While I've always heard about the great 4DX process, last week was my first time getting to see a movie in a moving seat, complete with lighting changes and various "weather" conditions.
Seeing Shazam! was unquestionably the most interactive experience I've ever had while watching a film. It was like being on a little rollercoaster while you're simultaneously relaxed to a great film; and, yes, being the resident Captain Marvel expert at GHG, I couldn't ask for a better film to kick off that 4DX "bus" ride..
For those unaware, the customer seats move with the action on film — whether there's driving or flying through the air. Little vents and sensors on the chairs allow you to feel gusts of wind or certain smells as the scene depicts it on screen. Even during moments of transformation in which young Billy Batson turns into the adult Shazam, there's a lot of smoke and lightning and thunder involved and you see that and feel that in the theater.
I thoroughly enjoyed the 4DX experience and am beyond thrilled to do it again for the upcoming Avengers: Endgame.
The Shazam! 4DX Experience = 5/5 Bibles.
ScreenX is an interesting concept that I've previously had a mixed experience with. When I reviewed Ant-Man and the Wasp, I noted that the movie didn't fully take advantage of the opportunities this format presented and left feeling underwhelmed, despite having had an overall positive experience. For that reason, I went into Shazam! wondering if they could succeed where AM&TW didn't.
I'm happy to say that it absolutely did. This time there wasn't a single moment where the 270 degree screen felt like a distraction. The only times I noticed the change, it fully enhanced the experience. As good as it was for the most part, the scene where Billy and Freddy are testing out the powers of Shazam is shockingly great because of the creative way the side screens were used.
While I've generally had a good experience with ScreenX, that scene — where you feel like you're locked inside the pages of comic book! — proved that, with the right creativity, ScreenX could be a format with serious longevity. I hope more blockbusters take advantage of the panoramic shots.
The wide screens often took full advantage of the movie's creepy, sprawling and sometimes explosive nature; as you have no choice but to turn your head left and right to immense and intimidating creatures filling the dark caves, or the overarching buildings setting up some great flying Philly fists . I'm just imaging Godzilla: King of the Monsters in this format already! While I recommended AM&TW in ScreenX with some reservations, Shazam! I do so unequivocally.
The Shazam! ScreenX Experience = 4.5/5 Bibles.
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Tom Preston-Werner talks about the early days of GitHub.
The following interview is an excerpt from Unscalable: Unorthodox Startup Growth Stories.
Guo: So how did you and Chris [Wanstrath] first meet? Where did you get the idea for GitHub?
Preston-Werner: Well, we met through the Ruby users group that was here in San Francisco. We would go to conferences, and I saw him talk and we'd always talk about Git. This was back when Git was still very hard to use, but it was really bubbling in the air, around the Ruby on Rails community especially.
People were starting to pay attention to it, but nobody really knew what to do with it because it was so hard to use. And we were experimenting with it a little bit at Powerset. When I saw it, I thought, "This is obviously the future of version control."
Once you start playing with Git, especially in combination with GitHub, then there's no turning back from there. Git is just too awesome.
But there was only one website where you could share Git repositories, and it was quite bad, so I said, "I'm a web developer, why don't I build a website to make it easier to share, with a central repository so that people don't have to set up their own servers and create user accounts and all these kinds of things."
At the time, Chris had also been thinking a lot about Git and how to use it, and we had already worked together on another project, a process monitor in Ruby. So we knew how bad the experience of sharing code via Git was because of that project.
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I wanted to do it with Chris because I knew him through the Ruby community. So after one of the meetups — we met at a bar, as we often did after the Ruby meetups — I showed Chris a project I had started working on. It was a Git wrapper in Ruby that was called Grit. I showed it to him and I kind of pitched him my idea and said, "Are you interested?" And he said, "Yeah! I'm in." So we just started hacking on it on nights and weekends.
I wanted him to do the Rails stuff. I thought I could do the visual design and back-end, and he could do the Rails app, and the two of us would make a really good team because of that complementary skill set.
Guo: When did you launch the product?
Preston-Werner: It took about three months before we started the private beta, so it wasn't a long wait. It was a very, very basic product at first, as you can imagine. It was just two people working on it nights and weekends for three months.
Guo: Where did your first users come from?
Preston-Werner: We started showing it to people at Ruby meetups, since they were our friends. They were the people we would hang out with. In fact, back then a lot of people from Twitter, and Engine Yard, and Powerset were there. That kind of crew here in San Francisco.
So we'd show it around. We were like, "Hey, we're doing this code sharing thing, and you can have Git repositories and put them up there." We gave out invites to the people at the meet-ups and we told them that they could invite other people through our private invite system.
The first version of the GitHub source code browser. Photo credit: Archive.org
So that's how we got our original users. They were just through the existing Ruby community that we knew. And that's why GitHub started with the Ruby community, because it happened to be the community we were a part of.
And we were extremely lucky to have Rails come on board, to switch over from their existing version control system when we publicly launched. That was in April of 2008, which was about six months after we started coding. And that was huge for us. That alone maybe made GitHub possible at all.
Guo: How did you get DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) and the Rails team to switch?
Preston-Werner: We emailed them and tried to explain why we thought they should switch to GitHub, probably four or five months in. And they responded and said, "No thanks!"
And then over the next month or two, or however long it was, they started seeing other people using GitHub. And actually it was Merb. Merb was the first prominent project, Ruby project, to switch over. It was Ezra [Zygmuntowicz]'s and Yehuda Katz's project and they were two of our very first users.
So Merb switched over officially to Git, and that preceded Rails by a couple of months. And I think that was the first thing that got people to raise their eyebrows and say "Oh, interesting. An actual real project is using this." For as much as Merb was an actual real project at the time. Nobody even knows what that is anymore, probably.
The old Merb website, merbivore.com. Photo credit: Archive.org
But at the time it was a lightweight alternative to Rails. And, so we had emailed the Rails guys and they had rejected us. But I think over the next couple of months they saw more and more people using it, enough stuff to where they started getting used to the idea of it. And probably started playing with it. And once you start playing with Git, especially in combination with GitHub, then there's kind of no turning back from there. It's just too good, it's too awesome. Git is just too awesome.
That single event was really momentous in our adoption. Because what it did was, it made everyone in the Rails community almost overnight switch to using Git and GitHub as their version control.
Guo: Why was that?
Preston-Werner: People are going to use whatever their favorite projects use. You need to know the version control system that your tools are using, in order to contribute. And other people use that as a signal to know what they should be using for their packages, for their plug-ins, for things that are going to be useful for frameworks.
And because the Ruby on Rails community were such early adopters — it was in their very nature of having chosen to use Ruby on Rails at the time — it made it so that they were willing to try GitHub, to make a change without worrying about it too much. So that's how we got our original set of users. It was just the Ruby community and then through Rails.
Guo: Did you try to recruit other projects to GitHub?
Preston-Werner: Yeah, there was a phase where we emailed a bunch of project maintainers and pitched them and asked them if they were interested in moving their projects to GitHub, but it wasn't super successful. We tried jQuery, at one point one of us emailed John Resig about getting jQuery to switch over. And that was unsuccessful for several years!
And you know we would come in contact with him, and kind of joke with him about how he should switch over, and eventually they switched over all of the jQuery plug-ins, I think. There was something that they switched over, but they didn't switch over the jQuery core for years. Mostly because they didn't want to alienate their significant base of Subversion contributors. But eventually they relented.
Most of the project maintainers early on said, "Sorry, we can't switch because of all our Subversion contributors." And with the Ruby core itself, we talked to Matz and we talked to other people about switching. When I was at conferences with Matz or any of the Ruby core people, I would always bring it up. But what we found was that it's impossible to convince project maintainers to switch. They have to convince themselves.
Guo: Was Subversion the most common roadblock?
Preston-Werner: Yeah, that was almost always the reason. With smaller projects, they would just switch over of their own accord, and you didn't have to convince anyone. At least in the Ruby and Java Script communities, you knew that would just happen naturally.
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But for the ones that had a real reason not to switch to Git and GitHub, it was Subversion. Or in the case of something like Linux, it was that they already had an existing process with their work flow and it would be too disruptive for them to try to change. So with Linux for instance, they have a very heavy mailing list based work flow. The way they accept patches is through the mailing list, and all the discussion happens there, and they have systems for dealing with that, and just the amount of infrastructure that they have built up is too vast to switch to another system.
And obviously the Linux kernel has always used Git, since Git was created. So they are using Git, but they just couldn't use GitHub because of workflow.
Guo: How has the signup process for GitHub changed since then?
Preston-Werner: Actually, it's primarily unchanged. Really all you need to do is create a repository on GitHub, on your account, and then push to it from the command line or from whatever tool.
At the time there was only the command line client. There were no graphical interfaces for a long time. Now you can use any of the graphical interfaces that are available: GitHub for Mac, GitHub for Windows, Git Tower. There are a ton of them now. So those are new channels that you can use, but the way you create a repository on GitHub is essentially unchanged.
There is a difference in that now you can create a new project on GitHub that is already initialized and has a Readme, so that you can clone it. You haven't always been able to do that. You'd have to create the repository on your local side and then push it. So, that's a little bit handy, but it's really not much different.
I think that was the really big thing that allowed GitHub to become popular very easily. There was almost no barrier to entry to getting code on GitHub. Whereas with other things like SourceForge you'd have to go through an application and approval process to even get a place where you could put your code. It was a very high barrier to entry to put your code online with them.
And then places like Google Code were okay. You didn't have to get permission, but it was still a single namespace, a global namespace, and it was project based. You also had to choose an open source license, which was another barrier. Because when a lot of people put up code, they're not in the mindset to choose licenses and things. And I don't think that you should force someone to choose a license just because they're putting some code online. I don't think that's appropriate.
People are going to use whatever their favorite projects use. You need to know the version control system that your tools are using, in order to contribute.
So we've always taken the stance that you don't have to choose a license if you don't want to. We want to make it easy for you to do that, because we think it's best practice to choose a license, so that others are clear about what that license is and how to use your code. But we never wanted to force that on people and by reducing the amount of choice there was, we made it easier for people to do it. We tried to reduce how much they had to think about it. It was like just push whatever code you have onto GitHub and you know you'll never lose it again. You can just share it when you want to share it.
Guo: What sorts of things did you do manually for the company?
