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package com.common.qrcode;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import com.google.zxing.BarcodeFormat;
import com.google.zxing.EncodeHintType;
import com.google.zxing.WriterException;
import com.google.zxing.common.BitMatrix;
import com.google.zxing.qrcode.QRCodeWriter;

import java.util.Hashtable;

/**
 * Created by KerriGan on 2016/4/24.
 */
public class QrUtils {

    private static int sWidth = 200, sHeight = 200;

    public static Bitmap createQRImage(String url) {
        return createQRImage(url, sWidth, sHeight);
    }

    public static Bitmap createQRImage(String url, int width, int height) {
        Bitmap b = null;
        try {
            //判断URL合法性
            if (url == null || "".equals(url) || url.length() < 1) {
                return null;
            }
            Hashtable<EncodeHintType, Object> hints = new Hashtable<EncodeHintType, Object>();
            hints.put(EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET, "utf-8");

            hints.put(EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET, "UTF-8");
//            hints.put(EncodeHintType.ERROR_CORRECTION, ErrorCorrectionLevel.H);//设置容错级别,H为最高
//            hints.put(EncodeHintType.MAX_SIZE, LOGO_WIDTH_MAX);// 设置图片的最大值
//            hints.put(EncodeHintType.MIN_SIZE, LOGO_WIDTH_MIN);// 设置图片的最小值
            hints.put(EncodeHintType.MARGIN, 1);// 设置白色边距值
//            // 生成二维矩阵,编码时指定大小,不要生成了图片以后再进行缩放,这样会模糊导致识别失败
//            BitMatrix matrix = new MultiFormatWriter().encode(content,
//                    BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, CODE_WIDTH, CODE_WIDTH, hints);

            //图像数据转换,使用了矩阵转换
            BitMatrix bitMatrix = new QRCodeWriter().encode(url, BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, width, height, hints);
            int[] pixels = new int[width * height];
            //下面这里按照二维码的算法,逐个生成二维码的图片,
            //两个for循环是图片横列扫描的结果
            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
                for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
                    if (bitMatrix.get(x, y)) {
                        pixels[y * width + x] = 0xff000000;
                    } else {
                        pixels[y * width + x] = 0xffffffff;
                    }
                }
            }
            //生成二维码图片的格式,使用ARGB_8888
            Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
            bitmap.setPixels(pixels, 0, width, 0, 0, width, height);
            b = bitmap;
        } catch (WriterException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            b = null;
        }

        return b;
    }
}

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Q: Combining two programs with pipe won't work I am supposed to make two programs:

*

*First program takes a command line argument which is a number, and then it takes more inputs after execution, and if any those equal the command line number you entered, it comes back true, else it comes back false.

*The second program generates a bunch of numbers, and if you want you can give it a seed.

Both of these programs work independently correctly, it stops working when I try to pipeline them (./generate 1000 50 | ./find 817).
Usage:
./find #

if number is found: output true, else false
./generate [seed]

Seeds are generated.
When i try and combine these two commands it doesn't work, I'll see that the generate command generated a number, and wrote ./find for that number, but it doesn't come out as true.
Source code for find.c
/**
 * Prompts user for as many as MAX values until EOF is reached,
 * then proceeds to search that "haystack" of values for given needle.
 *
 * Usage: ./find needle
 *
 * where needle is the value to find in a haystack of values
 */

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include "helpers.h"

// maximum amount of hay
const int MAX = 65536;

int main(int argc, string argv[])
{
    // ensure proper usage
    if (argc != 2)
    {
        printf("Usage: ./find needle\n");
        return -1;
    }

    // remember needle
    int needle = atoi(argv[1]);

    // fill haystack
    int size;
    int haystack[MAX];
    for (size = 0; size < MAX; size++)
    {
        // wait for hay until EOF
        printf("\nhaystack[%i] = ", size);
        int straw = get_int();
        if (straw == INT_MAX)
        {
            break;
        }

        // add hay to stack
        haystack[size] = straw;
    }
    printf("\n");

    // sort the haystack
    sort(haystack, size);

    // try to find needle in haystack
    if (search(needle, haystack, size))
    {
        printf("\nFound needle in haystack!\n\n");
        return 0;
    }
    else
    {
        printf("\nDidn't find needle in haystack.\n\n");
        return 1;
    }
}

more find.c source code
 /**
 * helpers.c
 *
 * Helper functions for Problem Set 3.
 */

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "helpers.h"

/**
 * Returns true if value is in array of n values, else false.
 */
bool search(int value, int values[], int n)
{
    // TODO: implement a searching algorithm
    if(values[4] < 0) {
        return false;
    }
    if(value < 4) {
        printf("Valid usage: ./search array value\n");
        return 52;
    }
    //

    for( long long i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ )
    {
        if (value == values[i])
        {
            return true;
        }

        printf("%i", values[i]);
    }

    return false;
}

/**
 * Sorts array of n values.
 */

void sort(int values[], int n)
{

    int smallest = values[0];
    int smallestSpot = 0;
    for (long long i = 0; i < n ; i++)
    {

        for(long long j = i; j < n - i ; j++) //find the smallest int in array
        {

            if(values[j] < smallest)
            {
                smallestSpot = j;
                smallest = values[j];
            }

            values[smallestSpot] = values[i];
            values[i] = smallest;

        }

    }
    return;
}

./generate source code
/**
 * generate.c
 *
 * Generates pseudo random numbers in [0,MAX), one per line.
 *
 * Usage: generate n [s]
 *
 * where n is number of pseudo random numbers to print
 * and s is an optional seed
 */

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

// upper limit on range of integers that can be generated
#define LIMIT 65536

int main(int argc, string argv[])
{
    // Make sure user gave enough inputs
    if (argc != 2 && argc != 3)
    {
        printf("Usage: ./generate n [s]\n");
        return 1;
    }

    // convert the string that is inputted to an integer
    int n = atoi(argv[1]);

    // if user gives a seed, use that seed
    if (argc == 3)
    {
        srand48((long) atoi(argv[2]));
    }
    else
    {
        srand48((long) time(NULL));
    }

    // create this amount of random inputs
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        printf("%i\n", (int) (drand48() * LIMIT));
    }

    // success
    return 0;
}

A: Sort is overwriting the first half or so entries from ./generate.

A: Your search program is too complicated: it is useless to sort the input and it is actually incorrect to try and read all of the input for this purpose:

*

*reading all lines into an array is a waste of space.

*sorting is a waste of time, comparing each input as it is read is simpler and faster.

*your sorting algorithm is bogus: you do not swap the smallest value into the next index, you just overwrite the value there, the misplaced value is lost.

*you could break out of the loop as soon as the needle is found.

Here is a modified version:
#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include "helpers.h"

// maximum amount of hay
const int MAX = 65536;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    // ensure proper usage
    if (argc != 2) {
        printf("Usage: ./find needle\n");
        return 2;
    }

    // convert needle
    int needle = atoi(argv[1]);
    int found = 0;

    // parse input
    for (int count = 0; count < MAX; count++) {
        // wait for hay until EOF
        int straw = get_int();
        if (straw == INT_MAX) {
            break;
        }
        if (straw == needle) {
            found = 1;
            break;
        }
    }

    // report status
    if (found) {
        printf("\nFound needle in haystack!\n\n");
        return 0;
    } else {
        printf("\nDidn't find needle in haystack.\n\n");
        return 1;
    }
}

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New York "first embraced global ingredients in the early '80s, and the rest of the world followed suit." And the "Kiwi was the gateway drug," writes Ligaya Mishan in an article for The New York Times.
Native to southern China the fruit, "first started coming in bulk to the U.S. via New Zealand in the 1950s under the name 'Chinese gooseberry.'" It gained popularity only after it was rechristened in honor of the equally fuzzy kiwi bird in the early 80s. By that time it began to appear "with merciless persistence at restaurants across Manhattan, in tart after tart, fruit salads, compotes and even savory dishes, lending an algal tinge to beurre blanc," reports the article.
"But not every flavor beloved in the trickle-down years has retained its aura; some, particularly those associated with nouvelle cuisine, quickly soured," writes Mishan.


In addition to the many club activities we do in support of religious vocation, each member is asked to perform individual activities.
Pray for vocations daily on your own or with family members.
Attend Mass and pray for vocations on a designated day each month. This is called the 31 Club.
Establish parish vocation activities for your home parish or an assigned parish.
Actively support, encourage and assist your parish priest, as needed.
Actively support and encourage a seminarian assigned to you.
Volunteer to serve the club.
Believe that you can make a difference.


