Joseph M. Juran, the 20th century management guru who launched the "managing for quality" revolution in manufacturing and whose work in Tokyo helped turn the label "Made in Japan" from a joke into a symbol of quality, has died. He was 103.
Juran died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Rye, N.Y., according to his grandson Peter.
Juran was among a small pantheon of management experts -- including W. Edwards Deming, Philip Crosby and Armand V. Feigenbaum -- who helped make quality one of the most important forces in business.
His influence on business and manufacturing processes is deep and wide. In 1937, he coined the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, which states that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. As a theory it achieved a sort of universality that could be applied to almost anything, from 20% of customers buying 80% of products, to 80% of production errors being made by 20% of workers, etc.
According to the Juran Institute, "millions of managers continue to rely on [the rule] to help separate the 'vital few' from the 'useful many' in their activities."
His 13 books include "Juran's Quality Control Handbook," the first standard reference work on quality management, which is still in print and moving into its sixth edition. He also wrote hundreds of articles on the topic and is cited as an authority in thousands of other publications. Indefatigable well into his late years, he lectured around the world, including with a hugely popular series called "The Last Word."
"Joe's focus has always been the company and the organization as a whole and not just quality on the manufacturing floor," Peter Drucker, the management scholar who worked with Juran in the 1950s and died in 2005, told The Times some years ago. "As a result, he left behind a very much stronger organization."
Juran's name is often associated with that of Deming, the late statistician who was among the first to take the gospel of quality control to Japan in 1950.
"Deming was a philosopher who desired to provide a new way to view the world," Phil Landesberg wrote for the Journal for Quality and Participation. "Juran was a practitioner who desired to teach people better management practices," including market research, product design, product development, production, inspection and sales.
In 1954, Juran was invited to Japan to expand on these ideas, providing the Japanese with specific and practical ways to ensure quality control.
"The Japanese found they couldn't sell their products because they had a very bad quality reputation," Juran told Industrial Engineer magazine in a 2002 interview. "Of course when you can't sell your product the chief executives are going to move in, and that's what happened. That was really the basis of the Japanese quality revolution. It took several decades to be completed."
Jungi Noguchi, executive director of the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, said Juran's visit "marked a transition in Japan's quality control activities from dealing primarily with technology based in factories to an overall concern for the entire management."
In gratitude for what eventually turned around the reputation of the "Made in Japan" label, Emperor Hirohito in 1981 awarded Juran the highest honor given to non-Japanese, the Second Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
Joseph Moses Juran was born Dec. 24, 1904, in Braila, Romania, the son of a cobbler. When he was 5, his father left for the United States to try to improve the family's financial situation. A few years later, Joseph moved with his family to Minnesota, but their circumstances at first were not much better.
Small, wiry and smart, Joseph went to work when he was barely 8, driving a team of horses, selling shoes and bookkeeping for a local icehouse, among many other jobs.
The first in his family to attend college, Juran earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota and a law degree at Loyola University. In 1924, he went to work for Western Electric's Hawthorne plant in Cicero, Ill.
At that time, quality control translated generally as inspection -- the products were made, inspected and, if they didn't make the grade, rejected. Juran thought this was backward, that quality should be instilled long before the product got made.
In centuries past, "the typical craftsman was his own customer, over and over and over again," Juran told Jane Gaboury in an interview for the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
"That is to say, because the craftsman himself performed every step of the process of, say, barrelmaking, he could see and correct whatever mistakes he made along the way, and avoid them the next time," Juran said.
That ability was lost as manufacturing became compartmentalized.
"The job of the supervisors was to increase productivity," he said, "and that resulted in their taking the position that quality is the job of the inspection department. Quality wasn't everybody's job."
Juran defined quality as simply "fitness for use," and devised a "quality trilogy" to form a framework for thinking about it: quality improvement, quality planning, quality control. Each of them had specific processes.
He earned followers among managers by emphasizing the cost to the bottom line when quality was absent.
His Pareto Principle was named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about the unequal distribution of wealth.
Juran extended this theory to describe "the phenomenon that in any population which contributes to a common effect, a relative few of the contributors account for the bulk of the effect."
More simply, this referred to the "vital few" as opposed to the "trivial many."
This was Juran's way of focusing attention on what was important and not getting lost in what wasn't.
He founded the Juran Institute in 1979 and remained actively engaged there after his official retirement in 1994.
The Juran Foundation, founded in 1986, became part of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in 1998.
He married Sadie Shapiro in 1926. He is survived by his wife of 83 years; sons Robert, Charles and Donald; daughter Sylvia; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


I kind of bounced all over the place on this day. I had them sit down at the table before I had food ready. We were out of milk so I was making Eggo waffles and they take a little while to toast. So while they were waiting I got them started on the Cloud Sculpture.
I split the bag of starch noodles in half and I gave them each a wet wash cloth. When you get the starch noodles damp they stick together. It's super fun. If you get them too wet they smoosh down, so the wet washcloth is the best idea.
They were to think about what shapes they have seen in the clouds and make a sculpture of it.
Lachlan made his to look somewhat like a typical poofy cloud shape. Peter's is there on the table by his spot, I think he called it a cloud sword.
While we were still sitting at the table I asked them the discussion question for the C is for Cloud lesson. What words do you know that start with the /c/ sound? I had the phonics cards out so we started with cat and cloud. But then Lachlan came up with some good ones, cactus, clap, cast.
This little activity of coming up with words that start with the same sound has become a popular one around my house. I love it! The other day, Lachlan was playing with Peter in the backseat of the van. What starts with a /f/f/ sound? Foot! This one was funny, what starts with an /ea/ea/ sound? Ear!
After we hopped down from the table I taped a letter C on the floor. It wasn't a very big letter C as I ran out of tape. But it worked. I had them stand on both sides of the C and I yelled out words. If the words started with the /c/ sound then they would jump onto the letter C, if it started with something else then they stayed put.
You can see Lachlan got it right most of the time and Peter just enjoyed jumping onto the letter every time I said a word.
This one doesn't really show anything pertinent to the day, but I just think they are super cute.
Next I held the phonics cards behind my back and had them pick an arm. If they picked the cat they had to crawl along the C like a cat, if they picked the cloud they had to roll a cotton ball along the C. Talk about Kinesthetic learning.
While we were playing with our big C we were still thinking of /c/ words when I realized camera starts with a C. I asked Lachlan what other word starts with a C as I pointed my big camera at him. /c/c/camera!
While we were still at the table I asked the discussion question for Clouds on the Cover which asked, what happens if clouds are on the ground? I explained to them that it's called fog and asked if they remember a time when it was cloudy when we looked out our window. It worked out great that the next morning when we woke up it was foggy. Lachlan explained to his Dad that it was because the clouds were on the ground. Jeff was impressed and said he was about to compliment Lachlan's teacher when I told him "we just learned that yesterday!"
I had them hop on over to their school spots and get started on their My Little Journals. They were supposed to draw a picture of something they like to do outside.
Lachlan drew a slide and Peter drew a picture of himself fishing. I remember the first time Lachlan actually drew a picture of something, somehow, Peter just started doing drawing and I am not sure when it happened. I think this is actually one of his first drawings. All his past drawings have been of "snakes" which are long scribbles. I think he has tried to draw before but mostly shapes. I remember, with my help he drew himself before with long arms, but it was amongst many scribbles. All that to say, I am pretty proud of his little creation here.
Since I am using this curriculum for Kindergarten for Lachlan, I really want to focus on more reading and writing and math. I have been getting these workbooks since we started using MGT and they are appropriately titled More Math and More Literacy.
Here Lachlan is counting how many suns or how many clouds and drawing a line to the corresponding number.
Practicing his Cs and doing math with clouds. 1+1=2. At the bottom he was able to cross off the numbers he used as he worked through the problems. So first he crossed off 2, then 4 as he added 2+2. This was a great page for him.
Later in the day I had these two tools sitting at his desk. When I had a chance, Lachlan and I worked through them.
The purple is from a Hooked on Phonic set for Kingergarteners. I heard that they were great tools for reading from some of the other homeschool Moms at co-op. So I found a cheap set through Ebay at a Goodwill in Florida, and they sent it my way. First you work through the workbook, there are three lines, you can choose just one or do all three. They are all at words. The book, titled "Cat", is also filled with at words and Lachlan does well at reading it.
The flash cards there are numbers 11 through 20. Lachlan has the numbers 1 through 10 down really well, but the teens are confusing. So I have just had this stack out for a week or so and I have had Lachlan simply lay them out in order. I give them to him all mixed up and put out 11 for him as the place to start. He got frustrated the first few days but now he is starting to grasp the idea. I started covering up the 1 in front and asking him what number the single digit was. Then when I lift my hand I tell him the one in front makes it a teen. So he says five, teen. Hmm, wait a second that doesn't sound right, fifteen he exclaims. 11 and 12 are their own ball game, why do you have to be so different 11 and 12, why?!?!