Preston-Werner: Well, the company was technology to serve people building technology. And the people using it understood what that meant, and everyone who was using it in the early days had to be sophisticated enough to know what it was in the first place; which meant that they were probably sophisticated enough to know how to run the basic commands and to get their code up on there.
The things we had to do manually were in tech support, which we did as a team. We all did support. We all did support for many many years. We got our first full time support person probably two years in.
You have to also realize though that the GitHub team grew extremely slowly in the beginning. After three years, we were a team of six people. We weren't one of those heavily funded start-ups that grows to 100 people in year one. That just wasn't our path.
We were bootstrapped, and we were letting people adapt to Git at a natural pace. We couldn't really force people to use Git, it was impossible. People had to desire to learn it on their own, and had to desire to use it on their own. And so, we didn't do a ton of marketing. Everything we did in marketing was unscalable, as the marketing that we did do was basically going to conference talks. We did a lot of conference talks.
What we found was that it's impossible to convince project maintainers to switch. They have to convince themselves.
And that included us founders. We would spent a lot of time traveling, especially internationally. We gave talks about Git to help people learn how to use it and to talk about us as a company and what we were doing. And that was definitely unscalable from a founder perspective.
We did keep the value that we wanted GitHubbers to be able to travel and give conference talks. So we always had a policy that if you ever got a speaking slot at a conference, GitHub would pay for you to go there and give a talk. So we scaled out the conference talks by distributing that out to the entire company.
We also did drink-ups, which were essentially meetups at bars. It came from the idea that, one of our favorite parts of the Ruby meetups was the meeting with people afterwards at a bar to drink and talk about technology and it was a place where people could just share ideas freely. During the meet-up itself it was much more structured. People could get quite impatient and it was usually one person talking to a lot of people versus everyone talking to each other.
So, we always really enjoyed the part of the meet-ups where you'd be able to talk to everyone. And that was either afterwards at a bar or some other venue, and we'd get a couple of kegs or whatever, and we'd sit wherever the meet-up was and we'd hang out. Until we thought, "Well okay, maybe we can replicate that same experience of people sharing ideas with each other freely." By just going to the bar and inviting a bunch of developers that are using GitHub to come and share their ideas.
And that worked really well. It was awesome. We got a ton of people who would come out and they'd have a really great time talking about technology. In the early days, they had enough in common that the conversations would always be really good. You always had in common that you were a GitHub user. And that probably meant that you were using Ruby or JavaScript or another dynamic language, because in the early days there were only a small number of languages that were really prominent on GitHub.
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So it was a way for us to do what I called "creating super-fans," which meant going above and beyond what was expected from the company in order to surprise and delight the customers. We wanted to increase loyalty, to help them understand that we're real humans, that we care about what they care about. And we wanted them to know that they had a venue where they could interact with us and let us know how the product was working for them, and what features they wanted and what they were doing with it.
So, it was an awesome channel. And I went to every drink-up that we had locally, or wherever I was where there was a drink-up. I went to every single one, except maybe one or two when I was sick, for probably three years. And they would be held here in San Francisco. In the early days, when we first started them, we did them every week at first. And then we switched to every two weeks and eventually we switched to monthly. But I went to an incredible number of the drink-ups to be able to meet our users.
I think that could probably count as something that didn't scale in the long run, although I managed to pull it off for quite a while.
Guo: What did the growth curve look like at the time?
Preston-Werner: Growth was always pretty steady. There was never a moment in time where there was a crazy inflection point. It was just a steady, long term, exponential growth curve. And I think that was because it took a lot for people to switch to using Git.
It's not a trivial thing to ask a company to switch their version control system. Most companies have a lot of infrastructure built around their deployment system and CI and all of their developers are trained to use something. To ask them to switch that, and all their projects, and everything to a new version control system is very high cost. So the larger the company the longer it takes them to do it, because of the inherent risk in changing that.
That's a change that they are willing to consider doing maybe once every decade. And so that's why I think the growth was slow and steady like that, because it was such a high impact change to a lot of people. It was great though as new start-ups were created and new projects, open source projects were started, they could just choose GitHub from the beginning. And that became more and more easy as time went on.
And then you'd have projects like CoffeeScript or Homebrew that were born on GitHub. These are things that exist in perfect symbiosis with GitHub from their very birth. And we started seeing those and that was pretty amazing. Right, things like Homebrew, they manage all of their recipes through GitHub. Everything they do is on GitHub and handled through GitHub. And that's built into the core mechanism of their package management. And that was very cool to see.
Guo: What scaling challenges did you have on the technical side?
Preston-Werner: We were hosted on Engine Yard originally, for many years. And they were amazing, they really helped us succeed and we had a partnership with them. We put their logo in the footer and they gave us unlimited hosting and that allowed us to work really well in a bootstrap fashion because we were not paying as much for hosting.
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So we used them for a long time, but they used at the time RedHat GFS, which is their global file system, so all the Rails servers would basically mount GFS as a drive and all of the Git repositories would be accessible through that one drive. So every front-end server didn't have to care that the storage was not local. It would just make-believe that it was local.
The problem, though, was once we got enough front-ends there started to be a lot of contention for those files and the lock contention started to cause performance problems.
Somewhere between the second and third year, we started bottle-necking a lot because of that architecture. And so at that point, I spent a lot of time, probably around six months, re-architecting the entire site to be able to run on a distributed system where the storage was no longer local and was accessed through an RPC mechanism.
There's a blog post I wrote called "How We Made GitHub Fast" that you can read, which is all about how I went about doing that. I completely re-architected how the back-end works to allow us to use commodity Linux servers as the storage nodes along with separate servers to act as front-ends and that allowed any front-end to contact any back-end and be able to find where the repositories were stored.
We've always taken the stance that you don't have to choose a license if you don't want to.
We deployed that on Rackspace, and we also had a partnership with them to get discounted storage for putting their logo in the footer. We did that for many years, but eventually we stopped doing that. But, I mean that's another thing that I think you could consider, kind of non-scalable, in a way. We did those partnerships early on because it was a win-win. These companies got advertising and we got cheaper hosting.
But yes, there was a massive re-architect that had to happen for this site to continue or it would've gone out of business. Reliability started to suffer, I mean anyone who was around at the time would remember that phase. It was not awesome. But we were working our asses off in order to get the new architecture in place, which was a significant amount of work. And I wrote probably a half dozen open source projects to get it done.
Guo: What other serious hurdles did the company face early on?
Preston-Werner: Performance was the primary one. There's also trust. If we were to have a serious security breach that could be an existential crisis for the company. Those were big ones for us.
We were lucky in early days of GitHub that there were no regulations that we were up against. There weren't incumbents that had to be battled in that way.
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Artur Rubinstein's playing was characterized by elegance and technical precision. His masterful phrasing is responsible for the most noble sound that has ever been preserved on recording. His playing combined energetic determination with touching poetry. But only in later life did these become permanent features of his art - the enormously talented pianist began to practice in earnest at an age when mere mortals are already thinking of their retirement.
Rubinstein was born in the Polish city of Łódź in 1887. He started out as a classic Wunderkind. At the age of four he played for legendary violinist Joseph Joachim and found in him a mentor. Rubinstein settled in Berlin, and at the age of 13 was already performing with the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1904 he moved to Paris. Here he learned new ways of relishing life - which he succumbed to. According to his own testimony, eating, smoking, the fine arts, wine, and women were at least as important to him at the time as serious piano practice. He continued to rely on his enormous talent.
Things changed after he got married: at the age of 43 he wed Aniela Młynarski, the daughter of a Polish conductor. He began systematically working on his entire repertoire. After this intensive period of practicing, Rubinstein made a celebrated comeback in New York in 1937.
His most important interpretations include the two colossal, soaring piano concertos of Johannes Brahms. The voice-like plasticity of his playing can be heard in his chamber music recordings, such as those with Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier. But his name is most closely associated with the music of Frédéric Chopin. Rubinstein's carrying tone, his musical intuition and compelling sense of rhythm made him the ideal Chopin interpreter. He had a firm grasp of these works, which he played without false sentimentality.
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1910 First recording, of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10
1928 Starts recording for RCA Victor
1946 Rubinstein becomes an American citizen
1969 "Artur Rubinstein -The Love of Life" wins an Oscar for Best Documentary Film
1977 Named Knight Commander of the British Empire
1994 Posthumously awarded the Grammy Life Achievement Medal
Rubinstein's father first wanted young Artur to learn the violin. But as Rubinstein later recounted, he instinctively turned toward the piano - the instrument of harmony and polyphony.
Rubinstein felt a strong connection not only with his Polish homeland. He also regularly gave benefit concerts for institutions he felt were important.
Chopin the Romanticist? False, according to Rubinstein: Beethoven was the true Romanticist, having broken with the strict classicism of Haydn and Mozart.
In keeping with his last will, Rubinstein's ashes were buried in Jerusalem one year after his death.
The Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition has taken place in Israel since 1974. Winners have included Emanuel Ax and Daniil Trifonov.
Rubinstein's earliest recording dates from 1910. As studio technology improved, he re-recorded much of his repertoire in stereo.
Rubinstein preferred studio to live recordings. Most of his recordings were made between 1928 and 1976.
Rubinstein championed music by South American composers as well as works by his compatriot Karol Szymanowski.
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We Deserve Better Back Seats
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Right now there are pretty much two kinds of rear seats you see in production cars: lounge chairs that swaddle asses in opulence, and basic benches that look like afterthoughts. We need, at least, one more variation of rear seat design.
We need some back seats that are actually fun to go fast in.
The BMW M Performance Parts Concept that's being trotted out for this year's Goodwood Festival Of Speed appears to be a 2 Series suffering from an acute overdose of carbon fiber and Alcantara, but holy hard bolstered haunches, get a load of those rear seats!
Aggressively grabby back seats not only make a sporty car's interior look way more legitimate and complete, but they'd also significantly diminish the misery of riding in the back of a car that's being flung around corners.
Have you ever sat behind a hot shot driver with something to prove? It sucks, on-road or in the dirt.
Now I'm not saying the extra bolsters will fix the barfiness you're apt to feel due being moved around violently when you can't really see where you're going, but I think it would help a lot.
