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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library...
What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
By Jennifer Howard Aug 10, 2017
Image from Authors Guild
It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world's books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That's what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.
But the promised library of everything hasn't come into being. An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011. And though the same judge ultimately dismissed the case in 2013, handing Google a victory that allowed it to keep on scanning, the dream of easy and full access to all those works remains just that.
Earlier this year, an article in the Atlantic lamented the dismantling of what it called "the greatest humanistic project of our time." The author, a programmer named James Somer, put it like this: "Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them."
That assessment may be technically true, but many librarians and scholars see the legacy of the project differently. In fact, academics now regularly tap into the reservoir of digitized material that Google helped create, using it as a dataset they can query, even if they can't consume full texts. It's a pillar of the humanities' growing engagement with Big Data.
It's also a handy resource for other kinds of research. "It's hard to imagine going through a day doing the work we academics do without touching something that wouldn't be there without Google Book Search," says Paul Courant, now interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. Courant was also interim provost at Michigan when Google first approached the university about scanning the contents of its library—a proposal that left him both "ecstatic and skeptical," he says.
"I'm not a fan of everything Google, by any means," Courant says now. "But I think this was an amazing effort which has had lasting consequences, most of them positive."
Google's scanning project helped establish some important nodes in what's become an ever-expanding web of networked research. As part of the deal, Google's partner libraries made sure they got to keep digital copies of their scanned works for research and preservation use. That material helped stock a partnership called the the HathiTrust Digital Library. Established in 2008 and based at the University of Michigan, it has grown to include 128 member institutions, according to its executive director, Mike Furlough. It now contains more than 15.7 million volumes. Taking into account multi-volume journals and duplicate copies, that's about 8 million unique items, about 95 percent of them from Google's scanning. The rest come from the Internet Archive's ongoing scanning work and local digitization efforts, according to Furlough.
That rich resource has been put to several good uses. Through the HathiTrust Research Center, scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright. And print-disabled users can use assistive technologies to read scanned books that might otherwise be difficult if not impossible to find in accessible formats.
Courant and others involved in the early days of the scanning work acknowledge both the benefits and the shortfalls. "That the universal bookstore-cum-library failed is, to me, a sadness," he says. And while Google vastly improved its scanning technology as the project went along, it wasn't ultimately able to resolve a persistent cultural challenge: how to balance copyright and fair use and keep everybody—authors, publishers, scholars, librarians—satisfied. That work still lies ahead.
In spite of the legal wrangling and the failure of the settlement, Mary Sue Coleman considers the project a net gain. Coleman, the current president of the Association of American Universities, was the president of the University of Michigan in the early 2000s when Google co-founder Larry Page, a Michigan alum, approached his alma mater with the scanning idea. Many of the university's holdings "were invisible to the world," Coleman says. Google's involvement promised to change that.
Without Google's backing and technological abilities, a resource like HathiTrust would have been much harder to create, she says. "We couldn't have done it without Google," Coleman says. "The fact that Google did it made things happen much more rapidly, I believe, than it would have happened if universities had been doing it without a central driving force."
Transforming Scholarship
Ted Underwood's work is one of the more prominent examples of the kind of scholarship born of Google's scanning push. Underwood, a professor and LAS Centennial Scholar of English and a professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois (and a leading figure in the digital humanities world), describes the effect of Google Books on his scholarship as "totally transformative." The resources made available by HathiTrust, even those still under copyright, have expanded what he can do and the questions he asks.
"I used to work entirely on the British Romantic period," Underwood said via email. "Now I spend much of my time studying history broadly across the last two centuries, and the reason is basically Google Books."
The HathiTrust Research Center allows Underwood and others to work with copyrighted materials. "I can't physically get the texts under copyright, or distribute them, but I can work inside a secure Data Capsule and measure the things I need to measure to do research," he says. "So it's not like my projects have to come to a screeching halt in 1923," he says. (That's the year that marks the Great Divide between materials that have come into the public domain and those still locked out of it.)
A Data Capsule is a secure, virtual computer that allows what's known as "non-consumptive" research, meaning that a scholar can do computational analysis of texts without downloading or reading them. The process respects copyright while enabling work based on copyrighted materials.
For Underwood, that's made it possible to take on projects like a collaborative study on the gender balance of fiction between 1800 and 2007, conducted with David Bamman of the University of California at Berkeley and Sabrina Lee, also at the University of Illinois. Underwood described the thrust of the work in a blog post last year.
"The headline result we found is that women were equally represented as writers of English-language fiction in the 19th century, and lost ground dramatically in the 20th," he says. The male-to-female ratio dropped from 1:1 around 1850 to about 3:1 a hundred years later.
"Quite a dramatic change, and in the wrong direction, which seemed so counterintuitive that we didn't initially believe the results we were getting from HathiTrust," Underwood says. But a cross-check with Publishers Weekly confirmed the downward slide, which turned around circa 1970, for reasons Underwood and his co-investigators are exploring.
The Networked Library
Google Books and the HathiTrust can also be seen as "signature examples" of how research libraries have evolved beyond thinking of themselves as separate warehouses of knowledge, says Dan Cohen, the recently appointed university librarian at Northeastern University. He's also vice provost for information collaboration and a professor of history there. Until recently, he was executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, or DPLA.
For those charged with running academic libraries, "there's really going to be a long-term impact of decentering the library as a stand-alone institution," Cohen says. That shift corresponds with how researchers operate now. "They're not expecting to get everything from their home institution," he says. "They're expecting that resources will be collectively held and available on the net."
This expanding digital reality makes it even more important to look critically at the results of Google's scanning work. Roger C. Schonfeld, director of the libraries and scholarly communication program at the nonprofit Ithaka S&R, is working on a book with Deanna Marcum, former Ithaka S&R managing director and now a senior adviser there, about the Google Books project.
"The question we're really trying to raise is why did so much of the digitization happen this way, and what other ways could it have happened?" Schonfeld says. Google's technological and financial muscle sped up the digitizing process enormously, but the company's priorities weren't necessarily those of its library partners.
Schonfeld makes the point that as researchers tap into Google Books, it's essential to ask what selection biases might lurk in the material the project made available. "As anyone doing historical research knows, you can't ever have all the sources you could possibly wish to have," Schonfeld says.
To fully judge the value of what came out of Google Books, researchers and librarians need to critically examine what's been scanned, and from which collections. Not all libraries were included in Google's project, and no library has everything. "What's present and what's absent?" Schonfeld asks. "What are the biases inherent in the creation and selection of the collection?"
Such questions suggest that, on some level, a universal library was always an impossible dream. But Google Books did produce substantial results, even if they are imperfect and incomplete. (One popular tool is the Ngram Viewer, which allows a user to search Google Books data for occurrences over time of specific words.)
Google, for its part, doesn't say much publicly about the scanning project these days, though the work continues.
"For more than ten years, Google has been committed to increasing the reach of the knowledge and art contained in books by making them discoverable and accessible from a simple query," Satyajeet Salgar, product manager for Google Books, said via email." We are continuing to digitize and add books to this world-changing index, improving the quality of our image-processing algorithms and the effectiveness of search, and plan to carry on doing so for years to come. We are proud to continuously make it easier for people to find books to read and conduct deep research using this product."
More digitized content is good. But it may fall on universities and libraries to figure out how to carry forward the campaign to make that content most usable.
As Paul Courant points out, "the big problem is not further digitization" but access. HathiTrust prevailed in a separate fair-use lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. But too much remains locked up, Courant says, and the problem of orphan works—those whose copyright status is murky—is yet to be solved.
For Mike Furlough, HathiTrust's executive director, it's up to the library community to figure out where to go with what Google helped start. He points to an evolving national digital infrastructure, funded in part by entities like the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as private groups like the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.
By pushing digitization, Google Books has helped print collections, too. Under HathiTrust's Shared Print program, some library members of the consortium agree to hold onto a print copy of each digitized monograph. "We're not saying that digital is enough," Furlough says. "We're saying that digital is a complement. We don't think print ever goes away."
Google's scanning work "has been an incredible boost," Furlough says. "What remains is to figure out what remains. It does not get us all the way to the end."


