This year, twelve candidates are running for election to six judicial vacancies on the ICC bench.
On 18 September 2017, we held panel discussions in The Hague with the candidates as part of our long-running campaign to ensure the election of highly qualified officials to lead the fight against impunity.
Moderator: Kirsten Meerschaert, Director of Programs, Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
Our sincere thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands for hosting the event.
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Andy Soos is a writer for the news site: Environmental News Network
Consumers Being Persuaded to go Electric – A Look at Electric Car Incentives
By Andy Soos - Dec 28, 2010, 10:33 AM CST
During the last few decades, increased concern over the environmental impact of the petroleum-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in an electric transportation infrastructure. Electric vehicles differ from fossil fuel-powered vehicles in that the electricity they consume can be generated from a wide range of sources. A key advantage of electric or hybrid electric vehicles is regenerative braking and suspension; their ability to recover energy normally lost during braking as electricity to be restored to the on-board battery. In 2003, the first mass-produced hybrid gasoline-electric car, the Toyota Prius, was introduced worldwide, and the first battery electric car produced by a major auto company.
Other major auto companies have electric cars in development, and the USA and other nations are building pilot networks of charging stations to recharge them. So what about the rest of the world? The Russian automotive industry is not one that is totally familiar with the green changes towards electric vehicles and other models that have been sweeping other countries throughout Europe or the world. In fact, historically, there has never been much to say about the Russian automotive industry as a whole. Now, however, Russia is ready for her first hybrid car.
In a joint announcement between Russian automobile manufacturer YAROVIT Motors and financial company Onexim Group, the E-Mobile (or Yo) electric vehicle hybrid was unveiled to the world.
The vehicle is being seen by many as one way of working towards President Dmitry Medvedev's plan to move Russia's economy away from reliance on fossil and carbon based fuel sources. The E-Mobile is expected to see a full distribution sometime in 2012 after an investment of around $200 million is made towards the construction of a production and assembly plant for the new car.
While exact details are slim on the technical aspect of the E-Mobile electric vehicle hybrid some information was announced during the unveiling. The E-Mobile is intended as an electric and gasoline or natural gas hybrid that will allow the vehicle to extend its gas mileage to around sixty seven miles per gallon and it is said that it has a top speed of approximately eighty one miles per hour. In the announcement Prokhorov also said that the E-Mobile could have a potential range of around 680 miles. Currently, the E-Mobile is expected to cost around $14,500 once it hits the market in Russia.
In Ireland, Green Party minister for Energy, Eamon Ryan has announced a scheme to deploy 1,500 electrical recharging stations for use with EVs. The Government has set a target of 10% for all vehicles on Irish roads to be electric by 2020.
In October 2008 the then UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged £100 million in government money to support electric, hybrid and other more environmentally friendly car projects over a five-year period to help make Britain "the European capital for electric cars". In July 2010, the UK also announced it would honor a grant starting in January 2011 to give EV buyers a discount of 25%, of up to £5000 when buying an electric vehicle.
In June 2009, it is reported that consumers in Japan who purchase an electric vehicle like i-MiEV from Mitsubishi can receive subsidies that reduce cost of the vehicle to 3.209 million yen(about $33,000), down 30% from the original price of 4.59 million yen ($47,560). Electric cars, as well as hybrids, are also exempt from taxes for three years in Japan.
So the rest of the world is trying to persuade consumers to go electric by direct financial incentives or by infusing capital into the local automotive industry.
By. Andy Soos
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Shale Gas and the Changing Global Energy Landscape
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We've got a no-brainer here. The future is electricity. Oil, gas and coal may not be around to join the parties at the end of this century, but electricity will. Of course, the details may not be what many observers think, but that is their problem, isn't it?

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Donald Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power
The postal ballots are a disaster, says U.S. President
U.S. President Donald Trump failed to commit to the peaceful transfer of power when asked a question on the subject on Tuesday, adding to concerns that the post-election scenario in November might be chaotic.
"Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster," Mr. Trump said in response to the question.
The President, in a bid to question the legitimacy of postal ballots, has been complaining for months about vote by mail, including by making unsubstantiated claims about the incidence of voter fraud (orchestrated by Democrats).
All States use some amount of mail in voting but the COVID-19 pandemic has meant an expansion of the process across the country. Vote by mail has already started for the elections, and at least 75% of Americans will be eligible for a postal ballot as per a New York Times study.
"Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very peaceful… there won't be a transfer frankly, there'll be a continuation," Mr Trump said when the reporter further pressed him on whether he'd commit to a peaceful transfer of power in light of the fact that "people are rioting."
In an interview to Chris Wallace of Fox News, Mr. Trump had in July said he would "have to see" when asked if he would accept the November election results. In 2016, running against Hilary Clinton, Mr. Trump had given a similar answer to the question.
Supreme Court pick
Mr. Trump also stated on Wednesday that he wanted to replace liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November 3 election as he expected a dispute over the results . Mr. Trump is expected to announce his pick on Saturday, a pick that is likely to further solidify the conservative majority of the court.
Former (2012) Republican presidential nominee and U.S. Senator from Utah Mitt Romney, who had voted to convict Mr. Trump on impeachment charges earlier this year but has also said he will consider a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, reacted strongly to Mr. Trump's comments on Wednesday.
"Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a President might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable," Mr. Romney wrote on Twitter.
'Not surprised'
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacted to Mr. Trump's comments and said he was not surprised, while implying a challenge to the peaceful transfer of power was not something that happened in the U.S.
"What country are we in? "Mr. Biden told reporters in Delaware. "He [Mr. Trump] says the most irrational things. I don't know what to say… but it doesn't surprise me."
"The American people will decide this election. And the U.S. government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House," the Biden campaign said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
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namespace tera {
namespace filter {

struct RowData {
  std::string column_family;
  std::string qualifier;
  std::string value;
};

class ValueFilterTest : public ::testing::Test {};

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterINT64) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  int64_t ref_value = INT64_MIN;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt64, ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kLess, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetColumnFamily("cf1");
  value_filter_in->SetColumnQualifier("qu1");
  value_filter_in->SetFilterIfMissing(true);
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "cf1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "qu1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, true);
  IntegerComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<IntegerComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_EQ((int64_t)(cp->integer_value_), ref_value);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterUINT64) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  uint64_t ref_value = UINT64_MAX;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kUint64, ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kLessOrEqual, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetColumnFamily("cf1");
  value_filter_in->SetFilterIfMissing(true);
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "cf1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, true);
  IntegerComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<IntegerComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_EQ((uint64_t)(cp->integer_value_), ref_value);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterINT32) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  int32_t ref_value = INT32_MIN;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt32, ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kEqual, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetFilterIfMissing(true);
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, true);
  IntegerComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<IntegerComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_EQ((int32_t)(cp->integer_value_), ref_value);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterUINT32) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  uint32_t ref_value = UINT32_MAX;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kUint32, ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kNotEqual, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetColumnFamily("");
  value_filter_in->SetColumnQualifier("qu1");
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "qu1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, false);
  IntegerComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<IntegerComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_EQ((uint32_t)(cp->integer_value_), ref_value);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterDecimal) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  float ref_value = 123.456;
  DecimalComparatorPtr comparator = std::make_shared<DecimalComparator>(ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreaterOrEqual, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetColumnFamily("cf1");
  value_filter_in->SetColumnQualifier("qu1");
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "cf1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "qu1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, false);
  DecimalComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<DecimalComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_TRUE(cp->decimal_value_ < ref_value + 1e-6 && cp->decimal_value_ > ref_value - 1e-6);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, SetValueFilterBinary) {
  ScanDescriptor scan_desc("");
  std::string ref_value = "abcdefg";
  BinaryComparatorPtr comparator = std::make_shared<BinaryComparator>(ref_value);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_in =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreater, comparator);
  value_filter_in->SetColumnFamily("cf1");
  value_filter_in->SetColumnQualifier("qu1");
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc.SetFilter(value_filter_in));

