A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic mental illness and linked to a hotspot of genetic variation.
An extensive series of experiments suggest that selectively inhibiting this suspect form could help correct disorganized brain activity in schizophrenia - without risk of cardiac side effects associated with some existing antipsychotic medications. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and European colleagues report on threads of converging evidence in the May, 2009 issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
"The end game in linking genes with complex disorders like schizophrenia requires that we not only demonstrate statistical association, but also show how a gene version acts biologically to confer risk," explained Daniel Weinberger, M.D., director of National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program, who led the research. "We found schizophrenia-like effects in brain circuitry and mental processing in perfectly healthy people who carry the risk-associated version of this potassium channel gene, even though they don't show any psychotic behavior."
Evidence suggests that schizophrenia stems from complex interactions between multiple genes and environmental factors. Several candidate genes have recently been statistically linked to the illness in large genome-wide association studies.
"Our study goes further, spanning discovery of a new gene variant, confirmation of its association with the illness, and multi-level probes into how it works - in human post mortem brain tissue, the living human brain, and neurons," added Weinberger.
By regulating the flow of potassium ions into the cell, potassium channels control when neurons fire - electrically discharge and release a chemical messenger that signals neighboring neurons in a circuit. This flow is regulated, in part, by activity of the chemical messenger dopamine, the main target of antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia.
One type of potassium channel, called KCNH2, attracted the researchers' interest for its potential role in sustaining the type of neuronal firing that supports the higher mental functions disturbed in schizophrenia. Spurred by hints from postmortem studies of genetic variation linked to schizophrenia in the genomic neighborhood of KCNH2, the researchers analyzed the gene's association with the illness in 5 independent samples comprising hundreds of families. This pinpointed 4 variations associated with schizophrenia within a small region of the KCNH2 gene.
"Yet this statistical association didn't imply a mechanism," said Weinberger. "It didn't explain how KCNH2 might increase risk for schizophrenia. So we went back to the post-mortem brain tissue in search of an answer."
It was only then that the researchers discovered a previously unknown version of KCNH2, called Isoform 3.1, that soared to levels 2.5 times higher-than-normal in the hippocampus (memory hub) of people who had schizophrenia - especially those with the risk-associated variations. Isoform 3.1 was also higher-than-normal in healthy individuals who carried the risk-associated variations. This signaled the existence of a risk-associated version of the KCNH2 gene.
Performed significantly worse-than-normal on measures of IQ and mental processing speed. Previous studies have linked similar performance with genetic risk for schizophrenia.
Inefficiently processed memory in the hippocampus and working memory in the prefrontal cortex, as revealed by functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans. Although they performed similarly to controls on these tasks, their brains had to work harder to compensate for disordered tuning of circuitry - a phenomenon previously implicated in schizophrenia.
Showed significantly decreased volume in the hippocampus - a heritable trait - in anatomical MRI scans.
Showed levels 1,000 times lower in the heart than the other main form of KCNH2 and does not exist in lower animals, suggesting that it has evolved a unique role in the primate brain. Mutant forms of KCNH2 in the heart can lead to arrhythmias and even sudden death - a rare risk of taking antipsychotic medications, many of which interact with KCNH2. So targeting this brain-specific form potentially opens the way to development of new treatments free of such cardiac side-effects.
Dramatically changed activity in rodent brains toward a neuronal firing pattern that may be important for thinking and memory tasks unique to primates.
Is expressed much more prior to birth, compared to the other main form of KCNH2, suggesting that it plays a prominent role in the early stages of brain development.
Is associated with a hotspot of variation in an area that controls gene expression, hinting that the suspect variations may contribute to schizophrenia risk by over-expressing Isoform 3.1.
Even though it is normally important for our higher order executive functioning, such over expression of Isoform 3.1 in schizophrenia could result in "abnormally increased neuronal excitability, runaway circuit activity and inefficient information processing," suggested Stephen Huffaker, Ph.D., the article's lead author, now a medical student at Harvard. The researchers propose that a treatment designed to inhibit just Isoform 3.1, might spare any heart-related side effects while improving the disorganized neural firing characteristic of the brain in schizophrenia.
In addition to the NIMH, researchers from the NIH's National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) also participated in the research.
A primate-specific, brain isoform of KCNH2 affects cortical physiology, cognition, neuronal repolarization and risk of schizophrenia. Huffaker SJ, Chen J, Nicodemus KK, Sambataro F, Yang F, Mattay V, Lipska BK, Hyde TM, Song J, Rujescu D, Giegling I, Mayilyan K, Proust MJ, Soghoyan A, Caforio G, Callicott JH, Bertolino A, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Chang J, Ji Y, Egan MF, Goldberg TE, Kleinman JE, Lu B, Weinberger DR.Nat Med. 2009 May 3.


