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James Roosevelt
A wealthy American who lived his life approximating that of an English country gentleman, James Roosevelt went out of his way to ensure that he had nothing to do with politics. He met Sara Delano, who was many years his junior, and married her immediately. FDR was their only son.
Sara Delano
Known for her beauty and wealth, Sara Delano came from a family that rivaled the Roosevelt name for prestige. She married very young and her near-death during Franklin's birth prevented her from having any more children. She doted on FDR, especially after the death of her husband, and often tried to keep him under her control by controlling his purse strings.
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is famous for his enormous personality, a trait that outranks his acts as President in the memory of most Americans. He was a firm believer in the extension of America's sphere of influence, adding the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which allowed him to intervene in the private affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries. Although Roosevelt handpicked his successor, Taft, he grew angry with his policies and ran against him and Woodrow Wilson in the next election. By splitting the Republican vote, he gave Wilson the win.
After a difficult childhood, Eleanor married FDR when they were both very young. Initially constrained by the duties of being a wife and a mother, Eleanor's discovery that her husband was having an affair freed her to come into her own politically. Her liberal thinking and progressive ideals pushed FDR to further extremes in his policies. She often embraced causes and figures that he had overlooked and used her position to get them national attention. She was the first socially conscious and active First Lady, and set a fine example for all presidential spouses after her to follow.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. He began his career in academia, becoming president of Princeton University, and his academic air was obvious his speeches and his ideals. He was one of the most morally upright presidents in American history. He passed laws by directly addressing Congress, the first President to do so since Jefferson's time, and speaking directly to the public to gain their support. His achievements include leading the country through WWI, fighting trusts and monopolies at home, and implementing reforms such as child labor laws and solutions for the problems of urbanization. His biggest disappointment, which he carried with him to the grave, was his inability to convince an isolationist America and Congress to enter the League of Nations after the war.
Louis Howe
FDR met Howe when Howe interviewed him about his involvement in the insurgency against Tammany Hall. Howe presented the case in Roosevelt's favor in the papers, but both saw more potential in each other, as friends and as political allies. Howe's first success as FDR's campaign manager was running his campaign for the Senate without a candidate (Roosevelt was sick with typhoid). The partnership and friendship eventually led to the White House, where Roosevelt considered Howe his most trusted and objective advisor. The partnership did not end until Howe finally succumbed to a lifetime of gnawing illness, and Roosevelt never found an advisor who he trusted as much, a great drawback to him especially in the court-packing case.
Joseph Daniels
Daniels had been appointed by Wilson to be Secretary of the Navy, and asked Roosevelt on the morning of the inauguration whether he wanted to be his assistant. Daniels was the opposite of everything that Roosevelt was. He was a Southern, while FDR was a blueblood Yankee. He had no knowledge of ships, whereas FDR was an avid sailor. He also staunchly opposed Roosevelt's policies during WWI. Unlike FDR, who believed that military preparedness was essential, Daniels, like most Americans who watched the war across the Atlantic with detachment, did not believe in preparing for a war that the country was not planning to enter.
Lucy Mercer
Lucy Mercer came from a distinguished family whose fortune had dwindled and was forced to work for society women in order to make her means. She became Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary while she was in Washington for the first time during her husband's tenure as Assistant Secretary of War. During this time, Lucy began a love affair with FDR, which was abruptly ended when Eleanor discovered their letters upon FDR's return from Europe. Lucy eventually married Lord Rutherford, a widower many years her senior. Near the end of his life, FDR rekindled his acquaintance with her, this time probably as a strong friendship. Regardless of the nature of their relationship, what is sure is that Lucy provided companionship to FDR during his loneliest years in the White House, a service that his daughter Anna Roosevelt, and other members of his family, greatly appreciated.
Frances Perkins
Perkins was Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. She had built up her career in New York as a reformist, becoming the authority on factory hygiene and safety, and lobbying for shorter hours and safer workplaces for New York's workers. Governor Al Smith initially appointed her to his administration, but it was FDR who appointed her to significant positions of power among his cabinet. Her appointment as Secretary of Labor marked the first female in the presidential Cabinet in the United States, and was roundly criticized by conservative leaders throughout the nation. Her most important achievement in office was the Social Security Act.
Garner was a Senator from Texas who served as Roosevelt's vice president for his first two terms. Garner was also a candidate for the presidency in the 1932 election, and the Democratic Party convention was bitterly divided on which candidate to choose. Rather than see his party fall victim to division, Garner gave his 100 votes to Roosevelt, giving him the nomination. Although he had no interest in the Vice-presidency, thinking it rightly a powerless job, Roosevelt offered him the post in return and he accepted for two terms.
Churchill first made a name for himself as a journalist covering the Boer War. He was first elected to Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative. His party affiliation soon changed to Liberal, and he reached the position of chancellor of the exchequer while a Constitutionalist. He was chosen Prime Minister in 1940. Neither a financial innovator–his conservatism was known to rankle John Maynard Keynes–nor a supporter of labor nor colonial self- determination, his popularity as a British statesman came from his masterful handling of the Second World War. His refusal to back down from Hitler inspired his countrymen, and his excellent relationship with Roosevelt, in which he gracefully acknowledged his position of the leader of the less powerful nation, was the keystone of the Great Alliance. He also attended a great number of international conferences and negotiated a place of importance for Great Britain in the twentieth century and beyond.
Hitler began his career as a high school dropout and art school reject. He was always violently anti-Semitic and blamed the loss of WWI, in which he fought for the Bavarian army, on the Jews and Marxists. He became chairman of a political group of nationalist veterans called the National Socialists, or the Nazis. In 1923, he was arrested after leading the "beer hall Putsch," an attempted coup in Munich. In prison, he wrote his famous treatise Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which was full of lust for power and anti-Semitic sentiments. Upon his release from prison, he began in speeches to provide Germans suffering from rabid inflation and war debt, scapegoats and dreams of world domination. By 1933 he had been appointed chancellor of a coalition cabinet, which he changed into a dictatorship by killing off his opposition. Frenzied German supporters addressed him as the Fuhrer, and with the death of his President, all leadership of the country was embodied in Hitler's diminutive person. Hitler was now poised to pursue his plans for world domination. He became first Mussolini's ally and turned Italy effectively into a German satellite. He signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin to invade Poland, but violated it in 1941 by invading Russia. By this time, Hitler had taken complete control of military strategy to disastrous consequences. By July of 1944, the German army was wasted and his former colleagues attempted to assassinate him. Finally on April 30, 1945, Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide in the basement of a bunker rather than face the complete defeat of Germany.
Although Mussolini was originally a member of the Socialist party, he abruptly turned nationalist during WWI, and rose to the rank of corporal in the Italian army. In the postwar period he and his followers practiced aggressive nationalism and practiced terrorism during times of unrest in Italy. He finally was asked by King Emmanuel III to form a cabinet. He quickly turned his role as premier into a fascist dictatorship, and organized the country along those lines. Mussolini's followers addressed him as "il Duce," or "leader." His ambition to restore Italy to its former glory was expressed in his instatement of monuments and support to extreme nationalist groups. His attack on Ethiopia led to Italy's isolation from the rest of Europe and drove Mussolini to join ranks with Hitler in his plans to annex Austria. His implementation of Hitler's anti-Semitic and other policies in Italy were not greeted with support and he was eventually denounced by the Fascist council and arrested, and later shot.
Stalin rose to power in the administration under Lenin. The relationship between Stalin and Lenin is not well understood, and although Lenin regarded Stalin as a good administrator, he was not considered a great theoretician or leader. After Lenin's death, Stalin outmaneuvered Trotsky and a number of other contenders for the leadership of the Communist party and rose to power. Under Stalin's rule, the totalitarian state was glorified rather than the state disappearing as Marx envisioned. He maintained his power by destroying all opposition brutally in the famous political purges of the 1930s. Stalin signed the non-aggression treaty with Hitler because he desperately desired to stay out of WWII. The attack from Germany in 1941 took him entirely by surprise. Stalin proved to be an able military leader and diplomat in WWII, fighting the only front in Europe for most of the war, and negotiating in the conferences at Tehran and Yalta for the creation of satellite states to protect Russian borders in the future.
Harry Hopkins
Harry Hopkins was an eager social worker in New York. While Roosevelt was governor of New York, he put Hopkins in charge of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. Hopkins willingness to spend federal money freely for welfare during hard times endeared him to Roosevelt. Hopkins soon became one of Roosevelt's most trusted advisors, running the successful Civil Works Administration which helped Americans survive the harsh winter from 1933–1934 and the Works Progress Administration, which put millions to work, including writers and artists such as Steinbeck and de Kooning on projects for public display. Hopkins lived in the White House until Roosevelt's last term when he married and left, and remained to his death, one of FDR's closest friends.
By trade a businessman in the mining industry, Hoover first made a political name for himself chairing the Commission for Relief in Belgium during the First World War. He later became Secretary of Commerce for Harding and Coolidge. He became the 31st President of the United States in 1928, and it was not long before the country fell into the depths of the Great Depression. Hoover, a staunch conservative who firmly believed in the basic soundness of the economy, was reluctant to increase federal involvement. He did approve the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which gave out loans not available elsewhere. However, most Americans saw him as impotent against the economic crisis. He was roundly defeated in the election of 1932 by an optimistic and, most importantly, vigorous Roosevelt.


