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Interface MediaPlayer2.Player

   Interface Index
   (Compact)
   | Summary
      | Description
   | Methods
   | Signals
   | Properties
            | Types

Methods

       Next
       ()
       →
       nothing

       Previous
       ()
       →
       nothing

       Pause
       ()
       →
       nothing

       PlayPause
       ()
       →
       nothing

       Stop
       ()
       →
       nothing

       Play
       ()
       →
       nothing

       Seek
       (x: Offset)
       →
       nothing

       SetPosition
       (o: TrackId, x: Position)
       →
       nothing

       OpenUri
       (s: Uri)
       →
       nothing

Signals

       Seeked
       (x: Position)

Properties

       PlaybackStatus

        s
        (Playback_Status)

       Read only

       LoopStatus

        s
        (Loop_Status)

       Read/Write

                (optional)

       Rate

        d
        (Playback_Rate)

       Read/Write

       Shuffle

        b

       Read/Write

                (optional)

       Metadata

        a{sv}
        (Metadata_Map)

       Read only

       Volume

        d
        (Volume)

       Read/Write

       Position

        x
        (Time_In_Us)

       Read only

       MinimumRate

        d
        (Playback_Rate)

       Read only

       MaximumRate

        d
        (Playback_Rate)

       Read only

       CanGoNext

        b

       Read only

       CanGoPrevious

        b

       Read only

       CanPlay

        b

       Read only

       CanPause

        b

       Read only

       CanSeek

        b

       Read only

       CanControl

        b

       Read only

Types

       Track_Id
       Simple Type
       o

       Playback_Rate
       Simple Type
       d

       Volume
       Simple Type
       d

       Time_In_Us
       Simple Type
       x

       Playback_Status
       Enum
       s

       Loop_Status
       Enum
       s

Description

        This interface implements the methods for querying and providing basic
        control over what is currently playing.

Methods

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Next () → nothing

Skips to the next track in the tracklist.

          If there is no next track (and endless playback and track
          repeat are both off), stop playback.

If playback is paused or stopped, it remains that way.

          If CanGoNext is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect.

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Previous () → nothing

Skips to the previous track in the tracklist.

          If there is no previous track (and endless playback and track
          repeat are both off), stop playback.

If playback is paused or stopped, it remains that way.

          If CanGoPrevious is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect.

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Pause () → nothing

Pauses playback.

If playback is already paused, this has no effect.

          Calling Play after this should cause playback to start again
          from the same position.

          If CanPause is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect.

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PlayPause () → nothing

Pauses playback.

If playback is already paused, resumes playback.

If playback is stopped, starts playback.

          If CanPause is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect and raise an error.

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Stop () → nothing

Stops playback.

If playback is already stopped, this has no effect.

          Calling Play after this should cause playback to
          start again from the beginning of the track.

          If CanControl is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect and raise an error.

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Play () → nothing

Starts or resumes playback.

If already playing, this has no effect.

If paused, playback resumes from the current position.

If there is no track to play, this has no effect.

          If CanPlay is
          false, attempting to call this method should have
          no effect.

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Seek (x: Offset) → nothing

Parameters

        Offset — x
        (Time_In_Us)

The number of microseconds to seek forward.

          Seeks forward in the current track by the specified number
          of microseconds.

          A negative value seeks back. If this would mean seeking
          back further than the start of the track, the position
          is set to 0.

          If the value passed in would mean seeking beyond the end
          of the track, acts like a call to Next.

          If the CanSeek property is false,
          this has no effect.

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SetPosition (o: TrackId, x: Position) → nothing

Parameters

        TrackId — o
        (Track_Id)

The currently playing track's identifier.

            If this does not match the id of the currently-playing track,
            the call is ignored as "stale".

            <literal>/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2/TrackList/NoTrack</literal>
            is not a valid value for this argument.

        Position — x
        (Time_In_Us)

Track position in microseconds.

This must be between 0 and <track_length>.

Sets the current track position in microseconds.

If the Position argument is less than 0, do nothing.

          If the Position argument is greater than the track length,
          do nothing.

          If the CanSeek property is false,
          this has no effect.

Rationale:

            The reason for having this method, rather than making
            Position writable, is to include
            the TrackId argument to avoid race conditions where a client tries
            to seek to a position when the track has already changed.

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OpenUri (s: Uri) → nothing

Parameters

        Uri — s
        (Uri)

            Uri of the track to load. Its uri scheme should be an element of the
            <literal>org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.SupportedUriSchemes</literal>
            property and the mime-type should match one of the elements of the
            <literal>org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.SupportedMimeTypes</literal>.

Opens the Uri given as an argument

If the playback is stopped, starts playing

          If the uri scheme or the mime-type of the uri to open is not supported,
          this method does nothing and may raise an error.  In particular, if the
          list of available uri schemes is empty, this method may not be
          implemented.

Clients should not assume that the Uri has been opened as soon as this
           method returns. They should wait until the mpris:trackid field in the
           Metadata property changes.

          If the media player implements the TrackList interface, then the
          opened track should be made part of the tracklist, the
          <literal>org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.TrackList.TrackAdded</literal> or
          <literal>org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.TrackList.TrackListReplaced</literal>
          signal should be fired, as well as the
          <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged</literal>
          signal on the tracklist interface.

Signals

     (Permalink)

Seeked (x: Position)

Parameters

       Position — x
       (Time_In_Us)

The new position, in microseconds.

          Indicates that the track position has changed in a way that is
          inconsistant with the current playing state.

When this signal is not received, clients should assume that:

            When playing, the position progresses according to the rate property.

When paused, it remains constant.

          This signal does not need to be emitted when playback starts
          or when the track changes, unless the track is starting at an
          unexpected position. An expected position would be the last
          known one when going from Paused to Playing, and 0 when going from
          Stopped to Playing.

Properties

     Accessed using the org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties
     interface.

     (Permalink)

      PlaybackStatus — s
      (Playback_Status)

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

The current playback status.

          May be "Playing", "Paused" or "Stopped".

     (Permalink)

      LoopStatus — s
      (Loop_Status)

Read/Write

This property is optional.  Clients should handle its absence gracefully.

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

The current loop / repeat status

May be:

"None" if the playback will stop when there are no more tracks to play

"Track" if the current track will start again from the begining once it has finished playing

"Playlist" if the playback loops through a list of tracks

          If CanControl is
          false, attempting to set this property should have
          no effect and raise an error.

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      Rate — d
      (Playback_Rate)

Read/Write

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

The current playback rate.

          The value must fall in the range described by
          MinimumRate and
          MaximumRate, and must not be 0.0.  If
          playback is paused, the PlaybackStatus
          property should be used to indicate this.  A value of 0.0 should not
          be set by the client.  If it is, the media player should act as
          though Pause was called.

