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What I Listened To When I Listened To Music This Week – Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain
Conor Oberst is best known as the frontman of Bright Eyes. He has also at various times been a member of Desaparecidos, Monsters Of Folk, Commander Venus, The Mystic Valley Band, and The Faint. He has appeared on tracks by Arab Strap, First Aid Kit and The Album Leaf, amongst many more. It is fair to say he is nothing if not prolific.
I first came across Conor, under his Bright Eyes guise, whilst at University via a lovable rogue in the room next door who switched me onto an awful lot of brilliant music. I picked up Fevers & Mirrors, a wonderfully dark, angst ridden, intellectually stimulating beast. Pitchfork named it one of the top 200 releases of the 2000s, despite the fact they initially slated it as falling "victim to mediocrity when held against the work of truly developed musicians" and describing the end of An Attempt To Tip The Scales as a "self-indulgent mass of pseudo-depth." Whilst I can not stress enough how brilliant I think Fevers & Mirrors is, the divisive nature of the record was certainly there for all to see. The angst-ridden concept album of a twenty year old wunderkind is hardly likely to be mistake free, or anything but a tad self-indulgent. It was also very much of a time and place, I loved it when I too was in my late teens, and angst ridden, but I must admit I now find it a little too self-indulgent.
Better was Lifted, or, The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground. Ok, so the title is a lot worse. The album itself however is arguably his master piece. Here he took the omnipresent angst and said, you know what I don't care what the world thinks: "I do not read the reviews, no I am not singing this for you" as he said on Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved) and it showed; this was Conor and the band, putting themselves out there. More than anything, what lifted it above his earlier work was the better instrumentation, better production, and much better melodies.
Indeed, his improvements as a musician, seem to have charted my own life. As he has matured so have I, when I needed teen angst he gave me teen angst, when I wanted a more mature country laden, early twenty's sound he gave me I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, and at the same time made Digital Ash In The Digital Urn, which played on my more electronic-dancefloor leaning early twenty's. When I fell in love with My Morning Jacket, he paired up with Yim Yames and gave me a Monsters of Folk record. Basically he has been there for me.
Lately however, maybe I don't need him anymore, his solo albums have up to this point left me a little cold. When I saw him perform solo last year, it was brilliant but it felt backward gazing, it was like the multitude of bands replaying great albums from the past, yes it's fun for an evening, but what are you doing next? So it is with a little trepidation I approach this his latest solo offering. I know you're not "doing it for me" Conor, but how about it? How about the album that tells it like it is for a late twenty's guy, slightly cynical yes, slightly skeptical sure, but still with open ears…come on Conor, just one more time, do it for me!
CONOR OBERST – UPSIDE DOWN MOUNTAIN
Conor is now thirty-four. Whilst that is actually fairly young for a folk musician, it is getting on the old side for a pop star. He has been making music for around twenty years. So it should be no surprise to anyone that his sound has matured, yet it still seems to disappoint some. Let's face it, with every new Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes album the first point of discussion is whether it is a return to his earlier work. This, his third solo album since 2008, is probably the most Bright Eyes like album of them all. Indeed throughout the record there is a number of reference points that recall various moments of his bands previous work. Hundreds Of Ways recalls I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and sets it to a highly jaunty Paul Simon infused-Afro Beat; Desert Island Questionnaire is a distant cousin of Perfect Sonnet from the Every Day And Every Night EP, and if you can not hear a hint of both Lua & First Day Of My Life in You Are Your Mother's Child, you probably haven't heard many Bright Eyes records before.
There is plenty of things to like here for the Bright Eyes aficionado, but there is also probably a lot for people who have previously been put off. To say that Conor's vocal, at the turn of century, was an acquired taste would be something of an understatement. Let's be fair, for all the emotion his voice carried, hitting notes was not a strong point. It is no shock that between the age of twenty and thirty-four his voice has changed, it is now a powerful thing, capable not just of croaking his way through emotive ballads, but bouncing through Americana laced ballads like Time Forgot and carrying genuinely touching country laced numbers, namely Lonely At The Top.
This new found range is both a positive and a negative. Whilst it allows him to pull off a straight-forward rock number like Kick, it also leads him to think Zigzagging Towards The Light is a good idea. It sounds quite a lot like Eagle Eye Cherry. As well as being unspectacular music, it is full of a series of fairly weak metaphors for love. It is pleasant enough, but it is entirely throwaway. There is a lull in the middle of the album too, both Enola Gay and Double Life fail to grab your attention and even on repeat listens fails to hold it.
Elsewhere though are a series of excellent tracks, some of the best he has put to record for a very long time. Lyrically too he seems to be in a rich vein of form. Recurrent themes run throughout, and unlike some his previous solo outings, the record hangs together well as a cohesive body of work. A number of tracks find him rallying against celebrity culture, whilst with recent stories that makes a lot of sense, I would imagine a lot of the tracks were written in advance of them. On rocker Kick, we find him "Hiding in the hammock with the shade pulled down, wonderin' if the story's broke." and brilliantly noting "Tragedy is profit once the word gets out." Whilst Lonely At The Top, is fairly self explanatory from the title downwards.
There is more classic Oberst lyricism elsewhere however. Artefact #1 is a heartbroken ballad, played out over a Spanish Guitar. It is a fantastic track, with all the passion and sadness of a brilliantly danced salsa. We find him questioning "what would it take to gain acceptance to the ground behind your eyes?" It is classic Oberst, a puzzling series of strands of sadness, which must be unravelled to discover the true root of it all. He claims "I don't want a second chance" whilst "looking back for artefacts, to prove that you were here", he seems fairly unsure himself, but ultimately he sums it up with the stunning conclusion "life can't compete with memories that never have to change." Night At Lake Unknown is equally sad, Conor noting "when I lost myself I lost you by extension", the guitar playing is stunning and haunting in equal measures, and there is even addition of a flute towards the end. The humble Flute currently rivalling the saxophone in a baffling battle for 2014's most surprisingly popular instrument choice.
This whole album builds towards a brilliant closing salvo of tracks. You Are You Mother's Child plays out a beautiful retelling of the birth of a child's life, possibly his own child. It is set to a sleepy, dreamy acoustic guitar, that lilts so effortlessly; it is frankly wonderful. It will be too saccharine for some taste with its overly sentimental outlook on life, but like First Day Of Your Life, it has got genuine pop crossover potential; the teenagers who lap up Ed Sheeran could do a lot worse than giving this a spin.
Best of all is Desert Island Questionnaire, to the sound of muted guitar chords it too laments the trappings of fame, finding the protagonist "staring at your phone at another party. Spent a lot of clothes, got a lot of skin to show" and latterly proposing "a toast to the ennui of our times, to the selfishness of all of us" A fantastic and unmistakably Conor look at the world, in a brilliant track, that has all the emotive force of his earlier work, but containing a freshness that seems to contrast the lyric "so bored with my life, but I'm still afraid to die". It bristling with life, even if he can't see it.
Common Knowledge sees the album go "out with a bang just like Hemmingway" whilst that is a somewhat galling comparison, it is powerful imagery, he even notes the divisive nature of the albums closing line "some will say you're brave, some will say you aint" Earlier in the track he notes that to "die young in the dark, that's poetry, it was not to be, no it was not for me" his battles with his demons are well documented; his ability to comment on them, and share them with the world touch many and lift him above many similarly talented songwriters.
This album is far from perfect, but it is no disaster either. There are highs and lows, and perhaps like life itself it can not all be perfection. He is still a unique figure in music, crafting out his own path, a stunning voice for the broken hearted, who has still got plenty of life in him, and plenty of great songs him. Perhaps I don't relate to him like I used to, but that doesn't mean I don't want him around, and it doesn't mean he is not still making wonderful moments that will mean an awful lot to an awful lot of people.
Upside Down Mountain is out now on Nonesuch Records. Conor Oberst tours the UK in July
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LeAnn Rimes wanted to makeover her pop-country sound after 20 years in the business. So, she traveled back to her roots in Mississippi and surprised her fans with the results.
"I want to spark a conversation," Rimes shares via email from England.
The 34-year-old performer let the power of love be her guide for her album dubbed Remnants. For it, she worked with writer/producer Mark Batson, whose credits include songs by Seal, Eminem and Alicia Keys, and longtime friend Darrell Brown, who hails from Scottsdale.
The artist will bring her fresh sound—and remnants of her classic sound—to the Scottsdale Culinary Festival on Saturday, April 8, at the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. The event, which continues Sunday, April 9, also features performances by The Black Moods, Vaughn Willis & Ear Candy and Wyves.
Inspired by the "greats," Rimes began her career at age 13.
"For me, personally, it was Janis Joplin, Aretha and, of course, Patsy Cline," Rimes said.
She soared to fame after her debut, Blue, went multiplatinum and hit No. 1on the Top Country Albums chart.
Not only were these great performers her yellow brick road to success, the southern belle had a wide range of support.
Her set at the Scottsdale Culinary Festival will recall her career—with a change.
"I am adding some of my favorite songs from my new album, Remnants," she wrote. "I will sing lots of hits, but I am also rearranging a few of the fan favorites into new grooves.
LeAnn Rimes, Scottsdale Culinary Festival, Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 7380 E. Second Street, scottsdalefest.org/, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 8, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 9, $12-$15.


