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CNN's Chris Cuomo Forced To Defend Trump Against Rosie O'Donnell
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It became clear very quickly from CNN host Chris Cuomo's deer-caught-in-headlights look that he probably regretted bringing liberal activist and TV personality Rosie O'Donnell onto his show for an interview.
In fact, things got so bizarre that he actually found himself defending President Trump in the face of Rosie's attacks.
The virulently anti-Trump Cuomo brought Rosie onto his show to talk about her renewed protests outside the White House fence, but she quickly got too much for even him to handle. After calling Fox News "just like state TV in Russia" and saying that most of America want Trump out of office, Rosie claimed that the 2016 presidential election was entirely rigged in Trump's favor.
"Well, one step at time, the Russian interference is a known fact. The impact on the election is not a known fact," Cuomo interjected. "You believe the actual outcome was rigged or just that there were efforts?"
"I do believe it was rigged. I don't believe it was efforts. If you listen to all of our mainstream intelligence people, they believe it, too," Rosie claimed.
"Well, they don't believe votes were changed," the CNN host contradicted her.
After a stunned pause, Rosie continued, "Did they [the Russians] come in there and make Trump win when every single exit poll and every person in America knew for sure that Hillary Clinton was going to win? Do you think there was anything to do with Russia, or just a really big swell for Donald Trump in these specific areas with the same exact amount of votes that were needed? It looks very hanky to me."
The wild claims and extreme exaggerations kept coming.
Afraid her extremism could catch on, Cuomo tried to give progressives like her advice on the dangers of calling for Trump's impeachment if Democrats take the Senate in November, especially after she falsely claimed that the "majority of America" wants Trump impeached.
"You don't have the votes, it doesn't happen, you galvanize support for the president, and we are torn more apart in this country — are you worried about that outcome?" Cuomo asked her."Here is my other concern," Cuomo continued. "There is reason to criticize the president — I'm not going to fight you on that. However, for the Democrats to come into mainstream power — that means they have what the Republicans have, the House, the Senate, the White House — I think history suggests you have to be more than anti. You have to be pro things. You have to give people a reason to believe."
He asked: "What is that for Democrats? Where they can say not just that 'he's a liar, he's a bad guy' but 'here's how we'll make the economy even better' — which is hard given the numbers — that we'll be even safer than we are? Because that's what people be looking to."
Rather than answer his question, Rosie immediately attacked the fact that the economy is doing well, questioning CNN's own conclusion and claiming instead that the "economy is doing good if you're a multi-billionaire. It's not doing good, and the tax cuts didn't do good for the average American."
Cuomo opened his mouth to correct her, but she just kept on going.
"The fact of the matter is, he's not only bad because he's a liar; he's bad because he doesn't know how to inspire people," Rosie then claimed.
"What about his rallies?" Cuomo piped up.
Rosie paused uncomfortably, her eyes shifting around wildly.
"First of all, people are paid, Chris, you know that," she finally replied. "People were paid since he went down on the escalator. He pays people to show up that those rallies. That is a fact!"
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Even Cuomo couldn't accept that, telling her instead, "I don't know that's why he gets tens of thousands at the rallies. I think he captures a lot of emotion for people."
"But he doesn't get tens of thousands!" she insisted. "When did he get tens of thousands at the last rally?"
"No, not at the Tampa [rally]. I think they only had 9,000 seats, and there were people outside. But, Rosie, I've seen them," he corrected her. "He gets big groups of people who come out. He gives themes that resonate."
"But, Chris, are those people paid?" Rosie demanded.
"I don't have the facts that his crowds are bought off. I don't have that," shot back a visibly frustrated Cuomo. "I'm not going to do with the president does. I'm not going to say 'they're all bought off, they're all fake,' because I think that's BS. I don't think it's true, and I'm not going to play to it just because it's satisfying."
After Rosie told CNN they needed to get those "facts" and play a segment about every Trump rally-goer being paid off before they show any rally, Cuomo admitted that he doesn't air Trump's rallies and ended the interview a short while later.
Afghan Quagmire Gets Deeper, Denser And Bloodier
Mutiny now "on the table"
By Brian Cloughley
In April 1971 John Kerry, who served gallantly in Vietnam and was later Secretary of State, stood in front of a US Senate Committee and asked "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Today, we could do with a John Kerry to ask the same question about the war in Afghanistan.
On August 5 it was reported that "a suicide bomber has killed three Czech NATO soldiers in an attack in eastern Afghanistan. The victims were targeted while on a routine foot patrol alongside Afghan forces, NATO officials said in a statement. A US soldier and two Afghan soldiers were wounded in the attack in Charikar, the capital of Parwan province."
Just what is being achieved by Czech soldiers on fighting patrols 5,000 kilometres from home is not explained by any of the authorities responsible for their deployment — and thus for placing them in jeopardy of their lives — but the usual nauseating platitudes were promptly mouthed by some of them.
Idiot traitor John Kerry
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, declared that the dead soldiers were "heroes who fought against terrorism so far from home."
Well, he should know about operating far from home. Forbes lists him as being worth four billion dollars and owning "a Michelin-starred restaurant, La Paloma, in the French Riviera" which is no doubt some consolation to the relatives and friends of the men who were killed.
Babis, of course, sent his "deepest condolences to their families," as did the ever-ready General John Nicholson, the sixteenth commander in Washington's seventeen years of war, who, never at a loss for futile banality, babbled that "Their sacrifice will endure in both our hearts and history and further strengthen our resolve." What utter garbage.
Czech plane returns bodies of soldiers