          If the media player has no ability to play at speeds other than the
          normal playback rate, this must still be implemented, and must
          return 1.0.  The MinimumRate and
          MaximumRate properties must also be
          set to 1.0.

          Not all values may be accepted by the media player.  It is left to
          media player implementations to decide how to deal with values they
          cannot use; they may either ignore them or pick a "best fit" value.
          Clients are recommended to only use sensible fractions or multiples
          of 1 (eg: 0.5, 0.25, 1.5, 2.0, etc).

Rationale:

            This allows clients to display (reasonably) accurate progress bars
            without having to regularly query the media player for the current
            position.

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      Shuffle — b

Read/Write

This property is optional.  Clients should handle its absence gracefully.

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          A value of false indicates that playback is
          progressing linearly through a playlist, while true
          means playback is progressing through a playlist in some other order.

          If CanControl is
          false, attempting to set this property should have
          no effect and raise an error.

     (Permalink)

      Metadata — a{sv}
      (Metadata_Map)

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

The metadata of the current element.

          If there is a current track, this must have a "mpris:trackid" entry
          (of D-Bus type "o") at the very least, which contains a D-Bus path that
          uniquely identifies this track.

          See the type documentation for more details.

     (Permalink)

      Volume — d
      (Volume)

Read/Write

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

The volume level.

          When setting, if a negative value is passed, the volume
          should be set to 0.0.

          If CanControl is
          false, attempting to set this property should have
          no effect and raise an error.

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      Position — x
      (Time_In_Us)

Read only

       The org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is not emitted when this property changes.

            The current track position in microseconds, between 0 and
            the 'mpris:length' metadata entry (see Metadata).

            Note: If the media player allows it, the current playback position
            can be changed either the SetPosition method or the Seek method on
            this interface.  If this is not the case, the
            CanSeek property is false, and
            setting this property has no effect and can raise an error.

            If the playback progresses in a way that is inconstistant with the
            Rate property, the
            Seeked signal is emited.

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      MinimumRate — d
      (Playback_Rate)

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          The minimum value which the Rate
          property can take.
          Clients should not attempt to set the
          Rate property below this value.

          Note that even if this value is 0.0 or negative, clients should
          not attempt to set the Rate property
          to 0.0.

This value should always be 1.0 or less.

     (Permalink)

      MaximumRate — d
      (Playback_Rate)

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          The maximum value which the Rate
          property can take.
          Clients should not attempt to set the
          Rate property above this value.

          This value should always be 1.0 or greater.

     (Permalink)

      CanGoNext — b

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          Whether the client can call the Next
          method on this interface and expect the current track to change.

          If it is unknown whether a call to Next will
          be successful (for example, when streaming tracks), this property should
          be set to true.

          If CanControl is
          false, this property should also be
          false.

Rationale:

            Even when playback can generally be controlled, there may not
            always be a next track to move to.

     (Permalink)

      CanGoPrevious — b

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          Whether the client can call the
          Previous method on this interface and
          expect the current track to change.

          If it is unknown whether a call to Previous
          will be successful (for example, when streaming tracks), this property
          should be set to true.

          If CanControl is
          false, this property should also be
          false.

Rationale:

            Even when playback can generally be controlled, there may not
            always be a next previous to move to.

     (Permalink)

      CanPlay — b

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

Whether playback can be started using
           Play or
           PlayPause.

          Note that this is related to whether there is a "current track": the
          value should not depend on whether the track is currently paused or
          playing.  In fact, if a track is currently playing (and
          CanControl is true),
          this should be true.

          If CanControl is
          false, this property should also be
          false.

Rationale:

            Even when playback can generally be controlled, it may not be
            possible to enter a "playing" state, for example if there is no
            "current track".

     (Permalink)

      CanPause — b

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

Whether playback can be paused using
           Pause or
           PlayPause.

          Note that this is an intrinsic property of the current track: its
          value should not depend on whether the track is currently paused or
          playing.  In fact, if playback is currently paused (and
          CanControl is true),
          this should be true.

          If CanControl is
          false, this property should also be
          false.

Rationale:

            Not all media is pausable: it may not be possible to pause some
            streamed media, for example.

     (Permalink)

      CanSeek — b

Read only

       When this property changes, the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is emitted with the new value.

          Whether the client can control the playback position using
          Seek and
          SetPosition.  This may be different for
          different tracks.

          If CanControl is
          false, this property should also be
          false.

Rationale:

            Not all media is seekable: it may not be possible to seek when
            playing some streamed media, for example.

     (Permalink)

      CanControl — b

Read only

       The org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged
       signal is not emitted when this property changes.

Whether the media player may be controlled over this interface.

          This property is not expected to change, as it describes an intrinsic
          capability of the implementation.

          If this is false, clients should assume that all
          properties on this interface are read-only (and will raise errors
          if writing to them is attempted), no methods are implemented
          and all other properties starting with "Can" are also
          false.

Rationale:

            This allows clients to determine whether to present and enable
            controls to the user in advance of attempting to call methods
            and write to properties.

Types

      Simple Type (Permalink)

       Track_Id — o

Unique track identifier.

          If the media player implements the TrackList interface and allows
          the same track to appear multiple times in the tracklist,
          this must be unique within the scope of the tracklist.

          Note that this should be a valid D-Bus object id, although clients
          should not assume that any object is actually exported with any
          interfaces at that path.

          Media players may not use any paths starting with
          <literal>/org/mpris</literal> unless explicitly allowed by this specification.
          Such paths are intended to have special meaning, such as
          <literal>/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2/TrackList/NoTrack</literal>
          to indicate "no track".

Rationale:

            This is a D-Bus object id as that is the definitive way to have
            unique identifiers on D-Bus.  It also allows for future optional
            expansions to the specification where tracks are exported to D-Bus
            with an interface similar to org.gnome.UPnP.MediaItem2.

      Simple Type (Permalink)

       Playback_Rate — d

A playback rate

          This is a multiplier, so a value of 0.5 indicates that playback is
          happening at half speed, while 1.5 means that 1.5 seconds of "track time"
          is consumed every second.

      Simple Type (Permalink)

       Volume — d

Audio volume level

0.0 means mute.

1.0 is a sensible maximum volume level (ex: 0dB).

          Note that the volume may be higher than 1.0, although generally
          clients should not attempt to set it above 1.0.

      Simple Type (Permalink)

       Time_In_Us — x

Time in microseconds.

      Enum (Permalink)

       Playback_Status — s

A playback state.

Playing (Playing)

A track is currently playing.

Paused (Paused)

A track is currently paused.

Stopped (Stopped)

There is no track currently playing.