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Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast » Gulf Coast » Bay City to Edna » Edna (Jackson County) » First United Methodist Church
Edna Texas
Texas: Central, South, and Gulf CoastGulf CoastBay City to EdnaEdna (Jackson County)
J. M. Hyde
spireschurches (buildings)church towers
brick (clay material)
Edna Police and Fire Building (Edna City Hall)
Edna Theater
Edna City Hall (J. M. Lee Building)
Commercial Building (Allen National Bank and J. W. Allen General Merchandise and Grocery Company)
Gerald Moorhead et al., "First United Methodist Church", [Edna, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-BE39.
1911, J. M. Hyde. 216 W. Main St.
(Photograph by Gerald Moorhead)
This is the building with which the Edna Theater entered competition for visual dominance at this intersection. The oldest religious congregation in Jackson County, the Methodist congregation, which began in Texana in the 1830s, constructed this church just after the county's second-oldest congregation, the Presbyterians, completed their ambitious new church that faces S. Hanover Street ( BE42). The Presbyterians went to Waco for their architect, the Methodists to Shreveport, Louisiana. A square-planned building faced with scalloped parapets on the W. Main and N. Allen streets elevations, the Methodist church has a dominant tower capped by an octagonal spire where the two streets intersect and a secondary tower on the southeast corner of the Main Street front. Not to be outdone, the Allen Street side elevation features a rear appendage with its own scalloped gable. The corner tower can be seen from the U.S. 59 overpass eight blocks away. In place of architectural ornament, three shades of buff brick are employed. Exuberant rather than refined, the First Methodist Church was clearly as much an expression of civic pride as religious piety.
Gerald Moorhead et al.
Edna, Texas
Gulf Coast, Bay City to Edna, Edna (Jackson County)

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does it go to yours?
on the beaches of distant shores?
our dinner before our desserts?
we've shared our last kiss before the first?
and why is my everything not right?
when we've never even shared our first fight?
or anything less in my feeling of devastation?
Why any such answers, excepting the best?


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Q: Creating library using Spring boot and aspectj I have created a library using spring boot and aspectj.
I have created a configuration class
@Configuration
@EnableAspectJAutoProxy
@ComponentScan(basePackages="com.x.y")
public class LoggerConfig {
}

A class for the annotation
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface EnableHttpLogging {
}

and a class for the aspect
@Aspect
@Component
public class LoggerAspect {

@Around("execution(* *(..)) && @annotation(EnableHttpLogging)")
    public Object handleController(final ProceedingJoinPoint proceedingJoinPoint)
            throws Throwable {

        LOG.info("controller....before ");
        return proceedingJoinPoint.proceed();

    }

}

An error has occured after importing a class configuration "@Import(LoggerConfig.class)"  into my application and trying to run it, i have the following error:
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'embeddedServletContainerCustomizerBeanPostProcessor': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type: EnableHttpLogging
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:553)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
    at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.registerBeanPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:240)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:697)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:526)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:686)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:320)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:957)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:946)
    at com.olps.reassurance.cgoa.endpoint.manager.Application.main(Application.java:43)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: error Type referred to is not an annotation type: EnableHttpLogging
    at org.aspectj.weaver.tools.PointcutParser.parsePointcutExpression(PointcutParser.java:301)
    at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.buildPointcutExpression(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:207)
    at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.checkReadyToMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:193)
    at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getClassFilter(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:170)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:220)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:279)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:311)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:118)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:88)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:69)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.wrapIfNecessary(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:347)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:299)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:422)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1583)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
    ... 14 more

A: You need to modify the method signature of handleController and the parameter provided inside @annotation. The example shown below should work.
@Aspect
@Component
@Slf4j
public class LoggerAspect {

    @Around("execution(* *(..)) && @annotation(annotation)")
    public Object handleController(
            final ProceedingJoinPoint proceedingJoinPoint,
            EnableHttpLogging annotation)
            throws Throwable {

        LOG.info("controller....before ");
        return proceedingJoinPoint.proceed();

