first decade of a middle class citizen's adult life is spent, in large part, paying the Lords of Capital the cost of entry to the job market.
BTW, didn't Jordan write a piece suggesting that if you took all of the money we currently spend subsidizing private higher ed, you could, even at today's public university tuition prices, basically make them all free?
Just a reminder: The amount due in income taxes is a floor. There is no ceiling. So feel free to pay as much as you want above that floor. It's unfortunate, though, that you cannot direct where that excess tax would be used.
If I were just voluntarily increasing my tax contribution (even if I could direct it) that *would* be merely eleemosynary. Even if Warren Buffett or Bill Gates decided to dedicate his fortune to some national project, we're an awfully big country these days. Making a dent in our serious problems will require coördinated action across the whole society.
I want us to democratically agree on re-jiggering our tax system to make it somewhat more progressive, to somewhat re-allocate total money income, such that the aggregate of decisions on what dollars get spent where becomes a little more democratic. People seem to forget that the allocation of money acts not just as the apportioning mechanism for the stuff that's produced, but also, much more importantly, as a mechanism of "voting" on what should be produced in the first place. If you think that in general it would be beneficial for the economy to produce more education services (and thus more educated workers), and fewer yacht skippers and private plane pilots, the easiest solution is to make sure that there are enough dollars in the hands of people who'd like to buy of education services, that the market draws in skilled workers interested in meeting their demand. Same with grade school ed — make teaching an attractive, well-paid, high-status profession, and the best and brightest will compete to become teachers.
Consider this Keynes' revenge on Say. To a certain extent it is true that supply can "create" demand, by offering a good that nobody knew they wanted at an attractive price. But it's just as true that demand can "create" supply, over a time-scale of years, by offering anyone willing to invest the time in developing appropriate skills an opportunity to make a good living (and a few of them a chance to get rich).
Still, it's pretty clear that currently, we have a system where the top couple tiers of colleges are priced to match what the ultra-rich can pay in cash, and then the rest of us borrow from the ultra-rich (indirectly, through student loans, which are issued by financial institutions whose stock and bonds pay the ultra-rich). A world where incomes where flatter — where a CEO typically made 30x his average worker's pay, rather than 300x — would likely be a world where tuition was significantly lower, but where most families could afford to send their kids, without putting themselves in hock for a decade.
The ultra-rich can pay in cash much more than top-tier tuition. Just look at the apartments they buy in Manhattan.
The top-tier schools have programs for the very poor not to pay anything, and often are given a stipend.
Such worlds do exist, but they don't create the type of innovation we see in the USA. Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. 300x is a strong motivator for risk takers. So I don't begrudge their salaries.
Regarding my statement that you consider to have factual issues: Refer to Cathy's figure in the original post. Tuition inflation has tracked the separation of top-tier incomes.
Regarding who takes risks: There's plenty of innovation in countries with progressive taxes and strong safety nets, and there's a fair bit of evidence that a safety net that's there to catch you if your risk goes wrong encourages risk-taking.
We in the US innovated plenty back in the '50s-'60s, when we had MUCH steeper taxes. I personally think it's probably true that the Eisenhower 90+% rate was too high — that it encouraged so much tax avoidance strategery that it was counterproductive. OTOH, there's a theory that the combination of steep taxes on corporate profits, and on dividend-recipients' incomes, encouraged large companies to instead re-invest and take risks on blue-sky research.
Different types of innovation. Incremental vs transformative. Just look at the market capitalization of today's innovative companies vs those of yesteryear. And yesteryear there were plenty of comparable companies in other countries. Today only China's Alibaba comes closest – for other reasons.
I think it is quite difficult to make an ironclad case either way, as to whether higher taxes on the upper echelons of income, and more social insurance / flatter distribution, encourage or discourage risk-taking and innovation. But there's plenty of evidence in favor of "encourages", both in US history and in modern Europe.
Alibaba seems to me more like an example of a company that's incrementally improving on existing models (Amazon, eBay).
framing (e.g., the mystical market talk).
provides and introduction to shifting the foci.
The decrease in state appropriations: $2,581 per FTE.
the loss per FTE of appropriations.
That's not inconsistent with what I said, and it's only explaining the state school tuition increase.
