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What the NGD Acquisition Means for Vantage Data Centers and Its Customers – A Q&A with Sureel Choksi
Vantage Data Centers, July 29, 2020 0 5 min read
Following its announcement of the acquisition of Etix Everywhere (Etix) and its expansion into five data center markets across Europe in February of this year, Vantage Data Centers (Vantage) has just announced another strategic acquisition in Europe. This acquisition brings Next Generation Data (NGD) into the Vantage Data Centers family.
NGD is a data center provider operating Europe's largest data center campus in the Cardiff Capital Region in South Wales. Coupled with the acquisition of Etix, which included a hyperscale data center campus under development in the Frankfurt region, and land purchases for planned hyperscale data center campuses in Berlin, Milan, Warsaw and Zurich, the NGD acquisition effectively doubles Vantage's portfolio from six data markets to 12 and rapidly expands the company's footprint into the EU.
We sat down with Sureel Choksi, president and CEO of Vantage Data Centers, to discuss why the acquisition of NGD makes sense for Vantage right now, why a data center in Wales is a smart investment for the company, and what Vantage customers can expect as a result of this acquisition.
Here is what he had to say:
Data Centers Today (DCT): Why is the acquisition of NGD a smart strategy for Vantage Data Centers today – especially following so closely behind the acquisition of Etix?
Sureel Choksi: Our acquisition of NGD is another important step in our expansion across Europe. A number of our customers are looking to grow their businesses in the European market. This acquisition accelerates our expansion and enables us to serve new and existing hyperscalers, cloud providers and enterprise customers looking to partner with an established and trusted data center partner as they grow into that geographic region.
Much like Etix, the acquisition of NGD expedites our growth and secures a foothold in both the U.K. and EU much more quickly than if we had attempted to only acquire land and build data centers ourselves. This means that we're ready and able to grow with our customers as their businesses cross the ocean and expand into a new continent.
DCT:What about NGD made it the right company for Vantage to acquire?
Sureel Choksi: NGD operates the largest data center campus not just in the U.K. – but in all of Europe. The data center campus that Vantage adds to its portfolio through this acquisition offers a tremendous amount of capacity with room for expansion – which will give us and our customers increased flexibility and scalability.
The NGD acquisition gives Vantage the opportunity to expand existing client relationships and better serve the emerging hyperscale, cloud and enterprise markets in Europe, and specifically in the U.K. And it will do so rapidly by drastically accelerating our time to market.
DCT: What about Wales and the U.K. made it desirable to Vantage? What about this region makes it a good data center market?
Sureel Choksi: NGD's data center is in the Cardiff Capital Region in South Wales, which is home to the Welsh government and inside the U.K. Tech Corridor. It's also conveniently located next to two large metropolitan areas. It's just two or three hours from London and less than an hour from Bristol.
It's also just a few miles from the M4 and major airports, making it easily accessible for customers. As the London M25 area gets more congested, hyperscalers are looking for capacity just outside that hub.
The area is ideal for building a cloud region for the U.K. Customers will benefit from the area's low latency to London – which is less than 1.5 milliseconds. The data center is located in close proximity to the U.K.'s Supergrid, which ensures connectivity to reliable power at scale. Combined, these attributes deliver competitive power costs and excellent fiber connectivity – which are essential for any data center.
DCT: What kind of demand signal is there from hyperscale companies for data center space in this region?
Sureel Choksi: We see the industry changing and customers increasingly needing higher-density, scalable capabilities in a shorter timeframe. These customers value location, total cost of ownership and connectivity along with sustainability, and NGD gives us a strong advantage in the market.
As the industry continues to grow, there is a greater need for large-scale data centers in strategic locations around the globe, including this region of the U.K. The area around London is one of the most in-demand data center markets, and this data center campus in Wales will help us to meet that demand.
This 180MW campus has existing capacity and the ability to scale quickly. When we apply our unique approach to building and expansion, we'll accelerate bringing additional capacity online and further cement our position as a major provider in the global data center market.
DCT: What does this acquisition mean for NGD's current customer base? How will this acquisition impact their data center operations?
Sureel Choksi: Vantage plans to continue providing quality space, consistent connectivity and support to NGD's customers. In fact, we feel that NGD customers will appreciate our commitment to operational excellence, which is a philosophy and practice that we share with NGD.
Most importantly, the acquisition means opportunity for NGD customers. Similar to how the acquisition enables our customers in the U.S. to grow with us across Europe and the U.K., NGD customers now have access to data center campuses operated by a trusted and experienced partner in North America. This opens the door for them to more easily and seamlessly grow their businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
DCT: What is the plan for the existing NGD team? Will they continue working with Vantage?
Sureel Choksi: The knowledge, experience and ability of the team at NGD were key factors that attracted us to them. They have an incredibly strong team in the U.K. led by NGD's CEO Justin Jenkins.
Going forward, Justin will serve as chief operating officer for Vantage Europe and president of Vantage U.K. Under Justin's leadership, the team will be the bedrock on which we continue growing our operations in the U.K. and Europe as we scale to meet customer demand.
For additional information about Vantage Data Centers' U.K. campus, click HERE.
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We have been discussing back and forth between ourselves on what we should call our Wasteland Bar Fighters; our protagonists that is. Personally I prefer Guy & Gal since that fits perfectly with the theme of the game, in my opinion that is. Ståle, our Art Director, suggests that we give them real names instead to make them more identifiable within the Corp Wars setting, which again might make it easier to refer to them in our future Corp Wars games.
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"FolkLib Index: Wisconsin Discography"
- Getting Published Bibliography
(Recordings by Wisconsin resident musicians 1948-2005)
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The following is a list of books I have seen OR purchased** about getting a book published. All of these books have been helpful to me in one way or another in learning the process of how to get my book published after it is completed. There are probably scores of other related books which I have not seen yet.
** = "purchased": After I decided that my only option, "Vanity Publishing", where I would be responsible for thousands of dollars in upfront costs of editing and printing and promoting a book, was way more than I would ever be able to afford, I gave away to a local Library every book listed below I used to own. No more books will be addded to this list.
ISBN: All those not marked "ISBN-10" or "ISBN-13" are 10 digit ISBN's.
13 digit ISBN's: As of 2-12-2007, "ISBN-13" codes are not yet recognized by Amazon.com .
Appelbaum, Judith. How to Get Happily Published, HarperCollins
1992, $14.00, ISBN: 0-06-271544-5 (Amazon.com)
Bly, Robert W.. Getting Your Book Published: Inside Secrets of a Successful Author, Roblin Press
1997, $14.95, ISBN: 0-934968-10-1 (Amazon.com)
Brodowshy, Pam & Eric Neuhaus. Bulletproof Book Proposals, Writer's Digest Books
2006, $14.99, ISBN-10: 1-58297-367-9 (Amazon.com), ISBN-13: 978-1-58297-367-8 (Amazon.com) [ISBN-13 links don't work yet]
Carmenson, Blythe. How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book, Contemporary Books
2002, $14.95, ISBN: 0-658-02104-4 (Amazon.com)
Driscoll, Susan and Diane Gedymin. Get Published! Professionally, Affordably, Fast [implied subtitle, by iUniverse], iUniverse.com
2006, $9.95, ISBN: 0-595-39573-2 (Amazon.com)
Although the book contains detailed information useful to authors no matter how or where they get published, the book, as written by the President & CEO and Editorial Director of the company, is primarily about getting published specifically with "iUniverse.com". If you are considering "Assisted Self Publishing" your book with iUniverse, you need to read this 291 page instruction manual.
Frishman, Rick and Robyn Freedman Spizman. Author 101: Bestselling Nonfiction: The Insider's Guide to Making Reality Sell, Adams Media
2006, $12.95 ($17.95 CAN), ISBN: 1-59337-525-5 (Amazon.com)
Germano, William. Getting It Published, The University of Chicago Press
Henderson, Bill ed. The Publish It Yourself Handbook, Pushcart Press
1998 (4th ed.: 1973, 1980, 1987), $18.00, ISBN: 1-888889-03-9 (Amazon.com)
Stories by those who have Self-Published, NOT a complete step-by-step handbook.
Page, Susan. The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book, Broadway Books
1997, $14.00 ($19.95 CAN), ISBN: 0-553-06177-1 (Amazon.com)
Peterson, Franklynn and Judi Kesselman-Turkel. The Author's Handbook, The University of Wisconsin Press
Poynter, Dan. Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book, Para Publishing
2006 (15th ed., 19th printing: 1979-2006), $19.95, ISBN-10: 1-56860-134-4 (Amazon.com), ISBN-13: 978-1-56860-134-2 (Amazon.com) - [ISBN-13 links don't work yet]
Poynter, Dan. Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books, Para Publishing
2005 (4th ed.: 2000, 2001, 2003), $14.95, ISBN: 1-56860-110-7 (Amazon.com)
Press, Skip. How to Write What You Want & Sell What You Write: A Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Published Author, Barnes & Noble, 268 pages
1995 , $?, ISBN 10: 0-7607-7233-9, ISBN 13: 978-0-7607-7233-1, (these ISBN's are unknown at Amazon)
Press, Skip. How to Write What You Want & Sell What You Write: A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Everything from Ads to Zingers in the Proper Professional, Career Pr Inc., 223 pages
1995 , $?, ISBN: 1564141527 (Amazon.com)
Sander, Jennifer Basye. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Publishing, Alpha Books (Penguin)
Schneider, Meg and Barbara Doyen. The Everything Guide to Writing A Book Proposal, Adams Media
Walsh, Pat. 78 reasons why your book may never be published and 14 reasons why it just might, Penguin Books
2005, $14.00 ($20.00 CAN), ISBN: 0-14-303565-7 (Amazon.com)
Zachheim, Sarah Parsons with Adrian Zachheim. Getting Your Book Published For Dummies, Wiley Publishing
2000, $19.99 ($27.99 CAN), ISBN: 0-7645-5257-0 (Amazon.com)
a list of every Music related "For Dummies" book I own
URL: http://www.folklib.net/book/wi_book25.shtml
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This event is a second instance of the workshop that first took place at the IS4IS summit 2017 in Gothenburg and attracted considerable interest.
Habits and rituals play a fundamental role in human life and are worthy to be considered also because they represent a form of embodied knowledge. They have been studied mostly by disciplines like anthropology, sociology and psychology. Philosophy as well offers interesting analyses from different perspectives, from Aristotle to Bourdieu. Aristotle represents a fundamental perspective to investigate the dimensions entailed by the notion of habit, while Peircean habits connect to the life of symbols. Very interesting researchers investigate the relationship between habits, code, and learning in biosemiotics. Of all human belief systems and practices, religions are strongest connected to habits and rituals in form of prayers, meditations, sacrifices, sermons, services, trances, initiation rites and more. Habits and rituals offer a common ground that can help to stimulate the discussion from different scientific and cultural perspectives. Habits and rituals embody information, though perhaps in a more materially distributed way than in text and other more conventionalized media. In many respects rituals and social habits carry a significant fraction of the information passed down from generation to generation that constitutes human cultures. So the study of this more basic mode of communication can contribute to understanding information processes in these more conventionalized forms.
6. How can the study of habits and rituals provide a broader conception of information and its pragmatic and semiotic basis?