    }

}

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Sara isn't a member of any clubs.
Sara has logged 69 beers a total of 72 times.
Sara's favorite type of beer seems to be American India Pale Ale / IPA.
Not as cherry as other cherry red beers but good otherwise.
Loaded with mango and jasmine. Solid on the bitterness. Very good.
I entered this as "Great Trees" and it's my 4th flight sample. I'm beyond rating beer after 2.5.
Clean, grapefruit, fresh... but compared to what they have here, it isn't winning any awards tonight. Not the most interesting IPA on tap.
Citrus and bright herbs (lemon balm, oregano, mint-ish). Wheat. Clean. Pleasantly bitter. Probably the best of the night.
Less bitter this time. Still agree with the asprin and roasted squash. Agreeable.
Warm Beer, right. Reminds me of a malty beer version of roasted dandelion root tea.
Better than any of the weird samples Roy is insisting on assaulting me with tonight.
This tastes like beer...mixed with the dried residue of McDonalds BBQ sauce.
Yuck. Cheap malty beer taste with molasses.
Probably my favorite beer among McMenamins current offerings. Which doesn't say a lot for it, but a pleasant ESB. Fosho.
Solid but I expect better from Stone IPAs, so this is only decent.
WHY IS CIDER SO LAME?!
Rye is more smoke than spice. The beer is still agreeable without the expected burn.
Old Stove Ring of Fire!
Gah! So spicy! TOO SPICY! Tastes exactly like Tims Cascade jalapeño chips. Hated this beer abomination.
So good I ordered two pints and nothing else. I'm too sloshed to fully articulate its greatness (two pints!). Roy hated it but the bartender AND the two rando-guys from Illinois at the other table agreed, this is the best.
Very bitter, like chewing aspirin. So hoppy I think it stings. Grapefruit and something mellow like... roasted squash? Weird. I like it.
Woah. What is this... so good. Like I've been punched in the face with a bitter fistfull of jasmine flowers and... I like it. Again!
Whhhhheaaaatttyyyt. Not bad. Dunno. Maybe. I had a glass of Rye before this so I'm not entirely sure where I am. I do know it is PROM night though! Gonna get down and get funky. Mark's plum sour is dance fuel. Mr T just commented that Maltlog is really just my "drunk log" and he would be correct. On this date, I was toasted. FIN.
Another go at the salty sour. Still overwhelmingly salty upfront but that evolves into a very pleasant toasty wheat once the grimace fades. Don't love it, but it is gonna do the job tonight.
Think it was good. Dunno? They said it went well with salmon eggs or something. I'm dying so there probably isn't any point to logging. Ughhhhhh.
It's all right. The prunes and burnt tire rubber go together so well, like the elderly and the fast and the furious.
Pretty good stuff. Maybe now I know why Tolstoy drools all over those catnip bananas I buy him.
I like this, it is well balanced, smooth and interesting. Maybe really like it. However, after 3.5 hours of sleep and 30 some odd hours of work in two days, I'm anything but smooth and interesting. I've got poutine in my lap and I'm earning "you're scary" comments from Mr. T.
Roy would call this one of those "cat litter flavored beers." At least I think so, as all he said after trying it was "ellllchhhh." Lots of pine and hoppy bitterness here. Light citrus. Think I like it.
Leather & Pine. Very Malty. Roy disagrees about the leather, which may be due to never having actually "eaten leather." I told him we'll see and what happens in Canada stays in Canada.
Not sure I'd ID this as passionfruit but it isn't bad, in a salty sour kinda way. Either that or Roy's interpretation of "season generously with salt" when cooking dinner is having some influence here.
Not feeling how chunky this is. It is like super pulp-a-riffic orange juice and it isn't orange juice, it is blueberry and thus a pulpy abomination.
Can't recall anything about it, one glass had me hammered. I think I liked it? It seemed very dark??? I don't remember most of yesterday evening now.
The Ex-husband left me two bottles of his favorite pumpkin beer as a gift a few weeks ago. Roy thinks it tastes like metal and could be poisoned but I know I'm still worth more alive than dead, so this heavily spiced pumpkin ale just tastes a bit like non-poisonous metal.
Can't log, Distracted by Matt talking about skulls and absinthe. Also, NPR's Cliff Mass and aggressive toast-buttering assault. Very timid American pale ale, acceptable but not memorable.
Came to blows fighting over the differences between a glass from the end of the keg and a glass from a fresh keg. There is a lot I could say about the beer, but all that matters is I am right and Matt and Jet are wrong. Okay, apparently I'm totally wrong about the kegs but still don't care. I'm totes right about it being watery. Also, who drinks pink unicorn juice? Wrong people, that's who. Beer tastes like evil koolaid.
BINGO!!!! Bar bingo livin' large tonight, baby! I win you some free corn fritters! I got chu! You know, this doesn't taste of rye at all.
Odd IPA for 121 IBU, not bitter. Slight Tutti-frutti aroma, burnt bitter chocolate and a malty finish. I'm not in love with it. Roy seems enthralled by how weird it is.
Hold my beer, I've got a 6" dust bunny to murder. Also this beer tastes rather different from last time. Stronger citrus, less apple, more oak. Not very interesting.
Strong toffee & roasted nut. Very bitter but also pleasantly smooth.
Midori, green apple and LOADS of bubblegum. Wild.
It's beer. It's an IPA. I drank it. Drunkenly asking about who wins a two brothers arm wrestling contest on a taphouse tour. Jason apparently would win. I have my doubts though, I think Jim has deep rage beneath that quiet exterior. I think he's mad about the cheese curds too.
"Ooooooooooooooooooh. Wah? It isn't soapy! Shut yo mouth, Roy."
Bit lighter than expected. Vanilla and spice, not sure where the "strong" description comes into play here.
Neither pine nor citrus, rye-like spice with a mellow finish.
Coffee and chocolate with a hint of raspberry at the finish. I'm giving high biased reviews to all of these because this is my family brewery. Buy all of them again? Heck yes, $$ chedda back in mah pocket!
Offensive on first sip, but growing on me a little... a very little. Bold. Hop and citrus spiked with several dissolved ibuprofen.
Meh. Sour. Citric acid and no character. Split the bottle and quarter of it is still in the fridge. Nuff said.
Hoppy with hint of orange and...cream? Wanted something bitter, but didn't really get that.
No. I may juice a real hipster to rinse my mouth. NO. NOT DIRTY, ROY.
Burnt toast and citrus, bitter finish.
Very smooth, grapefruit. Not much character for an IPA.
Not a very bitter IPA (actually tolerated by Roy). Standard resin and citrus but with a woody slightly dry cocoa finish. Odd but not unpleasant.
Floral, orange, wheat and wine-like, dry and minerally similar to a gruner veltliner. Really like this one, excellent pairing with a light summer dinner.
Tastes like danger. If danger was a wet boiled peanut wearing an Alex Trebek wig. Weaksauce!
Are you gonna' log that? Are you gonna' log that? Are you gonna' log that? Yea! I AM! Ooh more gingery than the last two ginger beers I had--the rye helps.
Ipa mixed with the milk leftover from a bowl of frosted flakes, only better because it is almond milk and it hasn't been sitting out for more than an hour or two.
Sour lemonade infused with socks and Roy's sour-eww-face tears. No hint of ginger.
Introduced Roy to Skunk cabbage in the woods today. This beer tastes like that. Which either makes it interesting or unpleasant. Edit: decided I think like it. Reminds me of the swamp in a good way.
Citrus and woody. Sweet. Not a very aggressive IPA. Still, it results in Roy making a face like he is drinking Dawn soap, so I approve of it.
Citrus and a whiff of mold. Meh.
Slightly watery but better than other similar beers I had. Thirst quencher after dragging Roy through the woods.
"Beer flavored water. Still better than water!"


