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Tucker Carlson Blasts 'Google Shill' Senator Mike Lee
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Posted by Dean James at Right Wing Tribune
Tucker Carlson Blasts 'Google Shill' Sen. Mike Lee After Noting He Once Opposed Big Tech Censorship Of Conservatives
By JonDougherty at The National Sentinel
Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has warned that President Donald Trump could lose in 2020 if the federal government did not address how big tech is working to manipulate the election next year, blasted Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) over his 'shilling' for Google following the company's investments in Salt Lake City and to his campaign.
Lee, Carlson noted, was once a vocal opponent of the censorship of conservatives by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, but now even opposes a rudimentary investigation into the companies' use of their social media platforms to shape public opinion.
"Lee has questioned whether Congress should even bother with antitrust investigations of tech companies. Lee has introduced legislation that would make it harder for the government to block corporate mergers. Lee has complained about the E.U. imposing fines on Google for its behavior," Carlson said Tuesday night during his show.
The host noted that Lee's position on Google, especially, has changed as the tech company spent millions in his state on high-speech Internet and other tech infrastructure, while also funneling money to Lee's campaign war chest.
"Starting in 2013, Google spent millions of dollars rolling out its high-speed Internet service, Google Fiber, in both Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2015, Google hosted a high-profile fundraiser for Lee at its Silicon Valley law firm," said Carlson.
"The fundraiser got a lot of attention, so Google backed out. But the fundraiser itself went ahead, and Lee received a sizable donation from Google's political action committee," Carlson added.
"Ever since that fundraiser and the money he took, Lee's interest in having the FTC investigate tech companies seems to have completely evaporated."
Carlson noted further that Google hired Lee's former senior counsel from the Senate Judiciary Committee while ingratiating itself to Neo-liberal think tanks in D.C. like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. That helped win Lee over as Google seeks to make inroads with Republican lawmakers.
In crafting its message, Google has managed to successfully lobby both sides of the aisle to prevent Congress from taking any serious legislative action that would cut into its market share — even as the tech giant has been found to be plotting against the Trump administration and the U.S. government in general, according to a recent interview with a company whistleblower.
It's yet another example of the corrosive libertarianism that upsets and interferes with GOP politics, according to Carlson.
"The message they pushed was that Google and other tech monopolies are really something conservatives ought to celebrate. These companies are triumphs of the free market. We should be grateful for them. And worrying about their growing power and the ways they use that power is somehow socialist and un-American," Carlson said.
"Of course, Google itself is socialist and un-American, so the argument never really made sense. But Mike Lee bought it completely," he added.
As for Lee, Carlson noted that he doesn't just do the bidding of Google; he also seeks to assist Facebook in keeping the legislative barbarians away from the gate.
"When Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg came before Congress last year, he asked them only at the softest of softball questions. And a month later, Facebook announced it would build a $750 million data center in Utah. A coincidence? Maybe it is a coincidence, or maybe it's every bit as corrupt as it seems," Carlson said.
He said he attempted to have Lee on his program to explain but the senator declined.
Tucker Carlson Exposing @SenMikeLee for Big Tech Flip Flop
Tucker then slams "Conservative" DC Think Tanks for telling us that worrying about Big Tech was "socialist" & "un-American":
"Of course Google itself is socialist & un-American so the argument never really made sense." pic.twitter.com/Z92OVt91yL
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) August 21, 2019
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SWINDON is set to be as hot as the French Riviera next week, as temperatures hit 30C on Tuesday.
Forecasters have suggested the town could be in for a heatwave by Wednesday, with southern and eastern England sweltering under 27C heat for at least three days in a row.
Andy Page, chief meteorologist for the Met Office, said: "As we head into next week temperatures will increase daily across much of England and Wales as hot air is drawn up from France and Spain.
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Linnell McKinney, who serves as community activities coordinator for Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village, works with a group of children during their summer program. The program launched June 18, 2018 and serves nearly 250 Flint-area youth. (Photo by Jermaine Davis of SBEV)
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By Alexandria Brown	 On Jun 29, 2018
Flint, MI — Officials at the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, June 29, 2018, at 10 a.m. reintroducing a Flint pillar to the community to continue helping development area youth.
The building located at 4119 N. Saginaw Street was built in 1921 and first opened as George M. Dewey Elementary School. In 1991 Flint Community Schools closed Dewey. Four years later it came under new leadership and reopened as the Sylvester Broome Jr. Training and Technology Center in 1995 closing again in 2012.
Today marks the official grand opening of the building which is now known as SBEV allowing the community to find themselves once again with the building's history as Dewey Elementary School.
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Rasool was hired in 2017 to run the building after it was purchased by Dr. Jawad Shah of Insight of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience (INN). Shah bought the building in 2015. During those two years before Rasool took leadership, it became home to a few lone community programs that served between 30 to 80 youths.
SBEV is now serving nearly 250 Flint-area children since they kicked off their summer program on June 18.
"That's why this building is so important," said Linnell McKinney, who serves as community activities coordinator. "This is the building of dreams, where kids will come here and feed their talents. We will feed their dream. So that they will leave this building with confidence."
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The basis of these programs relies on a network of community partnerships, project coordinators, and education professionals to help provide opportunities for Flint youth.
Rasool also expressed hope in cultivating the building as a historical landmark, recognizing that the structure has remained standing for hundreds of years. This year several renovation projects were completed including a remodeled gym, a full computer lab, and a library center.
"Our number one priority right now is to have this place where every kid will come from the north and the south, from the east to the west … and feel safe," said McKinney. "And we will provide activities for every kid based upon their gifts and their talents, and we will expose them to adults who have mastered those same gifts and talents and take them to the place of their dreams so that they will be successful in this life."
Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village (SBEV) will host a ribbon cutting tomorrow, Friday, June 29, 2018 at 10 a.m. at their building located at 4119 N. Saginaw Street in Flint introducing the community to its newly renovated facility and community programming.
During the event Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05), State Rep. Sheldon Neeley, Flint City Councilman Santino Guerra and City of Flint Chief Recovery Officer Jameca Patrick-Singleton will speak along with SBEV's founder Dr. Jawad Shah and the building's Executive Director Maryum Rasool.
The ribbon cutting will also include a tour of the newly renovated facility for community members and media.
Congressman Dan Kildee
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Flint City Councilman Santino Guerra
City of Flint Chief Recovery Officer Jameca Patrick-Singleton
Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village Founder Dr. Jawad Shah
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WHAT: Ribbon cutting and tour
WHEN: Friday, June 29, 2018 at 10 a.m.
WHERE: Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village, 4119 N. Saginaw St, Flint 48505
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Toronto's YEDI Incubator to Graduate Second Cohort on Friday
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Announcement of Moore-Bick Inquiry
By RoSPA: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Published: June 29th, 2017
Roger Bibbings MBE, partnerships consultant and former occupational safety adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said: "With today's announcement of the appointment of Sir Martin James Moore-Bick PC to lead the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, the formal process to find answers to the many important and systemic questions that this terrible incident has generated can now begin in earnest. RoSPA welcomes the start of this absolutely vital process.
"The role of inquiries into disasters is to establish clearly not just what happened, when, where, how and with what consequences, but crucially to ask 'why?' Asking 'why' enough times and at each stage of the inquiry process is necessary to understand both the immediate and root causes.
"For it to be able to go deep enough it will be important that the inquiry's terms of reference are not too restrictive and that suitable technical assessors are now appointed.
"And, if the negative atmosphere surrounding health and safety created by more than a decade of deregulation and 'light touch' risk management and enforcement played a significant part in this awful tragedy, then the inquiry should not shrink from examining this in some detail and laying bare the facts.
"We all owe it, not just to the victims of Grenfell Tower but also to the countless others who could well be harmed by accidents due to the same underlying 'safety pathogens', to get this inquiry right."
See our Let's Talk About blog for a more detailed comment.
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Peter Eleey's exhibition The Quick and the Dead was an expose on the Conceptual art's hinging of itself on the poetics of its functionlessness, even the driest conceptualizations of dead art scrolls were in lineage with a Caspar David Friedrich existentialism, positioning art within a cerberal vastness and nothingness, conceptual art latently filled with men standing before crashing waves of their romantic ideals. The go-to form of conceptual art now is a mannerist product version of it, sited within minimalist tendencies of theater, ascribing precepts to objects which evoke an endless myriad of poetic feels. The recipe for this process is well understood, the problem lies in making its concoction more concentrate, more acidic, a better product, and once Raspet finally rid himself of the hairgel cubes to present the near nothingness of his thesis show in which the concentration reached peak, and here the ouroboros of its olfactory conceit in which everything and nothing happens in inevitable returns, the vast nothingness spreads before us and the conceptual cymbals crash.


