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In the Penal Colony (2000)
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Commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in Seattle, Washington
Libretto (English) by Rudolph Wurlitzer based on the original story by Franz Kafka
Alternative Orchestration vln(1&2).vla.vc.db
Solo Instruments Tenor, Baritone, 2 Actors
Duration 1 hr 20 min
Category Chamber Opera
Alternative Category Other
Text Writer/Librettist
Rudolph Wurlitzer
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Programme Note
Commander of the colony - baritone, alt. bass
Visitor - tenor
Prisoner - speaking
Guard - speaking
Kafka is one of the seminal minds of modernists writing and has proven to be a steadily appealing author for modern audiences. "In the Penal Colony," which was commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and premiered September 31, 2000 is based on Kafka's short story of the same title. The story describes an execution planned for one of the prisoners of the "colony" for which and up until then, an execution machine has been routinely used. The material itself is allegorical, and though at first the story appears to address the question of capital punishment, in fact Kafka uses it as a platform to explore, extensively and poetically, issues of humanism, idealism, and transfiguration. The two protagonists - the commander of the colony and the visitor – are written for a baritone and a tenor or bass and tenor respectively. In addition, there are 2 speaking roles- a prisoner and a guard. A string ensemble accompanies the performers.
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Q: How to create a rule on QGIS to show only features that have last week as date? Basically I have a PostGIS layer with a date column.
I only need to show features that have the last week as a value in the date column. How to achieve this?
Unfortunately now() - 1 week doesn't seem to work

A: If you want to completly filter out the records, i.e. set a filter at the layer level, you can use the Postgres function to create an interval:
"update_date" >= (CURRENT_DATE - interval '1 week')

If you want to style/label the records differently, you can use the age function to return a timespan between two dates, and the week function to extract the number of weeks.
To get result from last week, the rule filter would be:
week(age(now(),"update_date"))<=1

A: You should use
NOW() - INTERVAL '1 week'

instead of
now() - 1 week

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Q: Bugzilla: running checksetup.pl throwing missing module error which is already installed I tried installing Bugzilla on my local box. Following the same setup instruction I have , I was able to setup on my other server but this time its throwing error:
When I run checksetup.pl , its showing::
COMMANDS TO INSTALL REQUIRED MODULES (You must run all these commands
and then re-run checksetup.pl):
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl DBI

To attempt an automatic install of every required and optional module
with one command, do:
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl --all
* Installation aborted. Read the messages above. *
This above module is already there , but I tried again installing this using above command this says::
root@Inblrlt-jay:/var/www/bugzilla-4.4.1# /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl DBI
Checking for                 CPAN (v1.81)     ok: found v1.960001
Checking for                 YAML (any)       ok: found v0.88
Checking for   ExtUtils-MakeMaker (v6.31)     ok: found v6.84
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:07:59 GMT
Installing DBI version 1.630...
DBI is up to date (1.630).
Am I missing somewhere?
I am using Ubuntu12.0


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Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software
In the race to train AI, researchers are taking data first and asking questions later
By James Vincent
Aug 22, 2017, 2:44 PM UTC |
Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images
About five or six years ago, one of Karl Ricanek's students showed him a video on YouTube. It was a time lapse of a person undergoing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, in order to transition genders. "At the time, we were working on facial recognition," Ricanek, a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, tells The Verge. He says he and his students were always trying to find ways to break the systems they worked on, and that this video seemed like a particularly tricky challenge. "We were like, 'Wow there's no way the current technology could recognize this person [after they transitioned].'"
Ricanek turned to YouTube to find images of transgender people
To tackle the problem, Ricanek did what all good scientists do: he started collecting data. Like all AI systems, facial recognition software requires stacks of information to train on, and although there are a number of sizable and freely available face databases available (ranging in size from thousands to millions of images), there was nothing documenting faces before and after HRT. So, Ricanek turned to the internet — a decision that would later prove to be controversial.
On YouTube, he found a treasure trove. Individuals undergoing HRT often document their progress and post the results online, sometimes keeping regular diaries, and sometimes making time-lapse videos of the entire process. "I shared my videos because I wanted other trans people to see my transition," says Danielle, who posted her transition video on YouTube years ago. "These types of transition montages were helpful to me, so I wanted to pay it forward," she tells The Verge.
The videos also happen to be gold for AI researchers, as each contains dozens of varied, true-to-life photos. As Ricanek wrote on a webpage for the dataset he would compile from the videos: "[It] includes an average of 278 images per subject that are taken under real-world conditions, and hence, include variations in pose, illumination, expression, and occlusion."
But the problem is: do the people in these videos know or care that the personal journey they shared to help others is being used to improve facial recognition software?
"How is this even legal?"
Adam Harvey, an artist and researcher whose work examines privacy and technology, tells The Verge over email that this sort of data-scraping is "beyond common." It was Harvey who found the HRT Transgender Dataset during research for an upcoming project examining exactly this sort of AI-training practice. He shared it on Twitter, where reactions were not good. "How is this even legal?" asked one user. "Not okay," said another.
Ricanek wasn't aware that his work was being discussed in this way when we reached out to him. He did, however, want to clarify a number of things about the research. First, that the dataset itself was just a set of links to YouTube videos, rather than the videos themselves; second, that he never shared it with anyone for commercial purposes ("Our job is just to illuminate what problem areas exist."); and third, that he stopped giving access to it altogether three years ago.
"The reason for that is that it felt a little uncomfortable in the current climate to provide those things out there," he told The Verge. "I have no inclination to distribute even the links any longer, for political reasons. People can use this for harm, and that was not my intent." He says his team did try to contact individuals whose videos he listed and ask their permission "as a courtesy," but admitted that if someone didn't respond, they might have been included anyway.
Individuals were included in the dataset without their consent
Danielle, who is featured in the dataset and whose transition pictures appear in scientific papers because of it, says she was never contacted about her inclusion. "I by no means 'hide' my identity," she told The Verge using an online messaging service. "But this feels like a violation of privacy." She said she was gratified to know that there are limits on the use of the dataset (especially that it wasn't sold to companies), but said this sort of biometric collection had "all sorts of implications for the trans community."
"Someone who works in 'identity sciences' should understand the implications of identifying people, particularly those whose identity may make them a target (i.e., trans people in the military who may not be out)," she said. "Within the trans community, there's a non-trivial segment of people terrified by YouTube videos or other content that helps people figure out how to 'spot the trans person.'"
For Harvey, this story is not surprising. "The lack of public discourse around data collection ethics has allowed researchers to continue amassing vast troves of biometric data from social media sources, namely Flickr and YouTube," he says. These images can be given a Creative Commons (CC) license by default, allowing them to be downloaded freely and used to train facial-recognition systems even when the research is funded by for-profit companies.
And compared to other datasets, Ricanek's is a minnow. The MegaFace dataset compiled by the University of Washington, for example, contains 4.7 million images of roughly 627,000 individuals — all taken from Flickr users. The project's sponsors include Samsung, Intel, and Google, and the data itself is used by researchers from all over the world, whose work almost certainly feeds into paid products.
Example faces from the MegaFace dataset.
Harvey says that putting aside issues of legality and consent, there are "deeper ethical questions about the actual content in these datasets." He points out that the two most common categories of images in MegaFace are "family" and "wedding." Which makes sense, as who do we like to takes pictures of more than our loved ones? A look inside the database, says Harvey, "reveals countless personal photos of people's homes, weddings, picnics, beach trips, selfies, and even photos of children. Most, if not all, people in these photos are unaware that biometric companies around the world are honing facial recognition algorithms on their friends, family, and children."
Law enforcement and national security agencies are also interested in this data. Ricanek's research is partly funded by the FBI and the Army (although he says the transgender dataset was never shared with any government agencies nor was it funded by them). Ricanek justified the research as a solution to a fantastical border threat. But a system using this kind of research could exacerbate the harassment and humiliation that transgender people already face at travel checkpoints.
"As academics, we see great challenges ... but behind those challenges are real people."
"What kind of harm can a terrorist do if they understand that taking this hormone can increase their chances of crossing over into a border that's protected by face recognition? That was the problem that I was really investigating," he says. "I'm deeply apologetic for any type of pain this may have caused any people in these videos. That's certainly not where I'm coming from. As academics, we see great challenges and we want to work on them, but behind those challenges are real people, who may be impacted in ways we have not comprehended."
Harvey says there's currently "little debate" about the ethics of this sort of data collection. It's a complex topic, and although individuals might be outraged that their image is being used without permission, there's little they can do about it.
There is pushback in some instances (like when a researcher scraped 40,000 selfies from Tinder without permission and posted the dataset online), but in the debate about what is the right and the wrong way to go about acquiring data, the loudest voices are those of big companies. This leads to situations like in the UK, where Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind made an illegal deal to access medical records belonging to 1.6 million individuals.
In a way, we're used to this deal. It's the bargain that underpins so much of the modern internet: you give away information about your life, and in return you get free services. But in the age of AI, as the data gathered becomes more and more personal — not just your anonymized browsing habits, but pictures of you, your family, your personal moments — and the systems it creates are more and more controlling, it's perhaps time to ask ourselves, once again, are we giving away too much?

