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Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Three hundred years ago the Jesuit priest Pére J'Entrecolles wrote letters to his superiors describing in rich detail the manufacture of porcelain. The Catholic priest had been sent to Jingdezhen to proselytize to the local residents of this bustling eighteenth century Chinese city. Many of his potential converts worked with porcelain. His reports described all aspects of porcelain production from digging the special materials to firing. At the time how to make porcelain was a mystery to potters at home. A few years ago, Edmund de Waal, the acclaimed British author and potter, who has had a long obsession with porcelain, "brought" Pére J'Entrecolles along as his initial guide on his pilgrimage to discover the roots of porcelain. He carried and consulted marked up copies of the letters during his trip to Jingdezhen. He tells the story of his search in The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession. "This journey, " he says, "is a paying of dues to those that have gone before."
His quest takes him to China, Germany, South Carolina, and through his own England. The book is peopled with fascinating characters. Even if you have read numerous accounts of the alchemist Johann Frederich Böttger and his keeper/overseer Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and how, while desperately trying to make gold, they discovered the secret of porcelain, you will find de Waal's chapters about them worth reading. In his mind he is there too, with them, trying to understand what they were thinking, feeling what they feel, and he brings the reader along.
I was fascinated with the chapters on William Cookworthy, the Devon pharmacist who also was obsessed with making porcelain, and who succeeded, only to be outwitted by Josiah Wedgewood. And then there is Thomas Griffiths who, after crossing the Atlantic, travels hundreds of miles into the wilderness of the American south, suffering rain and cold, to obtain "white earth" from the Cherokees and ship it back to England. The Cherokees, it turns out, also valued the clay and preferred he not make holes in it.
De Waal nicely intersperses his personal artistic journey – youthful years making stoneware, his struggles with firing, and thoughts on his studio practice – throughout the narrative. The book is divided into cups so that you feel he is not only making a book but that he is making pots to coincide with each section. The cups symbolize the book. Or perhaps the book follows the cups.
"You drop the lid of the huge lidded jar you have finally made," he writes, "and it becomes 'Jar for a Branch'. And you move on." He shares his philosophies. "Sets are a way of controlling the world. If you need this mortal world to reflect another kind of order, then things must match."
I was immersed from the first page of the book. I love history. I am intrigued by descriptions of how other potters work. He gives us both. The book is episodic, often written in the first person, so you feel immediacy. Towards the end, while he is writing, he is also in the process of moving his studio to a new spacious location. He tells us what he is reading. What he is thinking. How he works. "I sit at my wheel," he says. "It is low and I am tall. I hunch. There is a ziggurat of balls of porcelain clay to my left, a waiting pile of ware boards to my right, a small bucket of water, a sponge, a knife and a bamboo rib shaped like a hand axe in front of me." He has a space upstairs where he writes. There are books. Oh dear! Is that jealousy I am feeling?
Two complaints: The book does not have an index. Yes, I am an index junky, but really a book with this much history, so many facts and locations, and such intriguing characters, should have an index. And though de Waal read deeply and did extensive research, the book has neither endnotes nor a bibliography. Instead, the reader is directed to his website, where indeed you can find all that you want to. Still, I found this annoying and hope that other publishers do not go this route in an effort to save money. I suspect these were publisher decisions and not de Waal's, but who knows.
Wherever you are personally in the pottery world, and whether you admire de Waal's installations or eschew them, you will want to read The White Road. It is an insightful and deep examination by an artist into his antecedents and the inspiration that sprung from them. The book is rich, multi-layered. Refreshingly, there is no art speak. Instead, it is a personal telling of well-researched history. It is an important book for the field, and the larger world.
Note: Edmund de Waal's The Pot Book was released in paper late last year. I wrote about that in 2011 (Nov. 6) when it came out in hardcover.
Tang Ceramics at the Bottom of the Ocean
In 1998 two sea cucumber divers came upon a thousand year old shipwreck at the bottom of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Belitung Island, Indonesia. It turned out to be a remarkable find.
In his new book, The Lost Dhow: A Discovery from the Maritime Silk Route, that coincides with an exhibit of the same name at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Simon Worrall tells us that the cargo included "1,400 storage jars of various sizes, 1,600 ewers, and 800 ink pots. The serial nature of the cargo and the geographic diversity of its production (from five different kilns all over China) strongly suggest that these were export items made to order. The presence of 55,000 Changsha bowls, named after the kilns in Hunan Province where they were produced, tore up the history books, setting back by almost 800 years the date for the beginning of what we today call mass production."
The ceramics in the top layer were encrusted with barnacles, coral and oyster shells, but the silt covering the lower layers preserved the rest of the pots so they are as pristine as if they had been made yesterday. Smaller wares, such the Changsha bowls were packed inside large jars, thus offering even more protection.
There were ewers, bowls, and jars splashed with the bright green of copper oxide that Tang potters so loved. One spectacular ewer, pictured on the cover, was stolen by fishermen during the salvage operation – thefts were apparently an ongoing threat during the excavation – and buried in sand. Fortunately, it was recovered intact. There are also delicate celadons and pearly white Yue ware and a few early cobalt blue and white pieces. One particularly delightful piece is a grater shaped like a fish complete with a hole in the tail for hanging. Something to try making perhaps? Interestingly, decorations on the pots vary, seemingly with the intent to satisfy the tastes of different markets.
Archaeologists have determined that the ship was of Arabic origin, from the Abbasid Empire (820 CE), while most of the cargo was from the Tang Empire thus pushing the timeline back for such global trade between two great powers. There were also remarkable pieces of gold and silver, mirrors and spices.
More than 70,000 artifacts were recovered with only 300 on exhibit at the Aga Khan. Still, it seems worth a trip to Toronto if one can manage it. If not, the book is a little treasure with excellent photos and a map and crisp, informative text.
The Porcelain Thief
In 1938, when the Japanese invaded China and drew close to Huan Hsu's great-great- grandfather Liu's estate, Liu dug a deep pit a short distance from his house, lined it with bamboo shelves, and buried his treasured collection of imperial porcelain. The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China is Huan Hsu's account of his incredible search for those lost pots.
Hsu was born in the US. Growing up, he did everything a boy could to distance himself from his heritage, wanting to be American. Then, as a young man, in order to look for the porcelain, he moves to China to work for his uncle, learns Chinese, and reunites with relatives he barely knows. His descriptions of modern day China are fascinating. If you do not live in China, you might experience a bit of culture shock just reading them. When Hsu commissions a suit, it is badly made and doesn't fit. When he asks to have the suit he brought with him copied, the copy is perfect. He is astonished to see people wearing their pajamas in public. There are seemingly no rules, except to stay out of politics. Hsu's observations are at times funny and always interesting.
But of course, it is the quest for the porcelain that intrigues us, and in this Hsu does not disappoint. Over time, he learns about the history of porcelain and the role it has played in China. He comes to understand that men of means, such as his great-great-grandfather took enormous pride in their collections. And he discovers that for the imperial court, porcelain and status were one. "In dynastic China," he writes, "ownership of the imperial porcelain collection had conferred the right to rule, and so long as it remained in Taipei, Chiang's government could claim that it, not Beijing, was China's capital."
During Hsu's search for his great-great-grandfather's collection, he sees that in the regions where pottery was made, there are crumbling and overgrown remains of numerous ancient kilns and thousands, millions of shards. The kilns, he laments, China's heritage, are being destroyed, lost forever, as the country modernizes.
He becomes a shard hunter. "Opposite the mud hut were undulating mounds of shards so large that it took a moment for my eyes to adjust to the scale," he tells us, "The piles closest to the house had crevasses deep enough that people disappeared when they descended into them. Elsewhere swaths of vines, sesame blossoms, wildflower and small trees had taken root."
Toward the end of his journey, he visits an elderly man whose ancestors travelled in the same social circle as his great-great-grandfather. The man lives in "a gloomy Communist era apartment." Two boxes of ceramics are carefully carried out to the kitchen table for Hsu to see. Everyone is nervous, as if the pots might be dropped, or stolen. "I turned the vases over to see that both bore the mark of Guangzu, the second-to-last emperor of the Qing dynasty, though the blue one's was pierced through and the red one's was rubbed away; effacing the seal was a common practice when the emperor gave imperial wares as gifts. These were real imperial porcelains, not in a museum, an auction house, or wealthy collector's home. They had remained in China for their entire existence, no more than a hundred miles form their birthplace, and had somehow managed to survive a century in which everyone, Chines or otherwise, seemed intent on removing them or destroying them."