      Enum (Permalink)

       Loop_Status — s

A repeat / loop status

None (None)

The playback will stop when there are no more tracks to play

Track (Track)

The current track will start again from the begining once it has finished playing

Playlist (Playlist)

The playback loops through a list of tracks

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I was lucky enough to be selected by Nintendo to preview The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes before it's released. No, not a full game, just a multiplayer demo that had an online component available this past weekend at select times. So what was it like? Read on to find out!
I first saw this game back as part of the E3 announcements this past summer. It looked decent, similar to the Four Swords game that came out back in the GameCube. However I never played that game so I can't say how fun it was. So it looked good, but already having a back catalog of games and only one friend who owns a 3DS that lives near by I quickly wrote it off thinking about how playing cooperatively online was probably going to be nonexistent or not enjoyable thinking about how difficult it would be to work together.
So then last week I received an email stating that I was picked(my Nintendo account) to demo the game before it's release. I was excited. Mainly because I haven't had any opportunity like this before where luck was involved with being selected, and secondly because I had almost forgotten about it and now had a chance to play it first hand. I love the Zelda franchise so I was very eager to see what it was like than to let my judgement go unfounded. I mean, even though I thought it may only be fun with friends, it is a Zelda game and it is made by Nintendo. I buy Nintendo consoles for their first party games because I can't say I can think of a time when a first party game was bad.
You can change your name to play online, so you can have a different name while playing with others. I hope Johnny and Ler22 don't mind being part of this post.
Friday October 16th, 8PM rolled around and my 3DS was booted up and I was waiting in the matchmaking lobby. Er, well the lobby. The demo starts you in a lobby where you pick local or online coop. You get to speak to an old wise man to pick which way you want to connect. I selected online and was immediately dropped into the lobby again, but this time with two others. I was immediately intrigued by the communication tiles that are available since there is no text or voice chat. We all tapped 'Hello!' followed by a few 'Let's go!" and we made our way over to the Triforce on the floor and were teleported to (a menu screen to pick options for…) the first level.
Before the game began we each picked an outfit that could give us abilities as shown in the E3 trailer. We all first picked the tunic which grants 3 arrows per shot in a spread pattern. With that we then picked a dungeon, a unanimous Buzz Blob Cave vote. With that we were off on an adventure.
Communication tiles(as I have dubbed them, not sure what their real name is) that are available to use in the demo lobby.
Adventuring with two strangers was actually incredibly fun. More fun than I thought it could ever be. The communication tiles on the bottom screen were enough to help solve puzzles but not enough to make it obvious or easy to get the others to figure out how to help advance. This may seem counter intuitive but it actually made things more fun compared to when I got a chance to play locally with friends later in the weekend. There is something to be said about the joy of rediscovery when you are working with a stranger and trying to get through a puzzle and having them figure out the missing piece without being able to just blurt it out. It's a similar feeling of getting guesses right in Charades or Pictionary.
Sorry for the blurry photo, these are the communication tiles available in the dungeons. Top is an example of my favorite icon for cheering the team/giving encouragement or showing excitement or enthusiasm.
The other thing these tiles do right is that they contain mostly positive emotions. The two that are more negative are also conveyed in a way that makes it appear more like personal frustration or sadness than being upset with the others. This seemed to me to keep the mood positive and enjoyable at all times, even if one of us continually failed at a task.
However, the greatest emotion/communication tile has to be cheering. Link holding pom poms that alternates left and right arms when repeatedly tapped is nothing short of giggling at no matter how many times I have seen it. It was an instant mood and moral boost and generally found it to be used in a very encouraging and team building fashion. I found it to be my favorite way to help the team in times of repeated failure.
The dungeons were what I would expect from a Zelda games. Treasure chests, rupees, enemies and the usual assortment of weapons. The levels were well designed and everything just felt correct and complete.
Matchmaking was surprisingly smooth. Nintendo seems to have ramped up their online play significantly over the years with mostly responsive experience. Most players seemed to know what they were doing or were apt to experimenting with the puzzles so it wasn't like trying to heard cats. There were a few later games where I encountered terrible lag and some players who just couldn't seem to figure out where to go next, but generally even these times were still enjoyable so long as you weren't in a rush to finish a dungeon if something came up that you needed to duck out of online play.
This is important as in the demo quitting a dungeon meant everyone quit and was reset to the lobby. No way to have someone drop in, but it makes sense. So it will be interesting to see how that is handled in the final game and how often that may occur. It did happen on occasion, but not enough to be a deal breaker for me. The dungeons are short enough that it's not to bad to have to replay them. Although repeated events like this can quickly get on your nerves.
Picking an outfit for battle.
I did get a chance to play with friends on Sunday. However, this go around was much faster and shorter than my Friday evening stint. This is because for local co-op, they limited it to only a single dungeon. And being able to play with friends and a stranger online was disabled too. This was incredibly frustrating because I really wanted to try the full experience with those next to me. It's not like the content wasn't ready ether, it was there, I had played it with people online! It was just locked behind an arbitrary in game rule.
I can see that they may have wanted to encourage online play, but with only a single dungeon it made the play through with friends all of 5 minutes because you could talk through the puzzle. I had the most fun on the second and third dungeons too, which made the first dungeon being the only option feel like we were shorted. I really don't understand why they would cut that part so short. It limited the full experience to online only and during specific times when the servers were up. I hope this is demo specific because the options were just greyed out, but I still don't see why it needed to be. The demo time spans were short enough at only 3 hours each, and if you couldn't make it online then, you basically couldn't experience 2/3 of the demo.
Aside from the jarring lack of local play on the same dungeons, it was just as fun. I encouraged everyone to not talk and play with communication tiles only to help get the full experience in our first go and it went pretty well. We then played it again, but this time talking, but as we knew the puzzle it wasn't really anything to discuss anyway. Short lived, but still the same fun.
This demo was the most fun I have had playing games in a while. Being able to solve puzzles with strangers and limited communication is a terrific feeling. There is plenty of replayability by playing online and hoping you get to help some new hero through the dungeon and show them some tricks that they may be able to pass on. I originally thought I would pass entirely, but having now played the demo, I am strongly considering to pick this up. If only my back catalog of games weren't already so long.
If you are interested in this game and have seen the videos of the gameplay, I strongly encourage you to pick up the final game. This is of course assuming the final game is like the demo. Without even knowing what the single player campaign is like, I think that it would be worth the full price so long as there are sufficient enough dungeons to play online. Bottom line: Check it out if you can! It seems like it will be a great Zelda Puzzle game to play with friends and strangers!
Did you get a chance to play the demo or are looking forward to this games release? Let me know in the comments!