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Partnership Visas – How can my partner join me in New Zealand?
Queen City Law, has completed a new whitepaper on "Partnership Visas". QCL explores some of the aspects of immigration law and how it affects partners already in NZ who want their partners to join them in NZ.
In order to obtain a visa through partnership, the couple must be 'living together in a genuine and stable relationship'.
Many clients ask us what length of time they need to have lived together in the same physical residence before submitting their visa application. There is no set time length for temporary visas. If you can make the case that your relationship is genuine and stable, then you may be granted a visa after even a very short period of time living together. However, a good rule of thumb is 6 months of cohabitation.
In order to be eligible for a residence visa under the partnership category, you must prove you have lived together for a minimum of 12 months.
The application process can potentially involve an interview with you and your partner, or even an unannounced home visit by immigration officers.
Your partner will need to meet a few requirements. Firstly, they should be either a New Zealand citizen or resident, or the holder of certain types of work visa. Student visa holders may also be considered an eligible partner if they are studying certain high-level and/or post-graduate qualifications.
The partner must not have sponsored more than one other person for residence in New Zealand, and they must not possess convictions for domestic violence related offences.
If your partner is a New Zealand citizen and you have been living together outside of New Zealand for at least 5 years, you may be directly eligible for a Permanent Resident visa.
If you and your partner have not been living together for lengthy intervals throughout your relationship, for example, while in separate countries, genuine reasons for this must be supplied to INZ. You must appropriately explain what led to the periods of separation and how you maintained your relationship during this time.
The only exception to the "living together" rule for partners is the Culturally Arranged Marriage visa category. You may be eligible under this category if you and your partner intend to marry according to an identified cultural tradition. This category can be very hard to navigate without professional advice – we recommend that you contact us for assistance.
See our Partnership infosheet and contact Queen City Law for assistance with your partnership-based visa application. For more information on Partnership Visas, and wether you qualify feel free to contact us.
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When I told friends that I was planning on attending last Monday's screening of Q2P, Paromita Vohra's latest documentary, I was met with one of two reactions: the first being a sincerely confused, "What?" and the second, a slightly less perplexed, if somewhat disinterested, "Oh, cool, the one about toilets?" Like many events on campus, the Q2P screening lay hidden to a large sector of the College community, its posters veiled beneath a plethora of competing advertisements and its visibility dependent on the schedule, interests and topic-familiarity of the viewer.
The subject of Vohra's thought-provoking documentary — the (de)construction of public toilets in Mumbai — is at once as visible and concealed as the event itself. Combining contemplative animation sequences, panoramic views of the bustling city of Mumbai, quickly interspersed still shots and footage of interviews with individuals ranging from the self-consciously comedic owner of a toilet history museum to often ignored sanitation workers, Q2P brilliantly tells the story of the building of public toilets in India's largest city, all the while imploring its viewers to carefully consider the many unvoiced meanings underlying these uncomfortably obvious entities.
From the opening scene, consisting of still shots of construction sites set to a fast-paced, futuristic beat and the declaration that the film is an "exploration of the idea of the city and…of the kind of cities we're building for ourselves," Q2P establishes itself as a direct, widely applicable and future-focused analysis of what it means to be urban in the contemporary era. Images of women waiting in long lines for a single public restroom, explorations of the construction of bathrooms in different religious and economic communities and discussions of when and why women may choose to avoid these toilets highlight the social, caste, class and gender issues that complicate singular perspectives on toilet construction and development projects more broadly.
Provocative scenes such as a clip showing an interview with a mother bathing her newborn child in the street with water from a public toilet inspired involved discussion among audience members. Images of adolescent girls dancing to "take back the night" and discussions of how "free" access to toilets challenges the caste system moved viewers to question interpretations of development.
Animated sequences depicting the construction of new toilets in impoverished communities, the objectification of the female body and the existence of "two cities" within Mumbai bridged conceptual gaps between interviews. Combined with Vorha's post-film comments, these visual elements of Q2P forced the viewer to move beyond the embarrassment usually associated with public toilets.
Ultimately, Q2P provides an eloquent contemplation of the implications of toilet construction, the effects of adopting one development philosophy over another and the limitations of these competing perspectives.
In addition to Q2P, Vohra's work includes the direction of Un-Limited Girls (2002), Annapurna (1995) and A Women's Place (1999); the script for the 2003 Khamosh Pani; and the writing of a fortnightly column in the Mumbai Mirror, among other projects. Q2P has won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and the German Star of India award for Best Documentary at the Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival in Stuttgart.