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Jay DeFeo: Works on Paper
University Art Museum
January 10–March 11, 1990
The Menil Collection
April 5–May 27, 1990
Laguna Art Museum
July 13–October 7, 1990
Fresno Art Museum
November 1–December 30, 1990
Krannert Art Museum
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Selected artworks in the exhibition
Untitled (Paris), 1951
Mountain Landscape, 1955
Untitled (Florence), 1952
Untitled (Tree series), 1953
Apparition, 1956
Persephone, 1957
Death Wish, 1958
Blossom, 1958
Doctor Jazz, 1958
The Eyes, 1958
Unknown Image, 1971
After Image, 1970
Ring No. 4 (for Shirley Berman), 1972
September Blackberries, 1973
Untitled (for B.C.), 1973
Detail (Snake River Canyon), 1974
Instantaneous Teardrop (Tripod series), 1975
Untitled (The Rose Tripod), 1975
Figure II (Tripod series), 1976
Figure III (Tripod series), 1976
Untitled (Tripod series), 1976
Figure VI (Tripod series), 1976
Untitled (Water Goggles series), 1977
Untitled (Shoetree series), 1977
Untitled (Jewelry series), 1977
Pharaoh (One O'clock Jump series), 1979
Ides of March (One O'clock Jump series), 1978
Three Mile Island No. 3 (One O'clock Jump series), 1979
Veil (One O'clock Jump series), 1978
Untitled (Eternal Triangle series), 1980
Untitled (Rear Window series), 1982
Homage to Thomas Albright No.1, 1983
Summer Image No. 1 (for my mother), 1983
Summer Image No. 2 (for my mother), 1983-85
Bride, 1986
Impressions of Africa No. 3, 1986
Samurai No. 7, 1987
Samurai No. 11, 1987
Reflections of Africa No. 1, 1987
Seven Pillars of Wisdom No. 1, 1989
Edited by Sidra Stich, with contributions by Brigid Doherty, Michael McClure, and Sidra Stich.
Includes biographical essay and exhibition checklist.
From the essay by Brigid Doherty:
While still an art student at Berkeley, Jay DeFeo rejected what she calls the "hierarchy of media"—the fixing of boundaries between painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography. Questioning the primacy of painting, she combines a commitment to craft with a rejection of conventional notions about the value and use of materials. She demonstrates exceptional technical virtuosity in the consistently meticulous and occasionally obsessive cultivation of surfaces in her drawings and paintings, but her preciseness never aims at reifying pure or ideal form. Instead, DeFeo offers images of multiplicity and instability—visions of forms in the process of becoming, or, perhaps, in the process of disintegrating. Her imagery, which persistently evokes associations while defying definitions, occupies an area between suggestion and symbolism. It does not operate strictly as visual play, yet still stops short of readable representation.
In her work on paper, DeFeo has attempted to efface distinctions between drawing and painting. DeFeo's drawings fully incorporate material that might otherwise have been marshaled for the production of a painting. Although she exploits the potential for spontaneity that drawing offers, she may spend as long as a month working on a small composition. In creating a single drawing, DeFeo often employs a variety of media, mixing paint, pastel, graphite, charcoal, and collage. She expands the possibilities for working on paper by altering a paper's surface, carefully preparing it to withstand the aggressive application and reworking of several media. Despite the accumulation of material, the drawings retain a sense of immediacy: the complex layering of media and imagery never appears ponderous or mannered. Equivocally suggesting the several processes of their making, the drawings avoid both effusive expressionism and fastidious formalism They do not objectify the traces of the artist's hand as signifiers of personal or universal psychologies, nor do they establish making and material as formalized meaning. Indeed, the drawings enforce indeterminacy: the visibility of process—evidence of brushing, drawing, tearing, superimposing, erasing—describes both production and destruction.


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Titanic in Movies & Television
Thread starter Robert H. Gibbons
Titanic Culture
Titanic Movies
Movie Links and Websites
Robert H. Gibbons
Perhaps the board has been directed to this website before, but I found it a treasure trove of Titanic movies and television shows.
http://www.jimusnr.com/index.html
I was fascinated by three things: First, there was a second movie after the 1953 Fox "Titanic" that used the sets and model footage. We knew that Fox used the sets and altered the model for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" but the sets and model footage were also used in "Dangerous Crossing" with Michael Rennie (off-screen narrator of the narration in "Titanic" and Captain Smith in "Time Tunnel"). Check the side-by-side comparisons of frame captures. Second, there is a side-by-side comparison of frame captures from "A Night to Remember" and "S.O.S. Titanic" showing the black and white model footage from "Remember" was apparantly colorized for "S.O.S.". Third, there are many rare color frames from the sinking scenes from "Raise the Titanic" that were used (in b&w) in the "Voyagers" television show. Check out the behind-the-scenes stills from the 1953 "Titanic" showing process photography, and other special effects, including many photos of the model sinking that I had never seen before. Robert H. Gibbons
Titanic Movies on Blu-Ray
Started by Dan Kappes
If the White Star Line was still around, do you think they would ban Titanic movies?
What Titanic movies do you own, and what are their formats?
How about rating the casts in the "Other Titanic Movies" ?
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The sinking of the Titanic: as told by the movies
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Titanic News