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The University of Law comments on how UK lockdown laws have transformed our way of life
With new legislation and restrictions being passed every day in the UK, the ongoing health crisis has completely transformed the way we live.
Lockdown laws that have been brought into place have restricted everything from travel to public gatherings and even how we shop. We must stay at least two metres away from anyone outside of our immediate household, and although new laws launched this week (1st June) allow up to six people to meet up in a garden or outdoor space, we still cannot enter the homes of our family and friends. Non-essential premises remain closed, while those who can continue working from home are urged to do so, paving the way for a new way of working in the UK.
With this in mind, Matthew Tomlinson, Dean at The University of Law (ULaw) Leeds, offers his insight on the new lockdown laws brought in by Boris Johnson and his government for those living in the UK, and how these have and will impact our lives moving forward.
"Covid-19 has presented a threat to human life on a scale never seen before, forcing governments across the globe to take drastic measures of state intervention to mitigate its impact. In March, the UK government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and Health Protection Regulations 2020; legislation that empowers the police to direct any potentially infected person to go home, to a medical facility or to a testing location, and makes it illegal to fail to comply with the instructions of police officers without reasonable excuse.
"The new Covid laws go to the very heart of our fundamental human rights, yet perhaps somewhat lost in a myriad of public messaging, few seem to have fully digested the profound impact this legislation, passed almost overnight, has on our civil liberties.
"Freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, rights to family life, rights to refuse consent to medical treatment - these are the personal liberties that we hold most dear and when we look back in history, are freedoms that were hard fought for.
"It is not unusual for Parliament to rush through legislation - anti-terror laws enacted after 9/11 and legislation to allow a general election last December are prime examples of this. However, the problem with rushed policy is that the detail has often not been fully thought through and the Covid legislation has been no exception. Whilst the Act empowered the police to intervene with our civil liberties, it left it to police to use their own judgement as to suspicion, necessity, and proportionality when exercising these powers. Consequently, the courts have already had to look at what constitutes reasonable suspicion in the case of O'Hara, and the National Police Chief's Council has had to issue guidance following overly zealous and inconsistent enforcement measures being deployed by different police forces."
But what happens if the public does not comply with the new laws? Matthew states: "Where a member of the public fails to comply with the Covid laws, a police officer can issue a Fixed Penalty Notice, which the majority of people are likely to pay without challenge for fear of being fined higher amounts, or assuming they have broken the law even if they haven't! It is of paramount concern that the scope left for interpretation of the law by the police and the inconsistency of its application will lead to individuals being punished, without just cause. It is all too easy once powers are conferred in an emergency situation for use in one context to be adapted for use in other contexts. Questions must be asked as to the limit and scope of these temporary powers.
"The Covid Act will expire after two years, but it may be reviewed, extended or changed by Parliament. However, what will happen to the new rules when the crisis is 'behind' – or 'largely behind us'?" Matthew concludes: "The government has pledged to repeal the new rules as soon as it is safe to do so, but there is always the potential for the government to find other reasons for wanting to hang on to the additional powers it now has. Whilst there can be no doubt that they needed to pass legislation to manage the crisis, the parameters of the Covid laws need to be checked and challenged."