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Kings Of Leon Bassist Jared Followill Engaged
American rock band now all officially off the market…
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:31
Kings Of Leon bassist Jared Followill has popped the question to his model girlfriend of five months, Martha Patterson.
According to JustJared.com, his rep confirmed that the couple had got engaged last month.
The rep said: "Jared proposed to Martha on April 11 at his home in Nashville and we're all excited for the newly engaged couple."
The 25-year-old rocker is said to have designed the sparkly 4-carat diamond engagement ring himself.
Followill confirmed the good news via Twitter posting, "It's true! I'm engaged!..."
Jared will be the last member of the band to get married – making them all now officially off the market.
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Mexican midfielder Herrera admits he wants to play for Manchester United
Hector Herrera has admitted that he'd like to play for Manchester United in the future ahead of a move to European football this summer.
The 23-year-old midfielder has agreed in principle to join Portuguese outfit Porto from his Mexican club Pachucha this year.
Herrera had been heavily linked with a move to United in the past with Mexican media outlets claiming United were in the running for signing him ahead of Porto.
But speaking to Mexican media outlet Exclesior about his move to Porto, Herrera admitted that he would prefer to play for Manchester United in the future rather than Real Madrid or Barcelona in order to gain regular first team football.
He said: "Obviously I'd like to play in a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona, but one is aware of the football they play and the truth is I'd like to play in Manchester United or any other large team in those where I know that I am going to be playing."
He can sit comfortably in front of the defence but he's also an incisive passer and will make runs forward and link up with the attack. He has great stamina and never seems to stop running. Duncan Tucker, Mexican football journalist
Porto are renowned for selling their assets with Hulk, Falcao and Alvaro Pereira all being sold in the past two years and Herrera is aiming to use Porto as a springboard for a big move in the future.
"First God, I have to do things with that team to later emigrate to Spain or England with a team of more renown," he admitted.
"I know that in this team have played major players which are then sold and succeed at big clubs in Europe, I hope that I can live the same."
In truth, it has been a whirlwind 18 months for the talented 22-year-old Mexican who only made his debut in July 2011. Just over a year later, the central midfielder Herrera finished the domestic season by picked up the Golden Ball for best 'rookie' of the year award, and was celebrating victory over Brazil as Mexico claimed Olympic gold at London 2012.
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Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon calls for support to defend forests
Tom Younger
Palm oil deforestation in Peru
Forest People's programme
The palm oil industry is causing severe environmental destruction and spiralling violence in the Peruvian Amazon. TOM YOUNGER investigates local actions and sets out ways in which you can offer support and solidarity
We find ourselves under a lot of pressure, oppressed by fear. The community can no longer live in peace because of the company and the deforestation.
Carlos is in his early thirties and chief of his community, Santa Clara de Uchunya. He recalls travelling along the Aguaytia river in the Peruvian Amazon, and how, during his youth, there were chaikuni – protector spirits of the forests and water – living by the abundant lake beside his village.
The chaikuni have been driven out from these parts of the ancestral territory of the Shipibo-Konibo people.
The palm oil company Plantaciones de Pucallpa SAC (now known as Ocho Sur P SAC) appropriated a vast swathe of traditional lands and destroyed forests in order to install a plantation. Ever since, Carlos's community have been struggling against a whole series of further disappearances.
Carlos explained: "We are witnessing the disappearance of our animals, our resources, water and the streams where we used to fish."
This is compounded by changes in local climate, presumably owing to the drying effects of massive deforestation: "There has been a very radical change – now we can no longer distinguish between winter and summer."
Together, these impacts are corroding the community's ability to feed their families: "We no longer have enough to eat, we are struggling to meet our needs, because there is nothing left to hunt or fish.
"We find ourselves under a lot of pressure, oppressed by fear. The community can no longer live in peace because of the company and the deforestation."
Legal recognition
Over the past five years, the community have been fighting to defend what remains of their forests, water and way of life and, ultimately, secure legal and practical control over their ancestral territory.
This community has denounced these violations and the devastation wrought upon their home at local and international levels.
There have been landmark legal actions against the palm oil company and the officials who facilitated this land grab.
There has also been a formal complaint against Plantaciones de Pucallpa SAC to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global body which seeks to improve sustainability of palm oil supply chains.
Significant successes
Although the community are still fighting for a definitive solution to secure legal recognition of their lands, and an end to the land grab, their unified stance and solidarity from allies has resulted in some significant successes.
In September 2015, Plantaciones de Pucallpa was ordered by the Peruvian government to suspend its operations. In April 2016, the RSPO issued a Stop Work Order to the company, and in October 2017 the company withdrew from the RSPO.
In February 2017, United Cacao (one of the sources of finance for Plantaciones de Pucallpa SAC's operations) was delisted from the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investments Market.
Last December, a court in Lima issued an injunction ordering the company to immediate suspend all operations in Santa Clara de Uchunya's territory.
Most recently, in June of this year, independent government auditors announced they would be investigating serious irregularities in the measures taken by the Regional Government of Ucayali to legally recognise Santa Clara de Uchunya's lands.
Increasing violence
Despite these efforts, Uchunya's territory remains without legal recognition from the government.
Meanwhile, the community's opposition to the practices of the palm oil company and land-trafficking gangs has resulted in increasing violence and threats directed at community members, including the following recent incidents:
On 23 September 2017, fifteen men known to be linked to the palm oil company approached the family home of Huber Flores, threatening him and demanding that he and his family leave their home.
On 11 December 2017, unknown individuals clearing the forest shot at a community delegation, which included representatives of local indigenous organisation, the Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali (FECONAU), and the Legal Defense Institute (IDL), as they were documenting recent deforestation and only narrowly escaped serious injury.
As highlighted in a recent report by Global Witness, Peru is one of the deadliest countries globally for land and environmental defenders. The Ucayali region, where Santa Clara de Uchunya is located, has some of the highest deforestation rates in the Peruvian Amazon, and also saw some of the greatest violence associated with land conflicts.
Lasting solutions
On 7 July, Carlos and his brother Benjamin narrowly escaped from being shot by three masked men as they were out gathering evidence of new forest destruction.
Following this most recent attack, Carlos stated: "My health is in pieces due to what happened and the trauma it caused me. I am now very afraid to return to my community; we need support to ensure the security and wellbeing of our families."
The community's forests, where Carlos' grandfather, a powerful shaman, spent weeks at a time gathering medicinal plants for healing and learning, are now being converted into no-go zones of spiralling violence by land-traffickers intent on speculating with communal lands.
The community and its allies continue demanding lasting solutions from Peruvian and international institutions, such as addressing lack of secure land rights for Indigenous Peoples and implementing protection measures for indigenous human rights and land defenders.
Yet, at the same time, as people in Uchunya see Ocho Sur P continuing to transport palm fruits by the truckload for processing by mills operated by RSPO members, OLPESA, and Alicorp, as well as OLAMSA, they know they cannot wait on these institutions to protect their way of life.
They have issued a call to support urgent measures identified by the community to secure their lands, lives and access to food.
The inspiring response so far sends a powerful message of solidarity and hope to people in Santa Clara de Uchunya, who need solutions now, even as they continue the longer fight to reclaim their territory and future.
Tom Younger works with Forest Peoples Programme, an international human rights organisation working in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples to secure their rights, gain effective control their lands and decide their own futures. To find out more, donate and share the crowdfunder in solidarity with Santa Clara de Uchunya, visit the website. To find out more about the struggle of the community, visit this website.
The failures in land diversity ambitions
Alex Wijeratna
| 2nd September 2021
Indigenous peoples, shifting cultivators and rural women lose out under the UN REDD+ programmes.
Voices on the road
New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.
Scientists raise the alarm on Amazon fires
Worsening fires and deforestation in the Amazon are exacerbating the situation for indigenous people, who are already more vulnerable to Covid-19, scientists say.


