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A personal weblog of amateur engineering
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Tournament Report: DCC Fall Classic 2022
I played my very first over-the-board tournament at the 2019 Denver Open. I did surprisingly well in the U1800 section at that tournament, getting 3 points our of 5, and finishing with a rather optimistic provisional USCF rating of 1615. I wrote a full report: Tournament Report: Denver Open 2019 (my first chess tournament!)
Later that year I had the chance to compete in a rapid tournament (game in 25 minutes with a 5 second delay). I won two and lost two games to finish in the middle of the pack. At least one of my losses was to the overall winner of the tournament. I wrote a much-less thorough report of that event: Tournament Report: DCC Rapid
The Denver Open was canceled for the next two years because of Covid19, but I did manage to play the 1-day, 3-round "DCC Nearly Normal Tournament" in June, 2021. I lost my first two rounds (my oponent during Round 2, where I let a nice opening advantage slip away, commentated our game in the DCC database: Jason McEwen (1761) - Chris Burkhardt (1615)), and then the tournament software gave me a bye for round 3. Apparently a bye was good for 1 point, so at least I didn't get last place, though my rating dropped to 1523. The tournament director said that if I wanted to I could play a rated game against a player in the lower section who was also given a bye, and I accepted. I had a relatively short game against a 635 rated player. I won, but the game got reported to the USCF as a loss for me, dropping my provisional rating further to 1409. I contacted the tournament director who in turn contacted USCF, but it has been three years and it is still not corrected. Oh well.
The Denver Open returned in May, 2022, and I played (along with a friend from our local chess group)! I felt sorry for my opponents facing me with an erroneously low rating, but I was confident I would be able to get my rating back to where it should be. I was playing in the U1800 section and my friend in the U1400; we were hoping we would both win some cash. I won 2, lost 3, finished in 42nd place (toward the bottom), and my rating dropped to 1370. My chess club friend didn't do much better. Chess is hard! In my first game I blundered a totally winning endgame to a loss (a 21 point blunder according to stockfish). Lichess study for my Denver Open 2022 games.
Figure 1. Black to move and lose. Round 1 at Denver Open 2022
That brings us to the Fall Classic this October. I played in the U1600 section (I paid $15 extra to play one section up), and my brother-in-law played in the U1400 section as his first ever over-the-board tournament! I wrote in my first tournament report, over three years ago, that I had meant to study endgames (read De la Villa's 100 Endgames You Must Know) but didn't get around to it. I still haven't. Though I think my openings are better just from playing games on lichess and looking at the database afterwards.
Many of my tournament losses have been from better positions that I just couldn't hang on to. My goal in the Fall Classic was to stay focused even when I have a winning position. I'm happy with how I did on that front. I won all the games I was winning, and managed a draw in one of the games I was losing. According to the lichess analysis, I played over 90% accuracy in every game (which means that only 10% of my moves made me more likely to lose).
I scored 3.5 out of 5.0, good enough for 6th place in my section and a rating boost to 1501 (a tournament performance of 1642). I drew the game against the eventual winner of the section; I was losing the whole time, but he let me find a draw in the king-and-pawn endgame. If I had won my last round I would have gotten 2nd place; instead I lost after playing the opening poorly and got no prize. But it was still my best tournament to date!
The first two rounds on Sunday were game in 90 minutes with a 10 second delay. The remaining round and the two rounds on Sunday were game in 90 with a 30 second increment.
Round 1 (white)
All set for battle and my unrated opponent (his first USCF tournament, and his first otb tournament in a long time) made a blunder in the opening and I won in about 10 minutes. Afterward he and I played a couple of games out in the hotel lobby; he won the first and I won the second.
White to move and get a decisive advantage in the position below:
My brother-in-law's first game went on for about 3 hours… so I had plenty of time to wander around and do some knitting before lunch and Round 2.
Round 2 (black)
My opponent in this round was the highest rated player in our section and would go on to win. A friend from my local chess group warned me that he liked to play in a very aggressive style; I was definitely on my back foot the entire time and felt lucky to get a draw.
My turn to play against the French. My opponent made a knight sacrifice on move 11 which scared me at first, but I eventually saw what he missed: that I could just block the follow-up check and I'm fine. I not only held on to my material advantage after that, but managed to find a tactic and win another piece, and then his queen. At that point I forgot that I had a bishop and kept missing checkmates. My opponent finally resigned rather than wait any longer for me to figure out how to win.
I have the black pieces and play the French, and my opponent just let's me control the center giving me a comfortable position. They then blundered a bishop and I took my time to convert for the win.
If I win this I get prize money. If I draw or lose, I get nothing. My opponent is from Russia (I think?) and has no USCF rating. He plays the Pirc defense, and I put my pieces where he can chase them with his pawns and then continue with the initiative for the entire game. I spent a lot of time trying to dig myself out of the resulting bad position, unsuccessfully, and ended up playing a losing endgame on increment.
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A report from my first chess tournament at the 2019 Denver Open. I finished with 3 points out of 5 games and a new provisional USCF rating of 1615.
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CD REVIEW: Michael Nyman – SYMPHONY NO. 11: HILLSBOROUGH MEMORIAL (K. Rudge; Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; MN Records MNRCD136)
MICHAEL NYMAN (born 1944): Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial—Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano; Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Josep Vicent, conductor [Recorded at the Friary, Liverpool, England, on 10 and 11 May 2014 (Ms. Rudge and the Orchestra) and in the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral on 5 July 2014 (Choir); MN Records MNRCD136; 1 CD, 40:09; Available from MN Records, Amazon, jpc, Presto Classical, and major music retailers]
When the sun rose over Sheffield on Saturday, 15 April 1989, no one expected that by day's end one of the most horrific disasters in the history of competitive sports would leave more than seven hundred English football fans injured and ninety-six fans of the Liverpool and Nottingham Forest Football Clubs dead. Seventy-eight of the dead had not yet reached the age of thirty. Likewise, few people might have imagined that the formal inquests into the catastrophe at Hillsborough Stadium would be obstructed by the ineptitude, corruption, and blatant dishonesty of the Thatcher government. Like the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States and the July 2005 London bombings, the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath forever altered perceptions of public safety and the responsibilities of individuals and institutions in preserving it. After twenty-three years, the devastation of the tragedy at Hillsborough Stadium was intensified by an independent investigatory panel's statement in September 2012 that the lives of as many as forty-one of those who died in 1989 might have been saved had medical attention been managed properly. On 5 July 2014, Michael Nyman's Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial was premièred at Liverpool Cathedral in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hillsborough Stadium calamity. With any work composed for or ultimately identified with the celebration or memorialization of a specific event, there is the danger that its topicality will limit the endurance of its appeal. Though Mr. Nyman's Symphony No. 11 owes it genesis to a singular cataclysmic day in the history of sport, the significance of the score that the composer's recollections of that atrocity produced is not dependent upon the listener's knowledge of the horrors of 15 April 1989. Mr. Nyman has crafted a work of imposing musical grandeur that is a monument to public and private grief: like Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Hillsborough Memorial transcends the circumstances of its creation. It is not surprising that Mr. Nyman composed meaningful, memorable music, but the phenomenal quality of this recording of his Symphony No. 11 is extraordinary in any context.
It is interesting to note that the first movement—the portion of the work that might be thought to most significantly impact its endurance beyond commemoration of the Hillsborough disaster—is one of the strongest components of the Symphony's success. 'The Singing of the Names' is precisely what it purports to be, a musical setting of the full names of the ninety-six people who lost their lives at Hillsborough Stadium on 15 April 1989. Sung by Liverpudlian mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, Mr. Nyman's music generates tremendous emotional impact, the simplicity of the gesture of incorporating the names of the fallen into the musical landscape proving extraordinarily poignant. Mr. Nyman's familiar compositional idiom is evident, but the subtly shifting harmonies of his unabashed tonalism obliterate any suggestions of monotony. Ms. Rudge's golden tones contribute memorably to the rapt sincerity of 'The Singing of the Names,' and she easily covers the full range of the vocal lines whilst phrasing with distinction.
The impressions made by the singing of the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir and the playing of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in the Symphony's subsequent three movements—'Family Reflections,' 'The 96,' and 'Memorial'—are deeply stimulating. Maestro Josep Vicent conducts the performance with compelling sense of occasion allied with meticulous control made all the more impressive by the chorus having been recorded separately. The angry climax to which the Symphony builds is stirringly realized by the musical personnel, but the contours of the music are not distorted in the interest of emphasizing the composer's justifiably exasperated reaction to the gross mishandling of response to the Hillsborough tragedy by the Thatcher government. The Choir's singing in 'Family Reflections' is wonderfully expressive even when the vocal lines tax the young choristers, and the Orchestra's sonorous playing highlights the shimmering colors of Mr. Nyman's melodic strands. The emotion conveyed by the choir's singing is nothing short of remarkable, and the youngsters sing with a purity that in some ways seems to intensify the sting of the text. It is perhaps the juxtaposition of innocence with the terrible experience of tragedy that is the catalyst for this profundity, but Mr. Nyman's music provides the elemental forces that interact with unstinting power. Though their styles are very different, there are echoes of Elgar, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, and Britten in Mr. Nyman's way of constructing musical peaks that explore unexpected nuances of text—even when the text is a simple list of names. Mr. Nyman's path is entirely his own, but by synthesizing the traditions of the most gifted of his countrymen into an individual voice in 'Family Reflections' and 'The 96' he weaves his very personal response to the events at Hillsborough Stadium into the bloodstained tapestry depicting England's darkest hours.
