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Mike Calimbas Photographer Profile
Do good, and good things follow...
One of the most respected and utilized event photographers in the sport, Mike Calimbas of Houston, Texas, armed with a Nikon D750 and a slew of lenses, applies this ethos to various facets of his life. Whether it be his photographic work, which you'll see pop up in event recaps from tournaments and superfight cards across the country, or his ambitious charity auction which raised tens of thousands of dollars to support victims of the disasters in Houston and Puerto Rico, Mike seems to always let his genuine good intention steer the direction of his projects.
Calimbas considers his role in jiu jitsu as that of a documentarian preserving history. The media that he and fellow photographers are producing will serve as a historical time capsule for the sport in years to come, and affect how those in the future reflect upon the sport's past. For him, the recognition many seek for artistic merit takes a backseat to his role as curator of jiu jitsu history.
One of the hard parts, however, about archiving jiu jitsu, is that relative to other sports, jiu jitsu is very much a niche sport. There is no means for a full time jiu jitsu photographer to support themselves financially, especially considering that most full time jiu jitsu athletes struggle to do the same. Calimbas references his place in the sport as an evolution- citing his experience as a writer and editor before trying his hand at photography. While jiu jitsu photography is hardly a lucrative business in the modern age, he sees himself as contributing towards the expansion of jiu jitsu as a sport, possibly paving the way for future photographers to have more gainful opportunities than are currently available.
Calimbas looks for
opportunity to grow and improve constantly. One would imagine event photography gets monotonous, especially when resigned to IBJJF tournaments which are often comprised of the same athletes, settings, routines and conditions.
Stagnation is Mike's enemy, and he tries to plan a varied schedule, offsetting jiu jitsu tournaments with studio and portrait work, or something more creative in order to switch things up. Considering this year he spent 40 of 52 weekends shooting Fight 2 Win Pro events, in addition to the IBJJF majors, it is imperative to shoot for fun as well, to "keep his perspective fresh." He says the "only bad situation, is not growing."
With so much time spent shooting the recent Fight 2 Win Pro events (with the upcoming event being the 56th in under two years as a promotion), Calimbas cites Seth Daniels' super fight promotion as one of the most personally fulfilling endeavors of his photographic career. As a purple belt himself, Mike admires the ground up approach that Daniels has taken to building something that not only showcases the sport, but supports the athletes through exposure, and the one thing these athletes truly need to establish themselves-- money.
"In 2017 we'll have paid grapplers close to a million dollars to compete on our stage. I believe the work we are doing is undervalued. Nobody else in our space is running this hard to grow jiu jitsu at the grassroots level. I'm proud that we're doing it the right way with the proper values."
Surely, Calimbas' pride in working with an event that pays athletes must in some way be embedded in his experiences working in the creative arts field. Too often, artists, graphic designers and photographers especially, are under appreciated and undervalued for the work they produce, and taken advantage of through attempts to barter. In this industry outright theft of intellectual property is not uncommon. For example, Mike once had a company take his photo from the internet without permission to use in a commercial, and even went so far as to crop his name out. Despite this slight, Calimbas responds "who I am to say?" when questioned if his work is under appreciated, and he is adamant that he doesn't give a damn about mere photo accreditation.
"I don't care about photo credits, like not even a little bit."
"I don't care about photo credits, like not even a little bit. My work is in a magazine damn near every month and you don't see me pimping those credits out. Why? Because they don't pay my bills. The payment of the invoices do. My general frame of mind when it comes to use of my photos is: if there's any commercial application at all and you're trying to market and make money off my hard work, then you damn sure should be paying me first."
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Another challenge for a working professional is navigating the sea of fresh photographers that often create free event galleries as they build their own portfolios, which creates competition but often at the expense of quality. When asked about this specifically, Mike says "I feel it does dilute when any random newbie can just pick up a press pass and shoot somewhere like Pans or Worlds. The net result is usually that new person is so keen on becoming marketable and getting community validation that they end up flooding the market with free images. No matter the quality, it still puts a damper on those trying to do this for a sustainable living and not as a hobby." Make no mistake however, his business savvy approach does not undermine his love for what he does. "The main thing I've heard from rookies is 'I just do this because I love it.' Well, no shit Sherlock. If I didn't love it too, would I be doing it for all these years for next to nothing? But let's help each other out a little here. How can other folks respect and value our work if we don't put value on it first?" Still, he remembers a time when he was in their position, and feels no animosity towards amateur photographers trying to come up at bigger events. He asserts his wish to uplift everyone with a camera or a gi, stating "I was also there. I'd never be mad or hate them for it. We just need to work together, educate, create some standards, and grow the profession."
Looking at Calimbas' photographs is like stepping into the fabled Pyramid in June. There is a sense of sensory overload as you browse the galleries of his images, and it is impossible to ignore the sheer variety and spontaneity of the subjects. While many have a specific and focused approach to their subjects, in Mike's portfolio you'll find action shots as well as portraits, in black & white or color, depending on what strikes him at the moment.
On his personal style:
"I've never really been concerned with outside opinions. What happens is I'll do one thing for awhile, then decide to do something different. I don't know if it's just me wanting to keep things interesting or just that I'm evolving as an artist and as a person. Probably a little bit of both. It's never by design. I'm kind of just staying true to me."
Indeed, Calimbas' self truth is his guiding principle. Considering the immense damage that Hurricane Harvey caused to the Houston area, Calimbas emerged from the disaster extremely lucky. He was stranded in Vegas for over a week following Masters Worlds, and upon returning, found his family safe, their homes dry, and his car parked in the one airport lot that had not flooded. Referencing his son, Calimbas told me he "couldn't take a 7 year old to rip out sheetrock so I just wanted to do something else [to help]." As a means to contribute to the floods in Houston, he organized a charity auction to raise money for families in need of aid. His goal was to deliver "proceeds directly to folks in need. Not to an entity where you don't have control over how the money is allocated, but checks written by me directly into affected families' hands." The project started modestly, but snowballed as more and more people in the jiu jitsu community volunteered to contribute time and resources. The auctions included private lessons with notable instructors and athletes, products and services from various companies, year long tuition to academies nationwide, and more. Despite raising far more money than anyone anticipated, the effect of this project was not realized until just afterward.
"I actually got to talking to folks and distributing money to them personally after everything ended. That was very emotionally impactful for me. We really overshot our goal. To the point where we were even able to give close to 5K to folks impacted in Puerto Rico. So we really helped a lot. Everyone involved should be proud."
To put into perspective how immensely successful this project was, the top three grossing auctions were private lessons with Renzo Gracie, The Danaher Death Squad, and Marcelo Garcia, which netted $3,750, $3,300 and $1,650 respectively. The entire auction raised just shy of $38,000 total for affected families. Certainly, orchestrating a project of this magnitude deserves, at least, a pat on the back. Ever humble, Mike brushes off my comments about how overwhelming managing a project that grew to this scale must have been:
"Do good and good things follow. I didn't really set expectations. I just got it rolling then we did the best we could in the time we had. It was a lot to manage but I'm kind of used to being in that type of fire so it was okay. We did a good job."
Mike Calimbas is a jiu jitsu purple belt and photographer from Houston, Texas. His personal website is www.mikecalimbas.com and you can follow his photostream on Instsgram @mikecalimbas.
Please support photographers in jiu jitsu by purchasing their work, and properly crediting it. Special thanks to Mike Calimbas and Jesse Soto of Jexsestudios for their photographic content.