I will not tell you what happens when Hsu finally comes to dig where his great-great-grandfather lived. You must read the story for yourself. The Porcelain Thief is part memoir, part history, and part travelogue, all of it riveting. It will be published in March. Watch for it. Better yet, ask you local independent bookseller or librarian to hold a copy for you.
The Story of Chigusa
I was very intrigued when I first learned of the book Chigusa and the Art of Tea edited by Louise Allison Cort and Andrew M. Watsky as I am myself, off and on, working on a biography of a pot. It turns out this book is quite different from my project (whew!), but it is indeed the biography of a pot. I found it fascinating.
The pot, a stoneware storage jar with four lugs placed just below the neck, has a name: Chigusa. Made by potters in southern China during the Sung or Yuan Dynasties (mid 13th – mid 14th centuries), it measures 41.6 centimeters (16.37 inches) high and holds 25 liters (6.6 gallons). The lower portion was made by coiling and throwing. The upper portion was paddled. A lovely brown glaze of wood ash and iron-bearing clay covers 80 percent of the exterior. It was standard workshop fare.
"The process that produced the jar," Court writes, "resulted from well-honed efforts to make a usable product quickly and efficiently. In local markets the chief concerns were intact condition and price. By chance, however, the jar that became Chigusa was selected to be shipped to Japan."
In Japan, the jar became a revered and highly collectible object for the tea ceremony and was used to hold tea leaves. It had a succession of owners each of whom honored the pot with accessories including a silk mouth cover, three boxes, one inside the other, to hold it, cords and documents.
During the sixteenth century, tea men, often rich merchants, kept "tea diaries" and Chigusa is mentioned or described in a number of these. In one such account, written in 1587, Kamiya Sötan writes, after describing may other objects and implements used in the ceremony he attended that day, "The tsubo Chigusa: the clay is coarse and red, the lower part swells, on the bottom are blisters…The glaze is thick, and there are many downward flows. Below that, the glaze appears to divide."
The custom of naming revered objects was common in Japan from ancient times but in the 16th century, when Chigusa became known as Chigusa it was rare to name a tea object. Watsky speculates that the name was inspired by poetry, as "chigusa appears as a nature image in five poems." There were, we are told, 21 other jars with names.
Chigusa stayed within a few families– the Hisada, Omotensnke, and Fujita, for generations. The book traces the jar's whereabouts and values. In 1929 the Fujitas sold it at auction for what would have been $1000.00, a surprisingly low price. There followed a series of owners including, in the eighties, the owner of an IT company who paid the equivalent of $1.5 million dollars. "Then, on the morning of September 17, 2009, the Freer Gallery of Art placed the winning bid of $662,500 for the jar at Christie's New York sale of Japanese and Korean Art. That would be the last stop on the jar's long journey from southern China."
I am giving only the briefest outline here. There is much about the tea ceremony itself, and, through the jar, the history of tea in Japan. But most of all, Chigusa is a delightful biography of a seven hundred year old stoneware storage jar.
The Chinese Scholar and Oyster Jars and Such
He sits alone in the wilderness, surrounded by rock outcroppings and bushes. He is dressed in a loose fitting robe. He is the Chinese Scholar, widely depicted by English potters on blue and white tin-glazed earthenware during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. He was inspired by images on expensive porcelain imported from China and Japan and transformed into something quite different.
The new edition of Ceramics in America edited by Robert Hunter, opens with a wonderful essay by Sarah Fayan Scarlett on the Chinese Scholar pattern, tracing the various cultural filters that affected this interpretation of life in distant China before the image reached England and became a staple exotic of the ceramic export business to the Americas. She suggests that the original Chinese Scholar may have been the eighth century poet Wang Wei "whose most famous verse reads, ' I walk to the place where the water ends/ and sit and watch the time when clouds rise.'" I love reading this kind of ceramic history. Knowing these stories adds so much to the experience of looking at one of these antique dishes.
Another wonderful essay, this one by Ivor Noël Hume describes the detective work he and others did to discover the makers and use for a strange, brown stoneware jar found in the mud surrounding an old Dutch fort in Guyana. It turns out the mystery jar was for storing pickled oysters and made in the first years of the nineteenth century by a black potter who was a freeman in New York city for an oyster dealer, also a black freeman in New York City. As he did his research, he came upon other examples of these straight-sided, salt-glazed "cap-hole" jars for the same enterprise. So in a few short, well illustrated pages, we have African American history, early American history, a look at international trade, a mystery, and best of all, a little known ceramic form.
There's a wonderful section on "The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown, West Virginia, 1854-1890." The photos of the Thompson ribs, coggles, stamps and master stamp molds are worth the price of the book. We read about a "Whately Teapot in the Western Catskills," "A Seventeenth Century West Virginia Indian Basket Rendered in Clay," "Planting Pots from Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts," and an "Unusual Drabware Strainer."
Included with this collection of essays about archaeological and historical research on ceramics in America, is a major essay by critic Garth Clark on Ai Weiwie. Call me provincial, but I am not agog over Weiwei's art. I actually thought the Sunflower Seeds installation was a fiasco when the 100 million porcelain seeds began exploding oxide dust. However, he is internationally revered as a visionary, a human rights activist, an architect, a competitive cook, a hairdresser, and a great artist. His blog rants were published in April to great acclaim. So I was glad to read the assessment of so well informed a critic as Garth Clark who is also known for championing risk in ceramics. Clark's title sums it up: "Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei's Conceptual Ceramics". I did come to a better understanding and appreciation of Weiwei, though I am still not agog. Informed, cautiously appreciative, but no, not agog.
The Chipstone Foundation, which publishes Ceramics in America, considers it a journal. I suppose it is, as it comes out annually. But it is deservedly dressed as an art book. This year's edition is hardcover with a dust jacket and a bound-in satin ribbon to mark your place. Lovely. Put it on your wish list. It would look oh so nice wrapped in tissue and tied with a satin bow, coordinated, of course, with the ribbon in the book.
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A Fresh Look at Chinese Ceramic History
Two years ago scientists examined fragments of coarse gray pinch pots found by archaeologists in Yuchanyan, China and discovered that they dated back to at least 12000 BCE; the Paleolithic Era. This startling finding made headlines around the world. Along with the pots, there were rice hulls at the site. So we now know that pots were made and used for food and that some form agriculture was practiced at an earlier date than was previously believed. Potters in China, blessed with good clays, have continued to make ceramics up to the present.
Fourteen thousand years of pottery making! Without interruption!
There have been enough books and papers written on Chinese ceramics in English, French, Chinese, German and other languages, that the plethora of volumes could fill the shelves of a good-sized library. Do we really need one more? Have we not all read about the enormous dragon kilns? About porcelains and luminous celadons? You know, I am a history nut and can always read a bit more on the topic, but after picking up Chinese Ceramics: From the Paleolithic Period to the Qing Dynasty, I say, emphatically, yes, anyone interested in ceramics needs this addition to the reading table.
Chinese Ceramics is a joint project of the China International Publishing Group and Yale University Press and brings together the top scholars from both countries.
This is a very big book. It is meant to be read sitting up in a chair, maybe with some paper for notes, or ribbons to mark pages, but please, clean hands and no clay on your jeans. There are lots of drawings and photos with a deliberate attempt to include lesser-known works along with images of the most famous pieces we are all at least vicariously familiar with. So, yes, there are three-color Tang Dynasty horses and (my favorite) camels, but also works you have likely not seen. I had to chuckle at the "earliest known example of advertising on ceramics," a lovely white porcelain vase (also from the Tang Dynasty) with a "foliate mouth" and the inscription, "Vases made by Ding Daogang are superb." Well, if this vase is a representative example, I agree, vases by Ding Daogang are indeed superb. Inspired (which is what this book does to you, it inspires), I might try a foliate mouth myself but doubt mine will come out quite so nice and plump.
The editors, Li Zhiyan, Virginia A. Bowers, and He Li, have organized the book chronologically, ending with the early twentieth century. The various contributors focus on six themes; "continuity, national or ethnic character, geography, periodization, synthesis and dissemination." There is also a look at authenticity (oh the forgeries, some of them antiquities themselves). They incorporate the latest research and findings; cargo from the Belitung and the Sinan shipwrecks; the discovery of the Ming Imperial Kiln; and hitherto little known collections. They seek to understand the ceramic industry and the culture in which it thrived, especially how the wares were made and how they were used. Chinese pottery was shipped vast distances and influenced ceramics wherever it was sold. And Chinese potters absorbed ideas from elsewhere and made them their own. At almost seven hundred pages, there is a lot here.
The contributors have spent ten years on Chinese Ceramics. We readers and potters are the beneficiaries. So I thank them. This is one book I expect to turn to again and again over the years.
And now, I will try that foliated mouth.