Hep cats, hipsters & beatniks 1936-1962] - Roger Steffens.
Disc 1 - Hep Cats 1936-1948 : You'se A Viper - Stuff Smith - A Sailboat In The Moonlight - Billie Holiday - Swing Is Here - Gene Krupa - Heckler's Hop - Roy Eldridge - Killin' Jive - The Cats And The Fiddle - (Hep Hep) The Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway - Your Red Wagon - Count Basie - Swing To Bop [Topsy] - Charlie Christian - How High Am I? - Louis Jordan - Be-Baba-Leba - Helen Humes - Route 66 - Nat 'King' Cole - Slim's Jam - Slim Gaillard - Popity Pop - Slim Gaillard - Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie - Song Of The Vagabonds - Art Tatum - Dexter's Minor Mad - Dexter Gordon - Crazy World - Julia Lee - Lop Pow - Babs Gonzales - Scrapple From The Apple - Charlie Parker - Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie - Tanga - Machito - Rock And Roll - Wild Bill Moore.
Disc 2 - Hipsters 1949-1960 : Gator Tail [Part 2] - Cootie Williams - Tempus Fugue-It - Bud Powell - Four And One Moore - Stan Getz - Sound Lee - Lee Konitz Quintet - Boplicity - Miles Davis - Soft Shoe - Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Little Rootie Tootie - Thelonious Monk - The Nazz - Lord Buckley - I Fall In Love Too Easily - Chet Baker - The Rocket Ship Show - Jocko Henderson - Shulie A Bop - Sarah Vaughan - Bones For Zoot - Zoot Sims Quartet - Route 66 - Bobby Troup - Zajj's Dream - Duke Ellington - Say Man - Bo Diddley - American Haikus - Jack Kerouac/Al Cohn - Dat Dere - Oscar Brown, Jr. - Kaddish - Allen Ginsberg.
Disc 3 - Beatniks 1958-1962 : The Beat Generation - Bob Mcfadden And Dor - High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon - Winin' Boy - Dave Van Ronk - Airegin - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd Byrnes - Psychopathia Sexualis - Lenny Bruce - But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown, Jr. - Cool - Del Close & John Brent - Uncool - Del Close & John Brent - Talkin' New York - Bob Dylan - So What - Eddie Jefferson - Scrapple From The Apple - [À Bâtons Rompus] - Les Double Six - Readings From "On The Road" And "Visions Of Cody" - Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen - Is There A Beat Generation? - Jack Kerouac - The Last Hotel & Some Of Dharma - Jack Kerouac - Howl - Allen Ginsberg - I Sing Of Olaf [E. E. Cummings] - Roger Steffens.


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Turandot (sprookje), een sprookje uit de 13e eeuw
Turandot (Gozzi), een commedia dell'arte uit 1762 van Carlo Gozzi, gebaseerd op bovengenoemd sprookje
Turandot (Brecht), een toneelstuk van Bertolt Brecht uit 1953-54
Turandot (opera), een opera uit 1924 van Giacomo Puccini, in 1926 voltooid door Franco Alfano en gebaseerd op het toneelstuk van Carlo Gozzi
Turandot (ouverture), een ouverture van Carl Maria von Weber
Prinses Turandot, een radiohoorspel uit de jaren vijftig

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BROOKLYN — Tyler Van Zante threw a three-hitter in Lynnville-Sully's 13-1 win over host BGM Wednesday in South Iowa Cedar League baseball action. The Hawks dealt with the Bears in six innings on the run-rule.
Lynnville-Sully's softball team recorded a 4-3 win in SICL action for the second straight game. This time the Hawk girls defeated host BGM.
Lynnville-Sully led 3-1 after the first inning then broke things open against the Bears with a six-run third innings. The Hawk boys added one run in the fourth and three more in the sixth.
Van Zante went the distance on the mound for the Hawks. He gave up three hits, walked six and struck out five Bear batters.
"We had some timely defensive plays that kept the momentum with L-S. Whenever BGM was threatening we came up with some plays that stopped the rally," Scandridge said.
Caden Dunsbergen drove in three runs for Lynnville-Sully as he hit a single and a double. Carson Dunsbergen and Isaac Collins each had two singles. Elijah Collins doubled and drove in three runs.
Hitting a single each for the Hawk baseball team were Van Zante, Corbin James, Rylan James and Josh Dunsbergen. Rylan James had two RBIs.
Lynnville-Sully's softball team came from behind to win on the road. The Hawks trailed the Bears 3-1 after six innings. They pushed across three runs in the top of the seventh inning and held the Bears for the one-run win.
Mallory Loftus pitched a complete game for Lynnville-Sully. She allowed six hits and struck out three. Loftus delivered two singles, drove in a run and had a stolen base.
McKinley Conover tripled. Haley James and Korinne Jansen each had a single.
The Lynnville-Sully softball team improved to 2-2 in SICL action and 2-3 overall. Lynnville-Sully's baseball team is 3-1 in conference play and 4-1 overall.
Lynnville-Sully's baseball squad plays at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Moravia. The Hawk teams host HLV in SICL play at 6 p.m. Friday at Sully.


