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Like many, when I first heard of and saw Lady Gaga, I passed her off as an artist destined to be a flash in the pan. That still might happen. But when she started to get critical acclaim, I wondered if there was more to her than the crazy costumes, looks and "Poker Face". It turns out there was (Don't stop reading if you disagree, there's more to this). I heard a quite impressive, slower, acoustic version of "Poker Face" and saw great live performance. The girl can actually sing. Then, I started to hear of her work as a producer and songwriter before she became an artist. I thought "Wow. She has other talents?" So I finally buckled down and got the deluxe version of "The Fame" to give her a try. I was disappointed.
The material on the record failed to display any of the great vocals I heard on some of her acoustics sets. Some of the lyrics were intriguing, but I thought they had to compete too much with the hardcore, futuristic techno-pop that was the music. Which, by the way, unless techno-pop is your thing, a Lady Gaga album may be too much for you. My ears began to grow tired of the music.
I was really surprised that none of the songs seemed to really grab me. Being a lover of pop over the years, I expected to REALLY like at least one track, but instead, I just "KINDA" liked some songs. Like Alicia Keys' "Element of Freedom," most of the songs were "just ok". At the end of the day, all I liked was what I originally liked- which was "The Cherry Tree Sessions" version of "Poker Face." I've figured out that I like my Gaga slow, chilled out and just singing. All the over-production on the songs was just too distracting and gave me a headache. So, in conclusion, Gaga's got potential, but her music doesn't do her much justice. We'll see what happens with the next album. I hope it isn't more of the same.