I'd also be a lot more inclined to take performance cars that insist on being sedans seriously if the back seats actually had some purposefulness to them. The Honda Civic Type R is the biggest offender I can think of here. That car's rear seats aren't even red! The indignity of it renders me incredulous.
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But I'm not here to rant about this egregious oversight in the Civic's interior design, I mean maybe a little, but mostly I just want some decision makers and influencers to see how sweet BMW's rear racing seats look in this concept and start porting the idea into more fast four-doors like the Type R, WRX, AMGs, and all the other usual suspects.
If the ethos of "crossoverify everything" and performance SUVs are going to continue their aggressive infiltration of the enthusiast car scene, the least automakers could do is make jackass driving slightly more enjoyable for the people in the back seats of beasts like the Ford Edge ST and Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. As well as style the interior of these vehicles to fully commit to the idea, or look, of going fast.
And, sorry but, while we're talking about this BMW concept I have to add that I really like how this gold accent line accentuates the car's strange snake tongue spoiler.
Sit down, already
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It's News to Me (Clare Carlson Mystery #5) (Hardcover)
By R. G. Belsky
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This is book number 5 in the Clare Carlson Mystery series.
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Dashed dreams: she wanted to run for president one day, now she's dead at 20
When Riley Hunt—a beautiful, smart, popular student at Easton College in Manhattan—is brutally murdered, it becomes a big story for TV newswoman Clare Carlson.
After days of intense media coverage, a suspect is caught: a troubled Afghanistan war veteran with a history of violent and unstable behavior. The suspect's mother, however, comes to Clare with new evidence that might prove her son's innocence.
As Clare digs deeper into the puzzling case, she learns new information: Riley had complained about being stalked in the days before her murder, she was romantically involved with two different men—the son of a top police official and the son of a prominent underworld boss—and she had posted her picture on an escort service's website offering paid dates with wealthy men.
Soon, Clare becomes convinced that Riley Hunt's death is more than just a simple murder case—and that more lives, including her own, are now in danger until she uncovers the true story.
It's News to Me is perfect for fans of J. D. Robb and Karin Slaughter
While all of the novels in the Clare Carlson Mystery series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Below the Fold
The Last Scoop
It's News to Me
Broadcast Blues (coming 2024)
R. G. Belsky is an author of crime fiction and a journalist in New York City. He has a degree in journalism from Ohio University and has had an illustrious career in both print and television news. He is the former Vice President at NBC Local Digital News, Managing Editor of the NY Daily News, News Editor of Star Magazine, and Metropolitan Editor of the New York Post. Most recently, he was a Managing Editor of NBC News. Belsky's crime novels reflect his extensive media background in newspapers, magazines, and TV/digital news. It's News to Me is the fifth novel in his Clare Carlson series, following Yesterday's News, Below the Fold, The Last Scoop, and Beyond the Headlines. Belsky resides in New York City.
Praise for The Clare Carlson Mystery Series
"When a popular college student named Riley Hunt is murdered in Manhattan, it's a big story for TV newswoman Clare Carlson. Quickly, a troubled Afghanistan war veteran is identified as the main suspect. Then the suspect's mother approaches Claire with information that could prove her son is not the killer." —New York Post
"[It's News to Me is] witty, clever and engaging. Clare Carlson's irreverent comments and dogged reporter's instincts make for a propulsive ride as she races from the chaos of a newsroom's inner sanctum to the dangers of a murder victim's deepest secrets. Once you start, you won't put it down." —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times best-selling author
"Below the Fold takes readers on a whiplash ride through a New York murder case. The television news investigation provides a fascinating lens for the story. Heroine Clare Carlson is formidable, human, and thoroughly authentic. R. G. Belsky knows his stuff." —Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author
"In today's world of fake news and alternate facts, R. G. Belsky reminds us why we need reporters like Clare Carlson more than ever before. She is what we want all our journalists to be—honest, objective, and relentless in her pursuit of the truth." —Lee Goldberg, New York Times best-selling author
"Belsky's Yesterday's News elicits all parents' deepest fear—the disappearance of a child. But this intelligent, gripping novel is about so much more: ambition, secrets, and, most shocking of all, truth. Read it." —Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author
"What a terrific book! A complex and compelling nonstop cat-and-mouse chase—and you're never quite sure which one's the mouse. Even the savviest of readers will be gasping in awe at Belsky's impressive story-telling skills." —Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author
"Belsky's behind-the-headlines thriller Yesterday's News is about truth, lies—and how much of each we're willing to live with." —Lori Rader-Day, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author
"Below the Fold is a terrific mystery, written with a veteran journalist's eye. The pacing and plotting are everything you want, but it's R. G. Belsky's insider knowledge that adds a wonderful layer to this story of media and murder."—Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author
"The Last Scoop is another surefire success for author R. G. Belsky as well as for Oceanview Publishing which has been putting out one top-notch page-turner after another." —New York Journal of Books
"Belsky, a New York journalist, casts a searing light on a television newsroom and the never-ending pressure to capture headlines and ratings. Readers will hope capable, hard-driven Clare returns soon." —Publishers Weekly
"Belsky's not just funny; he has a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, including writing snappy New York repartee not seen since Susan Isaacson." —BookTrib
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Arista Aviation- Leasehold Interest
690 Aviation Blvd, Enterprise, AL 36330
Marcus & Millichap is pleased to present the opportunity to acquire the Leasehold Interest of Arista Aviation Headquarters ("The Property") located at 690 Aviation Boulevard, Enterprise, Alabama. The Property, a 69,964-square-foot maintenance, repair, and overhaul ("MRO") is operating on an Absolute Triple-Net lease while being a leading FAA certified provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for rotary wing platforms including Bell small and medium hull helicopter(s) as well as Sikorsky platforms. The Property is the Company's headquarters and currently the sole MRO facility, strategically located in Enterprise, Alabama with proximity to Fort Rucker, Shell & Hanchey Army Heliports, National Guard Armory, Navy Recruiting, Cairns AAF, and the US Department of the Army. This facility has been well invested, maintained and has comprehensive equipment capabilities. The improvements are approximately 69,964 square feet, sitting on 8.76 acres and contain approximately 21 percent office space, 18 percent warehouse space, seven percent of paint building area, and 54 percent of climate manufacturing area. The manufacturing area has a clear height that ranges from 30 feet to 36 feet. Arista Aviation has recently executed a brand new 15-year lease with multiple 10-year options to extend. Arista is operating on an absolute-net lease structure containing zero landlord responsibilities. Located on the Enterprise Municipal Airport, current ownership has entered into a 40-year ground lease with the city of Enterprise with multiple 15-year options to extend. The purchase of this offering presents and investor with an opportunity to acquire the Leasehold Interest of a state-of-the-art and build-to-suit National Headquarters facility with zero landlord responsibilities. At the current list price of $9,400,000 the investment generates an in-place net operating income of $636,480 which equates to a 6.77 percent capitalization rate.
Leasehold Interest Offering | Single-Tenant National Headquarters Facility
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15-Year Lease Term With Multiple 10-Year Options To Extend
40-Year Ground Lease Executed With The City Of Enterprise
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Global Times reports on Boeung Kak lake
The Boeung Kak development has been the most often cited negative example of Chinese investment in Cambodia since 2006. All NGO reports and Western news articles talk about how Boeung Kak Lake has been given to a secretive Chinese company to develop, which has started to move residents out but then stalled amidst their opposition. The case is cited as an example of environmental malfeasance (turning a lake into luxury real estate), cultural insensitivity (the area is said to be of symbolic significance to Phnom Penh residents), rights violations (forcible evictions without proper compensation), greedy tycoons and venal officials in cahoots with China (the developer, Shukaku, is owned by Lau Meng Khin, an ethnic Chinese business strongmen close to the dictatorial prime minister). A Sino-Khmer businessman assured me that the development was certainly not off the agenda, as Prime Minister Hun Sen personally supported it, and that it stalled simply because of the financial downturn and lack of investors.
Now, unusually, the generally nationalistic Global Times, an offshoot of People's Daily, published an article that cites a Voice of America report and a Phnom Penh Post article alleging that locals are so angry about the affair that they want to boycott Chinese goods. The Phnom Penh Post reported that Shukaku recently signed a partnership with 鄂尔多斯鸿骏, a company from Inner Mongolia, which agreed to invest $40 million. Hun Sen initialed the agreement, which, according to Chinese media reports cited by the Post, was "part of a US$3 billion package of investment deals that also included a 750-megawatt power station in Sihanoukville," presumable a coal-fired plant also owned by a Lau Meng Khin company in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, "and a bauxite exploration project in Mondulkiri province."
The lakeside development… rights groups say will ultimately displace more than 4,000 families … . Protests by Boeung Kak residents have become a weekly occurrence in Phnom Penh … villagers charge that they are being denied market value in compensation for their homes. (…)
"We will starve to death if they do not find a solution for us and
forcibly evict us from our homes," 32-year-old lakeside resident Naon Sok Nen said yesterday. City Hall claims around 2,000 families from the lack have already accepted compensation packages. Those facing eviction have received varying compensation options, including cash payments of $8500.
According to Global Times, the demonstrators who demanded more compensation were paid by an NGO that "did not want to be named" to join the protest. The article makes the impression that this too is gleaned from the Post, but this is not the case. Global Times ominously, but in this case correctly, writes that the protests have been organised by "some human rights groups inside and outside Cambodia," leaving no doubt that once again we are dealing with a Western plot to undermine China.
The article generated some discussion: over 6,000 people posted or reacted to around 160 comments to date. The most popular comment recommends the demolition team to go to Japan instead of Cambodia. But interestingly, aside from this anti-Japanese but irrelevant comment, the next most popular ones reflect that Chinese readers are not "buying" the account. They are critical both of the company and what they see as China "exporting" the way it deals with resettling populations, using the affair to criticise the government and thus in fact linking the investment to state behaviour in the same way as Western critics often do.
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And what a lovely week it was.
Baby is moving so much more and I am starting to feel the rhythm. Lots of morning and evening kicks and I think I can tell the placement of baby. I guess we will know for certain after our ultrasound.
Pregnancy is starting to really enter that magical stage.
We also celebrated Father's Day!
It was sort of Michael's "first" Father's Day.
I spent so much time reflecting on how much my dad, my father-in-law and my husband mean to me. I really am incredibly blessed to have them in my life. Michael's dad is the sweetest grandpa (Abi) around and I am starting to get a glimpse of my dad as a grandpa (Babu). His Babu voice came out this weekend when he was talking to baby in my belly.
Hopefully in the next few weeks he will get to feel our little one kick.
On our wedding day. My dad walking me down the isle and Michael's dad performing our ceremony. The greatest examples!
And to top the weekend off - we went to the wedding of Grace Bennett and Eric Willis - a beautiful event.
It felt like my 'belly coming out" party. Besides family, co-workers and a few friends, not many people have seen me pregnant in person. I was so great re-connecting with old and dear friends.
Now we wait in anticipation for our first ultrasound!


