:-). I'm a big fan of the 80's music and this took me back. Nice one.
Very nice of you to say. I have more back from when that came from LOL. Thank you.
This is cute Mike. Love the vocals, very 80s.
My favorite adjective! Thank you. Good to hear you like the vocals, and you nailed the time period LOL!
She will be so thrilled to hear you say that! Very cool.
Such a common theme in our lyrics. Tom's "Night" my "Singing Wheels" we all had an affinity for driving at night with music playing!
We were all nocturnal creatures for one and add a bit of independence and creativity to go mobile for the other. Yep. We were in our own environment!
Glad to hear! Looking at the lyrics to songs I post here from years ago I sometimes wonder —- what do those words mean any way? !! LOL Thank you!
You are very welcome! Glad you liked it.
Thank you! It is an Oldie but a goodie!
Hey Mike–"just dropped in to see what condition your condition is in". This is Val–I told you I'd be back once I moved blogs (and cleaned up the gumbo pots)–and that quote is ALL the words you'll ever hear from me in the "rock" genre, ha! My memory is so poor–did we have an earlier chat about names for bands/music groups? I'm thinking we did–and was recently reminded of the a-cappella group, "Straight, No Chaser" (they'll be in Seattle in Dec). Are you familiar with them? They're very talented, enjoyable to listen to–and their name is, well–creative!
Thanks! I was 'off the grid' for a little while traveling this weekend and was surprised to see your comment! I understand the memory challenge all too well. That is why IO am glad I started recording, writing and taking pictures of everything years ago. It has come in really handy lately LOL. Yes, we did. I was not familiar with them so I looked them up. They are coming close to me soon and that looks like a great thing to do. We just got back from a family reunion camping trip that was a lot of fun and great weather. Thanks for checking in – you are always invited and welcome. Sounds like you have your hands full, Val.
Glad to hear you had fun family reunion trip–and that the weather cooperated, that's always a plus! I'm sure we'll see each other, back and forth of the blogs.
Yes, it is! Last year we all got drenched! I am definitely a 'soup man'!
Aha! Soup it is, then!
I will check it out, very cool. Good logic on the soup. It also seems to taste much better when it is a little chilly outside LOL!
Definitely better during "soup weather" ("chilly"). And maybe some fresh baked cornbread with it….
Starting to cool down now. won't be long!
Yes, it is! Thank you very much. Kind of like the hair styles and fashion back then! Great comment.
You ate more savvy than you might think LOL! Thank you so much for listening and for your kind comment!
Unfortunately I live in Southern Ohio (No claim to fame!) but would love to say I was from the Seattle area! I have been out there syncs find the land and the people beautiful and fascinating.
I've been listening to Late Potato and Red on my blue suede shoes. These are my favourites of the four! I wish quite often that I could play Acoustic guitar, but when I had the chance I wasn't patient!
You made my day (again!). The guitar does take a bit of effort, muscle, and determination! Most people do not start playing right away. It takes time. Time you probably used for other important things. It is hard to do everything (well).


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ASHLEY, ROBERT
Perfect Lives
LOVELY MUSIC
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1991 release. Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s." At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980s update of the mythology of small town America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two musicians - "R", the singer of myth and legend, and his friend, Buddy, "The World's Greatest Piano Player". They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge. As Robert Ashley describes in the opera synopsis, "they fall in with two locals to commit the perfect crime, a metaphor for something philosophical: in this case, to remove a sizable about of money from The Bank for one day (and one day only) and let the whole world know that it was missing." The eloping couple, Ed and Gwyn, the old people at the home, the sheriff and his wife (Will and Ida) who finally unravel the mystery, and Isolde, who watches the celebration of the changing of the light at sundown from the doorway of her mother's house, are some of the characters who journey through the seven episodes of the opera. Derived from a colloquial idiom, Perfect Lives transforms familiar material into an elaborate metaphor for the rebirth of the human soul. It has been called a comic opera about reincarnation. Personnel: Robert Ashley - solo voice; Jill Kroesen, David Van Tieghem - chorus; "Blue" Gene Tyranny - keyboards; David Van Tieghem - non-keyboard percussion; Peter Gordon - music producer; Paul Shorr - soundtrack producer.
Other releases on LOVELY MUSIC
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Bengeo Rural is a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.  According to the 2001 census it had a population of 601, increasing at the 2011 Census to 644.    The parish includes the villages of Tonwell and Chapmore End.

It originated as a split of the Bengeo parish in 1894 under the provisions of the Local Government Act, the remainder of which was amalgamated with Hertford Town Council.

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5 minutes walk from Brick Lane.
Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, curation and collaborations. Her work revolves around a preoccupation with notions of home, transnationality and utopian ideologies. Over the last few years, Talmor has been developing Constructed Landscapes, an ongoing photographic series made from collaged colour negatives that engages with representations of landscape - its tropes and pictorial conventions - through historical and contemporary references. This body of work and a recent collaborative initiative On Landscape Project, co-founded with artists Minna Kantonen and Emma Wieslander, is what she will be focusing on for her talk at LIP.
Booking for this talk now closed. Limited standing and any unclaimed reserved seats available from 6:30pm prior to the event.