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Industar-58 3,5/75 (Russian Индустар-58) is enlarger lens for medium format 6x6cm. Initially, Industar-58 3.5/75 was in a different barrel design and mounted on a medium format rangefinder camera "Iskra" and "Iskra-2", which produced from 1960 through 1963 in the Krasnogorsk mechanical plant (KMZ). Later, it was redesigned on BelOMO (Belarus) for photographic enlargers, and placed in a different barrel. The name remains the same Industar-58 3.5/75. Further, the lens was slightly redesigned and received the name Industar-58U 3.5/75, thus emphasizing that it refers to enlarger lenses.
The lens has impressive size and weight. Length is 120mm. The diameter of the front parts is 85mm. The diameter of the rear parts - 53mm. But much of it is a huge frame blend thus obtained lens deep set that eliminates the ingress of unwanted stray light into the lens.
Like all enlarger lenses, Industar-58 has no focusing mechanism. Therefore, in order to fully use it, you need a suitable helicoid. In front of the barrel is a ring aperture control. The diaphragm has 9 blades and closed intermittently at 3,5-4-5,6-8-11-16-22. The mechanism of switching the aperture is made quite interesting. inside the frame has a hole in which the set aperture value is displayed. The diaphragm closes discretely and it is accompanied by switching pleasant soft click.
Mount Industar-58 3.5/75 in the SLR was not easy. The constructive lens has a considerable size. This flange distance is not so long (62.76mm). Therefore, to take full advantage of the lens on the DSLR camera, need a helicoid, on the one hand, to provide a short flange distance, and on the other to it instead of the back of the lens. Fortunately, I have a helicoid from the mirror lens Cambron 500 f/8, which I use to mount the projection lens with a large diameter. Industar-58 in a perfect fit, while almost perfectly coincided infinity, was a small flight. To avoid axial misalignment and the lens does not play in the helicoid on the back of the I wrapped a small layer of electric tape, thus ensuring a smooth entry of the lens in the helicoid. And on the edge of the barrel, I also stuck to its helicoid by electric tape.
The result was an easy-to-use lens with large dimensions. Industar-58 3,5/75 on Nikon D80. Focus it was convenient and shooting is pleasant as if it was intended.
All examples are taken at wide-open on camera Nikon D3100. Export from RAW without any post-processing.
The lens is designed for medium format and at the same time has a resolution of center/edge of the 35/12 lines/mm, it means that the small format, it will be 35 mm almost all over the field.
At wide-open, the lens shows no ringing sharpness, but nevertheless, it is enough for most scenes. The lack of sharpness when I noticed a group of people shot in full view. But if you shoot portraits, sharpness is enough.
When you close the aperture to f/5,6 I have not noticed the increase of sharpness, it has not changed. Perhaps it grew up on the medium format edges of the frame, but my crappy camera difference I not noticed.
The lens has a nice Tessar-character and bokeh. I liked its plasticity. Very beautifully blurs the background.
A characteristic feature of this lens is the formation bubbles bokeh, such as the form triplets. Industar-58 are not so noticeable, but still greater than the other Tessar-type lenses.
The lens has a single coating. Due to peculiarities of the Tessar optical design and it's constructive, Industar-58 has good contrast and color reproduction.
Colors are luscious, but at the same time natural.
Lens copes with strong side illumination. And moderately keeps backlight. Of course, if you resort to frame a strong light source, there will be, but in most cases, it is well behaved in the bright sun.
Industar-58 3.5/75 good Tessar-type lens. It has good optical characteristics and constructive. I liked it very much and I decided to leave it in his collection. Of the main drawbacks complexity of mounting on the camera.


