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Roger Shepherd interview, 1997
John Russell
Flying Nun
Flying Nun: Getting Older - the 1990s and beyond
Flying Nun - the Unofficial Vault
A Flying Nun pre-history
Flying Nun Records, the Dunedin Sound and the myth of isolation
Flying Nun Records 1981-1991 - a fan remembers the first 10 years
Tall Dwarfs
Garageland
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Headless Chickens
Chris Knox
The 3Ds
Dunedin Double
The Stones
The Pin Group
Sneaky Feelings
Bored Games
Shayne Carter
Doublehappys
Look Blue Go Purple
Hamish Kilgour
The Gordons
Bailterspace
King Loser
Loves Ugly Children
The Verlaines
The following interview with Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd, conducted by John Russell first appeared in RipItUp magazine in July 1997, shortly after Roger had left the label in the UK.
When Roger Shepherd started Flying Nun Records in 1981, he was considered something of a maverick. Here was a young record store manager, not content to roll over and sell the big names from overseas, but more concerned with promoting the cause of a handful of unknown South Island bands and their collection of uniquely New Zealand pop songs. Shepherd displayed entrepreneurial flare from the very beginning, recording and releasing The Clean's now legendary first single 'Tally Ho' for only $50. Soon after, that band's debut EP, Boodle Boodle Boodle, reached Top Five in the local sales charts, kick starting Flying Nun's love affair with New Zealand music enthusiasts at home and abroad.
With Flying Nun, Shepherd not only brought to the attention of the public great bands that might never have made it beyond the garage, he ensured they were given a climate to thrive in. Prior to the emergence of New Zealand's first substantial indie label, few local bands ever recorded a second album. Flying Nun fostered the careers of groups such as The Chills, The Bats, The Straitjacket Fits, and The 3Ds, who all went on to receive international acclaim, after releasing two or more albums each in New Zealand.
More than any other local label, Flying Nun has drawn worldwide attention to New Zealand music and musicians, a fact recognised by Rolling Stone in 1989, when they included Flying Nun in their roll call of the world's top independent labels.
Three years ago, Shepherd moved to London, to continue to promote Flying Nun in the international market. After overseeing Garageland's introduction to the Northern Hemisphere, Shepherd resigned his position at Flying Nun in March this year, in order to pursue a new lifestyle. RipItUp caught up with Shepherd at his home in Shepherd's Bush, on the outskirts of London, a few hours before he left for a two-week holiday in France.
Having been away from the label for a few months, have you done much reflecting?
"No, not really. Obviously I very much miss my involvement with the bands, and being involved with everyone in the New Zealand office, but I think the break from it has been good for me. I'm still at that stage where I'm more thinking about what I'm going to do, and I haven't got any firm ideas in that area. I guess when I do, I'll be a bit more able to look back and have a good view of it all."
Roger Shepherd 1994 - Photo by Jane Alexander
Did you get out of the business with your enthusiasm intact?
"I think so, because I feel as though l'm going to do something else in music, and it's been a pleasure to be thinking about doing something new. If anything, I feel as though I can get back to being genuinely enthusiastic about music again. I'm probably listening to a lot more music on a personal level than I was three months ago, which is good for me."
When a music fan starts a record label, as you did, is it inevitable the business side of things will take over the more fun aspects of the job?
"It's not inevitable, it depends on how it grows and how it ends up being structured. Some people do really enjoy all that business stuff, I didn't mind doing it, but it got to the point in the end where i didn't enjoy it enough to warrant carrying on."
Was it a battle to not get cynical about the music industry?
"It's very easy to be cynical about it, but the bigger worry is being cynical about the actual music, and certainly [in the UK] there's a lot to be cynical about. It's very commercially driven here, very chart orientated, and for someone like myself, who's been doing something in the music business in some shape or form since 1976, everything seems to have come around at least a couple of times. I go and see a lot of bands, and listen to a lot of records that are hyped here, and I feel quite often that I've heard it all before. But I still get a kick out of seeing a band that really surprises me, and that's probably going to propel me back into starting another label."
What do you consider the pinnacle of your achievements at Flying Nun?
"I suppose I see it in quite mundane terms of just being able to help make a lot of that music available. It was a pleasure for me to be involved with those bands and to be able to help in some way. Obviously on a musical level, certain records mean a lot to me; all the Tall Dwarfs stuff, early Clean stuff, and a bit later on The Chills and the Headless Chickens. There's a whole heap of records that stand up as being pretty good that came out of it — I'm happy."
Roger Shepherd with an upside down gold disc for The Headless Chickens' Body Blow album
How do you think It happened that all those key people were in Dunedin at the same time, and involved in that creative burst of the early 80s?
"That whole post-punk thing happened everywhere really. After punk hit, a lot of people realised they could make music, and it was possible to do it in a cheap, affordable way. There were interesting things happening in Auckland and Christchurch, but I guess the focus was on Dunedin, and those people were in that place listening to their record collections, talking to each other about music, forming bands and writing songs, and it just grew. I really don't know what the reason is, probably just chance."
Do you feel there's still a perception Flying Nun has a uniform sound, either at home or overseas?
"That has always been something that people would say in New Zealand, it's not something anyone has ever mentioned to me anywhere else in the world. People's perceptions of the label don't worry me at all, people react to individual records and that's what matters."
Ever get tired of sheep remarks in every overseas review of a Nun band?
"You wonder why people are obsessed about New Zealand and sheep, and it's because it's quite a strange thing that there are 60 million sheep and three million people, that's a hard thing to get your head around. If you're away from New Zealand for a couple of years, you find it increasingly odd."
According to Flying Nun New Zealand's General Manager, Lesley Paris, in 1990, the Australian label Mushroom Records bought a 50% stake in Flying Nun. Three years on, they purchased a further 25%, and in March this year, when Shepherd left Flying Nun, Mushroom acquired the remainder of the company.
When Mushroom first became involved with Flying Nun, did they muscle in and take any of your control away?
"Not at all, it just meant that we had a few more resources, and the bands that had ambitions about doing well internationally, we were able to find the funds to record their records and stay involved with those bands — the Straitjacket Fits, JPSE, The Bats."
With the increased financial resources, did you feel that recording budgets for the Fits (Blow), JPS (Bleeding Star), and The Bats (Sllverbeet) got out of hand in the 1992/93 period.
"There were probably a few projects where the budgets did get a bit overblown, but it all calmed down quite quickly. We're still not talking about huge amounts of money, we're talking about budgets that were quite a bit bigger than what some of those bands were used to, but not that expensive when you look at what people spend in Australia or spend [in the UK]. Part of the problem with bigger studios and name producers is that everyone – whether it's the label or the band — is a bit inexperienced and it ends up costing a bit more."
In the 1993/94 period, when the Fits and JPSE split, and several other bands took extended breaks, did you feel the label was in a bit of a rut?
"I remember being conscious of the fact a lot of the more established bands were disappearing, but I don't remember it being a major problem. To be quite honest, I can't remember that period very vividly."
In 1993, Mushroom opened an office in London to spearhead the Australian label's attempts to sell their acts beyond Australasia. Mushroom had previously enjoyed some success in the UK in the late 803 with Kylie Minogue, but the label's success had waned by the turn of the decade. With the New Zealand wing of Flying Nun having already established a good reputation in the UK and Europe, Shepherd shifted to London mid-1994, to set up Flying Nun UK, which operates from Mushroom's London headquarters.
When you shifted to the UK, in what ways did your perspective on selling Flying Nun music change?
"It's just a bigger place with a bigger music industry, and it takes a lot more to get your message across, to get people aware of a band or a record. If you're really going to try and do something properly in a commercial sense you have to spend money. Basically, you do all the things you do in New Zealand, but the scale is a lot bigger."
What do you see as the biggest problem for New Zealand bands making the move outside their home market?
"It's just the problem of starting again really, I do think if the band wants to be big in America, the band has to live there, or if they want to have a go at doing well in Europe they have to live here. It's so competitive and so commercially driven, and if you're keen to have a career and make some money, you've got to play by the rules. If you move from New Zealand and you're living [in England], you need some money to live on, and unless you're going to have day jobs, you need to play some of the games to get ahead here in the industry."
Garageland were a major 1990s UK priority for Flying Nun
What needs to happen in the UK, for Garageland to have some impact?
"They're getting close to the point where they really need some radio play, but that's something that doesn't just happen. I'd say the crucial stuff that's going on at the moment is getting interest at radio, so when the single that radio is going to like and everything is right for them to play it, there won't be any excuses for them not to play it."
In terms of the European market, is It a better time for Garageland to be there, having a crack, than when The Chills were there in the mid-80s?
"The Chills came so close to being a really happening thing here, they were right on the edge of being a big band, it was just unfortunate that when they came back to New Zealand, the band broke up. It's still early days for Garageland, they've been here four months and they've played about 55 gigs in that time, and they're just starting to get noticed. They're at a point now where they've been around for long enough that people identify them as being a band based in London, which means they're almost British, which means they're almost 'OK', so they can be taken seriously. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next nine months. It's quite weird to be talking about it, because l no longer have any involvement in it, I'm only an observer now."
Also housed in Mushroom 's London office, alongside Flying Nun UK, is the Infectious label, which is home to the Irish trio Ash. Infectious Records is run by Korda Marshall, who in January this year also became the head of Mushroom's British operation. Two months later, Shepherd resigned, stating he could no longer tolerate dealing with the business side of running a label; "I wasn't finding that it had anything to do with music anymore."
Did you leave Flying Nun UK 100% willingly?
"Yes, indeed."
There were rumours that Infectious were Interfering In the selling of Garageland, and that you weren't happy with that.
"No, there hasn't been any problems like that. The Garageland thing is running really well, the guy that's looking after them is very competent."
What are your Immediate plans?
"There's quite a few options, I haven't really got to the point of making up my mind, but no matter what I do I'll probably start another label, and just do it on a much smaller scale."
Will you return to New Zealand to live at some point?
"I'll come back at some stage, but at the moment, I don't really know what there is for me to do. I don't know what sort of job there would be for me in New Zealand if I wanted to do music. For now, I'm going to stay here and enjoy this part of the world, and see if I can get something else going."
© 1997 RipItUp, reprinted with permission.
In 2018, Roger Shepherd was named Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the music industry.