(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Under grilling by the prosecutor, the defense's expert anesthesiologist acknowledged Monday that Michael Jackson's doctor deviated from the standard of care.
Dr. Paul White was repeatedly questioned during cross-examination about the ways in which Dr. Conrad Murray had broken guidelines and rules in his treatment of Jackson.
White acknowledged that the type of pulse monitor that Murray was using on Jackson's finger was inadequate to properly monitor the singer when the physician left the room.
Murray, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, has acknowledged he was giving Jackson doses of the anesthetic propofol in the singer's bedroom as a sleep aid. He told police that he left Jackson's room for two minutes on June 25, 2009, and returned to find the pop superstar unresponsive.
White also said he would not leave the room if he were treating a patient who had indicated he liked to inject propofol into himself, as Murray claims that Jackson had told him.
Deputy District Attorney David Walgren questioned White, a retired professor and clinical researcher, about the circumstances of Murray's care based on his interview with police two days after Jackson's death. White told jurors last week that he believes all the evidence in the case shows that Jackson must have self-administered propofol when Murray left the room.
Walgren and White noted the unique circumstances of the case.
"Have you ever administered propofol in someone's bedroom," Walgren asked.
"No I have not," White replied.
"Have you ever heard of someone doing that prior to this case," the prosecutor asked.
"No I have not," White responded.
Later, White said Murray's treatment of Jackson was different from how propofol is supposed to be used - as an anesthetic used in hospital or clinical settings.
He told jurors that he has been paid $11,000 for his work on the case so far.
White and Shafer were colleagues at Stanford University and conducted research on propofol before it was approved for use in U.S. operating rooms in 1989. Both helped edit a leading anesthesia journal. Until White's retirement last year, both were practicing anesthesiologists.
Shafer also said Murray committed 17 egregious violations of the standard of care and should never have been giving the singer propofol as a sleep aid.
"We are in pharmacological never-never land here, something that was done to Michael Jackson and no one else in history to my knowledge," he told jurors.


