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Despite the fact that it is often overlooked, providing students with a localized viewer experience is a significant step in the right direction for training organizations wishing to gain a competitive advantage. Expand your global reach to non-English speaking countries. Remember, English is "only" the third largest language by a number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Being able to navigate, understand, and interact with the instructor in their native tongue automatically puts the learner in a "cultural comfort zone," enabling them to concentrate better on the content you are delivering. Every additional language added to your training offering has the potential to increase sales. Think bottom line when you add two, even three, languages to your global training offering. Gain a step up on competitors. In today's competitive environment, multilingual solutions give you the opportunity to effectively target new markets and provide training on your products and services to a much amplified and diversified audience. Think of the business advantage in reaching these new markets ahead of your competition. In the past year, CloudShare clients delivered over 10,600 classes worldwide via our global data centers. Our customers rely on us both for our technical expertise in providing cloud-based training labs for software and IT training, as well as our ability to provide specialized features to support their business goals. In this light, this week we've released our new multi-lingual environment viewer to better support our customers' global training and sales initiatives. The viewer localization option is now available in German and Japanese with more languages to follow soon. While instructors have always had the ability to reach students and prospects around the globe with CloudShare, the multilingual viewer makes it easier for learners and prospects to understand instructions and navigate in their local language. Users simply choose their language from the language button in the toolbar (see the circle in the image). The Overview page, Actions panel, and In-viewer notifications all appear in the user's familiar tongue. Fast copy of snapshots between data centers. CloudShare's automatic snapshot copying feature is designed not only to make this process simpler and faster, but also to ensure users always spin up the right environment. The minute you create a new snapshot in one region, CloudShare automatically identifies it and suggests copying it to other regions. With a simple click, CloudShare copies the snapshot to every region, notifying you every step of the way. Unfortunately, sometimes students around the world experience latency issues. Now, you are able to test and help them achieve the optimal VM viewing experience. The test recommends solutions to help fix any connection issues and automatically suggests the right adjustment for optimal performance-quality balance. If you're in the business of boosting your organization's success, going local is the key. By speaking your students' and prospects' language, not only are you able to communicate better, you are able to form stronger bonds. There's no need to wait. Localization is scalable. Start with one additional language and then another. First with your training environment, your trainers, and then your images and product. And remember – to create a fully optimized local experience, you must understand your users' culture as well. Wishing you happy localizing!

While troubleshooting my computer today to see if I could prevent it from crashing if it went into hibernate mode (where the OS saves out the contents of RAM before sleeping to the disk and completely shuts down the system), I again came across information on how to disable hibernate. I've seen this information a number of times, but didn't really pay attention to it. Recent Mac laptops, by default, have hibernate turned on which is great if your machine loses power completely and you haven't saved your work. However, I always save my work and rarely let my machine get all the way down such that the battery is completely dead. So, hibernate simply makes it longer for my machine to sleep; with the addition of 2 more GB of RAM, it takes even longer to write out the contents of RAM. So with that set, my machine should goto sleep faster and no longer crash on wake (due to a firmware issue with my SSD).

orangecounty@worldaffairscouncil.org Virtual Conferences & Webinars WACOC Video Lectures Updates from Our Global Resources Academic WorldQuest Academic WorldQuest Sponsorship Opportunities Academia & Students January 15th, 2021: A Conversation with U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee 15 Jan 2021 Friday 11:00 am-12:00 pm Register Friday, January 15th, 2021 – 11 AM PDT Join the World Affairs Councils of Los Angeles and Orange County for a livestream event on: U.S. Congressmember Barbara Lee in a conversation moderated by journalist, author and educator Jim Newton on what's ahead as Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President. In the new year, the Democrats will retain control of the House of Representatives as the 117th U.S. Congress is scheduled to reconvene as early as Jan. 3, and the Georgia Senate run-off elections take place on Jan. 5. Biden, in his first 100 days, has identified defeating the coronavirus pandemic with mask-wearing, distributing 100 million vaccine shots and reopening schools as key priorities. Congresswoman Barbara Lee is a leading voice for social and economic justice, international peace, and civil and human rights. Congresswoman Lee was first elected to Congress in 1998 after serving in the California State Legislature. In Congress, Rep. Lee served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and has been appointed four times as the Democratic Congressional Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations. She has led trade delegations to Africa and the Caribbean, and has authored or co-authored every major piece of legislation dealing with global HIV/AIDS issues since she was elected to Congress. After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Congresswoman Lee was the lone vote against a resolution that gave the President virtually unlimited authority to use force against unspecified organizations, individuals or nations for an unlimited time period. She has consistently fought to stop endless wars around the world and to reduce conditions that produce conflict and injustice. Congresswoman Lee is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the House Democratic Leadership, she is the highest ranking African American woman in the U.S. Congress. Jim Newton (moderator) is a veteran journalist, author and teacher. In 25 years at the Los Angeles Times, Newton worked as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, columnist and, from 2007 through 2010, editor of the editorial pages. He is the recipient of numerous national and local awards in journalism and participated in two staff efforts, coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He came to UCLA full-time in 2015 to teach in Communication Studies and Public Policy and to found and edit Blueprint (blueprint.ucla.edu), a magazine addressing the policy challenges facing California and Los Angeles. Newton has authored three works of history: Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made; Eisenhower: The White House Years; and Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace, a collaboration with former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. His newest book, "Man of Tomorrow," published in 2020, chronicles Jerry Brown as the longest-serving governor in California. Dean C. Alexander: The New Administration's Challenges with Confronting the Islamic State/ISIL Top Geopolitical Risks in 2020: Coronavirus Update | Time March 13th, 2020: Premium Member Luncheon with Congressman Harley Rouda A Realistic Look at Cybersecurity Threats for the 2020 elections and Beyond Register for Event: January 15th, 2021: A Conversation with U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee World Affairs Councils of America The World Affairs Councils of America is an independent, nonpartisan organization dedicated to engaging the public and leading global voices to better understand the world, America's international role, and the policy choices that impact our daily lives and our future. Learn more about WACA here Kenya has 536 kilometers of coastline, and it has some extraordinary beaches with the finest white sand and turquoise water. 3 days ago Kenya is home to the Big Five, also known as Lions, Elephants, Leopard, Rhinoceros, and Cape Buffalo. They can al… https://t.co/Du5CpDeCQ8 3 days ago Follow @worldaffairsoc Donate to the Education Fund Our goal is to help our future leaders gain a better understanding of the world in which they live; the challenges and opportunities they will face, and how they can contribute and benefit from the growing internationalization of their community and nation. Website by Div Your ticket for the: January 15th, 2021: A Conversation with U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee

In an effort to reduce future criminal behavior by people involved in low-level drug offenses and reduce the number of persons of color being arrested and referred to the criminal justice system, County and City leaders are launching an innovative pilot project called LEAD® or Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD®) is a pre-booking diversion program that was developed in Seattle, WA in 2011 and has now been replicated in four other jurisdictions around the country. LEAD® allows police officers to redirect low-level offenders involved in drug activity to intensive case management tailored to the individual's needs instead of jail and prosecution. The goals of this innovative approach are to reduce the harm that a drug offender causes him or herself and the surrounding community, reduce recidivism rates for low-level offenders, reduce the number of low level offenders in jail and decrease the number of people of color prosecuted for low-level drug possession. Participation is voluntary but requires completion of an in-depth assessment within 30-days of arrest for the case not to be filed. Central City Concern has been contracted to provide intensive case management services for LEAD® participants. The program will focus on high-pedestrian-traffic areas in and near downtown Portland. As the program progresses, stakeholders are committed to a rigorous evaluation of its impact and effectiveness and will evaluate whether LEAD® has resulted in reductions in drug use and recidivism, and is more cost-effective than traditional criminal justice response.

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Microsoft team recently released the public preview of Modern Authentication to the Azure Active Directory PowerShell Module, Now this new update removes the dependency of Microsoft Online Services Sign-In assistant and utilizes the new modern authentication model using Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL). You can review the Connect site for more updates, this includes changes to the way we connect to the service along with other enhancements etc. Be sure to read the release notes for more updates. Also recently we had the Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview release to manage Azure. Here comes the Official announcement from Microsoft team regarding the Public preview of Azure AD PowerShell with Modern authentication. Here is Quick demo from my experience. I installed the new AAD PowerShell module, Next we are going to connect to the service using an admin account enabled for MFA. You can refer my earlier blog post, Let's Learn Azure Multi-Factor Authentication today!!! to know about Azure MFA . Once second factor authentication is successfully completed, I am connected to the service and able to manage my tenant. Play around with this new product and share your feedback in connect site for betterment before it reaches GA.

August 07, 2003 Opinion » Viewpoint The godfather of rock-and-roll hasn't really left the building. by Jackson Baker Right up to the end he had that leonine look that led his friends to jest about a "pact with the devil." He was 80 years old but didn't look it. The red-haired mane, the rack of ivories bracketed by a pair of gleaming eyeteeth. He was one part Doctor Faustus and one part Dorian Gray, and that wasn't the half of it. He was the man who, as they said, "invented rock-and-roll." It is hard to remember now in the age of orotund, over-the-hill Elvis imitators, but there was a time -- even very close to the end -- when the King himself was presumed to be forever young. No one is, of course, but it is one of the missions of the music to make you believe in the possibility. Sam Phillips, who always understood that that's what Elvis and Jerry and Wolf and the myriad others were all about, was the Prime Mover in this belief. And the first believer himself. One of the most fascinating dialogues ever recorded is that between Sun Records producer Phillips and youthful charge Jerry Lee Lewis on the day in the mid-1950s that the normally intrepid Louisiana piano man balked at recording a number called "Great Balls of Fire," seeing nothing less than sacrilege in the lyrics. The debate reduced to this: Jesus wouldn't want me to do this, pleaded Lewis. On the contrary, argued Phillips: He wants you to do it in imitation of Him. Goodness gracious! The argument prevailed, and the song, to everybody's satisfaction, got done. That was one side of Sam Phillips: the preacher. The other side flared up one August day at the University of Memphis back in the 1980s, when the late Mae Axton, a representative of the other end of Tennessee's Music Highway in Nashville and the composer of Elvis' 1956 national breakout hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," had lingered overlong to extol the importance of her song and her city with an Elvis-seminar audience. "Goddamn!" Phillips, who had literally incubated Elvis at Sun, kept saying when it was his time to address the faithful. "Goddamn!" He needed neither to elaborate on his sentiment nor to apologize for it. The audience knew what he meant. Else they would not have come to Memphis, Sam's town, that year as they had come before and they keep on coming, year after year. People know who got what started and where. And they'll be here this week and next to commemorate the lives and deaths of Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley, and the sense of the city as a shrine will be compounded now. You watch. By interfering with various principals' travel arrangements, the Great Storm of 2003 delayed by a week the Washington ceremony that formally hallowed the old Sun Studio on Union Avenue as a National Historical Landmark. Would it have been nice if the prophet himself, who had died just the day before, could have attended? Of course. But he was there. Like any other self-respecting rock-and-roller, the Original never stopped looking to do new things. Phillips always wanted to produce a session with his close friend Bob Dylan (who once almost missed his own local concert by staying overlong at Phillips' house on a visit), but somehow the two aging pioneers never got together on it. So much the worse. Anwar Sadat, who tried to make the peace in the Middle East that is still elusive today and was assassinated for it in 1982, was another figure who loomed large in Phillips' thinking. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about him," Phillips observed some years back. It was the sadness of a man who had made his revolution for one who never got to. And those of us here, in the world capital he brought into being, can say the same about him: A day won't go by that we don't think about Sam Phillips. Senior editor Jackson Baker wrote a profile of Sam Phillips which appeared in the Flyer on June 14, 2000. More Viewpoint » Farewell, Clean Power; Trump's EPA Plan Will Make Pollution Worse (Viewpoint) by Maggie Shober Jul. 11, 2019, 4:00 AM Internet Married (Viewpoint) Tennessee lawmakers shouldn't make officiants join the "God club" to marry friends, family. by Toby Sells Netanyahu: Trump's Doppelganger? (Viewpoint) Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, doppelganger by Richard Cohen Jun. 18, 2019, 1:48 PM 2 DittyTV Steps Up To Major Radio Markets & Beyond Alex Greene 07/17/2019 Agency Aims to Fight Factory Farm Rules Toby Sells 07/17/2019 Manuel Duran Has Seen 'Disastrous Effects' of Trump's Immigration Policy Maya Smith 07/17/2019 Citing New State Law, Councilman Wary of Plastic Bag Ban Award-Winning Filmmaker Matteo Servente To Shoot His New Film "Nessun Dorma (No One Sleeps)" Chris McCoy 07/17/2019 CannaBeat: CBD Sales Surge Sevenfold Report: Much Hotter Days Ahead for Memphis If No Action on Climate Change City Council Could Spend $15K on Memphis 3.0 Consultant MEMernet: #SunsOutBunsOut U of M President Says School Will Pay $15 Per Hour in Two Years More by Jackson Baker Trump Endorsement of Hagerty Senate Bid May Have Force of Edict Presidential tweet boosting candidacy of Ambassador to Japan would seem to foreclose further Republican competition for seat being vacated by U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. Nashville Democrat Mackler also seeks the seat. Haslam Says No to Senate Race; Kustoff Says Maybe 8th District Congressman teases availability for run at Alexander seat; others are likely to be heard from. Mayor Lee Harris' Recent Actions Cause a Stir Look Up, Not Down: A Message to Young Trump Supporters by Ed Weathers I Am a Memphian Coming of age in a city still coming of age. by Frank Murtaugh Pavement vs. Parks The final decision on the Memphis Zoo parking lot redesign will signal what Memphis values most. by Eric Gottlieb

There is no use fighting the fact that at some point everyone needs reading glasses. There is no reason to tie yourself to a boring pair. Have fun with funky colors, crazy shapes and rhinestone embellishments. Show off your free spirit with the wide variety of reading glasses that stray from normal neutral colors and rounded shapes. Color is a place to start when jazzing up your reading glasses. Why choose dull black, brown or gray when colors like fuchsia and bright green are available? Reading glasses come in any color imaginable. Choose one that screams 'I am a fun person!'. Besides single colored frames there are options such as hand painted designs. A popular design is a floral pattern, but almost anything can be added with hand painting. Find someone who specializes in painting glasses and tell them what you want for your reading glasses. Getting creative with the color is one of the ways to add more pizzazz to your reading glasses. The shape of the frames is another option to turn your reading glasses from boring to fun. Most people see glasses as either round or oval shaped, but that is not the case. In fact cat eye shaped frames are very popular swooping up at the temples giving your face a visual lift. There are also squared or angled shaped frames. Not all frame shapes work on all faces. Try out different shapes to find one that suits you. For those really fun at heart people, rhinestones may be the answer. Rhinestone readers can be bought in all shapes, sizes and colors. Rhinestones are a great way to add flash and fun to reading glasses. While some people may love just one of these fun ideas, others may try all three. Be creative. The glasses are for reading, and you can have fun with them too. Steve Cogger co founder of http://www.readinstyle.com a online reading glasses boutique is also a licensed optician treating presbyopic patients on a daily basis. Visit http://www.readinstyle.com today for your free report, "7 Key ?'s to Answer Before Ever Buying Reading Glasses Online!" 1. Treat your business clothing as an investment and choose wisely. Make sure you buy classic styles that suit your body shape, are comfortable, have quality workmanship and quality material. This is no time to try the latest fads. Take your time and shop around for the best price and the best service. Be aware of the return policy and if possible purchase your wardrobe items at a store that can do professional alternations if necessary. With models and movie celebrities showing off their trendy attire including the types of sunglasses they wear, a question that comes to my mind is, "are they becoming more of a fashion statement than protection for your eyes?" In my business, I talk to a lot of gals and guys about lingerie. Ladies, if you heard what the guys say, you'd feel a lot better about your bodies. And, men, if you heard what the gals say, that last piece of lingerie you bought her.....well...she used it to decorate her shoelaces. Men want skimpy. Women want enhancement. Every man has done it - or will do it - and you know who you are! You walk into the lingerie department and pick out something you saw on a size two hottie in a movie and take it home for your lady and then wonder why she never wears it.

This year also marks the Tenth Anniversary of the Campus Dining Services' Student Employee Scholarship Program! To date Campus Dining Services has awarded 87 scholarships for a total of $35,500. I am pleased to announce that we had 33 employees submit applications for eight $500 student employee scholarships. We asked a pool of 5 faculty and staff members to be our judges and select our scholarship recipients. We would now like to recognize the Campus Dining Services' Student Employee of the Year, Kimberly Pfleiderer. Kim works as a student manager at Rollins and Catalyst Café and is an Agribusiness Management major. This year we were pleased and very excited to once again be able to award a $1,000 scholarship to our Student Employee of the Year.

