This will be the 6th Hair Fair I have attended and while that does not make me an expert, it does help me understand how to approach Hair Fair for maximum enjoyment.
Enjoy the creativity of the store interiors. This is not just about picking up some new styles from favorite hair makers, but it's about the experience. Many store owners have decorated and personalized their stores and created wonderful sets that are worth seeing. There's everything from shark attacks to upscale salons to a display that is ready for MOMA. Don't deprive yourself of all the ingenuity and creativity. It's part of the show.
Check out the new-to-you hair stylists. Hair Fair gives you an unequalled opportunity to find new favorites among the old.
Check out old stores that may have new tricks. Some stores may have not made hair to your liking, but skills improve in a year. Folks develop new hair textures. Some are more inspired by mesh than they were by sculpts. There's always a change from year to year.
Buy some bandanas. The last day of Hair Fair is always the day we take off our hair and don bandanas in order to honor and stand in solidarity with the kids who are at the heart of this event. I made three bandanas this year with the collected plurkings of my cat providing the text for the texture.
Remember why Hair Fair exists. This is not just about selling hair. It is about supporting the charity Wigs For Kids that helps restore the confidence of kids who have lost hair due to cancer treatment or other medical conditions.
Join the Hair Fair Demo Group: Enter secondlife:///app/group/2e30d166-f3e5-e2de-ff72-b3da2d06ded2/about into your chat in-world and click and join so you can look at the demos in the peace and laglessness of your home. Also, since scripts are turned off, you can evaluate the huds at home, but not at the Fair.
Follow the Road: The road through Hair Fair will take you by every store. You should give them all a once over, making your list of wants and then use the specific store slurls below for when you go back with your list of needs.
Dress for Success. Drop your fancy scripted buds, they won't work anyway. De-prim and de-stress with some low-impact clothing. You can pick up free outfits from DCNY at Hair Fair if you don't have a low-lag event outfit stored in your Outfits folder already.
Reduce lag by ignoring other avatars. Once upon a time I focused so much on reducing my avatar rendering cost that I would feel frustrated and roll my eyes at some primstrosity with a 18,000 ARC walking by, but if you don't render those folks in the first place, the only people they will be lagging is themselves. What you can do is go to the Debug Settings in the Advanced Menu (ctl-alt-D) and type in RenderAvatarMaxVisible and reduce it to a reasonable number like 3 to 5 people and let the rest just be invisible or white eggs.
Reduce lag with your graphics settings. Click the graphics tab in Preferences and hit the advanced button. Turn quality to low. Lower your draw distance to 64, enough to see what's in front of you but not everything in the distance. Turn particles down to 0, you don't need bling. Turn off atmospheric shaders and water reflections. Select Avatar Imposters so even the avatars you do see won't be fully loaded.
Keep the detail you need. Keep the mesh detail high so you can evaluate the hair.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jody Rushton, president of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW), issued the following statement on the passing of First Lady Barbara Bush:
"Tonight, we mourn the loss of a national treasure, our beloved Barbara Bush. I, like so many Republican women, am deeply moved when I reflect on the life of this remarkable lady. She was a woman of tremendous warmth, grace and wit, and a role model in every aspect of her life – from her private life as a wife, mother and grandmother, to her public service as our nation's first lady and as a staunch advocate for improving family literacy. She inspired each of us in countless ways, and when she spoke, we listened.
"The NFRW has worked with Mrs. Bush on literacy projects for many years, and we will honor her legacy by continuing the important work of the NFRW Barbara Bush Literacy Program.
"President Bush, please know that Republican women across the nation are mourning with you, and that we are holding you and your family close to our hearts."
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Is Kim Jong-un acting out to impress his father after not being the first choice to rule?
When Kim Jong-il died this day six years ago, his eldest son was widely considered to be the top choice in becoming the next supreme ruler. But Kim Jong-nam preferred a life of parties and travels.


For most of the visitors at the Zoo, large mammals, especially carnivores are a major attraction. In the existing layout of the Zoo enclosures, the carnivores are scattered around the Park.
Soon, visitors will be able to view these animals adjacent to each other, at the Mega Carnivore Zone, envisioned by the Zoo.
This is among the several works that are being taken up at the Zoo premises, as per the new Master Plan. One of the changes visitors will notice will be at the entrance. With long queues outside the Zoo affecting the free movement of traffic outside the Zoo, construction of a new ticket plaza is being taken up, with proposals to introduce automated entry system. When works are completed, the hassle of visitors queuing up along the road is likely to come to an end.
The Mega Carnivore Zone is located near the tiger enclosure. When works are completed, other large carnivores of India, enclosures for Asiatic lions and leopards will come up here. Apart from it, construction of an amphitheatre and a restaurant is also being taken up at the Zoo.
According to Executive Director of the Zoo, B P Ravi, works are being taken up as per the Zoo Master Plan, which outlines the developmental activities of the Zoo for the next 20 years.
The enclosures are being constructed based on the minimum specifications of Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for Schedule (1) animals, such as the Asiatic lions, he said. Works on leopard enclosure is almost complete, while lion enclosure will be completed shortly, he said.
Works on the amphitheatre and the restaurant for visitors are also progressing well, he said. "All activities inside the Zoo have to be approved by CZA and approval for works have been taken," he said.
Following the completion of the works currently taken up, works for other theme based zones inside the Zoo will be taken up. Individual estimates will be prepared for the said works, "depending on the finances available with the Zoo," he added.


This is time to take a look with undercut hairstyle new york times. Many of the cool, trendy guys's hairdos of earlier years will likely carry over to the new year , meaning that one of the most popular hairstyles will likely remain to be fades, undercuts, pompadours, brush overs, quiffs, slick backs, or even guy buns or top knots, if you could pull them off.
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If you own a facility in a colder climate where freezing is an issue and you use water for cooling (and sometimes even heating) the likelihood that your water will contain an antifreeze of some kind is pretty good. Two different unknowns come into play with the use of antifreeze, one is the percentage of the product in the water and the other is the type. These become serious problems during the maintenance of the system because this information tends to get easily lost. With the proper system commissioning, however, the answer should be only a phone call away.
The three different types of antifreeze that are most common are propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, and methanol. The first of which I have found to be the most popular, but any of these may be in your pipes and each have different methods for handling and their affects on system performance also vary. In design, our job as commissioning authorities is to assure that the owner understands the type of antifreeze that they are getting and that it is acceptable. We also check to make sure that the percentage is consistently the same throughout the contract documents and that the engineer's specifications spell out how the antifreeze is to be added to the system and whether regular drinking water is clean enough to add to the solution. This is important because of the changes in capacity of the heat transfer equipment and pumps can be lower depending on this percentage of the antifreeze and the quality of the water. We have had projects where the system required pre-mixed solution of glycol and filtered water because of the low water quality available at the site. Having this method spelled out is also important because of the various ways contractors add liquids to a system. What worked for them on the last couple jobs may be the wrong approach for this one. A mistake by a contractor at this stage, when filling the system can be expense because of the large volumes that are typically involved. Not to mention where the wrong solution mix would go? Down the drain? I would hope not!
In multi-facility groups, it would be in the owner's best interest to keep the type and percentage of antifreeze consistent. This is because the owner would then be able to write a common policy and procedure around handling the solutions, how they're added, how the percentage is tested and what procedure to follow when there is a spill. That way if the owner had to rearrange staff there wouldn't be any confusion or additional training required. At ECO Commissions we have helped many owners navigate these issues and establish policies that will help them for years to come.
Don't let what's in your pipes surprise you.
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Dreaming of a beachside ceremony in paradise? How about tying the knot in Las Vegas, fondly known as the wedding capital of the world? No matter where you choose, a destination wedding is sure to make your special day even more memorable!
There are so many options to consider when searching for the best place to celebrate your nuptials with your closest family and friends. Think about where your guests will be coming from. If everyone is spread out across the country (or around the world!), a destination that is easy to travel to is key. Choose a location that has special significance, like the first trip you took as a couple, or somewhere new that you've been dying to visit together.
A destination wedding doesn't have to break the bank. The easiest way to cut down on costs is to keep your guest list a little more intimate. Pare it down as much as you can, and keep in mind that not everyone you invite will be able to make the trip. Start looking for travel packages as early as possible to find the best deals to your dream destination, and be sure to ask your venue about off-season rates. Remember to leave plenty of time for your guests to make travel arrangements. Already booked a date with your venue? Get those save-the-dates out ASAP! This is the best way to ensure that your guests have enough time to plan ahead, and gives you an early estimate of who will (and will not) be joining you on the big day.
Planning a destination wedding has its own unique set of challenges that can be stressful for any couple to navigate on their own. Consider hiring an experienced wedding planner to help with the particulars, from finding the best venue, to traveling with your wedding dress, and everything in between. They can help you set a realistic budget, keep you on track with important logistics (like how to apply for a marriage license in the state or country where you'll be getting married), and work with you and your other vendors to coordinate the events of your wedding weekend. Having that extra support from a planner you already trust to see things through will make a huge difference, and allow you to enjoy your day stress-free.
There is something so special about spending your wedding day surrounded by loved ones who travelled a long way just to celebrate you! Whether your vision is to be married at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the one on the Vegas Strip, there is truly a destination for everyone.


