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Q: Get random record giving priority to record not already chosen I'm trying to find a way to get some random record without repetition at least until I take all the records from a table one time.
I have a table with some questions (3000).
I create a quiz selecting some random questions (30). I need to create quiz with all the question so without repetition until I use all the 3000 questions. Then I can begin to us the questions for another cycle.
In a single user environment I can add a field "count" to increase in my Question table every time I use a question, but I have a multiuser environment, so I can't pollute the Question table.
Any idea?

A: You must create an intermediate table.
Assuming your models are User and Question:
rails g migration create_users_questions user_id:integer question_id:integer
rake db:migrate

This will generate a users_questions table in your database.
Then, in your user.rb:
has_and_belongs_to_many :questions

and in your question.rb:
has_and_belongs_to_many :users

Each row of the new table will contain a user_id and a question_id
So, to get unused questions for user @user:
Generic Syntax
@unused_questions = Question.where('id not in (?)',@user.questions.map(&:id))

Rails ~> 4.0 Syntax [thanks D-Side]
@unused_questions = Question.where.not(id:@user.question_ids)

And to add a new, used, question (let's say @question) to @user:
@user.questions<<@question

That's it, end of story...
Finally, to reset status of the @user's questions:
if @unused_questions.empty?       # we have defined that above
    @user.questions.clear
end

And then you go adding once again...

A: IF you don't want to add any database fields, the best way will be using redis
1- Adding all ure questions ids in redis
$redis.sadd 'set_one', Question.pluck(:id)

2- Hitting on a method which selects a random id  and removes it from the list
def get_rand_question
 random_id =  $redis.spop "set_one"
 Question.find random_id
end

A: I think you can use cache for store ids of sorted unused questions.
available_question_ids = Rails.cache.read('available_question_ids')
if available_questions_ids.nil? || available_question_ids.empty?
  available_question_ids = Question.pluck(:id).to_a.shuffle
end
quiz_questions_ids = available_question_ids.pop(30)
Rails.cache.write('available_question_ids', available_question_ids)

Now you can find your questions with quiz_questions = Question.find(quiz_questions_ids).

A: You are going to need to add another model to track user interactions with a specific question.
User Questions:

*

*belongs_to :user

*belongs_to :question

*used (boolean)

User:

*

*has_many :user_questions

*has_many :questions, through: :user_questions

Then you are going to need to run a limited, randomized query:
user_question = User.user_questions.where(used: false).order("RANDOM()").first
This will get you your next question to use. Once it's been answered you will mark it as used so it's not picked up again.
When you regenerate a quiz you would need to reset to false. Alternatively you can use a count... but if your last quiz didn't use all the questions you will need to reset in some way or your counts will be off.


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3 Of The Week: (2/24/14)
By Megan Ammer · On February 25, 2014
I live in the "Windy City," but lately it's not the wind that's swinging my moods. The extremely, unnecessary cold has me bundled up and miserable, so my musical preferences have also been miserable. I've chosen songs that really encourage my current mind state. These songs don't apply exactly to a bitter mood, but their ambiance helps continue my Scrooge attitude. Eventually, I'll stop being so emo.
1. "Everytime"- Britney Spears
So, maybe Britney doesn't rock the black eyeliner and raccoon highlights, but there's a lot of effort in this song. She wrote it herself, which is pretty impressive, and it's full of sadness and regret. The subject matter is familiar, but the way she handles the loss humanizes her a little more. Maybe she isn't just a pop song machine, trained to produce crap. This evolution shows that Spears has the ability to feel and make others feel. This lullaby type model is pretty sweet, even if it's about losing JT.
2. "Pyotr"- Bad Books
I feel like I can't even explain the feelings radiating from this song properly. Bad Books has done something unique in recreating this rumored, historical event and making it into art. The song takes multiple perspectives, the husband, the lover, and the woman, and make each story line emotional. It starts off slow and calm, and never increases, giving the song this an eerie ambiance of giving up. Andy Hull's beautiful, rustic voice also makes this song upsetting. The complete package makes me want to weep.
3. "Rescued"- Jack's Mannequin
I might have picked this song before, but I can't help slinking back into a mood and utilizing this song to further shape how I feel. Andrew McMahon uses the softer side of his vocal range in order to keep a constant tone, which is of independence and loss. The song starts pretty easy and never really progresses either, except for some rising in the chorus, and also has that eerie feeling of submission. I get chills from simple lines like, "roads that lead away from this/I'm following myself just this once." It raises my spirits, a little actually. But, McMahon's sing of defiance still makes me emotional.
3 of the weekBad BooksBritney SpearsJack's Mannequin
Megan Ammer
Chicagoan currently studying magazine journalism at Columbia College. My strong opinions and respect for music aids in creating the desire to write about it, and I'm certain my life's headed in this direction. Otherwise, I spend a lot of time with books and people.I appreciate people who have extensive knowledge of Harry Potter, something near and dear to my heart.
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- "Apple cider vinegar ( 20ml/4 litres water) offered for 2-3 day periods"
- "You need to dilute your apple cider vinegar with fresh, clean water and the ratio should be 2% which translates to 20 ml to every 1 litre of water. The other thing to bear in mind is that because it's so acidic, you have to avoid putting it in any galvanised drinkers because it will end up corroding the metal. It is far better to use plastic drinkers when you mix any cider vinegar with your bird's drinking water."
- "You should keep adding it to your flock's water for 7 days once a month. If you set up a routine of adding it at the beginning of every month, there's less chance of forgetting to do it. If you have any young chicks in your flock, apple cider vinegar can be safely added to their water at a ratio of 0.5% which equates to 5ml for every 1 litre of fresh, clean water"
Quite frankly - I don't use apple cider vinegar unless my chooks are sick.
It's a tonic and with the other ingredients you have (manuka honey and garlic) can be a good addition to their drinking water. I see more value in the manuka honey and garlic than in the apple cider vinegar.
Apple cider vinegar (or any other vinegar) acidifies the body which makes it less of a growing medium for bacteria. If my chooks have runny poos for instance I give them a table spoon of apple cider vinegar per 10l bucket of water. If I suspect sour crop I give a few drops of apple cider vinegar directly to the chook, either mixed with a bit of food or open beak and put in.
You see that dosing depends on how much you'd like to use. All dosage rates you quote sound reasonable to me.
The good bacteria that live in the gut are quite susceptible to apple cider vinegar and may no longer thrive if the vinegar is given on a daily basis. It's good practice to give probiotic yoghurt (natural unsweetened) to chooks after a course of apple cider vinegar to replenish the good gut bacteria. If you put a couple of tablespoons of such yoghurt onto a plate your chooks are likely to devour it in no time. I'd give a tablespoon for every 2 chooks once or twice but again - it's a compromise between cost and usefulness. A dozen chooks would probably eat a litre of the probiotic yoghurt every day if you let them but it would also make for VERY expensive eggs.
You see that with supplements there is no real limit. If the water becomes too acidic they will no longer drink it. So you want the water to be palatable while giving them the benefit of the supplement. If you want to use what your neighbour has given to you I'd start with a very small dose and increase slowly.
Many people don't give it every day, some believe in giving it every day. It's up to you, you won't do any harm but it may not be of benefit in the long term, either.
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you about not feeding it to them every day. I was thinking more along the lines of weekly or monthly. I will give it a try since I have it.