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MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND SPEAKER QUINN LAUNCH NYC WATERFRONT VISION AND ENHANCEMENT STRATEGY (WAVES)
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today launched the New York City Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy (WAVES), a citywide initiative that will create a new sustainable blueprint for the City's 578 miles of shoreline.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today launched the New York City Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy ( WAVES ), a citywide initiative that will create a new sustainable blueprint for the City's 578 miles of shoreline. The WAVES strategy – to be developed over the next nine months – will include two core components: the Vision 2020 – The New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan that will establish long-term goals for the next decade and beyond, and the New York City Waterfront Action Agenda that will set forth priority initiatives to be implemented within three years. Together, the initiatives will provide a blueprint for the City's waterfront and waterways, and focus on the following categories: open space and recreation, the working waterfront, housing and economic development, natural habitats, climate change adaptation and waterborne transportation. A series of public workshops in all five boroughs to discuss the waterfront strategy will begin this spring. Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn traveled on the NY Waterway ferry to Mill Pond Park near Yankee Stadium in The Bronx to make the announcement, where they were joined by Congressman José E. Serrano, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Council Member Michael Nelson, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber, City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden, New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance President and CEO Roland Lewis, and an array of New York City waterfront advocates.
"New York City is known for its unparalleled skyline, beautiful parks, famous bridges and grand boulevards, but it's 578 miles of waterfront may be its greatest physical asset and certainly the one most important throughout its history," said Mayor Bloomberg. "After decades of abandonment and neglect, our Administration made it a priority to increase access to and jobs on the waterfront, and from the construction of Barretto Point Park in The Bronx to the expansion of Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island, we've made enormous headway over the past eight years. Now, the Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy – or WAVES – we're launching today will create a new framework that will drive our efforts to restore New York City's waterfront to a vibrancy not seen in generations."
"Before the Brooklyn Bridge, before Robert Moses, and before Fiorello La Guardia, New York City's waterfronts were integral to its bustling blue highways," said Speaker Quinn. "Hundreds of years later, we are standing on these same shores, launching a long-term collaborative initiative to reclaim our waterfronts and bring them into the 21st century. The City Council is proud to have passed the visionary legislation that requires City government to come up with an effective and responsible waterfronts plan, not once, but every ten years. Through this law, we will never turn our backs on our city's 578 miles of waterfront."
Led by the Department of City Planning, Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan will set forth long-range goals for a 21st century waterfront. It will serve as a guide for future land-use decisions along the City's shoreline, recognizing the diversity of the waterfront and balancing the needs of environmentally sensitive natural areas, the working waterfront, public access, open space, housing and commercial activity. The plan will also seek to address the City's "Blue Network" – the waterways themselves – from the expansion of water transport to climate resilience. Vision 2020 is mandated by City Council legislation that requires a waterfront report be submitted to the Mayor, the City Council, the Public Advocate, Borough Presidents, Community Boards and the public at the end of 2010.
New York City Economic Development Corporation ( NYCEDC ) will lead a complimentary effort to create the New York City Waterfront Action Agenda, a set of high-priority initiatives that can be implemented during the next three years. Priority initiatives could include programs such as piloting the City's first wetlands mitigation bank to incorporating new ecological designs into the repair and restoration of waterfront infrastructure. For each initiative, the Action Agenda will identify current conditions and desired outcomes, specific steps to achieve goals, benchmarks to measure its success, agency responsibilities and funding sources.
In addition to City, State and Federal agencies, the City has engaged a vast array of waterfront stakeholders to help craft the strategy, including the shipping industry, open space advocates, labor unions, environmental groups, waterfront restoration advocates, and planning organizations. The Mayor was joined at the announcement by Regional Planning Association President Robert D. Yaro, NY Harborway Director Paula Berry, NY Harbor School principal Murray Fisher, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Sustainable Development program director Michael Northrop, Hudson River Foundation Executive Director Clay Hiles, NYNJ Maritime Association Executive Director Ed Kelly, and representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
In addition, the Mayor and Speaker announced plans for a Waterfront Management Advisory Board that will provide a forum for cooperation among City, State, Federal, and civic partners. The board will consist of a range of waterfront stakeholders who will provide expertise to advise on the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan and help shape a successful Action Agenda. Among the other agencies contributing to the plan are the New York City Departments of Buildings, Design and Construction, Emergency Management, Environmental Protection, Fire, Housing Preservation and Development, Parks and Recreation, Police, Small Business Services, Transportation, the Mayor's Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the NY Harborway, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Empire State Development, New York Department of State, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Coast Guard.
The public can go to nyc.gov to learn more about the plan, submit comments and sign up to receive email updates.
"Developing a new comprehensive waterfront plan is a smart and forward-looking step that will benefit all City residents," said Congressman Serrano. "From the mouth of the Bronx River to the tip of Staten Island, New York is a city defined by its shoreline. I believe that the City's future is closely tied to our capacity best use and leverage our waterfront assets. I applaud Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn for moving this important process forward."
"This comprehensive waterfront plan will be an excellent framework for the continued discussion and advancement of New York City's maritime issues, which are of the utmost importance to the economic well-being of our city and region," said Congressman Jerrold Nadler. "This blueprint will reaffirm the City's commitment to preserving, protecting and investing in our precious maritime and industrial infrastructure, and will build upon the Mayor's support of the development of a major container port in Sunset Park as envisioned in the City's '1999 Strategic Plan for the Redevelopment for the Port of New York' . The full realization of Brooklyn's container capacity is essential for our region's growth and economic development, and for ensuring that New York remains the preeminent shipping hub on the eastern seaboard."
"New Yorkers have been blessed with a city that is surrounded by over 500 miles of waterfront property," said Council Member Nelson. "However, access to this amazing natural resource had been almost impossible until the past two decades when the City issued its first Comprehensive Waterfront Plan transforming the waterfront from an industrial blight to a recreational wonder. Today, I proudly stand with Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg in announcing another bold strategy that will increase the City's ambitious goals of further redeveloping the waterfront. The Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy will allow us to continue improving our shoreline so that New Yorkers in all five boroughs can take full advantage of this resource."
"New York City is a global capital with a leading role in finance, fashion, and media, technology, bioscience, and education," said Deputy Mayor Lieber. "We can also enhance its position as a premier waterfront city by focusing on our surrounding waters to maximize our commercial and economic vitality along with biodiversity, ecological and human health and recreation."
"We are a City of five boroughs, and four of them are islands. Our waterfront and waterways are a key component of the city's identity and among our greatest resources," said Commissioner Burden. "This is an exciting opportunity for us engage the public in crafting a comprehensive new vision for a 21st century waterfront. Primary goals are to continue to provide public access to and into the water, to protect significant natural areas and wetlands, to strengthen shipping and maritime activities, to advance waterborne transportation and to raise awareness of the importance of climate resiliency for our coastal areas."
"Maritime-related commerce – the commerce that made New York City great – does not just remain an important generator of jobs and tax revenue for the City, but also presents an opportunity to relieve congestion and pollution along our crowded highways," said NYCEDC President Pinsky. "The initiatives that we are already undertaking, including partnering with the Port Authority to grow the City's port facilities, completing a $130 million renovation of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal and signing a lease with a new anchor tenant for the Red Hook Container Terminal, represent an important down payment on our goal of securing a sustainable working waterfront for future generations of New Yorkers."