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Israel Postpones US-based Test of Arrow-3
Shaan Shaikh
On May 1, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that a planned live test of its Arrow-3 BMD system in the United States had been postponed. Officials say they will work to improve the system's readiness before rescheduling. This is the latest in a string of delayed Arrow-3 tests, with planned intercept tests postponed in December and January.
Israel postpones U.S.-based test of Arrow-3 missile interceptor, Reuters
Israel Postpones U.S. Test of Arrow 3 Ballistic Missile Interceptor, Haaretz
Shaan Shaikh is an associate fellow with the CSIS Missile Defense Project, where he focuses on missile proliferation, air defense, and non-state actors.
Shaan Shaikh, "Israel Postpones US-based Test of Arrow-3," Missile Threat, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 2, 2018, last modified June 15, 2018, https://missilethreat.csis.org/israel-postpones-us-based-test-of-arrow-3/.
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Breaking Through by Audrey Assad
Live From SoHo by Audrey Assad
Album: Live From SoHo
I am a blind man trying to find the way
A deaf man with my ear to the ground
Just listening for what You say
I've got no voice to sing the songs
Written by the prophets on the subway walls
The kingdom is a golden table and we are beggars all
Are these just some words that I say aloud?
Is this just the sun breaking through the clouds?
Oh, I know it's more and I know somehow that
Heaven is breaking through
And it's You, it's You, it's You, it's You, You
I've wandered deserts looking for a sign
A wild flower in a valley low
Just reaching for the light
I have no place to lay my head, no sanctuary of my own
The kingdom waits with open arms
For pilgrims headed home
And it's You, it's You, it's You, it's You, it's You
(I am a blind man trying to find the way)
Heaven is breaking, heaven is breaking
Oh, heaven is breaking, heaven is breaking
And it's You, it's You, it's You, it's You, yeah
It's You, it's You, it's You, You
iTunes Live from SoHo by Audrey Assad - 2011
Live From SoHo by Audrey Assad - 2011
The House You're Building by Audrey Assad - 2010
The House You're Building - Christmas Edition by Audrey Assad - 2010
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Coronavirus FAQs: Does A Bigger Dose Make You Sicker? Can You Go To The Dentist?
By Laurel Wamsley,
Pien Huang
Each week we answer some of your pressing questions about the coronavirus and how to stay safe. Email us your questions at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions."
Does the size of a viral dose make a difference? That is, if you're exposed to lots of viral particles, will you get sicker?
While there is a lot we don't know about SARS-CoV-2, experts believe they can answer this question with confidence: Yes – the amount of virus a person is exposed to makes a difference in whether they get sick and how sick they get.
"Dose is important in everything we are doing in life," says Peter Palese, a leading virologist who is professor and chair of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. "The same is also true for coronaviruses. It makes a lot of sense because if you have a lot of virus [in your environment], such as when you are working in an intensive care unit, then you get many more virus particles in your system and the disease is usually much worse."
"Most viruses, there's some form of graded response depending on how big your initial exposure is," explains Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz, a professor of chemistry and genomics at Princeton. "Every virus, if you get one particle of virus, you're likely to never know it – you're also likely to really never get sick and never develop an immune response. And for most acute viruses, there is a gray area where you get some version of sick but not horribly sick — and develop an immune response that is protective against the virus in the future."
There have been cases of young, healthy health-care workers getting severely sick with COVID-19. That's what scientists would expect with a virus in which dose plays an important role.
"If you have someone working in an intensive care unit and the poor physician or the poor nurse gets a hefty dose, then the severity of the disease really is much worse than if one just gets a single particle," says Palese.
But there are still some unknowns in the matter of dose. Rabinowitz says researchers don't yet know exactly how the symptoms of the current coronavirus correlate with the size of the initial dose. Nor is it known how much of a viral dose causes a person to get sick from COVID-19, though "we have very good reason to believe that it requires many virus particles," he says.
Understanding the role of dose is important, he says, because during an epidemic where much is out of one's control, individuals can act to reduce the risk of high-dose exposure — through social distancing and protective measures like masks. While six feet of distance is recommended, even four feet is better than two feet, Rabinowitz says. "They're probably radically different in terms of both your chance of getting sick and your chance of getting horribly sick if you do get sick."
And masks, even if they're far from 100% effective? "They're likely to be super important," says Rabinowitz, "because they're dose-reducing agents."
How many people are walking around with coronavirus but no symptoms? How much are they driving transmission?
"Somewhere between 25 and 50%" of people with coronavirus are out there with no symptoms, estimated Dr. Anthony Fauci, the immunologist helping to steer the U.S. pandemic policy, at a White House press briefing April 5, though he acknowledged there's not much scientific data to back up the claim.
"Even among good friends, we differ about that," he said. "Right now, we're just guessing."
The issue is that, with limited testing available, people who have the virus but show no symptoms are hard to find. Researchers have confirmed their existence through contact tracing and mass testing in places like nursing homes and the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
People who show no symptoms can fall into two categories — they can be presymptomatic, which means that they're in the incubation phase and will develop symptoms over the next few days, or asymptomatic, which means they never develop symptoms.
Based on available data, the World Health Organization thinks that presymptomatic cases are more common than asymptomatic cases, and that some people who are presymptomatic can spread the virus one to three days before showing symptoms. It's less clear whether people who are totally asymptomatic are contributing significantly to spread.
The extent to which symptom-less cases are driving transmission is an open question — and it seems to depend on behavior. In China before lockdown, a modeling paper in Science suggests that undiscovered cases (including people with mild or no symptoms) may have been responsible for 79% of transmission because many of them attended gatherings or traveled while contagious. Other papers from Singapore and China, from late January on, suggest that presymptomatic cases accounted for 6% to 13% of transmission in times of greater COVID-19 awareness.
I have a toothache. Should I go to the dentist right now?
If you're experiencing pain or swelling in your mouth, you should see a dentist, says Mary-Jane Hanlon, associate dean for clinical affairs at Tufts School of Dental Medicine and president-elect of the Massachusetts Dental Society.
"Especially if the pain or the swelling is increasing," she says. "If you go to bed and you're woken up in the middle of the night because of pain, that's another indication that, yes, you should see a dentist."
As with everything else, coronavirus has complicated dental visits. The American Dental Association has recommended that dentists restrict their practices to all but urgent and emergency care through April 30.
Some dentists are not seeing even emergency patients right now because the dentists themselves have underlying medical conditions that put them at risk to COVID-19, Hanlon says.
So if you are in pain, you should call your dentist — but may be referred to a different dentist handling emergency care.
But if it's not an emergency, don't go to the dentist right now, says Hanlon. The American Dental Association has a list of dental issues that can wait, and those that can't.
"Believe it or not, there are patients getting upset with us because we can't they can't have their teeth cleaned, but we just can't take the chance," she says. "There's no reason why a patient can't wait a couple months to have their teeth cleaned."
If you do make an appointment for emergency dental care, expect your dentist to ask you whether you have symptoms of COVID-19. When you arrive at the office, you'll likely be handed a mask, hand sanitizer and gloves.
And don't expect to hang out reading a magazine before your appointment.
"You should not go into the office until it is your time to go in," says Hanlon. "What we're trying to do is make sure we stagger appointments and have adequate time to clean up between patients."
Some dental practices may resume regular appointments in the coming weeks, as some state and local governments allow re-opening certain businesses considered "essential." Last week, the ADA released updated guidance that in states considering reopening, "dentists should exercise professional judgment and carefully consider the availability of appropriate PPE [personal protective equipement] to minimize risk of virus transmission."
Pien Huang is a health reporter on the Science desk. She was NPR's first Reflect America Fellow, working with shows, desks and podcasts to bring more diverse voices to air and online.
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'Laura and Reid's' law signed by Maryland governor
Hogan signs bill requiring pelvic exam consent
ASHLEY: ANOTHER ROUND OF HILL -- BILLS BEAR THE SIGNATURE OF THE GOVERNOR. THE GOVERNOR ALSO SIGNED LAURA & REID'S LAW. HER BOYFRIEND KILLED HER IN 2017. TESSIER KILLED HIMSELF WHILE AWAITING TRIAL. THE LAW TOUGHENS PENALTIES FOR WOMEN KILLED WHEN PREGNANT. >> IT IS ABOUT HONORING L
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed "Laura and Reid's" law Monday.Howard County teacher Laura Wallen was pregnant with a baby boy that she planned to name Reid when investigators said her boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, killed her in 2017. Tessier killed himself while awaiting trial.The new law toughens sentences for violent crimes against pregnant women. Wallen's parents were at the bill signing Monday."If this helps another woman in the state of Maryland, then we will have honored Laura, and so it's not as much about healing as it is about honoring Laura and honoring Reid," said Wallen's mother, Gwen Wallen.List: Bills signed Monday by the governorThe governor also signed a bill that raises the age for tobacco purchase to 21. Other bills signed will make it easier to enroll for health insurance and expand the child and dependent tax credit.Hogan also signed a measure to require patients to provide explicit consent before health care practitioners and medical students can conduct a pelvic, prostate or rectal exam while the patient is under anesthesia.The measure, which was approved unanimously by the General Assembly, was signed Monday.Bills were introduced in roughly a dozen states this year to require that women undergoing gynecological surgeries give explicit approval to a pelvic exam beforehand. A pelvic exam is standard practice before gynecologic surgeries. Medical students sometimes do the exams as part of their training.Sen. Brian Feldman, who sponsored the Senate bill, says state lawmakers have not received reports of such exams happening without consent in Maryland, but they wanted to spell out in the law that consent is required.The governor is set to have one more bill signing session May 23.The Associated Press contributed to this report
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed "Laura and Reid's" law Monday.
Howard County teacher Laura Wallen was pregnant with a baby boy that she planned to name Reid when investigators said her boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, killed her in 2017. Tessier killed himself while awaiting trial.
Hogan signs hundreds of bills into law, including reforms to USM board
Anti-bullying legislation, reforming UMMS board signed into Maryland law
The new law toughens sentences for violent crimes against pregnant women. Wallen's parents were at the bill signing Monday.
"If this helps another woman in the state of Maryland, then we will have honored Laura, and so it's not as much about healing as it is about honoring Laura and honoring Reid," said Wallen's mother, Gwen Wallen.
List: Bills signed Monday by the governor
The governor also signed a bill that raises the age for tobacco purchase to 21. Other bills signed will make it easier to enroll for health insurance and expand the child and dependent tax credit.
Hogan also signed a measure to require patients to provide explicit consent before health care practitioners and medical students can conduct a pelvic, prostate or rectal exam while the patient is under anesthesia.
The measure, which was approved unanimously by the General Assembly, was signed Monday.
Bills were introduced in roughly a dozen states this year to require that women undergoing gynecological surgeries give explicit approval to a pelvic exam beforehand. A pelvic exam is standard practice before gynecologic surgeries. Medical students sometimes do the exams as part of their training.
Sen. Brian Feldman, who sponsored the Senate bill, says state lawmakers have not received reports of such exams happening without consent in Maryland, but they wanted to spell out in the law that consent is required.
The governor is set to have one more bill signing session May 23.
The Associated Press contributed to this report