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Concert Review: The Big Small Beast
The big show happened at the Orensanz Center Friday night. Because the night had to end before midnight, it was like the Rolling Stones Revue, 2010 style: everybody got short sets but made the most of them. Spottiswoode opened, solo on piano. He's never sounded better. He has a musical theatre production coming up in the fall and if the trio of brand-new songs he played are any indication, it ought to be good. Intense and pensive, he began with a gospel flavored number, following with one of the best songs of the whole night, a bitter, brooding wee-hours tableau possibly titled Wall of Shame. He then dedicated a passionate ballad to a pretty, short-haired brunette in the crowd named Nicole: "I would follow you to Philadelphia," he intoned.
Barbez have never sounded better either – their set was amazing, maybe the best of the entire night, an offhanded reminder of how brilliant this band is. Even more impressive, when you consider that their van had just been broken into the previous night, most of their gear stolen (Williamsburg bands beware – this is the second one in two days). This was their instrumental set, all minor keys, erasing all cross-country and cross-genre borders with perfect effortlessness. Guitarist Dan Kaufman led the band into a Balkan surf groove in 7/8 time, building to a squall with the clarinet going full blast, down to a masterfully nuanced passage featuring the marimba, then bringing it up again and ending it cold. The next one had a tango flavor, more prominent marimba and tricky rhythms. After that, they worked down from a furious gallop to atmospherics and then more tango, then started the next one with an ominously funereal, minimalist rumble that picked up in a rawtoned Savage Republic vein, ending with a creepy, carnivalesque waltz.
Since Botanica frontman Paul Wallfisch had booked the night, he was pulling triple duty onstage, his first set of the night being with his longtime sparring partner Little Annie Bandez. This was the cd release show for their new one, Genderful, arguably the high point of their career together up to now. The crowd was silent, rapt, amazed – as a raconteur, Bandez has no equal, but since time was tight she kept the songs tight and terse and absolutely haunting, beginning with Wallfisch on guitar and backed by the full band on a wistful, sad version of Billy Martin Requiem, a tribute not only to the fallen Yankee skipper but also that era's AIDS casualties. "Thirty years in business to learn a word like 'monitor,'" she joked as soundman Marco, on loan from the Delancey, made some expert adjustments (big up to Marco by the way – the sound was outstanding all night). The wee-hours lament Suitcase Full of Secrets was poignant and loaded with understatement, on the wings of Heather Pauuwe's violin; they closed with a brand-new song, Dear John, a requiem for a suicide. Bandez looked up, then around at the majestic synagogue facade behind the stage and did a slow, thoughtful 360, leading the crowd's eyes just as she'd led their ears.
Bee and Flower have been conspicuously absent from the New York stage, but they haven't lost a step. Frontwoman/bassist Dana Schechter began their all-too-brief set as chanteuse, swaying and playing shakers on a particularly haunting version of the slowly sweeping, characteristically cinematic minor-key 6/8 anthem Homeland. They picked up the pace briefly with a bouncy number that saw lead guitarist Lynn Wright (leader of the amazing And the Wiremen) swooping on his low E string to provide a second bassline against Schechter's slinky groove. Switching pensively from tango inflections to starlit wonder to a pounding, hypnotically intense version of Twin Stars, a standout track from their first album, the only thing missing was the epic suspense film for which the songs would have made the perfect score.
The crowd peaked for Botanica, who were serenaded on and then offstage, from the balcony overhead, with the exquisive and otherworldly Balkan vocals of two completely unamplified singers, Black Sea Hotel's Corinna Snyder and her equally haunting pal Kelly. Wallfisch had just played keys for Bee and Flower, so he switched to his battered Wurlitzer-and-organ combo and then went into a zone. Guitarist John Andrews blasted out wild Dick Dale-style tremolo-picked passages, playing through a skin-peeling cloud of reverb and delay. He also sang what might have been the best song of the whole night, the menacing art-rock epic Xmas, opening with just guitar and vocals for a Beatlesque verse, finally exploding with a crash on the second chorus. Their opener, the title track to their new album Who You Are (whose release was also being celebrated this evening) moved from stately menace to unaffected, longing angst; La Valse Magnetique, sort of the title track to their previous studio cd, featured more insane surf guitar and a very pregnant pause. Monster surf met Elvis Costello on a pointed, relentless version of the gypsy-punk Witness. There were other acts on the bill, but after a set like this, anything that followed it would have been anticlimactic – after five bands, maybe more (this is just the highlights), it was time to take a break and enjoy what was left of the early summer evening outside.
So sold as we were on this show (in case you were away, we plugged it shamelessly for a week), it pretty much delivered on its promise. The weekly Small Beast concert upstairs at the Delancey – from which this sprang – is the closest thing we have these days in New York to what CBGB was in the 70s, or what Tonic was from 1995 to 2005: the most fertile, fearlessly imaginative rock and rock-oriented scene in town. And from a blogger's perspective, it's a dream come true – for the price of a few hours worth of an otherwise fairly useless Monday, it's an absurdly easy way to keep in touch with some of the world's most vital rock and rock-oriented acts. Shame on the other Manhattan venues for not doing something like this on a Saturday and promoting it to a wider audience.
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The contraband cheese was regularly sold to supermarkets and distribution centers using counterfeit labels.
Just days after Russian president Vladimir Putin decided to destroy all Western-imported foods — some by burning — officials have broken up an international ring of contraband cheese producers, arresting six people.
The cheese smugglers, whose products were valued at $30 million, have been taken into custody as part of a larger effort by Putin to send a strong message about his displeasure over the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and Europe following his military actions in the Ukraine.
Recently, Putin also extended his government's ban on Western foods until at least 2016, a decision that has, by and large, only served to hurt Russian citizens, for whom the prices of local goods have soared.
Putin did make one exception to the import rule, however, to allow for the international sourcing of caviar — though the tins purposely do not note their country of origin, which is Italy.
The contraband cheese ring, meanwhile, has reportedly been in operation since March, and has been producing "a product made from cheese rennet whose import into Russia is forbidden." The cheese was then sold to markets and distribution centers throughout Russia with counterfeit labels.
The government, which has acknowledged the proliferation of smuggled foods in defiance of the import ban, has sought to make the elimination of such goods as public as possible, instructing authorities to document the destruction on video and in photos.


