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Q: findOrFail Laravel 8 method not found I am working on Laravel 8 , I have tried to use findOrFail method in order to set redirection to 404 error not found instead of displaying error but it is showing this error method findOrFail not found,
this is the line of code in ProfilesController that is causing the error
$user = User::findOrFail($user);

this is the output of the error
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Thanks in advance,

A: Look like your code works fine. The issue Php Strom not able to identify methods.
I always use query() method to get autocomplete model methods
   $user=User::query()->findOrFail($user);

or you might need to install any extension which can able to identify laravel methods


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What is Talent, Anyway?
"Talent" is misused all the time. People use the word as if it's something divinely bestowed, only graced to a select few. "He's such a talented director." "She's such a talented writer." The truth is no one comes out of the womb blocking a big set piece or writing the next Pulitzer or Oscar winner.
"Talent" is misused all the time. People use the word as if it's something divinely bestowed, only graced to a select few. "He's such a talented director," people say, as if he came out of the womb giving set instructions.
Yes, some people have a slight innate ability to do something well. Maybe it's genetic. Maybe it came from their upbringing. But those built-in advantages are very slight, yet people constantly give them complete credit.
Assuming someone was born with their talent ignores the years of hard work, study, and practice they endure to become good at whatever they do.
There's no such thing as a writer who woke up one morning and suddenly became J. D. Salinger. There's no actor who sneezed and turned into Meryl Streep. It's not like some determined fellow wished really hard and transformed into Martin Scorsese.
All of those people – and anyone who's good at anything – mastered their craft with practice, repetition, study, and lots of failure. They got there by taking chances, falling down, and getting back up. It happens over years.
Free download: 7 Steps to Develop Your Talent
So What is Talent?
From my 35 years of experience in this industry, the first part of talent is recognizing good ideas. It's your ability to filter through all the shitty stuff and find the diamond in the rough that's worth tinkering with.
They say that Keith Richards once woke in the middle of the night with a tune in his head. He switched on a recorder near his bed, picked out the lick on his guitar, then went back to sleep. In the morning, he sent the tape to Mick Jagger who later turned it into (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
Now, obviously there's a ton of work between a few bars played in the middle of the night and a world-renowned hit song. But it was Keith Richards' talent that told him his riff was worth remembering.
Anyone who's good at anything mastered their craft with practice, repetition, study, and lots of failure. Click To Tweet
Ideas come fast and furious to creative people. The more creative you become, the faster the ideas pop up. But they're fleeting. You can lose them. The most talented creative people know how to capture and trap their good ideas the moment they have them. They know how to let all of the bad ideas flow away.
I like to say that good ideas are like purple tennis balls. You don't see many of them, but they're obvious when you do because they seem so out of place. Just like you and I can spot a purple tennis ball from a sea of green ones, talented people can spot good ideas from the bad.
What happens if you can't identify your own good ideas? You fall into the trap of trying to replicate other people's good ideas. This never works.
You won't find success replicating someone else's voice. At least not for long. You need your original voice; your original take. The only way to develop that is through your own idea capture.
Running with a Good Idea
Alright, so let's say you have the kernel of talent that lets you distinguish good ideas from all the bad ones. Now you'll be successful, right?
Hardly.
Just because you found a good idea does it mean it's useful. There are plenty of good ideas that don't make good film or television. There are lots of good ideas that don't make any money. (Remember, Hollywood is a business.)
Talented people spend weeks, months, and years refining their good ideas. They do a lot of it in private. You only see the final product, so great work seems instantaneous and divinely-inspired. I've worked with a lot of creative people. I've seen them holed up in sweaty offices, agonizing over word choices, pacing, and stressing about countless little details that add up to something great.
Comedians are a great example of this. You see a Netflix or Comedy Central special and think "Wow, they're quite talented!" as if everything on stage was improvisation.
In fact, some comedians spend more than a year refining a routine before they ever let someone record them. They try out new ideas in conversations with their friends and weave whatever sticks into a loose fabric. Then they work the small-room circuit, experimenting with their ideas, optimizing the good stuff, and slicing out the bad.
By the time they get to a big stage, everything about a comedy routine is deliberate and tested. They know where to pause and how long, judge when to skip a joke or tell the long version. And even know where to stand on stage to get the biggest laugh.
Very little improvisation we see is actually genuine. People rarely summon good ideas on the fly.
Take a jazz musician, for instance. They play a kind of music with a lot of improv, right? No, not really. Almost every riff they play on stage has probably been played at some earlier point, maybe in a different context in a different song in a different key, but they tinkered with it before. Jamming on stage is just recognizing and executing the good ideas.
If you want to see a great character do this in film, watch 8 Mile with Eminem. His character constantly writes lyrics on scraps of paper throughout the film. He trapped his ideas when he had them and assembled them into music later. It takes time. Ooh and the resulting music is bloody killer!
Let Creatives Work
As an executive, you need to let creatives do their thing. They have to work through their process. Good creative work comes from the fullness of time.
If you tell a director to edit his picture in two weeks, you'll just get a mess. You might not get anything at all. A complex movie with emotional moving parts or stunts takes six months at a minimum to edit. And it's not like they grind for six months. They might take a break or a vacation in that time to refresh and let some new ideas flow back.
By the time you get to an editor's assembly, the editor has memorized every line by every actor in the film. She knows every door slam, foot step, and pen drop. And that process of getting all the parts into someone's memory takes weeks (even months). That's why it takes highly skilled creative people months to cut a film.
Why does it take so long? Because all creative work comes with a failure rate. The big studios have development abandon rates North of 40%. That means they pay to develop some properties that end up yielding garbage and never get made.
If you rob creative people of time, the outcome will be average at best. Most likely, it will be terrible.
That said, I don't suggest you give people carte blanche. They need a delivery date to hit, but it's important to make that date realistic with the understanding that they can't summon good ideas at will. Good creative work takes time.
It's a little different for investors. Your job is to invest in fleshed out, commercially viable ideas. Not the development of ideas. You should not be paying for creatives to find their own voice. They need to handle that on their own time and their own dime. Or, in some cases, a studio will pay for their failures.
Follow these steps to develop that talent so you can perform at the highest possible level.
"I don't have the talent to be an artist" is bullshit. (Replace artist with anything – actor, director, brain surgeon, race car driver, or whatever.) You can learn to do anything if you study and practice, experiment and optimize, try and fail. You just have to get off your ass and do it.
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Remembering Brian Close by Arshad Chughtai
Player: DB Close
DateLine: 20th March 2016
Obituary: Brian Close
Dennis Brian Close was one of the most fearless and daring players in the history of Test cricket. He would field at short leg, only about a yard away from the bat and not flinch even when the ball hit him. While batting, he showed remarkable grit, courage and determination facing the fearsome West Indian bowling attack of Wesley Hall and Charlie Griffith in 1963 and later, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Wayne Daniel in 1976. There is no other example of such bravery in cricket history, for a batsman to take the fastest deliveries of the world's quickest bowlers on his body as was exhibited by Brian Close in those series. Such was the impact of this brave approach that even he, later titled his autobiography as "I don't Bruise Easily".
He was truly one of cricket's most emphatic personalities.
Born on 24 February 1931 at Rawdon Leeds, Yorkshire, England, DB Close CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) died at the age of 84 at Baldon, Yorkshire, England, on 14 September 2015.
A left-handed batsman and right arm off-break right arm or medium pace bowler, all-rounder Brian Close's first class career (1949-1986) spanned over 37 years and only WG Grace's career (1865-1908) was longer. He holds the record of being the youngest Test cap for England making his debut against New Zealand at Old Trafford at the age of 18 years and 149 days in July 1949. Incidentally, it was also his first season in First-Class cricket. The same year he achieved the "double" (1098 runs and 113 wickets). He again achieved the double in 1952. He scored 1000 runs in a season 20 times.
In 786 First-Class matches he scored 34994 runs (Average 33.26) with the help of 52 hundreds and 171 fifties, claimed 1171 wickets (Average 26.42) and held 813 catches. His tally of catches for a non-wicket keeper is only surpassed by FE Wooley, WG Grace, GAR Lock and WR Hammond.
Despite such a long career, interrupted by controversies and differences with management, he played in only 22 Tests, 1 against New Zealand (1949), 2 against Australia (1950 & 1961), 1 against South Africa (1955), 11 against West Indies (1957, 1963. 1966, 1976), 4 against India (1959 and 1967) and 3 against Pakistan (1967). He scored 887 runs (Average 25.34), took 18 wickets (Average 29.33) and held 24 catches. His highest score in Test matches was 70 at Lords against West Indies in 1963 and his best bowling in a Test innings was 4 for 35 against India at Leeds, Headingley in 1959.
He led England in seven Test matches and won six (1 against West Indies at The Oval 1966), (3 against India at Headingley, Lords and Edgbaston in 1967) and 2 against Pakistan (Trent Bridge and The Oval in 1967). He captained Yorkshire to the county championship 4 times; in 1963, 1966, 1967 and 1968. He toured Pakistan along with Donald Carr's MCC 'A' team in 1955-56. His notable performance on the tour were: 95 not out against Pir-of-Pagaro's XI at Hyderabad in one-day fixture, 92 against Amir of Bahawalpur's XI at Bahawalpur, 52 not out versus Combined Universities team at Lahore, 82 versus NWFP-Bahawalpur Association at Sialkot and 71 versus against Pakistan in the fourth Test at Karachi. However his best performance against Pakistan was at Sheffield in 1954 where he scored 123 not out and claimed 4 for 54 to give Yorkshire an outstanding 7 wickets victory. Incidentally, visiting Captain AH Kardar had also scored 139 in that match.
He was Wisden's Cricketer of the Year 1964.
DB Close during the period 19950-60 also played football for Leeds United, Arsenal and Bradford City.
Alas! one of the bravest-ever cricketer has passed away.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace NNeuronFramework.DL
{
    public class ConvLayer: BaseLayer
    {
        private Kernel[] kernels;