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Q: Unable to change data types of certain columns read from xslx and by Pandas I import an Excel file with pandas and when I try to convert all columns to float64 for further manipulation. I have several columns that have a type like:
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and it is unable to do any calculations. May I ask how I could change this column type to float64?

A: If You want to change the datatype of columns in pandas,
Have you tried using the astype() function, Visit the official documentation below for more information and usage examples,
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.astype.html

A: I just solved it yesterday and it is because I have two same columns in the Data frame and it causes that when I try to access pd['something'] it automatically combine two columns together and then it becomes an object instead of float64


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Did you really overdo in the gym or on the golf course? Sea Island, which has arguably the finest spa in Georgia, if offering whole body cryotherapy (WBC), a popular sports recovery technique used in Europe and by professional athletes (think Lebron James) and A-list celebrities. Cryotherapy, which is to taking a very short and extremely intense ice bath after a period of intense physical activity, is gaining popularity throughout the U.S. for its unique physical and mental benefits – like faster muscle recovery and exhilarating endorphin release.
In fact, Sea Island is the first resort-based WBC offering in the U.S. The cryotherapy unit, manufactured in Atlanta by Impact Cryotherapy, Inc., resides at the new Performance Therapy Center at The Lodge at Sea Island, an extension of The Spa at Sea Island. There, guests can combine cryotherapy with massage therapy for a comprehensive approach to muscle recovery after training or a round of golf.
During a 15-minute cryotherapy session at Sea Island, guests will receive a professional consultation and three minutes in the cryotherapy unit as temperatures get colder than Antarctica. In that time, nitrogen vapor fills the unit and cools the air around the body to a temperature of -220 degrees Fahrenheit. Gloves and slippers are provided, and the head remains outside the unit for the entire session. According to Impact Cryotherapy, "During the process, the cooled skin sends signals to the brain, which stimulates physical reactions and activates naturally occurring healing resources.
Whole body cryotherapy at Sea Island is available to members and guests of Sea Island as of March 4, and the resort will offer packages for cryotherapy with massage therapy. For more information, call 1-800-Sea-Island.
Located on the southeastern coast of Georgia, Sea Island is a stellar resort spa featuring five miles of private beach, a Beach Club, tennis and squash centers, Yacht Club, Shooting School and Camp Cloister.
Known as a family resort, Sea Island is steeped in golf tradition and is home to three championship golf courses, including Seaside, site of the PGA Tour's RSM Classic, as well as the nation's finest Golf Performance Center. Guests may also enjoy nearby Broadfield, a Sea Island Sporting Club and Lodge, offering a variety of seasonal hunting, fishing, sporting and organic culinary opportunities. Renowned for its hospitality, Sea Island has been creating life-long traditions for discerning travelers and offering real estate ownership opportunities since 1928.


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"All American" TV Show Review
Posted By: HELINA WONDWOSSEN April 22, 2019
Drama series "All American" premiered on The CW late 2018, and recently released its first season on Netflix. Created by April Blair and inspired by the true story of Spencer Paysinger, the show follows the life of Spencer James. Played by Daniel Ezra, James is a star football player at his high school in Crenshaw, California, and was recruited to continue his athletic career at a school in Beverly Hills. James' new coach Billy Baker, played by Taye Diggs, welcomed James into his home following his transfer, helping him adjust to the new lifestyle. Regardless of this, James struggled with adapting to the cultural clash between Crenshaw and his new home.
Throughout the series, it becomes obvious that James accepted Coach Baker's offer to transfer schools in order to provide better opportunities for himself and family. His dream to become a professional athlete was limited by his dangerous neighborhood, so viewers can understand his thought processing when making the decision. In regards to the setting of the story, the show does a great job in steering away from the stereotypes placed on areas like Crenshaw. This is shown through the character of Coop, played by Bre-Z. She plays the role of James' best friend, and is a confident young lesbian woman determined to keep herself away from crime and trouble.
However, the portrayal of Beverly Hills in the show seems to be the opposite. Throughout the series, all viewers see of James' new neighborhood is fancy cars, preppy teenagers and mansions. I understand that the area is well-off and not without the riches depicted, but the show could benefit from laying off the stereotypes (just a little bit). The show does not even provide a supporting character from the new school, besides Coach Baker and his family.
The show's main concept is realistic enough, as it is not uncommon to see student athletes transferring from school to school. However, the storyline was pretty unoriginal. I felt like I've seen this exact plot a million times before. Talented teenager from the hood finds his way out through sports, meets a girl and adapts to a new world. Repetitive, right?
Overall, the show was fun to watch. It had it's up and downs, but still managed to be funny and stick to the plot throughout the whole series. Solid 7/10.
HELINA WONDWOSSEN
Helina Wondwossen is a senior at Freedom High School, in South Riding. At Freedom, Helina is involved in National Honor Society and is currently copy editor for the newsmagazine. Outside of school, Helina enjoys spending time with her friends and family.


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Pima County Sports Hall of Fame Menu
Banquet/Tickets
Fame Facts
Rene Zamarano
Inducted Class of 2001
Rene played baseball for Tucson High School from 1954-56 and was All-City and All-State each year. His amateur career reflects his interest in several sports. He won over 350 handball tournaments from 1963 to 1999. He has captured 12 national singles title and one world singles championship in 1997. He won five racquetball and 10 tennis tournament championships. Professionally, Rene played with the U.S. Professional Handball Tour from age 38 to 43.
He is a member of the U.S. Handball Association and has officiated on the USHA professional tour and many UMCA youth basketball games. He coached Little League baseball in Tucson from 1970-78; coached kids at the YMCA in racquetball and handball; and coached/taught individual members at the Tucson Racquet & Fitness Club. Rene has worked with children for more than 20 years at the YMCA and has been a board member for that same duration.
He also has been actively working with the American Cancer Society and United Way for more than 20 years.
2020 Pima County Sports Hall of Fame


Bel Air has an all Girl Scout School Photo at 9:10 at the flagpole. Valentine Hills has an all Girl Scout School Photo at 9:30 by the retaining wall. Girls should wear their uniform or Girl Scout attire and be photographed to qualify for the River Valley's Spirit Day Patch.
Room 224 New Brighton Community Center 6:30-8:00pm The Troop Leader and cookie manager from every Troop needs to attend this training.
Recognition event for Troop Leaders and Adult volunteers, park clean up, badge work displays, and bridging requirement activities.
We will Discuss Upcoming Winter Events.
We will have a representative from Wells Fargo available to set up New Troop Checking accounts. We will discuss Fall Product Sales and the event calendar for 2017-2018.
We will discuss Cookie Sales, and planning for the Family Giving Me and My Special Guy Dance.
We will Discuss Volunteer Recognition and Court of Awards.
We will discuss Volunteer Recognition and Court of Awards 2018.
We will discuss Summer Activities.