'Memorial' is one of Mr. Nyman's most beautiful inventions, and it finds an ideal new purpose as the closing movement of Symphony No. 11. This is not music of mourning but of laughing at embarrassing childhood photographs and remembering pints shared at neighborhood pubs in carefree hours after football matches won and lost. 'Memorial' draws from all of the musicians a performance of immense zeal that fully unfurls the threads of sorrow, strength, and transcendence that bind the ambivalent sentiments of Mr. Nyman's musical ingenuity into an affectingly congruous entity.
Sir Winston Churchill wrote that 'we shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.' It is this philosophy of refining from the tumult of loss, controversy, and unanswered questions the spirits of recovery and rededication that reverberates in every bar of Michael Nyman's Symphony No. 11. This superb recording preserves a heartfelt performance of a fitting and provocative commemoration of a tragedy that, both in honor of those who died and in recognition of the appalling lessons of that day in 1989, must not be forgotten.
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Transcript - Demario Davis conference call 12/16/20 | Week 15 vs. Chiefs
New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis talks about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offensive unit prior to the Saints Week 15 matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 20, 2020.
New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis
Video call with New Orleans media
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020
If you had to pick one player on the team who was on the naughty list, and one person who's on the nice list, who would they be?
"That's a good question. I'll start with the nice list, probably Tay (Taysom) Hill on the nice list, for sure. Naughty list, I don't know, everybody's good on our team. Everybody's good, we ain't got no naughty people."
Sean Payton talked this morning about (Patrick) Mahomes' ability to sort of find the holes in the protection and to step up in the pocket in a way that maybe some other guys can't and find guys. When you're studying him, what kind of issues does that create? And is he sort of special that way in sort of buying time within the pocket?
"Yeah, he's got a lot of pocket awareness and knows how to extend plays. Very similar to Aaron Rodgers, who knows how to extend plays and has been doing that for a long time in his career. He has the ability to roll out, left and right, outside the pocket, he does a good job of stepping up and through the pocket and then extending outside. It presents a lot of challenges for the defense for sure."
With that offense with Kansas City, you know, obviously you have (Patrick) Mahomes, but what about the other guys that he's working with? And how do they make that offense unique also?
"Oh, he has a lot of weapons around him, a lot of speed at the receiver position, two very good backs, a host of tight ends, including probably the tight end in the business. And so, he's already a phenomenal player without that cast. And then, he has a lot of great players around him. A really solid offensive line as well. We're going to have our hands full for sure."
I wanted to ask you specifically about one of those running backs, the rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Just what have you seen from him on film and what makes him kind of challenging?
"He's a do-it-all back. Runs hard, great vision, great shiftiness as a back, can catch the ball out of the backfield, good in the pass protection. He's a do-it-all back, for sure. They've got two of them."
More on that offense, I mean, they've got play-makers everywhere. So, what type of challenge does that put on all of you whether it's Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Patrick Mahomes, you know, insert player here?
"Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, it's still all about doing your job, knowing where you are, know where you're supposed to be, know what your assignment is, and then execute the game plan. You know, I feel like as a defense, going against our offense, we've had to always go up against a great quarterback with a lot of weapons over there. You know, and so it's very similar in that regard. This team presents its own challenges. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to alignment, assignment, technique."
I'm just curious since you were kind of the same age, did you watch Tyrann Matheiu, like when you were in college? I know like a lot of guys said he was kind of like, they try to model their game after him and stuff like that?
"He was a phenomenal player in college, for sure. I mean, his nickname matched his play. He's a high-energy player, makes a lot of plays in the run game and the pass game. A ball hog in safety, knows how to find the ball, knows how to create turnovers. He's just been a special player for a long time. And I feel like high-energy great defensive players watch high-energy other great defensive players and watch their game and see what their strengths are and what their weaknesses are."
A lot of teams try to defend K.C. in different ways, sit back and don't allow the explosive plays or be aggressive to try to disrupt the explosive plays. Is there a consistent formula you use? Or do you have to mix it up throughout the game, try to keep off balance?
"I think they do a good job of adjusting depending on what look they're getting. Teams have tried to pressure them the whole game, teams have tried to play soft against them or play more of a shell defense. And I think teams have tried a lot of different things. But you can look at their record and see that a lot of it hasn't been successful. So, I think they do a good job of adjusting. You have to be able to be multiple and you have to take away what they do best, just like any other team."
I just had to know what you thought of Trey Hendrickson's and Marcus Davenport's new bleached haircuts that they're sporting this week?
"I think that's the whole D-line. You know, that's the mark of the D-line. All of them have blonde streaks, even Cam (Jordan) has the blonde sideburns. So, that's something that they're doing in their room. More power to them. I mean, I think they're as close of a group that you're going to find. And so, you can see it with the hair."
With Tyreek Hill's speed, especially, how difficult is it, how much does that open up things to their offense? And then, you know, with you having a guy who's pretty fast as well in Marshon (Lattimore)? How much does that help with that?
"Definitely when, you know, teams have a speed threat, it definitely presents challenges where you have to take away that speed in certain ways. You have to shift the defense a certain way. But, I think the thing about Tyreek, he's not just a speed threat. You have certain teams that have guys that (are only) kind of a speed receiver, that just, they use to go over the top. But Tyreek Hill is as complete of a receiver that you're going to see. He can go over the top, can catch screens and go, he can run all the routes on the route tree and he has great hands. So, I think he just presents a whole host of issues alone."
You and Malcolm (Jenkins) co-wrote another guest column this week about social justice reform in New Orleans. What, I guess, wanted you to do that right now at this juncture in time?
"I think, as people, citizens, we have a responsibility to hold those who are, you know, making the laws and managing society around us accountable. That doesn't just end because, you don't see people out marching in the streets. It doesn't end just because, the elections are over. The work actually begins after they take those positions and it is important for us to hold them accountable. We just had an important DA election, where a lot of promises were made. And we know we need to see reform in the criminal justice system around our nation, especially here in New Orleans and Louisiana. So, I think it's just important for us to be able to hold those people accountable as people that care about what's going on around us."
This is obviously a relatively unusual matchup, every week fans don't necessarily get this with two double digit win teams, both maybe number one seeds. As a player what makes this a highly compelling matchup to you?
"It's a great matchup, two really good teams that are proven they can be successful within a period of time. The most exciting thing is it's the next game on the schedule. We have a mission of where we want to be at the end of the season, and to get there, each week we have a different challenge. And it's exciting that this is a different challenge that we've faced this season. And so, it's in front of us, and to get where we want to go, we've got to go through it. So, it's an exciting week to prepare for."
I just want to know if it's legit that you cry every time you see Lion King?
"Pretty much, pretty much, that's my favorite movie of all time. And I feel like I got a lion spirit. And so, I can relate to Mufasa and Simba. And so, watching Mufasa go, that's pretty tough on anybody, I would think."
Saints transcripts: Sean Payton conference call with local media | Monday, Jan. 10
Head coach looks back on the 2021-22 season
Saints transcripts: Demario Davis and James Hurst media availability | Monday, Jan. 10
Players on missing playoffs and heading into the postseason
New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons postgame quotes: Sean Payton, Trevor Siemian, Paulson Adebo, Malcolm Jenkins | 2021 NFL Week 18
Saints head coach and quarterback speak following the Week 18 win over the Atlanta Falcons
New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons game notes
Saints have five consecutive winning seasons
Saints transcripts: Blake Gillikin, Erik McCoy, Paulson Adebo and Alvin Kamara media availability| Friday, Jan. 7
Players preview Week 18 matchup against Atlanta
Saints transcripts: Sean Payton video call with local media | Friday, Jan. 7
Head coach looks ahead to Week 18 matchup against Atlanta
Saints transcripts: Cam Jordan, Marquez Callaway and Deonte Harris media availability| Thursday, Jan. 6
Players previews Week 18 matchup against Atlanta
Saints transcripts: Taysom Hill, Kwon Alexander and Christian Ringo media availability| Wednesday, Jan. 5
Players look ahead to Week 18 matchup against Atlanta
Saints transcripts: Sean Payton conference call with local media | Wednesday, Jan. 5
Saints transcripts: Sean Payton conference call with local media | Monday, Jan. 3
Head coach on Sunday's win against Carolina and battling adversity
New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers postgame quotes: Sean Payton, Taysom Hill, Cam Jordan, Demario Davis, C.J. Gardner-Johnson | 2021 NFL Week 17
Saints head coach and players speak following the Week 17 win over the Carolina Panthers
New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers game notes | NFL Week 17
Cam Jordan's 3.5 sacks give him 106 for his career


