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Q: How to make a timer when screen is inactice show dialogbox? i try to make a timer which detect if the screen is not using then it will pop up a dialogbox. The popup working fine after 5sec but how can i make it only popup one times instead of every 5sec will popup a new dialog box?
timer = Timer.periodic(Duration(seconds: 5), (time) {
  Navigator.of(context, rootNavigator: true).pop();
  print('Something');
  showDialog(

      context: context,
      builder: (BuildContext context) {
        Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 5), () {
          Navigator.of(context).pop(true);
        });
        return Dialog(

          child: _imageslideshowProductDetails(),
        );
      }).then((value){
    timer?.cancel();
});});

A: use
Timer.run(); // it will only run once and will pop after 5 secs


text:
import { MediaLibrary20 } from "../../";

export = MediaLibrary20;

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Now back in the Brotherhood — and unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was — Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams — trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld — Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. When he's told he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed . . .
Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King's throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past, and a very hot, passion-filled future . . . but can his heart let go and set all of them free?
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After Andreea's mom died of COVID-19 in April, the harassment started. Noxious messages started coming in after she wrote a Facebook post letting friends and family know about her loss.One person messaged her to say they couldn't believe her mother hadn't protected herself. Andreea has since deleted most of the other messages, but she remembers people saying things like "I can't believe your mom was an anti-vaxxer" and "I can't believe she didn't understand that COVID could kill you." "Instead of people saying that they were sorry for my loss, they would question my mom's medical choices. It became all about her vaccine status. It was incredibly hurtful," Andreea, a language instructor, who asked to be identified by only her first name in order to prevent further harassment, told me.It also wasn't true that her mother was an anti-vaxxer. According to Andreea, her mom, who was a nurse, did have initial concerns about the vaccine, but after talking with her doctor, she had scheduled an appointment for her first dose. Unfortunately, she got sick before she could get it, Andreea says.[Read: America is getting unvaccinated people all wrong]In 2020, dying of COVID-19 was widely seen as an unqualified tragedy. It was the beginning of the pandemic, when it felt as if the entire world was in a state of collective grief. There was a palpable, shared mourning for all the lives gone too soon: the smiling mothers and jokester grandfathers and so-and-so from church who always lent a helping hand. All victims of a virus, unfurling and cruel.But that was before the vaccines. Before COVID deaths got caught up in a culture war.Now the majority of COVID deaths are occurring among the unvaccinated, and many deaths are likely preventable. The compassion extended to the virus's victims is no longer universal. Sometimes, in place of condolences, loved ones receive scorn.Vitriol doesn't come just from familiar names, but also from strangers. Websites, message boards, and social-media accounts have cropped up as forums to insult the unvaccinated dead. They scour social-media pages for "covidiots" and screenshot their photos and posts, turning them into memes. One Reddit page even gives out "awards" to those who refused the vaccine and then died."A few months after the vaccine became available, that was really the turning point for when we began to see an acceleration in the lack of empathy for those who passed away due to COVID," says Kristin Urquiza, who co-founded Marked by COVID, a grassroots group that advocates for those affected by the pandemic, after her dad died of COVID in June 2020. She told me that even in forums dedicated specifically to grief, when someone posts about a COVID death, often the first thing people ask is whether the person was vaccinated.That interrogation, and the judgment that may follow if the answer is no, has made opening up, especially online, hard for those who lost an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19. "I have people reaching out to me confiding on a more one-on-one level that they're struggling and they want to talk about their loss, but they don't feel safe. They're afraid they will be attacked or they're afraid of their loved one being attacked," said Urquiza, whose organization works with thousands of people across the country. Instead, many obituaries and memorial posts on social media don't tell the full story, referencing pneumonia or other complications that stemmed from COVID-19 without invoking the coronavirus itself. Sometimes, no cause of death is given.When AnneMarie Jenkins, a marketing consultant from Bluffdale, Utah, lost her mother to COVID in August, she and her family didn't mention the disease in their online announcement. According to Jenkins, her mother had a history of lung issues. She also told me her mother's doctor had advised her mom against getting the vaccine. "We didn't want anyone to have an opinion on … my mom's medical choices. It makes the topic COVID and not my mom," Jenkins said. "We didn't want my mom's death to feel like clickbait." The obituary attributes her death to pneumonia and other factors.This is just one of many examples shared with me—there was the dad who died of a "brief illness," the mom who passed "peacefully," the boyfriend who died too soon. Several people I spoke with said they don't confess the true cause of death to others even in person, because they're ashamed, or because they want to avoid follow-up questions, or because they don't want their loved one's death to be politicized and gossiped about.But in private, it is hard for the living to make sense of these deaths. While everyone I spoke with for this story was vaccinated, many had relatives who were still opposed to getting the shots. This can create a fragmented mourning experience, divisions within a family, or even estrangement.All of this takes a toll. In the 1980s, Kenneth Doka, a senior vice president of grief programs for the Hospice Foundation of America and the author of Grief Is a Journey and other books on dying, coined the phrase "disenfranchised grief.""We see disenfranchised grief when a living loved one doesn't feel they can fully grieve because of the societal taboos around a loved one's death," Doka told me. "We see this when the victim is perceived to have had a role in their death, like we saw during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but also with other things, like suicides, drug overdoses, and certain diseases." These sorts of deaths can be met with victim-blaming, a sense that the deceased to some degree brought their death upon themselves through their choices or risky behaviors. Lung cancer is a classic example—one study found that people were more likely to ascribe blame to lung-cancer patients who smoked than those who didn't. "I think the same thing is happening with COVID," Doka said. "But now, instead of asking if the person smoked, we're asking if they were vaccinated."It is true that unvaccinated people are at greater risk of getting COVID, and of infecting others. It's also true that unvaccinated patients dominate hospitals, which have been stretched thin for a long time by the pandemic. Some vaccinated people, stressed and angry about living through a pandemic for nearly two years with no clear end in sight, have understandably become more and more frustrated with those who refuse to get or deny the efficacy of the vaccines. But it's not true that every unvaccinated person is an anti-vaxxer. And every preventable COVID death is still a deeply personal loss for someone. In some cases, the understandable frustration of vaccinated people is transmuting into cruelty, hurting those who are already suffering, and probably not changing anyone's mind in the process.[Read: Why more Americans are saying they're 'vaxxed and done]'"This particular form of schadenfreude is really not showcasing humanity at its finest," Karla Vermeulen, the deputy director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz, wrote in an email to me. "It's a classic control mechanism, like our knee-jerk desire to know if someone who died of lung cancer smoked, or if someone with liver disease drank: If so, we can believe they were responsible for their own fate, and because we're making a different choice, that fate won't befall us. But of course that belief comes at the price of blaming and even vilifying the deceased … As a result, survivors might sacrifice honesty in order to protect the loved one's image, at potential cost to their own emotional needs."When people feel they can't be completely honest about a major loss in their lives, it makes the bereavement process more intense and long-lasting, potentially even leading to "complicated grief," in which grief doesn't get better over time, but lingers and sometimes gets worse.Talking about the death offline, with select, trusted others, may be the best way to heal. "It is very hard to grieve someone fully while keeping a secret about them, as it's important to acknowledge the entirety of the individual, positive and negative, in order to come to terms with their loss," Vermeulen said.She suggested talking with a therapist or religious leader, "someone trained to maintain confidentiality and a non-judgmental position." Some organizations also offer support, such as Marked by COVID and COVID Survivors for Change, and Facebook groups have sprung up those who have lost loved ones to the virus.Andreea, who has still not had an official service for her mother because she doesn't feel she can emotionally handle any more questions about her mother's vaccination status, found comfort in an online support group specifically for those who lost a loved one to COVID-19. "It is a community of people who understand what I'm going through," she said.Harder to process, perhaps, than other people's judgments are one's own. Many surviving loved ones experience anger, guilt, and shame too: Why didn't they just get vaccinated? What more could I have done to convince them to get the shot? How could they have put so many people at risk?"On top of the horrible death you experienced, there's always the question of what if?" Andreea said. "What if I convinced my mom to get the vaccine sooner? There is an extra layer of guilt."Jason Coombs, a software engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mother died of COVID-19 in October, has found his grief to be laced with anger. "I spend time and energy angry about my mom's … unwillingness to take simple precautions to protect others," he said."The way a person died and the decisions they made may certainly complicate a person's grief and ability to mourn," Doka said. "I think how you grieve someone who died of COVID is you mourn the person and not the disease … Regardless of how somebody died, this person was important to you … You have to separate to some degree. The point is a person has died."If it's hard to see the person as a victim of COVID, the experts I spoke with suggested trying to look at them as a victim of something else: misinformation.When you shift your perspective, it helps create understanding and decreases the anger you're feeling toward the person themselves, Vermeulen explained. "That certainly doesn't mean you need to agree with [the person's] view, but it might be a lot less painful to cope with the loss if you can reframe it."Think of it this way, Vermeulen suggested: Change "Grandpa was a stubborn man who we couldn't convince to get vaccinated" to "Grandpa was unfairly influenced by the distorted media messages that misinformed him." As Vermeulen explained, "The loss doesn't change, but some of the baggage around it might, freeing the survivors to focus on the person rather than their choice."The pandemic is affecting all of us, shaping nearly every aspect of our lives. The discourse around COVID-19 can seem loud and crowded. Yet the reality is that so many people are grieving silently and alone.
People Are Hiding That Their Unvaccinated Loved Ones Died of COVID After Andreea's mom died of COVID-19 in April, the harassment started. Noxious messages started coming in after she wrote a Facebook post letting friends and family know about her loss.One person messaged her to say they couldn't believe her mother hadn't protected herself. Andreea has since deleted most of the other messages, but she remembers people saying things like "I can't believe your mom was an anti-vaxxer" and "I can't believe she didn't understand that COVID could kill you." "Instead of people saying that they were sorry for my loss, they would question my mom's medical choices. It became all about her vaccine status. It was incredibly hurtful," Andreea, a language instructor, who asked to be identified by only her first name in order to prevent further harassment, told me.It also wasn't true that her mother was an anti-vaxxer. According to Andreea, her mom, who was a nurse, did have initial concerns about the vaccine, but after talking with her doctor, she had scheduled an appointment for her first dose. Unfortunately, she got sick before she could get it, Andreea says.[Read: America is getting unvaccinated people all wrong]In 2020, dying of COVID-19 was widely seen as an unqualified tragedy. It was the beginning of the pandemic, when it felt as if the entire world was in a state of collective grief. There was a palpable, shared mourning for all the lives gone too soon: the smiling mothers and jokester grandfathers and so-and-so from church who always lent a helping hand. All victims of a virus, unfurling and cruel.But that was before the vaccines. Before COVID deaths got caught up in a culture war.Now the majority of COVID deaths are occurring among the unvaccinated, and many deaths are likely preventable. The compassion extended to the virus's victims is no longer universal. Sometimes, in place of condolences, loved ones receive scorn.Vitriol doesn't come just from familiar names, but also from strangers. Websites, message boards, and social-media accounts have cropped up as forums to insult the unvaccinated dead. They scour social-media pages for "covidiots" and screenshot their photos and posts, turning them into memes. One Reddit page even gives out "awards" to those who refused the vaccine and then died."A few months after the vaccine became available, that was really the turning point for when we began to see an acceleration in the lack of empathy for those who passed away due to COVID," says Kristin Urquiza, who co-founded Marked by COVID, a grassroots group that advocates for those affected by the pandemic, after her dad died of COVID in June 2020. She told me that even in forums dedicated specifically to grief, when someone posts about a COVID death, often the first thing people ask is whether the person was vaccinated.That interrogation, and the judgment that may follow if the answer is no, has made opening up, especially online, hard for those who lost an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19. "I have people reaching out to me confiding on a more one-on-one level that they're struggling and they want to talk about their loss, but they don't feel safe. They're afraid they will be attacked or they're afraid of their loved one being attacked," said Urquiza, whose organization works with thousands of people across the country. Instead, many obituaries and memorial posts on social media don't tell the full story, referencing pneumonia or other complications that stemmed from COVID-19 without invoking the coronavirus itself. Sometimes, no cause of death is given.When AnneMarie Jenkins, a marketing consultant from Bluffdale, Utah, lost her mother to COVID in August, she and her family didn't mention the disease in their online announcement. According to Jenkins, her mother had a history of lung issues. She also told me her mother's doctor had advised her mom against getting the vaccine. "We didn't want anyone to have an opinion on … my mom's medical choices. It makes the topic COVID and not my mom," Jenkins said. "We didn't want my mom's death to feel like clickbait." The obituary attributes her death to pneumonia and other factors.This is just one of many examples shared with me—there was the dad who died of a "brief illness," the mom who passed "peacefully," the boyfriend who died too soon. Several people I spoke with said they don't confess the true cause of death to others even in person, because they're ashamed, or because they want to avoid follow-up questions, or because they don't want their loved one's death to be politicized and gossiped about.But in private, it is hard for the living to make sense of these deaths. While everyone I spoke with for this story was vaccinated, many had relatives who were still opposed to getting the shots. This can create a fragmented mourning experience, divisions within a family, or even estrangement.All of this takes a toll. In the 1980s, Kenneth Doka, a senior vice president of grief programs for the Hospice Foundation of America and the author of Grief Is a Journey and other books on dying, coined the phrase "disenfranchised grief.""We see disenfranchised grief when a living loved one doesn't feel they can fully grieve because of the societal taboos around a loved one's death," Doka told me. "We see this when the victim is perceived to have had a role in their death, like we saw during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but also with other things, like suicides, drug overdoses, and certain diseases." These sorts of deaths can be met with victim-blaming, a sense that the deceased to some degree brought their death upon themselves through their choices or risky behaviors. Lung cancer is a classic example—one study found that people were more likely to ascribe blame to lung-cancer patients who smoked than those who didn't. "I think the same thing is happening with COVID," Doka said. "But now, instead of asking if the person smoked, we're asking if they were vaccinated."It is true that unvaccinated people are at greater risk of getting COVID, and of infecting others. It's also true that unvaccinated patients dominate hospitals, which have been stretched thin for a long time by the pandemic. Some vaccinated people, stressed and angry about living through a pandemic for nearly two years with no clear end in sight, have understandably become more and more frustrated with those who refuse to get or deny the efficacy of the vaccines. But it's not true that every unvaccinated person is an anti-vaxxer. And every preventable COVID death is still a deeply personal loss for someone. In some cases, the understandable frustration of vaccinated people is transmuting into cruelty, hurting those who are already suffering, and probably not changing anyone's mind in the process.