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Party A: "Pardon me if I steer things back toward Wojtyla, which is what I know best. Your point recalls for me Wojtyla's first dissertation, on John of the Cross, in which through the gift of faith a likeness or species is given to the mind. But I think the gift of self is not reducible to faith, for Wojtyla. Rather, the gift of self is an act of love. Simply put, Wojtyla's gift of self consists in aligning one's will with that of the beloved (again, this is simply John of the Cross with some philosophical development). It is to love the end of the other as one's own end. In theology, wouldn't one have to distinguish between faith that saves and faith that does not, in terms of a gift of self? Even the devils tremble and believe. Wouldn't you say, then, that the act of self-gift is a response not to faith, but to Love (known and recognized through assent to the gift of faith)? In the end, there will be no faith, but there will still be self-gift. Just to play devil's advocate, if we remember that our reason is fallen, then faith is a gift that not only lifts us above our nature, but also perfects our nature. Even some of the truths revealed by Christ are truths that reason could, in theory, have accessed -- after a long time, with admixture of error, and only by a few. In faith, these natural truths are able, in theory, to be grasped at once, with certainty, and by all who assent to the faith. In that sense, how could one hold anything other than that faith helps reason to be more fully itself? What is actually new here? A few more questions, just out of curiosity: When you speak of sensible perception and concepts, are you distinguishing in any way between external and internal senses? Or simply excluding sense-knowledge as such? Also, reason is crafted for being . . . as true, not for being as such. We can speak of being as such, but we only know it as true, just as we love it as good. Or are you saying that reason illuminated by faith moves beyond the transcendental properties to a direct and in some ways immediate contemplation of being itself? I.e., that the intellect with faith is capable of knowing being as such under its own light, and not under the light of truth? And where do you distinguish between created and Uncreated grace in this picture? Faith is not, in and of itself, necessarily sanctifying. A soul in mortal sin may also maintain the gift of faith. Such a soul is not engaged in self-gift. If such a soul is in contact with reality without mediation of sensible perception and concepts, what does it receive? Is it a species impressa? Expressa? (This takes us back into the territory of John of the Cross). And is this reality that is the object of faith only God himself, or does one receive as well a renewed knowledge of all created being(s)? (And if the latter, does one then fall into immanentism?) In your own estimation, are you basically assuming a Thomistic vision of faith, and/or attempting to move beyond it to speak of faith-as-experience? I think I have an idea of where you are going on each of these points; I would just be interested in seeing how you would answer them. If you have time. I apologize if my questions display a lack of understanding of your position.
My response: [I don't do justice to all the dimension of the question. However, I wanted to strike hard at the overall point of Wojtyla's thesis on faith in St. John of the Cross, namely, that it is not a facultative knowledge by formation of "species" (likenesses or "signs" that are called commonly called "concepts") but "Knowledge" as "Consciousness." This distinction between consciousness and concept is huge in the understanding of Vatican II, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. That is, instead of "species" or concepts, the very "I" of the believer as self-gift is the likeness, and therefore "identity" of knower and known].
"I think we are still two distinct sides of the river (and I may be on the wrong side). However: 1) I understand the gift of self to be the meaning of love, i.e. "I - gift." I don't understand the meaning of love in Wojtyla or Ratzinger to be the operation of a faculty that is an accident of substance (as essential or necessary as that accident may be denominated). Case in point is Wojtyla's thesis on St. John of the Cross. The burden of the thesis is to show that there is no proportionate means (cf. p. 238) between the divine essence and the human creature. Hence, there is no concept or intentional species (242) providing a "likeness." Without "likeness," there is no knowledge since knowledge means "being-one-with-another." Intellegere" = ab intus legere: to read another from within oneself.
Faith is not "intentional" knowing. By faith, the intellect "attains to the 'substance as understood'" and therefore "knows" the Person of the Word as "I Am:" "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt. 16, 16). But this "knowledge" is the experience of the self as gift responding to the Self-Gift that is Christ revealing Himself. This experience of self (I can only experience myself as "I") is then "transferred" to the Person of Christ. For "transference" see Wojtyla's "Participation or Alienation?" where he remarks: "For I have no other access to another human being as an I except through my own I" (Person and Community 204). This is also pure Ratzinger in "Behold the Pierced One" Thesis 3, 25-27, which he calls "theological epistemology."
Therefore, the "substance" is attained but not by species. "Psychologically the intellect lacks that 'substance as understood.' It does not have a clear apprehension of the divine essence, and hence it lacks an intentional species of the divine. Psychologically speaking, therefore, faith is not knowledge, nor science, nor understanding - all of which signify for St. John of the Cross the full possession of an intentional species - but it is the assent of the intellect to revealed truths. Psychologically, this is most certain" (247).
Then, the main point: "Love causes likeness. This means that the virtue of charity has an essential likeness to divinity not only in the ontological order, but it can produce and increase the likeness in the psychological order as well, causing a likeness between the lover and the beloved. And since the supernatural union is a union of likeness, tending even to the participated transformation of the lover into the Beloved, it is evident that the virtue that effects this transformation is the virtue of charity. Its primary operation is centered in the will, in which charity is rooted, but it likewise extends it influence to the other faculties, on which it impresses the psychological likeness of the Beloved" (249).
The point is that the "I" itself of the believer is the proportionate means of likeness with the divinity. I have found that Wojtyla uses the phrase "gift of self" for the first time on p. 96 of "Love and Responsibility." The isolation of the "I" as being and the experience thereof was the onus of "The Acting Person" coming in the late 60's. His doctrinal resume reads: "The possible intellect enjoys fruition in the loving 'touch' of the divine substance, and now the intellect has truly attained to the 'substance as understood' - the substance, because of the purity of the intellect, and understood, not through any intentional species of the divine, but through the redundance of love - understood through love. This is the height of the mystical experience possible in this life under the conditions of the obscurity of faith. This is also the high point of the union of the intellect with God, not only in the metaphysical sense, but in the psychological sense as well" 260.
The love Wojtyla is talking about is totally beyond the will as a faculty. He shows this in "The Personal Structure of Self-Determination" (Person and Community 190): "When I say that he will is the power of self-determination, I do not have in mind the will all alone, in some sort of methodical isolation intended to disclose the will's own dynamism. Rather, I necessarily have in mind here the whole person. Self-determination takes place through acts of will, through this central power of the human soul. And yet self-determination is not identical with th3ese acts in any of their forms, since it is a property of the person as such.... This property is realized through the will, which is an accident. Self-determination - or, in other words, freedom - is not limited to the accidental dimension, but belongs to the substantial dimension of to the person: it is the person's freedom, and not just the will's freedom... (190).