        public ConvLayer(Kernel[] kernels)
        {
            this.kernels = kernels;
        }

        public override void Process()
        {
            this.ClearOutputs();

            foreach (var kernel in kernels)
            {
                List<Matrix> outputs = new List<Matrix>();
                foreach (var input in this.GetInputs())
                {
                    //生成矩阵
                    Matrix output = Conv(input, kernel);
                    outputs.Add(output);
                }

                //合并输出矩阵,加法
                Matrix kernelOutput=MergeOutputs(outputs);

                this.AddOutput(kernelOutput);
            }
        }

        private Matrix Conv(Matrix input, Kernel kernel)
        {
            if (input.Rows < kernel.Rows || input.Cols < kernel.Cols)
                throw new Exception("Rows/Cols not matched");

            int targetRows= input.Rows- kernel.Rows+1;
            long targetCols = input.Cols-kernel.Cols+1;

            Matrix result = new Matrix(targetRows, targetCols);

            //循环输入矩阵的Rows
            for (var row = 0; row < targetRows; row++)
            {
                for (var col= 0; col < targetCols; col++)
                {
                    Console.Write(string.Format("({0}, {1}),", row, col));

                    double value = CalcConv(input, row, col, kernel);
                    result.SetValue(row, col, value);
                }
                Console.WriteLine();
            }

            return result;
        }

        private double CalcConv(Matrix input, int beginRow, int beginCol, Kernel kernel)
        {
            double sum = 0;

            for (var row = 0; row < kernel.Rows; row++)
            {
                for (var col = 0; col < kernel.Cols; col++)
                {
                    double input_value = input.Data[beginRow+row][beginCol+col];
                    double kernel_value = kernel.Matrix.Data[row][col];

                    double value= input_value * kernel_value;

                    sum += value;
                    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}*{1}={2}    SUM={3}", input_value, kernel_value, value, sum));
                }
            }

            return sum;
        }

        private Matrix MergeOutputs(List<Matrix> outputs)
        {
            Matrix sumed = outputs.First();

            for (var index = 1; index < outputs.Count; index++)
            {
                var m=outputs[index];
                sumed = sumed.Sum(m);
            }