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IPL 2019 team review: Rajasthan Royals marred by stuttering campaign
The emergence of 17-year-old Riyan Parag and resurgence of Shreyas Gopal are the only two positives to write home about for Rajasthan Royals.
Rajasthan Royals, with a change of colours to go with the nickname of the city the franchise is based out of, had one of the most exciting array of talent at their disposal at the start of IPL 2019 in Jos Buttler, a returning Steve Smith, Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer, yet with just one win in their first six matches, RR found themselves behind the eight-ball early and never really recovered.
The departures of Buttler, Stokes and Archer further dented them, especially with lack of form of Stokes and a fickle pace bowling departement.
IPL 2019 record: P 14 W 5 L 8 BR 1 Pts 11 NRR -0.449
That Rajasthan managed to string together two wins in a row in all their 14 matches at the fag end of the tournament was the high point for the team, but that came a bit too late for them in the tournament. A three-wicket win over Kolkata Knight and seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad did keep the team alive for the race for the playoffs till the last week, but they never really threatened to make a comeback. In both the games, it was a complete batting effort that saw them over the line, with Parag showing a good account of himself against KKR with Archer providing the finishing touches; while against SRH, the top-order fired in unison to negate the tournament's best bowling attack.
Low point
Three losses at home in four matches after RR had managed to get some momentum going their way brought the curtains down for the team. Ajinkya Rahane, the skipper, failed to inspire as a leader and was sacked from his position with Smith taking over the role and he managed to rallied the troops. Rahane has had little going in his favour as captain, but with the management reluctant to hand over the reins to the Australian who was coming back to the IPL fold after missing out last season due to the ball-tampering scandal, they missed the trick to utilise Smith's tactical prowess, which was far superior than that of Rahane.
KKR steamrolled RR at home with an eight-wicket win and 37 balls remaining before a last-ball six from Mitchell Santner helped CSK take two point. Then, after a well-fought win over Mumbai Indians, RR failed to defend a very good total of 191 against Delhi Capitals.
Captaincy verdict
While Rahane the batsman did his best at the top of the order in his seven matches as a skipper with scores of 27, 70, 0, 22, 5, 37, 26, he failed to lead his team to substantial success. While it will be harsh to blame him for the under performance of the big players, tactically, Rahane was a bit off. Smith took over and RR managed to do a tad better with four wins in the next six games and surprisingly, Smith's bat also started to do the talking after being appointed captain. Rahane should never have been the captain to start off with, and the reluctance of the management to not hand Smith the opportunity to lead was the probably the biggest miss for RR this season.
Most valuable player
Undoubtedly leg-spinner Gopal was the standout performer for RR with 20 wickets at an average of 17.35 and economy of 7.22. He took a hat-trick this season against Royal Challengers Bangalore including the scalps of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Marcus Stoinis and had Kohli and de Villiers number twice this season. But, lack of support from other bowlers did not help the team in maximising the efforts of Gopal in the middle-overs.
Major disappointment
Ben Stokes played nine matches in the tournament and the only worthwhile thing to remember of the England allrounder was a spectacular diving catch he took at backward point to remove Chennai Super Kings' Kedar Jadhav. He managed to score just 123 runs at n average of 20.50 while gave away runs at 31.50, returning with just six wickets.
Another disappointment, only from the point of view of the amount of money shelled out at the IPL 2019 auction was Jaydev Unadkat, who despite being the premier bowler for RR, went at an economy of 10.66. Unadkat was under fire and was even dropped from the team, but the kind of social media beating he has taken has been solely unwarranted for and unfair.
A season to forget for RR, especially after they made it to the playoffs last season. They had a bad start, losing their first three games, and did not play as good as they had been at their home of Sawai Mansingh stadium, losing four of their seven matches there. Despite all this, they were in the hunt for the playoff till the last game against Delhi, in which they failed to turn up, really summed up their IPL 2019 campaign.
Most runs: Ajinkya Rahane – 393 at 32.75, strike-rate 137.89, one hundred, one fifty
Most wickets: Shreyas Gopal – 20 at 17.35, economy 7.22, strike-rate 14.4, BB 3/12
Highest individual score: Ajinkya Rahane – 105* vs DC, Jaipur
Best bowling in an innings: Shreyas Gopal – 3/12 vs RCB, Jaipur
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Don't miss: Moon Occultation – Mars disappears
The Moon sometimes moves in front of all the solar planets, including Mars. Credit: Sergio Scauso
What are some skywatching highlights in December 2012? The moon has come to pass
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth from the sun. It is a gas giant with a greater mass then all the other planets combined. The Roman name comes from the god Jupiter.
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What I expect in December 2022 : Mars disappears, and Pegasus is strong. Viewers in most of the US and Europe can watch Mars pass behind the Moon on December 7, and everyone can find the winged horse in the constellation Pegasus.
December 1 – This evening we look at the south, so that we can detect the Moon only two inches wide apart from the brightest planet Jupiter.
December 7 – He will return on the day of the full moon
December 7 – Mars hides, or covers, the moon at night. In the US, Mars slips behind the Moon for viewers everywhere outside the East Coast and the South, where the Moon barely passes Mars. Stop your favorite app or site from being untimely removed and reflected on Tuesday.
December 23 – new moon
December 25-31 – Check the moon and planets at the end of the year. Watch in the evening as the full moon slips into the day
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and has the second-largest mass in the Solar System. It has a much lower density than the earth, but it has a much larger volume. Saturn is named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture.
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All month – Find the constellation Pegasus high in the south-southwest after dark. Look for bright Jupiter and find the Great Square of Pegasus about 15 degrees above it.
Lunar occultation of Mars. Credit: Andrés Jobacho
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What's Up for December? Your evening planet highlights, including the disappearance of Mars, and the constellation Pegasus.
The month begins and ends with the Moon visiting the giant planets. On December 1st, find the Moon just a couple of finger-widths apart from Jupiter in the evening sky. Then, from the 25th to the 31st, look to the southwest following sunset to see an increasingly full Moon slip past Saturn and then again past Jupiter. Viewers with a clear view to the horizon will be able to search for
December 7 brings one of those magical moments when the sky changes dramatically before your very eyes. It's called a lunar occultation, as the Moon passes in front of, or occults, the Red Planet, Mars. The spectacle will be visible in parts of North America, Europe, and Northern Africa. (Viewers in the Southeast and on the East Coast will see the Moon just graze past Mars.) For viewers in the U.S., Mars disappears behind the Moon sometime between about 6:30 and 9 p.m., depending on your location, so check your favorite skywatching app to find the time for your area.
Now, the Moon passes in front of planets in the night sky several times per year. In fact, it generally occults Mars itself at least a couple of times per year. But each occultation is visible from only a small portion of Earth's surface, so it's not super common for any particular spot on Earth to see them frequently.
Of course, the Moon passes in front of stars all the time. If you're watching through binoculars, they just blink right out. But planets are not just points of light like stars – they appear as circular little disks, so planets actually take several seconds to disappear and later reemerge. So if you're in the viewing zone, enjoy this relatively rare opportunity to watch a bright planet being occulted by the Moon.
Looking high in the southwest sky on December evenings, you can find a constellation named for one of the more fantastical beasts of ancient mythology. That's Pegasus, the winged horse. In Greek myth, Pegasus rode into adventures with the hero Belaraphon, and later carried the thunderbolts of Zeus himself, who rewarded him by placing him among the stars.
Pegasus is one of the largest of the 88 constellations. Its most prominent feature, and the key to finding it in the sky, is this asterism, or pattern of stars, called the Great Square. These four stars of roughly equal brightness form the central part of the horse's body.
This December, it's easy to locate Pegasus, thanks to brilliant Jupiter. Face southward to find the giant planet about halfway up the sky, with the Great Square beginning about 15 degrees to the north of it.
Pegasus is a useful constellation for stargazers, as it's a good starting place for finding your way to other features in the night sky. The constellation itself contains a number of dazzling deep-sky objects, including globular cluster M15, and the tangled galaxies of Stephan's Quintet. With this year drawing to a close, here's hoping you seek out the winged stallion Pegasus, as you ponder what new adventures await in the next year.
Here are the phases of the Moon for December.
The phases of the Moon for December 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Wyoming's Chancey Williams Releases Fun New Country Music Single "Hideaway"
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Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band are Wyoming favorites.
From their song "The World Needs More Cowboys" which has become the unofficial state song, to their latest award-winning album "3rd Street" ...Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band are greeted with smiles and cheers anywhere they go in our state.
A Chancey Williams concert is sure to be a good time, and my husband knows when we're going where they're playing, he better be prepared to swing dance the night away.
That's why I was so excited when I saw they were releasing a new song just in time for the last month of Summer.
His new song "Hideaway" is a mellow song with Western roots and a bit of an island vibe. It features Chancey singing about running away with his lover and finding a little hideaway.
Find a little hideaway, and hide away, and find a way to stay gone...Baby you and me might never come back to reality. We'll just run away.
In the video, he and the band are having a blast playing out on the water. I can imagine everyone here in Central Wyoming out at Alcova reservoir with this song turned up as loud as they can doing the exact same thing.
Chancey will be back in Wyoming to open for Dierks Bentley at Cheyenne Frontier Days on July 23, which is sure to be a phenomenal concert.
You can find his entire tour schedule here and catch a peek at their behind-the-scenes adventures (and antics) by following them on social media.
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State senator could propose law to regulate burial sites
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Leak at Cullman Memory Gardens mausoleum (Frank Couch/fcouch@al.com.)
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When State Sen. Paul Bussman (R-Cullman) began receiving reports about fluid leaking from the mausoleum at Cullman Memory Gardens, he tried to find the agency in charge of cemeteries.
But he quickly found that no state agency regulates burial sites in Alabama, which left the community and the families struggling to figure out where to turn. The original owners had declared bankruptcy and left, leaving the property in the hands of a trustee.
Sen. Bussman plans to propose a bill in the legislature that will add some state oversight to the burial industry, either by granting some authority to the Alabama Department of Public Health or the Board of Funeral Service. The plan is to authorize an agency to take charge when burial sites go bankrupt, become abandoned or run into other problems.
"If you've got problems with body fluids or cadavers, these are loved ones," Sen. Bussman said. "Somebody needs to be able to come in and do something. And they can't right now."
The issue of abandoned burial sites hit the headlines earlier this week when authorities closed Memorial Mound in Bessemer after it was ransacked by trespassers. Visitors had broken into the site, opened caskets and disturbed remains. Local authorities are removing bodies from Memorial Mound today.
Joshua Slocum, executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, was not surprised to hear that Alabama has no regulations for cemeteries and burial sites. A handful of states require cemeteries to keep a trust fund for maintenance, including Tennessee, which passed a law in 2010.
But no state could serve as a model as Alabama seeks to regulate the burial industry, Slocum said.
"Most state cemetery laws are terrible," Slocum said.
He suggested that states license and oversee cemeteries, requiring annual reports on the number of burials and an escrow fund for perpetual care.
The state should require a fee for each burial for a compensation fund for consumers who pre-purchase burial sites in the event a cemetery goes out of business, Slocum said.
And finally, states should make it absolutely illegal to sell mausoleum space on speculation, Slocum said.
"So often people buy space in a mausoleum that is supposed to be built or expanded, and it never happens," Slocum said.
Slocum said he would advise all consumers to avoid prepaying for burial space or funeral services. Those deals often go sour when a cemetery changes hands or goes out of business.
Several residents of Cullman lost all the money they spent on prepaid burial services when the Memory Gardens went out of business, Sen. Bussman said.
Last year, he led the effort to require cemeteries to put that money in a trust. Before that law passed, cemeteries could spend money from pre-sold plots on anything, including operations, which would not guarantee that it would be there for the consumer if anything happened to the burial site.
The Cullman Memory Gardens currently has a manager who is maintaining the site while the trustee looks for a buyer, Sen. Bussman said. If a buyer can't be found, then he is hopeful a non-profit board could take over the site. In many cases, towns take over abandoned cemetery sites like the ones in Cullman and Bessemer.
Sen. Bussman said the responsibility shouldn't fall on cash-strapped cities. Those who accept money to bury human remains should be responsible for maintaining the dignity of the burial site.
"Somebody ought to be held accountable," he said. "When you are burying someone, you are accepting remains for the duration."