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Home » S'porean woman, 40, admits to stabbing teen daughter's thigh with knife to stop her from going out
S'porean woman, 40, admits to stabbing teen daughter's thigh with knife to stop her from going out
A 40-year-old Singaporean woman pleaded guilty on Monday (Nov. 28) to voluntarily causing hurt by stabbing her 15-year-old daughter's thigh to stop her from going out.
According to court documents seen by Mothership, the woman, who cannot be named due to a gag order to protect the victim's identity, was upset with the victim for going out so frequently.
She stabbed the victim in her right thigh so that she would not be able to go out.
The woman is expected to be sentenced on Jan. 4, 2023, as reported by The Straits Times (ST).
The incident happened at their home sometime after midnight on June 20, 2022.
The woman had been drinking alcohol prior to committing the offence.
Asked her older daughter if she should kill the victim
As the victim was preparing to go to bed, the woman came into her room and began scolding her.
She then called her older daughter, who is 21 years old, to the room and asked if she (the woman) should kill the victim.
The older sister did not react as she was afraid that her mother might turn her anger on her.
The woman then went to the kitchen to take a knife before returning to the room.
At about 1:37am, the woman asked again if she should kill the victim.
She subsequently stabbed the victim in the right thigh, causing her to bleed.
The victim also sustained a cut on her right arm as she was trying to stop her mother.
Told victim to clean up the blood
The victim tied a shirt around her thigh to stop the bleeding.
Upon seeing what had happened, the woman told the victim to clean up the blood on the floor.
Scared of what else her mother might do to her, the victim, who was still bleeding from her injury, hobbled to her older sister's room for safety.
When the woman returned to the victim's room and saw that the blood was still there, she got angry and blamed the victim for the mess.
Scared of further angering her mother, the victim went back to her room and started cleaning up.
Blood trails were also left on the floor around the house as she hobbled about.
Hit the victim with metal ladle
While the victim and her sister were cleaning up the blood in the living room, the woman resumed her shouting at the victim and also hurled vulgarities at her.
She also wielded a metal ladle at the victim while threatening to take a knife and cut the victim.
Despite the victim's cries and apologies, the woman continued shouting and used the ladle to hit the victim's body.
Court documents stated that she used so much force that the scoop of the ladle was bent out of shape.
She then bent the ladle back into shape and resumed hitting the victim, ignoring her cries to stop.
Instead, the woman reportedly mocked her daughter's pain.
Police arrived after noise complaint
At about 1:46am, police officers arrived at the house after an unidentified person made a noise complaint.
When alerted, the woman temporarily stopped abusing the victim. The victim was quickly told to stay in the toilet, out of sight from the main door.
The woman then attended to the police officers and denied that there had been any dispute. She claimed that she was just talking loudly with her older daughter.
Her older daughter told the police that everything was alright. She did not find what had happened to the victim particularly serious as she and the victim often got beaten by their mother.
Hit the victim with electric fan and floorball sticks
The police officers left soon after, and the woman continued scolding and shouting at the victim.
She also used a small electric fan and the victim's two floorball sticks to hit her.
She hit the victim with the fan at least five times, only stopping when it broke, court documents stated.
The woman then told her older daughter to attend to the victim's wounds. However, she was unable to stop the bleeding.
She eventually came clean
Court documents did not detail what happened next, but at 3:22am, the woman called the police and admitted she had stabbed the victim.
The knife, metal ladle and floorball sticks were seized as case exhibits. The incident was also captured on the CCTV installed in the house's living room.
The victim was conveyed to KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) for medical treatment for her injuries.
She suffered deep laceration to her right thigh, as well as lacerations to her forearms.
She also had multiple bruises over her right shoulder, left upper back, left upper arm, left forearm, left wrist, knuckles of both hands, right arm, right wrist and right knee.
On July 1, 2022, the victim was transferred to St Andrew's Community Hospital (SACH) as a temporary residence of safety, while awaiting definitive placement by the Child Protection Services (CPS).
She was discharged from SACH on Jul. 15 under the escort of CPS, into the care of her maternal aunt.
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1¶ This is the book of the descendants of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
2male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.
3And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth:
4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters;
5and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6¶ And Seth lived one hundred and five years and begat Enos.
7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters;
8and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan,
10and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years and begat sons and daughters;
11and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
12And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel;
13and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years and begat sons and daughters;
14and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
15And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years and begat Jared;
16and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters;
17and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety-five years and he died.
18And Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years and he begat Enoch;
19and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters;
20and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, and he died.
21¶ And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begat Methuselah;
22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters;
23and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
24And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25¶ And Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;
26and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years and begat sons and daughters;
27and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.
28¶ And Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years and begat a son;
29and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.
30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety-five years and begat sons and daughters;
31and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, and he died.
32And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International
The Descendants of Adam
1This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings,#5:1 Or man; Hebrew reads adam; similarly in 5:2. he made them to be like himself. 2He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human."
3When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth. 4After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 5Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
6When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of#5:6 Or the ancestor of; also in 5:9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25. Enosh. 7After the birth of#5:7 Or the birth of this ancestor of; also in 5:10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 26. Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 8Seth lived 912 years, and then he died.
9When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan. 10After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived another 815 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 11Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.
12When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 14Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.
15When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared. 16After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived another 830 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 17Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.
18When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch. 19After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 20Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.
21When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah. 22After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 23Enoch lived 365 years, 24walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
25When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. 26After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 27Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
28When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son. 29Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "May he bring us relief#5:29 Noah sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean "relief" or "comfort." from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed." 30After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived another 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 31Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.
32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Born Mar. 16, 1887, in Kulebaki, in present-day Gorky Oblast; died Oct. 10, 1947, in Moscow. Soviet party figure. Became a member of the Communist Party in 1904.
Kirsanova's father was a clerical worker at a plant in Kulebaki. She was expelled from a Gymnasium for her participation in the revolutionary movement. During the Revolution of 1905–07 she engaged in party work in the Perm' organization of the RSDLP. Persecuted by the authorities, she served four years at hard labor. She married Em. laroslavskii while in exile in Yakutiia. After the October Revolution of 1917, Kirsanova was chairman of the soviet in Nadezhdinsk (present-day Serov), chairman of the military council of the Verkhniaia Tura District, and a member of the military collegium of the Third Army of the Eastern Front. She was secretary of the Khamovniki Raion Committee of the RCP (Bolshevik) in Moscow in 1918. She was a delegate to the Eighth Congress of the RCP(B). From the fall of 1919, Kirsanova was director of the political department of the Perm' Province Military Commissariat, becoming secretary of the Omsk city party committee in September 1920. From 1922 to 1924 she was deputy rector of the Ia. M. Sverdlov Communist University in Moscow.
In 1938, Kirsanova headed the Department of Higher Educational Institutions of the All-Union Committee on Higher Schools under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. She was a lecturer at the agitation and propaganda department of the Central Committee of the ACP (Bolshevik) from 1941. Beginning in 1945, Kirsanova worked in the International Democratic Women's Federation and was a member of the Presidium of the Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women. She was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star.
Gromova, I. "Klavdichka." In Zhenshchiny russkoi revoliutsii. Moscow, 1968.


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Q: gwt popuppanel cancel onclose process based on a condition I have a PopupPanel
 private PopupPanel simplePopup;

The popup opens in the app. When the user clicks outside of it the popup is closed. This is the default behaviour. I'd like to override that behaviour and DON'T close the popup IF a condition is met. I have something like this in mind:
  simplePopup.addCloseHandler(new CloseHandler<PopupPanel>() {

        @Override
        public void onClose(CloseEvent<PopupPanel> arg0) {
            if (conditionIsMet) {
              // do something here to avoid closing the popup
           }
        }
    });

But I don't know how to prevent the popup from closing. I've read something about onPreviewNativeEvent but I don't know how to use it.