What is the son of man….
That Jesus became man by the will of God is something for religious debates. One major religion in the Philippines does not believe that Jesus is God, but that He is only a "sugo" or literally "the one commanded." Another believe that Jesus is an angel and that the name Jehovah belongs to God but this is not Jesus.The psalmist asks the question rhetorically because only God can answer the question since only God knows the son. What is "man" that you are mindful of him? "The son of man" born of Joseph and Mary, that you care for him? Even the angels testified when Jesus was born "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Christ the Lord. …Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." Luke 2:11,14. On his birth, Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, but after his resurrection, he was crowned with glory and honor. Then God "put everything under his feet."Why is this truth contested even to this day? Jesus is Lord and the book of Hebrews can only be straightforward about it. "In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe" (Hebrews 1:1-2). That Jesus is the beginning and the end is so obvious in this verse. That he is sustains the world which is also under his feet is even more clear in the following: "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to them. For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son; today I have become your Father?" (Hebrews 1:3-5)These words were originally written for the Jews who considered angels as superior to Jesus. In our time, there may be other "celestial beings" people consider to be God over their lives and decisions. Sometimes, it's painful to learn that people will easily believe that their bodies could also be gods, and they work at this, if only to attain that heavenly stature. Christians have a duty to tell about Jesus, that He is God and there is no other.


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The New York City Parking Places Worth Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
Lawrence Hodge
December 6, 2022, 11:00 AM ·3 min read
Image: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)
The future of parking is in New York City apparently, at least when it comes to tech. But you'll only be able to use it if you have the means, meaning you gotta be filthy rich. CNBC reports that the underground parking garages of luxury high rises in New York City have high-tech parking spaces that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
CNBC recently went on a real estate hunt in New York City and found that not only are these spaces expensive but also pretty rare. The high-tech spots are available in buildings where condos and penthouses cost millions of dollars. And they'll hit your pockets just as much as the homes themselves. CNBC said that the spots typically go for between $300,000 to $595,000. For a parking space.
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So what makes these spaces so great? It's all about making life easier for you when you have money. Take one condo owner who CNBC spoke to, Lori Alf. She purchased a $9.4 million dollar, 3,800 square foot five bedroom duplex for her children. The building she purchased it in was developed by Toll Brothers and has 24 automated parking, one of which Alf dropped $300,000 to purchase.
Pulling into the space is easy and rather normal. Owners pull up to a kiosk that detects the vehicle and opens the underground parking garage. Then a button press on the kiosk activates a heavy-duty lift that owners then drive their vehicles onto. You then leave the vehicle. Cameras and sensors double-check that nothing or no one was left in the vehicle, including making sure all doors and hatches are closed. The lift then gives an all-clear signal and takes the vehicle down.
As it makes its way down the lift rotates 180 degrees before storing the vehicle. Retrieving the car is just as easy though it takes a bit of time. Residents of the building just swipe their key card and just over two minutes later their vehicle is delivered back to them. The spaces get more expensive if you have an EV, as adding a charger onto the space is another $50,000. And all residents have to pay a $150 a month maintenance fee, which is probably pennies for someone that can drop that kind of money on a parking space.
What's wild is that this isn't even the fanciest or most expensive space. Across town in a building that Sting and his wife call home, parking spaces run $450,000 and feature an app that residents can use to remotely retrieve their vehicle. Buyers of these spaces have an added layer of security when purchasing these spots too. For anyone trying to find out who owns what, good luck. Even though the spaces are purchased, they're licensed to the owners so no deed of purchase can be tracked down.
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Housing Authority > News > Exciting development in the heart of Fremantle
Exciting development in the heart of Fremantle
The Burt Street development site in Fremantle
The McGowan Government recently announced a rare opportunity to partner with the Department of Communities (Communities) to develop a 1.3745 hectare residential site in the cultural east end of Fremantle.
The government is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from private developers to achieve its vision for the Burt Street site of a new affordable community that enriches the unique character of Fremantle.
The vision for 19-25 Burt Street expresses Communities' aspiration for the development to become a strong, vibrant and diverse community that positively contributes to the surrounding neighbourhood.
The development, zoned 160, will comprise a range of innovative and sustainable apartments with high quality streetscapes and landscaping that will enhance the character of the local Fremantle area.
The development will aim to meet demand from families, key workers and seniors looking to downsize. It will incorporate a mix of social and affordable housing, as well as shared home ownership opportunities.
Housing Minister Peter Tinley said the McGowan Government was committed to supporting liveable, sustainable and thriving communities.
"The Department of Communities plays an important role in this as it is the state's largest built-form developer and has won numerous awards both locally and internationally," Mr Tinley said.
"This partnership opportunity provides access to a well located site within the heart of Fremantle that is close to jobs, public transport and established amenities.
"The intersection of ocean, harbour and river make Fremantle a drawcard for tourists, a vibrant retail and trading environment, and a great place to live."
Communities released an EOI in December 2017 with the appointment of a suitable developer expected to occur in 2018.
For more information about the project, view the Burt Street promotional video here. To download the EOI documentation pack, visit Tenders WA at www.tenders.wa.gov.au and search for EOIHOU1450717.
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/*
 * Author: Bence Magyar
 */

#include <cmath>

#include <tf/transform_datatypes.h>

#include <urdf_parser/urdf_parser.h>

#include <urdf/urdfdom_compatibility.h>

#include <boost/assign.hpp>

#include <diff_drive_encoders_controller/diff_drive_encoders_controller.h>

static double euclideanOfVectors(const urdf::Vector3& vec1, const urdf::Vector3& vec2)
{
  return std::sqrt(std::pow(vec1.x-vec2.x,2) +
                   std::pow(vec1.y-vec2.y,2) +
                   std::pow(vec1.z-vec2.z,2));
}

/*
 * \brief Check if the link is modeled as a cylinder
 * \param link Link
 * \return true if the link is modeled as a Cylinder; false otherwise
 */
static bool isCylinder(const urdf::LinkConstSharedPtr& link)
{
  if (!link)
  {
    ROS_ERROR("Link == NULL.");
    return false;
  }

  if (!link->collision)
  {
    ROS_ERROR_STREAM("Link " << link->name << " does not have collision description. Add collision description for link to urdf.");
    return false;
  }

  if (!link->collision->geometry)
  {
    ROS_ERROR_STREAM("Link " << link->name << " does not have collision geometry description. Add collision geometry description for link to urdf.");
    return false;
  }

  if (link->collision->geometry->type != urdf::Geometry::CYLINDER)
  {
    ROS_ERROR_STREAM("Link " << link->name << " does not have cylinder geometry");
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

/*
 * \brief Get the wheel radius
 * \param [in]  wheel_link   Wheel link
 * \param [out] wheel_radius Wheel radius [m]
 * \return true if the wheel radius was found; false otherwise
 */
static bool getWheelRadius(const urdf::LinkConstSharedPtr& wheel_link, double& wheel_radius)
{
  if (!isCylinder(wheel_link))
  {
    ROS_ERROR_STREAM("Wheel link " << wheel_link->name << " is NOT modeled as a cylinder!");
    return false;
  }

  wheel_radius = (static_cast<urdf::Cylinder*>(wheel_link->collision->geometry.get()))->radius;
  return true;
}

namespace diff_drive_encoders_controller{

  DiffDriveEncodersController::DiffDriveEncodersController()
    : open_loop_(false)
    , command_struct_()
    , motor_wheel_separation_(0.0)
    , encoder_wheel_separation_(0.0)
    , left_motor_wheel_radius_(0.0)
    , right_motor_wheel_radius_(0.0)
    , left_encoder_wheel_radius_(0.0)
    , right_encoder_wheel_radius_(0.0)
    , wheel_separation_multiplier_(1.0)
    , wheel_radius_multiplier_(1.0)
    , cmd_vel_timeout_(0.5)
    , base_frame_id_("base_link")
    , enable_odom_tf_(true)
    , wheel_joints_size_(0)
  {
  }

  bool DiffDriveEncodersController::init(hardware_interface::VelocityJointInterface* hw,
            ros::NodeHandle& root_nh,
            ros::NodeHandle &controller_nh)
  {
    const std::string complete_ns = controller_nh.getNamespace();
    std::size_t id = complete_ns.find_last_of("/");
    name_ = complete_ns.substr(id + 1);