As for me, I loved hopping from one village to the other and be amazed with history. Santorini is a crescent shaped skinny island. The villages are very spread out depending on where you are going. But do get out of the tourist sections to enjoy true beauty. You will see fun loving young Greeks, villagers, and fishermen…that's what I cherish the most from this trip.
If I had one or two more days, maybe I would have gone to Akrotiri and Ancient Thira– where you can see stunning collection of ruins from ancient settlements of Santorini, Kamari Beach, Red Beach, Village of Finikia, and Village of Emporio. Finikia and Emporio are, I think, more like Megalochori with traditional buildings and small settlements.
Perissa Beach is about an hour on bus if you are coming from Fira. During off season, like in October, the bus runs only once an hour…so plan accordingly.
4) OIA: Oia is definitely the most beautiful and vibrant village of Santorini. It's famous for its reputed world famous sunset. After it was hit by a hard earthquake in 1956, the village was left barren for many decades. Then slowly started to get back its face, I think, around 1990s. Now Oia is the newest part of the island overlooking the Aegean and attracts more tourists than any other villages here. It has the most beautiful cliff dwellings and luxurious hotels and resorts. The main pedestrian lane is paved with marble and has lines of art studios, Greek gold jewelry shops, bars, taverns, and souvenir shops.
I didn't go to Oia Castle which is an old Byzantine castle at one end of the village. The best and famous sunset is to be enjoy from there and you can see every tourist walking that direction right before the sunset to reserve the best spot in the ruins of this castle. During summer/peak season it's better to be there at least one hour before the sunset so that you don't have strangers' heads blocking your view and your viewfinder. I stood at the beginning of pedestrian zone near the church (and right opposite of my hotel) and it was awesome watching the fiery sun slowly hiding under the water.
Such amazing photos. You really captured the unique beauty of Santorini. Bravo!
This is one of the top places I want to visit. Thank you for the wonderful information and photos!


BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha reaches out to each individual through its mandirs and centers. These are places of worship and also permanent centers of peace and reformation for people of all ages, backgrounds and beliefs. Spread across the world, the BAPS Global Network is composed of more than 1100 mandirs and 3,850 centers. All are welcome to visit any of these centers.


The Balloon Glow is canceled tonight due to the weather.
Come on out and bring the family. Sit and relax on the lawn of Community Park or visit each of the balloons.
Balloonist will be showing off their hot air balloons for a beautiful display after sunset.
Free handouts for the kids.


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Cera Sanitaryware, India's leading complete home solutions provider understood that and trusted SAP cloud for customer to achieve digital transformation.
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If you suffer damage to your personal property during a storm or other natural disaster, then you may deduct the expenses incurred to repair or replace those items. It's also known as a casualty loss deduction.
A casualty can happen to you — a hurricane, tropical storm, snowstorm, windstorm, tornado, volcano, flood, fire or earthquake. If it does, you may be entitled to a deduction for the money you pay to fix your property or buy a new item.
What is personal property? It can include your automobile, RV, boat, primary home, second home, personal belongings, and more.
Where does the property need to be located? The home must be situated in a federally declared disaster zone. However, other exceptions may apply. To find out if your area is in the qualifying district, visit FEMA.
How much can I deduct? If your home insurance policy takes care of everything for you, then you cannot claim a deduction. However, if you come out of pocket to make yourself whole again, then you are one step closer to an eligible deduction.
Which IRS form do I use? Refer to Form 4684 and the form's instructions. You can also get pointers from the IRS article Top 10 Tips for Deducting Losses After a Disaster.
You must follow specific guidelines to claim a casualty loss on your tax return. If you do not adhere to the IRS rules and you undergo an audit, then the figure could be reversed on your tax return. In that event, you could owe penalties and interest plus the unpaid tax you should have paid if you had not lowered your income with the disallowed deduction.
You must follow specific guidelines to claim a casualty loss on your tax return.
Check out our other article 3 Urgent Steps You Need To Complete After the Storm.
\nA casualty can happen to you — a hurricane, tropical storm, snowstorm, windstorm, tornado, volcano, flood, fire or earthquake. If it does, you may be entitled to a deduction for the money you pay to fix your property or buy a new item.
\nYou must follow specific guidelines to claim a casualty loss on your tax return. If you do not adhere to the IRS rules and you undergo an audit, then the figure could be reversed on your tax return. In that event, you could owe penalties and interest plus the unpaid tax you should have paid if you had not lowered your income with the disallowed deduction.
\nYou must follow specific guidelines to claim a casualty loss on your tax return.
\nCheck out our other article 3 Urgent Steps You Need To Complete After the Storm.


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Man charged in Mayport crime spree accused in 2nd robbery
Slow moving storms move inland, fade this evening
Tillerson's senior team planning to skip Ivanka Trump's India trip
President's daughter leads US delegation
By MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN
Posted: 3:14 PM, November 24, 2017 Updated: 11:41 AM, November 28, 2017
Pool via CNN
At least four current and former White House officials, including President Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump,have used private email accounts to conduct government business.
(CNN) - Days ahead of what should be a major moment for Ivanka Trump on the world stage, CNN has learned Secretary of State Rex Tillerson isn't sending a high-level delegation to support her amid reports of tensions between Tillerson and the White House.
Multiple State Department officials, as well as a source close to the White House, have told CNN Tillerson's decision not to send senior State Department officials to this year's Global Entrepreneurship Summit, being held in India next week, is not related to his key project of slashing the Department's budget, and is more to do with the fact Ivanka Trump is leading the US delegation this year. Trump was invited by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June, and this year's theme is supporting women entrepreneurs.
Ivanka Trump set for trip to India
The State Department puts on the large yearly event, which Secretary of State John Kerry and even former President Barack Obama attended multiple times. But this year, according to one senior State Department official: "No one higher than the deputy assistant secretary is allowed to participate. The secretary and his top staff have insisted on approving all travel-- even the most minute details."
"They (Tillerson and his staff) won't send someone senior because they don't want to bolster Ivanka. It's now another rift between the White House and State at a time when Rex Tillerson doesn't need any more problems with the President," the official added.
A source close to the White House speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the thinner-than-past-years State Department delegation was absolutely being perceived and felt -- by several key people there -- as a snub, and that Tillerson's management style and extremely tight inner circle have rubbed some in the administration the wrong way.
The source said the feeling among some within the White House, is that Tillerson and his team are far from eager to throw the support of the State Department behind Ivanka Trump on this trip, which will be her highest-profile appearance yet representing the United States.
"Rex doesn't like the fact that he's supposed to be our nation's top diplomat, and Jared and now Ivanka have stepped all over Rex Tillerson for a long time," the source said. "So now, he's not sending senior people from the State Department to support this issue. He's not supporting Ivanka Trump."
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told CNN that: "The Department is committed to supporting women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, and the Summit is a prime opportunity to showcase the importance of these themes."
Last year's summit, which was held in California's Silicon Valley and made travel easier, included Secretary of State Kerry, a State Department undersecretary, two assistant secretaries, and other staff. Then-President Obama attended with a large delegation when it was held in Kenya in 2015, as did Kerry when it was in Malaysia in 2013.
This year's event, though, falls just as the White House has directed Secretary Tillerson to slash his agency's budget. There is currently no permanent Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs. Also, the Entrepreneurship Summit was an Obama-era creation that started in 2010, so some change in approach would have surely been expected.
Still, State Department leadership has lately emphasized a commitment to forging a stronger relationship with India. And the President's daughter is going, being billed in the Indian press as the "star attraction."
The Acting Assistant Secretary for the central Asia region, Alice Wells, was originally slated to be at the Summit -- but has since been pulled off by Tillerson's team, according to a source.
Another official did say there are many State Department staffers involved and who will attend, but didn't have an explanation for why no higher-level people will be going this year. The official added that he was unaware of tensions or the internal chatter over supporting the first daughter, who serves as a senior White House advisor.
A spokesperson for the State Department who provided a list of senior government officials attending did not include any senior State Department officials. He did include US Treasurer Jovita Carranza, USAID Administrator Mark Green and Neomi Rao, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The US Ambassador to India will join the delegation in Hyderabad.
On Monday the Department put out a press release listing the top government officials traveling with Trump. It included Rao, Carranza and Mark Green as well as Ray Washburne, CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Patricia Green, Director of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor. The list did not include anyone from the State Department.
On Tuesday, a State Department spokesperson told CNN that 200 State and embassy staff are supporting the summit and that the highest-ranking State official attending is Kenneth Juster, the US ambassador to India.
Brett Bruen, a former diplomat who spent more than a decade at the State Department and served as Director of Global Engagement for Obama's National Security Council, said he was stunned to hear that, at the very least, the Acting Assistant Secretary was not going, calling it "extraordinary" and "fairly unprecedented."
"No one from the State side is going to be able to do the meetings with Indian ministers," Bruen added. "It is a bad message to India, not sending any of our diplomatic leaders. From an operational standpoint, it means a lot of work -- all of those meetings at various levels -- isn't going to get done."
Ivanka Trump's spokesman declined to comment on the story.
This report has been updated.
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Momentum - Fixation, At Rest (Reissue)
Fixation, At Rest (Reissue)
by Dave "That Metal Guy" Campbell at 08 April 2016, 10:10 PM
MOMENTUM is a Psychedelic Progressive Doom/Metal band based out of Iceland, formed in 2003. "Fixation, At Rest" is the band's debut LP and was originally released in 2010. It contains ten tracks. A soft and brief interlude called "Intro" leads into "Metamorphose." Though there is minimal instrumentation and gingerly vocals at first, it doesn't take long to hit you full on. Totally switching gears and the musical key at some point, the Doomy elements are probably most the most pronounced sound you hear. But there is also a real dissonance present with the way the riff progresses. "Holding Back" is similar in pace but with a more crushing and weighted sound. The odd guitar notes tell the story of total bleakness and an area where hope cannot even be thought of, much less uttered. The interlude that slowly settles and tempers the previous anger is a really sublime sound.
"Red Silence" has a somewhat more conventional sound but still brims with the uniqueness that this band brings to every composition. The vocal parts alone are delivered in three distinct styles, ranging from uttered sterile lyrics, to stark cleans, to being sung by a small choir of children. This and the chord changes really allow for emotional highs, even if some of them are utterly sorrowful. "As the Skies Break" opens with a meter than I cannot quite define before flowing into a quicker 4/4 pace. The vocals are especially bemoaned in this track but are fierce in their impact. Towards the end we have another stark change to clean vocals and more saddened bleakness. "Prosthetic Sea" is closer to the Metal spectrum than perhaps any of the other songs on the album. It smacks you heavily from the start and even when the clean vocals come into play the instrumentation remains oppressive.
Fulfilling the promise that this album could go anywhere, "The Eye that Leads the Way" features a suspenseful sounding piano melody accompanied by low strings and what sounds like a soft flute. The clean vocals sound like chanting you might hear echoing in a church. "Inspiration" has that lightly weighted quality that is hard to accomplish. It feels heavy and soft at the same time. The title track closes the album, and clocks in at almost ten minutes. The lead in is really quite sweet, but it doesn't take too long for the anguished vocals with a key change, to punch the coyness out of you. Around the mid-mark, it quickly steps back to a dark and gloomy ambiance with just ethereal presence. Creepy laughter and other background noises remind you that there isn't much joy here. The final push circles back around to the main distorted riff. Overall, I am confident that this is a completely unique album and sound that you have not heard put together like this before. It's Doom at the core, but in a totally unconventional way. With each new listen, you can delve deeper and deeper into meaning.
Songwriting: 8
Originality: 8
Memorability: 7
Production: 8
2. Metamorphose
3. Holding Back
4. Red Silence
5. The Conduits Lead
6. As the Skies Break
7. Prosthetic Sea
8. The Eye that Leads the Way
9. Inspiration
10. Fixation, At Rest
Kristjan - Drums
Holaf - Vocals, Bass
Ingvar - Guitars, Vocals
Record Label: Dark Essence Records