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A soft leather boot made to accompany the Clancy baby booties and her gentleman friend Banjo.
Soling options: Choose between a light EVA sole ($355), rubber ($385) or a leather sole ($395).
Gold is available as a limited premium for $50.
Please note that all our goods are made-to-order unless stock already exists in our shop in Prahran. Fitting stock is avaialble for the Alice boot. Lead times for made-to-order are 2-5 weeks depending on the business of the workshop.
Made on our boot last, available in full sizes only for this particular style.
The fit tends to be half a size smaller than what you normally wear. We would always suggest to come into the shop and try them on before purchase to be sure as footwear made-to-order is not exchangeable.


Over the years, funding for the playing field, as well as other facilities in the village, has been sourced (in part) through the landfill tax credits scheme. This scheme allows communities that are located within 10 miles of a land fill site to apply for money to support local projects - the scheme supports ca. 90% of the cost of a project, whilst we need 'match-fund' the remaining amount. Whilst the Viridor land fill site at Ardley has now closed, we have been able to apply for funding through an organisation called WREN as we are within 10 miles of the land fill facility at Calvert.
Success in these funding applications has always required support from the local community to demonstrate the wider need for the project. A huge thank you to everyone who completed the on-line survey and in particular to those that wrote letters of support for our application - especially those from the children of the village - these really boosted our application.
· provide a permanent table tennis table.
Our application for funding was successful - we were able to secure £60,000 from WREN which will go a long way to paying for the work that needs to be carried out.
In addition to this funding, we were also very pleased to receive and secure separate donations from a charitable trust (the Lennox Hanney foundation) totalling £15,000. This additional amount allows us to 'match-fund' the WREN grant and to cover the additional costs that we will need to spend to complete the whole project.
The works will now begin on 4 February 2019 and the playing field will be fully closed for approximately 3 weeks.