The "sacrifice" of these Czech soldiers won't be felt by any hearts other than those of their grieving families, and it is insulting to claim that it will. And their deaths won't get even the tiniest footnote in history. As to "strengthening our resolve" — resolve to do what? — to carry on mouthing phoney inanities about the utter chaos in Afghanistan?
This tawdry exhibition of fake emotion sticks in the gullet — but it's not as sickening as the observation in The Economist that the war's "current cost — roughly $45 billion and around a dozen lives a year — is modest enough to invite little interest from Congress or the media. That suggests Mr. Trump's strategy is sustainable."
"Sustainable?"
The talented intellectuals of The Economist think that the deaths of a dozen American soldiers every year in the unwinnable Afghan War indicate that the policies of Trump and the Pentagon can be maintained indefinitely. What's a dozen lives, after all?
Well, listen to me, you clever little intellectuals and you swaggering military strategists, because I'm going to tell you a few home truths.
The soldiers who have died — and those who are going to die —have relatives who love them. They have parents, brothers, sisters, wives, partners, children, all of whom suffer when the lives of their nearest and dearest are sacrificed by a bunch of no-hopers as part of a "modest" cost in a supposedly "sustainable strategy" in a country that is ungovernable.
The Costs of War Project at Brown University estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the war in Afghanistan. They weren't all soldiers, of course, because in conflicts like this, the civilian population always suffers from action by both militants and the armed forces involved. In July, the UN reported that 1,692 Afghan civilians were killed, and 3,430 injured in the first six months of 2018, which is the record for that period in the seventeen years of this catastrophe.
But let's get back to the soldiers who are dying.
On August 9 it was finally acknowledged by the Kabul government that over twenty Afghan soldiers had been killed in an insurgent attack on August 3 in Uruzgan province. There were no US-NATO troops involved, so there has been little reporting of the disaster by the western media, and no mention of it whatever by NATO headquarters, but it is the most serious setback suffered by the Afghan Army for several months.
Consider what happens to the dependant families of dead Afghan soldiers: the widows are entitled to pensions, of course — but Afghanistan is the third most corrupt country in the world. Do you imagine for a moment that these anguished women receive a fraction of the tiny amount to which they are entitled? Of course they don't. Usually, they don't get a bean, because the money is stolen by crooked and heartless government officials. What have you to say to that, General Nicholson? Does it strengthen your resolve to do anything?
As reported by the Japan Times, "Help for Afghan Heroes, an Afghan non-profit organization supporting 5,000 families of wounded or dead security forces, said corruption is a key reason many women do not receive assistance." Nasreen Sharar, special projects officer for the group, said that "they are asked to pay a bribe to get the application processed and they often don't have the money."
Of course they don't have the money. They are just tiny inconsequential and stricken blobs in a "sustainable strategy" that costs $45 billion and "around a dozen lives a year."
Hashratullah Ahmadzai, spokesman for Kabul's Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled, told Arab News "We are in a state of war. The number of women who become widows is increasing. Those who fight on the government side and those on the side of the Taliban and the militants have wives and mothers too. People on both sides suffer and women on all sides are affected more than anyone in this war."
But what about the Czech army soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan? The western media carried the 130 word Reuter's report about their deaths, and then forgot all about them, which makes a sick joke of Nicholson's pompous pronouncement that "Their sacrifice will endure in both our hearts and history."
They were Staff Sergeant Martin Marcin, 36, and Corporals Kamil Benes, 28, and Patrik Stepanek, 25, about whose deaths the Czech Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar declared that "We have witnessed a tragedy that can hardly be prevented when you serve in the army." I would really like to be able to put that grubby politician on a patrol in Afghanistan, along with the intellectuals of The Economist and all the other smart-assed commentators to whom soldiers' lives and grieving widows mean nothing.
Not that the Czech government told us much about the widows or other relatives of the soldiers Mr Metnar sent to die in Afghanistan. All that was reported by Czech Radio was "One leaves behind a widow and a three-month-old baby."
At least, she'll probably be paid her pension, unlike so many widows of Afghan Army soldiers who also died for... What?
In all the years of useless conflict in Afghanistan the western media has never listed the names of Afghan Army soldiers killed in action, because these soldiers don't matter in the greater scheme of things — the "sustainable strategy" — in which they are but inconsequential pawns, as are all the civilians who are killed by bombing, whether on the ground by the Taliban, or from the sky by Afghan-US-NATO airstrikes.
The BBC reports that "Since President Trump announced his Afghanistan strategy . . . the number of bombs dropped by the US Air Force has surged dramatically. New rules of engagement have made it easier for US forces to carry out strikes against the Taliban" and this surge in aerial blitzing has certainly had an effect.
In the first six months of 2018 the UN documented "353 civilian casualties (149 deaths and 204 injured) from aerial attacks, a 52 per cent increase from the same period in 2017. The mission attributed 52 per cent of all civilian casualties from aerial attacks to the Afghan Air Force, 45 per cent to international military forces, and the remaining three per cent to unidentified Pro-Government Forces."
While Afghan and foreign air forces blitz the country, and the Taliban and other militants wreak havoc with their constant attacks, all that happens politically is that corruption thrives and the murderously criminal vice-president, Abdurrashid Dostum, returns from self-imposed exile to create further chaos. The place is ungovernable, and the foreigners should get out, now.
As John Kerry said, almost fifty years ago: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
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Anton Hermann Königsdörffer (* 12. Oktober 1812 in Eilenburg, Königreich Sachsen; † 20. November 1889 in Niederfähre-Vorbrücke) war ein deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer, Lehrer und Autor.

