text:
.. -*- mode: rst -*-

==============
Builtin Tokens
==============

.. module:: pygments.token

In the :mod:`pygments.token` module, there is a special object called `Token`
that is used to create token types.

You can create a new token type by accessing an attribute of `Token`:

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> from pygments.token import Token
    >>> Token.String
    Token.String
    >>> Token.String is Token.String
    True

Note that tokens are singletons so you can use the ``is`` operator for comparing
token types.

As of Pygments 0.7 you can also use the ``in`` operator to perform set tests:

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> from pygments.token import Comment
    >>> Comment.Single in Comment
    True
    >>> Comment in Comment.Multi
    False

This can be useful in :doc:`filters <filters>` and if you write lexers on your
own without using the base lexers.

You can also split a token type into a hierarchy, and get the parent of it:

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> String.split()
    [Token, Token.Literal, Token.Literal.String]
    >>> String.parent
    Token.Literal

In principle, you can create an unlimited number of token types but nobody can
guarantee that a style would define style rules for a token type. Because of
that, Pygments proposes some global token types defined in the
`pygments.token.STANDARD_TYPES` dict.

For some tokens aliases are already defined:

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> from pygments.token import String
    >>> String
    Token.Literal.String

Inside the :mod:`pygments.token` module the following aliases are defined:

============= ============================ ====================================
`Text`        `Token.Text`                 for any type of text data
`Whitespace`  `Token.Text.Whitespace`      for specially highlighted whitespace
`Error`       `Token.Error`                represents lexer errors
`Other`       `Token.Other`                special token for data not
                                           matched by a parser (e.g. HTML
                                           markup in PHP code)
`Keyword`     `Token.Keyword`              any kind of keywords
`Name`        `Token.Name`                 variable/function names
`Literal`     `Token.Literal`              Any literals
`String`      `Token.Literal.String`       string literals
`Number`      `Token.Literal.Number`       number literals
`Operator`    `Token.Operator`             operators (``+``, ``not``...)
`Punctuation` `Token.Punctuation`          punctuation (``[``, ``(``...)
`Comment`     `Token.Comment`              any kind of comments
`Generic`     `Token.Generic`              generic tokens (have a look at
                                           the explanation below)
============= ============================ ====================================

The `Whitespace` token type is new in Pygments 0.8. It is used only by the
`VisibleWhitespaceFilter` currently.

Normally you just create token types using the already defined aliases. For each
of those token aliases, a number of subtypes exists (excluding the special tokens
`Token.Text`, `Token.Error` and `Token.Other`)

The `is_token_subtype()` function in the `pygments.token` module can be used to
test if a token type is a subtype of another (such as `Name.Tag` and `Name`).
(This is the same as ``Name.Tag in Name``. The overloaded `in` operator was newly
introduced in Pygments 0.7, the function still exists for backwards
compatibility.)

With Pygments 0.7, it's also possible to convert strings to token types (for example
if you want to supply a token from the command line):

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> from pygments.token import String, string_to_tokentype
    >>> string_to_tokentype("String")
    Token.Literal.String
    >>> string_to_tokentype("Token.Literal.String")
    Token.Literal.String
    >>> string_to_tokentype(String)
    Token.Literal.String

Keyword Tokens
==============

`Keyword`
    For any kind of keyword (especially if it doesn't match any of the
    subtypes of course).

`Keyword.Constant`
    For keywords that are constants (e.g. ``None`` in future Python versions).

`Keyword.Declaration`
    For keywords used for variable declaration (e.g. ``var`` in some programming
    languages like JavaScript).

`Keyword.Namespace`
    For keywords used for namespace declarations (e.g. ``import`` in Python and
    Java and ``package`` in Java).

`Keyword.Pseudo`
    For keywords that aren't really keywords (e.g. ``None`` in old Python
    versions).

`Keyword.Reserved`
    For reserved keywords.

`Keyword.Type`
    For builtin types that can't be used as identifiers (e.g. ``int``,
    ``char`` etc. in C).

Name Tokens
===========

`Name`
    For any name (variable names, function names, classes).

`Name.Attribute`
    For all attributes (e.g. in HTML tags).

`Name.Builtin`
    Builtin names; names that are available in the global namespace.

`Name.Builtin.Pseudo`
    Builtin names that are implicit (e.g. ``self`` in Ruby, ``this`` in Java).

`Name.Class`
    Class names. Because no lexer can know if a name is a class or a function
    or something else this token is meant for class declarations.

`Name.Constant`
    Token type for constants. In some languages you can recognise a token by the
    way it's defined (the value after a ``const`` keyword for example). In
    other languages constants are uppercase by definition (Ruby).

`Name.Decorator`
    Token type for decorators. Decorators are syntactic elements in the Python
    language. Similar syntax elements exist in C# and Java.

`Name.Entity`
    Token type for special entities. (e.g. `` `` in HTML).

`Name.Exception`
    Token type for exception names (e.g. ``RuntimeError`` in Python). Some languages
    define exceptions in the function signature (Java). You can highlight
    the name of that exception using this token then.

`Name.Function`
    Token type for function names.

`Name.Function.Magic`
    same as `Name.Function` but for special function names that have an implicit use
    in a language (e.g. ``__init__`` method in Python).

`Name.Label`
    Token type for label names (e.g. in languages that support ``goto``).

`Name.Namespace`
    Token type for namespaces. (e.g. import paths in Java/Python), names following
    the ``module``/``namespace`` keyword in other languages.

`Name.Other`
    Other names. Normally unused.

`Name.Tag`
    Tag names (in HTML/XML markup or configuration files).

`Name.Variable`
    Token type for variables. Some languages have prefixes for variable names
    (PHP, Ruby, Perl). You can highlight them using this token.

`Name.Variable.Class`
    same as `Name.Variable` but for class variables (also static variables).

`Name.Variable.Global`
    same as `Name.Variable` but for global variables (used in Ruby, for
    example).

`Name.Variable.Instance`
    same as `Name.Variable` but for instance variables.

`Name.Variable.Magic`
    same as `Name.Variable` but for special variable names that have an implicit use
    in a language (e.g. ``__doc__`` in Python).

Literals
========

`Literal`
    For any literal (if not further defined).

`Literal.Date`
    for date literals (e.g. ``42d`` in Boo).

`String`
    For any string literal.

`String.Affix`
    Token type for affixes that further specify the type of the string they're
    attached to (e.g. the prefixes ``r`` and ``u8`` in ``r"foo"`` and ``u8"foo"``).

`String.Backtick`
    Token type for strings enclosed in backticks.

`String.Char`
    Token type for single characters (e.g. Java, C).

`String.Delimiter`
    Token type for delimiting identifiers in "heredoc", raw and other similar
    strings (e.g. the word ``END`` in Perl code ``print <<'END';``).

`String.Doc`
    Token type for documentation strings (for example Python).

`String.Double`
    Double quoted strings.

`String.Escape`
    Token type for escape sequences in strings.

`String.Heredoc`
    Token type for "heredoc" strings (e.g. in Ruby or Perl).

`String.Interpol`
    Token type for interpolated parts in strings (e.g. ``#{foo}`` in Ruby).

`String.Other`
    Token type for any other strings (for example ``%q{foo}`` string constructs
    in Ruby).

`String.Regex`
    Token type for regular expression literals (e.g. ``/foo/`` in JavaScript).

`String.Single`
    Token type for single quoted strings.

`String.Symbol`
    Token type for symbols (e.g. ``:foo`` in LISP or Ruby).

`Number`
    Token type for any number literal.