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Q: Using CMFCToolBarImages in CMFCTaskPane In my MFC MDI application I have 10 CMFCToolBar and each has separate imagelist(bitmap images).
I implemented task pane using CMFCTaskPane in which I am grouping same tasks or activities what the CMFCToolbar is doing.
Can I use/assign  each CMFCToolbar image list to the tasks coming under each group?
In CMFCTaskPane class I only have these methods:

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*BOOL SetIconList(HIMAGELIST hIcons)

*BOOL SetIconsList(UINT uiImageListResID, int cx, COLORREF clrTransparent = RGB(255, 0, 255))
In CMFCTaskPane class we have an option to assign only one image list to the entire taskpane. There is no option to assign separate imagelist to each group and its tasks.
But I have 10 CMFCToolbar and 10 CImageList. How to use my toolbar images to achieve my requirement?
In this link https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16529/Simple-Menus-That-Display-Icons-Minimalistic-Appro?msg=1895336
the toolbar images are used in the menu by overriding DrawItem() function similarly can we draw icon for a task by overriding the function
virtual void OnDrawTasks(CDC* pDC, CRect rectWorkArea); in the CMFCTaskPane.
I dont have any idea on how to do it?

A: When you call LoadToolbar, you create local instance of imagelist for this toolbar.
By default, all toolbars in application shares same imagelist. So, just make something like this:
CMFCToolbar m_toolbar;
...
m_toolbar.Create(this, AFX_DEFAULT_TOOLBAR_STYLE;);
int newIconID = CMFCToolBar::GetImages()->AddIcon(hIcon, TRUE);
m_toolbar.InsertButton(cmd, newIconID, name);

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The core reason for every attachment is to feel a connection and to feel good. We are inundated with boring spaces and phases in our day-to-day life and don't know what to do with our time. We feel a lack of stimulation. And so, we constantly want reassurance from external
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In this fast-paced, technology and consumerism-driven world, the unfortunate truth is that we've all become addicts in some shape or form. That's why it's crucial that we practice intentionality and become conscious of our everyday actions. Making prayer a part of our daily routine can be an
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Jack Canfield in his book The Success Principles [https://amzn.to/3nbbYt0] explains that we need to take 100% responsibility for our lives. We need to let go of blame, excuses, and complaints. They are toxic to our lives and our success. In your journey to your desired destination, whether
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British Rowing Team Strips Down To Fight Homophobia
"We are the senior men's rowing team at Warwick University, and for the last four years we've been getting our kit off for calendars and films to raise funds for our sport and for charity."
Sarah Karlan
Meet the Warwick University Rowing Club:
Most of the time they are very busy training for rowing competitions and such:
But they also enjoy doing some good for the world.
This year, they are working hard to raise money in order to combat homophobia and bullying.
A portion of the money raised will go towards the Ben Cohen Foundation.
What better way to raise funds than to shoot a calendar?
And what better way to shoot a calendar than by stripping down to your skivvies?
Twitter: @naked_rowers
Because charity is best when done in the nude:
Charity work makes you a better person!
Charity can be fun!
And charity is...um.
One thing is certain, fighting homophobia has never looked so grand:
Warwick is proud to have some gay athletes on the team:
UWBC Men's Calendar @naked_rowers
@damiandunne @JimJamGin we have both gay & straight rowers in our squad x
UWBC Men's Calendar
@naked_rowers
@damiandunne @JimJamGin we have both gay & straight rowers in our squad x
This is the fourth year the boys have stripped down for charity.
But it's the first year the ladies have joined in on the philanthropy:
The 2013 calendar was entitled "Brokeback Boathouse."
crowdfunder.co.uk
On their fundraising page for the upcoming 2014 calendar, which has raised £11,760, the team writes:
We have been humbled by the response from around the world to our campaign last year to raise funds for the Ben Cohen Foundation, combating bullying and homohobia in sport. We decided that we wanted to do more, firstly to say thank you to the gay community who have given us so much support over the last four years, but also to honour the many people who have shared stories with us of the difficulties they faced in coming to terms with their sexuality against a backdrop of bullying and hate.
Keep up the good work lads!
Grab your own copy here.