            return sumed;
        }
    }
}

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Molina Healthcare Reaches Agreement with DXC Technology to Sell Medicaid Management Information Systems Business
LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 27, 2018-- Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Medicaid Solutions (MMS), a Medicaid management information systems (MMIS) business, to DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC). The divestiture, which is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and the receipt of certain third party consents and regulatory approvals.
"The sale of Molina Medicaid Solutions will give us the flexibility to invest and refocus resources in our core health plan business," said Joe Zubretsky, president and chief executive officer for Molina Healthcare, Inc. "We are confident that DXC will be an excellent partner for Medicaid agencies, providers, and employees moving forward, and that this transaction represents an opportunity for MMS to grow and unlock value in its business."
"For many years DXC Technology's goal has been to provide the highest quality services to state agencies in the administration of Medicaid programs, including business processing, information technology development, and administrative services," said Mike Lawrie, DXC Technology chairman, president and CEO. "Both MMS and DXC Technology have proven track records and a shared commitment to these important programs. Together, our deep experience and technology expertise can bring new benefits to state agencies and Medicaid recipients."
The net purchase price for the equity interests of MMS is estimated to be approximately $220 million after certain adjustments, and the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.
MMS provides support to state Medicaid agencies in the administration of the states' Medicaid programs, including business processing, information technology development, and administrative services. MMS is under contract with Medicaid agencies in six states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
DXC Technology provides health and human services to government agencies across the United States through more than 8,000 professionals, offering fiscal agent services, MMIS, program integrity, care management, immunization registry, and eligibility services.
Molina was advised on financial matters by BofA Merrill Lynch and on legal matters by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. DXC was advised by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC on financial matters, and Latham & Watkins LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP on legal matters.
Molina Healthcare, Inc., a FORTUNE 500 company, provides managed health care services under the Medicaid and Medicare programs and through the state insurance marketplaces. Through its locally operated health plans, Molina Healthcare served approximately 4.1 million members as of March 31, 2018. For more information about Molina Healthcare, please visit our website at molinahealthcare.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" regarding the proposed transaction between Molina Healthcare, Inc. and DXC Technology Company. All forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that are subject to numerous risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Such risk factors include, without limitation, risks related to: the timely closing of the acquisition, including the need to obtain third party consents, regulatory approvals, and clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976; any conditions imposed on the parties in connection with consummating the transaction described herein; the ability of the parties to satisfy other conditions to closing; and the possibility that the transaction will not be completed on a timely basis or at all. Additional information regarding the risk factors to which we are subject is provided in greater detail in our periodic reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. These reports can be accessed under the investor relations tab of our website or on the SEC's website at sec.gov. Given these risks and uncertainties, we cannot give assurances that our forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, or that any other results or events projected or contemplated by our forward-looking statements will in fact occur, and we caution investors not to place undue reliance on these statements. All forward-looking statements in this release represent our judgment as of the date hereof, and we disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to conform the statement to actual results or changes in our expectations that occur after the date of this release.
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Career experts shed light on the missteps we make without even realizing, whether at the office or in the trenches of a job hunt.
Whatever your chosen profession, we all have something in common: We're trying to do the best we can in our careers.
Of course we aren't going to gossip about our boss, fail to meet our deadlines, or do anything else to jeopardize our jobs or careers … knowingly.
It's that "knowingly" that's the problem. We can easily avoid the professional pitfalls we know, but what about the ones we don't? And even more important, could we be making major mistakes when we think we're making the right move?
Knowing that social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, and even LinkedIn are rife with opportunity for career-damaging blunders, it's understandable that you might want to lay low, leave your profiles dormant or even take yourself offline entirely.
But that's the wrong move, according to Cheryl Palmer, certified career coach and owner of Call to Career. "According to recent data, the majority of recruiters now scour online sources for additional information on candidates," says Palmer. "Positive online information about you will improve your job prospects, since that is what recruiters will be looking for to determine who they call for an interview." She points out that since social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook are some of the first results that show up on search engines, you'll want to be represented–and represented well.
Palmer says that just having the profiles isn't enough–you must have a dynamic presence. That means using these channels to promote yourself in a positive, professional way. Worked on a new ad campaign? Tweet it. Added to your photography portfolio? Facebook it. Come across a fascinating industry article? Share it on LinkedIn. When recruiters or interviewers look you up, they'll find an engaging, productive individual.
It's always a good idea to attend work happy hours, volunteer days, and other forms of group bonding, because while these people are your colleagues, they're also the people with whom you spend 40-plus hours a week.
While having allies is extremely important, so is having people who will challenge you.
To keep from getting in too deep with some colleagues over others, They advise people to take some simple steps to keep things friendly across the board: Go to lunch with a group of people, or different people each day; sit next to people who aren't your deskmates at meetings; mix up your routine a bit–stop by the kitchen or watercooler for a brief chat at different times of day, to run into different people.
We don't need to tell you that there's no shame in taking a gig unrelated to your ultimate career path to make ends meet while hunting for other opportunities, or to make a little extra money on the side. Plus, your scrappiness will show future employers that you're hardworking and ready to hustle, right? Not exactly.
Instead of trying to bulk up temporary jobs by explaining how they taught you "tenacity" and "reliability," Meier recommends minimizing such positions down to only a line on your résumé–or eliminating them altogether while bulking up your more relevant past positions. "The only time you should include a job like this on your résumé is if it furthers your career objective," he says. For instance, a job on the sales floor in a clothing chain may be valuable if you're applying to be a buyer for J.Crew.
If you spent six months scooping ice cream and are now applying for a completely unrelated corporate job in ad sales, Meier recommends eliminating your make-ends-meet job from your résumé altogether. If your employment gap should come up in an interview, he says, explain that you were devoting your full attention to finding the right job in a difficult economy–an understandable excuse if it's been 12 months or less.
Making a pro and con list about a potential job or project is a sensible move–you're laying out all the reasons you should and shouldn't take on a new venture in order to make an informed, rational decision.
But informed and rational isn't all it's cracked up to be. "If you are getting a bad gut feeling about working for a certain boss, a 'pit in the stomach' sensation about a dicey work environment, or are self-rationalizing over taking a major pay cut, you should never ignore the little voice in your ear warning you that something is wrong," explains Cheryl Rich Heisler, founder and president of career-consulting site Lawternatives.
If you're getting a bad feeling about an opportunity that seems promising on the surface, says Heisler, it's time to get more information. "Dig deeper, and either reassure yourself that your impressions are wrong, or back away from the offer. This is true even for choosing your first career track–trust yourself." That's not to say that a few nerves means you should bail on a second-round interview, but if you can't shake your anxiety and can't alleviate it with more information, it might be time to take a step back.
Chances are, your current employer values face time–that is, how much time you're in the office, working away at your desk. And when you aren't face-to-face, you're accessible by phone, email, or text, whether it's midnight, midnight on Saturday, or midnight on Saturday during your trip to Ibiza.
"When you're refusing to delegate responsibilities it shows that you aren't a teacher or mentor, and certainly not a supervisor, which is criteria for promotion," says Bruce Hurwitz, executive recruiter and author of Success! As Employee or Entrepreneur. And when you don't take vacation, he says, it can create an air of superiority–like you feel nothing can get done without you.
Of course, no one is recommending you skip out on your work, and it's likely that there will be occasions you'll have to be available outside the office. But delegating tasks to be completed without your direct oversight, or even in your absence, is a skill every manager–or would-be manager–should have.


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River improvements help cut flooding risk
An ambitious project to revitalise a section of the River Adur at Twineham has just been completed - helping to reduce flood risk and giving a boost to fish and wildlife.
Friday, 19th February 2016, 7:31 am
Updated Friday, 19th February 2016, 7:36 am
The River Adur, Twineham SUS-160218-122730001
The health of the Upper Adur has suffered for several decades from a combination of dredging and the installation of weirs.
But improvement works were carried out following a project launched by the Environment Agency, the Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust, a local landowner and Rampion Offshore Wind Ltd.
In the first scheme of its kind in the area, it was decided that the removal of four weirs would allow the river to restore itself and kickstart its return to a more natural system which would benefit a wide range of biodiversity, and give freedom for fish.
The work began at Twineham Place Farm in Twineham last September after funding was secured.
Work to remove the structures on the Adur and its tributary, the Herrings Stream, progressed quickly and the project finished ahead of schedule. This section of the Adur now provides unrestricted access for fish to 5km of river.
Further Funding of £15,000 was provided by Rampion Offshore Wind , owned by energy firm E.ON to provide other improvements.
These include backwaters to provide shelter for small fish in times of flood; the installation of 'terraces' to speed up flows; gravel in river sections to provide spawning grounds for fish and the planting of 350 trees in the floodplain to provide flood water storage and a wildlife habitat.
There are plans to plant a further 7,000 trees at the site in conjunction with the Forestry Commission.
Environment Agency spokesman Gareth Williams said: "Our rivers are the healthiest for 20 years, but we are doing even more to further improve water quality and biodiversity.
"We are delighted to have worked on such a successful and rewarding project with the Ouse & Adur River Trust, Rampion Offshore Wind Ltd and Mr Worsley at Twineham Place Farm. The work was only possible with help from a number of highly dedicated volunteers.
"The benefits to the river are already very clear to see and we will continue to monitor how this section of the Adur changes over time and the increase in fish and wildlife populations that will now thrive there.
"It's been a great joint effort from everyone involved in order to breathe new life into this local watercourse."
Peter King from the Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust said: "This project has allowed us all to enhance a large section of the River Adur, increasing multi-species fish passage and adding sinuosity and flow dynamics to what was a deep, linear pond. Working in partnership has enabled us to maximise the benefits to the river system in the most cost effective way."
Chris Tomlinson, E.ON development manager for the Rampion Wind Farm, said: "As part of our commitment to protecting and supporting the ecological habitats around the Rampion project, we're pleased to have supported the Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust and the Environment Agency in their work upgrading areas of the Adur River valley.
"The project has been a great success and has been a positive example of collaboration in support of the ecological habitats in the area around our project."