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Most articles online cover how to deploy modern ASP.NET applications to Azure from code hosted in Visual Studio Online (VSO) itself. For example:

* [Build and Deploy your ASP.NET 5 Application to an Azure Web App](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/Build/azure/deploy-aspnet5) and
* [Build and deploy your web site to Azure](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/Build/azure/index)

What if you want to automate the deployment of a classic ASP.NET Web Pages project, and from code hosted on GitHub? This post uses the great [MiniBlog](https://github.com/madskristensen/miniblog) project created by [Mads](http://madskristensen.net/) as an example and automates deploying a fork of it. At the end VSO will be building and deploying it all the way from GitHub to an Azure Web App.

This assumes you already have a [VSO](https://www.visualstudio.com/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs) account and permissions to create and run build definitions, and an Azure subscription.

## Connecting Visual Studio Online to Azure

You need your Publish Settings profile file from your Azure subscription. Here's a couple of ways to get to it:

* Log in to [https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings](https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings) with the credentials of your Azure subscription. If you have multiple subscriptions or Azure Active Directory domains associated with the account there will be a drop down for you to choose the right one. A .publishsettings file will be downloaded.

* You can also use the [Azure PowerShell](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-install-configure/) commands to help get to the download page: ``` PS> Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile ```

Once you have your publish settings file head to your project in VSO (````https://{youraccount}.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/{yourteamproject}````), click on the settings gear icon in the upper right corner, select the Services tab and click Add new Azure Subscription link on the top left.

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Mosque's terror connections
Abu Hamza preached outside the mosque after he was banned
Police say that Finsbury Park Mosque, where extremist Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was imam, has been linked to dozens of past al Qaeda-inspired plans.
Newspaper reports on Wednesday suggested that three of the 7 July bombers - Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Germaine Lindsay - had all heard sermons by Abu Hamza there.
Whitehall officials, however, have cast doubt on The Times story, saying they have no intelligence to connect the cleric and the London bombers.
Some of the terror suspects who did have connections with the mosque, which is now under new management, include:
RICHARD REID
Richard Reid, nicknamed the "shoe bomber", is known to have passed through the mosque.
'Shoe bomber' gets 110 years
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Reid also attended a mosque in Brixton.
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Moussaoui is the only person to have been convicted in connection with the 11 September attacks.
Hunt for jury on 9/11 plot
He awaits sentencing in the US.
He claimed he was not actually part of the 9/11 plot, but was part of a conspiracy to attack the White House.
The French Moroccan came to Britain from France in the early 1990s to study at London's South Bank University. He graduated in 1997.
His brother, Abd-Samad Moussaoui, was quoted as saying that Zacarias became involved in Islamic extremism while living in London, where he attended Finsbury Park Mosque.
Moussaoui's mother said British extremists turned him from a "happy boy" into a fanatic.
KAMEL BOURGASS
Algerian Bourgass used the mosque as a place to stay, even using it as his postal address for correspondence with the immigration service.
Killer jailed over poison plot
When he was arrested in January 2003 at a flat in Manchester on suspicion of making poison, he tried to escape before stabbing a police officer to death.
He was jailed for life in 2004.
Bourgass stayed at the mosque in the weeks before his attempts to make ricin were discovered by police.
FEROZ ABBASI
Former terror suspect Feroz Abbasi, from Croydon, London, was released without charge last year after being held as an "enemy combatant" at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Guantanamo Bay Britons
His mother Zumrati Juma had lost touch with Abbasi in 2000 after he began attending mosques in London, including Finsbury Park.
He effectively moved in there in spring 2000.
Mrs Juma believed he was brainwashed after turning to Islam and joining the mosque.
While there, he helped set up a website for a militant Islamic group before heading for Afghanistan.
DJAMEL BEGHAL
French-Algerian Djamel Beghal is also known to have been involved with the mosque.
Suspect denies Bin Laden link
He is currently in jail in France over an alleged plot to attack the US Embassy in Paris.
He was arrested in Dubai in July 2001 after being found with a fake passport.
In a separate UK court case, it was alleged that he was viewed by Osama Bin Laden as "beyond the pale" because he was so extreme.
ABU HAMZA CASE
US EXTRADITION BID
Abu Hamza loses extradition fight
UK approves Hamza extradition
Abu Hamza could face extradition
Abu Hamza 'plotted Jihad'
Q&A: Extradition process
Abu Hamza: US allegations
HAMZA JAILED IN UK
Hamza jailed for seven years
Key to proving Hamza's hate
Views of radical cleric Hamza
'Joint effort' in Hamza hate case
Profile: Abu Hamza
The battle for the mosque
In quotes: Hamza's preachings
Reports and reaction
TOP UK STORIES
Major manhunt for Afghan soldier
Unemployment dips to 2.47 million
PM condemns sympathy for Moat

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The following is a list of Trans-AMA Champions, from 1970 to 1978. The championship was an international series established by the American Motorcyclist Association as a pilot event to help establish motocross in the United States. The series was based on a 500cc engine displacement formula, although the first year of the event featured both 250 and 500cc events. The races run on American tracks to international standards, featuring the top riders from the F.I.M. world championship against the top American riders. In 1970 and 1971, the highest placing American rider at the end of the series was considered the A.M.A. national champion.

By 1978, American riders had improved to the point where it became more of a challenge for European riders to secure an easy victory. Since riders were paid based upon their results rather than starting money paid in European races, fewer European riders were motivated to make the costly trans-atlantic voyage. After 1978 the series was renamed the Trans-USA series, but had fewer European riders participating. The Inter-AMA series was a similar year-end championship, but used a 250cc engine displacement formula.

Trans-AMA champions

Trans-USA champions

Inter-AMA champions

See also
 List of AMA motocross national champions
 Supercross World Championship
 Motocross World Championship

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Motocross Action

Motorcycle off-road racing series
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BIG GOLD DREAMS documents the vibrant independent music scene to emerge in Scotland across the late 70s and 80s. Initially ignited by punk, labels sprang up in Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere to give a voice to the explosion of new acts across the country.
Named after Fire Engines' memorable single and Grant McPhee's recent TV and DVD documentary, BIG GOLD DREAMS includes many of the Scottish music scene's most important names as well as countless obscurities.
Includes landmark tracks by The Rezillos, Simple Minds, Altered Images, Skids, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Bluebells, The Waterboys, Cocteau Twins, Aztec Camera, The Soup Dragons, The Associates, Scars, Strawberry Switchblade, Josef K, BMX Bandits, Edwyn Collins, Del Amitri, The Vaselines, The Shamen, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie and many others.
Boasts lengthy essays and band histories by Grant McPhee, Neil Cooper and Tim Barr, within a lavishly illustrated 70-page booklet.
Created by the same Cherry Red team behind such previous box sets as Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream, Action Time Vision, To The Outside Of Everything, Manchester North Of England, Revolutionary Spirit, etc.
Includes recordings from key labels such as Zoom, Postcard, 53rd & 3rd, Rational, Fast Product/Pop:Aural, Supreme International Editions, Creation, Egg, Sarah, etc.
Pre-fame 45s by Johnny & The Self Abusers (later Simple Minds), Another Pretty Face (pre-The Waterboys), Fun 4 (pre-Orange Juice), as well as P.V.C.2 (post- Slik, featuring Midge Ure).
11. THERE MUST BE A BETTER LIFE - Biff Bang Pow!
13. THE GREAT DIVIDE - This Poison!