`Number.Bin`
    Token type for binary literals (e.g. ``0b101010``).

`Number.Float`
    Token type for float literals (e.g. ``42.0``).

`Number.Hex`
    Token type for hexadecimal number literals (e.g. ``0xdeadbeef``).

`Number.Integer`
    Token type for integer literals (e.g. ``42``).

`Number.Integer.Long`
    Token type for long integer literals (e.g. ``42L`` in Python).

`Number.Oct`
    Token type for octal literals.

Operators
=========

`Operator`
    For any punctuation operator (e.g. ``+``, ``-``).

`Operator.Word`
    For any operator that is a word (e.g. ``not``).

Punctuation
===========

.. versionadded:: 0.7

`Punctuation`
    For any punctuation which is not an operator (e.g. ``[``, ``(``...)

Comments
========

`Comment`
    Token type for any comment.

`Comment.Hashbang`
    Token type for hashbang comments (i.e. first lines of files that start with
     ``#!``).

`Comment.Multiline`
    Token type for multiline comments.

`Comment.Preproc`
    Token type for preprocessor comments (also ``<?php``/``<%`` constructs).

`Comment.Single`
    Token type for comments that end at the end of a line (e.g. ``# foo``).

`Comment.Special`
    Special data in comments. For example code tags, author and license
    information, etc.

Generic Tokens
==============

Generic tokens are for special lexers like the `DiffLexer` that doesn't really
highlight a programming language but a patch file.

`Generic`
    A generic, unstyled token. Normally you don't use this token type.

`Generic.Deleted`
    Marks the token value as deleted.

`Generic.Emph`
    Marks the token value as emphasized.

`Generic.Error`
    Marks the token value as an error message.

`Generic.Heading`
    Marks the token value as headline.

`Generic.Inserted`
    Marks the token value as inserted.

`Generic.Output`
    Marks the token value as program output (e.g. for python cli lexer).

`Generic.Prompt`
    Marks the token value as command prompt (e.g. bash lexer).

`Generic.Strong`
    Marks the token value as bold (e.g. for rst lexer).

`Generic.Subheading`
    Marks the token value as subheadline.

`Generic.Traceback`
    Marks the token value as a part of an error traceback.


text:
Showing solidarity
Employees promote breast cancer awareness
Oct. 30, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.
Carol Stream, IL, Processing and Distribution Center workers wear pink at a recent Breast Cancer Awareness Month event.
More than four years after Lynn Harmon's death from breast cancer, the passport acceptance clerk is still remembered fondly by her colleagues at the Greenville, SC, Main Post Office.
"Lynn was an exceptional employee," said Postmaster Stephanie Banks. "It was indeed a pleasure to have known her."
Banks spoke this month at a special event at the Post Office, where attendees included Harmon's mother, Mary Belle Stephens Finley, and daughter, Amanda.
The event was one of several that Postal Service facilities across the nation held in October to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
In addition to honoring colleagues like Harmon, the activities helped showcase the Breast Cancer Research semipostal stamp, which has raised more than $89 million for breast cancer research since its release in 1998.
Postal workers also used the month to promote Combined Federal Campaign charitable groups that work on breast cancer issues.
In many communities, employees donned special USPS-approved T-shirts, too.
"We're doing this to show solidarity for such a worthy cause," said Delora Hawkins, an operations support specialist at the Carol Stream, IL, Processing and Distribution Center, where several employees wore the shirts.
"Anything we can do to highlight the importance of early detection is valuable."
Nohemi Bailey, a secretary who attended the Greenville event, said the Postal Service's efforts help preserve the legacy of those who've died from the disease, including her friend and co-worker, Harmon.
"Lynn taught all of us how to be strong," Bailey said. "I hope we are making [her] super proud."