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Q: Cómo cargar estilos CSS dinámicamente? Tiene un bug Angular? Mi proyecto tiene un pequeño sistema de temas, es decir, yo clickeo un botón de color azul y mi sistema carga dinámicamente el css que le da los nuevos estilos y colores de entorno azul a mi proyecto, y lo mismo con 6 colores diferentes. Al comienzo me aparecía un error de MIME/type cuando trataba de cargar el css desde el typescript y lo solucione utilizando el sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl de angular.
Creí que era todo pero me di cuenta de que había cierto "parpadeo", como que un botón es de color celeste y el tema por defecto es azul, entonces como que el botón pierde el azul, se pone celeste y tras medio segundo se vuelve a poner azul.
Es como si perdiera conexión con el CSS linkeado, entonces entre a la consola del navegador y en el apartado de NETWORK me di cuenta de que salía status 304 al archivo linkeado (del color azul). Leí en internet que eso te dice que el archivo requerido ya se encuentra en caché.
Luego de probar y probar cosas me di cuenta de que dicho "parpadeo" solo pasa cuando se ejecuta alguna consulta al backend. Por ejemplo, tengo una función que cuenta los usuarios online cada 5 segundos, así que cada 5 segundos se nota el "parpadeo" y no tengo ni idea de como hacer que NO parpadee o no pierda la hoja de estilos. Estoy muy estresada porque no se ni que intentar ya que no entiendo del todo el problema. Espero haberles explicado bien lo que pasa.
Les agradecería muchísimo si pudieran ayudarme al menos a entender o tener una pista de que hacer!
Les dejo el código de como linkeo los css en caso de que lo necesiten ver:
En la primera línea de mi page.component.html
    <link id="temaTeed" rel="stylesheet" [href]="sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(cssUrl)">

En el page.component.ts
    export class PageComponent {
      cssUrl = '../../../assets/colors/color_4.css';
      temaLocal = localStorage.getItem('tema');

      constructor(public sanitizer: DomSanitizer) {
        this.evaluarCssTema(this.temaLocal);
      }

      evaluarCssTema(tema){
        if(tema){
          this.cssUrl = '../../../assets/colors/'+tema+'.css';
        }
      }
    }


"I like to think of myself as a storyteller," Monica Rich Kosann says. "Whether I'm photographing your family or doing portraiture or you're wearing your jewelry, it always tells a story. Women love things that are about themselves and my jewelry is very empowering."
Around 15 years ago, Kosann worked exclusively as a portrait photographer. As a hobby, she collected vintage cigarette cases, powder compacts, and lockets from flea markets and antique shops. She would put her clients' photos into these one-of-a-kind finds, much to their delight.
"Actually they're the ones who got me into (the jewelry business) because they kept wanting more," she explains. "My husband and I went to Italy and we found the artisans who had made the old cigarette cases and compacts and had them make them new for us to hold photos and that's how it started."
Kosann has built a thriving jewelry business based on our love for personal stories and future dreams. Her lockets are a celebrity favorite, worn by Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Williams, Nina Garcia, Jordan Dunne, and Hayden Panettiere, Kosan has expanded to pendants, charm bracelets, and other pieces of fine jewelry that each evoke the memories we treasure.
She has a shop on the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman in New York, where I caught up with her during New York Fashion Week, and plans to open a stand-alone store in New York soon. A trunk show of her unique designs debuts at Elizabeth Anthony in Houston Thursday and Friday (October 13 and 14).
"I think lockets are one of the sexiest pieces of jewelry a women can wear," Kosann says. "It holds your secrets, your stories, your adventures, your celebrations. I started doing lockets to debunk the notion that a locket has to be about having a picture of a baby. Women have everything in it from their travels to quotes to hobbies and aspirations. One woman I know went on a safari and put her pictures of animals in there."
Her lockets, which cost from $150 to $250,000 (for a one-of-a-kind creations), can vary from a single place to put a photo to a multiple locket called The Four.
"It's very generational in the sense that mothers and daughters buy my jewelry," she says. "It's something a woman wants to buy and eventually share with her daughter. We are lucky to have customers 40 and up but we also have customers who are 21 to 30 years old. "
Kosann expanded into locket pendants and rings, some made from fine gemstones, and also created a a new kind of charm bracelet.
"I didn't want to create charms like a tennis racket or a camera. I've seen that," she says. "I wanted grander things about women. We have very complicated lives. There are up and down times and a lot of those things are our journey. I want things about my life, adventure, having children, being with my husband, romance, things like that."
The most popular charm contains the phrase, "Carpe diem." "It's my favorite saying," she explains. "To me 'carpe diem' is 'You go girl.' Women go through a lot of different stages in our lives, so it takes us through all these different stages and moments."
A globe charm can be personalized with one small diamond soldered onto a location of significance (say Houston, where you got married). "It's really a conversation piece because by wearing this, you get to share if you want to," she says.
New collections include small Poesy rings with poetic inscriptions, like "forever" or "never fear," and a collection inspired by vintage watch keys. "I like to take things that are old history and make them new and modern so that's where my inspiration comes from," she says.
Her latest obsession is her new ceramic collection inspired by a French pottery called craquelins, from the Deco period, that she found in a Paris flea market. "I had never heard of it," she says. "I thought, 'my god, I have to make charms out of it."
She designed Deco-inspired ceramic lockets and animal pendants, some mixed with 18-karat gold and diamonds. One of her favorites is a ceramic fish.
"It means perseverance because a fish always swims forward. They don't go backwards," she says. "Think about it."