Samford University Samford University is a premier nationally ranked private university deeply rooted in its Christian mission. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It enrolls 5,471 students from 47 states and 29 countries. In 2017, U.S. News and World Report ranked Samford #4 among regional universities in the South and #3 for a strong commitment to teaching. Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked Samford #40 in its 2017 ranking of the best value private universities. Samford is ranked #87 nationally and #1 in Alabama by The Economist and is the top-ranked university in Alabama in a national ranking conducted by The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education. Samford offers numerous undergraduate and graduate/professional degrees through 10 academic units: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. The faculty-to-student ratio is 1:12, and no classes are taught by teaching assistants. Among Samford's 50,000 alumni are more than 60 members of the U.S. Congress, eight state governors, two U.S. Supreme Court justices, one Secretary of State, four Rhodes Scholars, multiple Emmy and Grammy award-winning artists, two national championship football coaches, and recipients of the Pulitzer and Nobel Peace prizes. The university fields 17 varsity sports—eight men's and nine women's—that participate at the NCAA Division I level in the Southern Conference. Samford's athletics teams are ranked #1 in Alabama and the Southern Conference for Graduation Success Rate (GSR) by the NCAA with an average score of 99%. Eleven teams posted perfect scores. The football team's score of 98% is tied with Princeton and Columbia for the highest score among Division I-FCS programs, making Samford one of the highest ranked universities in Division I athletics. 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35229 http://www.samford.edu Featured Colleges, Graduate, Undergraduate

Heated goggles are not exactly new, but ABOM takes a new approach to keeping fog out of the picture. A heat-conductive element sandwiched in between layers of the lens warms the lens to the point where condensation will not form. There is also a sensor that adjusts the heat as needed depending on how cold the lens is, saving power over the course of the day. No fans or other moving parts, just—if the company's claims prove correct—a fog-free field of view on the coldest, wettest days. Purely as a technological step forward, we're totally on board. Thankfully, someone has figured out a way to repurpose some of the 8 million tons of plastic being dumped into the seas each year. In partnership with Parley for the Oceans, an environmental organization, Adidas has begun using repurposed ocean plastic in a number of its shoes, including the new Parley Climacool Boat Shoe. It's built from some of the 740 tons of plastic waste Parley recently collected in the Maldives. This isn't the first Adidas shoe that will use the Parley ocean plastic (that honor goes to the limited edition UltraBoost Uncaged Parley launched in November) but we're honoring the opening of a new recycled plastics supply chain for the outdoor industry, one we hope other companies get on board with. We'll admit it. This one is partly about the looks. We're glad to see a down sweater-weight midlayer that has the courage to buck the classic baffle style for something a little more interesting. The Mountain Hardwear StretchDown DS upgrades the company's popular stretchy StrechDown jacket with more stretch and a cool new approach to locking in all that 800-fill, responsibly-sourced hydrophobic down. Great design is the blending of form and function, and we think this jacket is a standout in both. For sleeping insulation, hammock campers typically rely on bulky underquilts or a standard sleeping pad, which are designed for flat campsites so they buckle and shift annoyingly in a curved hammock. For you tree dwellers, Klymit is launching what it's calling the first inflatable pad for hammock campers, an insulated pad designed for the curve of a hammock with wings on either side to help keep it in place. One of the annoying things about synthetic puffers is they don't really "puff". The insulation is usually laid in flat sheets that tend to stay flat, rather than expanding to trap hot air in as large a space as possible. That's why we're psyched about Patagonia's HyperPuff Hoody—the 100-grams of synthetic insulation is built with what the company calls an "accordion-like construction" that compresses small but pops back into a thick loft when released. There is also a 200-gram Parka on the way as well. There's always one hot touring boot that people are talking about at the Outdoor Retailer show. This year, it's the new Scarpa Maestrale RS (the women's version is the Gea RS). While the Maestrale has been a Scarpa mainstay for years—and the best-selling touring boot on the market, according to the company—the new version drops a full five ounces per boot (to 3 pounds, 2 ounces). It also managed to boost the flex range from 37 degrees to a Gumby-like 60-degrees, and there's also a little bit more stiffness in ride mode. That's a pretty impressive improvement for a boot that's already been camped on top of the market. 3D printing technology is on the way to changing everything—including how you get fit for shoes. Superfeet is rolling out a shoe fitting system at participating retailers that will take scans of customers' feet and then recommend shoes that will fit them best. The customer will also be able to order 3D-printed, custom outsoles and, at some point, custom-printed recovery shoes. We're giving this award now for what it represents in the progression of personalized shoe fitting technology. Someday, we'll be abler to print the perfect fitting shoe, every time. Let's be clear. We're all about solar power. But we also recognize that there are times when power users won't be able to recharge their devices using renewable energy alone. For them, there is now a compromise. The Goal Zero Yeti Fuel is a hyper-efficient gas-powered battery charger for use in environments or under high-power demands where solar recharging simply isn't an option. Unlike other gas generators, however, the Yeti Fuel has the ability to sense when the battery it is charging is full, and automatically shuts itself off, reducing noise and fumes, while also saving fuel. And when the generator detects that the battery is running low on juice, it can automatically fire itself up again to provide a charge. Goal Zero designed the Yeti Fuel to work with its new line of lithium battery packs, which limits its utility somewhat. But we salute the way this generator simply does gas better. Carbon fiber skis have held enormous potential—they have exceptional torsional stiffness at very low weight. The downside has always been a chattery ride. Manufacturers have been chasing a damper carbon ski for years, and from our early test rides, it looks like DPS has finally nailed it. The brand's new Alchemist line uses a new manufacturing process for layering in dampening materials that significantly reduces the vibrations (and audible noise) transmitted through the ski. We found the new ski light enough to tour on, but still fast and powerful enough to tackle all aggressive all-mountain lines, and with an even balance of stiffness throughout the ski, not just immediately underfoot as with a lot of carbon skis. We're predicting this is going to be a standout ski at our spring ski test in Utah.

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Did Queen Elizabeth II Stop Kate Middleton From Posing For a Racy Calendar In Her Underwear? A report that has been getting a lot of traction online recently has raised questions about a risque photoshoot Kate Middleton was expected to take part in and who talked her out of it. The offer came after the now-Duchess of Cambridge joined an all-female dragon boat racing crew that was raising money for children's hospices. Middleton was reportedly asked to do a charity calendar in which she would pose in her underwear, a baseball cap, and body paint. However, after considering it she decided not to and some have speculated that Queen Elizabeth II advised her against it doing it. Here's more on the photoshoot and whether Her Majesty is the person who stopped Middleton from posing for it. Who told Middleton not to pose? Middleton joined the 21-girl rowing team known as The Sisterhood just after her highly-publicized breakup with Prince William in 2007. The couple, who first met in 2001 at St. Andrew's University, reportedly started dating sometime in 2003 but they hit a rough patch after four years together and split up. Middleton then joined the team and considered doing the charity calendar. Middleton and William were back together within a few months and the future duchess never did do the calendar. According to the Guardian, she was indeed advised not to by Queen Elizabeth. The report also noted that not only did Middleton decline to pose for the calendar but she left the rowing team altogether in August of that same year at Her Majesty's urging. The shoot did go on without her though. The photos of the duchess' former teammates were shot by celebrity photographer M. J. Kim and the funds raised went to Babes in Arms, which sponsers research into abnormalities in babies, as well as the children's hospice charity CHASE Ben Hollioake Fund. Although Middleton did not do the charity calendar, she did participate in another event that was viewed by some as risque because of the see-through knitted dress she wore. You may recall hearing about the fashion show she was in when she was in college. Middleton walked the runway in the black number with black underwear on underneath. It's also been reported that was the moment William became smitten with his future-wife and purchased a front-row ticket to watch her. The pair got engaged in 2010 and were married on April 29, 2011. Today, they are parents to three young children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.

How Network Science Is Changing Our Understanding of Law http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534576/how-network-science-is-changing-our-understanding-of-law/ Konaris et al at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece expanded on existing legal network analysis by extracting "all the documents from the European Community's legal database dating back to 1951" and organizing the texts into three subnetworks: treaties between countries, regulations and directives that are based on these treaties, and case laws that have emerged from the application of these regulations. Analysis of each subsection showed that "all were small world networks in themselves" that generally demonstrate high levels of resilience. This model produced a novel perspective because it takes into account both the temporal dynamism and hierarchical nature of European law. In addition to mapping citations (references that do not modify the target document) Konaris also represented legal bias (edit references that modify either the text or the lifecycle of the target document) and accounted for their effects over time. This revealed "a steep increase in the density of links within the network over time". Ultimately, Konaris suggests that the clusters and related connections illustrated by this work may "help legislators determine the effect of proposed changes and improve the effectiveness of legal information retrieval". http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05237 Global patterns of synchronization in human communications The Results Are in: Scientists Are Workaholics | Wired Science | Wired.com Facebook Is Pretty Much Like the Rest of the World – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic

Major hospitality group Whitbread has multiple complex projects that need careful budgetary management throughout their life span. We built an Approvals Database to capture every element, giving secure access to project information to a range of users. CollectPlus needed to track events at each point in a parcel's journey. They process tens of thousands daily. We built such a flexible, sophisticated data warehouse that ultimately served many other functions in the business. Motorway services operator Welcome Break needed a central management reporting capability. We built interactive dashboard-style KPI reports for unit managers to instantly highlight areas needing attention. Noble Foods is a multi-divisional, fast-moving food business that wanted to introduce an enterprise-wide BI system. We developed a reporting system underpinned by a Microsoft SQL Server database with flexible, self-service dashboards for ad hoc analysis. With mergers and acquisitions, reporting systems need to be aligned to ensure consistent management information. We completed a data integration project for Stonegate Pub Company to guarantee undisrupted finance and sales reporting following an acquisition process. NSL manage Transport for London's licensing and inspection test service for taxis and private hire vehicles. A manual process for the collection and storage of personal data was replaced by an online system that is more efficient, secure and complies with GDPR. Travelodge's revenue management team need to respond immediately to changing market conditions. By automating the revenue forecast report using Microsoft's Reporting Services managers no longer wait – as they did - before reviewing future bookings and taking action. Growing restaurant group Bistrot Pierre wanted a tool to generate reports from its EPoS system that Excel users in the finance team could use. A flexible, comprehensive system delivered using Microsoft's Power BI has provided users with self-service dashboards. NSL manages taxi licensing for Greater London and needed a reporting solution for their teams and a third party partner. The project was complex; a large number of data sources, over 100 standard reports and ad hoc analysis capability required. Outsourced service providers like NSL, who work with local authorities and organisations like Transport for London, need total confidence in their monitoring and reporting systems. Support for those systems is prioritised at change++. "What we value about the support service at change++ is their willingness and ability to investigate and resolve issues before they impact on our service delivery commitments."