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text:
Gilman, John Ward, 1741-1823
The person Gilman, John Ward, 1741-1823 represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Brigham Young University.
The Resource Gilman, John Ward, 1741-1823
17 Items by the Person Gilman, John Ward, 1741-1823
A New and compleat introduction to the grounds and rules of musick, : in two books. Book I. Containing the grounds and rules of musick: or an introduction to the art of singing by note, taken from Thomas Walter, A.M. Book II. Containing a new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental and practical; from William Tans'ur's Royal melody: : the whole being a collection of a variety of the choicest tunes from the most approved masters. : [One line from Psalms]
A New and compleat introduction to the grounds and rules of musick. : In two books: Book I. Containing the grounds and rules of musick; or an introduction to the art of singing by note, taken from Thomas Walter, M.A. Book II. Containing a new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental and practical; from William Tans'ur's Royal melody: the whole being a collection of a variety of the choicest tunes from the most approved masters., By Daniel Bayley. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
A New and complete introduction to the grounds and rules of music. : In two books. I. Containing the grounds and rules of music; or an introduction to the art of singing by note, taken from Thomas Walter, M.A. II. Containing a new and correct introduction to the grounds of music, rudimental and practical; from William Tans'ur's Royal melody. : The whole being a collection of a variety of the choicest tunes from the most approved masters., By Daniel Bayley, chorister of St. Paul's Church, Newbury-Port. ; [One line from Psalms]
A new introduction to psalmody; or The art of singing psalms. : With a variety of psalm tunes, hymns & chorus's; in three & four musical parts : The whole engraved on copper-plates
The American harmony, or Universal psalmodist. : Containing a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country., By A. Williams, teacher of psalmody, in London. ; To which is added a variety of favourite hymn tunes and anthems; collected from the latest and most celebrated authors; carefully set in score, and neatly engraved
The American harmony, or Universal psalmodist. : Containing a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and clifts:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country., By A. Williams, teacher of psalmody, in London. ; To which is added, a variety of favourite hymn tunes and anthems; collected from the latest and most celebrated authors; carefully set in score, and neatly engraved
The American harmony, or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of music, rudemental, practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church music, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c., By William Tans'ur, Senior, musico theorico. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
The American harmony, or, Universal psalmodist. : Vol. II. Containing, a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country., By A. Williams, teacher of psalmody, in London. ; To which is added a variety of favourite hymn tunes and anthems; collected from the latest and most celabrated [sic] authors; carefully set in score, and neatly engraved
The American harmony, or, Universal psalmodist. : Vol. II. Containing, a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country., By A. Williams, teacher of psalmody, in London. ; To which is added a variety of favourite hymn tunes and anthems; collected from the latest and most celebrated authors; carefully set in score, and neatly engraved
The American harmony, or, Universal psalmodist. : Vol. II. Containing, a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country., By A. Williams, teacher of psalmody, in London. ; To which is added, a variety of favourite hymn tunes and anthems; collected from the latest and most celebrated authors; carefully set in score, and neatly engraved
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c., By William Tans'ur, Senior, musico theorico. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental, practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c., By William Tans'ur, Senior, musico theorico. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental, practical and techrical [sic] II. A new and complete body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c., By William Tans'ur, Senior, musico theorico. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
The psalm-singer's assistant; : containing I. An introduction, with such directions for singing, as are necessary for learners. II. A collection of choice psalm-tunes, suited to the several measures both of the old and new version; engraved in a correct manner, and is designed for the improvement of psalmody, in the congregations, both in town and country: all being composed in three parts, collected from the best masters., By Daniel Bayley
The psalm-singer's assistant; : containing, I. An introduction, with such directions for singing, as are necessary for learners. II. A collection of choice psalm-tunes, suited to the several measures both of the old and new version; engraved in a correct manner, and is designed for the improvement of psalmody, in the congregations, both in town and country: all being composed in three parts, collected from the best masters., By Daniel Bayley
The royal melody compleat: or The new harmony of Sion. : Containing I. A new and correct, introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental, practical, and technical. II. A new and compleat body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either version; with many fuging chorus's, &c. III. A new and select, number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed: set by the greatest masters in the world. : The whole being composed in two, three, four, five, six, and seven musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score, for voices, or organs: and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c., By William Tans'ur, Senior; musico theorico.-- ; To which is added, a variety of favourite psalm and hymn tunes, and one new anthem, from Williams's Psalmody. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
The royal melody complete: or The new harmony of Zion. : Containing I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental, parctical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. : The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c. with a preface on church-musick, shewing the beauty and excellence thereof., By William Tans'ur, Senior, musico theorico. ; [Two lines from Psalms]
Context of Gilman, John Ward, 1741-1823
A New and compleat introduction to the grounds and rules of musick. : In two books: Book I. Containing the grounds and rules of musick; or an introduction to the art of singing by note, taken from Thomas Walter, M.A. Book II. Containing a new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental and practical; from William Tans'ur's Royal melody: the whole being a collection of a variety of the choicest tunes from the most approved masters.
A New and complete introduction to the grounds and rules of music. : In two books. I. Containing the grounds and rules of music; or an introduction to the art of singing by note, taken from Thomas Walter, M.A. II. Containing a new and correct introduction to the grounds of music, rudimental and practical; from William Tans'ur's Royal melody. : The whole being a collection of a variety of the choicest tunes from the most approved masters.
The American harmony, or Universal psalmodist. : Containing a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country.
The American harmony, or Universal psalmodist. : Containing a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and clifts:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country.
The American harmony, or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of music, rudemental, practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church music, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c.
The American harmony, or, Universal psalmodist. : Vol. II. Containing, a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn-tunes; canons and anthems; with words adapted to each tune. The whole composed in a new and easy taste, for two, three and four voices; in the most familiar keys and cliffs:--calculated to promote and improve this most excellent part of social worship; and render it both useful and delightful; in quires, as well as in congregations in the country.
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c.
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental, practical and technical. II. A new and complete body of church musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c.
The American harmony: or, Royal melody complete. : In two volumes. : Vol. I. Containing, I. A new and correct introduction to the grounds of musick, rudemental, practical and techrical [sic] II. A new and complete body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either versions; with many fuging chorus's, and Gloria Patri's to the whole. III. A new and select number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed; set by the greatest masters in the world. The whole are composed in two, three, four, and five musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's correctly set in score for voices or organ; and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c.
The psalm-singer's assistant; : containing I. An introduction, with such directions for singing, as are necessary for learners. II. A collection of choice psalm-tunes, suited to the several measures both of the old and new version; engraved in a correct manner, and is designed for the improvement of psalmody, in the congregations, both in town and country: all being composed in three parts, collected from the best masters.
The psalm-singer's assistant; : containing, I. An introduction, with such directions for singing, as are necessary for learners. II. A collection of choice psalm-tunes, suited to the several measures both of the old and new version; engraved in a correct manner, and is designed for the improvement of psalmody, in the congregations, both in town and country: all being composed in three parts, collected from the best masters.
The royal melody compleat: or The new harmony of Sion. : Containing I. A new and correct, introduction to the grounds of musick, rudimental, practical, and technical. II. A new and compleat body of church-musick, adapted to the most select portions of the Book of Psalms, of either version; with many fuging chorus's, &c. III. A new and select, number of hymns, anthems, and canons, suited to several occasions; and many of them never before printed: set by the greatest masters in the world. : The whole being composed in two, three, four, five, six, and seven musical parts, according to the nicest rules; consisting of solo's, fuges, and chorus's, correctly set in score, for voices, or organs: and fitted for all teachers, learners, and musical societies, &c.
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The Federal Land Rights Series — Exploring boundary and title issues in the federal context
Brian Portwood, licensed professional land surveyor, federal employee, historian of land rights law
This article is part of a series on the wide variety of issues associated with boundary and easement disputes which arise in the federal context, emphasizing the importance of understanding federal land rights, from the perspective of a professional land surveyor. This edition takes us on a veritable tour of the country, reviewing a variety of historically significant cases from several different states, pertaining to the topic of navigability. Our featured case comes to us from Alaska and leads us into a discussion of the development of the navigability concept over the course of our nation's history.
The Federal Land Rights Series Edition 13 — Will Yukon Charley ride again? — Examining the significance and the legal implications of the navigability concept beyond its role in the establishment of boundaries of fee title. READ MORE
CST Testimonial 4/10/18
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15D has been utilizing the NSPS CST program for the last 3 years. They are currently offering courses twice a year for the NSPS CST-1 and CST-2 at their training facility in Ozone Park, NY. Local 15D has approximately 1,200 members in its Local.
Due to the rise in technology in surveying as well as the lack of traditional surveying knowledge and skills with its younger members, there was a need for the Union to find a program that will help assist in the training of our members.
The CST Board has been instrumental in helping Local 15D design study materials and courses outlined to assist our instructors as well as our members. Local 15D trains their members in-house and is continually looking for new ways to enhance their surveying program with real world skills as well as classroom study.