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Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, 1 de noviembre de 1879 - Bad Nauheim, 16 de enero de 1936) fue un inventor y fotógrafo alemán que construyó en 1913 la primera cámara fotográfica de 35 mm, posteriormente llamada Ur-Leica, en la fábrica Leitz (Ernst Leitz Optische Werke) en Wetzlar.

Biografía
Barnack era ingeniero en la empresa Leitz y sufría de asma, por lo que se propuso disminuir el tamaño y peso de las cámaras fotográficas para poder realizar fotografías en exteriores. El nombre dado a la cámara fue Leica que es un anagrama obtenido a partir de Leitz Camera y comenzó su comercialización en 1924.

Entre 1913 y 1914 adaptó para uso fotográfico el formato de la película de 35 mm que se utilizaba en el cine, construyendo la primera cámara fotográfica de formato pequeño. Los carretes de película perforada en el lateral permitían realizar un mayor número de fotos sin la necesidad de cambiar de placa en cada fotografía. Además, esta película se transportaba de manera horizontal, extendiendo el tamaño del marco a 24×36 mm con una relación de aspecto 2:3, en lugar de los 18x24 mm de las cámaras de cine que transportaban la película verticalmente. Los negativos de este pequeño formato podían ampliarse para obtener imágenes positivas de mayor tamaño en un local adaptado para el positivado. Pero para llevar a cabo este proceso, la cámara debía disponer de lentes de alta calidad que generaran unos negativos de la misma calidad y bien definidos. Por lo tanto, para crear sus cámaras recurrió a varios tipos de lentes para encontrar la mejor calidad en las imágenes. En un inicio probó un Zeiss Tessar, pero el Tessar fue diseñado para el formato cinematográfico de 18×24 mm, por lo que los negativos de 24x36 mm de la Leica eran parcialmente cubiertos. Posteriormente, probó un lector Leitz Mikro-Summit de 1:4,5 y 42 mm para el prototipo, pero para lograr la resolución necesaria para una ampliación satisfactoria, el formato de 24x36 mm necesitaba una lente diseñada especialmente para ello. La primera lente de Leica que surgió consistía en un diseño de 50 mm f/3.5 basado en el "Triplete Cooke".

En 1923 Barnack convenció a su jefe, Ernst Leitz II, para hacer una serie de preproducción de 31 cámaras para la fábrica y para fotógrafos exteriores. Aunque los prototipos tuvieron una recepción mixta, Ernst Leitz decidió en 1924 producir la cámara. Fue un éxito cuando se presentó en la Feria de Primavera de Leipzig de 1925 como Leica I (para la cámara Leitz).

También fue de los primeros fotógrafos que realizaron reportajes gráficos en los que podía contemplarse la relación de las personas con su entorno, de esta manera realizó lo que se considera como primer reportaje hecho con una cámara de 35 mm y que muestra la inundación provocada por el río Lahn en Wetzlar.

En 1979, con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento se creó el Premio Leica Oskar Barnack, dotado con 5000 euros y que se concede en julio en los Encuentros de Arlés.

Premio Oscar Barnack

Un jurado internacional concede el Premio Leica Oskar Barnack a los fotógrafos profesionales cuyos poderes de observación, capturan y expresan la relación entre el hombre y el medio ambiente de la forma más gráfica, en una secuencia de un mínimo de 10 hasta un máximo de 12 imágenes.

Las presentaciones de entrada deben ser una serie autónoma de imágenes en las que el fotógrafo percibe y documenta la interacción entre el hombre y el entorno con una visión aguda y estilo visual contemporáneo: creativo, rompedor e innovador. Solo se acepta una entrada para fotógrafo. Además de estas de las categorías de "Premio Leica Oskar Barnack" y "Premio Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer", se otorgarán diez finalistas con un premio en efectivo de 2.500 euros por su serie.

El ganador de la categoría principal "Premio Leica Oskar Barnack" recibe un premio en efectivo de 25.000 euros y, además, una cámara Leica M y una lente por valor de 10.000 euros.

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Enlaces externos

 Breve biografía en el sitio web del premio Leica Oskar Barnack.