Below is the full program for the flower festival, 4th – 21st May.
Not sure why the Flower Parade goes in the opposite direction to what the Carnival did, anyone no the reason???
Previous ArticleGet your running shoes on.
I think they park the floats down the other end of the front sea area – past the CR7 hotel for people to view? I guess there wouldn't be enough space if they used the same end point as the carnival?


I always like the change in perspective underwater. Just a few inches under the surface is a whole other world that is totally different and seemingly unusual.
This is a beautiful quiet forest that we came across along the Pacific coast near Whalehead, Oregon. I have always like the cool coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest.


Asian seaborne hard coking coal spot prices were largely unchanged on Friday April 11, with market participants unsure about the market's near-term outlook.
The premium hard coking coal index fob Australia's DBCT port was unchanged at $110.18 per tonne.
The cfr hard coking coal index stood at $111.72 per tonne on Friday. The fob value was $100.76 per tonne, unchanged day-on-day.
"I don't think the market will continue to rise much because both domestic and port prices remain competitive," a trading source told Steel First.
Several other sources said that while sales activity at ports had seen a bit of an uptick recently, prices had not risen.
The most-traded September coking coal futures contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange closed at 876 yuan ($142) per tonne, down from Thursday's close of 884 yuan ($143) per tonne.
The most-traded September coke contract closed slightly higher at 1,253 yuan ($203) per tonne, compared with the previous close of 1,250 yuan ($202) per tonne.
The yuan prices are the equivalent of cfr prices plus 17% VAT and port charges of about 35 yuan ($6) per tonne.