Leben und Wirken
Er war der Sohn eines königlich-sächsischen Baumeisters. Königsdörffer besuchte von 1826 bis 1832 das Gymnasium zu St. Nicolai in der Messestadt Leipzig. Im Anschluss studierte er an der Universität Leipzig 1835 Theologie. Danach war er als Hauslehrer im Königreich Preußen  und in Ungarn tätig. Er war zeitweilig Instruktor der Prinzen Ernst und Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg, zuletzt Instituts- und Privatlehrer in Dresden. 1851 wechselte er in den Dienst der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche und wurde Diakonus in der Stadt Stolpen. 1859 erhielt Königsdörffer die Stelle des lutherischen Pfarrers in  Langhennersdorf bei Freiberg. 1883 wurde Königsdörffer emeritiert. Er starb 1889 in Vorbrücke, einem Ortsteil von Niederfähre-Vorbrücke, heute Meißen.

Familie
Hermann Königsdörffer heiratete am 3. August 1851 in der Stadtkirche zu Torgau Ida geborene Schmarl.

Publikationen (Auswahl)
 Geschichtliches Lottospiel zum Nutzen und Vergnügen der lernbegierigen Jugend. Buchner'sche Buchhandlung, Bayreuth, 1837.
 Weltgeschichtliches Lottospiel, zum Nutzen und Vergnügen der lernbegierigen Jugend. 2. Aufl., Funcke, Crefeld, 1839.
 Naturgeschichtliches Lottospiel in 300 Abbildungen mit erläuterndem Texte, zum Nutzen und Vergnügen der Jugend. Funcke, Crefeld, 1839.
 Evangelische Herzstärkung im Gebet und Lied, dem kirchlichen Gebet- und Liederschätze entnommen. 2. Aufl. Naumann, Dresden, 1870.
 Verwüstung der Kirchfahrt Langhennerdorf bei Freiberg im dreißigjährigen Kriege und ihre Wiederherstellung, Freiberg, 1879.
 Memorabilia der Kirchfahrt Langhennersdorf b. Freiberg aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. In: Franz Dibelius und Gotthard Lechler (Hrsg.): Beiträge zur Sächsischen Kirchengeschichte, Zweites Heft, Leipzig, 1883, S. 54–85.

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Weblinks
 Eintrag im Pfarrerbuch Sachsen

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[I finally went to buy bread today. Long walk both ways, but it means I can eat. Anyway, a plotline for super-person universe was quite developed, though far from fully formed, by the time I got back home. I'm thinking I'll do some installments to get what's in my head out.]
[Corv has previously appeared in "A Confrontation in Hell" and "Bunking Together" (those are placed in in-universe chronological order), this plot-line takes place after those.]
An arrow shot into the mechanical pangolin, and it was soon engulfed in an unnatural fire. The ease with which it was dispatched did not bother Corv. The fact that whoever had done so waited until it had led Corv away from the rest of her team did.
Someone landed behind her, and Corv expected a trap.
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As she turned she surveyed where the individual might have jumped from. There was nowhere that would account for how light the landing had been.
"Here I thought I'd have to come up with some elaborate ruse to get to talk to you alone, and it turned out all I had to do was follow the sounds of explosions and screaming and then wait for a bit."
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"And here I stand still un-attacked," the individual said; "I sense a willingness to hear me out."
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"Well, you know how you just said your team is your family?" the individual asked. "You might want to reconsider that seeing as how you're no longer your father's only begotten daughter."
Corv suppressed disbelief, anger, confusion, doubt, and even fear so that she could say, "If what you say is true, it would have been better to approach my entire team," levelly. "I shall summon them now."
"Wait, wait, wait," the individual said, now approaching. Hands up and palms open obviously meant to indicate a lack of threat. "I came to you, not your little club of vigilantes."
"We are an official branch of city law enforcement," Corv said.
"And sanctioned by the League of 'this didn't work for nations so why would we expect it to work for heroes?'; I know," the individual said.
Corv was vaguely amused. She decided to let it show. "The name 'United Heroes' evokes the feel of a corporation."
"That would be 'Heroes United', thank you very much."
"Now you evoke the feel of a football team," Corv countered.
"What rules? Association, rugby, gridiron, Australian, or Gaelic?"
"I think it likely that you know I had in mind Manchester United when I said that," Corv said.
The individual shrugged and said, "Association. Why not just call it 'soccer'?"
Corv's amusement had reached an end. While she was not left ill-tempered by this fact, she did wish to move to the serious business at hand.
"I shall summon my team," she said. "If you wish to be useful, you will tell me what makes you believe my father has sired another child."
"This is a family matter," the individual said, "not something that calls for a bunch of oddballs in silly uniforms."
Corv didn't allow her body to respond to that, but she was somewhat annoyed none the less.
Over the past year she had increasingly taken to wearing a hoodie and blue jeans --clothes she had identified as quintessentially normal for earthbound humans in this region-- as her mission garb and did not think it was fair to classify her as an oddball in a silly uniform.
Instead of responding to that part of the comment, she decided to respond to the first half. "If what you say is true then it is a matter of my family."
"You didn't even know she existed a few minutes ago and now you claim her like she's some object?" Corv could tell that the individual was genuinely upset at the idea. "Fine. Have it your way. She's your family on her father's side and my family on her mother's."
Corv had been planning to say that her invocation of her family had been because she knew the threat her father posed rather than a claim of ownership, but she was shocked by the revelation of additional family ties. Part of her mind very much wanted all of this to be a lie. Things would be easier.
Unfortunately, nothing had given her any indications of deception.
After some silence, the individual said, "I think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot here. Maybe we should start over."
Corv nodded.
"In informal settings I prefer to be called 'Corv', and my pronouns are 'she', 'hers', 'her'," Corv said. "What is your name, and what are your pronouns?"
"I go by 'Enzie', unless you and I get exceptionally close in a real hurry, and 'they' et alia."
"Enzie," Corv said, "it is extremely doubtful that you know my father and his followers better than I do. Please trust me when I say that we will require help. My team is capable, I trust them, and by their vocation they have agreed to put their lives in great jeopardy."
Enzie didn't respond. Instead they looked at the ground as though it had suddenly become interesting.
"Do you have an alternative suggestion as to where we might procure the help we will doubtless need?" Corv asked.
After a while, Enzie said, "I don't like your vocation, and I don't like your politics. We have common cause because we share a relative who is almost certainly in great danger." They sighed. "If I can put up with your team for the duration of our collaboration, it's only fair that they put up with me. That means no digging into my past, no moral judgments, no lectures, and no law enforcement activities in my general direction."
"That seems equitable and viable," Corv said. "It is, as you said, a family matter."
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Enzie is one of the people who doesn't have a code name. That said, the fact that "Enzie" is a shortening of "Mackenzie" is privileged information. Enzie doesn't remember if "Mackenzie" is their first or last name, just that it is their real name. The one their mother called them before she died.
As one might guess based on the prohibition on law enforcement activities in their direction, Enzie is a criminal. Proud of it too.

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Q: How do I best set up a repository for an Android app? I am setting up a repository on Github for the source code of my Android app. I am using Eclipse with the ADT plugin. Besides everything in src/, res/, and AndroidManifest.xml, what else should I include so that anyone who wants to work with the source code can begin work with Eclipse with minimal effort?

