I was in Walgreens last week and, as usual, began to peruse the beauty aisle. Not that I was planning on buying makeup, as to be honest, I was just there for cat litter, but there is no harm in looking, right?
However, as I get to the Nyx display, all thoughts of cat litter go away because I see that they have some of the Butter Glosses on clearance. I love the Nyx Butter Glosses. Not only do they smell like vanilla cupcakes, but they are glossy without being goopy and are long wear. They are fairly pigmented enough to wear alone, but if your not into a semi-sheer glossy look, you can layer them over a matte or cream lipstick for that punch of color.
Sidenote: if you want a really pigmented glossy lipstick that's under $10, try the Hard Candy WetEver line. You will not be disappointed!
Strawberry Jam – a orange reddish glossy shade that makes you want to believe that it's a summer color with a name like that, but it's actually the perfect red to wear with a dramatic wing liner and a cocktail dress to a holiday party.
Cranberry Biscotti – a berry toned beauty that you can wear day or night. I personally like a dramatic lip with a light eye look and this color is would look great with a pop of cheek color, mascara and bold eyebrows.
The link to Walgreen's has all these listed for $3.99 each, but try to hit up your local Walgreens and you might be able to get them cheaper.
I'll let you decide if it's Katy's love of felines or her actual lipstick line that made me remember cat poop.
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Winter at the Brush Pile
Last May I placed a camera trap at a brush pile that we've had behind the house for over 40 years. Tracks in winter snow and occasional glimpses of birds or mammals near the pile prompted me to put the camera there. Some of the photos the camera captured earlier were posted here and here.
Now that winter has drawn to a close, it's time to post some of the pictures from the depth of winter. "Depth of winter" really isn't appropriate since we never had more than about three inches of snow on the ground at any time and the temperature was rarely below 10º F.
A sample of what was captured by the camera at the brush pile –
Cottontail Rabbit
Gray Squirrel
What was a bit surprising was the eastern chipmunk that was photographed twice, first on February 20 –
Eastern Chipmunk
And then again two days later, after the snow melted –
Chipmunks don't hibernate, but do sleep in their burrows for periods during the winter and awaken to feed on nuts and seeds they've stored in chambers in those burrows. If they haven't stored sufficient food to get them through the winter they'll emerge to forage.
The camera trap has two more months at the brush pile, and then it will be off to a different location.
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Um, Um, Good!
Thunk, Thunk, Thunk-thunk echoed from a tree along the river, and then it stopped. Thunk, Thunk-thunk, Thunk it began again. And there on a branch, was a pileated woodpecker hammering away at the limb. It was a female with her black "mustache". She kept working on the branch for a while, then flew to the trunk of a nearby tree, but never gave a clear view or moved completely out of the shadows.
More thunking sounded from a tree closer than the one on which the female landed. This emanated from a male (bearing the red "mustache" sported by male pileateds), leading to the conclusion that this was almost certainly a mated pair.
He was feeding at a limb on a riverside silver maple, rapidly gulping insects as he extracted them from the wood –
Carpenter ants, which live in both live and dead trees, are a favorite food of pileated woodpeckers. In watching the video of this male he certainly seemed to be feeding on ants –
Pileated woodpeckers are usually quite wary, but this bird was so preoccupied with his meal that he ignored me as I turned and slowly walked away.
He Still Lives!
White-tailed deer, in spite of their somewhat delicate appearance are actually pretty tough animals and can often survive serious wounds and injuries. That toughness is apparent in a white-tail buck with an injured left front leg/shoulder on which he cannot put much, if any, weight. He was a relatively mature buck when he was first caught by a camera trap above the house, limping along as he dragged that injured left front leg.
The buck first appeared in November 2013 and I posted about him in January 2014, February 2014 and November 2015. He's disappeared each spring, or at least hasn't been caught by a camera trap, and then reappeared in the fall. That he survived the winter of 2014-15 with its prolonged cold in view of his injury was surprising. Each time he's disappeared we figure we'll never see him again – perhaps shot by a hunter, taken down by free-roaming dogs or a coyote, struck by a vehicle, or having succumbed to the cold and snow of the winter.
This so called "winter" was pretty mild – never more than a couple of inches of snow on the ground at any one time and only a few days of temperatures below 10° F and most local wildlife had a pretty easy time. And so, it wasn't as amazing this time that the injured buck has reappeared; it's probably due to the easy winter that the injured white-tail buck is still alive.
The buck appears to be in better condition than some other deer we see near the house. Here he is, without his antlers, as he was caught on a camera trap in early March. As he passed the camera trap, he was moving slowly giving the camera time to take three photos while he stopped to bite off a twig to eat –
Only once have we ever seen the buck in daylight, so we'll have to rely on the camera traps to tell us if he survives the summer.
A Mistake Is About To Be Made
An old road runs along the property line of an old farm that has, for many years, been owned by a hunting club; it's the road that I walked on a pleasant winter morning.
Of the club's 125 acres about one third is comprised of old fields on which the members maintain some small wildlife food plots. The rest of the property is covered with a forest of mixed oak species.
About 20 years ago the club had a timber sale throughout its woodland. That sale was set up and marked by a forester and left a goodly number of vigorous oaks in the forest, trees that produced large numbers of acorns in a good seed year. Those acorns fed white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, black bear and smaller mammals and birds.
Unfortunately, the timber sale opened the forest canopy, allowing more sun to strike the forest floor, which promoted invasion by Japanese barberry and its subsequent spread.
As can be easily discerned from its name, Japanese barberry isn't native to the eastern forest. Although wild turkeys, ruffed grouse and some songbirds occasionally eat the fruit, barberry provides nothing for white-tailed deer. Interestingly, although an adjacent property has a deer population estimated to occasionally exceed 40 per square mile, members of the hunting club complain about seeing few deer.
Now, all those vigorous, acorn producing oaks are marked with small spots of paint. It appears that the only sources of food for deer in that woodland are destined to head to the sawmill.
Did the hunting club desperately need money? Or, were they sold a bill-of-goods by an unscrupulous forester or logger; told that the trees were "over mature" or "going back" or that cutting them would produce browse for deer?
In late fall, winter and early spring white-tailed deer feed primarily on acorns and browse in the form of twigs of species that they find palatable. Once those oaks are cut the acorns they produced will also be gone and the barberry will spread further.
The dense shade cast by thick stands of barberry prevents most tree seedlings from becoming established - there goes any browse the logging might have produced. It is reported that barberry actually changes the soil's chemistry and it is well known that forests with a barberry understory have many more Lyme disease-carrying ticks than healthy forests. Soon the property will look like this - a property with an average of 3,500 barberry plants per acre.
The hunting club is about to make a big mistake for their land and their sport, a mistake whose impact will probably last far beyond most of the aging members' lifetimes.
Roosting/Nesting Bluebirds
Last spring a pair of bluebirds spent a few days examining a nest box on a chestnut snag in our yard – but they never did nest in the box and disappeared after a little over a week. Here's my hopeful post.
One evening in February we noticed a bluebird entering the box just before dark.
It was quickly followed by three more. The next morning as we were eating breakfast the bluebirds emerged to perch in a nearby small tree. For the next several evenings we watched as four or six bluebirds entered the box to roost for the night. Occasionally we'd see them emerge in the morning.
Then came a series of unusually warm days and suddenly there were only two bluebirds at the box, a male and female.
The pair has stayed ever since, feeding on the few insects that have been active on the gradually warming ground.
Will they stay to nest? We continue to hope.