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Ask Ethan #4: Weird Astronomy Maps
By esiegel on September 27, 2013.
"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." -Steven Wright
So just because the Ask Ethan series is becoming way more popular than I can handle -- I've got more than 200 questions that I'm sitting on by now -- doesn't mean you should stop sending your questions! There are some really good ones, and today's comes from Robert Plotner, who asks:
When maps of the CMB are depicted, they are shown as a flattened ovoid. How does this correlate to our view of the sky which is a sphere? For example, a global map of the Earth is either distorted to show it in two dimensions or sliced up. What actual part of the sky are we looking at when we see the CMB represented? Is it distorted to show it in two dimensions? If we are only seeing part of the sky represented, is there any missing information that could add to our understanding? Thank you.
Robert, of course, is talking about the famous pictures that look like this:
Image credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.
It might seem difficult to believe, but as unconventional as it may seem, there's actually the entire sky encoded in that image.
Think about the Earth, if you will.
Image credit: IDL online help, via http://climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/.
A map like this is probably what you're used to when you visualize the Earth. Maybe if you live in the USA, you're used to the Americas being centered; maybe if you live in the U.K., you're used to the map being centered just so that France is cut off of both the left and right sides. In any case, this is the most common styling of maps of Earth that you're likely to find.
It's also wildly inaccurate. You might be surprised to learn that Africa is more than double the size of Antarctica, that South America is actually larger than Russia, and that Australia is more than three times the size of Greenland! This is due to the fact that the Earth isn't a flat, 2D surface; the surface of the Earth resides on a sphere!
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Wikiscient, using NASA's "Visible Earth".
But if you take the surface of a sphere and try to "unroll" it, or create a flat surface out of it, it doesn't work out nicely at all! Don't believe me? Take an orange, peel it (carefully), and try to lay the peel down flat on a level surface. Chances are, if you do a really good job, you'll end up with something like this.
Image credit: Nathan P. Belz, M.S., E.I.; U. of Vermont.
The problem is, when you take a spherical surface and try to lay it out flat, something's going to give.
If you insist on making a flat map like you're used to seeing for the surface of the Earth, you can make a completely connected map with nice grid-like (perpendicular) latitude and longitude lines, but you have to sacrifice the accuracy of area. (That type of map projection is called a Mercator projection.)
You can keep the accurate area and the perpendicular latitude/longitude lines if you're willing to give up connectedness, like the Goode homolosine projection, above.
Or, you can do some sort of compromise, keeping a connected map with perpendicular latitudes/longitudes but compressing latitudes the higher they get, getting you closer to equal areas (but not quite there), as you can see below.
Image credit: Donald Smith, Jr., of @mire labs; © 2002-2012 Duraspace.
None of these are entirely satisfying, and they couldn't possibly be! It's impossible to keep perpendicular latitude/longitude lines, accurate areas, and a completely connected map without sacrificing something; that's because the surface of a sphere isn't flat, and it's impossible for it to be accurately laid flat.
This is true for a map of the (almost plenispherical) Earth, and it's true when we look up at the heavens, too.
Image credit: Massimo Mogi Vicentini of http://www.mogi-vice.com/.
So whenever we go to visualize the entire sky and present it in a two-dimensional format, we've got to sacrifice something. The only question is what it's going to be!
Because size (or area) in astronomy is so important, that can't be something we sacrifice. It's also important to keep everything visually connected, because there are no gaps in space. So we wind up sacrificing the perpendicularity of latitude and longitude (or declination and right ascension, as we call their analogues in astronomy), and lose the accuracy of angles and shapes in order to preserve the things that are important to us. We could (but don't usually) do the same thing to Earth!
Image credit: UNC Chapel Hill, via http://www.learnnc.org/.
This particular projection is known as a Mollweide projection, and if you remember those three things I told you about the Earth earlier:
that Africa is more than double the size of Antarctica,
that South America is actually larger than Russia, and
that Australia is more than three times the size of Greenland,
they're probably much easier to believe looking at a projection like this! Well, this is what we do to the sky -- or simply how we project it -- when we present it in a 2D visualization!
So rather than show you a shot of the galaxy like this, which is only part of the sky...
Image credit: Kelly Montgomery.
we show you the whole thing, as shown in a galacto-centric Mollweide projection!
Image credit: Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) / IPAC / Caltech & UMass.
When we look in the microwave portion of the spectrum, like the Planck spacecraft did, it sees everything from all the sources in the sky, including the galactic foregrounds, the zodiacal light and dust, as well as the primordial, cosmic light from the Big Bang.
Image credit: ESA / LFI and HFI Consortia.
And finally, when we subtract out those galactic foregrounds, the "average" 2.725 K blackbody temperature...
Image credit: COBE DMR team, NASA.
the CMB dipole, or our peculiar motion through the Universe,
Image credit: NASA / COBE science team.
that's when we can finally see the important stuff from the CMB's leftover glow.
We then break that up into its different components (using spherical harmonics), analyze it, and that's how we learn about the Universe! But we do all of it in a Mollweide projection, and that's why the maps of the sky appear in the shape they do! But there's nothing missing; you're seeing the whole sky all at once. It just takes a little getting used to.
So keep sending your questions, and I'll keep teaching you about the Universe, or whatever it is you're asking about!
ask Ethan
mollweide
You've mapped this out very well. Cheers. :-)
By StevoR (not verified) on 27 Sep 2013 #permalink
Googled for:- "spherical harmonics" CMBR...
Hit a wall of mathematics
If anyone knows of an online idiot guide please let me know here :)
BTW Ethan, I always check the "Notify me of followup comments via E-Mail" box when I comment, but it doesn't work.
By Michael Fisher (not verified) on 27 Sep 2013 #permalink
@2 Michael Fisher
The short version:
Think of Fourier analysis, any function on the real line can be written as a sum of sines and cosines of varying frequencies and amplitudes. Studying those frequencies and amplitudes (the spectrum) can tell you something about the function. High amplitude low frequency (co)sines tell you there are repeating large scale patterns. High frequency means lower scale patterns.
Spherical harmonics does the same, but for functions on a sphere. The functions are a bit more complicated, as they have to fit on the surface of a sphere as opposed to a line, but the spectrum again gives you information about whether there are large or small scale patterns.
The long version: A 2nd or 3rd year calculus textbook should give a detailed explanation.
By Robert (not verified) on 27 Sep 2013 #permalink
By derek (not verified) on 27 Sep 2013 #permalink
"just so that France is cut off of both the left and right sides"
I don't get how that would work, given that the UK and France are at largely the same longitudes.
I'm also puzzled by the recent growing trend of nasty remarks about the British in American blogs. Is this related to the recent vote against bombing Syria? Are we now the new Freedom Fries?
Map projections! I love them.
By Robert H. Olley (not verified) on 28 Sep 2013 #permalink
Michael @2,
You might want to check out the 11th image (the animated one) in this post here, that shows a breakdown into spherical harmonics: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/03/27/the-science-of-the-c…
derek @5,
I had a professor in college who taught geophysics, and one day he showed a map of the Earth (in a Mercator projection) that ended on the left side right where the center line comes down on the third image I showed you here, and picked up again on the right with Ireland, Portugal, and the western tip of Africa. (The prof was French.) When I asked him where England was, he just went on to the next slide.
As for the growing trend of nasty remarks about the British in American blogs...? I haven't noticed it, but maybe we read different blogs? I certainly don't harbor any ill-will towards the British; that was a remark aimed at the long-standing contempt the British and French had (and in many ways, still have) for one another. Out of line to you?
By esiegel on 28 Sep 2013 #permalink
Being a draftsman with an obsessive compulsion for accuracy, I had to come to terms with the inaccuracies of cartological projections long ago. In spite of my experience, I still had problems visualizing the CMB map from the time the first one was published. I found that looking at a Mollweide projection of the earth immediately before viewing the CMB map always makes the CMB immensely more coherent.
I wonder how the Flat Earth Society ever deals with this. I know they suffered a major blow when they learned their membership had gone global.
By MandoZink (not verified) on 28 Sep 2013 #permalink
It seems that the information which is sacrificed in the Mollweide projection is depth (range, distance, etc.). In the projection of the entire sky, there is no way to determine the distance from our position to any point on the map, nor the three dimensional space between any two points on the map.
By Maineiac (not verified) on 28 Sep 2013 #permalink
Seems to me we should have an answer for this in the form of computer map applications. Bye-bye flat maps, hello virtual globe that you can spin until you find what you're looking for, and then zoom in on it in a particular manner that's related to your purpose for looking at it.
If you're looking to chart navigation or airline routes, you get one type of view. If you're looking for the relationship between sizes of land masses, you get something else, etc. etc.
(Don't anyone say Google Earth, there must be something else that's viable for educational purposes without having to patronize a surveillance monster with a budget many times that of NSA.)
OTOH for classroom use there is something inherently valuable about an actual physical globe. (As a useful side-effect, it viscerally reinforces the point that the Earth is finite.)
As for maps of the universe, how'bout a "reverse globe" software application, where your point of view is from the surface of Earth looking outward?
By G (not verified) on 28 Sep 2013 #permalink
MandoZink: I don't know about the Flat Earth Society. But the Flat Universe Society are having some problems with all those diehards who think the universe doesn't have an edge!
By John Duffield (not verified) on 29 Sep 2013 #permalink
The map projection issue was also covered very nicely in The West Wing (season 2, episode 16).
By Chris Beach (not verified) on 29 Sep 2013 #permalink
G,
Certainly there's something satisfying about a physical globe. It's the only way to represent the entire earth completely accurately. Any graphical representation that you can pull up on a computer monitor is still a 2D projection of a 3D sphere, and therefore must contain some distortion. Only the actual 3D globe can represent the earth without distortion.
By Sean T (not verified) on 29 Sep 2013 #permalink
Choosing your map projection is a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. If you are sailing a ship, and you don't have access to radio (Loran) or GPS location technology, then you want a map that is conformal (so that shapes are locally preserved) and that maps a course of constant compass heading to a straight line, so that you can be confident you are sailing toward the Southampton harbor (or whatever your destination is) rather than a bunch of rocks that will destroy your ship. Thus you want a Mercator projection, because that is the only projection that satisfies those two properties. But on a global scale, the Mercator projection is usually the wrong choice, because scales are distorted at high latitudes; its widespread use is the result of a British empire dependent on global scale shipping. For astrophysical applications, where preserving area is the overriding concern, the Mollweide projection is a better choice.
By Eric Lund (not verified) on 30 Sep 2013 #permalink
Growing up in Australia, my dad bought this map as soon as it came out.
By eric (not verified) on 30 Sep 2013 #permalink
Isn't that 2MASS map an Aitoff projection?
By Narad (not verified) on 02 Oct 2013 #permalink
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Death Speaker is available!
I'm going to let Mosaic Monday take a bye this week in favor of a huge announcement:
My new historical novel, Death Speaker, is published and for sale!
It has nothing to do with Los Angeles history.
Nope. It's set in Ancient Gaul, which today is France, Belgium and Switzerland. The action takes place over 2,000 years ago, when Julius Caesar began his Conquest of Gaul--a phrase that is also the English title of Caesar's writings. In fact, first-year Latin students throughout history have been forced to read that book.
My story is told from the point of view of the people Caesar conquered. The Gauls were Celts. Here's a teaser:
Emyn, a Celtic peasant, hears the dead and lets them plunge her into visions. Using her voice, ghosts advise druids and kings, warning them of danger from Caesar and his Roman troops. But can the spirits be trusted any more than the living? Emyn suffers loss, kidnapping and betrayal. Ultimately, she must rely on her own stubborn courage to face her destiny.
You can read the first five chapters at the book's website.
And, of course you can buy the book.
For ebooks--iPad, Nook, Kindle, pdf, etc.--just follow this link to Smashwords.com, where you can download Death Speaker. Here's a 10% off coupon to thank you for your support: WA75V.
If you'd like a printed book, you can purchase it at CreateSpace (the link takes you right to it) for $16.00.
If you'd like me to send you a signed book, I'd love that! Just email me, either by leaving a comment on this blog, or by going through the book's website (Deathspeaker.com). I'll ask $3.00 more to cover shipping, so the price will be $19.00.
So enjoy! Even if you don't read historical fiction--with elements of magical realism and romance--chances are you know someone who does, so please tell them about Death Speaker!
Labels: books, event, one-of-a-kind