A: You should include everything except the bin-folder (this can be generated by the other user). Also, if you're using Eclipse, you might want to use eGit.

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4 p.m. — The House Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee meets to consider its FY23 spending bill, 2359 Rayburn.
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This week's Open Mic guest is Constance Coleman, President and CEO of the American Feed Industry Association.In addition to concerns about the availability of commodities for future seasons, Cullman said U.S. feed manufacturers are also concerned about trade deals that maintain and expand access to global markets and provide customers with needed mineral inputs.Cullman quipped that the EU's regulatory structure has more access to feed ingredients that improve herd sustainability than the U.S. Cullman said the country's road and rail transportation systems have created enormous difficulties in delivering feed to livestock producers in a timely manner.AFIA implores Washington to take all possible precautions to protect the country's livestock from exotic animal diseases, suggesting the outbreak will affect not only meat exports but feed as well.
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Michigan's Very First Carnival Arrived in 1903
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The first carnival to show up in the United States was brought here by Frank Bostock in 1894. From that point on, the floodgates opened. But what was the very first carnival to appear in Michigan?
Michigan's very first carnival was the Pilbeam Amusement Company carnival.
The Pilbeam Company was owned by Frank & Harry Pilbeam, who brought Michigan its first carnivals from 1903 thru 1938.
In answer to the Pilbeam's success, during the last half of the 20th Century, carnivals began popping up all throughout Michigan. The one that seemed to appear everywhere were the W.G. Wade carnivals, who took over the majority of carnivals in Michigan.
The Wade carnivals seemed to be everywhere: the Michigan State Fairgrounds, legion halls, parking lots, athletic fields...anywhere they were allowed to set up, they did.
The company was founded in Michigan by Lee Wade and his sons in 1912, under the name 'Imperial Shows'. Detroit was the first area to enjoy the carnivals, which years later changed its name to 'Joyland Midway Attractions'.
Lee's son Wallace G. Wade began his own carny business in 1916, calling it the W.G. Wade Shows. Soon, the Wade carnivals had spread out all through Michigan and became the major summertime amusement.
Lee died in 1946 at age 87. When W.G. passed away in 1956, his son, W.G. Jr., took over the business.
Thanks to the Wade shows, many other carnival companies came and went. Former Wade employees were known to start up their own companies after getting experience with Wade. Some of Michigan's other carnival shows include:
A. J. Carl Shows
Carlson Shows
Cavalcade of Amusements
Crown Amusements
Ingalls Amusements
Happyland Shows
J. J. Frederick Shows
James E. Strates Shows
King's United Shows
Lee United Shows
Midwest Attractions
Midwest Shows
Motor City Shows
Motor State Shows
Northwestern Shows
Seahl's Great Northern Shows
Skerbeck Bros Shows, Inc.
Tri-State Shows
Whitey's Amusements
Wilber's Wolverine Shows
World of Pleasure Shows
Zeidman & Pollie Shows
But the Wade shows are the ones that made their mark in our memories.
To see a gallery of 50 photos showing old Michigan carnivals, fairs and circuses going back to the 1890s, CLICK HERE!
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Category Archives: Light Field Cameras
Lytro Light Field Cameras
Photographers and computer graphics geeks alike have been looking forward to the release of the Lytro Light Field Camera early this year. I pre-ordered mine last year and am hoping to get it in March if everything goes according to plan. The light field camera (also sometimes referred to as a plenoptic camera) has the potential to open up a new generation of techniques for capturing, viewing and exploring images.
Tracing the direction and intensity of light in an artificial computer generated scene has been a well researched topic over the years, involving such techniques as radiosity and ray tracing. These techniques have been used to drive advances in realistic computer graphics that are now routine to see in video games and movies. In essence the light field camera brings these theoretical computer generated graphics techniques into the real world and "reverse engineers" a captured scene by recording both the direction and intensity of the incoming light across the entire sensor array.
From my initial read of Lytro CEO Ren NG's Ph.D. Thesis, the new technology creates a 4D mapping of the scene as a set of "ray pixels" holding light intensity and incoming direction vector at each sensor location. Through software treatment of the sensor data it is possible to then change how the scene appears in a 2D image. The most frequently given examples shown for interacting with the scenes are by changing the focus points and creating 3D type effects. This technology represents a fascinating fusion of photography and computer graphics, and I am sure that I will have much more to write about this technolgy in the future.
For now though, I am interested in the consumer perspective for this new technology. Lytro seems to be focussing (hah!) on a fairly broad range of customers at this point, with a simple to use device that can be enjoyed by complete novices. The device appears to have relatively low resolution compared to DSLRs and even consumer compact cameras. That makes complete sense for their current startup status; once they get the first version out the door and the revenues start flowing in then they can work on creating tighter sensor array densities and higher image resolutions.
From a photographer's perspective the Lytro camera offers a huge advantage in not having to attend too much to finding the best focussing distance for the shot. In addition, the camera does need not to spend time autofocusing before the shot, which is a big cause for the slowness of consumer cameras with their slow contrast detect focussing technique. From the examples shown on their website it appears that the device is able to capture a fairly large depth of field in a single shot, but not an infinite depth of field. This has the potential to be a boon for certain types of photographers who require a fast reacting and highly mobile camera, street photographers come to mind immediately. This could potentially also be useful for other types of photography where a large depth of field is desirable, such as landscape and architectural photography. I think the usefulness in these latter types would be more limited however, as the use of tripods and smaller aperture settings with longer exposures can already provide a fairly large depth of field. It is pretty easy to simulate out-of-focus areas in an in-focus image using Aperture or Photoshop.
After the scene is captured, the interesting question becomes what are the cool and useful ways of allowing the viewer to see and interact with those images. "Cool" and "useful" aren't always the same thing when it comes to new technology. The Lytro site has several flash examples allowing the user to click on regions of an image and have the focus point shift to that part of the image. It isn't completely clear to the outsider what is happening under the hood, but it appears that the interaction is telling the software to choose a single focus plane from the scene and render the image with that plane in focus. My guess would be that it uses a contrast detect algorithm to find the plane of maximum focus in the 2D region of the touch, and then apply that focusing plane to the entire image.
This is really cool to watch, but is it actually useful? Lytro is making a big effort to make it easy for people to view and share their images online, pointing out that the Facebook community is projected to publish 100 billion (thousand million) photos online in 2011. Clearly online is "where the eyeballs are" so it makes sense to go after that market aggressively, but will the average facebook member — faced with dozens of photos in their stream every day — really want to have to click and explore individual photos to get the most of them? Pushing focus presentation choices out to the viewer empowers them, but with more and more online photos to view and attention spans even shorter on-line than in the real world, there is a potential conflict. Once the novelty wears off there is a need for a value proposition that makes it worthwhile for both the producer and consumer of the scenes to bring the additional complexity to the viewing process.
In my opinion this is the truly critical area for Lytro to address, and the richest opportunity for creating a paradigm shifting sharing and viewing experience. My guess is that the best value propositions will arise not from allowing viewers to interact directly with the field data to shift focus fields around, but rather from intermediate software layers that allow creatives and producers to produce semi-guided presentations of the scene to the viewer. For example an interactive ad creator could use animated focus shifts to guide the viewer through a sequence of impressions in a single image in a subtle fashion. The need that I imagine for guided tours through the 4D light field dataset is somewhat analogous to what we saw in the graphics and visualization community in the 1990's and 2000's: users given free reign to navigate unconstrained through virtual 3D spaces could quickly become lost or fail to observe the critical features. A variety of constrained navigation techniques were introduced to allow novice and expert viewers to more easily move through the 3D worlds. I see a similar set of techniques arising to deal with the 4D light field camera sensor data.
It remains to be seen whether Lytro's light field camera will be just a cool gadget or something more enduring in the market. My guess leans more towards the latter, but there are substantial software and marketing hurdles to got over before that will happen. My hope is that Lytro will open up a Developers SDK for their file formats that lets them tap into a rich community of developers on different platforms. They have indicated some tentative support for this idea, but nothing is on the table yet. Of course when these light field principles are applied to video, a whole set of ripe opportunities opens up, in addition to some formidable engineering challenges. I'll write more about that in a future post.
One thing is for sure, this is going to be an interesting few years as the technology enters the market, and I will be following it fairly closely. Please select one of my feeds from the "Stay in Touch" area at the top of this page for more updates and examples when I get my own copy of the camera to experiment with.