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Q: What is a good pattern for array template compatibility? I would like to create objects having a variable-length array of elements, and have them be compatible in a base/derived-class sense.  In C, one could put an indeterminate array at the end of a struct and then just malloc the object to contain the full array:
struct foo {
    int n;
    double x[];
} ;

struct foo *foo1 = (foo *)malloc( sizeof( foo ) + sizeof( double[4] ) );
struct foo *foo2 = (foo *)malloc( sizeof( foo ) + sizeof( double[100] ) );

In c++, it seems like you could do:
template <unsigned I>
class foo {
public:
    int n;
    double x[I];
} ;

but:
auto foo1 = new foo<4>( );
auto foo2 = new foo<100>( );

if (foo1 == foo2) cerr << "incompatible pointers";

You can do it with a common base class, but is that necessary?  I just want to use foo1 and foo2, where each object knows the length of its array.

My application is for an ESP32 microcontroller running FreeRTOS.  It has limited, non-virtual RAM and a slightly complicated allocation system because of differing capabilities of various chunks of memory (some is slower, some can't contain executable code, some can't be accessed by DMA, etc.)  So allocating multiple chunks for pieces of an object (for example, by using std::vector for the array of double at the end) becomes complicated.
I know the length of the double array at object construction time, but I would like the header and the array to be in a single allocated block of memory (so it can have the characteristics I need for it to have later).
The C-style way of doing it would be fine, but it would be nice to have C++ features like iteration over the array (for various objects, which will each have different numbers of doubles). Plus, a native C++ solution would allow me to have objects in the x[] array, instead of fooling around with placement new in raw allocated memory.  So, for example:
auto a[] = { new foo<5>( ), new foo<10>( ), new foo<15>( ) };

for (auto i : a)
    for (auto j : i.x)
        cout << log10( j );    // prints 40 logs of doubles

(I expect that's got C++ syntax errors, but hopefully it communicates the idea.  I can figure out the syntax for that, if I could get all the foos into a common container.)

A: As a low-level C++ developer, I understand exactly what you need, and sadly, there is no replacement for flexible array members in standard C++, with or without templates. You have to keep using flexible array members via compiler extensions.
They are not included in the language since in their current form, they are essentially a hack. They don't do well with inheritance or composition.
The problem with templates is that, the flexible array version has a common type of arrays of all sizes. That means you can place them in arrays, have non-template functions take them as parameters etc:
foo* make_foo(int n);

foo* foos[] = { make_foo(1); make_foo(2); make_foo(3); }; // ok

void take_foo(foo*);

With the template version, types foo<1> and foo<2> are completely unrelated, so you cannot put them in arrays or have non-template functions that take them:
template <int N>
foo<N>* make_foo();

auto foos[] = { make_foo<1>(), make_foo<2>(), make_foo<3>() }; // ill-formed

template <int N>
void take_foo(foo<N>*);

std::array won't help in this discussion, and inheriting from one will still have the problem of having unrelated types.
However, since this is still C++ (albeit non-standard), you can at least have some additional niceties:
template <class T>
struct flex_array {
  int n;
  T data[];

  T* begin() { return &data[0]; }
  T* end() { return begin() + n; }
};

void iterate(flex_array<double>& f) {
    for (double j : f) {
        cout << log10(j); // print however many doubles are in f
    }
}