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Q: SSRS expression - convert Decimal to HH:mm
*

*In SSRS dataset I have "Hours" column with values e.g. "8", "8,5" etc.
And I need convert it to HH:mm format.

So ideal example:
8 -> 08:00
8,5 -> 08:30

*And special question - is it possible if I have "XYZ" column contains "168" (hours) get 168:00 using SSRS expression?

Thank you!

A: usually the best way is to add your time as seconds to a date and then get the time.
=FORMAT(DATEADD("s", Fields!HOURS.Value * 3600, CDATE("1900-01-01")), "hh:mm")

Unfortunately, this only works with less than 24 hours. For your 168 hour possibility, you'd need to calculate each time field. Luckily you just need to calculate the minutes.
=INT(Fields!HOURS.Value) & ":" & RIGHT("00" & INT(Fields!HOURS.Value * 60 MOD 60), 2)

A: You can use the following expression
= Cstr(Cint(Fields!hours.Value)) & ":" & Format(Cint((Fields!hours.Value Mod 1)*60),"00")
The first part of the expression will take the integer part and convert it to string.
The second part of the expression will take the decimal part, multiply it by 60 (minutes) and format it as two digits.

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Deep in the Amazon, a World Unknown and Unknowable
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By: Brophy Tyree
As we lowered through the clouds on our descent into Leticia, the world we were entering suddenly took on a new life and meaning. It had existed in our minds before as an idea, fueled by stories of unparalleled biodiversity and captivating legends of ruthless and seductive anacondas, tarantulas, and unspeakable river monsters. What lay before us was a vast sea of thick, tropical rainforest as far as the eye could see. There wereno signs of human life aside from the airstrip, a small cluster of simple tiendas, and a series of stilted river-side abodes that made up Leticia, the hub of Amazonian operations.
From above, the jungle looks impenetrable and hostile, yet magical and mysterious—captivating the imagination and igniting a deep-seated yearning to understand and explore the unknown. In the Western world, this yearning is often left unsatisfied. Our collective consciousness is ruled by an objective, scientific model of understanding that attempts to explain away all shreds of subjective meaning and mystery. With all the blank spaces filled in on our maps, there is little room for the unknown. The Amazon, on the other hand, is a world that is unknown and unknowable. Endless jungles teeming with life—too dense and vast to explore and categorize. Ancient rivers filled with dolphins, anacondas, and pirañas—constantly clouded, obscuring whatever else may live and hunt in those depths.
Sprinkled throughout the jungle are cultures that have learned over millennia to thrive in the heart of la selva, possessing an unbelievably robust knowledge of the plants that surround them. Of the infinite combinations of the thousands of plants that can be found in the Amazon, the indigenous know exactly which can heal ailments, can paralyze and kill, and can facilitate profound mystical experiences. How they acquired this wisdom is impossible to explain. But Western science tries its best: attributing the acquired knowledge to "trial and error," the only logical explanation.
Leaving Leticia, the stilted homes lining the banks of the Amazon River dissolve into the thick vegetation of the rainforest. The coastline springs to life as the cacophony of jungle noises begin to separate into the distinct sounds and songs of each of its participants, from waves breaking, to birds singing, to trees dancing in the wind.
Turning off the "Big River," we reached an area known as Río Amacayac that is home to a community of Ticuna, one of the most numerous indigenous groups of the Amazon. Most of the Ticuna on Amacayacu live in San Martín, a village of 650. With only a few basic thatch-roofed dwellings visible from our boat, we watched as hoards of children played in the river and climbed up into the forest canopy as the women peacefully washed clothes on wooden rafts tied to the shore. The river—the one filled with the anacondas and unknown creatures that haunted our dreams in anticipation of the journey—appeared to be the hub of all activity in San Martín.
A few miles up-river, we reached our home, a small complex of isolated bungalows constructed by two Tinuka elders—"Don" Agusto and "Doña" Maria—who had left the "big-city life" of San Martín for quiet and solitude. Built with only that which could be gathered from the land, the jungle compound revealed the remarkable resourcefulness of the Ticuna.
Agusto and Maria have begun hosting travelers as a way to sustain their life of tranquilidad, and to teach outsiders about their culture. Sitting in the kitchen as the Doña cooked a meal of local fish and exotic fruits grown in their garden, Agusto recounted Ticuna folklore, attempting to begin explaining the cosmology of his people.
The mission to understand each other was a complex process and one that is far from complete. The juxtaposition between our outside lives could not be more pronounced. They live as the vulnerable inhabitants of a jungle filled with creatures that could easily kill them at any moment, while I was raised in the concrete jungle of New York City, where natural danger is controlled and mitigated by human domination. Their small pocket of the jungle is the only world they have ever known, and their sense of place entirely defines who they are. I, on the other hand, have spent 10 out of the last 12 months living on the road out of a backpack, unsure of what place I can technically call my "home."
Their perspective was formed in a world where all natural entities are living and imbued with meaning, spirit, and mystery—where they are a part of an interconnected fabric of life. While I have grown to lean towards this perspective, the culture in which I was raised was one ruled by science, where all entities are merely collections of vibrating, unconscious particles and humanity is entirely separate from nature.
But as the days went on, we learned from each other and connected, recognizing our shared humanity despite the vast differences in our world-views. Absent from any sort of measurable material wealth, technology, prestige, or power over others, Don, Doña, and their family are remarkably happy and peaceful people, more so than anyone else I have ever known. It can be seen in the light of their eyes and in the way that they speak, as if singing back to the birds and contributing their part to the ongoing song of the jungle. When the family is healthy and fed, there is nothing in the world to worry about. Connected and related to everything around them, life is filled with meaning. When the skies open up and rain and thunder plunged down on the world, Don Agusto would look up and say "Dios habla," God Speaks.
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Living with their family, exploring the Amazon, and taking a step away from the Western world, I was able to connect back with what is surely real: full presence in the current moment and that primordial feeling of being an active participant in the natural world, connected to its rhythms and flows.It is experiences like these, absent from all distractions and open to the wisdom of these remarkable people and places, that reveal what it truly means to be a human in this world. It shows the vast, beautiful diversity of the ways of being that are available to us as people—revealing that the way we are accustomed to is not the only way.
Experiences like my time with the Ticuna have the potential to significantly broaden cognitive horizons and stoke an urge to dig deeper to try to understand what really matters and what this is really all about. And, above all else, it inspires and energizes us to celebrate and work to defend those ways of being that make our world rich and full of wonder.
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Q: Change div color when scrolling to a specific div class I am having issues when it comes to adding a background color when I scroll. Currently my code is working but it is not displaying until I scroll to the end of the div. which is background-overlay.
I would like to activate the class black the moment I scroll over the background-overlay class. Another issue is when I scroll past the div the class is not removing. Is there something I am missing with my below code?
https://jsfiddle.net/e6tfgs0a/2/
Snippet code :