A: You need to disable the autoHide flag. The default hide behavior is due to this flag. You can disable it with the following code snippet.
simplePopup.setAutoHideEnabled( false );

You can also disable it through constructor.
You can control the hide based on some condition by overridding the hide method as
    simplepopup = new PopupPanel( false)
    {
        @Override
        public void hide( boolean autoClosed )
        {
            if( condition met )
            {
                super.hide();
            }
        }
    };

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This Is Anfield • Match Previews •
Next Up: Lyon (a)
Liverpool go into this game knowing that anything short of victory will make their chances of progressing in the Champions League this season very bleak indeed.
The Reds currently sit third in group E after three games, 3 points behind second place Fiorentina and 6 points behind opponents Lyon.
Two consecutive defeats to Fiorentina and Lyon have put Rafa Benitez's men in a difficult position to qualify with three games left to play in the Champions League group stage.
When the two sides met at Anfield two weeks ago, Lyon came from behind to snatch a 2-1 victory and subject the Reds to their fourth consecutive defeat.
Benitez is unlikely to have captain Steven Gerrard available. The midfielder is still struggling with a groin injury.
However, Benitez could welcome back Alberto Aquilani and Glen Johnson who were forced to miss Saturday's Premier League trip to Fulham.
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Gurren Lagann – 04
Posted by Omni on April 22, 2007	 April 28, 2007 First Impressions / Gurren Lagann
Home First Impressions Gurren Lagann – 04
Lovely Complex – 03
Hayate no Gotoku! – 04
Though starving, Kamina, Simon, Leeron, and Yoko make their way towards the enemy base. At one point in their travels, Kamina starts trying to train Simon on gattai (combining) by throwing rocks at him and ordering him to fly. Simon running away from the rocks gets interrupted when the Gurren get attacked by a group of masked assailants who think that Simon needs rescuing from a Ganmen. Kamina, however, is not the Beastman that his assailants think he is, and the misunderstanding soon gets cleared up. The three girls who "saved" Simon introduce themselves as Kiyol, Kinon, and Kiyal, and the guy who attacked the Gurren introduces himself as Kittan. They are Beastmen hunters – the Black Siblings. After the introductions, the girls go off to find food for everyone and end up discovering a large and furry pink something that already looks dead. Meanwhile, the Kittan reveals to Kamina and Simon that they've been after a 16-faced Ganmen. As they soon find out, the pink fur-balls they attempt to eat are the 16 pilots, and all of them soon escape to their respective Ganmen.
With Kittan's help in providing covering fire, Kamina starts up the Gurren and Simon starts up the Lagann. Simon wants to combine immediately with Kamina, but Kamina refuses because Simon's not putting his soul into it. Before they can go through with anything, their 16 enemies also combine into a larger Ganmen. Remembering how Kamina wanted him to fly, Simon tries to avoid all the enemies, but gets knocked into the air anyway. Kamina chooses that moment to combine into the Gurren Lagann. It squares off against the combined enemy Ganmen, but being starved, Simon and Kamina are unable to overcome their opponents. Realizing the graveness of the situation, Simon's pet Boota bites off a piece of its own rear and feeds it to Simon and Kamina. This re-energizes them enough to beat their enemy and win the day. In the end, the two groups part ways with Kittan extending an invitation for Kamina to the join the Black Siblings and Kamina doing the same for Kittan with the Gurren Brigade.
Well, the first thing that stood out to me was that the animation quality dropped dramatically, at least during the non mecha parts. As many people have pointed out, this can be attributed to the different style, but there's also the issue of them reusing footage (particularly with the 16-faced Ganmen). It was still fun to watch and had plenty of action, though the Boota offering part of himself to be eaten seemed kind of weird. Overall though, this was probably my least favorite of the episodes so far. Still, the next episode looks very promising…
aww man! the animation dropped? thats disapointing to me
Anryu
April 22, 2007 at 12:48 am	13 years ago
Well its not like every ep could have the same quality as the first 3, the studeo would go broke
OMGZergRush
Yeah the animation scared me a little. I hope it's better next week.
It's not that the animation dropped, it was just a different animation director.
April 22, 2007 at 1:03 am	13 years ago
Different animation director. It wasn't a really a drop, just a more "Artsy" style. The thing actually "Moved" better even if superficially it looks "weird". The guys working here have actually quite a cult following.
I can live with the animation not being as "OMG HOLY CRAP AMAZING" as it was in the first three episodes. It's gotta drop at some point, and it's better that it drops now, when the series is establishing itself, rather than later on in the series when everything feels really important.
Anonymooo
They should've tried to cook those fuzz balls first…
Maybe it was both. They didnt have a big budget, so they decided to make things more stilized.
Flou is right. Its not a drop in animation its just that they had something of a guest animation director for this episode. Its the same guy who did Noein, some episodes of Beck and other random episodes of shows like Samurai 7 and Aquarion.
Episode 4 was basically completely the work of Osamu Kobayashi – directing, animation directing, and storyboarding were all him. You can look up his other works on ANN.
It's not a situation where the budget has gone through the floor, it's one where a director with his own style has been given complete control, and it shows.
Much like how Sousei no Aquarion episode 19 and the third opening of Eureka 7 were entirely the work of Satoru Utsunomiya, or that episode of Samurai Seven that was directed by Hisashi Mori (aka Hisashi Nakayama).
Episode 4 has some great animation, the movement is fluid and the director imprinted his own artistic vision. This episode is going to have a cult pretty soon. If you thought the budged went down, or that the animation dropped, you need to watch less naruto and expand the catalog of series you are following; still, I can see why a lot of people will not like this episode.
more like director changed 🙂 I personally thought the animation style kicked ass.
As a viewer who considers consistency to be of utmost importance, I would have to say that this episode sucked for me. It's not that I didn't like the animation style, I just think keeping consistency in a series is more important.
TripleA
Take for example The Animatrix, if it was all directed by a single person, it wouldn't be as great.
Personal bias should remain personal.
There are other great series that frequent a change of animation styles, one of which is Noein 😛 Well… maybe not a lot of people would have liked it, but anyways 😛
I haven't watched the episode yet, but am hopeful since I'm more interested in the story itself and how the characters interact rather than scoff the fun out of an episode just because the animation changed style. That'd be just wrong and you wouldn't be getting anything out of it other than disappointment.
Ddadain
I've watched the raw. What in the world was going on in this episode?!
The animation was terrible indeed,compared to the previous 3 ep,but i like the music at the combine (gattai?) part.
yomax
April 22, 2007 at 4:54 pm	13 years ago
TRUE DAT!!!! it aint easy putting out that type of fly animation everytime, i for one whole heartedly accept the idea of switching up the animation directors once in a while. consistency is good for paychecks, good for food prep, BUT NOT SOMETHING I WANT IN MY ENTERTAINMENT! switch it up negro, keep me on my toes. besides what other mech type show out there now can touch this.. P.S "
"""""NOEIN FUCKING ROCKED!!!!!"""""
brooklyn otaku
too bad he's not the noein guy, just some random guest director
http://imdb.com/name/nm0462046/
Exinjeru
Random my ass… he's the famed Osamu Kobayashi…
April 22, 2007 at 11:40 pm	13 years ago
i'll say it flat out – the animation was crap in this episode. i don't care that it's done by a different director, i don't care that this director is supposedly famous. his style is clearly inferior to the previous 3 episodes IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS SHOW. a weekly 20 minute adrenaline rush demands fluid animation, not some 1 frame per second disjointed crap where the characters look like shit. the whole idea of "art" is irrelevant in this context – would lucky star's animation be more appreciated if picasso came and did some of his emo cubist blue red artistic shit all over it?
felt like i was watching one of those trash daytime kiddie animes with the 500 yen + free ramen lunch budget.
my hope that they don't pull more gimmicks like this later on.
Consistency is important in a show.
Consistency in the setting.
Consistency in the characters.
Consistency in the animation.
If one day people are caveman getting food, and the next day they are bounty hunters that's not consistent.