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MQ-1C Gray Eagles await maintenance at Fort Hood, Texas. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army is working to develop a universal control interface for unmanned aircraft systems to let operators fly more than one type using the same controls.
Currently, the Army's 15W Soldiers are trained for a singular platform, which includes either the AAI RQ-7 Shadow or the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Training and Doctrine UAS command capability manager Col. Paul Cravey says a universal operator and control interface will be one of the biggest changes to the program.
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Cravey added that systems operated with a universal control interface could be added to an Army Intelligence and Security Command formation inside a Tactical Operations Center, or potentially in a Joint Light Tactical vehicle or in an Apache helicopter cockpit.
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Abelardo Morell makes the national parks his camera
By Iris Schneider | March 11, 2014 10:58 PM
Old Faithful Geyser exposed on the ground inside a tent by camera obscura. Abelardo Morell
It's not easy to find someone whose right brain and left brain are each working overtime. But photographer Abelardo Morell is more than a creative spirit. In a recent talk at the Annenberg Space Skylight Studio, in conjunction with the current show, Morell called himself a "closet scientist" who has invented a new way of seeing and recording images, or rather re-invented a very old way of seeing using new technology. His recent photography has turned rooms into cameras by employing the technique of camera obscura (literally "dark room") and figured out how to take it on the road. The resulting images of the US National Parks, currently part of a sweeping exhibit honoring 125 years of National Geographic photography at the Annenberg Space for Photography, are stunning and totally fresh. In this digital age, where we are bombarded nonstop with images, that is saying something. These photographs will make you stop and look again.
Morell's technique is to create a pinhole camera you can walk into by creating a tent of lightproof plastic. The image reflected through a pinhole is exposed onto the ground of the park (or sometimes in a hotel room or bedroom wall) and becomes a layered image incorporating the reflected image and the surface it is reflected on. His series on the national parks is seen in the film created for the Geographic exhibit, and like each of the Arclight productions that accompany the Annenberg shows, the film alone is worth the trip.
Morell, whose work was recently on exhibit at the Getty Center and at the Rose Gallery in Bergamot Station, has been a photographer and photography teacher for over 30 years. In his talk at the Annenberg Space, he explained how his photography went from doing simple documentary work of his family, into exploring "the simplicity and mystery of photography itself" by turning common household objects, like lamps and glasses, into tools for actually making images. "In the late 80's I turned my classroom into a camera by taping dark plastic over the windows and making a small opening in the plastic to produce an image projected inside the room," he said.
Left, Joshua Tree National Park. Right, Yellowstone National Park. Abelardo Morell.
Morell said people had been inside camera obscura before, but no one had ever made a photograph using the process itself. Once he realized that, he was off and running. He turned his living room into a camera, then a hotel room in Times Square, and a bedroom across from the Brooklyn Bridge. He spent a whole summer trying to figure out the correct exposure. "The early ones were 8 hours long...but then I converted to a digital back," he said. For someone who described himself as "anti-technology" in his early days, Morell says "it was like Dylan going electric. Instead of 5-6 hour exposures, now they are 5-6 minutes."
His decision to take this technology on the road led him to the national arks project. "It's fascinating to be inside a tent and see nature," he said. The project has many meanings for him. "It's about the meaning of where we live, the nature of time, the nature of things, the nature of what we see." And, ultimately, who we are.
The Abelardo Morell national parks project can be seen as part of the exhibit, "The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years." The show closes April 27, 2014.
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Early this year, the Institute formally launched its Environment & Climate Change (EC2) program to support and promote the private sector's role across a wide range of activities ranging from: sustainable financing, green bond project funding, establishing measurable commitments for CO2 emission reductions and/or debt for nature swaps to protect the region's biodiverse rich marine and terrestrial habitats from destruction or degradation. The Institute's strategic priorities will be in the following key areas:
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Firstly, ensure that the new bed you purchase meets the Safety Standards for your country – for safe construction and safe for children. You don't need to buy a flash bed (like a car, or canopy), a basic one is just fine, with a good mattress. You may like to look around for bedding options like doona covers etc, to get an idea of what's available to match your budget.
Once the bed is purchased, put it up in the same room as the cot, if possible, so that both are available in this transition phase. The toddler might even like to 'help' you assemble the bed, which might be unwrapping it, or assisting in the screwing together of pieces.
When you've introduced the idea to your toddler then you might like to take them shopping and ask which set (from the ones in your price range) that s/he might like for their new 'big boy/ girl bed'. When you get home, they can help to put it on the bed.
Talking with the toddler is important – talking about the fact that they are growing up to be soooo big and tall, and that their cot is getting too small for them. You might talk with them about other young children they know, who have recently moved into a big bed too.
It's a good idea to use the bed initially to lay on while you read stories to them or play at putting their dolls and teddies into the big bed – whilst they are still using their cot for sleeping.
Remember that some children will be really keen, and others will like the familiarity of their known sleeping space.
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Let the challenges begin! Time for contesting census is here
MIKE SCHNEIDER
FILE - The Detroit skyline is shown from the Detroit River on May 12, 2020. Detroit's mayor believes tens of thousands of residents in the majority-Black city were missed in the 2020 census. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Detroit's mayor believes tens of thousands of residents in the majority-Black city were missed in the 2020 census. Somerton, Arizona, leaders are incredulous the Census Bureau says they lost residents during a decade when the overwhelmingly Hispanic community grew enough to warrant a new high school.
And college towns across the U.S. believe they were undercounted as students fled campuses shuttered by the coronavirus.
The time for communities with a beef about how they were counted in the 2020 census has arrived.
At the start of the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau began accepting challenges from states, counties, cities and tribal nations about one of the most difficult counts in recent memory, due to the pandemic, political interference from the Trump administration, hurricanes and wildfires.
The scope for making challenges through the Count Question Resolution program is narrow, and few local governments got their numbers changed after the 2010 census. But the bureau has made adjustments when past errors were revealed.
Unprecedented hurdles in 2020 may heighten the need for tweaks this time around. Many leaders worry that inaccurate figures could cost their jurisdictions their share of the $1.5 trillion the federal government distributes annually based on census numbers.
Along with concerns about undercounted racial and ethnic groups and college students, some small towns believe a new privacy method the Census Bureau used for the first time skewed their numbers. And officials in areas with large institutions like prisons or military barracks worry that pandemic lockdowns left out many inmates or service members.
The census challenges won't change the number of congressional seats each state gets, or the numbers used for redrawing political districts. Those were released in August so the redrawing of district lines could be completed in time for upcoming elections.
At this point, it's hard to say how many governments will appeal through the program, which has been around since 1990. As of this week, the Census Bureau hadn't made public any applications. But states, cities, counties and tribal nations have through June 2023 to submit them.
State College, Pennsylvania, home to tens of thousands of students at Penn State University, plans to file a challenge this winter because officials believe 4,000 to 5,800 people were missed in the community of more than 40,500 residents, said Douglas Shontz, a borough spokesman.
"I'm not very optimistic but we're going to explore every route we can to ensure everyone in State College was properly counted," Shontz said in an email.
The lack of optimism may be because the scope of challenges is narrow — for mistakes made in recording boundaries or housing that was skipped over during data processing. In years past, only a few were successful. Revisions to population and housing totals were made to about 1% of the nation's 39,000 governments after the 2010 census.
"Unfortunately, the program hasn't resulted in many changes, which might be discouraging, but this is a really important opportunity to fix the numbers," said Cara Brumfield, a senior policy analyst at the Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality.
When they do succeed, challenges can have significant impact. After the 2010 census, the city of Houston got its population count revised from 2.09 million to 2.1 million. The addition of 812 previously uncounted residents triggered the addition of two city council seats.
Some demographers and local government officials say the program should allow for challenges for other problems, including mistakes by census takers or managers. Some say they need more latitude to use administrative records to show errors in the head count.
"We propose that 'human error' during census-taking field operations should have a remedy, if such errors are detected and substantiated," said Todd Graham, principal demographer for the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities, in public comments on the program.
Citing concerns about residents being missed in Detroit, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Thursday asked the Census Bureau for a briefing on whether communities might be able to challenge and fix their population counts if an undercount is documented.
Local governments will soon have another way to change the numbers. Starting next year, they can hire the Census Bureau to conduct a "special census" in a re-do of the 2020 count, with the locals footing the bill. They can also challenge population estimates that use the census figures as a base upon which births, deaths and migration are added annually.
Given the 2020 problems counting people in dorms, military barracks, nursing homes and prisons during the pandemic, the Census Bureau has proposed creating a separate program to accept challenges for these "group quarters." State, city and tribal officials have been sounding the alarm about the counts because students were sent home from campuses, and prisons and nursing homes went into lockdowns when those residents were supposed to be counted.
Brumfield called the proposal "a step in the right direction." Any changes will be incorporated into future population estimates and the bureau's American Community Survey, under the proposal.
"I'm optimistic it will address a lot of concerns," Brumfield said. "It's a good sign that the bureau has been listening."
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Q: Android - Repeat Function While Button Held In my Android project, I am trying to repeat this code (a function in my MainActivity.class file):
public void positionChange(View v)
{
    findViewById(R.id.player1).setX(findViewById(R.id.player1).getX() - 30);
    findViewById(R.id.player2).setX(findViewById(R.id.player2).getX() + 30);