South Florida Blog for Fashion & Lifestyle | Frugal Flirty N Fab!: Sam Edelman Monday Must Haves!
Sam Edelman Monday Must Haves!
Happy Monday Luvs! I hope everyone enjoyed a Fabtabulous weekend. This weekend I managed to tackle my dreaded struggle tree, get some Holiday shopping done, and experience my first ever Party Bus! My weekend was everything I needed it to be and then some! So that Monday can hopefully follow in the footsteps of my Fab weekend I give you my Monday Must Have Kicks of the week!
It's rare that I come across a fab caged bootie that I don't like which is why its super hard for me to come up with a reason for me not owing any! Yep you heard it right, I have never owned a pair of Fab caged booties but these Sam Edelman Black Napa cuties may be the first to break that streak. Enough about me and my Must Haves cause clearly I can go on for days on end but what are your thoughts on Aubrina? Is it a Luv em or Leave em for my Sam Edelman Monday Must Haves?


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The Satan Bug (Blu-ray)
Directed by John Sturges
Running Time: 114
Genres: Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
George Maharis
Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Message is clear: put an end to war research, or prepare for the end of the Earth. Officials have no doubt about the madman's ability to carry out his threat; they know he has access to The Satan Bug. George Maharis, Dana Andrews and Anne Frances face the terror of a death germ in this race-against-time thriller directed by the great John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). The Suspense begins at a top-secret U.S. germ warfare laboratory when containers of lethal microbe are stolen and soon after the group behind the theft proves its deadly resolve by using the weapon to completely annihilate the residents of a small town Florida community. The next target: Los Angeles - unless government agent Maharis and an elite task force can somehow prevent the City of Angels from becoming Hell on Earth. A desperate manhunt is on - the survival of the planet is at stake and the biological doomsday clock is ticking in this superior tale of organized terrorism and split-second heroics. The stellar cast includes Richard Basehart, Frank Sutton, Ed Asner, Simon Oakland and John Anderson.
Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Historian Glenn Erickson
Original Theatrical Trailer
The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend
Director	: Preston Sturges
Betty Grable plays a hot-tempered racy saloon entertainer named Freddie who's as quick with a pistol as she is to kick up her heels. During a fray, Freddie accidentally shoots a judge while...	More
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges
A workplace practical joke goes awry when an office clerk, believing he has won a $25,000 prize, takes his girlfriend on an extravagant Christmas shopping spree... in the middle of July.	More
The Great McGinty (Special Edition)
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges
Dan McGinty is a an opportunist who turns corruption into a promising political career, but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest.	More
Joe Kidd (Special Edition)
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges
During a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, an ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.	More
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges
Jim Slater rides the range seeking to avenge his father's death. Along the way he meets frontier widow Karyl Orton, who is being hunted by gunslinger Johnny Cool. The unlikely duo endures...	More
The Great Moment (Special Edition)
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Sturges
The Great Moment takes inspiration from the true-life story of Dr. William Morton, a dedicated dentist who discovers ether, otherwise known as anesthesia, in 1846.	More
The Valdez Horses AKA Chino (Special Edition)
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges
Country: U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., France, Spain, Italy
Avoided by everyone for having Native American blood, Chino lives in seclusion until he takes a young runaway under his wing and shows him the ropes of ranching. Chino soon strikes up a romance with...	More
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges
Country: U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., France, Spain, Italy, France, Spain, Italy
A Lovely Way to Die
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, David Lowell Rich
Country: U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., U.S., France, Spain, Italy, France, Spain, Italy, U.S.
A hard-boiled police detective turns in his badge after charges of brutality are made against him and becomes a bodyguard of a rich widow who is on trial for her husband's murder. More
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Directors	: Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, John Sturges, David Lowell Rich, Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden is a extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and...	More


Once a year end of september / beginning of october, there is the Octoberfest.
Located north of the Alps is the bavarian capital Munich. With a population of 1.3 million it is also the biggest city of Bavaria. Greater Munich is one of the most important economic, transport and cultural centres of Germany and as such is ranked in the top areas of Europe.
Historically Munich was mentioned for the first time in 1158, wenn Heinrich the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, built a bridge over the river Isar. Since then Munich has developed as a major city and nowadays is rated as a High-Tech location as well as a popular tourist destination for short holiday breaks.
In the heart of the city, surrounded by the Old Town, lies the Marienplatz. Here you can admire the old and new town hall and the Zeughaus with the museum of the city. Nearby are the Peterskirche, the oldest church of Munich, the famous Frauenkirche, the Salvatorkirche, and the Heiligkreuzkirche. The Isartor, the Sendlingertor, the Karlstor and der Lowenturm am Rindermarkt are reminders of the old town wall.
Marienplatz München with the new town hall.
To the south of Munich are some beautiful alpine lakes, e.g. lake starnberg, Ammersee, Tegernsee, Schliersee, Kochelsee, Staffelsee oder Walchensee.
The famous Oktoberfest, held annually from the end of September to the beginning of October at the Theresienwiese, attracts visitors from all over world and many choose to stay in the delightful Münchener Umland with its wide selection of charming Hotels, Pensionen, Ferienwohnungen oder Apartments. Public transport in and around Munich is highly efficient and the U-Bahn and S-Bahn offer frequent connections with the inner city. An excellent example of the transport network is the fast connection with the Munich Trade Fair Center (Messe Muenchen), to the east of the city, where all year round international fairs and exhibitions take place. Other popular events are the Fruhlingsfest (Spring Festival), also held at the Theresienwiese, and the twice a year Auer Dult at the Mariahilfplatz and the Tollwood-Festival.
Munich offers a number of museums (Deutsches Museum, Pinakotheken), historical buildings (Frauenkirche, Rathaus, Karlstor, Schloss Nymphenburg, die Münchner Residenz, etc.), the very relaxing Englischer Garten, the renowned zoo and plenty of leisure opportunities for example along the Isar.
More Information about the region via www.BAYregio.de.