Maison Francis Kurkdjian's latest Duo Releases!
Thread: Maison Francis Kurkdjian's latest Duo Releases!
Will be a sure buy for me.
Re: Maison Francis Kurkdjian's latest Duo Releases!
I think the names will only result in confusion, especially for the casual fragrance buyer.
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.
Get back in your thread, hednic!
Can you imagine also the clueless sales people?
Terrible names. But if the scents are great, I'm very interested! The lowercase g capital F one sounds like it could be right up my alley.
Probably so, but then again, how many casual fragrance buyers purchase MFK fragrances and ask for them by name? I think that most casual buyers would be heavily led by a Sales Associate.
I'll be on the lookout for these to test them, they sound interesting.
I can imagine a situation where no distinction is made between the upper and lower case letters, and most people call them "Gentle Fluidity Gold" and "Gentle Fluidity silver" after the colours of the caps. That was the first thing I thought of!
Of course, any confusion between these two fragrances will amount to nothing more than the tiniest blip on the perfume radar compared to Dior's "Miss Dior" name fiasco. The really amazing thing is Dior continues to do it even after receiving a lot of complaints! In any case, I bet marketers dreamt up the Gf and gF names, not Francis.
Quite an interesting concept to have the exact same ingredients just blended in different proportions.
Guess we'll end up just labelling them GF gold and GF silver.
Reads like he's saying one is a masculine and one is a feminine but he just didn't want to specify which was which (doubt this is how he meant it to come accross though), but in the end I like the principle of just letting the individual choose based on their own perception.
I'll wind up sampling these when I visit my local Neimans.
Think I like the sound of the Gold.
"outgoing base note of ambery woods"
I don't think casual fragrance buyers spend $1,550.00 on a bottle.
Any idea what the note pyramids will be like?
My thoughts exactly. I had to look at the image several times before I realised there's a difference!!
Don't believe they have been published yet but could be wrong.
Yeah good idea, let's finish the marketing team's work for them!
Neiman Marcus at Tysons has this little set and you can it test them.
I quite liked the gold; silver is very masculine on me.
Amazing how they make such different fragrances with the same ingredients.
A gentle spicy aromatic scent, nice, but kind of unimpressive, though it could be one of those scents that grows on you and becomes something you love after several wears (as it is nice). The main smell seems to be a juniper berry accord, embellished with some spices (most noticeably a warm nutmeg). Sometimes juniper can be cold, bracing, and somewhat bitter, as it comes across in a gin and tonic, or it can be like an evergreen forest with its sweet and fresh pine sap aromas. Here it's more of the latter, with a sweet sap-like smell not too far removed from the main accord that's in CH Men and Bentley Momentum Intense (if you're familiar with both this is a good reference point). But the piney fresh smell of juniper can also convey a cold spiciness depending on how it's treated, with the cool aspects of pine dominating, but here it's more of an aromatic warmth, made even more so with the addition of the nutmeg. It might have some cool, cold qualities in the opening flash, but after that it's all warmth. So in the end it's a very slightly resinous, pine-sap-sweet, warm arromatic fragrance with a soft, gentle presence. It's very pleasant, but also sort of reserved and simple. When it reaches its base it comes across as a soft amber scent with some vanilla, and traces of the aromatic heart still at play.
What surprised me? It's not nearly as "silver" as I expected. I was thinking this was going to have cold, bracing icy qualities, a sort of frozen gin and tonic, or some ultra fresh notes, maybe some kind of new synthetic accord. But it's not cold or bracing, and while the main accord definitely feels modern, it's not ultra-fresh in any kind of "silver" sense or in the way of new synthetics. It's a comfortably warm scent.
It smells good and it's very easy to wear. The main accord is somewhat unique, other than some comparison to CH Men and Bentley Momentum Intense, but it feels different enough from them for the most part. It also feels modern. There's something about the smooth way the aromatics present themselves and this certain sweet freshness that's at the heart of the composition that feels very current. I also like that it achieves certain qualities with a less-than-typical approach. It's clean without relying on typically clean notes, warm without relying on traditionally warm notes, and sweet without relying on typically sweet notes (for the most part...I'm referring to the juniper berry here, not the amber/vanilla base). I also like that Kurkdjian kept florals out of this. One my main gripes with the his fragrances are that he often indulges in these big, dominant floral notes at the expense of other notes in the fragrance. Aqua Celestia, for example, was ruined this way (in my opinion), as the lime and mint which could have been really nice were driven to the background by this overwhelming mimosa note and floral musk. Not only did it push the scent too far on the feminine side of the spectrum for my liking, it also took away from what were really beautiful mint and lime notes. Don't get me started on Aqua Vitae Forte and APOM Homme. Gentle Fluidity doesn't have any floral notes at all. Finally, I like that Gentle Fluidity Silver is a bit of a departure for Kurkdjian and his Maison line. Most of the MFK fragrances are fairly opulent and have a kind of fancy, dressy appeal. Many are based around white florals like jasmine and orange blossom. A lot of them have a very over-the-top white-glove cleanliness. Even the more laid back scents like AU and Petit Matin, they're firmly rooted in this kind of thing. Kurkdjian took a new approach here. Next to Amyris Homme, this is probably his most laid-back scent.
Performance. It's more reserved than I'd prefer. It could be at least 100% stronger and still be completely okay, with an average sort of performance. It doesn't project much at all and its longevity is about 5 hours. My only hope is that this is "new bottle syndrome" and not the fragrance itself. I often find scents weak and short-lived the first time I test them, only to find out that they become much stronger and longer lasting by a few weeks later. The other thing that I'm not crazy about here is that it's not particularly interesting. Kurkdjian isn't exactly exploring new ground here (though it's different as far as the MFK line goes), and it's a relatively simple fragrance. There's no wow factor here at all, and I'm sure some of that has to do with its poor projection. Maybe it could feel more impressive if it had more oomph, but still, it's not the kind of scent that's going to raise any eyebrows. Mugler's Alien Man has been panned for playing it safe and releasing something deemed reserved and simple/boring, but I find Alien Man to not only be a much stronger fragrance in terms of performance (much, much stronger), but also more complex, and perhaps more interesting too depending how you look at it. While I find the main accord in Gentle Fluidity more modern, and its territory less tread upon than Alien Man, there's more gong on in Alien Man, even if it some of it may seem as if it's appeared in many other woody spicy fragrances in the past. Just to be clear, the two smell absolutely nothing alike, I'm just comparing them in terms of how interesting (or uninteresting) they are and how you may feel about Gentle Fluidity when you try it for yourself.
Anyway, it's definitely something I'll have no problem wearing while I try to figure it out more. It's a pleasant, easy wear, and I do enjoy the nice aromatic warmth it conveys. But whether or not I'll feel compelled to wear it after this week is yet to be seen.
Great write up, Buysblind! You described 'juniper berry' note very well and I too(?) prefer it on the bracing, 'cold mountain air' side. Will look out for this duo if they ever make an appearance here. Good pointer about the likely shifts in perception as we spend more time with a scent. I remember thinking MFK APOM was fleeting and weak, lol.
didn't like either of them. agree with reviewers that said silver has more than a passing similarity with GIT...think a little herbal & soapy.
Absolutely. A modern clone of GIT.
As for Gold version, it's nice and feminine, reminds of YSL Cinema for a 20 years old crowd.
I didn't get any association with GIT from the Silver. To me it reminding me very strongly of Hugo by Hugo Boss which I absolutely detest so this is a strong pass for me. Shame as Kurkdijan is one of my favourite perfumers.
Silver smells nothing like GIT.
I didn't get any association with GIT from the Silver.
Best Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud?


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Heed fire authorities' advice, PM urges
12:41pm Nov 30, 2018
People in the path of potentially deadly fires should listen to the advice from authorities, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says.
Immediately after landing in Buenos Aires for the G20 meeting, Mr Morrison said he had been keeping up to date with the Queensland fires on the flight to Argentina.
"I know that a number of the fire warnings have been downgraded but we're in for some pretty heavy weather on the weekend. Very extreme weather on the weekend," Mr Morrison told reporters on Friday morning (AEDT).
"I just continue to counsel all Australians in the affected areas to be listening to the warnings and acting on the advice, taking care and looking after each other.
"While some of those warnings have gone down I will be watching those circumstances very, very carefully."
The prime minister also thanked everyone who has been fighting the fires, which authorities say could be potentially catastrophic.