    // Get joint names from the parameter server
    std::vector<std::string> left_wheel_names, right_wheel_names;
    if (!getWheelNames(controller_nh, "left_wheel", left_wheel_names) or
        !getWheelNames(controller_nh, "right_wheel", right_wheel_names))
    {
      return false;
    }

    if (left_wheel_names.size() != right_wheel_names.size())
    {
      ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
          "#left wheels (" << left_wheel_names.size() << ") != " <<
          "#right wheels (" << right_wheel_names.size() << ").");
      return false;
    }
    else
    {
      wheel_joints_size_ = left_wheel_names.size();

      left_wheel_joints_.resize(wheel_joints_size_);
      right_wheel_joints_.resize(wheel_joints_size_);
    }

    // Odometry related:
    double publish_rate;
    controller_nh.param("publish_rate", publish_rate, 50.0);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Controller state will be published at "
                          << publish_rate << "Hz.");
    publish_period_ = ros::Duration(1.0 / publish_rate);

    controller_nh.param("open_loop", open_loop_, open_loop_);

    controller_nh.param("wheel_separation_multiplier", wheel_separation_multiplier_, wheel_separation_multiplier_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Wheel separation will be multiplied by "
                          << wheel_separation_multiplier_ << ".");

    controller_nh.param("wheel_radius_multiplier", wheel_radius_multiplier_, wheel_radius_multiplier_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Wheel radius will be multiplied by "
                          << wheel_radius_multiplier_ << ".");

    int velocity_rolling_window_size = 10;
    controller_nh.param("velocity_rolling_window_size", velocity_rolling_window_size, velocity_rolling_window_size);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Velocity rolling window size of "
                          << velocity_rolling_window_size << ".");

    odometry_.setVelocityRollingWindowSize(velocity_rolling_window_size);

    // Twist command related:
    controller_nh.param("cmd_vel_timeout", cmd_vel_timeout_, cmd_vel_timeout_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Velocity commands will be considered old if they are older than "
                          << cmd_vel_timeout_ << "s.");

    controller_nh.param("base_frame_id", base_frame_id_, base_frame_id_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Base frame_id set to " << base_frame_id_);

    controller_nh.param("enable_odom_tf", enable_odom_tf_, enable_odom_tf_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Publishing to tf is " << (enable_odom_tf_?"enabled":"disabled"));

    // Velocity and acceleration limits:
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/has_velocity_limits"    , limiter_lin_.has_velocity_limits    , limiter_lin_.has_velocity_limits    );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/has_acceleration_limits", limiter_lin_.has_acceleration_limits, limiter_lin_.has_acceleration_limits);
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/has_jerk_limits"        , limiter_lin_.has_jerk_limits        , limiter_lin_.has_jerk_limits        );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/max_velocity"           , limiter_lin_.max_velocity           ,  limiter_lin_.max_velocity          );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/min_velocity"           , limiter_lin_.min_velocity           , -limiter_lin_.max_velocity          );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/max_acceleration"       , limiter_lin_.max_acceleration       ,  limiter_lin_.max_acceleration      );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/min_acceleration"       , limiter_lin_.min_acceleration       , -limiter_lin_.max_acceleration      );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/max_jerk"               , limiter_lin_.max_jerk               ,  limiter_lin_.max_jerk              );
    controller_nh.param("linear/x/min_jerk"               , limiter_lin_.min_jerk               , -limiter_lin_.max_jerk              );

    controller_nh.param("angular/z/has_velocity_limits"    , limiter_ang_.has_velocity_limits    , limiter_ang_.has_velocity_limits    );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/has_acceleration_limits", limiter_ang_.has_acceleration_limits, limiter_ang_.has_acceleration_limits);
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/has_jerk_limits"        , limiter_ang_.has_jerk_limits        , limiter_ang_.has_jerk_limits        );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/max_velocity"           , limiter_ang_.max_velocity           ,  limiter_ang_.max_velocity          );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/min_velocity"           , limiter_ang_.min_velocity           , -limiter_ang_.max_velocity          );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/max_acceleration"       , limiter_ang_.max_acceleration       ,  limiter_ang_.max_acceleration      );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/min_acceleration"       , limiter_ang_.min_acceleration       , -limiter_ang_.max_acceleration      );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/max_jerk"               , limiter_ang_.max_jerk               ,  limiter_ang_.max_jerk              );
    controller_nh.param("angular/z/min_jerk"               , limiter_ang_.min_jerk               , -limiter_ang_.max_jerk              );

    if(!controller_nh.getParam("motor_wheel_separation", motor_wheel_separation_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'motor_wheel_separation' not found.");
    }
    if(!controller_nh.getParam("left_motor_wheel_radius", left_motor_wheel_radius_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'left_motor_wheel_radius' not found.");
    }
    if(!controller_nh.getParam("right_motor_wheel_radius", right_motor_wheel_radius_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'right_motor_wheel_radius' not found.");
    }
    if(!controller_nh.getParam("encoder_wheel_separation", encoder_wheel_separation_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'encoder_wheel_separation' not found.");
    }
    if(!controller_nh.getParam("left_encoder_wheel_radius", left_encoder_wheel_radius_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'left_encoder_wheel_radius' not found.");
    }
    if(!controller_nh.getParam("right_encoder_wheel_radius", right_encoder_wheel_radius_))
    {
       ROS_ERROR("'right_encoder_wheel_radius' not found.");
    }

    /*
    // If either parameter is not available, we need to look up the value in the URDF
    bool lookup_wheel_separation = !controller_nh.getParam("wheel_separation", wheel_separation_);
    bool lookup_wheel_radius = !controller_nh.getParam("wheel_radius", wheel_radius_);

    if (!setOdomParamsFromUrdf(root_nh,
                              left_wheel_names[0],
                              right_wheel_names[0],
                              lookup_wheel_separation,
                              lookup_wheel_radius))
    {
      return false;
    }
    */

    // Regardless of how we got the separation and radius, use them
    // to set the odometry parameters
    /*
    const double ws = wheel_separation_multiplier_ * wheel_separation_;
    const double wr = wheel_radius_multiplier_     * wheel_radius_;
    */
    odometry_.setWheelParams(encoder_wheel_separation_, left_encoder_wheel_radius_, right_encoder_wheel_radius_);
    ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
                          "Odometry params : wheel separation " << encoder_wheel_separation_
                          << ", wheels radius left: " << left_encoder_wheel_radius_ << " right: " << right_encoder_wheel_radius_);

    setOdomPubFields(root_nh, controller_nh);