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Die Croxted Motor Engineering Co. Ltd. war ein britischer Automobilhersteller.

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Das Unternehmen hatte seinen Sitz in Herne Hill (London). Es stellte von 1904 bis 1905 Automobile her. Es entstanden verschiedene Mittelklassemodelle in geringer Stückzahl.

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1904 entstand der 8-10 HP, der von einem wassergekühlten 10 PS-Zweizylinder von Aster angetrieben wurde. Der Wagen verfügte über ein Dreiganggetriebe und Kraftübertragung per Kardanwelle.

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Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal ballet's youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of...
Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal ballet's youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom - his talent more a burden than a gift. Here is an unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man who has made ballet go viral. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we know it. But virtuosity comes with a high price. How can you be free to be yourself when you are ballet's hottest property?
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Patricia A. Saxton, 96, of Ovid, MI, died on Saturday April 6, 2019. at the Royal Oaks Inn Assisted Living, in Thousand Oaks, California. She was born on August 9, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Ovid High School in 1941, she then went to work at GM Truck and Coach in Pontiac, Michigan.
On December 3, 1946, she married Edward Saxton in Pontiac, Michigan and after her marriage Pat relocated to Ovid with Edward. She worked at Vaughn's Seed Company in Ovid for 20 years.
Survivors include her daughter, Janet (Paul) Mailhot of Thousand Oaks, California; grandsons, Cory Barrett, Scott (Kalyn) Barrett and great-grandson, Jack, of Lansing, Michigan. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Edward, in 2009 and her daughter, Elaine Barrett, in 2012. The family will receive friends and relatives at Keck-Coleman Funeral Home on Sunday, April 14, 2019, 3-7 P.M. Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Monday, April 15, 2019 with Pastor Kathy Leydorf-Keck officiating. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery, Ovid, MI.
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"John Wilson the Revealer of Peyote"  (c.1845–1901) was a Caddo medicine man who introduced the Peyote plant into a religion, became a major leader in the Ghost Dance, and introduced a new peyote ceremony with teachings of Christ. John Wilson's Caddo name was Nishkû'ntu, meaning "Moon Head."

Though he was of half-Lenape descent, quarter-blood French, and quarter-blood Caddo, John Wilson spoke only the Caddo language and identified only as a Caddo. He is believed to have been born in 1845, when his band of Caddo were still living in Texas. They were driven into Indian Territory in 1859.

Wilson, being interested in religion and only known as a medicine man, sought out a path to be a peyote roadman in 1880. As the Ghost Dance ceremonies regained popularity in Oklahoma, he became one of its most active leaders in the Indian Territory.

During a two-week period, Wilson consumed peyote for spiritual reasons and said he was shown essential astronomical symbols representing the life of Jesus Christ. These messages became part of his own teaching, which nevertheless remained reliant purely on peyote. He recalled that Peyote spoke to him, telling him to keep indulging in, and to keep walking in its "road" until the day he died of the peyote to create a higher enlightenment.

The tribe had been exposed to the Half Moon peyote ceremony, but Wilson introduced the Big Moon ceremony to the tribe. The Caddo tribe remains very active in the Native American Church today.

He is the single human most known for the changes to the religious altar and the peyote ceremony. His changes to the altar, unintentionally persuaded the image of the cross in Christian churches.

Wilson died at the age of 61 in 1901.

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 Stewart, Omer Call.  Peyote Religion: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. .
 Swanton, John Reed. Source material on the history and ethnology of the Caddo Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. .

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Yesterday, a U.S. fitness blogger's Instagram post went viral after she shared three pictures of herself at different weights, to prove that the number on the scale really doesn't say much (if anything) about your health, your fitness level, or your value as a human being.
Kelsey Wells, author of the fitness blog My Sweat Life, posted photos of herself at 145, 122, and 140 pounds.
Contrary to most before-and-after posts, however, her "after" shot shows her at nearly the same "before" weight. The big difference between them? Muscle.
While she looks beautiful in each photo and at every weight, that's not really the point of either the photos or this article. She wanted to show how meaningless the number on the scale is when it comes to tracking your fitness goals and, more importantly, determining your own self worth.
She explains that in the first photo she was 8 weeks postpartum, at which point she set herself the goal of reaching 122 pounds, "based on nothing besides [her] own warped perception." But once she reached that weight, she gained 18 pounds and went up two pants sizes.
"According to my old self and flawed standards, I would be failing miserably. Thank goodness I finally learned to start measuring my progress by things that matter — strength, ability, endurance, health and happiness," she wrote.
Despite the number on the scale increasing, she feels and looks stronger than she ever has before.
"I have never been more comfortable in my own skin than I am now. And if I didn't say #screwthescale long ago, I would have gave up on my journey," Wells said.
Let this be a lesson to all of us that, not only are there more important things in life than the number on a scale, but also that we need to be more forgiving of ourselves. Even if our weight didn't fluctuate daily (and even hourly) based on anything and everything from how much we've eaten and when we last went to the bathroom to, for women at least, where we are in our cycle, that number still wouldn't reflect anything of value.
I spent years obsessing over my weight, evaluating every morsel of food that went into my mouth and ranging from elation to depression by turns based entirely on the number on the scale. It wasn't until I shifted my focus from counting calories to nourishing my body, and from burning calories to building strength, that I found any measure of peace within myself. I still fight that malicious voice inside my head that tells me I'm not good enough, not skinny enough, not pretty enough, but now I win more battles than I lose. Now I exercise because it makes me feel good — it's not a punishment for eating something "bad," it's something awesome that I get to do for myself. It's a way to honour my body. It's a way to feel empowered.
So let's move our bodies because they were designed to move. Let's find an activity that brings us joy and do it for that pleasure alone, not to become something society has decreed we must be.
Screw the scale. Let's live.