The name Ailoomb is part of the ancient legacy of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. It is a product of when the family lived in Hallam, a place name found in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. In Yorkshire, Hallam is found in the South Riding. Further research revealed that the name is derived from the Old Scandinavian word hallr, or from the Old English word hall, both of which meant "stony." The place name meant "the stony place, the place at the rocks." In Derbyshire there is a place called West Hallam and another called Kirk Hallam. These names are derived from the Old English word halh, which meant "remote nook of land." Kirk in the Old English meat "church;" the name as a whole would be "church in a remote place," while West Hallam was a "remote place in the west."
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The first dictionaries that appeared in the last few hundred years did much to standardize the English language. Before that time, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. The language was changing, incorporating pieces of other languages, and the spelling of names changed with it. Ailoomb has been spelled many different ways, including Hallam, Halam, Hallum and others.
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Thousands of English families in this era began to emigrate the New World in search of land and freedom from religious and political persecution. Although the passage was expensive and the ships were dark, crowded, and unsafe, those who made the voyage safely were rewarded with opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. Research into passenger and immigration lists has revealed some of the very first Ailoombs to arrive in North America: James Hallam who settled in Maryland in 1741; William Hallam settled in Barbados in 1680 with his servants; Thomas and William Hallam settled in Newcastle co. Del. in 1855.


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Marcel Pourbaix (16 September 1904 – 28 September 1998) was a Belgian chemist and pianist. He performed his most well known research at the University of Brussels, studying corrosion.  His biggest achievement is the derivation of potential-pH, better known as "Pourbaix Diagrams".  Pourbaix Diagrams are thermodynamic charts constructed using the Nernst equation and visualize the relationship between possible phases of a system, bounded by lines representing the reactions that transport between them.  They can be read much like a phase diagram.

In 1963, Pourbaix produced "Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria", which contains potential-pH diagrams for all elements known at the time.  Pourbaix and his collaborators began preparing the work in the early 1950s.

Early life

He was born in Myshega (Aleksin District, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire), where his father was a consultant on an engineering project.  He studied in Brussels and graduated from the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1927.

By 1938, he had devised the potential-pH diagrams. In 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, he presented to the Faculty his doctoral dissertation, accompanied by a thesis entitled "Thermodynamics of Dilute Aqueous Solutions. Graphical Representation of the Role of pH and Potential." The war and some confusion among the jury on the sign of electrode potential impeded the completion of his graduation process. However, the thesis was presented to the Technical University Delft.

Career

During the fifties and early sixties, Marcel Pourbaix and his collaborators produced potential-pH diagrams for all the elements and published the "Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria" in French in 1963 and in English in 1966. As early as in 1962, he introduced the concept of a protection potential against the propagation of localized corrosion, which he developed in 1963, in relation with the peculiar electrochemical conditions in occluded electrochemical cells. Pourbaix' doctoral thesis had a major influence on corrosion science. Ulick R. Evans found this work important and arranged for an English translation, published by Arnold (London) in 1949. In 1949, he was one of the founders of CITCE (Comite International de Thermodynamique et Cinetique Electrochimiques) together with 13 other electrochemists: C.Boute, J.Gillis, A. Julliard (Belgium), P. Delahay, P.Van Rysselberghe (USA), J.O'M.Bockris, T.P.Hoar (UK), G.Charlot, G.Valensi (France), R.Piontelli (Italy), G.Burgers (The Netherlands) and J.Heyrovsky (Czechoslovakia). CITCE was a success. In 1971 the name was changed to International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). The current membership is over 1100 with members from 59 countries. In 1951 he founded CEBELCOR, which became one of the world's first centres dedicated to the theoretical and experimental study of corrosion phenomena. In 1952 Pourbaix founded the Commission of Electrochemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and that Commission clarified in 1953 the chaotic state of affairs then prevailing in the signs of electrode potentials.