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Q: Redux Form doesn't change values Trying to make a form with Redux Form.
Here is my component
import React, { Component } from 'react'

import { Field, reduxForm } from 'redux-form'

import Form from './components/Form'

import TextFieldForReduxForm from './components/TextFieldForReduxForm'

import validate from './validate'

import { signUpCallbacks } from './onSubmit'

class SignUp extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <Form
        {...this.props}
        formTitle='SIGN UP'
        buttonTitle='SIGN UP'
        linkTo='/sign/in'
        linkTitle='Sign In'
      >
        <Field
          component={TextFieldForReduxForm}
          name='email'
          label='Email'
          margin='normal'
        />,
        <Field
          component={TextFieldForReduxForm}
          name='password'
          label='Password'
          type='password'
          margin='normal'
        />
      </Form>
    )
  }
}

export default reduxForm({
  form: 'signup',
  validate,
  onSubmit: signUpCallbacks.onSubmit,
  onChange: values => console.log('onChange', values)
})(SignUp)

The problem is that on submit I always get required errors, which means the values somehow never change. And onChange is not called as well.
Here is validate.js
export const isValidEmail = email => /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i.test(email)

const validate = values => {
  console.log('validate', values)
  const errors = {}
  if (!values.email) {
    errors.email = 'Required'
  } else if (!isValidEmail(values.email)) {
    errors.email = 'Invalid email address'
  }

  if (!values.password) {
    errors.password = 'Required'
  }

  return errors
}

export default validate

And here is onSubmit.js
export const signUpCallbacks = {
  onSubmit (values, dispatch, props) {
    console.log(values)
  }
}

Here are the components
Form.js
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'

import { withStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles'
import Grid from '@material-ui/core/Grid'
import Typography from '@material-ui/core/Typography'
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button'

import { Link } from 'react-router'

const styles = {
  button: {
    margin: '15px 0px'
  }
}

class Form extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    classes: PropTypes.object,
    formTitle: PropTypes.string,
    buttonTitle: PropTypes.string,
    linkTo: PropTypes.string,
    linkTitle: PropTypes.string,
    children: PropTypes.array,
    handleSubmit: PropTypes.func,
    submitting: PropTypes.bool
  }

  render () {
    const {
      classes,
      formTitle,
      buttonTitle,
      linkTo,
      linkTitle,
      children,
      submitting,
      handleSubmit
    } = this.props

    return (
      <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
        <Grid
          container
          spacing={16}
          alignItems='center'
          direction='column'
          justify='center'
        >
          <Typography variant='headline' gutterBottom>
            {formTitle}
          </Typography>
          {children}
          <Button
            disabled={submitting}
            type='submit'
            variant='contained'
            color='primary'
            className={classes.button}
          >
            {buttonTitle}
          </Button>
          <Link to={linkTo}>{linkTitle}</Link>
        </Grid>
      </form>
    )
  }
}

export default withStyles(styles)(Form)

TextField
import React from 'react'
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'

import TextField from '@material-ui/core/TextField'

const TextFieldForReduxForm = props => {
  const {
    meta: {
      touched,
      error
    },
    label
  } = props

  const isErrored = error && touched

  const displayErrorOrLabel = () => {
    if (isErrored) return error
    return label
  }

  return <TextField
    {...props}
    error={isErrored}
    label={displayErrorOrLabel()}
  />
}

export default TextFieldForReduxForm

TextFieldForReduxForm.propTypes = {
  meta: PropTypes.object,
  label: PropTypes.string
}

A: The values, event handlers and other input props from redux-form's Field component are passed on to the form component inside props.input
Spread props.input instead of props inside the TextFieldForReduxForm component.

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Lorraine Ming Fair, mais conhecida como Lorrie Fair (Stanford, 5 de agosto de 1978), é uma futebolista estadunidense.

Ver também
 Seleção de Futebol Feminino dos Estados Unidos

Ligações externas

Futebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2000
Futebolistas dos Estados Unidos

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Case KPN
Over the last ten years, the collaboration between Dutch telecom giant KPN and ZetaDisplay has resulted in ground-breaking Digital Signage deployments. Recent projects include an installation on the facade of the HQ building and a solution for internal communication. The latter is an example on how Digital Signage can help Corporate Communications departments draw their employees' attention to important strategic messages.
KPN was looking for ways to reach their employees directly with important news. Being a tech company, the customer wanted to explore the possibilities of Digital Signage. The customer perceived that the already produced content didn't show strong enough impact i.e. to reinforce strategic messaging.
We developed an easy-to-use content solution for KPN's editors. It was based on the idea of easily reproducing existing content (text and video) in a new channel. Currently there are some 100 screens installed throughout the KPN offices in the Netherlands. They are placed at strategical points where many people meet, such as receptions, coffee machines and kitchen areas.
By placing screens where people meet, we have helped Corporate Communications to draw their employees' attention to important strategic messages. Other content can also be presented in a more appealing way. KPN has seen a spectacular content growth on their social media-based online platform and were looking for ways to get news out to their audience.
Annual evaluations within KPN show that co-workers have an increased understanding of the company strategy. KPN attributes this effect partly to effective Digital Signage roll-out as it now. On a daily perspective, it supports the distribution of already produced material.
By making it visible and putting it in front of core audiences the impact increase is noticeable.
Do you want to know how Digital Signage can help you?


The bottom line is that you need an awesome UX portfolio if you are going to stand out from the crowd and get that dream UX job. Whether you are an interaction designer, visual designer, research or other UX designer, here are some major dos and don'ts for preparing yours. It'll help you get that dream role.
Usable – 'nuff said right?!
Engaging – make it visually appealing. Always a subjective thing but we love responsive, flat design with sumptuously large images. Make it personal. Add an image of you at work, for example.
Build a website. While PDF portfolios are ok, there's nothing like a website. If you can't code just pick a fully responsive template from one of those FREE, unbelievably easy 'drag-n-drop' sites like Virb, Weebly, Wix or Squarespace. Point your domain at the URL that these guys give you. In your resume, ensure the link to your portfolio stands out.
Put some design work on there. For interaction designers especially, employers love seeing your thought process rather than just finished designs. Include images of sketches, wireframes, you in action in front of a whiteboard etc Blur logos and anonomize if the work is confidential. Write a short paragraph about your activity on each project (use 'I' not 'we') and the problem you solved.
Include a pic of yourself, it humanizes things (none of you in a stoopid Halloween outfit, sorry).
Go the extra mile by getting your (active) twitter feed on the site. Better still, write a blog about UX related stuff … this is cocaine for prospective employers who know their stuff. Why not make a video?
Don't create a website with frames that doesn't show the URL of a specific page on your site. This prevents hiring managers from copying and pasting the most relevant page into an email to their boss, for example.
Don't get lumped in with other designers on sites like Behance, About.me, Coroflot, Cargocollective or Dribble. Controversial, I know. Make more of an effort and create your own site.
So, once you've created your new portfolio, don't forget to update your profile on UXswitch with the new link. You'll be seen by only the very best UX recruiters and employers around. Need more inspiration, take a look at the Best Portfolios on UXswitch.


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Елдридж () — місто () в США, в окрузі Скотт штату Айова. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Елдридж розташований за координатами  (41.639267, -90.580112).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 24,56 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкала  особа в  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 230 осіб/км².  Було 2296 помешкань (93/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 1,8 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 2,1 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 28,8 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,1 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 11,1 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 36,7 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 92,4 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 88,1 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 6,7 % осіб, у тому числі 7,5 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 21,0 %, виробництво — 20,7 %, роздрібна торгівля — 9,1 %, фінанси, страхування та нерухомість — 9,0 %.