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Instagram has a lot of trends; beautiful doorways, Soviet architecture and shots of impossible natural beauty. Yet, it's not in the perfect or the pretty, the artfully bleak or the seductive beaches that people gravitate towards. In a primal, almost kneejerk reaction to unforgiving contemporary cityscapes, the aesthetic of 'Blade Runner' type neon streets have become the photography platform's latest love affair.
Putting an origin on it would be nearly impossible, as well as to miss the point. Such trends have the propensity to pop up out of nowhere, reaching 'viral' status very quickly. However, we can see certain cultural points that predate its emergence on Instagram that were indicative of our desire for these warm, inviting and idealistic conditions.
Firstly, although similar films have existed - there is Blade Runner, the iconic 1982 science fiction film depiction a society where artificially intelligent beings live amongst humans and as such, the environment reflects this technologically advanced age in a way that captured the attention of audiences the world over.
Another critical moment in the emergence of its popularity, particularly in a more contemporary sense, was the overwhelming success of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as the stunt driver by day, getaway driver by night lead. It also featured a soundtrack and polished and glossy Miami palette that was as neon as could be. The follow-up film from the Danish director was the divisively cult Only God Forgives, a film that pushed the visual language even further, dousing an entire film in the hum and light of backlit Bangkok.
Its futuristic appeal, particularly in the prominent posters fascination with Tokyo (easily the most popular destination on these accounts), hints at the kind of world we long for. Incidentally, it's as far away from the nature revivalism that also thrives on the photography platform. In the same way as vapourwave revived old internet stylings, yet added an element of futurism, so too has the neon glow cityscapes that are quickly gaining popularity.
Their longing is evident, but not desperate. What would normally be reserved for times-gone-by, we feel towards what is yet to come. Alienation and isolation are key factors in modern society and pervasive in the lives of major city's vast populations. No such worry permeates these images though. Granted, the streets seem to invite a sense of melancholic solo exploration - it's the warmth of the glow that is the main seducer. There's all the appeal of anonymous solitude without any of the reality.
Dreamlike, hazy and floating, the music of vapourwave - although not directly overlapping with the Blade Runner aesthetic - resonates with the sentiment of time standing still, of thoughts being introspective and contemplative. It is, in other words, a spiritual companion. They idolise a world that's easy to get lost in, where anonymity and convenience define the life it seems possible to lead. And like the most significant subcultures and movements, offer us a way of understanding the world we live in.
One of the most popular accounts Blade Runner Real World, posts shots that look like they truly come from a more advanced timeline and like photographer Teemu Jarvinen, capture the philosophical and sociological elements of the cyberpunk genre that has shown its crossover appeal from niche graphic novels and comics to hugely successful films and computer games.
Alongside TOKYOLUV and a host of other accounts, whose visual language all encompass and exist in the same universe - although each has their own way of doing so - we see a trend of photographers infatuated with a world that understands reality in a way that merges happiness with sadness, togetherness with ambivalence and the old with the new in a way usually reserved for fantasy. This is Blade Runner come true.
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25 Stories About Work – Working in a Maximum Security Prison (Part II)
December 7, 2014 December 7, 2014 by Carl from Chicago
I was recently on a plane doodling and thought of some funny / interesting stories from 25+ years of working and traveling. So I decided to write them up as short, random chapters of a non-book with the title of this post. Hope you enjoy them and / or find them interesting. Certainly the value will be at least equal to the marginal cost of the book (zero)…
Joliet Illinois, 1992, at a Maximum Security Prison. Here is Part I of the story. This prison is where the Blues Brothers movie was filmed along with "Prison Break".
After I got acclimated to the prison, it was time to select the assets that I would audit during the summer. Typically you "randomly select" assets from the asset listing, take a statistically significant sample (perhaps 20-50 items), and draw conclusions about the whole pool of assets based on whether you were able to find the selected assets in the location where they were said to reside. I did this at first and the results came up with many assets titled "XXX-780" and I asked the accountants working for the facility what they were. The accountants said that these were individual prisoner beds and that was the cell number and the way to audit those assets would be to go in and unlock the cells and I could flip up the bed and check the number. I thought about this for a few minutes and then said "f&ck this" and decided that I would use "judgement" to select my assets instead of the random method and I selected 30 assets myself for my project.
The quest to find the assets took me throughout the facility. If it was a gun that I selected, I would go past the guard into the armory, through the tunnels under the building, and up the ladder into the tower to manually check the serial number of the rifle or other weapon that was picked to be audited against the building records.
I selected what turned out to be a sniper rifle. These guns were kept in storage at the armory, and they brought out the sniper to show me the weapon himself because they didn't let other people touch it after he had calibrated the scope. The sniper asked me a question:
Do you know why they pick snipers out of the staff in the prison?
No, I said.
Because in Attica there was an uprising and the prisoners took over the yard and then the prison brought in outside marksmen to ensure they could not escape. During the melee the marksmen shot many prisoners but it turns out that the prisoners had changed clothes with the civilian hostages, so some of the individuals gunned down were actual guards or workers. Thus the snipers were prison guards from that facility because they could pick out the inmates from the guards and workers.
I said that if he ever saw me in his scope wearing an orange outfit, please don't shoot. It wasn't a joke.
One of the items I picked was a carpentry tool. I found the carpenter's building where they had drawings of all the tools on the wall so that you could see instantly if something was missing (for instance there would be a painted outline of a handsaw on the wall and the handsaw wouldn't be there). This was clever and obvious in hindsight. I hung around and talked to the officer in that building and he said that he'd been through a couple of hostage situations but hadn't been seriously hurt.
Another item was in the prison library. I remember as a kid my grandmother who ran a part-time mission said that they dropped off western novels at the prison in Montana for the prisoners to read while they were incarcerated. The library didn't have much, some law books and was in dilapidated condition. I was astonished when I met the librarian, however – she was a very attractive white woman in a pretty un-secure area of the facility where the vast majority of the prisoners were African American (I only saw a few white prisoners when they were playing basketball in a group in the yard). I spoke with her a bit and checked my asset and then later asked a different guard why none of the prisoners, many of whom had life sentences, roughed her up. The guard said that the gang bosses in the prison apparently liked her for whatever reason and put out the word not to mess with her and that was that.
An asset was in the "segregated" unit. Apparently this is where they put the most difficult prisoners. Their hands and feet were manacled together and they were screaming and obviously in a bad way. I wouldn't even go into the area where they were housed. I had them drag the air compressor over to the edge where I could write down the serial number through the bars.
One of the worst choices was in the prison hospital. In prison they limit walls so you can't hide behind them. I went into the hospital and they were working on people who were bleeding out in the open without curtains and it was like something out of Dante's inferno. I had no idea of this and quickly checked whatever I needed to check and got the hell out of there.
At the commissary you could buy packs of cigarettes for super-low prices because they were purchased at cost and without any taxes. I don't remember the exact price but think it was about 25 cents. The commissary was the famous area in the Blues Brothers where you had to stand behind the line to get your clothes back when you were released (it didn't really house clothes and prisoners' intake possessions, they just made it that way for the movie), and they still had that line painted on the ground.
Right at the end I picked a shotgun. It was up in the tower in the mess hall. This is the same mess hall where they all danced on tables during the Blues Brothers movie. This tower, however, was not like the others. It wasn't connected to the armory and tunnels. The only time they changed shifts daily was when the prison was on lockdown because they had weapons in there. Thus the guard yelled down and said that if I wanted to see the serial number, they would lock down the facility for me so that I could come up. I looked around on a stifling, humid day, with prisoners everywhere at classes, the yard, eating, and milling around, and imagined them all being herded back to their packed cells in the middle of summer, with the possibility of a riot eating at my mind. I just shouted up "tell me the serial number". He yelled it back to me and it matched and I was done. If someone else wanted to risk getting killed to verify it face to face they were welcome to come take my job.
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5 thoughts on "25 Stories About Work – Working in a Maximum Security Prison (Part II)"
Lexington Green
Excellent piece, Carl.
Good call on not making the entire prison population want to kill you.
You have a lot more stories to go, and now you have to top the prison visit … .
This just gets better and better. Eagerly anticipate the next installment.
Anybody ever read, Will, by G Gordon Liddy ? Interesting book. I'm not sure how reliable but it is interesting. The movie made from it was pretty good, too. It has an interesting view of prison life.
ErisGuy
"I had them drag the air compressor over to the edge where I could write down the serial number through the bars."
Imagine the yucks the staff had about this later.
You're a braver soul than I.
Dan from Madison
This is hilarious and sad at the same time.