[Read: Why more Americans are saying they're 'vaxxed and done]'"This particular form of schadenfreude is really not showcasing humanity at its finest," Karla Vermeulen, the deputy director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz, wrote in an email to me. "It's a classic control mechanism, like our knee-jerk desire to know if someone who died of lung cancer smoked, or if someone with liver disease drank: If so, we can believe they were responsible for their own fate, and because we're making a different choice, that fate won't befall us. But of course that belief comes at the price of blaming and even vilifying the deceased … As a result, survivors might sacrifice honesty in order to protect the loved one's image, at potential cost to their own emotional needs."When people feel they can't be completely honest about a major loss in their lives, it makes the bereavement process more intense and long-lasting, potentially even leading to "complicated grief," in which grief doesn't get better over time, but lingers and sometimes gets worse.Talking about the death offline, with select, trusted others, may be the best way to heal. "It is very hard to grieve someone fully while keeping a secret about them, as it's important to acknowledge the entirety of the individual, positive and negative, in order to come to terms with their loss," Vermeulen said.She suggested talking with a therapist or religious leader, "someone trained to maintain confidentiality and a non-judgmental position." Some organizations also offer support, such as Marked by COVID and COVID Survivors for Change, and Facebook groups have sprung up those who have lost loved ones to the virus.Andreea, who has still not had an official service for her mother because she doesn't feel she can emotionally handle any more questions about her mother's vaccination status, found comfort in an online support group specifically for those who lost a loved one to COVID-19. "It is a community of people who understand what I'm going through," she said.Harder to process, perhaps, than other people's judgments are one's own. Many surviving loved ones experience anger, guilt, and shame too: Why didn't they just get vaccinated? What more could I have done to convince them to get the shot? How could they have put so many people at risk?"On top of the horrible death you experienced, there's always the question of what if?" Andreea said. "What if I convinced my mom to get the vaccine sooner? There is an extra layer of guilt."Jason Coombs, a software engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mother died of COVID-19 in October, has found his grief to be laced with anger. "I spend time and energy angry about my mom's … unwillingness to take simple precautions to protect others," he said."The way a person died and the decisions they made may certainly complicate a person's grief and ability to mourn," Doka said. "I think how you grieve someone who died of COVID is you mourn the person and not the disease … Regardless of how somebody died, this person was important to you … You have to separate to some degree. The point is a person has died."If it's hard to see the person as a victim of COVID, the experts I spoke with suggested trying to look at them as a victim of something else: misinformation.When you shift your perspective, it helps create understanding and decreases the anger you're feeling toward the person themselves, Vermeulen explained. "That certainly doesn't mean you need to agree with [the person's] view, but it might be a lot less painful to cope with the loss if you can reframe it."Think of it this way, Vermeulen suggested: Change "Grandpa was a stubborn man who we couldn't convince to get vaccinated" to "Grandpa was unfairly influenced by the distorted media messages that misinformed him." As Vermeulen explained, "The loss doesn't change, but some of the baggage around it might, freeing the survivors to focus on the person rather than their choice."The pandemic is affecting all of us, shaping nearly every aspect of our lives. The discourse around COVID-19 can seem loud and crowded. Yet the reality is that so many people are grieving silently and alone.
Glenn Youngkin, Mask-Mandate Lifter, Sends His Child to School Requiring Masks
The Republican issued an executive order giving Virginia parents the right to exempt children from mask mandates but some school districts are resisting.
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Baseball Hall of Fame: Gary Sheffield has the credentials, but link to PEDs could hold him back
Gary Sheffield was one of the most feared sluggers in baseball for 22 seasons, but his link to PEDs could hold him back from the Hall of Fame.
Baseball Hall of Fame: Gary Sheffield has the credentials, but link to PEDs could hold him back Gary Sheffield was one of the most feared sluggers in baseball for 22 seasons, but his link to PEDs could hold him back from the Hall of Fame.
An Oklahoma pastor has apologized after smearing his spit in a man's eye during a sermon: 'It got too live'
The pastor apologized a day after his sermon, calling what he did "disgusting."
An Oklahoma pastor has apologized after smearing his spit in a man's eye during a sermon: 'It got too live' The pastor apologized a day after his sermon, calling what he did "disgusting."
Hong Kong to kill 2,000 animals after several hamsters test positive for COVID-19 Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected.
Another blow for Texas abortion rights backers
Federal appeals court sends case against them to state's Supreme Court, which is controlled entirely by Republican justices.
Another blow for Texas abortion rights backers Federal appeals court sends case against them to state's Supreme Court, which is controlled entirely by Republican justices.
Peloton says inflation and supply chain challenges have forced the company to hike the price of its flagship bike, just five months after cutting it drastically to boost sagging sales.
Peloton is hiking prices because of inflation Peloton says inflation and supply chain challenges have forced the company to hike the price of its flagship bike, just five months after cutting it drastically to boost sagging sales.
Josh Whedon denies multiple allegations of misconduct, in interview with New York magazine; Pharrell Williams calls for economic equity during MLK event; Fans celebrate what would have been Betty White's 100th birthday with hot dogs. (Jan. 18)
ShowBiz Minute: Whedon, Williams, White Josh Whedon denies multiple allegations of misconduct, in interview with New York magazine; Pharrell Williams calls for economic equity during MLK event; Fans celebrate what would have been Betty White's 100th birthday with hot dogs. (Jan. 18)
'I was not going to let him assassinate us': How Texas synagogue hostages used security training to flee
Jeffrey Cohen said security training the Colleyville, Tex., synagogue offered in the wake of the Tree of Life massacre helped save their lives.
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Woman Admits Ross' Infamous Spray Tan Accident in 'Friends' Happened to Her
"The color started showing around just two hours after I had got the 12 spray down, but alas, that was just the beginning," she admitted.
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'Wayne's World' AMC Pacer up for auction ahead of film's 30th anniversary The custom 1976 AMC Pacer from "Wayne's World" is being auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale event ahead of the film's 30th anniversary.
'I escaped a Jewish cult that wanted me to marry my 12-year-old cousin'
Mendy Levy escaped from the fundamentalist Hasidic cult Lev Tahor after the group allegedly tried to force him, at age 15, to marry his 12-year-old first cousin.
'I escaped a Jewish cult that wanted me to marry my 12-year-old cousin' Mendy Levy escaped from the fundamentalist Hasidic cult Lev Tahor after the group allegedly tried to force him, at age 15, to marry his 12-year-old first cousin.
Carjacker Arrested After Passenger Texts Police Real-Time Location Updates
Tiffin Police Department Chief David W. Pauley said: "The passenger was able to alert police to the stolen vehicle location via text messages."
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ukraine and Germany this week as the Russian threat toward Ukraine continues to loom.
Blinken to travel to Ukraine and Germany this week Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ukraine and Germany this week as the Russian threat toward Ukraine continues to loom.
Scrap 'Weaponized' Filibuster—MLK's Son Tells Joe Biden, Senate
Senators should remove the filibuster "as a blockade to justice and equality," King said, accusing Republicans of having "weaponized" the rule.
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The South African-born journalist made the chilling comparison during a Nov. 29 appearance on Fox News Primetime.
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Schumer vows to turn up heat on GOP on voting rights, risks exposing moderate Dems on filibuster Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that "every member will go on the record" on filibuster changes.
The alternate "Monday Night Football'' telecast on ESPN2 gave Manning brothers an optimal platform to show they're not your typical retired NFL QBs.
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Despite huge volcano blast, Tonga avoids widespread disaster Despite sitting almost on top of the volcano that erupted so violently on Saturday, the Pacific nation of Tonga appears to have avoided the widespread disaster that many initially feared.
How Safe Assets Became Investors' Biggest Risk
"Risk free" is the most important concept in financial markets because it's the baseline for setting the value of pretty much everything. Now the pandemic has drained it of meaning.
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Workers are calling out sick in droves, leaving employers scrambling Employers from Macy's to United Airlines are having to adjust after skyrocketing omicron COVID cases have led large numbers of workers to call out sick.
Going medieval: The surprising secrets of Notre Dame's epic restoration
Incredible new images from National Geographic reveal the methods being used to restore the Parisian landmark, which is slated to be rebuilt by 2024.
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Recycling should be easier. These home appliance start-ups are trying to help.
While it might sound a little easier to keep a couple of dedicated recycling bins around two start-ups are tackling a sort of recycling gap people might not always think about.
Recycling should be easier. These home appliance start-ups are trying to help. While it might sound a little easier to keep a couple of dedicated recycling bins around two start-ups are tackling a sort of recycling gap people might not always think about.
Unconventional romantic getaway destinations for Valentine's Day weekend: Scottsdale, Aspen, more
If you are looking for a romantic getaway, romantics of all ages can find something to love in San Francisco, Aspen, Park City or San Antonio.
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How Capitol Hill Books co-owner Kyle Burk would spend a perfect day in D.C.
Burk recorded an album, "Death of a Novel," in the bookstore.
How Capitol Hill Books co-owner Kyle Burk would spend a perfect day in D.C. Burk recorded an album, "Death of a Novel," in the bookstore.
The West can't stand by as Putin tries to resurrect the 'evil empire'
We might not be able to deter a Russian offensive against Ukraine — but Putin should be made to pay a heavy price.
The West can't stand by as Putin tries to resurrect the 'evil empire' We might not be able to deter a Russian offensive against Ukraine — but Putin should be made to pay a heavy price.
Singer Billie Eilish was exposed to sexually explicit acts online at age 11. Her experience is more common than many Americans realize.
Billie Eilish is right. Porn is inflicting serious harm on America's children. Singer Billie Eilish was exposed to sexually explicit acts online at age 11. Her experience is more common than many Americans realize.
Let's put redistricting back in the hands of politicians
Time to send redistricting back to where it belongs: with politicians.
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Valerie Bertinelli on Eddie Van Halen, writing 'cathartic' book: 'Love isn't a big enough word'
"I can't make people understand this... but I've never felt love like that," Valerie Bertinelli, author of "Enough Already," says of Eddie Van Halen.
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Tips on how to get — and keep — your linen closet organized
Here are five steps that will help you create a linen closet organization system that works for you and your family.
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The MisEducation of America Due to COVID-19, for the past few years, many of America's children were forced into virtual classrooms. Parents, looking over their shoulder, came to a stark conclusion: American education is off the rails.
A century ago, Prohibition was about expanding liberty. Then our definition of liberty changed.
Here's why many defenders of Black, Native American and women's political rights saw Prohibition as increasing freedom.
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Thanks to China, Supply Chains Will Never Recover | Opinion
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Broadway Street in downtown Nashville is one of the most fascinating places I have visited. Every 3rd or 4th building contains a country and western bar with live music and the performers are not amateurs.
The bands are always at the entrance so you can hear the type and quality of music that is being played to help you decide about entry.
At Tooters, the lead singer was asked about playing a certain song and she pulled out her IPhone, found the words to the song, and away the band played to the delight of the audience.
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Football's back, but problems persist at Penn State
By Dan K. Thomasson
For too long, perhaps, Penn State University has lived in its own little world. It's a school so dedicated to football its leaders turned their backs on what became one of the worst scandals in the history of college athletics. Their unhealthy idolization of their late long-time head coach Joe Paterno led to his disgrace, the incarceration of a deviant former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, who most likely will spend the rest of his life in prison, NCAA sanctions, and the dismissal of the school's president and athletic director, both of whom are in legal jeopardy. The financial cost to the school has been substantial.
Today, though, not that many years later, the football team is again highly ranked and filling a huge stadium in one of the more difficult college towns to reach.
But with the continuing fallout over the hazing death of a young fraternity pledge, the Big Ten school and Pennsylvania taxpayers may have another costly problem on their hands — despite a judge earlier this month throwing out the most serious charges in a criminal case against members of the involved fraternity.
The prosecutor, left irate, announced he will seek to reinstate the tossed manslaughter charges by challenging the ruling of Magisterial District Judge Allen Sinclair, who took action without explaining his reasoning after days of pretrial arguments in the case against the members of Beta Theta Pi, one of the oldest fraternities in the country. Less-serious charges were left standing.
In case you missed it, the morons who occupied the Beta house appear to have encouraged 19-year-old Timothy Piazza to drink so much booze that he fell down a flight of stairs, badly injuring himself. For 12 hours, they did nothing about it, despite a sense there was something terribly wrong and the urging of at least one person present to call 911, according to the grand jury indictment. They put him on a couch, where he awoke before passing out again, and a video shows them plugging their noses against the smell of his vomit. He died a day later.
What were the frat brothers thinking? About themselves, no doubt.
But why do bad things keep happening at Penn State? One has to wonder if it has something to do with its remoteness, which perhaps protects a fraternity-and-football-focused type of culture many other schools have left for the history books. After all, what else is there to do for entertainment? Problems exist at smaller colleges as well, but rules of behavior are easier to enforce at such schools.
Hazing of freshmen, mainly by fraternities, goes back a long way. It is a self-perpetuating product of immature minds. Federal military academies banned the activity decades ago following World War II. But even today, too many college administrations give only lip service to enforcing rules against the practice.
The Betas are no longer at Penn State, banned from the campus, their house closed. Tough new rules about alcohol, including keg parties, have been instituted by the school's president — all well and good.
But it's too early to know the lasting impact of this tragedy, and after the judge's watering down of the indictment, what should be a wakeup call may not sound as loudly.
Piazza's parents are furious at the judge, and the school can expect an expensive civil suit no matter what the criminal trial produces. Someone needs to pay dearly. Those who thought about themselves rather than the youngster lying on the couch need to be held up as examples of what such foolishness costs. Obviously, this judge isn't the one to make that happen.
Penn State might have a good football season, but Piazza and Sandusky's victims won't be celebrating.
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Dan Thomasson is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service and a former vice president of Scripps Howard Newspapers. Readers may send him email at: thomassondan@aol.com.
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Macromolecules are very large molecules created by the polymerization of small units called monomers. Most of the macromolecules are present in everyday life, for instance in food.
There are several types of biological macromolecules: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids and Nucleic acids. All macromolecules, except lipids, are polymers. A polymer is a long molecule composed of chains of monomers. Monomers are small molecules that serve as building blocks of polymers. In addition, there are also oligomers in nature. Oligomers are molecular complex composed of a few monomer units, instead of the theoretical unlimited nature of polymers. Dimers and trimers are, for instance, oligomers composed of two and three monomers, respectively, such as lactose in milk for instance. However, in biochemistry, an oligomer usually refers to a macromolecular complex formed by non-covalent bonding of a few macromolecules, like nucleic acids or proteins. A clear example is those oligomers related to many neurodegenerative diseases, such as the alpha-synuclein aggregations in Parkinson's disease.
In the Introduction to Food Macromolecules simulation, you will help your friend get a healthy diet and investigate the types of macromolecules found in food. By performing a series of biochemistry tests, you will know the contents of various food items.
Can you use your macromolecule knowledge to convince your friend to change her diet to a healthier one?
Can you use your food macromolecule knowledge to convince your friend to change her diet to a healthier one?