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Q: Python return args passed to another function in Flask I would like to return something from one function and pass it into another function an example would be
def cur_weather():
  cloud = #this value is scraped from website
  temp = #this value is scraped from website
  return temp, cloud

@app.route('/')
def index(temp, cloud):
  temp = temp
  cloud = cloud
  return render_template('index.html', temp=temp, cloud=cloud)

i keep getting the error TypeError: index() takes exactly 2 arguments (0 given)
im not sure what im doing wrong or how to pass the returned values from one function into another function
all help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance

A: The error has nothing to do with passing the results of one function to another, but rather a mismatch in your route decoration and the declaration of your index function.
By writing
@app.route('/')
def index(temp, cloud):
    ...

the parameters temp and cloud have to come from somewhere. You would need them as path parameters in your route. But I don't think you want them there. I believe what you want is
@app.route('/')
def index():
    temp, cloud = cur_weather()
    return render_template('index.html', temp=temp, cloud=cloud)

A: I don't know why are you doing it like this.
Just call cur_weather() in index().
temp, cloud = cur_weather()

I think this would be better.

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Groesbeck Ltc Partners Inc is a medium-sized nursing home facility in Groesbeck, Texas (Limestone county). The Nursing Home Site profile for Groesbeck Ltc Partners Inc includes: Pricing, Resident Health and Wellness, Ratings, Activities, Comparisons, Directions, Surveys, and CMS Reviews.
They have 90 beds and 80 residents (which would leave 10 beds available). Groesbeck Ltc Partners Inc participates in Medicare and Medicaid and are classified as a For profit - Corporation ownership. They offer residential councils. They are not located inside a hospital. They do not belong to a continuing care community.
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Robert Huw Morgan plays Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor on the Fisk-Nanney organ at the Stanford Memorial Church in Stanford, California.
A native of Newport, Wales, Morgan received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar at St. John's College under George Guest. He earned doctorates in organ performance and choral conducting from the University of Washington School of Music, studying with Carole Terry and Peter Erős.
As a conductor, he has led performances of several operas (Falstaff, Hansel & Gretel and Die Fledermaus, among others), as well as large-scale choral works including Bach's St. John Passion and Mass in B minor, Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C minor, and the Vespers of Rachmaninoff and Monteverdi. He has performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude.
In addition to his duties at the Memorial Church, he holds the positions of Lecturer in Organ and Choral Studies and Director of the Stanford University Singers. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
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Wicker to give Brown Bag on 'politics of me,' poetry as protest
by Emma Francois on July 2, 2018 1.4K views
Marcus Wicker's poetry is political. In many ways, it's a form of social protest.
In his Brown Bag at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3 on the front porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, Chautauqua Writers' Center's Week Two poet-in-residence Wicker will discuss "The Politics of Me: Borrowed & Bullied Tools for Writing the Political Poem."
Wicker is a professor at the University of Memphis and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review. His first book, Maybe the Saddest Thing, explored masculinity and pop culture and was a 2011 National Poetry Series winner. His second book, Silencer, looked at race in America and received the 2017 Society of Midland Authors Award and the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. His work has appeared in The Nation, Oxford American and Boston Review.
Wicker's poems engage deeply with current events, often drawing from viral videos, lyrics and TV shows, according to Atom Atkinson, director of literary arts.
"It will be exciting to hear about everything from Wicker's philosophy to his practical tools for situating the self in relation to the world," Atkinson said.
After his first book, Wicker shifted his area of focus. In an interview with The Paris Review, Wicker said he wrote Silencer in response to gun violence and police brutality against African-Americans in the United States, specifically in the case of Trayvon Martin.
"I decided I needed to be using my voice and art for social protest and to mark the other gun deaths that case brought to light in the media," he said.
Wicker's writing, while keeping its political stance, centers around sonics. He said he approaches poetry with a "musical curiosity," sometimes thinking of lines like choruses and arguments like pianissimo.
"I grew up with my parents' '60s soul and post-bop jazz and had an infatuation with nineties hip-hop," Wicker told The Paris Review. "Those sounds and techniques inform my work."
In that interview, Wicker said the musicality of his poems and the subject areas he draws from make his work accessible. No matter their poetic training, readers will recognize popular punchlines, metaphors or patterns and, perhaps, learn simultaneously.
"Teaching poetry means I'm always immersed in the business of language," Wicker told The Paris Review. "I never have to worry about losing inspiration because I'm grappling with poetry daily, even when I'm not writing, and therefore always thinking about this thing that I love, that teaches me to live better."
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Emma Francois is the literary arts reporter and a returning Daily staffer. She attends Georgetown University, studying English, art history and studio art. When she isn't laughing at her own jokes, she is the highest-pitched voice on the fashion and politics podcast, "Stripped." Ask her about feminism in the Avengers, backyard birding and her love for bike baskets.
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Aig an àm seo den bhliadhna bidh mòran daoine – agus chan e na 'twitchers' a-mhàin – ag èisteachd gu faiceallach do gach ceilearadh eun a chluinneas iad, an dòchas gum bi an ceilear sunndach sònraichte a chiad chuthaige san sgìre nam measg. Bha na cuthagan riamh nan dearbhadh gun robh an t-earrach ann agus gun tigeadh an samradh a-rithist às dèidh a' gheamraidh fhada, is iad a' tilleadh mu dheireadh bho Afraga gu Breatainn. Tha iad air an comharrachadh ann an iomadh òran is pìos bàrdachd, tradiseanta is clasaigeach, bho Sumer is icumen in (13mh linn) gu On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring le Frederick Delius (20mh linn). Tha òrain Ghàidhlig gu leòr ann cuideachd far a bheil sinn a' cluinntinn mun chuthag agus na bàird a' cur fàilte chridheil oirre, mar O Fàilte ort fhèin, a chuthag ghorm, le d' òran ceòlmhor milis! no Thig an smeòrach as t-Earrach, Thig a' chuthag 's a Chèitein.
– "Sneachda na Caisge, sneachda nan uan agus sneachda na cuthaige". Ma thig na tri sneachdan sin, bidh an samhradh math.
– San linn a chaidh seachad, nan do dh' innseadh cuideigin do chàch gun cuala e a' chuthag "gun bhiadh na bhroinn", bha e ag ràdh nach robh e air ithe mus cuala e goirsinn na cuthaige airson a' chiad uair den bhliadhna; agus bhathar a' meas gur e bliadhna mhì-shealbhach a leanadh sin. Air an adhbhar sin dh'itheadh daoine "grèim-cuthaige" (rudeigin beag) nam b' fheudar dhaibh a dhol a-mach tràth sa mhadainn ron bhracaist aig an àm seo den bhliadhna.
Ach chan ann airson na dreuchd seo mar thosgair an earraich a-mhàin a tha cliù sònraichte aig a' chuthag – tha taobh eile aice nach eil cho tlachdmhòr: fàgaidh i a h-uighean ann an neadan eun eile. 'S fheàrr leatha neadan eun le uighean coltach ri uighean cuthaige, agus air monaidhean na Gàidhealtachd 's e an t-snàthadag, le nead air an talamh, a bhios a' fulang as trice. Nuair a thig an t-àl a-mach, fàsaidh an t-isean-chuthaige mòr gu luath agus cuiridh e na h-uighean no na h-iseanan nas lugha eile a-mach às an nead. An uairsin bidh na h-eòin aig a bheil an nead a' toirt biadh is cùram dhan isean-cuthaige a-mhàin, ged a dh'fhàsas e a dh'aithghearr nas motha na a 'phàrantan'. Fiù 's nuair a bhios e a-mach as an nead, leanaidh iad e airson grèis gus a bheathachadh. 'S ann bhon chàirdeas neònach seo a gheibh an t-snàthadag an t-ainm eile sa Ghàidhlig, an gocan-cuthaige – 's e 'neach-frithealaidh' a th' ann an 'gocan'.
Agus seo abairtean eile a tha a' dèiligeadh ris an taobh seo den chuthag.
– "Tha e coltach ris an t-snàthadag a' leantainn na cuthaig" – nuair a bhios cudeigin daonnan a' leanntain cudeigin eile, mar leanabh beag a bhràthair mòr.
– "cur air ruith na cuthaige" a' cur neach air ghocaireachd, no air gnothaich gun fheum, gu h-àiridh a' chiad latha den Ghiblean.
– Agus "gheibh thu e nuair a gheibh thu nead na cuthaig" – chan fhaigh thu a-chaoidh e!
At this time of the year many people – and not only 'twitchers' – pay particular attention when they hear birds singing, in the hope of catching the distinctive call of the first cuckoo in their area. Cuckoos have always been seen as evidence that spring is here and summer is on the way after the long winter, as they return at last from Africa to Britain. They are celebrated in many songs and poems, traditional and classical, from Sumer is icumen in (13th century) to On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Frederick Delius (20th c.). There are many Gaelic songs too with the poet welcoming the cuckoo warmly, such as O Fàilte ort fhèin, a chuthag ghorm, le d' òran ceòlmhor milis! (Welcome to you, blue cuckoo, with your melodious sweet song!) or Thig an smeòrach as t-Earrach, Thig a' chuthag 's a Chèitein (The mavis will come in spring and the cuckoo in May).
– "Sneachda na Caisge, sneachda nan uan agus sneachda na cuthaige"(Easter snow, lamb snow and cuckoo snow) If these three snows come, it will be a good summer.
– In the last century if someone said they had heard the cuckoo "gun bhiadh na bhroinn", on an empty stomach, i.e. before breakfast, it was supposed to mean a bad year would follow. People therefore would grab a "grèim-cuthaige", a quick 'cuckoo snack', if they had to leave the house very early at this time of the year.
– and "cuthag-chluaise", an 'ear cuckoo', meant a tell-tale, a child who would 'sing' on his friends. This led to the expression "Ge binn leinn a' chuthag cha bhinn leinn cuthag-chluaise" – although we find the cuckoo itself pretty, we're not so fond of the 'ear-cuckoo'.
But it's not only for this role as harbinger of the spring that the cuckoo has earned its special reputation. It has another, less attractive side: it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. It prefers the nests of birds whose eggs are similar to its own, and in the uplands of the Highlands it's the ground-nesting meadow-pipit who is its most frequent victim. When the litter hatches, the cuckoo chick grows big very fast and throws the other eggs or smaller chicks out of the nest. Then the birds whose nest it is devote all their time to feeding and caring for the cuckoo chick alone, even though it soon grows bigger than its 'parents'. And even when it leaves the nest, they follow it around for a good while and continue to feed it. It's from this curious relationship that the meadow-pipit gets its other name in Gaelic, 'gocan-cuthaige', 'cuckoo's attendant'.
– "Tha e coltach ris an t-snàthadag a' leantainn na cuthaig" – 'He's like the pipit following the cuckoo' when someone trails along behind someone else, like a child following his big brother.
– "cur air ruith na cuthaige" – send someone on 'the cuckoo run' – sending him on a fool's errand, especially on April Fool's Day.
– And "gheibh thu e nuair a gheibh thu nead na cuthaig" – 'you'll find it when you find the cuckoo's nest', i.e. never!
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Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 5 of 6: The Dark Knight Rises
Film Music Notes Posted on January 20, 2013 by Mark Richards September 1, 2014
Hans Zimmer worked alone for the trilogy's final installment instead of collaborating with James Newton Howard, who claimed that, although he had contributed much to the music of these films, Zimmer was really "the mastermind behind the Batman scores."
Like the second film, The Dark Knight Rises has three main characters who are all given their own theme. A striking contrast is set up, however, between the themes for Batman and Bane, the film's villain. After laying out the themes for the film's two new characters, Bane and Selina Kyle, I will demonstrate how Zimmer takes advantage of the opposition between the Bane and Batman themes in Bruce Wayne's three attempts at climbing out of the pit prison.
Unlike traditional Hollywood film scores, which tend to focus their attention on melody, harmonic progressions, and varied repetitions of musical motives, Zimmer's film scores tend to rely more on timbre, texture, and rhythm. In fact, it is rhythm alone that defines the theme for Bane as Zimmer employs a four-note rhythm in an unusual 5/4 time:
Usually, though, the rhythm is filled out with eighth notes like this:
This 5/4 rhythm is quite similar to another famous theme in the same meter: the title music from Mission: Impossible. Although there the meter is associated with the "good guys", both themes are used in the context of thrilling action narratives. Compare the two rhythms here:
Bane's rhythm also has much in common with the Joker's accompaniment from the previous film in that groups of three beats are juxtaposed with groups of two beats. Compare these two below:
The main difference here is that, unlike the Joker's theme, Bane's theme does not fit into a regular 4/4 time. But like the Joker's theme in The Dark Knight, Zimmer sounds Bane's theme not simply to signify that character's presence in the scene, but more importantly to indicate that Bane is the one in control of the situation onscreen. A good example is the film's opening scene, in which a number of captives with hoods over their heads (whom we soon realize are Bane and a few of his men) are threatened with being shot and pushed out of a high-flying plane unless they provide the captors with information. Although in the visuals and dialogue, it appears that the captives have no hope of escape, the music suggests otherwise. In the following film clip, notice how Bane's 5/4 rhythm is heard as soon as we see the plane in flight at the very start of the clip, and how it becomes much more prominent once Bane and his men take over the plane at 2:13:
The uneven quality of Bane's 5/4 rhythm suggests an instability that stands in marked contrast to the stability of Batman's themes, which are all in an even 4/4 time. In this way, the themes for Bane and Batman establish a clear musical opposition not just between the two characters but, on a broader level, between good and evil. A clear example of this opposition occurs in the scene where Batman makes his first appearance after eight years of absence. At the start of this scene, Bane has just escaped from the stock exchange after bankrupting Bruce Wayne. Since it is Bane in control here, we hear his 5/4 rhythm during the escape. Hear it in the film clip below from 3:48:
Once Batman returns for the first time, the music shifts into a regular 4/4 time and sounds a familiar four-beat accompaniment pattern associated with Batman. Naturally, it is also in D minor, Batman's key. Although Batman does not manage to stop his bankruptcy, he does alert the city to his presence again and demonstrates his ability to slip through the fingers of the police even when his arrest seems, to them, inevitable. Batman can therefore be said to be in control of at least his own personal situation (if not Bane's), and for that reason, we hear Batman's reassuring 4/4 music. Hear the appearance of this music at 0:30 in the following clip with Batman's return:
Selina Kyle
Signifying Theme
There are two themes associated with the cat burglar, Selina Kyle. The first is rarely heard in the film and is a graceful signifying theme that indicates her presence in the scene:
Generally, most character themes in films at some point sound the first note, or tonic, of the scale. If the tonic occurs near the start, it gives the theme a solid base from which a distinctive melody can take shape. If it occurs near the end, it gives the theme a goal that it can head toward. Selina's theme does neither. Instead, it hovers on the fifth note (A), or dominant, of the scale, making us wonder whether the theme will move up or down to produce some kind of melodic arc, as is typical of themes. This stasis on the dominant note appropriately expresses Selina's ambivalent moral attitude. On the one hand, she is a jewel thief who willingly turns Batman over to Bane, yet on the other hand, she desperately wants to eliminate her criminal record and live a crime-free life.
The theme also has quick motions around this dominant note by semitones (the shortest distance between two notes). Along with the soft scoring in the piano, these motions suggest not only Selina's mysterious nature, but also her skills of stealth that led to her being labeled a cat burglar. This suggestion of stealth through semitones is also a prominent part of the famous theme for The Pink Panther, which Henry Mancini composed to represent the film's jewel thief known as "the phantom".
You can hear Selina's signifying theme in her first meeting with Bruce Wayne in this clip from 1:51:
Action Theme
Selina has a second more frequent theme that is heard when she is engaged in some sort of dangerous action. This theme consists of a rising scale played in repeated, or tremolo, notes, giving it an agitated sound:
Notice that as the theme rises up, each note returns two beats later. In this way, the theme hovers around each note in a way similar to Selina's signifying theme, closely linking the two themes. And because this theme is usually repeated several times when it is heard, it creates a sense of stasis similar to Selina's signifying theme despite the actions theme's rising contour. The action theme also retains part of the mysterious quality of the signifying theme by being scored in a soft, subdued manner for the violins.
Hear this theme in the clip above as Selina makes her escape from Bruce Wayne's mansion with the necklace she stole from him (from around 1:10):
The Climbing Scenes
Through these scenes, Bruce Wayne makes three attempts to climb out of a pit prison in which Bane has incarcerated him, the last of which is successful. With each attempt, the music differs and in fact subtly predicts each outcome.
First Attempt
In Bruce's first attempt, we hear a repeated figure, or ostinato, of four notes in the bass:
While this ostinato has a rising contour, and therefore implies climbing, it always skips back down after only three rising notes. In much the same way, Bruce, secured with a rope, only manages to climb up to the first ledge in the pit before failing to make the jump to the next ledge and plunging back down to the bottom (the rope catching him before he hits the ground). At the same time, the other inmates chant "deshi basara" (meaning "he rises") to Bane's 5/4 rhythm. Thus, the music suggests that Bruce will not be able to rise enough to escape from Bane's prison.
Now watch and listen to the scene here:
Second Attempt
After failing his first attempt and seeing some of Bane's destruction of Gotham on a television, Bruce becomes angry and makes a second attempt to climb the pit. This time, the ostinato is absent and is replaced with continual instrumental statements of Bane's rhythm. When Bruce is about to climb, the inmates begin their chant again, and as he scales the wall, the instruments and the inmates' chant suddenly align in their rhythm and state Bane's rhythm together. With nothing but Bane's theme sounding, the music clearly implies that anger is only going to keep Bruce within Bane's control (recall that Bane's rhythm tends to indicate that he is in control of the situation onscreen). Accordingly, Bruce's hand slips on a loose rock and again he falls to the bottom secured by the rope.
Watch and hear this short scene here:
Third Attempt
After failing his second climb, one of the inmates tells Bruce that if he wants to escape, he needs to have a fear of death, for, as he says, "how can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?" Consequently, he advises Bruce to climb without using the rope; then, he says "fear will find you." As the inmate tells Bruce this, we begin to hear the ostinato from the first attempt again. As before, the ostinato skips downward after rising through three notes and continues to do so as Bruce climbs up to the ledge.
Once he reaches the ledge, however, the ostinato does something it didn't do before—it continues rising up the D minor scale, going from D all the way up to the D an octave higher. As we hear this, a flurry of bats streams over Bruce's head from a hole in the wall in much the same way as when he fell down the well as a child and developed a fear of bats in Batman Begins. The symbolism here is clear: Bruce's fear has indeed returned, and the music follows suit by repeating the rising scale, now with a fuller and more active orchestration. While the inmates once again chant in Bane's rhythm, the rising ostinato gradually overpowers it, indicating that this time Bruce will make the leap. Just before Bruce jumps, the ostinato dramatically halts before its final note. Musically (and perhaps literally) we are holding our breath while Bruce is in the air.
When he successfully grasps the other ledge, making the jump, we at last hear the ostinato's final note, D, which merges with a statement of Batman's "signifying" theme (see Part 1 of these posts). Having conquered the pit, the music suggests that Bruce has turned his mind towards Batman once more. After throwing down the rope for the other prisoners, Bruce then crosses the terrain atop the pit, a free man on his way back to Gotham. At this point we hear a climactic statement of the Batman "heroic" theme (again see Part 1 of these posts) to close off the scene in a way that is both appropriate and enormously satisfying.
Watch and hear this scene here:
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Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 5 of 6: The Dark Knight Rises — 11 Comments
Very Cynical Person on September 2, 2015 at 3:56 pm said:
While the movie might be rather sub-par, it's clear that the music was extremely well thought out. This is a very impressive analysis as well, and take it from somebody who is usually quite mean online.
Film Score Junkie on September 3, 2015 at 6:27 am said:
Yes, that's the thing about Zimmer's music – it is definitely well thought out, especially in high profile projects like this. I think Zimmer's greatest asset as a composer is his sense of the dramatic, that is, how to shape his music to the emotional arc of each scene. It always feels just right. And this film is no exception!
Jonathan Zufi on October 8, 2015 at 7:43 am said:
This article is fantastic. I'd love some help – I have the soundtrack to "The Dark Knight Rises" – I cannot for the life of me find the piece where Batman appears for the first time in the tunnel (just after he fired his EMP gun and gets back on his bike) – specifically 59 sec into the clip embedded above. Could you help me out here? Thanks.
Film Score Junkie on October 8, 2015 at 7:59 am said:
Hi Jonathan. Thanks for your comment. The answer to your question seems to be that the music you seek in the film is not on the soundtrack because it was not part of that film's score to start with. Here's what it says on the Wikipedia page for The Dark Knight Rises score under "Risen from Darkness", which is the cue used at this point in the film: "This track is not the one used within the film, however, but is instead the initial cue before it underwent re-editing. The version used in the film itself makes heavy use of temp tracks lifted directly from the previous two films (as opposed to the new variations on those cues found in here) and the middle section is edited differently as well. Additionally, the rising note at the beginning of the track is shorter in the film."
Jonathan Zufi on October 9, 2015 at 7:24 pm said:
Thank you – I never would have discovered that. That wiki article was also fascinating especially the background on how they crowd sourced the chant….
16inchesOC on April 22, 2016 at 6:17 pm said:
I have been enjoying these Dark Knight posts and your writing on Bernard Hermann as well. You have really done a great analysis. One point I might differ on is that in the first attempt to escape from the pit I believe the chanting is in 6/8, not in Bane's 5/4. It seems to be urging Bruce on rather than being in support of Bane.It is pretty cool how it morphs into the 4/4 march as Bruce suceeds.
I also have a hard time finding the beginning of the 5/4 ostinato when it is playing in the score. Any tips on how to find the downbeat?
Mark Richards on April 23, 2016 at 12:16 am said:
Thanks for your kind words! So in the scene of the first escape attempt, the chanting is definitely in 5/4. It's easier to hear if you count eighth notes rather than quarters: the 2+2+3+3 pattern is certainly there. As for finding the downbeat, the quicker 2+2 beats tend to sound like pickups to me, so the first 3-eighth beat sounds like a downbeat to me. But I'm sure there are others who will hear the downbeat on the first 2-eighth beat instead.
OK, I got it! took a little while but now I hear it, you're right the key is to count in eighth notes.
I am working on transcribing music from the Psycho score, my hope is to arrange it for rock band. (wacky idea I guess) I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Mark Richards on April 24, 2016 at 12:09 pm said:
A rock version of Psycho? Actually, I could see that working in a strange way. Like so much rock music, Herrmann's music is highly rhythmic and composed of short spans that loop into ostinatos. The harmony is of course the big thing that will sound very different, especially in that score (I presume you'll be working with the Prelude). I could also see it working in adapted form – something like taking an accompanimental loop and extending it further while improvising new material overtop. There are so many things that could be done with that material.
Yes, I think it will work but I would have to say I have no idea what it might ultimately sound like. My first step is transcribing the cues, which is challenging in the more dissonant parts, then to try orchestrating them differently and adding some drum parts.
The Prelude really suits itself to this but I am also working on some other cues. The Madhouse is a wonderfully dissonant piece. Temptation also works really well, it is the cue playing while Marion packs her bags and contemplates running off with the money.
I like the idea of improvising over some loops, I will work with that. I appreciate your thoughts. I really like your own music, if you are Mark Richards the composer, your Hamlet is riveting. I am also awed by your work in this blog, you have such a great grasp of musical ideas.
Maybe I'll send you some stuff later this summer if I get anywhere. Thanks!
Mark Richards on April 26, 2016 at 9:05 am said:
Yes, I am the one who wrote that Hamlet opera. Thanks for your kind words. As for Psycho, there is a piano version of the prelude in the AFI's Top 25 Film Scores piano book. It doesn't have other cues you mention, but it may be a start. Sure, send me some music if you like. Always happy to give feedback.
Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 1 of 6: Batman Begins
Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 3 of 6: The Dark Knight