    // Get the joint object to use in the realtime loop
    for (int i = 0; i < wheel_joints_size_; ++i)
    {
      ROS_INFO_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
                            "Adding left wheel with joint name: " << left_wheel_names[i]
                            << " and right wheel with joint name: " << right_wheel_names[i]);
      left_wheel_joints_[i] = hw->getHandle(left_wheel_names[i]);  // throws on failure
      right_wheel_joints_[i] = hw->getHandle(right_wheel_names[i]);  // throws on failure
    }

    sub_command_ = controller_nh.subscribe("cmd_vel", 1, &DiffDriveEncodersController::cmdVelCallback, this);

    return true;
  }

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::update(const ros::Time& time, const ros::Duration& period)
  {
    // COMPUTE AND PUBLISH ODOMETRY
    if (open_loop_)
    {
      odometry_.updateOpenLoop(last0_cmd_.lin, last0_cmd_.ang, time);
    }
    else
    {
      double left_pos  = 0.0;
      double right_pos = 0.0;
      for (size_t i = 0; i < wheel_joints_size_; ++i)
      {
        const double lp = left_wheel_joints_[i].getPosition();
        const double rp = right_wheel_joints_[i].getPosition();
        if (std::isnan(lp) || std::isnan(rp))
          return;

        left_pos  += lp;
        right_pos += rp;
      }
      left_pos  /= wheel_joints_size_;
      right_pos /= wheel_joints_size_;

      // Estimate linear and angular velocity using joint information
      odometry_.update(left_pos, right_pos, time);
    }

    // Publish odometry message
    if (last_state_publish_time_ + publish_period_ < time)
    {
      last_state_publish_time_ += publish_period_;
      // Compute and store orientation info
      const geometry_msgs::Quaternion orientation(
            tf::createQuaternionMsgFromYaw(odometry_.getHeading()));

      // Populate odom message and publish
      if (odom_pub_->trylock())
      {
        odom_pub_->msg_.header.stamp = time;
        odom_pub_->msg_.pose.pose.position.x = odometry_.getX();
        odom_pub_->msg_.pose.pose.position.y = odometry_.getY();
        odom_pub_->msg_.pose.pose.orientation = orientation;
        odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.linear.x  = odometry_.getLinear();
        odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.angular.z = odometry_.getAngular();
        odom_pub_->unlockAndPublish();
      }

      // Publish tf /odom frame
      if (enable_odom_tf_ && tf_odom_pub_->trylock())
      {
        geometry_msgs::TransformStamped& odom_frame = tf_odom_pub_->msg_.transforms[0];
        odom_frame.header.stamp = time;
        odom_frame.transform.translation.x = odometry_.getX();
        odom_frame.transform.translation.y = odometry_.getY();
        odom_frame.transform.rotation = orientation;
        tf_odom_pub_->unlockAndPublish();
      }
    }

    // MOVE ROBOT
    // Retreive current velocity command and time step:
    Commands curr_cmd = *(command_.readFromRT());
    const double dt = (time - curr_cmd.stamp).toSec();

    // Brake if cmd_vel has timeout:
    if (dt > cmd_vel_timeout_)
    {
      curr_cmd.lin = 0.0;
      curr_cmd.ang = 0.0;
    }

    // Limit velocities and accelerations:
    const double cmd_dt(period.toSec());

    limiter_lin_.limit(curr_cmd.lin, last0_cmd_.lin, last1_cmd_.lin, cmd_dt);
    limiter_ang_.limit(curr_cmd.ang, last0_cmd_.ang, last1_cmd_.ang, cmd_dt);

    last1_cmd_ = last0_cmd_;
    last0_cmd_ = curr_cmd;

    // Apply multipliers:
    // const double ws = wheel_separation_multiplier_ * wheel_separation_;
    // const double wr = wheel_radius_multiplier_     * wheel_radius_;
    const double ws = motor_wheel_separation_;
    const double lwr = left_motor_wheel_radius_;
    const double rwr = right_motor_wheel_radius_;

    // Compute wheels velocities:
    const double vel_left  = (curr_cmd.lin - curr_cmd.ang * ws / 2.0)/lwr;
    const double vel_right = (curr_cmd.lin + curr_cmd.ang * ws / 2.0)/rwr;

    // Set wheels velocities:
    for (size_t i = 0; i < wheel_joints_size_; ++i)
    {
      left_wheel_joints_[i].setCommand(vel_left);
      right_wheel_joints_[i].setCommand(vel_right);
    }
  }

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::starting(const ros::Time& time)
  {
    brake();

    // Register starting time used to keep fixed rate
    last_state_publish_time_ = time;

    odometry_.init(time);
  }

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::stopping(const ros::Time& /*time*/)
  {
    brake();
  }

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::brake()
  {
    const double vel = 0.0;
    for (size_t i = 0; i < wheel_joints_size_; ++i)
    {
      left_wheel_joints_[i].setCommand(vel);
      right_wheel_joints_[i].setCommand(vel);
    }
  }

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::cmdVelCallback(const geometry_msgs::Twist& command)
  {
    if (isRunning())
    {
      command_struct_.ang   = command.angular.z;
      command_struct_.lin   = command.linear.x;
      command_struct_.stamp = ros::Time::now();
      command_.writeFromNonRT (command_struct_);
      ROS_DEBUG_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
                             "Added values to command. "
                             << "Ang: "   << command_struct_.ang << ", "
                             << "Lin: "   << command_struct_.lin << ", "
                             << "Stamp: " << command_struct_.stamp);
    }
    else
    {
      ROS_ERROR_NAMED(name_, "Can't accept new commands. Controller is not running.");
    }
  }

  bool DiffDriveEncodersController::getWheelNames(ros::NodeHandle& controller_nh,
                              const std::string& wheel_param,
                              std::vector<std::string>& wheel_names)
  {
      XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue wheel_list;
      if (!controller_nh.getParam(wheel_param, wheel_list))
      {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
            "Couldn't retrieve wheel param '" << wheel_param << "'.");
        return false;
      }

      if (wheel_list.getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeArray)
      {
        if (wheel_list.size() == 0)
        {
          ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
              "Wheel param '" << wheel_param << "' is an empty list");
          return false;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < wheel_list.size(); ++i)
        {
          if (wheel_list[i].getType() != XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeString)
          {
            ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
                "Wheel param '" << wheel_param << "' #" << i <<
                " isn't a string.");
            return false;
          }
        }

        wheel_names.resize(wheel_list.size());
        for (int i = 0; i < wheel_list.size(); ++i)
        {
          wheel_names[i] = static_cast<std::string>(wheel_list[i]);
        }
      }
      else if (wheel_list.getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeString)
      {
        wheel_names.push_back(wheel_list);
      }
      else
      {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_,
            "Wheel param '" << wheel_param <<
            "' is neither a list of strings nor a string.");
        return false;
      }

      return true;
  }

/*
  bool DiffDriveEncodersController::setOdomParamsFromUrdf(ros::NodeHandle& root_nh,
                             const std::string& left_wheel_name,
                             const std::string& right_wheel_name,
                             bool lookup_wheel_separation,
                             bool lookup_wheel_radius)
  {
    if (!(lookup_wheel_separation || lookup_wheel_radius))
    {
      // Short-circuit in case we don't need to look up anything, so we don't have to parse the URDF
      return true;
    }

    // Parse robot description
    const std::string model_param_name = "robot_description";
    bool res = root_nh.hasParam(model_param_name);
    std::string robot_model_str="";
    if (!res || !root_nh.getParam(model_param_name,robot_model_str))
    {
      ROS_ERROR_NAMED(name_, "Robot descripion couldn't be retrieved from param server.");
      return false;
    }

    urdf::ModelInterfaceSharedPtr model(urdf::parseURDF(robot_model_str));

    urdf::JointConstSharedPtr left_wheel_joint(model->getJoint(left_wheel_name));
    urdf::JointConstSharedPtr right_wheel_joint(model->getJoint(right_wheel_name));

    if (lookup_wheel_separation)
    {
      // Get wheel separation
      if (!left_wheel_joint)
      {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_, left_wheel_name
                               << " couldn't be retrieved from model description");
        return false;
      }

      if (!right_wheel_joint)
      {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_, right_wheel_name
                               << " couldn't be retrieved from model description");
        return false;
      }