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Pennsylvania County Voting Systems: An Analysis
Originally published August 15, 2019; last updated February 28, 2020.
Pennsylvania counties have selected new paper-based voting machines. These upgrades are urgently needed and will vastly improve the Commonwealth's lackluster election security, which The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania's Election Security (hosted by Pitt Cyber) has thoroughly documented. Each county has the power to select a voting system and configuration from the systems that the Pennsylvania Department of State has certified. The information below—the result of a collaboration between Pitt Cyber and Citizens for Better Elections—provides detail and analysis of these county decisions, which will likely have a profound impact on the security of democracy in Pennsylvania and beyond.
For a printable synopsis, please click here.
Voting System Configurations and Costs
Counties that have purchased exclusively ballot-marking devices (or "BMDs")—as opposed to optical scan machines that tabulate hand-marked paper ballots (or "HMPBs") supplemented by BMDs for voters who are unable to hand-mark—are paying substantially more on a per voter basis. In fact, the average county cost per voter for an All-BMD configuration ($23.15) is twice as expensive as a HMPB plus BMD configuration ($11.01). Unsurprisingly, more than two-thirds of Pennsylvania counties have selected the HMPB plus BMD configuration.
See which counties selected which configuration with our interactive maps and graphics.
Voting System Vendors
The nation's largest voting system vendor—ES&S—has been the clear dominant vendor. Thirty-eight of the Commonwealth's 67 counties, accounting for more than 60 percent of the registered voters in Pennsylvania, have selected ES&S. This includes Pennsylvania's two most populous counties: Allegheny and Philadelphia.
See which counties selected which vendor with our interactive maps and graphics.
We endeavored to be consistent in our handling of costs across counties and have identified each county's cost-related details as much as was feasible.
Sources and Methodology »
Election officials who want to submit information or suggest a correction can email cyber@pitt.edu.