"Last December, I was pleased to announce a grant of $475,000 to the Department of City Planning to help fund the City's new waterfront revitalization strategy," said Secretary of State Cortés-Vázquez. "The City's waterfronts are amid a transition, as they are adding more residential, commercial and public areas to complement existing industrial, job-generating uses. As such, we are working with the City to develop waterfront access in places where such access has traditionally been lacking. The Department looks forward to helping the City and its community partners turn this vision for the City's waterfronts into a reality."
"New Yorkers are reconnecting to the water that surrounds them as never before," said Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance President and CEO Roland Lewis. "The hundreds of organizations that champion waterfront education, recreation, transportation, economic development and environment are the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. We pledge to work enthusiastically with the Mayor, City, State and Federal agencies through WAVES to help create the 21st century waterfront and harbor that are as diverse and alive as the City that surrounds it."
As the City works to address the long-term challenges posed by climate change and storm severity, the WAVES initiatives will seek specific recommendations to face these challenges. WAVES will be consistent with the sustainable vision of PlaNYC and will seek to advance many of its goals, from wetland protection to expanding ferry service to increasing climate resilience. WAVES – which will work alongside ongoing efforts at the Department of Environmental Protection - is intended to enable the City's waterfront to evolve as a sustainable component and essential resource for a growing city. Recently, the City began a $150 million project to improve water quality in the Gowanus Canal, and reached an agreement with the State to improve water quality and preserve the marshlands of Jamaica Bay. The City is also in the process of completing a long-term, $5 billion upgrade to increase treatment capacity and effectiveness at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The WAVES initiatives will expand on major efforts the Bloomberg Administration has taken to increase access to and jobs on the waterfront. Since 2002, the City has acquired more than 500 acres of land for parks, creating new waterfront parks like West Harlem Piers Park, Barretto Point Park, and Mill Pond Park and advancing other significant open space waterfront projects including Brooklyn Bridge Park, the first phase of which opened last month, Governors Island, Freshkills Park in Staten Island, the Harlem River Park Greenway, and the South Street Waterfront Esplanade in Lower Manhattan. The City has created NYHarborWay, a plan to enhance the identity of nine waterfront sites, improve the physical connections between them and ensure the cohesiveness of their programming, helping New York Harbor to become a major recreational destination for New Yorkers and visitors.
Since 2002, the City has rezoned more than 700 acres of largely vacant or underutilized waterfront land, including: Hunter's Point South and Willets Point in Queens; Greenpoint/Williamsburg and Coney Island in Brooklyn; Stapleton, Staten Island; and Lower Concourse, The Bronx to create new housing and public waterfront access.
On New York City's waterways, ferries transport more than 90,000 people daily, kayakers paddle to over 33 recreational destinations, and vessels and barges move 5.3 million containers of goods annually.
New York City's maritime industry remains strong, sustaining 31,800 direct and indirect jobs and generating $1.3 billion in tax revenue. Recognizing that the waterfront is a significant source of economic activity, the Bloomberg Administration has implemented a series of Working Waterfront projects since 2002, including: the Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan, a $270 million investment in the industrial waterfront that will activate 3.5 million square feet of industrial space, create 11,000 jobs, and add 22 acres of open space; the $56 million creation of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn; a $250 million capital funding program to improve and modernize the Brooklyn Navy Yard and help its growth as the nation's leading urban manufacturing district; the relocation of Fulton Fish Market to the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx; the deepening of New York Harbor by 50 feet to enable the passage of Post-panamax containerships; the relocation of Phoenix Beverage to Pier 11 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, eliminating an estimated 20,000 truck trips each year and creating or retaining 600 jobs; and the expansion of the Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Staten Island.
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Wallace Encourages Further Budget Progress, Urges Colleagues to Finish the Job
Statement …
From State Representative Litesa E. Wallace
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – State Rep. Litesa Wallace, D-Rockford, issued the following statement as bipartisan budget negotiations continued in Springfield:
"From the first day of this budget impasse until now, I have urged colleagues on both sides of the aisle to put aside the partisan rhetoric and work to craft a responsible, balanced and honest budget. There have been positive signs today that negotiations are moving in the right direction, but work still remains. I will continue to stay in Springfield and am willing to support a spending plan that protects seniors, the developmentally disabled, survivors of abuse and other vulnerable individuals. Every resident in Rockford and every resident in this state will be impacted by the decisions made in the coming hours. With Democrats and Republicans coming together on a framework for a spending plan, I urge the governor to cooperate and to avoid derailing talks until a solution is in place."
Senator Stadelman's Weekly Bulletin - June 21, 2017
With 10 days left in fiscal year, governor calls special legislative session
More than three months after he called Republicans off a promising budget compromise in the Illinois Senate, Governor Bruce Rauner has called lawmakers in both chambers to Springfield for a special legislation scheduled to last until the start of the new fiscal year July 1.
Senate leaders from both parties began working in late 2016 on bipartisan to balance spending along with numerous government and ethical reforms. Five bills in a 12-bill package had been approved and the remaining seven were expected to pass March 1 when Rauner abruptly told Republicans to abandon the process.
Now, weeks later and well after the May 31 deadline to adopt a budget by a simple majority vote, the governor is ordering lawmakers to return to the Capitol at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $48,000 a day or $480,000 over the 10 days remaining in FY 17, the second without a budget.
"The blame game needs to stop," Stadelman said. "Finger-pointing doesn't get us any closer to ending this impasse, which is hurting our most vulnerable citizens and frustrating all of them."
Stadelman-backed bail reform measure signed into law
Thanks to a new law supported by Senator Steve Stadelman, people who aren't a threat to their communities won't languish in jail because they can't afford bail. The Bail Reform Act of 2017 took effect immediately after receiving the governor's signature earlier this month.
Stadelman praised the legislation for allowing courts to assess flight risk and public safety rather than focus on a defendant's ability to pay when deciding pretrial releases.
Senate Bill 2034 grants a number of rights to defendants including the right to a public defender or attorney at their bail hearing, the right to a new bail hearing, the right to non-monetary bail and the right to have courts address risk in the least restrictive way possible.
Residents find savings on utility bills at Stadelman clinic
Experts from the Citizens Utility Board analyzed people's gas, electric and telephone bills and recommend ways they could reduce their monthly costs during Senator Stadelman's Annual Summer Utility Bill Clinic this week at the Rockford Public Library-Montague Branch. Stay tuned for information on a workshop this fall where a CUB representative will discuss how to navigate the confusing world of broadcast and web-based entertainment and news options.
Wallace Backs Resolution Opposing American Health Care Act
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June 16, 2017 State Rep. Litesa E. Wallace
ROCKFORD, Ill. – Concerned about the negative effects a proposed federal healthcare overhaul would have on the most vulnerable, state Rep. Litesa Wallace, D-Rockford, is supporting a resolution that opposes the Republican-introduced American Health Care Act.
"It appears Republicans in Washington have decided to push through massive changes to healthcare with little outside input," Wallace said. "These changes will affect every American and every resident in Illinois. While there are ways to improve our system, I encourage lawmakers in Washington to work in a bipartisan, transparent manner to address these issues."
House Resolution 445 notes that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 24 million people would lose their healthcare coverage if the Republican federal proposal is implemented. In addition, the healthcare plan would dramatically slash Medicaid funding by approximately $880 billion over a period of 10 years. In Illinois, such cuts would mean a $40 billion reduction in Medicaid spending over the same period, affecting an estimated one million Illinois residents who currently have coverage under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
The Republican health plan would also strip an Obamacare provision that prevented insurance companies from denying coverage for a pre-existing condition. Wallace voted for House Bill 2959 this spring to preserve this provision in Illinois if the federal changes occur.
"Without the ability to receive healthcare coverage, individuals and families will have to face unconscionable decisions when it comes to paying their medical bills," Wallace said. "We should be looking to expand coverage to those most in need, not reduce it."
Stadelman conducts June 20 clinic to help consumers reduce utility bills
ROCKFORD – State Senator Steve Stadelman has invited experts from the Citizens Utility Board to conduct a free clinic where local consumers can learn ways to reduce their gas, electric and landline telephone bills.