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"The knowledge of the feelings other people have expended on me has kept me going when times were hard. That knowledge has been a responsibility, a challenge and an inspiration. It has been the path to development and growth. The faith and confidence of others in me have been like shining, guiding stars."
Marian Anderson, who made Danbury, Conn., her home for several decades, triumphed over the legacy of poverty and racial discrimination to become the most famous opera singer of the 20th century. She was the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, and her Easter Sunday concert in 1939, before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial, was hailed as a defining moment in the history of civil rights in the United States.
Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Pa., Anderson was raised by her widowed mother who took in laundry to support three children. At the age of six, she joined the choir of the Union Baptist Church, soon attracting the notice of the director. Anderson's first formal singing lessons began at age 15. She applied to a local music school in 1914 but was denied entrance by a receptionist who told her, "We don't take colored." In 1925, her vocal instructor, Giuseppe Boghetti, entered his talented student in a New York Philharmonic voice competition. Competing against 300 other vocalists, Anderson took first prize, was signed by a concert manager and began her performance career.
She embarked on an ambitious schedule of seventy concerts a year, but it was not until 1939 that deeply ingrained prejudices resulted in the incident that made Anderson a household name. Hurok tried to book her at Constitution Hall in the national headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was told all of the dates were taken. In truth, the D.A.R. rejected Anderson because of race. As a result (and after Hurok took the case to the public) First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the D.A.R. and other prominent women soon followed suit. Vindication for Anderson came when Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, to make arrangements for an Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial. In addition to the 75,000 people who gathered at the Memorial, millions more listened on the radio as Anderson sang a stirring rendition of "My Country Tis of Thee" that quickly became a milestone in the emerging civil rights movement. Indeed, Anderson's performance inspired 10-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. who later mentioned it in a public speaking contest.
Anderson continued to tour the country, but it was not until 1955 that she became the first African American to sing in a major role at the Metropolitan Opera, performing in Verdi's Ballo in Maschera. In 1957, the U.S. State Department sponsored a tour of Asia in which Anderson sang 24 concerts in 14 countries. She sang at the inaugurations of both Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, and in 1963 became one of the first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Later in her life, she was honored with numerous awards including the UN Peace Prize in 1972, induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973, the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1984, a National Medal of Arts in 1986 and a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991. The Marian Anderson Award was created in 1998 and honors artists whose work for humanitarian causes benefits society.
Marian Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect, in 1943. They bought a farm in Danbury, Conn., after being unable as a black couple to purchase land in other suburban communities. "Marianna Farm" became their home; Fisher designed and constructed the main residence, a barn and a recording studio for his famous wife. After Fisher's death in 1986, Anderson continued to live on the farm until 1992; she died in Portland, Ore., in 1993 and is buried in Philadelphia. Marianna Farm was sold to a developer, but local residents and members of the Danbury Museum and Historical Society rescued Anderson's studio and moved it to its present location, where visitors can learn about the famous contralto's life and career through clothing, recordings and other artifacts.
Marian Anderson did not set out to shatter racial barriers; she was essentially a classical musician who wished to sing and perform. Nevertheless, Anderson's resilience, perseverance and dignity not only inspired younger African-American women in the opera world, but also broke new ground on the road to a more just and equal society.


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'A Touch of Ruin (Hades & Persephone #2)' by Scarlett St. Clair
"You're leaving us?" Hermes asked. "What happened to sisters before misters?"
Persephone rolled her eyes. "Hermes, in case you haven't noticed, you're a mister."
"I can be a sister!" he argued, more vehemently than she expected.
'A Touch of Ruin' is book two in the 'Hades & Persephone' series by Scarlett St. Clair. I have already purchased the first, though I haven't read it yet, because I genuinely enjoyed this one and don't want to miss anything. Besides, the next book, 'A Touch of Malice,' is already in the works and I'll need to be ready.. something big is coming..
I've always loved the story of Hades and Persephone. I know by most accounts it's really the story of an abduction and trickery while keeping a captive wife, but I've a bit of a soft spot for Hades. It can't be an easy job, it's surely often thankless.. and while his brothers got glory and adoration, he got darkness and isolation. Disdain even.. though without him, mythologically speaking, the balance would have tipped to chaos.. and he's certainly not in the habit of damaging people for little to no reason, as is so common with his brother Zeus.
For me, this is a little bit of what someone might call a guilty pleasure read. There are things happening around them certainly and there is progress along a timeline which implies a story is being told, but everything that happens just seems to be about showcasing their interactions.. more than following a plot and the two of them reacting naturally. I know that probably sounds a bit confusing, but it just feels like they are the focus and any bits of story that happen to be in the novel are just secondary.
The thing is, I also didn't care. I loved seeing how they felt about each other and I want more.
Hades shook his head. "We do not make up for hurt with hurt, Persephone. That is a god's game--we are lovers."
"Then how do we make up for hurt?" she asked.
"With time," he answered. "If we can be comfortable being angry with one another for a little while."
Hades is this dark, beautiful representation of a God I've always been intrigued with. He's full of power and passion and occasionally unmitigated rage. He can be tender or he can be ice cold, but there's often a glimpse of one while you're looking at the other. He's never one-dimensional and I love that. As for steam factor, he's about a 15 on a 1 to 10 scale. He's right up my alley, even if there's an overuse of "darling" at times I think based on his character, might be filled with more colorful language.
Deep down he's fearful of Persephone seeing too much darkness in him and turning away, which results in him guarding his secrets closely. So closely that they only come out one-by-one often at the hands of another, which she doesn't take very well.
He sighed. "I wanted time to think about how to show you my sins. To explain their roots. Instead, it seems, everyone wishes to do it for me."
Though Persephone's reactions to some things are understandable, she drives me a little crazy. I understand to a degree why she's unaware of certain things, but she's bratty at times and she just doesn't listen to anyone. Her path constantly leads her into trouble because she's unwilling or unable to accept anything that doesn't go the way she wants it to and unfortunately, that makes Hades path rocky too.
Things are definitely unnecessarily more difficult for them because of her stubborn nature and complete lack of restraint. She makes me mad. That doesn't mean I don't like her. It means I get how he feels, she frustrates me.. but she means well. She's kind and loving, she's warm and caring. Ultimately, she just wants everyone to live their best life. It's impossible to hate that. But wow can she be trying on the nerves.
Zofie drew her blade. "Release her or feel my wrath!"
Hermes laughed. "Where did you get her?"
Persephone sighed. "Zofie, put that away."
"Wherever you go, I must go too, Lady Persephone," she glared at Hermes. "To protect you."
Hermes was still laughing. "She knows I'm a god, right?"
Honorable mention has to go to Hermes though. He's a delightfully wicked God of Trickery, but a good and genuine friend. He's loyal, funny, and only slightly removed from his reality by his godhood. He's pretty good at seeing both sides of any situation and he made me laugh frequently.
This was definitely just what I needed. There's enough going on to keep me interested, there are some emotional moments, but it was a light enjoyable.. even sexy.. read. Most of the conclusion was a little fast, but again. I don't care. I had a blast.
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La  gare de Gilbert Plains est une gare ferroviaire de la ligne du nord à The Pas du Canadien National. Elle est située à Gilbert Plains, dans la province du Manitoba au Canada.

C'est une gare voyageurs Via Rail Canada, sans personnel, desservie par trois trains par semaine, dans chaque direction.

Situation ferroviaire

Histoire

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Gare de Via Rail Canada, elle est située à Gilbert Plains. C'est une gare sans personnel de type « poteau indicateur » avec un quai.

Desserte
Gilbert Plains est desservie par le train Winnipeg - Churchill

Intermodalité

Service des marchandises
Gare du Canadien National avec une voie de service desservant un silo agricole.