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Police Commissioners' good practice on substance misuse
Revolving Doors Agency spotlights emerging good practice on substance misuse commissioned by Police and Crime Commissioners.
Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling, Criminal Justice, Policing
PCCs, Revolving Doors Agency
Spotlight on Substance Misuse
yesterday (25 June 2018) the Revolving Doors Agency the seventh in its spotlight series highlighting best practice by Police and Crime Commissioners in tackling different issues. The report, Spotlight on Substance Misuse, brings together examples of good practice with a view to raising awareness about the link between substance misuse, associated health inequalities and crime and encourage PCCs to develop programmes, which take a public health approach to tackle the root causes of crime.
Interestingly, Revolving Doors' recent review of PCC police and crime plans from across the country showed that 9 out of 10 PCCs identify substance misuse as a problem in their area, yet only 3 out of 10 have set it as a priority. This spotlight brings together examples of good practice with a view to raising awareness about the link between substance misuse, associated health inequalities and crime and encourage PCCs to develop programmes, which take a public health approach to tackle the root causes of crime.
Examples of good practice
The report highlights seven, very varied, examples of emerging best practice including
Heroin Assisted Treatment in the West Midlands. The approach of prescribing heroin to individuals who have not responded well to methadone-based treatment eight drug policy recommendations that the West Midlands PCC is implementing; the others are: diverting people away from the criminal justice system, regional drug interventions programme, drugs early warning programme, safety testing of drugs in night time districts or festivals, naloxone provision, drug consumption rooms and taking money from organised criminals to improve drug services.
Checkpoint diversion project in Durham. Low level offenders are given an alternative to prosecution by encouraging them to voluntarily engage with the police and services provided by a number of agencies instead of getting a criminal sanction. The Checkpoint project aims to reduce reoffending and the number of victims by addressing the underlying causes of offending, improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, and reduce demand on local health and criminal justice services, including the police. This project has proved extremely popular and a number of other areas are looking at implementing it.
Partnership approach to high impact drinkers in Surrey. The High Impact & Complex Drinkers projects delivers an early intervention approach which supports people who experience drug and alcohol dependency, often alongside homelessness and poor mental health. The project aims to break down social barriers, improve community wellbeing and reduce demand on local services.
Supporting veterans with substance misuse needs in Derbyshire. Another early intervention project, "Stand to" brings together highly trained staff, volunteers and peer mentors (most of whom are ex-forces) to address the specific issues veterans and their families may experience.
The impact of substance misuse on policing is broad and ranges from relatively minor incidences, such as drinkers loitering near residential streets, through to severe, such as violent crime. Some estimates suggest that alcohol-related incidences take up as much as half of frontline police time. Tackling drug related crimes across the UK costs police forces £1 billion, and £5.8 billion for the rest of the criminal justice system.
PCCs have the commissioning power to invest in what works and have the influence to bring together health, social care and housing sectors to support people and communities affected by substance misuse, to stop people being caught in the revolving door of crisis and crime. Many PCCs are doing just this, reframing substance misuse as a matter of public health, as much as a matter of law enforcement.
Most people against prison for poverty-driven crime
76% of the public think that more poverty will lead to an increase in crime. 68% think prison is not the answer.
Neurodiversity and the revolving door of crisis and crime
Revolving Doors on how neurodivergence affects people who are in repeat contact with the justice system for low-level offences, and how neurodivergence is a form of multiple disadvantage.
The process of going through the courts is a confusing one
Revolving Doors report on why so many people don't take up legal representation.
Expanding the powers of Police and Crime Commissioners
Government decides to give Police and Crime Commissioners more powers.
Diverting young adults away from the cycle of crisis and crime
Revolving Doors report finds delivering tailored interventions that meet the health and human needs of young adults can turn young people's lives around.
Poverty is driving crime and policing makes it worse
Young adults call for radical police reform focussed on tackling poverty, trauma, and structural racism.