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Columbia College | Columbia University in the City of New York
An Optimistic Return to Campus
MATTHEW SEPTIMUS
I write this letter on a day in late July after a long conversation with the student leaders responsible for planning and implementing our New Student Orientation Program (NSOP). Like so much else in the past 18 months, it will be an Orientation like no other. It addresses our newest students, the Class of 2025, and also our rising sophomores, the Class of 2024, who had a purely online Orientation last year. As the students and I sat and talked in Lerner Hall, all of us wearing masks, I learned a lot about their plans for NSOP. I also learned something else, something much more important: that despite all the challenges and difficulties each of these students has faced for a year and a half, a span of time representing more than a third of their undergraduate experience, they were as optimistic and enthusiastic, as imaginative and creative, as any NSOP leadership group of the past. They acted in the spirit of Beginner's Mind, seeing new possibilities for how to design this experience. Possibilities for our new students and for our not-so-new students, as well as possibilities for themselves. It made me feel — and I think should make all of us feel — optimistic about this year with our return to on-campus classes and residential life.
As I write the verb "return," I realize that while it is an accurate word for the time — as we indeed are coming back to both a place, our campus, and a set of activities, the education of our students — "return" does not convey what this fall really means for us. That is because we all carry an experience of disruption that will change how we think about our campus and our education. The aphorism "It is impossible to step in the same river twice," frequently attributed to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, comes to mind as a wonderfully evocative metaphor for our "return." How I think about our College and the experiences our students will have within it has been altered from what I thought when writing my dean's letter for CCT 's Fall 2019 issue.
Scott Rudd
This year's NSOP leaders are not trying to replicate the structure, the substance or the feeling of 2019's Orientation. They know that the river they are stepping into is a quite different one, even if it looks the same. I know we are all cognizant of that, but I hope that in this academic year we take time, individually and collectively, to consider how we see our college now, with the new perspective that disruption has provided. How has our assessment of the undergraduate education we offer been changed? What new opportunities has the pandemic made us aware of? What have we learned that we can use to be an even better college?
I spent a lot of time during the pandemic thinking about the meaning of Heraclitus's river analogy as it pertains to Columbia College. I would sit on the bank of the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, just a few steps from my house, which has been my office during much of the last 18 months, and watch the ever-changing water flow by; sometimes I even waded into it. And while I have "returned" the Dean's Office to Hamilton Hall, I still think about the flowing water in that brook.
As I begin my 11th year as dean, and my 32nd as a Columbia faculty member, I have been thinking about the flow of students through our college, the thousands I have taught, advised, written letters of recommendation for or just chatted with over the years. This issue of CCT has particular meaning for me in that regard. One of the feature stories is about Sam Sternberg '07, a biochemistry major who graduated during the time I chaired the chemistry department. Sam was a remarkable student in the classroom and in the lab, and an engaging interlocutor outside those scientific spaces. There is a particular pleasure for me in seeing him, the successful academic researcher, in these pages, and thinking back to seeing him in Havemeyer as a student.
For all of us who are faculty members, experiences like this inspire pride in what we do at the College. And no matter how things might continue to change, we know that we will always draw encouragement and satisfaction from seeing our students develop into successful and unique citizens. Roar, Lion(s), Roar!
James J. Valentini
What Does It Take to Start a Tradition?
Whale, Hello There!
Shakespeare Goes to Hollywood
A Journalist's Unmatched Access
Moving the Film World Forward
Within the Family
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Message from the CCAA President
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A Pioneer in the Field of Gay History
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Spec billet aluminum flywheels are lighter than the factory flywheel which gives the engine the ability to react and rev faster and slower according to input from the throttle. They also absorb less power and torque as the drivetrain transfers it to the wheels. Spec specifically machines each flywheel to the specifications of the Fiesta ST so it is a unique application designed for the car specifically.


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The 2022 AFF U-18 Women's Championship was the 2nd edition of the AFF U-19 Women's Championship, an international women's youth football tournament organised by ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). It was hosted by Indonesia.

Australia beat Vietnam 2–0 in the final for their first title in the championship.

Participant teams
There was no qualification, and all entrants advanced to the final tournament. The following teams from member associations of the AFF entered the tournament:

Venues
Matches were held in Jakabaring Sport City, with Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium as the main venue and Jakabaring Athletic Field as the alternate venue.

Group stage
 All times listed are WIB (UTC+7).

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, the penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Winner

Goalscorers

Final ranking
This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.

References

AFF U-19 Women's Championship
AFF
AFF
AFF
2022 in Asian football

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We were staying at a hotel in the village and decided to stop at this pub,we were greeted by friendly staff and enjoyed our meal.The food was local and very good.
A celebration to remember, everything was first class from the staff to the meal. We all chose different main meals and there was not one criticism, the same can be said for the puddings. Brilliant and will look forward to another visit soon.
Myself and my family visited on the 15-02-2019 the service we received was excellent and made to feel most welcome. The food we had was excellent and to a high standard. Definitely will be returning in the future thank you.
Get quick answers from Village Limits Restaurant staff and past visitors.
does the bar have sky sports? And will Saturdays rugby league grand final game be showing?
says wheelchair accessible, but does that include toilets please?
Sorry it was my first and only visit so I'm not sure. I can tell you that the restaurant and the toilets were all on the ground floor.


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Stephanie Alexander: every kitchen's companion
Living food legend Stephanie Alexander shares her love of growing, cooking and educating in a new edition of one of her classic books
By Lynne Testoni
Her iconic Cook's Companion is standard equipment in most Australian kitchens and her kitchen garden projects are coming to a school near you (if they're not there already), but Stephanie Alexander is not quite ready to retire just yet.
Alexander, 76, is just about to release a new edition of her incredibly successful Kitchen Garden Companion – now in a two-volume paperback set and just in time for Mother's Day.
"The Kitchen Garden Companion sprang from my desire to encourage people to grow some of their own food, and once they've grown it to know a little bit more about it and involve their kids," she says.
And while the original book was incredibly successful, it was a huge tome and Alexander and her publisher, Lantern, felt it was time to relook at the way it was organised for the new paperback edition.
"We both agreed that the best thing was to divide it into 'Growing' and 'Cooking'. So I went through both halves and made sure that they stood alone. They each refer to the other volume, but can stand as a book on their own," Alexander says.
Growing was released last year and incorporated personal anecdotes and observational diary entries. The second volume, Cooking, is in bookstores from April.
"What that really means is that Cooking needs to be understood in the context that it is talking about family food, specifically food where you may have grown some of it yourself, and where you've also involved kids," says Alexander. "So a lot of the recipes are relatively simple."
Alexander says she hopes that it will get children excited about cooking and growing their food.
"It's certainly not assuming that everybody's an expert market gardener or anything like that," she adds. "It's a bit more family orientated where you've got some herbs growing out the back, maybe a bit of broccoli or growing tomatoes in the summer – just enough to get them excited about growth.
"Cooking predominately includes recipes that are based on vegetables, herbs, grains etcetera. There are some recipes that have meat, fish and chicken in them, but they are very much in the minority."
Try your hand at this tasty Broccoli Carbonara – get the recipe here
But it's not just about children, says Alexander. Kitchen Garden Companion: Cooking is about family.
"It's definitely about trying to engage the interests of young people as well. And I think young kids can do quite a lot, particularly if they're in a family where everybody enjoys cooking together. Hopefully that's what this book is about; a book for family eating.
"I think that the more young kids see their mother or father or grandparents cooking and enjoying sitting around a table, it's good – all those influences start very, very early."
The concept for the Kitchen Garden Companion had its genesis in Alexander's ground-breaking (literally and figuratively) Kitchen Garden Foundation, which works with schools around Australia to create gardens where children can learn to grow produce and then use that produce to cook meals for themselves.
"The program came first," Alexander says. "Then I found that there was more and more interest in what was happening in the program and I got constant questions about it, so I decided that I would write something.
"The Growing section certainly came first, where I wanted to say 'I'm not expecting people who read this to be expert gardeners, I'm expecting them to be people who are interested in knowing a little bit more'.
"I tried to pick up the quirky things about crops and ways in which I thought children might get excited about broccoli, or excited about asparagus or something. And then I wanted to put a few recipes in that would show them how they could use broccoli or use asparagus in ways they might not have thought of that would be exciting and interesting, and of course delicious."
The program is now running in more than 800 schools across the country – an impressive legacy in anyone's language. "I've always wanted to convince people that loving good food and putting good food into your life is a plus; it makes you a happier and healthier person," she says.
"I do believe that the earlier you start, the better. I guess that's after all my restaurant years with training apprentices and talking to young people at that level. I now feel quite excited about seeing what happens. It vindicates my belief that if you start them young, children will change their behaviour and change their attitudes.
"Now it's yet to be seen what happens when they raise their own family, but I'm confident that some of those influences are pretty deep, and that they will carry on into those children's adult lives." We have recipes from Stephanie Alexander's latest book, Kitchen Garden Companion: Cooking here. Both volumes are on sale now.
Have you got a Stephanie Alexander cookbook at home? What's your favourite recipe?
Photography: © Mark Chew, Simon Griffiths.
How to create an edible garden with Indira Naidoo
The ABC of chardonnay