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Agriculture Officials Really Want Those Spotted Lanternflies Gone, Gone, Gone Scientists Are Learning More About Fire Tornadoes, The Spinning Funnels Of Flame Like Porter Ranch, neighborhoods in Playa del Rey, Montebello sit near aging gas wells Residents arrive at the SoCal Gas Community Resource Center in Porter Ranch on Jan. 8, 2016. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Sharon McNary | February 24, 2016 Now that Southern California Gas Company has plugged the natural gas well that polluted air around Porter Ranch for months, the utility must address the problem that caused the leak in the first place: it has dozens of wells that are even older than the 63-year-old well that failed – wells that in many cases are long overdue for maintenance. The leak at the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility spewed about 5.4 billion cubic feet of methane, a potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere with trace amounts of other chemicals, according to a State Air Resources Board estimate. Some have called the leak the nation's worst-ever methane leak. As bad as it was, the leak might have been expected given the warnings from SoCal Gas that its vast inventory of wells in the region is, on average, 52 years old and is becoming ever-more difficult and costly to repair. "Regrettably, there is a broader theme than Aliso Canyon, that we have a lot of very old infrastructure in energy that we have to address for the 21st Century," said U.S. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz during his mid-February visit to the leak site. He called for stronger monitoring and control of methane leaks. "Frankly, gas storage fields need a fresh look in terms of some of the regulatory requirements. That was clearly brought home here." Only weeks before the Oct. 23 leak was discovered, the state Department of Conservation criticized a subordinate agency, the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), which oversees operations at gas fields like Aliso Canyon. In a report, the department said DOGGR was understaffed, undertrained, poorly-led and plagued with outdated recordkeeping, data and regulations. A plan to make over the division is still in draft form, but some elements of it — like more intensive inspections — have been accelerated in the wake of the gas leak. "I'm sure if they could have a do-over, they would have configured that well differently," said Paul Bommer, a senior lecturer in petroleum engineering at University of Texas at Austin. He called the leak at Aliso Canyon gas field "a preventable deal." Old wells, urgently in need of repair Of 198 active gas wells owned by SoCal Gas, 75 were drilled in the 1950s or earlier. There may be even more aged wells because another 37 have no initial drill date listed in the sometimes incomplete public records at DOGGR. In a 2014 regulatory quest for higher gas rates, the company told the California Public Utilities Commission that is had to renovate 36 wells because of leaks or problems with safety valves between 2008 and 2013. The company proposed a six-year program of intensive inspections that would help it target which wells most urgently need repair. The CPUC has not yet ruled on the request. The well near Porter Ranch that ruptured is known as Standard Sesnon 25. It was first drilled in 1953 in what was then an oil field in Aliso Canyon in foothills of the Santa Susanna Mountains at the north end of the San Fernando Valley. Like Standard Sesnon 25, most of the active gas wells SoCal Gas operates started out as oil production wells that were later converted to gas storage wells. They are used to inject and withdraw natural gas in and out of rock formations thousands of feet underground. "Without a robust program to inspect underground storage wells to identify potential safety and/or integrity issues, problems may remain undetected," the SoCal Gas rate request document said, noting that many of its wells are close to homes, and its underground storage fields extend underneath homes. Age distribution of SoCal Gas storage wells Southern California Gas Co. filing with CPUC So how did SoGal Gas get to the point of losing control of an aging well in its largest, most important gas field? The practice of storing gas underground in Southern California began as a government wartime project in Playa del Rey. Playa del Rey: Some wells date to 1930s The Playa del Rey gas storage field located near the Ballona Wetlands between Marina del Rey and LAX has 29 active gas wells, including eight that were drilled in the 1930s. It is the smallest of the SoCal Gas storage fields, with 2.6 billion cubic feet of gas stored underground. The reservoir stretches under nearby homes, the Ballona Wetlands and part of the Marina del Rey boat harbor. Oil prospectors swarmed Playa del Rey in the 1920s, drilling plenty of dry holes. The first big well was discovered in 1929. Those oldest oil leases registered names with the state like "Happy Days" and "Recreation Gun Club." One well that would eventually be converted to a gas storage well was named "King Vidor" apparently after the famous director and founder of the Directors Guild of America. Eight wells at the Playa del Rey field, drilled between 1935 and 1936, remain active today as gas storage wells, according to DOGGR records. A 1931 report from the state Division of Oil and Gas about the discovery of oil at Playa del Rey. CA Division of Oil and Gas The oil ran out by the 1940s. The field was taken over by the federal government in 1942 and converted to a natural gas storage field to serve the war effort. Post-war, it was transferred to the federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation and sold as surplus to Southern California Gas Co. in 1953. Over the next few years, SoCal Gas built out the field and injected 27 billion cubic feet of gas in the field as "cushion gas," that is, the amount of gas that remains underground to keep the reservoir's pressure high enough that additional gas can be moved in and out. Some of the wells are directionally drilled so that the underground gas field extends well beyond the limits of the SoCal Gas property footprint. The Playa field has had at least 10 leaking wells over the years, including several wells that were repaired, then leaked again, according to a CPUC document concerning the sale of surplus SoCal Gas property at Playa del Rey. It said some gas that was stored underground has escaped to the surface over the years through cracked well casings or from old wells that were plugged by their original owners, not SoCal Gas. Some were plugged with insecure methods like shoving old telephone poles down the hole and topping it with cement. The leaking well at the Aliso Canyon gas field was more than a mile from homes at Porter Ranch. State regulations permit gas storage wells to be 300 or more feet of homes. Any closer to homes, roads, parks or populated places, it's considered a "critical well," and stricter rules apply. Operators of the gas storage project at Playa del Rey appeared to be very aware of that 300-foot buffer. In 1984, the company submitted a surveyor's map showing that a home was just far enough away from a well called "Pomoc 1" to avoid that "critical" label. It was outside the 300-foot limit by 45.6 inches. SoCal Gas got state regulators to "reclassify the well as non-critical." A well that was a bit farther than 300 feet from a home is deemed non-critical and spared stricter operating rules for wells that are closer to homes. SoCalGas filing with state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources When an emergency shutdown valve in the field malfunctioned in 2003, a fine oil mist covered some nearby homes. SoCal Gas paid to clean homes, cars and yards. In December 2007 the company settled a complaint by the CPUC over odors coming from the Playa field. The settlement required SoCal Gas to minimize its venting of natural gas, to capture some of the vapors coming from the plant and conform to the South Coast Air Quality District's requirements. It also had to monitor the area for gas coming up in the soil from abandoned or closed wells, and check for ground subsidence due to the withdrawal of oil or gas. Another concern with the Playa field was gas migration. Underground gas stores can move through cracks in the earth and other vents to the surface where they escape into the air. Or it can collect under a structure and become an explosive hazard. That's what happened in 1985 when the Ross Department Store exploded at Third and Ogden streets in Los Angeles. Environmentalists have been using the issues at the storage field for years in their efforts to put further restrictions on the site. The nonprofit Environmental Law Foundation sued SoCal Gas in 2007, claiming that it violated California's Prop 65 anti-pollution law by injecting too much gas underground at Playa del Rey, causing the gas to contaminate the city's drinking water. That case settled in 2012, with the company paying nearly $1 million and agreeing to increased gas leak monitoring, said foundation attorney Jim Wheaton. The most visible problem in recent years was the explosion of a vent stack at the gas field on Jan. 6, 2013. The flare could be seen for miles. SoCal Gas blamed operator error, but Councilman Bill Rosendahl said he questioned "whether the surrounding area will be safe if another incident occurs." Roy Bagdasarian's home on Veragua Drive is on a bluff with a spectacular view of the ocean, Ballona Creek, Marina del Rey, and, below, the gas field's pipes, tanks and wells. He's lived there 28 years and describes the company as a good neighbor. "We've never had a problem with these guys," Bagdasarian said. "I can smell gas two-three times a year, goes away very quickly and they've been good neighbors to me." He was not at home during the explosion, but heard about it from neighbors. "It was a big old fire plume that went 30, 40, 50 feet in the air and then it was done," Bagdasarian said. SoCal Gas paid to clean several houses whose owners claimed damages, but Bagdasarian's was not among them, he said. He stressed that he knew the gas field was nearby when he moved to the area, and the Porter Ranch incident reassured him that if something at Playa del Rey were to go wrong, the gas company would relocate him until it was fixed. In August 2015, DOGGR notified SoCal Gas that 19 of its wells (including "Pomoc 1," the well that was close to a home) had not demonstrated "mechanical integrity" and were overdue for pressure tests used to detect if leaks are present. One of those wells, called Vidor 7, was tested later in the month and failed because of leaking valves at the wellhead. The company received a notice of violation in November. DOGGR spokeswoman Theresa Schilling said in an email that the company had received an extension of time to perform the testing on the 19 wells and that it was to be completed in February. Honor Rancho's history of gas leaks Another storage facility SoCal Gas maintains is an oil field in the Santa Clarita Valley known as Wayside Honor Rancho near I-5 and Highway 126. The Honor Rancho (later named Pitchess Detention Center) has been county jail property since 1938. It was where people convicted of public drunkenness and other crimes could work off their sentences in the sunshine and clear air. Drilling rig workers were warned to lock their vehicles, and to bring no weapons, booze or drugs onto the property. The gas company leases the land from Los Angeles County, paying nearly $400,000 per year, said county spokesman David Sommers. Fourteen of Honor Rancho's 34 active gas wells were drilled in the '50s and '60s as oil wells by Chevron Texaco. SoCal Gas bought the field in 1975 and converted it to gas storage. Today, it holds about 26 billion cubic feet of gas that could be sold to customers. In 1991, a well known as WEZU 30 was leaking badly enough that it placed the integrity of the entire field in peril. SoGal Gas experts writing in the Oil & Gas Journal in 1991 said that workers accidentally punched through the well casing into the storage reservoir, triggering the leak. It's not clear exactly how much natural gas escaped, but just as with the leak at Aliso Canyon, it took months to resolve, and the same method was used. A second well, called a rescue well, was drilled alongside the leaking one, and a tool that uses electromagnetic fields was sent down the second well to pinpoint the location of the leaking well. Back in 1991, it was a very new method for SoCal Gas, which had hired contractors to do the work, and there were some mishaps. At one point, the rescue well unintentionally bored through the leaking well 9,860 feet below the surface after readings from the magnetic tool told them they should have been about four feet away from the well. Gas migration was a problem at the Honor Rancho field in 1996. The company reported that gas has migrated beyond the intended reservoir, however details of the severity of the incident were not available. Gas migration can be caused by "a lack of structural integrity of the geologic reservoir or due to a man-made conduit, such as a poor cementation in the storage well casing strings," the company said. Honor Rancho has 34 active gas wells today. Montebello's gas field closure SoCal Gas has closed one major gas storage field in recent years. The Montebello Natural Gas Storage Facility was decommissioned in 2000, and even though it is no longer a gas storage project, that site still has 25 active gas wells, according to DOGGR well records. Five of those were drilled in the 1960s. The Montebello Gas Storage Facility opened in 1956 on a former oil field drilled in the 30s. It was big, with capacity for 40 billion cubic feet of natural gas that could be delivered to customers and a similar amount held underground to keep the field pressurized. It holds about half what the Aliso Canyon field holds. The line of dots indicate gas storage and oil extraction wells on the grounds of the Montebello Natural Gas Storage Facility in Montebello. CA Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources The CPUC fined SoCal Gas $3.5 million in 2000. The commission alleged the company obtained an order permitting it to force homeowners to sell their underground mineral rights at below-market prices. The company had told the commission the gas field was vital to its operations. But shortly after that decision, the gas company told the CPUC it no longer needed the gas field and wanted to sell it. Homeowners complained. SoCal Gas admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement and agreed to close the gas field. The case halted the sale of the Montebello gas field. Incidents like that left some residents mistrustful of the company. Yvonne Watson is a Montebello resident who has monitored the gas field and would like to see it shut down. "It just really burns me up that there are so many things happening here and this is one of these things where you trust these companies to do the right thing, but it feels like they don't do the right thing unless they absolutely have to," Watson said. SoCal Gas, in the settlement of a different lawsuit, agreed to shut down the field in 2000. In a written statement, gas company spokeswoman Melissa Bailey said that most of the 46 active wells at Montebello are depleted. However, some natural gas continues to be pulled out of the field and put into the SoCal Gas distribution network as part of the process of shutting down the field. That gas is known as "cushion gas" that is put into the field to pressurize it. The field now produces oil, and the small amount of gas and water that come out with the oil are reinjected back underground, Bailey said. "A leak similar to Aliso is highly unlikely since Montebello is not a pressurized storage facility," she said. The future of Aliso Canyon's wells Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility in the Santa Susanna foothills above Porter Ranch is Southern California Gas Co.'s largest natural gas storage field. It has 91 active gas storage wells according to state regulator data. (SoCal Gas often says it has 114 gas wells at Aliso, the others are idle or used for observation.) Here is when the still-active wells were first drilled. # Drilled 1940s 25 wells 1950s 7 wells 2010 to present 4 wells SoCal Gas acquired the depleted oil field and transformed it into a gas storage field in 1973. In later years, the company continued to drill wells at Aliso Canyon even as home-building continued a mile or two downwind in Porter Ranch. "This was a 65-year-old well that was subject to only the most rudimentary annual testing," said Rep. Brad Sherman, whose San Fernando Valley district includes part of Porter Ranch. He moved to the community about a year ago. He said he smelled the gas but did not relocate his family during the months-long leak. SoCal Gas said the leaking well had a subsurface safety valve that was removed in 1979 and not replaced. It's not clear from DOGGR's records how many of the wells drilled in the past 25 or so years were put in to replace aging wells in the SoCal Gas fields. There have been calls from some residents and others to shut down the Aliso Canyon storage facility. SoCal Gas has repeatedly said that field is vital to the energy reliability of Southern California. Its operation is already mostly stalled now due to a state order that injections of gas into the field be halted until the time-consuming inspection of other old wells is completed. SoCal Gas has set up a community resource center on Tampa Avenue near the entrance to their Aliso Canyon Storage Facility near Porter Ranch. The state and AQMD had also ordered the amount of gas in the reservoir to be drawn down to reduce the pressure on the leaking well and other wells. So today, the storage field holds a minimal amount of gas, about 5 billion cubic feet, just enough to get the region through a cold snap or a few very hot days when power plants burn natural gas to meet higher demand. One of the big questions remaining about the Aliso Canyon field is whether and when it will return to its normal functioning as the main gas reservoir serving the Los Angeles and Orange County areas. A bill by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, is working its way through the legislature that would place a moratorium on further gas injections to the reservoir until all the wells are inspected, not just 18 older wells covered by a state order. Despite those calls for the field to be shut down or restricted, SoCal Gas is in the process of a major expansion. The company is partway through a $201 million project to build new turbine engines that are used to force gas underground. Those new turbines would increase the capacity of the underground gas field by 50 percent. That project was approved in 2013 by the CPUC. An oil well blew in Marina del Rey but authorities took a week to tell the neighbors SoCal Gas ordered to refill 'depleted' local gas fields SoCal Gas appeals gas leak-related safety violations SoCal Gas fined $2.25 million for safety violations far from Porter Ranch Porter Ranch homebuyers not told of gas field until after leak Dozens of Porter Ranch homes report new smells Why the Porter Ranch gas leak could turn off SoCal's power Weaker AQMD smog rules under attack by state, environmentalists Exactly how much methane did the Porter Ranch leak release? LA County to test air inside some Porter Ranch homes (updated) Beyond Aliso Canyon: LA's other gas wells Panel approves moratorium on gas operations after Porter Ranch leak Porter Ranch: California legislators consider Aliso Canyon moratorium Porter Ranch: LA opens center to help residents return home SoCal Gas pleads not guilty in Porter Ranch gas leak Porter Ranch: Secretary of Energy visits site of gas leak Air quality scientist uses lasers to detect Porter Ranch methane Fact vs. Fear in the Porter Ranch gas leak KPCC's Environment & Science coverage is a Southern California resource provided by member-supported public radio. We can't do it without you.

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The hard fork brought smart contracts to the blockchain, paving the way for builders to utilize its services. Now, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, and other types of decentralized applications (dApps) can now be built on Cardano. Recent data from Santiment showed that Cardano was the most developed crypto project on GitHub in 2021. This shows that more developers are building there. With the Cardano Foundation also spending significantly on efforts to increase the blockchain's appeal to developers, we expect to see increased numbers this year. ADA shed 17% of its value in December, so it is ripe for more upside. As the market starts to work out of its bearish rut, we expect to see some gains here. 5. Ripple (XRP) XRP is one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in the market. Developed by Ripple Labs, this asset is also the crypto industry's foremost payment-focused coin. With a high transaction throughput and low fees, XRP makes cross-border payments a breeze. However, we're including XRP on our list of the top altcoins to buy because of developments from its holding company. Ripple Labs was hit with a massive securities fraud lawsuit in December 2022 from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The suit had a massive effect on the asset's price, with XRP losing 20% that month alone. Despite the optics – as well as a wave of delistings from several top crypto exchanges – XRP managed to have a pretty good year in 2021. Its price jumped by 292% throughout the year, even though December was pretty rough as it shed 16.4% of its value. Going into 2022, XRP has a point to prove. For one, there is growing optimism that Ripple Labs and the SEC will settle their suit soon. If this happens, the blockchain giant will be free to operate unencumbered – and, according to company chief executive Brad Garlinghouse, perhaps even push for an initial public offering (IPO). Strong conviction among Ethereum long-term holders, DeFi TVL up Digitex dev update #7: Trading fees and USDC futures Tether ($USDT) Assures Investors Amid Celsius ($CEL) Crisis Embattled Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Files for Chapter 15 Bankruptcy – Bitcoin News Only 15% of UK Crypto Firms Have Been Issued Licenses eCash Bulls In Position, Signalling Fresh XEC Price Increase – Is It Time To Buy? FTX and Alameda Research Collapse Sad Event but 'Good for the Long Run' Says DWF Labs Managing Partner – Interview Bitcoin News Why Is FTX Dodging New Bankruptcy Probe?

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<?php /** * Created by PhpStorm. * User: warhuhn * Date: 06.02.16 * Time: 19:46 */ namespace LogBlogBundle\Menu; use Knp\Menu\FactoryInterface; use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorageInterface; use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authorization\AuthorizationCheckerInterface; class MenuBuilder { /** * @var FactoryInterface */ private $menuFactory; /** * @var AuthorizationCheckerInterface */ private $authorizationChecker; /** * @var TokenStorageInterface */ private $tokenStorage; public function __construct(FactoryInterface $menuFactory, AuthorizationCheckerInterface $authChecker, TokenStorageInterface $tokenStorage) { $this->menuFactory = $menuFactory; $this->authorizationChecker = $authChecker; $this->tokenStorage = $tokenStorage; } /** * @return FactoryInterface */ public function getMenuFactory() { return $this->menuFactory; } /** * @return AuthorizationCheckerInterface */ public function getAuthorizationChecker() { return $this->authorizationChecker; } /** * @return TokenStorageInterface */ public function getTokenStorage() { return $this->tokenStorage; } /** * Builds the Main menu * * @return \Knp\Menu\ItemInterface */ public function createMainMenu() { $menu = $this->getMenuFactory()->createItem('root'); $menu->addChild('home', [ 'label' => 'Startseite', 'route' => 'log_blog_homepage', ]); if ($this->getAuthorizationChecker()->isGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED')) { if ($this->getAuthorizationChecker()->isGranted('ROLE_AUTHOR')) { $menu->addChild('new_post', [ 'label' => 'Neuer Eintrag', 'route' => 'log_blog_authoring_post_write', ]); $menu->addChild('list_posts', [ 'label' => 'Alle Posts', 'route' => 'log_blog_authoring_post_list', ]); } $menu->addChild('profile', [ 'label' => (string) $this->getTokenStorage()->getToken()->getUsername(), 'route' => 'fos_user_profile_show', ]); $menu->addChild('logout', [ 'label' => 'Abmelden', 'route' => 'fos_user_security_logout', ]); } else { $menu->addChild('register', [ 'label' => 'Neu Registrieren', 'route' => 'fos_user_registration_register', ]); $menu->addChild('login', [ 'label' => 'Anmelden', 'route' => 'fos_user_security_login', ]); } return $menu; } }

the comparison is really between you and you. The goal is to be the most present and aware you possibly can be in each moment of yoga practice. Now, those are good goals for life too. Can you notice the moment you are in, the now more fully? Can you bring more awareness to what is in the moment? Can you lovingly observe yourself and what you are doing? There is a bit of a paradox in yoga practice that is similar to meditation. You should come to the practice with no outcome or goal in mind. The goal is the practice of doing and not expecting to get anywhere. It is more about allowing yourself time in your day to to "just be" instead of trying to get something done and over with, like many things on your To Do List. It is more in the experiencing than the finishing. Sometimes you may need structure for your practice. The trick is to roll out your mat, preferably the same time every day, and get started. Even better, how about if you recall some poses you like before you start? Do a few poses you know and enjoy from having done in class or from a yoga video. Once you get practicing, you will remember other poses. The first five minutes of any yoga practice is the most challenging, with the hardest part being unrolling your yoga mat and stepping on to it! In fact, commit to simply doing this, standing there and see what happens. Another way to go is to use a yoga video or audio practice to guide through a practice. It helps to start with something that you know, or is your level of experience, and that interests you. I have been practicing yoga for 30 years, and still have a hard time doing the first step every day. I really love Shiva Rea's audio CDs such as Yoga Sanctuary. which has different tracks for practicing a flow of yoga poses. There are days when I feel less energetic, so I go for more restful yoga tracks such as those on the Lunar Yoga CD. On more energetic days, I will do Solar Yoga, the other CD in this set. I may be interested in backbends, in forward bends or maybe a vinyasa sequence. I can pick and choose the tracks, and I like to end with some a guided relaxation at the end. Since I have several of Shiva Rea's CDs. Drops of Nectar, more of a guided meditation and relaxation. Yoga Chant has some backbends I love when I am in the mood, and Yoga Sanctuary gives me vinyasa similar to what my yoga class offers. I find it valuable to listen to a guided practice to give me structure at home. Even though I am have guidance from a teacher talking me through, I have to remember to listen to my own body doing the pose.