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David Bowie leaves wife millions
David Bowie made millions during his musical career that spanned almost half a century! His income came from the 140 million records that were sold, and much of his wealth came from financial instruments from the royalties he received. These were known as 'Bowie Bonds' and they are estimated to be worth nearly $55 million.
Bowie left his children, 44 year-old Duncan from his first marriage and 15 year-old Alexandria from his second marriage to model Iman, 25% each of his total estate. Alexandria also received a property near Woodstock on Little Tonshi Mountain. The remaining 50% of the total estate was willed to his wife, Iman. This includes the apartment they both lived in Manhattan as well.
Bowie also left a generous amount of $1 million to his long-time secretary Coco, and $2 million to his close friend Marion. She was a nanny to his eldest son Duncan.
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Q: Keep Android App running while device is locked as the title says i need to run my app on my android device while my device is locked or sleeping. My problem is that i am logging GPS coordinates and the app stops when it turns in the sleeping mode. I tried to create a service but i really do not understand how this works. I've checked nearly every article i have found on Google or on this forum but the code i have found was always incomplete. I do not want to copy & paste everything i want to understand this. Therefore a complete tutorial of how to run a locationmanager as service to get the current location back would be great :).
Greetz
[EDIT]:
Ok i have looked into the FusedLocationProvider and this is what i have made of it:
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationServices;

import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class GPSService extends Service implements LocationListener, ConnectionCallbacks, OnConnectionFailedListener, com.google.android.gms.location.LocationListener {

private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
private boolean requestingLocationUpdate=true;

private double latitude;
private double longitude;

@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    return null;
    }
@Override
public void onCreate()
{
    Toast.makeText(this, "My Service Created", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    Log.d("GPSService", "onCreate");

    mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this).addConnectionCallbacks(this).addOnConnectionFailedListener(this).addApi(LocationServices.API).build();
    mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
    mLocationRequest.setInterval(10000);
    mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(5000);
    mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
}

@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
    Toast.makeText(this, "My Service Stopped", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    Log.d("GPSService", "onDestroy");
    mGoogleApiClient.disconnect();
}

@Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startid)
{
    Toast.makeText(this, "My Service Started", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    Log.d("GPSService", "onStart");
    mGoogleApiClient.connect();
}

@Override
public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) {
    updateContent(loc);
}

private void updateContent(Location loc)
{
    Toast.makeText(this, "Location changed", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    latitude = loc.getLatitude();
    longitude = loc.getLongitude();
}

@Override
public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}
@Override
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}
@Override
public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}
@Override
public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult arg0) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}
@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle arg0) {
    if(requestingLocationUpdate)
    {
        LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient,mLocationRequest,this);
        Toast.makeText(this, "Started the location update", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}
@Override
public void onConnectionSuspended(int arg0) {
    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.removeLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient,this);
}

}

This works fine and i receive a toast when my app runs in the background and the location is changing. My next steps will be to send the coordinates back to my MainActivity. Is this where the BroadcastReceiver comes in ?
Greetz

A: Well, first off, try looking into the FusedLocationProvider API. This builds upon the new GoogleApiClient and the services offered therein.
As far as tutorials go, I'll give you a brief little snippet.
The basic concept is that you register a BroadcastReceiver in your application that "listens" for certain services. As far as code as concerned, you would best be served by looking this up in the docs or in the numerous examples that the Developers site has to offer.
With the Broadcast Receiver in place, you would then issue PendingIntents using one of the method signatures that requestLocationUpdates() provides.
There are other particulars but start with these ideas and check out these docs
EDIT:
If you're looking to store a lot of coordinates, using an intermediate storage system like a Sqlite database would be a good place to start. If you're receiving to updating the view, then you would have to implement some sort of callback to your activity.

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This Prime Day Sony PS4 bundle deal comes with God of War and Days Gone
By Gabe Gurwin	 July 15, 2019
Sony Santa Monica's God of War is one of the most gorgeous games available on the PlayStation 4, and when played on the 4K-capable PS4 Pro system, it looks even better. If you still haven't purchased Sony's upgraded system, you can currently get it at a substantial Prime Day discount with Kratos' adventure and Days Gone included. This is one of the best Prime Day gaming deals we've seen so far.
The latest PS4 Pro Prime Day bundle includes the 1TB PS4 Pro system, as well as physical copies of both God of War and Days Gone, and is priced at just $350. In the case of God of War, you can choose between a few different visual settings to make the most of the console — if you want a higher framerate, that is an option, or you can choose to have a higher resolution so you can see every tiny detail A photo mode will even let you make him smile for a bizarre Christmas card.
God of War was one of our favorite games of 2018, winning our end-of-year award for Best Game Direction. It is a "one-shot" story, never breaking from the perspective of Kratos over the dozen-plus hours it will take you to beat it. The combat is a major step up from the previous games, with a greater focus on thrown attacks and fighting individual enemies.
Days Gone just released earlier this year, and is set in a Pacific Northwest on the brink of destruction after a non-zombie apocalypse. The open-world adventure features stealth, third-person shooting, motorcycle riding, and combat against humans both alive and sort-of-undead. It offers a more frenetic take on the genre than The Last of Us, and if you want to compare the two, you can find The Last of Us: Remastered for very little cash these days. The Last of Us 2 is also currently in development for PS4.
Though a next-generation PlayStation is in development, the savings you get on the PS4 Pro during Prime Day still make it worthwhile. Multiple big games are still coming to PS4, including Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima, so you will have no shortage of new experiences to try, even as we go into 2020.
If you want more gear during Prime Day, be sure to visit our PS4 page. We also have Xbox One and Nintendo Switch deals.
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Wonho Gives Insight Into His New Album "Love Synonym Pt. 2"
"I definitely thought of my fans while making this album."
Wonho recently sat down with RADIO.COM's Kevan Kenney to share some behind-the-scenes stories of the making of his new mini-album, Love Synonym Pt. 2: Right for Us.
During the show, Wonho replied to some questions sent in by his fans. For the first question, Wonho was asked what his inspiration for his album was, to which he replied, "I definitely thought of my fans while making this album. I was inspired so much by WENEE. So I tried to complete this album by focusing on the message that I wanted to convey to my fans."
Another fan asked about his song titled "WENEED" which was named after his fans. They wanted to know what he wanted to convey in it and how he felt about it.
I wanted to make a track that has a melody that everyone would like listening to. I wished to continue the message of gratitude to my fans by using my fandom name. I'm glad to have my special fandom name, 'WENEE.'
Wonho also revealed his favorite songs from the album: "Outro: And" and "Ain't About You," which features Kiiara. Wonho also revealed that this would be the last of the Love Synonym series as he has another album theme that he wants to share.
A fan praised his customized clothes and asked if he would even make a fashion brand. He replied that he considers it but currently has to keep his focus on singing and to give him time to think about it.
One of many outfits Wonho designed for himself.
Wonho continued to reply to as many fan questions as he could with RADIO.COM. You can check out Wonho's full interview through the video below!