If one day a egotistical self assured generally good protagonist reveals that he actually does nothing himself, has no confidence and enjoys eating the freshly pealed skin of twelve year olds, that's not consistent.
If one day animation that is roundish and smooth turns into square blocks that hardly move, that's not consistent.
That's not to say consistency is required, I've seen a number of shows where they revel in their inconsistency and are quite entertaining. But the difference between those shows and this show is that they telegraphed to their viewer that their were an inconsistent show.
After watching this I feel a sense of betrayal, I had warmed up to the look and feel of the world, characters, and animation and then without warning they pull this major shift out of nowhere.
I hope they go back to the original method quick, or this shows hitting the my computers trash can.
If they're going to pull in guest directors, they should at least have waited a few more episodes until things were better established. Instead of getting everyone excited over the new show and then pulling the carpet out with a guest director that not everyone will like.
lame.. lame… lame…
one of the draws of this show was the rather fluid and bright animation and the spiffy character designs.
About the only good thing I could say is I hope this means those responsible are sent to the bottom of the Z-list. I'm hearing some noise that some of the Gainax staff has a very poor opinion of their fans. Perfectly understandable (lets face it, some of them are rather squicky scary and creepy) but to tar all the fans is not very professional (or smart).
They pull this stunt once or twice more and they can forget me buying the DVDs…. it may be that more JP-local fans need to grow a spine and say "sorry, won't buy crap just because it has BRAND X anime logos on it"
The animation quality in this episode did go down… to Funkytown.
You guys should see the flame war that's going on at the Gainax blog. It's frickin' 2ch versus 4chan towards the end and I must say it's EPIC.
BIG DISCLAIMER ABOUT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
2ch and 4chan are notorious for being home to the lowest scum on the Earth, and allowing them to post their crap anonymously. Needless to say the responses to Ep. 4 on Gainax's blog can range from generally stupid to EXCESSIVELY AND GROSSLY OFFENSIVE.
You have been warned. If still interested:
http://gainax.weblogs.jp/gurrenlagann/2007/04/post_8837.html
random passerby
Argh, now i was able to see the episode 4…. Argh, man. This is Animation? is more stop and Go technique. Did they run out of budget?
Even the story in this episode is so low…
Man what a drop, compared to the first 3 episodes…
Germanguy
Ep 4 is not about art or the coming of a big director star…I did like very much Noein but Ep 4 is not even close to it.
Let's face it, all in this episode is made to minimize animation : constant close-up, mid shot without any action and reuse of footage.
My guess is that they knew they would never made it in time for Ep 4, so they let it go broke to made it for Ep 5, a typical budget problem…
xiny
>My guess is that they knew they would never made it in time for Ep 4, so they let it go broke to made it for Ep 5, a typical budget problem…
Oh god, stop being a retard. The show was already halfway complete when the first episode aired.
Take a look at the actual animation, it's fast, precise and rich. Just because the design looks weird to you doesn't mean that the animation sucks. Get it in your head. ANIMATION is a different thing than DESIGN.
May 2, 2007 at 2:35 pm	13 years ago
Hey, anonymous trying to be smart ? I know that animation and design aren't the same. I didn't say that the animation of ep 4 was bad but they did a lot of stuff to minimize it nevertheless. But actually just take a look at 2 sequences, say at 20'40" of ep 2 (monster running) and at 5'30" of ep 4 (Simon running) : we can see there a drop in animation quality though, at other sequences of ep 4, animation is rather good.
The show may have already been halfway complete, but problems of budget are not related to airing time, just to some deadlines put up by the producer and others. My guess may be wrong, still I'm not blind…
May 4, 2007 at 2:55 am	13 years ago
a masterpiece of morning/ afterschool show with quality animation and rich color, complete in a very old school style of the early 80s. wonderful, I will never rewatch this ep again.
May 30, 2007 at 3:13 am	13 years ago
I have to say, normally animation quality doesn't bother me all too much, but for some reason the style change in this episode bothered me so much I fast forwarded through the episode just so I could get the gist of what was happening and not have to sit through all twenty-three minutes or so.
November 4, 2008 at 11:47 pm	11 years ago
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Point noted dear...I hope my next instructable would not disappoint you..
I do have Arduino UNO and that's what i exactly used to program the ATmega 328 chip. Once it is programmed.. I take it out from the board and use it as standalone... this way your board is free to program another chip and your cost of making product reduces a lot..
3$ copies?? of what? I didn't get it.. but yes.. making things by yourself gives intense satisfaction :) .. that's true.
Hi Temp512 .. See my another instructable.. "Garden sprinkler controller"The thing which you needed is added in this program..Cheers!!
That's wonderful Noah... It's nice to see kids of your age building something in electronics.. Keep it up.
If you look at the PCB layout , you would understand it .. but its ok.. see the attached image here.
The soil humidity sensor is good to use but limited to one pot..It becomes difficult to use this if I want to use it for my terrace garden where there are at least 25 pots and that too of different shapes.When you want to control water going to many pots... you may have to take out the moisture sensor and control the water though a timer(inside arduino code) and installing a thicker tubing of say 12mm or 16mm and the water openings(The holes) can be attached with a flow control valves (Which you get in an aquarium shop) those are real tiny ones and inserting those in the pipe , you can control the flow of water for every pot differently.. bigger pot..larger water supply and smaller pot.. lesser water supply..
You got my vote buddy..
Fantastic Saiyam... Keep on building gadgets and I am sure one day you will build something very big .. Keep up the good work. Congrats!!
Awesome man!!OK one question... Can I use this to demagnetize the TUBE of an old television set??
Hi there..There are two ways to achieve what you need.A) Install a battery backup (lipo) with a charger module so that when the power goes out it not just retain your settings but it keeps on running the cycle as programmed.B) This is easier method which does not need any additional hardware. You can modify the code and make it work as follows After switching ON the power to this timer, if there is no attempt made to program it for (say ..2 minutes for e.g.) it should enter the DEFAULT mode where the code will automatically take the defaulted ON and OFF periods and start automatically.does that solve your problem?
Hi dear, Thanks for pointing out the typos.. I will correct those.I missed out the regulator IC LM7805 ..now added.Well, potentiometer instead rotary encoder- Nope. It just complicates the design more.. The timer has 3 modes and 9 settings total Initial (Hr, Min and Sec), On(Hr, Min and Sec), and Off(Hr, Min and Sec). and this goes in succession on each press on encoder. So now imagine I am using pot instead of encoder.. Pot can turn to max may be 290 degrees and then it freezes. Consider I have set Initial timer as 0, 0 and 45 Secs. Now for going to next mode I will require one more button to press, even after that I have left the pot somewhere halfway rotated already so now it reaches the next mode i.e. ON time Hour set up. It will not display "0" I would need to rotate it back to starting position to make it read "0" Is it user friendly? I don't think so. Thus encoder adds lots of simplicity here.Power consumption? it is not a killer... I did not understand your calculation of 220*20 one..Why do you multiply that? what is 20 ? is it Amps ? to get power wastage?? then I am afraid your formula doesn't seem right to me.SSR uses optocouplers and a zero crossing detectors inside. So basically it requires very low voltage and current to trigger it. maybe in Microamperes..and furthermore High wattage SSR allows me to use this device to control big current eater monsters like Barbeque grills and room heaters or Air conditioners without any problems. My main motto here is to reduce current consumption of this device to few mA.I am going to modify this device later to make it work on a battery backup(Lipo) so when the power is interrupted when it is running... it does not loose the settings..But anyways... thanks for your reply. cheers..
This is really a good one...Fantastic information!!
Dear Gursimran.. That is awesome !!I have a question .. Can I use Photo paper to transfer tracks to copper board?I tried using Transparency sheets (OHP sheets) ..but printer ink easily gets wiped off even after drying..My printer is HP allinone deskjet. I think laser printer would be perfect.. what do you say?