Back to the Metro
Comic book art is the theme of the mosaics at the USC Station of our Expo Metro line.
Samuel Rodriquez designed 20 panels, each 8 feet wide, of mosaics in bright colors, all with white silhouettes of bicycle parts over them. Here is his artistic statement about the work, titled Urban Dualities:
"One thing many of us do when using public transportation is travel. Both physically and in our mind's eye. When we look at something, we may be seeing a face, a light pole, perhaps somebody's shoe, but simultaneously what happens is a mental picture. To capture the nature of public transportation is to crop different and small moments that form together to tell a story."
Rodriquez actually lives in Northern California, where he was raised. His studio in San Jose is called Shortyfatz. The name comes from a comic strip he was doing about ten years ago. The picture above and the one below is from that website.
I love this shot of work on the mosaics--it's from The Source Blog, a Metro site, but I suspect it originally came from Mosaika studios in Montreal, where all the Expo line mosaics were assembled:
Long Beach Cemetery
The Palm Cemetery of Long Beach was for the poor people who couldn't afford fancy funerals, or even graves. The land was donated by Jotharn Bixby, and no one is sure how far back it goes.
Where is it now?
According to this article in the Press Telegram, it lies beneath the Forest Lawn Sunnyside Cemetery and Mausoleum, on Cherry Avenue.
The newspaper interviewed librarian Claudine Burnett, who has done extensive research into the final resting places of Long Beach notables. Apparently, only an old groundskeeper at Forest Lawn knew about Palm Cemetery, even though it's mentioned in obituaries dating back to 1918.
Palm Cemetery is probably under the courtyard of the Sunnyside Mausoleum, which was built in 1923. That's it, above. Although it doesn't really look like that at the moment--the courtyard is being redesigned, and will soon include a marker about Palm Cemetery.
Leslie K, thank you for sending me this article!
Peck Park Mosaic Dedication
Last week, the Sea Creatures Mosaic at Peck Park in San Pedro was dedicated. I took this picture from across the pool before the rain really started to come down in earnest and we all got drenched.
If you remember last week Thursday, getting drenched with rain was a lot better than being sweaty and clammy with humidity all day.
Not that the lovely mermaid at right has any problems with being drenched. That blank space near her hip is where the dedication plaque will go.
With the exception of the mermaid--all of the creatures in the mosaic are native to the area.
And...to whom is this mosaic dedicated? Well, since the Girl Scouts of America is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and since several Girl Scout troops helped make tiles for the mosaic (some of them even look like cookies--see this previous post and look at the yellow background), and since artist Julie Bender is a leader in Girl Scouts: the mosaic is dedicated to the Girl Scouts of America.
To the left is artist Julie Bender with Girl Scouts Los Angeles' CEO, Lise L Luttgens. From their smiles you would never know they were getting soaked, would you?
Many local Girl Scout groups, as well as students from Mary Star of the Sea and other local schools, the Moms from Art to Grow On, as well as a few families, contributed to the mosaic by taking clay from Julie and making the tiles themselves, and coming by on weekends to help with the assembly.
A member of Councilman Buscaino's staff announced that the pool--which was scheduled to close this summer due to budget cuts--will stay open at least through Labor Day.
As I understand it, practically no city money was used for the mosaic. Sadly, Los Angeles--and all California cities--have cut way back on budgeting, even for necessities. Julie said that, with some supplies being donated, the mosaic cost no more than $2500 to install. Her time was volunteered, not that you could put a price tag on it.
One of the reasons for the dedication ceremony, in fact, was to raise money to pay off that $2500. There was a Silent Auction (unfortunately, all the goods had to go under the table when the rain started), and games, patches, and even several water ballet performances by the Peck Park Pool Synchronized Swim Team.
Tee shirts were for sale too. All in all, a lovely wet evening. And I won't even mention the food...which was kept dry under tents and was delicious.
If you'd like to contribute, I suggest contacting Julie Bender through her website.
Here's one last picture, taken through the rain. By the way, all of these photos are pretty dense and if you want to see more detail, you can just click on each for a larger image.
What does not show up well is how sunlight catches on chips of mirror and glazes--iow, the mosaic sparkles!
Hopefully the pool will stay open and people will be enjoying this for years to come.
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Labels: art, Mosaics, parks
Happy Birthday Randy's Donuts & Hollywood Bowl
When I drove by this morning, the sky was not as blue (this picture is from October 2010) and there were birds sitting atop the donut like so many candles. Randy's Donuts, in case you missed the news last night, turned 60 yesterday (July 11, 2012).
And--how cool is this?--July 11, 2012 is the day Marty McFly arrived in the future, at 11:21 AM.
As for the Hollywood Bowl, it opened July 11, 1922, so it's NINETY. Can that be possible? Vintage Los Angeles (on FB) says it's so.
That was the date of the first Symphony Under the Stars, although the Los Angeles Library (where I found this photo) has shots of 50,000 people attending an Easter Sunrise Service earlier in the year. However, none of those pictures show a stage--only the audience.
The place used to be called Bolton Canyon, according to the Bowl's own history pages. Civic-minded folks got together as the Theater Arts Alliance and raised funds to buy 59 acres. They persuaded the LA Philharmonic to play for Easter Sunday services in 1921, and there were also choral performances and Shakespeare plays performed before the Bowl officially opened in 1922.
Labels: art, buildings, event, events, restaurant
Los Angeles' Lost Tiffany Mosaics
This is one of three exquisite favrile glass mosaics that graced Los Angeles for sixty years, but which now reside in Oakland. Oakland! Boy, were we asleep at the wheel.
Well, not asleep. But it just shows what can be lost if a community doesn't make a real effort to save its art and history.
These mosaics, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, came through the port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) in the 1920s, to be installed in a new church at 813 Hope Street. Each of the three panels was 17 ft. high and 8 ft. wide. Collectively they are titled "Te Deum Laudamus."
Their home? The First United Methodist Church of Los Angeles. This was called the "Million-Dollar Church" when it opened on July 8, 1923--89 years ago yesterday. Generous donations had helped pay down the debt so that nothing was owed on the building. The three mosaics had been gifted as well, and were each valued at $5000.
At left is a close up of the image above, so you can see some of the colors in greater detail.
The church building was sold and razed in the mid-1980s, and the church offered the panels, through an art conservator, to the Lake Merritt United Methodist Church in Oakland, which was constructing a new church. So L.A. lost these gorgeous Tiffany mosaic panels.
A more complete history and many pictures are at the Lake Merritt church website.
But what happened? Why was the building gutted and demolished?
The church fell on hard times, going from a membership of 6,000 to only 400 in the last decade of its existence, according to a Los Angeles Times article in 1983.
A tweet posted by La Angelena @LAHistory alerted me to this story, and that tweet led to a post by BlogDowntown about the Church's July 8 opening. That post has more details about the actual history of the church & congregation.
Here is a picture of the Los Angeles church just before it was demolished. The sign-carrying protesters wanted to save it, but their efforts were unsuccessful. According to a story in the LAT, what was needed was $100,000 to repair and maintain the church...annually.
And it had never been declared an historical monument, which might have bought it some time.
So, the land was sold and the contents were auctioned off, then the church was demolished. The Times article mentions Tiffany leaded glass windows going for up to $575 (that was the top price). Also sold were big chandeliers, oaken doors, and potted palms.
The photo was taken by James Ruebsamen and is part of the LAPL's Herald Examiner collection.
What's at 813 S. Hope now? Parking lot, I think. Next to Y.A.S. Fitness.
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Title Insurance and Chamber of Commerce Photos
Here's a free event for vintage photo buffs: On Saturday, July 21, at 2 pm in the Doheny Library of USC, the California Historical Society and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce present . . .
. . . a special viewing of some of the unique old pictures like the one at right--which was taken in front of a bicycle shop in Monrovia in 1887. Are the ladies not daring and stylish? And the men--could you not write volumes about them?
The pictures are from the 20,000 separate photos in the collections of both the Chamber of Commerce and Title Insurance and Trust Company.
Although the event (a reception, as well as viewing) is free, they ask folks to make reservations. Go to the event link above.
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Quilts in Long Beach
The International Quilt Festival, long a Texas event, now has a summer show in Long Beach!
On July 27-29 you can see these wonderful quilts at the Long Beach Convention Center. The fee is $10 for a day.
Last year, Long Beach drew over 15,000 people and had 300 booths. For 2012, there will be special exhibits of "West Coast Wonders"--quilts designed to interpret the beauty of the Pacific Coast area. And collections of prize winners, international entries, and several more. You can look at this multipage pdf to see the list and some examples of the quilts.
The quilt at left will be in the Textured Treasures exhibit. The artist is Brenda Gael Smith, and the quilt is titled Pohutukawa Taonga. Read about how the quilt developed and what it means here.
Modern quilts are an eloquent artistic expression, comparable to mosaics, imho. This year, a special exhibit will feature realistic and abstract black-and-white quilts.
Antique quilts--historic quilts--are important and iconic pieces of Americana in the same way that authentic Civil War uniforms or armaments are. Again, my opinion.
This 1890 quilt at left--from the Festival's website--is signed by Amanda M. No idea who she was, but it doesn't matter. Amanda, and possibly her friends, poured hundreds of hours into creating a quilt that would not only keep someone warm over the winter, but add beauty to a home.
One special exhibit at the show will be a collection of Log Cabin quilts.
Los Angeles City Officials from 1850
This is one of the earliest dated photo I could find of Los Angeles at the public library site. It's circa 1869, and shows the Plaza from a hill.
Julian Chavez--for whom Chavez Ravine is named--was elected to Los Angeles' City Council on July 3, 1850, and resigned only 8 weeks later. I don't know why. Fifteen years later, he was elected to the City Council and served for a year on several committees. He continued in public service into the 1870s.
He's one of over 40,000 individuals who have been elected or appointed to work for our city over the past 162 years.
That's the kind of information you can find out on the City Officials Historical Database, now online. Dates of elections, what kinds of committees we had back then--boring to some, invaluable to others.
If you like this kind of research, check out the Database's Reference page, which has links to all sorts of sites. This Introduction Section and a User Page explains how to use the database. Compiling lists of all the city's office holders started in the 1930s, under the New Deal.
Weird to imagine that such records didn't formally exist before then. Did we simply rely on memory? Private grants allowed this project to go online.
Guess where I was for the last week? Two hints: Touring the nation's capital on a Segway is tremendous fun. Being caught in a storm while on a sightseeing boat in the Potomac at night is not.
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You just want to make sure that everything's right and that you don't get hurt, correct? Well, all your efforts to protect yourself and take care of others can actually bring about what you don't want – rejection. How can you know if you're controlling and you're driving others away?
• You spend a lot of time thinking about what others 'should' be doing.
• You feel righteous and hear a lecturing tone in your voice.
• You 'know' without a doubt what other people should be doing.
• You notice that while you're letting someone know what you think, they turn their head away, look down or roll their eyes.
• You've been told to 'mind your own business' more than once lately.
• You've been called 'controlling' or 'rigid' or 'difficult' recently.
• You've either said or thought, 'maybe I shouldn't interfere'.
• You've tried to restrict someone's access to their friends, family or certain activities.
• You've 'punished' someone either by exploding with anger, or given them the cold shoulder.
First, if your controlling behavior has escalated to violence, get immediate professional help with anger management. There are many, many programs easily available in nearly every community.
• If you're being emotionally controlling and manipulative, own up to it.
• Acknowledge the problem to whomever is affected and ask their help while you learn to let go of this negative, unproductive, destructive behavior.
• When you feel your back going up with righteousness, take 10 deep breaths before you say a word.
• Ask for support from trusted friends.
• Practice saying silently to yourself, "It's their life. It's not my problem." And, you have to really accept the truth in those statements.
Be patient with yourself; give yourself time to change. This is a repetitive mental 'tape-recording' in your mind as much as it is a behavior. Unless you've experienced a traumatic consequence, immediate change is unlikely. Give it time and effort and you will become more tolerant, open, kind and forgiving. And then, ironically, people will really listen to your advice and take it to heart, but only after you've detached from the outcome.
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Potentially embarrassing but true, this is a redraw of what's more or less a high school OC. In original imaginings she had a top of some kind, and I briefly wondered if social media guidelines would require me to put little stars or something over her bits, but it looks like because this is a painting of a statue... I should be in the clear.