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In all of the history of the planet Phaeton, since it was settled hundreds of years ago, only a handful of its telepathic citizens have ventured into outer space. Professor Mors, a legendary intellectual, and his young protégé Cernaq are two of those. Now that Cernaq is serving on border patrol aboard the CNV Arbiter, his mentor has tasked him with chronicling the extraordinary events he is a part of. Cernaq's letters provide a glimpse of a very seedy corner of Naval service through very innocent, foreign eyes, as he learns that much of humanity is not governed by reason or science.
Cernaq is a telepath from the planet Phaeton, the gentlest, most unassuming of the crew of the CNV Arbiter. After he must take a man's life in the line of duty, his behavior begins to take a turn for the worse. Another presence is slowly gaining control of his mind, and one of the most powerful telepathic intellects in the galaxy is now a threat to himself and his shipmates.
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This morning I put the last 2300 words to the third novella I've written in 2013. And now at 75% of the way to the home stretch on this leg of my project, here's what I'm up to: With eBooks taking off and moving, outstripping my paper book sales, I've decided that the sixteen or so Arbiters adventures that exist only as audio dramas should be available to readers as well. I'd always intended to novelize these scripts and print them, three of four to a book, as the adventures of young Horatio Hornblower are presented in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, and as Alan Dean Foster did in the wonderful Star Trek Logs.
My eBook sales reports say the time is right to build up my inventory, so, by Summer, my plan is to release the first four Arbiter Chronicles adventures as novellas, for sale in eBook form at the reasonable price of 99 cents each. "Mutiny Springs Eternal," the Mark-Time-Award-wining "A Man Walks Into a Bar," and "Man of Letters" are drafted and ready for me to polish and send to the editor. I'll embark on "The White Lady" next, and expect to have it finished in two to three weeks, in time to craft an outline for the third volume of ReDeus before Balticon. I'm really excited about this. It's a chance to revisit my favorite characters in stories I told a dozen years ago. Along the way, I'm adding new insights and texture. I'm hoping this will bring the Arbiters to a whole new audience, and I hope all of you who've made this journey with me so far will come along for the ride.
The Arbiters become military governors of a conquered planet.
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Visiting the colony of New Rhineland, the Arbiters are lured into the centuries old German ghost story of the White Lady, a harbinger of death and spirit of vengeance. Metcalfe is confronted by the most haunting spectre of all — that of his sister, Lydia.
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I wrote two episodes together for Farpoint 2002 — this one, and "Playing Politics." I wrote this one first, and then realized that I needed a script with a meaty male guest star role for the same con, since George Takei would be performing with us, alongside Robin Curtis. I didn't see George quite fitting the role of "The White Lady." (Oh, my!) So we performed both that weekend. This one is based on a ghost story about the White Lady who haunted the Old Palace in Berlin, which used to scare the crap out of me as a kid. Drawing on my studies of European myth and folklore, I turned it into a more hopeful story than the original, and touched on some of my own notions of how a benevolent vision of the afterlife should look.
A day in the life of the Arbiter crew is viewed through the alien eyes of Cernaq as he writes a letter to his mentor, Professor Mors. Kaya must decide whether her future lies on Arbiter. Cernaq and Aer'La share an… educational experience. Metcalfe tries to explainEaster to the Arbiters.
By episode three, it became sort of obligatory that we perform a new Arbiters show at every con we attended. Shore Leave in 2001 was our next venue, and I had always liked those simple "Day in the Life" episodes of shows. One of my inspirations was the M*A*S*H script, "Dear Dad" and its sequels. One character's impressions of the others can always be fun, in particular when the character is as off-beat as Cernaq. As throwaway as the idea seemed, we all seemed to just love doing this one, especially since it involved an ab-libbed ending and a very juicy audio spit-take. And, of course, Cernaq and Aer'La's romance was born in this episode.