Fotógrafos de Alemania
Fotoperiodistas
Ingenieros de Alemania del siglo XX
Inventores de Alemania del siglo XX
Leica
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Fran Harris, founder of the Black Business Summit
Austin, TX — Over 10 million U.S. based African Americans identify themselves as entrepreneurs. Yet research also reveals that small businesses run by blacks are 75% more likely to fail than other demographics, namely Caucasians, Asians and Latinos.
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The first leg will be played at the Camp Nou on Wednesday 6 February at 9pm and the second leg at the Santiago Bernabéu in the last week of the month.
Real Madrid now know their opponents in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey. The Whites will face Barcelona with the first leg taking place at 9pm on Wednesday 6 February at the Camp Nou. The second leg will take place in the last week of February at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Barcelona come in to the tie having beat Sevilla in the quarter-finals. Before that they overcame Cultural Leonesa in the round of 32 and Levante in the round of 16. Valverde's side are the current cup champions and this season they have recorded four wins and two defeats in this competition. Coutinho, with three goals, is their top scorer in the cup.
Butragueño: "The Clásico is one of the greatest matches in the world"
"There's nothing like playing a Clásico. It's exciting and, above all, if you are lucky enough you play a final. When you're wearing a suit, you see it in another way. For the fans it'll be very attractive. We're talking about two teams with a lot of resources and extraordinary players. Two intense and even matches await us".
"We believe in our players and we'll see what happens, but this is one of the great matches that every fan in the world wants to watch".


Discussion in 'Long Range Hunting & Shooting' started by EXFFPM, Oct 28, 2003.
RL22,165 gr. Barnes XBT, Federal #215, Winchester cases (flash holes deburred, primer pockets uniformed, cut to length & deburred). Leaving in a week....info MUCH appreciated!!!!!!
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Q: Make a script fail by serialization of Closure Using PHP threads, I've met a few times issues with "Serialization of Closure" fatal error. However I don't understand how it happens : I don't pass closure or any kind of callable to another thread, sometimes when I take of the code outside the project and run it alone it works, but fails into the project.
So I tried to make a script fail by serialization of closure, to understand how it actually works.
This code uses closures and actually works :
<?php

class MyWorker extends Worker {

    protected $kernel;
    protected $container;

    public function __construct($closure)
    {
        echo "Worker::__construct()";
        echo PHP_EOL;
        echo $closure();
        echo PHP_EOL;
    }

    public function run()
    {
        echo "Worker::run()";
        echo PHP_EOL;
    }
}

class Toto {

    protected $c;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->c = function() {
            return "CLOSURE";
        };
    }

    public function go()
    {
        $c = $this->c;
        $pool = new Pool(4, MyWorker::class, [function(){
            return "WORKER_CLOSURE";
        }]);
        $pool->submit(new class ($c) extends Threaded {

            public function __construct($c)
            {
                $this->c = $c;
            }

            public function run()
            {
                $c = $this->c;
                echo $c();
                echo "Threaded::run()";
                echo PHP_EOL;
            }
        });
    }
}

$toto = new Toto;
$toto->go();

When running alone. But inside a Symfony command, the following code simply fails. I don't understand why therefore I cannot fix it :
<?php

use Threaded;
use Thread;

class Foo
{
    public function run()
    {

        $t = new Thread;
        $t->start();
        $t->join();
    }
}

So I thought maybe it's because this code executed in a closure (I don't know but maybe), so I tried this :
$c = function() {

    $t = new class extends Thread {

        public function run()
        {
            echo "yo";
        }
    };

    $t->start();
    $t->join();
};

$c();

And it works. So passing closure to a thread works, building, starting and joining a thread from inside a closure also works, I don't know where to look now ...
I've look at this too : Storing closures in thread fails, but the code is outdated and it now ( PHP 7, pthreads 3.x ) works.
So here I am asking for help to understand what is actually the problem with Closure...

A: The latest versions of pthreads do allow serialization of Closure objects; When used as a member property of a Threaded object, pthreads creates a copy of the function that the Closure is closing over to execute in other contexts.
Zend still does not allow serialization of Closure objects:
class Member {

    public function __construct(Closure $closure) {
        $this->closure = $closure;
    }

    public $closure;
}

class Fail extends Thread {

    public function __construct(Member $member) {
        $this->member = $member;
    }

    public function run() {
        ($this->member->closure)();
    }

    private $member;
}

$member = new Member(function(){
    echo "can only work if Member is Threaded !\n";
});

$fail = new Fail($member);

$fail->start() && $fail->join();

The code above will not work as it is, because Member is serialized when set as a member of the Threaded object, this results in pthreads trying to serialize a Closure.
Declaring Member thus:
class Member extends Threaded

Will cause it to behave as expected.
I'm not familiar enough with Symfony to tell you where to look to solve the problem, but this is certainly the cause of it; A Closure was set as a member property of an object that pthreads subsequently tries to serialize.


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It's the superb juxtaposition that makes this a wonderful piece of street photography.
Terrific shot. That shop leaps right out at us.
Superb juxtaposition! excellent street shot!
fascinating work! looks like a dream..?
nice adventure! that shops has a strange, warm glow the others don't ... I wonder why ?
Now that is some inviting window dessing! That guy seems so caught up in his work that he doesn't even notice it. Great shot!
Love the shock of red. It really stands out.