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One of the main reasons we love DIY is that it's a great way to save a few dollars on the things we need and want. And gifts for our little guys are no exception! I feel like toys can be a little trickier because (unless you're making clothes or stuffed animals) they can be more complicated or harder to make. And that's exactly how I felt when I first discovered the Anamalz treehouses (see them here and here). Last year I found Anamalz wooden animal toys on a half-off site for a great price and bought a few for Big Brother's birthday. We liked them so much that when I found a deal on them again we decided to get him a few more for Christmas. This time I found them in a co-op group and the buy included the treehouse. That's when I fell in love with it. Then I found out that even with a 50% discount, the treehouse was $70. SEVENTY DOLLARS. Did I mention they are around $140 regular price? Sorry, folks, that's nowhere near our budget! So I decided to take a swing at toy making and see just how hard it would be to make a little wooden treehouse of our own. And it turns out... it's really not! And if you have scrap wood laying around you can make it almost for free!
Our treehouse has lots of features like canopy at the top. Big Brother calls it the tent.
The perfect size for our little Anamalz bear (co-ops can be hit and miss to find them - you can buy the animals on Amazon but I can't find anywhere selling the treehouse right now).
He's also nice and cozy in the archway at the base of the tree.
There are two leafy green layers and a vine in case you have any monkeys in the jungle!
It stands just about two feet tall with lots of levels, including a little bird nest.
But enough chit chat! Ready to make your own treehouse?
Overall dimensions are roughly 2' tall x 1' wide x 1' deep.
Next cut out your plywood base pieces. But lets start with the method I used for cutting out all the plywood shapes. I started by drawing a square the size I needed on the sheet of plywood (for example this is a 1' x 1' square). I wanted them to be curvy free-style looking pieces so I would freehand a shape within the bounds of the square with rounded edges and wiggy lines (this isn't a great representation.. it's hard to draws curvy lines on the computer). Then I used our router to cut out the shapes.
So for Base A I started with a 1' x 1' square (I used 3/4" plywood and would recommend no less than 1/2" for this. If you're buying new plywood I would get 1/2 - 3/4" thick and use it for all the parts). For Base B I started with a 6" x 6" square (this can be any thickness as it's just for the pretty factor).
Stack base B centered on base A and glue them together.
Once the glue dries (so the pieces don't shift and make you pull your hair out. trust me.) attach the trunk by drilling through the bottom of the base into the sides of the arches. This can be a bit tricky. The way we did it was to set the trunk on the base where we wanted it to go and trace around each edge of the archway to mark their spots. Then we took the trunk off and drilled down through the base inside each marked spot (this guaranteed we would hit the "legs" later). Then we lined the trunk back up with the marked spots (with a little glue for good measure), flipped the whole thing over, drilled down through the holes into the sides of the arch, then used 2" screws to attach it.
Next we cut out the top piece, starting with a piece of plywood that was 12 x 10.5" (I used 1/2" thick and probably wouldn't go any thinner). I cut this one in a kind of figure 8 shape because I wanted the ends to be wider for attaching the canopy later.
Then I glued the dowel rod in the middle of the piece and drilled up through the bottom to attach it with a 1" screw (you can use the same trick as the trunk to make sure you hit it just right).
Next we cut out the two shelf pieces starting with pieces of plywood that are 6 x 8". These ones are a little different because I left a lip on each one to wrap around the side of the trunk. The lip dips in about 1/2" (so it's the full 6" deep on the right side and the rest is just 4.5" deep). And the right side of the lip (that top right corner) is 2" wide. Hopefully that makes sense. And why aren't those numbers on the drawing? I do not know. Probably someone had to go potty or decided to pour his own glass of milk or tried to eat paper when I was working on it.
Attach one shelf on each side of the tree, with the lips wrapping around opposite sides. We attached one 8" from the top and one 10" from the top. You can do whatever floats your boat. Or fits your animals. You can even add another shelf if you want! We attached them with the Kreg Jig by drilling pocket holes in the bottom of the shelf (plus some glue for good measure). Your other option would be to cut small triangles of wood to use as braces on the bottom of the shelves to attach them (and I actually plan to go back and add that myself to reinforce the shelves).
This didn't make the sketch, but the last part I built was a nest. I cut a 1" piece from a large dowl rod and drilled through the side to attach it to the tree trunk. Just to warn you - you can still see the screw head, and the dowel split a bit across one side. But we were okay with it for a cute nest so we just added some extra glue along the crack and pressed on.
Now the wood work is done and you can finish the piece however you like. If you leave the natural wood for any of it like I did, you'll want to at least do a coat of clear polyurethane on it to seal it (make it easier to wipe dust off and prevent stains if the kids spill on it). I used a combination of stain on the trunk, green paint on the shelves, and poly all over. Definitely go for a no-VOC paint & poly if you can since the kids will be all over it! You can get creative and do any colors/combinations you want.
I cut a matching piece from the quilting cotton and stacked them with right sides together. Then I sewed around the edges with a 1/2" seam allowance leaving a couple inches open for turning. I clipped the curved areas, flipped it right side out and tucked in the fabric at the opening. Then I topstitched around the whole thing with a 1/4" seam allowance. Once that was done I centered it on the top pole and wrapped the tails around to the bottom of the platform and stapled them in place. Like I said, you can skip the sewing and just go with a layer or two of fleece stapled in place. I added the quilting cotton to stabilize the fleece a bit since it is stretchy.
Next I used the extra quilting cotton to make a vine. And I have no pictures. Sorry! I'll try to explain how I did it.... I cut a strip 42" long by 1.25" wide. I folded it in half lengthwise and stitched along the long edge and across one end with a 1/4" seam allowance. Then I used a wooden skewer to slowly and painstakingly turn the tube right side out. I cut out a few leaf shapes and stitched them on here and there along the length of the vine. When the vine was done I stapled the raw end by the top pole and wrapped the vine around the pole a couple times to help anchor it. You know, so it will be a little harder for the monkeys to pull it off (you can see it in the pic above). You can add more vines or extra fabric "leaves" around the shelves if you like. Get creative and make it great!
And then I was done! Hello, little treehouse. Like I said, we dug through our scrap pile for all the wood so the only thing I actually bought for this project was the fabric. The quilting cotton was the cheapest they had and was about $0.75 with a coupon, and the fleece was from the remnant bin for about $1.25. So this treehouse only cost us about $2.00! Of course it will be more if you have to buy wood or screws too, but even then you will will come in well under $70!
If you aren't able to find a deal on the Anamalz, don't sweat it! This treehouse works great with any animal toys or even dolls or action figures! We've found it's perfect for the animals from our Little People Noah's Ark.
So far he's really been enjoying it!
Does anyone else get nervous about making toys? I'd love to hear about any toys you've made or any favorite homemade gifts ideas for kids!