Over the last almost fifty years, tuition inflation has been ridiculous. When I first went to the University of Michigan in 1965, the tuition for full-time, in-state was something like $217 a semester. Something has to give. I agree with your assessment that the government aid has just allowed universities to continue to hike tuition because students have a way to pay it.
I seriously doubt that making tuition even less affordable would result in people willing to pay even more in taxes so that state (and city) universities would be more fully funded.
I disagree with Cathy for a few reasons.
3) If you're taxing the middle class to help the lower-middle class, you're "scraping the bottom of the barrel" to quote Megan McArdle from Bloomberg (tinyurl.com/lhk6f9e).
Where I do agree is that college should be made more affordable, or even free!
Globalization matters, too. Jobs that cannot be offshored should pay relatively more than jobs that can be. So service jobs should see wage increases. We see that with administrators and college profs. We do not see it with low level services, because of the army of the unemployed.
The rising cost of college is a systemic problem, and simply reducing subsidies is not likely to be enough. Doing so may even make college a luxury good, which the well to do can happily afford. The result could be closing of state and community colleges. The elite do not really want an educated proletariat.
You have data or facts to back up this assertion?
Check out the Freeman quote. Then ask yourself why college loans are so resistant to discharge through bankruptcy, why so many students have to take on debt, and so on. Of course there is deniability, but not only do you have statements such as Freeman's, you have results that are consistent with that attitude.
So no data or facts, just opinion.
That's rich, coming from someone who just threw 'transformative vs. incremental' out there. Why do I get the impression your big strategy is always to put the burden of proof on the other person rather than follow conventional evidenciary standards?
Interesting discussion. Here in Australia, our current government seems to have come to the conclusion that tertiary education is an important class marker – if poor people get degrees, for example, it can be hard to discover they didn't go to an expensive private school. Hence, they are trying to make tertiary education more expensive, so only those who deserve wealth obtain one again.
So it's kind of funny to hear about governments accidentally making education more expensive.
Of course, they are very busy handing out knighthoods to princes and fighting each other, so they may not get around to implementing their plan.


EFY Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., India's leading IT publishing house today announced Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman and CEO, HCL Infosystems as the `Electronics Man of the Year' for 2006 at a glittering EFY Awards 2006 function held in Le-Meridien Hotel, New Delhi. The award was presented to Mr. Chowdhry for his pivotal role in HCL 's breakthrough technology innovations.
Commenting on the occasion Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman and CEO, HCL Infosystems said, "I am honored that our breakthrough technology innovations and functional expertise in developing cutting edge products have been recognized by the industry. At HCL every person is committed to excelling in technology innovation and making a positive difference to the community. This recognition inspires us to look at creating better and better products & services to serve our customers better.
Mr. Chowdhry has been a key force in driving the growth of HCL Infosystems. The credit of setting up HCL's overseas operations, starting with Singapore in 1980, goes to him. During this tenure, he extensively covered the South Asian markets, including Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the People's Republic of China, expanding business operations which paved the way towards enhancing HCL's core competencies in bringing the best international technologies to the domestic market.
The EFY Awards are given in 27 different categories. EFY also recognizes individuals' contributions to the industry through 'Lifetime Achievement Award', Electronics Man Of The Year' and 'Electronics Organization Of The Year'.


As some of you may know, for the first nine years of ministry, I served a congregation of mostly immigrants from Mexico and other parts of Latin America. Every December 12, we celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Obviously it falls during the season of Advent, around the third or fourth Sunday. For them, Mary's song, "The Magnificat," was rich with meaning. It is through Our Lady of Guadalupe's mediation that Latino people come to know God's liberating message previously communicated in the Magnificat.
For many of us however, The Magnificat is just a pretty song that we sing at Evening Prayer and during Advent. Yet if you listen to the text carefully you'll note that it's a revolutionary song—perhaps one of the most revolutionary documents available. With its images of reversals and the surprising "upside down" way of God's justice, it has been especially favored of those who are oppressed.
It is also interesting to note that in Guatemala during the 1980's, the government for a time outlawed the reading of the Magnificat in public precisely because of its revolutionary implications. All sorts of "trouble" can start when the people get their hands on the Bible, it seems. Maybe the governmental authorities of Guatemala were just paying more attention than most of us pay as we sing our hymns.