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When most of us hear the phrase "education lottery" we think of Georgia's HOPE scholarship program. It's been wildly successful and has made it possible for thousands kids to attend college – many of whom wouldn't have had the chance otherwise. Or has it? Academic studies and statistics show that merit-based scholarships fund the educations of students who would have attended college anyway – mostly white, middle and upper-middle class students.
Imagine someone reacting to higher education's current situation by saying that what we needed were large new programs to subsidize white and middle- to upper-income students to attend college, and that it was not necessary to raise need-based aid even enough to cover new tuition increases. We would give some minority students entering awards because of their relatively high grade point averages from inferior segregated schools. However, we will take their aid away when they cannot get a "B" average in a vastly more competitive college setting and blame them for not being up to the task.
A huge amount of money would go into this new program, far more than was spent for the need-based scholarships in some states. We would get the money from an extremely regressive tax-a state lottery that drew money disproportionately from poor and minority players. In other words, poor blacks and Latinos would end up paying a substantial part of the cost of educating more affluent white students, who would have gone to college even if they had not had the additional financial incentive.
Assuming that two children are identical in every way, including high school grade point averages and SAT scores, if one child resides in a household where the parents' income is $25,000 and the other resides in a household where the parents' income is $50,000. The child in the $50,000 household will complete 80% more schooling than the child in the $25,000 household.
On the flip, we'll look at the actual statistics of how education scholarship lotteries affected college attendance in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee – and talk about how Tennessee structured its program to benefit more low-income students. It's a model worth considering in Alabama.
Just coming in on our lottery series? Catch up with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
They took these findings (and other numbers too) and used the data to estimate the present and future value of a "lottery tax" on residents. What they call a lottery tax is actually the household's estimated annual expenditures on lottery games.
The authors note dryly: "In other words, Lotto seems to be the lesser of two evils from a public finance standpoint" because the "burden" of the Lotto game falls heavier on higher income households.
Once again, the typical households represent the sample average, a lower SES household and a higher SES household. The sample average household has the mean value of each of the independent variables as its profile. The lower socioeconomic status (SES) household has a 48 year-old, African American, and single household head, rural residence, blue collar occupation, high school graduate, household size of three, and household income in the lowest category. The high SES household has a 48 year-old, Caucasian and married household head, suburban residence, professional occupation for the male household head, female head stays at home, both household heads are college graduates, household size of four, and household income in the highest category. The high SES household has a 42% probability of receiving the 100% scholarship. In contrast, the low SES household has only a 10% probability of receiving the 100% scholarship.
How can almost all of the households with children who receive the Bright Futures Scholarship receive more monetary benefit from the scholarship program than they pay in lifetime lottery taxes?
The answer is obvious: the difference is made up by the lottery taxes paid by other households who will never receive an FBF scholarship. Those other households contain the bulk of lottery players who tend to be less-educated, lower income and non-white.
Essentially, the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program and other lottery-funded merit scholarship programs like it, are tantamount to an income redistribution program from non-white, low-income, uneducated households to white, rich, well-educated households.
Is it the same in Georgia? Pretty much.
In its first year, the program spent $21 million helping about 43,000 students. By 2009, its costs had soared to $639 million to cover college expenses for 248,000 students. If the sheer growth weren't enough, program costs have increased at double-digit rates, while lottery proceeds have been flat.
Georgia's HOPE scholarships used to have family income caps, but those were removed when the program was flush with cash (learn more about this in Tuesday's blog post). Now the program is struggling to pay promised benefits, but benefits are devilishly hard to take away – especially if the recipients are well-heeled parents protecting their kids' college educations.
In the years before HOPE, white students were 11% more likely to attend college than African American students (page 5). Since HOPE, that percentage has increased to 26% more likely. Furthermore, the 20 ZIP codes with the most lottery winners had annual family incomes below the state's median – which mirrors studies that show low income people tend to play the lottery more. Meanwhile, the 20 counties with the most HOPE recipients had incomes 72% higher than the other counties.
Students who receive the maximum Pell Grants are not eligible for HOPE scholarships, but can receive a yearly book allowance of $150 per semester – a benefit the legislature is considering removing because of the program's financial troubles.
Are the HOPE Scholarships and Grants the best way to genuinely advance public education – or would Georgia's children derive a far greater benefit if the same dollars were used to make high quality pre-k available to all 3 and 4 year olds? Georgia is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars annually in lottery revenues to subsidize the tuition costs for middle and upper-income families who would have sent their children to college on their own expense, without a hand-out from the state.
The HOPE scholarships don't seem encourage students to do well in college: 46% of recipients lose them the first year because they don't maintain a 3.0 GPA and more than 60% lose their scholarships at some point in their college career due to falling GPAs. Some legislators are asking if part of the HOPE scholarship money might be better spent preparing students for college instead of funneling students into colleges where they may not be prepared to perform adequately.
Mindful of these facts, Tennessee was more careful in designing its program. There is merit-based aid but also need-based supplements.
Tennessee's HOPE program, created in 2002, was designed to mitigate that impact. Looked upon as a model program by some experts, it doles out awards on a sliding scale based on both merit and economic need. Students are given a base award of $4,000 if they have either a high school GPA of 3.0 or an ACT score of 19. Supplemental awards are available for students with even higher marks, or for students who come from households with incomes below a certain level. Tennessee also defines merit more broadly than West Virginia now does. Tennessee's eligibility criteria include one carefully chosen word: "or." When legislators were laying out the plans for the scholarship, they found that giving HOPE to students with a 3.0 GPA "or" a 19 ACT score, instead of the more common GPA "and" ACT qualifications, doubled the percentage of projected eligible students who were African-American.
While Tennessee has worked harder than other states to address problems of income and racial disparities, the program isn't immune (21 page PDF) from problems. In the Fall of 2004, median family income of lottery scholarship recipients was $69,272. Median family income of non-lottery recipients was $56,000.
Researchers have found that students already in school when they receive the Tennessee scholarships are far more likely to obtain degrees than new students. Although every college experiences Freshman dropout rates higher than other students, the rates seem even higher for students on lottery scholarships – particularly those from low income households.
Some programs require full-time student status to receive the scholarship and/or enter college immediately after high school. This could impact low income students more adversely because the scholarships only pay tuition (some also pay a percentage of fees): the students still have to live somewhere, eat, buy books, etc. and full time status hampers students' ability to work at the same time. These are also students who may be farther behind academically as they can't devote as much time to studying.
And, of course, some scholarship students may simply be ill-prepared for college and there are ways to address that problem. But none are cheap and none are easy.
Tomorrow, in our final installment, we'll discuss ways that Alabama can learn from these other states when it starts designing a state education lottery.
"Welfare for the rich." Some of the lotteries you describe are acting to transfer wealth — the pitiful little wealth there is — from the poorest, least educated, communities of color to well off, white kids who could very almost certainly go to college without assistance from "the least of these." Alabama must make sure this system is not replicated here.
Another thing that distresses me is the observation that scholarship recipients are more likely to drop out than the average student. If the child drops out, especially the first year, it's like tossing that money down a rat hole. This is unforgivable, considering where it comes from.
As I understand it, it is a fairly long running observation that the Georgia lottery transfers income upward.
Here's a statistic to keep in mind about Alabama before you decide to hand out scholarships: the state's schools only prepare 28% of students for college. [Your "insert link" popup wasn't cooperating.] If Alabama is only preparing roughly 1/4 of students for college then what is the point of giving many of those kids scholarships? They will end up like the large chunk of Georgia students that ultimately lose them.
One other comment probably better suited for the post discussing marketing, but the best concise description of a lottery I've ever heard is that it is a tax on stupidity. The dumb don't fully appreciate the long odds and probably have crappy, low income jobs (because they're stupid) and spend way too much on lotto games. Anyway, did you know that in some states they keep selling particular scratch off games even after all of the top prizes have been claimed? The poor morons buying the tickets don't even realize they have no chance of hitting the jackpot. When the lotto commission is pricing the game they know exactly how much they have to give out in total prizes and how much revenue they will receive (number of tickets x cost per ticket). If the jackpot tickets are sold early they can't stop selling tickets because they would lose money. So instead they just keep right on selling tickets even though no one can win big.
As a glimpse at a response post I'll write after you complete this excellent series, "education" lotteries create conflicting interests. On one hand the state is charged with educating pupils. Teaching them the three R's (as the old saying goes). On the other hand the state is compelled to actively and aggressively market a game that requires stupid people to be successful. If the state is too successful in educating children (teaching them about math and probability) then their lotto sales decline. That is one reason they love scholarships. Relatively few will qualify and use them, which leaves a large chunk of the population sufficiently stupid to spend a sizable chunk of their paychecks on scratchers.


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Gemeinde
Zur Landgemeinde Ładzice gehören elf Ortsteile mit einem Schulzenamt:
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Q: WooCommerce checking for match in spreadsheet I have a question about woocommerce and was hoping someone could help me out.
I have set up a Wordpress website and installed Woocommerce.
But I need help with the following issue.
I have an Excel spreadsheet with 96.000 numbers. When a customer is ordering something from the woocommerce shop, they will be asked to provide a number (not a required field). I need woocommerce to check if the provided number matches one of the 96.000 numbers in the Excel spreadsheet. And if it does find a match, the customer should get 10% discount.
I would not mind losing the spreadsheet if there is a good solution without using the spreadsheet.
Does someone have any tips on how to implement this?

A: It sounds like you need to use the coupon feature in woocommerce. I personally have not used this plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-coupons-bulk-editor/ - but it looks like you can use this to upload your spreadsheet and each number would act as a coupon code that gave the 10% discount.
There is also a woocommerce plugin called Smart Coupons that does that as well. https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/smart-coupons/how-to-import-coupons-in-bulk-using-a-csv-file/
I'm sure you could find a free download of it somewhere to at least try it out.