We saw these Cormorants roosting in a large cottonwood tree along Cibolo Creek in Boerne, TX. It was about 7:30 in the evening when we saw them flying in from a day of fishing. The ones that arrived early had the best choice of branches, as more flew in they began to squabble over the roosting spots. It seemed amazing that a bird with webbed feet for swimming could perch on a branch to sleep.


If you want to enroll in a university, it is important that you know which the best school is but it is also important to know which the best and the worst majors are as of now. It will help you to decide on what major you want to have.
There you have the list of the best and worst majors. It helps you to analyze and what major you can choose based on your interests.
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Philip G. Cornelius (1934- 2015) was born in Southern California, and studied at the California State University, San Jose (B.A., 1960). He earned a M.F.A. at the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California, where he worked with Paul Soldner. He is known especially for his paper-thin porcelain teapots and vessels.
Talented in the visual arts since an early age, Cornelius originally chose science as a major in college because he thought art would be too easy. When he was drafted into the US army in the middle of his college career, he used his 18-month tour of Europe to reacquaint himself with art, visiting museums and galleries during his off-duty hours. Returning to San Jose State University for his final year of undergraduate work, he took a ceramics class and found the medium to be both inspiring and demanding. After studying at the Claremont Colleges with Paul Soldner, he embarked on his career as a ceramist, determined to constantly push his work to the limits. His pieces can now be seen in major museum collections throughout the United States and Europe such as Arizona State University Art Museum, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, French National Collection, Sevres, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, The Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan , Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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The Nevica Project is a contemporary fine art gallery and consulting business located in Chicago and Kansas City. The galleries feature artwork by Ruth Duckworth, Richard Serra, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Richard DeVore, Ken Ferguson, Michael Lucero, Rudy Autio, Peregrine Honig, Beth Cavener, Viola Frey, Jonas Wood, Jack Troy, Zach Tate, Andy Shaw, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Jeff Shapiro, Ted Saupe, Tim Rowan, Justin Rothshank, Brian Rochefort, David Reagan, Jeff Oestreich, Richard Notkin, Priscilla Mouritzen, Matthew Metz, Kirk Mangus, Les Lawrence, Lucien Koonce, Randy Johnston, Doug Jeppesen, Asato Ikeda, Mitch Iburg, Bryan Hopkins, Jason Hess, Perry Haas, Kenyon Hansen, Shoji Hamada, Josh DeWeese, Sam Chung, Lisa Hammond, Jason Hess, Warren MacKenzie, Akio Takamori, Theaster Gates, Ryan Mitchell, Chris Gustin, Jun Kaneko, Ryoji Koie, David Shaner, Trey Hill, Richard Tuttle, Kensuke Yamada, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Michael Simon, Ann Hamilton, Wes Mills, Sally Mann, Cy Twombly, Don Reitz, Akira Satake, Kirk Mangus, Adrian Arleo, Daniel Brian Evans, David Gilhooly, Judy Moonelis, Colin Pearson, Paul Soldner, Toshiko Takaezu, Billy Bob Beamer, Veronica Bruce, Kathy Butterly, Nancy Charak, Virginia Scotchie, Dana DeAno, Stephen De Staebler, Anna Hepler, Sergei Isupov, Marcie Paper, Darrell Roberts, Kerri Rosenstein, Kiki Smith, Neha Vedpathak, Jay Strommen, Aaron Scythe, Virginia Scotchie, Zac Spates, Robert Sperry, James Makins, Josef Albers, Barbara Bloom, Richard Diebenkorn, Larry Bell, Cornelia Hediger, Robert Motherwell, Alex Prager, Dan Anderson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Suzy Birstein, Shanna Fliegel, Gerit Grimm, Ursula Morley Price, Philip Cornelius, Robert Fornell, Wayne Higby, Furutani Michio, Mary Rogers, Kurt Weiser, Mihara Ken, Kanzaki Shiho, Eugene Smith, Michael Corney, Tim Roda, Magdalena & Michael Frimkess, Laurie Rubin, John Baldessari, Yoichi Ohira, Mary Anne ''Toots'' Zynsky, Kerry James Marshall, Chris Antemann, David LaChapelle, Takashi Murakami, John Glick, Robert Arneson, Alexander Calder, Julian Opie, Michelle Grabner, Sunkoo Yuh, Sandy Skoglund, David Hockney, Purvis Young, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rise Nagin, Nick Cave, Satoru Hoshino, Tip Toland, Pablo Picasso, Charles Arnoldi, Ralph Bacerra, John Balistreri, Judy Chicago, Sam Gilliam, James Castle, Suzuki Goro, Hiroyuki Tomita, Tom Friedman, Nick Weddell, Ben Beres and others.