In Mary's song, God intervenes on behalf of the "lowly" and the "hungry." God lifts them up, but "scatters the proud ones," "destroys the powerful ones," and "sends away empty" the rich.
Listen carefully to the words of the Magnificat. Not the poetry of the words, the beauty of the words, the loveliness of the words. Listen to the five important verbs. In the Magnificat, God tells us that God regards or respects the poor, exalts the poor, feeds the poor, helps the poor, remembers the poor.
This is called God's "preferential option for the poor," according the liberation theologian Leonardo Boff. God is always on the side of those on the bottom, those who are excluded, those left out. Yet, God does not triumph over their oppressors in a vindictive act, but rather a loving one. God wants them to change and join the mission of the kingdom.
And that mission is ours as well. Even though there are proportionately many more people with enough (and more than enough) to live comfortably than there were in Mary's time, the church is still called to speak out when it sees an injustice that results in the suffering of the poor. When Jesus gets a hold of us, I mean REALLY gets a hold of us, Jesus revolutionizes our lives; he turns everything upside down and we look at the world differently.
The words of Mary's song are just as powerful in our time and her dream is our dream, too. As long as millions of children go to bed hungry or homeless or afraid each night, there are tables to be turned. That is what we in the church are called to, a life of caring and sharing.
It is the news of God's coming, God's advent, that gives Mary the courage to sing, and gives us, gives you and me the courage to BE once again.
As we prepare for this Christmas ponder the events around you—consider what God has done—consider God's very great promises to us—accept his commands—act on the promises and you too will give birth to Jesus.
God, in Jesus, gives hope to a failed people in a fallen world. We now hope that by the birth of a child, love and trust might exist in our lives again, for us and through us.


Thank you for the outline for Personal branding of my Business.
As the Mastermind moves forward, I am very sure a few of the not so clear at the moment pieces, for completing my personal brand will emerge in my mind.
2. Promise- everyone should expect from me encouragement, feel better after they leave, than when they came. Energy and joy.
5. Brand Associations- the "colors of it" ORANGE. What people see, feel, experience with me and my business.
Tim, Enjoyed your thoughts from Doug's Blog on Personal Branding. You have given me some points that I hadn't thought of before!
DAVE I AGREE! GREAT POINTERS FROM TIM!!
More GREAT "foundation information". Personal branding IS vital. Consistency and Trust have to been demonstrated for an effective brand. If I had a highlighter, I'd highlight the ENTIRE article 😉 Thanks again!
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I truly believe that a brand is important in your business. I spent 5 years building a brand, and when I went to a conference, everyone knew who I was, due to my brand.
I'm sorry to say that I let the brand go due to circumstances, and haven't been very successful to build a brand since then.
Charles, just trackbacks for a bot that loves my blog! thanks!!!! Branding is everything and we all need to build a million dollar brand!
Charles, I like your comment about how everyone at your conference already knew who you were. That's what branding is all about! I'm looking forward to getting the same results you did when I go to my next conference!
Charles, your absolutely right! Branding yourself is everything, when I started a couple years ago, I would introduce my business pretty much casual, nobody really paid attention to me, but then I decided to up-scale my wardrobe a little more presentable and guess what, I noticed a big time difference! So from that day forward I learned such a valuable lesson! It's like Doug says, it's about Impacting! From the way you dress, the way you speak, the way you magnetize people, but at the end, even on top of all that you can literally Impact someone when you really care and you really want to help someone out from the bottom of your heart!!
***AWESOME TEACHING*** Consistency and Discipline! Breaking through and Achieving Powerful Results for the 2012!
Thanks, Doug! For me, this is the most important statement you made: "Branding Secret: Relentless Nonstop Repetition is key to the success of the branding process." With that in mind, I WILL define my personal brand this week!
You knocked another one out of the ball park on this one! It's all about the brand and marketing. Lots of food for thought in this post. I guess some of this will be added to my homework….got my wheels turning over here. Oh and by the way, thanks for that MP3!! It's AMAZING, and my favorite line was it's easier for people to leave than it is for them to believe!! POWERFUL, and so true. I so happy that you said it, because as someone who is firmly grounded and not leaving…..it totally empowered my belief. And to see the importance of letting go if someone opts to leave! Well again, I thank God for you and Jodi. Please know that I plan on using every nugget you give. Rockin' hotttt stuff! Doug! Thanks!!