He was an international collaborator in combating corrosion, visiting and lecturing widely during his career. He contributed actively to the creation of an International Corrosion Council (ICC) with the aim of encouraging research and international cooperation in corrosion science and engineering and friendship among scientists and engineers. In 1990, The National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) created a "Marcel Pourbaix Award Student Fellowship" and the ICC created in 1996 a "Marcel Pourbaix Award for International Cooperation." He was a published author of various papers in addition to his atlas.

Pourbaix worked on the "Atlas of Chemical and Electrochemical Equilibria in the Presence of a Gas Phase," a work that covers an even wider field than the Atlas in aqueous solutions. Marcel Pourbaix was founder, honorary director and scientific adviser of CEBELCOR (Belgian Center for Corrosion Study), Professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, co-founder of CITCE, former chairman of the Commission of Electrochemistry of IUPAC (1952), of ICC (1969), member of the Advisory Committee of Electrochimica Acta (1959-1972) and of the Executive Board of Corrosion Science.

See also
 Corrosion engineering
 Electrochemistry
 Michael Faraday
 Mars Guy Fontana
 Herbert H. Uhlig
 Ulick Richardson Evans
 Melvin Romanoff

References

 Pourbaix, M., Atlas of electrochemical equilibria in aqueous solutions. 2d English ed. 1974, Houston, Tex.: National Association of Corrosion Engineers.

External links
Marcel Pourbaix (1904–1998)

Belgian chemists
1904 births
1998 deaths
Belgian expatriates in the Russian Empire


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DDD is Domain-Driven Design , it is   a methodology that include ubiquitous language, root entity , value object and   aggregations..

                    DCI: Data, Context,   Interactions is a programming paradigm invented by Trygve Reenskaug.

                    DCI keys:

                    1. keep our   core model classes very thin.

                    2. logic/behaviour should be kept in roles.

                    Event Sourcing is a natural fit for software developers that want to   capture the essence of business domains (especially the most complex ones) while   staying decoupled from platform complexity or hard performance issues.

                    Next step, we show how combine these together by a example: Here is a Robot:

  DDD tell us  a result as   below:

                    Robot is a   root Entity, it include CPU Sensor Motor Sonar entities, all is a   aggregations.

                    By Object   Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations), it is a   responsibility-Driven Design, and give a roles-and-responsibilities model,   responsibilities is that knowing what; doing what;deciding what.

                    So in   this example, Robot know   what? do what?

                    Robot can feel or see or hear and detect. Feeling  and seeing   and  hearing is the responsibilities as a intelligent robot role.

                    But   where responsibilities will be in a object? all responsibilities will be   designed as methods of Robot entity?

                    That will be a big model.

  DCI says : No.

  DCI think Responsibilities   should be interactions of a Role   and will be injected into data model in   context. so as below:

                    Robot entity is a   DCI's data model , and seeing hearing or feeling is the interactions of a   Role.

                    Other example such as BankAccount,   it has three roles: two roles are design roles, BankAccount and FinancialAsset,   another role is technical role: EJB's EntityBean for persitence.

                    How to   implement above DCI design?

                    I have implement this Robot Example with open source Jdon framework 6.5,  in DCI context:

        public String hello(String id) {

          Robot robot =   robotRepository.find(id);

          IntelligentRole intelligentRobot =   (IntelligentRole) roleAssigner.assign(robot, new IntelligentRobot());

          return "Hello, " + intelligentRobot.hear();

          }

          public String   touch(String id) {

          Robot robot = robotRepository.find(id);

          IntelligentRole intelligentRobot = (IntelligentRole)   roleAssigner.assign(robot, new  IntelligentRobot());

          return "Hello, " +   intelligentRobot.feel();

          }

    </>

                    Like BankAccount   has a role :  EntityBean for persitence, Robot has too a role for persistence,   but the role not operate directly dabatabse such as EJB's EntityBean, because   database operatings  cost performance and slow, so we use concurrent pattern in   here.

                    a PublisherRole is a event publisher of database operatings, by it   Robot can save himself to send a event to repository, here :

          @Introduce("message")

          public class PublisherRoleImp implements   PublisherRole {

          @Send("saveme")

          public DomainMessage remember(Robot   robot) {

          return new DomainMessage(robot);

          }

          }

    </>

                    here is the operatings database   event subscriber:

          @Component

          @Introduce("modelCache")

          public class   RobotRepositoryInMEM implements RobotRepository {

          .....

          //enable Robot Model in-memory cache

          @Around

          public Robot   find(String id) {

          return memDB.get(id);

          }

          //saving event subscriber

          @OnEvent("saveme")

          public void   save(Robot robot) {

          memDB.put(robot.getId(), robot);

          }

          .....

          }

    </>

                    here is saving   context:

          public void save(Robot robot) {

          PublisherRole publisher =   (PublisherRole) roleAssigner.assign(robot, new   PublisherRoleImp());

          publisher.remember(robot);