  ScanDescImpl* scan_desc_impl = scan_desc.GetImpl();
  ASSERT_TRUE(scan_desc_impl);
  FilterDesc* filter_desc = scan_desc_impl->GetFilterDesc();
  ASSERT_TRUE(filter_desc);
  EXPECT_EQ(filter_desc->type(), FilterDesc::kValueFilter);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_out = std::make_shared<ValueFilter>();
  ASSERT_TRUE(value_filter_out->ParseFrom(filter_desc->serialized_filter()));
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_family_, "cf1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->column_qualifier_, "qu1");
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_out->filter_if_missing_, false);
  BinaryComparator* cp = dynamic_cast<BinaryComparator*>(value_filter_out->comparator_.get());
  EXPECT_EQ(cp->value_, ref_value);
}

TEST_F(ValueFilterTest, FilterCase) {
  int64_t ref_value_1 = 10;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator1 =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt64, ref_value_1);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_1 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kLess, comparator1);
  value_filter_1->SetColumnFamily("cf1");
  value_filter_1->SetColumnQualifier("qu1");
  value_filter_1->SetFilterIfMissing(true);

  float ref_value_2 = 123.456;
  DecimalComparatorPtr comparator2 = std::make_shared<DecimalComparator>(ref_value_2);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_2 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreaterOrEqual, comparator2);
  value_filter_2->SetColumnFamily("cf2");
  value_filter_2->SetColumnQualifier("qu2");

  std::string ref_value_3 = "abc";
  BinaryComparatorPtr comparator3 = std::make_shared<BinaryComparator>(ref_value_3);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_3 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreater, comparator3);
  value_filter_3->SetColumnFamily("cf3");
  value_filter_3->SetColumnQualifier("qu3");

  int64_t ref_value_4 = 10;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator4 =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt64, ref_value_4);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_4 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kLess, comparator1);
  value_filter_4->SetColumnFamily("cf4");
  value_filter_4->SetColumnQualifier("qu4");
  value_filter_4->SetFilterIfMissing(true);

  float ref_value_5 = 123.456;
  DecimalComparatorPtr comparator5 = std::make_shared<DecimalComparator>(ref_value_5);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_5 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreaterOrEqual, comparator5);
  value_filter_5->SetColumnFamily("cf5");
  value_filter_5->SetColumnQualifier("qu5");

  int64_t ref_value_6 = 11;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator6 =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt64, ref_value_6);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_6 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kGreater, comparator6);
  value_filter_6->SetColumnFamily("cf1");

  int64_t ref_value_7 = 13;
  IntegerComparatorPtr comparator7 =
      std::make_shared<IntegerComparator>(IntegerValueType::kInt64, ref_value_7);
  ValueFilterPtr value_filter_7 =
      std::make_shared<ValueFilter>(CompareOperator::kLess, comparator7);
  value_filter_7->SetColumnFamily("cf1");

  RowData row_buf[5];

  row_buf[0].column_family = "cf1";
  row_buf[0].qualifier = "";
  std::string value;
  comparator1->EncodeInteger(IntegerValueType::kInt64, 12, &value);
  row_buf[0].value = value;

  row_buf[1].column_family = "cf1";
  row_buf[1].qualifier = "qu0";
  comparator1->EncodeInteger(IntegerValueType::kInt64, 11, &value);
  row_buf[1].value = value;

  row_buf[2].column_family = "cf1";
  row_buf[2].qualifier = "qu1";
  comparator1->EncodeInteger(IntegerValueType::kInt64, 9, &value);
  row_buf[2].value = value;

  row_buf[3].column_family = "cf2";
  row_buf[3].qualifier = "qu2";
  value = comparator2->EncodeDecimal(123.455);
  row_buf[3].value = value;

  row_buf[4].column_family = "cf3";
  row_buf[4].qualifier = "qu3";
  row_buf[4].value = "abd";

  value_filter_1->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_1->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_1->FilterRow(), false);

  value_filter_2->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_2->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_2->FilterRow(), true);

  value_filter_3->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_3->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_3->FilterRow(), false);

  value_filter_4->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_4->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_4->FilterRow(), true);

  value_filter_5->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_5->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_5->FilterRow(), false);

  value_filter_6->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_6->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_6->FilterRow(), true);

  value_filter_7->Reset();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    Filter::ReturnCode rc = value_filter_7->FilterCell(row_buf[i].column_family,
                                                       row_buf[i].qualifier, row_buf[i].value);
    if (rc == Filter::kNotIncludeCurAndLeftCellOfRow) {
      break;
    }
  }
  EXPECT_EQ(value_filter_7->FilterRow(), false);
}

}  // namespace filter
}  // namespace tera

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package com.osbcp.csssquasher;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import com.osbcp.cssparser.CSSParser;
import com.osbcp.cssparser.Rule;
import com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.CssCompressor;

/**
 * Main class for OSBCP CSS Squasher.
 *
 * @author Christoffer Pettersson
 */

public final class Squasher {

	/**
	 * Main entry point for using the minifer as a stand alone application.
	 *
	 * @param arguments First argument [0] should be the path of the CSS file that should be minified.
	 * @throws Exception If any errors occur.
	 */

	public static void main(final String[] arguments) throws Exception {

		if (arguments.length != 1) {

			System.out.println("Usage: java -jar osbcp-css-squasher-x.y.z.jar [input file]");

		} else {

			File file = new File(arguments[0]);

			String contents = FileUtils.readFileToString(file);

			ResultObject results = Squasher.squash(contents);

			String compressedCSS = results.getCompressedCSS();

			System.out.println(compressedCSS);

		}

	}

	/**
	 * Squashes CSS.
	 *
	 * @param originalCSS String representation of CSS.
	 * @return Squashed, refacotored and compressed CSS.
	 * @throws Exception If any error occurs.
	 */

	public static ResultObject squash(final String originalCSS) throws Exception {

		List<Rule> rules = CSSParser.parse(originalCSS);
		StringBuilder log = new StringBuilder();

		while (true) {

			LogicMerger merger = new LogicMerger(log);
			rules = merger.merge(rules);
			int merged = merger.getNumberOfMerges();
			log.append("Managed to merge '" + merged + "' rules.\n");
			//	System.out.println(toString(rules));

			LogicSquashDuplicates squasher = new LogicSquashDuplicates(log);
			rules = squasher.squash(rules);
			int squashed = squasher.getNbrOfSquashedRules();
			log.append("Managed to squash '" + squashed + "' rules.\n");
			//			System.out.println(toString(rules));

			LogicRefactor refactorizer = new LogicRefactor(log);
			rules = refactorizer.refactor(rules);
			int refactored = refactorizer.getNumberOfRefactored();
			log.append("Managed to refactor '" + refactored + "' rules.\n");
			//			System.out.println(toString(rules));

			// Job done if no more to squash or refactor
			if (merged == 0 && squashed == 0 && refactored == 0) {
				log.append("Could not merge, squash or refactor anymore.\n");
				break;
			}

		}

		String refactoredCSS = toString(rules);

		String compressedCSS = compress(log, refactoredCSS);

		log.append("Squasher is happy. Exiting.\n");

		return new ResultObject(originalCSS, refactoredCSS, compressedCSS, log.toString(), rules);

	}

	/**
	 * Performs the YUI Compressor on a String.
	 *
	 * @param log Log object.
	 * @param css The CSS that should be compressed.
	 * @return Compressed CSS.
	 * @throws IOException If any error occurs.
	 */

	private static String compress(final StringBuilder log, final String css) throws IOException {

		StringReader reader = new StringReader(css);

		StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();

		CssCompressor compressor = new CssCompressor(reader);

		compressor.compress(writer, -1);