$(function() {
  $(window).scroll(function() {
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();

    if (scroll >= $('.background-overlay').offset().top) { // check the offset top
        $( ".background-overlay" ).addClass( "black" );

    } else if(scroll >= $('.background-overlay').offset().top+$('.background-overlay').height()){ // check the scrollHeight
        $( ".background-overlay" ).removeClass( "black" );
    }
  });
});
.full-height, .page {
  height:500px;
}

.black {
  background: #000000;
    transition: background-color 1s ease;
}

A: Also, to expand on Spring's answer, you can also just use .scrollTop() for the background-overlay section as well:

$(function() {
  $(window).scroll(function() {
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();

    if (scroll >= $('.background-overlay').scrollTop()) { // <-- changed this
        $( ".background-overlay" ).addClass( "black" );

    } else if(scroll >= $('.background-overlay').scrollTop()+$('.background-overlay').height()){ // check the scrollHeight
        $( ".background-overlay" ).removeClass( "black" );
    }
  });
});
.full-height, .page {
  height:500px;
}

.black {
  background: #000000;
    transition: background-color 1s ease;
}

A: If I Understand your question , The first condition check the would be  offsettop - height of your div , and the second there where an error in condition (condition iversion) ,
also adding the transition to you .background-overlay instead of .black will have effect in both scroll up down

$(function() {
  $(window).scroll(function() {
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
    var $divBlack = $('.background-overlay');

    if (scroll >= $divBlack.offset().top - $divBlack.height()) { // check the offset top
      $divBlack.addClass("black");

    } else if (scroll <= $divBlack.offset().top + $divBlack.height()) { // check the scrollHeight
      $divBlack.removeClass("black");
    }
  });
});
.full-height,
.page {
  height: 500px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

.black {
  background: #000000;
}

.background-overlay {
  transition: background-color 2s ease;
}


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I am trying to make it so that when the player clicks look at the clock and when they go back, the option isn't there. I am attempting to do this using the variable $SeenClock, but it isn't working.
1. You need to initialise the $SeenClock story variable at the start of your story, and you do that within a startup tagged special passage.
Add a new Passage to your project, I name mine Startup but you can name it whatever you like because the name isn't important. Assign this new passage a startup Passage Tag, and then copy the following into that passage's body.
2. In the passage you want to conditionally see the link in add the following code, it first checks the current value of the $SeenClock story variable and if it's equal to false then it will show the link to the Look at the clock passage.
3. Create a new Passage named Look at the clock and place the following code in it, you will also want to add some text decribing the character looking at the clock.
You wake up, opening your eyes tiredly. You can't see anybody in your room.
Could i use the data from prompt with an if set?


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 * Date: 01/09/15
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namespace Security\Cache;

use Doctrine\Common\Cache\ApcCache;
use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;

class ApcFactory implements FactoryInterface
{
    /**
     * Create service
     *
     * @param ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function createService(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $apcCache = new ApcCache();

        return $apcCache;
    }
}


It's been a bit since last I made a post. Why? I've been hit by a winter blizzard of challenges and problems.
The main one consists of my computer slowing down over the past six months to the speed of a drip of molasses running down a kitchen-cabinet door. I did a number of things to try to find the problem, and came up with no real solutions. Finally, I was left with one leap of faith: reformat the hard drive and hope that will remove the problem.
I figured on about two to three days to pull that off. How wrong I was with that prediction! It began smooth and easy enough; hard disk reformatted in a few hours, and the rest of the day I reinstalled Windows. The next day I began updates which took three days. To my chagrin, my computer still ran like a scared clam. Word had one problem after another. Every time I tried to open a document, a window popped up saying that there was a problem. Then it took about a minute or more for the document to appear, and sometimes it didn't appear at all.
When I could get them to load up, everything was read-only. And even after I figured out how to remove that, once I shut the document down and reopened it the next day, everything I had done was gone. I was so angry I took a day to cool off. I lost the better half of a new chapter in my new book, and several painstakingly written book reviews. It took me another two days, two very long irritating days, before I finally stumbled across the solution: kill the "read only" option by going through properties and then advanced settings.
Now finally done with that, it was now Christmas Eve and Christmas. So of course my computer waited quietly for another three days before I could begin uploading things like Campaign Cartographer 3 and Dragon Naturally Speaking and other programs, all of which requires Word working properly.
But lo, this morning my word programs and other Windows programs were still taking excruciating amounts of time to open. So what did I miss? It took me a while to figure out. Internet Explorer of course! After deleting it, everything began working smoothly. The rest of today will be clean up and a lot of shoveling. Tomorrow I have to begin looking for a new project in book manager. Hopefully this won't amount to more than a squall and one or two flurries.