The CST program was the perfect fit for the union because of its mix of online training, in-house study and nationally recognized testing/certifications. This 8-week course was designed with the help of the CST Board specifically for our Local, and that personalization has been vital to the success of the program and members. IUOE Local 15D looks forward to working with the CST program in the future.
Surveyors Historical Society rendezvous 2018
Surveyors Historical Society has teamed up with Ralph Gipson (many of you will remember Ralph from the Bilby tower project), the local chapter of the Louisiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors, and other prominent local surveyors and historians to put on a "Rendezvous to Remember."
The event will be held September 12-15, 2018. The conference hotel is the Astor Crowne Plaza, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA.
Your Surveying Legacy (reprinted from NJSPLS Good Points)
Ambrose Gmeiner, PLS, President of New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors
How did you start your surveying legacy? Each one of us has had an event that took place that steered you to fall in love with surveying. What was that for you? What course changed your life? My story started as an engineering technician for a civil engineering firm. As a young man, I always enjoyed math and history, so I wanted to do something in the engineering field. I just wasn't sure which discipline in engineering. After a week-long stint of pulling cross-sections by hand and plotting on those large gridded sheets, I was asked to assist the survey crew. My crew chief handed me a plumb bob and told me to hold that plumb over the point. What? — I soon learned the methods of the field crew, as the rear chainman. The crisp morning air, the instruments, the meticulous angle and distance measurements, the records, and the property markers. I was hooked. READ MORE
The Future of Surveying
Carl CdeBaca, NSPS Director/Nevada
This is a hypothetical situation — I want to make that perfectly clear. Any resemblance to actual people, places or projects is purely coincidental. I don't need a lawsuit, disciplinary action or to retain an attorney for simply projecting current trends into the near future. I am hoping that this little thought exercise will open some eyes, that's all.
The time: 2020. The place: Reno, Nevada. A routine cease-and-desist letter prepared by a licensing board kicks off a lawsuit, affirms a recent Supreme Court decision and ends professional land surveying as we know it.
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Chet, a longtime hobbyist control-line and remote control model airplane pilot purchases his latest toy, a DJI Mavic Air drone which comes complete with onboard GPS and Glonass and a gimbal-mounted 12 megapixel camera. In the process of mastering his new toy, Chet starts dabbling in aerial photography too. While doing some research on-line he discovers that shareware is available which would allow him to produce surface topography and ortho-rectified imagery easily. Chet is an assayer by trade and has an above average intellect. He finds that using the free mapping software is no challenge and soon he is making contours maps, 3-D viewsheds and color orthophotos. He spends another thousand bucks and buys a large format plotter and starts making poster-sized aerial maps for his friends. READ MORE
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Bart Crattie joins host Curt Sumner to discuss a long standing, and recently reignited, dispute between the states of Georgia and Tennessee regarding their common boundary line which was designated to align with the 35th parallel.
To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
NSPS 'Day on the Hill' Wrap-up
John "JB" Byrd, NSPS Registered Lobbyist
The voice of the surveying profession was heard loud and clear in Congress last week as NSPS members visited with members of their Congressional delegations as part of the NSPS Day on the Hill. More than 40 NSPS members from 30 states visited more than 150 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to discuss three issues (Geospatial Data Act, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Utilization). Pictured here is the NSPS Oregon Delegation visiting with Rep. Greg Walden (OR), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, who had just concluded his daylong hearing of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The Oregon Delegation with Rep. Walden
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit www.nsps.us.com for details.
Did you know that CST Program participation is required by some DOT contracts across the U.S.?
Farm Bill to be marked up this week in US House committee
The House Committee on Agriculture will meet to mark up the "Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018," H.R. 2. NSPS government affairs consultants, John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc., has prepared a briefing memo highlighting sections of the bill which will create a need and demand for surveying, mapping and geospatial data. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office recently published a cost estimate for the bill.
Revamped FAA bill introduced in Congress
Last week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 4), a five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, provide long-term stability for the Nation's aviation community, continue investment in U.S. airports, and make necessary reforms to improve American competitiveness and safety in aviation. Sections 331-341 of the bill cover safety and implementation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the domestic airspace.
Ligado decision may be at hand
The federal government is rumored to be nearing a decision about Ligado Networks' request to repurpose its satellite frequencies to also support a ground-based telecom network. Those frequencies neighbor the band used by GPS. Testing done both several years ago and more recently has shown such a system could seriously interfere with GPS receivers. READ MORE
Improving GNSS in the urban canyon
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To prepare you for the this blog post, I wish to point out that I am a geospatial expert and can hold my own around the ins and outs of survey, so going to an event at the Ordnance Survey on "3D mapping for the improvement of GNSS in urban areas" was an eye-opener. You see, I went to the event as it was related to my area of expertise, 3D mapping, but came out seeing how we need more accurate information and better 3D data. READ MORE
Movement grows against killer robots
The miniature UAV, smaller than a human palm, zips right to its human target — identified through facial recognition technology — and pierces the forehead with a projectile, for an instant kill. That harrowing scene takes place in a seven-minute viral video issued by autonomousweapons.org, a non-profit sounding warning bells over potential automation of weapons. READ MORE
Power utility project uses real time surveying
For surveyors, the "unexpected" in the field is not usually welcome. Surprises lead to challenges to resolve, time delays and, often, increased costs. But occasionally, there are pleasant surprises. Like when Even Sellevoll, a survey engineer with Norwegian company, Geomatikk Survey, set up his integrated total station and scanner instrument to survey a power line, and it revealed a capability he wasn't aware it had. READ MORE
Where are we with citizen science mapping apps today?
Citizen science digital applications that involve maps and mapping are at an all-time high. The expectations of Web 2.0 are fully established, and we are very familiar with the process of contributing data online. Using our smart phones to measure our location on the earth's surface has enabled automatic geotagging of the photos we take, and sharing of our location and any other information we choose to provide. READ MORE
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Waterville ceremony celebrates final beam placed on Paul J. Schupf Art Center downtown
The $18 million center is scheduled to open late next year and is seen as another draw that will make downtown a destination spot for people in central Maine.
By Amy CalderMorning Sentinel
A beam is swung into place Tuesday before being installed at the left during a topping off ceremony for the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE — Bill Mitchell stood among about 150 people in Castonguay Square next to City Hall on Tuesday reflecting on what the Paul J. Schupf Art Center will mean to the city.
"I'm thinking it'll have tremendous positive impact on the overall downtown experience," Mitchell said. "And through that, I feel that businesses will benefit from the added traffic flow and pedestrian flow that will come from a new museum and relocation of an outstanding theater, complementing the great work that the Waterville Opera House does."
Work on $18 million Schupf Art Center began early this year.
Mitchell, who owns GHM Agency, The Proper Pig restaurant downtown and other properties in the city, was about to witness the installation of the final beam to be placed on the Schupf Center. Many who came for the "topping out" ceremony signed the beam before it was hoisted atop the framework of the building, a small evergreen tree attached.
A beam is signed Tuesday before it is lifted into place during a topping off ceremony for the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Colby College and Waterville Creates raised $18 million for the center, which will feature an all-glass front-facing Castonguay Square and include the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art, Ticonic Gallery and Studios and the Ed Harris Box Office, which will serve all programs in the building, as well as the Waterville Opera House. The Opera House will be accessible to the art center via a skywalk. Three cinemas on the second floor will replace those currently at Railroad Square and will be the focal point for the Maine Film Center and the Maine International Film Festival.
Colby President David A. Greene said in a welcome speech that the art center is possible through partnerships with the city, the Harold Alfond Foundation, Waterville Creates and others.
"So many people stepped up," Greene said.
He spoke of Schupf, a lover of art, Colby and Waterville, who died two years ago but gave a significant gift that made building the center possible. Schupf did not want the amount of his gift disclosed.
Shannon Haines, president and CEO of Waterville Creates, speaks during a ceremony Tuesday marking progress in the construction of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Greene said Schupf, who lived in upstate New York but considered Waterville and Colby his home, would have been filled with pride Tuesday.
"Today my heart is with Paul and everything he's done for Colby, and everything he's done for this city," he said.
More than $200 million in investments are being made downtown, including projects Colby has completed such as the $25 million Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons, the $26 million Lockwood Hotel, $6 million Arts Collaborative and the $5 million former Waterville Savings Bank renovation.
The city's $11.2 million downtown BUILD project to be completed late next year will change the traffic pattern on Front and Main streets to two-way and improve intersections and sidewalks and include new landscaping. The work prompted other business owners, including Mitchell, to buy and invest in downtown buildings.
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Greene noted that 20 to 25 new businesses opened on Main Street in the last few years and commercial property sales have increased.
"It's really exciting to see this and to walk into new places and see them thriving right now," he said.
City Manager Steve Daly, who has been on the job for 11 months, described the city's renaissance as "simply amazing."
"In my experience, I've never seen anything like it," he said.
Community support for the center has been inspiring, according to Waterville Creates president and CEO Shannon Haines, who said 240 gifts from the community total more than $1 million.
"This building, the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, is the culmination of years and years and years of collaboration and it's so exciting to see it take shape before our very eyes," Haines said.
Before the speeches, Silver Street Tavern owner Charlie Giguere milled about, chatting with people about what the center will bring to the area.
"This will have a mega-impact on everybody's business," Giguere said. "I never thought I'd say this, but we don't have enough restaurant seats downtown. This is going to put more pressure on more development for restaurants."
Giguere, a Waterville native, marveled at the changes that have occurred downtown.