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Intersection assistant is an advanced driver assistance system first introduced in 2009.

City junctions are a major accident blackspot. The collisions here can mostly be put down to driver distraction or misjudgement. Whereas humans often react too slowly, assistance systems are immune to that brief moment of shock.

The system monitors cross traffic in an intersection/road junction. If this anticipatory system detects a hazardous situation of this type, it prompts the driver to start emergency braking by activating visual and acoustic warnings and automatically engaging brakes.

Vehicles

Toyota Crown Majesta (from 2009 onwards)  Front-side Pre-crash Safety System
Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W222), Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W212) (from 2013 onwards): BAS PLUS with Cross-Traffic Assist.

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Vehicle safety technologies
Warning systems
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Marketing means something different to everyone that hears the word, but all agree that it's a big part of your brand. With so many marketing activities integral to the success of your business, let's explore why it might be more beneficial to outsource some of it rather than trying to keep it in house.
Your marketing talent is restricted to the education or experience of your current marketing staff. Hiring an outside firm to augment your current efforts gives you access to a whole new perspective on today's marketing actions. Learn what you could be doing differently and get the help necessary to execute new ideas.
Perhaps you have a marketing person or department which is already maxed out on time and resources. In this case, hiring an outside firm is a great way to knock out items on your marketing backlog. You have the option to pick and choose what you need to get done. Maybe it's just a few flyers that you need designed. Maybe you want to build a new website but you need the extra hand. Maybe you just need someone to crush the data that you have from your current marketing efforts so that you can make better decisions on what to do next.
Marketing firms often have access to tools that can boost your lead generation or marketing intelligence, but you don't want to have to purchase that technology on your own. There are subscription-based analytics tools, email distribution tools, design tools such as the Adobe suite – all of which cost a pretty penny for licensing – but an outside firm can give you access to these resource.
The challenge of hiring a full time employee is that it's a constant monthly cost to your business that you are required to pay even if work slows down. Expert studies also show that most full time employees are only working 50% of the day. Hiring an outside marketing firm can link your expenses to actual project work via project management and expense tracking. That means you are only paying for the work that gets completed.
Just like a doctor is always keeping up to date with the latest medical developments, marketing firms are always watching marketing trends. Do you think your current methods might becoming stale? Do you wonder if the results of your efforts could be better? Ask an outside marketing firm for help and tap into their insight about recent best practices.
Marketing activities give birth to tons of data. Most companies just sit on this data and don't know how (or don't have time) to run the reports necessary to make critical decisions on next steps. Marketing firms do this every day for their clients.
If your business isn't doing any marketing at all then you are missing a big chunk of business. Every company today that has sprung up and taken the market by storm had a strong marketing plan. Every little bit counts. If you want to jump start your growth, ask a marketing firm how it can be possible.
Has your company been stuck in a volatile revenue state where one month there is an excess of funds and the next month you are barely making payroll? Then hiring an outside marketing firm can help you to keep your brand relevant while mitigating risky expenses.
Are you thinking about buying an email list and blasting the world about your new widget? Bad idea. The governing bodies on spam authority could blacklist your domain, or worse. An experienced marketing firm can help you reach the same goal but by using better methods to help you avoid legal risk. Perhaps you would like to get the word out about something, but you need to do it in a way that isn't linked to your name because of legal reasons. Marketing firms can help you achieve that in a sensitive way. There are other examples that vary company by company.
Have you just combined forces with another brand? Consolidating the voice of two companies can be tricky. Also, your current marketing staff may be used to only promoting one particular brand image – and they may not have the time to handle the merging brands. A marketing firm can make up for that vacancy, even give you some fresh ideas for how to splice the two together.
If you have only been making products for baby boomers for the past 20 years, but now you want to reach the millennial crowd, this is a great case for hiring an outside marketing firm to get you started. Marketing companies are used to working with a variety of clients spanning many vertical markets and customer segments. They can help you see what's working for others so that you can take a slice of the pie.


