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Custom animation effects: motion paths with auto-reverse, varying speeds(Advanced)To reproduce the shape effects on this slide, do the following:On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click Layout, and then click Blank.On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Shapes, and then under Rectangles, select Rectangle (first option from the left). On the slide, drag to draw the first rectangle.Select the rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 10.5".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher. In the Format Shape dialog box, in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, click Solid fill,and then do the following:Click the button next to Color, and click MoreColors.In the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 86, Green: 113, Blue: 118.In the Transparency box, enter 40%. Also in the Format Shape dialog box, in the left pane, click Line Color, and then inthe Line Color pane, click No line.Select the rectangle.On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow underPaste, and then click Duplicate. Select the duplicate rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 4.96".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher.In the Format Shape dialog box, in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, select Solid fill. Click the button next to Color,and then under Theme Colorsselect Red, Accent 2, Darker 50% (sixth row, sixth option from the left). In the Transparency box, enter 40%.Press and hold SHIFT and select both rectangles. On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click Arrange,point to Align, and then do the following:Click Align to Slide.Click Align Center.Click Align Middle.To reproduce the animation effects for the second rectangle on this slide, do the following:Select the second rectangle (smaller, red).On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click CustomAnimation. (Note: For this animation effect, the first (largest, blue) rectangle remains stationary on the slide.)In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Motion Paths, and then click Right. On the slide, select motion path endpoint (red arrow), and drag the end of the path beyond the right edge of the slide. Select the motion path starting point (green arrow), and drag the starting point of the path beyond the left edge of the slide. In the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the motion path animation effect,and then under Modify: Right,in the Start list,select With Previous. Also in the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the arrow next to the motion path animation effect, and click Effect Options. In the Right dialog box, do the following:On the Effect tab, under Settings, select Auto-Reverse.On the Timing tab, in the Speed box, enter 3.55 seconds, and thenin the Repeat list, select Until End of Slide.To reproduce the animation effects for the third rectangle on this slide, do the following:Select the second (small, red) rectangle.On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow under Paste, click Duplicate, and then drag the new rectangle (along with the new motion path) above the other rectangles. Repeat this step three more times until there is a total of six rectangles (including the original two).Select the third rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 3.16".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher. In the Format Shape dialog box, in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, click Solid fill,and then do the following:Click the button next to Color, and then click MoreColors.In the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 79, Green: 129, Blue: 189.In the Transparency box, enter 40%. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click CustomAnimation. In the CustomAnimation task pane, click the third rectangle motion path animation effect, and then under Modify: Right, in the Start list,select With Previous. Also in the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the arrow next to the third rectangle motion path animation effect, and then click Effect Options. In the Effect Options dialog box, do the following:On the Effect tab, under Settings, select Auto-Reverse.On the Timing tab, in the Repeat list,select Until End of Slide, and in the Speed box, enter 3.1 seconds.On the slide, position the third rectangle on the first (and longest) rectangle, lining up the top and bottom edges.To reproduce the animation effects for the fourth rectangle on this slide, do the following:Select the fourth rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 1.68".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher. In the Format Shape dialog box in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, click Solid fill,and then do the following:Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Olive Green, Accent 3, Darker 50% (sixth row, seventh option from the left).In the Transparency box, enter 40%. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click CustomAnimation. In the CustomAnimation task pane, select the fourthrectangle motion path animation effect, and under Modify: Right, in the Start box, select With Previous. Also in the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the arrow next to the fourth rectangle motion path animation effect, and then click Effect Options. In the Effect Options dialog box, do the following:On the Effect tab, under Settings, select Auto-Reverse.On the Timing tab, in the Repeat list,select Until End of Slide, and in the Speed box, enter 3.95 seconds.On the slide, position the fourth rectangle on the first (and longest) rectangle, lining up the top and bottom edges.To reproduce the animation effects for the fifth rectangle on this slide, do the following:Select the fifthrectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 1.5".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher. In the Format Shape dialog box in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, click Solid fill,and then do the following:Click the button next to Color, and then click MoreColors.In the Colors dialog box, on the Custom tab, enter values for Red: 127, Green:140, Blue: 60.In the Transparency box, enter 40%. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click CustomAnimation. In the CustomAnimation task pane, select the fifthrectangle motion path animation effect, and then under Modify: Right, in the Start list,select With Previous. Also in the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the arrow next to the fifth rectangle motion path animation effect, and then click Effect Options. In the Effect Options dialog box, do the following:On the Effect tab, under Settings, select Auto-Reverse.On the Timing tab, in the Repeat list, select Until End of Slide, and in the Speed box, enter 5.3 seconds.On the slide, position the fifth rectangle on the first (and longest) rectangle, lining up the top and bottom edges. To reproduce the animation effects for the sixth rectangle on this slide, do the following:Select the sixth rectangle. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, do the following:In the Shape Height box, enter 0.86".In the Shape Width box, enter 0.98".Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the ShapeStyles group, click the FormatShape dialog box launcher. In the Format Shape dialog box in the left pane, click Fill. In the Fill pane, click Solid fill,and then do the following:Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Olive Green, Accent 3, Darker 25% (fifth row, seventh option from the left).In the Transparency box, enter 40%. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click CustomAnimation. In the CustomAnimation task pane, select the sixth rectangle motion path animation effect, and under Modify: Right, in the Start box, select With Previous. Also in the CustomAnimationtask pane, click the arrow next to the sixth rectangle motion path animation effect, and then click Effect Options. In the Effect Options dialog box, do the following:On the Effect tab, under Settings, select Auto-Reverse.On the Timing tab, in the Repeat list, select Until End of Slide, and in the Speed box, enter 4.2 seconds.On the slide, position the sixth rectangle on the first (and longest) rectangle, lining up the top and bottom edges. To reproduce the background effects on this slide, do the following:Right-click the slide background area, and then click Format Background. In the Format Background dialog box, click Fill in the left pane, select Gradient fill in the right pane, and then do the following:In the Type list, select Radial.Click the button next to Direction, and then click From Center (third option from the left). Under Gradient stops, click Add or Remove until two stops appear in the drop-down list.Also under Gradient stops, customize the gradient stops that you added as follows:Select Stop 1 from the list, and then do the following:In the Stop position box, enter 40%.Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1, Lighter 50% (second row, second option from the left).Select Stop 2 from the list, and then do the following: In the Stop position box, enter 100%.Click the button next to Color, and then under Theme Colors click Black, Text 1 (first row, second option from the left).
1. Simon TannerKing's College LondonT: @SimonTanner
2. A place where a communitynourishes its memory and itsimagination – where itconnects with the past andinvents its future.To educate, enlighten and entertain:to promote and disseminate and to preserve culture
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4. www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
5. Effective, efficient and world leadingwww.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
6. Bestowing economic & community benefits Glasgow Museums Collection is the city's biggest single fiscal asset valued at £1.4 billion. It contains around 1.2 million objects. On average only 2% of the collection is exhibited to the public at any one time. Digital access is opening up further access to these collections. A major impact sought is to increase self-confidence in the populace – to feel less marginalised, less insignificant, less unheard. Increased feelings of self-worth through interaction with the Museums will spill over into every aspect of their lives. Digitised content & JISC Collections negotiations save the sector ~£43 million per year www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
7. Bestowing economic & community benefits In 2008 National Museums Liverpool did a full economic impact assessment. They found that: "during the Capital of Culture period, 25% of all visitors to Liverpool visited the Walker Art Gallery, 24% visited the Merseyside Maritime Museum and 15% visited World Museum, while about 5% of visitors only visited a National Museums Liverpool venue and no other attraction during their visit. In total, National Museums Liverpool is reliably estimated to be worth £115 million to the economy of the Liverpool city region, a spend that supports 2,274 full-time jobs" www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/about/corporate/reports/EIS_summary_2008.pdf www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
8. Courtesy of www.museum-analytics.org
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11. http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/case-studies-in-sustainability-2011
12. supported by advertising revenueuser data as revenuetraditional retail modelfinancial incentives to affiliated partner sitesusers invest in a site (e.g. contribution of content, money, time, hosting)users pay for access to "value added" content (e.g. high resolution files)metered usage or pay-per-view
13. any device, any place, any time Uploaded every day: 300 million Tweets, 250 million Facebook photos & 8 person years worth of content on Youtube!It took Amazon anaverage six quarters forany investment to startto generate revenue$1 new investmentgenerates only 6¢additional return
14. In the Attention Economythere is a deficit of attentionand time:- the ability to attend to information in this tsunami of data and information.We will thus compete: for attention, for eyeballs on our collections and resources, for time and energy from our communities.
15. www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
16. Staffing & Costs Staff Workspace Training Material Equipment preparation Software Preservation Vendor costs, if Management outsourcing Web site design Marketing Overheads
17. A framework in which all costs can be recorded andallocated or apportioned to specific activities.Essential to enable the costs of providing a service tobe calculated.A model of how the service functions and the methodby which it can sustain itself. It involves both strategyand implementation.
18. "the measurable outcomes arising from the existence of adigital resource that demonstrate a change in the life or lifeopportunities of the community" www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
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David is the founder of Orbst Quality Assurance Specialists. For the past 25 years he has been helping the accountants of Ontario build practices that meet and exceed every professional standard. Not only the standards that regulatory bodies set for the profession, but the high standards accountants set for themselves.
At the moment, David hasn't planned a party to celebrate his business' silver anniversary. He says there are rewards to celebrate in the work he does for his clients every day.
"When you do something long enough, you get good at it," David says with a laugh. "I am good at supporting people to run their own businesses better. When accountants know they have three more years to meet or exceed standards because we've come in to help them, then they can sleep at night and so can we."
Those three years of easy sleep refer to the regular cycle between Practice Inspections conducted by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, better known as CPA Ontario. As professional regulatory bodies, both CPA Canada and CPA Ontario set rules, standards and guidelines for accountants and accounting practices. David also works with clients across Canada whose practices are regulated by other provincial bodies such as CPA Alberta and CPABC.
Inspections of accounting firms are conducted to ensure compliance with highly complex accounting standards and reporting requirements that are subject to constant changes from government and financial bodies or agencies, for example. Ultimately, ensuring compliance through inspections protects the public from poor quality work and accountants themselves from unwarranted complaints and legal action. The Regulatory & Standards Group within CPA Ontario inspects over 1200 accounting practices each year.
While the current Canadian Standards on Quality Control, otherwise known as the CSQC1, were implemented in 2009, David has been working in the area of Accounting Quality Assurance and Professional Best Practices for Accountants much longer than that.
"I started my career at Price Waterhouse at 21 and worked with a number of other medium-size accounting firms. By 1993 I was out on my own with two clients," David remembers. "Even in 1993 the bulk of my work was in external monitoring and reviews of files and statements, or File Quality Reviews (FQRs). Publicly Listed Companies have always had standards for financial reporting that had to be monitored for QA and Best Practices. I also conduct Engagement Quality Control Reviews or EQCRs, which is part of an audit quality process to make sure everything is up to that standard. So, we've been preparing our clients for CPA Practice Inspections before that even had a name! Now that it has a name, we don't have to spend as much time explaining what we do."
David is usually the first person accounting firms call when they get a letter from the regulator in their province informing them of an upcoming Practice Inspection.
"It's much easier when they have called me in before the inspection, rather than after a failure," David says. "Sometimes I get a call from firms who have been inspected and given a year to resolve outstanding issues after being given a List of Deficiencies. Then I work with them, we apply systems and practices, and then the inspector comes back to find everything is better. But they still have to pay for re-inspection and deal with the additional stress of two inspections instead of just one. It never hurts to call someone in to make sure you've got it right, especially when there are files with complicated issues that need another look before it is released."
Those complicated issues have become second nature to David. He started taking accounting classes in high school when he was 14. His mother, who worked as a bookkeeper and credit manager encouraged his interests. As a result, he was admitted to the Schulich School of Business at York University where he completed his BBA.
As a result of all the support and encouragement he received for his chosen career, David was doing tax returns before there was even tax software.
"I can remember the introduction of tax software," David says. "You know, I can even remember when we would fill out and collate cards to send them out and wait for them to come back. It's been quite the transition to watch and be part of."
With all that experience, it's clear why Orbst Quality Assurance Specialists has become the accounting firm's accountant of choice.
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LANCASTER — While the start of the school year is an exciting time for students, it can be a financial burden for some parents. That's why the Lancaster Independent School District is thankful for its established community partnerships that allow the district to provide school supplies for students and financial relief for parents.
Just prior to the start of the school year, more than 800 school supply packets were donated to Lancaster ISD from the Lancaster Education Foundation which consists of alumni, local citizens and Lancaster ISD vendors who want to see student success.
"It is important for the community to be involved in supporting students," Lancaster Education Foundation President Ellen Clark expressed. "Students need to feel they are important and that the community wants to see them all succeed."
Most supply packages were distributed to K-12 pre-qualified students during a Tiger Welcome event held on each campus prior to the start of school. Parents and students who were unable to attend the campus event picked up their school supplies at the start of the school year.
George Washington Carver 6th Grade STEM Learning Center Principal CoSheda Hurd believes that having the donated school supplies available on the first day of school for students creates a culture of success.
"When students have their school supplies on the first day of school, they begin the year with hope and a sense of pride because there are no barriers to their success," she said. As a Lancaster ISD principal, I am appreciative for all school supply donations because they remove one less distraction for our students."
In addition to the Education Foundation's donation, the district partnered with Kroger Food Stores during its annual Backpack Boosters 14-day school supply drive to provide more than 900 school supply packs for students. Lancaster ISD was one of nine North Texas school districts selected to benefit from the drive that serviced more than 60,000 students throughout North Texas.
"Backpack Boosters is a program that presents our customers and employees with an easy way to help local students succeed in the classroom," April Martin-Nickels, public affairs manager for Kroger, said. "Having the proper school supplies is important to a student's emotional health and academic progression. Regardless of a student's socio-economic environment, no child should have to go without the essential tools we collect during this initiative."
Local companies such as L'Oréal USA's Active Cosmetics and Consumer Products departments, Syncreon and the BMW Group also made generous contributions of notebook paper, binders, folders, pencils, and crayons. The donation of backpacks and gently used school uniforms was also made by several community members.
"We are blown away at the amount of support we have received from our community, Director of Student and Family Services Dr. Lisa Bacon said. "The students of Lancaster ISD are very fortunate to have community members who care about their well-being and that means a lot to our district."
For more information on how to partner with Lancaster ISD in the future, please email Info@LancasterISD.org.
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Q: Organizing code to minimize repetition and external references I am struggling with how to organize external references in a C# program in order to minimize code repetition.
I have application "A1" for which I want to use Microsoft's Unity IoC/Dependency Injection system.  So I use NuGet to pull down the Unity package and install it in A1.  This pulls down 2 projects and 4 DLLs into A1's project.
To facilitate using Unity, I encapsulate the container object in a Singleton pattern (S1). So I have a constant/consistent home for the container and no matter where in A1 I have easy access it.
But I want to use Unity in a different and independent application A2 as well.  This other application is not in the same solution as A1.  Thus it would make sense to move my S1 code to a third solution which builds an external DLL (D1) that can be referenced by both A1 and A2.  In this way I am not continually writing the S1 code in each application.  I have achieved code re-use!
However in order to do so I now need to use NuGet to insert references to Unity into each of the A1, A2 and D1 projects/solutions.  And because of that, the versions of Unity in the application and DLL are totally independent.  I am starting to feel like the epitome of the old Regex joke:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
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I can't see a clean way to organize all of this.  The only options I see are:

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*Manually duplicate the S1 code in every application (and leave it out of the DLL), and use NuGet to enable Unity into just those applications.

*Move my S1 code to the DLL, but have NuGet reference totally independent versions of Unity in the applications A1 and A2 and the DLL D1 solutions.

*Move my S1 code to the D1 DLL and have NuGet reference Unity only in that solution.  Then in every application add not only my custom D1 DLL from the DLL solution, but also  manually add the 4 Unity DLL's that were added to my D1 solution.
All 3 of these options have some sort of code smell.  I am currently leaning to option 1 as being the least worst option of those 3.  Is there a 4th option that provides the flexibility I want but eliminates these code smells?
I know that the singleton code is only a very small file, but it is the principle of this dilemma that is killing me.  Also my D1 project has a whole bunch of other common code and not just the S1 code.

A: Create a new nuget package for S1 with a dependency on the Unity package.
You can then consume this nuget package i  your applications and they will automatically import Unity as a dependency

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The Internet can provide limitless knowledge to help you in nearly any area. Running a successful home business is definitely one subject you will find interesting. This article is just one of many that can help you improve the home business you have started.
Wear apparel that is appropriate for your status as a business owner. Although you may feel like wearing pajamas when you work in a home office, don't. Dress professionally instead. Dressing for success will put you in a mindset to be productive.
Take some breaks during the day, but don't get trapped by your television or other distractions. Don't start painting a bathroom or playing a video game. Take regular breaks and throw in a small exercise routine to keep the body active.
An office is an important component of any home business. You don't need a big one, but it does have to be comfortable. Your work space needs to be a place of calm, productivity and inspiration. Size is the last thing you should worry about.
Make a business plan for your home business. Even for small companies, it's still important to map out your business goals, all of the necessary resources and the path you will follow to accomplish your business objectives. As your business expands, the business plan you write will help keep things growing in the right direction.
Always have an emergency fund for your business to avoid cash flow emergencies. If an unexpected expense arises, this fund could see you through, without interrupting the regular operations of your business. However, be careful not to use your emergency funds unless it is truly an emergency. Replenish the fund as soon as you can.
Your home business should have an objective. However, do not make the description too long; you want to explain what your business does in a concise way. If someone is curious about your business, repeat these objectives to them. Knowing what you really want out of your business will give you confidence when talking to others about what you do, and that's a great way to build confidence in possible clients.
Sufficient help is important in any business, especially a home-based daycare. Without enough help, it will be difficult to properly care for the children.
While it may seem to entice customers with discounts when you are starting a business, it is a recipe for disaster if you do it too much. Your payment terms and penalty, beginning at eight percent over your invoiced amount, when not paid on time, should be clearly stated on all your invoices and documents.
Compare your new home business to similar businesses in the area to determine what kind of price points you need to set up to stay competitive. Use the information you glean from your research to determine what you should charge. Charge what you are worth to earn what you need.


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* Steffen Roth (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) (* 1976), deutscher Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
 Steffen Roth (Musiker) (* 1989), deutscher Schlagzeuger und Komponist

Siehe auch:
 Stefan Roth
 Stephan Roth

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LAN always had a big imaginative power and a great passion for fantasy tales. Illustrating becomes therefore the main medium, in particular to create distinctive and proper stories. Monsters and fantastic creatures live side by side in these universes and styles, which are sometimes very different but are always animated by a dreamlike and/or nightmarish nature.
What'd you say to have these creatures on your head?
In its customized hip-hop caps, LAN mixes influences of manga, fantasy and SF, and themes in the style of a "curiosity cabinet". Each model is unique and LAN likes to work on demand, in order to visualize people's characteristics as magical and monstrous beings.
Sammy Netta was born in Liège (Belgium) in November 1989. Her enthusiasm for different art forms was already present from a young age, first as a dancer and later as a visual artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, after which she obtained her teacher's degree.
After her studies, she devoted herself to her two big passions: 'the art of the tattoo' and her 'paintings and drawings'. In both she brings her feminine characters 'alive'.
She describes her visual art as well as her tattoos as 'Beautiful and Bizarre', and more 'Pop Surrealist' than illustrative. Her universe depicts women in general, the woman child with her dreams and nightmares, her joys and her pain, the woman … in all her splendor. Her little 'dolls' sometimes resemble Samy Netta … both on a figurative as on a spiritual level, the subconscious handles the rest.
Mothmeister is the nonstop morphing alter ego of two artistic soul mates based in Belgium, home of surrealism. Through their eerie, imaginary post-mortem fairy tales they portray a series of masked, grotesque characters – often accompanied by stuffed animals and a variety of curiosa from their private collection.
Similar to the Victorian era when dead dear loved ones were photographed as a memento mori for the relatives, Mothmeister immortalizes animals in a weird and wonderful fairytale world.
In addition to the numerous eccentric portraits in this book, Mothmeister also reveals a unique look behind the mask. From intriguing adventures in the world's most abandoned and remote places, to their untamed passion for taxidermy and masks, to fascinating on the road images, exposing their quenchless wanderlust.