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Q: Проверка на "дурака" с возвратом a=int(a) python Есть конструкция:
while True:
try:
    a = input("Введите ваш возраст: ")
    if int(a) < 18:
        print("Доступ запрещен.")
        break
    elif int(a) >= 18:
        print("Доступ разрешен.")
        break
    else:
        raise ValueError
except ValueError:
    continue

Как можно преобразовать эту штуку таким образом, чтобы в try не прописывать постоянно int(a) для сравнения чисел. Да и вообще для любых операций?
Или подойдет такая тема:
while True:
    a = input("Введите возраст: ")
    if not a.isnumeric():
        continue
    else:
        a = int(a)
        break

if a < 18:
    print("Доступ запрещен.")
elif a >= 18:
    print("Доступ разрешен.")

A: Может, Вам подойдёт такой способ?:
while True:
    try:
        age = int(input('Введите ваш возраст: '))
        break
    except ValueError:
        continue

if age < 18:
    print('Доступ запрещен.')
else:
    print('Доступ разрешен.')

A: У тебя ветка else в первом примере никогда не сработает. Если строка из стандартного ввода окажется неприводимой к типу int, то возникнет ValueError, который ты уже обрабатываешь.
Для того, чтобы проверить, можно ли привести к int , строку из стандартного ввода, можешь проверить её
age = input()
if age.isdigit():
    age = int(age)
else:
    # some actions


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Workshop Wednesdays - Is My Saw Worth Saving archive
The man behind Bad Axe Tool Works, Mark Harrell, explains how you can tell if an old saw is really worth saving
Sighting down the toothline of a handsaw
Looking at a variety of sawbacks
Re-tensioning the heel and the toothline of a backsaw
Re-tensioning the toe of a backsaw
Flex-testing a handsaw (PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK HARRELL, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED)
You've eyed Grandpa's old Spear & Jackson handsaw for years before discovering a passion for woodworking and now it's time to knock the rust off the plate, repair the horns and send it off to a saw doctor to straighten out the toothline and put a fresh edge on the teeth. But apart from sentimental value, how do you know if it's even worth saving? Taking it a step further, you also purchased a century-old Groves & Sons brass-backed backsaw from eBay recently, but there's scattered pitting on the plate and the seller didn't tell you about how the toothline presents a serpentine S-roll, which will never allow the saw to cut right. Are these saws worth saving? Probably, but perhaps not. Let's find out.
There are steps you can take now to determine if they're worth putting money into. Let's start with handsaws first. We're going to 'flex-test' the plate - something I do before purchasing any handsaw - to see whether enough life exists in a tool that was exquisitely taper-ground and hammer-smithed taut by master craftsmen from the 19th and early 20th century.
Sight down the toothline. Chances are, you'll find a bow or two. While this can probably be hammer-smithed straight, you'll still need to know whether enough tension remains in the old plate before paying good money to have a saw doctor tune it up.
Circle the plate into an 'O', then let go of the toe end of the sawplate so it can 'spring' back into true. Remember that sawplate alloy is spring steel - a high-carbon alloy used in car suspensions, springs and in our case, sawplates. The plate won't break; the nature of spring steel should allow the plate to spring back into true.
Sight down the toothline again. If the toothline remains flexed by more than 10° in the direction you flexed it, then you might well have a problem that's beyond repair. Let's confirm our suspicion.
Now circle the plate in the opposite direction and again, let the plate spring back into true. Sight down the toothline. If the plate has flexed back into a relatively straight toothline, give or take a few degrees, then it's worth saving. On the other hand, if it is now flexed 10° or more in the new direction you've flexed it, then your saw should be retired.
Moving on to backsaws: all vintage backsaws manufactured before the 1980s and some backsaws fabricated today - such as Bad Axe and Gramercy - utilise a traditional folded sawback serving to stiffen the plate. Whether brass or carbon steel, these sawbacks are sprung onto the spine of spring steel significantly thinner - at .018-025 - than that which you encounter with most hand and panel saws - .032-042. The sawback is what stiffens a backsaw's plate to make precise, thin-kerfed, furniture-grade cuts. Here's how to assess and even re-tension the toothline:
Sight down the toothline: chances are, you'll see what appears to be a bow or kink. What you're seeing is not actually a kink, but an S-curve or a slight twist where the plate slipped out of tension from where the sawback clamps the spine - likely caused by torquing the plate with a difficult cut or from having been dropped.
Hold the saw down upright on a jointed flat surface and bear down on it with the heel of your hand - about 10psi - just in front of the handle.
Pinch the underside of the sawback ahead of the handle with your thumb and forefinger, while resting the heel of your hand along the top of the sawback. Exert slight downward pressure where the heel of your hand is bearing down on the sawback.
Using a dead-blow mallet, gently tap the sawback where it is revealed above the mortise receiving it in the handle. You should feel the sawback shift on the plate ever so slightly where it binds to the sawplate.
Now reverse your saw and this time gently tap the toe end. Don't overdo it - just a gentle tap. Again, you should feel the back shift on the spine of the plate.
Hold the toothline up to good light and sight down the teeth - the S-curve should have straightened out now and is a good candidate for rehabilitation. What you have done is promoted a see-saw effect with the sawback along the spine of the plate. This shift in clamping tension at both ends of the plate has equalised the back's clamping tension along the spine, thus truing up the toothline.
In conclusion, flexing a handsaw plate to assess how much tension remains in the spring steel is the key criterion as to whether or not it can or should be saved. As for backsaws, a few simple taps fore and aft will tell you within seconds whether that plate is any good. At the end of the day, horns can be repaired by grafting new wood onto them; plates can be scrubbed rust-free. The most important thing is knowing how to assess the metal sawplate itself before you find yourself throwing good money after bad.
Briony Darnley
Workshop Wednesdays , Mark Harrell
PHOTOGRAPH BY GMC/DEREK JONES
Contact: Bad Axe Tool Works
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Posted on September 21, 2019 September 21, 2019 by admin
Teenager Eleanor will not lack experience for launch of didi rugby Syston
didi rugby Syston will be kicking off in the New Year and it will be a real family affair in the Leicestershire town.
Eleanor Wilkinson will be head coach at new classes held at the St Peter and St Paul CE Academy on Saturday afternoons from 5 January, 2019 onwards.
The 17-year-old is a well-known figure in her home village having played, coached and refereed the game locally.
She is a member of the Leicestershire Society of Rugby Referees and the sport has been in her blood from a very young age so the teenager certainly does not lack experience.
Eleanor will be helped by her sister Lydia, who is going to be her assistant coach, and her parents who are busy spreading the word through social media and by delivering leaflets in the area.
didi rugby Syston head coach Eleanor Wilkinson
Starting in January
"We will be running all three age groups when we launch and we have been out in Syston trying to tell as many people as possible that the classes will be starting in January," said Eleanor.
"There are quite a lot of young people in Syston and a lot of people who play rugby so I am hoping it all goes well.
"I got into rugby because I have grown up with it and watched a lot of it from a very young age. Now this is very exciting because I have done a lot of volunteer coaching already.
"I met Vicky in February 2017 when we both appeared on Radio Leicester and then we saw each again at an awards ceremony.
Qualified coach
"She is a good friend who I can go to for help and advice when I need it. If I ever have an issue, she is always there."
Vicky said she was equally as excited for the launch of classes at the St Peter and St Paul CE Academy.
"When I first met Eleanor, I was glad to be able to see how confident she was," added Vicky. "She is a qualified coach and we began talking about getting her involved in didi rugby at some stage.
"She soon came to a few sessions and enjoyed them so I mentored her and will be supporting her now she is starting classes in Syston. We will be bringing in coaches to help out but Eleanor will be leading from the front because she is an outstanding individual."
* didi rugby Syston classes will take place at the St Peter and St Paul CE Academy, Upper Church Street, Syston from Saturday 5 January (12.30pm to 2.30pm). Phone Vicky on 07812 082375 to book your child's FREE taster session or email vicky@didirugby.com *
Read more: New didi rugby Rutland owner had a 'life-changing epiphany'.
Watch more: VIDEO – Clubs urged to conatct didi rugby for help with RFU's new Early Years Guidelines