}

when a button is held.
Currently, this code gets called once per click when the button is pressed using:
android:onClick="positionChange"

in my activity_main.xml file. As I am new to Android programming, I have no idea how to do this, and the existing code that I have found do not seem to work properly, so how could I get this to work?
Thanks.

A: first of all you must know that every call to findViewById() can waste a big time of your application so you'd better get them once and use them multiple times.
to repeat this code while button is holding you must use below link and use the custom listener this link provides:
Android - Hold Button to Repeat Action
i copy the code for your ease :
import android.os.Handler;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;

/**
* A class, that can be used as a TouchListener on any view (e.g. a Button).
* It cyclically runs a clickListener, emulating keyboard-like behaviour. First
* click is fired immediately, next one after the initialInterval, and subsequent
* ones after the normalInterval.
*
* <p>Interval is scheduled after the onClick completes, so it has to run fast.
* If it runs slow, it does not generate skipped onClicks. Can be rewritten to
* achieve this.
*/
public class RepeatListener implements OnTouchListener {

private Handler handler = new Handler();

private int initialInterval;
private final int normalInterval;
private final OnClickListener clickListener;

private Runnable handlerRunnable = new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        handler.postDelayed(this, normalInterval);
        clickListener.onClick(downView);
    }
};

private View downView;