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How live streaming is transforming the music industry…and why that might scare you
By Dave Marcello, Head of Artist Progress
Growing shopper demand for unscripted, real-time performances requires a completely new talent set for up-and-coming musicians.
Picture this: A musician takes a seat, does a fast mic examine, tunes her guitar strings one after the other, organizes numerous other instruments and kit around her, then slowly seems to be up at the viewers to start her efficiency. You're in all probability envisioning a small theatre or perhaps an area coffee store with a crowd of music fans dealing with the stage, ready to sway and transfer to the beats. However it's 2016, and the strains between in-person and on-line leisure have turn out to be considerably blurred. This isn't a live performance in the traditional sense; as an alternative of a stage, the artist is in her house bedroom, and as an alternative of theatre seats, the viewers members are on cell phones and laptops.
Emma McGann broadcasting live on YouNow
Digital video is utterly transforming the approach we view and interact with the world, from communicating with family and friends to retaining ourselves entertained. Cellular video now accounts for over half of all cellular knowledge visitors and specialists anticipate that number to increase towards 75% by the yr 2020. A comparatively new video format — live streaming — is shortly gaining reputation because it redefines the relationship between creators and shoppers.
YouNow is a live streaming platform on which anybody with a webcam or smartphone can broadcast themselves to a massive audience. The location and app boast over 100 million consumer periods a month and 50,000 broadcast hours a day. At any given time, you'll find broadcasts of teenage twin sisters doling out make-up ideas or a voice-impressionist-slash-comedian taking requests from his audience as he makes an attempt new impersonations. Unsurprisingly, lots of the most popular broadcasters are musicians, and YouNow features a real time chat setting the place these artists and fans are connecting in unprecedented ways.
With some musicians making $10,000 a month and others getting signed to label deals because of their publicity on YouNow, live streaming clearly provides opportunity for artists to build and have interaction their fanbases in a singular means.However can live streaming platforms like YouNow really transfer the needle for musicians? Is it only a enjoyable exercise or can it turn into a vital a part of an artist's advertising toolbox and truly create income for the business?
The YouNow staff enlisted Audiokite Analysis to discover these questions and extra in a first-of-its-kind research of live streaming's influence on creators and shoppers. Musicians have all the time understood the importance of creating songwriting expertise, instrument mastery, efficiency talents, and even promotional know-how. However to achieve success in this world of direct and real-time connection to their audience, a brand new set of expertise is required. The findings from this research helped to create a musician's playbook for live streaming success.
The Audiokite YouNow Music Research
The results painted a constant picture: there is an overwhelmingly constructive sentiment from music-focused shoppers in the direction of YouNow and live streaming normally. The info collected demonstrated that when musicians live broadcast, viewers categorical a excessive probability to take business motion due to the experience. Moreover, we found consistency in the rankings of each broadcast activity sort amongst music followers, along with distinct parallels to those of the music creators, allowing us to spotlight the only ways for musicians to utilize live streaming.
Three separate surveys have been administered by which members have been proven numerous YouNow broadcast clips and prompted to offer suggestions. There have been over 4,350 individuals, all U.S.-based and sourced via Audiokite's pre-screened panelist pool.
YouNow Music Shopper Research
Shoppers are more likely to take business action because of experiencing live, music-themed broadcasts. Greater than 80% of music shoppers said they are more likely to take business motion after watching certainly one of their favorite musicians broadcast on YouNow. Particularly, over 86% of fans are more likely to hunt down extra of the artist's/band's songs and watch one other live stream from the artist.
Sentiment in the direction of live streaming is overwhelmingly constructive, notably for its off-the-cuff nature. The "unscripted and spontaneous nature of the platform" is the component all research individuals — shoppers and musicians — singled out as their absolute favorite. The typical score for this aspect is 7.43 out of 10, with 10 representing "Highly Enjoyable". Over 66% of the most ceaselessly noted emotions related to watching YouNow broadcasts are constructive.
Nearly all of the prime rated broadcast actions relate to enjoying music. Three out of the prime 4 rated broadcast actions are centered on enjoying music: "unreleased song exclusive", "cover song", and "original song". The printed exercise to which both shoppers and creators had the most favorable reaction is enjoying an "unreleased song exclusive."
Live Streaming Playbook For Musicians
For a musician to make the most of live streaming successfully, there are definite do's and don'ts that must be thought-about from the start, as the research knowledge has revealed. From the most (and least) in style activities to the expertise and types a performer must adopt, under are some tips for each new and seasoned broadcasters.
1) Music trumps all.
We discovered that three of the prime 4 rated broadcast activities all relate to enjoying music for each shoppers and creators, with "original songs" as the favourite exercise for each side. As a musician experimenting with live streaming, the first actions to grasp must be music enjoying ones. Music is the thread that binds performer and viewers and is the most organic option to talk with followers from the get-go.
"The song seemed good, I wanted to hear more of it. Plus, they were actually playing music instead of talking about it, which was nice." — survey participant
2) Let your character shine via.
Live streaming is as close to a face-to-face assembly with followers we've at present, and that means the performer is extra of a focus than the art being performed. After analyzing hundreds of anecdotal feedback from the research, it is abundantly clear that the greatest musician broadcasters are: constant, flexible, snug with cellular, artistic, interactive, personable, and above all else, authentic.
"I loved the way the broadcaster interacted with the audience and made them feel part of the show. Kind of liked watching her be silly for a little while." — survey participant
three) Be spontaneous…
Intrigue and curiosity seem to be the prevailing themes of the research outcomes. As beforehand famous, "interested" is a feeling most frequently related to watching YouNow broadcast examples, referenced over 7,100 occasions, and the "unscripted and spontaneous nature of the platform" is the main attraction point for each shoppers and creators. Fans are excited by the "realness" of live streaming and musicians should reap the benefits of this unique facet by responding and reacting to the audience's vibe as applicable.
"I really liked the chance to be involved, get to know the artist and actually get live, not scripted answers. It makes the divide between artists and audience seem smaller." — survey participant
four) …however have some common construction to your broadcasts.
Whereas both shoppers and musicians singled out YouNow's "unscripted and spontaneous nature" as their favourite part of the platform, a few of the remaining knowledge conflicts with this view. Again, the prime rated broadcast actions all contain performing beforehand written songs; not much spontaneity there. The third most steadily noted feeling is "bored." Musicians rated "songwriting with the audience" as the second greatest exercise for partaking with their fans on YouNow, however listed seven other broadcast actions they'd want to attempt before it. Absolutely unscripted live broadcasts could be daunting for each musicians and followers. To maintain the viewers engaged throughout a live stream, musicians ought to have a broad plan for every broadcast, whereas all the time leaving room for impromptu actions and interactions.
"The impromptu format can lower the bar of quality. I really did not understand the point of the broadcast." — survey participant
5) Viewers interaction could be a fickle beast.
The three broadcast actions rated the lowest are primarily audience-broadcaster interactions: "guesting/split screen," "impromptu audience topics," and "audience Q&A." "Guesting/split screen" is the lowest rated activity throughout the board and the just one related to an "irritated" feeling. Live streaming differentiates itself by the direct connection between audience and broadcaster, so this knowledge is quite noteworthy. Our assumption is that the 1% rule comes into play right here, the place the overwhelming majority of viewers do not intend to immediately take part in broadcasts, and so most of these actions are of much less curiosity to them. For first-time broadcasters, concentrate on your audience's reactions to most of these actions and think about slowly testing the waters in small doses throughout your common music enjoying broadcasts.
"I generally don't like when streamers interact with members of the audience because it kinda leaves out everyone else who is watching." — survey participant
6) But participation is available in all styles and sizes.
Round 70% of viewers on YouNow participate in broadcasts in some manner. Not all fans will need to sing a duo on digital camera or publish dozens of comments throughout a broadcast. We observed many viewers members utilizing YouNow's virtual presents — thumbs up, ideas, hand claps, even marriage proposals — to precise themselves. Musicians should pay attention to this and acknowledge the have to treat followers individually based mostly on their most popular strategies of partaking.
"I love the idea of being able to influence what an artist is singing in the moment." — survey participant
7) Live streaming is the new backstage meet-and-greet.
No matter a fan's degree of participation in a broadcast, almost everyone loves being recognized by his or her favorite musician. "Chris Williams, iHeartRadio's chief product officer, said that the appeal of YouNow is that it recreates the radio tradition of having meet-and-greets with artists at scale." Musicians should take each alternative to personalize interactions with broadcast viewers.
"It feels like I'm getting something that non-fans are not getting. Makes me feel appreciated and special." — survey participant
8) Combine calls-to-action.
When teen pop singer Jacob Sartorius released his newest single on iTunes, he held a YouNow broadcast through which he prompted his followers to purchase the monitor. He tracked the purchases in real-time and gave live shout-outs to all these supporters. Consequently, "Sweatshirt" reached #10 on the iTunes charts that day. We noticed any such direct call-to-action throughout several broadcasts, which appeared to effectively focus the audience as a single unit. Musicians should take a look at methods to combine group actions like this, whether it's to increase YouNow channel subscribers, vote on their favourite music, or obtain a brand new monitor.
"Live streaming is a good way to get people interested in the rest of the song/album." — survey participant
It is essential to watch that there is a learning curve that comes with experiencing live streaming for the first time. Succeeding as a live broadcaster requires a distinct talent set, and the consumption expertise as an audience member is a singular one. There are points of live streaming to which media shoppers will not be yet accustomed. Most social platforms as we speak are primarily crammed with scripted, pre-planned info sharing. Conversely, live streaming is full of go-with-the-flow moments that might, at occasions, come throughout as chaotic or crammed with too much down time for some viewers.
With 93% of shoppers being more likely to tune in to observe their favourite musician live stream and almost 80% of surveyed musicians focused on making an attempt live streaming, we anticipate YouNow to continue its speedy progress in the music category as its broadcasters increase their on-camera capabilities and followers turn out to be more and more more snug with collaborating in a real-time interaction.
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Home HEALTH CORONAVIRUS FG begins home feeding for schoolchildren this week
FG begins home feeding for schoolchildren this week
The Federal Government says the feeding of schoolchildren at home begins this week.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, said this on Saturday on the sidelines of an event where she opened the distribution of relief items to persons living with disabilities at Karimajiji in Abuja.
Umar-Farouq announced on Wednesday that the FG, in partnership with states, was set to start feeding schoolchildren in their various homes.
It can be recalled that the FG had finalised arrangements with states to to start feeding schoolchildren in their homes as part of measures to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked on Saturday to state when the programme would commence, the minister said, "By next week (this week) we are going to start off with the FCT (Federal Capital Territory), Lagos and Ogun states, then Kano.
"We have done all the processes and by early next week (this week) we will be able to start. The model is to give food ration to the households where these children come from. We have identified them, we know their communities and we know all the households."
Umar-Farouq had earlier said food ration would be distributed door-to-door, with vouchers allocated at specific collection times to avoid overcrowding.
She had also stated that the vouchers would be redeemed at designated distribution centres.
Asked to state the number of collection centres where beneficiaries would pick up their vouchers, the minister said, "We are reaching out to 3.1 million households.
"It is in that place where we are going to keep the food ration that we will distribute the vouchers and then they will come to pick up their own ration."
On the distribution of relief items at Karimajiji, Umar-Farouq said over 1,000 persons would benefit from the support.
She said, "We are here today to start the distribution of relief items to beneficiaries. We have chosen to commence this here because Karimajiji represents one of the most organised and recognised communities of persons with special needs.
"As a follow-up to today's event, we shall also be visiting other communities and clusters of persons with special needs to provide them with the same relief materials."
Umar-Farouq said, "These relief items are going to household members and they have been identified. Each household gets one bag of rice, 5kg bag of sugar, five litres of vegetable oil, a packet of magi, sachets of salts, macaroni, six yards of wrapper, etc.
"In this very community, we are attending to 460 households and that means over 1,000 individuals. We will extend this to other states."
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Q: Reading SharePoint Taxonomy Term Store and getDefaultLabel(lcid) My App reads the SharePoint Term Store and need to get the label associated with the user's language. I get the user's language and lcid, and then I read all the terms under a certain node in the taxonomy using this code:
... some code to get the Term Store, then Term Group, then Term Set, and finally startTerm