A US spy chief has warned that presidential aides with interim security clearances should have "limited" access to secret information.
US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said the clearance process was "broken" and needs to be reformed.
He was responding to a question about former White House aide Rob Porter, who allegedly beat his wife, and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Mr Kushner reportedly has only interim security clearance, like Mr Porter.
Mr Coats was one of several spymasters who gave evidence on Tuesday to the Senate Intelligence Committee about global threats facing the US."Sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot," the US director of national intelligence said in response to a question from Democratic New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich.
"But if that is the case the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive."
He told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday there is currently a government-wide backlog of 700,000 security clearance applications.
"The process is broken, it needs to be reformed. It's not evolution, it's revolution," he said.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders would not confirm the number of staff members who are operating with interim clearances.
"We are following a process that has been used by previous administrations and we would rely on the law enforcement and intelligence communities to determine if that process should be changed," Mrs Sanders said during Tuesday's news briefing.
Mr Coats' testimony comes amid controversy over the interim security clearance granted to Mr Porter, the former White House staff secretary who was forced out last week after two ex-wives told US media he was emotionally and physically abusive to them.


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album release party
Color War
Doom Squad, Deanna Viva Garcia, Prince Rama
Baby's All Right
COLOR WAR is a Brooklyn-based electronic duo. Billy J and vocalist Lindsay Mound originally bonded as visual artists in 2004. A natural creative symmetry forced COLOR WAR into existence in 2009. The band soon began forging songs through hazy improvisational sessions, with J piecing together beats and synth textures and Mound responding as a medium, channeling melodies and lyrical content in real-time.
Their forthcoming album It Could Only Be This Way (to be released March 4, 2014) illustrates the depth and transcendence of their sound. Mound's vocals crest and slink thru arrangements that conjure a familiar pop cadence stretched across dark and glimmering soundscapes. Their layered, gauzy sound and transporting live shows have captivated fans and propelled them into band-to-watch status. COLOR WAR and their live visuals collaborator, Brandon Sciarrotta, produced the record with co-production and mixing by legendary techno wizard, John Selway.
Doom Squad
Doom Squad is a multi-platform art project comprised of siblings Trevor, Jaclyn and Allie Blumas whose current work is informed by an attempt to conceptualize the lore and mystique of the Canadian wilderness by exploring how that lore is received and experienced within Western culture. Their music utilizes an eclectic mix of acoustic and electronic instruments and loops that bridge Western popular music traditions like garage rock and psychedelia with spiritually infused indigenous approaches to music like trance, repetition, breathing and chants.
For just over a year, the group has been festering around the
Toronto/Montreal underground, prodominently playing lofts and
unofficial venue spaces. The band officially "came out" during this past NXNE festival with 4 showcases. The official NXNE website featured them as "one of the best new acts to watch out for", and Resonacity magazine also declared them one of the best of the fest. Opening slots for Doldrums and Suuns, eventually lead to Owen Pallett selecting Doom Squad to headline his curated Destination Out showcase for Exclaim Magazine's 20th Anniversary.
Doom Squad is near completion of their debut full-length album, Kalaboogie, which co-produced and mixed by HDD musician Leon Taheny (Bruce Penninsula, Dusted, Katie Stelmanis, Final Fantasy), who was referred by Owen Pallett.
A pummeling, voluntary thrust into the heart of darkness at the speed of light; a face-first bungee jump off the mortal coil into the gaping canyon of forever; a fistful of snow hurled at death's grin from high on a ski-lift doomed to eternally climb the summit-less mountain; a motorcycle falls from a tear in Hell; a tesseract constructed out of a half pipe slows down time as life flashes before your eyes in vivid colors; a pastless, futureless XTREME NOW unwinds before you, interrupted only by the consumption of a mysterious glowing green liquid oozing from a shiny aluminum can marked "ENERGY..."
Xtreme Now is the most extreme album Prince Rama has ever made. Writing for Xtreme Now began while the Larson sisters were living on a black metal utopian commune on Vȫrmsi, a remote island off the coast of Estonia during the summer of 2012. There, Taraka had a near death experience inside an ancient Viking ruin which sparked a recurring sense of time-schizophrenia, or the physical sensation of existing in multiple time periods simultaneously. In this case, she experienced a joint-existence in both the medieval ages and the year 2067. In one of her prophetic visions she describes, "In the year 2067, I witnessed an aesthetic landscape where art museums are sponsored by energy drink beverages and beauty is determined by speed. I saw a vision of ancient tapestries stretched across half-pipes and people base-jumping off planes with the Mona Lisa smiling up from their parachutes. I saw art merge with extreme sports to form a new aesthetic language of 'Speed Art.' I realized that time travel was possible via the gateway of extreme sports, and I wanted to make music that would provide the score."
Perceiving a great void in the world of extreme sports for music that could match the metaphysical intensity of these death-defying feats, Prince Rama set forth to make Xtreme Now, the first real foray by any musician to create a new "extreme sports genre." For inspiration, the sisters looked to their own flirtations with death and time-dilation, along with countless hours of obsessively watching extreme sports videos and consuming dangerous quantities of Monster Energy drink.
Working with acclaimed dance producer Alex Epton of XXXChange (Gang Gang Dance, Björk, Spank Rock, Panda Bear, The Kills), the new songs take on a more powerful, confident, fierce, infectious, all-encompassing, and accessible dance-club feeling than any other Prince Rama record—a fearless, visionary pop tour de force for the ghost-modern era that celebrates the ephemerality of life, dancing just at the edge of death's gilded smile.
Prince Rama's Xtreme Now is the inaugural entry into what they have coined as the "Extreme Sports Genre." Inspired to musically match the metaphysical intensity of extreme sports' death-defying feats, Prince Rama looked to their own personal flirtations with death and time-dilation. In a womb shaped by countless hours of obsessively watching extreme sports videos and consuming dangerous quantities of Monster Energy drinks, Xtreme Now was violently born.
Not much can faze the Larson sisters—Taraka and Nimai grew up in ashrams; lived on black metal communes; worked for utopian architects; written manifestos; delivered lectures from pools of fake blood; conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts; and are now tackling the world of extreme sports in a surreal, psychedelic, and nihilistic fashion.
The band's often unpredictable live shows have been described by fans as "hypnotic and mesmerizing—the feeling of a stadium concert on acid," incorporating elements of performance art, dance-club initiation rite, and vintage VH-1 hair-metal-bravado. Since signing to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label, Prince Rama has continually delivered powerful, raw performances of dark pop, as well as coining and embodying the utopian spirit of "The Now Age Movement," a cult of post-Internet transcendentalism. After being discovered in a Texas dive bar by Avey Tare in 2010, Animal Collective helped them record and release Shadow Temple and Trust Now shortly thereafter, which peaked at #3 and #6 on the Billboard New Age Charts, respectively. To commemorate the Mayan apocalypse, they released Top Ten Hits of the End of the World in 2012, a pseudo-compilation album comprised of ten singles "channeled" from fictional deceased pop bands and partially recorded with members of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
After touring behind Top Ten Hits, the Larson sisters took time off from music to develop their visual art practice, exhibiting internationally at the Whitney Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, and the MoMA PS 1 VW Dome, to name a few. Taraka has also published several manifestos on the "NOW AGE" that puts forth Prince Rama's aesthetic and metaphysical philosophies, earning both hatred and praise from art and music worlds alike. The sisters' seemingly effortless way of weaving conceptual art practice with music is inspired by an ancestral legacy of New York renaissance visionaries such as Kim Gordon, Laurie Anderson, and Patti Smith—but with more glitter and hairspray. Prince Rama's new album reflects a mature, complex, multi-layered approach to culture-making. Xtreme Now exists not only as a fun record of dance party hits, but the concept will take on various incarnations including a visual art exhibition, a new manifesto, an energy drink, and a couture fashion line of active-wear inspired by extreme sports and the Byzantine age. According to lead singer Taraka, "We not only want to write new songs, we want to create a new emotional language."
Off Sale
Mon, July 15
Col3trane
POPSHOP NYC: Phoebe Ryan
AdHoc Presents: Acid Dad
Body Meat
Color War with Doom Squad, Deanna Viva Garcia, Prince Rama
Friday, March 7 · 8:00 PM at Baby's All Right