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Everyone at this organization seems to have such a good and professional relationship. They all speak so highly of each other and I have never heard anyone speak negatively about anyone else.
With United Way being a nonprofit organization it is obvious that everyone here is passionate about their community. I have realized that if you are passionate about what you do it will never seem like work.
The marketing team here does a wonderful job at communicating with each other. In addition, if needed they have individual huddles to make sure they are on the same page and working together.
The marketing team here is truly a family. I saw first hand on several occasions how they care for one another, not just their work lives, but their personal lives as well. They were always there to pick each other up when needed.
The marketing team meets weekly to make sure everyone's priorities are straight for the week and ensure everyone is working to the best of their ability.
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Playoffs? Yes, playoffs. Blackhawks are down but aren't out with huge weekend games ahead.
By Jimmy Greenfield
Declaring the Blackhawks' playoff hopes done this season is a popular pastime these days.
You've done it and I've done it, and who can blame us?
It was supposed to be a fait accompli that the postseason was out of the question in December when the Hawks concluded a brutal 4-17-4 stretch by losing to the Sharks 7-3.
You might recall that was the game in which Corey Crawford suffered a concussion and his replacement, Cam Ward, allowed five unanswered goals over the final two periods.
Weird thing, though. Immediately after that the Hawks started to string solid wins together.
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They beat the Predators at home, and then went on the road and downed the Stars and an Avalanche team that, at the time, was playing like a strong Stanley Cup contender.
For the first time in nearly two months, the Hawks had a pulse.
Until they lost five in a row in January and looked dead in the water again.
The back and forth has continued over the last three months with a seven-game winning streak, a very disappointing West Coast trip that included a loss to a terrible Kings team, followed by a terrific two-game road swing in which they swept the Maple Leafs and Canadiens.
Almost on cue, the Hawks returned home and dropped a pair to the Canucks and Flyers, a couple of teams whose postseason chances are worse than the Hawks.
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Those recent losses have led many to once again say the Hawks are finished. But they're not. The Hawks have shown they are as resilient as any team in the league, and this weekend they have two enormous opportunities to prove it once again.
The Hawks visit the Avalanche on Saturday and play them again Sunday at the United Center. The Avs shouldn't scare anybody — just like the Hawks aren't going to leave any opponent trembling. There's no reason the Hawks can't win both games. Or lose both.
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It's far from a Herculean task to go 3-0 against two fairly mediocre teams. This isn't over.
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Kaepernick Donates $25K to Charity Honoring Fugitive Cop Killer
Kevin JacksonSeptember 30, 2017
As if things can't get any worse for Colin Kaepernick, he piles on himself.
In another self-inflicted move to apologize for the loving white people who adopted him, Kaepernick rebels.
This time the moron decided to make a further statement against the police. And he let his money do the talking.
According to The Daily Mail,
Colin Kaepernick's $25,000 donation to a charitable group honoring a convicted cop killer has been revealed.
Kaepernick's foundation made the donation to Chicago-based Assata's Daughters, named after former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur, in April as part of a $1 million charitable pledge.
Given the backdrop of Kaepernick's current struggles, it's difficult to believe that he would make such a bonehead move.
The facts prove the lie of Black Lives Matter. So he can't pretend he doesn't know the stats. Protest done.
But Holy Mother of Ice T, why donate to a charity named for a cop killer, Assata Shakur?
Shakur was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster. They sentenced her to life in prison, but she staged a daring jailbreak and now lives as a fugitive in Cuba.
Anybody wonder why Obama didn't ask for her extradition when he normalized relations with the communist country?
Kaepernick wants remain relevant and to show Leftists–particularly blacks–that he is 'down' for the cause. Thus, he pledged to donate $100,000 per month for 10 months to 'organizations working in oppressed communities'.
Check out how Assata's Daughters touts itself on the website.
Assata's Daughters was founded in 2015 to 'develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata
Let's just say this won't look good on Kaepernick's resume.
Regarding his donation at the time, Kaepernick said the following:
"I am planning to take it a step further, I'm currently working with organizations to be involved, and making sure I'm actively in these communities, as well as donating the first million dollars I make this year to different organizations to help these communities and help these people," he said.
Kaepernick added: "I've been very blessed to be in this position and make the kind of money I do, and I have to help these people. I have to help these communities. It's not right that they're not put in the position to succeed, or given the opportunities to succeed."
The tally through June is $700,000:
Colin Kaepernick is currently a free agent, but he's been busy lately. Since pledging to donate $1 million of his salary to various charities in the wake of his national anthem protests, Kaepernick has donated $700,000 so far. This week, he announced the latest round of organizations that he'll be donating to: American Friends Service Committee, Assata's Daughters, Grassroots Leadership, and Helping Oppressed Mothers Endure. Much like the 20 other organizations he's donated to, they'll each get a portion of the $100,000 he's been pledging each month.
I'd like to challenge Kaepernick to repeat this donation, since he now has no team. Let's see just how far his philanthropy goes, now that he has the salary of mere mortals.


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Leo Corkery - Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame
Year Inducted
Basketball is the sport where Leo Corkery made a name for himself and in the process became one of 1993's Hall of Fame inductees.
Corkery first attended St. Peter & Paul and then Jamestown High School. He graduated from Jamestown in 1947. He tried out for the high school basketball team but failed to make the squad in 1945. Thus, he took his talents to the YMCA Church Basketball League from 1945-1947.
Corkery averaged 17.8 for the semi-pro Jamestown Vikings during 1948-1949 in the Penn-York League and also won "Most Valuable Player" awards in 1951-1952 at tournaments in Jamestown, Buffalo, Warren and Brookville, Pennsylvania.
He entered St. Bonaventure University in 1947-1948 and later became quite an accomplished performer for Coach Ed Melvin. After playing on the freshman team, Corkery was elevated to the main squad in his sophomore year. He made his debut in 1948-1949 by scoring four points and throughout that season showed lots of potential.
Corkery's potential was set aside a whole year as he left school only to return in 1950-1951 for his junior campaign. Despite the layoff, he showed enough talent to win a job as a starter.
In 1951-1952, Corkery was voted the outstanding athlete by the St. Bonaventure student senate and was named to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium All-Star Team and an honorable mention All-American. Also, he was awarded the Catholic Youth Organization "Most Valuable Player" trophy for Western New York and had a testimonial dinner given by St. Peter & Paul.
The 6-3, 205-pounder was additionally named to the National Invitational Tournament Team in New York City as the Bonnies competed in back-to-back NITs
During his senior year, he tossed in 25 points in a win against Little Three arch-rival Niagara, whose famed Coach Taps Gallagher stated that Corkery did everything but sell tickets at the game.
Corkery was also named to the All-East Team and played in an East-West All-Star game in Kansas City.
For his accomplishments, the versatile Corkery received the high accolade of being drafted in the third round by the then NBA Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons). Also drafted by the Pistons then was Duke All-American Dick Groat, who later became a top-flight shortstop with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals. This year (1952) marked the first time that the NBA kept complete records of team-by-team draft lists.
After college, Corkery entered the service for two years and spent time at Indiantown Gap where he averaged 16 points and 20 points the following year (1953-1954) with the Fort Meade Generals. He was chosen as Second Team Army All-Stars in 1953-1954.
Also in 1952-1953, he performed for the Harrisburg Capitols of the Eastern League and averaged 19 points en route to making the all-star squad.
Corkery attended the Fort Wayne fall training camp in 1954; however, he didn't make the team. Besides being drafted by the Pistons in 1952, the Akron Goodyears and the Peoria Caterpillers picked him from other leagues.
Corkery was an assistant basketball coach, teacher and scout for the Bonnies from 1955-1956 and an assistant basketball, baseball, teacher and scout for Toledo University from 1957-1959. He coached CYO basketball from 1972-1973 in Bethel, Connecticut.
Additionally, he was on the Putnam County Mental Health Board, the Brewster, New York School Board, Putnam County BOCES Board and the Westchester Urban League Board of Directors. More recently, he was on the Immaculate High School Advisory Board from 1978-1987 where he was president 1982-1983 and vice-president from 1981-1982.
Corkery lived in Chautauqua County from 1930-1952 and again from 1954-1957.
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Trophies from Leo Corkery's days at St. Bonaventure.
Leo Corkery is number 13 in the back row center. Fellow CSHOF inductee Ted Olsen is number 16 on the right in the back row.
Leo Corkery.
Dahlstorm, Carl. "Corkery Credits Parents for Cage Success During Testimonial Dinner." Post-Journal (Jamestown), March 25, 1952.
"Leo M. Corkery (obituary)." 2011.
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Leo Corkery, left, during college playing days at St. Bonaventure.
Corkery Stars As Bonaventure Wins Thirteenth. February 2, 1952.
Solinsky, Corkery Pace Brown Indians To 13th Win in Row.
Bonnies Vs. Johnnies. February 14, 1952.
St. Bona Drubs Niagara, 62-51. February 26, 1952.
Harrell Sparks Victors; Bona's Corkery Nets 16. Courier Express (Buffalo), March 6, 1952.
Corkery Named As Bona Frosh Coach. October 4, 1955.
"1952 NBA Draft." Basketball Reference. Accessed November 20, 2018. https://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1952.html.
"Leo M. Corkery." Find A Grave. Accessed November 20, 2018. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64991889/leo-m.-corkery .