A kaleidoscopic, surrealistic overview of contemporary America, set forth in the bizarre, highly theatrical style which characterizes this writer's distinctive voice. Produced by New York's highly regarded Public Theater, the play employs brilliantly imaginative avante-garde techniques to highlight both the dreams — and delusions — which infuse and motivate our modern world. The play is made up of a series of concurrent actions, some set in a tacky motel, some elsewhere, involving a group of disparate but curiously related people. There is the young night clerk, Pauline, who studies her high-school English Lit notebook, while growing increasingly fearful of the unseen and unwanted suitor who lies in wait in the motel parking lot; a raucous carnival barker touting his giant crocodile, Bonecrusher; a pair of seedy bar denizens who occasionally break into song; a dim-witted handyman, Chuckles, who performs pointless errands; a deranged scientist who believes that he is in contact with creatures from outer space; an abandoned woman who waits restlessly for a lover who will probably never return; and a mysterious drifter, Faber, who, somehow becomes the catalyst which fuses all these divergent elements into a cohesive, and often wildly funny whole. And, in so doing, makes the play both an encapsulation of the American myth and, at the same time, a telling comment on what is right — and wrong — with this myth.
Len Jenkin is a novelist, playwright, director, and screenwriter. His novels include N Judah, New Jerusalem, and The Secret Life of Billy's Uncle Myron (with Emily Jenkins). Plays include DARK RIDE, PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT, CARELESS LOVE, MY UNCLE SAM, LIMBO TALES, THE DREAM EXPRESS, and LIKE I SAY. His works for the stage have been produced throughout the United States, as well as in England, Germany, France, Denmark, and Japan. His films include Blame It on the Night, Welcome to Oblivion, and American Notes. He has received many honors and awards, including three Obie awards for directing and playwriting, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a nomination for an Emmy Award, and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Mr. Jenkin holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University. He's a Professor in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and lives in New York City.
M and G's new apartment is nothing special — it really could be any generic New York City apartment — but they're hoping it's a place of healing, a new beginning after a traumatic encounter with a former friend. Unfortunately, the previous tenant of this apartment isn't a man who likes to let go … and he wasn't ready to move out. First, it's little things: their mail disappears, it feels like someone's watching them, he stops by occasionally just to say hi and see what they've done with the place. But soon, when G is called out of town for business, M is left alone, and before they know it, they wake up to find themselves immobilized and watching as the previous tenant begins to make the apartment his own again.
A roller-coaster ride through the American scene, from the Fascination Parlor to Leroy Smiles the Crab-boy, and from the movie set to the tattoo parlor to Frankie the Finn. A concert for actors.
HICKORYDICKORY explores what would happen if we all had an internal clock telling us the time of our death. Someone has tinkered with Cari Lee's mortal clock, so she's stuck at 17 for eternity. Now she's the same age as her daughter, Dale. But Dale's worried about her own mortal clock — the one that tells her the day and time she'll die. Dad's an expert clock-smith, but some timepieces are not meant to be tampered with.
A very black and hilarious comedy about love in Lydia's Eternal Acres Funeral Home, which is enlivened by two amorous morticians and a couple of really attractive corpses.
They seemed like the perfect couple. Attractive. Well-educated. Affluent. Why did the husband brutally murder his wife and take his own life? Aaron and Henry, two young wannabe screenwriters at a writer's retreat struggle with crippling blocks as they seek to solve the mystery. Shawn, an academic teetering on the edge of insanity grapples with her own possible involvement in the killing, while writing a book about America's obsession with violence. Meanwhile, the murder victim's sister attempts to reconstruct the truth from the ashes of her late sister's diary, becoming a celebrity in the process. What really happened that violent night, and will any of them come close to uncovering the truth?
The play takes place in Priscilla's bedroom, in a forest, and in the big blue sky outside. A friend named Peter comes to visit Priscilla. There is a wolf who lives in a fabulous land next door. It is a play about Priscilla who sets out in her mind to slay this beast that lurks outside her window.
A small theater company's next ill-advised production, a modern vaudeville, goes off the rails the night before opening. The cast rebels against Doc, the writer/director/star/producer, and chooses a midnight showing of the newest Star Wars movie over ironing out the show's kinks. Then, of course, they're sucked into a vortex and spit out into a world that resembles some of our most beloved films. It's up to Doc and his trusty sidekick, Boof, to go on a 3D adventure to rescue the cast and the show, and the entire theatrical art form. Part vaudeville, part Hope/Crosby Road Show, A 3D ADVENTURE is an inventive love letter to both the theater and the movies.
Set in the fantastical, miserable village of Brood, Glen Berger's ingenious play conjures up a marvelously imaginative world peopled by a large cast of dreamers, schemers and would-be lovers. Tormented by the memory of a beautiful young girl he adored and lost, and saddled with the child she left behind as a painful reminder of their doomed romance, a village tinker turned poet tries to ease his pain by conjuring up a hilarious and extremely moving tale, a story made up for the young boy as they sit in front of the dying embers of their hearth. When the last spark is extinguished, we have gone along with them on a magical journey filled with music, shadow, and light, meeting along the way a town full of comically misguided characters and an enchanting young saleswoman of casket bell devices for the prematurely buried. A rich and delightful fairy tale for everyone who remembers what a great story sounds like.
In Mac Wellman's black comedy, a very angry person attempts to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a world of other angry persons.
In WOLF IN THE RIVER, Adam Rapp explores love and neglect, the challenges of poverty, the dangerous cost of shiftlessness, the simple notion of leaving a place behind, and the value of a girl.


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Sheriff: NY man calls 911 to say he's violating probation
AVON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a western New York man has been arrested after he called 911 to say he was violating the terms of his probation.
The Livingston County sheriff's office says 62-year-old Brian Seaver, of Avon, called 911 on Thursday and then hung up.
Sheriff Thomas Dougherty says a deputy went to investigate and determined that Seaver had earlier called 911 to report that he was drinking and violating the conditions of his probation.
Dougherty says Seaver had four active orders of protection ordering him to stay away from a particular person, and he was with that person.
Seaver was arrested on four counts of felony criminal contempt. It's not clear if he has a lawyer who can speak for him.
Alligator captured at Pittsburgh-area grocery store
GLENSHAW, Pa. (WHTM) – Another alligator has been captured in the Pittsburgh area, the fourth found in the past two months.
Police in Shaler Township, in Allegheny County, reported on Facebook that a 2-foot alligator was found outside a grocery store early Friday and turned over to animal control.