		String compressedCSS = writer.toString();

		log.append("Compressed the CSS from '" + css.length() + "' characters to '" + compressedCSS.length() + "' characters.\n");

		return compressedCSS;

	}

	/**
	 * Compiles the whole list of rules into a String.
	 *
	 * @param rules The list of rules.
	 * @return A pretty String.
	 */

	private static String toString(final List<Rule> rules) {

		StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();

		for (Rule rule : rules) {
			out.append(rule.toString());
		}

		return out.toString();

	}

}


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Home / Student Affairs / Departments / Student Counseling Services / Relationship and Sexual Violence Program / Stalking / Facts About Stalking
Facts About Stalkingwebservices2016-10-11T12:31:20-05:00
Stalking is a gender neutral crime, with both male and female perpetrators and victims. However, most stalkers are men. Stalkers come from every walk of life and every socio-economic background.
Stalkers are often unpredictable and can go from feelings of love to feelings of anger quickly. Sometimes, when a stalker becomes obsessively angry over a perceived rejection, he/she may become violent.
College campuses can provide an ideal environment for stalkers because campuses are relatively closed-in communities, where daily routines and regular behaviors can be easily monitored.
The evolution of the stalker's thought pattern progresses from, "If I can just prove to you how much I love you," to "I can make you love me," to "If I can't have you, nobody else will."
Most stalking victims know their stalkers.
42.5 % are boyfriends or ex-boyfriends.
24.5% are classmates.
10.3% are acquaintances.
9.3% are friends.
5.6% are co-workers.
Stalking impacts victims in several ways and must be taken seriously.
3 in 10 women reported emotional or psychological injury.
In 15.3% of incidents, victims reported that the stalker threatened or attempted to harm them.
In 10.3% of incidents, victims reported that the stalker "forced or attempted sexual contact."


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Kismet est un film américain réalisé par Louis Gasnier, sorti en 1920. Il s'agit du remake du film anglais de 1914, Kismet. Tous deux sont adaptés de la pièce de théâtre du même nom d'Edward Knoblock (1911)

Synopsis
Les nombreuses aventures de Hajj, un voleur de Bagdad, au cours d'une seule journée.

Fiche technique
 Titre original : Kismet
 Réalisation : Louis Gasnier
 Scénario : Charles E. Whittaker, d'après la pièce Kismet d'Edward Knoblock
 Direction artistique : Frank Ormston
 Photographie : Tony Gaudio, Glen MacWilliams, Joseph Du Bray
 Photographie de plateau : Shirley Vance Martin
 Musique : Carl Edouarde
 Société de production : Waldorf Film Corporation
 Société de distribution : Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : noir et blanc — 35 mm — 1,37:1 — Film muet
 Genre : Comédie dramatique
 Durée : 95 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
  :
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 Licence : Domaine public

Distribution
 Otis Skinner : Hajj
 Rosemary Theby : Kut-ul-Kulub
 Elinor Fair : Marsinah
 Marguerite Comont : Nargis
 Nicholas Dunaev : Nasir
 Herschel Mayall : Jawan
 Fred Lancaster : Zayd
 Léon Bary : le calife Abdullah
 Sidney Smith : Jester
 Hamilton Revelle : le vizir Mansur
 Tom Kennedy : Kutyat
 Sam Kaufman : Amru
 Emmett C. King : Abu Bakr
 Fanny Ferrari : Gulnar
 Emily Seville : une servante de Gulnar
 Georgia Woodthorpe : une servante de Gulnar
 Harry Lorraine : le muezzin
 Paul Weigel : Afife
 Robert A. Evans : Kasim
 Cornelia Otis Skinner : Miskah
 James Adams : le chambellan

Remakes
 Kismet, film américain réalisé par John Francis Dillon, sorti en 1930 ;
 Kismet, film indien réalisé par Gyan Mukherjee, sorti en 1943 ;
 Kismet, film américain réalisé par William Dieterle, sorti en 1944 ;
 Kismet, film américain de 1955 réalisé par Vincente Minnelli inspiré de la comédie musicale Kismet.

Autour du film
 Otis Skinner avait déjà joué ce rôle au théâtre pendant plusieurs années, et rejouera ce rôle dans la version parlante de John Francis Dillon (1930).

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Kismet sur Silent Era

Film américain sorti en 1920
Comédie dramatique américaine
Film réalisé par Louis Gasnier
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre britannique au cinéma
Film muet américain
Film américain en noir et blanc

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For the purpose of this review, I invited my wife for a test as well. Both of us went to a nearby retailer, where the price tag was slightly more expensive, and took turns testing this weird-looking but otherwise super useful bar station.
I'm a tall guy, and my wife is only about 6 inches shorter. Needless to say, both of us enjoyed the geometry, and were able to perform full range of motion push-ups and pull-ups.
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Kudos to Wired News. Long the cutting-edge news site during the grand old days of the dot-boom, Wired have upped the ante on practical use of Web standards in mainstream sites. Their recent redesign is all CSS and XHTML, with not a table cell to be seen. Last time I looked, the front page even validated, although they have quite a bit of work to clean up their legacy content. This follows the recent redesign by Lycos Europe, which attempted an all-CSS layout but is full of strange markup errors – perhaps the result of glitches by their ad banner provider (which we also are afflicted with upon occasion) – and residual font tags.
Back at the beginning of last year I suggested that the only sites using valid markup were the ones about valid markup, or Web design more generally. With Wired, DigitalHit's news page and a smattering of others now getting with the XHTML-CSS program, that's no longer true, which is good to see. It's hardly a widespread trend, but clearly some major sites are now taking the Web standards message to heart.
There are plenty of good reasons for doing what Wired has done. Maintenance costs fall dramatically when the site uses Web standards. The old quintuply-nested table layouts are fiddly, hard to maintain, and all too easy to stuff up. I've had readers sending me pages in that style, plaintively asking why it doesn't work in one or another browser. It's hard not to be rude in those circumstances, but instead I just politely explain that browsers are going to have a hard time working out what to do with improperly nested markup. Don't expect me to do for free what they can't work out for pay; diagnosing problems with that many tables and GIFs is hard. These folks, like the staff at Wired, will find that they are much better off simplifying the markup and using Web standards.
Although Wired isn't the trailblazer and opinion-leader that it was in the mid-to-late 1990s, I've no doubt that this will push a few of the other big sites onto a 21st century approach to Web design, and that can only help. Most commercial sites are starting from a very low base anyway when it comes to Web standards conformance. A quick look at just about every other tech news site shows a mess of markup errors, tag soup and unnecessary browser sniffers. This is an issue for ZDNet, ComputerWorld and (spare me!) News.com – which even manages some basic tag mismatch errors, closing outer tags before all the inner tags have been closed. I've previously shown that even sites that purport to teach you HTML have problems with validation, but mismatched tags is beyond the pale. I've said it before, more than once, in fact that if you can't even match up your tags correctly, you are a disgrace who should get right out of the industry.
Some of these sites also incorporate some utterly wrong-headed approaches to accessibility and standards support. ComputerWorld uses CSS, but it's chock-full of messy classes with names like .sponsoredblack, .sponsoredblue and .topicsolive, and screen font sizes defined in half-point units (I know anti-aliasing makes the pixel grid on your screen less visually rigid, but I can't see the sense in half-point units for screen display). ZDNet has mismatched tags and a browser sniffer that thinks iCab is Netscape (even when I set the tag to start with "iCab") and Opera is IE. A few sites also have the bad habit of using XHTML-style img tags with the slash at the end (<img src="blah.gif" alt="" />) but not using actual XHTML. Would a DOCTYPE be such a hard thing for these guys to add? ZDNet will have to decide between the XHTML and HTML style, though, as their current home page contains a mixture of both.
I'd be delighted if Wired's example were to catch on. Of course, you knew there'd be a catch. Or rather, two catches. Those catches are our friendly neighborhood Mac-only browsers, iCab and OmniWeb. Because iCab doesn't do any kind of CSS positioning, it presents the columns of the layout one after another. This looks silly, but at least all the content is there and the other formatting errors are pretty minor. OmniWeb is much worse. It supports positioning, after a fashion, but does so incorrectly. As a result, some of Wired's content is obscured in OmniWeb. OmniWeb breaks some of the previously mentioned table-oriented sites, too. This example from ZDNet, mentioned on OmniWeb's mailing list, somehow ends up with the footer at the top of the page, obscuring the content that is meant to be there. ZDNet's markup is such a mess that I can't really work out why – it could be the insane relative positioning hack they've put in for Windows IE – but it seems to be one more example of OmniWeb's current problems with basic Web standards.
Well, I'm waiting. More than two years ago, MacEdition took the then-brave step of using a lean, CSS-based layout with a minimal use of tables and not a font tag to be seen. We were criticized for this at the time, but I do feel we've been vindicated. The sad thing is that sites with a big share of Mac OS X usage are going to be held back more than other sites now, and for longer. It used to be that Netscape 4 held us back, but its share of our readership is down around 4 percent now, and dropping steadily. Now it's the Mac-only browsers that hold us back. I suppose we could move to XHTML from HTML 4.01 Traditional, but that's not really the big deal here. We'd also lose the ability to make iCab smile, which would be a loss from a marketing perspective and for production staff like me who like to use iCab as a visual check against markup slip-ups.
Whether it's a full CSS-layout experience like Wired or a compromise table-plus-CSS approach like MacEdition, Web standards are the way forward, and more and more designers are taking that path, leaving the laggards looking shabby. What a shame I can't do all that I'd like to do without making a mess of things for 10 to 15 percent of our readers.