"It's just amazing, for a kid who grew up three blocks away from here in blue-collar era Scott Paper Co., Hathaway … and to see this new energy going into non-blue collar things, especially the arts, is just fantastic."
Workers swing a beam into place Tuesday for installation during a topping off ceremony of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
State Rep. Bruce White, D-Waterville, a member of the city's Planning Board, remembered how devastating times were in Waterville more than 20 years ago when businesses, including C.F. Hathaway & Co., closed. He lost his longtime job when Kimberly-Clark closed and he had to go back to school in his 40s to learn a new career, he said.
"It was a rough time, and to see this it's just so exciting," he said.
Waterville Opera House Director Michelle Sweet said the new center will give more visibility to the Opera House from Main Street as the building that formerly was on the site blocked that view. The Opera House's offices will be located on the lower level of the new center.
"The shared box office is one of the things I'm most excited about, to really bring us together as an organization," she said.
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We spoke to Roopa Malhotra- Head of Customer & Digital, APAC, Zurich Insurance Group
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopamalhotra
APAC is a hugely diverse, exciting and complex landscape to manage with each country having its unique strengths and opportunities. We dug deeper into what it takes to drive digital transformation in the region, building on insurtechs innovation and incumbent's distribution strengths to build a solid insurance business, the importance of people focus a key sauce to success and much more!!
Roopa Malhotra is the Head of Customer & Digital, APAC for Zurich Insurance Group, and became a member of the Zurich Regional Committee in March 2022.
Ms. Malhotra is responsible for driving the digital strategy across the region with customer-focused propositions across channel partners and digital ecosystem players. Before joining Zurich Group, Ms. Malhotra was Head of Digital for Chubb Insurance in the Asia Pacific. Over the years in the industry, she has gained well-rounded expertise in different aspects, including Natural Catastrophe risk management, digital product development, and partnership management. Ms. Malhotra started her career in India as a financial analyst with the leading hedge fund - D.E. Shaw Group, before entering the insurance industry and holding positions with AIG and MSIG.
A passionate Diversity and Inclusion champion, Ms. Malhotra was also recognized as one of the rising female leaders in the region by Insurance Business Asia in 2021. Ms. Malhotra holds an MBA in Finance with certifications in design thinking for innovation, and she is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge. She also actively volunteers at organizations like 'All Hands and Hearts' for disaster relief and Singapore's 'Alzheimer's Disease Association' and is a fitness enthusiast.
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Home Front Page Newport Beach Tests Outdoor Warning Notification System April 3
Newport Beach Tests Outdoor Warning Notification System April 3
The City of Newport Beach will be testing the new Outdoor Warning Notification System on Friday, April 3, 2020 at 12 p.m.
The speaker systems located at West Jetty View Park, Marina Park and West Newport Park will be regularly tested each month on the first Friday at noon.
During the April test, the system will be exercised at a full strength decibel level. If you are in the coverage area (as outlined in the map below), you will hear the speaker systems during the test.
The new Outdoor Warning Notification System is an upgraded version of the Newport Beach siren warning system, also known as the Tsunami warning sirens. The system now allows voice commands to give preliminary information and instructions.
The speaker notification system may be utilized for all hazards or disasters where immediate action from the public is necessary.
If you hear the speaker notification system, and it's NOT the first Friday of the month, turn on your television to channel 3 and radio to 107.9 KWVE for further instructions and information.
If you have any non-emergency questions during the test, please contact the Newport Beach Police Department, Records Division at (949) 644-3662.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $350,000 grant to the interdisciplinary Heritage Studies and Public History (HSPH) graduate program. Awarded over the course of two years, the grant will provide support for students and their collaborative work with community partners.
"This inspired program acts as a much-needed generator of diversity in professions related to heritage studies and public history. I'm proud of the community partnerships that have been forged and look forward to seeing the progress this generous grant will enable," said College of Design Dean Carol Strohecker.
Donofrio, alongside College of Liberal Arts professors Kevin P. Murphy and Katherine Hayes, and Chris Taylor, chief inclusion officer at the Minnesota Historical Society, created the program to address the lack of diversity in education and professional development in the fields of heritage studies and public history.
"Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will assure that the Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program attracts and supports diverse cohorts of students who will develop expertise working with and for diverse communities," said Murphy. "Our students will tell and curate stories from perspectives and communities often absent from the narratives historically told by most cultural institutions," added Hayes.
Organizers of the HSPH master's degree and Ph.D. minor seek to open the program to students from all backgrounds by placing diversity and inclusion at the center of recruitment and teaching. "This is a unique opportunity for the Minnesota Historical Society to play a critical role in training the workforce of the future and ensuring that they have the skills and tools necessary to serve all Minnesotans," explained Taylor.
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235. A SCANNER DARKLY (2006)
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"I think it was probably the strangest script I ever read."–Robert Downey Jr.
"I was very confused by the script at first, it's a bizarre kind of story…"–Woody Harrelson
DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
FEATURING: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane
PLOT: In the near future, an estimated twenty percent of the American population is addicted to a drug called "Substance D." "Fred," an undercover agent, is posing as Bob Arctor, hanging out with a small-time group of users, hoping to locate a high level supplier. Fred, who is becoming more and more addicted to substance D and is being watched closely by police psychologists concerned about possible brain damage, grows increasingly paranoid, especially when one of Arctor's roommates goes to the police and accuses the plant of being a terrorist.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a fascinatingly weird figure, a counterculture science fiction author and the man responsible for the stories that were adapted into movies like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and others. He was also a heavy user of amphetamines (and, some say, LSD) in his youth; in his later years he became paranoid, and may in fact have been living with some form of mental illness. In 1974, after taking sodium pentothal for an impacted wisdom tooth, Dick began seeing visions involving pink beams of light, the sense of having lived a previous life as a persecuted Christian in the Roman era, and communication from a super-rational intelligence he dubbed "VALIS." To Dick's credit, he never surrendered to these delusions altogether; he remained rational enough to write coherent (if paranoid) novels.
Dick's novel "A Scanner Darkly" was written in 1977 and set in 1992. It was based on the author's own experiences as a drug addict, and was dedicated to casualties of drug abuse (the author's roll call of those "punished entirely too much for what they did" is included before the movie's end credits).
Charlie Kaufman wrote an unproduced adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly," and Terry Gilliam was also reportedly interested in the property.
The animation technique used here is rotoscoping, where actual footage is filmed and then "painted" over by animators (in this case, with the aid of computer software, although in the earliest days of the technique a team of artists would hand-paint each individual frame of film).
Filmed in a brisk 23 days, but post-production (i.e. the rotoscope animation) took 18 painstaking months to complete.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: The "scramble suit," the undercover cloaking device of the future which is "made up of a million and a half fractional representations of men, women and children." These "fractional representations" flicker across the surface of the suit, masking the the wearer's identity by changing him into a "vague blur" of constantly shifting identities. The effect is eerie and disorienting, but unforgettable.
THREE WEIRD THINGS: Aphids everywhere; scrambled identities; alien presiding at a suicide
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: A Scanner Darkly is a paranoid, dystopian meditation on self-destruction—both personal and social—told as a sci-fi parable about an addictive, mind-rotting hallucinogen. For extra weirdness, the entire movie is rotoscoped to create a squirmy, synthetic reality.
Original trailer for A Scanner Darkly
COMMENTS: Hollywood has long been attracted to the works of cult sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, but only to their surfaces. The author's epistemological mindbenders about characters who don't know whether they're humans or replicants, or whether their memories are real or implanted, have proven to be adaptable (with the addition of chase scenes and ample use of munitions) as blockbuster sci-fi thrillers starring Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But until A Scanner Darkly, Hollywood was only interested in simplified, high-concept, plot-driven scripts that discarded Dick's antisocial philosophizing for action scenes followed by an a-ha! conclusion that satisfactorily wrapped up all the plot's mysteries. But the center of Dick's best work, really, is a skeptical investigation of reality. His protagonists find themselves trapped in mysteries which uncover conspiracies, and conspiracies behind conspiracies, and which, when they probe deeply enough, eventually lead them doubt their own identities. In a Dick story, the question becomes not whether the characters are being lied to by the powers that be—they are, as a matter of course—but whether they are even capable of discovering the ultimate truth at all. This approach undoubtedly stemmed from Dick's natural intellectual disposition, but it seems to have been exacerbated by his massive drug intake. Dick literally believed, at times in his life, that he was under surveillance, not merely by the Nixon administration, but also by space aliens, and by God Himself. If you take a sci-fi geek and pump him full of so many amphetamines that even Elvis would cry uncle and turn narc, you get Philip K. Dick.
For a time in the early Seventies, Dick opened his house up as a crash pad for junkies, stoners and drop-outs—a crew very much like those who buzz around Bob Arctor's burnt-out wreck of a suburban ranch home in A Scanner Darkly. The meandering, paranoid conversations of Freck, Barris, and Luckman show the druggy camaraderie of those who bond over a common hallucination. To these characters, everything is a plot; a bicycle is missing gears because the "albino shapeshifting lizards" who fenced it are planning to sell them the extra parts piece by piece. Bob Arctor, Dick's stand-in, is alienated from his own crowd, because he is hiding a horrifying secret: although he scarfs as much Substance D as any of his roommates, he's actually an undercover narcotics agent. Meanwhile, in his "real" life, his undercover identity is hidden from his police co-workers as a matter of protocol—a technique whose sanity comes into question when officer Fred is assigned the job of spying Bob Arctor, his own alter-ego. Self-examination has never been so ironically literal. Not only that, but concerned police psychologists explain to him that he may be experiencing a split between the hemispheres of his brain, one that leads to "cross-chatter." They tell him that he's seeing things wrong: that the illustration he reports to be a sheep is actually a dog. If this is true, and his own perceptions can't be trusted anymore thanks to the damage the drug has wreaked on his brain, how can he expect to do his job?