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Only days after Aaron Evans shattered a 25 year old Bermuda track and field record…he broke it again.
Earlier this month, Mr Evans broke the 800 metre record, clocking in at 1:47.00, breaking the old record of 1:47:64. Veteran runner Steve Burgess who held the Bermuda record for 25 years, said that it was an honour to step aside for the "new king", and praised Mr Evans efforts.
Yesterday [May 28] Mr Evans shot to a finish of 1:46.26 and won his event during Day 2 of the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Greensboro, North Carolina. Not only did the University of Georgia student set a new national record, he set a new record for the college, is the fastest in the USA this year for a collegian, and qualified for the NCAA Championships.
The son of Whitney Principal Dr. Freddie Evans, and Northlands Deputy Principal Gina Evans, he attended Warwick Academy till he was 16, then left to attend Cushing Academy in Massachusetts. The 20 year old athlete was previously a semifinalist in the 800 at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, won a silver medal in the 800m at the 2009 Carifta Games and a bronze medal at the 2008 Carifta Games.
The month of May has been an outstanding one for Bermuda track and field, as in addition to Mr Evans double record breaking efforts, Shianne Smith shattered the Bermuda National Heptathlon Record, and Aranxta King broke the triple jump record.
yay! It must be so nice to report great Bermudian news amidst all the sad news. Thank you so much for sharing. Great to see a young Bermudian out there as a good role model.


May 23, 2018 – This week, four of our attorneys presented at the 2018 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute (ELI) held at the RiverCentre in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. ELI is the preeminent conference for employment lawyers and human resource professionals from across the upper Midwest to gather and discuss the latest developments in employment law. The Institute, which is one of the largest and best-attended conferences of its type in the country, provides practitioners with up-to-date education and resources throughout the employment law field. Frances Baillon, Chris Jozwiak, Joni Thome and Kaarin Nelson Schaffer joined other leaders in employment law to discuss some of the most important legal issues confronting practitioners and their clients.
Disability claims filed with the EEOC have steadily increased over the last 10 years, with nearly one-third of all charges involving some form of disability discrimination. Chris Jozwiak teamed with attorney Kate Mrkonich-Wilson to discuss recent developments concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act. Chris and Kate examined important cases practitioners should know and understand, as well as practical applications for both plaintiff and defense counsel when advising clients and litigating claims of disability discrimination and failure to accommodate.
Kaarin Nelson Schaffer joined an esteemed panel that included Sheila Engelmeier, Anna Prakash and Brian Rochel to examine strategies for recovering damages for employees. The panel discussed a range of topics designed to lay the foundation for presenting and winning damage awards, including proving emotional distress/mental anguish damages at trial, the pros and cons of using experts to prove damages, and how to present the issue of damages to a judge or jury.
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// Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library)
// QuickBook Example

// Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Barend Gehrels, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

// Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License,
// Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

//[interior_type
//`Shows how to use the interior_type metafunction

#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/polygon.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/ring.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/adapted/boost_array.hpp>

BOOST_GEOMETRY_REGISTER_BOOST_ARRAY_CS(cs::cartesian)

int main()
{
    // Define a polygon storing points in a deque and storing interior rings
    // in a list (note that std::list is not supported by most algorithms
    // because not supporting a random access iterator)
    typedef boost::geometry::model::polygon
        <
            boost::array<short, 3>,
            true, true,
            std::deque, std::list
        > polygon;

    std::cout << typeid(boost::geometry::interior_type<polygon>::type).name() << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

//]

//[interior_type_output
/*`
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class std::list<class boost::geometry::model::ring<class boost::array<short,3>,1,1,class std::deque,class std::allocator>,class std::allocator<...> > >
]
*/
//]

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Kingston Wins National Commuter Challenge
Published on: 2019/06/17 - in News by Robert John
The City of Kingston announced today that we had the highest percentage of Commuter Challenge participants in Canada in the medium-sized city category.
Additionally, Kingston also had the second highest number of participants in the entire country after Winnipeg, Manitoba, which has six times the population of Kingston.
The Commuter Challenge is a competition held each year during the first week of June, challenging participants to walk, bike, bus, roll, tele-commute or carpool to work instead of using their personal vehicles.
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Kingston had the highest percentage of Commuter Challenge participants in Canada for our size, and the second highest number of participants in the entire country after Winnipeg, Man. – a city with over six times Kingston's population.
"I am amazed at how the community came together to accomplish this incredible feat," said Mayor Bryan Paterson in a release.
Mayor Paterson entered into a friendly wager with Thunder Bay's Mayor Bill Mauro early on in the event, agreeing on a wager on which city would take the crown this year – Thunder Bay having broken Kingston's five-year run as champ last year, when they were named as the medium-sized city with the highest percentage of participants.
Mayor Paterson will now be sending a Kingston flag and t-shirt to Mayor Mauro, who will wear the t-shirt and fly the flag to honour their bet.
#YGK FTW! We've reclaimed our title! Thank you Mayor Mauro for accepting the challenge. At the end of the day, this friendly competition was about getting people involved. I think the numbers speak for themselves – both cities had incredible participation rates! @CityThunderBay https://t.co/EtAF5NdxSP
— Bryan Paterson (@MayorPaterson) June 17, 2019
"I think the friendly competition with Thunder Bay helped to motivate us. Both cities pushed until the very end, and I think we showcased the difference smaller cities can make when we dedicate ourselves," said Mayor Paterson.
"Our competitive nature isn't the only factor driving participation," he added. "I believe a lot of residents are increasingly concerned for the environment and looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint. For a lot of Kingstonians, commuting is a great way to make a personal impact."
In all, 1,572 Kingston residents registered to participate, including 96 workplaces, and emissions avoided in this year's challenge by Kingstonians totalled 19,211 kg – the equivalent to taking four cars off the road for an entire year.
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35 PERCENT OF CANADIAN COVID PATIENTS SURVEYED WORRIED THEY MIGHT DIE: LEGER POLL
By Jane Brown
An online poll of Canadians who've had COVID-19 reveals the fear and anxiety that comes with contracting the new coronavirus.
A survey was conducted by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies over six months through November 29th of 300 respondents who identified themselves as having caught COVID-19 and reflects their experiences.
Among those, more than one in three (35 percent) indicated that they worried that they might die from the illness.
This result roughly aligns with the 43 per cent who said they got very sick from COVID-19 and 27 percent who said it was like no illness they'd ever had.
Nearly half of respondents reported feeling very sick and 16 per cent felt only somewhat sick, while 27 per cent did not feel very sick. Fourteen per cent reported not having any symptoms at all.