Yale's chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has denied allegations that brothers racially discriminated against students of color during a party held Friday at the fraternity's off-campus house.
On Oct. 31, the day after the party in question, Neema Githere '18 posted a status on her personal Facebook profile recounting the experience of a group of women of color which she said were denied entrance to SAE on Friday on the basis of race. Though Githere was not part of that group herself and was not in attendance Friday, she noted in the post that a similar incident had happened to her last year and invited others who had been discriminated against by SAE to comment with their stories. Since it was published, her post has received over 600 likes and almost 100 shares.
"I'd just like to take a moment to give a shoutout to the member of Yale's SAE chapter who turned away a group of girls from their party last night, explaining that admittance was on a 'White Girls Only' basis," her post read.
Members of SAE have categorically denied the accusations. Yale SAE President Grant Mueller '17 said he has been in contact with Yale administrators and representatives from SAE's national organization about the incident to repudiate charges that SAE members engaged in racist behavior when deciding whom to admit to the party.
Mueller said he was notified of Githere's post around 8 p.m. on Saturday and immediately contacted Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, as well as his residential college dean, in order to address the complaints. Howard already knew about the post, Mueller said. Mueller and Howard met on Saturday night and spoke on the phone the next afternoon.
Githere's statement has drawn attention from beyond Yale's campus. Mueller said a representative from the national chapter reached out to him via email, asking for details about the event. He added that The Huffington Post has contacted him about the allegations, but said he did not know whether SAE's national organization would provide a spokesman for the chapter.
Mueller added that he and other SAE brothers plan on attending a forum at the Afro-American Cultural Center this afternoon, where attendees will discuss the weekend's events in relation to larger discussions about an inclusive campus culture.
The administration has also been in contact with the students involved in the alleged events outlined in the Facebook post. Emails provided to the News show that on Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Howard emailed a Yale student he had heard was present for the events outlined in Githere's post requesting more details about the alleged incident. Howard said he had been contacted by the student's residential college dean about the events and wanted to gather as much information as possible.
The student was with two friends in the crowd in front of the house on Friday evening, hoping to enter the party, but brothers were "standing directly in the door frame and picking people one at a time from the crowd clumped right near the door," according to the student's email to Howard.
It was then, the student said, that one friend — who is a woman of color — heard a brother say "White girls only," directed at another woman of color who was trying to enter.
"After the comment, we left, and I never plan on returning to SAE," the student wrote to Howard.
That same afternoon, Howard emailed the friend who had overheard the conversation, asking for the friend's account of the events.
Neither Howard nor the student's friend could be reached for comment Sunday evening.
As of late Sunday night, five people of color had commented on Githere's status sharing similar encounters they have had at SAE, recounting experiences ranging from being questioned about whether they went to Yale to being told they could only enter if brothers could individually touch the partygoer's hair.
Ivonne Gonzales '16, who is Latina, expressed anger and disbelief on Githere's thread that incidents such as these are "still happening," citing a similar experience of hers.
Gonzales told the News that in spring 2014, she and her friends — about half of whom were visiting from other universities — were asked for their Yale IDs upon approaching SAE. After learning that some of them did not attend Yale, Gonzales said brothers at the door asked to see their passports. But she said various explanations — including an apology from the SAE president — led her to believe that the altercation was a misunderstanding, so she did not expect to hear of a similar incident later.
"I was surprised because I thought my story was a misunderstanding," she said. "I'm upset it's a recurring issue, and maybe it's time for them to have a conversation about all this," she said.
In an interview with the News Sunday night, Githere said an SAE member has told her in the past that admittance to parties is more based on attractiveness than race. She declined to comment further on Friday night's events.
According to SAE members interviewed, the fraternity has a policy to let in any Yale student until the house becomes too crowded, at which point students attempting to enter have to have a member let them in personally. Mueller said asking for Yale ID at the door is standard practice and that Yale Police has explicitly instructed the fraternity to only admit Yale students.
Akinyi Ochieng '15, who commented on the post sharing an instance of racial discrimination she experienced two years ago at SAE, said that regardless of what happened Friday night, the fraternity's members should address the complaints rather than deny them.
"Instead of denying the experiences of people of color such as myself or Neema [Githere], I would hope that the brothers of SAE could say instead, 'From our knowledge, this did not happen, but to make sure that this never happens, we will make it clear that there is no room for hate or discrimination in our house,'" she told the News.
The Yale chapter of SAE was founded in 1988.
Clarification, Nov. 2, 2015: A previous version of this article did not contextualize the incident that occurred between Gonzales and members of SAE in spring 2014.


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I Moda sono stati un gruppo musicale new wave nato all'inizio degli anni '80 a Firenze, in contrapposizione alla tendenza darkwave della scena fiorentina dell'epoca.

Biografia
Si formano a Firenze nei primi anni ottanta da musicisti che erano per la maggior parte provenienti dalla città di Arezzo: Andrea Chimenti (voce), Nicola Bonechi (batteria), Marco Bonechi (basso), Fabrizio Barbacci (chitarra), ai quali si aggiunsero Fabio Galavotti da Riccione e Fabio Chiappini da Fabro, entrambi alle tastiere.

Nel 1984 partecipano assieme a Litfiba, Diaframma e Underground Life alla prima compilation di new wave indipendente italiana Catalogue Issue (con i brani Nubi d'oriente e La voce)  edita dall'etichetta fiorentina I.R.A..

Nel 1986 il primo album Bandiera, prodotto da Alberto Pirelli, è considerato tra i migliori dischi di rock indipendente degli anni ottanta. Al suo interno convivono brani come Ombre e Angeli, decisamente ancorati al lato pop della new wave, e brani orientati al suono anni '70 di David Bowie. L'ultimo brano del disco Camminando su una ragnatela è cantato insieme a Piero Pelù, all'epoca compagno di etichetta con i Litfiba.

Il legame con le sonorità del "duca bianco" si salda l'anno seguente con la pubblicazione di Canto Pagano, co-prodotto da Mick Ronson, già chitarrista di David Bowie.