So when Arctor sees his pal Luckman turn into a bug before his very eyes, it's probably not really happening. But then, he could have figured that one out on his own, without the police psychologists. More troubling is when he briefly sees a one night stand turn into Donna, his Platonic girl-friend who is also the target of his undercover investigation. Those around him may not be who they appear to be; and why should they? Arctor is not who he is appears to be to them, either. Everyone is investigating and informing on everyone else. Linklater's decision to rotoscope A Scanner Darkly makes the film visually interesting, but it also works as a metaphor. Not only is Scanner's visual world liquid and druggy, simultaneously familiar and strange in the way someone on hallucinogens might perceive it, but it introduces the concept of reality as something that is layered. We know that what we are seeing on the screen is not the real image, but one that's been been painted over and obscured, purposely scrambled by the author. The rotoscoping removes us one level further from an already receding reality—a technique that's Dickian in its very essence.
It's refreshing, for a change, to see major Hollywood stars in a truly weird movie. Winona Ryder is a welcome presence, even if her role is the token stoner girl is a little underwritten and forgettable. Rory Cochrane overacts (appropriately so) as the lost cause space case whose skin crawls with imaginary aphids, while Woody Harrelson has no trouble whatsoever with his role as a naive longhair thoughtlessly tramping down the path to pharmaceutical oblivion. As the perpetually scheming Barris, Robert Downey Jr. makes the greatest impression, reeling off gonzo monologues with a natural affinity and oafish overconfidence that makes you think the actor might have actually been a tweaked-out, speed-snorting blowhard at some point in the past. Barris is a drugged out know-it-all who thinks he can make cocaine from Solarcaine and a silencer from a toilet paper roll, but who in reality doesn't even understand how an multi-speed bike works; still, he always has a smooth rap prepared to paper over any public failure. Keanu Reeves, after publicly humiliating himself as an out-of-his-depth Jonathan Harker in Dracula and starring as the forgettable Johnny Mnemonic, once seemed doomed to be shine only as the bogus half of Bill and Ted. Here, actually does a fine job as the protagonist. Reeves is still no Shakespearean actor, but given a properly limited role, his bland slacker handsomeness and deadpan delivery can be an asset. He excels at (and this is going to sound like an insult) a kind of low-key befuddlement that is perfectly suited to the chronically confused Bob Arctor. To put a more complimentary spin on it, Reeves here conveys a burnt-out melancholy and loss that, by the end, is actually quite moving.
A Scanner Darkly is many things, but on its simplest level it is an examination of drug abuse. Dick, and Linklater, capture the lifestyle of the addict—the squalor, the paranoia, and yes, the good times, too—in a way that's unsentimental and mournful. Drug abuse is devastating to the individual, but perhaps it's even more harmful to society. Basing his story on his personal experiences during Nixon's War on Drugs, Dick's novel projects a future where the citizenry is under constant surveillance by representatives of law and order, and where everyone is a potential informant. "This is a world progressively getting worse," Barris opines, and for once, he may be the voice of reason. Nixon's War on Drugs became Reagan's War on Drugs, which became, gradually, our status quo, a state of never-ending, never-questioned War. In A Scanner Darkly, there are cameras on every street corner, cameras in satellites, authorities sitting in front of banks of monitors watching our every move. The nod to government control—the Scanner, the omnipresent camera and the authority operating it—is right there in the title. And what does the scanner see? Paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 13, Arctor wonders if maybe he should surrender to the scannner's authoritative vision, because "I can no longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better." This is a warning against the temptations of tyranny, yes, but on a more touching and personal level, it's a confession from someone who has traveled to the outer limits of reality searching for answers—and come up blank.
"…the film is weirdly fascinating in its own maverick way."–Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (contemporaneous)
"The film is quite entertaining in a bent sort of way, and if you like weird, you should definitely see this."–Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette (contemporaneous)
"Possibly one of the strangest movies ever made, 'A Scanner Darkly' is worth seeing if only for the eye-bending animation."–Linda Cook, Quad City Times (contemporaneous)
A Scanner Darkly (U.S) – There's not much left at Warner Brothers' U.S. site besides the trailer
A Scanner Darkly (France) – Includes a still gallery, wallpapers featuring the characters, and animated messenger icons (all in French, of course)
IMDB LINK: A Scanner Darkly (2006)
OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST:
A Scanner Darkly – Festival de Cannes – The Cannes film festival page for A Scanner Darkly (which played in the "Un Certain Regard" section) includes a link to the French language pressbook
Securing the Substance: Richard Linklater on his adaptation of 'A Scanner Darkly' – Interview with Linklater by the Austin Chronicle's Marc Savlov
Trouble in Toontown – "Wired" article on the filmmakers' struggles with the complex animation
A Scanner Darkly Trailer: A Civil War Of The Mind – Contest-winning fan-made alternate trailer for the film
The Drugs Did Work – Essay about Dick's drug use in the context of "Scanner" from Philip Purser-Hallard of The Guardian
A Scanner Darkly Artists – The movie's art department created their own website, with links to the artists' homepages and favorite websites (no Scanner art, however)
"A Scanner Darkly" – The 1977 Philip K. Dick novel
DVD INFO: Warner Brothers released an A Scanner Darkly DVD (buy ) in 2006, the same year as its theatrical release. It includes the trailer, two featurettes of about 20 minutes each ("One Summer in Austin," on the filming, and "The Weight of the Line," describing the animation process). The DVD's biggest draw was the commentary track, with an impressive lineup of talking heads: director Linklater, star Reeves, producer Tommy Pallotta, Isa Dick Hackett (one of Phillip K.'s daughters, and the administrator of his literary estate), and Dick expert Jonathan Lethem.
A Blu-ray with the same features (buy ) followed a few months later. In 2010, Warner released a Blu-ray/DVD combo set (buy ); according to one report, the "One Summer in Austin" featurette was missing from an extras lineup that was otherwise the same (buyer beware; no extra features at all are advertised).
A Scanner Darkly is also available on-demand (rent or download ).
(This movie was nominated for review by Caleb Moss, who wrote "I was thinking that the movie A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater, based on the novel by the great weird science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, would be a great add to the queue." Suggest a weird movie of your own here.)
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7 thoughts on "235. A SCANNER DARKLY (2006)"
Tony Fleming says:
The movie was also strange as was PKD, author of the concept. I am into strange and weird but have a hard time with Scanner Darkly.
It was so cool to see this movie widely released in theatres. It's not typical to witness a druggy, animated, experimental film full of A-list stars like this on the big screen. Great movie, great review!
Spambot of the Day! says:
Piece of writing writing is also a fun, if you be familiar with then you can write otherwise it is difficult to write.
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G. Smalley (366weirdmovies) says:
John Cheever said something similar about writing writing is also a fun.
Lovecraft In Brooklyn says:
I love the deadpan comments about RDJ and Woody Harrelson. It's good to see a proper Dick movie, and I hope RDJ still has some weirdness left over after he leaves the Marvel machine.
Mike B says:
An interesting essay by Stanislaw Lem on the reality-bending qualities of Phil Dick's work: http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm
It doesn't mention "Scanner" (which at the time hadn't been written yet) but it makes for a good appendix nevertheless.
The essay was written about a year after Dick sent a letter to the FBI claiming that "Stanislaw Lem" was really a team of Communist agents. I don't know if Lem was aware of the letter at the time (probably not), but according to later accounts, he didn't take it personally, and chalked it up to Dick's psychosis.
The romantic idea of madness as a stimulus for creative work is obviously bullshit. There are no upsides to mental illness, just like there aren't any upsides to diabetes or cancer or herpes. But I wonder if Dick might be an exception. Would he have written so convincingly about disintegrating reality if his own reality hadn't been disintegrating?
Thanks for the link and you make an excellent point. The old saw is "write what you know"; what Dick knew was paranoid fantasy.
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Judicial Release is granted by the sentencing judge as an early release very specific circumstances and conditions. Judicial Release is authorized by Ohio Revised Code Section 2929.20.
What is the Judicial Release Process?
Judicial release happens in two phases. First a motion is filed by the individual of his/her attorney. The motion is then set for a Phase I hearing. If the Court believes the person is a good candidate for consideration for early release the case is set for a Phase II hearing. This hearing is where person is brought back from the institution and the Court makes its final decision regarding release. If the person is granted Judicial Release they are generally placed on 1-5 years of community control or probation.
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Mistakes are inevitable as long as you are alive. It is not always true that you did not know the repercussions and did something. When you saw the results, you realized that you made a mistake. Many a times you do something with a particular thing in mind and when you see the outcomes there is completely different result. Let me explain you with my recent mistake/blunder.
I saw one email from my friend regarding his blog. I read his blog and liked it. Then a thought came in to my mind, because I am publishing my blogs in Facebook and Twitter, there are chances my friends would have missed reading it because so many updates coming from so many friends. I also thought, there are chances that many might not have created account in Facebook or might not be using Facebook regularly. So It is a great idea to send them one email regarding my blog.
Why it is necessary that others should read my blogs? When somebody reads a blog and comments, I feel motivated. I look for another opportunity to write another blog. This does not change the idea that I am writing for my own satisfaction. The more I get comments, I get motivation to write blogs hence I feel satisfied. So, the sole purpose is to make myself satisfied. That is a selfish motive.
Why sending them email to read my blog? That is because, my friends, are my friends. They know me, they have loved my earlier writings during school or college days . If I let them know that I have started writing blogs they may love it and read the blogs.
What I did? I composed an email and then came the time to choose contacts. I selected one contacts one by one. After 7 or 8, I thought all in my contact list must be my friends as I do not add others to my contact list. Clicked on 'Select All'. Then was about to click on 'send' button, my daughter pressed the play button of our old tape recorder. It played "Tujse Naaraj Nahin Zindagi, Hairaan hoon main' which means 'I am not angry with you life, I am just worried'. I could not understand the signal god was trying to send me. I clicked on 'Send' button.
What happened? I got dozens of emails in few seconds. There were many Mailer Delivery Notifications, auto replies and the some messages notifying me that service request created for my query. Then I reviewed the email addresses, there were many email addresses which I could not recognize. Upon review I understood that every email I received and sent, all those email addresses were stored in my contact list. That contained email addresses of many consumer product helpdesks, mobile phone service providers and many other. I thought still it's okay till I received below email.
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This email went not only to me but all whom I sent email as well. I realized that, I not only sent email to people but also exposed their email address to many others. I had no other option that feeling bad and ashamed for my idiotic act.