I'm going to teach you the right way to make fruit salad.
Imma 'bout to get real bossy. Yeah, you're not surprised.
Before I start telling you about how perfectly sweet and tart this chopped fresh fruit salad is, I need you to remember something your parents used to say to you: Don't do as I do, do as I say.
Because I screwed up. And I don't want you to screw up, too.
I made this recipe twice. The first time was to taste test. It turned out perfectly. The second time was for pictures and I got a little crazy and chopped the strawberries way too small. I was showing off. (Yes, the cats were very impressed.) I was practically mincing them – don't do that. See *Note below.
*Note: be careful chopping your strawberries, bananas, and kiwi. If you chop them too small, they will start to fall apart when the lime is added. I found this out the hard way. This is why in my pictures you can't really see a lot of strawberries, they were turning into strawberry juice. Tasty, yes. Pretty, no.
What makes this fruit salad especially awesome?
You know what it's like to eat fruit salad, don't you? You take a bite of apple. Then you take a bite of banana. Then you take a bite of strawberry…and on and on. BORING.
What if you could eat all of the different fruits in the same bite? I just blew your fruity mind.
The key to this fruit salad (and what makes it different from all the other fruit salads) is the way the fruit is chopped into teeny tiny pieces of fruit jewels. This is how you get to taste them all in the same spoonful. Is this crazy, or what?? It's like a wild fruit party! Okay, maybe I haven't been to too many parties lately (me=loser) but in my world of food, this is exciting stuff.
You could use any fruit you want and you could leave out the sugar or honey. I tried it this way and didn't really miss it. The lime adds just a touch of tartness to this sweet fruit salad.
How about pairing this fruit salad with Breakfast Muffins with Sausage, Cheddar & Green Onions? It would be like breakfast's own dessert!
This chopped fruit salad would actually be perfect for dessert. Especially if you're wanting to stay away from more caloric types like cake, cookies, and pie. I've made this fruit salad when I've been on a sugar-free diet and I omitted the sugar/honey option.
Make sure all fruit is evenly chopped into small pieces. Note: be sure not to cut your strawberries, bananas, and kiwi to small (no mincing or dicing) or they will start to turn to mush.
Combine all chopped fruit into a medium size bowl. Add fresh squeezed lime juice.
Add sugar or honey, if desired.
Lightly stir to combine and serve at room temperature or chilled.


We went to one day of this third Test of the 2005 Ashes series. We went the day it rained. At the time, we lived a couple of stops away on the tram, so we just waited at home until we knew when play was due to start and then headed out. We will never forget what it was like when we arrived.
Play only started at 3pm, but because this series was shaping up well, every single spectator had turned up at 10.30am and waited patiently. We say 'patiently' but perhaps 'thirstily' would be more accurate. It was abundantly clear that everyone was leathered.
People were playing impromptu games of cricket in front of the beer tent even though there were puddles everywhere and hardly anyone could stand up. When the players did come out, it was a weird atmosphere where everyone was ferociously committed to appreciating every minute, largely through shouting at Jason Gillespie.
It was a good job they enjoyed abusing poor Dizzy, because the cricket itself was mostly just Shane Warne scything fours into the offside. As soon as they'd played enough that we couldn't get a full refund, the players went off again, even though the weather hadn't deteriorated one bit.
The magnificent final day began with thousands of people locked out of Old Trafford and ended with England needing one wicket off the final ball. They didn't get that wicket and Australia rejoiced.
"Look at them celebrating a draw," said Michael Vaughan.
I thought we'd blown it after we drew this test………ever the pessimist.
i watched the highlights of the last day of this in a sports bar in edinburgh.
i was with a friend and we were nail-biting and jumping up and down all the way through.
when it ended he confessed that he already knew it had been a draw and he was pretending for me.
it was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for anyone ever.
As this match finished on a Monday I was in theatre, with me anaesthetising for my friend Jane (a surgeon).
We were lucky that we were in the one theatre where the Radio 4 reception was ok.
Daisy and I had booked a day's leave on that Monday (as we are wont to do for Day 5s).
We did some comparatively forgettable things earlier in the day, in between picking up the radio commentary, and then hunkered down to watch the last 40 overs or so of the match.
Daisy is more optimistic than me and was convinced that England were on top in the series and would stay on top.
"You don't understand", I said, "we have to win to get the Ashes, a drawn series is no good to us. That was our chance and we've blown it".
Oh Jo, if only you had been doing a vasectomy.
i feel that i should point out at this point, i had a spare ticket for the day after the day it rained, i politely offered it to king cricket… who informed me at about 9am that he was far too hung over to attend… i sold the ticket at face value, i later found out that i could have got something close to 5 times that amount for it.. it was however a good day, except my mate stan was a bit 'round shy'. i think we went for a curry afterwards, and then missed the last train home.


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Q: C Unexpected string returned from function behaviour I am quite new to C and I am playing with some string operations. I have encountered quite a strange problem for me while returning a string from a function. My simple program is as follows:
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    char text[] = "abAB";

    char* out = testString(text);

    printf("Result Text: %s", out);
    printf("\n");
}

char* testString(char* input) {
    char* text = copyString(input);

    return text;
}

The copyString function defines a simple operation to copy one string to another. It is as follows:
char* copyString(char* input) {
    char output[100];

    int index = 0;
    while (input[index] != '\0') {
        output[index] = input[index];
        index++;
    }

    output[index] = '\0';

    return output;
}

The problem is that while I am debugging the application, the string I am returning from a function seems to be OK (Visual Studio visualises it well enough) and when the printf line occurs, the string outputted on the stdout is something completely strange and unfamiliar - a smily face. Sadly, I can't post images yet in order to show you what I see in my console as output.
I am using Visual C++ Express 2010 as an IDE if this could be helpful.

A: You are returning a variable declared within a function, which will cease to exist outside the scope in which it is declared. Use a dynamically allocated char array and then return a pointer to it.
char* output = malloc(100 * sizeof(char));
...
return output ;

Note : You are assuming that input string is less than 100 characters. Instead of that, try passing the length of string as a parameter or use strlen. Your program will crash if input string has more than 99 characters.
Also as noted in comments, free the memory allocated when you are done using it.