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Director: Thomas Sieben
Section: Spotlight
Two masked men kidnap a young woman in broad daylight in the middle of the street. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Stella, the daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Tom, have worked out a detailed plan. But Stella is not going to play the perfect victim. She's not going to give up without a fight.
tags: Feature film, Thriller, Crime/Murder
Cast: Max von der Groeben, Jella Haase, Clemens Schick
Screenplay: Thomas Sieben
Original Material: J Blakeson
Director of Photography: Sten Mende
Film Editor: Robert Rzesacz
Composer: Michael Kamm
Production Designer: Matthias Müsse
Costume Design: Ramona Klinikowski
Sound: Jörg Krieger
Producer: Henning Ferber
Co-Producer: Stefan Gärtner
Production Company: Henning Ferber Filmproduktions GmbH
Co-Production Company: SevenPictures Film GmbH, Film1 GmbH & Co KG
World Sales: Netflix
Born in Cologne in 1976, Thomas Sieben attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he majored in film and photography. His first feature film, DISTANZ with Ken Duken, opened the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the Berlinale in 2009 and was shown at more than 25 festivals around the world. Sieben's second feature film, STAUDAMM, was shown in cinemas around Germany in January 2014. Sieben is also an author of screenplays. He and Mike Marzuk wrote the screenplay for the teenage comedy VERRÜCKT NACH FIXI, which Constantin Film distributed to theaters in 2016. Most recently, he has collaborated with Malte Welding and Stefan Kolditz on Philipp Kadelbach's first film, SO VIEL ZEIT.
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Justin Clancy is the Liberal Candidate for Albury at the 2019 State Election.
Born in Albury, and raised on a farm in Bowna, Justin continues to live in Bowna with his wife Tabitha and three children Xavier (8), Seamus (6) and Natalie (2). Justin understands the challenges faced by local families in Albury, especially cost of living.
Running his own Family Vet Centre clinics in Albury and Wodonga, Justin knows first-hand the importance of a strong local economy to create jobs for young people and provide more services for hardworking families and retirees.
Justin is involved in a number of community activities including AlburyCity's Sports Albury Advisory Committee and Companion Animal Advisory Committee, as well as Mercy Health's Community Advisory Group. Justin believes in a genuine connection to the community with a passion to engage and serve individuals and families in Albury.
As part of Gladys Berejiklian's Liberal Team, Justin wants to use his experience to continue Greg Aplin's hard work and fight to deliver the local services and facilities to make Albury an even better place to live, work, and raise a family.


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Sudan general renames himself national leader
by FAY ABUELGASIM AND NOHA ELHENNAWY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 12, 2021 at 4:27 a.m.
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's top general reappointed himself Thursday as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he's tightening his grip on the country two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders.
The move by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan -- along with other appointments he announced for the Sovereign Council -- was expected to anger Sudan's pro-democracy protest movement, sidelined in the coup. Since the Oct. 25 takeover, pro-democracy leaders have demanded the military relinquish power and refuse to be part of any administration in which a military maintains a role.
Thursday's development, announced in a bulletin by Sudan's state television, comes amid repeated promises from the military that they will hand over power to civilian authorities.
Since the coup, more than 100 government officials and political leaders have been detained, along with a large number of protesters and activists. Almost all remain in custody.
At least 14 anti-coup protesters have been killed from excessive force used by the country's security forces, according to Sudanese doctors and the United Nations.
The protest movement has in recent days rejected internationally backed initiatives to return to a power-sharing arrangement with the military and has called for a nationwide strike.
Sudan has been in the midst of a fragile transition since a 2019 pro-democracy uprising led to the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir. The 11-member Sovereign Council was first formed in the summer of 2019, after the military signed a power-sharing deal with pro-democracy forces.
A number of other members of the body sat on the previous council that Burhan headed before he dissolved it in the coup.
Also reappointed to the body Thursday was the powerful paramilitary leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, as vice president. Burhan reappointed as council members another three generals who had served in the previous council.
Three others on the council are leaders of rebel groups who fought al-Bashir's government for years, but who have moved towards peace with the transitional government. They all also served on the previous council.
One of them, Malik Agar, a prominent leader of the Sudan Revolutionary Front, a rebel movement in Sudan's southern Blue Nile States, was one of signees to a historic peace accord last year with the transitional government in Juba, South Sudan.
The agreement under which the council was formed after al-Bashir's ouster stipulated that the council should include five civilians chosen by activists, five military representatives chosen by the armed forces and one civilian member to be chosen in agreement between civilians and the generals.
The make-up of the new council falls short of the demands of key pro-democracy groups in the African county.
Before the coup, the Sovereign Council held ultimate power while the government of the now deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok oversaw day-to-day matters. Since the coup, Hamdok has remained under house arrest in the capital, Khartoum, as Western powers and U.N. diplomats try to mediate a resolution to the crisis.


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in: Television programs of Mexico, Children's television programs, Sesame Workshop,
UniMás
Discovery Kids (Latin America)
Language dubs
Canal 5 (Televisa Network)
RCN Televisión
Señal Colombia
Inravisión
Canal 13 (Chile)
Telecanal
Mega (Chilean TV channel)
Canal 12 (El Salvador)
Repretel 11
Bolivisión
V-me
Andina de Televisión
Canal 2 (El Salvador)
RPC Televisión
TVN (Panama)
Global Televisión
Television programs of Colombia
Defunct television programs of Colombia
Canal Capital
Canal 1 (Colombia)
Teleantioquia
Telepacífico
Teleislas
Sésamo is the Mexican (later Colombian) co-production of Sesame Street.
1 Plaza Sésamo
1.2 1983-1995 (main), 1995-2005 (secondary)
2 Sésamo
Plaza Sésamo
1983-1995 (main), 1995-2005 (secondary)
Title card as used for video releases during the early 1990s
Title card initally used for the season 4 (1995) airings of Plaza Sesamo
The logo was changed in 1998 as part of a major overhaul to the street signs for the Sesame Street franchise.
In 2013, RCN Televisión took over production of the show from Televisa and moved to Colombia.
In 2008, the opening was amended to feature Abby Cadabby, introduced during Season 37 of Sesame Street in 2006.
In 2016, Plaza Sésamo (alongside its Brazilian counterpart, Vila Sésamo) received a makeover as the show became simply known as Sésamo. In 2020, the show moved to TV Azteca as part of Sesame Workshop's Caring for Each Other initiative.
Television programs of Mexico
Children's television programs
Sesame Workshop


Everyone is starting from scratch at the U.S. Olympic speedskating trials.
It doesn't matter if you're two-time gold medalist Shani Davis or an obscure long shot – you have to earn your way onto the American team that will be in Sochi.
U.S. Speedskating officials are hoping the new format will lead to more interest in the trials, which begin Friday at the Olympic oval in suburban Salt Lake City.
For the athletes and coaches, it raises the anxiety level.
The trials in Kearns, Utah – site of speedskating during the 2002 Winter Games – will decide which U.S. skaters fill the Olympic spots.
The long-track trials will be held over five days (with an off day Monday), followed immediately by the U.S. short track trials on the infield rink at the same facility, a four-day meet that ends Jan. 5.
The U.S. short track program is rebuilding after the retirements of 2010 stars Apolo Anton Ohno and Katherine Reutter, as well as scandals and strife that led to a major overhaul of the national governing body.
But the traditional speedskating team, with medal contenders such as Davis, Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe, should be one of the top countries in Sochi, continuing the strong U.S. tradition on the big oval.
Start with Davis, who won gold in the 1,000 meters and silver in the 1,500 at each of the last two Olympics. He leads the World Cup standings in both events heading into the trials, but hasn't been quite as dominant as he was before the Vancouver Games four years ago.
Shimabukuro said that's by design. It's all about peaking at the right time.
On the women's side, the Americans have a pair of former inline skaters who are favored to claim medals in Russia.
Richardson leads the World Cup standings in the 1,000, just ahead of her teammate. Bowe is ranked No. 1 in the 1,500, while Richardson holds down the second spot in the 500 behind South Korea's Sang-Hwa Lee.
A native of North Carolina, Richardson has been building for this moment ever since she posted a pair of top-10 finishes in Vancouver. Bowe, who was born in Ocala, Fla., only took up the sport after the last Olympics but quickly became one of the world's best on blades instead of wheels.
It's different for Bowe, who is also a former college basketball point guard.
Also keep an eye on Joey Mantia, another former inliner from Florida who switched to ice just three years ago. This month, he pulled off a stunning victory in the 1,500 during the World Cup meet in Berlin.