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Senior Design Journey 2022: Saving Lives with an App, Part 1
Tristen Lawrence works on the front-end design of the college-centered app. (Eli Freund/UConn Photo)
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering
Personal safety is top of mind for most college students and currently, nearly 100 percent of college campuses have emergency blue light systems, but they are often spread far apart across campus and have declined in usage over time. Additionally, many incidents require discretion and can't be reported using a blue light kiosk or through a phone call in the moment. And for emergency responders, every detail and every minute counts.
In response to the growing need for added safety on campus, five computer science and engineering students are working with ADT, the most trusted name in security, on their Senior Design project. Together, they are working on a new approach that could help provide a new safety response system on campus saving precious time.
The five seniors involved in the project are Tristen Lawrence, Brendan Henriques, Alex Le, Zhongqi Luo, and Anas Rajeh. While the students aren't instituting the whole system, they are working on the front-facing interface that students, faculty, and staff would see when they're submitting an incident.
Lawrence said that this product will be crucial for any college campus that has on-campus security or police that need information quickly.
"We're delivering a front-end solution for UConn, or any university when an incident occurs so that there's a clear communication platform with all the information needed for a dispatcher to send the necessary first responders. This is truly an innovative solution to 21st-century problems," Lawrence said.
"In a high-level basic sense, it will be a dashboard, and we want all of the information to be easily readable and legible. The proposed technology could integrate with ADT's emergency button app called 'SoSecure by ADT," which is a discrete app allowing someone to report a crime happening through chat, a slider, or a video chat," said Henriques.
According to the SoSecure by ADT website, the app is a solution for people that need to contact authorities, but in situations that require discretion. The app uses tracking technology, and contacts family and close contacts in case of emergency or allows you to send alerts hands-free using a secret phrase or voice command.
With any Senior Design project, teams have highs and lows throughout the process, and one hurdle was learning the different programming languages they would need to build the new user experience.
"This happens with so many projects, but for us, we really struggled with the hurdle of what we didn't know," said Henriques. "Most of us here have never worked with a few of the technologies being used in this application, so we had to learn Angular, Agile, and a lot of HTML and CSS that you don't get in a traditional computer science curriculum."
As for the breakthroughs, a lot of the members of the group had never worked in a project setting like this, so the students agreed that getting on the same schedule, constantly communicating, and assigning specific roles allowed them to get on track and solidify a direction for the group.
"This is my first real project, so unlike Tristen and Brendan who have some experience, I didn't have a grip on all the complexities that surround a project, so it took me a little while to get into the groove, but now I'm much better," Rajeh said.
As for the next steps, the group will be continuing work into the winter and spring semesters, to have a working demo they can test out earlier in the Spring, working towards a completed project for Senior Design Demonstration Day on April 29.
This article is part of a multi-part series on engineering students, and their journey through senior design. Part two of this team's journey will come out in April 2022.


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Q: How to get current time in CP when using Intervals for scheduling I am trying to schedule tasks in different machines. These machines have dynamique available ressources, for example:
machine 1: max capacity 4 core.
At T=t1 => available CPU = 2 core;
At T=t2 => available CPU = 1 core;
Each interval has a fixed time (Ex: 1 minute).
So in CPLEX, I have a cumulFunction to sum the used ressource in a machine :
cumulFunction cumuls[host in Hosts] =
   sum(job in Jobs) pulse(itvs[task][host], requests[task]);

Now the problem is in the constraint:
forall(host in Hosts) {
    cumuls[host] <= ftoi(available_res_function[host](**<<Current Period>>**));
}

I can't find a way to get the current period so that I could compare the used ressources to the available in that specefic period.
PS: available_res_function is a stepFunction of the available ressources.
Thank you so much for your help.

A: What you can do is to add a set of pulse in your cumul function.
For instance, in the sched_cumul function you could change:
cumulFunction workersUsage =
   sum(h in Houses, t in TaskNames) pulse(itvs[h][t],1);

into
cumulFunction workersUsage =
   sum(h in Houses, t in TaskNames) pulse(itvs[h][t],1)+pulse(1,40,3);

if you want to mention that 3 workers less are available between time 1 and 40.


When asked why she calls herself Kaff-eine, the street artist's response is pretty self-explanatory.
"I like coffee, I like caffeine, it keeps me going," she says.
It makes even more sense in the context of her former life – back when she would paint at night until 4am and get up three hours later to go to work as a public servant.
If she saw a wall she liked the look of while walking home, she'd stop and paint then, too – still in full corporate attire.
"You'd only take a few cans, so it wasn't a big loss if you had to drop it and run," Kaff-eine says. She never got caught though.
"Police are not looking for a public servant."
Of all the careers Kaff-eine has had in her time – horse-riding instructor, lawyer, tree lopper and public servant included – street artist is the one that has stuck.
Two and a half years ago she quit her government job, sold her house and turned to street art full-time.
In late 2013 she accompanied a friend to the Philippines for what was supposed to be a holiday. But when she came across a huge, blank wall at the street children's shelter her friend was working at, painting it was a given.
She adorned it with a giant caribou, or water buffalo, known locally as a "kalabaw". Children in the slums at first looked on curiously, then started painting themselves.
Profits from the exhibition will fund two subsequent trips to Manila, where Kaff-eine will work on collaborative art projects with the slum communities.
"They've got things to say, they've just got no avenue to say it," says Kaff-eine, who plans to pay the locals for their work.
It's a hairy endeavour for the artist. In the slums – guns and violence are rife and white people are not.
"Yep, I'm scared," she says. "But no one else is doing it, so I'm going to do it."
"I'm not going to solve world poverty and I'm not a white saviour, but I can paint."