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Everybody Wants A Piece Of LaKeith Stanfield
The scene-stealing star of Atlanta started from the bottom. Now he's Hollywood's hottest up-and-comer — and Esquire's latest cover star
By Sanjiv Bhattacharya and Photographs by Micaiah Carter
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Before he was Darius, the trippy one in Atlanta, or Cassius Green, the telesales whizz with the "white voice" in Sorry To Bother You, LaKeith Stanfield was the kid, there's usually one, standing outside Stater Bros, a Southern California grocery chain, in Victorville, San Bernardino County. It's one of a cluster of sunbaked towns about an hour-and-a-half northeast of Los Angeles, a region known as the Inland Empire, a name that doth protest. Because life can be tough in Victorville. You could find yourself, at 17, standing in some parking lot, begging for change as people come out with their trolleys. Or collecting cans for the recycling. Or buying candy from the store and selling it at a mark-up.
"The candy worked best," Stanfield tells me. "People weren't that sympathetic to someone just fucking panhandling, they wanted to see some agency. I never made much, but I got enough for gas money to get down to LA. My mom would take me. And when she couldn't, I'd save for the train fare."
He was going to LA for the same reason a chicken crosses the road in this part of the world — to go to auditions. "I didn't have any training or anything, I just really wanted to do this," he says. "But when I got there, I was always so terrified, I'd fuck it up. Like all the time. And I'd end up back outside the store again, the next day, selling candy."
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We're talking at Stanfield's home in Studio City, a decade later. He bought it last year for a million-six, according to Zillow (the Zoopla equivalent in the US). Whatever his other achievements, just this alone, this rags to riches story will forever stand him apart from his peers. It's a story about hope, luck, tenacity, dreams. A story fit for the movies.
He's a star now, at 28. Though he's only been acting for seven years, his career trajectory was skyward from the start. He played Snoop Dogg in Straight Outta Compton (2015), and he was the character who actually said "Get out" in Get Out. Then came Atlanta, Donald Glover's award-winning series about a group of friends trying to make their way in the hip-hop business — shooting begins for season three this autumn. So now, he's everywhere, often as the lead. This year, he's in Knives Out, a rollicking whodunnit with Daniel Craig and Chris Evans; later, he'll play a jewel thief in the much anticipated Safdie brothers movie Uncut Gems, with Adam Sandler; and next year, we'll see Stanfield as Fred Hampton, the iconic Black Panther leader who was killed by the Chicago police and the FBI, in Jesus is My Homeboy.
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This house is proof of how far he's come. Part-sanctuary, part-playpen, there's a koi pond out front, and a studio in the back where he's working on a rap album. We're sitting at his kitchen table, surrounded by boxes; he's been too busy to properly unpack. His assistant tends to his baby daughter in the next room, where some of his paintings hang on the walls: one of a black Marilyn, another of his daughter's mother, his ex-girlfriend, smoking a large blunt.
"I think the design is Japanese-influenced," he says, indicating the beamed roof and the plant life all around the perimeter. "I love Japanese culture. I got a bunch of Buddhas in my bedroom. And nature, man. It heals all."
Stanfield developed a special reverence for plants when he worked at a marijuana growhouse before becoming an actor. He raves about them for a while, how they "indicate life and growth", and how they taste good, most of them. Salads, that's what he's into these days. He's quit the cigarettes. He has a trainer. He wants me to understand that the plants, the house, the Buddhas, the Pall Mall 100s that he leaves on the table just as a reminder — no more! — it's all part of his new direction in life, a break from his old ways. Because he didn't come up like this. He came up rough.
"I used to be out on the corner every day with a bottle of Taaka vodka," he says, citing the cheapest brand on the shelves. "But now, I'm all about self-care. That's what my album's going to be about. Living clean and eating right and just trying to be an example to my baby."
'I used to be out on the corner every day with a bottle of vodka. But now, I'm all about self-care. Living clean and eating right'
He looks old for his age — the lines around his doleful eyes, the set of his face, as though the rigours of his early years put more miles on the clock, and now the process has begun to slow things down. I try to ask more about his upbringing, it seems so singular, but he's reticent. It's a touchy subject, it seems. He won't say what his parents did for a living, for instance, or where he lived, or with whom, or even how many siblings he has.
"I don't want to give details," he says. "We just moved around a lot, mostly between San Bernardino and Victorville [both cities in the Inland Empire] because I had family all over. I just kinda ran around, like a wolf-child. I didn't have much guidance."
There was trouble with the cops, "but nothing serious, just childhood mischief". An old interview mentioned stealing sandwiches from Subway, but he won't elaborate. "It was mostly just hanging out where I wasn't supposed to be at. Running around an abandoned building and getting chased by police and thinking it was fun. But I wasn't punching cops. I was never violent."
Violence was a part of growing up, though. "We would always fight," he says of his friends. "People get fucked up, they're always drunk, it's nothing new. Right before I came out, I was involved in a little tussle. It's nothing, we fight every day, no big deal."
He saw cops throw his friends to the ground, face first. He saw his little sister get pepper-sprayed aged seven. "We was just caught in the crossfire," he says. "I had guns and tasers pointed at me because I said I knew my rights. They said, 'Shut the fuck up, you don't know nothing.'"
But he's not telling me this to complain, not at all. That's just how it was where he grew up. His was a poor, black family in a rough neighbourhood, where relations with law enforcement were "botched and difficult."
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"Yeah, it was hard times. We did have some hungry days," he says. Then he corrects himself, almost indignant. "But it wasn't that bad! I had the bare necessities! When I was eight, I wanted a pogo stick for Christmas. And I got one! It might have been from Walmart and broke after two jumps, but I got my fucking pogo stick!"
He describes himself as a little performer at home. He'd wear his aunt's wigs and play-act around the house, doing puppet shows. At dinner, his family would say, "Hey LaKeith, do your British accent!" and he'd perform lines from 101 Dalmatians (his favourite movie), pretending to drink tea, his pinkie aloft. "We viewed British people as very high class," he says, "the exact opposite of what we were."
Now that Stanfield is successful, he's the high-class one in his family. And relatives are coming out of the woodwork to seek him out; cousins he's never seen. "Not just cousins, but brothers and sisters too," he says. "They're like, I'm a Stanfield too! It's a trip. So I'm trying to be an example to them. Like, I invite them over to eat sushi, because it's completely different to what they're used to. But they're like, 'What the fuck is this fish and shit?'" He laughs.
"I get it. I was like that when I moved out here too. Like at a restaurant when they show you the wine, I would just grab it." He grabs a bottle of water on the table and takes a swig. "I didn't know you're supposed to see if you like the brand before they pour it."
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Stakes. That's why he failed his early auditions. It didn't help that he had no formal acting training to speak of, but the real issue was the stakes were just too high. He'd go from his feral street life in Victorville to a room full of genteel showbusiness types trying to cast a project. And his mind would start to whir: "Like, 'If I get this my mom will be able to eat and I'll be able to change her life. Everybody's life…' I'd get all in my head about it, and yeah, it would go wrong. And then I'd beat myself up all the way home."
He never lost faith, though. Stanfield's self-belief is a thing to behold. "I knew that if they let me swing the bat, I was going to hit eventually," he says. And he did — eventually. He found a commercial and a modelling agent and even though he never did much modelling, or booked a single commercial, he did land an audition for a short film, Short Term 12, by a young Hawaiian director, Destin Daniel Cretton. It went to Sundance and won the 2009 Grand Jury Prize. And his career might have started at that point. It certainly felt like a break. But nothing happened.
So he went to work at a cannabis growhouse for a couple of years, tending the plants: "That's why I don't smoke anymore, I got my fair share back then!" And when the law shut down the operation, he went to stay with an uncle in Sacramento, and sold cable door-to-door for AT&T. Life was foreshadowing art; he'd go on to satirise the sales floor in Sorry To Bother You. It was a period of limbo in which he almost slipped off the radar altogether as an actor.
The reason Stanfield's sitting in front of me today and not living some blue-collar life in the Inland Empire, is because he signed up to a film board in Sacramento, an online community for film-makers, on the off chance there were any parts he could audition for. He'd never given up on his ambition. His life was chaotic: he didn't have a phone, he'd changed his email address, his home address, and he'd stayed in touch with precisely none of his old industry contacts.
But that film board, that one tenuous connection to the film world, proved enough. Because when AT&T fired him — "I still had some stuff in the courts" — his early director Cretton found him through that forum. He'd been trying to reach Stanfield for months, to tell him he was about to shoot the feature version of Short Term 12, and he wanted Stanfield to audition. This time it happened; his career began in earnest. Short Term 12 received rave reviews, the young actor's performance in particular.
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Hoping to capitalise, Stanfield moved to Echo Park in LA, where he slept on people's couches for a while, Cretton's regularly. Ultimately, he ended up sleeping in his mother's car, "a janky old Chrysler with no door handles" that he'd park on the street outside Cretton's apartment.
"I remember one night I woke up in that car because it was so hot — it must have been summer. And I thought, really clearly, 'One day, I'm not going to be here. I'm going to be in my own house, with my own things, and I'm going to have a new car.' And here I am, talking to you. I got my house. I got a Tesla right outside." He shakes his head. "It's so surreal that it actually happened."
It was The Purge: Anarchy that turned the tide. Until that point he'd been struggling at auditions; the stakes again, the pressure, it was too much. But that audition was different for some reason. He walked out thinking, "Eh, whatever", maybe because he was tired that day, or he'd just failed so many times already, he'd stopped caring. They offered him the job before he'd even got home.