Gold over-the-knee boots at Chanel's fall '18 show.
Chanel's fall show was a walk in the park, with boots to match the leaves that covered the ground. Brogues and boots done in a swirling gold metallic patent were noteworthy, but the pièce de résistance was a pair of over-the-knee boots in the print.
Chanel's mottled gold boots, which were shown in both under- and over-the-knee styles.
These gloriously '80s satin shoe boots with their dramatic ruffles and giant solitaire gemstones were a last-minute contender. This is the final collection of departing shoe design director Gherardo Felloni, who has been appointed creative director at Roger Vivier.
Draped satin booties with alternately colored ankle straps at Miu Miu's fall '18 show.
Anthony Vaccarello wants to toughen up our shoe silhouette for fall, and while this glam rock platform might not work for Kira Kira, we can guarantee it will cut a fine figure IRL, making the wearer a cooler, taller, sexier version of themselves.
Saint Laurent platform boots on the fall '18 runway.
Sarah Burton made a case for beautiful bugs with black ankle boots that were embroidered with sequined scarabs, which matched the insects that dotted sheer black gowns and skirts.
Sequin scarabs on black ankle boots to match the intricate sheer dresses and skirts at Alexander McQueen's fall '18 show.
Maria Grazie Chiuri recalled protests and the youth quake of the late '60s for Dior's fall collection, which included marching-ready black boots with sturdy heels, plus this patchwork version with embroidery.
Embellished patchwork vintage-inspired boots from Christian Dior's fall '18 collectoin.
An elegant reimagining of the East German police boot, diagonal zips secured folds of the supplest leather that seemed to shiver as they walked the runway. If white's not your thing, they also came in black and caramel. Just saying.
Police-style white zip-up ankle boots at Givenchy's fall '18 show.
Virgil Abloh's Nike collaboration is the most sought-after sneaker, and its popularity caused a frenzy outside the designer's show. The shoe also made an appearance on the runway, but it was Abloh's exaggerated over-the-knee boots in supple leather that grabbed our attention.
Kaia Gerber in Off-White's exaggerated over-the-knee boots done in blue croc with laces and fur lining at the bottom.
Per usual, there was plenty going on at Balmain, but the shoes alone were a treasure trove, with neon PVC boots, ruffled leather sandals and these chain-link black studded booties.
Chain link heels were one of the many details of Balmain's fall '18 shoes.
There have been plenty of collaborations between Comme des Garçons and Nike, but this season's is the coolest yet. The Cortez upper, in black or white, has a striped or checkerboard flatform sole; it's a high-impact sneaker, especially paired with Rei Kawakubo's fantastical, mille-feuille frocks.
Nike Cortez sneakers with a checkerboard flatform sole at Comme des Garçons' fall '18 show.
Print master Dries van Noten's custom motifs are unmistakable, and this season didn't disappoint. The intricate patterns matched his ready-to-wear, but the with boots were statement pieces with or without their coordinating coats, pants and skirts.
Patterned canvas boots with a matching skirt at Dries van Noten.


Once upon a time I was in graduate school. I studied history, which was an error. I should have studied anthropology. It doesn't matter–it was a long time ago. I was in my 20s, and there were quite a few older students in the department. These "adult" learners were invariably interesting, having backstories and life experiences far richer than my own. One of these older students was Gary.
Gary was probably in his mid-late 40s at the time I knew him and he was a biker. Black leather jacket, boots, the whole deal. Gary was a live and let live kind of character, not the sort to get too worked up about pretty much anything. Except one topic. Helmet laws. Gary hated helmet laws. Hated them to the core of his being. On this topic and this topic alone he would become immediately vitriolic. A biker's right to ride without a helmet was, to Gary, the very essence of freedom. It was the whole point of being an American. Gary was up to speed on the state of helmet laws pending helmet legislation all over the country. This was in 1999, and George W. Bush was running for president. What did Gary think about Bush? Well, he'd say, when Bush was governor of Texas he didn't support efforts to pass a helmet law. Therefore, he's a good dude. That's it, I would ask? That's all you need to know? That's all I need to know, he said. Gary was a true single issue voter.
I marveled at the clarity, the pointillistic precision, of his politics. Would life be better or worse if approached in this manner, I wondered. For the most part it seemed life would be immeasurably better. To know what matters and have that thing be so easy to quantify and discern must free one's mind up in so many ways. The truth was I envied Gary's outlook.
Later that year Gary's brother, also a biker, died in a motorcycle accident on a New Mexico mountain. It was a sad day for the department and for Gary. His brother was a biker and a cop, and I happened to walk past the church where the funeral was being held. There were dudes in Hell's Angels jackets and cops in dress uniform side by side. Gary came by the graduate student office a day or two later. Yeah, he said, a funeral like that is the only time you'll see bikers and cops side by side. He talked about his brother and how much he loved his motorcycle. I offered my condolences, but then curiosity got the better of me, as per usual.
So there you had it.
That was 20 years ago, and I still think about Gary and his views a lot. The Kinks tell us that it's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola. Gary felt that is was a mixed up muddled up shook up world except helmet laws were the devil's doing. My own life since meeting Gary has involved navigating one grey area, after another, after another…I still envy his moral clarity.
Un-facetiously, if you were to be a serious single issue voter, what would that issue be?


Saturday April 2nd, the Community Reformed Church of Colonie hosted "ConKerr Cancer Pillow Case Party". CRCC raised $600 for fabric and 30 volunteers brought sewing machines, time, and talent and made 200 pillowcases for The Childrens Hospital at Albany Medical Center. The spirit was everywhere. A huge thank you to all especially Lou Ann Connelly for her hard work, and drive. What a blessing!!
We offer thanks for the people of the C R C C who donated close to $600 for the fabric for these pillowcases.
We offer thanks for those who have provided our food for us to enjoy.
We offer thanks for the ConKerr Cancer organization for the work that they do throughout the world to comfort and encourage young people who are facing the most daunting challenges.
We offer thanks for the doctors, nurses, technicians, counselors, researchers, and all who are committed to conquering cancer and other diseases.
We offer thanks for everyone who is here today to bring cheer to a hurting, sick, and anxious child.
We ask the blessings of healing, comfort, strength, and hope on those children.
We offer thanks that we can be a part of that mission.
And so, to your work in the world, we dedicate the labor of our hands and our hearts today. Amen..
Take a look at some photos from the event on Facebook!
If you enjoy working with your hands, have an eye for color and design, or would just like to be a part of a caring Christian group that creates things for others, Colonie Reformed's quilt group welcomes you.
Our quilters are an ecumenical group of Christians who are dedicated to bringing comfort and prayer into the lives of people in need, through the gift of a handmade quilt.
Our mission is to create and distribute handmade quilts to individuals who are facing personal or medical challenges.
Over the past 8 years the group has made dozens of quilts for such organizations as the Ronald McDonald House, Northeast Parent and Child Society, Albany Medical Center NICU, Homefront Quilts for injured soldiers, and for hurting people in our own church family.
We meet twice-monthly on Mondays, from September through June, beginning at 5:30 PM. Sewing experience is not needed – if you can measure, press, cut, pin, or tie, you can help make a quilt.
If the weather is bad, or is the South Colonie Schools are closed, we will cancel.