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Best of the Scout Report for 2015
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May 29, 2015 Best of The Scout Report
Every week, the Internet Scout staff scours the web for mind-opening, perspective-widening, and just plain interesting resources in the sciences, humanities, and other fields - information that we hope will be edifying and useful to our readership of librarians, educators, academics, and lifelong learners. In this year's "Best of" issue, we've selected a colorful compendium of the resources we feel best represent what the Scout Report has to offer. Whether it is the design of the site, the fascinating subject area and content, the site's ease of use, or its usability in the classroom, Scout staffers have developed a wide array of rationales for preferring one online resource over another. Nevertheless, we were able to produce a top ten list that we could all agree on and that also features some reader favorites as well.
We hope you enjoy the assortment, and take a few minutes to revisit some of our favorite sites from 2014–2015. As always, we look forward to providing new batches of fantastic resources throughout the upcoming year.
- Teaching History with 100 Objects
- Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
- Interactives: Oceanus Magazine
- The Upshot
- Open Culture
- Neuropod Podcasts
- 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire
- Birds of North America
- Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- Made with Code
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Teaching History with 100 Objects
·http://www.teachinghistory100.org
As William Faulkner wrote in his experimental novel, Requiem for a Nun, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." This site makes compelling links to the present through an amazing array of historical artifacts. In addition to being one of our most shared resources from the past year, the Scout staff seemed to come back to the website again and again. Not just for history teachers, Teaching History with 100 Objects has a mesmerizing way of bringing to life tales from ancient Egypt, Qing Dynasty China, revolutionary Russia, and many other places and times.
Teaching History with 100 Objects may be funded by the United Kingdom's Department of Education, but the resources available on the website will be useful to educators the world over. The 100 objects in question consist of historically significant Irish posters, English canons, Chinese tea pots, Viking scales, and many other fascinating objects. The site can be scouted in a number of convenient ways. Readers can search by topics, dates, places, or themes, or simply select an image from the homepage to get started. Each object is accompanied by a brief annotation, as well as additional categories, such as About the object, A bigger picture, Teaching ideas, and For the Classroom. Each category is packed with information, ideas, and suggestions for bringing history to life.
Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
·http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/pickyourpoison/
It's not hard to see why our readers loved this thought-provoking expose of America's long history with mind-altering substances. In fact, the ad for Cocaine Toothache Drops (contemporarily priced at 15 cents) alone is worth a trip to this colorful and well curated site. Lesson plans and online activities help educators illustrate how the United States has handled the thin and shifting line between useful medical prescriptions and harmful, illicit substances.
Over a century ago, it was not uncommon to find cocaine in treatments for asthma, cannabis offered up as a cure for colds, and other contentious substances offered as medical prescriptions. This engaging collection from the U.S. National Library of Medicine brings together sections on tobacco, alcohol, opium, and marijuana. Visitors can learn about how these substances were marketed and also view a selection of digitized items culled from its voluminous holdings, including advertisements, doctor's prescriptions, and early government documents. In the Education section, educators can look over lesson plans, check out online activities, and explore online resources from the National Institutes of Health, such as, "A Guide to Safe Use of Pain Medicine" and "College Drinking: Changing the Culture."
Interactives: Oceanus Magazine
·http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/
Many scientists consider the Earth's oceans to hold some of the last real mysteries on the planet, with new species still being discovered every year and the depths of the deepest seas yet unexplored. These engaging interactives from the Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institution were a clear reader favorite, bringing blue water and sundry sea life onto our monitors and into our conversations. Of course, educators will find plenty of resources for their classroom use; but the lifelong learners among us will be just as excited to discover the high-tech dive suits, arctic explorations, and other wonders in store on this excellent site.
These educational interactives from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution provide excellent supports for dozens of ocean-related classroom activities. From the effects of Fukushima's Fallout on Marine Life to Measuring River Chemistry, a variety of well designed, instructional tools are offered here. The visual and audio materials (slideshows, multi-step presentations, whale calls, etc.) are quite detailed and a number of them also link to the articles from Oceanus Magazine in which they were first featured. If these articles pique your interest, hundreds more can be found in the Archives as well as a select number of Digital Editions in the Print Issues section.
·http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/?_r=2
Since The Upshot opened its virtual doors on April 22, 2014, it has published over 1,500 articles, charts, tables, interactive calculators, maps, and photo essays. Since we covered the site in September, the Upshot has celebrated its first anniversary. In commemoration, it published a must-read list of its most popular pieces, including a map of migration in the U.S., a photo essay of what 2,000 calories looks like, and many other unusually alluring tidbits. The material here provides an innovative platform for staying abreast of the most interesting, and sometimes unusual, current events circulating the Internet.
Launched this past spring, The Upshot is an analytical blog from The New York Times that focuses on politics, policy, and economics. The brain child of Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator David Leonhardt, the site is awash with interactive graphics and gripping narrative. The blog is continually updated, so you can start anywhere and find clear-headed, hard-hitting analysis on everything from the hardest places to live in the U.S. to the history of baseball. This first item can be found amongst the site's "best and most popular interactive work," located in the middle of the page. Just make sure you set aside a few hours, because one amazing interactive leads to another fascinating graph, which leads to a colorful thought experiment, and... well, you'll see.
·http://www.openculture.com
Readers raved when we published our coverage of Open Culture, the artsy information hub that features "the best free cultural & educational media on the web." The website contains reviews and links to hundreds of open educational resources. Whether readers are interested in learning Arabic, would like to hear Patti Smith read Virginia Woolf, or are eager to explore a collection of Gabriel Garcia Marquez stories, Open Culture truly has something for everyone. Including ebooks, movies, audio books, online courses, language classes, and textbooks, the fact that Open Culture is accessible across multiple devices doesn't hurt, either.
Perhaps the best way to describe Open Culture is to list what's available: 1,100 free online courses, 700 free movies, 550 free audio books, 700 free eBooks, 1,000 free MOOCs, free educational material for 46 languages, and 200 free educational resources for kids. Founded in 2006 by Stanford University's Dan Colman, the site also contains great lectures by Toni Morrison and Bertrand Russell (among others) and great readings by notables such as T.S. Eliot and Anne Sexton. If readers are looking for art and images, the Met, the Getty, the British Library, and other museums and galleries are featured here. In essence, Open Culture gathers together all of the wonderful, disparate content from around the web, curates it, and presents it in an easily navigable and enchanting format.
Neuropod Podcasts
·http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod/index.html
The 1990s may have been the "Decade of the Brain," but the groundbreaking research and paradigm shifting discoveries of neuroscience have only accelerated since then. In fact, our readers shared this phenomenal series of brain-related podcasts more than any other resource this year. What got them so excited? Maybe it was the charisma of Kerri Smith, or perhaps it was the sheer range and depth of the programming. There's only one way to find out: explore the Neuropod Podcasts for yourself.
If you are looking for the newest in neuroscience, and you'd like it in the form of punchy, approachable podcasts, look no further than Neuropod, a series of podcasts by "self-confessed neurogeek," Kerri Smith. Smith, who holds a master's degree in science communication from Imperial College London, provides an upbeat look at topics that run the gamut from psychosis to education to how the brain keeps time. Hosted by the Nature Publishing Group, podcasts have been published monthly since 2006 and the archives contain a host of wonderful material.
40 maps that explain the Roman Empire
·http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire
Since Scout's founding in 1994, our staff has included a steady stream of map lovers. The Scout Report has featured maps of small townships in the south of England, maps of uncolonized territories in the American West, maps of ancient Indian dynasties - and with this resource, 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire. This fascinating collection brings the political, social, and economic realities of one of the world's great ancient empires to vivid life, using colorful, vivid images that our staff and readers loved. In addition to maps, there are also fascinating architectural representations, paintings, and one particularly wonderful effigy of a Roman warship included here.
If you like your history presented visually and in a popular, Internet style, this site is for you. The set of 40 maps begins with an animated map, that depicts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire by landmass, from 500 BC to 476 AD. Map #3 provides an interesting insight into the size of the Roman Empire, relative to the transportation technologies of the day. Plotted by researchers at Stanford University, readers can use this map to determine travel time from London to Rome - about 3 weeks. There's also a map on the route of Hannibal's famous invasion of Rome with elephants. Compiled by editorial staff and artists at Vox Media, this map collection includes a few errata listed at the end. Many of the maps and sources are linked to Wikipedia articles, which in turn cite published histories - so it appears that Vox has done due diligence.
·https://www.audubon.org/field-guide