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Would-be kidney donor upset transplant called off
Shannon Eblen
@ShannonEblen
The South Jersey man who made a Craigslist pact to donate his kidney a stranger says he does not have cirrhosis and is disappointed the transplant didn't happen.
The transplant was scheduled for Dec. 1 but was scrubbed at the last minute because of what doctors said was a medical complication.
At the time, Nina Saria, the intended recipient, said doctors had found cirrhosis on donor Glenn Calderbank's liver during the operation. Calderbank had been upfront about his history as an alcoholic, now four years sober, though it was not known if that was a contributing factor.
On Tuesday, Calderbank was at home recovering from the surgery. He told the Courier-Post the biopsy of his liver came back negative for cirrhosis.
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania cited medical reasons for the transplant cancellation, releasing this statement to the Courier-Post on Thursday, Dec.3:
"With organ donation from a living person, the donor's health and well-being are paramount. For all living organ donations, donors undergo intensive testing and evaluation to ensure they are in very good health. However if an abnormality is found during surgery, the surgical team will always proceed as necessary to safeguard the patient's health."
Surgeons were ready to take his kidney out, Calderbank said, when they saw his liver. However, Calderbank said it turned out what they saw was not cirrhosis, but "just some scar tissue on the outside of my liver."
Calderbank said he wanted to still donate his kidney when he found out he did not have cirrhosis, but doctors would not let him. He said he did not know if he would be able to donate his kidney at a later date.
He is at home now, but said his recovery has been rough, and he is angry he couldn't help Saria and had to relive his late wife's death in the process.
Calderbank and Saria were strangers who met when Calderbank happened upon Saria's Craigslist ad looking for a living kidney donor. Calderbank had gone through a similar experience when his late wife needed a kidney a decade ago, so he underwent testing to see if he would be a match for Saria. In October, he called her with news that the transplant would occur on Dec. 1.
They both arrived at the hospital at 6 a.m. that morning. Calderbank was taken into surgery first. Saria had already been prepped for surgery and put under an anesthetic when she was woken up and told she would not be receiving a kidney that day.
"I was lost," Saria said. "I didn't know what to do. When they told me about my disease I thought it was the toughest day, but this is even worse."
"Glenn is still a hero," Saria told the Courier-Post the day after the canceled transplant. "He did everything possible. He went into surgery and under the knife for me."
Calderbank said Saria's husband has been calling to check up on him and see how he is recovering.
"I walked in and I laid down, I did everything I could do," Calderbank said. "I hope Nina gets a kidney and still gets a happy ending."
The Sarias have set up an email address for potential kidney donors: akidney4nina@yahoo.com.
Shannon Eblen: (856) 486-2475; SEblen@gannettnj.com


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[Eac News] - PM Calls on People to Not Overload Cars and Speed on Roads
2022-03-02 Go to the website published Eac News
TAKEO: Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on people to not overload their vehicles so that they are overweight, and to not speed while driving down roads. He made this call while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the 134-km-long new section of National Road No. 3 between Phnom Penh-Kampot on Wednesday morning. The Prime Minister said that there have been cases of flyovers collapsing due to overloading in other countries, therefore this should be avoided in Cambodia as well. He further called on people to not speed while driving on the road, as there have been no deaths from Covid-19 in the past two days, but seven people have been killed, and six others injured, in traffic accidents just yesterday (Tuesday, 1 March).
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Marbella is one of the original Costa del Sol resorts, made famous by becoming Europe's playground for the rich and famous. Indeed, mention the name Marbella and it usually conjures up images of plush hotels, casinos, multi-million dollar yachts and Ferraris. But today Marbella is not exclusively for the jet-set. Being only 30 minutes drive to the west of Malaga airport and with the recent increase in airlines providing cheap flights, the resort is within very easy reach for most people and has become a popular destination for hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers each year.
Due to being protected by the Sierra Blanca mountains Marbella has its very own micro-climate which results in about 320 days of sunshine annually – the most in Europe. In winter the day time temperatures rarely fall below 15ºC and in summer they reach about 30ºC or higher in the afternoons. In the summer months there is very little if any rain. It does tend to rain in winter but it rarely lasts longer than a few days and then the sun come out again. If you prefer to avoid the crowds of tourists that descend during school summer holidays then May, June and September are the perfect months to visit the resort and you may find the temperatures more comfortable too.
Although the weather in winter is a bit too cold to swim in the sea or lie on the beach it is a great time to leave the cold and wet behind. The Marbella weather provides an opportunity to really enjoy the outdoor life all year round without having to worry about the cold and rain. For golfers escaping the north European weather take a look at our Costa del Sol Golf Courses page for more information.
Below we have provided the current Marbella weather and the latest 4 day forecast followed by two graphs showing the average temperature and rainfall for each month of the year.
Many Marbella hotels are now within the budget of visitors to Spain as the town is no longer the exclusive millionaire's playground of the past. The resort now attracts hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers every year who arrive via Malaga airport which is just 30 minutes away. Below we've recommended a few properties for you to consider that we reckon stand out from the rest.
The El Fuerte Hotel overlooks the sea and is separated from the beach by only the promenade. It is set in beautiful lush tropical gardens where there are 2 swimming pools, one of which is covered and heated in winter. There are also a gym, sauna, turkish bath and tennis courts available. There are two restaurants one of which serves an incredible breakfast buffet in the mornings and dinner at night, the other one is on the beach and serves an excellent selection of fried fish dishes at lunchtime. The staff in this hotel are excellent, nothing is too much trouble and they will endeavour to make your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
This oasis of golf, beach and exquisite cuisine offers the ideal holiday destination for relaxation and leisure. It is situated in one of the most exclusive areas of the Costa del Sol and is surrounded by emerald green golf courses and the sparkling blue of the Mediterranean Sea. Each of the rooms offers fabulous views of the sea and the golf course from the individual private terraces.
The H10 Andalucia Plaza is located in Puerto Banus, 800 metres from the beach and just 5 kms from Marbella in the heart of the Costa del Sol. Facilities are outstanding including two swimming pools and a casino. Nearby there are four of the best 18-hole golf courses in Europe.
This Aparthotel is located right on the front within easy walking distance to Marbella town centre. It is a modern building and all the rooms have balconies and sea views. There is a small pool on the top floor which has great views over the mountains and on a clear day all the way to Africa. The hotel has studios and one bedroom apartments with limited cooking facilities but they all have fridges and kettles. The buffet breakfast offers a wide range of dishes and all in all this hotel is very good value for money.
This hotel is located on a hill between Estepona and Marbella and is surrounded by golf courses. It has 2 pools one of which is indoor and heated and also a beach club which the hotel offers a free shuttle bus to. The views from the rooms are wonderful either to the sea or to the mountains and golf course. The hotel also runs a free shuttle bus to Marbella, Puerto Banus and other towns.
The Hotel Pyr Marbella is located in Puerto Banus, one of the most prestigious marinas of the world. It is a short walk from excellent beaches and is also close to the famous Casino of Marbella and a very short distance from a designer shopping centre.
This aparthotel is located in a modern complex in the centre of Marbella and only 150 metres from the beach. It has both studios and one bedroom apartments and they come with fully equipped kitchens. The staff are friendly and helpful.
This small 2 star hotel is an excellent budget choice. Located in the centre of Marbella in a new building it is only a short walk from both the beach and the 'Plaza de los Naranjos' – the Orange Tree Square. All of the rooms are en suite, with balcony and are light and sunny.
The Baviera is another good budget choice hotel located only a 5 minute walk from the historic centre of Marbella. It has a meeting room which makes it a good option for business travellers.
Take a look at Booking.com's special offers on some of these top notch hotels in Marbella located within a short stroll of the beach.
The main resort of Marbella is predominantly hotels, apartment blocks and beaches but the older parts of town still remain and hold the traditional Spanish feel and atmosphere. Exploring the back streets of Old Marbella will reveal stately buildings that date back to the 16th century or beyond, along with small traditional shops, cafes and galleries – a far cry from the modern Marbella just a stone's throw away that most people only know about and see.
Throughout the old town, small plazas lined with local bars and orange trees add to the traditional feel and are a great place to take a break and soak up the atmosphere before heading back to modern day life. To escape the hustle and bustle further, the Sierra Bermeja Mountains rise up behind the resort and are ideal for exploring by 4×4 or on foot; plenty of viewpoints provide opportunities to see the two and a half mile coastal spread that is Marbella.
At the Western end of that spread is Puerto Banus, Marbella's own playground for the rich and famous, with it's modern day marina packed with large yachts and motorboats, while back in the town centre you can find world-class shopping and entertainment together with all the attractions that a top holiday resort could possibly provide. The Avenida del Mar is the town's principal seafront promenade, with countless bars and restaurants serving only the best quality food and drink. Or if you prefer, local traditional seafood dishes such as barbecued sardines on a spit or paella can be enjoyed at the nearby beach huts, or chiringuitos – well worth a visit.
Dotted around the immediate vicinity of Marbella are numerous Costa del Sol golf courses, making this part of the Costa del Sol one of the most popular golfing destinations in Europe. Tennis clubs, horse riding centres, bike hire, water sports and air sports such as paragliding all ensure that even the most adventurous holidaymaker won't be going home disappointed, while the 12 or so beaches that Marbella boasts keep the sun worshippers happy!
Marbella is no longer the exclusive resort that it used to be which is reflected today in the vast quantities of eateries available to suit every pocket. Many tourists head to the restaurants around the Plaza de los Naranjos in the old centre of town. Most of these tend to be excessively touristy and overpriced. If you head down to the Puerto Deportivo you'll find a whole range of bars and restaurants too numerous to list here.
What we've tried to do is provide a selection of quality restaurants below (many in the expensive category) as well as some well established places where their survival over the years is a testament to their excellence.
Address: Camino de la Cruz, s/n.
Everything is of excellent quality at this jet set favourite where Mediterranean-Andalucian cooking is prepared using only the best local ingredients in an elegant Moorish building surrounded by gardens.
This Basque restaurant is a luxurious setting for an exquisite meal, with service and wines to match. Highly satisfying and reasonably priced.
Excellent value for shellfish, Malaga fried dishes and fish a la espalda in this restaurant in the historical centre of Marbella.
Address: N-340, Cádiz-Málaga, km. 178.
Excellent choice of dishes ranging from their renowned roasts to the dish of the day which will be created from whatever is freshest at the market that day. Good service and an excellent wine list.
Excellent fried fish, grilled sardines on a skewer and baked fish dishes . Good value for money.
Address: Bulevar Príncipe Alfonso Von Hohenlohe, s/n.
An attractive location for dinner whether in the dining room in winter or outside in the garden during the summer.
Antonio's is located on the front line of restaurants at the jet set marina of Puerto Banus. It is one of the longest established restaurants where you can enjoy excellent seafood dishes whilst watching the beautiful people go by.
This institution on the seafront promenade has long been considered the place to go for the best seafood in Marbella. Santiago Dominguez continues to ensure that his restaurant's fine reputation is maintained.