/**
 * @param initialInterval The interval after first click event
 * @param normalInterval The interval after second and subsequent click
 *       events
 * @param clickListener The OnClickListener, that will be called
 *       periodically
 */
public RepeatListener(int initialInterval, int normalInterval,
        OnClickListener clickListener) {
    if (clickListener == null)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("null runnable");
    if (initialInterval < 0 || normalInterval < 0)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("negative interval");

    this.initialInterval = initialInterval;
    this.normalInterval = normalInterval;
    this.clickListener = clickListener;
}

public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
    switch (motionEvent.getAction()) {
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
        handler.removeCallbacks(handlerRunnable);
        handler.postDelayed(handlerRunnable, initialInterval);
        downView = view;
        downView.setPressed(true);
        clickListener.onClick(view);
        return true;
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
        handler.removeCallbacks(handlerRunnable);
        downView.setPressed(false);
        downView = null;
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

}

and then use it like below in your onCreate() :
View player1 =  findViewById(R.id.player1);
View player2 =  findViewById(R.id.player2);
button.setOnTouchListener(new RepeatListener(400, 100, new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
  // the code to execute repeatedly
  player1.setX(player1.getX() - 30);
  player2.setX(player2.getX() + 30);
}
}));

for better code you can define player1 and player2 public (out of your onCreate) then initiate them in onCreate()

A: You don't actually want to constantly repeat that-  doing so would happen thousands of times a second.  What you want to do is set a timer when the button it touched.  When the timer fires, call that function, then set another timer.  When the button is released, cancel the timer.  To tell when the button is pressed/released, set an OnTouchEvent listener on it, and respond to the TOUCH_DOWN and TOUCH_UP events.
Oh, and just fyi-  you should not call findViewById like that.  Call it once in onCreate and save the result in a variable.  Calling it constantly is inefficient.

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detail from the photo of the Mass ave. house believed to be a portrait of Emma Franklin. thanks to Elizabeth Streight for tech support :)
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Nashville falls into the autumn gallery season with September's First Saturday festivities
Nashville Scene
by JOE NOLAN
September 01, 2011 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT » ART
While the heat has yet to beat a final retreat and we have several weeks left before the official beginning of fall, the kids are back in school, there's football on TV and Nashville's autumn exhibition season kicks off at Saturday night's Art Crawl. It's our favorite time of the year for gallery gawking, and this month's highlights include Warhol Superstars, gift-wrapped canvases and a visitation from The King of Rock 'n' Roll.
At Twist Gallery this month, Johnathon Kelso displays his quirky photos of the quotidian South. While his work can feel uncomfortably poised between posed and candid, Kelso's best snaps show an eye for composition and everyday abstractions. His I Want to Die a-Shouting series documents contemporary Sacred Harp singing groups, and Twist will host related music events later in the month. At Twist Etc., J. Todd Greene's First Class Animal prowls its cage for another month. A show of 12 small sculptures, Animal was greeted with both delight and disgust in August. Stop in and see for yourself.
For the September crawl, COOP Gallery opens Improve Upon Perfection, an exhibition of mixed-media sculpture from Seattle-based artist Dawn Cerny. Cerny's show takes its title from a haiku by poet Grant Cross: "Improve butterflies / Improve upon perfection / If you're so godlike." The messy and the mysterious come together in Cerny's black-comedic work, which is by turns trashy, flashy, energized and elegiac.
On Fifth Avenue, Claire Cotts' Lost in the Night Garden continues at Tinney Contemporary, held over from the August crawl. The artist's biomorphic paintings evoke the submarine undulations of plants and creatures in the sway of an abiding tide, while her figurative canvases relate personal narratives that ask questions about faith, relationships, memory and hope. And in Tinney's Rear Gallery, don't miss Andy, The Factory and Me. Tinney's back space is one of the Art Crawl's best-kept secrets, and this show of Raeanne Rubenstein's photographs is the perfect complement to the Frist Center's Warholpalooza.
Crawlers who saw the ZieherSmith pop-up gallery show in August will recognize the work of Vadis Turner at Rymer Gallery this month. Turner's ribbon paintings aren't the flat, woven affairs we'd expected. Thick layers of the colorful stuff undulate across her surfaces while gorgeous loops spill over the edges, only to curl back in voluptuous arcs of luxurious physicality. Turner's Ribbon Paintings and Flower Figures hangs alongside painter Gabriel Mark's Thoroughbred, which examines social ideals by exploring the relationship between horse and rider.
At The Arts Company this month, Inside Out: New Paintings by Charles Keiger presents narrative canvases that read more like myths than linear stories. A confident dalmatian holds the reigns in "Dog and Pony Dream," and "Tidal Audit" recalls the movie poster for Being There. It's tempting to describe these works as surreal, but it's more to the point to equate them with magical realism, the literary genre in which the supernatural is super natural. After this exercise in make-believe, stroll up the block for a cool show of kids' art at Downtown Presbyterian Church.
Up on Broadway, The Tennessee Art League opens four new September shows. Cindy Billingsley is a popular Franklin-based painter and sculptor. Her show in the Premiere Gallery explores Alzheimer's and aging as well as the plight of endangered species. The Poston3 Gallery will display work by homeless artists who've been participating in the art program at Room in The Inn. Shows by the Studio A Group and Tennessee Art League members round out TAL's September offerings.
Knoxville's own Gary Monroe is best known for his large charcoal drawings of frenzied snake handlers in the midst of their fang-fueled ecstasies. For his show at Estel Gallery this month, he forgoes the fervor of such festivities for illumination of a different kind. Monroe's new series serves up worship-worthy images of Elvis Presley. Despite choosing such a hackneyed subject, Monroe avoids cliches through his sure-handed craftsmanship, his straight-faced appropriation of religious iconography stylistics, his art-historical allusions to various Baroque masters — and what appear to be a few hints of William Blake.
Speaking of Blake, it was the great poet, painter and printmaker who wrote in "To Autumn" that this was the time of year to celebrate the harvest and to "Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers." As Nashville's best art season begins blazing into full color, we can't think of a better spirit in which to celebrate.
Email arts@nashvillescene.com.
Nashville falls into the autumn gallery season with September's First Saturday festivities: Crawl Space