One of the main reasons that I joined the Mastermind was to be able to build a fantastic brand. The 5 secrets to a Million Dollar Personal Brand has given me some great starting points to ponder and build a foundation for my brand. I'm excited about drilling down more into this subject in the Mastermind. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with your blog!
***DAVE, ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH IN BUILDING THAT FANTASTIC BRAND THAT YOU WANT AND I KNOW YOU WILL, YOU KNOW WHY, BECAUSE WE ARE GETTING TRAINED BY MR. DOUG FIREBAUGH AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS*** TO OUR SUCCESS ANDY MAGEE..
DORA I AGREE, AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE LEARNING FROM DOUG AND START IMPLEMENTING ALL THE GREAT TEACHINGS HE'S BEEN SHARING WITH US FOR US TO GROW, WHICH BY THE WAY, THEY ARE ALL BLESSINGS… TO OUR SUCCESS ANDY MAGEE!


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Choose "Post to Classifieds" then select your category and create the ad. List pricing if applicable, address information and any other details. Upload pictures if necessary. Click "Submit."
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Crisis is just that. Often times when crisis does strike, you aren't working on building better business relationships, you are just doing your best to survive. That's why it's so important to work on developing these skills in good times, when it doesn't feel necessary, and you might not feel like it.
Decide on how business meetings will be planned, navigated, and run. What rules do you want to abide by to allow for greater success?
Take a look at business efficiency and organization. Where can processes be improved, what things need changing to allow greater productivity?
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When it comes to superfoods, there's no question that flaxseed is definitely on the list. There are two primary reasons for this – one that flaxseed offers a great source of plant-derived omega-3s, and the second is that ground flaxseeds (rather than the oil) are a great source of dietary fiber.
There are several other amazing reasons to get more flaxseed in your diet, as well. The fact is, flaxseed oil benefits reach far and wide. However, while you may know the benefits, the problem is – how can you get more in your diet. Don't worry, there are a number of effective ways you can do this. Keep reading to find out what these methods are as we share 4 Easy And Effective Ways To Get More Flaxseed In Your Diet.
While this may not sound like the most appealing option, it is extremely common for people to actually drink flaxseeds. There are several methods to consider. You can choose your favorite beverage, with juice and water being recommended. Then mix in one or two tablespoons of the flax. All you have to do is mix it up, and then drink it down. Make sure that it doesn't sit for too long, or the drink is going to become pretty thick. While this isn't the most appealing option, it is one.
Another method is to add a bit of flax to a smoothie. If you aren't a regular smoothie drinker, then this may be a great way to add something new to your breakfast routine. Be sure to use a few fun smoothie recipes to help the flax go down a bit easier.
The flaxseed is going to add a bit of a nutty flavor, but don't worry, it isn't going to overpower the food. If you like to eat a hot cereal with sugar, then there's a pretty good chance that you aren't even going to notice that you added the flaxseed.
If you want to eat more flax, but don't really enjoy the flavor or the texture, then it is a good idea to add it to some of your favorite baked goods. Some of the options to consider include bread, cookies, brownies, pancakes, quick bread, and muffins.
Believe it or not, virtually anything can take a bit of flax without causing any type of alteration to the texture or the flavor of the baked item. There is a downside that you should know about if you opt to use this method. You may not get an entire serving in the baked goods. However, the upside may make this worth it, as you won't even notice it is there. You can even get your kids to eat it.
This may sound a bit odd at first, but many people find that this is a great way to enjoy your flaxseed. Just slather your toast with jam, peanut butter, or honey – the goal is to choose something that can mask the flavor. Sprinkle the flax on the surface of the toast, mix it a bit, and then take a bite. Even try some sliced bananas as well and create the perfect quick breakfast!
As you can see, there are more than a few tasty ways for you to add flax to your food. Remember, flaxseeds Try one or try them all – your body will thank you and as always, your hair will too! Have you tried flaxseeds? Share with us below!
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Flax seeds in smoothies is so good!! Really like the idea about adding to toast and bananas. Yummo!