How to choose your glasses?
Even though I really need to get a new pair of glasses for myself and I often have difficulties knowing what shape and color suits me best, this is not exactly what I want to talk about today ;-).
I want to talk about the pair of glasses you use to look at the world. We all have one. We all see a different world, based on our vision of how it all works, our education, our school system, our religion etc. And it might serve us well, or not.
Remember, when we fall in love, we see the world through a pair of pink glasses? How everything looks beautiful, simply because we are in love?
And how, when we are depressed, it all seems black or grey?
So… which color do you think your most used hat is?
Now, changing hat or glasses will not change the world around you (yet), but it will change your point of focus, and that's a lot! When I tell people I don't watch the news, most react surprised, like they would not even think of not watching them, like I am crazy! But why am I doing that? Because I choose not to be polluted with negativity every day, I choose to focus on what's positive instead. I will no doubt know about all those terrible things happening because I will come across them on Facebook or somebody will tell me anyway, but at least I decide what I get to watch and I decide to focus on the positives in my life and around me.
And that comes back (again) to the Law of Attraction, as the more I see positives, the more I see good things to be grateful for in my life, the more I will attract more of those good things.
Do you think you can give it a shot? Focus on the positives, putting on a Yellow hat for a while (or pink glasses!), and let aside (as much as possible) the negativity around you? Even if it's that time of year when you have to do your tax declaration, or annoying papers, can you look at the task ahead with optimism and looking at the bright side of it?
I can't emphasize enough the importance of knowing yourself well. Because knowing yourself is also knowing what you want and what you don't want, and it allows you to respect your boundaries as well as to expand your wings when you decide to. And if there's something that's not working for you anymore and you recognize it, then you can do something about it.
Obviously, ideally, we would always be aware of that and make decisions based on our own energy barometer. But we are only human and sometimes we get too ambitious (planning too much in my agenda – that's me) or we forgot how negative those friends are and how energetically drained we are after meeting up with them (oh the joy of being an empath…).
And then, there's the need and the will for expansion, for growth. Entrepreneurship is a really good school for that, as it seems it forces us to grow all the time. But you don't need to be an entrepreneur to get opportunities for growth, life will no doubt give you enough of those too. When they are there, on a silver plate, it's up to you to look at them, and accept them gracefully and decline politely. And if you are feeling fear when looking at an opportunity to expand your range, it's ok; it's probably your ego trying to keep you safe ;-).
If you have friends that are – nearly – always draining your energy, there are different ways to go about it: stop seeing them (a bit radical I agree), see them less, protect yourself before going to meet them (for instance by visualizing yourself in a light bubble where nothing can come in). If you saw them and you are exhausted, a quick 5' dance session (even though you just feel like crashing on the couch) will shake off that negative energy so that you will feel again as yourself.
I would love to know if you have other strategies, feel free to share them here!