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Q: Remove Complete Row From Array in MongoDB I have a document in mongoDB collection and it is formatted as shown below:
The DB collection is called users.
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("54be94e4715beaf4195b89e4"),
    "files" : [
        {
            "theName" : "Celtic Statue",
            "fileInfo" : { "size" : 278584,"name" : "celtic.STL" },
            "tags" : [ "statue", "celtic"],
            "updated" : ISODate("2015-01-20T18:15:19.071Z")
        },
        {
            "theName" : "Hindu Statue",
            "_id" : ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa"),
            "fileInfo" : {"size" : 278584, "name" : "hindu.STL"
            },
            "tags" : [ "decoration",  "hindu"],
            "updated" : ISODate("2015-01-20T18:15:17.071Z")
        },
        {
            "theName" : "roman.STL",
            "_id" : ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfb"),
            "fileInfo" : {"size" : 278584, "name" : "roman.STL"},
            "tags" : [  "statue",  "roman"],
            "updated" : ISODate("2015-01-20T18:15:18.071Z")
        }
    ]
}

I need to remove the whole object that contains  "fileInfo.name = 'roman.STL';
This would be the equivalent as removing a row from an array.
I have tried many update combinations but none of them seems to work.
Does anyone know what is wrong?
Below are the queries i have tried:
1- db.users.findAndModify({query:{"_id":ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa")}, sort :{}, update :{$pull : {'files' : { 'fileInfo' : { 'name' : 'roman.STL' } }}}})

2- db.users.update({_id :ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa")},{$pull : {'files' : { 'fileInfo' : { 'name' : 'roman.STL'}}}})

3-  db.users.update({"_id" : ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa")}, {$pull : {files : { fileInfo :  { $elemMatch : { name : 'roman.STL' } }}}});

4- db.users.update({_id :ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa"), 'files.fileInfo.name' : 'roman.STL'},{$pull : {'files' : { 'fileInfo' : { 'name' : 'roman.STL'}}}})

A: Try this:
db.foo.update(
   {_id :ObjectId("54be94e4715beaf4195b89e4")},
   { $pull : { 'files' : { 'fileInfo.name' : 'roman.STL'}}}
)

the result will be:
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("54be94e4715beaf4195b89e4"),
    "files" : [
        {
            "theName" : "Celtic Statue",
            "fileInfo" : {
                "size" : 278584,
                "name" : "celtic.STL"
            },
            "tags" : [
                "statue",
                "celtic"
            ],
            "updated" : ISODate("2015-01-20T18:15:19.071Z")
        },
        {
            "theName" : "Hindu Statue",
            "_id" : ObjectId("54be9b3629e2ae44248c0cfa"),
            "fileInfo" : {
                "size" : 278584,
                "name" : "hindu.STL"
            },
            "tags" : [
                "decoration",
                "hindu"
            ],
            "updated" : ISODate("2015-01-20T18:15:17.071Z")
        }
    ]
}

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Barcelona International Business Club's Advisory Board is composed of 25 talented and highly experienced business corporate members from diverse enterprises located around Barcelona. The Advisory Board values, supports and guides this world-class, finest Business Club.
The primary objectives are to advise the Club's Executives about social and business community issues, raise awareness about the important role of fair leadership and the positive impact of the BIBC in the community by being advocates for excellence and trust.
Currently, BIBC Advisory Board Members participate in a number of outreach initiatives aimed at enhancing diversity in the Club.
Advisory Board provides guidance to Club Management to ensure the Club has an exceptional schedule of events and activities, which add value to being a Member and enhances usage and life at the Club.
Their role is also to ensure the quality of our Club's Life by giving recommendations on strategic actions to be taken by the Club's CEO. In addition, the Advisory Board's task is to help the roster of club members to grow steadily and advise and assist the management, so that the balance and quality of members is always maintained.


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Many on the left and the right have been quick to condemn Pam Geller's speech as "hate," "taunting,""provoking,""looking for trouble, and generally not the best way to make her point.
You give a short, current history of the NY Times' positions on speech. But Pam Geller's speech comes from the oldest and most respected form of speech, one which our Constitution had specifically in mind when they made it the FIRST Amendment.
This is the tradition of the Mohammed cartoons. While the Jihadists take themselves oh so seriously, we who treasure our freedoms can laugh at their absurdity. Nothing deflates tension, egoism, self-righteousness, fear better than laughter. And pictures penetrate where words are evaded.