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How plants in the cabbage family look inward when sulfur is scarce
Kyushu University researchers identify two key enzymes that release sulfur from health-beneficial chemicals in thale cress to promote growth in sulfur-deficient conditions
Credit: William J. Potscavage Jr., Kyushu University
New research from Kyushu University in Japan provides a better understanding of how chemicals thought to impart unique health benefits to plants in the cabbage family are broken down to promote growth in conditions lacking sufficient sulfur and could aid in the future development of broccoli and cabbage that are even healthier for you.
Researchers from the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology at Kyushu U reported that disrupting the production of two enzymes in thale cress plants–a relative of cabbage–reduced the conversion of chemicals called glucosinolates to simpler compounds and further slowed growth when the plants did not receive sufficient amounts of sulfur from their environment.
Produced by plants in the Brassicaceae family, which includes cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and mustard, glucosinolates are sulfur-containing compounds that give the vegetables their unique flavor and smell, and some studies indicate that glucosinolates may also be beneficial for preventing cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
However, the plants are known to breakdown glucosinolates in environments deficient of sulfur, an essential nutrient for plant growth. While this mechanism appears to act as a strategy to sustain growth under such unfavorable conditions, current knowledge of how the process occurs and contributes to adaptation to sulfur deficiency is still limited.
A group of researchers led by Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita has now published in Plant and Cell Physiology a deeper understanding of this mechanism through the study of genetically modified model plants.
"While we had previous evidence suggesting two particular enzymes may be key based on their increased presence when sulfur is deficient, our new results show that removing these enzymes through genetic modification dramatically disrupts this breakdown," says Maruyama-Nakashita.
Maruyama-Nakashita and her group studied thale cress plants–a member of the Brassicaceae family and the first plant to have its genome completely sequence–modified through the insertion of DNA from bacteria to prevent one of the two enzymes from being produced. By cross fertilizing these plants obtained from the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center, the researchers created plants that lacked both enzymes, called BGLU28 and BGLU30.
While all of the plants had similar levels of glucosinolates in sulfur-sufficient conditions, levels were significantly higher in plants missing both enzymes compared to unmodified plants and those missing only one enzyme when grown in sulfur-deficient conditions.
Furthermore, growth was dramatically stunted in the plants missing both enzymes relative to the other plants when sulfur was scarce, proving that breakdown of glucosinolates contributes greatly to sustaining plant growth in sulfur-deficient environments. Thus, one of the roles of the glucosinolates in the plants may be as a store of sulfur that can be released when needed.
"The knowledge obtained here deepens our understanding of plant adaptation strategies to sulfur deficient environments, and thus provides implications for promoting effective sulfur utilization in modern agriculture," comments Liu Zhang, the first author on the paper reporting the results.
"We hope that characterization of key enzymes that regulate glucosinolate breakdown will shed light on designing strategies to improve the content of these functional compounds in Brassica crops," she adds.
For more information about this research, see "Sulfur deficiency-induced glucosinolate catabolism attributed to two ß-glucosidases, BGLU28 and BGLU30, is required for plant growth maintenance under sulfur deficiency" Liu Zhang, Ryota Kawaguchi, Tomomi Morikawa-Ichinose, Alaa Allahham, Sun-Ju Kim, and Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita, Plant and Cell Physiology (2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaa006
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20770044 and JP17H03785, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows JP16J40073, and the Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology.
William J. Potscavage Jr.
81-928-022-138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaa006
Tags: AgricultureBiochemistryBiologyFood/Food ScienceNutrition/NutrientsPlant Sciences