What Huckabee Did Not Say "Vote For Obama And Go To Hell"
I heard a radio host say this morning that "Huckabee is being quoted all over the internet that "If you vote for Obama, you are going to hell." Of course, the liberal host did not check out the quote but merely mimicked the Daily Kos, Slate, Democratic Underground, and a host of other lying liberal outlets.I had a chance to call the host and rebuke him - in a Biblical manner, of course.
Huckabee did say, simply, ""Your vote will affect the future and be recorded in eternity." This benign, vanilla comment was taken badly by the left as some sort of warning, that people will be judged by what they do in this life, before God, before entering, or not entering, into an eternal life with God, as promised by Jesus Christ to believers - a basic tenant of the Christian faith.
The Left, the authors of atheism and communism, have no qualms about promoting Islam and its fundamentals around the world, especially the Arab Spring, but Christianity is their greatest enemy. Christians merely tell people, according to the Gospels, what Jesus said, " Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life.".John 5:24 The obvious conclusion is that you will not have eternal life (as opposed to eternal condemnation) if you do not believe in God via the Way, The Truth, and The Life.
So, what's all the hubbub? Atheists tell you there is no God to answer to, and Muslims will behead you if you speak against Allah or Mohammad. Christians, in general, do not riot or terrorize, like Communists and Muslims, if someone ridicules Jesus. Our God is a God of mercy - His mercy endureth forever - but not so the commies and muslims, or peripheral communsits like the American and European Left.
They will send you to a Gulag or behead you. We merely proclaim the Good News that one does not have spend eternity away from God.In fact, even now, we can enjoy what the Bible calls a portion of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, ie., righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Amen.