His eyes light up as he tells me the story. This was a profound lesson, one of several, as he sees it. One: "don't worry about the outcome so much". Two: "don't give up, because a lot of it is drive and intention, and never fucking stopping. I knew I was going to do this, because it was this or bust." Three: "learn from the women who raised you".
"Because that's where I got my confidence," he says. "From my mom and from my aunt — she was this Christian lady. They gave me space to be myself and didn't judge me for it. As a kid it can be hard to feel judged, but I never felt that way. And I saw how these women moved through judgement, too, like when we went to church and people be like, 'Look what she's wearing,' and they'd always navigate it in a confident way. That gave me confidence."
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The challenge for Stanfield was never the actual acting; he's always had the talent for that, the drive, and soon, the experience as well. He went from The Purge to Selma to Straight Outta Compton to Get Out in what has been an amazing run. His struggle has rather been to reconcile his past life with his new one. It has come up a few times over the years, sometimes with such force that it makes him cry just thinking about it.
He's crying now at his kitchen table, remembering the day in 2014 when he was shooting an LSD scene in Memoria, a James Franco-led also-ran. They were just about to roll when his mom called to say his best friend from back home had been killed in a drunken fight. He wouldn't believe it at first, and hung up the phone. But she called back, in tears herself, and it's the memory of that sound that has set him off today. "It took me a few days to realise it was real," he says, wiping the tears with his sleeve. "Then I spiralled out, like, really drinking crazy."
He'd been fighting with his friends from back home. They weren't impressed by his burgeoning career in LA. "They were like, 'Come back home, fuck Hollywood, those motherfuckers don't give a fuck about you, it's all white people and woop de woop.' And I'd be offended because not only was it ignorant, but it was like my dreams didn't matter," he says. You can see the anger's still in him. "So I'd be like, 'Fuck you', and hang up the phone."
Now, of course, he regrets leaving things that way. "I try to see his death as a source of energy, whether it be something I can tap into for a scene or as a springboard to really go for it, you know? I kept hearing his voice saying, 'Go for it, do it for me, you're alive now, enjoy that shit.' So like most things in life, it was positive and negative."
He sits back and breathes. "Whoo! These life lessons keep coming don't they?"
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When LaKeith Stanfield gets recognised on the street, the name they shout out is Darius, his character in Atlanta. It's his best-loved role, and it would seem, superficially at least, that Stanfield and Darius are similar. Of the three leads in Atlanta — Darius; the weed-dealing rapper Paper Boi (Bryan Tyree Henry); and the sensible manager Earn (Donald Glover) — Darius is the oddball. Quirky, lovable and perpetually stoned, he's given to strange behaviour and sometimes sage pronouncements. He cites Nick Bostrom, the philosopher. He plays chess with himself.
And Stanfield can often seem similarly eccentric. He's appeared on red carpets wearing, on different occasions, a balaclava, a chain mail shirt, an enormous wig. He once tweeted out his phone number, saying, "I wanna say Hi to some of you guys." (Minutes later, he again tweeted: "Whoa. That was really a bad idea".) He says Donald Glover offered him the role at a club called No Vacancy in Hollywood where he was drunk and dancing with himself, "as if I was having a romantic dance with someone else". All very charming, all very Darius.
And yet, there's a gentleness to Darius that Stanfield lacks. He seems caught between two versions of himself — the clean-living Buddhist artist in LA and the surly street kid from Victorville who keeps surging to the surface. At one point, he cuts our interview short because he wants to work out; we can reconvene on Saturday, he says. But come Saturday he doesn't show up, or answer his phone. "It was a family situation," he tells me later. "I didn't even have my phone on me." Except he posted a jokey video on Instagram that evening which he quickly deleted.
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He deletes a lot of posts, Stanfield; they reveal his inner conflict. In June of last year, he posted a now-deleted homophobic rap on Twitter: "Take that choke chain back, that's some gay shit / Fag, I don't really want to brag but I'm straight rich." He later apologised, insisting he was just playing a character. But recently, that "character" seemed to recur, in an angry complaint about being obliged to tip in California. After a swell of comments saying, "This ain't it", he replaced it with a shot of him wearing a Buddha pendant.
When was the moment, I ask him, when you realised you'd made it? When did it really hit home you weren't in Victorville anymore, you were a movie star, literally living your dream?
He tilts back in his chair and thinks. "Oh I know exactly," he says, grinning. "It was War Machine with Brad Pitt. That movie was really important for me, actually."
It was 2016, and he was in Abu Dhabi, playing a soldier in David Michôd's satire about the war in Afghanistan. From the start, it had been an experience like no other.
"We was on the other side of the world, a place I had never gone to before, with sand dunes and a whole different culture, there's people with burqas on, they got different ethics there. And I'm training to be a marine, so my body's going through a transformation. The sun is hot, I'm blacker than I've ever been, flyer than I've ever been, feeling better than ever, and here I am with an M5, in a movie with Brad Pitt, and they talking about 'rolling'. And I just started crying. Tears of happiness. Because I'm like, damn, this shit just hit me! I'm in a movie for real!"
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All those days selling candy, all the train rides to LA, all the blown auditions and self-
flagellating walks around Echo Park lake, his late friend, his weeping mother… And now look — he was doing it. There was Brad Pitt right there. This was as real as it got. His fellow actors had been acting all tough, the way marines are supposed to be, but then Stanfield started crying, and they all reverted to being sensitive actors again.
"Up until that point we were all trying to act macho — as macho as actors can act, anyway, 'Whoop whoop!' and all that. And there I am in tears, and niggas are coming around me saying, 'It's all good, let it out, that's some real shit!' Then they say, 'Action!' and I'm wiping the tears, and putting mud on my face and we went straight into the scene."
Which was?
"Oh, we had to do an insurgency. I was on a rampage, basically. So anybody that I see I'm popping them."
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From panhandling to Brad Pitt movies in six years is nothing to sniff at. LaKeith Stanfield's story will always stand apart from his peers for sheer grit and will and personal transformation. And he's only 28. The changes he's wrought in his life have been epic, and change is still very much underway. You can feel it in person; there's something crackling and kinetic about him that makes him hard to predict, and at times hard to love. But he's compelling to watch, both on screen and off, if only to see him wrestle with his old self.
"I think the things I experienced that are positive have been passed down, like the unflinching love from my mother," he says. "But the negative things I experienced are non-existent in my life. I don't allow for them in my space. I don't even like being loud — it triggers me. I don't like arguments, none of that stuff."
As a parent, he thinks a lot about the environment he's creating here, in his home. "I want her to experience life in a way I wasn't able to. But I also want her to understand challenges. I don't want to be that Joe Jackson dad that hits his kids, but there ain't no free rides in life. You got to work hard for everything. I remember when baby first came out I was like, 'Don't just give her the bottle. Make her crawl to it.'"
He laughs and slaps the table. "That's what life's about, right? Struggle. There's not a person you can meet who hasn't had some struggle to deal with. But we're still here, aren't we?" He looks to me with a smile. "No matter what, we're still able to somehow stride into life's consequences unflinchingly."
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These are a collection of functions that mostly help converting from one type to another - generally from a string to something else, and vice-versa.
Note: See also conv.ToBool for a more flexible variant.
Converts a true-ish string to a boolean. Can be used to simplify conditional statements based on environment variables or other text input.
Provides a default value given an empty input. Empty inputs are 0 for numeric types, "" for strings, false for booleans, empty arrays/maps, and nil.
Note that this will not provide a default for the case where the input is undefined (i.e. referencing things like .foo where there is no foo field of .), but conv.Has can be used for that.
Dict is a convenience function that creates a map with string keys. Provide arguments as key/value pairs. If an odd number of arguments is provided, the last is used as the key, and an empty string is set as the value.
All keys are converted to strings.
This function is equivalent to Sprig's dict function, as used in Helm templates.
For creating more complex maps, see data.JSON or data.YAML.
For creating arrays, see conv.Slice.
Creates a slice (like an array or list). Useful when needing to range over a bunch of variables.
Reports whether a given object has a property with the given key, or whether a given array/slice contains the given value. Can be used with if to prevent the template from trying to access a non-existent property in an object.
Concatenates the elements of an array to create a string. The separator string sep is placed between elements in the resulting string.
Note: See conv.ToInt64 instead for a simpler and more flexible variant of this function.
Note: See conv.ToFloat instead for a simpler and more flexible variant of this function.
Note: See conv.ToInt and conv.ToInt64 instead for simpler and more flexible variants of this function.
Converts the input to a boolean value. Possible true values are: 1 or the strings "t", "true", or "yes" (any capitalizations). All other values are considered false.
Converts a list of inputs to an array of boolean values. Possible true values are: 1 or the strings "t", "true", or "yes" (any capitalizations). All other values are considered false.
Converts the input to an int64 (64-bit signed integer).
This function attempts to convert most types of input (strings, numbers, and booleans), but behaviour when the input can not be converted is undefined and subject to change. Unconvertable inputs may result in errors, or 0 or -1.
Floating-point numbers (with decimal points) are truncated.
Converts the input to an int (signed integer, 32- or 64-bit depending on platform). This is similar to conv.ToInt64 on 64-bit platforms, but is useful when input to another function must be provided as an int.
Converts the inputs to an array of int64s.
This delegates to conv.ToInt64 for each input argument.
Converts the inputs to an array of ints.
This delegates to conv.ToInt for each input argument.
Converts the input to a float64.
Converts the inputs to an array of float64s.
This delegates to conv.ToFloat64 for each input argument.
Converts the input (of any type) to a string.
The input will always be represented in some way.
This delegates to conv.ToString for each input argument.