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YouTube becomes latest social platform to block Donald Trump
Published Wednesday, January 13, 2021
YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend US President Donald Trump's account over concerns about "the ongoing potential for violence".
The video sharing site said the account would be inaccessible for "a minimum of seven days", meaning Trump will not have access until after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Social networks have been clamping down on Trump's personal accounts since the attack on the US Capitol building last week which temporarily halted Biden's confirmation and led to five deaths. Facebook and Instagram were the first major platforms to ban Trump, followed by Twitter over the weekend.
Trump's YouTube channel is now prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for a minimum of seven days, which may be extended, the Google-owned firm said in a statement.
The action followed threats from US civil rights groups that they would lead an advertiser boycott of the platform if it did not immediately suspend Trump's account.
Jim Steyer was one of the organisers of the "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign which led over 1,000 advertisers to boycott Facebook in July. Speaking to Reuters, he said the groups demanded that YouTube takes down Trump's verified YouTube channel, which has 2.76 million subscribers.
YouTube initially removed new content uploaded to the channel as it violated policies for inciting violence before ultimately suspending it entirely.
"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies," YouTube said in a statement on Twitter. "It now has its first strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of 7 days."
"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section."
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Cillian Murphy: "I gave David Bowie my 'Peaky Blinders' cap"
"He was a very sweet man"
Andrew Trendell
David Bowie and Cillian Murphy in 'Peaky Blinders'
Cillian Murphy has shared the story of how he once gifted David Bowie with one of his caps from the hit show Peaky Blinders.
Ahead of the upcoming news of the premiere of Peaky Blinders season five, Murphy and show writer Steven Knight have spoken of how the late icon sent them a pre-release copy of his final album 'Blackstar' before his death. Aware that Bowie was "a huge fan" of the show and had requested that they use some of his music in an episode, they responded by sending him the Shelby clan's iconic headgear in return.
"We were friends and I sent him the cap from the first series as a Christmas present," Murphy told Birmingham Live. "He was a very sweet man and a genuine fan of Peaky Blinders, and I was a huge, huge David Bowie fan."
Murphy continued: "He was very private and probably wouldn't like all this fuss. It's sad, isn't it?"
Show creator Stephen Knight added they would be using a track from 'Blackstar' in episode five or six of the upcoming season.
"We all grew up with David Bowie and he's a hero," said Knight. "It's a major thing that someone like that was a fan of the show. He said he wanted his music to be part of it, but at the time I didn't know it was his dying wish."
Bowie's 'Lazarus' made an appearance in episode five of season three of the show back in 2016.
Read more: Peaky Blinders series five – everything we know so far
"From the beginning we had The White Stripes and Nick Cave and since the show has gained in popularity more bands have started wanting to lend their music," said Murphy at the time.
Knight also revealed how Bowie "sent a photo of himself with razor blades in his cap to Cillian [Murphy]" before back in 2015.
Production on series five of Peaky Blinders is said to be complete with news of a premiere and air date expected to be announced shortly.