Having the time to refresh your eyes for a while allows you to look for errors more effectively. However, in this day and age our turnaround times do not always allow for this type of luxury. If this is the case, move onto another piece of work and then head back to the content for another read later on. Breaking even to write something else can help provide you with a different outlook.
Reading your text aloud can sometimes force you to read the words as they are actually written on the page, which is something that cannot always be achieved inside your own head! After spending some time writing, it's easier to hear a problem in the work than it is to read it.
Arguably the best way to catch spelling errors is to read from right to left. It gets your brain working in another way, separating what you think you wrote from what you have written on the page. This way, you can focus on individual words rather than sentences.
While spellchecker is a handy tool and all, it doesn't actually tell you if you've used the correct word in the correct context. For example, it cannot tell if sand is in a dessert or a desert, but it can tell that both of those words are in fact words, meaning it wont highlight always highlight mistakes for you! Always refer to a dictionary when you're unsure.
Often creating a proofreading checklist can help you to notice the mistakes you commonly make. Make a note of the errors you find often and then refer to this checklist during the proofreading stage. Not only does this method help you to iron out errors, it also helps you learn and grow as a writer.
Remember these top tips and you're sure to produce content that is far more effective. Do you have any of your own tips to share? Use the comments section below to pass on your knowledge!


Not only will Kings Dominion be getting a Bigger, Better Planet Snoopy in 2013, they will be getting better dessert options also. Last year, we saw the delicious addition of Rita's Italian Ice, and in 2013, Sweet Frog will be hopping onto the midways! Be sure to join KDfansite on March 29th for our annual opening day meet-up and to get your chance to sample the park's newest dessert option!
Kings Dominion, the Mid-Atlantic's premier amusement park where Thrills Connect has announced SweetFrog, the popular Richmond-based self-serve frozen yogurt company will open its first-ever amusement park location at Kings Dominion in the spring of 2013. SweetFrog will be located outside of Woodstock Express, a re-themed roller coaster in the park's newly expanded Planet Snoopy.
SweetFrog at Kings Dominion will offer families a large selection of delicious frozen yogurt flavors including fat free, sugar free, and gluten free options. Customers will also have dozens of toppings to choose from including fresh fruit, granola, wet walnuts, crushed candy bars, chocolate, caramel, shredded coconut and more.
SweetFrog started in Richmond in 2009 when CEO Derek Cha hand-picked Richmond as the city to start his frozen yogurt business. SweetFrog now operates nearly 200 stores nationwide with continued expansion plans for 2013.


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La Fédération des sports de Norvège (de son nom norvégien complet, depuis 2007, Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komité, autrement dit Fédération des sports de Norvège et comité olympique et paralympique) est l'organisation sportive de Norvège qui sert de comité national olympique depuis sa reconnaissance par le CIO à Oslo en 1900. Depuis 2007, il agit aussi comme le comité national paralympique, membre de Comité international paralympique.

Bien que la Fédération ne fasse partie du Mouvement olympique que depuis 1900 (alors que la Norvège n'était pas indépendante), son histoire peut remonter à la création le  du Centralforeningen for Udbredelse af Legemsøvelser og Vaabenbrug qui en est l'ancêtre direct.

La Norvège est le pays organisateur des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1952 et de 1994 ainsi que des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de la jeunesse de 2016.

Voir aussi

Liens externes

 Site officiel

Norvège
Norvège
Sport en Norvège
Organisme fondé en 1861
Organisme fondé en 1900


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Q: Can I inject some "Component Level Service" in Parent Component? I make some example with ViewChild - this is what i want to do with Inject.
simple expamle
I try provide this service in parent component but i get different service. Next i try make somethink like this but i dont want to write provide section in my new Modules... I want just somehow inject service from child...

A: you can inject something from "child's"  injection subtree with the help of read attribute
@ViewChild(ChildComponen, {read: TestService}) testS: TestService;

but it is being initialized in the after view init stage of the component and in most cases it will cause ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError in dev mode or your view will not react properly to the update in prod mode.
It can still be used, but you should understand angular change detectionn and be carefull with usage of such non typical things

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Q: Well, this may be a dumb question.
Kim: There are no dumb questions.
Q: Talking about a dictation, how can you differentiate your speaking from the master speaking? Or if there are several different masters, how can you introduce them to us?
Kim: Well, the master will always tell you when a dictation is going to take place, and the masters always starts out introducing themselves by giving their names, so that you know who is speaking.
Q: Second question is what can be my attitude to get a good experience?
Kim: Well, I would say that it depends a little bit on your background and how much you know. What was it the Buddha said? Something like don't accept everything, but don't reject things without examining them. And I think that's a good attitude, that you are willing to experience it. What I have noticed in myself is that the more I can get my analytical mind out of the way, the more profound an experience I have in the heart.
The ascended masters give a lot of teachings that are very much intellectual and help you understand things better. But in order to really connect with them that's not the head, that's the heart. So I would try to just set aside expectations or ideas about what a spiritual conference is or isn't, or what it should be, and just experience it. Experience it with the heart, and then see what you get that way.
You can always study the dictations later with the more mental to see what they are saying, what the meaning is, what you can learn from them. But there's no greater opportunity than when you are here in person to have that inner experience, and that is definitely a heart experience.


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When the user makes something in the View

## State binding

When the user makes something in the View and you need to have those changes in the state for subsequent use

## Parent - child communication, message passing

When the child needs something that are in the parent's state

## Child - Parent communication, propagation

When the child needs to send something to the parent

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89: Sibling Rivalry
He Is Heavy, He's My Brother
True tales of sibling cruelty. (4 minutes)
More in Family
691: Gardens of Branching Paths
Act Three: Sklar-Crossed Brothers
Being an identical twin is kind of like having a parallel world right on top of ours, one in which there is another version of you running around.
690: Too Close to Home
Act Three: Pigeons on a Plane
Reporter Kevin Sieff travels from Mexico to Chicago with a group of seniors reuiniting with their undocumented kids in the U.S., some for the first time in decades. (18 minutes)
Act One: How Do I Say This?
Scaachi Koul is trying to learn a language native to her parents, and heads back to Calgary to ask why they never taught it to her in the first place. (21 minutes)
More by Ira Glass
686: Umbrellas Up
Act Two: The Fight
Katherine, Ira and Emanuele go to a protest and get tear gassed in front of a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. (6 minutes)
Act One: The Cursed Generation
A bunch of 22-year-olds from Hong Kong explain why they are cursed and what that means for their and Hong Kong's future. (17 minutes)
685: We Come From Small Places
Our regular host Ira Glass talks to some Hasidic Jews who also live in the neighborhood to get a different take on the parade. (10 minutes)


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__author__ = 'George Oblapenko, Viktor Evstratov'
__license__ = "GPLv3"
from krakenous.errors import *
import os.path
from json import dumps

class DataSet(object):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        """

        :param kwargs: Parameters need to connect to the database. The ``backend`` parameter specifies the
                       database to be used (currently, only the ``'slite'`` value is supported).
                       If the SQLite backend is selected, the parameter ``db_path`` should specify the
                       SQLite database file and the ``table_name`` parameter should specify the table name to be used.
        :return:
        :raises KrakenousException: If no ``backend`` parameter is given as input or if the ``backend`` parameter
                is not one of the following: ``'sqlite'``. If ``backend == sqlite`` and no path to the SQLite file is
                specified by the ``db_path`` parameter or no table name is specified by the ``table_name`` parameter
        """
        self.total_records = 0
        self.not_commited = 0

        if 'backend' not in kwargs:
            raise KrakenousException('No backend specified')
        else:
            self.backend_name = kwargs['backend']
        if self.backend_name == 'sqlite':
            if 'db_path' not in kwargs:
                raise KrakenousException('No path to SQLite file specified')
            elif 'table_name' not in kwargs:
                raise KrakenousException('No SQLite table name specified')
            else:
                self.db_data = {'db_path': kwargs['db_path'], 'table_name': kwargs['table_name']}
                self.backend = __import__('krakenous.backend_sqlite', fromlist=['backend_sqlite'])
                if os.path.isfile(self.db_data['db_path']):
                    self.total_records = self.backend.data_records_amount(self.db_data)
                else:
                    self.backend.create_db(self.db_data)
        else:
            raise KrakenousException('Unknown backend ' + self.backend_name)