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import java.net.URLEncoder;
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By Simone Gorrindo
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we've read online this week.
Hot Metal Bridge Interview with Eula Biss
When I read Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss (Graywolf Press, 2009), I identified with Biss as a conflicted public school teacher and as a traveler who struggles with borders both official and unspoken, but her thoughts and ideas are so unconventional and so smart, that Biss has instilled in me a counterpoint perspective, a re-vision on my own experiences and made me see more than I did or could see before. In fact, Biss may be the first really literary writer I've encountered who is of my own cohort, and there is a real pleasure to reading a writer who is writing a life parallel to my own. I will have to wait for Biss's next book, but in the meantime, in this latest interview with Hot Metal Bridge (and Vela's own Amanda Giracca), Biss speaks to the struggling, conflicted writer in me about the writing process, about taking risks and seeing the value in failure. — Molly
"Animal Sacrifice" on This American Life
I spent a lot of time driving this week, so I did more listening than reading, which allowed me to catch up on some past This American Life episodes. The recent "Animal Sacrifice" episode (aired on November 30th) quickly became a new favorite for me. I'm already a huge fan of essays that explore morals and ethics involving human/animal interactions–in the Intro to Nonfiction course I taught this semester I had my students read David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" and Sherry Simpson's "Killing Wolves" back to back, and closed out the term with David Samuels's "Wild Things," three pieces that by far sparked the most debate in class discussions (and not just because of subject material–they're great pieces to look at for constructing narrative). I'm considering adding two pieces from "Animal Sacrifice": Susan Orlean's segment on dogs who were trained for combat in WWII and Camas Davis's story about working for the Portland Meat Collective and what happened when some rabbits meant for slaughter were stolen and released to an animals' rights advocacy group. Both are incredibly well-told, without being didactic at all (not that I think TAL is capable of going that route), and both totally got me thinking. — Amanda
Anne Hull's "In Rust Belt, a teenager's climb from poverty" in The Washington Post
This was one of the most arresting pieces I've read online recently. Hull slams us early with some starkly spot-on descriptions of Tabitha Rouzzo, her family and the town of New Castle. But what grabbed me most was the deft and unsentimental accuracy with which Hull captures Rouzzo's life. To draw a picture of the way endemic poverty tentacles through generations and communities is not easy, especially in a relatively short feature piece. Hull not only achieves this but does so with startling clarity. The end of the piece reminded me of a childhood friend who also joined the military as a way out. Definitely one of the most stand-out pieces I've read in a while. — Lauren
Molly Fischer's "On Ladyblogs" in n+1
I found this piece via a letter to the editor in the most recent issue of n+1, from the novelist Kate Zambreno. Zambreno was referenced in the original Ladyblogs piece, and she takes (gentle, patient) issue with that piece and the way its arguments are framed. She writes, "Part of the discomfort I have with the authoritative stance is its pretense of knowing, of already having known from the start. What about a feminist epistemology? Or even an epistemology of the girl? Isn't a mode of not knowing, of doubt, of openness, of play, a more potentially generative and generous one?"
I immediately sided with Zambreno, having never read the first piece and wary of n+1's smug, snarky New York intellectualism (this is a magazine with a section entitled "The Intellectual Situation"). But then I went back and read "On Ladyblogs" and started to wonder. In this piece Fischer explains how what she calls "Ladyblogs" (there is an essay to be written on the revival of the word "lady") have come to replace women's magazines for a younger generation of feminists, and how she loved these blogs until she actually had to write for one. Then, she found herself reluctant to adopt their default playful, "BFF"-esque tone. When she ended up writing a piece about how she'd come to question that tone and its instant intimacy, she was attacked and pitied as a woman who only wanted to impress guys and who'd obviously never enjoyed a slumber party.
Her latest piece thus questions why so many ladyblogs end up "gussying everything up in the trappings of intimacy, swaddling tricky subjects in chattiness" and how she sees this particular epistemology as "infantilizing." She writes, "instant friendship regardless of individuality is the kind of assumption that parents make about children ('They have a daughter your age, you'll have fun!') and bosses about subordinates and majorities about minorities, but not one equals in power typically make about one another."
Her analysis, and Zambreno's, raise unsettling questions about what it means to be a woman writer writing in a female context, whether there is such a thing as a "feminist epistemology," and whether certain rhetorical modes demean or empower women.
And on a lighter note, Dana Goodyear's "Toques from Underground" in The New Yorker.
On the rise of underground supper clubs, particularly Wolvesmouth, "the toughest dinner reservation in L.A." I was skeptical that this was going to be a bougie foodie extravaganza fetishizing radish buds or the like, but it ended up being a fascinating study of a new kind of restaurant and relationship to chefs, and of Craig Thornton, whose childhood of poverty and bad food has, ironically, given him an extraordinary palette. — Sarah
Simone Gorrindo is a Senior Editor at Vela. Her work has appeared or is fortthcoming in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Best Women's Travel Writing, SELF and Tablet, among other publications. She is also a developmental editor at Girl Friday Productions. You can follow her on Twitter @SimoneGorrindo, and she can be reached at simoneATvelamagDOTcom.
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Anita Baker, H.E.R., Meek Mill, "Black Panther" Shine At BET Awards
Monday, Jun. 25, 2018
Anita Baker accepts the lifetime achievement award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 24, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Michael B. Jordan, left, and Ryan Coogler accept the best movie award for "Black Panther" at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 24, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Mesfin Fekadu, Music Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP)
The 2018 BET Awards barely handed out any trophies with big stars like Cardi B, Drake and Kendrick Lamar absent, but the show included superior performances by rising singer H.E.R, rapper Meek Mill and gospel artist Yolanda Adams, who paid tribute to Anita Baker and nearly brought her to tears.
Baker, an eight-time Grammy winner who dominated the R&B charts from the early '80s to mid-90s, earned the Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The 60-year-old used her speech to encourage the artists in the room to keep music alive.
"I would ask that the music be allowed to play, that singers are allowed to sing, and rappers are allowed to rap, and poets are allowed to rhyme," said Baker, who was also honored by host Jamie Foxx, Ledisi and Marsha Ambrosius.
H.E.R., whose real name is Gabi Wilson, was impressive as she sang the R&B hit "Focus," played the electric guitar like a rock star and sang softly during the sweet love song "Best Part," where she was joined by Daniel Caesar.
Meek Mill, who was released from prison in April, rapped the song "Stay Woke" on a stage transformed into a street corner, featuring hustlers, children and police officers. A mother screams as her child is shot during the powerful performance, and an officer lays an American flag over the body.
Meek Mill also made a statement by wearing a hoodie featuring the face of XXXTentacion, the 20-year-old rapper-singer who died after being shot last week.
"We can't get used to these types of things. We're too used to young people getting killed," Foxx said when speaking about XXXTentacion later in the show.
The Oscar winner told the audience to "try to sneak a message in" their music.
"We got to figure something out," he said.
Snoop Dogg celebrated 25 years in music, performing the classic songs "What's My Name" and "Next Episode." The rapper also performed songs from his recently released gospel album, wearing a choir robe on a stage that looked like a church.
Childish Gambino, whose song and music video "This Is America" tackles racism and gun violence and became a viral hit last month, gave a short, impromptu performance of the song when Foxx brought him onstage.
"Everybody begged me to do a joke about that song. I said that song should not be joked about," Foxx said.
Foxx kicked off the show rejoicing in the uber success of "Black Panther," namedropping the records the film has broken and even pulled Michael B. Jordan onstage to recite a line from the film.
"We don't need a president right now because we got our king," Foxx said of T'Challa. "(Director) Ryan Coogler gave us our king."
Foxx entered the arena with a stuffed black panther toy — with a gold chain around its neck — which he handed to Jordan. The film won best movie.
"The film is about our experiences being African-Americans and also captures the experiences of being African," Coogler said. "It was about tapping into the voice that tells us to be proud of who we are."
At the end of his speech he told the audience to travel to Africa and learn more about the continent's history.
SZA, who was the most nominated woman at this year's Grammys, won best new artist and said she's "never won anything in front of other people."
She dedicated the award to those "lost in the world," saying: "Follow your passion ... believe in yourself."
After the show, BET announced that Kendrick Lamar had won best album for "DAMN." and best male hip-hop artist. Beyonce won best female pop/R&B artist, while Bruno Mars was named the best male pop/R&B artist.
"Girls Trip" star and comedian Tiffany Haddish, who won best actress and gave her speech in a taped video, also said encouraging words.
"You can achieve anything you want in life," she said.
DJ Khaled was the leading nominee with six and picked up the first award of the night — best collaboration — for "Wild Thoughts" with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. He was holding his son on his hip onstage and also used his speech to highlight young people.
"All of y'all are leaders and all of y'all are kings and queens — the future," he said.
Migos won best group and gave a fun performance that even had Adams reciting the lyrics. J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Janelle Monae, Miguel, YG, 2 Chainz and Big Sean also performed.
The BET Awards normally hands its Humanitarian Award to one person, but six individuals received the honor Sunday. Dubbed "Humanitarian Heroes," the network gave awards to James Shaw Jr., who wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman in a Tennessee Waffle House in April; Anthony Borges, the 15-year-old student who was shot five times and is credited with saving the lives of at least 20 other students during February massacre in Florida; Mamoudou Gassama, who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony last month in Paris; Naomi Wadler, the 11-year-old who gave a memorable and influential speech at March for Our Lives; Justin Blackman, the only student to walk out of his high school in North Carolina during the nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence in March; and journalist and activist Shaun King.
Debra Lee, who stepped down as chairman and CEO of BET last month after 32 years at the network, earned the Ultimate Icon Award.
"The power of black culture is unmatched. It's beautiful. It's amazing. It's everything. It's us," she said.
She ended her speech quoting former U.S. President Barack Obama, calling him "our commander in chief," which drew loud applause.
"And, it's Debra Lee, out," she said as she dropped her imaginary microphone.
Here's the complete list of winners of the 2018 BET Awards, presented Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles:
Video of the year: Drake
Best male R&B/pop artist: Bruno Mars
Best female R&B/pop Artist: Beyonce
Best male hip hop artist: Kendrick Lamar
Best female hip hop artist: Cardi B
Best new artist: SZA
Album of the year: "DAMN." Kendrick Lamar
Best group: Migos
Best gospel/inspirational award: Lecrae featuring Tori Kelly
Best collaboration: DJ Khaled, Rihanna and Bryson Tiller, "Wild Thoughts"
YoungStars award: Yara Shahidi
Viewers' choice award: Cardi B, "Bodak Yellow"
Video director of the year: Ava DuVernay
Best actor: Chadwick Boseman
Best actress: Tiffany Haddish
Best movie: "Black Panther"
Sportswoman of the year: Serena Williams
Sportsman of the year: LeBron James
Humanitarian award: Naomi Wadler, Mamoudou Gassama, Justin Blackman, Shaun King, Anthony Borges and James Shaw Jr.
Lifetime achievement award: Anita Baker
Ultimate Icon Award: Debra Lee
BET HER award: Mary J. Blige
Best international act: Davido (Nigeria)
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This summer I want to add some incredible colours to the Pearls & Arsenic underbust collection and am excited to explore a summer exploding with eye-catching two-tone dupioni silks . The Pearls & Arsenic 24″ black & brocade underbust corsets have been best sellers, and the other underbusts have received a lot of interest and all found their way to loving homes via my dearest stockists, Sally Coco Intimate Lifestyle Store at 10-16 Cochrane Street in Central Hong Kong.
I wonder if these bright future underbusts might also find their way to powerful women who wish to celebrate the simplicity of their beauty. At present I'm not decided on whether to crystal them, as I imagine that the fabric itself may present all the glory necessary to make an impactfully fierce feminine statement and I am a big fan of under-complicating things.
Sourcing these fabrics has been a long process that has required much trawling through markets as well as scouring online and on instagram for the right colours, tone, texture and quality.
Finding the right mesh for my ongoing mesh corset explorations is proving to be even trickier, and it will soon almost be a year since I first started Pearls & Arsenic and decided to create a mesh beauty, but I am quite intent on having a perfect mesh corset created even if it takes me to the end of my days to get it just right. Obviously I am a bit of a fabric pedant, though I try my best to finalise on the middle ground to keep the prices as accessible as possible.
I look forward to corsets returning from their photo shoot with Jessica Magazine and taking their place in Sally Coco, whom I hope to continue to work together with over this year to solidify as the go-to location for all things corsetry in Hong Kong. Please stay tuned for updates!
Also, I promise to try and be better at posting updates on my @PearlsAndArsenic instagram this year. I know I've been remiss and you all really deserve better. So better you shall have, my dearests!