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Hi Aarlene. Happy to see you here. Welcome to the forum. Hope to see new threads from you.


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My love of Arsenal is the same as of the Panthers. I have had the Arsenal ticket for months so chose to go there but to call me a part time fan is a bit unfair. As it happens I am pleased that I went to the football.Although I am not happy with how things have turned out at the Showground, I can assure you I will be at the next meeting.
What a debacle. From being excited about the season, my enthusiasm has now gone. I never liked the idea of Buster taking over our club and now my fears are bearing fruit.
It really does not matter what any other team says about the Panthers side as I have not heard a single complaint from our fans. Firstly I am a fan of speedway and whether we win the league or not does not matter but would be the icing on the cake. What I do know is that I am looking forward to being entertained with this team so bring it on.
Well all the riders hate you. Just saying what I have been told.
Pleased to see Hans back and as captain, great team man.
Personally, I quite enjoy the slow trickle of riders to keep us in suspense. Trying to put a sensible team together as each one is announced is fun. Never got it right yet though.
We are positive because we are running next season which again was put in jeopardy.
Yes, they will compete for " the Buster cup"
Can see Kenneth Bjerre back and possibly Lasse.
Funny really as I did not want to go down in the first place. Having said that I did enjoy the chamionship once I adapted, especially the Northern tours. I am sure that I will soon get back to this league. Really looking forward to the East Anglian derbies.
I will be there for sure and at Rye on Sunday.


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Appeal of ALFIERI PUCCI from action of the Board of Education of the East Irondequoit Central School District relating to a special district meeting.
Mousaw, Vigdor, Reeves, Heilbronner & Kroll, Esqs., attorneys for respondent, Dennis T. Barrett, Esq., of counsel
SOBOL, Commissioner.-- Petitioner appeals from certain actions taken by respondent school district with respect to a special district meeting held on November 14, 1990, which approved a school reconstruction program and bond issue. The appeal must be dismissed.
Respondent district's high school building was built in 1957. Its elementary school buildings were constructed in 1920, 1957, and 1968. In May of 1989, the voters of the district approved a bond issue of nearly three million dollars to reconstruct the oldest elementary school building. In September of 1989, the voters approved the establishment of a capital reserve fund to be funded by annual appropriations from tax revenues. As part of an ongoing effort to upgrade its buildings, respondent board scheduled a special district meeting for November 14, 1990, for the purpose of discussing the renovation and upgrading of the high school and the newer elementary school buildings. The cost of this program was put at $8.2 million, of which $1.2 million was to be paid from the capital reserve fund and the remaining $7.0 million to be financed by a new bond issue. On November 14, 1990, the voters of the district approved this plan by a margin of 26 votes, with 1,642 voting in favor, and 1,616 voting against.
In the months leading up to the vote, the district mailed to all households within the district three newsletters, dated September, October, and November, 1990. The November issue was mailed on November 6, 1990.
In addition to the newsletters, on November 5, 1990, the East Irondequoit Parent-Teacher Associations proposed, and the board adopted, a Voter Involvement Program ("VIP"). Under this program, every person who voted at the special district meeting could afterward fill out one or more cards or coupons in order to "vote" for a public school student. The cards or coupons were deposited in boxes outside the polling place. Each voter, whether or not related to the student, could deposit only one card or coupon for any particular child, but could "vote" for as many different students as he or she wished. Entirely at the expense of the PTA, the elementary classrooms with the greatest number of student cards deposited would receive pizza parties, and several junior and senior high students (chosen by lot from the cards deposited) would receive gift certificates. After the proposal was accepted by the board, a one-page explanation of the program, at district expense, was stapled to each copy of the regular newsletter mailed on November 6. In addition to the "coupons" which were made part of the flyer itself, it appears that on the day of the special district meeting coupons were also distributed to children in the public schools to be brought home.
Petitioner contends that the VIP flyer and the November, 1990, newsletter were prepared and mailed using district funds, that they were unauthorized by law, and that they violated the principles laid down in Phillips v. Maurer, 67 NY2d 672, 499 NYS2d 675. Petitioner further claims that the VIP flyer was intended to increase voting participation by a specific segment of voters only, i.e., the parents of public school children. He further contends that the November, 1990, newsletter was misleading to the voters, because it failed to advise the voters of the millions of dollars of interest charges that would be incurred by approval of the bond issue. Petitioner requests that I order respondent district to refrain in the future from actions which attempt to influence voting by district residents, and requests that I annul the results of the special district meeting and order a new election.
Respondent contends that the appeal is untimely because the board approved the VIP program on November 5, 1990, and mailed the VIP flyer and the November newsletter on November 6, 1990, while this appeal was not commenced until December 13, 1990, more than 30 days thereafter, in violation of 8 NYCRR '275.16. Respondent further claims that petitioner has set forth no evidentiary facts sufficient to show that the result of the special district meeting would have been different but for the occurrence of the actions about which he complains. Respondent further contends that the mailings were legitimate efforts to inform the electorate about the upcoming vote, and that the VIP program was only one of several devices employed to increase voter participation across the board.
I do not find that the appeal is untimely within the meaning of 8 NYCRR '275.16, which provides as follows: "An appeal to the Commissioner must be instituted within thirty days from the making of the decision or the performance of the act complained of." That regulation was adopted pursuant to Education Law '311 to govern appeals brought to the Commissioner pursuant to Education Law ''310 and 2037. Education Law '2037 requires that all disputes concerning the validity of any district meeting or election be referred to the Commissioner, and Education Law '310 provides in pertinent part as follows: "Any party conceiving himself aggrieved may appeal by petition to the commissioner of education who is hereby authorized and required to examine and decide the same...." Because the actions complained of here were directly related to the electoral process, petitioner could not have known whether or not he was "aggrieved" until the election was actually conducted on November 14, 1990. For that reason, an appeal commenced within thirty days after the conduct of the election is in compliance with the regulation and is timely.
Matter of Scanio, 22 Ed Dept Rep 315 (1982), does not require a different result. In that appeal, as here, petitioner objected to the preparation and mailing of pre-election materials which he claimed illegally sought to bring about a favorable budget vote. However, unlike this appeal, the Scanio petition did not claim that the electoral process had been affected by those materials, nor did it ask the Commissioner to annul the election or to order a new one. Because the election itself was not put in issue by the petitioner, in that case it was properly held that "... the acts of which petitioner complains did occur more than 30 days before the appeal was instituted." 22 id. at 316.
Petitioner's request that the election results be annulled may be dealt with summarily. Petitioner has presented no evidence that any voter was influenced or misled as a result of the materials circulated by respondent, and has presented no evidence that the outcome of the election was affected. Indeed, petitioner concedes in his papers that he could not do so, but urges me to reconsider the legal standard previously established. I decline to do so. There is no basis upon which to set aside the results of the district meeting (Matter of Boyes, et al. v. Allen, et al., 59 Misc 2d 975, 302 NYS2d 440, reversed 32 AD2d 990, 301 NYS2d 664; aff'd 26 NY2d 709 [1970] 308 NYS2d 873; Matter of Riegler and Barton, 16 Ed Dept Rep 256; Appeal of Blake, 27 id. 89; Appeal of Tortorello and Bartnik, 29 id. 306).
Petitioner's claims with respect to the November, 1990, newsletter are also without merit. That newsletter presents information about district finances and about the proposed bond issue, but it cannot be said "to exhort the electorate to cast their ballots in support of a particular position advocated by the board." Phillips v. Maurer, 67 NY2d at 674.
Petitioner also claims that the November, 1990, newsletter contains false and misleading statements. His main argument is that neither the November newsletter nor the two preceding newsletters specifically pointed out that the approval of the bond issue would obligate the district to pay interest charges in excess of eight million dollars over the next twenty years. The affidavit of respondent's superintendent points out that in addition to the three newsletters, regular meetings of the board of education held on August 27, September 10, and September 24 covered the spending costs in considerable detail, as did special meetings conducted on September 4 and September 17. It further appears that written materials distributed at the meetings on September 4 and September 24 dealt with the interest charges associated with the bond issue in some detail. Although the newsletters could have addressed the issue of future interest charges in a more precise fashion, it is respondent's position that future projected real estate taxes to be collected from a newly opened shopping mall in the district will pay for debt service on the bond issue. Petitioner does not appear to dispute that claim. As a result, I cannot say that the November, 1990, newsletter is violative of the law.
The VIP program presents more difficult problems. Among other things, it contains the statement that: "Voters can `give' their votes to students by filling out Voter Involvement Program coupons that list children's names, teacher and school and placing them in boxes that will be available at the vote on November 14."
It may be argued that this type of promotional scheme is harmless, since the expense to the district is minimal, and the prizes were paid for by the East Irondequoit Parent-Teacher Associations. It may also be argued, as petitioner claims, that the program was targeted to encourage the parents of public school children, who might be more inclined to support the bond issue than other groups within the community, to vote in disproportionate numbers. Previous decisions of the Commissioner have dealt with similar claims.
In Matter of Canham, 19 Ed Dept Rep 254, it was found that board-directed telephone solicitation of a "selective list of voters who might be expected to support the adoption of the school budget gives the appearance of partisan activity" and the practice was condemned. Similar situations were discussed in Matter of Walker, 23 id. 280, Appeal of Blake, 27 id. 89, and Appeal of Tortorello and Bartnik, 29 id. 306. In Tortorello and Bartnik I discussed the possibility that board-sponsored calls to high school students and recent graduates amounted to targeting a selected group of voters and determined that, because of the great potential for abuse, such practices were not permissible. If, as petitioner claims, extra copies of the VIP materials were sent home with public school children after the last district-wide mailing on November 6, 1990, at least the appearance of improper partisan activity is present. On balance, I find the VIP program and its methods of implementation to have been improper, and direct that it be discontinued (Appeal of Bayly and Rogers, 30 id. ____ [Decision No. 12527, June 6, 1991]).