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Trey Hensley Band
Keeping true to the roots of country music is not only a lovely sentiment of nostalgia, but a necessity for the growth of an artist…and staying true to the roots just comes naturally for Trey Hensley. After picking up a guitar at the age of 10, he quickly took the bluegrass world by storm —even performing on the Grand Ole Opry when he was 11. Through the years, Trey has had the opportunity to perform with the likes of Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Johnny and June Carter Cash, Charlie Daniels, Steve Wariner, The Oak Ridge Boys, Ricky Skaggs, Blue Highway, J.D. Crowe and many others and Trey has opened shows for Marty Stuart, President George W. Bush, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Charlie Daniels, Peter Frampton, Alabama front-man Randy Owen, Sara Evans and others.
In the Fall of 2012, Trey had the opportunity to sing a "scratch vocal" on a song in the studio for legendary Bluegrass super group Blue Highway. The group ended up liking the vocal so much that they left Trey's vocal on the finished product. The album, titled "The Game", was released January, 2014 with Trey Hensley as a special guest on the song 'My Last Day in the Mine'. In reference to Trey's vocal on the song, Tim Stafford of Blue Highway said, "It's one take, live from the control room. That tells you how good this guy is!"
In the Summer of 2013, Trey relocated to Nashville, TN and started playing on a regular basis with IBMA's 15-time "Dobro Player of the Year", Rob Ickes. In the Fall of 2013, Trey and Rob decided to go work on an a duo album together. The outcomes of those recording sessions have turned into a new album, titled "Before the Sun Goes Down" due for release in January 2015. The duo has recently been signed to Compass Records in Nashville, TN and will start working on the second album sometime in 2015. "Before the Sun Goes Down" features new material from Trey, Bobby Starnes and Barry Ricks as well as a few standard covers and several more obscure covers from artists as diverse as Jimmy Martin, Merle Haggard and Bob Wills to Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Marty Stuart recently said this about Trey: "I first met Trey Hensley at a concert in East Tennessee when his guitar was almost bigger than he was. He played me his version of "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy" by the Carter Family that night and I instantly became his fan. As a musician, singer and songwriter, I've watched him evolve since that first meeting, but the one thing that has never changed is Trey's authenticity. It's one of his God-given virtues. In the ever changing world of country music, it's comforting to know that the real deal still exists. I'm counting on Trey to keep the voice of the mountains alive because mountain boys always have something to say that's worthy of a listen."
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Ringing a Bell For Peace
With support from Canberra Town Planning, Canberra's Nara Peace Park is home to a new symbol of world peace.
The Canberra Rotary Peace Bell offers a new place in the nation's capital for people reflect on world peace.
Canberra Town Planning proudly provided planning services on this project. The World Peace Bell will provide a destination point within Canberra's Nara Peace Park, and express the goodwill between citizens of Canberra, our sister city Nara in Japan, and the rest of the world.
The Canberra Rotary Peace Bell follows in the footsteps of the first World Peace Bell, donated by Chiyoji Nakagawa and the Japanese people to the United Nations in 1954.
Since then more than 20 peace bells have been donated by the World Peace Bell Association as symbols of prayer for world peace.
Canberra's bell will be rung to mark special events, including World Peace Day on 21 September each year.
The Canberra Rotary Peace Bell was officially unveiled at Lennox Gardens' Canberra Nara Peace Park on 23 February 2018.
Lease Variation Charge Deferred Payment Scheme
The ACT Government is seeking to introduce changes to the timing of lease variation charge payments under the Planning and Development (Lease Variation Charge Deferred Payment Scheme) Amendment Bill 2018. The scheme would give developers the option to defer payment of lease variation charges (LVC) associated with augmenting their Crown lease.
Once LVC is deferred, the requirement to pay lease variation charges will be triggered by the earliest of the following events:
· when a certificate of occupancy is issued for part of the building work for the development to which the lease variation relates;
· when a certificate of occupancy is issued for all of the building work for the development to which the lease variation relates; or
· 4 years from the date of the lease variation
The ACT Revenue Office will be permitted to charge interest on deferred Lease Variation Charges.
The Bill can be viewed here.
The Planning and Development (Remission of Lease Variation Charges—Economic Stimulus and Sustainability) Determination 2016 (No 1) expires on 6 March 2018.
This instrument provided remissions for lease variations undertaken in conjunction with a design and siting application, and additional remissions for developments incorporating sustainability and adaptable housing measures.
The ACT government have announced that the instrument will not be extended once it expires on 6 March. Further information on LVC remissions currently available for development proposals is located here.
What does this mean for developers?
While currently LVC must be paid prior to commencing development (typically within two years of receiving DA approval), the scheme would allow deferral of LVC payments until a later project stage thus reducing upfront funding requirements.
We recommend that developers consult with their legal and financial representatives on whether participation in the scheme is suitable for their objectives.
An expanding team and a new office for Canberra Town Planning
Canberra Town Planning opens the doors on its new office in Lonsdale Street Braddon, as its team expands to become Canberra's largest town planning consultancy.
After working together for more than a decade, directors Pieter van der Walt and Kip Tanner established Canberra Town Planning in 2015. Since then, their team has grown to 12.
Mr van der Walt has helped shaped cities in countries around the world, including South Africa, Southern Africa and Cyprus. His work includes strategic planning across a wide range of commercial, industrial mixed use and residential developments, as well as nationally significant transport and water infrastructure projects. He says Canberra Town Planning has a combination of deep experience, local knowledge and a commitment to inspiring solutions that "make Canberra great".
"We are shaping Canberra – and our mission is to leave a positive legacy for the people of the nation's capital," Mr van der Walt says.
Mr Tanner, an environmental engineer whose career has evolved to encompass town planning, is passionate about sustainability. He has worked on major solar farm developments, significant recreational projects and large infill development projects. He continues to advocate for active travel improvements.
"Canberra has always been a place for innovative planning ideas. We have a massive opportunity to set new benchmarks for sustainable urbanism," Mr Tanner says.
Two new associate directors have recently been appointed to the firm: Nichelle Jackson and Elizabeth Slapp.
An experienced town planner with qualifications in architecture, property economics and environmental management, Ms Jackson joins Canberra Town Planning with experience working on small and large-scale commercial, industrial, mixed use and residential projects.
"Canberra is poised to become a dynamic and innovative city teeming with cultural capital. I am excited to play a role influencing Canberra's future," Ms Jackson says.
Ms Slapp has worked across both public and private sectors in the delivery of planning advice and has developed a sound practical knowledge of planning systems across NSW and the ACT. Among Ms Slapp's recent projects are town planning services for Stockland's Willowdale community in Sydney, which will be home to 4,000 people.
"I'm thrilled to be working with a group of people who really care about Canberra and our clients, and to work on projects that matter to the people of the ACT and region," Ms Slapp says.
Canberra Town Planning Associate Director Nichelle Jackson says we need to say 'yes' to loitering
Last year, a group of New York teenagers performed an experiment. They wandered around a single block of the Bronx and photographed every sign warning them that they weren't welcome.
"No loitering", "no sitting", "no playing" and "no minors" they were told. One shop refused to serve anyone wearing a hoodie, another cautioned that young people would be asked for ID, while a third proclaimed that groups of four or more people would be dispersed. One takeaway proprietor even placed a 15-minute time limit on teenagers eating chicken wings in the store.
"These signs not only show these business and property owners' individual attitudes towards teens, they also imply a threat — 'no loitering or else'," wrote the six teenagers behind the 'Yes Loitering' project.
While Yes Loitering looked at New York through a teenager's lens, the questions these budding urban planners raised made me wonder how we can create places in Canberra where loitering is OK.
A group of toddlers play, a group of adults catch up, but it seems only teenagers loiter. To loiter is to "to move slowly around or stand in a public place without an obvious reason" – but that is what many of us do when we are whiling away the hours with friends.
Young people use public spaces just as much as anyone else. But too often young people – and 24 per cent of Canberrans are under the age of 19 – aren't included in the placemaking process, says Nichelle Jackson, an Associate Director with Canberra Town Planning.
Nichelle was raised in Canberra and remembers feeling overwhelmed by a "vast sea" of suburbs stretching out along the spine of the Tuggeranong Parkway, and the inaccessibility of Canberra's design to car-free teens. "I grew up in Tuggeranong, and none of my friends lived nearby so more often than not I got the bus, rode my bike or walked the long way home," she says.
After a few years studying architecture and property valuation in Sydney, Nichelle returned to Canberra. Since then, she's carved out a reputation as a thoughtful and creative town planner.
"Having grown up here I've seen Canberra change a lot in my life," Nichelle says. "And I'm excited about Canberra's future. I want to be part of it, as I feel like I appreciate the context of this change."
Nichelle remembers what it's like to be a teenager at a loose end in Canberra, and says it's not enough to invite young people to take part in community consultation which either doesn't welcome them, or which ignores their ideas.
"The formal part of the discussion is owned by older generations in Canberra – but it's not that young people aren't interested. They just engage in different ways. A young person won't write a four-page letter to the newspaper, which means their voices are often missing from the discussions about Canberra's future."
"We all need to work better on tools and methods to reach younger demographics," she adds, pointing to a host of ideas, from pop up shops and flash mobs to Snapchat strategies.
Nichelle spends a lot of time on community consultation and has listened to young people share their vision for their city. "I think they want a city that is convenient to get around and offers a great lifestyle for them," she says.