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WWII Bombs Provide Living Laboratories for Cold-Water Coral Reefs
May 8, 1945: German forces in Norway have surrendered, and after five long years of occupation, the country is finally free.
Suddenly, 30,000 Allied troops had to disarm 350,000 German soldiers, and deal with huge stockpiles of German bombs, guns and ammunition along Norway's 2500-km-long coast. It was a nightmare assignment, especially the bombs. So the Norwegians did what they often did in times of crisis: they turned to the sea.
"The Norwegian resistance have very few vetted personnel to secure all the German soldiers and all this ordinance, and some of the stockpiles are probably booby-trapped," said John Kjeken, a marine biologist who is studying the abandoned bombs for his master's thesis. "The great fear is that (the bombs and ammunition) will be distributed among the populace—accidents can happen, plus there was an active communist contingent. So they went to lakes inland and to the fjord, and they dumped it."
The RV Gunnerus, out on Trondheim fjord. Photo: Stein Roar Leite.
Seventy years later, Kjeken is aboard the RV Gunnerus with his supervisor, Geir Johnsen, a professor in marine biology at NTNU, to visit a large WWII bomb dump in more than 600 meters of water at the mouth of Trondheim fjord.
While Kjeken and Johnsen will check the condition of the bombs, what really interests them is what has grown on the bombs since they were dumped in the years after WWII. Here, in Agdenes, the deepest part of Trondheim fjord, currents are strong and the bottom is nearly devoid of life— except on the rusting hulks of torpedoes, grenades and bombs that have been disposed of on the bottom of the sea.
These once deadly weapons have hard surfaces that provide perfect artificial reefs. Kjeken's mission is to catalogue the life forms that are growing on the bombs. Given the depth of the water, he will have help, in the form of an HD camera mounted on a 2-ton remotely operated vehicle — an ROV.
Pedro Roberto De La Torre Olazabal examines the HD camera mounted on the two-ton ROV that will help researchers explore the bottom of Trondheim fjord. Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk.
Because researchers know when the bombs were abandoned, the munitions dump offers a kind of long-term natural experiment. They can see how quickly cold-water coral reefs grow in deep water, and what kind of animal life they can support at such great depths. Perhaps of equal importance, however, is that the organisms on these artificial reefs also serve as a kind of early warning system.
"If the bombs start to leak chemicals or explosives, the organisms will die," Johnsen said. "And then maybe it's time to decide what should be done with them."
A widespread problem in the North Atlantic
It's almost impossible to say how much ordinance has been dumped in the world's oceans, but the OSPAR Commission, which works with the 15 countries (including Norway) that signed the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, reported in 2010 that there were at least 151 known chemical weapons and munitions dumps in the North Atlantic.
The highest known concentration of munitions is in Beaufort's Dyke, a deep trench between Scotland and Northern Ireland, where an estimated 1 million tons of munitions have been dumped since the 1920s.
After the Second World War, Norwegian officials allowed the military to scuttle at least three dozen ships filled with captured munitions in the Skagerrak, the channel between the Scandinavian Peninsula and Denmark. All told, 168,000 tons of ammunition, including artillery shells and aerial bombs containing chemical weapons, were dumped at depths of between 600-700 meters, according the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment.
Dumping bombs far from people and in the deepest part of the sea may have seemed like a good idea at the time, because few people had the means or any reason to go there. These days, the ocean bottom can be valuable real estate, what with the need to build submarine pipelines, lay underwater power cables and construct offshore wind farms, among many other marine developments. Now these munitions dumps potentially pose problems for different underwater activities.
Fishermen can also be at risk. In 2013, for example, the OSPAR Commission reported 657 encounters with abandoned munitions in Brest Harbor, on the north-western coast of France. In 2005, three Dutch fishermen were reportedly killed by a WWII bomb or shell that they brought aboard in their fishing nets. Nevertheless, a comprehensive survey by researchers from Imperial College London in 2005 concluded that while some chemicals, such as mustard gas, had the potential to continue to pose problems, in most cases, it made sense not to dredge up old munitions.
Fortunately, the munitions in Trondheim fjord don't appear to be at risk of blowing anyone up yet. A previous visit by NTNU and the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) with the Gunnerus and an ROV in 2014 suggested that the bombs and other munitions are somewhat rusted but are still more or less intact.
Johnsen says he and representatives from the NGU will meet with representatives from the Norwegian Environment Agency to discuss the bombs' fate. "Should we dig them up, or leave them down there?" he said. "There's a lot of knowledge we need to gather before we can decide what to do."
Green then blue, and marine snow
On a clear April morning earlier this year, the Gunnerus set out for its two-hour sail to Agdenes and the mouth of the fjord. The winds were light—perfect for dropping a 2-tonne ROV into 600 meters of water. As it turned out, the cable for the ROV is only about 600 meters long, but the tides were with the researchers, so they believed it would be possible to see what they had come to see.
Even though it weighs 2 tons, it took a good half-hour to lower the ROV, called the SUB-fighter 30k, down to the depths where the bomb dump was located. But even before it reached its goal, the ROV's trip into the deep had its own surprises, at least for the uninitiated. For one thing, as the ROV got deeper, the color of the sea water shifted. First it was light green, then darker green, and then, at about the 60-metre mark, it shifted to a startling cornflower blue when one of the ROV pilots, Martin Ludvigsen, from NTNU's Applied Underwater Robotics Lab, flipped on the lights on the vehicle.
The blue water was mostly empty of fish, but it was nevertheless full of life. Plankton and small jellyfish shot past the camera's lens, and the image on the big wall-mounted screen gave viewers the uncanny feeling of driving through a dense snowstorm. Zooplankton and "marine snow," Kjeken told a surprised visitor, although he was clearly accustomed to the view.
Squat lobsters and cauliflower coral
At just under 600 meters, the ROV pilot slowed the vehicle's descent, and started cruising the silty grey bottom. The silt was nearly featureless, except for a stippling of holes of different sizes, created by different burrowing animals hiding themselves in the mud.
ROV pilots Frode Volden and Stein Nornes struggled a bit to coordinate the speed of the ROV, at the end of its 600-metre-long cable, with the speed of the boat. A walkie-talkie crackled with chatter as another pilot, Pedro Roberto De La Torre Olazabal, talked to Captain Arve Knudsen on the bridge. It wasn't until the Gunnerus slowed to less than a knot that the pilots got the ROV in sync with the ship so it could cruise along the bottom, casting about for bomb remains to film.
It wasn't long until the first find drifted into view: a rectangular chocolate brown box, festooned with cauliflower coral and a number of small, squat lobsters, called "trollhummer" or literally, "troll lobster" in Norwegian. Pink anemones clamped to the edge of the box waved their multi-tentacled bodies in the water, and here and there, a sea pen, a long white quill, stuck straight out of the muddy bottom. Kjeken, seated at a separate computer in the control room, began recording the HD camera's output.
"I'll be sitting at home with a clicker in my hand later to get a count of all the objects," he said. "Then I'll note any interesting things that I see, and I'll spend a lot of time identifying species and trying to find out what sorts of functional groups and systematic groups we have here."
A remote bus stop
For the next two hours, Kjeken recorded the HD camera's output while the ROV cruised a long transect. Although classified as a munitions dump, the bombs and other munitions weren't piled in a huge mound on the ocean's bottom, like you might expect from a land-based dump—instead, they were scattered in an area of approximately two million square meters of sea floor, spread by the ocean's currents as they drifted down from the surface after they were chucked into the sea.
Sometimes the camera cruised over clearly identifiable torpedoes or aerial bombs, always bedecked by a few squat lobsters, anemones, corals and molluscs, while other times the bomb remains were more like big blobs of brownish metal, making them difficult to categorize. The real surprise, however, was that virtually every hard surface had been colonized by some living thing.
Johnsen and the NGU's Terje Thorsnes had been to the munitions dump in 2014, so they knew a little of what the researchers would find during the current transect. But no one knew quite what to think when a giant tire suddenly floated into view, attached to a vehicle.
Could it be a Nazi amphibious vehicle that was dumped with the bombs? The researchers crowded around the viewing screens in the ROV control room as the pilot flew slowly around the vehicle. The long-gone windows were draped with antler-like fronds of something called bubblegum coral, a shocking neon pink color even in the light of the ROV. There were no visible markings on the bus, but eventually a glint of shiny metal trim came clear as the ROV made its circuit. These bits of metal were clearly aluminum, which dated the bus to a time after the war.
"We'll see if we can't find somebody who knows how that bus got there," Kjeken said. "There's probably a group that is interested in the history of buses in this area, and someone may know the story of who dumped the bus and when."
For Johnsen, the bus represented something else —a call to action. "The sea is not just a dumping site for bombs; trash and nearly everything else ends up in the sea," he said. "We don't think about where all this stuff is going. But we should."
By Nancy Bazilchuk, Science Writer, NTNU
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This article should tell you straightaway that there is no compelling evidence either way that certain types of cable or interconnect have an audible effect on music reproduction.
How much do you think you could spend on top-end speaker cabling? How about $5000 for a pair of ONE meter cables, with each addition meter costing another $2,000? No typo.
And $2,500 for eighteen inch jumper cables. I won't name the manufacturer, but this isn't even the most expensive example from their range!
I don't know about you, but I find these prices a little on the high side. And some of the claims made for increased performance remind me of the tale of the Emperors' New Clothes.
If I'm going to spend $20,000 on a home audio system, I'll want to make up a short list of the components that meet my requirements. Then I'll go and arrange some listening tests with the dealers.
During the listening tests, I would change out one component at a time, to see if I could hear any difference between (say) a $2000 amplifier and a $5000 amplifier. An so on. I would certainly want to see if I could hear any difference between $100 cabling and $5,000 cabling.
But the problem is that doing direct comparisons is very difficult. We need to hear the two possibilities within seconds of each other - bam... bam - and back - to make a realistic judgement.
The time it takes to swap over components can take several minutes, and that's too long. We need a switching box that allows two lots of inputs. Then we need instant switching between the two, so that you can flick backwards and forwards between the options.
This "switch" method will work well with comparisons of home audio cables.
Of course, the switch itself will introduce some degradation to the signal, but it is the same for both home audio cables on trial.
I have to tell you that it's extremely difficult to find any dealer who will do this kind of comparison for you. This is because most people will not be able to detect any difference on sound quality between cables, until you go down the quality ladder to the thinnest, cheapest wire.
THEN there is a difference.
So, what are the basic rules?
First, whatever cable you use must be cleanly and securely attached to the equipment at either end. Clean all contacting surfaces with some alcohol, and make sure the plugs fit nice and tight. Remove, clean, and re-fit all plugs once a week.
Second, you DO need to use a reasonable thickness of cable.
The one basic rule is that the electrical resistance of the cable should not exceed 5% of the rated impedance of the speaker. Most speakers are 8 Ohm, but can drop to 4 Ohm or less. The minimum thickness wire should be 16 AWG, but 12 AWG would be better.
Go for a multi-stranded copper wire cable of 12AWG (2mm) thickness.
Third, keep the length of any speaker cable to less than fifty feet (15 meters). The shorter the better, for ANY connection. And do not coil any cabling - straight runs only.
Fourth, nothing else matters. You don't need "oxygen-free copper", nor silver sheathing, nor fancy braiding. You won't hear any difference.
Note: AWG = American Wire Gauge. 12AWG = 2mm conductor diameter (wire, not including the thickness of the insulator).
If you simply MUST have dedicated home audio cables, take a look at the Chord Company's Carnival Silver Screen cables. At $10 per meter, it's a lot more than simple multi-strand 12AWG cabling, but at least you're not in $5,000 territory!
A faster, cheaper way to improve your audio's quality is to get a simple digital to audio converter.