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Q: Selenium Headless chrome runs much slower I have a class for Selenium parser:
class DynamicParser(Parser):
    """Selenium Parser with processing JS"""
    driver: Chrome = None

    def __init__(self, driver_path='./chromedriver', headless=True):
        chrome_options = Options()
        if headless:
            chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
            chrome_options.add_argument("window-size=1920,1080")

        # bypass OS security
        chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
        # overcome limited resources
        chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
        # don't tell chrome that it is automated
        chrome_options.add_experimental_option(
            "excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
        chrome_options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
        # disable images
        prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
        chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)

        # Setting Capabilities
        capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()
        capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True
        capabilities['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True

        self.driver = Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options,
                             executable_path=driver_path, desired_capabilities=capabilities)

    def goto(self, url: str):
        """Goes to specified URL"""
        self.driver.get(url)

    def get_seller_name(self) -> str:
        """Returns seller's name"""
        offer_actions_tag = self.driver.find_element_by_class_name(
            'offer-user__actions')
        profile_link_tag = offer_actions_tag.find_element_by_tag_name('a')
        return profile_link_tag.text.strip()

Also I have a test script, which creates DynamicParser, goes to some page and calls .get_seller_name().
I noticed that when I run Chromedriver headless, it runs much slower, so i tested it using time python3 test.py.
Output for headless chrome:
python3 test.py  2,98s user 0,94s system 3% cpu 2:04,65 total

Output for non-headless chrome:
python3 test.py  1,48s user 0,33s system 47% cpu 3,790 total

As we can see, headless chrome runs almost 33 times slower!
Chrome version: 83.0.4103.116
Chromedriver version: 83.0.4103.39
I don't really understand what's the problem. When I developed my previous application, headless chrome worked fast enough.

A: Just found the problem. It was
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

I supposed that it should have unlimit chrome resources, but it definitely doesn't work in this case.

A: When running headless driver you can also use those settings for the performance improvement.
browser_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
browser_options.headless = True
image_preferences = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
browser_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", image_preferences)


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I know this is another one that Roger did recently, but I just had to throw my hat in the ring for this one. I want to start off by saying how much I love that the subject of bigfoot in horror movies is almost becoming its own sub-genre. I love the subject matter and I think that it being paired with the found footage craze is like pairing peanut butter and jelly… it just makes sense! My recent review of Hunting the Legend will attest to that, but even more proof is right here with Bobcat Goldthwait's Willow Creek.
I won't waste anybody's time by writing out the entire synopsis again because you can see that in Roger's review. All you need to know is that Jim and his girlfriend Kelly go on a trip into the woods to find evidence of the legend known as bigfoot. As soon as nightfall hits, it's game on!
I'm not sure there are too many directors out there that can pull off an almost 20 minute, seemingly single cut scene of just staring at two actors faces the entire time. I felt like I was in the tent with them, hearing every howl, clenching at every distant knocking sound. I'm telling you, if you watch this movie in the dark, by yourself, with the volume turned up loud, you will be frightened. It is a perfect example of a horror film that captivates you with without using all of the bells and whistles to do so.
I give this film 4 bigfoot burgers out of 5 and recommend you check it out for yourself. It is available from Dark Sky Films this Tuesday, September 9, so be sure to purchase your copy!


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Q: How can I upgrade the contract in future? Contract functions are upgradable, but not states, for example
#[near_bindgen]
#[derive(BorshDeserialize, BorshSerialize, PanicOnDefault)]
pub struct Contract {
   owner_id: AccountId
}

If I want to add another field, say saving_id, it gives error
#[near_bindgen]
#[derive(BorshDeserialize, BorshSerialize, PanicOnDefault)]
pub struct Contract {
   owner_id: AccountId,
   saving_id: AccountId
}

How can I write upgradable contract?