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Xbox One smashes 1 million launch day sales mark
By Damon Poeter published 25 November 13
Microsoft sold more than one million Xbox One consoles in the first 24 hours of availability for the next-generation game console, the company has said.
"We are humbled and grateful for the excitement of Xbox fans around the world," Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of marketing and strategy for Microsoft's Xbox, said in a blog post. "Seeing thousands of excited fans lined up to get their Xbox One and their love for gaming was truly a special moment for everyone on the Xbox team. We are working hard to create more Xbox One consoles and look forward to fulfilling holiday gift wishes this season."
Microsoft called the general release of the Xbox One in 13 worldwide markets the "biggest launch in Xbox history."
The company said the console was sold out "at most retailers," but promised it was "working to replenish stock as fast as possible to meet the unprecedented demand from our customers."
Microsoft also offered some eye-opening stats which gamers have generated in less than 24 hours on some titles available at the launch of the eighth-generation gaming platform, which ties into the company's Xbox Live network:
So far, according to the company, Xbox One users have:
Killed more than 60 million zombies in Dead Rising 3
Driven more than 3.6 million miles in Forza Motorsport 5
Completed more than 7.1 million combos in Killer Instinct
Defeated more than 8.5 million enemies in Ryse: Son of Rome
Earned more than 43.3 million Fit Points in Xbox Fitness
At launch, there were 22 titles available for the Xbox One, including 10 exclusive games. The system also serves as a one-stop entertainment, web browsing, and social media hub for the living room, providing access to Skype, live TV, music, games, and more. Users can also use the bundled in Kinect 2.0 sensor to interact with the Xbox One using gestures, movement, and voice commands.
Microsoft launched its new console with several rollicking street parties in cities around the world, including one London's Leicester Square which ITProPortal attended.
Microsoft also held Xbox One launch parties in New Zealand, Sydney, New York, and Los Angeles.
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The Lost Decade of Planetary Science
"I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does.
I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does." - Pete Conrad
One of the many reasons I enjoy writing about space so much on Astronomical Returns is that there's an incredibly diverse array of space-related subfields, so I never run out of topics to explore. Since I work at SpaceX's Finance department, space finance has become my favorite and most unique specialty, but way back when I was a kid, one subject piqued my interest above all else: planetary science! The reason for this was quite simple - it's the easiest space topic for a 5 year old to grasp. Rocket science is too hard, theoretical physics and cosmology are too abstract, space history is too esoteric, etc. But learning about the solar system came naturally to me; after all, any kid with unfettered imagination and half a brain can admire the incredible photos we have of the planets, moons, and asteroids!
I suppose it's my good fortune then that I was born in the 1990s and grew up in the 2000s, a period of relative resurgence for NASA's planetary science programs. Had I grown up two decades prior, perhaps my interests would've been shaped differently, because the 1980s were unequivocally the lost decade of planetary science. In fact, between 1978 and 1989, the US didn't launch a single planetary mission. What happened??
Pathfinder and Sojourner hold a special place in my heart because they launched in 1996, the year I was born.
Perhaps my niece Isabelle, born in the year 2020, will grow up to have a special affinity for Perseverance and Ingenuity.
When the Space Race began, Congress and NASA were laser focused on putting a man on the moon, but fortunately they still had the foresight to recognize that rapid developments in rocketry would also enable robotic expeditions across the solar system, and they allocated funding accordingly. With generous grants, NASA was able to attract scientists from other fields like geology and chemistry and offered them the chance to launch their instruments to space. Perhaps most crucially, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which had been founded through Caltech back in 1936, was transferred from the Army to NASA when NASA was established in 1958. Almost immediately, the scientific community at JPL proved themselves to be the springboard of US planetary exploration: the Mariner probes built at JPL in the 1960s and 70s became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, Mars, and Mercury, followed soon after by the Viking landers which reached the surface of Mars, as well as the Voyager probes that flew by Uranus and Neptune and have since left our solar system! The Golden Age of planetary science seemed at hand!
The entrance to JPL in 1957, just before NASA was created
But as the 1970s progressed and the Apollo Program ended, it became clear that NASA's budget was facing major cutbacks, and once Ronald Reagan was swept into office in 1981, small government and fiscal discipline became the rallying cry of the new administration. NASA had three priorities at the start of the 1980s: 1) complete the Space Shuttle, 2) maintain a solar system exploration program, and 3) conduct advanced aeronautical and other scientific research. Despite adamant protests from NASA officials, Congress' draconian budget proposal would have left NASA with no choice but to shut down one of these three programs. Axing the Space Shuttle was a non-starter even in the face of rapidly mounting costs due to its importance for both human spaceflight and national security, so solar system exploration was left to compete with other scientific fields like astronomy and astrophysics. All of a sudden, proposals like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter, a flyby of Halley's comet, and a Venusian radar-mapping mission were all on the chopping block, and NASA was seriously contemplating divesting itself entirely from JPL. Consider this excerpt from NASA Administrator James Beggs:
"It is our judgment that in terms of scientific priority [planetary exploration] ranks below space astronomy and astrophysics... it is ultimately better for future planetary exploration to concentrate on developing the Shuttle capabilities rather than attempt to run a "subcritical" planetary program given the current financial restrictions we face. Of course, elimination of the planetary exploration program would make the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California surplus to our needs"
Many scientists at NASA fought tooth and nail for a mission to Halley's Comet but ultimately couldn't get funding.
Instead, the European Space Agency sent the Giotto spacecraft in 1986
With the moribund state of planetary exploration becoming undeniably apparent, a herculean effort on behalf of both the scientific community and grassroots space fans arose to find powerful allies who could save the program. The newly founded Planetary Society saw its ranks grow immensely as members began reaching out to their Congressmen. Caltech in particular was outspoken in their support, given that they manage JPL. In one letter, Caltech trustee Arnold Beckman wrote to a senior Reagan Administration official that the budget cuts threatened to "create total chaos and rapid disintegration of a 5,000 person, \$400 million Southern California enterprise" and would be a complete calamity for Reagan and the Republican Party, especially in the President's own home state. All the political pressure gradually bore fruit, as Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker wrote President Reagan asking to restore $87 million in funding for the Galileo mission in the FY 1983 budget. Planetary science was still hanging by a thread, but it had a lifeline
Though it didn't launch until 1989 (due to delays from the Challenger disaster), Galileo successfully revived US planetary exploration
Seizing their chance to save their field, planetary scientists formed a NASA-sanctioned Solar System Exploration Committee (SSEC) and held numerous meetings to hammer out a planetary exploration program that could endure in the new political environment. During the 1960s and 70s, there was no real long-range plan for approving and funding planetary missions; instead, big flagship projects were proposed and considered ad hoc, and though missions like Viking and Voyager proved to be wildly successful, their high price tags left little funding to spare. Without no regular cadence, planetary science would always be subject to wild swings in interest and funding. Thus, the SSEC proposed the following structure: future missions would be characterized into three funding tiers: Pioneer-class (\$100 - \$150 million), Mariner-class (\$300 - \$500 million), and Viking-class (over \$1 billion), with much greater emphasis on the more cost-effective Pioneer-class missions to make budget approvals easier. To this day, this three-tiered mission categorization still exists, albeit with different monikers. And more recently, NASA and the National Academies of Sciences began publishing a decadal planetary science survey to compile the scientific community's top priorities for solar system exploration in the coming decade, so as to better evaluate future mission proposals. With structure in place, and with NASA's funding pressures somewhat alleviated once the Space Shuttle got off the ground (even in spite of the Challenger disaster), planetary science survived its lost decade and has grown into the modern program we know today
Lastly, I'm a finance guy, which means you know I like charts. These line charts by Jason Callahan at the Planetary Society, showing planetary science missions in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, really depict just how near death planetary science was in the '80s
And if you want to learn more about how planetary science nearly met its demise in the 1980s, I highly recommend this essay here by John M. Logsdon
Labels: Planetary Science, Space History
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And for this I apologize. But, I'm going to make it up to all you readers. You can look at the site now, in its beta stage, and tell me what you think. The Über-Secret Link.
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Harold G. Brekke passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at the Billings Health & Rehabilitation Community. He was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota on November 17, 1918. He grew up on the family farm in Minnesota and eventually moved to Billings Montana in 1954.
Harold was preceded in death by his two sons, Wesley and Karry aka James; and his only brother Gloris Brekke.
He is survived by his wife, Doris and children Donna Adams, Collette Layton and Vickie Hando; 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren. Cremation has taken place. At the family's request no services are planned.