          }

    </>

  example source download: robot.zip

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Chapter 636 - Pinnacle of Speed!
Chapter 636 – Pinnacle of Speed!
Even though the street was crowded, everyone made sure to give way to Nie Yan. These players all respected him greatly. His prestige in Asskickers United was something other people would find difficult to comprehend.
Nie Yan could be described as Asskickers United's absolute pillar. He alone propped up the entire guild.
As Nie Yan made his way through the street, many familiar faces stepped forth from the crowd to ask him about one thing or another.
"Boss, get anything good lately?"
"Of course." Nie Yan chuckled.
"Boss, you're a Shadow Dancer now. Show us something cool!"
"Please, Boss!"
The shouts grew louder and louder. For most ordinary Thieves, becoming a Shadow Dancer was an unattainable dream. They all wanted to see what the pinnacle of the Thief class looked like.
At the persistent urging of the surrounding players, Nie Yan couldn't simply flat out refuse. After thinking for a moment, he finally caved and said. "Alright, alright, watch closely since I'm only going to do this once. I have faith that some of you will also become Shadow Dancers one day."
When the players were about to say something, Nie Yan's silhouette turned into a blur as he travelled several dozen meters in the blink of an eye. He was like a human flash. Their hearts shook. This was the speed of a Shadow Dancer? Too frightening!
Nie Yan's speed was absolutely stunning, leaving the entire crowd breathless.
The casters felt their blood run cold. If they were to encounter such a Thief in PvP, there would be nothing they could do. Most likely Nie Yan's blade would've already slit their throat before they even got a chance to chant out a single spell.
Shadow Dancer, this was a Shadow Dancer! The Thieves in the crowd were completely awestruck. This title was instantly engraved deep into their minds as they inwardly made a resolve. From now on, they would also pursue this peak existence.
Nie Yan only showed off a bit of his speed. He didn't reveal too much since there were certainly enemies watching him at this very moment.
Having entertained the players around him long enough, Nie Yan entered the guild headquarters.
News of Nie Yan's appearance in the Cripps Stronghold attracted the attention of many powers.
God Executioner Sword guild headquarters, a large group of people had gathered inside a conference hall. Qin Han sat at the head of a large table in the middle of the room. His appearance compared to reality was somewhat different. Donned in ash gray robes, he wore an unsightly expression on his face as Nie Yan's little performance in the Cripps Stronghold was broadcasted to everyone here live. His speed just now caused Qin Han to feel a cold chill a the back of his neck. If he and Nie Yan were to fight, he would definitely be cut down in an instant.
Individually, he was far from being Nie Yan's match.
A dark look clouded Qin Han's face. The people below found it difficult to read his thoughts.
"Qin Han, Nirvana Flame is back. Do we go forward with the plan?" a guild leader asked. The name of the Mad Rogue filled his heart with fear and apprehension.
At least 130 people were in the conference hall. All of them were the leaders of various guilds in the Viridian Empire, including powerhouses like Divine Protectors, Penumbra Empire, and God Executioner Sword. The amount of backing required to bring all these people together was unimaginable.
Sitting in a corner, Eternal Sin[1] looked on with narrowed eyes, an imperceptible light flickering in his pupils. Qin Han was indeed a powerful individual. Having gathered more than half of the guilds in the Viridian Empire, he was certainly capable of contending with Assskickers United.
Circumstances caused Eternal Sin to side with Qin Han. That was why he attended this meeting, and why he would join the assault of Asskickers United and its allies. Yet the pressure of victory didn't rest on his shoulders like it did on the others. What he felt was curiosity, to see who would emerge victorious in this conflict.
The conference hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Everyone was waiting for Qin Han's answer.
"We go forward with the plan! We'll take down Battle Crazed Alliance first, then the War God Tribe next," Qin Han declared. Divide and conquer! Battle Crazed Alliance and the War God Tribe were located the furthest away from Calore.
Qin Han's voice was decisive, cutting across the room.
The people in the conference hall all nodded in agreement. Qin Han was their backer, so none of them dared to go against his word.
With Qin Han giving the order, they immediately got to work. They would strike in six days at the latest.
Nie Yan met up with Guo Huai in the Asskickers United guild headquarters.
"Have there been any movements I have to be aware of?" Nie Yan asked. While he was holed up in the Ancient World, he had received little information of the outside world. He had spoken to Guo Huai only a couple of times. So, he didn't have more than a very rough picture of the current situation.
"God Executioner Sword, Penumbra Empire, and Divine Protectors have all been making a lot of small movements. Also, some guilds in Gouvest, Colt, Bennidon, and a few other cities have banded together and formed an alliance. They've all been secretly making contact with each other recently. I think they're planning something big," Guo Huai said. In the past, his information network was lacking, which led to them frequently being caught with their pants down as the enemy arrived at their doorstep. After learning several painful lessons, he worked hard to expand his intelligence division, placing moles in almost every major guild and bribing their core members with large sums of gold. As a result, the reliability and responsiveness of their intelligence had improved by leaps and bounds. This recent development was clear proof that his efforts weren't for naught.
"When do you think they'll make their move?"
"They'll need at least a few more days to finish their preparations. I received a report from Penumbra Empire that they'll be making their first move before the week ends. They'll deal with Battle Crazed Alliance first, then the War God Tribe next. They plan to weaken us by picking off our allies that are the furthest away from Calore since it'll be hard for us to send over reinforcements."
"Is the information from Penumbra Empire reliable?" Nie Yan asked, faintly knitting his brows. He was worried it might be a red herring.
"I think it's trustworthy. It matches up with the reports I've received from my other sources. Eternal Sin is behaving pretty suspiciously, though. He purposefully leaked this information to us," Guo Huai said.
Nie Yan narrowed his eyes. Eternal Sin was the type of person that was really hard to read. Is he trying to express his goodwill to us?
"So, how should we deal with this?" Guo Huai asked.
"Let's strike while the iron is hot and seize the initiative. We've recuperated for long enough, and we're much more powerful now. We can act with a little less restraint. Crush any who dare to challenge us in the Viridian Empire. If they refuse to accept our authority, we'll slaughter them until they're thoroughly convinced!" Nie Yan declared.
Guo Huai's eyes trembled. In the past, since Asskickers United's foundation wasn't stable, they had to advance with great caution for fear of being caught off guard by the enemy. They rarely got the first move in their conflicts. After weathering countless storms, they finally had the strength and resolve to sweep through the entire Viridian Empire. Thinking about how many twists and turns they encountered and how rough the journey had been to get here, he couldn't help but let out a deep sigh of emotion.
"We have 170,000 players in the main guild and 300,000 spread across our branch guilds. Combined with the forces from Holy Empire, Sapphire Shrine, Radiant Sacred Flame, and the others, so long as you give the order, we can sweep through the entire Viridian Empire. God Executioner Sword, Divine Protectors, Penumbra Empire… all of them will be at our mercy!" Guo Huai said, his eyes burning with heroic spirit.
Guo Huai had watched Asskickers United grow from a small and feeble upstart into a ruler contending for hegemony over the entire Viridian Empire. Words couldn't describe how gratified he felt.
"Since we have a good five days, we'll need to make some preparations first. The day after tomorrow, we'll make our move then! Our target will be Colt!" Nie Yan said. Colt was a city located between Nisode and Calore. If they could occupy it, their cities would be connected, and transporting large war machines like catapults and trebuchets would become much more convenient.
"Alright, I'll get to it immediately!" Guo Huai nodded.
"How many siege engines do we have now?" Nie Yan asked. He had almost forgotten this important question.
"We already have 300 Armoured Ice Catapults and 100 trebuchets, and all our important strongholds have been fitted with Gnome Magic Cannons," Guo Huai informed. Since Asskickers United's businesses were flourishing, with large amounts of gold rolling in every day, their Engineers, Tinkerers, Enchanters, and other non-combat professions saw immense growth. Their manufacturing ability skyrocketed. In the time that Nie Yan was away, the number of siege engines had increased exponentially.
"So many?" Nie Yan gasped. He didn't expect so many catapults and trebuchets to be produced. Recalling how he had spent more than two months in the Ancient World, it made sense.
In the previous timeline, Nie Yan had personally witnessed over a hundred trebuchets all firing at once. The falling shells blotted out the sky and completely obliterated the fortified walls of a city.
Reliving this memory, Nie Yan felt his heart race and his excitement boil over. With so many catapults and trebuchets, they could sweep through any stronghold!
"Have you collected information on how many siege weapons the enemy has?" Nie Yan asked. Know thyself, know thy enemy, only then could one emerge ever victorious.
"Divine Protectors, God Executioner Sword, and Penumbra Empire have about 200 ordinary catapults and 20 trebuchets altogether, and they're all pretty scattered. If they're dumb enough to try and compete with us directly, crushing them will be easy. They likely aren't aware of our real strength. I managed to secretly get us a stronghold in Lunarbright and hid almost all our catapults and trebuchets there. Only our most trusted personnel know of its existence, so it's fairly safe," Guo Huai said.
Guo Huai had handled this matter beautifully. By hiding these siege engines, they could catch the enemy off-guard when the war began. God Executioner Sword, Penumbra Empire, and those other guilds definitely had a few trump cards hidden up their sleeves as well, but Nie Yan had already long since come up with a plan. There was a lot of work to be done in the coming two days.
"I brought back some things with me from the Ancient World. Get some people to help sort them out," Nie Yan said. He then started dumping all the skill books out of his bag.
There were more than 200 artisan skill books, all of which were fairly rare.
Guo Huai's eyes went wide with shock. "T-t-this, you got all this from that special map?"
Nie Yan nodded. "Distribute these skill books among the artisans in our guild. I also have collected a bunch of materials."
He dumped out all the ores, medicinal plants, and other materials out of his bag.
"My god! Red Dragon Herb! W-wait, is that Gold Onyx!? And this… so many!" Guo Huai started to pant as his eyes glazed over.
1. Eternal Sin was introduced in Chapter 71. Nie Yan encountered their party while being chased down by a Level 7 Sub Elite Serpentine Lizard and tried passing it off to them.