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Support The 519 » Impact Stories » Mayumi: The More We Are Together, The Happier We'll Be
Mayumi: The More We Are Together, The Happier We'll Be
Mayumi grew up always wanting to have children and to be like her parents. After visiting Canada in 1989 in search of new experiences and meeting her husband, she finally immigrated here in 1994. Post-immigration, Mayumi experienced the very real absence of older role models. She missed her parents.
Cut to 1997. Mayumi and her daughter Momo were playing in the children's park behind The 519 (the now off-leash dog park). It is there that she learnt from another family about the community centre's EarlyON programming for diverse families.
From the very onset, Mayumi and Momo felt welcome and at home. Momo was delighted to be among new friends (and toys), and Mayumi got to engage with other parents, grandparents, elders, and caregivers.
"Until then, it was just Momo and me playing together on the playground. I didn't have many opportunities to talk to other parents. I now got to share and learn parenting experiences from others. The 519 gave both Momo and me community when we most needed it."
Going through a bunch of old photos from her treasure trove of precious memories, Mayumi recalls the many activities that she, Momo, as well as her son Tosh got to engage in at The 519. This included a Halloween potluck, day field trips, as well as a family camp close to Algonquin, where Mayumi had her first canoeing experience. Momo and Tosh also enjoyed the spring and summer camps that used to be held at the community centre.
When her kids grew bigger and more independent, Mayumi felt the need to give back and support other families. In 2009, she began volunteering at The 519 and a year later, she joined the centre as a staff member. Mayumi now supports families as a Child and Family Program Facilitator.
"Being a parent and EarlyON participant helped me better understand the needs of other families. It taught me that I can be of help to other families too."
During her time at The 519, Mayumi has learned about the possibility and beauty of families of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and configurations.
"When we come together in community, we realize that the joys and challenges we experience personally might actually be common."
During the pandemic, when families were most in need of support, Mayumi led virtual Japanese storytime sessions. They fostered Japanese cultures and practices through the use of creative expression, family-to-family social connection, social-emotional skills development, and being kind to each other. By celebrating and holding affirming space, Mayumi engaged 4-5 families every week, including a family all the way from Hawaii.
It is Mayumi's dream to see more queer Japanese families come through The 519's doors.
"Unlike other cultures, we do not have a little Japan in our city. It can be isolating, but I want families to know that The 519 is a place where they belong."
From being a participant to a volunteer to a staff member, Mayumi's full-circle moment is testimony that it takes a village to raise a family. Here's to more circle times at The 519 EarlyON centre, and to more such priceless full-circle moments!
For over 46 years, The 519 has been that space, where our communities have gathered, celebrated, grieved, led, organized, and just been!
Help us continue growing together, creating invaluable 2SLGBTQ+ full-circle moments. Support The 519.
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LIVE STREAM: Women's US National Road Championships
by Anne-Marije Rook
Photography by Velofocus
WOMEN'S CYCLING BROUGHT TO YOU BY ORBEA
America's top professional road cyclists are headed to Winston-Salem for the 2016 Volkswagen Professional Road and Time Trial National Championships this Friday and Saturday. The championships are not only a chance to vie for the coveted stars-and-stripes jerseys but also to make a final push for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
We are happy to announce that you will be able to watch the road race live right here on CyclingTips. You can also follow the action on social media using the hashtag #USPRO.
Friday, May 27, 2016: Individual Time Trial
8:00 a.m. EST: start of the men's professional individual time trial followed by the women's professional and Category 1/2 individual time trial.
Saturday, May 28, 2016: Road Races
9:30 a.m.: start of the women's professional and Category 1/2 road race
1:30 p.m.: start of the men's professional road race.
9:15 a.m. EST on Saturday, May 28: coverage begins with the women's professional road race and awards ceremony.
1:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, May 28: coverage of the men's professional road race and award ceremony.
On Friday, the action starts with the professional men's time trial. The men will complete an undulating 48-kilometre (29.8-mile) course along Old U.S. 421 in Wilkes County, 45 minutes west of Winston-Salem. The professional women's race will follow later that morning on a slightly altered, 33-kilometre (20.5-mile) course along the same trek.
The loaded women's field will take on nine laps of a bumpy, 15-kilometre cicruit for a total of 140-kilometres (86 miles) with 1879 metres (6165 feet) of elevation gain.
Already a two-time national road champion, Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans) will be trying to defend her jersey.
Fresh off her win at the women's Amgen Tour of California, Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans) is looking to defend her stars-and-stripes jersey. With her podium finish at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond last year, Guarnier has already qualified to represent the United States at the Olympics Games in Rio this summer so in that regards the pressure is off for the already two-time national champion. For others, however, the pressure is tremendous.
If the race ends with a sprint for the finish, look for Coryn Rivera. The United Healthcare rider finished second at last year's national championships and showed great form in California last week, going head-to-head with the world's best sprinters at several stages of the Amgen Tour of California.
Other riders to watch will be last year's third place finisher Tayler Wiles (Orica-AIS), 2016 national criterium champion Lauren Tamayo (United Healthcare Pro Cycling) if she's not riding in support of teammate Rivera, Carmen Small (Cervelo-Bigla) and any of the Twenty16 -RideBiker riders who will have the biggest team attendance there.
See the full startlist for the road race, here.
Kristin Armstrong (Twenty16-Ridebiker) will be looking to defend her title in the individual time trial. Photo: John Holderness/Above Four Media.
In the time trial, it's back-to-back Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong (Twenty16 – RideBiker) who looks to reaffirm herself as the country's best time trialist and qualify for Rio. Competition will be fierce for Armstrong with some of her biggest challengers coming from within her own Twenty16 squad. Learning from the best, Junior world TT and road champion Chloe Dygert, Leah Thomas and Allie Dragoo have all been putting down impressive time trial results this season, and will be eager for a chance to go to Rio.
Of course, the new world hour record holder, Evelyn Stevens (Boels-Dolmans) is always a TT race favourite, and let's not forget about former national champion, Pan-Am gold medalist and world championships bronze medalist Carmen Small.
See the full startlist for the time trial, here.
Masters and Para Championships
Ahead of the pro competition, the championships week kicks off with the Volkswagen Masters and Para-Cycling Road National Championships on May 24 – 28. All 35+ age divisions and Para riders will race for road, time trial and criterium national titles at several locations. Click here for full schedule of events.
Tags: 2016 National Championships, 2016 Rio Olympics, 2016 USA Cycling National Road Championships, Allie Dragoo, Carmen Small, Chloe Dygert, Coryn Rivera, Evelyn Stevens, Kristin Armstrong, Leah Thomas, megan guarnier, Tayler Wiles, USA Cycling, USPRO