Nel 1989 in occasione del lancio promozionale del terzo disco Senza Rumore partecipano al programma di Renzo Arbore International DOC club con il brano Polvere..
Purtroppo il disco non riesce ad avere il successo sperato, nonostante il lancio del nuovo rock italiano operato parallelamente dai Litfiba con Pirata, probabilmente per un avvicinamento verso il pop non gradito soprattutto dai fan della prima ora e non così riuscito nell'immediatezza
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Dopo alterne vicende il gruppo si sciolse nello stesso anno, alcuni dei componenti lasciarono l'ambito musicale, altri come Andrea Chimenti proseguirono nella loro attività, altri ancora come Fabrizio Barbacci si affermarono come produttori di successo (Negrita, Ligabue, Nannini, Renga).

Discografia
 1986 - Bandiera (I.R.A.)
 1987 - Canto Pagano (I.R.A.)
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5 fun things to do in Los Angeles
Rob McFarland
June 22, 2015 | Updated on May 4th, 2019
Photos: Rob McFarland
Has there ever been a better time to visit LA? If you're a repeat offender, you've probably already ticked off the big-ticket attractions and are ready to try something new. Here are five fun things to do in Los Angeles.
The City of Angels never sleeps. While Los Angeles is a cool city with lots of world-famous attractions, here are some fun things to do in LA when you just want to hang out.
1- Take a hike in Runyon Canyon
2- Explore the hip neighbourhood of Silverlake
3- Unleash your inner cowboy
4- Ride the trams and buses
5- Eat a meal from a food truck
Sunset Junction in Silver Lake
LA may be famous for its urban sprawl but the city also has a surprising number of parks and outdoor spaces.
Runyon Canyon is perhaps the best known and its proximity to Hollywood Blvd makes it popular with celebs.
Take a stroll along the 5km loop trail and you're practically guaranteed to bump into Jennifer Aniston walking her dog.
You'll also enjoy mesmerising views of the city and its surrounds. Nearby Griffith Park is the largest urban park in the USA and has more than 85kms of trails, fire roads and bridle paths.
If you only have time to tackle one, try the East Observatory Trail, which starts near the Greek Theatre on North Vermont Avenue and finishes at the Griffith Observatory.
Those keen to burn off some extra calories can push on to the 495-metre summit of Mt Hollywood for outstanding 360-degree vistas.
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Recycled handbags in Silver Lake, LA
When you get tired of celebrity spotting in West Hollywood, venture 9km east on Sunset Blvd to the hip neighbourhood of Silverlake.
Ironically, this is where many of LA's first movies were filmed – its topography being perfect for caper flicks starring the Keystone Cops and Laurel and Hardy (think steep streets and runaway prams).
Today you'll find vintage record stores, colourful cafes and a vibrant community of painters, artists and musicians.
Pick up a bag made from recycled leather jackets from Dean, a lucha libre wrestling mask from Gypsy or some artwork made from recycled chopsticks at Kellygreen.
The surprises keep on coming at Carroll Avenue in neighbouring suburb Angelino Heights.
It's the improbable home of LA's largest concentration of Victorian houses – a delightful montage of extravagant, pastel-toned porches, gables and turrets.
Riding at Sunset Ranch, LA
Covering large swathes of the Hollywood Hills, the mountainous terrain of Griffith Park is ideal for exploring on horseback.
From its stables beneath the Hollywood sign, Sunset Ranch offers a range of guided rides including a one-hour trail ride, a two-hour sunset ride and a four-hour lunch or dinner ride.
As you plod along sandy trails lined with trees, shrubs and mustard plants, keep an eye out for the park's elusive coyotes and bobcats. Watching the city light up at sunset from the summit of Mt Hollywood is particularly beguiling.
Victorian houses on Carroll Avenue, LA
There's a perception you need a car to get anywhere in LA but the city's public transport system is a cheap and considerably less stressful way of getting around.
Invest in a train and bus pass for $US5 and you'll get unlimited access to eight Metro Rail lines and three types of Metro buses(local, rapid and express).
There's also a DASH bus service that will deliver you to all the major tourist attractions downtown for just 50 cents a ride.
Another popular option is Starline Tours' hop-on, hop-off service, which has 50 stops throughout Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, including Universal Studios.
LA offers a range of choices when it comes to food
While LA has dozens of splurge-worthy eateries, it's also home to a roving army of food trucks that serve up tasty treats at kerbside prices.
Highlights include sashimi-grade tuna from Shrimp Pimp, innovative meatballs from Great Balls on Tires and dangerously more-ish cupcakes from Sprinkles.
You can track down a truck by following them on Twitter or by checking websites such as Find LA Food Trucks and Roaming Hunger.
The trucks are now so popular they have their own annual awards called the Vendys.
Last year's winner was Indian street food specialist India Jones Chow Truck.
While the above suggestions will add some spice to your itinerary, let's not forget the perennial favourites that have been delighting visitors for years.
You could easily spend a few days in Los Angeles doing the rounds of the city's popular attractions.
Universal Studios, Madame Tussauds and the California Science Center continually add new attractions and are all worth a repeat visit.
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The New Up's music has been described in many ways, but NBC said it best when they called it "A clear standout... [this] San Francisco five-piece specializes in dark, dreamy rock with gorgeous female vocals", or perhaps Flagpole hit it on the head when...
The New Up's music has been described in many ways, but NBC said it best when they called it "A clear standout... [this] San Francisco five-piece specializes in dark, dreamy rock with gorgeous female vocals", or perhaps Flagpole hit it on the head when they coined the band's music as, "striking, exotic and brashly coherent indie pop that feel[s] like the sonic equivalent of a thrill ride". However you describe it, The New Up's music promises to integrate catchy and interesting vocal melodies, ethereal vocal harmonies, powerful lyrical themes and beats that make you wanna move.
In their San Francisco artist pad known as the Pleasure Pad, they have spent the last twelve months intensively writing and crafting their upcoming release. With a heavier helping of electronics being served up on this newest effort, The New Up is incorporating the sleek electropop feel into their music that has so long mesmerized them in the works of some of their influences. This new direction continues a long tradition of artistry in their song craft that inspired Performer Magazine to refer to their music as "creating an artful sonic balance that's miles beyond the typical indie-rock release... smooth, elegant vocals... and expert pop arrangements." and prompting Behind the Hype to call them, "Metric with a touch of The Rolling Stones, with a front woman with an addictive, classy, lingering voice."
By creating these new tracks in their home studio by building around the electronic parts of the songs, they've evaded any confines of the band's prior standard formula of guitar, bass, drums, flute and electronics; bringing their sound smack dab into the center of contemporary electro rock. Featuring ES Pitcher on vocals and guitar, Noah Reid on guitar and vocals, Hawk West on flute and automation, Erik Lekas on bass and Aaron Xavier on drums, the band has gained a reputation for their energetic and performance-based live shows. However, with the exception of a couple of national and international festival appearances in 2011, The New Up has largely been locked in the sonic "laboratory", away from the lights, costumes and crowds of the stage. Having previously spent much of their time on the road, with three National tours and countless regional tours under their belt, this is the greatest amount of time the band has spent strictly in the studio.
The New Up released their fourth studio effort, Gold, the final in a series of three EPs, at the end of 2010. Broken Machine, the first critically-lauded EP in the series, charted on the CMJ Top 200. The second EP in the series, Better Off, garnered extensive national airplay and earned positive reviews from numerous critics. The Athens Banner-Herald observed that Better Off "bears a song craft light years ahead of many contemporaries," while Blogcritics said the EP "exemplifies how The New Up has not only grown as a band over the years, but why they can't be boxed into any particular genre" and "proves The New Up is getting better at what they do all the time". The band has been featured on MTV2 countless times and was crowned #1 Bay Area Break Out Band by fans on MTV2 and Ourstage.
ES Pitcher - Vocals, and Guitar
Noah Reid - Guitar, and Vocals
Hawk West - flute, and Automation
Erik Lekas - Bass
Aaron Xavier - Drums, and percussion
"Gold" - CD released 10/26/10 (11/11/10 in the EU)
"Better Off" - EP released 8/18/09
"Broken Machine" - EP released 8/26/08
"Palace of Industrial Hope" - CD released in 2007
All albums available in stores all over the United States and European Union.
Streaming Tracks on iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Pandora, Jango, Rdio, Spotify and hundreds of other digital sites through IRIS Distribution.
Radio airplay: "Broken Machine" debuted and spent several weeks in the CMJ Top 200. Tracks from The New Up's four studio releases have been played on KFOG San Francisco, KUT Austin, Sophie Radio San Diego, WXAV Chicago, KSLU St. Louis, WMSE Milwaukee, CIUT Toronto, CKUT Montreal, KALX and KPFA Berkeley, KPFK Los Angeles, KDUP and KBOO Portland, KVMR Nevada City, WPPJ Pittsburgh, KFAI Minneapolis, WORT Madison, WRUV Burlington, KHUM and KUSP in Humboldt County, KZSC Santa Cruz, WBOI Fort Wayne, KOPN Columbia, MO and much, much more.
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Reached 5th in Best of Rock chart in 2015. In the top 20 for 13 weeks.
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National Tour/CD Review Palace of Industrial Hope by The Daily Page (Madison, WI)
Front woman ES Pitcher mixes seduction and menacewith gothic grace in the New Up's smoldering,post-punk-brushed dance-rock.
CD Review/Broken Machine by Performer Magazine
Veering towards the new wave side of rock, San Francisco's The New Up (as in "down is the new up") has further spit-shined its sound with third release, Broken Machine. Jaimeson Durr, who helmed...
Front woman ES Pitcher mixes seduction and menace with gothic grace in the New Up's smoldering, post-punk-brushed dance-rock.