21 interesting facts about penguins that may just put a smile on your face. Robbie Couch Did you know penguins are so adorable that they get not just one but two days of annual celebratory attention? Jan. 20 each year is Penguin Awareness Day, and April 25 is World Penguin Day. So let's appreciate our little tuxedo-clad friends and educate ourselves on why they're (not just so freaking cute but also) important. Without further ado... 1. Penguins are pretty incredible. Photo by Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images. Let me tell you why. 2. There are so many different kinds of penguins — 17 to 19 species, to be more precise. These little ones are Adélie penguins. Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images. 3. Of all these different species, the emperor penguin is the biggest... ...just as its name implies. Here's a colony of emperors who appear to be completely over an elephant seal that won't shut up. "Can it, Rebecca!" Photo by Marcel Mochet/AFP/Getty Images. 4. On average, emperor penguins are about 3'9" tall. For scale, these emperor penguins are hanging out in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo next to what I'm assuming is an adult human rocking some sweet penguin cosplay. Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images. 5. On the other end of the size spectrum are these little blue penguins. They're not as widely known as the dapper emperors, and they stand about a foot tall, give or take. Photo by Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images. 6. Penguins are all about that seafood life. That is, they eat things like fish, krill, and squid. Photo by Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images. 7. Even the little ones have huge appetites. The entire species of Adélies, one of the smaller penguins, puts away 1.5 million metric tons of krill a year (and that doesn't include their appetite for fish and squid). 8. Remember, though: Penguins don't live at the North Pole. Although a penguin-driven Santa sleigh would be pretty adorable in theory. 9. Most species of penguin live down south, in places like Antarctica, New Zealand, and — like the ones below — Chile. 10. But that's not to say penguins can't live farther north. Beach-bum penguins (er, African penguins) are definitely a thing. Photo by Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images. 11. You may spot them off the coast of South Africa. Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images. The northernmost place wild penguins roam is the Galápagos Islands, which are right on the equator. (Naturally, they are called Galápagos penguins.) 12. Most penguin species are also monogamous. I'm sorry, but that's just adorable. To be clear, though, that doesn't mean they "mate for life," so to speak. It simply means, for the most part, that each male will have only one female partner (and vice versa) every mating season. (Still ... adorable.) 13. Penguins often make excellent parents as well. Both the adult male and female play big roles in hatching and rearing their young ones — like this couple of Gentoo penguins at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Gay penguins, too, have been known to be pretty damn good at raising their chicks together. 14. Unfortunately, like many animals, penguins have been harmed by humans. Downtrodden penguins (just like those beach bums) are also a thing. 15. I bet you've heard of one major culprit: climate change. A warming planet means penguins have lost (and are increasingly losing) important sea ice. Sea ice is vital because that's where penguins breed and hunt for food. 16. When sea ice disappears, penguin populations shrink. Big time. A 2014 study found that by the end of this century, at least two-thirds of the world's emperor penguin colonies will have shrunk by more than half if temperatures creep up as predicted. 17. Humans are also infringing on penguins' food chains. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. When we overfish the oceans, it doesn't bode well for their diets. How would you feel if penguins starting binge-eating all of our food? (OK, weird visual. But you get the picture.) 18. Protecting penguins isn't just about penguins. 19. Penguins help keep our entire world in balance. Seriously, no joke. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. As the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History points out, protecting penguins is vital in keeping our ecosystems in check: "Penguins do far more than make us smile, however; they also play important roles in ecosystems both in the ocean and on land. Penguins — adults, young and eggs — serve as food for predators such as leopard seals and seabirds in cold areas, along with foxes, leopards, and even crabs in warmer climates. By chasing after fish, squid and krill, they affect prey populations wherever they hunt. They carry nutrients between land and sea, and enrich both with their feces. Some burrowing species even modify the landscape as they dig nests into the ground." 20. Bottom line: Penguins are interesting, adorable, and important creatures. Especially this penguin chick. This one speaks to me. Photo by Jennifer Bruce/AFP/Getty Images. 21. So let's remember to protect our friends with flippers down south. Because in more ways than one, they make our world a better place. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. climate change sea ice penguins penguin awareness day emperor penguins little blue penguins adélie penguins galápagos penguins gentoo penguins overfishing world penguin day

T.J. Doyle Dedicated to the premise that life would be better if we all took ourselves a little less seriously. @gheorghetheblog mailto:tjdoyl@yahoo.com Gheorghe: The Blog David Ash stars as Longhorns avoid upset bid The Texas Longhorns survived an upset bid in Stillwater on Saturday night, escaping with a 41-36 win over Oklahoma State, thanks to a late drive by David Ash and the Texas offense. By T.J. Doyle September 30, 2012 Texas, TCU and Baylor ranked in AP's top 25 The Texas Longhorns (3-0), TCU Horned Frogs (3-0) and Baylor Bears (3-0) are all ranked in the latest Associated Press Top 25 Poll. Rangers Vs. Mariners: Texas Looks To Avoid Weekend Series Sweep In Seattle 2012 TOUR Championship: TV Schedule, Tee Times, Pairings For Sunday College Football Rankings, Week 4: Texas, TCU Both Ranked In This Week's AP Top 25 Poll The Texas Longhorns and TCU Horned Frogs both won on Saturday, and both find themselves ranked in the teens in this week's Associated Press Top 25 Poll. Texas Vs. Ole Miss 2012: Longhorns Saturday Win Was The David Ash Show Mariners Vs. Rangers: Matt Harrison Looks To Continue Winning Ways Over Seattle The Texas Rangers (86-59) host the Seattle Mariners (70-76) on Sunday, hoping to win and maintain their slim lead in the American League West as the season winds downs. College Football Rankings: TCU Blowout Win Bumps Horned Frogs To No. 16 In AP Poll The TCU Horned Frogs pummeled Grambling State on Saturday, winning 56-0 in an almost flawless performance. The TCU drubbing saw the Horned Frogs jump from No. 20 in last week's Associated Press Poll to No. 16 in this week's poll. By T.J. Doyle September 9, 2012 U.S. Open Tennis 2012: Sunday Schedule, TV Coverage, Streaming And More The 2012 U.S. Open women's singles final will be held on Sunday, as well as the continuation of the men's singles semifinals match. Rangers Vs. Rays: Texas Looks For Season Series Win Over Tampa Bay On Sunday A hotly contested season series will be decided on Sunday when the Tampa Bay Rays host the Texas Rangers in the teams' final matchup of the season. Texas and Tampa Bay have split the previous eight contests.

/ Views A CLOSE LOOK Looking for a dream home in Dhaka Nilratan Halder | Published: November 12, 2021 23:53:01 | Updated: November 20, 2021 00:18:36 Emon ami ghar bendhechhi ahare jar thikana nai/ swapaner siri die jekhane paunchhe ami jai (a home have I built which unfortunately has no address/ there do I reach on the staircase of my dreams). This is the beginning of a beautiful song sung by Hemanta Mukherjee. At its later stage, the words run like this: life says forget this home, but the heart says build up this home. Dipped in mysticism and reality, the song takes away one to a world that is familiar and yet beyond the known world. The power of this song lies there. Seen from the practical life's point of view, it is nothing but building a castle on the sand. But delving deep into human life, one will be surprised by the overtone of spirituality laced in the lyrics and tenor of the song. In this world life is impermanent so are the abodes. Life's journey takes people to so many living quarters, no matter if it concerns a landlord or a tenant or just a boarder of a hotel or an enchanting tourist resort. For the time one lives or stays in such facilities ---permanent or just temporary---the human body and soul seek security and as much ease of life as one can afford. Life goes on and the ultimate feeling is that a person cannot live forever even if the home belongs to him or her. Time will come when the person has to take leave permanently and there is no way of revisiting the place once was so dear and was fashioned and arranged bit by bit to make it pleasant and cosy. Yet if one inherits a decent house in this city and does not have to move out to live in a better place or abroad taking citizenship, at least the person does not have to go through the trial and tribulation a tenant is fated to. First, there is no dream home for him or her. A tenant is always reminded of the temporary existence. If the landlord is exceptionally cordial with a golden heart, there may be an amiable relationship between them but still the tenant has at the back of his head the temporariness of his stay. It is not easy to have a flat or living quarter one looks for. After all, all the homes or flats built have behind them a commercial consideration. Even if, for some reasons, a house owner who tastefully designed and decorated the rooms for own living but has to rent it may not meet the demand of the tenant because tastes vary from person to person. The experience of looking for a living quarter is mostly harrowing. A doctor once put it so succinctly: one's neck grows taller with the exercise of scrutinising the To-Let boards hung in front of houses. If it sounds exaggerated, no one can dispute that unless tenacious and hardly, one cannot find the house one looks for and the exercise at least causes pain to neck. Now many house owners have no income other than the proceeds they receive as rents. What is the tenants/house-owners ratio in the city. A Google search proved unsuccessful in getting an authentic picture. But a layman's guess would be that 20 per cent house owners serve the tenants who have no living abode in this city. Then there are, maybe, 5-10 per cent inhabitants who have their own housing arrangement for themselves only. Dhaka is one of the costly cities in the world in terms of living. Unfortunately, the living standard here in general is not up to the mark. A city not so neat and clean and noise and dust pollution making the matter worse for living of its inhabitants, it is gasping for breath under the pressure of an oversize population. Apart from the posh areas where homes are away from home not crammed one against another or even within a metre or two, the rest of Dhaka is a veritable slum of buildings. Here Hemanta's dream home always remains illusive. Much as one may build an aesthetically pleasing and facility-wise comfortable and luxurious home, the environment all around does not support it to be the most desirable abode. One has to build it in one's secret niche of mind. Human values have suffered yet another reversal Recent behaviour of lending & deposit rates in the banking system of Bangladesh Exploring beach volleyball potential Making New Year celebration Metropolis-satellite chain in apparel, jute export from Bangladesh The economics of lead induced child intelligence BD scores a diplomatic win Taking people with disabilities on board Victory proves still elusive without conquering the foe within A budding young entrepreneur

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Q: Spring boot Security, Oauth2 replace access token with long-lived token from facebook I have been following Dave Syer astounding tutorial to implement OAuth2 in microservices which provide RESTful APIs for mobile devices (Android and iOS). I have configured gateway security with the following code: @SpringBootApplication @EnableDiscoveryClient @EnableZuulProxy @EnableCircuitBreaker @EnableFeignClients @EnableOAuth2Client public class GatewayApplication extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter { private OAuth2ClientContext oauth2ClientContext; private SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler simpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler; private ScoreAuthorizationFilter scoreAuthorizationFilter; @Override protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception { http .csrf().disable() .antMatcher("/**") .authorizeRequests() .antMatchers("/", "/test", "/login**", "/webjars/**", "/error**") .permitAll() .anyRequest() .authenticated() .and().logout().logoutSuccessUrl("/").permitAll() .and().addFilterBefore(ssoFilter(), BasicAuthenticationFilter.class) .addFilterBefore(scoreAuthorizationFilter, BasicAuthenticationFilter.class) ; } private Filter ssoFilter() { OAuth2ClientAuthenticationProcessingFilter facebookFilter = new OAuth2ClientAuthenticationProcessingFilter("/login/facebook"); OAuth2RestTemplate facebookTemplate = new OAuth2RestTemplate(facebook(), oauth2ClientContext); facebookFilter.setRestTemplate(facebookTemplate); UserInfoTokenServices tokenServices = new UserInfoTokenServices(facebookResource().getUserInfoUri(), facebook().getClientId()); tokenServices.setRestTemplate(facebookTemplate); facebookFilter.setTokenServices(tokenServices); facebookFilter.setAuthenticationSuccessHandler(simpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler); return facebookFilter; } @Bean @ConfigurationProperties("facebook.client") public AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails facebook() { return new AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails(); } @Bean @ConfigurationProperties("facebook.resource") public ResourceServerProperties facebookResource() { return new ResourceServerProperties(); } @Bean public FilterRegistrationBean<OAuth2ClientContextFilter> oauth2ClientFilterRegistration(OAuth2ClientContextFilter filter) { FilterRegistrationBean<OAuth2ClientContextFilter> registration = new FilterRegistrationBean<OAuth2ClientContextFilter>(); registration.setFilter(filter); registration.setOrder(-100); return registration; } @Bean public RequestInterceptor getFeignClientInterceptor() { return new FeignClientInterceptor(); } } It turns out that the user's session expires after a while. As I dug a little deeper, I found out that Facebook doesn't provide refresh tokens. Instead, we can exchange a short-lived token for a long-lived token (Facebook long-lived token). How can I override the standard OAuth2 flow implemented in Spring Security to send another request to Facebook for getting the long-lived token and then replacing the old access token? A: You can achieve what you want by extending the OAuth2ClientAuthenticationProcessingFilter class like this: public class CustomAuthenticationProcessingFilter extends OAuth2ClientAuthenticationProcessingFilter { private ResourceServerTokenServices tokenServices; private AuthenticationDetailsSource<HttpServletRequest, ?> authenticationDetailsSource = new OAuth2AuthenticationDetailsSource(); private ApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher; private AuthorizationCodeResourceDetails facebook; private String longLivedTokenUri; public CustomAuthenticationProcessingFilter(String defaultFilterProcessesUrl) { super(defaultFilterProcessesUrl); setAuthenticationDetailsSource(authenticationDetailsSource); } @Override public void setTokenServices(ResourceServerTokenServices tokenServices) { this.tokenServices = tokenServices; super.setTokenServices(tokenServices); } @Override public void setApplicationEventPublisher(ApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher) { this.eventPublisher = eventPublisher; super.setApplicationEventPublisher(eventPublisher); } @Override public Authentication attemptAuthentication(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws AuthenticationException { OAuth2AccessToken accessToken; try { accessToken = restTemplate.getAccessToken(); } catch (OAuth2Exception e) { BadCredentialsException bad = new BadCredentialsException("Could not obtain access token", e); publish(new OAuth2AuthenticationFailureEvent(bad)); throw bad; } String longLivedToken = getFromFacebook(); //Get long lived token from facebook here try { OAuth2Authentication result = tokenServices.loadAuthentication(longLivedToken); if (authenticationDetailsSource != null) { request.setAttribute(OAuth2AuthenticationDetails.ACCESS_TOKEN_VALUE, longLivedToken); request.setAttribute(OAuth2AuthenticationDetails.ACCESS_TOKEN_TYPE, accessToken.getTokenType()); result.setDetails(authenticationDetailsSource.buildDetails(request)); } publish(new AuthenticationSuccessEvent(result)); return result; } catch (InvalidTokenException e) { BadCredentialsException bad = new BadCredentialsException("Could not obtain user details from token", e); publish(new OAuth2AuthenticationFailureEvent(bad)); throw bad; } } private void publish(ApplicationEvent event) { if (eventPublisher != null) { eventPublisher.publishEvent(event); } } } I hope this helps.

Home Press Library Bradley Cooper Interview for 'The Hangover' Bradley Cooper is heading into what could be the best summer of his life. On June 5, the man heretofore known as the jerky boyfriend in 'Wedding Crashers' hits theaters in the R-rated Vegas bachelor party comedy 'The Hangover' — a film with so much good buzz that a sequel's already in the works. And that's just the tip of the iceberg for the 34-year-old actor: He's also rumored to be the top contender to play the titular superhero in 'The Green Lantern' (though in response to this possibility he simply says, "I don't know") and the notoriously good-looking "Face" in the upcoming 'A-Team' movie. In an exclusive interview, Cooper dishes on going blow-for-comedy-blow with Mike Tyson, flirting with Julia Roberts on a plane … and having a naked man's junk shoved in his face. Bradley Cooper is heading into what could be the best summer of his life. On June 5, the man heretofore known as the jerky boyfriend in 'Wedding Crashers' hits theaters in the R-rated Vegas bachelor party comedy 'The Hangover' — a film with so much good buzz that a sequel's already in the works. In an exclusive interview, Cooper dishes on going blow-for-comedy-blow with Mike Tyson, flirting with Julia Roberts on a plane … and having a naked man's junk shoved in his face. Filming this movie must have been rough, what with hitting the Vegas casinos and clubs and your characters staying in the 'Rain Man' suite. What was your favorite part of the shoot? The movie as a whole was just an awesome experience. It was like we did a war movie almost [laughs]. Because we lived in Vegas in Caesar's Palace and played these guys who got the s*** kicked out of ourselves. To be able to do that with Todd Phillips and Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, it was just amazing. You had to do some pretty out there stuff — fighting with a naked dude, pretend humping a tiger, etc. Were there any scenes that were particularly awkward to shoot? I think it was awkward more for the crew to watch a naked Asian man's testicles dangle in front of my neck 40 or 50 times [laughs]. But for some reason I didn't realize how sort of ridiculous it all was. I know Ken [Jeong, the owner of the Asian testicles]. He's a really good friend of mine. We did a movie called 'All About Steve' together, so it was his idea to be naked, and as he was pitching that to Todd, and it was like, "Whooooa. Okaaaay." And then I didn't even have a second thought about it. It wound up really making that scene. I think it's one of the funniest scenes in the movie, actually. During the tiger scenes, did you ever feel like you were in danger? Luckily, we didn't have to do anything outrageous to it at all, other than it living in an unnatural environment with humans and being on a leash. So whatever its aggravated state was normally, we had to live with. But, you know, you never get used to it. It's a tiger. When you weren't filming, did you and the guys take advantage of the debauchery that was conveniently right at your fingertips? You know, all the craziest stuff we did in Vegas while we were filming the movie is going to be in theaters on June 5. That's where the craziness happened. It's hard to come from a day's work when you've been running around with a baby that you don't know who it belongs to, in a cop car driving on a sidewalk with a tiger — and then top that. You know, what are you going to do: go and get drunk in a strip club? That's pretty lame compared to what we had to shoot that day [laughs]. What's Mike Tyson like in person? Did you get to hang out with him off-camera? We did actually. Shooting this movie was long hours with a lot of waiting around and setting up lights, so you're spending 16-17 hour days with the people you act with. So I did get to know him a little bit, as much as you get to know people working with them — and I can't say enough about that guy. He was fantastic. It's hard to go into a movie, jump into a comedy especially like this one, and work three days and sort of immerse yourself and leave your mark — and he certainly did that. I don't think singing is his strongest suit, but it doesn't really matter [laughs]. Have you ever been to a bachelor party that rivaled the stuff that happened in this movie? No, I've never even been to one that one would define as "raucous." The only bachelor party that I've ever been to was in Palm Springs with five guys playing golf. There's already a 'Hangover' sequel being prepped. Any idea what the plot is going to be? And will you all be back? I've heard that, too, but there's nothing set. We'll just focus on this movie first and see how it does. But I would certainly do eight more 'Hangovers' because it's very rare that you get to work with people that you love and in a project that you just love. Magic sort of happened on set with this movie, and I would love to do it again. It was just announced that you're playing a gay man dating a closeted pro football player in the romantic comedy 'Valentine's Day.' What got you interested in the part? You know, I have a really small role. It's like two days I'm doing on that movie, and it was really just the opportunity to play it with Julia Roberts. I did a play with her about three years ago. And I thought it would be great — it's a really sort of sweet relationship between these two people on a plane. So it's a quick little thing I'm going to do and be able to work with her on film. I'm excited for that. In terms of the fact that that's the character kind of gives away the — I don't know why they were able to release that because it kind of ruins the story a little bit. We don't know that he's gay. At least you're not supposed to — the way I read it. I guess they don't care [laughs]. © 2009 Moviefone | Written by Thomas DiChiara | No copyright infringment intended.