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At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers' journey. More than 150,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them – in ways they may not even know they are at risk – so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit barracuda.com.
Barracuda intel exposes the latest strategies cybercriminals are using to get past email security (Mar 26, 2019)
Best practices to defend against the three most prevalent types of spear-phishing attacks
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 19, 2019 —
Brand impersonation is being used in 83 percent of spear-phishing attacks
1 in 3 business email compromise attacks are launched from Gmail accounts
Sextortion scams, a form of blackmail that makes up 10 percent of all spear-phishing attacks, continue to increase
Employees are twice as likely to be the target of blackmail than business email compromise
Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, today released key findings from a report with the title Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends. Barracuda researchers evaluated more than 360,000 spear-phishing emails in a three-month period, identifying and analyzing three major types of attacks: brand impersonation, business email compromise, and blackmail.
Read the full report: https://www.barracuda.com/spear-phishing-report
The report takes an in-depth look at how these three types of attacks work, why traditional email security can't stop them, the latest techniques scammers are using, and how organizations can protect against these attacks.
A Closer Look at Evolving Threats
Barracuda's research uncovered fresh insights into how these popular attacks are evolving and the tactics they are using to evade detection.
Impersonating Microsoft is one of the more common techniques used by hackers trying to take over accounts.
Financial institutions are impersonated in nearly 1 in 5 attacks. Finance department employees are heavily targeted, as they are most likely to deal with banks and other financial institutions.
The majority of subject lines on sextortion emails contain some form of security alert.
Attackers often include the victim's email address or password in the subject line.
Subject lines on more than 70 percent of business email compromise attack emails try to establish rapport or a sense of urgency; many imply the topic has been previously discussed.
Scammers use name-spoofing techniques, changing the display name on Gmail and other email accounts to make the email appear to come from a company employee. This tactic can be especially deceiving to those reading the email on a mobile device.
"Spear phishing attacks are designed to evade traditional email security solutions, and the threat is constantly evolving as attackers find new ways to avoid detection and trick users," said Asaf Cidon, VP, Content Security at Barracuda Networks. "Staying ahead of these types of attacks requires the right combination of technology and user training, so it's critical to have a solution in place that detects and protects against spear-phishing attacks, including business email compromise, brand impersonation, and sextortion."
Barracuda Sentinel uses artificial intelligence and deep integration with Office 365 to detect spear phishing attacks and stop them before they reach your mail server. Total Email Protection takes that protection a step further, combining Barracuda Sentinel with Barracuda Essentials, Barracuda PhishLine, and Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response for a complete email security, archiving, and data protection solution.
Download the full report: https://www.barracuda.com/spear-phishing-report
Read the blog post: http://cuda.co/35206
Barracuda boosts Total Email Protection with Forensics and Incident Response (Mar 26, 2019)
Automated incident response gives customers and channel partners a faster, more efficient way to find, investigate, and remediate malicious emails delivered to users' inboxes
Administrators can send alerts to impacted users, easily find users who clicked on links, and remove malicious emails directly from users' inboxes
Discovery and threat insights help identify anomalies in delivered email, providing more proactive ways to detect potential email threats
Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, today announced the introduction of Forensics and Incident Response. Available to Barracuda Total Email Protection customers, the solution automates incident response and provides remediation options, helping organizations address issues faster and more efficiently.
Attackers often attempt to bypass traditional email security measures by using social engineering tactics — emails that contain no malicious code, attachments, links, or accounts — or by trying to reuse credentials stolen in an outside data breach or compromised through another threat vector. When an attack like this does slip through an organization's defenses, administrators need to respond quickly.
With Forensics and Incident Response, when users report a targeted attack, administrators can investigate the attack, find all the affected users, remove malicious emails directly from users' inboxes, and send alerts to users impacted by an incident. In addition, discovery and threat functionality help identify anomalies in delivered email, giving customers and channel partners proactive ways to detect email threats.
"Today when security teams learn about email-borne attacks, for most companies, security incident response is a time-consuming, manual process that can take hours or days to identify and remediate, which can often lead to further spread of an attack," said Asaf Cidon, VP of Content Security, Barracuda. "Forensics and Incident Response addresses these problems by arming businesses with the tools and information they need to handle incidents in a faster and more proactive way that can take minutes instead of hours or days."
Wilbur-Ellis, a leading global agribusiness company, deployed Forensics and Incident Response to strengthen email security, and their IT team is already seeing the benefits. Before introducing the solution, the IT team at Wilbur-Ellis relied on users to report email attacks that may have slipped past email security. Each day users reported a few attacks, most of which relied on social engineering tactics, and for every one of those attacks the team had to search through tens of thousands of emails to see if any of their 4,000 other users had gotten the same message.
"Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response allows us to find the emails that slip through the filters and remove them as needed," said Rick Cahoon, Director of Enterprise Security and Support at Wilbur-Ellis. "Knowing who got the bad email in our enterprise is now all in the same tool. When a suspicious email is reported, we can begin to and sometimes completely remediate the environment quickly. We can identify which users received the email, which users clicked on any bad links, and block future emails from the bad account — all in the same interface. Barracuda Forensics is a big win for our IT and security teams."
Learn more about Forensics and Incident Response, now available with Barracuda Total Email Protection: https://www.barracuda.com/forensics
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Barracuda's CloudGen Firewalls redefine the role of the firewall from a pure perimeter security solution to a distributed network optimization solution that can scale across any number of locations and applications. In addition to typical security and application regulation functions, the firewall regulates traffic flows and provides SD-WAN features to economically route traffic across the extended network while improving performance. Replacing expensive, leased MPLS lines with inexpensive Broadband and smart VPN tunnels providing traffic compression across multiple uplinks significantly minimizes WAN cost.


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Improving Students Speaking Ability Through Information Gap Teaching Technique (A Classroom Action Research at The Second Grade Students of MTs Al-Muhajirin Pacitan)
This study is aimed at describing the implementation of Information Gap teaching technique, describing whether or not Information Gap technique improves the students' speaking ability and describing the students' response on Information Gap teaching technique in teaching speaking. The study was implemented in MTs Al Muhajirin at the second grade, using action research. The researcher took 40 students as the subject of the research. The researcher teaches speaking English using Information Gap method. To find the results, the researcher got the information from the students' answers on oral test in the form of pre-test and post-test. The result of the research using information gap shows that, the researcher used the CAR (Class Action Research) principle to collect the data. The study consist of two cycles with each cycle consist of four elements. By implementing Information Gap technique in teaching speaking, the students have chance to be active and cooperative in teaching speaking. The mean of pre-test is 68,7, post-test is 71,6 and the improvement result of the implementation is 2,9. The students' responses are positive. Most of the students said that they great this technique. They could easily learn English speaking. The students admitted that their speaking was improved.
Information Gap technique, speaking ability, class room action research, teaching speacking, high school student.
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The search for Anne Perry
Dr Joanne Drayton discusses her biography of crime writer Anne Perry, better known in New Zealand as the convicted muderer Juliet Hulme.
On 22 June 1954, Juliet Hulme and her friend Pauline Parker, set out for an afternoon in Victoria Park, Christchurch with Pauline's mother, Honora Parker. For Honora, the walk ended with her murder. Juliet and Pauline were subsequently tried in a sensational court case that was widely covered by the press in New Zealand and overseas.
Having been found guilty, Juliet spent five and a half years in prison. On her release she changed her name, left New Zealand and disappeared from view. Then Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) changed everything. With interest in the murder reignited, journalists managed to track down Juliet Hulme, who was now living under the name of Anne Perry – and leading a successful life as a bestselling crime fiction writer (she's sold more than 25 million copies of her books).
While Anne's identity has been revealed to the world for some years now, she has never spoken to a biographer about her life in-depth. However, in a ground-breaking move, the famously private Perry agreed to be interviewed by Joanne Drayton, allowing her unparalleled access to her friends, relatives, colleagues and archives. This unique access has resulted in the first comprehensive biography of Anne Perry, bringing together the two somewhat incompatible lives of Juliet Hulme the murderer, and Anne Perry the bestselling author in a literary biography with a twist.
This seminar was presented on 5 September 2012.
Copyright 2012 Manatū Taonga. All rights reserved.