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T_Visionarium II
Coauthors: Jeffrey Shaw, Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matt McGinity, Peter Weibel
Software: Matt McGinity, Balint Seeber
Hardware: Huib Nelissen
Production: iCinema Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
T_Visionarium II offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information so that viewers can explore and edit a multitude of narrative components within the 3-D, 360-degree AVIE projection environment.
Twenty-four hours of digital, free-to-air Australian television was captured over a period of one week, and this footage was segmented and converted into a large database containing over thirty thousand video clips. Each clip was then manually tagged with metadata to define its semantic and combinatory properties. The encoded metadata includes the gender of the actors, the dominant emotions they express, the pace of the scene and specific actions such as standing up, lying down and telephoning. The segmentation of the video data breaks down the original linear narrative into components, allowing them to become the building blocks for a new kind of interactive television.
Two hundred and fifty video clips are simultaneously displayed and distributed in 3-D around AVIE's circular screen. Using a special interface, the viewer can select, rearrange and link these video clips at will, creatively composing them into combinations based on his or her personal inclination. When the viewer selects a particular clip, it enlarges on the screen and the T_Visionarium II engine then searches the database to look for other video clips that share similar metadata. The most-similar clips (the morphological synonyms) display in proximity to the selected one, the most-dissimilar clips (the morphological antonyms) appear on the opposite side of the circular screen and a grading of similarity between the two distributes on both sides. At this point the viewer can begin to combine these clips into narrative sequences by simply dragging and dropping any of the displayed video clips into the area of the main selected clip.
When initiating a further search for similar/dissimilar clips, the viewer can also use an additional menu that fine-tunes the prerogatives of this function. In effect, it emphasizes certain metadata properties above others during the search, for example by looking mainly for occurrences of a certain colour when the viewer chooses 'colour' from that menu, or occurrences of a particular emotion when he or she picks 'emotion'. This menu also allows users to request combinations of these properties. Additionally, T-Visionarium II enables the viewer to look at the complete original recording from which the segmented clip was extracted.
To use the T_Visionarium II apparatus is to experience a space within which screen imagery is dynamically reformulated and reimagined. When television is thus stripped of its mundane narrative context, its aesthetic, behavioural and media qualities become strikingly apparent. T_Visionarium II is not merely the control of a televisual database; it is a mode of inhabiting the televisual imaginary—a sphere of pure and endless mediality authored by its viewers.
Australian Research Council Project Title: Interactive Narrative as a Form of Recombinatory Search in the Cinematic Transcription of Televisual Information.
Australian Research Council Discovery Project: DP0345547
2006 : University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2008/01/09 - 01/13 : Sydney Festival, iCinema Scientia Facility, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2008/10/02 - 2009/01/11 : BIACS 3 Biennial of Seville 2008, Alhambra, Granada, Spain
2008/10/18 - 11/10 : eArts Festival: eLandscapes, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai, China
2009/05/01 - 08/30 : YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009/06/16 - 06/27 : Un Volcan Numérique 2, Le Volcan, Le Havre, France
2009/07/10 - 07/11 : Dessine-moi Un Mutant, Espace Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
2009/10/10 - 2011/05/08 : IMAGINING [email protected], ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009/11/04 - 11/22 : 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010/06/26 - 06/29 : ALiVE Inaugural Exhibition, ALiVE, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong, China
2010/11/18 - 11/28 : STRP Festival 2010, Strijp R Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2014/05/31 - 06/17 : Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jieming Twofold Exhibition, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2017/09/09 - 2018/01/28 : The Art of Immersion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
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A most handsome half timbered period residence steeped in character and history set in a delightful good sized enclosed garden only about six miles east of the ever popular medieval market town of Ludlow.
It is believed that Woodbine Cottage dates back as far as the mid 1700s. It stands proudly in the small village of Little Hereford overlooking the Parish Church at the front. Little Hereford is on the borders of three stunning counties, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Nearby are some lovely country walks by the River Teme and through the beautiful surrounding countryside.
Woodbine Cottage is a fine substantial family home. It has also provided a very lucrative income for the present owners who have let it for holidays to large groups as it can accommodate up to eight guests. We are informed that accounts could be provided to genuinely interested buyers who have viewed and would wish to purchase the property for this purpose. Also most of the furniture, fixtures and fittings can be purchased under separate negotiation.
The house oozes with character throughout. It also offers all modern amenities and is double glazed throughout. It also benefits from oil fired central heating. A door opens into the reception area within which is a feature exposed stone bread oven. As well as working surfaces there is a white Belfast sink, ceiling beams and an exposed brick wall leading into the characterful kitchen which has a brick inglenook housing an oil fired Aga and with evidence of the bread oven. There are hand made base and wall units, a moveable island and a Belfast sink.
Off the central hall is a ground floor shower and wc and a feature wood framed window. A side lobby leads to the original front door to outside.
The spacious sitting room has French doors opening to the front garden and there is a fireplace housing a wood burning stone. A connecting door lead into the formal dining room which again has French doors opening out to the front.
Stairs rise to the first floor landing with exposed beams. The master bedroom has views from the front window to the Parish Church. There is also a feature fireplace. Both bedrooms 2 and 3 have south facing windows and there are two further connecting bedrooms. The bathroom is a special feature with a roll top bath with claw feet, wc and washbasin.
Outside is a detached multi- purpose outbuilding. Presently it is used as an annex to the main house having a sitting room with a range of store cupboards. There is also a small kitchenette and a shower room with wc. Steps lead up to a first floor room, presently used for storage purposes. Double wooden doors lead into an area of the outbuilding which is currently utilised as a games room but could provide garaging. Within the garden there is also a detached brick built former cart house which is also a useful space for storage. The level gardens are enclosed and laid out for easy maintenance. There are quite extensive lawns to front and rear and also an abundance of mature trees, bushes and shrubs. There is space for parking several vehicles.
Services: Mains water and electricity. Oil fired central heating. Private septic tank drainage.
From Ludlow proceed along the A49 in a northerly direction. At the Salwey Arms turn left towards Tenbury Wells. Carry on through Little Hereford and opposite the village hall turn left and then right into the drive of Woodbine Cottage.


PHILIPSBURG — There is nothing quite like sitting in a grand old historic movie theater to watch a movie come to life. But with old age come many repairs. The Rowland Theatre in downtown Philipsburg is looking for a federal grant to help replace 202 seats in the lower balcony.
Rowland Theatre Inc. asked for a letter of support from the county commissioners so it can apply for the $93,064 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which would cover half of the cost to replace the seats, according to county director of planning Sue Hannegan.
"There are about a thousand seats in the facility, so this would be a small portion of those. You can see at $93,064, it is an expensive project to replace all the seats, so they plan to do this in phases," said Hannegan. She said the upper balcony of the theater is closed currently due to seating issues.
The Rowland Theatre celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2017. The non-profit theater holds nightly movies and special events.
The county commissioners agreed to support the grant application.