Veering towards the new wave side of rock, San Francisco's The New Up (as in "down is the new up") has further spit-shined its sound with third release, Broken Machine. Jaimeson Durr, who helmed the band's Palace of Industrial Hope full length (not to mention his work on sessions with Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and other big-timers), has given this five-song EP maximum punch, creating an artful sonic balance that's miles beyond the typical indie-rock release and closer to something one might expect from a major label with money to spend. Of course, this sound has just as much to do with the rock-steady rhythm section of drummer Jack McFadden and bassist Dain Dizazzo, flanked by lead vocalist/guitarist ES Pitcher, guitarist/vocalist Noah Reid and, the cherry on top, ornamentalist Hawk West on flute and "automation" (read: laptop). No, the flute never does take a lead role in The New Up's sound, but rather it slides snugly into the mix, most effectively realized on "Just Because." Though Pitcher's smooth, elegant vocals are well suited for upbeat numbers, the songs on Broken Machine follow a more serious path. Typical of the EP's overall tone is "Libations," which is less of a celebratory drink and more of an expression of disappointment: "A fading space that once was mine / a never changing point of view." The music, however, tempers the words with slow-moving vocal lines and expert pop arrangements. Yet this is actually a double-edged sword that cuts the whole EP – the messages carried by the vocals tend to get lost amidst the music's infectiousness. This would be fine for a band that writes silly lyrics simply for their musicality, but for a band like The New Up, whose music has been described as "an ontological Molotov cocktail for modern primitives," they can easily afford to be more hard-hitting and emphatic with their vocal lines. -Michael Fortes
CD Review/Broken Machine by Obscure Sound
[title track] 'Broken Machine' is set against a heavy bass line, a flurry of distorted guitars, and an occasional sprinkling of keys, with ES Pitcher's sultry vocals enhancing the sensuous display of alt-rock and post-punk. Most music of the genre tends to be gritty and instrumentally disoriented, but 'Broken Machine' emits an unconventional tone of polished anguish and melancholy; it is one of the several components that are responsible for the song's success... rarely do you come across an EP where the majority of tracks are even better than a preceding album that was impressive in itself.
Critic's Pick by The Chicago Reader
The New Up decorate their trippy new wave with fetishisized guitar play - gentle wah-wah abuse and the kind of noodling that evokes Neal Schon, back when Journey was a guitar-geek band - held together by frontwoman ES Pitcher, whose thick voice has the irresistible presence of a Glace Slick or Deborah Iyall. They laid all this down in their self-titled, self-released debut album, and it looks like their follow-up is going to be a gem: the tracks move with a seething, aggressive kind of dream logic.
Show/CD Review-Broken Machine by Jambase
The New Up give modern rock a good name. Watching them sweat and shimmer in the smoke of the Bottom of the Hill stage one felt compelled forward, thrust – no, that's not the right word - coerced into the beckoning arms of what's next, a tomorrow that's scary and hopeful and full of unknown things. This young, highly precocious S.F. band reminds us of bright possibilities even as they ruminate on today's bog water mess, and this national tour kick-off and EP release show did so in a most visceral way. Outside of a spot of spread leg, cock rock stage antics from hirsute guitarist-singer Noah Reid (who also dropped a Cheap Trick At Budokan reference, though he probably picked it up from the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head), there's nothing backward leaning about The New Up, no genuflecting before the clichés of yesteryear. It didn't take a whole song to pick up on their current bent – a puckish roughness in service of really catchy songs – and it didn't take two songs before one wondered why this band isn't already all over video games, diet soda commercials and Gossip Girl montages. None of which is to say they court the mainstream but there's a slinky coolness to what they do that only requires more ears, more exposure in order to woo way more fans. There's plenty of music I adore that has zero chance of commercial success. What I dig about the Up is how they sacrifice nothing artistically in their popish streamlining. Awash in their glandular surf, I couldn't help but think of early Roxy Music, middle period Sioxsie and even Joy Division – all greats that put art before commerce but still managed to make music with broad appeal. A mixture of ad hoc stage outfits – Reid's lounge singer, chest exposing dress shirt, lead singer E.S. Pitcher's $8 dollar thrift store dress that she made work like vintage Debbie Harry – and post-modern Motown bodily interpretations, The New Up are a blast to watch, always interesting and full of neat angles. They put on a show in addition to being quite serious musicians, and in terms of pure entertainment they'll give just about anybody a run for their money. The mixture of technical concentration and slightly wild-eyed enjoyment on the faces of Dain Dizazzo (bass), Jack McFadden (drums) and Hawk West (flute, electronics, keys) was nearly as alluring as the more extrovert appeal of Pitcher and Reid, who admittedly are hard to take your eyes off of. Charisma, you just can't manufacture it. They launched with "Benny Hinn" from their last full length, Palace of Industrial Hope, a blur of grungy guitars and snare snap that sends your head spinning, raw gold like P.J. Harvey before she sat down at the piano. And while they could just ride their new wave chooglin' and leave it at that, "Hinn" is peppered with odd digressions, ideally placed open air pockets that clear the steam away to reveal cool, green grass in your mind, and then back into rock with a decidedly dancey undercurrent. The crucial rhythm team and West's well-placed complications made sure even the most obvious "rock" moments shimmied a bit, generating an off-kilter, lighted dance floor with earthquake uncertainty. Hinn" was followed by the entirety of their brand new EP, Broken Machine (see JamBase's review here), played in sequence. From "Ginger Tea," which could be a nightclub hit in the time of Blade Runner (they love this one in the off world colonies...), to the gunfire percussion crack and flute dappled hardness of the title cut to the standing-on-your-own-two-legs anthem "Just Because," the band played with a sense of live possession, overtaken by forces greater than five musicians, shining a light that comes from the invisible world behind all our surfaces. They tacked on three more in their short set, finishing with a tune that sounded like "Foxy Lady" slipped some synthetic muscle relaxer and angried up with strobe flashes and snorting guitar bursts, while Dizazzo and McFadden kicked it John Paul Jones/John Bonham style behind Pitcher's kitten purr and bottleneck slide. Taken together it was enough to make one downright hungry, and it's only decorum that kept me from taking a friendly nibble. Another smitten fellow had earlier shouted, "I want to have your baby!" to which Pitcher replied, "I'll think it over." With a sneer John Lydon would appreciate and a sound Blondie wishes they could make today, The New Up are a fleshy, fantastic thoroughbred that reminds us to "pump up the jam/ your life's in your hands," and does so without irony or gutless disco intent. For them, shimmy and roar rest in their double bed and grind beautifully.
CD Review/Broken Machine by East Bay Express
...the songs are excellent examples of grungy, female-fronted alt-rock. ES Pitcher's vocals are deadpan when they need to be and aching otherwise; melodies are strong... and compelling hooks and riffs land in all the right places.
Critic's Pick/CD Review by Sacramento News & Review
In the luxurious breakroom here at SN&R, right next to the lab experiment-sploched microwave, are piles of books, DVDs and compact discs discarded by various editors who've deposited them there after coming up for air by digging themselves out of the mountains of books, DVDs and compact discs piled atop their cubicles. Considering the amount of swag that's sent here, every day is like Christmas, but every Christmas present is socks. Still, I make it a habit to rummage through the free-stuff pile and give a CD or seven a spin in my computer while dribbling out this drivel you're reading now, which must go a long way toward explaining all the curse words you've been reading lately. On one such sonic journey, I was not ready to drop F-and CS-bombs, however, having been pleasantly taken back years ago, to the first time I heard Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the radio. "Wow," I thought back then, "Siouxsie Sioux cut a new album." Joke was on me, as it was when I played my breakroom freebie and immediately thought, "Wow, Siouxsie Sioux and Karen O have had a bastard love child. That bastard love child would be ES Pitcher, the singer/songwriter/ guitarist for the San Francisco band The New Up, whose website makes no mention of the obvious product of a Sioux-O coupling, although it does refer to The New Up sound as incorporating "the rocking channel surfing feel of Ween with the pointed female roar of P.J. Harvey and Garbage. Garbage, I doth protesteth. Slide in The New Up's new release, Palace of Industrial Hope, cue up the third tract, ("Learning to Crawl") and tell me if the musical intro and Pitcher's vocals don't sound like something Ms. Sioux could've mp3'd last week. Or that "Chewbacca's Garden" couldn't have been cut by a Siouxsie and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs supergroup (or Karen O and the Banshees for that matter). Or that the opener ("Arkansas") doesn't sound like the vocals from whatever protoplasm would squirt out of a Siouxsie-Karen O sandwich. And, oooo-eeee–yoooo, all your Siouxsies lie in dust.
National Tour/CD Review Palace of Industrial Hope by Salt Lake City Weekly
The New Up are brazen but keep their cool by matching aggressive songwriting with rocksteady new-wave style on Palace of Industrial Hope, a sleek, sultry work worthy of its mystical name.
CD Review/Broken Machine by Owl and Bear
On Broken Machine, The New Up bring their moody dance-rock to a boil and keep it there. From the first moments of lead track 'Ginger Tea,' the EP oozes smoky atmosphere, as if Metric and My Bloody Valentine had collaborated on the soundtrack to a David Lynch film... Sounding like the twin sister of former Denali vocalist Maura Davis - particularly on the EP's emotionally-charged title track - and supplying every bit of the sultry, soaring delivery that the comparison implies, ES Pitcher's voice is truly something to behold... Relaxed but rocking, dark but poppy, tempestuous but delicate, moody but playful, the band maintains a careful balance, avoiding tactical errors that turn lesser bands into accidental camp rock.