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Max Scherzer baffles Dodgers, Nationals force Game 5 in NLDS
Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer reacts after the last out of the top of the seventh inning against the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLDS at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Photo by Brad Mills /USA TODAY Sports
Ryan Zimmerman hit a three-run homer, Anthony Rendon drove in three runs, and the Washington Nationals pulled away for a 6-1 win over the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Monday night.
Washington evened the best-of-five series at 2-2 and forced a decisive Game 5 on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Both teams have won one game at home and one game on the road.
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Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer (1-0) stymied the Dodgers over seven quality innings on short rest. He gave up one run on four hits while walking three and striking out seven. The 35-year-old threw 72 of 109 pitches for strikes.
"You just can't say enough about him," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Scherzer. "He just sort of wills his way to getting outs. … So I guess the one solace is we don't need to see him in Game 5."
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias (0-1) gave up three runs on three hits while recording only two outs in his relief stint. He was one of five relievers to follow starting left-hander Rich Hill, who allowed one run in 2 2/3 innings.
"I think that Rich, all night, the depth of the curveball, it just wasn't quite there," Roberts said. "I think that the curveball was up all night, and the finish wasn't quite there."
The Dodgers opened the scoring with Justin Turner's solo shot in the first inning. Turner pulled a 95 mph fastball over the wall in left field for his second homer of the series and the ninth postseason homer of his career.
The Nationals pulled even in the third. Rendon hit a sacrifice fly to left field to drive in Michael A. Taylor.
In the fifth, the Nationals added four more runs to seize a 5-1 advantage. Rendon singled to left field to drive in Trea Turner, and Zimmerman slammed a three-run homer three batters later. Zimmerman, who increased his total to four career postseason homers, has 13 postseason RBIs, breaking a tie with Bryce Harper (10) for the franchise record.
Nationals manager Dave Martinez said of Zimmerman's homer, "For me, in those moments, I take a look real quick at the dugout. That's what fires me up is the guys. Because they were battling hard. And when those big moments come, you can see it in their faces.
"It's huge, it's incredible, it's a feeling that I can't describe, really. But to go on top like that and Max is on the mound, that's the burst we needed."
Washington padded its lead in the sixth with another sacrifice fly from Rendon, who has four RBIs in four games this series after tallying 126 RBIs during the regular season to lead the majors.
Los Angeles loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, but the comeback bid stalled when Chris Taylor struck out swinging and Joc Pederson grounded out to second base to end the inning.
Left-hander Sean Doolittle and right-hander Daniel Hudson combined for two scoreless innings of relief for the Nationals.
Martinez said of Scherzer, "He did everything we asked him to do and more. I came in and I'm not going to say jokingly, but I was hoping he would go eight (innings). But he gave us seven, and we handed the ball to Doo and Huddie."


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Jamey Graves to Sing at Washington National Cathedral
Oct 21, 2015 by Holy Cross Generic
Holy Cross is proud to announce that Jamey Graves has been asked by Presiding Bishop Elect Michael Curry to perform for his installation service on November 1st at Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, DC. This is a great honor for both Jamey and Christ Church Charlotte where he currently serves as Associate Director of World Music. Holy Cross is also honored to have been a part of Jamey's growth within the Church and we wish him well on this endeavor.
The songs Jamey will be performing include songs that he and Bishop Curry shared this summer on the Freedom Ride, a spiritual journey with fellow travelers from around the globe focused on truth, reconciliation, and peace. The songs include Jamey's arrangement of "Wade in the Water," an African-American spiritual which speaks to our baptismal covenant. It calls us to wade into troubled waters and present ourselves in the image of Christ in the world. Another, "Montaña" is a Latin-American traditional song sung in Spanish. This is the parable of the mustard seed, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed you can say to the mountain, "move, move." And it will move. Thus saith the Lord.
Jamey will be performing with Sandra Montes, Worship Leader from San Mateo Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, for both the Saturday event, prior to the installation service, and the installation service on Sunday.
This is truly an historical moment in the Episcopal Church as we appoint the first African American as Presiding Bishop of the Church. As Jamey participates in these upcoming services we know he will represent the Episcopal Faith with grace and harmony. Let us center our prayers around Jamey, Sandra, Bishop Curry and all those participating in the installation process, we also participate in the uplifting of all our brothers and sisters in Christ with encouragement, inspiration, and support.
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Goshi Kari is far and away the most popular meat dish in North India. It is an uncomplicated dish in which unboned pieces of lamb are stewed in a tumeric-laced fried onion sauce. Tomatoes are frequently added to enrich the sauce; they also impart a beautiful reddish-brown color.
Heat 4 Tablespoons of the oil over high heat in a large heave bottomed pan. When the oil is very hot add the meat pieces, (and the bones if using them), and brown them. For successful browning, it is essential to pat the meat dry of all clinging blood and juices on the surface, with paper towels. Also, the pan should not be overcrowded with too many pieces of meat, as crowding will cool the pan and the meat will steam instead of being seared. Therefore, the browning should be done in batches. As each batch is browned, transfer it with a slotted spoon to a bowl.
Add the remaining 4 Tablespoons of oil to the pan, along with the onions. Reduce heat to medium-high, and fry the onions until they turn dark brown (about 20 minutes), stirring constantly so that they do not burn.
Add garlic and ginger, and fry for an additional minute. Add cumin, coriander, turmeric, and red pepper, and continue frying until the spices begin to give out their fragrance (about 10-15 seconds). Return the browned meat (and bones) to the pan along with the tomatoes, salt, and four cups of boiling water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, covered for 1 ½ hours. Add potatoes, and continue simmering, covered, until the potatoes are tender and the meat is cooked through (about 30 minutes). Turn off heat, and let the meat rest for at least ½ hour, preferably 2 hours. When read to serve, first remove the bones and discard, then check for salt, and simmer again until heated through.