"With the official start of summer soon upon us, many of us are bracing for the heightened cost of keeping our homes cool," said Stadelman, D-Rockford. "This workshop offers a chance to learn about all the cost-savings options that are available."
UTILITY BILL CLINIC
When: 5-7 PM, TUESDAY, JUNE 20
Where: Rockford Public Library, Montague Branch – Constance Lane Room, 1238 S. Winnebago St.
Register: (312) 263-4282 ext. 111 or citizensutilityboard.org (subject line "Rockford 6/20")
CUB advisors will offer one-on-one analysis of gas, electric and landline telephone bills, information on spotting billing errors and incentives designed to help people improve energy efficiency. Refreshments and free CFL bulbs are being provided. Consumer are encouraged to call or email to secure an appointment, but walk-ins are welcome and will be seen first-come, first-served.
JB Pritzker - Guest Speaker for WCCC - Lets Talk About Women's Health in Illinois
Wallace Calls on Governor and Lawmakers to Come Back to the Table
From State Representative Litesa Wallace
ROCKFORD, Ill – As seniors, children with disabilities, survivors of domestic violence and other vulnerable residents continue to suffer, state Rep. Litesa Wallace, D-Rockford, is calling on Gov. Bruce Rauner and lawmakers to return to the negotiating table and craft an honest, balanced budget.
"While the Senate did put forth a spending plan, too much of it unfortunately relies on unrealistic savings and harsh cuts to critically needed programs," Wallace said. "It will require a truly bipartisan effort to resolve this crisis, which is why the governor and legislators from both chambers need to compromise and come together on a budget. The job is not over for any lawmaker in Springfield."
Wallace and House appropriations committees have continued to review the budget proposal from the Senate, and are concerned that the plan involves a number of budgetary gimmicks that will cost taxpayers long-term. The Senate plan is balanced on projections of items not yet in place, including a pension bill and changes to state employee insurance premiums that have not been agreed to by state employees. Additionally, the measure would allow for billions of dollars in borrowing without addressing a way to repay the debt.
Wallace is also concerned about the impact the budget would have on those who rely on critical services that would have their budgets slashed. Women who need breast cancer screenings, developmentally disabled and college students who depend on MAP grants to go to school would be affected.
"At this point in the year, it will take Republican and Democratic votes in order to pass a budget," Wallace said. "It would be irresponsible to push through a plan without taking a close look at what's in the proposal. Only when everyone is willing to stop playing politics and come to the table will we be able to resolve and move past this crisis."
For more information, please contact Wallace's constituent service office at 815-987-7433 or at litesa@staterepwallace.com.
Community celebrates new school construction, expanded sports facilities
Senator Steve Stadelman participated this week in the official "kick off" of Mercyhealth Sportscore Two by booting one of the first soccer balls to fly in the expanded Indoor Sports Center at the Rockford Park District complex. Stadelman passed legislation to secure a funding mechanism for the Reclaiming First initiative, a campaign to regain for Rockford the No. 1 position in the state's sports tourism market through the $30 million Sportscore upgrade and the transformation of a vacant factory on the downtown riverfront into UW Health Sports Factory.
Stadelman also joined administrators, parents and students at a groundbreaking ceremony this week for a new school on Perryville Road south of Harrison Avenue. The $15.7 million, 86,000-square-foot building is the first new school built by Rockford Public Schools since 1998. It replaces Cherry Valley, White Swan and Thompson elementary schools as part of a 10-year, $250 million facilities upgrade.
Senate Democrats pass fair funding for all Illinois schools
Illinois school districts, shortchanged for decades under the state's worst-in-the-nation education funding formula, could see a significant influx of funding to level the playing field between rich and poor districts under a landmark school funding reform measure passed in both houses of the General Assembly.
"A fix for our broken school funding system has been a long time coming," said Senator Steve Stadelman, a vocal advocate since 2012 before he was elected to his first term. "Our over-reliance on property taxes to pay for public education creates a fundamental inequity that hurts Rockford and many other less prosperous communities around the state. The quality of a child's education should not depend on his or her zip code."
Under Senate Bill 1, no school district would receive less funding than what the current formula provides. Rockford public schools would see a $5 million increase and Harlem public schools would get an extra $650,000, according to an analysis by Funding Illinois' Future released this week.
The legislation would establish a formula that takes into account factors such as students with disabilities, English language learners and low-income students. It also offers property tax relief.
Put Families First Before Insurance Company Profits - Frerichs for Illinois
A few weeks ago, I wrote to you and asked for your help to reform the life insurance industry in Illinois. We were successful in passing HB302 out of the House and Senate in order to ensure Illinois families are put before insurance company profits.
Now we need to urge the Governor to sign the bill so Illinoisans are protected.
Sign our petition to urge the Governor to sign HB302 and put Illinois families before insurance company profits! Share this petition with your friends and encourage them to sign too!
House Bill 302 will require life insurance companies to identify policies that have not been paid to the rightful beneficiaries from 2000 to the present. Insurance companies representing 80 percent of the market have already done the right thing. We are in a fierce battle with the last 20% of insurers. Some of these companies told the Federal Security and Exchange Commission that paying beneficiaries will cut into their profits and force them to change their business model. Through audits my office found over $550 million that belongs to Illinois residents that insurance companies had not paid.
Sign our petition to support HB302 to put Illinois families before insurance company profits.
Frerichs for Illinois - We are out of time!
We are out of time. Last month, I warned that Illinois needed a budget by May 31, 2017 or else the bond houses would downgrade our credit rating. It is happening.
After the failure of leaders in Springfield to negotiate a budget by the end of legislative session, the financial institutions took notice and action immediately. On June 1, 2017, the S & P Global Ratings immediately downgraded the state's credit rating. Moody's Investors Services followed suit and lowered Illinois's credit rating.
Illinois is sliding into junk bond status.
The state's credit rating is much like your personal credit rating. Illinois families understand that when your credit rating drops, it is more difficult to secure a mortgage or car loan. If you do obtain a loan, you pay higher interest rates because the financial institution views you as a risk.
Illinois is viewed as a risk.
Sign our petition to urge a resolution to the budget standoff.
We need a responsible and balanced budget now or else we will slide into junk bond status. We are digging a financial hole that will take decades to recover from. We are out of time.
Senator Stadelman's Weekly Bulletin - June 2, 2017
Failure to end budget impasse frustrates Stadelman
The deadline to approve a state budget without a three-fifths super-majority passed this week, leaving open the possibility of Illinois heading into a third consecutive fiscal year absent a spending plan.
"I'm disappointed the Governor and lawmakers failed to reach a budget agreement before the end of the spring session,"Stadelman said. "Every day there's no budget the state takes on $11 million more in debt. We need to continue negotiating so schools can open this fall and government can continue to operate."
Overtime session dates are expected to scheduled for later this month. Illinois begins its fiscal year July 1.
Stadelman votes for property tax freeze
State Senator Steve Stadelman voted this week for two measures imposing a two-year property tax freeze. Senate Bill 482 freezes property taxes for two years for all units of local government except school districts, while Senate Bill 484 is a two-year property tax freeze on all school districts not eligible for a financial hardship exemption as defined by the legislation.
"I know that the people of Illinois are suffering under the highest property tax rates in the country," Stadelman said. "While a permanent tax freeze would be detrimental to school districts that rely on the property tax, I am hopeful this freeze will provide some relief while making sure underserved school districts are not harmed."
SB 482 passed the Senate 38-11-9 and SB 484 passed 37-11-9. Both are headed to the House for consideration.
River Edge Historic Tax Credit extension heads to governor's desk
An extension of the River Edge Historic Preservation Tax Credit has passed both legislative houses and is headed to the governor for approval. State Senator Steve Stadelman won passage of legislation this week, extending the urban redevelopment incentive for four more years starting in January 2018.
"The tax credit has already spurred hundreds of millions of dollars of development in Rockford alone," Stadelman said. "This will help put crumbling infrastructure back to use, grow the economy and increase revenue."
The credit, equal to 25 percent of the rehabilitation costs for a business in a historic building, has been an important economic tool for downtown Rockford projects like the $12 million renovation at the Prairie Street Brewhouse. In addition to Rockford, the credit is also available in Aurora, Peoria, Elgin and East St. Louis.
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Q: Importing modules from subdirectories I have a file structure like this:
package/
  __init__.py
  foo.py
  subdir/
    bar.py
    baz.py