Show Review/High Sierra Music Festival by Pop Matters
To hear greatness in its germinal stage is intoxicating. Bookending the festival, San Francisco's The New Up was all prickly erogenous zones and contemporary disquiet. The quintet channels the future-forward zeitgeist of Radiohead, Lake Trout (who they covered), Talking Heads, and TV on the Radio. Singer E.S. Pitcher is a dizzying blur of hips and lips, seductive as memory with the sharp tang of the lash -- a thoroughly modern frontwoman that's actually a woman, and not some whiney little girl. Superb, tight playing fuels a compellingly varied approach broad enough to rope in tweakers, hippies, and library bound indie kids. Subtle electronics and processed flute scuttle predictability, and while their predominantly compact compositions avoid bloated excess, there are enough guitar tangents to appeal to Pavement and Ween fans. Singing about how "lonely machinery distracts us from our lives," there's a sense of giddy desperation in their sound that feels downright prophetic. Cute as hell in a scruffy sort of way, the New Up have the makings of a "Next Big Thing." They're a Luaka Bop band waiting to happen, a tastemaker cooked up from a recipe book of their own design.
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Over the past couple of years, I've written a number of articles about using design patterns in WordPress. One that I've written about a number of times has to do with the Singleton Pattern.
The funny thing about blogging is that when you've written something two years, one year, or even six months ago, you may not feel the same way as you did when you initially wrote the post. And that's fine – as far as I'm concerned, it's an indication of professional growth (or just getting better at what you do).
Should plugins that implement the singleton pattern be instantiated in a hook?
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Singleton Pattern, suffice it to say that it's a design pattern that allows only a single instance of a class to be created.
If an instance doesn't exist, it creates it and manages a reference to it internally, and returns it; otherwise, it simply returns the instance that was previously created.
It's probably the simplest design pattern.
Though I'm not as much of a fan of this implementation as I once was, I still have a couple of projects on GitHub that show how to implement it. Eventually I'd love to update them but, you know, newer projects, other work, etc.
Anyway, all that to say that if you aren't familiar with how the design pattern works, there are a few articles and examples mentioned earlier to get you up to speed.
So, as I mentioned, a friend and I were talking about creating a plugin that implements the Singleton Pattern and how this should be used in comparison to other WordPress plugins.
This is the generic standard format (and stands to be improved) that's seen most often.
From there, let's that that you have a plugin that offers a collection of utility methods and it implements the Singleton Pattern. This raises the question: Should a class that implements the Single Pattern be instantiated within a hook such as plugins_loaded (or any other hook, for that matter)?
My short answer: No. I don't think so.
You see, the whole idea behind the Singleton Pattern is that one-and-only-one instance of the class that implements that pattern will exist. To that end it doesn't matter if you instantiate it with a hook in the context of the plugin, or if you attempt to get an instance to the plugin by simply calling the get_instance method at some point in your theme (or in another plugin).
All you're really doing is determining a point at which the plugin is first instantiated, and the amount of work required to do so is usually so minimal – at least for classes that implement this pattern – that it's you're likely fine instantiating it the first time that you need it rather than using a hook in the plugin.
But this raises an interesting point: Assuming that you are going to implement the Singleton Pattern, perhaps it's worth considering on the type of functions that the class is going to encapsulate.
If you're looking to do some advanced object-oriented programming, then you're likely not going to be using the Singleton Pattern as you'd be better off with static methods or even, even better, just a collection of functions.
This brings us to defining the class a library. In traditional programming sense (for lack of a better term), this means that it's a collection, or a package of functions, that provide a clean interface for related operations.
And if we're going to go that far, then perhaps it's fair to say that all libraries are plugins, but not all plugins are libraries.
Then again, not all classes that implement the Singleton Pattern are libraries, right?
To clarify, the qualifying factor of if the class is a library is not whether or it implements a design pattern or not, but if it's a class that encapsulates a group of related functions. Remember, in WordPress, we aren't locked into using object-oriented programming anymore than we are locked into using procedural programming, so we could just as easily create a library of related with the same prefix.
This feels like it'd getting a bit muddled, doesn't it?
But you do not need to get an instance of the class in the context of any hook.
Instead, you simply activate the plugin and then use it throughout your code as needed.
Obviously, this approach is more geared towards other developers are who are looking for some type of utility to use in their plugin or in their theme or WordPress-based application, but the point remains that the next time you're looking at implementing the Singleton Pattern in WordPress, ask yourself if it's presenting itself as a library.
If so, then it may be a fair implementation; otherwise, consider an alternative implementation.
This article on dzone about only 2 roles in code is along similar lines conceptually I feel. I liked the way the author has separated code which acts on data and code which moves data around. I personally do not think it is quite that straightforward but the concept is interesting.
And it strikes me that what you have written above suggest that plugin functionality can be split into similar roles.
Functionality that is used by a plugin to integrate with WP and co-ordinate data. And functionality which goes in the library to manipulate/transform data in some way.
Some plugins will introduce functionality that extends WordPress that allows users to enhance their experience.
Other plugins will introduce functionality that extends WordPress that allows developers to enhance their experience.
I'd say that the former are simply defined as plugins, the latter may be better classified as libraries depending on their nature.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of instantiating plugin classes on plugins_loaded (or any other action for that matter) either. However, my reasons differ from yours; they're not limited to singleton classes either.
I would consider instantiating the class at plugins_loaded bad practice because it nullifies the use of the action itself.
plugins_loaded is intended to be the action called after all plugins have been loaded. Failing to instiate your plugin class before it's called probably means not loading other plugin files, which other plugins might, in turn, want to use at plugins_loaded, for example to extend classes in another plugin.
There's no real reason to not instantiate it right away anyway, in just about all cases, because there shouldn't be anything being carried out on loading the plugin anyway: all that should be done is adding callbacks to the proper hooks. After all, other plugins wouldn't be able to extend the plugin by unhooking callbacks otherwise.
My personally favourite approach is to instiate the main plugin class (singleton) directly, loading all plugin files but not carrying out any actual functionality, and then hooking into plugins_loaded to fire an action unique to the plugin (e.g. myplugin/loaded) passing the class instance. This allows you to maintain a beautiful hierarchy in plugins extending other plugins and makes sure you don't have to rely on the further implementation of the plugin, providing an easy on-setup api call.
In some cases, I agree – after tall, like you said, this is supposed to be after the plugins have been loaded; however, there are times in which resources are not yet available for certain plugins and we have to wait until later in the page lifecycle.
On the contrary, it's possible to instantiate plugins too early such that the resources they need aren't available.
I suppose there's an argument here for how the plugin is architected, but in my experience – however limited that my really be – there's no perfect hook for registering your plugin. It's a matter of finding the most optimal place.
My personally favourite approach is to instiate the main plugin class (singleton) directly, loading all plugin files but not carrying out any actual functionality, and then hooking into plugins_loaded to fire an action unique to the plugin (e.g. myplugin/loaded) passing the class instance.
This isn't a bad strategy. Personally, I've gotten away from using singleton patterns and use standard objects that have run methods or init methods (which then correspond to the init hook, for example).
Again, I'm not making a case that singletons should be avoided completely (though I know some who are for that), I just think there are better times to use them rather than all the time. Otherwise, I think it raises the question of my not use static methods or just a collection of procedural functions, anyway.
This allows you to maintain a beautiful hierarchy in plugins extending other plugins and makes sure you don't have to rely on the further implementation of the plugin, providing an easy on-setup api call.
This I agree with – it also banks on the fact that other developers will be able to understand how to leverage the API you've provided, how to properly unhook and rehook actions that they may modify, and so on.
But for the more experienced WordPress – or event event-driven – developer, this offers a really clean way of setting things up.
Hi, just come across the article from Google and want to learn more abt OOP development with WordPress plugin.
Do you know any code examples that is implemented using the method you said above?
If you click on any of the articles linked at the top of this article, you should be taken to a number of articles that show how to implement this.