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ABC Film Challenge – Action – C – Channeling (2013)
Director: Drew Thomas
Writer: Drew Thomas (Screenplay)
Starring: Taylor Handley, Kate French, Skyler Day, Dominic DeVore, Ryan Walker, Landon Ashworth, Alex Solowitz
Plot: A drama centered on people who seek validation by broadcasting their lives to as big an audience as possible.
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Verdict: Simple Look at the Next Gen of Entertainment
Story: Channeling starts by taking us into a world where people can have a camera in their eye, with people watching their lives, Wyatt Maddox (Handley) is one of these people and after he is killed with his channel watching, his soldier brother Jonah (DeVore) returns home, here he learns that his brother was murdered with Wyatt's girlfriend Tara (French) filling in the gaps of what happened.
As Jonah starts to investigate, he teams up with Tara to find the person that killed Wyatt, he enters the world of street racing from stolen cars, where he pretends to be his brother, which only draws the same criminals that killed him.
Thoughts on Channeling
Characters – Wyatt is the popular in the virtual world, with his followers in his illegal stolen street cars getting him killed, he has been recording his life, which gives his brother something to search through. Jonah is the soldier brother of Wyatt, he has returned to learn what happened to his brother only to go undercover with his brother's girlfriend to learn the truth about who killed his brother. Tara is the girlfriend of Wyatt's, she was with him just before he was killed and now, she wants learn the truth, by showing Jonah how to enter the world. Ashleigh is the younger sister of the brothers, she has become popular with her own recordings which is more about fashion and daily life.
Performances – When we look at the performances we don't get the best performances, this does work for the film because they are meant to be what we would consider YouTube stars in how they try to play to their audiences. The reality behind the acting is that it is simple enough and the characters are hard to see in the real world either.
Story – The story here follows a brother that is trying to find out what happened to his brother after he is murdered during one of his special broadcasts, he goes undercover to learn more about the world, searching for answers. The most interesting way to look at this story, comes from seeing the world where the broadcasting has become so popular, this idea works very well because it reflects how the world is only interested in drama or crime, over any sort of real event. When we look at the actual story, it is a basic revenge like story and works as the surface of the film, it would have been nice to have felt like the villains were more threatening and the side story revolving around the little sister does seem just there to show a different side of the popularity of the equipment rather than adding anything to the main story.
Action/Sci-Fi – The action in the film does follow a couple of car chases which as basic enough, but shot through the eyes which makes them difficult to watch. The sci-fi element does build on what we have seen in Black Mirror before which is a recording of life, it is nice touch and something we see happening more and more.
Settings – The film shows the criminal world that Jonah must enter for answers, we have rough bars, dark alleyways and a remote penthouse apartment where his brother lived.
Special Effects – When it comes to the effects, this is focused on how the viewers of the people see the lives they are following, it does feel like shaky cam at times which isn't helpful as a viewer experience.
Scene of the Movie – Bar of popularity.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – Not seeing enough of the villain.
Final Thoughts – This is an interesting look at how the popularity of social media has become easier to access and become key to these people's lives.
Overall: Entertaining, though flawed.
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After a day of discovering this ancient city, relax in the perfectly appointed poolside lounge.
Double Tree by Hilton is a great option for you as a base to explore this fascinating city. Located 2 kilometers from the Taj Mahal, this hotel has a selection of rooms with a view of the Taj Mahal in the distance. The guest rooms are comfortable and spacious with a simple design a perfect place to relax after a day of exploring. The hotel offers Hilton style service with a great team of staff.
The hotel has an excellent location - explore the ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri home to a complex of monuments, temples, tombs and one of the largest mosques in India. A sunset and sunrise visit to The Taj Mahal will always be an inspirational part of any holiday to India.