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This two bedroom maisonette is in excellent decorative order throughout and would make an ideal purchase for the discerning home buyer looking to buy a property in a popular city centre location, close to Aberdeen University and Foresterhill Hospital Complex, in a ready to move in condition. The property is served by a security entry system and is well maintained throughout with the spacious accommodation comprising a welcoming entrance with Karndean flooring and deep storage/cloak cupboard; the lounge has two windows overlooking the front and again has Karndean flooring and a wall mounted television bracket. The kitchen, located off the lounge, is fitted with an excellent range of base and wall units with stainless steel handles, ample worktop space with matching splashbacks, built-in ceramic hob, oven and stainless steel cooker hood, space for fridge/freezer and fittings for plumbing in automatic washing machine. A double bedroom, located to the front, is spacious and has the benefit of laminate flooring. The bathroom is fitted with a white three piece suite comprising w.c., wash hand basin and bath with power shower and shower screen, heated towel rail. A comfortably graded staircase leads to the upper floor which has a cupboard housing the central heating boiler on the landing. The second double bedroom has a Velux window to the front, laminate flooring, central light fitment and ample space for bedroom furniture.
NOTE: The furniture and furnishings may, if desired, be purchased at mutual valuation.
Lounge 12'0" x 11'10" (3.66m x 3.61m) approx.
Kitchen 7'3" x 6'11" (2.21m x 2.11m) approx.
Double Bedroom 12'2" x 9'0" (3.71m x 2.74m) approx.
Bathroom 7'10" x 5'6" (2.39m x 1.68m) approx.
Double Bedroom 12'5" x 10'0" (3.79m x 3.05m) approx.
The floor coverings, blinds and light fitments, together with the white good in the kitchen are all to be included in the price and will remain.
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Last week, I turned the big 29. As birthdays usually go when you get older, it was a lovely day where I received lots of phone calls and texts from close friends and family, read through a ton of Facebook messages from people I haven't seen in years, and was treated to a delicious dinner out with my boys. It was perfect.
One-year-old me with my Dad.
That evening, I was reflecting with Matt on what a great year my 28th was: I started blogging more and joined the MKE Moms Blog contributor team, we celebrated and stood up in Matt's sister's wedding, we adopted our second pup, George, and, probably the most life-changing for me, I transitioned from a full-time working mom to a part-time one (and threw a job change in there). I already know there are great things on the horizon for the final year of my 20s: more weddings of people I love dearly, fun trips, and just watching Callum grow and learn new things every day.
Still, there were a few things I would've changed about last year. So, to ensure a great year ahead, here are a couple areas I'd like to work on personally over the next 365 days.
Whether it's a new sweater, a larger house, or just a change of circumstance, I'd like to work on wanting less. I think we're all guilty of just wishing we had something bigger and better. Now, I'm not talking about dreams and goals, those are good motivators and tend to have positive effects. I'm talking about those destructive wants. The wants you don't need. The ones that can become toxic and make you feel less than. It's so silly to waste my energy on what I don't have, when what I do have is greater than I could've ever imagined.
I think this is going to be especially important over these next few months of holiday madness. This next year, I'd like to make it more of a priority of just being in the now. The dishes can wait five minutes while I sit and enjoy conversation with Matt. I can give myself 30 minutes to enjoy a book during Callum's nap, instead of stressing about getting some work done. I think a less-rushed verison of myself will be a happier one.
Brought to you by this year's Halloween candy.
Seriously. I have a been a fun-sized candy bar eating machine. Sweets have always been my downfall. I can easily pass on a bag of chips, but offer me a piece of cake and I won't refuse. I can always feel a change in my body when I cut back on sugar, It's always a good change. I feel better. I sleep better. I have more energy. It's just always a struggle to remind myself of that.
4. Stop feeling guilty about making time for myself.
Whenever I do something just for me, I often end up feeling guilty about the time I'm taking for myself. No one is making me feel bad about this. In fact, Matt encourages me take the time to refresh and re-energize, but I still wind up feeling bad about it. I need to do a better job of enjoying my me-time. After all, taking care of myself will make me a better mom and wife, and make me happier all around.
So, bring it on, 29! I can't wait to see what the next year holds.
I did not realize you were so much younger than me! Happy happy belated birthday. I believe we need a neighborhood birthday dinner or coffee or something since Jillian's birthday was last month, yours this week and mine is this month! Good list. #2 is so hard, I know. It kind of goes along with #4 though too.. take that time. YOu totally deserve it. And, if you ever just need a bit to unwind, I'm always happy to watch Callum.


Tunes that cross the globe and blur the boundaries between Soul, Jazz, Afro, Funk, Latin, Hip Hop & Soul.
A decidedly electo soul and boogie feel to this week's show. I hope you enjoy it all; the new Quadron album is deadly!!


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Straight No Chaser is the second overall album by British pop musician Mr Hudson and his first as a solo artist. It is the follow-up to the last album released with his band Mr Hudson and the Library entitled A Tale of Two Cities. Straight No Chaser was released in the UK on 19 October 2009. It was released in the United States on 29 June 2010.

Background
Sessions first started at Gizzard Studios in Bow, East London, with the album being engineered by Ed Deegan, however the Library (Mr Hudson's backing band) were soon fired and tapes were shelved when Mr Hudson was then flown to the Bahamas to record a new album with Kanye West. In an interview, singer Ben Hudson was asked to describe the album: "My mission statement was to make a pop record, but not a throwaway pop record. My heroes are people like Bowie and Prince and Damon Albarn. I didn't want to do anything niche. Kanye threw down the gauntlet. He said, 'Let's see if we can make you a popstar'. I was like 'Let's have a go!'. It's a bit more widescreen, a bit more punchy, but the eclecticism of the first record's still there. There's a tune where I'm a cross between Deliverance and Sade".

Track listing

Personnel

Artists
 Mr Hudson – primary artist (all tracks)
 Kanye West – featured artist (tracks 1,10)
 Joy Joseph – background artist (tracks 1–3, 5, 9, 12, 13)
 Sara Skeete – background artist (track 2)
Technical personnel
 Andrew Dawson – mixing (track 1)
 Manny Marroquin – mixing (tracks 1, 3, 4, 10, 13)
 Andy Savours – mixing (tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12), recording (track 5)
 Anthony Kilhoffer – mixing (track 7)
 Catherine Marks – recording (tracks 1, 10, 11, 13)

Record producers
 Dave McCracken – production (tracks 1, 2)
 Mr Hudson – production (tracks 3, 5–10, 12, 13), additional production (tracks 4, 11)
 The Bullitts – production (tracks 4, 11)
 Andy Savours – production (track 5)
 Steve Robson – production (track 8)
 Kanye West – additional production (track 1)
 Wilkie Wilkinson – percussion (tracks 1, 2)
 Torville Jones – piano (tracks 2, 6, 12, 13), synthesizer (track 3)
 Rory Moore, Jr. – organ (track 3)
 Craig Owen – strings (track 5)
 Raphael Mann – synth, acoustic guitar (track 5)
Additional personnel
 Kanye West – executive producer
 DJ Semtex – A&R
 Traffic – design
 Jon Mac – management
 Tony Tagoe – management
 Marc Jordan – management (U.S.)
 Rebel One – management (U.S.)
 Rankin – photography (front cover)
 Colin Whitehouse – photography (inlay)
 Nabil Elderkin – photography (inside booklet
 Rachael Paley – product manager

Singles
"There Will Be Tears" was the first single from Straight No Chaser, but failed to attract the attention of the media, something only "Supernova" achieved in chart success.
"Supernova" was the second single from Straight No Chaser. The single features American artist Kanye West, usually a rapper, as a singer on this track. It debuted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, behind the number one single "Beat Again" by JLS.
"White Lies" was the third single from Straight No Chaser. The song was released on 12 October 2009 in the United Kingdom and reached #20 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Anyone But Him" was the fourth single from Straight No Chaser.