the chair is peak jeans in church culture blgtylr.substack.com vibes as aesthetic theory, tbh Just a short letter this week as I am moving. Next week's letter about The Nest is still…very in progress, haha. Also, my interview with Adroit Journal went live. It was a fun convo, done way back in the spring. The other day, I tweeted that nothing is good anymore, and that the dominant aesthetic consideration of contemporary media and art is whether or not the vibes are on. I tweeted it as a joke but also because I believe it, and people seemed to relate or want to argue about it. The usual internet stuff. I was talking about the new Netflix show The Chair, which follows Sandra Oh as Ji-Yoon Kim, newly minted head of an English department at a fictional liberal arts college just as the department is beset by scandal and intrigue. The show is well produced though not entirely well made, which means that it looks nice and has some wonderful moments of acting, moments when the characters truly come to life and speak with human mouths and human feeling, but for the most part, it is indistinguishable from all the other well-manufactured series that dominate the streaming landscape. It chimed with certain experiences that are familiar to anyone who has spent too much time in academia even if the depiction doesn't withstand more than passing scrutiny. It seems both eager to take on the larger questions facing our campuses today—free speech, diversity and equity, power dynamics, consent, sexual harassment, ongoing discussions of divestment, the ethics of labor all amid a perceived declined in the prestige and centrality of literary studies in the broader culture—and entirely too timid to approach them with something real to say. The result is a glancing critique that restates the issues without actually playing them out in nuanced and interesting ways. But it's fiction. It's entertainment. There is no expectation of realism in the spirit of facsimile. What matters is that the vibe is mostly there, no? Sandra Oh in incredible clothes looking harried and exhausted putting up with white bullshit and trying to steward a fellow woman of color through the harrowing halls of white academia? Sandra Oh the Emily Dickinson scholar? Sandra Oh saying things like ecocriticism and affect theory? Sandra Oh's hair? Sandra Oh's gravitas and humor? The delightful Holland Taylor as a Chaucer scholar and wonderfully bawdy university intuition finally getting to talk back and take a stand for herself? The potent and always amazing Nana Mensah as Yaz, a young rising star in American studies being courted by big institutions even while her white male colleagues, threatened by her ascendency and all it represents, stymie her? And a white man we are told is charismatic by many of the characters but whose chief charms seem to be…slightly greasy hair and a Beakman's World meets late Judd Apatow self-insert vibe. We know these people because we have met them or been them at various points in our lives. So what if the show barely sketches in backstory for the characters it purports to care about. So what if we know basically nothing about Yaz except that she is popular among students and sought after by elite institutions. So what if we linger mostly over the will-they-won't-they tension between Ji-Yoon and the white man who is in hot water for doing a maybe Nazi salute in class. The show's sympathies are mostly with the white man and mostly with Ji-Yoon, whom it pities for loving a white man. And instead of unpacking why that is, we get a kind of rushed storyline pertaining to cancel culture and its slippery slope argument in which the wronged professor is allowed to make an eleventh-hour appeal that does not save his job but does show us that he has the right moral character. It's true that Yaz does eventually, after being asked to teach with a white colleague whose enrollments are down, get to stand up for herself, and yet, in the end, she's still there sitting around the table with all of them. She doesn't leave. She doesn't take the job at Yale or go to any other institution that might value her (but let's be real, the odds of such a place existing are low) because Ji-Yoon gives her a (frankly inappropriate) speech about how she stayed because she wanted to provide an example for Yaz and to help her reach new heights. To be the first black female tenured professor in the department's history. Yaz does get to say something to the effect of, "yeah, that's why I'm leaving." And good for the writers for recognizing that it wasn't quite the flex Ji-Yoon thought it was, but one wonders why Yaz did stay. I mean, come now. I guess this is my larger problem with the show. There is no granularity. No real acknowledgement of the realities of the labors of production within academia. We don't know about Yaz's teaching load. We are told she connects with students and that she has an impact with the undergrads. But in what way? Which students? Does she do discussion groups? Social groups? Does she mentor? What about the graduate students? The adjuncts? What about the rhetoric requirements? Who is teaching that? How do they feel about all of this? And, frankly, I get the impression that the white man who was chair before Ji-Yoon was probably not very good at being chair. I mean, he was very popular, but why do I feel like Ji-Yoon probably inherited an administrative nightmare? And yet there is nary a whisper of that. The material concerns of the world of the show do not enter into the field of its drama. What one gets is an inert set of tableaux that resonate with static ideas we have about academia and so it excites the pleasure centers of the mind. But is any of it alive? No. The show has a halting, anxious stride to it. When you look at it too closely, it does not hold up. David Duchovny? I did love when Ji-Yoon read him for filth tho. As a show, I think The Chair misunderstands the real drama of academia. It misunderstands the real sympathetic core of that whole enterprise, and in doing so, it wastes a lot of its animating energy. It understands that like all systems, the drama and tensions of academia come down to precarity and power. Who has and has not. But what the show does not understand or seems to delight in sidestepping is addressing, in an honest way, just who the power dynamic exists between. It wants to play at dress up. Put Sandra Oh in gorgeous clothes and let her spread charisma around—she's got it to spare. I cannot stress enough how much I love her in this drag. But when it comes to the larger systemic issues that are coming to a boil in this series, it has depressingly little to offer us. In no small part because it has chosen to omit the other side from the conversation: the students, the adjuncts, the people whose lives are impacted by the faculty. In this show—and many others like it—students and the public for whom the students are a proxy are treated like an amorphous, shifting mob. It's the same way that Law and Order used to use the press as a catchall for public sentiment as a way to justify certain actions. It's the same way that shows like Billions and Succession use newspapers to telegraph and signal to the audience the backpressure of the world driving a character's motivations. Or providing a foil in a moment of tension. It's a secondhand that is effective in the short term, but broadly, culturally speaking, it has the effect of deadening a discourse. In a show like The Chair, which is taking on something like cancel culture on campuses, it's a double sin because the students, the public, is the second party of that discussion, the debate. But on the show, they're always in a mass, always in plotting, phone-carrying scenes. The new horror of the 21st century is not the man with the knife, but the public, out for blood and change, trying to destroy the old world order. Every dying breed sees in the eyes of the public the shape of their own demise, I guess. But I don't know, I just feel like, the show would have been better had the students been treated like more than backpressure and sign posting. More than virtue signaling. In the contemporary movie or show, the public is the zombie horde: anonymous, many-eyed, peering in from all corners and eradicating privacy. There's something oddly defensive about that posture. I'm not sure what to make of it. In 2008, I feel like, culturally, we laughed at the people online talking about privacy and data security. And now, the zombie movie has given way to the anxiety of being perpetually online. Surveilled and ruined by an act of small humanness that becomes, in the distorting eye of the digital panopticon, some gross moral crime. No one is laughing now. But I don't mean to paint The Chair as pandering or over serious or lacking nuance. I think it's the rare show that does try to approach these issues with some wit and humor. There are, again, many moments of beauty and laughter and grace. It's a sophisticated but ultimately middle-brow approach to dissecting the contemporary culture wars. And, I mean, not everything is Cukor. Not everything its Phyllis Nagy or Kelly Reichardt. Nor should it have to be. If there are resources, people can make whatever art they want. I think people were rankled when I said that nothing is good, that good died in 2010. I don't think good died in 2010. I mean, Chewing Gum, is more than good. It's brilliant. It's a genuinely alive piece of art. Moonlight is more than good. God's Own Country is more than good. Certain Women. 45 Years. The Father. I would add The Nest to that list. And The Souvenir. There is still good art, even in an era (or if you're an optimist, especially in an era) of mass production of well-manufactured content. Things have never looked so good. Or sounded so good. But at the same time, never has it been easier to borrow the signifiers and attributes of good art and commodify them to disguise deeply mediocre shit. I mean, a little muted-color grading, some upmarket fast fashion, and snappy dialogue, and you're already three-fourths of the way to an HBO pilot or an Amazon original movie that I will probably stream while folding laundry or writing a newsletter. But I don't have a romantic sense that art is ever or has ever been divorced from the commerce that it depends upon. I think it's probably always been this way, and what's changed is that we're soaked in it all the time. It used to be the only way to see a movie was to go to the movies or to watch a lot of TV. And now you can passively find yourself saturated with a movie and its themes before you even set foot in a theater even without trying. It flows to us wherever we are. Finds us where we sleep and sprinkles its magical little dust over our heads. We aren't being advertised to so much as we are being herded like cattle along vast tracts of the internet. And, okay, it's always kind of been like that. Things have always kind of sucked. But I feel like we used to be able to say when things were mediocre. We used to have a word for that. And now, it's like, if you enjoy it, then it's good even if it sucks. It seems true that we have come into a cultural idiom in which we associate made with good. Just because something got made and got advertised to you does not mean that it is good. Maybe what's lost its cache is the idea of an objectively good piece of art. Maybe we've tossed that over into the sea. Goodbye to all that. So long. And yet even if we've tossed it out in favor of a bunch of scrambled fiefdoms over which we each get to be our own little tyrant, why then do we still invoke the idea of a universal, objective good. Why do we still appeal to the idea of something being objectively good if we have all agreed to wear jeans to church. When I was younger, if you wore jeans to church, you weren't allowed to sit with our grandparents because they were mortified at having grandchildren who didn't dress up for the Lord. And then as I got older and young people stopped coming to church, certain churches started adopting a "come as you are" attitude. Our church tried it for a few months. People wore jeans and polo shirts and praised the Lord in tennis shoes. What mattered, we were told, was what was in a person's heart. But the aunties would still gather and read for filth anyone they saw wearing blue jeans. Why can't they wear a nice black jean if they gonna wear them pants. The aunties could not divest themselves from a hierarchy of taste even as they pronounced that there was no hierarchy in the eyes of the Lord. They hewed to the word but not the spirit of come as you are. And that, to me, is the central paradox that epitomizes Jeans in Church Culture. We act like there is no hierarchy. Let people enjoy things. Etc. But then we turn around and say, Oh my God, this is so good. I cried like eight times during that episode. It's dishonest! It would be more honest to say, I enjoyed this. The vibes were on. I was into it. Was it good? Probably not. Who cares. It's mass culture, baybeeee. I mean, just say you're vibing. Surrender to the vibes. Surrender to the indiscriminate alignment of the vibe. Either we wear jeans in church and fully accept all that entails. Or we admit to our desire for a hierarchy and the way it makes us feel safe and warm and tucked into our stable cultural systems that perpetuate grossly damaging inequities. Anyway, that's all. Nothing is good. Vibes is on or vibes is off. Stream The Chair on Netflix. Aug 28, 2021Liked by Brandon Have we, as a society, lost the ability to recognize or demand 'better', having adapted to a steady diet of mediocrity? Or are we self-soothing our collective PTSD caused by the horrors of the world and are grateful simply for a distraction, irrespective of quality? Loved this. I'm struck sometimes by this phenomenon where I go read episode recaps of shows I might want to watch on places like Vulture and AVClub, where I used to be a regular in the Actual Golden Age of TV That Is Now Over, and it seems like every show gets reviewed by some new guest editor who gives everything, at minimum, a B-, and usually higher. And then I read the review and it's all about what characters everyone loves, and what characters everyone hates, and if the right things happened to each, where with the best Golden Age shows they used to be about Themes. I used to think that was about the reviewers, but now I think it's about culture. We still like our shows to be a stream of hot goss as much as we did when SatC was running, it's just now we need to be able to pretend otherwise. TopNewCommunityWhat is sweater weather?AboutAbout © 2022 Brandon. See privacy, terms and information collection notice sweater weather is on Substack – the place for independent writing

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NBA: It's Time to Get Rid of Guaranteed and Maximum Contracts by Jimmie Kaylor | More Articles: NBA Jeff Haynes/Getty Images There used to be a time when NBA players rarely, if ever, mentioned the size of television markets as influential factors in choosing a new team in free agency. It used to be about finding the best team that offered the best contract — that is, if players even wanted to leave their current franchises. The idea of holding teams hostage by essentially refusing to a sign contract extension unless the player gets traded to a team of his choosing wasn't even an option. We used to see gutsy performances from the game's biggest stars on a regular basis. In the 1984 NBA Playoffs, with dislocated middle fingers on both hands and a case of the flu, Bernard King of the New York Knicks dropped 44 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while leading the Knicks to a win over Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons. He went on to average 42.6 points per game in the series. Speaking of Thomas, who could ever forget his Game 6 performance in the 1988 NBA Finals? The gritty point guard scored 43 points, dished out eight assists, and came away with six steals, all with a severely sprained ankle. Of course there is also Michael Jordan (pictured), who may be the most competitive professional athlete, regardless of sport, that the world has ever seen. In one of the most legendary performances in league history, by arguably the best player in league history, Jordan played through a severe case of the flu and led his Chicago Bulls to a victory over the Utah Jazz in a pivotal Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. With all due respect to the small handful of players in today's NBA — LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki come to mind — who would lay it all on the line for a win in the way King, Thomas, Jordan, and countless others did before them, today's biggest superstars seem to be more concerned with signing huge endorsement deals, being on the cover of video games and magazines, and signing maximum-value contracts. Elsa/Getty Images Carmelo Anthony is an excellent example of what is wrong with today's NBA. It's hard to respect a guy who signed a five-year, $124 million maximum value contract — which, by the way, is fully guaranteed — felt healthy enough to play through the pain so he wouldn't miss the 2015 All-Star game but then decided to shut it down for the remainder of the year after opting to have season-ending knee surgery. How does a guy go from being healthy enough to play 30 minutes in a meaningless All-Star game to opting to have his season come to an end three days later due to a knee injury? It's simple. He is guaranteed to make $124 million over the next five years, regardless of whether or not he plays another regular-season game over that five-year stretch. If Anthony was the outlier, this wouldn't be an issue. In fact, it's the players who are willing to do anything for wins who are the outliers. If the best players in the game today didn't have fully guaranteed contracts in their back pockets, would we see a better product as fans? Almost surely. If NBA contracts didn't have a maximum value, thus letting players earn higher salaries as they perform better, would the NBA rank higher than fifth in popularity among professional sports leagues with adult sports fans in America? Most likely. Let's take a look at this from a financial perspective. If the NBA were to adopt a model that is similar to that of the NFL, players could receive a portion of their contract as guaranteed money, but the total value of their deal would not be capped. This would help protect teams from further Gilbert Arenas– or Rashard Lewis-types of situations while also appeasing guys like Kevin Durant who feel that they generate far more revenue for the league than they are allowed to be paid. Professional basketball will likely never catch, or eclipse, professional football in terms of popularity in the United States. The NBA would, however, be taking a step in the right direction by doing away with guaranteed and maximum contracts and implementing a financial model that mimics that of the NFL.

Each year, the Save Our Homes Walk to Prevent Homelessness in Somerville raises thousands of dollars to help Somerville families avoid eviction and stay in their homes. The 2017 Walk is Sunday, June 11 at 2pm and will cover 5 kilometers (3.1 miles), beginning and ending at Somerville High School. The Walk route will pass several landmarks that relate to affordable housing in Somerville. Last year, the Rapid Response Homeless Prevention program was able to assist a total of 83 households, with 236 people, including 95 children. Organizers note that prevention is the most cost-effective and compassionate response to the threat of homelessness, and with the rising cost of housing the need is now greater than ever. People can join a team for the walk and donate to the effort at https://www.crowdrise.com/SaveOurHomesWalk2017 or by mailing a check to "Save Our Homes" PO Box 440436, Somerville, MA 02144. All money raised have been used for security deposits, rent arrearages, utility bills, and moving costs associated with stabilizing housing. These grants keep families in their homes, adults at their jobs, and kids in school. These funds also help preserve the affordability and diversity of our Somerville community. The annual Save Our Homes Walk is organized by the Somerville Affordable Housing Organizing Committee (AHOC). AHOC is an advocacy coalition comprised of Somerville residents and community organizations including Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS), Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services (CSLS), and Somerville Homeless Coalition (SHC). Organized in 2001 by SCC, AHOC continues to pursue the vital mission of preserving affordable housing, increasing affordable housing opportunities, and stabilizing Somerville's existing communities.