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Q: Algorithm for determining performance speedup/slowdown in a code change vs. historical data? I work on a large programming team, and I run a suite of performance tests on every change that is made in our program, which basically measure time it takes to run the test. For every code change, we run these tests, and we calculate whether the change caused the test to run slower by doing a two-sample t test (against the results from the previous code change). This works decently, but the problem is that we only have a small number of sample data points, generally 5 per test, per code change. There are about 400 individual measurements that we track performance on, so we see some noise in our results (i.e. the t-test will yield a small p value for tests which are not actually any faster/slower due to the code change).
Even though we have a small number of sample points on each code change, we have a very large history of results. I want to use this historical data to help us, but I'm not sure how I can. A problem I'm worried about is that any code change may cause the tests to run faster or slower, so just blindly aggregating historical data will yield a poor result. Are there any statistical tests that will help me with this?
For a little more info: Most of the time code changes do not have any impact on performance, and those of them that do cause performance tests to run faster or slower only do so on a handful of the 400 tests. Which means that for any given test, it could be hundreds of code changes before a change actually makes the test run faster or slower.
To clarify, I want to figure out when a code change actually causes a test to run faster or slower. What options do I have?

A: Here's something that's not really an answer to your question, but may be helpful for your problem:
One of the difficulties you mention is that you are doing ~400 t-tests, and so will end up with lots of spurious small p-values. One useful thing to use here is `false discovery rate' (FDR) analysis, which tries to determine what fraction of the small p-values are consistent with the null. If I were working on your problem, I'm pretty sure I'd use some FDR method.
FDR control is a big topic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate) so I won't try to describe it fully, but here are some links to get you started if you're interested:

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*The paper that introduced FDR control: http://umassmed.edu/uploadedFiles/QHS/Controlling%20the%20False%20Discovery%20Rate%20manuscript.pdf

*A recent survey book: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2010LSIexcerpt.pdf

A: HEre is something that isn't exactly an answer to the original question, but might be valuable and might also act as an answer to the question behind the question which is something to the effect of: "how do I make the most of my programming to speed up my code?"
I bet you can modify a section, and re-run several times, much more quickly than you can re-write parts of it.  If that is the case, then randomly inserting random-length pauses, and recording both section placed, length of pause inserted, and impact to overall runtime you could determine how a delay to one part of the code propagates to the rest of it.
Is knowing which parts have the biggest impacts to overall speed your goal?
Is the 'stochastic' intervention a plausible approach to something like this?
Best of luck.

A: First you want to know if there has been a statistically significant change in total testing time.  Second, if there has been a change, which tests have changed?
This is what I would do:  Within each code state compute the mean for each time variable.  Then for each time variable compute the standard deviation of its means.  This measure of variability is how you incorporate information from the entire history of testing.
Next use $t$-tests to check for changes from the previous code state (the null hypothesis is that the mean times in the current state equal the previous state means).
The primary test is simply if there has been a change in overall time, so you're not examining a joint hypothesis and a simple $t$-test is sufficient.  If there has been a change in total time, then I would compute $t$-statistics for the separate tests to see which tests are responsible for the change.
A rough example written in R:
# Hypothetical time data over 100 states:
state <- rep(1:100, each = 5)
t1 <- 1 + runif(500)
t2 <- 2 + runif(500)
t3 <- 3 + runif(500)
total_time <- t1 + t2 + t3
d <- data.frame(state, total_time, t1, t2, t3)

# Suppose current state is 100, then we want to compare it to state 99
# while taking into account information on variability based on all historical data.