STEP files (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) are a common, standardized file exchange format for 3D geometry data. Typical 3D CAD programs capable of STEP file import are SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge and many more.
The files listed below contain the outer surface model of the most common Trafag pressure transmitters.


With a son you better understand the concept of sacrifice. I'd always automatically started a counter in my head when holding someone in an uncomfortable position. You rationalize your effort versus the need for whatever support the person needs and out comes a number: 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 20 minutes.
With Robie I just know that as long as I'm able to do it, I'll hold him to make him comfortable. It's not a question of time, but of how much you can give.
My arm was numb for a while, but it was a glorious nap.


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Byggnaden är av sten och har 340 sittplatser. Dörröppningar och dopfunt är från medeltiden, här finns vidare en renässanspredikstol och en utskuren altartavla från 1733.

Sørums kyrka är en av de äldsta kvarvarande stenkyrkorna i Norge, och har genom historien varit en viktig maktfaktor med stora rikedomar. Colbjørn Torstensen Arneberg, som var präst här i över sextio år, vilar på kyrkogården.

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No hole in one at the 12th hole???
I think that's largely due to players rarely being able to actually shoot at hole locations. The swirling winds at #12 (Golden Bell) and the severe penalty for missing the green in the wrong spots have obviously been a huge factor. Throw in the absence of luck and you have your answer.
yes A hole in one anywhere is chellanging and it always requires that bit of luck it will happen 1 day I think just when..
yeah,you made me think of that also.. is there any golfer in the world that happened to shoot the ball in 12th hole at the masters? if that so,she/he was so great perfect.
It's one thing to be able to get the ball even on the green from 200 yards out, messy winds, and the playing conditions they face. It's another thing to get the ball within 10 feet.. and it's ANOTHER to even think about getting a hole in one there. If anyone does, which I doubt it will, it's all by luck.. well, a little skill, but mostly luck.
It could have something to do with the greens.


Dynamics at the University of Maryland is distinguished by its quality, breadth and activity. The Chaos Group spans several departments and units on campus. In this website you will find information regarding the Mathematics Department.
Dynamics at UMD is intrinsically wide ranging, and even within the mathematics department the interest area goes beyond the above list, for example in the work of Mark Freidlin and Leonid Koralov (random perturbations of dynamical systems), William Goldman (ergodic theory on moduli spaces), Karin Melnick (group actions on manifolds), and Scott Wolpert (dynamics of the Weil-Petersson flow).
Davit Karagulyan: Mobius orthogonality, ergodic theory.
Ke Zhang : Hamiltonian Dynamics, thermodynamical formalism.
The Dynamics group at UMD organizes the following activities.
The meetings occur on Thursdays from 2--4pm, and are divided into two parts: the first one is an introduction of the topic that is accessible to graduate students, and the second is a discussion/explanation of the (idea of the) proof of the main result. After the seminar there is a social hour that offers drinks and snakcs.
Student dynamics seminar meetson Tuesdays 2-3pm. It features talks by graduate students where the speakers discuss their research interests.
The seminar meets on Thursdays at 12:30pm. It brings in a range of visitors from labs, agencies and other universities in the region, and features dynamics related talk over pizza lunch.
Beginning in Fall 1991, the dynamics groups of the University of Maryland and Pennsylvania State University have jointly sponsored two annual three and half day meetings in dynamical systems and related topics: a spring meeting here in College Park, and a fall meeting in State College. These meetings, though primarily regional, also attract participants outside the region and the country. Along with talks of prominent mathematicians, the conferences always include several short talks by graduate students.
Vadim Kaloshin occupies the Michael Brin Chair in Mathematics.
This position controls substantial discretionary funds, and is permanent as long as the appointed person remains a professor of mathematics at Maryland. The Chair also sponsors Brin Postdoctoral Fellows.
This is an international prize awarded by an international panel of dynamics luminaries. It recognizes mathematicians who have made substantial impact at an early stage of their careers. The first two prizes were awarded to Maryland faculty members Giovanni Forni and Dmitry Dolgopyat. Starting from 2017 the prize is awarded annually. During the even years the Brin Prize is awarded during Maryland Dynamics Conference.
Summer School on Dynamical Systems, August 17--25, 2014, College Park MD.
Program on Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis August 13--December 14, 2018, MSRI, Berkeley, CA.
School on Probabilistic methods in negative curvature March 11--22, 2019, Bangalore, India.
2019 Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics, April 11--14, 2019, College Park, MD.


One year on from first publishing this list and you know what, not such a failed venture. I thought it would languish untouched as I just read my favourite books over and over again. But that hasn't been the case. And I have to admit that my love of crossing things off lists has sometimes been the only motivation to get through certain books that shall remain nameless (*cough* Charles Dickens *cough*).
There are, I'll admit, some books that have been here right from the start but I just haven't found myself in the mood to read Little Women yet.
So 2015's reads have been archived here and 2016 can have a fresh start.
Lovely reading list. I have seen a couple of movies which were inspired from the book, for eg #59 #44.
Which one do you prefer. Movie or a book?
Almost always book. I like the intricate details in books which are usually cut out in films. What would you choose?
All the book lovers would choose books over the movies.
Hi Lizzy! We're trying to organize a little book club with a few book bloggers this summer, and we'd love to have you involved! If you're interested in hearing a little more, please shoot us an email (our email address is on our contact page, otherwise use the contact form!), because we'd love to have you involved! Thanks!
Hey Lizzy! Have you read any of these before? I think I can count on zero fingers how many books I've read twice, but there is one I will look at again soon. Two of the ones from your list I have just experienced – The Fault in Our Stars the movie, and the novel of Dickens' Tale. Good luck with the latter — a tough read, but stick with it because it is fabulous!
I haven't read any of these before but there are a few books that I've read more times than I can count. The Harry Potters for one! As much as I love reading new books theres something so comforting about a book you already know. And I hope you're right about the Dickens because I'm about half way through and yet to be convinced!


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EXCAVO: The Mining Specialist:
3 Attachment points
The dorsal D-Ring enables the wearer to select the lanyard that is best suited to their requirements.
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A moulded rescue belt and battery strap easily hold the equipment and keep it firmly in place.
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Stand with a suspension trauma strap that can be deployed in the event of a fall, providing the wearer with a standing step to maintain healthy blood flow while awaiting rescue.
Available in four sizes: S | M | L |XL
AGILIS: The Everyday Hero:
The sternal D-ring enables the wearer to attach to a vertical or retractable life line, as well as perform a basic rescue.
Two side D-rings are compatible with work positioning requirements
Strategically placed padding on around the waist area to absorb and spread pressure from the wearer leaning back against the harness in a work positioning stance.
GORDIAN: The Heights Expert:
The waist D-Ring acts as the main rope anchor point and the chest D-ring performs the function of a back-up rope anchor point or attachment point for a vertical or retractable lifeline
The waist belt contains two gear loops where the wearer can attach tools and two D-Rings that enable the wearer to attach a work positioning belt, thereby freeing up the wearer's hands and improving safety whilst working at heights.
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