Game porter Ryan Gordon sure has been busy. Only recently we got Turok for Linux and now Turok 2: Seeds of Evil is in beta for Linux.
Seems this one actually had quite a number of enhancements over the original release. These updates include 64bit support, a new UI system, a modern graphics system with a deferred renderer, shadow maps and compiled light maps, screen-space reflections on textures and materials and more graphical improvements.
It's not just the graphics which have been beefed up, the AI was also updated to make it smarter and more menacing. The control scheme for your character was also improved, giving you better speed and manoeuvrability, including letting you grapple ledges. Additionally, it includes a new "Last Turok Standing" multiplayer mode.
Since it's in beta, you will need to opt-in manually on Steam. There's no password, just right click it in your Steam library, go to properties, select the beta tab and then find it in the drop-down box.
You can grab a copy on Humble Store or Steam.
If you're a developer looking to get your game ported to Linux, why not try reaching out to Ryan.
Still waiting on the Linux version of the first game to show up on GOG, I never played these games more than the first couple levels so it would be great to finally take a proper look at them.
Yeah, what happened to the Linux release on GOG for the first game?
Speaking of Ryan Gordon and GOG, maybe his next porting project could be GOG Galaxy. I mean if GOG can't find the resources for it internally they really should outsource it.
EDIT: lol wait that can be horribly misconstrued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death!
I want this so bad. I'm still hoping they both make their way to GOG soon.
Kristian Speaking of Ryan Gordon and GOG, maybe his next porting project could be GOG Galaxy. I mean if GOG can't find the resources for it internally they really should outsource it.
If this is released, i'll consider buying games on GOG for Linux.
What a great idea! This could be a chance, i wonder if this has crossed Icculus' mind. Gotta hint him.
Looking at the game files, it would appear this uses (what I though was dead) TurokEx.
With regards to the comments about GOG, I personally feel we shouldn't look a gift-penguin in the mouth and appreciate that these games are available via any distribution service. We are already buying copies of commercial games without the source code, so using Steam's DRM doesn't seem that much of an issue!


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Q: Deploying Google Cloud Endpoints configuration fails Google API Linter recommendations Update: Cloud Endpoints Portal is being deprecated and will no longer be available after 21 March 2023.

After following Deploying the Endpoints configuration I have successfully deployed my compiled .proto file and gRPC API configuration file.
Great. I decided to be be a good citizen and use Google's API Linter on my .proto.
This resulted in a number of recommendations to include various annotations. The annotations required new proto imports;
Before
syntax = "proto3";
package api.v1;

// Request message for Get method.
message GetFooRequest {
  // The field will contain name of the resource requested.
  string name = 1;
}

...blah,blah

After
syntax = "proto3";
package api.v1;

import "google/api/annotations.proto";
import "google/api/client.proto";
import "google/api/field_behavior.proto";
import "google/api/resource.proto";

// Request message for Get method.
message GetFooRequest {
  // The field will contain name of the resource requested.
  string name = 1 [
    (google.api.field_behavior) = REQUIRED,
    (google.api.resource_reference).type = "api.v1.HelloWorld/Foo"
  ];
}
...blah,blah

The annotations require four new proto files to be imported:
import "google/api/annotations.proto";
import "google/api/client.proto";
import "google/api/field_behavior.proto";
import "google/api/resource.proto";

All are part of Google's Common API protos, therefore I cloned the repo into /Users/Jack/api-common-protos/ with:
git clone https://github.com/googleapis/api-common-protos.git

...and include it when compiling my .proto file:
python3 -m grpc_tools.protoc --proto_path=api
                             --proto_path=/Users/Jack/api-common-protos/google
                             api/v1/foo.proto

No errors. Great. Finally I deploy the API:
gcloud endpoints services deploy api_descriptor.pb api-config.yaml

This completes. However, the Developer Portal now shows:
We encountered the following errors while processing this API specification:

API parse error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/google/api/client.proto'

Please correct these errors and try again.

Scrot:

If I remove the annotation (and required imports), the Endpoints Developer Portal for my API works fine.

A: This is a bug in the developer portal. I have reported it to the team responsible. See Google's API Linter suggestions with Google Cloud Endpoints? which I posted to google-cloud-endpoints@googlegroups.com.

A: It's probably not much effort to temporarily work around the issue:
cp /Users/Jack/api-common-protos/google/api/client.proto /tmp/google/api/client.proto

Then the file will be available, where it is being expected - despite not being put there automatically.


This shower was designed and installed in Earl's Court, SW London. The generously sized cubicle is of standard production but of high quality, its round shape allows vital circulation space between toilet and basin. Pan and basin are also of rounded shape giving a soft overall feeling finished with a fossil rich limestone.