What could be better than a fully digitized, completely free, web-based Audubon Field Guide? The resources available on this site are as useful as they are beautiful. In addition to the Song and Calls section and the individual profiles of hundreds of birds (both listed below), environmentally conscious readers will likely find the coverage of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill extremely informative. The navigation of the site is both functional and fun, and components such as the 2015 Photography Awards, with its heart-stopping images of birds from around the world, will delight and amaze.
The Audubon field guides have sold over 18 million copies since Alfred A. Knopf published the first illustrated and descriptive books in 1934. This informative website, which features beautiful drawings and photographs as well as extensive descriptions of birds from around North America, is intuitive and pleasing to the eye. Readers can start by selecting the Featured Bird, by typing the name of a specific species into the search function, or by sorting the guide into taxonomic family or region. Each record then opens to provide detailed information, including facts about Habitat, Migration, and Feeding Behavior. Perhaps best of all, the Songs and Calls section (stocked from over 2,500 sound files created by Lang Elliott) lets readers experience the song of the Acadian Flycatcher or the rhythms of the Acorn Woodpecker among others.
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
·http://climate.nasa.gov
While the Internet offers dozens of excellent sites dedicated to the science of climate change, few can compete with NASA's Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. In addition to the walkthrough provided in the original writeup (see below), readers may want to explore the menu bar in the top right hand corner. From there, a page of resources opens up, including Facts, Articles, and Explore, among others. With special items for educators, including a link to the excellent website, Climate Kids, we are excited to see the many ways this resource can be integrated into classroom curriculum or activities.
This is one of those websites that might just stop you dead in your tracks. First off, it's beautiful with incredible images of Antarctica, Everest, and smog-clouded cities. Then there are the figures: global temperature has increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1980, Arctic ice has decreased by 13 percent per decade, and that's just the tip of the iceberg (so to speak). Check out News and Features for NASA's coverage of climate related science or browse the Earth Blog, a pithy, readable blog chock full of important facts on our changing planet. Then take a look at What is Climate Change? and scout its four sections: Evidence, Causes, Effects, and Solutions.
Made with Code
·http://www.madewithcode.com
What really excited us about this beautifully designed site was its appeal to engage more girls and women in computer science and STEM more broadly. As NPR reported in an October 2014 article, the number of women majoring in computer science climbed steadily between 1970 and 1985, until it looked like they would soon rival men for slots in computer labs around the country. Today, however, less than 20 percent of computer science majors are women. Resources like Made with Code provide engaging ways for girls and boys to learn and play with code, helping to catapult the next generation into this increasingly ubiquitous arena.
Google.org, the charitable arm of the tech giant, has committed over $100 million to investments and grants in the last five years. While Google.org's initial projects concerned plug-in vehicles, solar energy, and emergency response systems, the foundation has recently expanded into computer science education with its free Made with Code program. This program is designed to interest girls in the art and science of coding in order to develop a new generation of female programmers. Readers may like to start by watching the inspiring short video. Perhaps the most engaging aspect of the site is the Projects section, where beginning and intermediate coders will find engaging projects such as Music Mixer and Kaleidoscope. Uplifting stories of young women who have fallen in love with coding round out the site.
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A scandal close to home
BEFORE THIS month, Harvey Weinstein's name was not as recognisable as some of the actors he assaulted. Yet, he was behind some of the most acclaimed films of all time. He worked with Hollywood royalty, including the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day Lewis, Madonna, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. As a producer or executive producer, his name is forever tied to some of the most successful movies ever, such as two instalments of The Lord of the Rings and the record-shattering documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.
But a better sense of the strange power of this man can probably be had by reading the list of his accusers. Lupita Nyong'o, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Léa Seydoux, and Cara Delevingne. How could this happen? And these are only the actors who managed to have a career notwithstanding their ordeal and who are in a position today to be able to come forward publicly. Many others were probably never heard from or seen again after their "audition" at the hands of Weinstein.
From what we know thus far, his sexual advances were as uncouth as they were devastating.
All of this feels close to home not just because of the high-wattage of the names involved. The truth of the matter is that for many women, sexual harassment – and worse – remains a fact of life that must be contended with daily. But long before the Weinstein scandal, we in Trinidad and Tobago formulated our own prescriptions for these kinds of matters.
In 1987, calypsonian Singing Sandra breathed new life into the social commentary genre with her now classic anthem, Die With My Dignity—a work that captures the appalling practice of sexual harassment.
"They want to see your whole anatomy," warned Sandra. "They want to see what your doctor never see, they want to do what you husband never do, still you ain't know if these scamps will hire you." Her message, coming in the middle of the tough economic circumstances of the 1980s, was one of empowerment: "Well if is all this humiliation to get a job these days as a woman, brother they could keep their money, I go keep my honey, and die with my dignity!"
While this is the course some of these encounters take, many do not end in such triumph. Sexual predators rely on power imbalance: they target only persons who, due to a perfect storm of circumstances, will be unable to raise objection. In these situations, a choice can, tragically, feel like no choice at all.
There has been a lot of attention paid to the problem of violence against women in the home. We have witnessed the horror of brutal murder-suicides, infanticide and severed limbs. But we cannot afford to overlook other forms of assault that can take place in supposedly safe spaces. It can happen in the workplace or even in the street.
Who knows what the true prevalence of these incidents is? Women do not report them. They are often left emotionally scarred and fearful of retribution. They may seek to protect persons around them and to avoid having their trauma re-enacted by a censorious society. But silence comes at a price.
The physiological effects of sexual exploitation are severe. Often, pain can manifest itself years after the fact, try as hard as the woman might to move forward emotionally. Luckily for us, we live in a society that is, thanks to social media, increasingly more open to discussing matters such as this. Yet, there is still a long way to go. It was only a few years ago that a government minister stood accused of demanding sexual favours from women in exchange for State services.
The women who have come forward now in the Weinstein case are inspirations. They are playing their greatest role imaginable: reminding women everywhere they are not alone
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It's exactly this... and that solves a year-long mystery for me. I'm glad it took until now, though, since it meant I didn't spend all that lobi before the 50% sale.
New vouchers on old projects work. Old vouchers on new projects will not.
It was a change they made a few years ago once they realized that many of us (yes, I was one of them) would hoard the vouchers so that when next year rolled around, we wouldn't need to run the event, but still get the ship. This way it "encourages" participation every year.
LOL! I spent the weekend collecting Jr. Officer tokens at the Academy....and somehow, forgot how to work that Omega mini game, again.
I was regularly hitting 2000 points and collecting Blue and Purple fragments along with the other colors before the weekend. Now, I am back to the drawing board. LOL!
So, far my best score is 2500...which I hit 4 times.
Thats what I figured. Between 10 plus characters I'll be at about 500 a character by the time the events done. too bad the vouchers can't be traded in for things. Oh well..
Once you get the ship, it should open up a daily mark conversion project. 40 vouchers for 40 marks, but again, it's a daily (every 20 hours) thing. So some of the vouchers can be put to use at least.
Awesome, so similar to the Winter event then.. Sweet.. thank you.
There was a time there was none found on the second level, but the scanner lead me to Quark's Bar hidden away near the dart board. I couldn't help but throw a dart at the board and speak to Morn on the way.
In Light of the mounting number of technical difficulties on STO's/PWE's end putting players further and further behind in the Event Dailies, would it be reasonable for the event to be extended a few days to compensate? IF I (and apparently everyone else) is unable to log in today, that's another day lost. Many of us don't have the deep pockets to make it rain Lobi for Vouchers.
When technical difficulties prevent us from being able to participate for a growing number of days, the scheduled end date of the 21st is looking increasingly unfair.
Like, look at the preceding few posts before yours. You'd see that the event has already been extended by 2 days.
Also, a lot of people already finished getting the ship earlier this week.
I will state it is nice of Cryptic to extend the event by a couple of days given these recent log-in issues whether it was Cryptic's fault or not. I was lucky enough to already earn the T'Pau but hopefully this extension will help some players. I might utilize it to make another 40 or 80 marks.
the 3 posts preceding mine appear to have been made after the page loaded for me, so I would not have seen them until after I reloaded the page.
Thank You @ambassadorkael#6946 a couple extra days are appreciated!
@ambassadorkael#6946 @baddmoonrizin Just to make sure I have the info right; Anniversary Event ends at server maintenance on the 22 or 23 of Feb?
We need a vlog of the dance "designer" both doing the dances (at the same speed as an ingame character does) and the subsequent trips to medical professionals to sort out the injuries sustained.
Or maybe just send them for dance lessons so they get some concept of rhythm and timing.
It should be February 23.
Wondering how reyan01 got so many people in one place to stand still long enough with torches.
That was a mob marching on Cryptic. You just can't see the pitchforks.
Already ended, but its only 21st. Hm.
PC Maintenance is now complete! Thanks for your patience and we'll see you in game!
The anniversary event will be briefly switched off, but is not gone forever and will return for the extension.
Like Norman ('I, Mudd) too many things at once can overload their circuits.
It seems Cryptic and I have a very different definition of the word "briefly".
The Anniversary events will return tomorrow on PC, and run through Sunday. Thanks for your patience!
Still a somewhat different definition of the word 'briefly' than I have, but I'm grateful for the clarification.