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Inside the Universal-Sony battle for compilations supremacy
by Mark Sutherland
July 13th 2017	at 6:19AM
Universal returned to the top of the Compilation Albums Sales market shares in Q2, after losing its crown to Sony in the first quarter of 2017.
In a tight battle for the sector between its two giants, Universal racked up a 44.6% market share in Q2, up from 37.7% in Q1. Sony scored 36%, down from 38.9% in the previous quarter, but up substantially from Q2 2016's 28.1% (when Universal posted 39%).
The pair have been locked in close combat since Sony bought Ministry Of Sound Recordings in 2016.
"We have had some solid releases, both at mid-price and full-price which, coupled with Ministry not quite being on song, helped a bit of share in our direction," David Hawkes, managing director of Universal Music UK's commercial division, told Music Week. "But there is healthy competition there, and we expect a good fight."
The two giants share the spoils of the all-conquering Now compilation, while Universal did well in Q2 with the Guardians Of The Galaxy soundtracks and Sing Your Heart Out 2017. Ministry/Sony's biggest non-Now Q2 comp was I Love Reggae and Peter Leggatt, Sony Music Entertainment UK VP of sales and business development, predicts that album signals a Sony fightback is on for Q3.
"In the last couple of weeks, I Love Reggae has been doing very well," he told Music Week. "It's a close race in the compilations department and I expect that healthy competition to continue."
Universal also leads the half-year compilations rankings, 41.4% to Sony's 37.4%.
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The Hunter 336 is an American sailboat that was designed by Rob Mazza as coastal cruising boat and first built in 1995.

The Hunter 336 is a development of the smaller Hunter 29.5.

Production
The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Hunter 336 was designed as a larger twin cabin version of the Hunter 29.5, with a market of owners moving up from smaller sailboats. It is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop B&R rig, a slightly raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel  and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel fitted.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 3GM30F  diesel engine of . The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

Operational history
Thom Burns, writing for Northern Breezes in a 1997 review of the design praised its light air performance, making  knots in a wind of . Burns noted the sailing qualities, "The fractional rig points pretty well. We were around the high 30's to 40 degrees apparent even in the very light stuff. The power is in the main. Since the spreaders are angled aft to eliminate the backstay, vang trimming for good sail shape is essential. The main also has lazyjacks which make it easy to take the main down or reef it with only one other person aboard. Hunter has made this boat easy to handle by a couple and single handling should be easy as well." Of the interior he wrote, "Like all modern Hunters, the Hunter 336 has a light, airy look and feel. The 336 comes in two layouts to fit the boat owner's needs. The first has a large open salon with a full wrap around settee and open forward V-berth with curtains. This is designed for folks who only occasionally have sleep over guests. It is ideal for entertaining below. The second layout below offers an enclosed forward stateroom for family or friends. This second version is preferred by several charter companies. There are a fair amount of teak and ash accents below."

A 2003 review on Boats.com noted that the design is fast in light air and also praised the interior. It states, "Our performance in the day's conditions quickly erased any prior doubts I had held about the 336's unconventional rig and sailplan. In fact, by the end of our sail Bergstrom's elegant tapered, fractional spar was amongst my favorite features of the boat. Without a backstay I hypothesized that in 20-knots apparent the forestay would be sagging like a wet noodle. To my surprise however, the furler's extrusions were deflected by no more than a few inches." On the interior the writer said, "Down below the 336 has a airy and open two cabin layout. The Hunter is, as Lamia Charlebois observed, like a "condo"—perfect for entertaining or enjoying a sit-down meal with two other couples. There are so many opening windows and hatches (11 in total) that I felt for a moment, albeit brief, that I was inside a solarium and not a cabin."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Related development
Hunter 29.5
Hunter 340

Similar sailboats
Abbott 33
C&C 3/4 Ton
C&C 33
C&C 101
C&C SR 33
CS 33
Endeavour 33
Hunter 33
Hunter 33-2004
Hunter 33.5
Marlow-Hunter 33
Mirage 33
Moorings 335
Nonsuch 33
Tanzer 10
Viking 33

References

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Rob Mazza
Sailboat types built by Hunter Marine

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"""Tests for slices module."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from tensorflow.python.autograph.operators import slices
from tensorflow.python.framework import constant_op
from tensorflow.python.ops import list_ops
from tensorflow.python.platform import test

class SlicesTest(test.TestCase):

  def test_set_item_tensor_list(self):
    initial_list = constant_op.constant([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
    elem_shape = constant_op.constant([2])
    l = list_ops.tensor_list_from_tensor(initial_list, element_shape=elem_shape)
    l = slices.set_item(l, 0, [5, 6])

    with self.cached_session() as sess:
      t = list_ops.tensor_list_stack(l, element_dtype=initial_list.dtype)
      self.assertAllEqual(sess.run(t), [[5, 6], [3, 4]])

  def test_get_item_tensor_list(self):
    initial_list = constant_op.constant([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
    elem_shape = constant_op.constant([2])
    l = list_ops.tensor_list_from_tensor(initial_list, element_shape=elem_shape)
    t = slices.get_item(
        l, 1, slices.GetItemOpts(element_dtype=initial_list.dtype))

    with self.cached_session() as sess:
      self.assertAllEqual(sess.run(t), [3, 4])

  def test_get_item_tensor_string(self):
    initial_str = constant_op.constant('abcd')
    t = slices.get_item(initial_str, 1,
                        slices.GetItemOpts(element_dtype=initial_str.dtype))

    with self.test_session() as sess:
      self.assertEqual(sess.run(t), b'b')

    initial_list_str = constant_op.constant(['abcd', 'bcde'])
    t = slices.get_item(initial_list_str, 1,
                        slices.GetItemOpts(element_dtype=initial_str.dtype))

    with self.test_session() as sess:
      self.assertEqual(sess.run(t), b'bcde')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  test.main()


Discussion in 'Reviews' started by Fuse Man, Aug 15, 2018.
As far as the YouTube link, I believe Google made an error and its very common on YouTube. The link works fine.
You have a nice blog, clean and proper way you made it.
Seems like you don't have description meta tags and ALT attributes. These are must-haves. I'd also recommend making your website faster and adding more content.
Thanks for taking a look at my site. I've recently added Yoast to my site, and writing descriptions for my articles.
How am I lacking content? My site has over 500 articles and counting. How much content should a site have?
What I meant is some of your pages have low text/HTML ratio. In other words, you should add some text content to them, maybe you can extend your reviews etc.