Please note: this set is only for rent.
First edition, limited to 250 pieces.
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Silkscreen printing on paper, excellent conditions.
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Martha Waggoner, Associated Press
Chancellor Writes in Support of UNC Center for Civil Rights
RALEIGH, N.C. — A ban on courtroom work for a University of North Carolina center that represents the poor and disenfranchised puts the school's "hard-earned reputation at risk" if it leads the closure of the center, the chancellor of UNC's flagship campus says. The UNC Center for Civil Rights provides valuable litigation training to law […]
Report: No Easy Alternative for UNC Center for Civil Rights
RALEIGH, N.C. — A committee studying alternative paths for a University of North Carolina center that offers legal help to the poor found no options that would allow the center to continue the full breadth of its work while also satisfying conservatives who oppose how it operates. The committee appointed by the chancellor of the […]
Civil Rights Should be Part of UNC's Mission, Speakers Say
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A campus that protects a statue honoring White supremacy in the Civil War should balance that support by continuing to train law students who will fight social injustice, the head of the school's Center for Civil Rights told a panel Thursday. Ted Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, […]
North Carolina Civil Rights Center Faces Conservative Ire
RALEIGH, N.C. — A center founded at the University of North Carolina by a civil rights attorney to help the poor and disenfranchised is the latest institution to come under fire from conservatives as they work to leave their mark on the state's higher education system. African-American attorney Julius Chambers, who endured firebomb attacks in […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system will follow the state's new law about transgender people by requiring all bathrooms to be designated for use by people based on their biological sex, the system president wrote in a memo to chancellors. President Margaret Spellings said in the memo that […]
Feds Will Investigate Sexual Assaults at UNC
The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a complaint filed by five women about how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill handles sexual assault cases, according to a letter released by the women Wednesday.


The fraudster at centre of scandal known as 'Fat Leonard' has admitted using prostitutes and extravagant dinners to coax vessels in the US Seventh Fleet to his contracting facilities.
The American Navy officers are accused of accepting Cuban cigars, tens of thousands of dollars of Champagne and the services of prostitutes.
In return, they allegedly supplied inside information on the movements of US Seventh Fleet to a man known as Fat Leonard who used the tips to secure inflated contracts for his maritime servicing company.
On Tuesday, another nine current and former officers were charged in one of the biggest corruption scandals to rock the US Navy as newly unsealed court documents revealed fresh details of alleged wrongdoing.
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Like The Status Quo on Immigration? Then Hillary May Be Your Choice [VIDEO]
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Posted By: Tim Black May 6, 2015
If you are in favor of the current administration's immigration policies, it appears Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is promising more of the same, pledging Tuesday to take further executive actions if Congress fails to pass comprehensive immigration reform and accused Republicans of advocating to give undocumented workers "second class status", according to NBC News.
"If Congress refuses to act, as president, I would do everything possible under the law to go even further," Clinton said during a campaign stop in Las Vegas.
Clinton said it is time for "a path to full and equal citizenship" and dismissed competing proposals that would give undocumented immigrants a limited time-frame to remain in the country legally.
Her remarks were made after a meeting at Rancho High School in Las Vegas, which is 70 percent Hispanic. One notable student attending the round table was Betsaida Frausto, a junior with a 4.8 grade point average and wants to study medicine a Yale.
"I don't understand how anyone can look at these young people and think we should break up more families or turn away more hard workers with talent to help us build the kind of country we all want to see," Clinton said. "So I will fight for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship for you and for your families across our country."
President Barack Obama, who took executive actions giving temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, is in a political showdown with Congressional Republicans who say he overstepped his Constitutional authority.
Dealing with the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants is proving to be a key issue in the early stages of the 2016 campaign with many republican candidates calling it "amnesty" and saying it threatens American works and ignores the law.
"Today not a single Republican candidate either announced or potential is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship, not one," Clinton said at Rancho High School. "When they talk about legal status, that is code for second class status."
Source: NBC News
Tim Black
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I have a wonderful wife and BFF of 38 years, two awesome kids, one awesome foster kid, two awesome sons-in-law and several dozen kids that call me Daddo. 🙂 Yes, God has richly blessed me.
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Prince's Unreleased LP Camille Is Coming To Third Man Records
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March 16, 2022 March 16, 2022 Editorial Team
Prince's 'Camille' album is set to be released via Jack White's Third Man Records.
The late 'Raspberry Beret' hitmaker's unreleased LP was recorded in 1986, under the feminine pseudonym Camille, with Prince singing in a higher-pitched style.
And Third Man's co-founder Ben Blackwell has confirmed the music legend's estate has given them the go-ahead to release the eight-track record for the first time in full.
He told Mojo magazine: "We're finally going to put it out. Prince's people agreed – almost too easy."
Some of the tracks ended up on 1987's 'Sign O' The Times', 'Housequake' and 'If I Was Your Girlfriend', while 'Rebirth Of The Flesh' featured on a 2020 deluxe edition of the LP.
There's currently no official release date for 'Camille'.
Last year, the 'Purple Rain' hitmaker's estate and Sony's Legacy Recordings released the posthumous LP, 'Welcome 2 America', which was recorded by The Purple One in 2010 and features previously unheard gems from his Paisley Park vault.
Prince's backing singer Shelby J. shared how the influential musician – who passed away in April 2016 at the age of 57 from an accidental fentanyl overdose – was in good form and full of energy when they were in the studio.
She recalled: "He was in such good spirits during its time. I remember that as I look back at photos because I take a lot of photos and just remembering where he was with his energy and how that helped us
"He was in such good spirits during its time. I remember that as I look back at photos because I take a lot of photos and just remembering where he was with his energy and how that helped us."
The New Power Generation star added how the eerily timely collection – which includes the singles 'Hot Summer' and 'Born 2 Die' – ?" speaks to what we're dealing with right now", with themes including social justice, social media and disinformation, and celebrity culture.
Shelby – whose vocals can be heard alongside fellow NPG vocalists Liv Warfield and Elisa Fiorillo, backed by bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and drummer Chris Coleman – added: "He really cared about the world. And you can really hear that he's a poet. He's a storyteller. When you listen to the songs on this album, you'll be able to hear that.
"During that time, we had conversations about Black Wall Street, social media, of how things would have to get worse before it got better, where he saw the future going. Everything. He always had his finger on the pulse. He was so far ahead of things."
The tracks that appear on 'Camille' are:
'Rebirth Of The Flesh'
'Housequake'
'Strange Relationship'
'Feel U Up'
'Shockadelica'
'Good Love'
'If I Was Your Girlfriend'
'Rockhard In A Funky Place'
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Experience@Bjerkem is located in a former barn that has been transformed into a rustic restaurant and bar. We offer a 14 course, ever changing tasting menu following the seasons, with the possibility of matching different quality wines from around the world. From the moment you step into our converted barn, you are instantly drawn 150 years back in time when food was something everyone was growing and harvesting for their own consumption. We believe that the process of sourcing and gathering products is as important as the cooking, and in itself deserves its story to be told. At Experience, we strive give our guests the very essence of what the word experience means.
Owner and chef Kim Sjøbakk returned to his hometown of Steinkjer, Norway, after more than a decade working in London and Dublin. Having gained experience from multiple Michelin star establishments, including Gordon Ramsay's Maze and the five-star luxury hotel The Dorchester, he took over role of head chef at the five-star London boutique hotel The Milestone, in Kensington. After a few years running kitchens and acting as consultant, he has taken his experience and understanding of food and drink and opened his own restaurant at Bjerkem Farm, outside Steinkjer, with a focus on local and organic produce worked with international flair and technique.
We take pride in growing our own produce and working closely with our neighbours to ensure only the best ingredients find their way to the dinner table. These include Salberg farm, in Røra, and Sæther farm, in Levanger, for our organic vegetables, also sourced from the local agricultural school, in Mære. Our fish is sourced from Roan, off the cost of Trøndelag, and from Frøya/Hitra, the islands on the coast. Our meat suppliers include neighbouring farms for organic lamb and game, with organic beef from Bjerkem farm. Our pork from Leksdalen I Verdal are mushroom fed, giving them a distinct earthy flavoured meat. We also collaborate closely with Gullimunn, which produces organic grain flour from nearby farms.