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Q: Searching for algorithm/logic to place overlapping calendar event items (like toast ui calendar for example)
I have these items already successfully placed vertically with position: absolute and a calculated top value–
my library of choice for all things time related (dayjs) also comes with functionality to check if one item overlaps with another one, nice.
Each item has a startedAt and endedAt property holding ISO datetime strings, i.e. 2022-03-31T17:34Z – using dayjs I can convert them to anything the overlap detection needs.
In the screenshot you can see some examples of overlaps we would like to see in the final result. After some research the TUI calendar solves the issue pretty much just like we want it.
For a lot of reasons we can't use tui-calendar as a whole and extracting the logic to place the items (basically get width and left for each overlapping item) is way beyond my skills (although I think I've found the functions that are responsible for this)
So far I've failed miserably to solve this myself; both using recursion and loops :X
Questions:
– Is there an easier way?
– Is there a dedicated library to solve this?
– Any ideas how to kickstart a solution myself?
Kinda desperate here :D
Thanks!

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The Final Riverdale Episode Luke Perry Filmed Is Airing This Week
The forthcoming episode of Riverdale will be an emotional one - not because of a particular storyline, but because it is the last one Luke Perry filmed before his death at 52. The last appearance of Perry's Fred Andrews - apart from flashbacks, perhaps - will take place in the season three episode airing on April 24, titled "Chapter Fifty-Four: Fear the Reaper."
Series creator and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa shared the news on social media ahead of the episode. "As always, Fred's imparting words of wisdom to Archie. A beautiful, true moment between a father and his son," he wrote alongside a still from the episode. "Wish these scenes could go on forever."
Following the actor's death from a stroke on March 4, Aguirre-Sacasa announced that all future episodes would be dedicated to Perry. Tributes from the Riverdale cast and crew also poured in after his unexpected death. Speaking to what it was like to work with Perry, Cole Sprouse told POPSUGAR in an interview, "He was very close to all of us. And he was an incredibly passionate, well-loved person, and I think the whole world is lamenting his passing."