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MAHBs' losses narrow in 3Q, expected to pick up with VTL
Posted on	 November 30, 2021, Tuesday at 5:36 PM Uncategorized
Passengers on flight Singapore Airlines SQ108 from Singapore are seen queuing up during arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport via the VTL. — Bernama photo
KUCHING (November 30): Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd's (MAHB) net loss narrowed to RM182.31 million in the third quarter (3Q) ended Sept 30, 2021 from a net loss of RM319.71 million in the corresponding period in 2020.
Revenue improved to RM461.33 million from RM396.69 million previously, driven by higher passenger volume for its Turkey operations due to the relaxation of border and inter-city travel.
"Turkey operations showed signs towards normalisation as passenger traffic increased from 4.9 million to 8.9 million passengers.
"Passenger traffic for the Malaysia operations contracted by 77.8 per cent to 1.0 million passengers compared to 4.5 million passengers in the corresponding quarter last year, impacted by the continuation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) and renewed total lockdown from June 1, 2021.
"Overall, Malaysia recorded a decrease in revenue by 40.3 per cent to RM151.3 million," the airport operator said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia.
It also said MAHB's network of airports recorded 21.9 million passengers from Jan 1, 2021 to Sept 30, 2021, a contraction of 39.7 per cent over the corresponding period in the prior year.
During the same period, the group's traffic for international and domestic passengers contracted by 51.1 per cent and 33.0 per cent, respectively.
Correspondingly, the group's aircraft movements decreased by 32.2 per cent with both international and domestic aircraft movements decreasing by 28.6 per cent and 33.8 per cent, respectively.
The team with Kenanga Investment Bank Bhd (Kenanga Research) saw that Malaysia domestic traffic performance registered encouraging improvements after the launch of Langkawi travel bubble programme from September 16, 2021.
"The government announcement on the reopening of interstate borders and the relaxed rules for fully vaccinated Malaysian residents to travel abroad from October 11onwards is positive news for the aviation sector to restart with prospects for a gradual recovery," it detailled in its report.
"Separately, the recently announced Malaysia and Singapore Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) between Changi Airport and KLIA flight from Singapore saw positive responses receiving six VTL flights carrying over 1,300 passengers from Singapore."
AmInvestment Bank Bhd (AmInvestment Bank) opined that MAHB's commercial reset and new rental model have been rolled out successfully, attracting the participation from highly sought-after brands and reputable companies, stimulating high capex investment by tenants of up to RM314.5 million, as well as retaining existing tenants.
To date, it has approximately onboarded 50 per cent tenants with its commercial reset programme, and another 49 new shops and brands expected to come in.
"It is in the midst of unlocking an additional 20 per cent of commercial space in KLIA. At present, the occupancy rate stands at 67 per cent against 90 pre-pandemic.
"While commercial rental revenues could be muted amidst low passenger traffic at the airport now, MAHB is confident that the new revenue model tied to passenger traffic will offer it more upside over the long run as the air travel market normalises."
Kenanga Research saw that MAHB has put in place multiple initiatives to reconnect the air traffic at its airport as the pandemic has largely move into endemic phase.
"Some of the initiatives include the network reconnecting programme, which has seen 36 airlines resumed operations in Malaysia, and another 27 airlines expected to resume by the end of this year.
"It is also pursuing 22 new city pairs under the airline incentives programme as an effort to expand the air traffic network coverage for its airports."
MAHB is also expected to be able to benefit from the joint programme with Tourism Malaysia on the International Tourism Development programme, which has seen RM8 million being allocated under the initiative.
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Kilkenny Athletics County Board PRO Perri Williams says there will be a very strong Kilkenny contingent at this weekend's Irish Schools Cross-Country in Clongowes College.
Speaking to KCLR, Perri says the representatives involved will be strong contenders for success.
She said "You will have Shay McEvoy of Kilkenny City Harriers in the Seniors. You will have a very good St. Kierans Team, they are made up of St. Senans and KCH a really good team in the Junior Boys, they were 2nd in the All-Ireland last year so there will be expectations of them".
"You have Billy Coogan from the CBS in Kilkenny, and he is in the Minor Boys and then you have obviously a very very strong Intermediate Team made up of mostly Thomastown Athletes that go to school in the Loreto, and then we have Tadhg Connolly St. Senans who goes to school in the Abbey Community College, he would be very very strong contender for the Junior Boys".


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Louisiana's only location of the popular national restaurant chain The Melting Pot will be closing its doors soon.
The restaurant, located on Corporate Boulevard in Baton Rouge, announced on their Facebook page this past Sunday that their last day open will be September 29.
The location has been open since November 1999.
In the Facebook post, the restaurant says they decided a few years ago to not renew their franchise agreement with The Melting Pot. They had hopes of selling the location.
Unfortunately, they were not able to work out a long-term lease deal with their landlord, making it impossible to sell the building.
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Blood test offers diagnostic potential for HPV-related cancers
A potential breakthrough in the early detection of the neck, head and anal cancers linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) has emerged, based on a highly specific point-of-care blood test that appears to indicate cancer, and predict its course.
There are more than 200 types of HPV, with the most aggressive, HPV-16, responsible for over 90% of all HPV-related head and neck tumours, and over 70% of all cases of cervical cancer. The new point-of-care biomarker test detects levels of a specific antibody (DRH1) to HPV-16.
Findings from a multicentre European clinical study evaluating the new marker test have been published in EBioMedicine (www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(20)30179-1/fulltext), one of The Lancet stable of medical journals. The study scientists have been able to demonstrate a link between rising levels of these HPV antibodies and cancer.
The study was led by Dr Thomas Weiland from Austria's Medical University of Graz. He explained: "This is the first time that we have been able to show a link between raised levels of this specific antibody and HPV cancers, indicating the course of disease. This might raise the potential of being able to detect disease recurrence much earlier than current clinical practice."
The presence of HPV infection does not mean the patient has cancer, and in most cases the body clears the infection. The new test detects an antibody that is only produced when an infection had led to increased cell growth. Previously, no test had been able to discriminate an HPV infection from actual HPV-induced malignancy.
The study demonstrated a sensitivity of 90–95% for anal and oropharyngeal cancers and a specificity of 99.3% − performance characteristics that are diagnostically significant compared to existing methods for the early detection of HPV-induced cancers.
Scientists see this as a promising biomarker test, not only for the early diagnosis of HPV-related cancers but for monitoring a patient's response to therapy and as an early warning that the disease has returned. Dr Ralf Hilfrich, founder of Abviris and the creator of the DRH1 blood-based HPV tumour marker, said: "While HPV infection does not indicate cancer, scientists have suspected for some time that if antibodies were to develop, there may be a link to cancer. Being able to detect that early enough could have a major impact on patient outcomes.
"The test's specificity has enabled scientists to show that rising levels of HPV antibodies in blood do reflect malignancy. The study also indicates that it may prove diagnostically significant, compared to current detection methods, when a biopsy is hard to access, or where the site of the primary cancer is unknown or unidentifiable, such as very early metastasis."
Notwithstanding the success of the Papanicolaou smear and the vaccine against cervical cancer, HPV-induced cancers remain a global health burden, with an estimated seven billion unprotected people at risk and about 400,000 deaths annually.
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Q: Little regular expression on js I am new in regular expressions. I have the variable that contains:
My string:
<big>  My value </big>

Its string in varible repeating multiple times with changing of My string and My value(random value). I need to find My value of concrete My string and store (value) in new varible. Sometimes that string has spaces, sometimes without space.

A: var myRegEx = /(.+)<\/font><\/b>[\r\n]{0,2}<big>(.+)<\/big>[\r\n]{0,2}
/i;
var myString = 'My string:\n<big>  My value     </big>\n
';
var myResult = myString.match(myRegEx);
console.log(myResult[1] + " | " + myResult[2]);

RegEx:
[0-9] Matches any single character in the range 0-9.
{3,6} Matches 3 to 6 of the preceeding token.
(.+) Capture group.
. Matches any character, except for line breaks if dotall is false.
+ Matches 1 or more of the preceeding token.
\n Line break character.
\r Carriage return character.
[\r\n] Match any single character in the set.
{0,2} Matches 0 to 2 of the preceeding token.
Now just apply it in your code. You can test it at http://gskinner.com/RegExr/.