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(Trolls Story) Life at the lower tier of Troll society offers few creature comforts. Quartz offers several. Flowstone thumbed the edges of the House amulet in his hands. Just a few years of wear and washing had done a job on the varnish. The paint beneath was beginning to fade away. Thin lines of packed-in grime added a darker-than-oxidation shadow around the mushroom-shaped icon stamped into the center. "I've been mucking out mushroom trays since I graduated from the Institute five years ago," the young troll began earnestly. He shrugged, twisting his lips awkwardly around the words he was about to say. "If I'd tested higher, I might have gotten an apprenticeship in the mid-tier of the House. I s'pse I can't fault the testmakers, though! I never was much of a student. Truth be told I had... other interests... taking up my time. I'm not asking for no special favors from life. I did what I did, and I didn�t do what I didn�t do. I just never expected to be raking sludge the rest of my life." His hands fell to his lap as he looked up to his hostess. A low sigh left him. "I come home after every End Bell still smelling of the rot." "I've heard this story so many times," Quartz said from her corner of the table. She was sitting against the closer end of a reclining couch made of the same rich, plushly-stuffed leather as the chair he had been offered. One of her plump hips had been pressed against the arm as she leaned into it take in his words. Her sympathetic smile gave him hope. Here was a high-ranking troll who would listen to his woes. She had sought him out for that very purpose, in fact. This was her office they were sitting in, at the Institute, the center of learning all young trolls attended before moving into their Houses. "Each time it makes me just as sad. Why should one little test determine who you are for the rest of your life? Your future wife's? Your children?� The female's bejangled hands pushed away from the armrest. �Of course, there are always means for one in your position to work on up the ladder. But if your superiors on the farm were going to grant you one, you wouldn�t be here talking to me. Would you?" As she spoke, she slowly poured a glass of wine from a filigreed decanter. The twenty-five year old lad couldn�t help but notice the delicious curvature of her arm. She slid the cup out to him, pushing from the weighted base. He took hold with both hands and savored it. It tasted better than anything he'd had in a long time. Sweet and smooth, it warmed him to the core. If he could make a guess, it was blueberry. As his body relaxed, it sank deeper into the intoxicatingly comfortable couch. "You seem to have made out better for it," he said after a moment. Immediately, his posture shot back to its prior formalness. He wanted to beg her forgiveness, blame his loose mouth on the drink. His eyes were wide with shame. "Eyes up top, friend!" Quartz snickered with a wagging finger, "I don�t mix business and that pleasure. Oh-ho, but I could help you seek it!" Her eyes twinkled, index fingers tapping together. "I can get you soft bed sheets. A polished mirror to pretty yourself by. Perfumed soap." The female troll reached a hand out towards him, with lowered fingers. Accepting the invitation, Flowstone leaned in and took a whiff. Fresh moonmoss oil! The aroma sent his nose tingling, and his mind dancing far away from the filth he had trod upon this very day. To a place where he wanted to stay. "What do you ask of me in return?" "Oh, very little, really. And I wouldn�t need to call on you very often. Let's just say my line of work as a procurement agent extends past my official duties to the Institute. From time to time I need a package moved from here to there," She pantomimed the transfer. Her voice dropped in octave and volume when she continued, "quietly. And with no questions asked." "Through places where too many eyes would be looking at you?" he asked, knowingly. "And overlooking you," she answered, her smile now a conspiratorial smirk. "Do your part, and some of those packages will be for yourself." There was no doubting now what kind of arrangement this was. And he'd be in a world of hurt if he was found out. But what did that matter? No matter how many times he�d volunteered for more responsibilities, put his name in for a promotion or transfer, his superiors always seemed to have a reason why it wasn�t the right time to allow that. Another shorthanded harvest coming up. Another soil rotation. Another pestilence sweep. Another excuse to pass him over, just as Quartz had said. What good was loyalty to those who would never let him grasp any of what this one female was offering? With more conviction than he had felt about anything for some time, he told her, "I'm your troll." "Splendid! We have many mutually beneficial days ahead of us I'm sure!" Flowstone's new employer reached for the decanter. "More wine?"

Frankie & Benny's to close 120 sites - including this one in Notts The Restaurant Group, the owner of the American Italian high street chain, revealed the decision Lynette PinchessLife Writer Up to 120 Frankie and Benny's are set to permanently close (Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live) Sign up to get all the news from Mansfield in your inbox every day! Up to 120 Frankie and Benny's restaurants will not reopen after the coronavirus lockdown is lifted - including at least one in Notts. The Restaurant Group, the owner of the American Italian high street chain, revealed the decision yesterday (June 3). In Notts locations include Upper Parliament Street in the city centre, Redfield Road, near Showcase Cinema, Victoria Retail Park, Netherfield, Giltbrook Retail Park and Sutton-in-Ashfield. Their future is unknown since none of the locations to remain closed have been officially announced. However, the restaurant supervisor of the Mansfield restaurant has confirmed it is one of those that will not be reopening. Jordan Booth said: "It is with a heavy heart that I can confirm Mansfield F&B's is one of the 120 restaurants that's had to close. "I'm devastated to say the least, F&B's is a home from home, a safe haven for me. I started as a table busser (clearing tables) when I first turned 16 and worked my way up to a restaurant supervisor. "I've shared laughter, shed tears, met some amazing people, but most importantly it has enabled me to grow into the man I am today. That place really was somewhere special, if you've been to our beautiful restaurant, you know what I'm talking about. I can honestly say I'm so lucky to have met such amazing people." Frankie & Benny's at Victoria Retail Park, Netherfield Jordan, who posted the revelation on his Facebook page, went on: "I'm not asking for any sympathy here, I'm really not, but you may know that I'm autistic and I find it incredibly difficult sometimes to communicate and express how I'm truly feeling. "Working here took many of my daily struggles and challenged me to overcome them. Everyday was something new, and because of the amazing support I had there has now grew me into who I am today. I am forever grateful of my superiors and team members who've helped me along the way. "I'm absolutely devastated about our sudden and shocking closure. This restaurant will always be in my heart, the memories I've got here are priceless and I wouldn't have changed a thing. "Thank you everyone for taking the time to read my post, I love all of my F&B's family old and present." Hundreds of people expressed their sorrow for the staff who will lose their jobs. One said: "I'm so sorry to hear this! Such lovely staff. We will miss our breakfasts." Another said: "This has been my go to place since it opened. I know everyone and they practically watched my kids grow up here." However, some people weren't so kind. One said: "Thank god it's shut, I'd rather eat prison food." The Restaurant Group said last year that it would close up to 150 sites in its leisure division, which includes more than 200 Frankie & Benny's restaurants, over the next five years. But sources close to the company said it had been "forced to accelerate" its plans as a result of the pandemic. Get the latest What's On news sent direct to your email inbox If you don't like missing out on the next big thing then sign up to our What's On newsletter. You'll never miss a restaurant opening or closing, or big news from Nottingham's pubs and nightclubs ever again. Click here to sign up for free. 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We are a lively church with members spanning a wide age range. Our worship has a contemporary feel and we are very family friendly. 9am Holy Communion each week is Common Worship with one hymn/song and lasts 45 minutes. 10.30am is contemporary with a worship band and lasts around 75 minutes with refreshments served afterwards. We started to meet for worship in a local school in 1969 and our church building was initially completed in 1974. Since then it has been extended twice to increase the size of the worship area and to provide other facilities such as a lounge, larger kitchen, office and cloakroom areas.

SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS DAUGHTER, LOVE COMBS, IS TRULY LOVED Love Combs is truly loved! On Tuesday, several of the Combs kids took to their respective Instagram pages to share photos of the newest addition to the family. Big sister Chance Combs,16, was the first of the Combs kids to take to her Instagram to share a photo of her doting on her baby sister. Justin Combs,28, later followed suit and shared a series of photos on his Instagram page with the caption, "My twin." Christian Combs,24, also shared a photo of his little sister with the caption, "Baby Love" A post shared by Christian Combs (@kingcombs) On Monday, Diddy also shared an adorable bathtime video featuring his youngest daughter, 3-month-old Love Sean. In the clip, the infant can be seen smiling with a floatie around her neck as her mom can be heard saying, "Say, 'Hi Daddy!' " A post shared by BCK:Celeb Kids & More (@officialbck) Last month, Sean "Diddy" Combs surprised his fans when he announced the birth of Love Combs via Twitter. The Hip Hop mogul shared the news on Saturday (Dec. 10), saying, "I'm so blessed to welcome my baby girl, Love Sean Combs, to the world," Diddy told his social media fans. "Mama Combs, Quincy, Justin, Christian, Chance, D'Lila, Jessie, and myself all love you so much," the celebrity father wrote to his newborn daughter. "God is the Greatest," Diddy exclaimed. Later after his announcement, it was revealed that the mother baby girl is a 28-year-old woman named Dana Tran. Dana happens to be a Cyber Security Specialist, who goes by Dana Tee on social media. Dana gave birth to Love at a hospital in Newport Beach, California, on October 15, 2022, TMZ reports. In addition to Love Combs, Justin Dior, King, and Chance, Diddy is also dad to16-year-old twins D'Lila Star and Jessie James, and Quincy Brown,31, whom he adopted when he was in relationship with the late Kim Porter. Tags: Chance CombsJustin CombsKing CombsLove CombsSean "Diddy" Combs SHAYANNA JENKINS-HERNANDEZ'S $10K TRUST FUND REQUEST FOR DAUGHTER IS DENIED BY TRUSTEE NE-YO SHOUTS OUT HIS KIDS, SHARES FIRST PHOTO OF SON WITH INFLUENCER SADE

Cheltenham Festival 2016 Posted on February 19, 2016 by Admin in Horse Racing The Cheltenham world cup or so called festival has been around for so long that is had several name changes, it had 50 winners and countless runner ups and rookies that in the horse racing community is probably the biggest race in the year, and probably the one that grabs and hooks the attention of the spectators and horse racing enjoyers. This year we have several news about the most expecting game that is going to be held on 15th of March – some good some bad news, and of course we are going to leave the bad news for the end of the article. The countdown to the 2016 Cheltenham Festival, which takes place from Tuesday March 15 to Friday March 18, is well under way and you can follow the build-up to the pinnacle of the National Hunt season right here with sportinglife.com. We have the full meeting schedule, which will be updated with full results and links to each race report and video replay when the action begins, as well as all the latest news, features and form guides from the key trials ahead of the four-day showpiece. There will also be links to each edition of Lydia Hislop's popular Road To Cheltenham series over the coming months. As the Cheltenham Festival draws closer we will publish links to our long-term betting previews on this page while our flagship horse racing tipsters such as Ben Linfoot and Simon Holt will of course be providing daily selections throughout the big week itself. News of Sky Bet's Cheltenham Festival offers will also appear here while this is also the place to find out about all the latest market moves ahead of the biggest races such as the Champion Hurdle, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the World Hurdle and, of course, the Gold Cup. Key Cheltenham Festival 2016 Trials We'll help you to follow the form guide for every championship race at the Cheltenham Festival with all the results, reports and FREE video replays from the key trials over the coming months. More Cheltenham races will be added in this section once a significant trial takes place. Click on each link for all the trial information you need. Faugheen the red-hot favourite to defend his Stan James Champion Hurdle crown at Cheltenham next month, has met with a setback and will miss the festival. "When we started back working him this week we discovered he had a sore suspensory and, while it isn't a serious problem, it's come at a bad time and it means we've had to abandon plans to run him in the Champion Hurdle." Speaking at Punchestown after the easy victory of Annie Power, who has replaced Faugheen as the 3-1 favourite for the Champion Hurdle, jockey Ruby Walsh added: "Willie only called me on the way to racing today. "It's very disappointing. It's like someone whipping the ace out of the pack, along with all the other cards." Imperial Call dies Two legendary horses dead Songbird did it once again in Coaching Club American Oaks Grand National Horse Racing Victoria has another thing coming Jockeys keep Getting PAUL NICHOLLS

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There have been very few occasions when I felt that I had stumbled upon something truly special – Teanamu's Tea Appreciation Master Class run by the delightful Pei Wang was certainly one of these rare moments. The few hours I spent at his beautiful home in Notting Hill were an introduction to a fascinating world I admit knowing little about. I felt humbled by the experience but at the same time, very eager to learn more. Pei has a gracious and calm serenity about him and is also confident and knowledgeable in his area of expertise. Pei explained many interesting facts and anecdotes about his expeditions to China to find the best possible teas, the effects of oxidation on the tea leaves, and also about the ten artisan teas he was about to brew. The plant from which tea is made is called "Camellia sinensis", a native of mainland Southern China and Southeast Asia. Fresh leaves contain about 4% caffeine, but luckily (and unlike coffee), the leaves also contain another chemical called "theophylline" which helps us to appreciate the benefits of caffeine by relaxing the muscles while counterbalancing its unpleasant side effects. So if all Chinese teas come from one single plant, why are there so many different types of tea? From green to white, yellow, oolong and black teas, the difference between them is solely dependent on the levels of oxidation of the leaves. Green teas are un-oxidised, while white teas are very slightly oxidised, with black teas being fully oxidised. Pei also explained that the quality of the water used will play a key factor in the taste, appearance and aroma of tea – hard water (high levels of calcium), acidic or alkaline waters (PH below/above 7.0) and water containing excessive amounts of chlorine will alter the natural properties of the brewed tea. Pei strongly recommends filtered or pure bottled water. Another interesting fact was the importance of water temperature in brewing – the higher the water temperature, the more bitter and astringent the tea taste becomes because amino acids, the flavour element dissolves at 60 ˚C (140 ˚F). Tannin, causing astringency, dissolves at 80 ˚C (176 ˚F). The more delicate types of tea, the un-oxidised and very lightly oxidised green, white and yellow teas, are brewed at low temperatures in porcelain tea pots. The more heavily oxidised teas, black and red varieties, are normally brewed at higher temperatures and served from clay pots which help to retain the heat. All these delightful snippets of "tea facts" were given to us between tastings of the ten artisan teas that Pei served us which showcased the spectrum of un-oxidised to fully oxidised teas on offer. All teas can be purchased from Pei's website, and are priced around £4.50 to £5.50 for 30-40gr. Of note was the very lightly oxidised "Silver Needle", the most expensive white tea variety and also the most prized as only top buds are used to produce the tea. It tasted delicate and slightly sweet. The "Silk Oolong" was also a big hit for me – a partially oxidised tea, it had a slightly darker colour and tasted deliciously creamy like buttered popcorn and caramel. We tried the "Big Snow Mountain Pu Erh 2010 vintage" tea, harvested from 2,000 year old tea trees, this fermented, post-oxidised tea was outstanding. Like a fine Burgundy, Pu Erh tea is aged in a controlled environment for months or even years which helps it to darken in colour and as it slowly matures, it acquires a more intense flavour. The fully oxidised black tea "Lychee Black" was also sensational – I never thought that a natural tea plant could taste so fruity and sweet. It had a heady scent of tropical fruits and a delicate vanilla hint to the flavour. Pei suggests this tea to be drunk with dessert, and indeed the "Lychee Black" was the perfect accompaniment to the delightful yuzu macaroons and green tea madeleines that Pei baked for our tasting on that same morning. I was truly impressed by his macaroons, they were perfect – and the use of "yuzu", an expensive and very hard to find Japanese lime variety, showed a great sophistication of palate and cooking skills. Pei also provides tea cookery classes at £60 for which I am very tempted to enrol. The green tea madeleines were also fantastic – wonderfully light and fluffy, they had a delicious hint of vanilla and a lovely nuttiness from the topping of black sesame seeds. Pei's tea appreciation class is priced at £35, and lasts for about 3 hours. He also runs a similar class at Bea's of Bloomsbury on selected Wednesday evenings, and other workshops like "Tea and Meditation" at Holland Park and at Teanamu. Pei will be hosting a Summer Open House at Teanamu on 3rd July from 12-4pm, when you can experience a free demonstration of traditional tea brewing and sample some of this Spring's fresh green and Pu Erh teas. After many pots of delicious teas, quite a few macaroons, and one of the most interesting mornings I have had for a very long time, I reluctantly had to leave for another appointment. I left feeling completely blissful having partaken in Pei's delightful master class. Teanamu @ The Coach House, 14a St Luke's Road, London, W11 1DP. This sounds wonderful - i particularly like the sound of the oolong, but then I am a bit of sucker for oolong tea, along with a good light jasmine or nuttily fragrant Genmeicha, it's my favourite tea. It sounds like the class was very informative as well as tasty. And those macarons look delicious. I love your description of Pei's "gracious and calm serenity"; that's a perfect assesment! I felt very fortunate too to meet Pei about a year ago this month, I think, following his 2009 trip to China. (I posted about it on my blog). Talking about caffeine, I was at the Teasmiths (Spitalfields) a couple of weeks' back and I was told that white tea has more caffeine than black tea. To think that all along I thought it was otherwise. Pei made those macarons?? WOW! Such an interesting morning - I learned so much about tea. @ The Grubworm - wow you sound like a real tea expert, you would enjoy an afternoon at Teanamu and his open house days are fantastic to introduce you to the range of his teas. @ Kavey - hey hun, thank YOU for introducing me to Pei, I felt so good after spending those lovely few hours with him learning about teas, and his wonderful macaroons. @ London Chow - I was actually quite surprised to learn that green tea had any caffeine, not one to drink before going to bed I guess. @ Meemalee - the macaroons were sensational, better than Laduree's! Can't wait to learn how to make them, will drop you a line when I confirm a date with him. @ Greedy Diva - it was lovely to spend that morning with you and the Wine Sleuth at Teanamu, we learnt a great deal, and your write-up is excellent. I am really touched by your kind words and glad that I have created a special morning for you. Wow, I'm pretty tempted by the cookery class too. I tried to tea-smoke some trout recently and it was terrible. I'm sure I did something very fundamentally wrong like smoke it for way too long, but it tasted of burnt rubber - I think I need a lesson! Tea cookery class sounds awesome - let me know if you're going, I want to come! @ Pei - I am the one who should be thanking you! I had one of the most memorable mornings I can remember, and learnt so much too. Many thanks. @ Emma - I know, I tried to smoke a duck egg with earl grey tea once, it was a nightmare! The macaroons alone is enough excuse for me to take up his cookery classes. Maybe we should go together! @ Gourmet Chick - interesting Cara, but that makes sense from a country that produces so much tea! I really recommend Pei, his palate and sense of taste is incredibly refined and you can learn so much from him in one morning. @ Love Leluu - hi Uyen, maybe we should all go back soon. @ Jen - I will Jen, thanks for your comment! @ Photo Poland - very interesting, and I learnt a great deal too. Thanks for stopping by. Have you been to Postcard Teas, I think it's a great shop?