      ROS_INFO_STREAM("left wheel to origin: " << left_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.x << ","
                      << left_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.y << ", "
                      << left_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.z);
      ROS_INFO_STREAM("right wheel to origin: " << right_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.x << ","
                      << right_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.y << ", "
                      << right_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position.z);

      motor_wheel_separation_ = euclideanOfVectors(left_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position,
                                             right_wheel_joint->parent_to_joint_origin_transform.position);

    }

    if (lookup_wheel_radius)
    {
      // Get wheel radius
      if (!getWheelRadius(model->getLink(left_wheel_joint->child_link_name), left_motor_wheel_radius_))
      {
        ROS_ERROR_STREAM_NAMED(name_, "Couldn't retrieve " << left_encoder_wheel_name << " wheel radius");
        return false;
      }
    }

    return true;
  }
*/

  void DiffDriveEncodersController::setOdomPubFields(ros::NodeHandle& root_nh, ros::NodeHandle& controller_nh)
  {
    // Get and check params for covariances
    XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue pose_cov_list;
    controller_nh.getParam("pose_covariance_diagonal", pose_cov_list);
    ROS_ASSERT(pose_cov_list.getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeArray);
    ROS_ASSERT(pose_cov_list.size() == 6);
    for (int i = 0; i < pose_cov_list.size(); ++i)
      ROS_ASSERT(pose_cov_list[i].getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeDouble);

    XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue twist_cov_list;
    controller_nh.getParam("twist_covariance_diagonal", twist_cov_list);
    ROS_ASSERT(twist_cov_list.getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeArray);
    ROS_ASSERT(twist_cov_list.size() == 6);
    for (int i = 0; i < twist_cov_list.size(); ++i)
      ROS_ASSERT(twist_cov_list[i].getType() == XmlRpc::XmlRpcValue::TypeDouble);

    // Setup odometry realtime publisher + odom message constant fields
    odom_pub_.reset(new realtime_tools::RealtimePublisher<nav_msgs::Odometry>(controller_nh, "odom", 100));
    odom_pub_->msg_.header.frame_id = "odom";
    odom_pub_->msg_.child_frame_id = base_frame_id_;
    odom_pub_->msg_.pose.pose.position.z = 0;
    odom_pub_->msg_.pose.covariance = boost::assign::list_of
        (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[0])) (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[1])) (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[2])) (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[3])) (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[4])) (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(pose_cov_list[5]));
    odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.linear.y  = 0;
    odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.linear.z  = 0;
    odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.angular.x = 0;
    odom_pub_->msg_.twist.twist.angular.y = 0;
    odom_pub_->msg_.twist.covariance = boost::assign::list_of
        (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[0])) (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[1])) (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[2])) (0)  (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[3])) (0)  (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[4])) (0)
        (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (0)  (static_cast<double>(twist_cov_list[5]));
    tf_odom_pub_.reset(new realtime_tools::RealtimePublisher<tf::tfMessage>(root_nh, "/tf", 100));
    tf_odom_pub_->msg_.transforms.resize(1);
    tf_odom_pub_->msg_.transforms[0].transform.translation.z = 0.0;
    tf_odom_pub_->msg_.transforms[0].child_frame_id = base_frame_id_;
    tf_odom_pub_->msg_.transforms[0].header.frame_id = "odom";
  }

} // namespace diff_drive_encoders_controller

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Peter Dawson (* 31. Januar 1882 in Adelaide; † 26. September 1961 in Sydney, Pseudonyme unter anderem Leonhard Dawson, Hector Grant und Phil Strong) war ein australischer Sänger in der Stimmlage Bassbariton.

Leben
Peter Dawson kam als jüngstes von sechs Kindern in der Familie eines schottischen Einwanderers zur Welt, der nach dem Ende seiner Laufbahn als Kapitän einen metallverarbeitenden Betrieb aufgebaut hatte. Nachdem er Gesangsstunden bei einem Musiklehrer namens C. J. Stevens in Adelaide genommen hatte, gewann Dawson, der zu dieser Zeit auch als Boxer aktiv war, mit einem Bass-Solo einen Gesangswettbewerb im australischen Ballarat. Dies half ihm, seinen Vater, der ihn für eine Laufbahn in der Metallbranche vorgesehen hatte, davon  zu überzeugen, ihn stattdessen zum Gesangsstudium nach England zu schicken.

In London wurde Dawson 1902 Schüler des Baritons Charles Santley, nachdem er diesem, so die Überlieferung, die Arie "O Ruddier than the Cherry" aus Georg Friedrich Händels Masque Acis and Galatea vorgesungen hatte. Das Stück wurde, ebenso wie später Waltzing Matilda oder The Floral Dance, zu Dawsons Visitenkarte.

Sein Konzertdebüt gab Dawson 1903 mit Emma Albani in der Guildhall in Plymouth. Ein Jahr später machte er als "Leonhard Dawson" mit der Ballade To My First Love seine erste Aufnahme auf Phonographenwalze. Die erste Schallplatte Navajo (auch Navahoe) folgte im selben Jahr. 1907 und 1909 verkörperte Dawson im Royal Opera House von Covent Garden die Rolle des Nachtwächters in Richard Wagners Meistersingern.

Im Ersten Weltkrieg diente Dawson als Freiwilliger bei den australischen Truppen, im Zweiten Weltkrieg half er, für den Kriegsdienst zu alt, in der Fabrik seiner Familie. Als Sänger lebte und arbeitete Dawson vornehmlich in England. 1956 beendete er seine Karriere und kehrte in seine Heimat Australien zurück.

Werk
Peter Dawson reüssierte zwar auch als Opernsänger, sein eigentliches Metier aber waren  der Konzertgesang und die Schallplatte. Die Oper bedeute "zu viel Arbeit für zu wenig Bezahlung" ("too much work for too little pay"), soll er geäußert haben. Zudem fühlte er sich als "Volkssänger" ("singer of the people"). So nahm er schätzungsweise rund 3000 Schallplatten auf, in der Mehrzahl Lieder, aber auch Arien aus Oratorien und Opern, die er stets in der englischen Fassung vortrug. Markenzeichens seines kräftigen Bassbaritons, den er bis über sein 70. Lebensjahr hinaus behielt, waren makellose Diktion und Technik.

Seine ersten Aufnahmen veröffentlichte Peter Dawson unter bis zu 20 Pseudonymen, die er zum Teil einzelnen Genres zuordnete. So sang er schottische Volkslieder als Hector Grant, Unterhaltungsmusik als Phil Strong. Weitere Künstlernamen waren Geoffrey Baxter, Charles Handy, Charles Stander, Robert Woodville, Will Strong, Frank Danby, Peter Allison, Denton Thomas, Charles Webber, Gilbert Mundy, Arnold Flint und J. P. McColl.