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Hospitality job losses rose by 163% to 30,000 in 2020
Related tags: coronavirus, Restaurant, Public house, Hotel
The hospitality sector recorded job losses totalling almost 30,000 last year as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
During 2020 a total 29,684 jobs were lost across fine dining, independent businesses and large multiple casual-dining chains, a rise of 163% on last year's figures, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).
Site closures last year rose by 75.8% reaching 1,621 up from 922 in 2019 with significant reductions in the number of venues and employee numbers at a number of high street restaurant and pub groups, including PizzaExpress, SSP Group, Casual Dining Group/The Big Table, The Restaurant Group, M&B, Harvester Beefeater and Pret a Manger.
The figures show just how severely impacted the hospitality sector was during 2020 by the Coronavirus and the regulations put in place to stop its spread with many businesses unable to trade for parts of the year.
The Coronavirus has accelerated changes that were already taking place within the sector, according to professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the CRR.
"The sector experienced rapid growth in outlets during 2014 to 2017 as successful chains added additional branches," he says.
"But they frequently paid too much whilst maintaining quality standards proved difficult. The need to cut costs caused by over-expansion, increased competition and weak consumer demand produced a crisis in the industry before the pandemic."
Given the tier adjustments that came into effect on New Year's Eve, 4,946 restaurants in England are in Tier 3 while a further 22,082 are in Tier 4 and are all closed except for takeaway, according to the real estate adviser Altus Group.
Just five restaurants in the Isles of Scilly remain open for diners, it says.
Related topics: Business
Hospitality sees 660,000 job losses in 2020
PizzaExpress exits another 23 sites
Friday Five: the week's top news


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CBZ Holdings, whose full name is CBZ Holdings Limited, is a financial services conglomerate in Zimbabwe. It owns subsidiaries in banking, insurance, investments, wealth management, mortgages and retail finance.

Location
The headquarters  of the financial services conglomerate are located on the 3rd Floor of Union House, at 60 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, in downtown Harare, the capital and largest city in Zimbabwe. The geographical coordinates of the bank's headquarters are: 17°49'40.0"S, 31°02'55.0"E (Latitude:-17.827778; Longitude:31.048611).

Overview
, CBZ Holdings Limited is a large financial services conglomerate in Zimbabwe, with an asset base in excess of US$2.192 billion, and shareholders' equity in excess of US$309.69 million.

History
The flagship business of the Group, CBZ Bank Limited, was founded in 1980. It was taken over by the Government of Zimbabwe in 1991, to avert looming liquidation and was renamed Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe Limited. The company was listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 1998. In 2005, the company rebranded, creating CBZ Bank as the main business and CBZ Holdings Limited as the holding company. The member businesses of the Group are as illustrated in the table below, as at 31 December 2017.

Ownership
CBZ Holdings Limited is a publicly traded company. Its stock is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol: CBZ. According to the December 2017 Annual Report of the CBZ Holdings Limited (CBZ Group), the major shareholders in the Group were as listed in the table below:

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See also
CBZ Bank Limited
Economy of Zimbabwe
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

References

External links
Website of CBZ Holdings Limited
Listed Companies At Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

Financial services companies of Zimbabwe
Financial services companies established in 1980
Companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Companies based in Harare
1980 establishments in Zimbabwe


The ancient Greeks used snail mucus to reduce inflammation, while the French have used it as an excuse to eat mountains of garlic. Other outdated uses for slug snot include soothing coughs and healing ulcers. Now K-beauty is bringing it back. So the question begs, is this just another garden-variety snake-oil ingredient, or is there really something to it?
Recent popularization can be credited to Chilean farmers for discovering its scar-free healing powers in the 90s. If you're a millennial plant mom or have a green thumb, adding a snail or two can help mitigate any trimming/pruning mishaps. The first snail cream patent was granted in '93 officially marking their triumphant return.
The bodily secretions produced by land snails and slugs. Snails use it to lubricate rough surfaces and make gliding easier (protecting them from cuts, bacteria, and UV rays).
The antioxidant properties of snail mucus help mitigate the effect of photoaging (premature aging of the skin caused by repeated exposure to ultraviolet radiation). Snail mucus also speeds up the rate of new cell creation and slows down cell death. The mucus can exist as a combination of elastin, proteins, anti-microbials, copper peptides, hyaluronic acid, and glycolic acid.
1. Snail mucus products aren't completely cruelty-free. Some manufacturers harvest mucus by stressing out the snails. We imagine it's worse than your boss dumping a last minute project on you before happy hour.
2. The actual science behind these products is still somewhat inconclusive. Lab cell cultures had positive findings for burn patients who used snail mucin, but there have been no serious controlled clinical trials or long-term studies, so doctors are skeptical.


It was the first time since my freshman year of college that I had been left for another woman. This time, though, I wasn't left wondering. He straight up told me, "I like Victoria, so we need to break up." That summer he told me the fling lasted 2 weeks and that he regretted his decision immediately after. Haha Funny how things work out that way.
All my engineering girlfriends and sorority sisters came over after I called them bawling my eyes out. They left and I didn't know what to do with myself. I felt alone. I felt so ugly. I felt so…unwanted. I kept imagining this girl who apparently was "better" than me. I had never met her, but I drove myself crazy thinking about what she looked like, what her major was, etc.
I turned the TV on. I opened my computer and went to my blogspot blog and decided I would write about the breakup so I could vent and maybe, just maybe, get over it that way.
Then it came on…Yo!: The Story Of Yo! MTV Raps on Vh1.
I had always been around rap and Hip-Hop, but had never really paid THAT much attention to it. I considered all of it just music you listened to when you wanted to dance or do some old-school "twerking".
After watching that documentary, I was hooked.
I spent all my free time after that researching Hip-Hop and finding old-school artists to learn about. I immersed myself in this research. I ate, slept, and INHALED Hip-Hop. I invested in a 64 GB iPod and downloaded all I could.
I read books, watched documentaries, and went to any live Hip-Hop show I could attend.
Hip-Hop was my "gateway" drug into music. After Hip-Hop, I started to learn more about the beginnings of jazz, funk, and rock. Hip-Hop is a product of music blending and coming together, so I had to learn about other forms of music before I could truly understand and appreciate Hip-Hop.
Hip-Hop also motivated me. I started running that semester and my infinite Hip-Hop playlist kept me going through my healing period.
Hip-Hop saved my life. Literally.
There was one night that I just lost it. It wasn't about him. It was about her. I was in constant competition with any woman I met or saw because I knew that at any moment my significant other could just up and replace me with someone else; someone "better". I would walk around paranoid that I would meet her or pass her on my way to class. I drank a whole bottle of wine by myself that night and ended up crying in the shower with my clothes on. I thought how much better it would be to just give up. Stop trying. Just die. My sister/roommate found me a few hours later. That night I listened to "I Used to Love H.E.R." -Common for the first time and kept it on repeat until I fell asleep.
I started focusing on running and school after that and slowly I got over it. In the end, I was a stronger person for it, but I had also found a love for something I had never known before.
Hip-Hop walked into my life when I least expected it. Hip-Hop had all the answers for my life and love dilemmas. Hip-Hop became my best friend and my confidant. I don't know where I would have been if Hip-Hop hadn't found me.
Here is the YouTube playlist I made during that time if you want to listen to some of my favorite songs early on in my Hip-Hop journey.


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Q: What to do when geoQuery does not output data? I am using GeoFire to read location data in Firebase and then add it to a Google map.
When I run the GeoQueryDataEventListener () method, depending on the center and the radius set, it does not produce any results (and it is fine that it is because I do not have information loaded for those parameters).
Then, when this happens, I would like an alert to be issued for the user to change the search radius (for example).
In what part of the GeoQueryDataEventListener () method should I insert the alert? I was testing with all the sub-methods but with none I succeeded.
I leave the code that I have written:
private void leerUbicaciones() {

    GeoQuery geoQuery = geoFire.queryAtLocation(new GeoLocation(userLatitude, userLongitude), radio);

    geoQuery.addGeoQueryDataEventListener(new GeoQueryDataEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDataEntered(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, GeoLocation location) {
            final String key = dataSnapshot.getKey();
            firebaseDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
            firebaseDatabase.getReference().child("location/" + key).addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {

                @Override
                public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                    mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
                            .snippet(dataSnapshot.child("city").getValue(String.class))
                            .title(dataSnapshot.child("name").getValue(String.class))
                            .draggable(false)
                            .position(new LatLng(dataSnapshot.child("latitude").getValue(Double.class), dataSnapshot.child("longitude").getValue(Double.class))));

                }

                @Override
                public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
                    Log.v("TAG", "onCancelled");
                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public void onDataExited(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
            Log.v("TAG", "onDataExited");

        }

        @Override
        public void onDataMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, GeoLocation location) {
            Log.v("TAG", "onDataMoved");

        }

        @Override
        public void onDataChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, GeoLocation location) {
            Log.v("TAG", "onDataChanged");

        }

        @Override
        public void onGeoQueryReady() {
            Log.v("TAG", "onGeoQueryReady");

        }

        @Override
        public void onGeoQueryError(DatabaseError error) {
            Log.v("TAG", "onGeoQueryError");
        }
    });
}

A: When you execute a geoquery onDataEntered immediately fires for each node within the range. When onDataEntered has been called for all nodes, your onGeoQueryReady is called to signal that the initial results for the query have been processed.
If another node enters the query range afterwards, your onDataEntered will also fire. After onDataEntered has been called for all nodes entering the range, again your onGeoQueryReady is called to signal the end of the update.