var tsTerms = startTerm.get_terms();
context.load(tsTerms);
context.executeQueryAsync(
    function () {
        var termsEnum = tsTerms.getEnumerator();
        while (termsEnum.moveNext()) {
            var currentTerm = termsEnum.get_current();
            var termName = currentTerm.get_name();
            var userLabel = currentTerm.getDefaultLabel(lcid);
            var userLabelValue = userLabel.get_value();
            console.log ("Label=", userLabel, userLabelValue)
... more code ...

In the while loop, I can get all the attributes of the term I need, except for the label. In other samples I found on the web, to get the default label, my userLabel object would be loaded in the context, then another context.executeQueryAsync is called. All that makes sense, but this would induce a lot of calls to the SharePoint server.
But, when I write to the console the userLabel object, is shows as type SP.Result, and when I open it, I see the label I want under the m_value. So there should be no need to go to the server again. However, the userLabelValue is returned as a 0 - obviously, the get_value() does not work. In MSDN documentation, a SP.Result object type is for internal use only. Is there any way to extract the data that it stores?
I have attached a picture of the console with the object expanded, where we clearly see the m_value = "Contrat", which is the label I need to get to.

A: Use SP.Taxonomy.Term.getDefaultLabel Method to get the default Label for this Term based on the LCID:
function getTermDefaultValue(termId,lcid,success,failure)
{
    var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
    var taxSession = SP.Taxonomy.TaxonomySession.getTaxonomySession(context);
    var termDefaultValue = taxSession.getTerm(termId).getDefaultLabel(lcid);
    context.executeQueryAsync(function() {
           success(termDefaultValue);
        },
        failure);
}

Note: SP.Taxonomy.Term.getDefaultLabel method expects  locale identifier
  (LCID) for the label.

Usage
var layoutsRoot = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_layouts/15/';
$.getScript(layoutsRoot + 'sp.taxonomy.js',
   function () {
      var termId = 'dff82ab5-6b7a-4406-9d20-40a8973967dd';
      getTermDefaultValue(termId,1033,printLabelInfo,printError);
});

function printLabelInfo(label)
{
    console.log(String.format('Default Label: {0}',label.get_value()));
}

function printError(sender,args){
    console.log(args.get_message());
}

A: I was facing the same problem and found a solution. Instead of using getDefaultLabel(lcid), use this:
termSet.getTerm(Termid).getAllLabels(lcid).itemAt(0).get_value();
This, in my opinion, does the same as 'getDefaultLabel' but it works. It may cause a little bit more load than the other function but this one works for me

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by liberty · March 3, 2015
Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian, or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in any conspiracy theories? Do you believe we are living in the "end times" or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you are a "potential terrorist" according to official U.S. government documents.
And if you are a "terrorist, "that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay. So if you belong to a group of people who are now being referred to as "potential terrorists," please don't take it as a joke. The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them.
Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be "extremists" and "potential terrorists" in official U.S. government documents. To see the original source document for each point, just click on the link. As you can see, this list covers most of the country…
1. Those that talk about "individual liberties"
2. Those that advocate for states' rights
3. Those that want "to make the world a better place"
4. "The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"
5. Those that are interested in "defeating the Communists"
6. Those that believe "that the interests of one's own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations"
7. Anyone that holds a "political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable"
8. Anyone that possesses an "intolerance toward other religions"
9. Those that "take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals"
10. "Anti-Gay"
11. "Anti-Immigrant"
12. "Anti-Muslim"
13. "The Patriot Movement"
14. "Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians"
15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association
17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States "are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the 'North American Union'"
18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
21. Members of the Christian Action Network
22. Anyone that is "opposed to the New World Order"
23. Anyone that is engaged in "conspiracy theorizing"
24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
26. Anyone that "fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations"
27. The militia movement
28. The sovereign citizen movement
29. Those that "don't think they should have to pay taxes"
30. Anyone that "complains about bias"
31. Anyone that "believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia"
32. Anyone that "is frustrated with mainstream ideologies"
33. Anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs"
34. Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"
35. Anyone that "attends rallies for extremist causes"
36. Anyone that "exhibits extreme religious intolerance"
37. Anyone that "is personally connected with a grievance"
38. Anyone that "suddenly acquires weapons"
39. Anyone that "organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology"
40. "Militia or unorganized militia"
41. "General right-wing extremist"
42. Citizens that have "bumper stickers" that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
43. Those that refer to an "Army of God"
44. Those that are "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"
45. Those that are "anti-global"
46. Those that are "suspicious of centralized federal authority"
47. Those that are "reverent of individual liberty"
48. Those that "believe in conspiracy theories"
49. Those that have "a belief that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack"
50. Those that possess "a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"
51. Those that would "impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"
52. Those that would "insert religion into the political sphere"
53. Anyone that would "seek to politicize religion"
54. Those that have "supported political movements for autonomy"
55. Anyone that is "anti-abortion"
56. Anyone that is "anti-Catholic"
57. Anyone that is "anti-nuclear"
58. "Rightwing extremists"
59. "Returning veterans"
60. Those concerned about "illegal immigration"
61. Those that "believe in the right to bear arms"
62. Anyone that is engaged in "ammunition stockpiling"
63. Anyone that exhibits "fear of Communist regimes"
64. "Anti-abortion activists"
65. Those that are against illegal immigration
66. Those that talk about "the New World Order" in a "derogatory" manner
67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
68. Those that are opposed "to the collection of federal income taxes"
69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me")
71. Those that believe in "end times" prophecies
72. Evangelical Christians
The groups of people in the list above are considered "problems" that need to be dealt with. In some of the documents referenced above, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups.
We are moving into a very dangerous time in American history. You can now be considered a "potential terrorist" just because of your religious or political beliefs. Free speech is becoming a thing of the past, and we are rapidly becoming an Orwellian society that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended.
Please pray for the United States of America. We definitely need it.
About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled "The Beginning Of The End" is now available on Amazon.com.
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Q: Ways of declaring functions in jQuery I don't understand the difference between the ways of declaring functions on jQuery, and some times I lost some time trying to call a function and it does not work properly because it does not exist in a context. I don't even know if this is different ways of declaring functions on jQuery or if there is other way. Could someone here explain me? I'm totally noob.
    $(function () {
        // Your code
    })

    jQuery(function($) {
        // Your code
    });

    function () {
        // Your code
    }

A: $(function() { })

...is exactly equivalent to...
$(document).ready(function() {
});

This will fire the function the moment the DOM is ready (DOMReady event).
jQuery(function($) {
});

Is the same thing. In most set-ups, $ := jQuery (only exception is in the case of a NoConflict environment). The first parameter of the closure you're passing to jQuery will return the jQuery object. So, this function simply re-maps $ to jQuery in addition to performing exactly what the other did.
The third statement is a simple function declaration, which has nothing to do with jQuery.