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WTF is wrong with Obsidian?
So, my question for today is a very profound one, and one that carries a lot of meaning to me, personally, and especially from a game developer studio perspective: What's wrong with Obsidian?
Everything starts with Black Isle and Fallout, which (if you're aware of the story around the production) was a general huge mother****ing mess. After Black Isle was shot down, the general messiness seemed to follow with Troika games, who made a couple of brilliant yet very flawed games. After that, the legacy, thanks to a few key individuals and their ideals, was transferred into what is today Obsidian.
Now, as a disclaimer, I have to say, I love everything created by these guys: Black Isle Studios, Troika and Obsidian. BI's slogan: "By gamers, for gamers" is still something I keep as an inspiration very close to my heart every single day (as an unknown amateur developer), and what they created is simply beautiful. However, everything created by this troupe and their derivatives has always been somehow fundamentally wrong: bugged as hell, imbalanced as foobar, illogical as hell.
There is something wrong with the communication between the designers and the coders in Obsidian?
Because at many times it seems I'm playing a game with a beautifully designed world with lots of content and shreds of the designers souls visibly poured into every single detail, yet at other times I'm stumbling upon the very simplistic, childish even, mistakes that could be repaired with some simple programming with a little bit of forethought. Are you guys talking? Is there something between, even though this time (PoE) you were independently funded, and no publisher has a **** to say about yoru game? What's the problem?
Now, I'm not blaming anyone, I'm simply tryng to inquire some details about your methods into developing games, and whether there'd be something to improve. No doubt I'm going to get a generic response of "yes, we're constantly improving our methods and processes in all areas", but what I'm really interested in is the actual schizms between the programmers and the designers, since that's what I think is the main reason for this outcome.
Anyway, while any perspectives are welcome, obviously I'd rather take on some pov's from the crew.
You can't predict every complication (and mistakes happen fast), nor is it easy to test because these games tend to be big.
On that note look at the short games Dungeon Siege III and South Park which were pretty solid.
Well, I don't think BIG is the answer to everything, since they should have plenty of experience from BIG. Of course it probably has an impact on things, but regardless, it's not the only factor. At least that's my theory.
Edit: DS3 and South Park also had their share of problems on launch, albeit not quite as big.
DsIII's biggest problem was that you couldn't set keybindings and that wasn't a bug. South Park I wouldn't say was buggier than your usual modern release. Worst offenders were a bit of stuttering on consoles and two issues that prevented achievements IIRC.
What mistakes are you referring to ?
Because there were bugs to be fixed."
Obsidian's only problem, is that their product attracts know-it-all critics.
Oh yes, that's because of having overly high expectations they're sometimes also being over-critized, but I guess that's just a part of their charm.
Well, for example, there seems to be consistently something broken in their itemization system. I'm not sure if it's a database problem, or something inherently problematic with RPG's (you should be able to know what kind of DB works after a few games...), let alone the quest systems which are always broken. In some cases the merit goes to another party (e.g. Bethesda @ Fallout: NV), but at other times, there seems to be not much anything to blame. Maybe their proprietary engine is very good at that stuff, which would kind of explain why DS3 received very little critique in that area, regardless of the solution in Onyx engine it feels a bit weird they couldn't have ported it to work with unity. My guess is it just wasn't good enough for what PoE required and they had to make (at least some parts of it) anew.
how could you POSSIBLY have overly high expectations of a dev studio that has always failed your expectations .
upon stumbling across this statement i found it very simplistic, a mistake that could have been repaired by even a child. For children are renowned for having the logical sense to understand how illogically baffling this Janus of a backer is.
They make huge games with complex rule systems. This combination makes their games virtually impossible to fully validate before the release. It's not specific to Obsidian: if you look at, say Bioware and the Baldur's Gate series, there was plenty of broken quests and item glitches there too. In fact, IIRC, even after all of the patches, there was a mod called Baldurdash or something like that which fixed a slew of bugs that Bioware didn't consider important enough to bother with.
EDIT: But I definitely see ToEE influence in combat i.e. over-engineered, unforgiving, hard-core combat mechanics. Which is fine.
Also I think I know what you mean with the other ToEE influences, but those are really up to taste, not necessarily about neither improvement nor retrogression.
..., but those are really up to taste, not necessarily about neither improvement nor retrogression.
Agreed. I prefer a simple foundation for RTwP combat systems (SWKotOR, NwN) but I can enjoy the more complex ones and grow fond of them as well.
your a fan of troika and you ask this question.
I've played for 50 hours and encountered only one bug (certain SFX not triggering properly). Comparing that to my experience with KOTOR2 (ran into a game-breaking bug requiring I start over from the beginning... twice, among other issues) and New Vegas (which is so buggy I've never been able to go more than 10 hours with a save being irrevocably broken), I don't find the need to be very critical of Eternity. Insofar as I have seen, it is--by far--the most stable game they've ever produced.
Consider yourself lucky. I needed to edit my savegame to continue through Raedric's Hold (ran into a game-breaking black screen).
Like others already wrote... Obsidian makes complex games usually with lots of Choice&Consequences. You can't compare this to a Mass Effect, where all but very few actions lead to the same result. It's really not the same. If you look closely, you can see that Obsidian is trying to streamline their processes to produce as little bugs as possible (just look at how games like Fallout and Arcanum are structured and how e.g. Dungeon Siege 3 is), but still it is impossible to work 100% bugfree due to all the possible variations that can happen.
"Too much avacado and sunshine, in my professional opinion"
I was struggling to understand ths until I noticed you are from Finland. And having been educated solely by mkreku in this respect I am convinced that Finland essentially IS the wh40k universe.
The Temple of Elemental Evil had a very bad UI. You had to repeatedly keep clicking just to know what you options were. If this is the sort of thing you're criticizing Obsidian for, I'm glad they're not listening to you.
Raedric's hold bug was about critical as it gets, and looking at the tech support forum it seems quite a few had it, and that's just those bothering to write on forums - not everyone doe. Then there's, broken stats buffs (bonuses accumulate), broken items etc. Granted, it could be worse.
I never said it's easy to make this kind of game. I said some of the problems appear like they'd be very easy to fix, and in fact prevent alltogether with a bit oversight when designing the software. And my question was more to propose my theory that designer and coder talent don't quite mix well in Obsidian. You see, ideally you'd have designers who are coders. That way they can code themselves whatever they design, but nowadays that usually isn't the case, unless we're talking about smaller indie studios. Anyway, i'm not pointing fingers at anyone, but even though I really appreciate the guys, I think I still have the right to question their products and critique them, no?
I don't see how much better it's having to constantly move the cursor bottom left away from the focus area on the screen, then back again whenever you want to point at something. Anyway, in my opinion TOEE's radial menu was a pretty intuitive way to handle lots of menus, at least lot better than what this is now in PoE.
You would rather have radial menu's obscuring the combat? And repeated clicking to perform basic tasks? And when you issue orders, you usually have the game paused, so it's not a problem that you're looking at another part of the screen.
You would rather have radial menu's obscuring the combat?
Radial menu is a brilliant design, mind you. Worked pretty well in Planescape Torment and Neverwinter Nights (where it was opaque, even better).
I got a black screen there that crashes the game, so I had to manually edit my savegame files to continue. Don't ask. There is also the Sanitarium glitch which comes damn close to game-breaking and ruins your reputation completely in the biggest town. That's unfortunate considering you need reputation in Defiance bay for at least two things - Eder's companion quest and the premium weapons/amor at the Dozen.
But no, its more important to remove non-issues from the game because some transvestite demanded so on twitter. Go Josh and Obsidian.
EDIT: Not to mention the huge discrepancy between classes. You either take cipher/chanter/druid/fighter and faceroll the game on hard, or you get rogue/monk/ranger/barbarian and get cancer.
Also, the efficiency gap between spells is serious. Some spells are near-useless while specific spells are pretty much required to beat certain mobs.