    def get_end_id(self, start_id: int, end_id: int) -> int:
        """
        A helper function to check whether the range specified by ``start_id``, ``end_id`` is usable
        :param int start_id: The starting point of the range
        :param int end_id: The ending point of the range. If equal to -1, it is set to the total
                           number of records in the dataset
        :return: The ending point of the range
        :rtype: int
        :raises KrakenousException: If ``start_id < 0`` or ``start_id > end_id`` or ``end_id > self.total_records``
                                    (where ``self.total_records`` is the number of records in the dataset)
                                    or ``self.total_records == 0``
        """
        if self.total_records == 0:
            raise KrakenousException('The dataset is empty')
        if end_id == -1:
            end_id = self.total_records
        else:
            if end_id > self.total_records:
                raise KrakenousException('Incorrect range, end_id=' + str(end_id), ', while total_records='
                                         + str(self.total_records))
        if start_id < 0 or start_id > end_id:
            raise KrakenousException('start_id cannot be less than 0 or bigger than end_id')
        return end_id

    def populate(self, tentacle, *args, writeback: int=0, **kwargs) -> int:
        #TODO custom serializer support
        """
        tentacle is a generator, returns a dictionary of stuff
        """
        records_added = 0
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        for tentacle_dict in tentacle(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                all_names = self.feature_names()
            except KrakenousException:
                all_names = []
            for tentacle_key in tentacle_dict:
                if tentacle_key not in all_names:
                    self.backend.create_new_column(db, tentacle_key)
            self._append_data_record_open(tentacle_dict, db)
            records_added += 1
            if writeback != 0 and self.total_records % writeback == 0:
                self.backend.commit_db(db)
        self.total_records = records_added
        self.backend.close_db(db)

    def append_data_record(self, data_record: dict, serializers=None):
        """
        do not write id field! (if exists in dict)
        """
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        if 'id' in data_record.keys():
            raise KrakenousException('Cannot write to id column')
        try:
            all_names = self.feature_names()
        except KrakenousException:
            all_names = []
        for data_key in data_record:
            if data_key not in all_names:
                self.backend.create_new_column(db, data_key)
        self.backend.append_data_record(db, 1, data_record, serializers)
        self.total_records += 1
        self.backend.close_db(db)

    def _append_data_record_open(self, data_record: dict, db):
        """
        do not write id field! (if exists in dict)
        """
        self.total_records += 1

        self.backend.append_data_record(db, self.total_records, data_record)

    def insert_single(self, record_id: int, feature_name: str, data, overwrite_existing: bool=False, serializer=None):
        """
        insert a single value (data) for a specific id
        """
        if not overwrite_existing and self.feature_exists(record_id, feature_name):
            raise KrakenousException('Feature with name "' + feature_name + '" already exists')
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        if not serializer:
            serializer = dumps
        if feature_name not in self.feature_names():
            self.backend.create_new_column(db, feature_name)
        self.backend.write_data(db, record_id, feature_name, data, serializer)
        self.backend.close_db(db)

    def insert_for_range(self, start_id: int, end_id: int, feature_name: str, data,
                         writeback: int=0, overwrite_existing: bool=False, serializer=None):
        """
        insert a single value (data) for a range of ids
        """
        end_id = self.get_end_id(start_id, end_id)

        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        if not serializer:
            serializer = dumps
        if feature_name not in self.feature_names():
            self.backend.create_new_column(db, feature_name)
        else:
            if not overwrite_existing:
                raise KrakenousException('Feature with name "' + feature_name + '" already exists')
        for i, record_id in enumerate(range(start_id, end_id + 1)):

            self.backend.write_data(db, record_id, feature_name, data[i], serializer)
            if writeback > 0 and i % writeback == 0:
                self.backend.commit_db(db)
        self.backend.close_db(db)

    def extract_feature_full_for_range(self, start_id: int, end_id: int,
                                       extractor, column_names, *args,
                                       verbose: int=0, writeback: int=0, overwrite_feature: bool=False,
                                       serializer=None, **kwargs):
        end_id = self.get_end_id(start_id, end_id)
        extractor_name = extractor.__name__
        global_existence = self.feature_exists_global(extractor_name)
        if not overwrite_feature and global_existence:
            raise KrakenousException('Feature with name "' + extractor_name + '" already exists')
        if extractor_name == 'id':
            raise KrakenousException('Cannot write to field "id"')
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)

        if not global_existence:
            self.backend.create_new_column(db, extractor_name)
        if not serializer:
            serializer = dumps

        for record_id in range(start_id, end_id + 1):
            additional_data = {}
            for column_name in column_names:
                if column_name != 'id':
                    additional_data[column_name] = self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, column_name)
                else:
                    additional_data[column_name] = record_id
            self.backend.write_data(db, record_id, extractor_name, extractor(additional_data,
                                                                             *args, **kwargs), serializer)

            if verbose != 0 and record_id % verbose == 0:
                print(record_id)
            if writeback != 0 and record_id % writeback == 0:
                self.backend.commit_db(db)
        self.backend.close_db(db)

    def extract_feature_full(self, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose: int=0,
                             writeback: int=0, overwrite_feature: bool=False, serializer=None, **kwargs):
        self.extract_feature_full_for_range(1, -1, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose=verbose,
                                            writeback=writeback, overwrite_feature=overwrite_feature,
                                            serializer=serializer, **kwargs)

    def extract_feature_simple(self, extractor, column_names, *args, **kwargs):
        self.extract_feature_full_for_range(1, -1, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose=0,
                                            writeback=0, overwrite_feature=False, serializer=None, **kwargs)

    def extract_feature_simple_custom_serializer(self, extractor, column_names, serializer, *args, **kwargs):
        self.extract_feature_full_for_range(1, -1, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose=0,
                                            writeback=0, overwrite_feature=False, serializer=serializer, **kwargs)

    def extract_dependent_feature_simple(self, extractor, column_names, *args, **kwargs):
        self.extract_feature_full_for_range(1, -1, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose=0,
                                            writeback=0, overwrite_feature=False, serializer=None, **kwargs)

    def extract_dependent_feature_simple_custom_serializer(self, extractor, column_names, serializer, *args, **kwargs):
        self.extract_feature_full_for_range(1, -1, extractor, column_names, *args, verbose=0,
                                            writeback=0, overwrite_feature=False, serializer=serializer, **kwargs)

    def delete_feature(self, feature_name: str, writeback: int=0):
        """
        delete the whole column of features
        :param feature_name:
        :param writeback:
        :return:
        """
        if self.backend_name == 'sqlite':
            raise KrakenousUnsupportedOperation('Deletion of features is not available for the SQLite backend')
        if self.total_records == 0:
            raise KrakenousException('The dataset is empty!')
        else:
            db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
            for record_id in range(self.total_records):
                self.backend.delete_data(db, record_id + 1, feature_name)
                if writeback != 0 and record_id % writeback == 0:
                    self.backend.commit_db(db)
            self.backend.close_db(db)

    def rename_feature(self, original_feature_name: str, new_feature_name: str, overwrite_existing: bool=False):
        if self.backend_name == 'sqlite':
            raise KrakenousUnsupportedOperation('Renaming of features is not available for the SQLite backend')

    def delete_records(self, record_ids: tuple, writeback: int=0):
        raise KrakenousNotImplemented('Deleting records is not implemented for the SQLite backend')
        # if self.total_records == 0:
        #     raise KrakenousException('The dataset is empty!')
        # for record_id in record_ids:
        #     if record_id > self.total_records:
        #         raise KrakenousException('Record with id=' + str(record_id) + ' does not exist!')
        #     else:
        #         self.backend.delete_record(db, record_id, self.total_records)
        #         if writeback != 0 and record_id % writeback == 0:
        #             self.backend.commit_db(db)
        #         self.total_records -= 1

    def force_write_feature(self, feature_name: str, feature: list, writeback: int=0):
        if len(feature) != self.total_records:
            raise KrakenousException('Inconsistent length (length of feature list is ' + str(len(feature)) +
                                     ', total number of records - ' + str(self.total_records))
        elif feature_name == 'id':
            raise KrakenousException('Cannot write to field "id"')
        else:
            db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
            for record_id in range(self.total_records):
                self.backend.write_data(db, record_id + 1, feature_name, feature[record_id])
                if writeback != 0 and self.total_records % writeback == 0:
                    self.backend.commit_db(db)
            self.backend.close_db(db)