A: You should really try to avoid using regular expressions for parsing HTML. Especially with very powerful tools to do so built right into every browser.
Here is a solution with no regular expressions, I find it pretty simple.
Here is how it works:

*

*We create an HTML element

*The  browser already contains a very good HTML parser :) It handles edge cases like spaces in the name, escaped entities, and partial HTML for us just like it does for web pages. We dump the HTML in the element.

*We can query the element using the querySelector syntax, or even simpler getElementsByTagName if you're an old fashined guy.

*We use the textContent property to obtain the text.

Actual code:
var test = 'My string:<big>  My value </big>
';

// we create an empty element and put the html in it
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = test;

// get the text from the font tag, as you asked for.
var test = div.querySelector("font").textContent;

Fiddle
Note,  tags are deprecated and should not be used in new code. I'd consider checking out the current HTML5 spec and seeing how things work in modern HTML.
Note2, in oldIE you can't use textContent so you can do innerHTML or innerText.

A: Use jquery for something like this:
var t = 'My string:<big>  My value </big>
My string1:<big>  My value1 </big>
';

var data = $('big', $('
').append(t)).map(function() {
  return $.trim($(this).text());
});

console.log(data[0]);  // My value
console.log(data[1]);  // My value1

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Q: CodeIgniter: Fatal error: Can't use method return value in write context I have this issue where I am posting a response into the controller, however it throws this error. This is the first time I am coming across this error.
Kindly find the code below:
    if (isset($this->input->post('responseCode')))
       {
         echo '
Cardstream Response
';
         echo '
';
         print_r($this->input->post());
         echo '
';
       }

It is pointing at this particular line if (isset($this->input->post('responseCode')))
This is a cardstream integration. Unfortunately I haven't found the library for cardstream in codeigniter, hence I am using the Core PHP code for the same.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

A: You are using isset() on a method, which presumably returns a expression result. You cannot do that because isset() is only used on variables. Try checking if it's null instead:
if ($this->input->post('responseCode') !== null) {...

Or simply:
if ($this->input->post('responseCode')) {...

A: Use this
if ($this->input->post('responseCode'))

instead isset() checking

A: you cant use isset on a function   you couldusse
if($this->input->post('responsecode'))

or if(!empty($this->input->post('responsecode')))


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Charles M. Vest	Dean, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs	Engineering, University Administration
Biography/Memoir Reflections/Stories
The Regents of the University of Michigan commend Charles M. Vest for his service as provost and vice president for academic affairs, as he leaves the University to assume the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A native of West Virginia, Charles Vest has been associated with the University of Michigan since 1963, when, after graduating from West Virginia University and marrying Rebecca McCue, he arrived in Ann Arbor to complete his education at the College of Engineering. After receiving his master's degree in 1964 and his doctorate in 1967, he joined the College of Engineering faculty, where he rose through the academic ranks in the 1970s to achieve the level of professor by 1977. During the 1980s, he joined the college's administrative ranks, serving as associate dean from 1981-86 and dean from 1986-89. All the while, he pursued his scholarly interest in the area of holographic interferometry, authoring or coauthoring over 50 technical publications as well as a book, Holographic Interferometry. which is widely regarded as the standard text in the field.
Since assuming the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs in January 1989, Charles Vest has done an outstanding job of overseeing the academic enterprise in his dual roles as chief academic officer and chief budget officer. His sensitive, insightful leadership and his judicious oversight of resource allocation have assured the continued enhancement of the quality of the University in the face of an ever-precarious revenue base. In an interview held shortly after being named provost, Provost Vest extended the following challenge that the Regents now offer as a fitting legacy: "If we aspire to excellence as a university, then each of us must aspire to excellence in what we do ourselves. " As he leaves the University of Michigan, the Regents salute Charles M. Vest for his exemplary performance as a thoughtful scholar/administrator whose broad intellectual interests and impeccable academic, social, and personal values are the embodiment of the University's mission. The Regents also express their heartfelt appreciation to Becky Vest for her equally dedicated years of service and leadership, and extend best wishes to Chuck and Becky as they embark on their exciting new adventure at MIT.
Regents Proceeding, July, 1990, p. 6
Reflections/Stories
Remarks by Provost Vest Last week, I had an interview with the Ann Arbor News, and the reporter asked me what the hardest task I had undertaken since I had been at the University was. I gave her an answer, but I think I now would answer that somewhat differently. Because I think the hardest task I've had to undertake was actually sitting down and typing out my letter of resignation for President Duderstadt earlier this week. I want to pass on a few thoughts about the University.
Michigan is indeed one of a handful of the world's truly great universities. We often say these words, but do we really grasp their full significance? My personal experience during the process of the presidential search at M.I.T. really emphasized yet again the full meaning of those words. Michigan has been looked to for leadership in the country for more than a century. It is the case at the moment and it must continue to be the case in the future. I am afraid that I do not always believe that the people and the government of the state of Michigan fully value the great resource that they have here. This is perhaps in part our fault, but I do believe that we must believe a sense of pride in and commitment to this institution and to higher education that in the past led the people of Michigan to build this great university and make it accessible to the world.
In order to assure the continued greatness of Michigan, this will require not only such recommitment on the part of the state; it will require that each of us that serve as faculty serve so in the fullest, most honorable sense of that term. It will require that our Regents forever serve as trustees of this great institution in the finest sense of that term. It will require that we always communicate the importance of the roles of our staff, and make them an integral and valued part of our community. It will require that our students view their mission here as learning and growing in order to better serve the greater society.
The University of Michigan has in Jim Duderstadt one of the truly great leaders in higher education today. He has a vision of the future and of Michigan's role that will serve us and the nation well. He has an uncanny ability to see to the heart of issues and to understand major trends, changes, and challenges that are before us. Jim's voice is heard, and I can assure you, highly respected in very high national councils. He sticks to a few basic tenets, but they are correct, and they are fundamental. One of our greatest privileges, speaking on behalf of Becky and myself, has been that of working very closely with Jim and Anne Duderstadt for almost a decade. I wish Jim well, and I hope that the University and the state will truly salute his leadership.
The strength of the commitment of this university to multiculturism under President Duderstadt's leadership I believe will prove to be of major significance in the long term history of this university. That road is one that is fraught with problems and pitfalls, but if we do not travel down it, we will not be the leading institution twenty years from now that we are today, because we will not appropriately reflect and the American society around us. I urge all of you to keep this as a high institutional priority, and look forward to observing the results of Michigan's national leadership in this endeavor in the years to come.
I wish that I had presented a more attractive budget today. However, the financial pressures that we sense reflect the situation facing virtually every university in the country. The costs and obligations and the expectations that faculty, students, staff, and society have for us are simply growing faster than the resources provided to us. A two-fold response must be taken, revenue enhancement and cost management. Everyone will favor the former, but we must build realism, and indeed, enthusiasm, for the latter. Enhancement of academic excellence in the context of scarce resources will require wisdom, community, willpower, and above all, a common sense of purpose and mission. I believe that this university must and will exert leadership in this task as it has in so many others. Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan are intimately and properly woven together in the memories of our alumni and in the minds of the nation. I trust that the present administrative contentions between the city and the University are but a small perturbation in what must be and should be a long-lived partnership.
Above all, I hope that the University of Michigan will forever set its central agenda to be excellence in research, scholarship, and education. I'm troubled that in recent times the term "elite" as a descriptor of universities has begun to take on a negative connotation. It is my belief that the nation needs a small number of universities truly committed to excellence and to the education of an elite. But I think of this elite in a somewhat Jeffersonian sense. That is, it must be accessible. Admission to it must be available to people from all segments of our society and earned through dedication, hard work, and talent, not through race or social position.
It is also necessary that some of this handful of truly excellent universities be in the public domain. And that, in my view, is the historic role and future mission of the University of Michigan. Although a great university must always be a place of vigorous dissent and debate, I believe that the University must strive to increase its sense of community and its view of the education of its students as the essence of its mission. I have a vision that I have shared with you in the past that the greatness of the University of Michigan in the decades ahead will stem from its unique combination of comprehensiveness and quality. Much of the truly exciting research, scholarship, education, and service during this period will stem from major restructuring of knowledge and from very eclectic mixtures of academic disciplines. New interfaces between theory and application are needed. No university in the world is as well-positioned as Michigan to lead in such interdisciplinary ventures, and therefore, no university has a better opportunity to render service to the state, to the nation, and to the world.
In closing, I want to comment that since it was announced that I was afforded this new opportunity at M.I.T., I have been grateful for the many, many pieces of correspondence an congratulations, and statements of appreciation that I have received. But one really sticks out in my mind, and when I refer to its source, you'll know why. It was a brief note I had from Paul McCracken, one of the truly distinguished members of our faculty. And that letter said, almost in its entirety, "Boy from West Virginia becomes president of M.I.T.: The American dream." I took that very seriously, and I just want everyone around this table to know that I believe that is the case, and that it is this university that has afforded this career and these opportunities to me and to Becky, and that we are deeply grateful for it. We further believe that the University of Michigan's combination of excellence and access will make such opportunities available to countless others in the years ahead. Thank you very much.
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Q: Select list as column in Oracle SQL I would like to append a few rows to an already existing table (15 rows to be precise). What is the quickest way to do this?
This works, but it seems redundant.
select person_id from people_table
union all
select '0010' as person_id from dual
union all
select '0019' as person_id from dual
union all
select '0085' as person_id from dual