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Refugees and displaced people
A Universal Story in A Universal Language?
eal_journal September 9, 2019 One Comment
Chris Michael tells us about his live stage show that reimagines the Charlie Chaplin silent film classic, The Immigrant, for a live theatre audience. Chris hopes that this show will demonstrate that theatre is for everyone, no matter their level of English proficiency or cultural background. He hopes that NALDIC's readers might offer advice and suggestions for ways that he can develop the show with EAL learners in mind.
I am a clown. (That's not why I need help!)
I have created a show about what it's like coming to a strange place where you can't speak the language and you don't understand the rules.
This started as an article which was meant to impart information, but I now realise that it is a cry for help!
Like all my performances, the show is a silent comedy with no language. So I am hoping to encourage EAL learners to come and see the show – partly because I hope they will enjoy our light-hearted take on being an outsider, but also because the show is a rare opportunity for them to experience a British theatre show as an equal with native English speakers.
Being a newcomer to NALDIC blog and all things EAL, I understand Cherry Pearce's description of her experience as an EAL teacher going to the Inside Government conference: "It can sometimes be daunting to take a step outside one's comfort zone and enter the realm of another". The Bell Foundation assessment guidelines alone are enough to make my knees quake!
So what I would really like this article to achieve is to encourage teachers with children who are in the process of learning English to suggest ways in which a theatre show with no words might be of benefit to them.
I'll give you a bit of information about the show and how it came about, and suggest some ways in which I think the show could be an enriching experience for children for whom English is an additional language.
I've been working as a professional clown for nearly 20 years. I have performed over 4000 shows to nearly a million people. Most of these shows have been in schools and family events. So for a long time I had been looking for a way to showcase my clowning skills in theatres.
In 2017, a Charlie Chaplin short film caught my eye because of its blunt title: "The Immigrant". This was at the same time that Donald Trump had just declared the ban on flights from Muslim countries, and Britain's newspaper headlines were full of commentary about the "migrant swarm". I was amazed that no one had mentioned the film before, especially as it was the film's centenary. It was a funny and moving story about someone going to start a new life in a place where he wasn't welcome, and where he didn't understand the rules, told in way that used no language. I can't imagine many stories that fit the clown persona better! This was the perfect match for me.
We toured a trial version of the show last year with great success. We have now been funded by Arts Council England and Oxford City Council to tour to sixteen theatres this autumn.
The show now is almost unrecognisable from the original film, but the core message stays the same. Audiences experience the same confusion as the main character as they try and figure out what is going on in the strange world in which he has arrived.
For deaf and EAL learners, it is a rare chance to see theatre which is fully accessible for them where they can enjoy a show in exactly the same way as hearing, English speakers. In May last year, we took the show to a deaf school where one of the children had come from a country where they had never been taught any sign language. To have them be able to experience a show in the same way as their peers for the first time was incredibly rewarding. In another venue, we worked with organisations who supported refugee families and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors. We were delighted to welcome a group of children who had never been to the theatre before. They bought popcorn from a shop nearby and then made cones from paper to pass the popcorn to the other audience members – very Chaplinesque! Their minder told us that the show was an opportunity for them to discuss some of their experiences.
In our drive to bring children from diverse linguistic backgrounds to the shows, we are printing fliers and posters in multiple languages. Our target audience coordinator has done some great work identifying the key languages of refugees, and cultural communities in the UK, many of whose members are fall into the category of being an EAL learner. Our key aim is to get people for whom English language performances might be seen as a barrier to understanding and enjoyment into the theatre and to provide them with the opportunity to engage on the same terms as everyone else in the theatre.
Our hope is that by encouraging linguistically diverse young people into a theatre once, they may want to come back again. This was definitely the reaction of the group of Unaccompanied Minors. We often joke that "The Immigrant" is a gateway show that can lead onto harder forms of physical theatre. And there are many types of performance that do not rely on formal language and which, therefore, English learners can enjoy as much as anyone else – dance, mask theatre, physical theatre and (sometimes) pantomime are so visual that language need not be a barrier. Even theatre with language can be a great way to start building language connections in very simple ways – both as audience member and participant.
We're new to providing work that we believe is accessible to EAL learners, be they fluent users of English or coming to the language for the first time. So, we would be really grateful to hear NALDIC members' thoughts about how we could develop the work and resources around the show, to help us break down barriers and make the theatre a truly inclusive opportunity for all. Please do get in touch via the links below.
You can contact Chris at chris@newslapstick.com or tweet him @newslapstick. If you'd like to see the show, all the details of his Autumn 2019 tour are here https://newslapstick.wordpress.com/
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An open letter to the New Secretary of State for Education
Simon Johnson October 12, 2019 at 8:46 am
Hi there! I am an EAL teacher in Istanbul. I am interested in multilingual education that runs complimentary to EAL learning. I run a Home Language Drama club and one year we used Charlie Chaplin films as an inspiration to create a short show in which each character spoke in a different language. As the kids were fully expressive physically then the language became a surprising added bonus. I actually think that we need to flip the perspective in terms of language exposure and try to find opportunities for monolingual English kids to get more exposure to different languages!! Great work in any case!!