"Value" is a word seldom found in the Washington, D.C. diner's vocabulary — it is rare to find a restaurant that satisfies both the palate and the wallet. In light of these unfortunate circumstances, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington organizes a semi-annual Restaurant Week, with prix-fixe lunches and dinners set at $22 and $35, respectively. On paper, these prices advertised an offer we could not refuse.
This year, about 250 local restaurants participated in the week's promotions, from Michelin-recommended fare to trendy, up-and-coming eateries. Collectively, we dined at 10 of the participating restaurants, scouting out what we thought would be the worthiest contenders. Instead, we encountered disappointment after disappointment.
Considering the usual price tag of some of the restaurants where we dined, the promotions did present a more economical option. Yet, what was gained in value was lost in quality.
Most disappointingly, many of the dishes we surveyed were subpar. Flavors were lacking, ingredients were uninspired and presentation was nonexistent. Although this problem may not be emblematic of Restaurant Week itself, surely no business is incentivized to deliver excellence when its prices are capped at predetermined ceilings. Rather, businesses need to do just well enough that patrons will return during the other 50 weeks of the year.
Even at the finest establishments, we found Restaurant Week offerings paled in comparison to the usual repertoire of dishes. At Kingbird, an American restaurant at the Watergate Hotel, the short rib ravioli was a textural tragedy, with mushy meat wrapped inside an exterior of thick sauce. Our meal at Convivial, a bistro in the Shaw neighborhood, suffered from an identity crisis, with dishes spanning the American South with fried chicken nibbles, Alsace, France with sauerkraut and sausage choucroute garnie then back to the States again with key lime pie. In addition to the absence of a consistent narrative, the dishes lacked character.
Taste aside, some of the kitchens seemed to be tightly rationing the portions for Restaurant Week dishes. At Fabio Trabocchi's Del Mar, which was recently selected by the Washingtonian as D.C.'s third-best restaurant of 2018, the jamon dish — the sine qua non for any tapas restaurant — consisted of a few flimsy pieces of bland serrano. At Fiola Mare, another of Trabocchi's restaurants, we finished each dish within minutes and were left wanting more. Granted, the promotional nature of the week does not ensure generous portions. Although delicacy is one thing — stinginess is another.
Even the establishments of restauranteur extraordinaire Jose Andrés fell victim to a severe lack of options. The taco selection at Oyamel was limiting — a shame given the usual menu's creativity and abundance. At Fish, one of Andrés' most recent openings, we were unimpressed with the lackluster options available on the Restaurant Week menu; none of the items featured the restaurant's namesake seafood. Our party ended up ordering the tasting menu, which is always a safe bet with Andrés.
It goes without saying that some of the Restaurant Week promotions were indeed quite delightful. The "Balkan experience" at Ambar — an all-you-can-eat option complete with grilled meats, vegetable spreads and flatbreads — was a feast for all senses. By far, the most for-value meal we had during the week was at Bistro Cacao, where a bountiful lunch set featured escargot, steak-frites and tartes aux pommes. Given our small sample size, we expect there were also other terrific deals we missed.
But to readers anticipating the next Restaurant Week, we offer this "caveat eater." Not every Restaurant Week promotion was created equal. A few of the promotions we sampled were enjoyable, but the majority were unsatisfactory and did not do justice to the vibrant restaurant scene of the District. It is with this unfortunate consideration that we award Restaurant Week 2018 a shrug.
Daniel Almeida is a senior in the McDonough School of Business. Toby Hung is a senior in the College. Table for Two appears in print every other Friday.


Volkswagen is eyeing producing its own solid state battery cells, with possible serial production from 2024 or 2025, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
WOLFSBURG, Germany: Volkswagen is eyeing producing its own solid state battery cells, with possible serial production from 2024 or 2025, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
"We must not make ourselves dependent on a few Asian manufacturers in the long term," VW CEO Herbert Diess said after the group reported second-quarter results.
He said advances in ceramic separators had raised the viability of mass production of solid state batteries.
A solid state battery factory would likely be in Europe, or even in Germany under the right conditions, Diess said.
Battery cells are a key battleground in the automotive industry as it shifts to electric mobility.
Currently the industry sources its requirements from Asian manufacturers such as CATL, which plans to build its first European production site in Germany.