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Regional NJ Lawmakers Want to Dedicate Phone-Bill Fee for 911 Upgrades
NJ Lawmakers Want to Dedicate Phone-Bill Fee for 911 Upgrades
Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 5:41 pm | כ"ח כסלו תשע"ז
TRENTON (AP) -
Lawmakers want to let voters decide whether to dedicate money raised from a 90-cent fee on New Jersey phone lines to update the state's 911 emergency systems.
The measure is in response to an NJ.com analysis that only 15 percent of the $1.37 billion raised since 2004 had gone to those upgrades. And even less went to a NextGen 911 upgrade, which would allow callers to communicate via text message, photo and video.
Assemblywoman Annette Quijano said that the bill she is sponsoring is meant to start the conversation. Committee hearings on the ballot measure have not been scheduled yet.
"I want to bring all the professionals to the table and hear how the money has been spent and what are the needs for the 911 system," said Quijano, a Democrat. "No one takes anything serious until you introduce a bill. And it's in my committee, so I can make changes there beforehand or after the committee from the information we garner."
The 911 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund was created by Gov. Jim McGreevey and lawmakers in 2004 and sold as a way to revamp the state's aging 911 system, including issues in locating calls from cellphones.
While it has brought in an average of $124 million a year since, contributions to update 911 systems were cut in half under Gov. Jon Corzine in 2009. More money then began being spent in other areas, including the state police operating budget.
Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo said that he doesn't foresee any obstacles to getting the ballot question approved and thinks voters will eventually support it.
"Over the past decade we've taken a billion and a half dollars away from what it was dedicated for," DeAngelo said. "We're robbing Peter to pay Paul. We're trying to stop that."
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Music: New Order live and my problems with live electronic music
Posted on April 18, 2013 by 20poorandfabulous
First of all, New Order is one of my favorite and most influential bands of all time. I'm an electro-pop artist (Dennis) and a DJ, and "Bizarre Love Triangle" is one of my favorite songs of all time. ALL TIME. This song is fucking beautiful. This band is fucking beautiful. BUT.
As an an electronic artist myself, it is incredibly difficult to translate the emotion and excitement of electronic music into a live performance setting. As I watched New Order perform one of my fave songs on Jimmy Kimmel Live, I was completely underwhelmed and saddened due to the lack of electronic musical stage translation.
I think the lead singer, Bernard Summer, was great vocally; he sounded just like the record did nearly 30 years ago. However, the guy standing in the back of stage perhaps playing a drum machine is the reason this performance wasn't as good as it could have been. Plus these people are old now. There is something so hard about watching old rock bands perform. I really hate to say it and even admit it to you and myself because these bands are idyllic. But their bodies have grown old. So much of being an alluring artist is a sexual appeal of some sort. Their spirit has changed too. Not worse or better, but different, which naturally causes their performance art to change.
(But then again you can watch modern day Stevie Nicks perform and she still has the passion necessary to keep an audience interested. It's all a crapshoot.)
I'm not sure how many live DJ sets any of you readers (thank you for reading, i heart you so much) have ever been to. But they are fucking BO-RING. This has nothing to do with the fact that many DJs are SUPER talented DJs and know how to mix some insane, genius-level beats. It has to do with live show translation: it is simply not exciting as an audience member to watch anyone push buttons. (Exception: DJs mixing and pressing buttons for a dance room setting. As openers for other bands DJs tend to always run stale because nobody is drunk and dancing to openers, especially if the set is lacking visual excitement)
This is where electronic bands get into trouble. A drum machine is awesome, but you can't FEEL a drum machine like you can feel a live drum kit. It gives the audience a mandatory heart beat to the pulse of your music that can't be recreated through speakers.
Demands of the Modern Audience
Having been to a ton of shows throughout my life and most recently in the Minneapolis area, stage performance is a big part of why many shows are so underwhelming. Where is the creative lighting? Projectors of slideshows put together by the band to represent their aesthetic and therefore their performance art? Anything to keep the audience intrigued?
I don't know if many artists have gotten the memo, but consumers/audiences are demanding as fuck in this modern age. They want all their senses taken care of. Being a musician isn't just about making music anymore. You've got to give the audience something good to look at, something to feel, something to be, something to strive for.
Why do you think pop stars dress so wild? That's how they get attention. Being successful is about how much attention you're getting. Good, bad; it doesn't matter. And if that means you have to wear a piece of shit on your face so all the blogs are linking back to poor style choice *AND* your song, so be it. That's how you get famous. That's the world we live in now, and it's not changing anytime soon.
Consumers want to be sold a lifestyle (Ke$ha, The Strokes, Lil Wayne, LMFAO etc.), and if your band- new or old- isn't able to sell that, then sorry! That's why you see so many pop stars and celebrities selling fragrances or clothing lines (not to mention the fact that music doesn't make nearly the kind of money it used to): it's all about the lifestyle brand. Buy this and be like this person. Buy this and you will be accepted by this group of society. Maybe it sucks, but whatever. That's life. That's entertainment. A lot of things suck more than pop artists slingin' perfume. Its the most cliché shit ever, but LEARN THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY. *drops keyboard and walks off stage*
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Our Diary
Yeah, we got one, too.
P.S. Check Enclosed
I need to tell you something I'm not very proud of. I fear it will reflect badly on me but maybe the understanding I was granted will partly offset matters.
While in Prague, I hung out with a group of expats, sleeping on their couches and drinking other people's warm, unattended beers in outdoor restaurants. This isn't the bad part. Ken Nash borrowed a coaster one night in a pub and handed it back with a well-drawn caricature of me.
The caption read, "If I wasn't a poet I would pay for these beers, man. I swear I would." Ken later became a famous illustrator. A lot of the crew in those days went on to become professors, or novelists whose books were turned into movies, but this was before publications and careers were the most important thing. The hierarchy of the streets then was all about one-liners; your cool was based on how present you were.
You might think this is pretentious, but I remember the time a friend of mine called me up crying. What was wrong? I asked her.
"I just wrote a poem," she said.
She was not embarrassed; she was overwhelmed by emotion. We were living for creativity in a city where every day dawned from a different angle. It is difficult to describe the atmosphere of Prague in the early 1990s. Some historians compared it to San Francisco in the 1960s or Paris in the 1920s. I'm not qualified to judge cultural moments like that, but anyone could feel how electric the atmosphere was as the city shed decades of communism. The liberated country elected an absurdist playwright, Václav Havel, to be its first president. Havel brought in the costume designer from the movie Amadeus to design the police uniforms. Shit like that.
Havel had even named the nonviolent political movement that resulted in a Western-style democracy in Czechoslovakia, the Velvet Revolution, after Lou Reed's band, the Velvet Underground. The band itself reformed after twenty years and I got to see them perform a concert in the Palace of Culture. Americans were welcomed as symbols of intellectual freedom, although there wasn't much in the way of employment for many of us.
I didn't require much. I had gotten used to eating oatmeal with brown sugar, fruit, tuna with pasta and parmesan, and repeat. I was thirty-five pounds lighter in those days, although that could have been the cigarettes.
I had saved up a shoebox full of cash working as a waiter in the States, but it had now been depleted. I couldn't ask my parents for money. They wanted me to settle down, get a career going. They didn't want to sponsor me any longer. Although, as a fellow expat, Jennifer, pointed out, they did send me $200 and a scarf when they heard where I was going. It was going to be cold in Central Europe.
Here comes the part that makes me wince. To make ends meet, I stole books. Dozens of them, from the two English-language bookstores. And then I either returned them to the original store for cash or sold them somewhere else at half-price and put the proceeds toward my one meal of the day, timed for about 3pm.
The shopkeepers didn't catch on, even though books like John Berryman's Collected Poems were 347 pages in the Faber & Faber edition—not a perfect fit under the shirt, but it retailed for $32. That went a long way in a second-world economy, and No, I'm sorry, I don't have the receipt. . . .
It's pretty ironic that a starving artist would choose a starving-artist business from which to pull off his heists. Maybe a bookstore is the only place I felt comfortable enough to do something like that. Or maybe that's just where I was most often. It wasn't about being a scofflaw. I didn't do it for thrills. At the time, I thought I was just trying to survive.
Stealing is wrong. It occurred to me several years later, standing next to my smashed-up rental car in San Francisco, where thieves had taken several suitcases, some of which were filled with expensive presentation electronics, that I was looking at karma. Among the missing items was a box of thirty copies of the books I had written. I shuddered to think what dumpster they had ended up in. Karma may not be that tit-for-tat, but it could be close.
I just wanted to be a writer so badly, and the inspiration I found overseas was unmatched in my previous experience. Writing was the main focus of every day. Based on which side of your family, or which side of your psyche, you are drawing from in the moment, this single-mindedness is either noble or indulgent; it shows either romantic impracticality or strength of commitment. I have heard it all.
They say sometimes to get along you have to beg, borrow, or steal. Or is it beg, borrow, and steal? There wasn't anybody left to borrow from, and my conscience had finally gotten the better of me, so I was left the first option to continue my writing mission. I had to beg from someone who understood though.
I wrote a letter to my great-uncle Manny. There is a lot I could say about my great-uncle. I once dropped his birthday cake after having been given the honor of carrying it out to him during the singing, and all he did was laugh and convince me the screwed-up icing made for a better story this way. He believed in reincarnation, which was pretty unusual for a Jew born in 1910. At times, he would do things that fit his type, like drive a lime-green Cadillac or eat hard-boiled eggs with mayonnaise. But then he would come out with Zen-like sayings that you were never sure if even he understood.
I remember at one cocktail party, I was talking to a famous surgeon, or, rather, he was talking to me. "Stuart, all that matters in life is whether you think the glass is half full or half empty. Watch this"—and here, he grabbed Manny's elbow. "Manny, is this glass half full or half empty?"
"That's not my glass," Manny responded.
See, like that! Did he mean that, or was that coincidentally mystical?…
I asked Manny for a thousand dollars, and he came through as a patron of sorts. He was straight with me; he told me I was now living the "life of Riley," meaning my adventures were being paid for by someone else. But he also praised me for meeting challenges that would have been too much for him.
It was a very balanced portrait. He liked my poems and wrote me a letter on Philadelphia Savings Fund Society notepaper telling me his favorite aspects of them. He said I was a master at painting pictures with words. He said I reminded him of Will Rogers in that I "never met a man I didn't like." Writing did bring out the best in me.
He never told me to come home. He never mentioned the money until the end of the letter, when he wrote, "P.S. Check enclosed."
I read his letter again looking for some judgment. He shared a few details from his life, casting everything in a positive light. When he wished me good luck that was the entire sentence. Rereading brought me only courage, all the way through to the end. "P.S. Check enclosed."
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