A: This is one approach used by berrycards
https://github.com/evgenykuzyakov/berry-hot/blob/master/contract/src/lib.rs#L58

A: You should write a migrate function similar to the init function, but instead of creating the state from scratch, first you have access to the old state, perform migrations and dump the new state.
To do this from a rust contract you need to annotate the migration function with #[init(ignore_state)] (available in near-sdk-rs in 3.0.1). This will execute the function without checking if the contract is initialised first.
The full example took from near-sdk-rs:
#[near_bindgen]
impl Contract {
    #[init(ignore_state)]
    pub fn migrate_state(new_data: String) -> Self {
        // Deserialize the state using the old contract structure.
        let old_contract: OldContract = env::state_read().expect("Old state doesn't exist");
        // Verify that the migration can only be done by the owner.
        // This is not necessary, if the upgrade is done internally.
        assert_eq!(
            &env::predecessor_account_id(),
            &old_contract.owner_id,
            "Can only be called by the owner"
        );

        // Create the new contract using the data from the old contract.
        Self { owner_id: old_contract.owner_id, data: old_contract.data, new_data }
    }
}


Mr. Bernard (BJ) Ryder and Mr. John Capriotti co-founded Reliability & Performance Technologies (R&P) in 2001. From the inception of R&P, he has supported the Navy's LPD 17 Program (PMS 317), LCS Program (PMS 501) and Amphibious Warfare Program (PMS 377). Prior to co-founding R&P, Mr. Ryder was an In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) at NSWC Philadelphia (NAVSSES) and he has extensive experience in naval ship acquisition and in-service engineering support in the following areas: shipboard power generation, distribution, and control systems; military specification electrical testing; and new technology insertion on shipboard electrical systems. Mr. Ryder has also done extensive work on variable speed drive motor control systems. Mr. Ryder earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 1991.