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Q: Trying to make posts on Wordpress using Java but the title won't show up I'm trying to make a post on Wordpress using an API. So far I have this code and I can make posts but the only thing that is being published is the content of the post and not the title. KI can show the category, but not the title. What am I missing? This is the code I have so far:
public void connessione(){
        try {

            URL url = new URL(Costanti.URL_POST);
            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + Costanti.BEARER_TOKEN);
            urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
            PrintWriter wr = new PrintWriter(urlConnection.getOutputStream());

            wr.append(this.creaPost());
            wr.flush();
            urlConnection.connect();
            InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
            StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
            String line;
            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(line);
                response.append('\r');
            }
            rd.close();
            System.out.println(response.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    private String creaPost(){
        StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
        s.append("?");
        s.append("title=").append("Title");
        s.append("&content=").append("description");
        s.append("&status=").append("publish");

        return s.toString();
    }

I wanted to send the data as a request body and not as request parameters but I don't know how to do that.
I also wanted to try to use something like JSON libraries to write the code as JSON instead of java string but NetBeans won't read the libraries for some reason and I don't know how to fix that either.
Also this is the JSON I have as a response from that method:
{
    "id": 73,
    "date": "2019-11-10T10:09:55",
    "date_gmt": "2019-11-10T10:09:55",
    "guid": {
        "rendered": "http://localhost/tesi/2019/11/10/73/",
        "raw": "http://localhost/tesi/2019/11/10/73/"
    },
    "modified": "2019-11-10T10:09:55",
    "modified_gmt": "2019-11-10T10:09:55",
    "password": "",
    "slug": "73",
    "status": "publish",
    "type": "post",
    "link": "http://localhost/tesi/2019/11/10/73/",
    "title": {
        "raw": "",
        "rendered": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "raw": "description",
        "rendered": "
description
\n",
        "protected": false,
        "block_version": 0
    },
    "excerpt": {
        "raw": "",
        "rendered": "
descrizione
\n",
        "protected": false
    },
    "author": 1,
    "featured_media": 0,
    "comment_status": "open",
    "ping_status": "open",
    "sticky": false,
    "template": "",
    "format": "standard",
    "meta": [],
    "categories": [
        1
    ],
    "tags": [],
    "permalink_template": "http://localhost/tesi/2019/11/10/%postname%/",
    "generated_slug": "73",
    "_links": {
        "self": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "collection": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts"
            }
        ],
        "about": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post"
            }
        ],
        "author": [
            {
                "embeddable": true,
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/users/1"
            }
        ],
        "replies": [
            {
                "embeddable": true,
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/comments?post=73"
            }
        ],
        "version-history": [
            {
                "count": 0,
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73/revisions"
            }
        ],
        "wp:attachment": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/media?parent=73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:term": [
            {
                "taxonomy": "category",
                "embeddable": true,
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/categories?post=73"
            },
            {
                "taxonomy": "post_tag",
                "embeddable": true,
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/tags?post=73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-publish": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-unfiltered-html": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-sticky": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-assign-author": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-create-categories": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-assign-categories": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-create-tags": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "wp:action-assign-tags": [
            {
                "href": "http://localhost/tesi/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/73"
            }
        ],
        "curies": [
            {
                "name": "wp",
                "href": "https://api.w.org/{rel}",
                "templated": true
            }
        ]
    }
}

A: I solved it but putting & before 'title='
so now it's like this:
private String creaPost(){
    StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
    s.append("?");
    s.append("&title=").append("Title");
    s.append("&content=").append("description");
    s.append("&status=").append("publish");