    def feature_exists(self, record_id: int, feature_name: str) -> bool:
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        if feature_name not in self.feature_names():
            self.backend.close_db(db)
            return False
        else:
            feature_exists = self.backend.data_exists(db, record_id, feature_name)
            self.backend.close_db(db)
            return feature_exists

    def _feature_exists_open(self, record_id: int, feature_name: str, db) -> bool:
        feature_exists = self.backend.data_exists(db, record_id, feature_name)
        return feature_exists

    def feature_exists_global(self, feature_name: str) -> bool:
        if feature_name in self.feature_names():
            return True
        else:
            return False

    def single_feature(self, feature_name: str, start_id: int=1, end_id: int=-1, deserializer=None):
        end_id = self.get_end_id(start_id, end_id)
        if not self.feature_exists_global(feature_name):
            raise KrakenousException('Feature "' + feature_name + '" does not exist')
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        result = []
        for record_id in range(start_id, end_id + 1):
            result.append(self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, feature_name, deserializer))
        self.backend.close_db(db)
        return result

    def multiple_features(self, feature_names: tuple, start_id: int=1, end_id: int=-1, deserializers: dict=None) -> list:
        """
        returns list of dictionaries
        add start_id / end_id
        end_id = -1 means return EVERYTHING in (start_id, end_id)
        """
        end_id = self.get_end_id(start_id, end_id)
        for feature_name in feature_names:
            if not self.feature_exists_global(feature_name):
                raise KrakenousException('Feature "' + feature_name + '" does not exist')
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        result = []
        for record_id in range(start_id, end_id + 1):
            result.append(self.backend.read_multiple_data(db, record_id, feature_names, deserializers))
        self.backend.close_db(db)
        return result

    def feature_names(self) -> list:
        if self.total_records == 0:
            raise KrakenousException('The dataset is empty!')
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        return_list = self.backend.all_data_names(db)
        self.backend.close_db(db)
        return return_list

    def _single_data_record_open(self, record_id, db, column_names: tuple=(), deserializers: dict=None,
                                 filters=None) -> dict:
        """
        returns a dict
        """
        result_dict = {}
        if column_names == ():
            result_dict = self.backend.read_all_data(db, record_id)
            result_dict['id'] = record_id
        else:
            for column_name in column_names:
                if column_name != 'id':
                    if deserializers and column_name in deserializers:
                        result_dict[column_name] = self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, column_name,
                                                                                deserializers[column_name],
                                                                                filters)
                    else:
                        result_dict[column_name] = self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, column_name,
                                                                                filters=filters)
                        if result_dict[column_name] is None:
                            return None
                else:
                    result_dict['id'] = record_id
        return result_dict

    def single_data_record(self, record_id, column_names: tuple=(), deserializers=None) -> dict:
        """
        returns a dict
        """
        result_dict = {}
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        if column_names == ():
            tmp_res = self.backend.read_all_data(db, record_id, deserializers)
            all_column_names = self.backend.all_data_names(db)
            for column_name_enum in enumerate(all_column_names):
                result_dict[column_name_enum[1]] = tmp_res[column_name_enum[0]]
            result_dict['id'] = record_id
        else:
            if 'id' in column_names:
                result_dict['id'] = record_id
            for column_name in column_names:
                if column_name != 'id':
                    if deserializers and column_name in deserializers:
                        result_dict[column_name] = self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, column_name,
                                                                                deserializers[column_name])
                    else:
                        result_dict[column_name] = self.backend.read_single_data(db, record_id, column_name)
        self.backend.close_db(db)
        return result_dict

    def yield_data_records(self, column_names: tuple=(), start_id: int=1, end_id: int=-1, deserializers: dict=None,
                           filters=None) -> dict:
        """
        return only what is specified in column_names; if () - return everything
        """
        db = self.backend.open_db(self.db_data)
        end_id = self.get_end_id(start_id, end_id)
        for record_id in range(start_id, end_id + 1):
            if filters and 'id' in filters:
                if record_id == filters['id']:
                    res = self._single_data_record_open(filters['id'], db, column_names, deserializers, filters)
                    if res is not None:
                        yield res
            else:
                res = self._single_data_record_open(record_id, db, column_names, deserializers, filters)
                if res is not None:
                    yield res
        self.backend.close_db(db)


The ceiling and the roof continue to rise for the North Carolina football team.
Wednesday afternoon, UNC Tar Heels coach Larry Fedora surprised the team with a huge announcement as they were gifted with a pair of "UNC" Air Jordan 11 Lows.
"One of the benefits of being a Jordan school is that in your lockers you all get these retro 11s," Coach Fedora said to immediate celebration.


text:
An Unexpected Visitor
We had an unexpected visitor this morning, the son of the Doctor who had our house built in 1958. He showed up unannounced with the hopes of seeing inside the home. Of course, we said yes, as we wanted to share all the updates we've had done since purchasing the home early last year. He walked through the office, I use that term loosely, as it is currently a storage room. I could tell he was not impressed, when he made mention of the same (extremely outdated) cork flooring. Told how the room used to be the hub of the house, it being the only room with a television. He pointed to the scuffed-up floor, having gotten that way by his sister's wayward hound. I shared with him my future plans of adding a wall, moving a door, and opening up the ceiling, but it was clear he had trouble seeing my vision. We then moved to the laundry room, which again is still in dire need of renovation, before stopping in the kitchen. The memories flashed in his eyes as he waved his arms, telling of cabinets and islands that were no longer there. Seeing doorways where none had been during his time in the home. Things changed, as he stepped into the newly renovated dining/living room. Scanning the room, he mouthed the word wow repeatedly, as his gaze took in every detail of the once expansive, yet simple room. He said he couldn't wait for his remaining siblings to see what has become of their childhood home. He told how the front door was rarely used. "It was only used when Mother had her bridge club meetings there. Since dad was a distinguished doctor they really couldn't have their guest using the back door. Otherwise we never used the room."
We walked down the hall to his sister's room (our guest room.) Another wow as he saw his old room, now our den. His parents, now our master bedroom. More stories about how the bathroom used to have a tub where a shower now stands.
We took him to the basement. And, while still a work in progress, it still managed to make him smile and profess how wonderful everything looks. It was nice to share our house with one of its original occupants and see approval. He was beaming when he left, and said he couldn't wait to e-mail his siblings and tell of all we have done.
It pleases me to know that the good doctor and his wife can rest in peace knowing their house is in good hands. And now we know a bit of history of the house. Like, it was the first fully electric house in Sanilac county. Something that was corrected, after the third electricity bill arrived and they switched it over to gas heat. That the basement always flooded, until they had major work done. We are grateful for that! And, to be careful when digging in the back yard, as Blacky is buried back there somewhere. #goinghomeagain #revisitingyourchildhood #history #homerenovations #hometour


text:
Volavčík člunozobý (Cochlearius cochlearius) je volavkovitý pták příbuzný kvakošům (tvoří s nimi podčeleď kvakoši). Podle některých vědců je ale natolik zvláštní, že ho zařazují do zvláštní monotypické čeledi Cochlearidae, tedy zcela mimo volavky.

Žije v porostech mangrove, v močálech od Mexika po Peru a Brazílii. Je to noční pták velký zhruba 54 cm. Živí se rybami, korýši a hmyzem. Snáší 2-4 vajíčka.

Chov v zoo
Volavčík člunozobý je v rámci Evropy chován v necelých třiceti zoo. V Česku tento druh chovají dvě zoo: Zoo Praha a Zoo Zlín. Prvoodchov mezi českými zoo si připsala Zoo Praha v roce 1999.

Chov v Zoo Praha
První jedinec tohoto druhu se v Zoo Praha objevil v roce 1950. K úspěšnému odchovu došlo v roce 1999. Jednalo se zároveň o český prvoodchov. V roce 2017 se podařilo odchovat čtyři mláďata. Ke konci roku 2017 bylo chováno sedm jedinců.

Aktuálně jsou volavčíci umístěni v expozičním celku Ptačí mokřady v dolní části zoo.

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