In Anerkennung seiner Leistungen wurde Peter Dawson 1991 postum in die ARIA Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

Moderne Diskografie
 A Green and Pleasant Land. Peter Dawson Sings Traditional Favourites (Pearl Pavilion Records 1988)
 The Connoisseur's Peter Dawson (Pearl Pavilion Records 1998)
 Peter Dawson: The Ultimate Collection (Prism Leisure Corporation 1999)

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Opernsänger
Bassbariton
Australier
Geboren 1882
Gestorben 1961
Mann


I've often heard other authors talk about their writing day and it seems I do tend to approach it very differently from most.
For me, I prefer to view my writing time in terms of a working day so I would get up at the same time I would ordinarily start work and then write throughout the day and then finish around 4pm. I find that if I try to write at night or early in the morning I'm not very productive.
However, if I find myself in a good headspace and making a lot of progress than I'll be inclined to just carry on. When I came to finish my manuscript for 'The Pretender' I worked for 12 hours over a three-day period not even stopping for lunch. I'd really struggled with the ending so to have it suddenly flowing freely and effortlessly, it was a small sacrifice to make.
There are obviously other times when it works in reverse and you just can't write anything you are happy with at all. On these day, I usually set myself a goal such as to write one chapter and then I'll usually wait until another day and then read back what I wrote to see if I like it anymore or whether I'm going to re-write it.
As writing is such a time-consuming art, if I don't feel I'm being productive I choose not to force it because from experience I know that sometimes having a bit of space can help and it may be your brain's way of saying it needs a little break.
As a whole, I tend to approach my writing from an intuitive base and make sure I give myself some down time too as I know in the beginning I was very guilty of trying to write my book too quickly and then you take out the enjoyment and for me that's one of the main reasons I write.
I don't have my own office or writing room, in my ideal world this would definitely happen as I can't tell you how many times I've been distracted by the TV, radio, cat, anything that isn't what I'm meant to be doing but I alternate between writing on the sofa, at the kitchen table and on my bed whichever of these feels more comfortable. If I'm writing for a longer period of time I usually prefer the dining table.
While the writing process can be solitary it is lovely to be able to work to your own timetable and to have the freedom to modify your day as you see fit and so in that way no day is really typical but when it comes to getting pen to paper, I like to structure my day which is strangely at odds with any other part of my personality!


Liberal's defense may be even better. One year after holding opponents to 32 points per game, the Liberal Lady Redskins have held teams to 19 and 20. Tuesday night in Guymon, the Lady Skins defeated the Guymon Lady Tigers 44-20. It certainly wasn't the offense that came through. In fact, LHS only led 10-6 at the half as both teams only had two field goals apiece in the first half.
Liberal led 23-10 at the end of three and would lead by as many as 26 (44-18) on the way to the win. Guymon was 3-14 at the free throw line and missed 11 straight charities during a stretch. Machia Mullens sank 10 of 12 free throws and scored 12. Katie Horyna scored 11. Kenzie Kapp and Whitney Hay had six a piece. The game was no masterpiece as LHS had 17 turnovers and Guymon had 22.
Liberal is 2-0 and has won five straight against Guymon. The Lady Tigers are 1-3. Guymon plays Ulysses in the Hugoton Blue and Red Classic Thursday. The Lady Red plays the Dumas Demonettes Thursday at 6 in the Big House in Liberal with Redskin Pre-game at 5:45 on 1270 and kscbnews.net.


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STATE FARM NEIGHBORHOOD AWARDS HOSTED BY STEVE HARVEY KICKS OFF AWARDS NOMINATIONS
by Kevin Ross May 10, 2016 0
THE STATE FARM NEIGHBORHOOD AWARDS HOSTED BY STEVE HARVEY KICKS OFF AWARDS NOMINATIONS
Nominations Run May 2nd-May 17th,
Voting Open to the Public May 31st-June 15th
Starring Maxwell, The O'Jays, Erykah Badu, Charlie Wilson,
Jill Scott, Keith Sweat, and Doug E. Fresh
Performing in Las Vegas for July 22nd – 24th Weekend
ATLANTA, GA (May 9, 2016) – Awards nominations are underway nationwide for the 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards, which will be hosted by EMMY-winning talk show, Family Feud, Little Big Shots host and Steve Harvey Morning Show star Steve Harvey, in a sizzling summer show in Las Vegas, with starring performances from Maxwell, The O'Jays, and Erykah Badu. Sold out, the 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards will deliver 12 Awards on July 23rd in a star-studded weekend of entertainment. Running May 2nd to May 17th, the Steve Harvey Morning Show has announced the State Farm Neighborhood Awards nominations for this year, with nominations open online in one category per day.
From the categories of Best High School Coach to the Good Neighbor Award, nominations can be submitted daily in one category at [ www.NeighborhoodAwards.com ] between 6 am-6 pm ET/PT and 5 am-5 pm CT, with a limit of one nomination per day. Voting will be open to the public from May 31st to June 15th between the same hours, in one category announced daily, with a limit of one vote per day at [ www.NeighborhoodAwards.com ].
Marking Steve Harvey's fourteenth year as the show's host, the State Farm Neighborhood Awards on July 23rd is the cornerstone event during the three-day 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards Weekend. Running July 22nd-July 24th in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay and Casino, the Weekend will feature additional performances starring Charlie Wilson, Jill Scott, Keith Sweat, Doug E. Fresh, and appearances from the Steve Harvey Morning Show's Shirley Strawberry, Nephew Tommy, Carla Ferrell, Junior, and more. Surrounding the Awards are beloved favorites including the Freedom FridayConcert, the Freedom Friday Party, the VIP After-Party, and the Neighborhood Awards Beach Party, with most events sold out. The 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards Weekend also includes support from Signature Sponsor Tracfone.
Visit [ www.NeighborhoodAwards.com ] to submit nominations in the following categories for the 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards:
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Stay tuned into the #1 rated Steve Harvey Morning Show weekdays on the radio or online from 6-10 AM EST, or the iHeart Radio App for updates on the 2016 State Farm Neighborhood Awards Weekend, nominations, essential news, daily inspiration, laughs and more from Steve Harvey and his co-hosts.
Steve Harvey and television/radio/film producer Rushion McDonald created the one-of-a-kind State Farm Neighborhood Awards (formerly the Hoodie Awards) and State Farm Neighborhood Awards Weekend to recognize and celebrate men and women from all over the United States who uplift their neighborhoods through their contributions and excellence as entrepreneurs, religious and community leaders, educators and more.
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Peter Cibák (born 2 March 1981 in Liptovský Mikuláš) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1996 to 2010.

He won a bronze medal in the K1 event at the 2005 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Penrith. He also won 2 bronze medals at the 2002 European Championships in Bratislava.

Cibák finished 12th in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after being eliminated in the semifinals.

Ice-hockey player Martin Cibák is his cousin, Ondrej Cibák was his grandfather.

World Cup individual podiums

1 World Championship counting for World Cup points

References

1981 births
Living people
Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists of Slovakia
Sportspeople from Liptovský Mikuláš
Slovak male canoeists
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships


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At 15, at the end of Year 8, I was hospitalized at the Kaluga Oblast Hospital with kidneys inflammation. I was suffering from major edema of the legs, the eyes, the arms… After three weeks of treatment, I wasn't getting any better—it was, of course, not a kidney issue at all, but oncology. Cancer often masks itself beneath the symptoms of other diseases.
I kept getting worse, and then one day my mum saw an enormous lymph node on my neck, which the doctors decided to remove at once. After surgery, I got sent to intensive care. The doctors understood by then that they had no way of treating me, and so my parents started to look urgently for somewhere in Moscow that could. That's how, one ambulance ride later, I ended up at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, and found myself in the oncohematology ward. And I wasn't scared anymore. I felt much worse back in Kaluga—I was getting treatment, but nothing helped. I just really wanted to know what was wrong with me and how one was supposed to deal with it. That's why I'm very grateful to the doctor who immediately talked to me about it, honestly, forthrightly and in detail.
I learned that my illness was called Hodgkin's lymphoma, that it was very dangerous, and that I was about to go through four to six blocks of chemotherapy, as well as radiation therapy.
The test results came and they were bad: I turned out to be on the fourth stage of the disease, not the third. So I needed urgent hospitalization. But first they had to work on my kidneys that were in no shape to endure chemotherapy. For a few weeks, I just had to wait for the tests to come back better. Then one day the doctor in charge of me practically soared into the room, glowing with joy, saying that the indicators had finally gone up. That was when, filled with encouragement, we started chemotherapy.
My dad really helped me, because he told me from the start, "You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other", that the most important thing is to keep moving forwards, no matter how hard it is. It also helped that the ward, which I assumed would have to be quiet, peaceful and gloomy, was in reality filled with activity and life. Little bald kids raced through the corridors, older children chatted, reclining on the sofas… My ward-mate Madina, who'd been there for three months when I turned up, did her best to prepare me for everything. She explained what I'd experience when things got bad and when things were normal, and what I should fear. She told me a thousand stories, and made me laugh so much. I was very lucky to encounter so many people who knew more than I did. The first two months were grueling. I lost 20kg, going down to 38. I hardly walked and I spent a lot of time crying.
But one day I was leaving the ward in a wheelchair and realized that this was it—I'd finally reached my limit, the line that must not be crossed. I couldn't get any weaker. I had to do something, to take up arms against the disease, to keep going with the treatment and to look out for the friends and loved ones who were watching all this.
At some point I began to walk, and go outside the ward, and I started to feel better. My test results began to improve, and they even started letting me spend time at home. It gave me new strength.
Everything was great, except that people's reactions were unpredictable. I'd go down into the metro in a hat or headscarf, stick-thin, with a huge mask over my face and burning eyes… I must have looked like an alien. Some people stared in surprise, some had teary eyes, and some tried to help. There was a funny incident once where this woman caught up to us and offered something to my mum. She said she didn't have anything, but she wanted to help us, so she gave us a rhinestone keychain for luck. It was very touching. But then, once a man came up and asked what I was being treated for—it wasn't the plague, was it? That kind of mocking question hurt my mum more than it did me. I figured that people were simply scared, and protecting themselves in this incongruous fashion.
I generally tried to turn everything bad from when I was ill into something good. Or something remarkable, magical… One day I felt ill on the metro and they had to carry me on a stretcher. I imagined myself as an Oriental princess. And this is great, but it's also normal! People generally tend to remember the good, whereas the bad gets smoothed over with time. I don't remember—or don't want to remember—the hospital as something terrible, as a place where children get treated or where they die. To me, it was a part of my life, and everything had a place in it: joy, sorrow, friendship, happy things, and misery. Just like ordinary life.
Nothing in a person's life passes without leaving a trace, and that goes double for a severe, debilitating illness. I have tears in my voice now, but these aren't tears of fear or self-pity. This is a sign that, so many years later, the illness still makes me mentally and emotionally aware of the fragility and preciousness of human life, of time spent with the people one loves. It's not like I spend every day talking to the people I know about my feelings from eight years ago. But sometimes, even if not very often, I think about these things in order to remind myself what it was all for.
Treatment finished eight months later. I went through six blocks of chemotherapy, then radiotherapy, and on the 30th of December they sent me home. I was overjoyed! I knew that my dad and my sister had prepared a surprise for me. They'd redecorated my room, changing all the furniture and painting the walls bright green, a very lively color. But more than anything I was happy that we were all together again. It was easier for my mum, since I was never out of her sight, but my dad came to us on Fridays, and then left on Sundays and spent the week living on his own. He was very anxious. He lost weight just as I did, and he had heart problems, so my mum and I had an agreement not to tell him if I was feeling worse, to protect him, he's so wonderful.
After half a year of home schooling, I passed the Primary State Exam, and then came back to school in 2010. I graduated with top grades. But I didn't know how my classmates would react to my reappearance. When I was being treated at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, they came to visit me, but I was too embarrassed to come out and see them—I was very thin and looked awful. They spent a little time with my mum and went away again. For a long time, I didn't write to them and didn't get in touch, because I thought it wouldn't be entirely fair. I had no idea what could happen to me, and I tried to keep people at arm's length so as not to hurt anyone if things went wrong. I tried to focus on the treatment, on myself. But when I returned home, they came to see me, all 30 of them! We had tea, and they told me about life at school, and didn't ask me any questions, and it felt really nice. It seemed like any day now things would go back to normal, to how they used to be. Before the illness I had a very active school life. I performed at concerts, as a drummer for a rock band. I went snowboarding! And I really wanted it all back.
For the first year, I had fairly harsh restrictions on my diet and my lifestyle, but later it was my mum who tried to limit me, and I fought back every way I could. I told her that I wasn't disabled, and I wasn't a hospital patient, and I couldn't spend my whole life as a prisoner of my diagnosis. I got my dad to side with me too. But of course, I don't blame my mum for anything! I understand full well what she had to go through. When you're sick yourself, it's not so tough, but when someone close to you is sick and you don't know what to do or how to help, that's far harder and more terrifying.
I really wanted to go back to my ordinary life, but it didn't all go my way. In hospital, you see things very differently. You develop values you didn't have before. That's why at first I got very irritated when my girlfriends started talking about some idiotic problems with school or boys. How could you even call something like that a problem? I felt like an adult woman at 16, grown wise with experience, and it seemed like the girlish troubles and sorrows they could go through were forever beyond me. Like I was a completely different kind of person who knew what really mattered in life and what wasn't worth worrying about. But a year passed, and I started talking about the very same things! And everything went back to how it should be. I think it was a sign that I'd recovered from the illness psychologically. I started to be concerned with things other than my health, and I started to think about not just how to get better, but what I should wear to the party tomorrow.
Illness can turn even a little child into an adult. I developed a different system of values, and the most important things in it are life, friends and family. I think I must have become stronger. But I don't divide my life into two parts—before and after the illness. Life goes on, and the illness was a trial given to me, for reasons I don't know. Perhaps it prepared me for challenges that still lie ahead.
While I was studying at university, I kept in touch with the Foundation. When I was ill, the Foundation really helped us. They gathered half million rubles for my treatment! In addition to that, I'm very grateful to the volunteers who would come to see us. I participated in their photo project, and had a go at visiting hospitals. So it seemed entirely logical to ask whether it was possible to do some work for them. They invited me for a full-scale interview and immediately made it clear that I wouldn't get any kind of free pass. I completed a four-month trial period and am very happy and very lucky to be able to work here. I really want all my activities, my work and my daily life to benefit the people around me, my friends and my loved ones.
Being needed, useful, important—these are my priorities. But just like any ordinary girl, I also want to get married and have children, and for everything to be wonderful!


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Q: qftp mput rawcommand I have a doubt regarding multiple file transfer with qftp. There is no direct way to transfer multiple files with qftp class. Well, I tried it using arbitrary ftp command "mput" with "rawCommand" in QFTP. But it doesnt work for me.
Please let me know how I could do a multiple file transfer with qftp.
Thanks,

A: Use a for-loop, and start a new transfer for every iteration. Then collect all the  commandFinished() signals at the end.
QFtp works asynchronously. If an operation cannot be executed immediately, the operation will automatically be scheduled for later execution. The results of scheduled operations are reported via signals.


Forget about the mountains and visit a small town instead.
When you've lived in Calgary long enough, odds are good that you've visited Banff quite frequently. It's just a short drive away and let's be real, who can resist an up-close view of those mountains?!
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Medicine Hat may not have a lot going on, but as someone who lived there for 17 years, I can tell you first hand that there's plenty of hidden gems to check out here. Visit the Tipi, check out the cute coffee shops downtown, or simply spend a day basking in the sunshine at Echo Dale; it is the sunniest city in Canada, after all.
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If you still want to enjoy the mountains but want to avoid the crowds of Banff, Waterton Lakes National Park is a great option. It's a lot more lowkey, but still has a lot of the same absolutely stunning views. Take a hike, explore the park, or have an impromptu photoshoot with friends.
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