Learn the Crochet Diamond Stitch - Easy Video Tutorial!
Home » Tutorials » Learn the Crochet Diamond Stitch – Easy Video Tutorial!
This lovely, textured stitch is great for blankets and afghans!
It's absolutely gorgeous in solid colors and perfect for so many projects including shawls, ponchos, cardigans, vests, and so much more. It may look complicated but you can pick up this stitch rather quickly thanks to this excellent video tutorial. If you've got some leftover yarn from another project you could easily construct a smaller project, too, like a pillow or a potholder with this fabulous stitch.
This is a great video tutorial by designer Olivia of Hopeful Honey, and it's free! You'll be able to learn this valuable technique and add it to your repertoire very soon!
And for even more super helpful — and free! — photo and video tutorials on crocheting techniques and stitches do check out some of our other favorites we've previously featured at Crochet Maze. Links are below!


It's only April' and this is the third new dangerous Diabetes Treatment drug I've already told you about this year. It's hard enough figuring out how to beat diabetes without having to dodge all these risky new drugs!The story said that this new diabetes drug is a "trailblazer." But what it's really doing is leaving a trail of pain and suffering.And there's no question that the risks of this recently approved Rx for type 2 far outweigh its benefits.It's called Invokana' and it's a "special" kind of med in the same family as another newbie I warned you about in January. It lowers blood sugar by making your kidneys get rid of glucose through the urine.
He warned that the way the Diabetes Treatment drug works' by eliminating all that glucose in the urine' "can cause a cascade of adverse events." These include dehydration' which can lead to low blood pressure' dizziness and falls' and damage to the kidneys and heart.Even having "moderately" reduced kidney function' he said' puts people at high risk with this drug.


For the next couple of weeks I'll be taking my gradings for Krav - the ultra violent Israeli martial art I do due to the fact that I loathe gyms. I place these here for posterity, so that in the future I can look back and saying "WTF was I thinking?" and so that, should I drop down dead somewhere the police won't think I was being abused or something.
Anyway, I present the results from the first night. It turns out to be surprisingly difficult to take pictures of your own bruises.
Not shown - swollen right fingers from a gun disarm gone wrong (stupid trigger guards) , bruises on left inner and outer wrist (couldn't get a good photo), misc others in inaccessible places. No black eyes yet to spoil my otherwise ruggedly handsome (*cough*) good looks - touch wood.
Off out again tonight and then twice next week which should be ... interesting.
As a bonus - a couple of krav videos which sort of show where the bruises come from (excuse the cheesy death metal).
Despite appearances to the contrary I actually love it.
I've done other martial arts before but have often found them too stylised. There was too much kata and you never really started leanring the good stuff till you hit black belt.
The things I love about it are that it's an entirely practical system. In essence whatever works, goes. In the nearly 2 years I've been doing it our techniques have changed considerably as the the instructor has learnt new things and real world experiences have been incorporated.
The other great thing about it is - practically zero dicks in class. Because of the nature of stuff we do (lots of arm and leg twists, elbow strikes, chokes, 5 minute loing pressure tests which are exhausting) if you really wanted to, or you weren't paying attention then you could really hurt someone. People who turn up and start throwing their weight around are a liability and somehow always seem end up sparring wiht the unassuming guy in the corner who just happens to have been doing it for 5 years, or the tiny girl who can quite easily kick their arse. Either their egos get bruised and they don't ever come back or they learn quickly.
So yeah. I think it's brilliant and, despite the bruising I've very rarely been injured or even seen a serious injury.
man, i totally should have taken pictures of my krav bruises from a few months ago. all i have is this one picture of a bruise i regularly get from air hockey.
i play air hockey for keeps.
Actually when Steven works on the LeMons car, his arms look the same way. He like to wear thirts and tell people that I beat him.
I think the bruises are an essential part of learning martial arts. (Though I've never been entirely sure about Krav being an "art" in that sense).


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