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HAITI, HISTORY, HELL and HOPE
"Even before this particular earthquake and the tragic events that have been following, it has been the conviction of the international community that this time we have to go into Haiti and finish the job."
I know everybody is different on how they perceive a comment, and it may be said with the best of intentions, but that comment by Stephen Harper is, to me, off-putting, to say the least. How do people see things so differently? Should a leader not qualify a sentence like that? Admit at least some of the brutally imposed past? There just seems to be so little acknowledgement by the political leaders for what has been imposed, from within and without, on Haiti—and much disdain for it as a country, despite what it must have taken to achieve independence in the first place.
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FINISHING THE JOB
In an article from CBC called Haiti's Unhappy History, and this one from the BBC called The long history of troubled ties between Haiti and the US, some of the historical invasions, occupations and Western-supported dictators are mentioned. The alleged coup d'etat—according to democratically elected leader Jean-Bertrand Arisitide he was forced out of Haiti by the Americans and flown to Central African Republic—is dismissed by someone in the American government as "absurd."
If it is absurd, why was Aristide not helped to come back and lead the country? After all, all know Aristide was, despite a troubling reign, democratically elected—claims of mass corruption and human rights abuses are plenty—in a country that had been without any democracy for years (until Aristide's first election win—this was his second coup).
Dr Paul Farmer's commentary here, from 2004, is worth reading, as are some of the comments. As usual, life and politics remain unclear.
COLONIALISM INC.
Whatever the truth, both of the recent articles I mentioned curiously and conspicuously fail to mention the shocking beginning of the the nation-state of Haiti: the disgraceful reparations that the liberated slave-country had to pay France for their liberty (from the early 1800s until 1947—an then other loans that had been borrowed while paying the reparations). To recall, Haiti was the first (and perhaps only) slave nation to free itself, via rebellion. Reparations for freeing yourself from slavery—now that's absurd, but true. And so worth remembering. In fact, shouldn't we all just know it? In a sane world, wouldn't this be common knowledge?
This article, much more explicit, is actually from May of 2009, before this devastating earthquake. The dreaded word: reparations. The cruelty, hypocrisy and insanity is almost impossible to grasp. This from the TimesOnLine:
History tells a different story. The appalling state of the country is a direct result of having offended a quite different celestial authority — the French. France gained the western third of the island of Hispaniola — the territory that is now Haiti — in 1697. It planted sugar and coffee, supported by an unprecedented increase in the importation of African slaves. Economically, the result was a success, but life as a slave was intolerable. Living conditions were squalid, disease was rife, and beatings and abuses were universal. The slaves' life expectancy was 21 years. After a dramatic slave uprising that shook the western world, and 12 years of war, Haiti finally defeated Napoleon's forces in 1804 and declared independence. But France demanded reparations: 150m francs, in gold.
For Haiti, this debt did not signify the beginning of freedom, but the end of hope. Even after it was reduced to 60m francs in the 1830s, it was still far more than the war-ravaged country could afford. Haiti was the only country in which the ex-slaves themselves were expected to pay a foreign government for their liberty. By 1900, it was spending 80% of its national budget on repayments. In order to manage the original reparations, further loans were taken out — mostly from the United States, Germany and France. Instead of developing its potential, this deformed state produced a parade of nefarious leaders, most of whom gave up the insurmountable task of trying to fix the country and looted it instead. In 1947, Haiti finally paid off the original reparations, plus interest. Doing so left it destitute, corrupt, disastrously lacking in investment and politically volatile. Haiti was trapped in a downward spiral, from which it is still impossible to escape. It remains hopelessly in debt to this day.
Doesn't that make you want to weep?
A link to Partners In Health, who do great work in Haiti, and have for years, and are undoubtedly in great need of support in this absolutely brutal and devastating time.
Here's to hope, justice, compassion, and further understanding of history, and how it may play out. And may Stephen Harper's words somehow be positive, and result in true and useful and compassionate help for the masses in Haiti who have suffered for so long at the whim of cruel and brutal politics, from within and without.
Petexo


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Grad visits St. Mary Elementary
St. Mary School Alumnus Returns
With Stories of High Seas Adventure.
St. Mary graduate John R. O'Neill visited the school recently. Here he poses with his mother, Clara O'Neill, his grandmother, Herminda DeSabogal, Delma Josephson, superintendent of Catholic schools, and St. Mary Principal Joan Barry.
SHREWSBURY – Just back from a seven month United States Navy deployment in the Persian Gulf, St. Mary School alumnus LT John R. O'Neill '99 visited his alma mater where he spoke to a full school assembly. The Naval Aviator shared stories of his work piloting his E-2C Hawkeye.
"You could have heard a pin drop as John talked about launching and landing his 54,000 pound twin-turboprop jet aboard the USS John Stennis. The children were completely captivated as he described in detail the impact the human body takes from such speed and power, as well as the challenges of landing an airplane onto a moving aircraft carrier, often in the pitch black of night," said the school's Alumni Relations Director Sira Naras
Beyond LT O'Neill's stories of high-seas and air-borne adventure, the school's alumnus spoke candidly and seriously about the importance of working hard and trying your absolute best in school.
"It may seem difficult now," he told the students, "but embrace the hard work and learning you experience here at St. Mary's. It is all part of the process that will help you succeed, and one day allow you to do something you love to do."
When asked about returning to St. Mary School, O'Neill said, "being back in the school was awesome. It was extremely cool for me to be back in the classrooms where I once strived to get to the job that I have and love today. I thought - wow, this is where it all started, and it couldn't have worked out any better. To be in a forum where I could talk to the students about what I do, when it wasn't that long ago I sat in those very seats, was a real privilege."
LT O'Neill's visit was part of the St. Mary School Alumni Re-connect campaign.