Джерела

Міста Айови
Населені пункти округу Скотт (Айова)


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Nexen shareholders vote to approve CNOOC bid
CNOOC has offered $27.50 per share in cash for Nexen
CALGARY—Shareholders of Nexen Inc. have voted to approve a proposed Chinese takeover of the company by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC).
However, the $15.1-billion takeover still requires approval by the Canadian government under the Investment Canada Act.
The deal faces the key "net benefit" test that tripped up BHP-Billiton's hostile takeover bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.
Concerns have been raised by Alberta Tory MP Ted Menzies who has said he's been getting a lot of negative feedback from constituents about the takeover by a state-owned Chinese firm.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also said that China needs to show its state-run enterprises can be trusted to play by the same rules as Canada.
CNOOC has offered $27.50 per share in cash for Nexen, about a $10.00-per-share premium on the pre-bid price.
Nexen has offshore oil and gas assets around the world as well as a stake in the Long Lake oil sands project in Alberta and shale gas operations in B.C.
CNOOC yet to make formal Nexen proposal
CNOOC Nexen takeover bid now under review by industry minister
Paradis extends review of proposed Chinese takeover of Nexen
Nexen output helps CNOOC to 8% profit growth
Bruce Power's Unit 1 sends power to grid for first time in 15 years
Private sector corruption on the rise


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Q: Changing .css file from GUI, in managedBean I made a jsf page with colorpickers where an administrator will supposedly be able to change the main theme of the site which consist of 4 colors.
I prefixed my main colors in my css with numbers as such :
.element{
    background: /*1*/#333333;
}

So to get the colors I just go through all css files and find the color which is after that number (which goes from 1 to 4). It is working fine for getting those but when I'm trying to set the colors and refresh the page I just have no css at all. However when I clean the project the .css is back up with the original colors.
My code is a bit funky but here it is:
@ManagedBean
public class SiteColorsSettings {
    private String color1, color2, color3, color4;
    private final String CSS_FOLDER_PATH = "/resources/css";
    ServletContext ctx;
    String realPath;

    public SiteColorsSettings() {
        ctx = (ServletContext) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()
                .getExternalContext().getContext();
        realPath = ctx.getRealPath("/");
        getColors();
    }

    public void getColors() {
        try {
            File cssFolder = new File(realPath + CSS_FOLDER_PATH);
            if (!cssFolder.exists()) {
                System.out.println("css folder not found");
            }
            File[] listOfFiles = cssFolder.listFiles();

            for (int i = 0; i < listOfFiles.length; i++) {
                if (listOfFiles[i].isFile()) {
                    String currentLine;
                    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
                            listOfFiles[i]));

                    while ((currentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                        if (currentLine.contains("/*1*/")) {
                            this.color1 = currentLine.substring(currentLine
                                    .lastIndexOf("/*1*/") + 6);
                        }
                        if (currentLine.contains("/*2*/")) {
                            this.color2 = currentLine.substring(currentLine
                                    .lastIndexOf("/*2*/") + 6);
                        }
                        if (currentLine.contains("/*3*/")) {
                            this.color3 = currentLine.substring(currentLine
                                    .lastIndexOf("/*3*/") + 6);
                        }
                        if (currentLine.contains("/*4*/")) {
                            this.color4 = currentLine.substring(currentLine
                                    .lastIndexOf("/*4*/") + 6);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    public void setColors() {
        try {
            File cssFolder = new File(realPath + CSS_FOLDER_PATH);
            if (!cssFolder.exists()) {
                System.out.println("css folder not found");
            }
            File[] listOfFiles = cssFolder.listFiles();

            switchColors(listOfFiles);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    private void switchColors(File[] files) {
        for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            try {
                if (files[i].isFile()) {
                    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
                            files[i]));
                    String fileContent = "";
                    String currentLine;
                    while ((currentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                        fileContent += currentLine;
                    }
                    for (int j = 1; j <= 4; j++) {
                        if (fileContent.contains("/*" + j + "*/")) {
                            int endOfColorChar = fileContent
                                    .lastIndexOf("/*+j+*/") + 12;
                            String fColor = fileContent.substring(
                                    fileContent.lastIndexOf("/*+j+*/") + 6,
                                    endOfColorChar);
                            switch (j) {
                            case (1):
                                fileContent.replace("/*j*/" + fColor, "/*j*/"
                                        + this.color1);
                                break;
                            case (2):
                                fileContent.replace("/*j*/" + fColor, "/*j*/"
                                        + this.color2);
                                break;
                            case (3):
                                fileContent.replace("/*j*/" + fColor, "/*j*/"
                                        + this.color3);
                                break;
                            case (4):
                                fileContent.replace("/*j*/" + fColor, "/*j*/"
                                        + this.color4);
                                break;
                            }
                            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(files[i]);
                            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
                            bw.write(fileContent);

                        }
                    }
                }

            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    }

So what's happening ? Am I changing the deployed files while the project stays untouched ? If so why there is no css on my page after the refresh ? I checked the string fileContent and the css is there...

A: I would not recommend changing file content in runtime. You could use a different approach to solve your problem.

*

*Use Expression Language in your .css, like:
.element{
    background: ##{siteColorsSettings.color1};
}

Note that this only works if it's referenced via <h:outputStylesheet> and not via <link>.

*Add getters and setters to color values in your managed bean.

*Persist your color values in database or in configuration (for example, colors.properties) file with a content:
color1=333333
color2=777777
...

and accessing/changing them using Properties class.