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The Delhi Metro is touting the magenta line as a 'knowledge corridor' as four major universities of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) have now been put on the mass transit network map.
New Delhi: A new metro corridor running along the outer ring road through prominent south Delhi neighbourhoods opens on Tuesday and is expected to bring Delhi's satellite hubs, Noida and Gurugram, closer to each other. The new magenta line will also finally take the metro to the domestic terminal-1 of the IGI airport.
The circular line running from Janakpuri West to Kalkaji and up to Noida, passing via Vasant Vihar, Chirag Delhi and Greater Kailash, is expected to cut down travel time between Noida and Gurugram to under an hour.
The roughly 25 km long section comprises of 16 stations, including interchanges at Hauz Khas (with yellow line) and Janakpuri West (with blue line), along with the existing interchange near the eastern suburbs at Kalkaji (with violet line). With the opening of the new line, Hauz Khas would emerge as a vital hub and is expected to reduce the need for passengers to come all the way up to the heart of Delhi at Rajiv Chowk station in order to interchange.
The new station at Hauz Khas would also be one of India's deepest metro stations with a depth of 29 mt below the ground, or roughly five storeys underground.
Inaugurating the new magenta line stretch, minister for housing and urban affairs Hardeep S. Puri said: "Delhi Metro now has a network spanning 277 km. By December of this year, it will reach the 380 km mark [with the completion of the ongoing phase-III expansion]."
He added that further phases are under consideration. "The metro will soon reach even the rural belts on the outskirts of Delhi. We will give the phase-IV expansion a go ahead soon in cooperation with the Delhi government," Puri said.
Once phase-IV work begins, Delhi's metro network would go beyond 400 km, taking it past the London Underground.
The Delhi Metro is also touting the magenta line as a 'Knowledge Corridor' as four major universities of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) have now been put on the mass transit network map.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi are the institutions which will get metro connectivity with the opening of the new corridor.


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Honeywell modernizes Russian ammonia plant
December 11, 2015 - Honeywell Process Solutions upgraded the controls and safety system at TogliattiAzot's production site in Tolyatti, Russia. The project was a part of a framework agreement that will see Honeywell automate all production facilities for TogliattiAzot, the world's largest ammonia producer.
Honeywell replaced the existing pneumatic control system at Ammonia Plant No. 6 with the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) based on C300 and Safety Manager controls. Honeywell also implemented a new control and measurement system, supported by SmartLine pressure and temperature transmitters. The upgrade helped the plant to increase reliability, improve safety and boost productivity.
"Our collaboration with TogliattiAzot started in 1993, when Honeywell automated ammonia unit AM-76 and used the most, at that time, advanced automation system. It`s great to see our technologies helping the world's largest ammonia manufacturer increase reliability and productivity of its facilities while optimizing operating costs," said Alexander Rodionov, HPS Sales leader for Russia. "TogliattiAzot's commitment to technological excellence will help to ensure it remains a leader in its field for decades to come."
The upgrade was a part of a major technological modernization program for the chemical manufacturer. Honeywell has already finished the other phase of development for Plant No.6 – a training simulator for operators to learn and familiarize themselves with the Experion PKS control system, reducing training times and the risk of errors. Development of an Advanced Process Control (APC) system for the facility was also carried out.
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Q: iOS: button in UITableViewCell class to call method on main UIViewController I have a UITableView on my MainViewController which has custom UITableCells defined in a CustomCell class. I need an UIButton, which is in my CustomCell class, to call a method in MainViewController. I cannot create a new instance of MainViewController because the method uses some variables which would all be in the default state if I created a new instance. What do I do??
This is my code:
MainViewController.m (this is the method I want called):
-(void)updateLabels{
   double totalValue=0, personValue=0;
    [self returnTickArray];
    for(NSInteger i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        totalValue += ([[[self returnPricesArray] objectAtIndex:i] doubleValue] * [[[self returnQtyArray] objectAtIndex:i]doubleValue]);
        if([[[self returnPeopleArray] objectAtIndex:i]doubleValue]>0) personValue += ([[[self returnPricesArray] objectAtIndex:i] doubleValue] * [[[self returnQtyArray] objectAtIndex:i]doubleValue]/ [[[self returnPeopleArray] objectAtIndex:i]doubleValue] * [[[self returnTickArray] objectAtIndex:i]doubleValue]);
    }
    _totalValue.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"$ %.02lf", totalValue];
    _tip.text= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"$ %.02lf", totalValue*(([_tipPercentage.text doubleValue]/100))];
    _addedValue.text= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"$ %.02lf",([[_tip.text substringFromIndex:2] doubleValue]+totalValue) ];
    _perPerson.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"$ %.02lf", personValue];
}

This is the method in CustomCell.m which gets called when I press the button:
- (IBAction)tick:(UIButton *)sender {

    if ([sender isSelected]) {
        [sender setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"off"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [sender setSelected:NO];
        _isTicked = [NSNumber numberWithInt:0];
    }
    else {
        [sender setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"on"] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
        [sender setSelected:YES];
        _isTicked = [NSNumber numberWithInt:1];
    }

}

A: you can assign a method from your controller to a button from UITableView in your - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath  method
[cell.yourButton addTarget:self action:@selector(updateLabels) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

(just don't forget to add IBOutlet of your button to your custom cell class)

A: Handling changes, actions, or user interaction in other views is the essential use case of delegates.  The best practice is to have the MainViewController be the delegate of the CustomCell, and then as events happen in the cell (i.e., tick is called), it calls certain methods on its delegate to notify it and the delegate then calls updateLabels.
Other options for keeping values/state in sync between views are:

*

*Core Data - best used for data

*Key-Value Observation - best used for data

*NSNotifications sent through NSNotificationCenter - best used for actions

A: interesting :)
You need to use [UIApplication sharedApplication] singleton to process this.
Here are few steps:
Create object of MainViewController In you AppDelegate class:
in AppDelegate.h import MainViewController.h
@interface AppDelegate
{
    MainViewController *mvc;
}
@property (strong) MainViewController *mvc;

in MainViewController.m
@implementation AppDelegate

@synthesize mvc =_mvc

Now come to your CustomCell.m
- (IBAction)tick:(UIButton *)sender {

    [[(AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] hvc] tick:sender];
}

Here you are seeing a method is called- tick_fromCell:. Now you have to define this method in your MainViewController class' .h ans .m files.
in MainViewController.h
-(void)tick:(id)sender;

and in MainViewController.m
-(void)tick:(id)sender {

    NSLog("Clicking from my CustomCell :)");// Here you will put updateLabels method
    [self updateLabels];
}