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You'd think that by now, deep into the 21st century, we'd have a pretty good handle on how something as common as lightning works.
But in fact there are still lots of mysteries to these gigantic bolts of electrical current, and a lot of their behavior is either unknown to or misunderstood by the public.
For example, have you ever heard of sprites? These are extremely fast and faint discharges that occur above thunderstorms. Way above, actually, from 50–90 kilometers up in the atmosphere. Most thunderstorm-producing clouds only reach a dozen or so kilometers in height, but clearly their reach extends much higher.
Sprites are beautiful and fleeting, and extremely difficult to photograph. Well, until recently, when more sensitive digital cameras became commonplace. One thing that makes it tough is that the sprites occur so high up you only really spot them above storms on the horizon; if you're closer, the cloud itself blocks them (the fantastic photographer Randy Halverson caught a sprite in a storm photo that I wrote about a while back).
… Unless you have a better vantage point, like, say, above the clouds. Way above, as in space. Then you can get fantastic shots like this:
That was taken from the International Space Station on Aug. 10, when the orbiting lab was over the west coast of Mexico. Facing east, looking out toward the Yucatán Peninsula, there were several thunderstorms in view, and the one on the right, very near the Earth's limb, produced a sprite. See it? The picture at the top of this article is a close-up.
How bizarre is that? It has the classic jellyfish-shaped top with dangling tentacles, and is probably a few dozen kilometers across, though it's hard to tell exactly.
So what causes these? I had to do some digging, but came upon this informative (though technical) paper describing them. Big convective cloud systems can generate huge electrical potentials—separation of charges—and when it gets big enough you get a discharge of lightning to restore the charge balance.
This electric field can extend upward above the cloud, to the height of the mesosphere (and into the lower ionosphere) at nearly 100 kilometers. In general, it's too small to generate any kind of discharge, and in fact, the majority of lightning storms don't make sprites.
What the authors of this paper found is that certain atmospheric conditions really help. Rising air in a thunderstorm can make gravity waves, ripples in the air that move up and down. This causes the air density to increase, and that can be just enough to give the right conditions to make sprites. The air is ionized, the charges separate, and then you get a discharge similar to normal lightning creating the sprite.
The details are far more complex than this, of course, with the tendrils flashing and combing to create the other effects. One thing I think is neat: The red is from nitrogen molecules and oxygen atoms in the upper atmosphere, the same reason the aurorae sometimes glow red.
If you're curious, the bright object in the sky is the waning crescent Moon, highly overexposed, and you can see Orion rising to the right. The exposure time was 1.3 seconds, and it looks like the camera got bumped a bit during the exposure; the stars make wiggly shapes. The greenish glow above the limb of the Earth is airglow, caused by the slow discharge of sunlight energy stored up by atmospheric molecules during the day.
In related news, and in a happy coincidence of timing, I was contacted by Steve Cullen, a software executive and someone who loves astronomy, about this very topic. He heard that Hurricane Hilda had quite a bit of lightning off the coast of Hawaii recently, so he checked the Canada France Hawaii Telescope's CloudCam images—sure enough, he found some very interesting upper atmospheric lightning!
In that footage you can see the red flashes. To my inexperienced eye they look a lot like sprites, but Cullen tells me they are actually "Gigantic Jets," a similar but different phenomenon. For one thing, sprites are associated with lightning, but jets aren't always. Sprites can be higher in the atmosphere as well.
In another coincidence, Cullen works with astrophotographer Rogelio Andreo Bernal; I just posted photos and video Bernal took of the Perseids! Incidentally, Cullen and Bernal are both behind Starscape Gallery, an astrophotography gallery on the Big Island of Hawaii. Bernal is one of my favorite astrophotographers. I may have to pay the gallery a visit someday.
Tip o' the blue jet to Stuart Rankin. P.S. Due to a cancellation, there are still four slots left for the Science Getaway to Hawaii Sept. 14–20! It'll be a fantastic adventure.