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How the U.S. Edged China in Total Gold Medals with Three Wins on the Final Day
It came down to the last night of competition and was determined by the slimmest of margins.
Mitch Goldich
Very Olympic Today is SI's daily Olympics newsletter. You can receive each issue for free in your inbox by subscribing here. To continue reading the newsletter at SI.com every day, along with the rest of our Olympics coverage, readers can subscribe to SI.com here.
The Olympics began on Tuesday, July 20 with a softball game between Australia and Japan, and they ended in the middle of the night with a water polo match between Serbia and Greece. Depending on your time zone, of course. The schedule included hundreds of countries, thousands of athletes and 339 events across dozens of sports. They're all behind us now.
We saw some incredible achievements, both by individuals and teams. We marveled at many of the athletes, from the first man to cross the finish line in the 100 meters, to the last one to complete the longest race walk, to the women who broke boundaries.
It is an honor just to compete, but we can see in the faces of the victors how much it means to win. Not just to win for one's self or one's team, but for one's country, as is made clear when we see how many athletes celebrate with their flags.
To that end, we track the medal count. The U.S. had cliched the overall count days ago. But, as I set up the stakes on Saturday morning, Team USA headed into the final day of competition trailing China by two gold medals.
In the end, the U.S. did it, with three gold medals on the final night nudging the Americans past China.
This is a true group achievement. Those 39 gold medals represent the sum of contributions from Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel, Suni Lee, Sydney McLaughlin, Athing Mu, Gable Steveson, Breanna Stewart, Kevin Durant, Maggie Steffens, April Ross, Xander Schauffele, Lee Kiefer, Nevin Harrison and many, many others because I can't include them all right here. Not to mention their coaches, trainers, support systems and families—including so many people who were with them for a lifetime of hard work and then weren't able to be there in Tokyo because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Simply reaching the Olympics is not simple at all. One medal, of any color, is an almost unfathomable achievement to most regular people. The U.S. sent a team to Tokyo that brought home more golds, more silvers, more bronzes and more total medals than any other country on earth.
It came down to the last night of competition and was determined by the slimmest of margins. Here's how the last three gold medals were won.
Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated
While You Were Sleeping
This team has been the U.S.'s most dominant over the last 25 years, and it's no contest. The U.S. didn't just win its seventh straight gold medal, tying an Olympic record for team sports, it finished off its seventh straight undefeated Olympics. That's 55 straight games, dating back to 1992.
None of the gold-medal games have even finished with a margin of victory in the single digits.
The team raced out to a 10–2 lead early, and then Japan actually kept it close in the second quarter until the U.S. pulled away. I won't get into too many details on the play-by-play. It was never in doubt. The U.S. got contributions from several of the team's stars, gave some playing time to the reserves and much of the second half felt like a celebration of the team's greatness.
Brittney Griner scored 30 points, the second-most for a U.S. woman in an Olympic game and the most in a final. A'ja Wilson scored 19. Breanna Stewart scored 14 and had 14 rebounds. The team had 12 blocks, and Japan had zero.
It's nearly impossible to list all the accolades that resulted from this game and this run. Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi famously both won their fifth gold medals. (After the game, Taurasi gave a TV interview and said, "See you in Paris.") Dawn Staley won three gold medals as a player, two as an assistant coach and now her first as the head coach, making her 44–0 in Olympic play. She said after the game that there will be a new coach for 2024.
Whoever steps up, as the new coach or as new players, will join a team with an incredible legacy.
The U.S. collected one individual gold medal on the final day, and it came from Jennifer Valente, who became the first U.S. woman ever to win a gold in Olympic track cycling. She won the omnium, an event that gives out points based on four separate races.
She won the first race to take an early lead, then actually crashed in a later race but didn't lose any ground. She took second in the final sprint, which was enough to secure the win.
She had previously won two medals in team pursuit: a silver in Rio and a bronze earlier in Tokyo. Now she has individual gold, and given the timing of her event, it shined an even brighter spotlight on what would have already been a major achievement for her.
Speaking of historic gold medals on Day 16, the U.S. won gold in women's indoor volleyball for the first time in Olympic history. Women's volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The U.S. had won three silvers and two bronzes, but never came away on the top step of the podium—until now.
The U.S. came out on fire in this one and never looked back. The team won the first four points of the first set, prompting a Brazil timeout. There was no slowing them down. They won 25–21, 25–20, 25–14. Andrea Drews, Michelle Bartsch-Hackley and Jordan Larson all had 12 or more points.
This was an incredible run. The team went 4–1 in group play, but looked to be in real trouble after that lone loss, a 3–0 straight-sets sweep against the ROC, in which Jordan Thompson, who had been the leading scorer in the whole tournament up to that point, left with an ankle injury. Despite her not returning, the U.S. never lost again, and didn't even lose a set in the knockout stage, sweeping the Dominican Republic, Serbia and Brazil 3–0, 3–0, 3–0.
This team also had one of the better reactions of any team upon winning. Look at all the emotion in this scene after the final point.
The win avenged losses to Brazil in the gold-medal games in both 2008 and '12. And the game made for a cool accomplishment for head coach Karch Kiraly, who had already won two Olympic golds as an indoor player and one more playing beach volleyball.
Just emptying my notebook and tying up a few loose ends.
On the last day of the Olympics, Tokyo topped 4,000 COVID-19 cases for the fifth straight day. We don't know the full scope of how the Olympics have affected Japan yet, but we should not stop following this story when the athletes leave town. The IOC decided to go ahead with these Games, whatever the consequences, and the impact it has on the host country shouldn't be ignored.
A German modern pentathlon coach was disqualified from the Olympics after punching a horse. Hard to get much lower than that. I mentioned in my preview of every sport that modern pentathlon riders are given unfamiliar horses with which to complete jumps. A video circulated on social media (but has since been removed) of the German rider, who had a huge lead, and then she was in tears because the horse refused to do any of the jumps. (As many people pointed out, good for the horse.) Several sports have been on the chopping block in recent years, and this one already seems antiquated and relatively unpopular. If we have unwilling horses and humans punching them, maybe it won't be long for the Olympics to drop it from the program.
Early in the Olympics, I passed along a link about Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who said she was being removed from the country against her will. I wanted to follow up with a little more information, on her coaches' being removed from the Olympics. Reuters interviewed her a couple of days ago and put together a timeline of the events.
I loved this Twitter thread from ESPN's Ryan McGee about the tiny island of Nauru, its history with Japan (including occupation in WWII) and its two athletes in Tokyo.
Here's a tweet from Connor Fields, the BMX rider who was in a horrific crash. Just a reminder of how serious that situation was.
Congrats are in order for my colleague Dan Gartland, who crushed me in the Quadrathlon. Before the Olympics, he and I drafted teams to root for in five sports in which the U.S. failed to qualify (men's and women's handball, men's and women's field hockey, and men's soccer). My teams started out 14–2–3 (humble brag), but unraveled as the medal rounds approached. He won two silvers and two bronzes, to my lone bronze medal, and won 31.5 to 21.5. You can see details here. My punishment for losing is … nothing! Because we didn't set any stakes. But this loss will weigh on me for the next three years.
Snapshots from Tokyo
SI's photo team captured great stuff in Tokyo throughout the entire Olympics. One last time, take a look at their gallery. And our photo staff also put together a gallery with SI photos of some of the greatest Olympians ever.
For 16-plus days, I've given you a rundown of what to watch in the following 24 hours. This time we'll look a little further into the future.
The Paralympics
The Olympics and Paralympics are always held in the same year, in the same host city, so they were also delayed to 2021. The competition begins on Tuesday, Aug. 24 and ends on Sunday, Sept. 5. NBC's family of networks will air a record amount of coverage, and I suggest checking it out! The Paralympics do not get anywhere near the amount of media attention as the Olympics, but they will feature incredible athletes with incredible stories. SI featured three Paralympians—Jessica Long, David Brown and Chuck Aoki—on the flip cover of our Olympics preview magazine, and those stories will be available online soon.
The 2022 Winter Olympics
Thanks to the delayed 2020* Olympics, there is a very quick turnaround before we do this again. How fast? Try less than six months. The 2022 Winter Olympics will start on Friday, Feb. 4 in Beijing.
The 2020 Olympics were held under controversial circumstances, and the next Olympics may be even more controversial. First of all, we don't know what the COVID-19 pandemic will look like in six months. And second, groups alleging human-rights abuses in China have been calling for a boycott of the 2022 Games. The U.S. State Department has said a boycott is not in the cards, but you will hear more about the pressure put on the IOC as we get closer. Beijing, which just hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, was already a strange choice to host a Winter Olympics for more conventional reasons. See The Atlantic's 2015 article titled: A Winter Olympics in a City Without Snow.
The 2024 Paris and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
I got an email from newsletter subscriber Lindsay Schnell, whom those of you who subscribed to the Very Olympic Today podcast in 2016 will remember from her excellent narrative podcast episodes. Given the new rules that allow host countries to add additional sports to the core program, she asked the following:
Has Paris announced yet what sports it will include? What sports could possibly be on the docket for the 2028 games in L.A. that were previously eliminated?
Thanks for the question, Lindsay! The Paris Olympics have finalized the list of sports—28 core sports and four add-ons. Three of the sports that were new to the Tokyo Games will return in three years in that "additional" category: sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing. Plus, 3x3 basketball is listed with the core sports. The final one, which will likely induce controversy and eye rolls from many, is breaking. Yes, that means breakdancing. You can read more at that link above. This also means, notably, that baseball/softball will not be in the program, barring an unexpected change. Neither will karate.
The sports are not finalized for the L.A. Olympics in 2028. But if I had to make an educated guess, I'd think skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing would all make sense again. I thought they all seemed well received in Tokyo, and they're all sports the U.S. can be good at that would also fit the vibe of a Los Angeles Olympics. I would also not be surprised at all to see the U.S. choose baseball/softball, given their popularity here. But we'll see. Sports like ultimate frisbee and others are making a push to be considered.
SI's Best
• Michael Rosenberg says the U.S. women's basketball team is in good hands.
• Stephanie Apstein wrote about the U.S. women's volleyball team's first gold medal.
• Stephanie also covered the U.S. baseball team's loss in the gold-medal game.
• Greg Bishop on the incredible Allyson Felix.
• Greg also wrote about U.S. men's boxing, which was again denied a gold medal.
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The Olympics are over, but this newsletter isn't quite yet. I will be back again on Monday with a final look back at the last 16 days. Thanks for reading.
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Rachel Challenged to Kick a Field Goal! She Accepts!
Rachel watched Monday Night Football last night and thinks kickers have it easy. She thinks riding a stationary bicycle for most of the game is something anyone could do. Bishop Chatard High School Coach, Vincent Lorenzano, happened to be listening and challenged Rachel to a field goal! He offered her the field for Friday morning! She now has 3 days to practice and figure this out.
Do you think she can make a field goal?


CBS hat nun den Trailer zur DVD und Blu-Ray Veröffentlichung der ersten Staffel Star Trek: Discovery veröffentlicht.
Die nur 345 Minuten angegebene Gesamtlänge auf Amazon.com ist also offenbar ein Fehler.
Am 13. November erscheint das Disc-Set in den USA - wann die Serie in Deutschland auf Blu-Ray oder DVD erhältlich sein wird ist noch unbekannt.
DISCOVERING DISCOVERY: THE CONCEPTS AND CASTING OF STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – Interviews with producers, writers, and stars of Star Trek: Discovery about casting the show's debut season.
CREATURE COMFORTS – A behind-the-scenes look at the makeup and prosthetics department as they both modernized well-known Star Trek species like the Klingons, Vulcans, and Andorians, and brought to life a new species, the Kelpiens.
DESIGNING DISCOVERY – Insight into the production design department led by Tamara Deverell as they created the planets, the world within those worlds and the starships to travel amongst them.
DRESS FOR SUCCESS – Costume designer Gersha Phillips and her team create a spectacular array of clothing, uniforms, and armor for every kind of species in the galaxy.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: THE VOYAGE OF SEASON ONE – A look at the adventures and plot twists encountered in the first season by the crew.