A:
NOTICE:  This is indeed too long, but I hope someone finds it helpful.

For starters: $ (or jQuery, they're usually the same thing) is a function. On your first two examples, you're calling that function, passing it a reference to an anonymous function. That's a jQuery shortcut to add the passed function as a "document.ready" event listener (the actual event name is DOMContentLoaded in compliant browsers).
JavaScript has three ways to create functions:
1. Function declaration
function foo() {
    // code
}

In a declaration, the function must always be named. In this case, the function name is "foo".
2. Function expression
Can be named or not. Usually, they're anonymous. They will be considered invalid syntax depending on the position they appear in the code. For example, this is a syntax error:
// syntax error
function() {
    // code
}

But this is not:
// passing a function expression is fine
foo(function() {
    // code
});

This is also valid:
// parentheses make it an expression too
(function() {
    // code
});

This too:
// the negation operator also makes it be interpreted as an
// expression, instead of a syntax error
!function() {
    // code
}

The two former examples are usually used to immediately invoke a function:
!function() {
    alert('invoked')
}();

(function() {
    alert('invoked')
}());

Isolated, without the calling parentheses, they're pretty much useless, as the references to the newly created function are immediately lost if we don't assign it to anything.
This on the other hand is very useful:
// function expressions are fine on the right-hand-side of an assignment
var fn = function() {
    // code
}

3. Using the Function constructor
// This is similar to 'eval'
// the string you pass will be the body of the function
var fn = new Function("return true");

You also said you are confused about functions and variables that don't exist in a certain context. That's because of scope: in JavaScript, every function creates a new scope. If you create a variable (declared with var) or another function (using any of the valid variations above), that variable or function will not be visible outside of the function it was declared at. But they will be visible inside other nested functions defined at the same scope (nested functions "close over" they're outer scope, and therefore are commonly called "closures").

A: Remember that characters in javascript can be variable names. So in jQuery's source there is something similar to this definition:
var $ = jQuery = windw.jQuery;

Where all of those are the same variable. I point that out because $() and jQuery() are both the same thing.

This is actually a shortcut for jQuery.ready() where the argument passed is a callback for when the document has loaded according to jQuery. When you place function(){} as the argument, you are creating an anonymous function, and that is what gets executed when the callback is called.
$(function () {//passing anonymous function
    // Your code
})

This is actually not valid code because it must have a name. It will throw the exception "SyntaxError: Unexpected token (".
function () {
    // Your code
}

A: The third one is a function declaration, which serves to nothing as the function as no name and isn't called, while the two first ones are equivalent ($ is an alias for jQuery) ways of asking jQuery to call the function when the DOM is ready. It's also equivalent to
$(document).ready(function(){
})

See http://api.jquery.com/ready/

A: The first two ways of calling function , are a shortcut to $(document).ready() function. That means that if you call theme inside that $ or jQuery they will execute like that.
Refer to http://api.jquery.com/ready/ !
The third one refers to a normal function calling.
The difference beetwen using $ or jQuery is for conflict stuff with other libraries.

A: In JavaScript, you can pass functions to other functions. When you see something like
$('div').click(function() {
    alert("clicked");
});

you're passing an anonymous function as an argument to the click() method which simply executes the function you give it.
As such, you could achieve the same result with
function runOnClick() { alert("clicked"); }

$('div').click(runOnClick);

A: jQuery is not a programming language.  It's a library written in JavaScript for Javascript.  The rules of declaring a function in JavaScript are the only ones you need to follow.  jQuery does not provide any new way to define functions.
These are not valid function definitions:
$(function () {
    // Your code
})

jQuery(function($) {
    // Your code
});

This is a valid function definition:
function myFavoriteFunction() {
    // Your code
}


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import React from 'react'
import imgSrc from '../../docs/卷首语/1.jpg'
import styles from './styles'

function TopicEntry() {
  return (

  )
}

export default TopicEntry

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In 2019, almost 120 different brewers and cidermakers around New Zealand and Australia have answered that call and created something special just for you. For those brewers, it's an opportunity to be creative, to push boundaries, and to showcase their talents. These beers and ciders are unique, one-off's, limited release, and exclusive in every sense.
Festival Beers & Ciders are served from our two distinctive Husky Container Bars. Lined with 60 taps on each side, they sure are a sight to see. Please note that there is a limited allocation of each Festival Beer & Cider for each session. Some session allocations may run out but the beer or cider will be back for the next session. The moral of the story is… if there's something you absolutely want to try, try it first.
We'll be announcing the 2019 GABS Festival Beer & Cider lineup in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on our socials for more info.


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Advertising & Society Review
The Complex Challenge of Branding in Higher Education: Where's The Pedagogy?
Adam Peruta, Scott Hamula, Diane Gayeski
Advertising Educational Foundation
Volume 16, Issue 3, 2015
10.1353/asr.2015.0016
Adam Peruta (bio), Scott Hamula (bio), and Diane Gayeski (bio)
As universities face increasing competition, they are developing sophisticated branding campaigns but are challenged by credibility, identity, and faculty buy-in. As universities and colleges face increasing competition, economic pressures, and scrutiny by parents and students acting as "consumers," they are being managed more like businesses—including developing sophisticated and expensive branding campaigns. But as they do so, they face some critical challenges. Our own institution, Syracuse University, is now in the midst of developing a new brand and identity, and thus we've been curious as to how this process plays out at other universities.
How do we know universities? Is it by reputation (typically of a few "star" departments or well-known academics)? Is it by their sports teams? Is it by their locations? Is it by a unique mission or a particularly distinct student body? Although a handful of universities may rely on these identities, there are thousands for which their particular niche or "brand" is much less clear. The purpose of this essay is to explore the process used to develop higher education branding and pose some suggestions for models that might be used to successfully create brands that are distinctive and supported internally.
Higher Education Branding: Drivers and Challenges
Until the 1950s, there were relatively few universities, and most had quite specific identities and "target markets." There were old and prestigious universities with classical curricula to which only the most talented students could aspire (Harvard, Oxford); research-oriented universities with strong industry ties (MIT, Stanford); large public universities with commitments to teach and produce research valuable to its state citizens (California State, Penn State); regional agricultural/technical and teachers' colleges designed with specific vocational preparation in mind (Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State, Royal Agricultural College in Britain, and Ontario Teachers College in Canada); religiously affiliated universities (Notre Dame, Baptist Bible College); colleges with special missions, such as women's and historically black institutions (Smith College, Tuskegee University); and small undergraduate liberal arts institutions designed to broadly educate students who are or will become part of the elite upper class (Williams College, Colgate University). In some countries, it is typical for universities to take on nicknames based on their location or on a famous alumnus (e.g., the science university in Strasbourg France is known as Université Louis Pasteur while its official name is Université Strasbourg I).
While these categories still exist, the lines for many are blurred: many small residential undergraduate institutions are diversifying their revenue base by adding online graduate degrees; universities with strong local identities are opening branch campuses abroad; single-sex colleges have mostly gone co-ed; and large research universities are creating smaller Honors Colleges within their campuses to appeal to undergraduates looking for a more intimate educational experience
Although branding may be an uncomfortable term for many academics, the concept of "reputation" is firmly ingrained in academia. Reputation and rankings, as determined and promoted by magazines such as US News and World Report, are associated with enrollment and donations, so university administrators clearly see this as one of their priorities. However, reputation probably only matters to those who make a "top 20" list, and over time, there has been little change in these rankings. In some cases, a strong reputation for a school is based on the outstanding achievements of one particular researcher or lab, such as Australia's Monash University, which got extensive publicity and moved up in its rankings based on its in-vitro fertilization research program; while certainly commendable, this particular leading-edge project could hardly be related to other programs at the university. For the thousands of other universities and colleges that are not highly ranked as elite (or affordable, or as a top party school, etc.) by popular magazines, branding is seen to be a key enrollment initiative.
Chris Chapleo, a higher education branding researcher at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, interviewed 15 chief executives at British universities and colleges and found several challenges to branding in higher education including institutional resistance to change, the lack of a clear...