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I happened to be in the office of Chief Master Sergeant Ralph Johns, the Field Maintenance superintendent, when he received a call from Sergeant Wilkins in the aero repair shop over in Hangar 3. It was late July in a hot southern Mississippi summer. Sergeant Wilkins was annoyed because someone on the flight line had asked for one of his aircraft mechanics to repair a cockpit heater.
Johns: "It's July!"
Wilkins: "Exactly."
Johns: "You mean Maintenance Control actually passed this request along?"
Wilkins: "Yup. Heard it myself on the intercom."
Johns: "Which flight?"
Wilkins: "C flight."
Johns angrily hung up and dialed Maintenance Control. I could only hear his end of the conversation.
"Did somebody up there just call aero repair about a heater problem?"
"Why? It's fucking July!"
"I've never heard of a heater problem in July."
"No they don't. Just because some candy-ass pilot thinks it's cold?"
"Well, I'm not sending anybody out for that right now. Put it on the delayed discrepancy list."
"If you don't like it, have Major Smith (the Maintenance Control Officer) call the Lieutenant [me, Johns' boss]."
Johns hung up. "Come on, sir. Let's go out to C Flight."
We arrived at the C-Flight flight shack which the flightline mechanics worked out of.
Johns: "Where's Sergeant Atkins?" (Master Sergeant Atkins was responsible for the mechanics on the flight line. He did what we called "gas station maintenance" on C Flight, a group of about 20 T-28s out of the 80 or so we maintained: Fueling, run-ups, cleaning, tire changes, forms, etc.
Airman: "Right over there."
Johns: "Did you know one of your people just called for a heater repair?"
Atkins: "The pilot said it wasn't working."
Johns: "The pilot's full of shit. Which pilot?"
Atkins: "Captain Bledsoe. That's him right there, taxiing in."
Chief Johns strode determinedly in the direction of Captain Bledsoe as he climbed down from the cockpit.
"Did you just report a heater problem — sir?"
"Yes, Sergeant. It gets kind of chilly up there at 10,000 feet."
"You are the first pilot I've ever heard complain about a heater in the summer."
"It's cold, Sergeant."
"Zip up your jacket — sir."
"I did, Sergeant. It was still cool."
"Would you fly that plane again if the heater wasn't fixed?"
"If I had to, Sergeant."
"Well, you have to — sir. We can't be sending mechanics out here every time one of you officers thinks there's some minor problem. We're behind on the heavy maintenance hangar work."
"Do what you have to do, Sergeant," Captain Bledsoe said as he strolled back to the flight ops building.
Chief Johns went back to Sergeant Atkins and angrily told him to think twice about heater complaints in the summertime. "If your people can't handle these kind of things, put it on the goddamn delayed discrepancy list and if it's really a problem we'll fix it during the next periodic inspection in the hangar."
A few days later I was in Sergeant Wilkins' aero repair shop when a call came in over the intercom about a fuel leak in one of the wheel wells of a T-28.
"There they go again!" shouted Wilkins. "They're always calling us for this minor shit. Come on lieutenant. Let's go take a look."
We arrived at the aircraft with the supposed fuel leak. Sergeant Wilkins, a tall, lanky redhead with years of aircraft maintenance experience, many of them with the T-28, bent over and then carefully stood up inside the wheel well and looked around. He then bent back down and came out from under the wing and said, "Step in there and look upward to your right, sir."
I bent over and leaned in trying not to bump my head.
"Now, see that fuel line a couple of feet above your head?"
"Ok. You should be able to feel it. Just reach all the way up and follow the line to where the nut is."
I followed some copper tubing with my fingers until I felt the nut at the very maximum reach of my arm as I contorted to barely reach it.
"Okay, I feel the nut."
"Tighten it hand tight."
I tightened it up.
Wilkins pulled a small wrench out of his pocket and handed it to me. "Now take this wrench and tighten it as tight as you can."
I stretched and reached back up and awkwardly tightened it, all by feel.
"Ok. That's it. We're done."
I squirmed out from under the wing and followed Sergeant Wilkins over to Sergeant Atkins's flight shack.
Wilkins: "Atkins! See this lieutenant here?"
Atkins: "Yeah."
Wilkins: "He just fixed that leak. Even this green lieutenant can fix these things. Are you saying your people can't even do what this lieutenant just easily fixed?"
Atkins: "We couldn't see the leak."
Wilkins: "Neither could the lieutenant. You don't need to. You can just reach up there like the lieutenant did and tighten it. … No offense, sir," Wilkins added turning to me. (I had not taken offense.)
Atkins: "How were we supposed to know that? Our policy has been to call a specialist from the shops if in doubt."
Wilkins: "We have offered time and again to hold classes for your lead people on stuff like this."
Atkins: "Warrant Officer Knowles says we should call the specialists."
This went to the heart of the problem that Chief Johns and I had been unsuccessfully complaining about. The flight line had at least 10% more people than their manpower allocation called for; whereas the shops in Field Maintenance were at least 15% short in most shops. But even with this imbalance in staffing, Warrant Officer Knowles, the Officer In Charge of the flight line, and Maintenance Control's Major Smith, continued to send their minor probs to the shops; even Sergeant Wilkins' attempt to embarrass Sergeant Atkins by having me, the green lieutenant, do the "repair," didn't help.
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Starred Up Review
STARRED UP
One of the few places I would ever like to find myself is locked up in a prison. I am a total wimp and would probably be an even tamer and more limp-wristed version of Andy DuFrane. Not only that, but there is a certain sense of hopelessness and isolation that prison brings that would be absolutely maddening to me. What I thought was so great about Starred Up is how it manages to capture the prison life while not being ridiculously over-dramatic as some prison dramas can and have been (looking at you Oz). You get a feeling that the movie's story components could have worked outside of the prison milieu, but it is the crushing crucible of prison life that intensifies the grinding drama.
Starred Up, directed by David Mackenzie (Perfect Sense, Young Adam), is the story of Eric Love (Jack O' Connell), a young, violent and incendiary teen who is transferred to an adult prison in Northern Ireland(the movie title comes from the slang term for that type of prison transfer). It must also be quickly noted that a lot of the dialogue in this movie is slang and very heavy Irish accents. My suggestion would be to watch this movie with the subtitles on, as it can be hard to understand the prisoners and all the slang they use. Upon arriving, Eric's violent tendencies are on full display in a gruesome sequence on prison violence that leaves Eric already in the sights of the Deputy Governor of the prison (Sam Spruell) and the prisoner powers that be. His only initial saving grace is that his father, Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), also is incarcerated in the same prison and begins lobbying for his protection among the prisoners and the officers in the prison, with whom he has built up years of goodwill and friendship. Eric also attracts the attention of Oliver Baumer (Rupert Friend), a prison counselor that sees Eric's tender age as a chance for a prisoner to set his life straight and reform his life and have a chance at life on the outside.
This is one of the finer films I have seen in 2014. There is a ton to praise in this movie, but by far the most incredible thing about this movie is the performance of Jack O' Connell as Eric Love. His performance has tones and echoes of Tom Hardy's intense and maniacal portrayal of Charlie Bronson in the 2008 movie, Bronson. There is s bone-crunching quality to their more violent moments in both movies that a strike a similar chord. The difference in their performance, and perhaps it is the direction and tone of the movie, is that Hardy's Bronson was a larger-than-life, almost superhuman type personality and character. O'Connell's Love is much more tender, much more human, and less of a personal force than a damaged youth with a tough exterior. There is a humanity that is never fully lost, even in the midst of prison fights and shouting matches, to Eric's character that surfaces in relationships with fellow inmates in Oliver's group sessions and with the tenuous relationship with his father, Neville.
Mackenzie captures those human and relational elements in some gorgeous and unique shots throughout the film. While prisons are known to be sterile, dark, almost colorless places, the prisoners don't even wear orange but a dingy grey or denim blue sweats, Mackenzie manages to capture colors that encapsulate important scenes, but most often when the stakes are at their highest throughout the film. He works the camera to capture beautiful images like the sunlight pouring in to Eric's cell as he works out, and juxtaposes that with a later shot when that sunlight is filtered through a red cloth in his cell during a pivotal violent scene. it is that use of color and camera work (I also call to mind a shot when he spies his buddies through a cracked out glass block as they call to him from the prison yard) that makes the stifling atmosphere of the prison more oxygenated and filled with life and hope.
The hope aspect is the deeper thread that runs through the narrative of the movie. When Eric enters the prison, his immediate needs are met when he makes a shiv, to stay safe, smacks an inmate around to get a lighter, and picks a fight almost immediately on his first day. The prison government finds his status as a "starred up" prisoner to be one fated for solitary confinement and life-long imprisonment as his offenses rack up. It is Oliver and Eric's father, Neville, that work to try and reform Eric's behavior and not have him fall into the familiar habits of so many inmates and doom himself to a life behind bars. When Oliver's time concludes and he carries the burden of Eric as far as it can go (which is captured in a great shot of the prison turn-style) Neville takes measure to ensure that his son does not end up a life-long prisoner, like him. The second-half of the movie focuses in on their close relationship and how a father can do all he can to love the son he was never there for and help him avoid the same life. It is amazing to watch Neville and Oliver, and even Eric's prison buddies, carry his burdens of anger and hopelessness and work for him to reform his life and temperament and not become what they are and find hope in a place widely considered to be hopeless.
DIRECTED BY: David Mackenzie
STARRING: Jack O' Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rupert Friend
RATED NR – An insane amount of cursing (uses of the "c" word and "n" word) as well as male nudity and violent content (it is a prison, after all)
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A new Christmas Stocking, a new food recipe, a delightful gift or a new place to add twinkling lights, I can't stop thinking about Christmas! It seems each day I wake up with a new idea! One such idea was to create a "recipe" for a basic Christmas stocking that could be changed up by simply swapping out the stitch pattern of the body of the stocking. That's how this Cozy Cottage Christmas Stocking came about.
I have a video tutorial to help you understand the anatomy and construction of a basic stocking and I walk you through step by step instructions for the Cozy Cottage Stocking.
This pattern is worked in a #5 bulky weight, but really you could use any weight yarn in combination with the appropriate hook. The finished sizing would be different of course, but the process is the same, and if you decided to change the sizing, that's pretty easy too. Simply modify the cuff size by adjusting the number of pattern repeats and then be sure to have an even number of stitches to start the main body of the stocking.
I hope you give this pattern a try and let me know how it worked out. I always love to see your shares on my Facebook page as well as your linked up projects on Ravelry.
Made with bulky #5 weight yarn, in two colors, approximately 150 yards total.
The stocking is worked from the top down. The cuff is worked in rows, then joined to form a ring. The body of the stocking is attached to the cuff and worked toward the toe in rounds. The heel is worked in rows and integrated within the rounds.
Ch1 at the beginning of the round/row does not count as a stitch.
Join each round with slip stitch to first stitch.
Rows 9 to 36: Repeat Rows 5 to 8, seven times.
Join: Bring the right sides together and match the stitches on the short end, working in back loop of the side closest to you and the back loop of the side furthest away from you, sl st through each st to join the cuff into a circle.
Edge: From right side of the cuff, turn to work along the bottom edge, ch1, work 28 sc evenly around (this works out to about 3 sc for every 4 rows + 1 extra), join with sl st to first st. Fasten off.
Join each round with sl st to beginning st.
The body of the stocking is worked in rounds, however, I ask you to turn after each join in order to maintain the texture of the pattern.
All rounds have a count of 28 sts.
Round 1: Join Color 2, working in BLO, sc in each st to end, join.
Round 2: Ch1, *[sc, hdc] in next st, skip 1*; repeat between * to end, join.
Round 3: Ch1, turn, skip next st, *[sc, hdc] in next st, skip next st*; repeat between * to end, join.
Rounds 4 to 13: Repeat Round 3. Do not fasten off.
Heel Row Side 1: Working along the side of each Heel Row, sc in side of Heel Row 6 to Heel Row 1, sl st in base of Heel Row 1 (See Figure 3).
Round 14: Pick up Color 1 and starting in the first available sc (See Figure 5) and working over the sts of the stocking first, then over the sts of the Heel, repeat Round 3.
Rounds 15 to 24: Repeat Round 3.
Last Round: Ch1, sc in each st to end, join. Fasten off.
Fasten off leaving a long tail to close the toe. Thread a tapestry needle with the long tail, pull it to the inside of the stocking and turn the stocking wrong side out. Fold the stocking in half, match up the stitches at the toe and whip stitch the opening closed. Fasten off.
With Color 2, ch60 (or longer if you want a longer loop), turn to work along back bump of chain, sl st in each back bump. Fasten off. Weave in ends. Tie a knot on the open end of the loop and thread the closed end through the edge of the cuff to form the loop for hanging.