But those lifestyle aspirations are very different to what we grew up with. The average teenager now clocks up 1,200 a year on social media, according to a new report from the Australian Psychological Society. Why play chess in Garema Place when you can play Fortnite at home? Why catch up with friends in Commonwealth Park when you can tweet and text instead? These are the obstacles that city-shapers are up against, Nichelle adds.
"Parks and playgrounds are designed with small children and their parents in mind. But what about teenagers?" Nichelle asks.
With nothing to do, teenagers hang out in bus interchanges, shopping centres and the ubiquitous skate park – the default response from developers attempting to accommodate teenagers, despite just a quarter of children and teens actually participating in the activity.
So, what sort of space does encourage loitering?
Free Wifi is a given, but others include power points so that teens can charge their phones and play music, café-style seating or raised grass that encourages small groups to gather, outdoor cinemas and performance stages, chalkboards that spark artistic expression, mirrors for dance practice and outdoor gym equipment.
"One thing that I keep in mind when I read the reams of objections to any new project is that sometimes some people are defending old, inefficient tired developments which no longer serve their purpose. It's important to understand and respect these views but to also bring a diversity of voices into the discussion.
Engaging with a broad range of people about Canberra's future can help us create a better, more inclusive city with buildings that do serve their purpose. But to do that, we need to start asking young people what they think."
This article first appeared in HerCanberra: https://hercanberra.com.au/cpcity/why-we-need-to-say-yes-to-loitering/
Nichelle Jackson recognised for Outstanding Achievement
Congratulations to Canberra Town Planning Associate Director, Nichelle Jackson, who has been recognised for Outstanding Achievement at the National Association of Women in Construction ACT Awards held at the National Arboretum on August 21.
The NAWIC Awards recognise rising stars and established leaders in industry.
Canberra Town Planning Director, Pieter van der Walt, said:
"The team are thrilled that Nichelle has been recognised by industry.
"Nichelle possesses a unique skill set and impressive credentials, with formal qualifications in architecture, property economics and environmental management, that are highly valued by the team and by our clients.
"Nichelle has really grown in recent years to become a strong and highly regarded industry advocate. She has led significant development projects through development approval and as a result has been in a position to positively influence planning outcomes which has led to better outcomes for all stakeholders.
"Nichelle is, in fact, one of only a handful of skilled town planners in Canberra capable of providing strategic advice at all stages of the development cycle from inception and project feasibility to delivery of building post construction. She stands out as a strategic thinker that understands how to apply planning legislation, processes and provisions to facilitate outcomes that support project aspirations and implementation requirements.
"She also has a real passion for Canberra and the built environment. She wants the best outcomes possible for Canberra and the community.
"Nichelle is a leader, a thinker and someone who gets things done. We're proud of Nichelle's many accomplishments and to having her as part of the Canberra Town Planning leadership team."
Expanding horizons for Canberra Town Planning
Building on the success of Canberra Town Planning, and the demand for professional planning services in NSW, Canberra Town Planning has expanded with the establishment of two new businesses focused on providing balance, practical and relevant planning and environmental advisory services to clients in the Capital Region and NSW South Coast.
Headed by Associate Director Elizabeth Slapp and assisted by Robert Slapp, Capital Region Planning and South Coast Town Planning will provide due diligence and strategy advice, development assessment and approvals management services and strategic planning capability.
Elizabeth and Robert understand the intricacies of both government and the development sector, the multiple stakeholders and their often-conflicting views. This gives deep insight into project pinch points and opportunities, knowledge to deliver quality planning advice and the confidence to develop innovative and achievable planning outcomes.
With a vision to be the most innovative and trusted town planners in NSW, and with a team of dynamic and experienced professionals. Capital Region Planning and South Coast Planning are focused on providing a 'value added' service to our clients.
For further information please contact Elizabeth Slapp on 0457 786 776
What's Canberra's formula for Goldilocks density?
Canberra Town Planning Director, Nichelle Jackson, took part in an interview with HerCanberra about getting the formula right on density. Read on for insights and views:
Have you ever heard the phrase 'Goldilocks density'? It captures the notion of perfect density: not too high, nor too low, but just right.
Goldilocks density is "dense enough to support vibrant main streets with retail and services for local needs, but not too high that people can't take the stairs in a pinch," international architect and editor for design at Treehugger.com Lloyd Alter explains.
In Lloyd's mind, it means a city that is dense enough to support bike and transit infrastructure, but not so dense to need subways and huge underground parking garages. A city "dense enough to build a sense of community, but not so dense as to have everyone slip into anonymity".
As Canberra grows – and the latest population projections suggest our city will be home to half a million people in 10 years' time – we need to put our heads together to create our own formula for Goldilocks density.
Urban planners and designers have been thinking about good density for decades. Urbanist Jan Gehl argues that the best cities balance buildings at the 'human scale' with careful consideration of the "space between the buildings".
Jane Jacobs, an urban writer and activist who championed community-based approaches to planning, once famously argued that the safest streets were "intricate sidewalk ballet", as density brought with it a "constant succession of eyes".
And researchers at Oxford University and the University of Hong Kong have recently examined density from a health perspective, finding that the optimum density for healthy living was more than 32 homes per hectare. (In comparison, according to a technical report into Canberra's land use conducted in 2010, Kingston is roughly 36 dwellings per hectare, Gungahlin 13 and Weston just five.)
Density doesn't immediately imply high rise, Nichelle Jackson, an Associate Director with Canberra Town Planning, tells me. "The great cities of the world don't just have density – they have a diversity of density," she explains.
"We need more than single houses on big blocks and high rises – we need everything in between."
Canberra isn't alone in grappling with the challenges of growth. Australia has grown by 3.75 million people in the last decade, which is the equivalent to building the homes and infrastructure for a new city the size of Canberra each year.
But while other cities are sticking out the "we're full" sign, Canberra is embracing the opportunities of growth. Our economy is strong, city-shaping projects are coming to fruition, and optimism is in air.
While Nichelle concedes that many people see it as "un-Canberran" to densify, it is actually in harmony with the vision laid out by Walter and Marion Griffin. She points to architect Colin Stewart's thinking on the topic. In a paper published in 2008, but which is still much admired today, Colin argues that the Griffin vision was "largely based on principles of grand boulevards with public transport, high-density development, mixed use, a walkable scale and integration with the natural landscape".
However major growth in the 20th century focused on 'suburbanism' with the car as the primary means of transport. As we built expressways and parkways to accommodate cars, the 'Y' plan emerged. Colin and many other urban planners around Canberra argue that our current city-building projects simply revisit the original intentions of the Griffins – and that means greater density.
Looking ahead, the Australian Bureau of Statistics projections peg our population at anywhere between 612,000 and 939,000 residents in 2066. "Growth is inevitable. If we try to ignore it, we'll end up with bad growth. But if we work together to try to shape it, we'll get sustainable growth," Nichelle adds.
Clever density – Goldilocks density – can only occur when the community has certainty, Nichelle adds. "Strategic planning ensures people don't get surprised – they can see what the development will look like in their neighbourhood and be part of the conversation."
Nichelle likes Lloyd Alter's definition of Goldilocks density, but adds a few non-negotiables. "In Canberra, Goldilocks density means being within walking distance to café culture but just a short drive away from wide open space. It means balancing gardens with galleries, playgrounds with pop-up shops. It supports a melting pot of people who are prized for their individuality and celebrated for their contribution to the community. And it supports a rich built environment that is ever-evolving but at the same time timelessly Canberran," Nichelle concludes.
What does Goldilocks density mean to you?
This article was first featured in HerCanberra.
Canberra Town Planning Directors recognised for excellence at Property Council Awards
Canberra Town Planning Directors Pieter Van der Walt and Nichelle Jackson have been recognised for excellence at the Property Council of Australia ACT Awards held at Hotel Realm on Friday, 3 May.
Pieter Van der Walt was awarded the Allan Wylucki Property Professional of the Year Award while Nichelle Jackson was recognised as Young Property Professional of the Year for 2019.
Canberra Town Planning was established by directors Pieter van der Walt and Kip Tanner in 2015. Since then the business has grown to become the largest and most widely respected planning consultancy in the ACT. Canberra Town Planning now directly employs 14 professional team members, and works collaboratively on a range of projects with other planning and design professionals, providing a holistic approach to achieving best practice town planning outcomes.
Canberra Town Planning is now responsible for more than half of all complex development approvals in the ACT and has expanded into NSW with the establishment of the Capital Region and NSW South Coast Divisions which are gaining ground with a number of strategic projects.
"It is a great honour to be recognised by the property industry, and a privilege to be able to work with a team of incredible people without whom this success would not be possible. The planning profession is getting noticed. We are shaping Canberra, and our mission is to leave a positive legacy for the people of the nation's capital," Mr Van der Walt says.
An experienced town planner with qualifications in architecture, property economics and environmental management, Ms Jackson has experience working on small and large-scale commercial, industrial, mixed use and residential projects.
"It's an exciting time to be in Canberra and to help play a role in influencing Canberra's future. I'm humbled to have been acknowledged and excited about the opportunities that lie ahead to create great places for Canberrans to enjoy," Ms Jackson says.