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Home Games Alien Worlds Records Almost 760K Users
Alien Worlds Records Almost 760K Users
Many in the gaming industry have expressed their belief that NFT games and/or blockchain games are the future of gaming. The NFT games segment is still in its infancy but user counts for many games are rapidly rising, highlighting the potential the segment holds.
According to data presented by Safe Betting Sites, Alien Worlds had the highest player count among NFT games in the preceding 30 days prior to October 21st 2021 – an estimated 759,600 users.
Top 10 NFT Games Combine For Over 3M Users – Alien Worlds Most Popular NFT Game
NFT games have become more popular over the last couple of years and many, such as Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, believe the 'play-to-earn' model associated with such games is the future of gaming.
In essence, play-to-earn games often require an upfront payment usually in the form of some cryptocurrency to play the game in which users can collect unique in-game items.
These digital items have a value that may increase over time and can be sold to other players at any point providing an avenue for potential revenue for players thus the 'earn' part of the model.
One of the other common features of NFT games is players having an input on the game's development. Since players have a monetary investment in the game that can increase over time, the game's value increases along with it. This makes players more direct stakeholders of the game compared to the more traditional role of simply being users.
The segment is still very much in its infancy and is yet to break through the mainstream with many uncertainties still to be tackled. Still, the potential of the segment is clear for the rest of the industry to see and some early NFT games are already boasting impressive user count numbers.
As of October 21, 2021, the top 10 NFT games based on player count in the previous 30 days, had more than 3M combined users with Alien Worlds from the WAX blockchain leading the way with 759,600 users.
User counts were determined by the number of unique wallets that showed any kind of interaction with a smart contract from the games. Popular game Axie Infinity frequently topped the list in previous periods but settled for the second spot with 602,210 recorded users from the same 30 day period prior to October 21.
Binance Smart Chain Dominates NFT Gaming Early On
Each NFT game runs through specific blockchains and currently, there is none more prominent in gaming than blockchain known as the Binance Smart Chain (BSC.) BSC only ranks as the second most-used blockchain, well-behind Etherum but is the most popular within the burgeoning NFT gaming sector so far.
14 of the top 26 NFT games based on user count are on the BSC and all of them have user counts of at least 10,000 uses. MOBOX: NFT Farmer is the fifth most popular NFT game on the BSC with 187,940 users.
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Naila Scargill|	11/07/2019| News
Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
The first major show staged on this theme, Into the Night features both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde from the 1880s to the 1960s.
Opening this October, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art explores the social and artistic role of cabarets, cafés and clubs around the world. The first major show staged on this theme, it features both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde from the 1880s to the 1960s, creative spaces that were incubators of radical thinking, where artists could exchange provocative ideas and create new forms of artistic expression.
Liberated from the confines of social and political norms, many of the sites provided immersive, often visceral experiences, manifesting the ideals of the artists and audiences who founded and frequented them. The exhibition features full-scale recreations of specific spaces, such as the multi-coloured ceramic tiled bar of the Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna (1907), designed by Josef Hoffmann for the Wiener Werkstätte, and the striking abstract composition of the Ciné-Dancing designed by Theo van Doesburg for L'Aubette in Strasbourg (1926 – 28).
Into the Night begins in Paris, on the eve of the 20th century, with two iconic locations of the avant-garde: the Chat Noir and the Folies Bergère. The theatrical shadow plays of the former in the 1880s are brought to life through original silhouettes and works that decorated the interior of the cabaret, which acted as a forum for satire and debate for figures such as founder Rodolphe Salis, artist Henri Rivière and composer Erik Satie. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured Loïe Fuller's captivating serpentine dances at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s in his extraordinary series of delicately hand-coloured lithographs, brought together for the exhibition. Visitors will encounter the immersive 'Gesamtkunstwerk' design of the Cabaret Fledermaus (1907) in Vienna by the Wiener Werkstätte, where experimental cabaret productions were staged. The exhibition includes original documentation of Oskar Kokoschka's exuberant puppet theatre and Gertrude Barrison's expressionist dance.
The Cave of the Golden Calf (1912), an underground haunt in Soho epitomising decadence and hedonism, is evoked through interior designs by British artists Spencer Gore and Eric Gill, as well as Wyndham Lewis' highly stylised programmes for the eclectic performance evenings. In Zurich, the radical atmosphere of the Cabaret Voltaire (1916) is manifested through absurdist sound poetry and fantastical masks that deconstruct body and language, evoking the anarchic performances by Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings and Marcel Janco. This is the birthplace of Dada, where humour, chaos and ridicule reign. Two significant clubs in Rome provide insights into the electrifying dynamism of Futurism in Italy in the 1920s. Giacomo Balla's mesmerising Bal Tic Tac (1921) is summoned by colour-saturated designs for the club's interior, capturing the swirling movement of dancers. Also on show are drawings and furnishings for Fortunato Depero's spectacular inferno-inspired Cabaret del Diavolo (1922) which occupied three floors representing heaven, purgatory and hell.
A few years later, a group of artists and writers from the radical movement Estridentismo, including Ramón Alva de la Canal, Manuel Maples Arce and Germán Cueto, began to meet at the Café de Nadie in Mexico City, responding to volatile post-revolutionary change and the urban metropolis. The ¡30-30! group expressed its values by holding a major print exhibition (partially reassembled here) in a travelling circus tent open to all. Meanwhile in Strasbourg, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp worked together to create L'Aubette (1926 – 28), conceived as the ultimate 'deconstruction of architecture', with bold geometric abstraction as its guiding principle.
After a period of restraint in Germany during the First World War, the 1920s heralded an era of liberation and the relaxation of censorship laws. Numerous clubs and bars in metropolitan cities played host to heady cabaret revues and daring striptease; the notorious synchronised Tiller Girls are captured in Karl Hofer's iconic portrait. Major works by often overlooked female artists such as Jeanne Mammen and Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, as well as George Grosz, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, capture the pulsating energy of these nightclubs and the alternative lifestyles that flourished within them during the 1920s and 1930s. During the same time in New York, the literary and jazz scenes thrived and co-mingled in Harlem, where black identity was re-forged and debated. Paintings and prints by Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence convey the vibrant atmosphere and complex racial and sexual politics of the time, while poetry by Langston Hughes and early cinema featuring Duke Ellington shed light on the range of creative expression thriving within the city.
Into the Night also celebrates the lesser known but highly influential Mbari Artists and Writers Club, founded in the early 1960s in Nigeria. Focusing on two of the club's key locations in Ibadan and Osogbo, the exhibition explores how they were founded as laboratories for postcolonial artistic practices, including open-air dance and theatre performances, featuring ground-breaking Yoruba operas by Duro Ladipo and Fela Kuti's Afro-jazz; poetry and literature readings; experimental art workshops; and pioneering exhibitions by African and international artists such as Colette Omogbai, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Uche Okeke. Meanwhile in Tehran, Rasht 29 emerged in 1966 as a creative space for avant-garde painters, poets, musicians and filmmakers to freely discuss their practice. Spontaneous performances were celebrated and works by artists like Parviz Tanavoli and Faramarz Pilaram hung in the lounge while a soundtrack including Led Zeppelin and the Beatles played constantly.
Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art runs at Barbican Art Gallery from 4 October 2019 – 19 January 2020 then tours to the Belvedere, Vienna from 14 February – 1 June 2020
Image: The Ciné-bal (at Café L'Aubette, Strasbourg, designed by Theo van Doesburg, 1926 – 28 © Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, donation Van Moorsel
Naila Scargill
Naila Scargill is the publisher and editor of horror journal Exquisite Terror. Holding a broad editorial background, she has worked with an eclectic variety of content, ranging from film and the counterculture, to political news and finance.
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost military assets worth £6.3 billion and does not know whether they still exist, according to a report out today.
The House of Commons' Defence Select Committee's The performance of the Ministry of Defence 2009–10 highlighted inventory control as a major concern.
The report said insufficient evidence was provided for inventory of military equipment, which included £568 million of assets such as firearms. The MoD could not confirm the location of 13 per cent (5,961) of Bowman radios, representing £184 million in 2009-10.
The select committee report said that when a National Audit Office (NAO) report found similar issues in 2008/09, the previous secretary of state told the same committee "if a vehicle fitted with a Bowman radio is broken in theatre...a soldier is able to take the Bowman radio out and keep that in theatre and the vehicle comes back to the UK...without the radio. That gives us a great degree of flexibility in theatre".
The select committee report raised wider concerns about inventory accounts and warehouse systems in general. It said, following the NAO's audit in 2008/09,the MoD had implemented key controls over inventory that were operated by the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency (DSDA).
However, the NAO told the Defence Select Committee: "While the routine inventory checks now carried out by DSDA comply with the department's mandated requirements, these checks indicated that inventory recorded on the system did not match the stock count at 29 per cent of locations." The NAO's audit work identified "significant levels" of stock recorded on the system that could not be found on the shelves, and items on shelves that were unrecorded.
The MoD's failure to adhere to International Financial Reporting Standards has resulted in the NAO's decision to check the department's accounts for the fourth successive year. Under the comprehensive spending review, the MoD must save £8 billion over the next four years.