'Tecs remain off the pace in the Prem?
There were a lot of positive vibes coming out of the Bristol camp this offseason… They've got an experienced staff and a great area to recruit from, boasting a bunch of quality university programmes and Britball development schemes and teams.
Well, it seems those questions have been effusively answered! The Warriors romped to a comfortable 55-0 win, outshining either of their wins over Bristol from 2017. The scoreline should put the rest of the Prem South on alert.
Did Leeds make the leap too soon?
The Leeds Bobcats may have dominated the NFC 2 Central in emphatic fashion last season, going 10-0 and outscoring opponents 4-to-1 throughout the year, but they received a rude welcome upon arrival in Division One on Saturday, facing off against local rivals, the Yorkshire Rams.
The Rams followed up on their playoff-bound 2017 campaign by seemingly making short work of the Bobcats on Saturday afternoon, a 31 point shutout loss hardly the momentum building start to Div One life Leeds will have been looking for.
The Maidstone Pumas have done a great job this past offseason in reframing the club's image, and indeed we've seen a lot of positive vibes coming out of the much-maligned Maidstone side as they revamped their coaching staff through last season and saw some good recruitment coming into their 2018 campaign.
However, Week One it seems they were simply unable to turn positivity into points – a late lone score the only bright spark in a very tough opening day for the Kent team that faced an East Essex Sabres side that put up almost as many points in this opening fixture (60) as they managed in the entirety of their 2017 campaign (81).
It's possible the SFC 2 East might be a feistier conference than some of our pundits expected this preseason, and the re-schuffled Pumas may have been moved out of the frying pan and into the fire by their offseason hop out of the SFC 2 South.
But who do YOU think had good or bad weeks, #BritballNation?