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What sections and properties should the report have in order to create such a design?
Thank you very much.

A: If you have backing tables for the fields 'LOTE' and 'DIARIO' then the easy option is to use them, the query should look like this, all inner joined:

*

*LoteTable

*

*DiarioTable

*

*YourTable

Remember to set Relations to Yes on the two first tables (or define the relations your self).
If you do not have backing tables, you can create them as views on your table.
The LoteTable view should contain the following fields:

*

*Lote

*Proveedor

*CountOfRecId (Aggregation Count)

The CountOfRecId field will make the view a group by on the first two fields.


A look at Apple's iPad release, their marketing tactics, and whether they fuel or stifle creativity. Also: Star Trek.
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Let's admit it, we all know these people. And a Dilbert comic just shows how ridiculous they are.
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This software titan proposes a computer museum to mark Philly's role in starting the digital world
By Joseph N. DiStefano Philly.com (TNS)
PHILADELPHIA — "Computers didn't start in Silicon Valley. They started here," in Philadelphia, says Jim Scherrer.
The sales-software mogul has been a fan of vintage computing equipment since, as a late 1970s Penn grad student, he wandered into the "cages and boxes and blackness" in the basement of Penn's engineering school, to find relics of ENIAC, the pioneer electronic computer that helped usher in the digital era.
Now he wants to set up a computer museum — a Compuseum — and provoke a next wave of innovation.
He poured forth this vision at a beer-laden table in the Franklin Institute locomotive room, with his friend John Gruber, who writes the Daring Fireball blog and podcasts for Apple fanboys.
This was at the pre-party — hosted by another Scherrer admirer, Chris Fralic of FirstRound Capital — for the Philly premiere of General Magic, the joyful, nerdly film about the Apple Computer refugees who designed the first smart phones and apps in the early 1990s but couldn't plug them into the public internet because there wasn't one.
General Magic was a spectacular case of before-their-time in Silicon Valley. Scherrer says Philly tech can relate.
The name of the nation's premier computer industry center, Silicon Valley, recalls the raw material used by California transistor-makers who supplied integrated-circuit materials for 1970s computers.
Philadelphia radio factories had supplied earlier computer pioneers with vacuum tubes — first factory-made at RCA Victor in Camden, clipped by the millions into Philco and Atwater Kent radios, and adapted as binary switches for innovative computing machines like ENIAC, powered by 17,000 off-the-shelf tubes.
So Philly should really be known as "Vacuum Tube Valley," Scherrer adds: "We want to trademark that." He acknowledged the tubes were prone to moths — "the original computer bugs."
His bow tie and checked jacket recalls Scherrer's long-ago stint as a Chestnut Hill Academy science teacher and as a Penn graduate engineering student, finding computer artifacts "in cages and boxes and blackness in the basement of the Moore School," with tech's usual lack of reverence for sacred objects once unplugged.
I asked the General Magic filmmakers: How do towns like Philly and companies like General Magic lose their early leads? Why do some companies and some regions benefit the most from innovation?
Sometimes it comes down to who's got the best bosses, codirector Sarah Kerruish told me. "Visionary CEOs who have a good sense of market timing and who can execute on delivering products are actually rare." Apple's Steve Jobs "had to go into exile to develop the skills" he would need as the iPhone CEO.
And sometimes it's cultural — about sharing, vs. selfishness, said General Magic executive producer Mike Stern. It's not just the presence of investors, excellent tech universities, and rich military and NASA contracts — Philadelphia, Boston, and other cities had those, too — but also California's "unique legal and business culture," he told me.
Specifically, California and its courts refused to enforce employee non-compete agreements. With creators and engineers free to quit, seek better deals and more brilliant partners, California capitalists learned to collaborate, since today's competitor could be tomorrow's investor or user. That's better than trying to shut one another down, as the litigious minicomputer-makers that once lined U.S. Route 128 outside Boston did, dooming their industry as California PC-makers passed them by.
Could Philly have kept its early lead and dominated computing?
There were so many promising starts. Philly radio-makers dominated the market but didn't innovate and were wiped out by cheap transistor-based competition.
The builders of ENIAC, chased off campus by Penn in a patent fight, went on to start what's now Blue Bell-based Unisys, which has distantly trailed IBM through the hardware, software, and services eras.
Sungard, based in Wayne, dominated business backup computing, but its private-equity owners failed to finance its jump to the cloud. Commodore Computer of West Chester briefly rivaled early Apple as a pioneer maker of cheap PCs but failed to deliver enduring products. AT&T spin-off Bell Atlantic was based in Center City in its innovative early phase but soon decamped for New York.
"It's the roll of the dice," affirmed Gruber. "Maybe, if a butterfly in China flapped its wings," Philly would have rolled over Palo Alto. Or Austin might have led, if Texas Instruments hadn't been content to reissue the same high-margin calculators. Or Chicago, if Motorola had been willing to see past its popular Razr line.
Early computing teaches useful lessons, says Gruber, who "never owned a computer till I went to college, at Drexel, in 1991," and was born after vacuum tubes were obsolete.
"To really understand, you have to know how it works," he said. "My generation had such a leg up, evolving with this knowledge, as the computer gained complexity. There is so much young people can learn when they see how this evolved, about how people dealt with enormous technical constraints." That's how the building-size mainframes of old evolved into handheld internet phones with more computing power than NASA used to plant men on the moon.
Even before ENIAC, "this was the crucible of the Computer Age," Scherrer affirmed. The Baldwin Locomotive Co. and the Comptometer adding-machine company laid groundwork, arranging women "computers" at desks arranged "in rows and columns, just like a human Excel spread sheet. We stand on the shoulders of giants."
To be sure, there's already a Computer Museum in Silicon Valley. The Smithsonian Institution has big technology collections of its own. "Like most museums, they have 98% of their stuff in storage," Scherrer says, a bit dismissively.
His group — there is no formal committee — is still strategizing. Meanwhile, "people are donating objects," said Scherrer. A recent acquisition: "a ten-megabyte hard drive from 1960. It weighs 80 pounds. It sold for $6,000. Made by IBM and Western Digital." Gruber marvels, noting he just spent $245 on a grocery-bag-size Samsung SSD that holds two terabytes — two million megabytes.
The Compuseum collection-in-formation is currently distributed in the attics and basements of fans' homes. Scherrer dreams of a display, and a place for classes and training and networking, and "a space where new products can be released." Maybe next to Drexel, in the new Schuylkill Yards, a few blocks from the University City Science Center building at 3675 Market St., where Scherrer says his friends have lately been displaying an assembly of pre-ENIAC mechanical calculators.
Among the donors, he says, is Alfred Poor, former contributing editor of PC Magazine, who donated a copy of every issue after it ceased printing. Worth saving, and looking back on how it all happened, says Scherrer.
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I saw these heart map pictures in a home design store and loved them but I wanted to personalise them to display places we had visited as a family. They looked quite easy to make, so I decided I would have a go at them myself.
I had planned to make the heart mounts but found them in Wilkinson's along with the white wooden frames, which were exactly what I was looking for.
I printed maps off the Internet; I chose the Caribbean and Italy with Sardinia and Sicily as these places hold happy family memories of holidays and our adventures together.
I am so pleased with the result and the fact that every time I look at them I think of family holidays. And they look great in my hall way. And do you know what? When we arrive home from holidays, the first thing I see when we open the front door is these lovely pictures. It really makes me smile and realise how lucky we are.
These are such a great idea, Sarah.
Ah thank you Jess, I know I love looking at them, I love maps sounds geeky doesn't it ?


Introduced to Parliament without consultation, it unnecessarily extends existing terrorism offences, including banning careless talk about banned groups and travel to certain areas overseas. It further entrenches the deeply divisive Prevent programme in our communities, and introduces draconian new powers of stop, search, interrogation and detention at the border on the grounds of conveniently ill-defined "hostile state activity". It is symptomatic of a poorly conceived strategy that mistakes knee-jerk expansion of Government power for evidence-driven responses to national security concerns.
In its initial draft, the Government wanted to punish three clicks on online content deemed "likely to be useful" to terrorists with a prison sentence of up to 15 years. It then reduced that threshold – astonishingly – to a single click.
The latest amendments add welcome protections for journalists and academics, but as Lord Davies put it, "freedom of speech belongs to every citizen in a free society," not only to journalists and academics.
Ministers have also reinstated the right of confidential consultation with a lawyer in the context of intrusive border stop and search powers – a right that was first egregiously compromised by the Terrorism Act 2000. But the real problem is that suspicionless border stop, search and detention powers should not exist at all.
The new powers in the Bill, and the controversial power under the Terrorism Act – known widely as Schedule 7 – provide for travellers to be effectively profiled, interrogated, and forced to give the State access to sensitive information on their devices, and even DNA under threat of criminal penalty. Such a serious intrusion of our right to private life should be restrained by a minimum threshold of reasonable suspicion. Otherwise these powers are open to discriminatory and ill-founded over-use.
Protections for academics, journalists and humanitarian workers as the Government has introduced are welcome. But it is a brave person who risks trying to advance a 'reasonable excuse' against the offences in the Bill. A white British person may feel they have the privilege to do so. British Asians and British Muslims are likely to feel differently, and after years of being conflated with terrorists in State and media narratives, are likely to be treated differently by juries and decision makers too.
The latest Government climbdowns are welcome and long overdue. But the fundamental point is that browsing the internet, travelling overseas, or debating banned groups are not inherently harmful activities, and should not be criminalised absent malicious intent.
There is a panoply of criminal offences on our statute books which cover a broad range of terrorist-related activity, as well as a raft of more generic offences such as murder, or causing an explosion likely to endanger life or property, which suffice to criminalise terrorist violence.
In the context of a furore about 'free speech' that seems to fixate on trigger warnings, no-platforming in university spaces, and the perceived sensitivities of 'liberal snowflakes', what is conveniently glossed over is that the State itself is one of the biggest threats to free speech today. It is minority groups who pay a heavy price.
The Bill reaches the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny on Monday. There is still time for Government to amend it further. But if it fails to do so, Peers of all parties and none should be prepared to make a stand in defence of civil liberties, and push through wide-ranging and radical changes to the Bill. Claims that our society is built on fundamental values of free speech, non-discrimination and dissent are meaningless if they do not.