# Means within historical code states:
d_means <- aggregate(d, by=list(d$state), mean)

# Standard deviation of means up to current state:
d_stdev <- sapply(d_means[d_means$state < 100, ], sd)

# Central limit theorem tells us means are approx. normally distributed.
# So we can use t-tests.

# Test if total testing time has changed in current state:
previous <- subset(d_means, state == 99)
current  <- subset(d_means, state == 100)
t_total_time <- (current$total_time - previous$total_time) / d_stdev[['total_time']]

# Now, for example, if abs(t_total_time) > 1.96, then time change is statistically
# significant at roughly 5% level.

# Check each test to see which ones have statistically significant change from
# previous state:
t_test_1 <- (current$t1 - previous$t1) / d_stdev[['t1']]
t_test_2 <- (current$t2 - previous$t2) / d_stdev[['t2']]
t_test_3 <- (current$t3 - previous$t3) / d_stdev[['t3']]

print(t_total_time)
print(t_test_1)
print(t_test_2)
print(t_test_3)


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ROAD NEWS: Night Marathons and a Grandma's the roads w/ending 3/6/19
With Diamond League athletics dominating this weekend and the trail and ultra scene hotting up, the roads are looking somewhat quiet. Instead we have a handful of eclectic, global results to chew over before a more meaty weekend on the 22nd/23rd.
PKO WROWCLAW NIGHT HALF MARATHON, POLAND
With a half marathon of 1:14:11 set in 2017, Wrowclaw's winner must be pretty pleased to top the podium in a time 2 mins faster than she has ever run before and one place higher than last year. Having previously competed for Belarus under the name Aliaksandra Duliba. Shafar got married, had a child, changed country and took her husband and coach's name after completing a doping and immediately set that 1:14 PB. I get the surname change but the first name, well, I dunno. I'll leave that with you.
On a different note, the photos from this event make it look pretty fun!
SHAFAR Oleksandra, UKR	1:12:15
KORIR Caroline Jebet, KEN	1:12:18
MBATHA Ruth Nundu, KEN	1:15:57
STEFANOWICZ Monika, POL	1:16:55
LEHONKOVA Nataliya, UKR	1:16:56
DARTFORD MIDNIGHT MARATHON AND HALF MARATHON, UK
It was the week for night marathons as the UK held its own midnight race.
Annaka Charters of Victoria Park Harriers not only ran a 2 min PB finishing in 01:25:01 but also won the race outright. YASS! Oh and that PB was only set a month ago. Caroline Turner won the women's race for the marathon in 03:04:54
MATTONI OLOMOUC HALF MARATHON, CZECH REPUBLIC
Fast Running reports that "Steph Twell took to the road in the Czech Republic at the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon. Twell finished in fifth, crossing the line in 75:57. The 2:30 marathoner and recent winner of the Vitality London 10,000 led until halfway through the race, but faded in the second half." In the end, Moldovan Olympian Lilia Fisikovici took the win comfortably inside her PB of 1:10:45 set last September.
Lilia FISIKOVICI	1:13:32
Olha KOTOVSKA 1:14:35
Darya MYKHAILOVA 1:14:57
Matea PARLOV	1:15:18
Stephanie TWELL 1:15:57 https://www.instagram.com/stephtwell/
KIGALI INTERNATIONAL PEACE MARATHON, RWANDA
Jepchirchir,Korir KEN 02:41.28
Rutto, Beatrice, KEN 02:43.28
Rumokol, Elizabeth, KEN 02:43.58
PHNOM PENH INTERNATIONAL HALF MARATHON,CAMBODIA
Natsuko Sasaki	01:41:47
Harriet Giallombardo	01:51:25
Kristine Joy Buhawe	02:00:31
MOZART MARATHON, SALZBURG
This is actually a trail marathon and part of an Ultra weekend, so I'll leave it to Cajsa for the details and merely doff my Ciele cap to Marcela Vasinova who won the women's race in 4:19:29
LEADVILLE TRAIL MARATHON
Kara Goucher, top US Marathoner who came 3rd in Boston in 2009 made her trail debut this weekend. After pulling out of Houston Marathon earlier this year with a nagging injury she talked about how she was hoping to find the love on the roads again and hadn't, so was looking to move to the trails.
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a25975645/kara-goucher-disappointment-houston-marathon/
Well, she ran Leadville and says it was the hardest thing she's ever done. She did come 5th though, so not a bad start! She suffered altitude sickness along the way and finished in 3:54 (her road marathon PB is 2:24:52)
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a28065655/kara-goucher-leadville-debut/
Tara Richardson 3:22:39
Jana Willsey 3:36:05
Corinne Shalvoy 3:48:06
Alisyn Hummelberg 3:50:12
Kara Goucher 3:54:06
LEADVILLE HEAVY HALF (15.1miles)
'Funny Runner' and Olympic Road Marathon Trials qualifier had a similar experience over the half. However, Brittany is not coming to the trails after a long marathoning career. She's doing this in tandem. She ran 2:36:25 in her second go at 26.2 at New York Marathon last year. She was due to run London this year but had to pull out due to SI pain issues in the last few weeks beforehand.
Brittany Charboneau 1:54:46.
Kelli Palizzi 2:10:45
Melissa Fairey 2:10:54
It's a big race weekend in Duluth, Minnesota with the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon and the Grandma's Marathon.
Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon
Jordan Hasay is down to run this. She currently holds the second-fastest marathon time by a U.S. woman and placed third at Boston this year. It'll be a great chance to see her at the start of the build up for her autumn marathon in Chicago and whether she's on track to beat her 2:20:57
Last year's finish times were:
1 . Monicah Ngige 1:09:55
2. Sarah Crouch 1:11:30
3. Simegn Abnet Yeshanbel 1:12:17
Grandma's Marathon
Marathoners will be lining up to try to break Kellyn Taylor's course record of 2:24:28 (set last year) and get and Olympic Trials Qualifying time (and an Olympic qualifying time… which isn't the same thing but hey)
1. Kellyn Taylor 2:24:28
2. Askale Merach 2:30:18
3. Serkalem Abrha 2:33:44
Tagged: womens running, marathon, British Athletics, women's running
TRAIL NEWS: Women's Running Roundup : W/ending 17/06/19
ROAD NEWS: Comrades and everything else from the roads w/ending 3/6/19


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REVIEW: Wandering Monster at the BeBop Club, Bristol
By ljazzn on 28 January 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Wandering Monster in Bristol
Photo credit: Evan Dawson
Wandering Monster
(BeBop Club, Bristol, 25 January 2019. Review by Jon Turney)
Friday night found Leeds-based quintet Wandering Monster paying a first visit to Bristol's BeBop club, a small room with a listening audience where it's always good to catch new bands. They were evidently in good spirits, the gig coming near the end of a UK tour and on the official launch day of their debut CD. Composition and arrangements, courtesy of leader Sam Quintana, were tight. And the music, for all that the band's name alludes to everyone's "inner monsters", often briskly cheerful.
Opener Samsara was a case in point, with Quintana on double bass Aleks Podraza on keys and Tom Higham on drums tracking its rhythmic twists and turns and several mood shifts effortlessly. Like several of their tunes, it has passages of calm, which are displaced by high energy blowing from the entire band.
That said, the two all-originals sets are nicely varied. Sweetheart is a fetching ballad, graced by a shapely tenor solo from Ben Powling, the night's most attention-grabbing soloist. Other pieces are adorned with tricky time-signatures, fiercely declaimed unison lines, clever closing flourishes. But overall, even in the raucous urban jazz-rock of Rush Hour there's something else. An air of restraint, that seems to emanate from the bass – mainly sticking with simple figures, hardly ever soloing. That restraint doesn't extend to volume which, as young bands in small rooms often will, gets elevated a bit too much for comfort in the second half. But in the playing it still lends a sense of relaxation that helps the band sound like young virtuosi expressing themselves, not straining for effect.
It's a difficult feeling to maintain, much assisted by Higham's excellent drumming, and suits all these players, evoking fluid guitar excursions from Calvin Travers, and sax statements from Powling that mine a rich vein of Coltrane-isms. All very promising. A bunch of players who all went to the same college in a big city, formed a hot band, and now want to bring their new music to a live audience countrywide? You've heard that story before, but this is a well-wrought version that's definitely worth paying attention to.
Aleks Podraza
Jon Turney writes about jazz, and other things, from Bristol. jonturney.co.uk. Twitter: @jonWturney
LINKS: Next dates, which round off the tour, are in February.
Wandering Monster's eponymous album is on Ubuntu Records. Extracts here
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We love the ladylike shape of the Coco Handle Bag and we adorn the smooth CC logo built on the center of the bag. But the Elaphe Handle does transform the overall look. Just like the Lizard, the Elaphe is another exotic leather. Elaphe is made from snakes and they create different patterns on the handle.
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