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Steve Strange
Welsh singer (1959–2015)
Stephen John Harrington, known professionally as Steve Strange, was a Welsh singer. From the late 1970s he was a nightclub host and promoter.Wikipedia
Born May 28, 1959
Hometown Newbridge, United Kingdom
Height 5'10" (1.77m)
Steve Strange gave me my 'naughty side' – Martin Kemp
The actor and musician also spoke about how he was left off a Spandau Ballet hit.
A moment that changed me: 'My best friend and I would go clubbing and dream of a glamorous destiny. But then she died'
Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock's best photograph
Steve Strange death: Ed Sheeran, Garbage and Emily Eavis pay tribute to 'legendary' booking agent
David Bowie's Issey Miyake suit he wore at iconic Blitz club up for auction
The Visage Song 'Fade To Grey', Which Was Released In 1980
Steve Strange's band, Visage, is best known for the hit song 'Fade To Grey', which was released in late 1980 and peaked at number eight in the UK chart.
Blitz Club days: 'if you didn't look good, you weren't coming in - no matter how famous you were'
Between 1979 and 1980, London nightclub Blitz was where New Romantics, from Boy George to Jean Paul Gaultier and Princess Julia would go to showcase their most extravagant looks. Mick Jagger was famously not allowed in, while David Bowie was greeted in amazement. Milliner Stephen Jones tells Luxury about creating his look, why being dubbed 'fashionable' was the kiss of death and what happened inside. "Britain was very poor in 1979, when I was 22. There were huge mountains of rubbish in Leicester
Callum Turner: An ex-soldier put me through my paces for The Capture - and I loved it
The Capture star Callum Turner said he spent six months training with a former soldier to help him get into character.The actor, who played a serviceman framed for a violent crime in the hit BBC drama, said he "loved" the physical aspect of the training and also learned about his role by being with the veteran.
Magenta Devine Dead: Network 7 TV Presenter Dies, Aged 61
The TV host is best-known for presenting youth programmes in the late 80s and 90s.
Fade To Grey: Stars At Steve Strange Funeral
New Romantic stars have carried Steve Strange's coffin at his funeral in South Wales. Boy George, Steve Norman and Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet were pallbearers at the service at All Saints Church in Porthcawl. The Visage singer's casket was adorned with colourful images from the band's heyday in the 1980s. The cortege was led by a marching jazz band before Visage's biggest hit Fade To Grey was played from a public address system.
New Romantic Pioneer Steve Strange Dies
Eighties pop star Steve Strange has died of a heart attack in Egypt at the age of 55, his record company has said. Strange also managed the Blitz Club in Soho, a focal point for the New Romantic movement. Bands such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Boy George's Culture Club all got their start at the Blitz Club. Boy George tweeted: "Heartbroken about the death of my friend Steve Strange.