The world contains more misfits, sadists, masochists, and people who enjoy fighting than we sometimes like to suppose. How else can one explain the fact that the French Foreign Legion is heavily overrecruited? In an age when most of the world's armies strive to make military service a less bestial and more enlightened experience than it used to be, the Legion still drives its trainees to scrub floors manically, fold kit and uniforms with obsessive precision, and march, march, march.
It is always being drummed into the legionnaire that he is intended for nothing else in this world except for marching. If the pangs of hunger are gnawing at his stomach or thirst parches his tongue, that is so much the worse for him, but it is no reason for his not marching on! He may be tired, dead tired, completely exhausted—but he must not stop marching. If his feet are bleeding and the soles burn like fire, that is very sad—but the marching pace must not be slackened. The sun may burn till his senses are all awhirl, he must go on.
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The Legion is the strangest thing ever thought up in the mind of man. In my room…there is myself, an Irishman; and my next neighbour is an American; and the other inhabitants include an ex-officer of [a] So. American Republic, who came specially over…for the war, and is my greatest friend, a Dutch solicitor, a Russian Jew, three Cossacks, two Italians, a student from a Russian university, an Englishman who has always been resident in Paris and can hardly speak English, a Spaniard, and other mysterious individuals whose identity is absolutely hid.


We have begun the organization and resource for equipping and training people in truth and love in varying context of life, Telos Center. The phrase is a purposeful and instructional phrase to capture the biblical pattern of what is to happen to any of us when listening and learning from God, his word, and living in the world. We want to provide helpful resources that reveal, affirm, and exemplify God's work on us to live for him in real life. Therefore, what finishes (telos) our hearts aims (telos) our life.
We hear Christ's words on the cross "it is finished (telos)" as essential and affective for life, relationships, truth, and love (c.f. John 19:30). Paul later affirms that Christ's finished work on the cross also finishes (satisfies, completes, identifies) hearts to then make our life goals and central aim to love God and others (ie: make and train disciples) in 1 Timothy 1:5. God reveals that he humbles people to listen and learn, and as this happens, people affirm truth and transform to be loving. God's work becomes evident in the world and in our life.
Ultimately, we see Christ Jesus as the epicenter of God's word, his works, history, and life. As such, God calls us to trust him as more important than our own life, and he describes those trusting him as his church, which is a word with varying definitions but primarily used to describe God's people in any and all generations to live for his purposes and glory. So as the church is people who live for God, this includes parts of life being affecting such as church communities, pastoring, parenting, friendships, education, economics, government, and so on.
Learn about Telos Center and the varying training contexts, including Telos Media, which is an aggregate of helpful online resources that will grow to include audio, visual, video, articles, research, authors, books, and anything to help teach and train people to trust Christ and trust him wholly, fully, and solely as more important than their own or others. Begin with the initial Telos Media blog resource, which includes initial series on Inspirational Teachers Series, Bible Places Pictorial Library, and suggested books to read.


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Q: Emacs like strict auto-indent in vim Emacs, while editing a C file, forces me to follow a particular indentation. When I press tab on an incorrectly indented line, it corrects the indentation. I want this behaviour from my vim editor. Till now I have done the following :

set cindent
set smartindent
set autoindent
set expandtab
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set cinkeys=0{,0},:,0#,!,!^F

in my .vimrc file. However, I am not achieving the same emacs-like forced effect as I want.
Is it possible at all in vim ?

A: The == command is what you want, if I understand you correctly. It reindents the current line according to syntax rules.
As for binding it to tab, that's certainly possible, but I have not done that and am not completely sure as to how you can catch the right moment when it should actually insert the tab and when it should reindent.
Personally, I find it less confusing to just press ==. = accepts a range even, so you can go into visual mode, make a selection and tap = and the region will be reindented.

A: 'smartindent' is obsolete.  There's really no reason you need to have that in your vimrc.
'cindent' overrules 'smartindent', so setting both in your vimrc is pointless.  Setting 'cindent' in your vimrc isn't very useful either, since it only really works well on C-like languages.
filetype indent on will enable the filetype-specific indentation plugins (c.f., the indent directory under $VIMRUNTIME).  That paired with 'autoindent' at least gives you basic automatic indentation support regardless of what filetype you're editing.
If you want to add indent settings for a specific filetype, you can create your own indent script in ~/.vim/indent/<filetype>.vim, or ~/.vim/after/indent/<filetype>.vim if you're augmenting an existing system-wide indent script.
As the settings you posted show, pressing Ctrlf in insert mode will do what Emacs does when you press Tab.  This is described at :help indentkeys-format.  'cinkeys' is used when 'cindent' is enabled and 'indentexpr' is empty.  'indentkeys' is for the reverse.  It's just a slight change to modify the setting so Tab can be used in place of/in addition to Ctrlf.
On a final note, I'd recommend learning your way around Vim's help.  It's very thorough and easy to use once you figure things out.  :help usr_toc is a good place to start for user-level documentation.  :help describes some of the basic about navigating the help, how to search for topics, etc.