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Silent Approach™
NAS Piek
Quiet Deliveries Demonstration Scheme
Love Your Ears
Emergency Vehicle Sirens
Quiet Mark
BD Auto
Echo Barrier
Rolltek International
Armourcoat
RHE Global
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Shh! Join the Quiet Revolution!
Manufacturers of quiet technologies and original innovators have been justly recognised at the John Connell Awards packed ceremony last night in the House of Commons.
The awards are designed to recognise and promote innovative ideas and initiatives from Local Authorities, industry, individuals and organisations that have made a positive impact on the reduction of excessive noise in the community, helping to improve the aural environment.
They are named in honour of the Society's founder, John Connell OBE, who successfully lobbied the Noise Abatement Act through Parliament in 1960 when noise became a statutory nuisance for the first time in the UK.
Gloria Elliott, chief executive of the Noise Abatement Society, said:
"We live in an increasingly noisy society and many of us are unaware of the destructive effect that noise pollution can have on health, learning, productivity and quality of life. Each of the winners of the John Connell award categories have made an outstanding contribution to creating practical solutions to help reduce noise pollution, enabling us all to benefit from a more harmonious environment."
Enterprise in Quiet Transport Award, sponsored by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) – this award is given in recognition of exemplary transport and delivery schemes working for the public benefit.
Winner: Carrier Transicold
Carrier Transicold is leading the way in Quiet Transport and enabling the potential for out-of-hours deliveries in urban areas. Carrier Transicold has continued to innovate by adding the new Vector 1550 City model to its family of PIEK certified units. This, together with the Vector 1850 City MT overcomes many of the challenges of distribution in urban or sensitive areas. The mono and multi-temperature refrigerated trailers operate at a level of under 60dBs, as required by PIEK, and a full 10 dBs lower than most typical tractor units. Being able to operate more quietly has meant the option of delivering out of hours, which in turn leads to greater efficiency in the supply chain, improved road security, and reduced traffic congestion, pollution and fuel consumption.
Highly Commended: Bosch Rexroth Silence Plus gear pumps
Rexroth developed SILENCE PLUS to reduce noise pollution in hydraulic systems. For decades now external gear pumps have demonstrated their usefulness as rugged and economical workhorses. Their primary features – pressures up to 280 bar, extremely high efficiency and low price – have come to be taken for granted. Their noise also became something of a given. This new technology for external gear pumps, points toward a future with (almost) silent hydraulic systems. Pumps powered by electric motors, with virtually no hydraulic noise, are predestined for use not only in manufacturing plants and warehouses but for supermarket use, passenger lifts, log splitters, garbage presses, and it would enable the use of forklifts to load and unload even at night
Innovation Award – this award aims to encourage the development of new solutions to resolve noise pollution problems, using a pioneering approach that addresses this issue from a unique standpoint.
Winner: Organ of Corti
This unique and beautiful experimental instrument recycles noise from the environment. It does not make any sound of its own, but rather uses sounds already present by framing them in a new way – "recycling sounds". Named after the organ of hearing in the inner ear, it uses the acoustic technology of sonic crystals to accentuate and attenuate frequencies within the broad range of sound frequencies present, like road traffic or falling water. By recycling surplus sounds from our environment, it offers new and pleasurable ways of listening to what is already there.
Technology Award, sponsored by the Institute of Acoustics – this award applauds the vital role that industry can play in reducing noise pollution in our environment.
Winner: Linde Frostcruise Cryogenic in-transit refrigeration system
FROSTCRUISE™ is an efficient, economical, cryogenic in-transit refrigeration system. It provides an eco-friendly solution for the transportation of perishable chilled and frozen food, based on the use of liquid nitrogen (LIN) as the refrigerant. FROSTCRUISE™ is low-noise and operates much more quietly than diesel-operated refrigeration systems and can therefore be used to deliver at night or at early hours.
Highly Commended: Echo Barrier H1 and range of products
Echo Barrier is a temporary acoustic barrier designed for use on major construction projects to reduce problems of excessive noise pollution from work sites. The Echo H1 acoustic barrier literally soaks up sound around it rather than reflecting it, attenuating noise by up to 30dB. Designed for quick and easy installation on standard Heras fencing or similar, the H1 is aimed at sites where it is important to reduce noise levels and maintain good community relations, such as in residential and public locations. The benefits of reducing on-site noise using Echo Barriers are considerable, including reducing the likelihood of noise complaints, creating a more productive working environment, and extending site operating hours and ultimately significant cost savings.
Silent Approach™ Award, sponsored by Brigade Electronics – this award encourages development in the area of reducing noise to the benefit of the community whilst enhancing the environment.
Winner: Professor Jian Kang, University of Sheffield, for Soundscapes in Urban Open Public Spaces
Open public spaces are important elements of urban areas. However, in many such spaces the quality is significantly affected by the unsatisfactory soundscape, which could be 'too noisy', or 'too vibrant', or 'too quiet'. A Soundscape approach, however differs from conventional noise control engineering, and represents a paradigm shift in that, it combines physical, social and psychological approaches and considers environmental sounds as a 'resource' rather than a 'waste'.
In recent years, Professor Kang has systematically carried out a series of pioneering projects, funded by the University of Sheffiled and institutions across the globe, to research the improvement of soundscapes in urban open public spaces, with a series of outcomes, including: Tools and Design Guidance published by the EU; Computer modelling simulations; and a Soundscape Database of over 10,000 field interviews for predicting users' perception of and developing evidence and understanding of soundscapes in urban open public spaces. His work has changed the way that soundscapes in the public realm will be perceived, understood and developed inspiring a new generation of architects, policy makers and urban planners.
Highly Commended: BAM Nuttall for Derby Station
The NAS receives numerous complaints about the cacophony of sound often found in railway stations
The transformation of this station, however, its aesthetics and soundscape, has delivered a welcoming gateway to the city. The rejuvenation of the station was the product of the collaborative efforts of Network Rail, BAM Nuttall, White Young Green, TG Baker and Balfour Kilpatrick, who have exemplified best practice soundscape management. A silent approach was considered throughout the process, from white noise reversing alarms, hydraulically powered concrete chainsaws to ambient noise sensing PA systems providing a pleasant overall soundscape for travelers.
Quiet Mark Award of Distinction – Quiet Mark Award of Distinction
Launching in December 2011 is Quiet Mark, the international mark of approval awarded by the Noise Abatement Society for excellence in quiet design. Encouraging manufacturers to think low-noise addresses the consumers desire for stress-free living at home and in the workplace and will help to improve the natural aural environment. The special Quiet Mark Award of Distinction will be given annually to a company who has shown outstanding eco-quiet values.
Winner: Lexus
The leading car manufacturer LEXUS has been recognised for the prominent 'Join the Quiet Revolution' campaign. This high profile consciousness raising initiative resonates with the NAS Quiet Mark's remit to champion manufacturers of quiet consumer goods. Extolling the benefit of quiet, its value to the consumer and the environment, Lexus continues to drive the eco-quiet market forward to the benefit of our soundscape.
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Exhibition "HOKUSAI UPDATED"
UpdateFebruary 27, 2019
ReleaseFebruary 27, 2019
A "Hokusai Updated" exhibition is being held at Mori Arts Center Gallery from January 17 (Thu) through March 24 (Sun).
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter during the Edo period and is the world-famous artist of the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and "Hokusai Manga" ("Hokusai Sketches"). The "Hokusai Updated" exhibition displays Hokusai's work from his debut at age 20 until his death at age 90. (Art works will be rotated during the exhibition.)
South Wind, Clear Sky, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1830-34, Shimane Art Museum (Shinjo Collection)
The priest Kōbō Daishi exorcising a demon, 1844-1847, Nishiaraidaishi Sōjiji
At this exhibition the world-famous "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series including Kanagawa Okinamiura, also known as The Great Wave, and "Hokusai Manga," which was the catalyst of the Japonism (French: Japonisme) trend in Europe in the 19th century, are displayed, but recently discovered works, bijinga (pictures of beautiful women), and etehon (book of sketches) are also displayed and some of them are displayed for the first time in Japan. You will probably experience a somewhat different world of Hokusai than you may have imagined.
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," c. 1830-34 Shimane Art Museum (Shinjo Collection)
Left below: Illustrated Book of the Life of Sakyamuni-Buddha (Shaka goichidaiki zue), 1845, Shimane Art Museum (Nagata Collection)
The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji, from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories, c. 1831-32, HAGI URAGAMI MUSEUM
Woman reading a letter, c. 1805, Cincinnati Art Museum
At this exhibition, Hokusai's 70 years of life as an artist are introduced by tracing the history of his art style in six chapters. You can get an overview of the full scope of Hokusai, who always kept challenging something new.
Newly Published Cut-out Pictures: New Public Bathhouse, c. 1807-12, Shimane Art Museum (Nagata Collection)
This art work is a composable public bath kit, the work made by cutting out and putting the parts together.
This is how it looks after building up all the parts together.
An exhibition that exhibits so many works of Katsushika Hokusai is very rare. I was deeply drawn into the world of Hokusai, which features powerful works, beautiful works, works depicting ghosts, and so on. I walked around in the exhibition halls and looked at the works that I was most interested in several times. Please take your time and thoroughly enjoy the world of Hokusai.
Visited on January 16, 2019.
(Artworks will be rotated during the exhibition.)
【Details of HOKUSAI UPDATED】
until March 24 (Sun), 2019 *Artworks will be rotated during the exhibition.
10:00 – 20:00 (open until 17:00 on Tuesdays) *Entry permitted up to 30 minutes before closing time.
January 29 (Tue), February 19 (Tue), February 20 (Wed), March 5 (Tue)
Mori Arts Center Gallery (Roppongi Hills, Mori Building 52F)
Admission (tax included):
Adults 1,600 yen
University/High school students 1,300 yen
Junior high school / Elementary school students 600 yen
Roppongi, Azabu-juban (Subway)
*The information herein is as of February 2019.
[Date] 10:00 – 20:00 until March 24 (Sun), 2019
[Venue] Mori Arts Center Gallery (Roppongi Hills, Mori Building 52F)
[Access] Roppongi, Azabu-juban (Subway)
[URL] https://hokusai2019.jp/english.html
http://att-japan.net/en/archives/6279Exhibition "HOKUSAI UPDATED"
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