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Synonyms and Antonyms of atomic number 36
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synonym (synonym of atomic number 36)
(noun.substance)
kr, krypton
a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air (noun.substance)
hypernym (atomic number 36 IS A KIND OF .... relation)
chemical element, element
any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combina more.. any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter (noun.substance)
argonon, inert gas, noble gas
any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table (noun.substance)
substance meronym (HAS SUBSTANCE relation)
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of (noun.substance)
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The way noon crosses though a song.
And you do not tire.
Listen to the voice that echoes to you, Narcissus.
one arrived at an enclosed space.
Will you catch me? asks the son.
knowing he was never to see my eyes again.
Never make friends with a crow!
The wind trembled all night, building after building.
I marvel at new system shows.
The casual elegance of Armani.
They fight a losing battle of dates.
I dreamt each time we're together, three people are there.
A silver-haired commander came and took me to the firing zone.
For two weeks already I haven't heard from you.
A special kind of fear: Petrol-air bombs.
the night staff clock in for duty.
I would like to fly with you tonight.
i enter the ninth ward a sheep hung at the neck.
for theirs shall be the light of their own dominion.
Paints a bird where once a tiger was.
The father is holding a violin.
an eyeball with a sun.
all the neighbors went to the Gogol workshop.
From this point on there will be no more women.
Do not press so eagerly to live!
I watched the time and I knew the night.
My mind set up fires in the nothingness.
Death always finds excuses . . .
Once again, the last flake of the big snow.
Hardship seemed the fifth disciple in the entourage.
One thing holds, the other does not.
Today two hours of yesterday's repeats.
My body slowly sifts its signs.
It fell irretrievably down the stairs.
just to see first light again.
I was born in Santa Marta on October 4, 1957.
my work's getting nowhere again.
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Congratulations to Trevor Wadds from Longframlington who, after weeks of trying, eventually caught a Grand Slam: a rainbow, brown, blue and tiger trout, using small dries, Diawl Bachs and Cat's Whiskers. Trevor caught 10 fish in total. Jimmy Brown from Etal caught a 4lb 8oz rainbow from Dunnydeer Lake. The fly box this week has been Buzzers, nymphs, Daddies and dries. The Junior Fly Fishing Taster Days started on Wednesday July 26, sessions from 10am to 12, 1pm to 3pm. £20 includes fishing equipment, tuition, fishing permit and keeping a fish. Please visit www.chattontroutfishery.com for further dates and information. Limited spaces are still available for Fishing for Bradley on Saturday August 19. Please ring the fishery on 01668 215226 to book a place.
The fishery closes at 9pm and 10pm on a Friday and Saturday this week. After Saturday July 29, the fishery will be closing every Saturday at 5pm.
For the week July 17-23 the 121 anglers caught 230 fish of which 171 were returned. Best fish 6lb to Mike Bownes, from Wilsthorpe, on a Tequila FAB; 5lb 2oz for Darren Oram, Aldwincle, Red Diawl Bach, boat; 5lb 1oz to James Wilson, Lutterworth, Damsel, boat. Best bank areas are east arm and boat bay; best boat areas are east arm, pylon point, down middle. Successful patterns include Red Diawl Bach/Cruncher, Damsel, Red Apps', Candy/Tequila FAB, Hoppers. Another tricky week with the water still warm although anglers are catching fish on cloudier, cooler days. Damsels continue to be the main food source with fish taking nymphs and adults. Boat and bank anglers are finding more fish at the top of the wind where the water is much clearer. Please take extra care during the summer when returning fish. They should be unhooked in the net without removing from the water. Upcoming competitions: Sunday November 12, Dave Hughes Memorial Fur & Feather (bank & boat).
Water temperature and the weather played a large part in last week's results, however the indications are that conditions should improve further over the next few days. The aerators/boils have now been running for a couple of months and are holding a lot of fish with plenty showing near the surface. Some of the newly stocked fish have been happy to feed in the upper layers of the water or on dries off the top during the last couple of days, with resident fish being tempted on Di-5 lines and Snakes. The bank anglers have found the fishing very challenging with very few offers, in the evenings a few trout are periodically moving in to the margins and feeding on the fry.
Ian Breadley fished the boils on Monday and took his four-fish limit on Snakes and Buzzers while Draycote manager Kevin Hart took time off for a spot of pleasure fishing and fished a morning session landing seven trout on sinking line and Snakes.
The going on Tuesday was tough but season permit holder D. Murphy was fishing the boils and slipped the net under a lovely 3lb 13oz blue. P. Walker was top rod of the day with eight trout during a last four-hour session on Minkie Booby and intermediate line.
On Thursday Foremark staff hosted a four-hour fishing session for a group from a local business. Six beginners were given a short casting demonstration then went out fishing from a boat with one of our in-house fishery guides for each boat. A good time was had by all catching 10 fish between them. If you are interested in group bookings then call the lodge for more details and our group rates. P. Walker was also back for another last four-hour permit and boated another six fish. Friday fished well around the boils with regular J. Scragg and his boat partner B. Nadin using dry Klinkhamers taking 18 fish between them.
It was a very good day on Saturday for season permit holder R. Cotterill. Fishing a home-tied Cruncher in the boils he netted over 20 fish including a tiger trout and four overwintered fish. Also on Saturday Tony and Ruth were back to have another go. Tony managed eight trout on Hoppers while Ruth took four.
Kevin Hart took advantage of a weekend day off from his Draycote duties to get back out and during a morning landed 23 fish, first fishing near the surface and then changing to a Di-5 line and a White Snake. Derby County AC member M. Jacks fished a last four-hour session and landed 12 fish on a variety of pheasant tail patterns.
The Graham Tagg pairs boat match is on September 17, book early to save disappointment.
Late afternoons and evenings produced the best fishing, when fish could be taken on Daddy Longlegs and dark Hoppers from the surface, or more successfully on a selection of sub-surface nymphs (Diawl Bachs, Buzzers and Montanas) fished on floating and intermediate lines. The best fish of the month was a 3lb 3oz rainbow, caught by Dave Johns from Holsworthy.
A great weekend here at Thrunton hosting the UK Junior Troutmasters Final. Despite the weather, Coe Crag lake produced some excellent sport. There were 3 heats with the top four rods qualifying for the final on Sunday afternoon. Heat 1 on Saturday morning was won by 12-year-old Alex Jaffrey representing Lechlade Fishery with 18 fish, breaking the Junior Troutmasters record for the number of fish caught in one heat. Heat 2, on Saturday afternoon was much closer with 14-year-old Morgan Wyn Jones winning with five fish. Sunday morning's heat was won with five fish by 13-year-old Elliot Guthrie from Cramlington, representing Grafham Water. We were delighted that three local Thrunton regulars qualified for the final. Well done to Jack Metcalf, Joel Ellis and Elliot Guthrie. After two days of competitive fishing and in the pouring rain, the Final was always going to be close. The tension was high amongst competitors, spectators and parents and every 'fish on' was cause for great excitement! After two hours, Morgan Wyn Jones from Eisteddfa Fishery was the well-deserved champion. James Mockridge from Exe Valley Fishery was second, Alex Jaffrey from Lechlade Trout Fishery was third and Mathew Davis from Tan-y-Mynydd was fourth. Thrunton junior Joel Ellis came a very well-deserved fifth in his first major competition. James Heath from Pennine Fishery landed the largest fish, a 5lb rainbow.
The professionalism, sportsmanship and honesty displayed by all of these young anglers was exemplary and a credit to our sport. It was a real pleasure to host this event and meet the stars of the future for the angling world. We would like to thank all the staff at Thrunton and the stewards – Barry Mitchell, Richard Phillipson, Kevin Arkle, Davey Johnston, Tommy Mark and Steve McCann. We would also like to thank the sponsors, Vision, Wychwood, Glasgow Angling Centre, Iain Barr and Andy Richmond who all donated prizes and to the staff at Trout Fisherman magazine for making this a wonderful weekend!
Although conditions through the week were difficult at times, there have been good pleasure catches reported. Willie Emery from Newbiggin returned nine fish on Buzzers; Jim Burtle from Newcastle released 16 on two visits on Shuttlecocks and Buzzers; James Mackie travelled down from Glasgow and used a Brown Hopper to net 11 fish; Ken Glenton from Ashington landed 13 on dries and Buzzers; Eric Caisley from Morpeth returned 18 on Hare's Ear, nymphs and dries from the boat and the bank; Davy Kay from Morpeth netted 15 from the boat on Orange Blobs; Mick Brown from Bedlington found Diawl Bachs productive, releasing 11 trout back to Long Crag. The angler of the week would have to be 12-year-old Alex Jaffrey, who not only broke the Junior Troutmasters record with 18 fish on Coe Crag, but also landed another eight fish from Long Crag including rainbows of 8lb and 5lb, and a stunning brown while warming up for the final. Top flies are Damsels, Diawl Bachs, Bloodworms, Hoppers, Shuttlecocks, Buzzers, Hare's Ears, Black Midas and other dries and lures.
Details of the Angling Trust CAST award programme for junior anglers can be found on the junior section on the Thrunton website. Or contact the Fishery on 01665 574400 or 07795 002607.
For the week-ending July 21 the 56 rods caught 190 trout for a rod average of 3.1. Another unsettled week which, although keeps angler numbers down, does somewhat bolster the rod average. The legacy of cold, prolonged spring winds has secured better than usual water quality this summer. The fish have been responding to all manner of methods. Try the usual dries, Sedges, Bob's Bits and foamy Shipman's Buzzers with deeper fished Olive or Black Buzzers worth a go if nothing showing. Fish still chasing pin fry which are gradually growing and reaching a size where they may be imitated. Plenty of fish along the deeper west bank, to the left of the valve tower to the north-west corner. Don't avoid the shallower and therefore weedy south bank though, along from the bird hide, sit back and cast short in to the clear lane for the first 10 yards, you may be surprised at the result. Reduced rate evening tickets available up until the end of August from 5pm Thursday to Sunday with fishing until dusk. Close at 7.30pm prompt Monday to Wednesday.