Ryan Lovelace is a "freelance surf-craft builder" making some of the strangest sticks I've ever seen. Based out of a bus he's converted into a bohemian abode, Ryan builds all of his boards from beginning to end. Some might seem odd if you're unfamiliar, others will appear obvious if you're interested. Ryan builds v.Bowls, Flex Spoons, finless asymmetrical shapes, displacement hulls and all sorts of single fins. A craftsman, yes, but Ryan is also experimenting and evolving his shapes - nothing stays the same.
While surfing in Costa Rica last week, an East Coast kat paddled past me aboard some strange kind of craft. And so I asked, "What sorta stick is that?" To which he replied, "It's a 7'8 v.Bowl made by this guy..." I interject. "Ryan Lovelace?!" Yes, says the surfer. "It's amazing, I can catch anything on it." Thus began my research into Ryan's v.Bowls, a surfboard that is "Templated with Wayne Lynch's Evolution Board in mind; using thin, modern rails with lots of hard edge in the tail." Featuring wide hips, a shallow vee and a slight hull near the nose, Ryan's v.Bowls are, as far as I can tell (and from what I've seen), the perfect midlength board for just about any occasion.


"The we can finally get down to the fact as to whether or not she has Indian blood", the president said. There were no disruptions by protesters during the oral arguments, with security tight in the courtroom.
After an extra Federal Bureau of Investigation probe-which media reports say was drastically curtailed by the White House-also found nothing new, Kavanaugh was finally voted into the coveted post.
In court, Kavanaugh asked questions of both sides in arguments over increased prison sentences for repeat offenders.
While their chances in the House are still seen as good, Republicans are feeling better about the upper chamber.
In the first case, Stokeling v. U.S., the court will weigh whether under the Armed Career Criminal Act, a state robbery offense should be considered a "violent" felony. The cases concerned a Florida robbery conviction and burglary convictions in Tennessee and Arkansas. Fifty-nine percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of others agreed that the Senate handled it poorly. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court previous year.
He later wrote in a newspaper opinion piece that he regretted some of his comments.
"I absolutely believe Dr. Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee impacted individuals in the Northwestern community", Wake said.
The two-vote margin of victory in the Senate made it the closest Supreme Court confirmation vote since 1881 - and by far the most contentious since Clarence Thomas in 1991.
All eight of the Supreme Court's other justices attended the White House ceremony, a show of collegiality by members of an ideologically divided court.
"This is truly an historic week for America", said Trump, praising Republican senators for standing up to what he called "the Democrats' shameful campaign of political and personal destruction" against his nominee.