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 Chemins de fer canadiens
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 Winnipeg - Churchill (train)

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Durkan's Patrick Phillips wins GOLD at this years Construction Manager of the Year Awards
Congratulations to Patrick Phillips who successfully won Gold at this years Construction Manager of the Year Awards hosted by The Chartered Institute of Building.
Patrick won his much deserved award in his nominated category 'Residential over 10 Storeys' for his professionalism, determination and logistical planning at the Britannia Music Site development in Ilford. The scheme managed by Pat from start to finish, was a 354 unit project for M & G Real Estate and Southern Housing Group, with a 23 storey tower block centre piece.
On receiving the award, Pat said "I am truly honoured to be receiving this award, Britannia Music Site really has been the pinnacle of my life long career. I would like to thank Durkan for the opportunity and the entire BMS team. Without their dedicated support I would not be standing here this evening. Credit also to the sub-contractors for their exceptional workmanship giving BMS its high quality finish in glory in which it stands today."


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/** @jsxRuntime classic */
/** @jsx jsx */
import React, { ReactNode, useContext, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
import { DocumentFeatures } from '@keystone-6/fields-document/views';
import {
  ComponentBlock,
  fields,
  InferRenderersForComponentBlocks,
} from '@keystone-6/fields-document/component-blocks';
import { Global, jsx } from '@emotion/react';
import { getInitialPropsValue } from '../../../packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/component-blocks/initial-values';
import {
  createDocumentEditor,
  DocumentEditor,
  Editor,
} from '../../../packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor';
import { FormValueContentFromPreviewProps } from '../../../packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/component-blocks/form-from-preview';
import { createGetPreviewProps } from '../../../packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/component-blocks/preview-props';
import { componentBlocks as componentBlocksInSandboxProject } from '../../../tests/sandbox/component-blocks';
import { initialContent } from '../../lib/initialDocumentDemoContent';
import { Code } from '../primitives/Code';

const headingLevels = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6'] as const;

const marks = [
  'bold',
  'code',
  'italic',
  'keyboard',
  'strikethrough',
  'subscript',
  'superscript',
  'underline',
] as const;

const documentFeaturesProp = fields.object({
  inlineMarks: fields.multiselect({
    options: marks.map(value => ({ label: value[0].toUpperCase() + value.slice(1), value })),
    defaultValue: marks,
    label: 'Inline Marks',
  }),
  blocks: fields.multiselect({
    label: 'Block Types',
    options: [
      { label: 'Blockquote', value: 'blockquote' },
      { label: 'Code Block', value: 'code' },
      { label: 'Ordered List', value: 'unordered' },
      { label: 'Unordered List', value: 'ordered' },
      ...headingLevels.map(value => ({ value, label: `H${value}` })),
    ] as const,
    defaultValue: ['blockquote', 'code', 'ordered', 'unordered', ...headingLevels],
  }),
  alignment: fields.multiselect({
    options: [
      { label: 'Center', value: 'center' },
      { label: 'End', value: 'end' },
    ] as const,
    defaultValue: ['center', 'end'],
    label: 'Alignment',
  }),
  softBreaks: fields.checkbox({ label: 'Soft Breaks', defaultValue: true }),
  links: fields.checkbox({
    label: 'Links',
    defaultValue: true,
  }),
  dividers: fields.checkbox({
    label: 'Dividers',
    defaultValue: true,
  }),
  layouts: fields.checkbox({ label: 'Layouts', defaultValue: true }),
  useShorthand: fields.checkbox({ label: 'Use shorthand in code example', defaultValue: true }),
});

type DocumentFeaturesFormValue = Parameters<
  InferRenderersForComponentBlocks<
    Record<'documentFeatures', ComponentBlock<typeof documentFeaturesProp['fields']>>
  >['documentFeatures']
>[0];

const emptyObj = {};

const componentBlocks = {
  notice: componentBlocksInSandboxProject.notice,
  hero: componentBlocksInSandboxProject.hero,
  quote: componentBlocksInSandboxProject.quote,
  checkboxList: componentBlocksInSandboxProject.checkboxList,
  carousel: componentBlocksInSandboxProject.carousel,
};

type DocumentFieldConfig = Parameters<typeof import('@keystone-6/fields-document').document>[0];

function documentFeaturesCodeExample(config: DocumentFieldConfig | DocumentFeatures) {
  return `import { config, list } from '@keystone-6/core';
import { document } from '@keystone-6/fields-document';

export default config({
  lists: {
    ListName: list({
      fields: {
        fieldName: document({
  ${JSON.stringify(
    config,
    (_, val) =>
      // false is an invalid value for all the inputs
      val === false
        ? undefined
        : // every value in an array on a new line looks real bad, especially for layouts
        Array.isArray(val)
        ? Array.isArray(val[0])
          ? // this case is for layouts
            val.map(x => `[${x.join(', ')}]`)
          : // this case is for headingLevels
            `[${val.join(', ')}]`
        : val,
    2
  )
    .replace(/"/g, '')
    .replace(/^{/, '')
    .replace(/{$/, '')
    .trim()
    .split('\n')
    .map(x => ' '.repeat(10) + x)
    .join('\n')}
          /* ... */
        }),
        /* ... */
      },
    }),
    /* ... */
  },
  /* ... */
});
`;
}

function documentFeaturesToShorthand(documentFeatures: DocumentFeatures): DocumentFieldConfig {
  return {
    formatting: objToShorthand({
      alignment: objToShorthand({
        center: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.alignment.center),
        end: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.alignment.end),
      }),
      inlineMarks: objToShorthand(
        fromEntriesButTypedWell(
          marks.map(x => [x, boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.inlineMarks[x])])
        )
      ),
      headingLevels:
        documentFeatures.formatting.headingLevels.length === 6
          ? true
          : documentFeatures.formatting.headingLevels.length === 0
          ? undefined
          : documentFeatures.formatting.headingLevels,
      blockTypes: objToShorthand({
        code: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.blockTypes.code),
        blockquote: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.blockTypes.blockquote),
      }),
      listTypes: objToShorthand({
        ordered: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.listTypes.ordered),
        unordered: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.listTypes.unordered),
      }),
      softBreaks: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.formatting.softBreaks),
    }),
    links: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.links),
    layouts: documentFeatures.layouts.length === 0 ? undefined : documentFeatures.layouts,
    dividers: boolToTrueOrUndefined(documentFeatures.dividers),
  };
}

function objToShorthand<
  Obj extends Record<string, undefined | true | readonly any[] | Record<string, any>>
>(obj: Obj): Obj | true | undefined {
  const values = Object.values(obj);
  let state: typeof values[number] = values[0]!;
  for (const val of values) {
    if (val !== state || (val !== undefined && val !== true)) {
      return obj;
    }
  }
  return state as any;
}

function boolToTrueOrUndefined(bool: boolean): true | undefined {
  return bool ? true : undefined;
}

const fromEntriesButTypedWell: <Key extends string | number | symbol, Val>(
  iterable: Iterable<readonly [Key, Val]>
) => Record<Key, Val> = Object.fromEntries;