Abudanah, Fawzi ; Twaissi, Saad ; Αl-Salameen, Zeyad ; Tarawneh, Mohammad B.
This paper presents and discusses the archaeological evidence for Ancient rock art and Thamudic inscriptions from a site in al-Rajif south of Petra in southern Jordan. The site is a large sandstone called Umm Qraieh "Mother of reading" by the local people in the village of al-Rajif. Human and animal figures, inscriptions, footprints and other symbols were engraved on the upper surface of the stone during multiple periods. The paper includes a reading of the deciphered inscriptions and a discussion concerning rock art in general and the significance of Umm Qraieh in particular.


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Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome
Charles A. Galea, Anthony A. High, John C. Obenauer, Ashutosh Mlshra, Cheon Gil Park, Marco Punta, Avner Schlesslnger, Ma Jing, Burkhard Rost, Clive A. Slaughter, Richard W. Kriwacki
Intrinsically disordered proteins are predicted to be highly abundant and play broad biological roles in eukaryotic cells. In particular, by virtue of their structural malleability and propensity to interact with multiple binding partners, disordered proteins are thought to be specialized for roles in signaling and regulation. However, these concepts are based on in silico analyses of translated whole genome sequences, not on large-scale analyses of proteins expressed in living cells. Therefore, whether these concepts broadly apply to expressed proteins is currently unknown. Previous studies have shown that heat-treatment of cell extracts lead to partial enrichment of soluble, disordered proteins. On the basis of this observation, we sought to address the current dearth of knowledge about expressed, disordered proteins by performing a large-scale proteomics study of thermostable proteins isolated from mouse fibroblast cells. With the use of novel multidimensional chromatography methods and mass spectrometry, we identified a total of 1320 thermostable proteins from these cells. Further, we used a variety of bioinformatics methods to analyze the structural and biological properties of these proteins. Interestingly, more than 900 of these expressed proteins were predicted to be substantially disordered. These were divided into two categories, with 514 predicted to be predominantly disordered and 395 predicted to exhibit both disordered and ordered/folded features. In addition, 411 of the thermostable proteins were predicted to be folded. Despite the use of heat treatment (60 min at 98 °C) to partially enrich for disordered proteins, which might have been expected to select for small proteins, the sequences of these proteins exhibited a wide range of lengths (622 ± 555 residues (average length ± standard deviation) for disordered proteins and 569 ± 598 residues for folded proteins). Computational structural analyses revealed several unexpected features of the thermostable proteins: (1) disordered domains and coiled-coil domains occurred together in a large number of disordered proteins, suggesting functional interplay between these domains; and (2) more than 170 proteins contained lengthy domains (>300 residues) known to be folded. Reference to Gene Ontology Consortium functional annotations revealed that, while disordered proteins play diverse biological roles in mouse fibroblasts, they do exhibit heightened involvement in several functional categories, including, cytoskeletal structure and cell movement, metabolic and biosynthetic processes, organelle structure, cell division, gene transcription, and ribonucleoprotein complexes. We believe that these results reflect the general properties of the mouse intrinsically disordered proteome (IDP-ome) although they also reflect the specialized physiology of fibroblast cells. Large-scale identification of expressed, thermostable proteins from other cell types in the future, grown under varied physiological conditions, will dramatically expand our understanding of the structural and biological properties of disordered eukaryotic proteins.
Journal of Proteome Research
https://doi.org/10.1021/pr800308v
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Mammalian proteome
Thermostable proteins
10.1021/pr800308v
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Galea, C. A., High, A. A., Obenauer, J. C., Mlshra, A., Park, C. G., Punta, M., Schlesslnger, A., Jing, M., Rost, B., Slaughter, C. A., & Kriwacki, R. W. (2009). Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome. Journal of Proteome Research, 8(1), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr800308v
Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome. / Galea, Charles A.; High, Anthony A.; Obenauer, John C.; Mlshra, Ashutosh; Park, Cheon Gil; Punta, Marco; Schlesslnger, Avner; Jing, Ma; Rost, Burkhard; Slaughter, Clive A.; Kriwacki, Richard W.
In: Journal of Proteome Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 01.2009, p. 211-226.
Galea, CA, High, AA, Obenauer, JC, Mlshra, A, Park, CG, Punta, M, Schlesslnger, A, Jing, M, Rost, B, Slaughter, CA & Kriwacki, RW 2009, 'Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome', Journal of Proteome Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr800308v
Galea CA, High AA, Obenauer JC, Mlshra A, Park CG, Punta M et al. Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome. Journal of Proteome Research. 2009 Jan;8(1):211-226. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr800308v
Galea, Charles A. ; High, Anthony A. ; Obenauer, John C. ; Mlshra, Ashutosh ; Park, Cheon Gil ; Punta, Marco ; Schlesslnger, Avner ; Jing, Ma ; Rost, Burkhard ; Slaughter, Clive A. ; Kriwacki, Richard W. / Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome. In: Journal of Proteome Research. 2009 ; Vol. 8, No. 1. pp. 211-226.
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abstract = "Intrinsically disordered proteins are predicted to be highly abundant and play broad biological roles in eukaryotic cells. In particular, by virtue of their structural malleability and propensity to interact with multiple binding partners, disordered proteins are thought to be specialized for roles in signaling and regulation. However, these concepts are based on in silico analyses of translated whole genome sequences, not on large-scale analyses of proteins expressed in living cells. Therefore, whether these concepts broadly apply to expressed proteins is currently unknown. Previous studies have shown that heat-treatment of cell extracts lead to partial enrichment of soluble, disordered proteins. On the basis of this observation, we sought to address the current dearth of knowledge about expressed, disordered proteins by performing a large-scale proteomics study of thermostable proteins isolated from mouse fibroblast cells. With the use of novel multidimensional chromatography methods and mass spectrometry, we identified a total of 1320 thermostable proteins from these cells. Further, we used a variety of bioinformatics methods to analyze the structural and biological properties of these proteins. Interestingly, more than 900 of these expressed proteins were predicted to be substantially disordered. These were divided into two categories, with 514 predicted to be predominantly disordered and 395 predicted to exhibit both disordered and ordered/folded features. In addition, 411 of the thermostable proteins were predicted to be folded. Despite the use of heat treatment (60 min at 98 °C) to partially enrich for disordered proteins, which might have been expected to select for small proteins, the sequences of these proteins exhibited a wide range of lengths (622 ± 555 residues (average length ± standard deviation) for disordered proteins and 569 ± 598 residues for folded proteins). Computational structural analyses revealed several unexpected features of the thermostable proteins: (1) disordered domains and coiled-coil domains occurred together in a large number of disordered proteins, suggesting functional interplay between these domains; and (2) more than 170 proteins contained lengthy domains (>300 residues) known to be folded. Reference to Gene Ontology Consortium functional annotations revealed that, while disordered proteins play diverse biological roles in mouse fibroblasts, they do exhibit heightened involvement in several functional categories, including, cytoskeletal structure and cell movement, metabolic and biosynthetic processes, organelle structure, cell division, gene transcription, and ribonucleoprotein complexes. We believe that these results reflect the general properties of the mouse intrinsically disordered proteome (IDP-ome) although they also reflect the specialized physiology of fibroblast cells. Large-scale identification of expressed, thermostable proteins from other cell types in the future, grown under varied physiological conditions, will dramatically expand our understanding of the structural and biological properties of disordered eukaryotic proteins.",
keywords = "Intrinsically disordered proteins, Intrinsically unstructured proteins, Mammalian proteome, Proteomics, Thermostable proteins",
author = "Galea, {Charles A.} and High, {Anthony A.} and Obenauer, {John C.} and Ashutosh Mlshra and Park, {Cheon Gil} and Marco Punta and Avner Schlesslnger and Ma Jing and Burkhard Rost and Slaughter, {Clive A.} and Kriwacki, {Richard W.}",
doi = "10.1021/pr800308v",
journal = "Journal of Proteome Research",
T1 - Large-scale analysis of thermostable, mammalian proteins provides insights into the intrinsically disordered proteome
AU - Galea, Charles A.
AU - High, Anthony A.
AU - Obenauer, John C.
AU - Mlshra, Ashutosh
AU - Park, Cheon Gil
AU - Punta, Marco
AU - Schlesslnger, Avner
AU - Jing, Ma
AU - Rost, Burkhard
AU - Slaughter, Clive A.
AU - Kriwacki, Richard W.
N2 - Intrinsically disordered proteins are predicted to be highly abundant and play broad biological roles in eukaryotic cells. In particular, by virtue of their structural malleability and propensity to interact with multiple binding partners, disordered proteins are thought to be specialized for roles in signaling and regulation. However, these concepts are based on in silico analyses of translated whole genome sequences, not on large-scale analyses of proteins expressed in living cells. Therefore, whether these concepts broadly apply to expressed proteins is currently unknown. Previous studies have shown that heat-treatment of cell extracts lead to partial enrichment of soluble, disordered proteins. On the basis of this observation, we sought to address the current dearth of knowledge about expressed, disordered proteins by performing a large-scale proteomics study of thermostable proteins isolated from mouse fibroblast cells. With the use of novel multidimensional chromatography methods and mass spectrometry, we identified a total of 1320 thermostable proteins from these cells. Further, we used a variety of bioinformatics methods to analyze the structural and biological properties of these proteins. Interestingly, more than 900 of these expressed proteins were predicted to be substantially disordered. These were divided into two categories, with 514 predicted to be predominantly disordered and 395 predicted to exhibit both disordered and ordered/folded features. In addition, 411 of the thermostable proteins were predicted to be folded. Despite the use of heat treatment (60 min at 98 °C) to partially enrich for disordered proteins, which might have been expected to select for small proteins, the sequences of these proteins exhibited a wide range of lengths (622 ± 555 residues (average length ± standard deviation) for disordered proteins and 569 ± 598 residues for folded proteins). Computational structural analyses revealed several unexpected features of the thermostable proteins: (1) disordered domains and coiled-coil domains occurred together in a large number of disordered proteins, suggesting functional interplay between these domains; and (2) more than 170 proteins contained lengthy domains (>300 residues) known to be folded. Reference to Gene Ontology Consortium functional annotations revealed that, while disordered proteins play diverse biological roles in mouse fibroblasts, they do exhibit heightened involvement in several functional categories, including, cytoskeletal structure and cell movement, metabolic and biosynthetic processes, organelle structure, cell division, gene transcription, and ribonucleoprotein complexes. We believe that these results reflect the general properties of the mouse intrinsically disordered proteome (IDP-ome) although they also reflect the specialized physiology of fibroblast cells. Large-scale identification of expressed, thermostable proteins from other cell types in the future, grown under varied physiological conditions, will dramatically expand our understanding of the structural and biological properties of disordered eukaryotic proteins.
AB - Intrinsically disordered proteins are predicted to be highly abundant and play broad biological roles in eukaryotic cells. In particular, by virtue of their structural malleability and propensity to interact with multiple binding partners, disordered proteins are thought to be specialized for roles in signaling and regulation. However, these concepts are based on in silico analyses of translated whole genome sequences, not on large-scale analyses of proteins expressed in living cells. Therefore, whether these concepts broadly apply to expressed proteins is currently unknown. Previous studies have shown that heat-treatment of cell extracts lead to partial enrichment of soluble, disordered proteins. On the basis of this observation, we sought to address the current dearth of knowledge about expressed, disordered proteins by performing a large-scale proteomics study of thermostable proteins isolated from mouse fibroblast cells. With the use of novel multidimensional chromatography methods and mass spectrometry, we identified a total of 1320 thermostable proteins from these cells. Further, we used a variety of bioinformatics methods to analyze the structural and biological properties of these proteins. Interestingly, more than 900 of these expressed proteins were predicted to be substantially disordered. These were divided into two categories, with 514 predicted to be predominantly disordered and 395 predicted to exhibit both disordered and ordered/folded features. In addition, 411 of the thermostable proteins were predicted to be folded. Despite the use of heat treatment (60 min at 98 °C) to partially enrich for disordered proteins, which might have been expected to select for small proteins, the sequences of these proteins exhibited a wide range of lengths (622 ± 555 residues (average length ± standard deviation) for disordered proteins and 569 ± 598 residues for folded proteins). Computational structural analyses revealed several unexpected features of the thermostable proteins: (1) disordered domains and coiled-coil domains occurred together in a large number of disordered proteins, suggesting functional interplay between these domains; and (2) more than 170 proteins contained lengthy domains (>300 residues) known to be folded. Reference to Gene Ontology Consortium functional annotations revealed that, while disordered proteins play diverse biological roles in mouse fibroblasts, they do exhibit heightened involvement in several functional categories, including, cytoskeletal structure and cell movement, metabolic and biosynthetic processes, organelle structure, cell division, gene transcription, and ribonucleoprotein complexes. We believe that these results reflect the general properties of the mouse intrinsically disordered proteome (IDP-ome) although they also reflect the specialized physiology of fibroblast cells. Large-scale identification of expressed, thermostable proteins from other cell types in the future, grown under varied physiological conditions, will dramatically expand our understanding of the structural and biological properties of disordered eukaryotic proteins.
KW - Intrinsically disordered proteins
KW - Intrinsically unstructured proteins
KW - Mammalian proteome
KW - Proteomics
KW - Thermostable proteins
U2 - 10.1021/pr800308v
DO - 10.1021/pr800308v
JO - Journal of Proteome Research
JF - Journal of Proteome Research