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Q: Middle 3 letters of word / Python The task is to print 3 letters from word, for example, from word "python" = tho, from "linebreak" = ebr. If number of letters are even,then the selection window is shifted to the closest letter. (to the left ->) x = str(input("Enter a string: ") print(x[2:5]) What I need to do next? Thank You! A: This would work for your question: def middle_three(string): lower = (len(string) - 3) // 2 + 1 - len(string) % 2 upper = (len(string) + 3) // 2 + 1 - len(string) % 2 return string[lower:upper] A: As function: def mid(s): return s[int(len(s)/2) - 1:int(len(s)/2) + 2] Or as lambda function which look shorter: mid = lambda s: s[int(len(s)/2) - 1:int(len(s)/2) + 2] Usage: >>> mid('python') 'tho' Or without a function: >>> s = input("Enter a string: ") Enter a string: python >>> print(s[int(len(s)/2) - 1:int(len(s)/2) + 2]) tho A: I've created extra variable length - it's additional. text = input() length = len(text) center = int(length / 2) print("3 middle letters: ", text[center-1:center+2]) The last line uses @bereal solution.

Boston Pride: March with Team Howell and 1199 SEIU! « Darrin Howell Campaign Kick-off! Boston Pride is coming up this Saturday, and we're excited to march this year with our brothers and sisters at 1199SEIU! Join us to celebrate the incredible diversity of our community — and have some fun along the way. We'll set up at 700 Boylston Street, right across from the Old South Church. Closest T stop will be Copley Square on the Green Line. Please RSVP here and comment with your T-Shirt size so we know how many to bring!

Dejiki.com Museum of Horror Nights River Safari: Rivers of the World By Dejiki on May 30, 2013 in Attractions, Photos, Theme Parks I'm sure you're all pretty excited to explore River Safari – the first and only River-themed wildlife park in the region. Part one of the Rivers of the World Photo Tour will cover Mississippi River, Congo River, River Nile, Ganges River. Before we begin, let's take a look around the Entrance Plaza. There are a few of these machines located near the entrance, right after the turnstiles. These are for visitors to reserve a Giant Panda Viewing timeslot. While admission to the Giant Panda Forest is included in park admission, the park will use this system to control visitor traffic during peak season. Visitors simply need to choose a timeslot and print tickets to accommodate all members of their party. They will then visit the Giant Panda Forest during the indicated timeslot. These tickets will be checked at the entrance of the Giant Panda Forest. Admission into the Panda complex is not guaranteed for visitors without a valid ticket. During days of low attendance, the system will not be used. Visitors can visit the Giant Panda Forest as often as they wish without making any reservations. The Journey Begins… beyond these doors. If you're visiting, do look at the posters near the doors – they show feeding times at the exhibits as well as a times for a small animal show at the Amazon Square. Through the doors: A dark corridor with video projections and sound effects to set the tone of the park experience. The path leads outdoors to the first area of Rivers of the World. The largest river system in North America is home to hundreds of wildlife species. In River Safari, there are Beavers, Alligator Snapping Turtles and Mississippi Paddlefish. Beavers are supposed to be in this first exhibit, but I couldn't find them. I saw ducks swimming around instead. There are these cute signage about beavers, though. Displays around the area describe the habitat of beavers – made from branches and mud, to turn any unsuitable place into a "cosy home". Well, I guess they might be hiding behind the logs in the exhibit. With the ducks as their guards. This park has a heavy application of "3D" and engaging information design. It makes reading information fun, and I think kids wouldn't find it boring. I wish Marine Life Park practiced this. The second half of the Mississippi River area has a gentle slope, showing three tanks at varying heights. And one of them is filled with Alligator Gar. The largest tank has Mississippi Paddlefish – recognizable for its long snout. The Paddlefish eats by swimming with its mouth open. It only eats plankton! Congo River Congo River – the deepest river in the world with depths up to 220metres. I thought the Rivers of the World walkthrough will lead underground. Instead, the park decided to show a shallow portion of the river – with a African Dwarf Crocodile. There's actually another tank, but it was closed at time of visit. The River Nile may be the longest river in the world, but at River Safari, it appears to be summarized into one display. Tigerfish, African Arowana and Giraffe Catfish inhabit this single display. It's pretty hard to take photos (I rejected all the close-up photos I took here) because the glass gets a good dose of sunlight. Ganges River The next zone, Ganges River, brings visitors close to the park's pond. It's a beautiful vista, so I was paused my walk to admire the reservoir. Okay, back to Ganges River zone. The highlight here would be the pair of Indian Gharials. There is another Gharial at the back of the exhibit. But this one seems to be in an awkward tip-toey position. Like other areas of River Safari, Ganges River zone is also filled with well-designed information displays. Quite attractive colours used coupled with cute illustrations. In the shallower aquarium, there are Clown Knifefish, Indian Mahseer, Bighead Carp and Goonch. Doesn't look like everything in the aquarium yet, and once again, I've rejected all my close-up photos taken at this area, due to lighting and reflections on the glass. River Safari Photo Tour Rivers of the World: Mississippi River, Congo River, River Nile, Ganges River Rivers of the World II: Murray River, Mekong River, Yangtze River Giant Panda Forest Wild Amazonia (under construction) & Squirrel Monkey Forest Amazon Flooded Forest Subscribe to Dejiki.com or Like my Facebook page for notifications of updates. nature, park, photos:nex, riversafari, singapore Universal Studios Singapore – Park Update 05/2013 Halloween Horror Nights 3 Auditions 2 Responses to River Safari: Rivers of the World Diane May 30, 2013 at 4:08 pm # Looks really interesting. I guess it's a pity that it's not underground (was hoping for air conditioned experience), and how the distribution seems uneven. Pity that the River Nile has only one tank, and Congo River has two. The Congo river is the deepest river with quick currents, and has an interesting case of speciation and evolution, hopefully that is represented on a board somewhere. Jack June 1, 2013 at 1:00 am # Personally I think this place sucks. 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Have you been hearing about invasive plants but aren't sure if you have them in your garden? Would you like ideas for alternatives to replace them before you tear them out? We will answer all these questions for you on this talk and walk through the Ambler Arboretum gardens and perimeter areas. Dress for the weather and diverse terrain.

For its first launch of the year, Ariane 5 placed two telecommunications satellites in orbit. Four more Ariane 5 launches are scheduled for 2019. Ariane 5 placed the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 (HS-4/SGS-1) and GSAT-31 telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), lifting off from the European spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana). The performance required of this Ariane 5 launcher was 10,018 kg of which 9,030 kg for the two satellites. In addition, payload release was optimized by placing the satellites in an orbit inclined at 3° in relation to the equator, instead of the usual 6° for Ariane 5. ArianeGroup is the industrial prime contractor for the development and deployment of Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 launchers. The company coordinates an industrial network of more than 600 companies (including 350 SMEs) in 13 European countries. ArianeGroup oversees the entire industrial supply chain, from performance optimisation and the corresponding studies associated with the Ariane 5 to production, from the supply of mission-specific data and software to the marketing of the launcher through Arianespace. This chain includes equipment and structures, engine manufacturing, integration of the various stages and finally launcher integration in French Guiana. Do not miss an article by subscribing to our alerts. E-mail* Please enter or correct mandatory fields marked as invalid. * Fields required Already subscribed. Thank you, your registration has been taken into account.

I know, I know, I know, I KNOW I just posted a slow cooker recipe last week but with Fall right around the corner I have been giving it a workout. Cook up this roast and you can eat off of it all week. I chose to use all the meat in these flautas which I froze to pull out for future lunch box lunches for my daughters. But you could serve it Chipotle-style and throw it in a bowl with rice, beans, cheese, and your favorite taco/burrito toppings. The secret to good barbacoa is low and slow heat. I wish I had a good grill to actually cook this meat low and slow but I don't have the time or the right equipment to do so. This is where the slow cooker comes in handy. Slow cookers were made for low and SLOW cooking. I still wanted a punch of smokey flavor in my meat so a few chipotle chiles in their sauce helped provide that smokey flavor. They also pack a bit of heat which is nice. If you find the peppers are too spicy for your liking squeeze a lime or two's worth of juice will help neutralize that heat. This recipe used a 3.5 pound chuck roast, cooked for 10 hours, then shredded with two forks. There was enough meat to roll 20 flautas. I used just a few tablespoons of meat and Chihuahua cheese (read a funny story about that here) in each flauta. When rolled these are about the size of a nice cigar. Warming the tortillas in the microwave for a minute makes it so much easier to roll them up tight. I skipped the fryer and decided to bake them instead. Lightly spraying the outside of the flour tortilla helps give them a nice crispy crunch. What are you waiting for?! Go get your barbacoa on! *note the beef barbacoa is gluten free however my flautas used gluteny flour tortillas. Sub your fave gf tortillas to make the flautas gluten free! You can freeze the leftover chipotle in adobo. Place on baking sheet lined with parchment. Freeze until solid 4-6 hours. Remove chipotle "cubes" place in zip top plastic bag and return to freezer. Once the flautas have cooled you can place them in zip top freezer bag. When ready to reheat, place frozen flauta in microwave and heat in 30 second increments. Usually are warmed through in 60-90 seconds. These sound amazing. I love cooking a roast in the slow cooker all day and adding it to anything, especially something Mexican-ish. Can't go wrong with something Mexican inspired! Thanks for checking it out Deborah. These look wicked delicious! I can't have starches these days (even gluten-free ones) but I've been thinking about picking up a food dehydrator to make zucchini flour out of. I bet this would be fantastic with homemade zucchini tortillas. I'll have to give that a shot this week. Thank you for sharing! Zucchini flour?! I am intrigued. Thanks for stopping by Brittany! Wow these look SO good and your photography is AMAZING! Now off to make some dinner for myself because my mouth is watering after reading this! These flautas look and sound delicious, just looking at them are making me so hungry! Yum!! They look delicious! I love any recipe that uses the slow cooker, it makes it so much easier to make something delicious without slaving away in the kitchen all day! I know that if I served these to my little guy he wouldn't fight me at all! I'll have to try this recipe out! Thanks for visiting Francesca! I hope the whole family enjoys them. Keep the slow cooker recipes coming! Next month is a no fast food month for me so be prepared to see LOTS of slow cooker recipes! Yummmm! I love barbacoa, but am not the most talented cook, however these flautas seem simple to prep. Thanks for sharing this recipe! These look delicious! Saving this recipe for sure! Thanks Katie. I hope you enjoy. My slow cooker has been my go-to for making meals lately, so this will definitely go into the rotation. It looks and sounds divine. Thanks Cheri! My slow cooker and I are going to BFFs this season so look forward to more recipes. These look so delicious! That meat is juicy, and we love Mexican flavored meals! I need this in my life ASAP. Looks amazing!

Lecture: Guild Park and Gardens Guild Park and Gardens: Past, Present, and Future Thursday November 21st, 2019. 7:00pm University College, University of Toronto, Room 140 15 King's College Circle, Toronto (Queen's Park Subway station) John Mason will present an illustrated lecture on the history and future of Guild Park and Gardens (formerly known as Guildwood Park) including the inspiration its founders drew from the Arts and Crafts movement and their own passion for natural and architectural heritage preservation. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Rosa and Spencer Clark in 1932 decided to model their recently purchased property into the Canadian equivalent of Roycroft. They duly founded the "Guild of All Arts" on the Scarborough bluffs, providing a home and a forum for artists and artisans. Many of these were contemporaries or students of members of the Group and Seven whose influence is evident in the work produced on the site. Over ensuing decades, the Clarks built a reputation as patrons of the arts and preservationists, amassing a huge art collection and preserving architectural fragments from dozens of demolished buildings in Toronto. Donate to WMSC W. Douglas Brown Book Download the book here! Get New Blog Posts by E-mail! Tweets by @wmsc_ca Loewe: William De Morgan Collection The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts THE QUESTION TO ANY QUESTION