Chart performance
Straight No Chaser debuted at #25 in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2009.

References

2009 albums
Albums produced by Kanye West
GOOD Music albums
Mr Hudson albums
Albums produced by Mr Hudson
Albums produced by The Bullitts


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Q: Hive dynamic partitioning not working I am trying to create dynamic partitions in a table.
1) First table is called stock1 where non-partitioned data is residing.
Here's the schema :
hive> describe stock1;
id                      int
xcg                     string
stock                   string
sector                  string
country                 string
dt                      string
open                    float
high                    float
low                     float
close                   float
volume                  int
adj_close               float

2) Second table is stock2 where I want the data to be partitioned dynamically.
hive> create table stock2(id int,stock string,sector string,country string,dt string,open float,high float,low float,close float,volume int,adj_close float) PARTITIONED BY (xchng string);

3) Now enabling dynamic partitioning:
set hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true;
set hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;

4) loading the data into stock2 from stock1.
insert overwrite table stock2 partition(xchng)select id,stock,sector,country,dt,open,high,low,close,volume,adj_close,t.xcg as xchng from stock1 t;

Now when i check stock2 under the hive folder I only see a default partition
/user/hive/warehouse/stock.db/stock2/xchng=HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION
How to rectify so that I get seperate folders for each xchng.

A: can you check the all "xcg" values from "stock1". it is possible that at least some of the values or all of the values are not conforming String format. I mean for ex. there can be null or numbers instead of string.

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The search engine giant Google unveiled the next iteration of its Pixel phones. Dubbed as Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, this duo of the smartphones run Android 9.0 Pie out of the box.
On the design front, it retains the dreadfully boring two-tone design. The phone has an aluminum frame sandwiched between Gorilla Glass.
The larger one aptly named Google Pixel 3 XL features a 6.3-inch Quad HD+ OLED screen. It has tall 19:9 aspect ratio. The Pixel 3 on the other hand settles for a 5.5-inch FHD+ screen.
Another difference being the smaller 2915 mAh battery on Pixel 3 as opposed to 3430 mAh capacity on the Pixel 3 XL. Both these handsets support fast charging and wireless (induction) charging.
Rest of the specifications are same for both these handsets. The latest Pixel phones are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 chipset. You get 4 GB RAM with 64 GB and 128 GB storage to choose from.
In terms of photgraphy, you get a 12 MP rear camera. For selfies, there's an 8 MP dual camera setup. The phone has a fingerprint sensor on its back. The company not bothered to update biometrics with in-screen fingerprint sensor or face unlock.
The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL willl be available in white, black, and pink hues. In the US, the Pixel 3 base model is priced at $799. For 128 GB variant, you will have to shell out $899 . The Pixel 3 XL's price starts at $899 and $999 gets you the 128 GB variant.


Over the years, we have collected over 1200 Black themed films between 1900s and 2010. We have posted many films from around the world. This website was started to introduce and inform world citizens about Blaxploitation movies and soundtracks. Since the website has evolved, I think our mission for why we do what we do has been more clear as of late. Of course, everything on this website is not Blaxploitation, but the truth is that the Blaxploitation era had a time limit.
Like many eras of Black Cinema that comes and go, preservation and archival references is very important when it comes to keeping historical records. If the preservation of the Blaxploitation era was not sought after and took care of like we have done at Blaxploitation Pride (as well as many other companies and websites), then Blaxploitation films could have suffered the same fate that many Race Films (Black/Independent Films) from the 1910s to the 1950s did. Many Race films have been lost or destroyed. This is tragic because it does erase early imagery of African-Americans (Black Americans) filmography influence to American society. Furthermore, many of these films were shot by Black directors (not all Race films were by Black directors) and made for Black audiences.
These films were made in the perspective of the African-American. Since there was much controversy of how Blacks were portrayed in Hollywood films, it leaves a misleading assumption of Blacks based on stereotypes in Hollywood that were negative or untrue. Race films meant to battle those stereotypes. For example, Oscar Michaeux's "Within Our Gates" (1920) was a response to D.W. Griffiths "Birth of a Nations" (1915).
A film that suffered the tragic fate of having only one remaining reel (which is badly damaged) is Regeneration (1923), which was produced by the Norman Film Manufacturing Company based out of Jacksonville, Florida. The only film that remains in it full entirety from this company is the recently posted, The Flying Ace (1926).
Violet Daniels, the only child of a widowed sea captain, is left an orphan by the death of her father. He leaves her a strange legacy in the form of a map showing the location of a buried treasure on an island. She enlist the aid of her friend Jack in the search. 'Knife' Hurley, mate of Jack's ship, is a villain who has managed to collect the scum of the waterfront for the crew with the intention of seizing the treasure chart. Aboard ship a fight ensues, a fire starts, 'Knife' grabs the map and escapes on the only lifeboat. Violet and Jack construct a raft and after enduring hardships from thirst and hunger they land on an uninhabited island which they call 'Regeneration.' It's treasure island; 'Knife' arrives and they defeat him.


Last time I was in Helsinki I took this photo of this century old railway corridor that was used for freight trains. I can heard that it was being converted to a pedestrian and bicycle path and it turns out that it has opened recently.
Helsinki's new "Low Line" (as opposed to NYC's High Line) opened on June 12, 2012, providing pedestrians and cyclists with a 1.3 km long connector between the Western Harbour area to Kamppi and Töölö Bay. It's called the Baana.
It runs through the city centre, providing a safe bicycle route to many points in the city. There four ramps along the way to get back to surface level, as well as entry points at each end. On average, the Baana is 15 m wide, with 34 m the widest point. There are also facilities along the way like basketball, table tennis and petanque and lights and benches have also been placed there.
So... a nice addition to the city. There was a gorge carving through the centre so why not put it to good use? Cheaper than filling it in I suppose. Not much light in this gorge in such a northern city for outdoor activities 8 months out of the year, but hey. The Finns will figure it out.
It's an impressive project, costing between €4 and €5 million, although calling it a "superhighway" may be a slight exaggeration. It's no cycling tunnel like in San Sebastian, but it ain't all that bad.
Let's hope, however, that it is a one-off. Cyclists in Helsinki in the 1930s had safe, separated, Copenhagen-style cycle tracks and there were daily cyclist counts of 10,000 on some of the main arteries, like we can see on these maps from 1937.
The Baana is cool, but it's time for the city to get back on track with separated, roadside cycle tracks in order to meet the goal of the Charter of Brussels, signed by the city in 2009 at Velo-City in Brussels, of 15% modal share for bicycles by 2020.
Will the Baana help reach that goal? Sure. A bit. But it's all about well-designed, Best Practice infrastructure now, if the city - any city - wishes to make a serious effort to return the bicycle to the urban landscape.


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