The Highway 52 Committee will host a U.S. Highway 52/Provincial 39 Summit on October 19, 2017 from 10 am to 3 pm at the Kenmare High School Auditorium in Kenmare, ND.
The purpose of the summit is to promote a safer Highway 52 and potentially four-laning or twinning the highway. Businesses, community leaders, and individuals who utilize the highway are encouraged to attend. This all inclusive meeting is intended to bring Canada and North Dakota together to further discuss plans and options regarding the two highways.
Esteemed invitees are Governor Doug Burgum and Lt. Governor Brent Sanford. ND DOT Director Thomas Sorel and Saskatchewan Minister of Highways and Infrastructure David Marit have made plans to be in attendance. A brown bag lunch will be provided.
Please RSVP to Missy Sagness at kenmarecdc@restel.com with the number of people attending from your organization.


The idea is to lazy-load web fonts once everything else loaded completely, store them in localStorage to be used for subsequent pages. A cookie is used as a flag to check if the fonts are cached in localStorage.
If visitors disable cookie, this method will backfire as the webfont will be reloaded everytime visitors go to a different page.
localStorage is slower than browser cache (So i heard).
A browser that supports localStorage is required, which mean IE8+, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
On first load, the page will be flashed a bit after finish loading web fonts. This happened because the web fonts finish loading and are re-applied onto the page. Because of this particular reason, I refuse to use this method to lazy-load web fonts. I just hate it seeing it flashed. I'm a sucker for this kind of detail.
// otherwise, don't block the loading of the page; wait until it's done.
I did not write this code. This bit was taken from Smashing Magazine - source.


AARP Blog - Guess Who's Working From Home?
Guess Who's Working From Home?
If you think women work from home more than men, maybe helping a child with homework after school or cooking dinner in between phone conferences, you'd be mistaken.
More men telework and more women spend time in the office. And of those who work remotely, about 1 in 3 have no children, according to a myth-busting report released this week by the Madison, N.J., consultancy Flex+Strategy Group / Work+Life Fit Inc.
The researchers surveyed 556 full-time employees in December to analyze new work trends, including where work gets done.
About 1 in 3 do most of their work away from the office, such as at home or in coffee shops.
About 75 percent of teleworkers are men.
Now to the age factor. Contrary to what you might think, a majority of older folks are not working from home. In fact, it's pretty even across the board. About 30 percent of remote workers are boomers (age 50-plus) or Gen Xers (ages 30 to 49); 35 percent are in Generation Y (ages 18 to 29), the researchers said.
Many companies that offer flexible work arrangements find that it gives them an edge in recruiting and retaining employees. In Staying Ahead of the Curve 2013: The AARP Work and Career Study, workers cited a flexible schedule (72 percent), an opportunity to work part time (48 percent) and the ability to work from home (36 percent) as essential parts of an ideal job.


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Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, others inspire shoppers to feel that Black Friday urgency now
Some of the nation's largest retailers will begin rolling out Black Friday sales this weekend — earlier than ever and the latest sign of how the pandemic is reshaping the biggest shopping season of the year. Walmart, Target and other major brands were spurred to push up their holiday timetables […]
Some of the nation's largest retailers will begin rolling out Black Friday sales this weekend — earlier than ever and the latest sign of how the pandemic is reshaping the biggest shopping season of the year.
Walmart, Target and other major brands were spurred to push up their holiday timetables by Amazon's decision to move Prime Day, which is usually in July, to October. It's a signature event for the e-commerce giant, generating an estimated $7.16 billion in sales last year, according to research firm Digital Commerce 360.
Most large retailers are going dark on Thanksgiving Day, reversing a years-long tradition of kicking off the holiday shopping season with a rush of "doorbuster" deals. It's part of a larger reimagining of the retail experience because of the pandemic, one designed to accommodate social distancing and new safety protocols, and minimize long lines, crowded malls and repeat shopping trips.
"The stampede mentality of the past, with doorbusters sales and Black Friday deals every weekend, is being replaced by earlier, season-long discounts," said James Zahn, senior editor of the Toy Insider, a trade magazine. "We're in a health crisis, so retailers are having to rethink how they get products into families' hands."
The stakes are especially high: More than a dozen major retailers have filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic and several others are at risk of running out of cash. The recession has erased millions of jobs, so Americans will be spending less this year — both because of their own financial situations and because there will be fewer opportunities to exchanges gifts with family, friends and co-workers. The earlier retailers can lock in sales, the better, says Tyson Cornell, who leads the U.S. consumer markets group at PwC.
"There are so many unknown variables this year," he said. "By kicking off sales in October, [retailers] are hoping to spread consumer traffic and demand over the next few months, helping them maintain social distancing in stores, consistently move inventory and adjust their strategies based on early consumer demand."
For many companies, that means encouraging shoppers to buy early. Here are some of the season's first holiday sales starting this weekend.
Saturday, Oct. 10
Suiting chain Jos. A. Bank and jeans company Guess are among the retailers taking part in the newly minted "10.10 Shopping Festival." The event, created by the retail advisory firm Coresight Research to drum up excitement among consumers, was inspired by China's wildly popular Singles' Day on Nov. 11. Dozens of retailers have signed on, according to Coresight, including Men's Wearhouse, which is offering $99 suits as part of the event.
Sunday, Oct. 11
The nation's largest retailer, Walmart, launches its "Big Save Event" at 7 p.m. The sale, which includes discounts on Smart TVs, robotic vacuum cleaners and Hunter rain boots, runs through Oct. 15.
Monday, Oct. 12
Clothing chain Old Navy rolls out "Giftober" with half-off just about everything on its website, while sister brand Gap is offering 40 to 50 percent off all purchases for two days.
E-commerce giant Amazon begins its annual Prime Day sale. The made-up shopping event, which began in 2017, has expanded into a two-day deals bonanza that has inspired a number of copycats.
Target is hosting is own version of the event, called "Deal Days," while Banana Republic is offering 50 percent off most purchases. Best Buy is promising "dozens of deals straight from the not-yet-released Black Friday ad." Office Depot and Office Max, meanwhile, are advertising 50 percent markdowns on high-demand items such as printers, ergonomic desk chairs and infrared thermometers as part of their Depot Discount Days sale.
Sales continue at Amazon, Walmart, Target and Best Buy.
Friday, Oct. 16
Home goods chain Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out its "gift of the week" sale, which offers deep discounts on certain items each week through Dec. 23.
Abha Bhattarai of The Washington Post
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