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Eto.Drawing; using s = SharpDX; using sd = SharpDX.Direct2D1; using sw = SharpDX.DirectWrite; using Eto.Forms; using System.Diagnostics; #if WINFORMS using Eto.WinForms.Forms.Controls; #endif namespace Eto.Direct2D.Drawing { /// <summary> /// Handler for <see cref="IGraphics"/> /// </summary> /// <copyright>(c) 2013 by Vivek Jhaveri</copyright> /// <license type="BSD-3">See LICENSE for full terms</license> public partial class GraphicsHandler : WidgetHandler<sd.RenderTarget, Graphics>, Graphics.IHandler { bool hasBegan; bool rectClip; bool disposeControl = true; Bitmap image; sd.Layer helperLayer; sd.Geometry clipGeometry; sd.LayerParameters? clipParams; RectangleF clipBounds; bool isOffset; s.Matrix3x2 currentTransform; #if WINFORMS DrawableHandler drawable; #endif public float PointsPerPixel { get { return 72f / Control.DotsPerInch.Width; } } protected override bool DisposeControl { get { return disposeControl; } } protected sd.Layer HelperLayer { get { return helperLayer ?? (helperLayer = new sd.Layer(Control)); } } public GraphicsHandler() { } public GraphicsHandler(GraphicsHandler other) { Control = other.Control; disposeControl = false; } #if WINFORMS public GraphicsHandler(DrawableHandler drawable) { this.drawable = drawable; CreateRenderTarget(); //set hwnd target properties (permit to attach Direct2D to window) //target creation drawable.Control.SizeChanged += HandleSizeChanged; } #endif void CreateRenderTarget() { #if WINFORMS if (drawable != null) { var renderProp = CreateRenderProperties(); renderProp.PixelFormat = new sd.PixelFormat(SharpDX.DXGI.Format.B8G8R8A8_UNorm, sd.AlphaMode.Premultiplied); var winProp = new sd.HwndRenderTargetProperties { Hwnd = drawable.Control.Handle, PixelSize = drawable.ClientSize.ToDx(), PresentOptions = sd.PresentOptions.Immediately }; Control = new sd.WindowRenderTarget(SDFactory.D2D1Factory, renderProp, winProp); return; } #endif CreateWicTarget(); // this is executed in winforms if not created from a drawable, and always in Xaml. } private void CreateWicTarget() { if (image != null) { var renderProp = CreateRenderProperties(); var imageHandler = image.Handler as BitmapHandler; renderProp.PixelFormat = new sd.PixelFormat(SharpDX.DXGI.Format.Unknown, sd.AlphaMode.Unknown); Control = new sd.WicRenderTarget(SDFactory.D2D1Factory, imageHandler.Control, renderProp); } } private static sd.RenderTargetProperties CreateRenderProperties() { var renderProp = new sd.RenderTargetProperties { DpiX = 0, DpiY = 0, MinLevel = sd.FeatureLevel.Level_DEFAULT, Type = sd.RenderTargetType.Default, Usage = sd.RenderTargetUsage.None }; return renderProp; } void HandleSizeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { #if WINFORMS var target = Control as sd.WindowRenderTarget; if (target == null) return; try { target.Resize(drawable.ClientSize.ToDx()); drawable.Invalidate(); } catch (Exception ex) { Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Could not resize: {0}", ex)); } #else throw new NotImplementedException(); #endif } sd.Ellipse GetEllipse(float x, float y, float width, float height) { var rx = width / 2f; var ry = height / 2f; return new sd.Ellipse(center: new s.Vector2(x + rx, y + ry), radiusX: rx, radiusY: ry); } public bool AntiAlias { get { return Control != null && Control.AntialiasMode == sd.AntialiasMode.PerPrimitive; } set { if (Control != null) Control.AntialiasMode = value ? sd.AntialiasMode.PerPrimitive : sd.AntialiasMode.Aliased; } } public ImageInterpolation ImageInterpolation { get; set; } public bool IsRetained { get { return false; } } public double DpiX { get { return Control.DotsPerInch.Width; } } public double DpiY { get { return Control.DotsPerInch.Height; } } public RectangleF ClipBounds { get { if (Control != null) { // not very efficient, but works var transform = Control.Transform; transform.Invert(); var start = s.Matrix3x2.TransformPoint(transform, clipBounds.Location.ToDx()).ToEto(); var end = s.Matrix3x2.TransformPoint(transform, clipBounds.EndLocation.ToDx()).ToEto(); return new RectangleF(start, end); } else return new RectangleF(); } } public void SetClip(RectangleF rect) { ResetClip(); clipBounds = rect; rectClip = true; Control.PushAxisAlignedClip(rect.ToDx(), Control.AntialiasMode); } public void SetClip(IGraphicsPath path) { ResetClip(); clipBounds = path.Bounds; var parameters = new sd.LayerParameters { ContentBounds = clipBounds.ToDx(), GeometricMask = clipGeometry = path.ToGeometry(), MaskAntialiasMode = Control.AntialiasMode, MaskTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Identity, Opacity = 1f }; clipParams = parameters; Control.PushLayer(ref parameters, HelperLayer); } public void ResetClip() { if (clipParams != null) { Control.PopLayer(); clipBounds = new RectangleF(Control.Size.ToEto()); clipParams = null; } if (rectClip) { Control.PopAxisAlignedClip(); rectClip = false; clipBounds = new RectangleF(Control.Size.ToEto()); } } void SetTransform(s.Matrix3x2 transform) { if (isOffset) transform = s.Matrix3x2.Multiply(transform, s.Matrix3x2.Translation(0.5f, 0.5f)); Control.Transform = transform; } public void TranslateTransform(float dx, float dy) { SetTransform(currentTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Multiply(s.Matrix3x2.Translation(dx, dy), currentTransform)); } public void RotateTransform(float angle) { SetTransform(currentTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Multiply(s.Matrix3x2.Rotation((float)(Conversions.DegreesToRadians(angle))), currentTransform)); } public void ScaleTransform(float sx, float sy) { SetTransform(currentTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Multiply(s.Matrix3x2.Scaling(sx, sy), currentTransform)); } public void MultiplyTransform(IMatrix matrix) { SetTransform(currentTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Multiply((s.Matrix3x2)matrix.ControlObject, currentTransform)); } Stack<s.Matrix3x2> transformStack; public void SaveTransform() { if (transformStack == null) transformStack = new Stack<s.Matrix3x2>(); transformStack.Push(currentTransform); } public void RestoreTransform() { SetTransform(currentTransform = transformStack.Pop()); } public IMatrix CurrentTransform { get { return currentTransform.ToEto(); } } public void CreateFromImage(Bitmap image) { this.image = image; CreateWicTarget(); BeginDrawing(); } public void DrawText(Font font, SolidBrush brush, float x, float y, string text) { SetOffset(true); using (var textLayout = GetTextLayout(font, text)) { Control.DrawTextLayout(new s.Vector2(x, y), textLayout, brush.ToDx(Control)); } } public SizeF MeasureString(Font font, string text) { using (var textLayout = GetTextLayout(font, text)) { var metrics = textLayout.Metrics; return new SizeF(metrics.WidthIncludingTrailingWhitespace, metrics.Height); } } static sw.TextLayout GetTextLayout(Font font, string text) { var fontHandler = (FontHandler)font.Handler; var textLayout = new sw.TextLayout(SDFactory.DirectWriteFactory, text, fontHandler.TextFormat, float.MaxValue, float.MaxValue); if (font.Strikethrough) textLayout.SetStrikethrough(true, new sw.TextRange(0, text.Length)); if (font.Underline) textLayout.SetUnderline(true, new sw.TextRange(0, text.Length)); return textLayout; } public void Flush() { Control.Flush(); } static readonly object PixelOffsetMode_Key = new object(); public PixelOffsetMode PixelOffsetMode { get { return Widget.Properties.Get<PixelOffsetMode>(PixelOffsetMode_Key); } set { Widget.Properties.Set(PixelOffsetMode_Key, value); } } void SetOffset(bool fill) { var requiresOffset = !fill && PixelOffsetMode == PixelOffsetMode.None; if (requiresOffset != isOffset) { isOffset = requiresOffset; SetTransform(currentTransform); } } public void DrawRectangle(Pen pen, float x, float y, float width, float height) { SetOffset(false); var pd = pen.ToPenData(); Control.DrawRectangle(new s.RectangleF(x, y, width, height), pd.GetBrush(Control), pd.Width, pd.StrokeStyle); } public void FillRectangle(Brush brush, float x, float y, float width, float height) { SetOffset(true); Control.FillRectangle(new s.RectangleF(x, y, width, height), brush.ToDx(Control)); } public void DrawLine(Pen pen, float startx, float starty, float endx, float endy) { SetOffset(false); var pd = pen.ToPenData(); Control.DrawLine( new s.Vector2(startx, starty), new s.Vector2(endx, endy), pd.GetBrush(Control), pd.Width, pd.StrokeStyle); } public void FillEllipse(Brush brush, float x, float y, float width, float height) { SetOffset(true); Control.FillEllipse(GetEllipse(x, y, width, height), brush.ToDx(Control)); } public void DrawEllipse(Pen pen, float x, float y, float width, float height) { SetOffset(false); var pd = pen.ToPenData(); Control.DrawEllipse(GetEllipse(x, y, width, height), pd.GetBrush(Control), pd.Width, pd.StrokeStyle); } public void DrawArc(Pen pen, float x, float y, float width, float height, float startAngle, float sweepAngle) { SetOffset(false); PointF start; var arc = CreateArc(x, y, width, height, startAngle, sweepAngle, out start); var path = new sd.PathGeometry(SDFactory.D2D1Factory); var sink = path.Open(); sink.BeginFigure(start.ToDx(), sd.FigureBegin.Hollow); sink.AddArc(arc); sink.EndFigure(sd.FigureEnd.Open); sink.Close(); sink.Dispose(); var pd = pen.ToPenData(); Control.DrawGeometry(path, pd.GetBrush(Control), pd.Width, pd.StrokeStyle); } internal static sd.ArcSegment CreateArc(float x, float y, float width, float height, float startAngle, float sweepAngle, out PointF start) { // degrees to radians conversion float startRadians = startAngle * (float)Math.PI / 180.0f; float sweepRadians = sweepAngle * (float)Math.PI / 180.0f; // x and y radius float dx = width / 2; float dy = height / 2; // determine the start point float xs = x + dx + ((float)Math.Cos(startRadians) * dx); float ys = y + dy + ((float)Math.Sin(startRadians) * dy); // determine the end point float xe = x + dx + ((float)Math.Cos(startRadians + sweepRadians) * dx); float ye = y + dy + ((float)Math.Sin(startRadians + sweepRadians) * dy); bool isLargeArc = Math.Abs(sweepAngle) > 180; bool isClockwise = sweepAngle >= 0 && Math.Abs(sweepAngle) < 360; start = new PointF(xs, ys); return new sd.ArcSegment { Point = new s.Vector2(xe, ye), Size = new s.Size2F(dx, dy), SweepDirection = isClockwise ? sd.SweepDirection.Clockwise : sd.SweepDirection.CounterClockwise, ArcSize = isLargeArc ? sd.ArcSize.Large : sd.ArcSize.Small }; } public void FillPie(Brush brush, float x, float y, float width, float height, float startAngle, float sweepAngle) { SetOffset(true); PointF start; var arc = CreateArc(x, y, width, height, startAngle, sweepAngle, out start); var path = new sd.PathGeometry(SDFactory.D2D1Factory); var sink = path.Open(); var center = new s.Vector2(x + width / 2, y + height / 2); sink.BeginFigure(center, sd.FigureBegin.Filled); sink.AddLine(start.ToDx()); sink.AddArc(arc); sink.AddLine(center); sink.EndFigure(sd.FigureEnd.Open); sink.Close(); sink.Dispose(); Control.FillGeometry(path, brush.ToDx(Control)); } public void FillPath(Brush brush, IGraphicsPath path) { SetOffset(true); Control.FillGeometry(path.ToGeometry(), brush.ToDx(Control)); } public void DrawPath(Pen pen, IGraphicsPath path) { SetOffset(false); var pd = pen.ToPenData(); Control.DrawGeometry(path.ToGeometry(), pd.GetBrush(Control), pd.Width, pd.StrokeStyle); } public void DrawImage(Image image, RectangleF source, RectangleF destination) { SetOffset(true); var bmp = image.ToDx(Control); Control.DrawBitmap(bmp, destination.ToDx(), 1f, sd.BitmapInterpolationMode.Linear, source.ToDx()); } public void DrawImage(Image image, float x, float y) { SetOffset(true); var bmp = image.ToDx(Control); if (bmp != null) Control.DrawBitmap(bmp, new s.RectangleF(x, y, bmp.Size.Width, bmp.Size.Height), 1f, ImageInterpolation.ToDx()); } public void DrawImage(Image image, float x, float y, float width, float height) { SetOffset(true); var bmp = image.ToDx(Control); Control.DrawBitmap(bmp, new s.RectangleF(x, y, width, height), 1f, ImageInterpolation.ToDx()); } public object ControlObject { get { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } public void Clear(SolidBrush brush) { if (Control != null) { var color = brush != null ? brush.Color : Colors.Transparent; // drawing to an image, so we can clear to transparent if (image != null) { if (clipParams != null) { // can't clear the current layer otherwise it will not be applied to main layer // This creates a copy of the current context, inverses the current clip, and draws the image back clipping // the cleared path. // end clip layer and current drawing session Control.PopLayer(); Control.EndDraw(); // create a copy of the current state var copy = image.Clone(); var bmp = copy.ToDx(Control); Control.BeginDraw(); // clear existing contents Control.Clear(null); var size = Control.Size; // create an inverse geometry var inverse = new sd.PathGeometry(SDFactory.D2D1Factory); var sink = inverse.Open(); var bounds = new s.RectangleF(0, 0, size.Width, size.Height); var geom = new sd.RectangleGeometry(SDFactory.D2D1Factory, bounds); geom.Combine(clipGeometry, sd.CombineMode.Exclude, sink); sink.Close(); // create a new mask layer with inverse geometry var parameters = new sd.LayerParameters { ContentBounds = bounds, GeometricMask = inverse, MaskAntialiasMode = Control.AntialiasMode, MaskTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Identity, Opacity = 1f }; Control.PushLayer(ref parameters, HelperLayer); // draw bitmap of contents back, clipping to the inverse of the clip region Control.DrawBitmap(bmp, 1f, sd.BitmapInterpolationMode.NearestNeighbor); Control.PopLayer(); // restore our clip path parameters = clipParams.Value; Control.PushLayer(ref parameters, HelperLayer); copy.Dispose(); } } else { // alpha is not supported on a drawable, so blend with black as the base color. color = Color.Blend(Colors.Black, color); } Control.Clear(color.ToDx()); } } static sd.RenderTarget globalRenderTarget; /// <summary> /// This is a HACK. /// Brushes, bitmaps and other resources are associated with a specific /// render target in D2D. Eto does not currently support this. /// </summary> public static sd.RenderTarget CurrentRenderTarget { get { if (globalRenderTarget == null) { #if WINFORMS // hack for now, use a temporary control to get the current target // ideally, each brush/etc will create itself when needed, not right away. // though, this may be difficult for things like a bitmap var ctl = new System.Windows.Forms.Control(); var winProp = new sd.HwndRenderTargetProperties { Hwnd = ctl.Handle, PixelSize = new s.Size2(2000, 2000), PresentOptions = sd.PresentOptions.Immediately }; var renderProp = new sd.RenderTargetProperties { DpiX = 0, DpiY = 0, MinLevel = sd.FeatureLevel.Level_10, PixelFormat = new sd.PixelFormat(SharpDX.DXGI.Format.B8G8R8A8_UNorm, sd.AlphaMode.Premultiplied), Type = sd.RenderTargetType.Hardware, Usage = sd.RenderTargetUsage.None }; globalRenderTarget = new sd.WindowRenderTarget(SDFactory.D2D1Factory, renderProp, winProp); #else throw new NotImplementedException(); #endif } return currentRenderTarget ?? globalRenderTarget; } set { currentRenderTarget = value; } } static sd.RenderTarget currentRenderTarget; public void BeginDrawing(RectangleF? clipRect = null) { if (Control != null) { CurrentRenderTarget = Control; Control.BeginDraw(); SetTransform(currentTransform = s.Matrix3x2.Identity); if (transformStack != null) transformStack.Clear(); ResetClip(); clipBounds = new RectangleF(Control.Size.ToEto()); if (clipRect != null) Control.PushAxisAlignedClip(clipRect.Value.ToDx(), SharpDX.Direct2D1.AntialiasMode.PerPrimitive); hasBegan = true; } } public void EndDrawing(bool popClip = false) { if (hasBegan) { ResetClip(); CurrentRenderTarget = null; if (popClip) Control.PopAxisAlignedClip(); Control.EndDraw(); hasBegan = false; if (image != null) { var imageHandler = image.Handler as BitmapHandler; imageHandler.Reset(); } } } public void PerformDrawing(RectangleF? clipRect, Action draw) { bool recreated = false; do { try { recreated = false; BeginDrawing(clipRect); draw(); EndDrawing(clipRect != null); } catch (s.SharpDXException ex) { if (ex.ResultCode == 0x8899000C) // D2DERR_RECREATE_TARGET { Debug.WriteLine("Recreating targets"); // need to recreate render target CreateRenderTarget(); CurrentRenderTarget = Control; globalRenderTarget = null; recreated = true; } } } while (recreated); } protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing) EndDrawing(); base.Dispose(disposing); } } }

Gaijin Games, the developers behind the extremely fun Bit Runner titles have decided to have a name change and will now be known as Totally Choice. They have also announced that they are bringing Woah Dave! To the Vita. We will bring you more news as we have it for Woah Dave!

Best wishes to DreamHost on it's birthday. The hosting provider recently turned into 16 years old. Its impressive! Personally I have been using DreamHost (DH) for 9 months. Performance of the servers are good overall, although it was down once for few hours. DH has quite a lot interesting features for it's shared hosting. Few outstanding features in my view would be SSH access, Easy integration of Cloud Front. There are also few features I wish DH would had, like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, easy deploy for python. DH is costly compared to average hosting providers; however I guess it's worth it. Wish DH would keep their standard high on its coming years and try to reduce the overall cost of shared hosting. Recently I had bitter experience setting up different layout in sitemesh for different controller of Spring. In general as a developer my expectation is for different controller I setup different url and for each url I add a decorator with unique name and different layout page. For instance, I have two controllers – AdminController and UserController as follows. and url project/user/index points to user controller's index page. However, it wasn't behaving as I expected. I wasted a lot of time trying different combination in pattern like /projects/admin*, */admin/* etc. Then i gave a try to write one. this typical bookmarklet firstly ask for few predefined options then extract all the link of matching types. And options are optimized for google filetype : *** search result. For long days I was using FireFox, was very happy with this browser but only problem it is a very resource hungry browser. In some case it just crashes, probably because I add lot's of add-ons. I was bit desperate to find a fast browser at least with search bars like in FireFox. As a result download near about 9 to 10 browsers. But got the solution in Epiphany.

At $260 a bottle I expected something a little more unique and exceptional; the features of Love are quite peculiar: caramel, sugar and…civet. I would never have guessed "that poor cat" was part of this concoction because the scent smells primarily of synthetic bubble gum and marshmallows. I can definitely see the resemblance to D&G's Pour Femme but unlike PF, Love is much more intense with a hint of skankiness–probably due to the combination of musk and civet. The opening is like a rude outburst of caramel and pink sugar, I mean this is really really sweet. The liquid is an amber color that is as intense as its sillage, do NOT spray this on white clothing otherwise you'll find yourself spending an afternoon scrubbing the stain off your garments. Love is pretty linear with a few admittedly sensual phases of an animalic sort; the combination of musk and iris smells like powdered skin with civet being low-key, providing only a slight dirtiness to the undertone. I sense few florals as they seem to be the building blocks for the mostly sweet upper layers, a hint of pink pepper in the dry down and nothing more. Despite a mediocre sillage, this fragrance is quite enduring on my skin. Love is pretty much pink bubble gum and caramel; it isn't that complex or exceptional and smells incredibly mainstream. I feel one can easily substituted this scent for Pour Femme by Dolce & Gabbana or even Ulric de Varens' Sublime; overall a decent Kilian creation but lacking in character.

A post by DigiTimes that's making the rounds cites unnamed "sources at analog IC vendors" who say that Apple could be moving the iPhone and iPad to USB-C by 2019. That move would spell the gradual demise of Apple's proprietary Lightning port, which was introduced in 2012 and has been the connector for basically every iProduct since. Apple has led the USB-C charge in the laptop space. It was one of the first laptop makers to include it back in 2015 with the then new MacBook. And it made waves in late 2016 with the new MacBook Pro that killed nearly every other port in favor of USB-C. Looking at that one could infer that Apple is going to embrace the connector in phones and tablets next, following in the footsteps of nearly every top Android handset maker today. There's also the fact that USB-C continues to...be kind of a mess. There's no certification program for USB-C products. Usually there isn't even a way to see how much data or energy a cable can handle without testing it (and potentially harming whatever USB-C port those cables are plugged into). This is why a lot of phone and laptop makers have to almost overbuild the USB-C ports on their products. They're protecting against that one cousin who buys all his cables at the gas station and then wonders why they don't work after a week. So why would Apple get rid of its nice, safe, money-making port to embrace USB-C? Particularly as Lighting currently supports the same data rates as USB 3.0—something USB-C also supports. There's no real reason, thus far, for the company to move out of its safe zone on its most popular product. DigiTimes could be right, of course. The MacBook and MacBook Pro could be harbringers of an all USB-C future for Apple. But 2019 feels like a reach. Why the Hell Doesn't the Surface Laptop Have a USB-C Charger?