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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible
By DAVID G. SAVAGE
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for blind people to sue Domino's Pizza and other retailers if their websites are not accessible.
In a potentially far-reaching move, the justices turned down an appeal from Domino's and let stand a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling holding that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access not just to restaurants and stores but also to the websites and apps of those businesses.
Guillermo Robles, who is blind, filed suit in Los Angeles three years ago and complained he had been unable to order a pizza online because the Domino's website lacked the software that would allow him to communicate. He cited the ADA, which guarantees to persons with a disability "full and equal enjoyment of the goods and services ... of any place of public accommodations."
Lawyers for Domino's agreed the provision applied to its bricks-and-mortar pizza locations, but not its website.
Last year, however, the 9th Circuit ruled for Robles and said the law applied to its online services as well as the stores.
"The ADA mandates that places of public accommodation, like Domino's, provide auxiliary aids and services to make visual materials available to individuals who are blind," the appeals court said in January.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and business groups that said they represented 500,000 restaurants and 300,000 businesses joined in an appeal urging the high court to review the 9th Circuit's decision. They complained of a "tsunami of litigation" and worried that judges nationwide would see the appeals court's decision as "imposing a nationwide website-accessibility mandate."
But without comment or dissent on Monday, the high court said it would not hear the case of Domino's Pizza vs. Robles.
This is not a formal ruling upholding the 9th Circuit decision, and the justices could agree to take up the issue later if lower courts are divided. But for now, the court's action strongly suggests that retailers will be required to make their websites accessible.
Joseph R. Manning Jr., a Newport Beach lawyer who represented Robles, said the high court made "the right call. There can be no debate that the blind and visually impaired require accessible websites and mobile apps to function on an equal footing in the modern world."
Mark Whitley, president of Easterseals Southern California, praised the high court for "supporting the values ... the ADA was built upon."
Domino's and the National Retail Federation issued statements saying they were disappointed in the court's refusal to hear the case. The 9th Circuit sent the case back to a district judge in Los Angeles to decide whether Robles suffered discrimination.
"We look forward to presenting our case at the trial court. We also remain steadfast in our belief in the need for federal standards for everyone to follow in making their websites and mobile apps accessible," Domino's said its statement.


MOORE, SC-- A celebration of Life for Mrs. Jerri Rene Boyd, 56, of 111 Elena Dr. will be held on Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. at the John Stinson Woodward Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in the Heritage Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the John Stinson Woodward Memorial Chapel.


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