Blue Jays starter Aaron Sanchez hasn't pitched since June 21, in a rough one-inning appearance against the Angels. After he exited that start, Sanchez went on the 60-day DL for a bruised right finger, and he's now touring the rehab-start circuit.
This isn't the first time this year that harmful suitcases have made pro baseball players say "Ow." Sanchez said he actually kept quiet about the reason for his DL stint because back in March, Royals catcher Salvador Perez had to miss a month after he sprained his MCL while courageously trying to haul his dangerous luggage up the stairs.
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GMH to receive millions in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements - KUAM.com-KUAM News: On Air. Online. On Demand.
It's a huge windfall for the Guam Memorial Hospital.
The hospital will receive millions of dollars in additional Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.
The administration announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have finally approved GMH's request to adjust its base rate.
The administration learned this about a month ago, right at the beginning of their term. And now, the money is in the bank.
"I think it means that we can pay down our payables to buy supplies," Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said. "It's added revenues for the operations of our hospital."
In a news conference, Lou Leon Guerrero said the rebase amount was increased from $5,100 per hospital discharge to $9,500. That will mean an additional $6 million a year for GMH.
"This is the rate Medicare will reimburse the hospital per patient per discharge collectively for the year," Lillian Posadas, GMH administrator said.
The rate has not been adjusted since 1998. The new rate is effective starting in 2013, and GMH has just received some $6 million in back payments for fiscal years 2014 through 2016.
This news comes as hospital administrators held their final meeting with CMS surveyors Thursday morning. The visit was to address a list of deficiencies listed in a previous report.
Officials say the citations this time around are less but they are unable to disclose more until the report is published.
"From the previous year they cited us for seven conditions, but it dropped down," Posadas said. "They were very pleased because they see the hospital has made great strides to improve process and the care that we provide."
Though the citations this time around are less, GMH is unable to disclose more until the report is published.