Tana Toraja Indonesia, is just one of those stunning places to visit. It has all of the right ingredients: friendly people, tribal traditions, history, and absolutely gorgeous scenery in the mountains. One of the best ways to see it all is to go hiking in the mountains, where you may stumble upon some of the Tana Toraja dead.
If you can arrange it, which shouldn't be to hard to do, then staying with a local family in a traditional house up in a remote mountain village, is great to get a local experience.
The countryside high up is surrounded by mountains, often shrouded in misty clouds, and scattered with small villages amongst the beautiful rice terraces.
Wandering out from your homestay with the local family, you can walk through these rice fields and down through other villages, meeting the extremely friendly and hospitable people.
However don't expect total peace as you will be swamped by the local children! This is not a bad thing though as the children are friendly and playful, and are very happy to show you around. If you get remote enough into the mountains and walk off the main road, then the people in the villages will not be used to lots of foreigners visiting.
If you are lucky enough there may be a funeral ceremony going on somewhere in the area. This may sound morbid, but it is a very cultural thing to witness, and you can expect to feel very welcomed when visiting such an event. All the people from nearby villages show up for the funeral ceremonies.
Parts of the funeral ceremonies will not appeal to some people but you could always skip those parts. Hitching a ride between different areas in the mountains is a good idea. The distances can be big enough, and to save time some form of transport to drive you for an hour or so is welcome.
As said before the scenery is stunning to walk through. Rice terraces descending through large boulders, and often disappearing into the clouds with mountains in the background. You will also pass the occasional cliff carved burial sites and stone monoliths, and plenty of small villages with their traditional houses. Many of these old houses have buffalo horns displayed at the front.
Sleeping up in the cool mountain air with the stars shining bright above, is what you want to get away from it all. Total peace and quiet, with just the sound of nature. Waking to rice terraces covered in cloud, you could be in a dreamworld.
Continuing to walk from village to village, passing all the time the friendly people, you can see the locals at work in the fields, while the children play happily nearby on the way to school.
It's easy to get lost if taking the wrong turn, but that's not such a bad thing, and the locals will soon point you in the right direction again. You could spend as much time as you want in the mountains of Tana Toraja. There are plenty of walks to do, and it would never get boring, given the people, history, and amazing scenery.
Ounce you do reach the more modern towns, you can treat yourself to some local food. One of the best is chicken or pork (pork being the best) steamed inside bamboo with various vegetables. It is delicious!
Many people when visiting Indonesia tend to stick to the most popular areas such as Bali. But places like Tana Toraja are not so hard to get to, and can be a much more rewarding destination to visit. Take a cheap domestic flight from Bali or Java to Makassar on Sulawesi, then an eight hour bus ride, and you will be in one of the most interesting places you may ever see.
Tana Toraja is certainly not off the beaten path, it gets its fair share of visitors. But get high into the mountains and stay with local families and you can escape it all.
Go ahead and escape the usual crowds in Indonesia, and make a getaway to Tana Toraja.


When our kids were young, we took them to Washington, D.C to explore the history and visit the museums. Our son was at a very inquisitive age, eager to explore the places that were not on the map or noted on the guide given to us. It was great whenever an exhibit was "kid friendly" and had a button to press to begin listening to a recorded message about the exhibit or perhaps some of the figures behind the glass became animated with movement. Naturally, he began to look for a button to poke at every exhibit… just to see what would happen. He quickly learned, If I do this, that happens. He noticed another button on a wall, away from the exhibits. He poked the button to see what would happen. We were all surprised to hear the sound of a loud buzzer emitting a warning and people began to scurry about. Our son, however, was delighted that a poke at this particular button started a chain reaction of people responding to the noise that created a movement.
We need to do that. We need to poke a different button. We need start a movement. Like a child that is not afraid to see what happens. We need to start. We need to stop being afraid of starting something different and new. We are afraid of a possible ruckus, we are afraid that our ideas are not valuable, we are afraid to start. We will never know what will happen if we never start.
To never take a leap or never risk is a sad existence.
We can start to bloom wherever we are planted.
The following are a few quotes from, Poke the Box by Seth Godin. Poke the Box is a small book packed with a lot of kick. It's worth reading more than once and sharing with your colleagues or a college student or with your ministry teams. I highlighted these sections in the book and I thought it was worth sharing with you. The above story about my son is true. We can poke a button or poke the box. Either way, we need to begin to start…to make starting as a way of life.