function documentFeaturesFormToValue(formValue: DocumentFeaturesFormValue): DocumentFeatures {
  return {
    formatting: {
      alignment: {
        center: formValue.alignment.includes('center'),
        end: formValue.alignment.includes('end'),
      },
      blockTypes: {
        blockquote: formValue.blocks.includes('blockquote'),
        code: formValue.blocks.includes('code'),
      },
      inlineMarks: fromEntriesButTypedWell(
        marks.map(mark => {
          return [mark, formValue.inlineMarks.includes(mark)];
        })
      ),
      headingLevels: formValue.blocks
        .map(x => parseInt(x))
        .filter(num => !isNaN(num))
        .sort() as any,
      listTypes: {
        ordered: formValue.blocks.includes('ordered'),
        unordered: formValue.blocks.includes('unordered'),
      },
      softBreaks: formValue.softBreaks,
    },
    links: formValue.links,
    layouts: formValue.layouts
      ? [
          [1, 1],
          [1, 1, 1],
          [2, 1],
          [1, 2],
          [1, 2, 1],
        ]
      : [],
    dividers: formValue.dividers,
  };
}

const DocumentFeaturesContext = React.createContext<{
  documentFeatures: DocumentFeatures;
  formValue: DocumentFeaturesFormValue;
  setFormValue: (value: DocumentFeaturesFormValue) => void;
}>({} as any);

export function DocumentFeaturesProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
  const [formValue, setFormValue] = useState<DocumentFeaturesFormValue>(() =>
    getInitialPropsValue(documentFeaturesProp)
  );
  return (
    <DocumentFeaturesContext.Provider
      value={useMemo(
        () => ({
          documentFeatures: documentFeaturesFormToValue(formValue),
          formValue,
          setFormValue,
        }),
        [formValue]
      )}
    >
      {children}
    </DocumentFeaturesContext.Provider>
  );
}

export function DocumentFeaturesFormAndCode() {
  const { formValue, setFormValue } = useContext(DocumentFeaturesContext);
  return (

      <FormValueContentFromPreviewProps
        {...createGetPreviewProps(
          documentFeaturesProp,
          getNewVal => {
            setFormValue(getNewVal(formValue));
          },
          () => undefined
        )(formValue)}
      />

  );
}

export const DocumentEditorDemo = () => {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(initialContent as any);
  const [key, setKey] = useState(0);
  const { documentFeatures, formValue } = useContext(DocumentFeaturesContext);

  useEffect(() => {
    // we want to force normalize when the document features change so
    // that no invalid things exist after a user changes something
    const editor = createDocumentEditor(documentFeatures, componentBlocks, emptyObj);
    editor.children = value;
    Editor.normalize(editor, { force: true });
    setValue(editor.children);
    // slate looks like it's a controlled component but it actually isn't
    // so we need to re-mount it so that it looks at the updated value
    setKey(x => x + 1);
    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
  }, [documentFeatures]);

  return (
    <div
      css={{
        // the editor mostly expects things not be the default styles
        // and tailwind messes that up, so these values are from Chrome's default styles
        'blockquote, p, pre': {
          marginTop: '1em',
          marginBottom: '1em',
          lineHeight: 1.75,
        },
        'h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6': { fontWeight: 'bold', margin: 0, lineHeight: 1.75 },
        h1: { fontSize: 'var(--font-xxlarge)' },
        h2: { fontSize: 'var(--font-large)' },
        h3: { fontSize: 'var(--font-medium)' },
        h5: { fontSize: 'var(--font-xsmall)' },
        h6: { fontSize: 'var(--font-xxsmall)' },
        'ul, ol': {
          lineHeight: 1.75,
        },
        button: {
          borderWidth: 0,
        },
      }}
    >
      <Global
        styles={{
          body: {
            textRendering: 'optimizeLegibility',
            WebkitFontSmoothing: 'antialiased',
            MozOsxFontSmoothing: 'grayscale',
          },
        }}
      />

        <DocumentEditor
          key={key}
          value={value}
          onChange={setValue}
          componentBlocks={componentBlocks}
          documentFeatures={documentFeatures}
          relationships={emptyObj}
          initialExpanded
        />

        View the Field Config

          This is the configuration which is being used for the editor. This will be updated when
          you select options to configure the demo.

              {useMemo(
                () =>
                  documentFeaturesCodeExample(
                    formValue.useShorthand
                      ? documentFeaturesToShorthand(documentFeatures)
                      : documentFeatures
                  ),
                [documentFeatures, formValue]
              )}

        View the Document Structure

Document field data is stored as a JSON string in the database.

{JSON.stringify(value, null, 2)}

  );
};

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Bill And Melinda Gates Donate $100 Million To Coronavirus Vaccine Research And Treatment
Topline: Bill and Melinda Gates are donating $100 million to coronavirus vaccine research and treatment efforts, which was announced as part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) request for $675 million in global contributions to fight the spread of the disease.
The highest number of cases were reported in the 24 hours leading up to WHO's Wednesday press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, with the total number of infections now surpassing 24,000.
Despite the spike in the number of patients, Ghebreyesus said a "window of opportunity" exists "to bring this outbreak under control," because only 190 cases are confirmed outside of China.
WHO wants to use the requested $675 million for a three-month response plan, with $60 million earmarked to fund their operations, while the rest would go to at-risk countries with less robust healthcare systems.
In addition to focusing on vaccine and diagnostic research, the Gates Foundation's $100 million donation will be used to protect at-risk populations in Africa and South Asia.
"This response should be guided by science, not fear, and it should build on the steps that the World Health Organization has taken to date," said Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman in a statement.
During a Tuesday press conference, WHO Infections Hazards Director Dr. Sylvia Briand said the coronavirus outbreak did not classify as a pandemic, but the organization did declare coronavirus an international public health emergency on January 30, 2020.
Crucial quote: "$675 million is a lot of money, but it's much less than the bill we will face if we don't invest in preparedness now during the window of opportunity we have," said Ghebreyesus.
Key background: More than 24,000 people are confirmed to have been infected with coronavirus, while over 490 have died, with all but 2 in mainland China. The U.S. has 11 confirmed cases, and flights from China are being redirected to 11 American airports that are screening those travelers. The illness, which first broke out in a Wuhan food market in December, has since spread to almost 30 countries and impacted local tourism and travel. Companies like McDonald's, Starbucks, IKEA, Hyundai, Tesla, Disney and more have temporarily closed their doors in affected areas. Multiple cruise ships have been quarantined after passengers underwent testing for the virus. The country of Macau, considered the world's gambling capital, shut down its casino business Tuesday in response to the outbreak, which has sickened 10 people there. Several countries, including the U.S., are denying entry to visitors from Wuhan, and advising against travel to China, while several international airlines have suspended flights to the country. Millions on the mainland have been on lockdown since the Lunar New Year holiday ended January 25, 2020, while a return to post-holiday routines has been disrupted.
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MOSCOW. Jan 30 (Interfax) - The Russian government should do its best to protect the population from the Wuhan coronavirus, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a government meeting on Thursday.
"Not a single case of this dangerous disease has been registered on Russian territory for now. But of course, we should do our best to protect our people," Mishustin said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting dedicated to the coronavirus situation on Wednesday. "We are briefing him on a daily basis. I have also held a conference on the package of measures aimed at preventing the coronavirus from spreading and the readiness of our healthcare system to provide the relevant medical assistance," Mishustin said.
Mishustin noted that the operative headquarters for the prevention of the importation and spread of the new coronavirus, which were established on his orders and are headed by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, were operating round-the-clock.
According to the latest update from China's National Health Commission, the country has registered 7,711 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV); the illness rate has grown 29% (1,737 cases) within the past 24 hours. Most cases (4,587) have been observed in the Hubei province. The mortality rate stands at 2,2% (170 cases), which is below the mortality rate for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS, which killed 9.6% of patients in 2003) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS, which has a 36% mortality rate).
Seventy-four cases of importation of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in 15 countries (Australia, Vietnam, Germany, Canada, South Korea, Cambodia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, France, Sri Lanka, and Japan).