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Scunthorpe's newest nightclub The Void officially launches
The Void is on the High Street and is initially opening on Fridays and Saturdays
The new Void nightclub has been launched on the High Street in Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe's newest nightclub has been officially launched on the High Street.
The launch of The Void came seven months later than planned, with the doors opening last Friday (October 20).
Operator Tom Dale has invested a reported £100,000 on upgrading the former Showboat night club and amusement arcade.
Initially, Tom plans to trade two nights a week – on Fridays and Saturdays – from 10pm to 3am, in line with the nearby Britannia which is now on sale for £650,000.
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But he hopes, if The Void takes off, to extend the hours to Thursdays.
One new feature at the club is an ID scanner to vet revellers.
The new Void nightclub, on High Street in Scunthorpe
The licensing authorities are hoping the idea will be copied at other late night venues in the town centre.
Tom is also making a big play of diamond filter vodka on sale at £3.50 for a double.
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Local DJ Bryan Langford was at the turntables for the opening night.
But Tom is planning to bring in top Euro jocks and ban gangster-style hip-hop and rap music.
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Although New Orleans is my favorite city, and it was Mardi Gras weekend, we were in town primarily for a Duwayne Burnside concert that I was playing keyboards on, so we didn't have the opportunity to really get out and enjoy the parades or other performances. In fact, the parades ended up being more of a bother, as they made it hard for us to get from our condominium to the venue. But where we were staying, on Oak Street, was remarkably quiet and empty on the Sunday afternoon, apparently because everyone was further down St. Charles along the parade route. The holiday also wreaked havoc on our food options, with some places closed altogether and others on three-hour waits. But Pizza Domenica is a great stand-by, as it is just about the best pizza in the city anyway, and usually open even on Sunday or at Mardi-Gras. When we arrived, it was largely empty, but after we were seated, it started quickly filling up with people who were making their way back from the parade, and the place went from dead to crowded in less than a half hour, but we were satisfied and comfortable as we headed to the show venue.
The annual Clarksdale Film Festival is a rather unusual film festival. For one thing it is held in the Mississippi Delta city of Clarksdale, which is more known for blues music than for film. For another, the films it presents are almost all documentaries, and the majority of them are films about music. But all of this makes the Clarksdale Film Festival worth attending. Unfortunately, this year, the films I would have liked to have seen the most were shown on Friday afternoon, during times when both I and my girlfriend had to be at work. But we managed to make it down on Saturday to catch Bayou Maharajah, Lily Keber's superb biography of New Orleans piano legend James Booker, and the world premiere of Late Blooming Bluesman, a documentary about the late discovery of 84-year-old bluesman Leo "Bud" Welch, whose debut album for Big Legal Mess Sabougla Voices shocked the world. Before the film, Clarksdale bluesman Sean "Bad" Apple performed with Stud Ford on drums, the nephew of the late T-Model Ford from Greenville, with juke joint dancer Sherena Boyce joining them. Then Leo performed a handful of tunes as well before the start of the film about him. Altogether it was a great final day of the film festival.


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Council supports High Court challenge to ACT law
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is to be commended for his Government's support of uniform national marriage laws and the decision to vigorously challenge the ACT Government's new same sex marriage laws in the High Court.
"We can't have States and Territories passing laws that deeply divide Australians and that are guaranteed to face expensive legal challenges," the President of the NSW Council of Churches, the Reverend Dr Ross Clifford, said today.
"The NSW Council of Churches believes that a change in federal marriage law would be contrary to our Australian culture and heritage," NSW Council of Churches Public Affairs Director, the Reverend Rod Benson, said.
"It is imperative that Prime Minister Tony Abbott remain firm in his support for the current definition of marriage in federal law, and true to his Government's election mandate to defend the meaning of marriage as currently defined in Commonwealth law," Revd Benson said.
"From its opening chapters, the Bible clearly upholds that marriage is intended to be a relationship between a man and a woman. Australia needs conviction politicians who are willing to take an uncompromising stand on social issues, who will uphold traditions and customs that have served society well in the past," Dr Clifford said.
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Q: Why join query containing a sum function returns just 1 row I have 2 tables.  Problem and problem_votes.  There are many rows in the problems table and just one in the votes table.
I have this query:
select
   problems.problem_id,
   creator_member_id,
   problem_title,
   problem_description,
   sum( vote ) as totalVotes,
   problem_date
from problems
left join problem_votes on
problems.problem_id = problem_votes.problem_id

I expected there to be returned a list of problems, but I only get one item for some reason.
If I take out the sum function, it returns twenty rows.  Is there a way to get the query to get the sum of the votes for each problem?

A: You need a GROUP BY otherwise it will aggregate the entire table instead of returning one row for each problem_id:
SELECT
    problems.problem_id,
    creator_member_id,
    problem_title,
    problem_description,
    sum(vote) as totalVotes,
    problem_date
FROM problems
LEFT JOIN problem_votes
    ON problems.problem_id = problem_votes.problem_id
GROUP BY problems.problem_id

This query uses a MySQL extension: GROUP BY and HAVING with Hidden Columns

A: SUM is an aggregate function, you need a GROUP BY clause.


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Roy Gardner (18 January 1914 – 2 April 2004) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1935 and 1936.

See also
 List of Victoria first-class cricketers

References

External links

1914 births
2004 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Cricketers from Melbourne

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Company directors experiencing financial difficulties often consider terminating agreements and contracts to reduce the burden of their debts.
A director in this position must avoid delaying decisions and rectify the situation as soon as possible; otherwise the business will experience a rapid decline in trade and become insolvent.
Reducing staff and rented equipment will lower costs, but leave you liable for compensation and cancellation payments. Also, many contracts have termination clauses that require lengthy notice periods.
Is the company expecting a big order and likely to increase sales or are you dodging creditors and putting off renegotiating contracts in vain? The director(s) must assess the viability of the business, and quickly.
It all comes down to your contracts. To come out of them you'll probably have to go to court, which may cost up to £10,000.
The director must consider whether the other party will litigate and weigh up the cost of paying all legal fees against the benefits of terminating the contracts.
Interestingly, most litigation starts because people think it will only cost a couple of thousand pounds, but the cost escalates once the other party starts defending.
It's good to review your contractual arrangements regularly, even those with your workforce. If you decide to discontinue any of these relationships, look at the commerciality and act accordingly.
This is how large companies behave; knowing the only way a contractual injustice can be remedied is through the courts. Moreover, court costs may be expensive and the outcome is anyone's guess; you may win or lose.
Renegotiating terms for arrangements with creditors is another good idea. Alternatively, you could make a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), which allows a company to pay for the termination of contracts and avoids liquidating the business.
Under the terms of a CVA, the company can pay creditors as little as 40p in the £1 and stretch beyond the usual 12 month period up to five years.
A business rescue adviser can help restructure your company and establish a CVA if necessary. Contact Insolvency and Law for advice on CVAs and negotiating with creditors.


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First Chinese-to-Kiswahili Poetry Book Launched
By Alexander Nderitu (www.AlexanderNderitu.com)
Twaweza Communications, in partnership with Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, have produced the first poetry book to be translated from a Chinese dialect into Kenya's national language, Kiswahili. The verses were written by renowned Chinese poet Jidi Majia and translated into Kiswahili by Kenyan writer Philo Ikonya (from an English version). The 128-page book, entitled 'Maneno Ya Moto Ya China', was launched on 22nd July 2016, at the Confucius Institute in the University of Nairobi. Those in attendance included Prof. Kimani Njogu, Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia, cultural analyst Dr. Nyairo and Prof. Jane Mutiga.
Some remarks:
Prof. Kithaka Wa Mberia (poet, playright, UoN linguistics lecturer): 'Many influential works have come to us through translation - Neruda (Spanish), Pushkin (Russian). Nyerere brought Shakespeare to us...When we understand other cultures, we minimize suspicion and misconceptions...We should not just translate literature from the big powers. Hopefully, some Kikuyu, Pokomo, Kiswahili poetry will also be read in Beijing or Berlin or elsewhere because someone translated them.'
Prof. Njogu (Twaweza Communications): 'Every dissertation written by a Korean is translated at the expense of the Korean gov't...We need a National Book Translation Fund...and a National Book Policy.'
There have been a few other Sino-Swahili translations (eg. Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book') but 'Maneno Ya Moto Ya China' is believed to be the first such translation of a creative work.
Assorted images from the book launch:
Alexander Nderitu at the Confucius Institute:


Ginger rhizome is well known to help with upset stomachs and even today many people drink commercial ginger ale when nauseous. To make a more concentrated brew, cut up the ginger rhizome and boil with water to make a spicy tea that can offers even more benefits.
Photography weblog Snap Shots and Tips recommends this simple family recipe for ginger tea: Wash and peel an entire ginger rhizome and cut the peeled rhizome into small slices. Add those to a pan along with 2 or 3 cups of water and bring to a boil. When the water reaches a pale yellow color it is ready. Pour it into a mug and add a teaspoon of honey or brown sugar.
This tea will have a spicy ginger flavor that I find very comforting. Give it a try next time there's a rumbly in your tumbly.