Whilst Tom is throwing darts at an apple on Jerry's head (he even throws one between his legs while blindfolded), a telegram arrives. Though it is meant for his owner, Tom reads it himself and sees that it says, "Madam...In accord with the wishes of your eccentric Aunt Harriet your cat Thomas has been left the sum of one million dollars". Tom initially shrugs this off but quickly realises that this is something that makes him very happy. Jerry also reads the letter and gets just as happy as Tom which confuses him. Tom quickly learns why after reading the telegram again, because the telegram also states "Terms of will specify that all benefits cease immediately should the cat bring harm to any living thing...EVEN A MOUSE".


 Linyi Xingda Aluminum Plastic Decorative Material Co., Ltd is located in Zhubao Industrial Park, Lanshan District, Linyi City, Shandong Province, covering an area of 85,000 square meters. It is a professional company manufacturing high and new-tech aluminum composite products, which is one of the earliest manufacturers of aluminum composite panels in China, one of units drafting national standards of Aluminum-plastic Composite Panel, Aluminum Panel, Aluminum Honeycomb Composite Panel, and Construction and Acceptance Test Procedures of Aluminum-plastic Composite Panel, and a council member for Aluminum-plastic Composite Material Branch of China Building Material Council. In addition, the company has passed ISO9001 International Quality Management System Certification, ISO14000 Environment Management System Certification, OHSAS18000 Occupation Health Safety Management System Certification, and CTC Product Quality Certification, and won several national patents.
The company possesses 7 production lines for aluminum composite panels whose annual output is 12 million square meters. Products are manufactured with the high-purity aluminum sheets and high-quality polyethylene materials, with the combination of advanced science and technology and high-precision devices, which are widely used in surface decoration for interior and exterior walls of large buildings and family houses. It has several advantages such as light in weight, high strength, good sound and heat insulation effects, and easy to be cleaned, curved, and cut. In addition the baking-varnish technology is used in products, so that gas and light pollution shall be avoided. They are green and environmental protection products in modern times. Aluminum-plastic panels of "Baoyi" and "JiXiang New Century" brand pass casual inspection conducted by National Building Material Testing Center every year, so that they are announced as high-quality products by National Building Material Testing Center. The company's fireproof aluminum-plastic panel products have passed fireproofing grade tests of National Building Material Testing Center and Sichuan Dujiang Dam Fire Products Conformity Assessment Center respectively.
In order to develop international market and to protect intellectual property rights, the company explores the international market actively and pays much attention to maintaining and protecting brand image.
Products are accepted by markets widely with good performances and brand image, which are sold around China and in more than 40 countries and regions, such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Russia, America, and Germany.
The company devotes to researching, developing, and producing aluminum-plastic composite products all the time, insisting in high-starting-point and hyper-normal development thinking, creating market demands with brand image, and winning customers' appreciations and trusts with excellent quality and perfect services.


Whilst visiting Canberra, Riley encounters a very jumpy kangaroo that is frantically searching for something she's lost. Bounding around the iconic sights of Canberra, can this roo finally find what she's been looking for?
Tania is an author of both adult non-fiction and children's books. She is the creator of the Riley the Little Aviator series of travelogue picture books, and her latest books include Riley and the Grumpy Wombat: A journey around Melbourne,..
Kieron Pratt is as colourful as his illustrations. He has a great sense of humour and is a 'behind the scenes' kind of person who would prefer to have his illustrations speak for him. Kieron was born in Melbourne and..
This is the fifth book about Riley who visits all the Capital cities of Australia in his red plane with his companions. The series features photographs of each city attraction taken by Tania McCartney with the illustrations by Kieron Pratt of Riley with his plane and the characters in full colour, added to the foreground. This unique style of presenting illustrations and photography together is clever, eye-catching and unique.
These books are ideal for promoting tourism as they reveal significant sites for visitors, with the element of Riley and his adventures to excite and entertain children, while drawing their attention to, and educating them about the significant sights.
On the lawns of Parliament House, Riley and his friends see a kangaroo shooting like a basketball towards a net, from one end to the other. They must find out why. They follow the roo over Commonwealth Bridge where she dodges through traffic and pedestrians.
Below Black Mountain Tower Riley loses sight of the frisky roo but sees her rocketing over the Tower. The jumpy roo makes her way past the Rock Garden in the National Botanic Gardens, past the National Zoo and Aquarium where Riley calls out to her through a loudspeaker. Why is she going so fast?
After a tour, for she's now equipped with a cap, a map and a water bottle, roo catapults from a cannon at the War Memorial. She seems to be in a terrible hurry as she skids across the water at Lake Burley Griffin. The animals hang upside down holding signs that offer help.
A speedy visit to the National Library is followed by a fast pass around Questacon, through the Portrait Gallery and around the National Gallery of Australia. This roo appears to be on a mission. Her stop for a cappuccino at a café at Manuka makes her even more jumpy, for she pushes on non-stop over Old Parliament House, across the lake and right to the centre of Commonwealth Park amidst the flowers where she finally finds 'what she's been looking for'.
'Riley was sitting in Parliament when the thumping first began.
And so begins another adventure for Riley and his little red plane (and assorted friends). There's no doubt that Riley is quite the dare-devil, and he has to be in this jumpy tale as a crazy roo almost comes a cropper with a shopper, is catapulted from a canon, and after a particularly strong shot of coffee, bounces off Old Parliament House.
McCartney's use of alliteration and word play is a joy to read aloud, but what sets this book (and others in the series) apart is the illustrative style. Black and white photographs of Canberra's landmarks are overlaid with busy, coloured graphics of Riley and his madcap menagerie to stunning effect.
Children of all ages will love Riley's adventures. The stories are brief enough, and the illustrations bright enough to engage a pre-schooler's short attention span, while the humour in both language and pictures will keep older kids enthralled. Who knew learning stuff could be so much fun?
Kieron Pratt is a Canberra based illustrator and cartoonist. He has worked for an animation company and illustrated several children's books. Recently he was commissioned to redesign the maps for the National Zoo.


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Q: License plate Detection from car camera I am using Python and Opencv. I am doing a project to recognize the license plate from a car camera.
I have tried to use Canny(), but I still cant recognize the plate.
Here is the frame I captured.

1)
First, I convert the image into gray-scale, increase the contract of color and finally convert it into "edged image"
img = cv2.imread("plate.jpg")
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
gray = cv2.equalizeHist(gray)
edged = cv2.Canny(gray, 200, 255)

Here is the result that what I get:

2)
Afterwards, I try to find a rectangle contour as following, I tried to filter out the irrelevant rectangle by area and length and irregular polygon by convexHull():
(cnts, _) = cv2.findContours(edged.copy(), cv2.RETR_LIST, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts=sorted(cnts, key = cv2.contourArea, reverse = True)[:10]

# loop over our contours
plate_candidates = []
    for c in cnts:
        peri = cv2.arcLength(c, True)
        approx = cv2.approxPolyDP(c, 0.02 * peri, True)
        area = cv2.contourArea(approx)
        if len(approx) == 4 and area <=1000 and area >=500 and self._length_checking(approx):
            hull = cv2.convexHull(approx,returnPoints = True)
            if len(hull) ==4:
                plate_candidates.append(approx)
                cv2.drawContours(show, [approx], -1, (0,255,0), 3)

But still, I cannot recognize the plate. I am looking for help how can I detect the license plate. Thank you.

A: You could use minimal bounding rectangle of the convex hull to calculate the "rectangleness" of your candidate contours (in the latest version of openCV you can use cv2.boxPoints to calculate rectPoints):
def rectangleness(hull):
    rect = cv2.boundingRect(hull)
    rectPoints = np.array([[rect[0], rect[1]],
                           [rect[0] + rect[2], rect[1]],
                           [rect[0] + rect[2], rect[1] + rect[3]],
                           [rect[0], rect[1] + rect[3]]])
    intersection_area = cv2.intersectConvexConvex(np.array(rectPoints), hull)[0]
    rect_area = cv2.contourArea(rectPoints)
    rectangleness = intersection_area/rect_area
    return rectangleness

However in your case this is actually overkill, it's enough to use the area of the polygon — either of the polygons within your area cutoff (the first two contours in cnts) could be used to obtain the bounding rectangle surrounding the licence plate.


Estranged daughter Eva Dienner has been staying with her in-laws, since her husband was killed in a fire, but now she wants her son to meet his maternal grandparents. Upon her return, Eva finds that the man her parents always intended for her is living in their daadihaus and running the dairy farm for them for free, despite her suspicions of him taking advantage of her family. Eva knows she should put the past behind her, but is she ready to move into the future?
In No Place Like Home, readers will get to know Eva Dienner, who is Kayla Dienner's sister-in-law in my Amish Homestead series. I had fun writing another story about my Homestead series characters, and I hope readers like seeing more of them too.