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Schimmel Piano Factory Visit
Words by Christian Henson
Whilst I knew the piano was a complicated instrument, I didn't quite believe how mind-blowing my trip to Schimmel would be. How do they make pianos? How did these monumentally complex bits of machinery become the 'king' instrument, top of the food chain, 'Musicus-rex'? I guess the scale of complexity was only eclipsed by the fact that a piano is a bit of a Frankenstein of an instrument made up of three distinctly independent component parts. I won't try to give a history lesson here, nor will I simply copy something out of Wikipedia by someone a lot more learned than me - I'll just try to explain in layperson's terms what goes into making a piano, as far as I can make out as a result of the visit.
So first up is the sound making bit. This is basically a massive dulcimer and it was like someone back in the 1700s said, "I like massive dulcimers; pity you have to play them with soft hammers that you have to hold. Imagine if we could have a keyboard a bit like one of those new-fangled futuristic harpsichord things? That way we could play more than two notes at a time". So they mounted a bunch of strings (three per note up top, one per note down bottom - because the lower the note, the longer the string, and the longer the string, the more welly you produce, so you need three strings up top to balance the hoofters down bottom) onto a bridge, which transmits the vibrations into the sound board - a massive sheet of wood, that is bent slightly because wood resonates better that way. In order to keep the wood bent you need several wooden braces that are designed to further distribute the sound across the grain, which is more difficult than down it. Because of the pressures involved with a hundred odd taut strings (20 tonnes for grand pianos) the whole thing is reinforced with a massive iron brace which stops the piano snapping you up like a well-polished, massive mouse trap.
Next up is the keyboard, which has little felt hammers - the whole contraption slides under the strings. Whilst the harpsichord is a fairly simple device, the bloke who decided he was going to build a massive dulcimer with a keyboard attached probably felt at some point he'd bitten off more than he could chew. Fortunately for him there was no internet or Sky Atlantic in those days so he had naff-all else to do. But the complexity of the task cannot be underestimated. Firstly, you need to press down on a keyboard and make a hammer go up and hit the key in the sweet spot. Unfortunately if the hammer stays up it makes the string go dead straight away and that sounds really crap; not like a massive dulcimer at all. So the hammer has to free itself from the players control for about 2mm, hit the string and the bounce back into the pianist's control. It doesn't end there - the string is now ringing nicely regardless of what the pianist is doing which means with fast passages it all gets muddy and confused as everything rings out, and how will they write massively chromatic music in about 150 years time with ringy-outy massive dulcimer machines. So there is also a damper that sits on the key until the player hits the key at which point it releases until the player lets go of the key. When you look closely at the action of a piano key, it is the stuff of madness, born of a different time when toy makers must have been the NASA scientists of their day.
Still some more to go. Then, I reckon the massive dulcimer machine player said to the maker "but I kind of liked it when all the strings rang out sometimes, just not all of the time", at which point poor massive keyboard operated dulcimer thingy maker probably rolled his eyes and designed a whole pedal mechanism that bypassed this whole method of damping the strings. Which probably took another year by which point the wannabe Richard Clayderman must have been exasperated when the big dulcimer maker said, "I'm a bit worried you may get splinters playing this thing, any ideas what you'd like me to treat the wood with", at which point in despair our player probably exclaimed, "I don't know, make it from elephants for all I care, but just get it done!". So off the piano maker toddled to Africa to grab himself some tusks to make the keyboard top out of. Regrettably they only had ivory coloured tusks so the maker thought he'd use some dark local wood for the sharps and flats, which worked fine, but at least more than half of the keyboard was made of elephants like the player had requested.
And then what happened? I reckon the soon-to-be-piano-player took one look at the thing and said, "it's no violin to look at, what an absolute state". Agreed, the actual naked instrument is a filthy sight. At which point the maker must have suggested they put the massive dulcimer machine into a big horizontal cupboard. "Won't it dull the sound?" asks the player, "No, provided you keep the cupboard door open with this stick".
I have another theory. I don't think at any stage they realised the biggest mind-blowing thing about this new contraption - I reckon they sat down and started playing the thing for the first time and looked at each other and went "this thing plays quietly AND loudly". It would have been like seeing colour TV for the first time and these two were so blown away by this that instead of calling it whatever is Italian for 'massive keyboard operated dulcimer machine', they plumped for the Italian for 'soft loud', and the pianoforte was born.
Schimmel demonstrated to me that like all great human achievements, the first iterations of the piano started appearing relatively quickly, but it is the centuries of finding the little 1% improvements that have led to the piano evolving into the king of instruments. With true quality operators like Schimmel, who take roughly nine months to make each piano regardless of size or price, we can feel safe that the piano will be king for many more generations to come.
Thanks to everyone at the factory in Germany for taking time to tell us your magnificent story and to show us the daily miracles you're performing.
If you want to get your hands on a Schimmel Piano be sure to check out Peregrines Pianos in Greys Inn Road, London.
*No elephants are harmed in the production of Schimmel nor any pianos in this day and age!*