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Servo Pulse to Voltage Converter October 7, 2012
, Circuit designed by David A. Johnson, P.E.
Servo Pulse to Voltage Converter A while back a Discover Circuits visitor needed a way to convert servo pulses from a radio controlled device into a voltage. The drawing below, illustrates the pulse train of the received signal. The time between pulses is a fixed 20ms while the pulse widths vary from a low of 1ms to a high of 2ms. The visitor wanted to convert the pulses into a voltage such that a 1ms pulse width would produce 1 volt, a 1.5ms pulse would produce 5v and 2ms pulse would produce an output of 9v. The circuit below performs this conversion.
The visitor wanted to convert the pulses into a voltage such that a 1ms pulse width would produce 1 volt, a 1.5ms pulse would produce 5v and 2ms pulse would produce an output of 9v. The circuit below performs this conversion.
A 12 volt wall adapter is used to supply power to the circuit. A LM317 is used to down regulate the voltage to 10v. The 0v to 5v TTL logic input pulses are first converted into 0v to 10v swings. Those pulses are then sent through a three stage filter network. The network averages the DC voltage, which is fed to an operational Amplifier circuit. The circuit has a gain of 16 and a DC offset voltage of 0.466v. The result is an output with the desired 1v to 9v swing as the pulse widths vary from 1ms to 2ms. The response of the filter network is not super fast, so there is a delay between a pulse width change and a voltage change. The visitor did not think that the delay would be a problem.
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Q: Representing Document DOM in HTML: Sibling Text Nodes I read this statement from @Bergi in a very old comment discussing a nextSibling value:

x.nextSibling will likely not be the span, but the line-break text
  node between the img and the span elements

The example @Bergi was referring to was some script to select the first element in fairly simple HTML, and find the nextSibling:

Do browsers insert a "line-break text node" into the DOM between element nodes? What I'm really trying to understand is this comment in an older discussion about serializing a document model to HTML with ProseMirror:

HTML can almost always be used to fully represent the document DOM.
  There is one exception we have come across: sibling text nodes. Before
  using ProseMirror we found it was important to have sibling text
  nodes, so we serialize the HTML to JSON for storing in the database.
  We still do that now, for compatibility reasons, but given that we
  don't need sibling text nodes any more, this will likely be gone in
  the next version of our file format.

The rest of the discussion in that thread was voluminous and not related to this question, so I didn't link it. I think the reason this author is saying that HTML can't mirror the DOM in the case of sibling text nodes is because line-break nodes are automatically inserted into the DOM (and not represented in HTML). Is this accurate?

A: I think that the concept of "hidden characters" that you mention is not accurate.
The thing is that nextSibling returns literally the next sibling on the dom, which doesn't mean it's going to be the next element on the dom.
If you wanto to try, remove all linebreak characters and try again, or simply use nextElementSibling instead.


Miriam's family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator of smash-hit comics series The TomorrowMen. But he sold his rights to the series to his co-creator in the 1960s for practically nothing, and now that's what Miriam has: practically nothing. And practically nothing to look forward to either; how can she afford college when her family can barely keep a roof above their heads? As if she didn't have enough to worry about, Miriam's life gets much more complicated when a cute boy shows up in town... and turns out to be the grandson of the man who defrauded Miriam's grandfather, and heir to the TomorrowMen fortune.


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Q: Spring Boot 1.4 not loading application.properties after upgrade I am in process of upgrading a spring boot 1.3.3 project to 1.4.2.
After upgrading the project Spring boot will no longer use any application.properties file. It does not locate it. Even when passed as an startup argument.
The project is built with gradle and a shadowjar plugin to compile to a fat jar and start tomcat embedded from the jar.
The way the application is started is: java -jar app-all.jar. The directory containing the jar also contains the application.properties file. (and no other files)
There is no classpath set and the jar file does not contain any other application.properties files. (Tested with unzip -t app-all.jar |grep application.properties)
Starting the project under Spring Boot 1.3.3. The application starts correctly. Start of log file:

04:15:58.846 com.app.MaxApplication INFO  [main] - Starting MaxApplication on test-ng with PID 30096 (/home/ubuntu/app-all.jar started by ubuntu in /home/ubuntu)
04:15:58.850 com.app.MaxApplication DEBUG [main] - Running with Spring Boot, Spring
04:15:58.850 com.app.MaxApplication INFO  [main] - The following profiles are active: TEST
04:15:58.850 org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication DEBUG [main] - Loading source class com.app.MaxApplication
04:15:58.947 org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigFileApplicationListener DEBUG [main] - Activated profiles TEST
04:15:58.947 org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigFileApplicationListener DEBUG [main] - Loaded config file 'file:./application.properties'

Changing spring boot version to 1.4.2, cleaning gradle caches and rebuilding and running the application the same way Spring Boot does nto load the applciation.properties file and the application fails to start due to missing configuration settings provided by the file. Start of log file:

01:48:47.547 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [servletConfigInitParams] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.549 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [servletContextInitParams] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.551 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.552 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.552 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Initialized StandardServletEnvironment with PropertySources [servletConfigInitParams,servletContextInitParams,systemProperties,systemEnvironment]
01:48:47.552 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'spring.profiles.active' in any property source
01:48:47.552 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'spring.profiles.active' in any property source
01:48:47.554 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'banner.image.location' in any property source
01:48:47.555 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'banner.location' in any property source
01:48:47.556 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'banner.charset' in any property source
01:48:47.557 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.MutablePropertySources - Adding [version] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.560 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.MutablePropertySources - Adding [ansi] PropertySource with highest search precedence
01:48:47.561 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.MutablePropertySources - Adding [title] PropertySource with highest search precedence
01:48:47.600 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [servletConfigInitParams] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.600 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [servletContextInitParams] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.600 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.600 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence
01:48:47.601 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment - Initialized StandardServletEnvironment with PropertySources [servletConfigInitParams,servletContextInitParams,systemProperties,systemEnvironment]
01:48:47.637 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-250 'javax.annotation.ManagedBean' found and supported for component scanning
01:48:47.649 [main] INFO com.app.MaxApplication - Starting MaxApplication on test-ng (/home/ubuntu/app-all.jar started by ubuntu in /home/ubuntu)
01:48:47.649 [main] DEBUG com.app.max.MaxApplication - Running with Spring Boot, Spring
01:48:47.650 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'spring.profiles.active' in any property source
01:48:47.650 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.core.env.PropertySourcesPropertyResolver - Could not find key 'spring.profiles.default' in any property source
01:48:47.650 [main] INFO com.app.max.MaxApplication - No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
01:48:47.650 [main] DEBUG org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Loading source class com.app.MaxApplication

Only two files in the current directory are the application.properties file and the jar file. The externalizing configration documentation says the configuration should be read from there. It also works under Spring 1.3.3
I have defined a configuration class (this is working in 1.3)
@Component
@Configuration
@SpringBootConfiguration
public class MaxApplicationProperties {
    @Bean
    public static PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer propertyPlaceholderConfigurer() {
        return new PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer();
    }
}

I have tried:

*

*Adding application.properties file to the class path.

*Starting the application with --spring.config.location=application.properties (and with full path as well)

*Setting config location environment variables.

*Adding annotation @PropertySource("classpath:application.properties") to the MaxApplicationProperties class

*Force deleting all downloaded libraries and having gradle re-download everything.

None of these options work to make Spring boot attempt to use the application.properties file the same was as Spring boot 1.3.
Anyone know what I am missing? Thanks.