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Why is Gay Pride Still relevant in 2016?
In 2016 it is easy to think that gay rights are pretty sorted. It's easy to assume that being gay isn't an issue anymore, and that because we can get married, the fight is over. Unfortunately this is not the case. Homosexual people may have many of the same legal rights as heterosexual people, but legal rights are not day to day realities.
Many gay people are often asked why gay pride still exists, and the answer is not a simple one. Sure, a massive part of gay pride is the party, the colours, the music and the drag queens, but we should never forget the history and the message behind it.
Gay Pride as a movement effectively started with the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. Many people came together to oppose the undue harassment of gay people by the police. Since then, pride parades have been held annually across the world. Pride events generally take place in June and July to pay homage to the riots. The parades are traditionally led by a drag queen to acknowledge that it was drag queen Marsha P. Johnson who threw the first brick in the riots.
There are still 74 countries in the world where homosexuality is illegal. In 13 of them, it is still punishable by death.
One of the main reasons for pride in the UK nowadays is to show support for gay and transgender people in those 74 countries (homosexuality was only decriminalised in the UK in 1980.) It is also hugely important that we educate the younger generation on gay rights and equality from a young age. No one is born prejudiced or with any kind of hate in their heart, and thankfully here at the NSPCC, we are in a position to help educate the children of today, and hopefully, stamp out homophobia.
Research carried out by LGBT Foundation's Exceeding Expectations programme in Manchester schools found that;
95% of pupils hear the word 'gay' being used as an insult for something they don't like
Only 9% of pupils thought that a pupil or member of staff would feel safe telling people they were LGBT in schools
Over half of pupils had witnessed homophobic bullying in school
75% of staff had witnessed homophobic bullying in school
58% did not feel that their school was a safe and welcoming place for lesbian, gay or bisexual pupils
28% of pupils felt that homophobic language or bullying was dealt with well in school
13% said that reporting bullying actually resulted in anything being done about it
21% of pupils said they would report homophobic bullying or stand up for a pupil who was being bullied.
These stats show that something needs to change, and thankfully it is. 95% of young people polled by EndAbuse support the change to include attacks on sexual orientation and gender identity as hate crimes.
Our children, and all future generations, will 'hopefully' grow up in more open and more accepting society, but the risk is never far away. The horrific attack in Orlando in June is a prime example of that. It was not only the highest death toll of any LGBT attack in history, but also the highest death toll of any mass shooting in US history. This was an attack specifically on the LGBT community by someone who hadn't been educated in dealing with that part of themselves. Last year Childline handled 5,257 counselling sessions about sexuality and gender identity – an 11 per cent increase from 2013/14. There were also 1,299 counselling sessions where the young person mentioned either gender dysphoria or transgenderism – a 22% increase from 2013/14. After Orlando, Childline saw a marked increase in contacts relating to sexuality and gender, and this information will be available in the Childline annual review in September.
So why do we need pride in 2016?
We need pride in 2016 so that our kids, and their kids after them, can walk down the street holding hands with whomever they love without having to glance around to make sure they aren't going to get attacked. So they can get married and raise children without snide comments or barriers. So they can be who they are and not feel ashamed or scared by it. But mostly so they can love without fear just like everyone else.
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Sonatype has extended the use of its Nexus repository manager to .NET developers this month. Now compliant with both Java components and Microsoft platform code blocks, the company hopes to win new appeal among programming shops operating heterogeneous development environments.
Nexus Professional 2.0 (to afford it its full title) works just like any other repository tool in that it targets improved collaboration and control over component usage among its core attributes. Where Sonatype aims to differentiate is in the strength of its cross platform offering so that mixed development environments can standardize on one repository manager regardless of the language or framework — be that Java, .NET, or OSGi.
Although there are other cross platform tools in this same space (Mercurial to name just one), Sonatype's USP is probably its provision of a "common infrastructure for storing, searching, and accessing internally developed packages" — which, in theory, should make it easier for developers and groups to share code and collaborate.
"Today, .NET developers and their organizations now have the ability to define their own criteria and security measures when using NuGet for component-based development," said Scott Hunter, principal program manager at Microsoft.
With Sonatype Nexus Professional 2.0, development teams can access .NET components packaged with NuGet, the extension designed to install and update third-party components into .NET projects. By using proxies of .NET repositories colocated with developers, organizations can reduce the time it takes to load a NuGet package into Visual Studio, so improving developer productivity, but also streamlining how developers share their internal components with colleagues and counterparts.
The product's new "Availability Architecture" keeps geographically distributed teams in sync by ensuring proxy repositories know when a master repository is updated to serve the latest artifacts without sacrificing performance.