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Bethesda Row is throwing three days of "fashion, food and fabulosity" starting Thursday, May 20 – just in time for this dreary rain to lift and our desire for pretty summer frocks to rise! Participating stores include Bluemercury, Urban Chic, Sassanova, Lou Lou, Ginger Boutique…
It all kicks off Thursday morning at 11am with beauty consultations, designer denim-fittings, jewelry trunk shows and wine tastings (um, I feel a "mental health day" coming on…). That evening sees the launch party of Jill Kargman's new book Arm Candy at Ginger Boutique, featuring sweets from Georgetown Cupcake and cocktails, natch.
Friday is chock-full of more fashionable frivolities like designer appearances and trunk shows. But the big event is sure to be Friday evening, featuring a fashion show with Project Runway alum Laura Bennett (she of the perfectly impeccable style and impossibly red hair), also reading from her new book and signing copies afterwards.
If you can't take any fashionista mental health days, Saturday is also full of special store events all day (I recommend stopping into Cork & Fork for a wine tasting, the family really knows their wine and are adorable too). Check out full details and rsvp requirements, and have fun!
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As one of the founding editors of We Love DC, Jenn's passions are theater and cocktails. After two decades in the city, she's loved every quirky, mundane, elegant, rude minute of her DC life. A proud advocate for DC's talented drinks scene, she's judged the Corcoran Gallery of Art's ARTINI contest, the DC Rickey Month contest, the Jefferson Hotel's Quill Cocktail competition, and is a founding member of LUPEC DC. A graduate of Catholic University's drama program, she toured the country as a member of National Players, and has been both an actor and a costume designer before jumping the aisle to theater criticism. Writing for We Love DC restored her happiness after a life-threatening illness, and she's grateful to you, dear readers. Send your suggestions to jenn (at) welovedc (dot) com and follow her on Twitter.
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The IFA needs your views.
The International Secretary urgently needs our views on two proposed rule changes:
1) To unify the Junior age group to Under 23, in line with other Olympic sports & other Olympic classes.
There has been lots of discussion at World Sailing (ISAF) and among some Federations and National Olympic committees to unify with other Olympic sports at U23. The argument is to have a same pathway as for other sports, with the same age, which would make it more clear for the media. For a Finn sailor 23 can seem slightly too late as sailors are now starting at a younger age, however our numbers at Junior event has not increased much despite raising from 21 to U22. As you may know, in order to be allowed to run a Junior Worlds we need a minimum of 30 sailors. In other classes, the 470, 49er and FX have moved to U23. The Nacra is still at U24 but is considering a change. Lasers and RS:X, because of their target have a much younger age with Youth at U19 and Junior at U21. The IFA Executive Committee asks the National Finn Associations to vote for an age increase to U23 for Junior to be applied at this year event in Aarhus.
2) The second issue concerns a request from sailors to abandon, at World and European championships, the race for 11th onwards – or what they call 'the losers race'. The solution the IFA Executive would like to propose is that on the last day of racing a final race for ALL sailors will be scheduled in the morning. The medal race would then be held shortly after. All sailors would be asked to remain on site until the completion of the Medal race and the prize giving ceremony. This will be trialed at the next Europeans in Barcelona and if successful will be recommended for a vote at the next AGM for implementation from the 2017 Europeans. It will not be used at the 2016 Finn Gold Cup.
Please add your comments to the Forum thread and let the Committee know if your support the IFA proposed changes – thank you.


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Will the Tron TV show be too much like Clone Wars? Or not enough?
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Even if you haven't seen Tron: Legacy, you surely know from the trailers that Kevin Flynn has been trapped in the Grid for years. The upcoming animated TV show, Tron: Uprising, which we reported on earlier, plans to fill in the gaps between the two movies. (Warning: spoiler alert.)
Eddie Kitsis, one of the screenwriters of Tron: Legacy, told Boxoffice Magazine, "This animated show will take place from when Flynn is in a safe house. It's from when Clu takes over the grid to before when Sam comes in. So if you were wondering what was the grid like before that, then watch the show."
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He can speak authoritatively: the ideas that he and co-writer Adam Horowitz generated but could not use in the movie have made their way into the new TV show. The duo has even worked on several Uprising episodes. What's more, the writers have announced "a 10-part micro series" to precede the Tron: Uprising.
If you're thinking Star Wars: Clone Wars, we're right there with you. But where Star Wars had six movies, several video games and multiple books from numerous creators to build its mythology, Tron: Uprising seems to be using the discards of Tron: Legacy as plot:
Horowitz said:
"To give you an example of how we approached storytelling sometimes is like when you're in the End of Line club, when we first meet Castor and he's being berated by one of the patrons saying, 'I want an audience with Zuse.' His name is Bartik, and there's an entire back story we have for him. The guy with him, his name is Hopper, there's a whole thing between the two of them, what they are doing in there, and how they got there. It's like over the years of developing this movie, we developed all these mythologies and all these back stories and all little tangential things."
Kitsis said:
"Did we have time to do the Bartik story? No. But now maybe the Bartik story is in the animated series—you know, he's got a huge scar on his face. I want to know how he got that scar. We couldn't sit down and write that there's a guy with a scar on his face without knowing what the scar was. So we hope it adds to the depth of the movie."
There we have it. Perhaps in the spirit of not giving too much away, the screenwriters discussed a man with a scar on his face, rather than ask the questions we really wanted to learn more about, such as how Clu could amass such power. (Other questions we could ask include "How could Flynn acquire food in a digital world?" and "Why didn't he die of a vitamin D deficiency?")
Part of Tron's appeal is the sparse, glowing scenery, a pared-down world where only the most basic elements are displayed. Maybe the creators of Tron: Uprising have a lesson to learn ... that when it comes to Tron, less is more.


A bereaved sea captain finds himself on the wrong course in this maritime adventure. Still reeling from the loss of his wife, he takes his son to Dubai, only to be forced to change course to Hamburg. When a stowaway is discovered onboard, the captain must decide for the crew on how to act. It soon becomes clear that matters of the heart are just as important to the newcomer as the grieving captain. A story of love and loss, this action drama is not to be missed.


We at Tourtlotte Law in the Billings, Montana area handle many personal injury cases every year. One of the most difficult things for you, as a client, in this process is understanding what is going on and what will be happening next. To help you with this, below are the eight major steps that go into a personal injury case.
Before any legal action is taken, it is critical that you get medical treatment. Not only is this important for obvious health reasons but putting off getting treatment leads the judge and the jury to think that you weren't seriously injured aren't justified in your personal injury claim.
For anything larger than a small claim, you will need a lawyer to help you through the process. Even with small claims, a lawyer is beneficial, however. The sooner you hire an attorney the better as personal injury cases can drag out for a long time.
The first thing your lawyer will do is examine the details surrounding your case. Your lawyer needs to know everything about the accident and doesn't want any surprises. Thus, you need to be totally open and honest with your lawyer about everything that happened. At this point, your lawyer will be able to really see how strong of a case you have.
Most personal injury claims are settled before ever going to a trial. Thus, this step is a critically important part of the process. Your lawyer will make demands to other attorney or insurance company seeking to get you the best deal possible. Both sides will go back and forth on a deal. If they agree upon one, the case will settle stopping the process here as you are rewarded your settlement.
If an agreement is not made in the pre-trial stage then your lawyer will file a lawsuit. This starts the clock running on when you case will go to trial. The system is fairly slow so it usually takes a personal injury somewhere between one and two years to finally get to trial. Remember that a lawsuit must be filed within the timeframe given in the statute of limitation for the state you live in.
Discovery is a legal term that basically means the process during which both sides of the case investigate the claims of the other party to understand what their legal claims and defenses will be. Depending on the court's deadlines and the complexity of you case this process usually takes somewhere between six months and a year.
Once the discovery period ends, there is one more opportunity for your case to settle in the mediation and negotiation stage. Mediation is the process in which the clients and lawyers go in front of a mediator to try and reach a settlement for the case.
Last of all is the trial stage. This is where everything in this entire process comes to a head. Hopefully, a favorable ruling will be coming your way at the culmination of the trial!
This step-by-step process of a personal injury is very compact and generalized. Even so, it is still a lot of information to take in. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed in this complex and drawn out process. Hire an attorney that will represent you well and help you gain the compensation you deserve. At Tourtlotte Law Firm in the Billings, Montana area our specialized attorneys are here to help you do exactly that.
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Q: Keep data for unchecked option from checkbox d3 I'm really struggling linking the checked/unchecked to lines.
I managed to have lines selected when options checked from checkbox.
But when the options are unchecekd then they are removed completely.
Instead of removing them, I'd to like to have them chinging attributes, such as colours.
I took the relevant part only since original code is unnessesarily long.
The data is nested by key - country and the checkbox options contain the country as id/value.
Initially lines (same path but grey colour) are rendered and the part below is colouring the lines that are selected in the checkbox.
Lines are coloured successfully but they disappear when the respective options are unchecekd. Instead, I'd like to have them remain with initial colour which is grey.
But it seems .exit() doesn't work here.
I'm really struggling... Could anyone help me?
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