    return s.toString();
}

and it works fine


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es on what happens when someone dies with no will. In certain states such as Texas or New Mexico, such estates are settled according to community property laws. This means that the court will award the assets you have to your spouse after your death. In some states, estates are distributed using inheritance rules.
Sometimes probate goes wrong due to simple mistakes like beneficiaries' names not being correct. A simple wording change in the will or trust could produce confusion, which could need the involvement of lawyers for probate. When there's a disagreement about the sale of a house this could cause conflicts among family members. It is possible to avoid probate by hiring a qualified probate lawyer who can implement all the rules you have in your will upon your death.
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Book Review: "41: A Portrait Of My Father" By George W. Bush (2014, 304 Pages)
A book that is as interesting as it is moving.
Book Review: "Zero To One: Notes On Startups, Or How To Build The Future" By Peter Thiel With Blake Masters (2014, 224 Pages)
Peter Thiel can do much better.
Book Review: "The Score Takes Care Of Itself: My Philosophy Of Leadership" By Bill Walsh With Steve Jamison And Craig Walsh (2009, 288 Pages)
The MVP of management books.
Book Review: "The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around The World Live And Buy As They Do" By Clotaire Rapaille (2006, 208 Pages)
A book that could have been very interesting but lacks credibility.
Book Review: "The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet Of Things, The Collaborative Commons, And The Eclipse Of Capitalism" By Jeremy Rifkin (2014, 368 Pages)
A global theory of the world. Maybe too global?
Book Review: "Frost/Nixon, Behind The Scenes Of The Nixon Interviews" By Sir David Frost With Bob Zelnick (2009, 386 Pages)
The book is on the same level as the historical interviews.
Book Review: "The Art Of Innovation: Lessons In Creativity From IDEO America's Leading Design Firm" By Tom Kelley (2001, 320 Pages)
A very disappointing book. This can't be by design.
Book Review: "Man On The Run: Paul McCartney In The 1970s" By Tom Doyle (2014, 288 Pages)
Paperback writer.
Book Review: "Free: The Future Of A Radical Price" By Chris Anderson (2009, 288 Pages)
Internet years are even shorter than dog years.
Book Review: "Bad Blood: Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, And The Tumultuous 1960s" By Jeffrey K. Smith (2010, 332 Pages)
"Bad Blood" is a bad book.
Book Review: "The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early And Television Went Crazy" By Bill Carter (2010, 416 Pages)
Strangers in the night.
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Video: We asked the 'heads-down crowd' what was on their phones
by Cassidy McDonald Dec 7, 2018 Jun 8, 2020
Zhang Qingna, 36, reads celebrity news on her phone. (Image credit: TechNode/Cassidy McDonald)
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In China, heavy cell phone users are known as the ditouzu. This slang term roughly translates to the "heads-down crowd," and describes the types whose heads stay glued to their screens in all situations: at work, on the subway—even in the bathroom.
Nonstop cell-phone use is a phenomenon not unique to China, though the country has seen its share of injuries from so-called "text neck," the hunched posture required for marathon scrolling sessions.
It makes sense: Since 2012, China has been home to the most mobile users in the world, and in 2017, 753 million Chinese people accessed the internet through their cell phones.
TechNode visited one of the highest-tech areas in one of China's highest-tech cities—the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen—to ask Chinese cell phone users, "What are you doing on your phone?"
There were leisure users, like Zhang Qingna, a 36-year-old civil servant. She said she had been reading celebrity news about Hong Kong actor and singer Myolie Wu's vacation in Malaysia.
Yang Xiaodong, a 45-year-old system analyst, said that he'd just been using his phone to play card games, and he'd won. "Just as you guys came I had very good luck," he said.
Others were using their phones for more urgent tasks. Guixin Chen, 22, had just arrived in Shenzhen for a weekend trip and was looking for a place to sleep.
And others, naturally, were shopping. Guang Xu, 29, and Zhou Jie, 28, were researching a newly released sneaker, and Yu Hui, a 33-year-old bank administrative worker, was maneuvering a shopping rewards program.
All agreed that in today's China, mobile access is a crucial part of daily life.
Jie said, "In the lives of people today, if they don't have a phone, it's not doable. Whenever I stop working, I think, 'Is my phone there? Is it charged?'"
His friend, Xu, added, "You unconsciously pick it up and want to check it."
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Monday, 26th April 2010
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Welcome to our Brand New Website!
Originally intended for our official opening back in 2008, this site has been a long time in coming. Currently it's rather small - only a handful of pages - but we'll be expanding the site, adding more content and features over the coming months. So please check back from time to time to see what's been added. We hope you'll find something to interest you.
As usual the museum was a significant participant in the ANZAC Day commemmorations. In addition to being the starting point for the parade, we hosted the Country Women's Association breakfast following the Dawn Service. Also provided throughout the day were food and drink, along with a bar for social drinks in the Sergeant's Mess.
We will be posting some pictures of the event in our soon-to-be Events Gallery. Stay tuned…
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Suffolk Show 2019 Preparation
It's a bitter-sweet moment preparing for your last show, Suffolk Show director Bee Kemball has admitted.
Bee Suffolk Show
Bee, who this year celebrates the final year of her three-year stint at the helm of the county's biggest and most prestigious annual showcase, was at its home, Trinity Park, for the annual general meeting of the Suffolk Agricultural Association, the farm charity which lies behind the event.
Bee's two shows to date have been blessed with near-perfect show weather, which has helped to ensure a very healthy turnout, although it was her drive and her organisational skills that were heavily praised this week.
Bee Kemball, Suffolk Agricultural Association show director, with, from left, Bill Kemball, president elect; Stephen Miles, new president; Simon Tucker, new treasurer; and Bruce Kerr, deputy show director
"She has had two amazing shows. This system we have of changing our show directors every three years must be right, but she keeps coming up with new ideas," said SAA chair David Nunn, as he thanked the logistics boss for her "tremendous" efforts.
Andrew Fairs, her deputy last year, said: "Every single year, Bee has driven, driven, driven," as he was thanked in turn for his efforts.
The SAA's 188th AGM, on Monday, February 25, saw farmer Bruce Kerr installed as Bee's deputy – effectively his apprenticeship before his own three-year term as show director. He will begin preparations for next year's event on Friday, May 31, the day after this year's show ends.
"You are still passionately involved and wanting everything to go right, but also sad it's the last one, but ready to hand over to your successor," said Bee. The third year was very much a 'joint experience' with her successor, she added.
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Stephen Miles, a show stalwart involved for many years in running the show's hugely popular flower and garden area, was voted in as president, taking over the reins from Baroness Hazel Byford.
His father took the role in 1994, he recalled, and as far as he himself was concerned, it was a great honour.
"I have got to know a huge amount of people, made a huge amount of friends, and my father before me," he said. As a trustee of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), he would continue to highlight the plight of farming families in need, including in Suffolk, one of the top four counties in the country in terms of demand, he said. He is joined by Bill Kemball, Bee's father, who becomes president-elect for the 2019 show.
Bill said he was "very proud", "honoured" and "flattered" to have been chosen, and especially in following in his own father's footsteps (president in 1993) in taking up the role. Bill started stewarding in 1959, around the time the SAA adopted its permanent home in Ipswich.
"During that time I have had a lot of fun," he said. "I have got to know a lot of people I would not have otherwise met," he said.
He added: "Jane and I are particularly proud to the extent of my family's involvement with the Suffolk Show, and I'm particularly proud of my daughter, Bee."
Bee Kemball, show director, speaks during the Suffolk Agricultural Association's AGM.
Bee thanked the SAA for its kind words. "It's huge team effort," she said. The 2018 show had welcomed 90k visitors, and although the weather predictions weren't great, it had basked in good weather last year. She thanked her father for putting together a 'looking back' area of vintage farm machinery to help show-goers understand how the industry had evolved.
Among the records set last year were ones for the amount of trade stands and sponsorship, she said.
She had also been keen to ensure there were plenty of free activities and displays for showgoers to enjoy. "I do believe very passionately that that's what gets our visitors back to our show," she said.
Preparations were already well advanced for this year's show on May 29 and 30, with 95% of trade stands already sold. Catering stands were already sold out, as were the agricultural machinery stands.
Among the attractions this year would be a high viewing platform, and an "amazing" agricultural exhibition by farmer Brian Barker, who is putting together the story of oilseed production.
There was a "very exciting" increase in younger membership, but more work needed to be done to engage with members, she said. Behind the scenes, works had been carried out on irrigation at the showground, and other improvements, including to roadways.
The SAA said goodbye to Loudon Greenlees, its longstanding treasurer of 10 years, who has stepped down, but will continue to volunteer as a steward.
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Pizza Hut is the new "Official Pizza Sponsor" of the National Football League, according to a press release Wednesday, only a day after competitor Papa John's International Inc. terminated its eight-year deal with the league.
Pizza Hut, a division of Yum! Brands Inc., said the multi-year NFL partnership will launch on April 26, during the 2018 NFL Draft at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
"Pizza Hut has a history of bringing more entertaining food and experiences to the pizza occasion, and we plan to continue that through our exclusive partnership with the NFL," said Artie Starrs, president of Plano, Texas-based Pizza Hut U.S., in a statement.
Pizza Hut's deal with the NFL includes collective use of all 32 team marks, and the league will work with Pizza Hut on exclusive team partnerships.
"Pizza Hut will have the opportunity to leverage game tickets and unique fan experiences to all NFL games in marketing and promotional campaigns throughout each year," the company said.
Louisville, Ky.-based Papa John's said Tuesday that it had terminated its official NFL sponsorship, which had been in place since 2010. The announcement came after Papa John's founder John Schnatter in November blamed the chain's sales declines on NFL players' on-field protests.
Steve Ritchie, who succeeded Schnatter as Papa John's CEO amid the controversy, said the 5,199-unit chain would continue its partnership with 22 specific football teams, as well as popular personalities within the league.
Starrs of Pizza Hut U.S. said its NFL deal would provide a large audience for the brand.
Jonathan Jensen, an associate professor in sports marketing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said Pizza Hut's existing sponsorship with the National Collegiate Athletic Association gives the brand expertise in sports marketing.
Pizza Hut partnered as the official pizza brand with the NCAA in 2016, and it has produced tie-ins like the limited-edition high-top sneakers, also known as Pie Tops, that could order pies during March Madness in 2017.
Pizza Hut, founded in 1958, has more than 7,500 restaurants in the U.S. and 16,700 units worldwide in more than 100 countries.
Update Feb. 28, 2018: This story has been edited to include comments from a sports-marketing expert.