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Virtua Tennis 4 being delisted from Steam and other digital stores
April 19, 2015 by George
SEGA is going to be pulling sales of Virtua Tennis 4 from digital stores including Steam on April 23rd, 2015. After this day you won't be able to pick up a copy of the undeserved critically panned tennis game.
If you have a PC, I suggest you purchase a copy right now for $2.99 on Steam, I feel that the game is well worth it even if it has crappy Games for Windows Live tacked onto it. Its a great Tennis game filled with addictive mini-games.
There are reasons why SEGA could have delisted the game, most of the usually fall in licenses expiring. I wonder what this means for the future of the Virtua Tennis franchise?
Virtua Tennis 4's PC version gets one last sale before it gets removed from Steam
April 14, 2015 by TimmiT
SEGA announced today that Virtua Tennis 4 will be removed from the Steam store on April 23rd. So before it will no longer be possible to buy the PC version, SEGA has put the game on sale for 80% off the normal price. As with all games on Steam that were removed from the store, you will still be able to download it from your library after its removal. However, the game still uses Games for Windows Live, of which online services no longer work. So you won't be able to play the game online.
Virtua Tennis 4 isn't the first SEGA game to be removed from Steam. Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast was removed from the store back in 2010, and in 2011 Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm was de-listed as well.
Xbox LIVE for 360 has huge SEGA sale going on!
June 24, 2014 by Shigs
This week is as good a time as ever to save some cash on some great SEGA titles available at a super cheap price for the Xbox 360. SEGA's got a huge sale on this week on Xbox LIVE for some of their biggest titles such as Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed, Virtua Fighter 5 FS, Hell Yeah and lots more. Plus, you can save as much as 75% off! Click below to see the super low prices on these great titles. (Geez, I'm starting to sound like an ad)
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SEGA makes Kazuma in Virtua Tennis 4 on Vita
December 14, 2011 by George
SEGA showed off some of Virtua Tennis 4's create a character mode. Sure, we already played the mode on the console releases so we should know how it works. But SEGA is showing off new things you will be able to do when the portable title comes out. They showed off by make Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu and Black Panther's Tatsuya Ukyo. You can see them both above.
Shown above, the Vita's camera will be able to scan a human or picture's face to re-create in the game. So you could take sexy looking Kazuma, put his face in the game. Pretty neat right? You can also take pictures with your 3D character you created, so you can create yourself and then take a photo side by side thanks to Vita's argumentative reality camera. Hit the jump to see all the photos.
Virtua Tennis on Playstation Vita has exclusive content
August 22, 2011 by George
Just like its Playstation 3 big brother, the Playstation Vita port coming around the launch of the new handheld, will have exclusive content. Here is a trailer showing it off and some details.
Touch Controls: Consoles had motion, this version has touch. Regular and touch controls will always be on together, so you can use both at the same time.
Touch Vs. Mode: A top down versus match against another player, played on a single Vita system.
VR Match Mode: Virtual Reality or 'First Person' view tennis will use the Vita's gyroscopes for movements.
Rock The Boat minigame: Test your skill as you hit targets on a rocking boat.
Camera (augmented reality): Details on how SEGA will use augmented reality have not been detailed. But we do see the cameras at work in the create a character, with 'face scanning'. Nice.
So if you haven't picked up Virtua Tennis 4 on consoles, this might be one of the best options. Though, I don't know how much I will use touch controls myself.
[Source: Playstation.Blog]
Rumour – PS:Vita Games List Leaked, Four Sega Games Listed!
August 17, 2011 by Sharky
Sega has already announced that they will have two games ready for the launch of the Playstation Vita, Virtua Tennis and an unannounced title which is widely believed to be Sonic Generations. Today possible new details have emerged in the forum of a list detailing games in development for the PS Vita from various 3rd party publishers has leaked and guess what? Yep, Sega won't disappoint!
Hit the jump to find out what they are!
SEGA has two games coming for Vita's launch
Mike Hayes has confirmed that SEGA is planning on having 2 titles ready to release at Playstation Vita's launch. One of the games is obviously the Virtua Tennis 4 port.
"On Vita, we can came out pretty early on and said we were going to give support to the hardware.
And we will have at least two titles at the launch of Vita. When exactly that's going to be of course, we don't know, but we're assuming it's going to be by the end of the Sony financial year, we guess, so we've got that." – Mike Hayes, CEO of SEGA West
I would think it might be another port. I would not mind Valkyria Chronicles 3 for the West with trophies.
[Via: PlaystationLifestyle]
SEGA releases more Virtua Tennis 4 Vita footage
August 9, 2011 by Aki-at
SEGA has released just under 6 minutes worth of footage for their Playstation Vita version of Virtua Tennis 4, and the title still looks as good as its console version. The trailer only showcases some match footage and tries to show how the touchscreen function will work in the newest Virtua Tennis title.
[Source: TheSixthAxis]
SEGA-Sammy report net income loss of over $28 million
July 29, 2011 by George
The first quarter of the year hasn't been to kind to Japan and its video game industry. What with the tsunami and earthquakes that ravaged the lands. Its not that surprising seeing SEGA-Sammy post about losing revenue.
"During the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, some uncertainty prevailed in the Japanese economy due to various impacts in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake that took place on March 11, 2011, including the concern for the availability of parts and materials and the struggle to cope with the shortage of electricity supply which is now likely to be prolonged"
This means that operating their Japanese studios, pachinko slots and arcade buildings cost more than previously, thus where some loses come in. But what about SEGA, the consumer division?
Review: Virtua Tennis 4 (PS3)
SEGA's lovable arcade franchise returns, this time with the original series creators behind the development. Many fans have been asking how much new things the team could bring to the table, after already having 2 Virtua Tennis releases on HD consoles this generation. Well, let's crack open this review and see how the game stacks.
Virtua Tennis 4 rallies back to fifth in British charts
July 7, 2011 by Aki-at
Thanks to the conclusion of Wimbledon over the previous weekend, two tennis games saw a jump in the charts and it was SEGA's Virtua Tennis 4 that triumphed over rival Top Spin 4. It has been reported by a NeoGAF member, using some calculations provided by Chart-Track, that Virtua Tennis 4's combined sales last week was no more than 9,300. Whilst not as impressive as Djokovic was against Nadal, it is none the less a good number of sales in this time of year as the British market is often sluggish during June. Expect to see Virtua Tennis 4 in the British charts for a few more weeks to come.
[ Source: Chart-Track and NeoGAF]
Virtua Tennis 4 Move demo hits PSN today
June 21, 2011 by George
SEGA already released a Virtua Tennis 4 demo right before PSN went down. That demo didn't have Move support, they promised that in the upcoming months they would release a Move demo for the game. Now its been months, they plan on delivering today.
SEGA has released two demos on PSN and a mini game on Playstation Home. I hope the game sells enough on PS3 to make up for the exclusive content. (including 2 players, 2 mini games being exclusive).
Playstation Home gets Virtua Tennis 4 promotional mini game
June 2, 2011 by George
When Home launched everyone thought it was a tad shit, because it was basically that. Now it has tons of spots and stuff to do. Sony has even said they will be streaming their E3 event from Home. Now SEGA is using Home to promote Virtua Tennis 4 with a free Home game.
The mini game they made to promote Virtua Tennis 4 isn't a tennis game, it's a galaga shooting game that takes place on a tennis court (with you taking control of the tennis ball machine). The spot and game are 100% free, and also look pretty fun. So log in and enjoy. This is a Europe announcement, so we might have to wait for the US home release.
[Source: SEGA.Blog UK]
Amazon slashes Virtua Tennis 4 to $26
May 4, 2011 by George
Toys 'r' us had a deal if you pre-order Virtua Tennis 4, Amazon has decided to price match them in offering the game for $25.99 (Wii) and $32.49 (360,PS3).
Support the site, buy it via links below.
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SEGA releases Virtua Tennis 4 (PS3) Commercial
May 3, 2011 by Ben
SEGA has released what looks like the North American TV commercial for Virtua Tennis 4, which they've posted to their blog and on Youtube.
Just in case anyone's confused, yes, this is actually a multiplatform game, though you can't tell it from the commercial.
[Source: SEGA]


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Q: User specific theme in sharepoint I have a requirment where in my sharepoint site I want to set the theme according to user.
for e.g lets say if user a set his theme as theme1 and the user b logs in and set theme to theme2. So next time when user a log in he must have to see the theme set by him. I.e theme a.
Can any one tell me what will be the best approch to do it.
Thanks in advance.
Sachin

A: I had a similar requirement once. In my case they wanted users to be able to change the "color layout" of a MOSS portal (so the layout and fonts was the same, but background color and colors of images were different in each theme). I created a "base theme" which included a complete layout (one of the provided themes) as a single CSS file. Then I created additional themes, such as "blue.css", "red.css", "green.css" et cetera and put all those files in portal/ourthemes/.
We wanted the users to be able to choose their theme, so we created a new user profile property "CurrentTheme" (Sharepoint Central Administration -> Shared services -> User profiles and properties -> Add profile property) which was defined as string with a pre-defined list of choices.
Then I created a simple ASP.Net control which rendered as
Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
  Dim oProf As Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile = Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileLoader.GetProfileLoader.GetUserProfile()
  Dim UserTheme As String
  Try
    If oProf.Item("CurrentTheme") IsNot Nothing Then
      UserTheme = oProf.Item("CurrentTheme").Value.ToString()
    Else
      UserTheme = "blue"
    End If
  Catch ex As Exception
    'shouldn't fail if we don't know the value
    UserTheme = "blue" 'a default value for users who dont have a theme yet
  End Try

  writer.WriteLine("<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/portal/ourthemess" & Trim(UserTheme) & ".css' />")
End Sub

(Disclaimer: the actual code was a bit longer, because we used caching per-user to avoid reading the property from UserProfile every time user loaded the page)
Then I put this control in the master page created for that portal.
EDIT: To do the caching, we created a cache key which contained user name and stored the generated text in there. The result was something like this:
Dim KeyName As String = Page.User.Identity.Name & "_CurrentTheme"
If (Not Me.Page.Cache.Item(KeyName) Is Nothing) Then
   writer.Write(Page.Cache.Item(KeyName).ToString)
Else
  '...code posted previously goes in here

  'at the end
  Me.Page.Cache.Add(KeyName, _
              AllContentRenderedInPreviousCodeAsString, _
              Nothing, _
              Caching.Cache.NoAbsoluteExpiration, _
              Caching.Cache.NoSlidingExpiration, _
              Caching.CacheItemPriority.Low, Nothing)
End If