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Dicliptera aripoensis is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago.  The species is only known from the Heights of Aripo, in Trinidad's Northern Range.  It is a branching shrub, 1–1.5 m tall with red flowers about 3 cm long.

The species was described as Diapedium aripoense by American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1926, based on a collection made by Walter Elias Broadway in 1922.  American botanist Emery Clarence Leonard transferred the species to the genus Dicliptera in 1954.

Conservation status
Although Dicliptera aripoensis is not listed in the IUCN Red List the authors of a 2008 assessment of the endemic plant species of Trinidad and Tobago considered it a critically endangered because it is known from only a single locality, and this area is shrinking or experiencing habitat degradation.

See also
 Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago

References

Acanthaceae
Critically endangered plants
Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago


Firewords Quarterly accomplishes the extraordinary feat of gathering a cacophony of original voices under one title. Each writer featured is very different from the next. This is especially impressive when you consider they have been able to piece these voices together, like some kind of literary jigsaw, into a refreshing little magazine. Even the feel of the booklet lets you know that it's something special. Inside the magazine, the carefully plotted layouts instantly grab your attention. The illustrations (some hand-drawn some produced digitally) are as varied as the writer's voices.
Reading Firewords is an education in the types of stories that are up-and-coming right now. Like any literary magazine its aim is to update readers on the state of current and emerging writers. Firewords achieves this with a lively mixture of short stories, flash fiction and poetry.
The short stories form the focus of the magazine, with other pieces fitted around them. There doesn't seem to be any one uniting theme, which is part of the magazine's charm- refusing to adhere to the current obsession with themes that many literary publications hold dear.
The two stories given the most space are: Five Seasons by Malene Huse Eikrem and The Man of Harim Province by: Peter Davison. They are both enjoyable, but I preferred the grim descriptive passages of Five Seasons; to the Murakamiesque The Man of Harim Province. The latter story is an ironic look at a bizarre ideal world, but it is quite difficult to feel a connection with. Maybe I'm just a pessimist but I preferred the outright Nordic Noir atmosphere found in Five Seasons. Five Seasons is a fascinating and piercing look at real life, though through fairly surreal glasses. However The Man of Harim Province does have some great one liners.
The other highlight of the magazine is the "Short Short Stories" section. This section does have a theme, in the form of a writing prompt (the prompt was: "As the lights went out everything changed"). The short short stories have their intensity multiplied by their brevity. The idea behind short shorts comes from the current craze for flash fiction. Flash fiction tends to borrow features from poetry, quotations and short stories. It has also been linked to twitter and other social networking sites where brevity is essential, and has become a huge part of our daily lives. In the Short Short Stories section of Firewords I especially enjoyed the story My Evil Twin by Alison Wassel. Wassel writes with a mythical slight on the modern world. Her short short is powerful enough to get her imagery stuck in your brain for several days after reading it.
Overall the design and content of Firewords Quarterly is engaging and in parts even beautiful. I look forward to the next issue, which will hopefully maintain the wide, but eclectic, range of fiction in this issue. Buy yourself a copy here.
Sarah is a self-educated journalist, writer and artist, who creates from her shed in a northern village of the UK. Sarah has been experimenting with various forms of writing over the last few years. Recently she has been writing a lot of arts-orientated journalism for The Guardian, The Journal, Luna Luna, Sabotage Reviews, Screenjabber and essays on female artists for The Bubble. She is also working with Survivors Poetry and one of her poems was chosen as their 'Poem of the Month' in July. Under the pseudonym Azra Page, Sarah has published two collections of autobiographical pieces: Catharsis and Dull Eyes; Scarred Faces. Carolyn Jess Cooke published several of Sarah's poems for her blog "On Depression". Sarah also writes plays which are going through the development process of being performed at scratch nights.