I was wondering if there's a solution along the lines of:
select person_id from people_table
union all
select ('0010','0019','0085') as person_id from dual

Please note that I want to preserve the leading zeros for each element in my list. This post is almost what I'm looking for, but it converts each element to integers and drops the leading zeros.

A: You need to use the hiearchy query as follows:
select person_id from people_table
union all
select regexp_substr('0010,0019,0085','[^,]+',1,level)
  from dual
connect by  level <= length (regexp_replace('0010,0019,0085', '[^,]+'))  + 1 ;

A: Please use below query using regular expression,
select person_id from people_table
union all
select distinct  trim(regexp_substr(('0010,0019,0085'),'[^,]+', 1, level) ) as person_id
 from dual
 connect by regexp_substr(('0010,0019,0085'), '[^,]+', 1, level)
 order by level;

A: You can use a system-provided collection type; you select from it using the TABLE operator (even that is no longer necessary since Oracle 12, as I demonstrate below). Note that the column name is COLUMN_NAME - that is the name Oracle chose when they created the system-provided type.
Let's create a small table for testing:
create table people_table (person_id varchar2(10), person_name varchar2(10));

insert into people_table (person_id, person_name) values ('2003', 'Maria');
insert into people_table (person_id, person_name) values ('2005', 'Peter');

Then, here is how you can do what you wanted:
select person_id from people_table
union all
select column_value from sys.odcivarchar2list('1000', '1001', '1002')
;

PERSON_ID
---------
2005
2003
1000
1001
1002

Do a Google search for SYS.ODCIVARCHAR2LIST (and similar SYS.ODCINUMBERLIST) if you are not familiar with it; it's quite useful.


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Q: Групировка и получение количества записей по каждой категории Цель:
получить таблицу, где будут такие столбцы
1) сконкотенированные айди через запятую
2) Категория к которой они принадлежат
3) название категории
4)Количество айди привязнной к каждой категории
Что я уже сделал:
SELECT p.`product_id` as `id`, p.`category_id`, c.`name`
FROM `oc_product_to_category` p
LEFT JOIN `oc_category_description` c
ON p.`category_id` = c.`category_id`
WHERE p.`product_id` IN(727,1025,742)
GROUP BY  p.`category_id`, c.`name`

сгрупировал по категории айди и имени категории.
Что еще нужно сделать, собрать все айди которые относятся к этой категории , сконкотенировть, и получить количество этих айди которые привязаны к этой категории.
Подскажите пожалуйста, как это сделать?
исправил. Добавил count(p.product_id) теперь считает количество. Остлась кокотенация

A: решил, почемуто с первого раза такое не вышло.
SELECT  GROUP_CONCAT(p.`product_id`) as `id`,count(p.`product_id`) as `count`, p.`category_id`, c.`name` FROM `oc_product_to_category` p

LEFT JOIN oc_category_description c
ON p.category_id = c.category_id
WHERE p.product_id IN(727,1025,742)
GROUP BY  p.category_id, c.name