We propose a method to learn simultaneously a vector-valued function and a kernel between its components. The obtained kernel can be used both to improve learning performances and to reveal structures in the output space which may be important in their own right. Our method is based on the solution of a suitable regularization problem over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of vector-valued functions. Although the regularized risk functional is non-convex, we show that it is invex, implying that all local minimizers are global minimizers. We derive a block-wise coordinate descent method that efficiently exploits the structure of the objective functional. Then, we empirically demonstrate that the proposed method can improve classification accuracy. Finally, we provide a visual interpretation of the learned kernel matrix for some well known datasets.
Regularization is a powerful technique for extracting useful information from noisy data. Typically, it is implemented by adding some sort of norm constraint to an objective function and then exactly optimizing the modified objective function. This procedure often leads to optimization problems that are computationally more expensive than the original problem, a fact that is clearly problematic if one is interested in large-scale applications. On the other hand, a large body of empirical work has demonstrated that heuristics, and in some cases approximation algorithms, developed to speed up computations sometimes have the side-effect of performing regularization implicitly. Thus, we consider the question: What is the regularized optimization objective that an approximation algorithm is exactly optimizing? We address this question in the context of computing approximations to the smallest nontrivial eigenvector of a graph Laplacian; and we consider three random-walk-based procedures: one based on the heat kernel of the graph, one based on computing the the PageRank vector associated with the graph, and one based on a truncated lazy random walk. In each case, we provide a precise characterization of the manner in which the approximation method can be viewed as implicitly computing the exact solution to a regularized problem. Interestingly, the regularization is not on the usual vector form of the optimization problem, but instead it is on a related semidefinite program.
The applicability of non-linear support vector machines (SVMs) has been limited in large-scale data collections because of their linear prediction complexity to the size of support vectors. We propose an efficient prediction algorithm with performance guarantee for non-linear SVMs, termed AdaptSVM. It can selectively collapse the kernel function computation to a reduced set of support vectors, compensated by an additional correction term that can be easily computed on-line. It also allows adaptive fall-back to original kernel computation based on its estimated variance and maximum error tolerance. In addition to theoretical analysis, we empirically evaluate on multiple large-scale datasets to show that the proposed algorithm can speed up the prediction process up to 10000 times with only <0.5 accuracy loss.
We consider a suboptimal solution path algorithm for the Support Vector Machine. The solution path algorithm is known as an effective tool for solving a sequence of a parametrized optimization problems in machine learning. However, the algorithm needs to keep strict optimality conditions satisfied everywhere on the path. This requirement narrows the applicability of the path algorithm and adversely affects its computational efficiency. In our algorithm, user can specify tolerances to the optimality and control the trade-off between accuracy of the solution and the computational cost. We also show that our suboptimal solutions can be interpreted as the solution of a perturbed optimization problem from the original one, provide some theoretical analyses of our algorithm based on a novel interpretation. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm in terms of efficiency and accuracy.


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