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With today's intense scrutiny of financial institutions, more and more banks are seeking ways to strengthen corporate governance and meet ever-increasing regulatory requirements while accommodating the relationship needs of existing and prospective customers. Banks are also struggling with the challenge of keeping operating costs to a minimum while both expanding services and enhancing technology. Achieving these objectives requires significant time and manpower commitment, which distracts management from focusing on the day-to-day operations. Urish Popeck provides a variety of assurance, consulting, co-source, forensic, mortgage fraud, compliance, and outsource services to assist management with its varied and disparate objectives.
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In our local Urish Popeck offices and throughout the BDO organization, a substantial commitment has been made to serving the banking and financial services industry. Collectively, the organization serves approximately 400 banks, savings and loans, credit unions, and financial service arms of large corporations, providing a full range of audit, tax, and risk advisory services, including internal audit and assistance with Sarbanes compliance. The organization's experience with all sizes of financial institutions provides a significant resource to our clients and is testimony to our ability to offer scaleable, on-demand services.
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Want a custom essay that will put a smile on your instructor's face? Knowing the right ingredients to writing a successful essay will do it. Knowing the beginning and ending of an essay are vital parts to making it successful. The first paragraph is the most important paragraph of any type of writing because most readers stop if the first paragraph does not hold their interest. However, knowing how to write supporting evidence, style, and correct grammar are also important. Put these ingredients together and you have a winning essay.
The best way to begin writing any essay, research paper, or term paper is to brainstorm ideas known and unknown about the topic. Use the information listed to research the topic. This information will be used throughout writing the essay. Perhaps you will find an important statistic that can be used in the opening paragraph. After brainstorming these ideas they should lead to finding information that will support the thesis.
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PITTSBURGH -- Visit a vulture, watch owls swoop by, and listen to a Poe-like black bird Saturday at the National Aviary.
It's all part of Owl-a-Ween, a family friendly Halloween party from 6 to 8 p.m. at the aviary, on Pittsburgh's North Side.
Owl-a-Ween includes a costume contest, storytelling, trick-or-treating, crafts and photo opportunities with Barkley, the Eastern screech owl. Trainers will fly Barkley and fellow owls X and Dumbledore for visitors seated in the aviary's FliteZone Theater.
Visitors also will meet Sarabe, the black vulture who loves Reese's Pieces, and Minnie the chatty crow (well, she looks like a raven.) If they're not too squeamish, partygoers also can get a close-up look at Madagascar hissing cockroaches, mealworms, crickets "and other creepy crawlies that are typically on the birds' menu," aviary spokeswoman Laura Ellis said.
In past years, Owl-a-Ween took place in the afternoon, but the aviary is going with a nighttime event this year, relying on natural lighting and decorations in the FliteZone to help set an atmosphere that's ghostly, but not-too-scary.
Other aviary displays, such as the African penguins, bald eagles and toucans, also will be open.
"We'll have lots of staff here to answer questions," Ellis said. "Kids and adults will get to learn about the birds we're showing, so it's kind of educational as well as fun."
Tickets cost $13 for adults and $11 for children. Light snacks will be provided and the aviary's caf� will be open for dinner.� Advanced registration is suggested by calling (412) 258-9445 or visiting www.aviary.org.


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Q: How to get the list of shared notebooks using the Android Evernote SDK? We are developing android application in which we are using Evernote Android SDK. We want to list the share folder (shared notebooks) and want to upload on it. We are using the following methods:
mEvernoteSession.getClientFactory().createNoteStoreClient().listSharedNotebooks(sharedCallback)

Via this method we get the guid. But it returns the guid of the folder (notebook) of current Evernote account which is shared to other Evernote account. But we want the details of the folders which is shared to the current Evernote account from other account.
We have tried various Evernote Android SDK methods but we cannot able to find the correct way. So I kindly request you all to provide me a correct way to proceed and share ideas regarding this.

A: The list of notebooks shared to the current user can be obtained by NoteStore#listLinkedNotebooks. Then, you can access the owner's SharedNotebook by calling NoteStore#authenticateToSharedNotebook and see the contents in it after. If you need more explanation of how sharing works on Evernote, the documentation is here.


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The Old Vic theatre is looking for enthusiastic and passionate people from all backgrounds to take part in its new community project called PLATFORM.
The project will culminate in the production of a brand new play featuring over fifty members of the local community at the end of the year.
The play will be performed in The Old Vic Tunnels in Leake Street.
The new play will be inspired by the people who live and work in the area and The Old Vic is aiming to capture a snapshot of life in London 2010.
To do this they are holding a series of research and recruitment events under the PLATFORM banner.
Each event will feature discussion, creative responses and a chance to find out more about the project.
All the material from these sessions will then be given to a team of writers who will then take inspiration from the stories and characters that emerge from these events.
Auditions for the production will be held in August but you can be involved now and contribute to the final piece.