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Hands On With CyberLink Director Suite 365
By David Cardinal on September 19, 2018 at 9:00 am
CyberLink's collection of editing tools have long been an alternative to Adobe's Creative Cloud, but now the company has made the comparison more clear by wrapping them into a unified offering branded Director Suite 365. While still promoting the individual purchase of its applications, CyberLink has taken a page out of Adobe's book by offering a "365 Subscription" option that provides some exclusive content — along with product updates and plenty of Plugins, Style Packs, and even some 3rd-party add-ins.
PhotoDirector: You'll Love It or Hate It
If you're an Adobe user wondering about whether PhotoDirector has something to offer, imagine a single application that took the modules of Lightroom, added some of the Guided Edits features of Photoshop Elements, and then extended itself through most of the features found in Photoshop CC. The result is an all-in-one, value-priced alternative for your full image editing needs. The Library module is not as full-featured as the one in Lightroom, but it offers typical features like tagging and search, plus the increasingly common option to enable facial recognition.
To use PhotoDirector effectively, though, you really need to get into the spirit of how its modules are designed to work together. That can be frustrating, at least at first. For example, to crop and resize an image I had to use the Crop tool from the Global Adjustments (which are non-destructive a la Lightroom), then resize when I exported it (this is a task I need to do all the time when preparing images for various websites like ExtremeTech). In Photoshop this is accomplished with a simple pixel-based preset for the Crop tool.
What's New In PhotoDirector 10
Speaking of Photoshop, one of the biggest updates in PhotoDirector 10 is to help it match the Layers capability found in Photoshop CC. CyberLink has added Adjustment Layers, Clipping Masks, and Layer Groups. Tethered shooting has also been added, which should be a big win for many who work in a studio — a key market for CyberLink. On the snazzier side are some AI-powered Style features, starting with a Style plug-in. To accompany that there are various Style Packs.
PhotoDirector also adds a Dehaze command, in line with other popular editing packages. On the more-innovative side, it can also extract a series of frames from a video and turn them into a multi-exposure still frame. I find that especially interesting since one issue with video is that it isn't as easy to view or share as a still image, so a way to capture motion in a single image is intriguing. Turning that around, you can also create Motion Stills from a video clip, by highlighting a portion you want to move and keeping the rest frozen.
PowerDirector: the Power of Premiere Pro With an Elements-Like Approach
For anyone who doesn't edit videos for a living, Premiere Pro is a daunting — and expensive — application. It is really designed for creative professionals who specialize in video. Elements, and soon Project Rush, are designed to provide simplified versions with fewer features. But CyberLink has instead decided to provide a full-on competitor, sporting a simplified interface, to Premiere Pro (and Final Cut) with its PowerDirector product.
PowerDirector's UI will look familiar to users of other video editors, but you'll need to adapt to the way its workflow is structured.
Similar to Premiere Pro, PowerDirector uses a step-through-workspaces workflow, although they are more like the well-defined modules of Lightroom than the "soft" grouping of Premiere Pro's workspaces. If you'll be recording live, you can start with Capture; otherwise, you can jump right into the Edit module to import and process your clips, and then head to Produce for rendering output. For those still burning DVDs, there is a final module called Create Disc. To work with a specific clip when editing you select the clip and then either Fix/Enhance to bring up a palette of adjustments, or Tools for certain built-in and plug-in tools.
Just as with PhotoDirector, your enthusiasm for PowerDirector may have a lot to do with how ingrained you are into your current toolset. As an example, with a fair amount of effort I've put together a drone video workflow that uses D-Log footage, an input LUT, noise removal with the Neat Video plugin, and custom presets for Neat Video developed by TheFilmPoets. Since I often just want to process a single clip, like a demo for an article, the overhead of doing this in Premiere Pro is annoying, but something I've learned to live with. PowerDirector makes the overall task simpler but doesn't support the Neat Video plug-in. PowerDirector has built-in video noise reduction, but nothing as powerful as Neat Video. So if you're put a lot of effort into a complex workflow in Premiere Pro or Final Cut, you'll have to live with some changes. (At first, I thought it didn't support all of my LUTs, but it turns out they just needed to have shorter filenames).
As a brief experiment I took an aerial sample clip I shot in D-Log with the Mavic Pro and processed it with PowerDirector 17. I started with the default settings, added an input LUT, and enabled Video Stabilization, Noise Reduction, and Edge Enhancement. The video below shows the original footage in the upper right overlaid onto the processed footage. As an aside, PowerDirector 17 makes it really easy to do cool overlays and layouts with your video. I think I'll be doing more of that in the future. The output video framing is different because of the application of the digital stabilization (pretty typical). I started with the default stabilization and wasn't that impressed, so this version uses the Enhanced version (slower rendering):
What's New in PowerDirector 17
One of the coolest new features in PowerDirector 17 is a multi-camera editing mode. I haven't used it personally, but the company's demo shows a powerful system for creating video synchronizing, combining, and color matching clips shot from various perspectives of the same scene. Once that would only have been needed by studios, but now that video blogging is becoming more sophisticated and often uses multiple cameras, I suspect it will find a broad audience. Chroma key masking has also been enhanced to allow you to select multiple color ranges for the mask in cases where the screen isn't perfect.
I also really like the idea of its new Nested Projects feature. Rather than creating a complete mess of a stack on a single project timeline, you can work on one piece of a project and then incorporate it into a parent project. Beyond those headline features, PowerDirector 17 has quite a few other interesting upgrades including integrated audio editing:
PowerDirector 17 is chock full of new features for just about every video-editing use case.
There Is Lots More
I've only been able to scratch the surface of the features in CyberLink's new Photo and Video editors, and haven't even touched their upgraded Audio Director product. If you're a current user of the tools, there are quite a few reasons to upgrade. If you're looking around for a new toolset, the Director Suite is certainly worth putting on your evaluation list.
Director Suite 365 Subscription and Cloud
While Adobe's Photo plan is priced very aggressively, anyone needing to add video or audio editors to the package is in for a big price tag for the whole Creative Cloud suite. CyberLink has priced Director Suite 365 as a value-priced alternative. A subscription for all four of its editing apps and add-ons is $130 if you pay annually (or $30 for a month). The subscription also includes 100GB of storage in CyberLink's new Cloud.
For those who continue to fume that Adobe has cornered them into a subscription model, you can still purchase the applications you need separately. PowerDirector 17 Ultimate is $130, and Ultra is $100. PhotoDirector 10 Ultra is $100, while ColorDirector 7 and AudioDirector 9 are each $130. Clearly, for anyone using more than one of the applications and who wants to stay at all current, CyberLink has made a 365 subscription the appealing alternative.
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How to maintain online privacy?
If you get a list of all people using Internet, I bet you that this article is concerned with at least 75% of them. And 75% of them wouldn't get a word about what this article is trying to convey! Still for the rest of the 18.75% (If my calculations aren't wrong ), I am writing this article!
It may appear to you that accessing Facebook, Google+ and other information is completely harmless but wait, you are wrong! Every Google Search that you do, every single status update that you post on Facebook or every Video that you watch is taking away your privacy. And for you if privacy matters, you might just be required to change your habits a bit.
I'm sure that you all must be knowing what an IP Address means? For those who don't, read this! Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a 'dotted-quad') and look something like 127.0.0.1. Since these numbers are usually assigned to Internet service providers within region-based blocks, they can often be used to identify the region or country from which a computer is connecting to the Internet. It sometimes can be used to show the user's general location.
And if you're that 'someone', then it may just mean a lot to you. Imagine any spying activity that may take place just because you logged in to Facebook from different locations!
And this just doesn't stop on IP tracing. Do you just use the same account details for all your accounts:- Google, Facebook, Twitter, website XYZ? Definitely Google, Twitter and Facebook may not try to log in to your different accounts, but website XYZ can! Trust is a word that finds no application in the world of Internet, because there are hordes of cyber-criminals lurking around. God forbid, but you may be the next target.
Just think if a guy gets access to your Google Accounts. He may see all your documents on Google Docs (In which confidential information might be saved!), use your account for illegal purposes and by chance if some one gets caught it wouldn't be that guy but you!
Avoid creating accounts of websites which are not very popular.
Don't keep any confidential information online.
If you're concerned, browse anonymously. Learn How!
Common Sense is the key to happiness (We do exaggerate!).
Don't click on malicious looking URLs.
Remember that your private information is yours. You get the choice of when, where and why you want to share it with someone.


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Q: Ground state metric? In kaluza-klein theory, there's a notion of a "ground state metric" after compactification. What  is the meaning of the term "ground state  metric"?

A: It just means that the energy (e.g. in the GR language, the ADM energy) is minimized among all configurations with the same boundary conditions. It  means that there are no gravitational or electromagnetic or other waves inside the space.
In practice, it just means that the geometry is a Cartesian product $M^4\times Y$ where $Y$ is the manifold of compact dimensions, and this classical geometry may be used as the "vev" defining the (second-quantized vacuum) vacuum in calculations in quantum field theory.


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