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New Class Of Black Hole Could Explain Cosmic Leviathans
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– Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies.
Their find -- a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, on the fringe of galaxy ESO 243-249 -- is reported in the latest issue of Nature, the British-based science journal.
In terms of size, it lies between supermassive black holes, which can be billions of times the mass of the Sun, and relative tiddlers, which are between three and 20 solar masses.
Black holes are among the most powerful forces in the Universe. They are concentrated fields of gravity which are so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape them.
Stellar-mass black holes are believed to have been created from the death throes of massive stars.
But there is less consensus over how supermassive black holes, which lurk in the centre of galaxies, including the Milky Way, are formed.
"One theory is supermassive black holes may be formed by the merger of a number of intermediate-mass black holes," said lead author Sean Farrell, an astrophysicist at Britain's University of Leicester.
"To ratify such a theory, however, you must first prove the existence of intermediate black holes."
As black holes do not emit light, the existence and size of the intermediate black hole was detected thanks to its "ultra-luminous" X-ray emissions, spotted by Europe's XMM-Newton orbital telescope.
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Obamacare website still reporting glitches on day 2 of enrollment
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The government website healthcare.gov was experiencing technical difficulties for the second day in a row
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President Obama said on Tuesday that purchasing insurance through the new online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act would be the same as shopping "for a plane ticket on Kayak or a TV on Amazon."
But for millions of Americans in New Jersey and across the country the process has, so far, not been that simple.
The technical glitches that hampered the first day of open enrollment on the new online health insurance exchanges persisted into a second day.
Federal officials have said the surge in demand reflects a healthy appetite for information about the President's signature healthcare law, and that millions had visited the government's website, healthcare.gov, on the first day.
"Volume at HealthCare.gov continues to be high, with 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours, our call center receiving more than 190,000 calls, and more than 104,000 web chats requested," said Fabian Levy, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "We expect to see similar volume as yesterday, and while this overwhelming interest is continuing to cause wait times , there will be continuing improvements in the coming hours and days."
It remains unclear how many people were actually able to create an account and sign up for health insurance. Many saw a screen asking them for patience. Others encountered faulty drop-down menus, that kept people from creating an account.
Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said they are working to fix the problem. They are adding capacity and streamlining the system to improve performance, officials said.
Enrollment lasts through March 31. Coverage begins on Jan. 1 for anyone who signs up by Dec. 15.
The online exchange is a cornerstone of the new healthcare law. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said she hopes 7 million people will enroll in the first year. Crucial to the success of Obamacare is a large pool — with plenty of young healthy people — on the exchanges to help spread the risk and keep premiums low.
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As I've mentioned previously, my dad was a pretty decent artist.
He painted portraits of people and pets, wild animals, and various landscapes and seascapes.
He also liked to dabble with colorful paintings, even if they were unreal-looking.
This is one of his paintings, an under-water explosion of color.
And this is an actual under-water scene.
I think my dad did pretty good!
As I mentioned in a previous post, my dad was a pretty good artist and painted people and animal portraits as well as various scenes, seascapes, underwater scenes, landscapes and much more. This painting, however, was my favorite.


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10 Reasons Why Solana Is A Good Bet
Solana has quickly become one of the most promising blockchain projects on the market today, and it's not hard to see why.
It's a public blockchain platform with smart contract functionality that competes with Ethereum in several key ways, including transaction speed and cost-effectiveness.
The only downside? Solana's native cryptocurrency has yet to be listed on many major exchanges, which means its price hasn't seen much action just yet.
However, let's see why it is great and why should Buy Solana–
So without further ado, let's get started,
1. Solana architecture
In contrast to popular blockchains, where transactions are placed on blocks one after another, as-soon-as-possible is implemented as a design choice for Solana.
In simple terms, processing any transaction (or set of transactions) in parallel with others can improve overall efficiency and possibly throughput.
However, it can also lead to some performance tradeoffs.
Nevertheless, Solana is making an aggressive and competitive move by adopting such an architecture – at least for its mainnet implementation.
2. Empowered by State Channels
On-chain transactions are expensive, both in terms of gas fees and time. By leveraging state channels, users can perform highly scalable, secure, and private transactions off-chain.
This is done by creating a virtual private network (VPN) between counterparties through which value can be exchanged atomically outside of any actual blockchain transaction.
3. Pioneering Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol
Proof-of-stake consensus protocols are faster, more efficient, and less energy-intensive than Proof-of-Work alternatives.
In contrast to older Proof-of-Stake systems such as BitShares, which require a relatively high minimum investment before becoming a validator on their network.
Solana only requires one token (SOL) as stake per validator – lowering entry barriers and increasing both security and decentralization of their network.
4. Decentralized Governance & Token Distribution Schedule
Unlike many other blockchains, stakeholders who own tokens make decisions about how Solana is governed.
There is no one founder who has control over protocol changes or asset distribution. Token holders can vote on what they want to see changed, and protocol adjustments can be made based on a majority vote.
This makes it more democratic than other blockchains and allows its users' voices to have real influence over its development.
5. Low Energy Costs
One of Solana's biggest selling points is its relatively low energy consumption when compared with other public blockchains.
Compared to Bitcoin, transactions on Solana require just a fraction of bitcoin's total energy usage-and Ethereum requires even more than that.
This means that, when considering transaction fees and network security, a user will spend less money operating on Solana.
A fast, secure, and efficient blockchain platform with low operating costs? That sounds like an attractive place for any investor!
6. Superior Transaction Throughput
The platform's unique sharding protocol has been put through rigorous internal and external testing and stress tests.
Its design allows for up to a blistering 50,000 transactions per second (TPS), making it one of the very few blockchains that can handle high-volume user traffic.
7. Innovative Cross-chain Communication Protocol
Solana's Cross-chain Communication Protocol will allow users to interact with multiple blockchains. This key innovation helps facilitate interactions across chains, resulting in greater efficiency and lower costs for all participants.
8. Flexible Smart Contract Platform
Unlike many blockchain platforms, SOLANA has smart contract functionality that can be programmed in any language (e.g., C++, Java, Go) instead of a single language (Solidity).
This gives users a lot more flexibility when it comes to making their own smart contracts.
On top of that, there are multiple ways for users to develop dApps on its platform-from conventional web/mobile apps and desktop applications to standalone hardware devices.
9. Decentralized Storage Network & Proof-of-Retrievability
Solana can store data across a network of miners, but it still keeps track of where that data is. It's not just a decentralized file system; it's an anti-file system. Any peer-to-peer network will eventually slow down as more users join.
But Solana takes a new approach and addresses these problems by ensuring that every transaction is digitally signed and verified by both parties before it's stored on any of their hard drives.
10. Major Exchange Listings
In addition to being on several smaller exchanges, like EtherDelta and IDEX, SOL was recently listed on major exchanges Binance and Bitfinex.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media following the Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, South Carolina on January 14, 2016. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
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