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Bobby Hackett Biography
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Born Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett on January 31, 1915; died June 7, 1976; one of nine children raised in Providence, Rhode Island.
Bobby Hackett, whose music career was generally influenced by Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, had a very mellow tone and style to his playing, which was in stark contrast to the other dixieland players of his time. When he started his musical career, he was given the name, "The New Bix," because he sounded very much like Bix Beiderbecke. It would be difficult to label Hackett's music, because his style was so diverse; he played dixieland, swing, and traditional pop. His own career influenced many artists, including Ruby Braff, Miles Davis, and Wild Bill Davison. Other artists that are comparable to Hackett in his time were Charlie Barnet, Ruby Braff, James Dapogny, Al Hirt, Harry James, Yank Lawson, Joe Newman, Bob Scobey, Warren Vache, Bob Wilber, and Ron Altbach.
Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett was born on January 31, 1915 and died June 7, 1976 at the age of 61. He was one of nine children, and he grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. When he was a young boy, he learned how to play the ukulele, guitar, violin, and cornet. He never finished high school, for he left after his first year to play in a band that frequented a Chinese restaurant in Port Arthur. His guitar playing was featured often on Providence radio when he performed at the Rhodes and Arcadia ballrooms. Early in his career, he started playing for the Cab Calloway Band when he was asked to fill in for an absent member. He also played with the Herbie March Orchestra in Syracuse, New York. He was generally characterized as being a very easy going and gentle man, and one of the jazz world's most renown artists.
New England was Hackett's home, and he spent almost all of his career there. While he played with Payson Re's band in 1933, he met Pee Wee Russell on Cape Cod. Russell recruited Hackett to play for Teddy Roy's band at a speakeasy called the Crescent Club in Boston. In 1934 Hackett and Johnny Crandon, who was a Harvard Medical Student and band drummer, formed The Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra to play at colleges in New England on weekends. The band, made up of four professional musicians and four medical students, traveled all over New England. Hackett then went on to receive his union card and lived in the area from 1935 to 1936.
While living in New England, Hackett formed his own band. In the year of 1936, he was primarily playing the cornet. He formed a dixieland band to play in Boston at a well-known night club called The Theatrical Club. He asked Teddy Roy, Roger Malencourt, Russ Isaacs, Pat Barbara, Billy Wiles, and Brad Gowans to join him. The band was extremely successful, and it caught the ear of George Frazier, a very well known music reviewer. Riches soon fell on the owners of The Theatrical Club, for thousands of people heard Hackett and his band play great jazz and dixie. The club grossed over $1 million in 1937, a rather large sum in its day.
However, the band's success was slow to spread to other regions of the country. When they tried to see what success it would have in New York, they could not find any work. Nevertheless, to make a living again, Hackett decided to join the Condon-Marsala Band at the Hickory House in New York. He was so successful there that he went on to regularly perform in Greenwich Village at a nightclub spot called Nicks.
Yet Nicks was not the end of the road for Hackett; he then became a member of the Carnegie Hall Concert in which Benny Goodman performed the famous "I'm Coming Virginia." At this point, Hackett started to record a number of songs with Eddie Condon and his band The Windy City Seven for the record company Commodore. In addition to being part of The Windy City Seven, he was a member of the Lanin Orchestra. Hackett also continued his professional relationships with Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden, and Teddy Wilson.
In 1939 it seemed that Hackett's professional musical career would place him into large sums of money. He received strong support from the record company MCA to form his own band under their label. Almost overnight, the promise of big money eluded him, as the honeymoon with MCA was short lived. Despite playing at New York's World Fair, the Ben Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia, and the Famous Door, along with numerous recordings, the band was unprofitable within six months of its inception. Amazingly, Hackett also found himself owing MCA $3,000. At this time, Hackett had sights of marrying his childhood sweetheart, yet his poor financial situation prevented him from doing so. He opted to take a job with the group The Musical Knights, which allowed him to spend a great deal of time on Nantucket Island. A high point in his career came in 1940 when he recorded the soundtrack for the film Second Chorus, which starred famous dancer and actor Fred Astaire.
Hackett's fortunes would soon turn for the better in the early 1940s. In 1941, he joined the Glenn Miller band. However, he had a terrible time trying to play the cornet due to the dental problems he was experiencing at the time. To compensate for his inability to play wind instruments, he settled on playing the guitar. At this time, Glenn Miller joined the Air Corps in 1942. Meanwhile, Hackett decided to accept a studio job with NBC. He played with Louis Armstrong and the Condon Gang for about a year, and then performed with the Casa Loma Orchestra until 1946, when he formed a new association with ABC, which would last for 15 years. Hackett also continued to play around New York. One of the most notable times in his career was when he had to help lead Louis Armstrong's band during the May 1947 NYC Town Hall Concert. Armstrong was suffering from an ulcer, and the band prospered under Hackett's leadership.
Between 1949 and 1951, television started to become a heavy influence in America, and it proved to be a great advancement for the music industry. Hackett began recording music for Jackie Gleason's production Music For Lovers. He was also on other television shows. His music could be heard in many arenas, some of which were modern for the day, such as supermarkets, department stores, and elevators. The smooth sounds of his cornet playing attracted many followers.
In 1957, Hackett created a sextet that toured the United States and Canada. The band recorded The Gotham Jazz Scene, Jazz Ultimate, and Coast Concert. They were also recorded live at The Embers in 1957. Into the early 1960s, Hackett bands recorded for Columbia and Epic. While his band continued to play constantly on Cape Cod, he also joined Benny Goodman in 1963. He gained much success from being in constant demand from many well known vocalists such as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Maxine Sullivan, and Lee Wiley. Later, he also recorded some records for the Verve label.
Finally in 1971, he made Cape Cod his real home. At this time, he also extensively traveled to Japan and Europe to perform. He also formed his own record company while on Cape Cod called Hyannisport Records. One of his most enjoyable times was in 1975 when he was a regular jazz performer at Disney World.
Hackett died of a heart attack in 1976. A former manager of the Hackett band, Jack Bradley, asked the leader of The Clam Shack Serenaders, Gordon Brooks, to play the song "More Than You Know," at his gravesite. Today, that tradition continues every year on June 7 at the Chatham Cemetary. On June 2, 1996, the Cape Cod Jazz Society presented, "I Remember Bobby," which was a memorable tribute to Hackett's enormous career. His life spanned a time when jazz in America was king, and he was everywhere in the middle of it.
by Bill Bennett
Bobby Hackett's Career
Played with Payson Re's band, 1933; joined the Condon-Marsala Band at the Hickory House in New York; member of the Carnegie Hall Concert; recorded many songs with Eddie Condon and his band The Windy City Seven; member of the Lanin Orchestra; Joined the Glenn Miller band; played with Louis Armstrong and the Condon Gang; played with Casa Loma Orchestra until 1946; recorded music for Jackie Gleason's production Music for Lovers; formed his own record company called Hyannisport Records; played under eleven record labels, including Okeh, Commodore, Columbia, Epic, Capitol, Sesac, Verve, Project 3, Chiaroscuro, Flying Dutchman, and Honey Dew.
You Stepped Out Of A Dream, 1943.
Off Minor (Jack Teagarden), 1943.
String Of Pearls, 1943.
Vol. 2 - Live At The Roosevelt, 1943.
Jazz In New York, 1943.
And His Orchestra, 1943.
Vol. 2 - Dr. Jazz Series, 1952.
Live At The Roosevelt Grill, 1970.
What A Wonderful World (W/Teresa Brewer), 1973.
Balliett, W., More Ingredients, American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits In Jazz, (NY: Oxford University Press, 1996) pp. 143-51.
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Stokes, W.R., Swing Era New York: Featuring The Jazz Photography of Charles Peterson, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).
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Cape Cod Standard Times, June 1, 1996.
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I CONSIDER BOBBY HACKETT ONE OF THE BEST CORNET PLAYER AS WELL AS A VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE AND WELL ROUND JAZZ MUSICIAN. HIS MELLOW SOUND STILL REMAINS A FAVORITE FOR OLDER AND YOUNGER GENERATIONS. I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF HIS MUSIC SINCE I WAS IN CUBA.


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