I want to be able to run foo.py and import bar.py. Inside bar.py, baz.py is imported using import baz. The problem is that bar is not able to import baz if I import it into foo.
foo.py
from importlib import import_module
import_module('subdir.bar', package='package')

A: You also need a __init__.py inside your subdir folder. See the example below and the output:
foo.py
from subdir import bar
print "hello from foo.py"

subdir/__init__.py
(empty)
subdir/bar.py
import baz
print "hello from bar.py"

subdir/baz.py
print "hello from baz.py"

output of running foo.py

hello from baz.py
hello from bar.py
hello from foo.py

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"The Girls" / Quarterly West (2009)
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"The Hell with Grants" / The Stranger: group interview and article on the Made at Hugo House program (2013)
"The Next Big Thing" interview / thanks to my fellow writer and friend, the kick-ass Laurie Cedilnik, for putting up this bit about my wildly in-progress novel
"A Way Home" / Opera Southwest: article about and clips of the opera, which first appeared at the Houston Grand Opera (2012)
"Our Earth" / Seattle Opera: information about this cycle of children's operas (2013)


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The Risk of Machine-Learning Bias (and How to Prevent It)
FrontiersBlog	 March 26, 2018 Reading Time: 8 min
Digital, Frontiers, Strategy, Digital Business, Technology Implementation, Developing Strategy
As promising as machine-learning technology is, it can also be susceptible to unintended biases that require careful planning to avoid.
Many companies are turning to machine learning to review vast amounts of data, from evaluating credit for loan applications, to scanning legal contracts for errors, to looking through employee communications with customers to identify bad conduct. New tools allow developers to build and deploy machine-learning engines more easily than ever: Amazon Web Services Inc. recently launched a "machine learning in a box" offering called SageMaker, which non-engineers can leverage to build sophisticated machine-learning models, and Microsoft Azure's machine-learning platform, Machine Learning Studio, doesn't require coding.
But while machine-learning algorithms enable companies to realize new efficiencies, they are as susceptible as any system to the "garbage in, garbage out" syndrome. In the case of self-learning systems, the type of "garbage" is biased data. Left unchecked, feeding biased data to self-learning systems can lead to unintended and sometimes dangerous outcomes.
In 2016, for example, an attempt by Microsoft to converse with millennials using a chat bot plugged into Twitter famously created a racist machine that switched from tweeting that "humans are super cool" to praising Hitler and spewing out misogynistic remarks. This scary conclusion to a one-day experiment resulted from a very straightforward rule about machine learning — the models learn exactly what they are taught. Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS), a machine-learning system that makes recommendations for criminal sentencing, is also proving imperfect at predicting which people are likely to reoffend because it was trained on incomplete data. Its training model includes race as an input parameter, but not more extensive data points like past arrests. As a result, it has an inherent racial bias that is difficult to accept as either valid or just.
These are just two of many cases of machine-learning bias. Yet there are many more potential ways in which machines can be taught to do something immoral, unethical, or just plain wrong.
Best Practices Can Help Prevent Machine-Learning Bias
These examples serve to underscore why it is so important for managers to guard against the potential reputational and regulatory risks that can result from biased data, in addition to figuring out how and where machine-learning models should be deployed to begin with. Best practices are emerging that can help to prevent machine-learning bias. Below, we examine a few.
Consider bias when selecting training data. Machine-learning models are, at their core, predictive engines. Large data sets train machine-learning models to predict the future based on the past. Models can read masses of text and understand intent, where intent is known. They can learn to spot differences — between, for instance, a cat and a dog — by consuming millions of pieces of data, such as correctly labeled animal photos.
The advantage of machine-learning models over traditional statistical models is their ability to quickly consume enormous numbers of records and thereby more accurately make predictions. But since machine-learning models predict exactly what they have been trained to predict, their forecasts are only as good as the data used for their training.
For example, a machine-learning model designed to predict the risk of business loan defaults may advise against extending credit to companies with strong cash flows and solid management teams if it draws a faulty connection — based on data from loan officers' past decisions — about loan defaults by businesses run by people of a certain race or in a particular zip code. A machine-learning model used to scan reams of résumés or applications to schools might mistakenly screen out female applicants if the historical data used to train it reflects past decisions that resulted in few women being hired or admitted to a college.
These types of biases are especially pervasive in data sets based on decisions made by a relatively small number of people. As a best practice, managers must always keep in mind that if humans are involved in decisions, bias always exists — and the smaller the group, the greater the chance that the bias is not overridden by others.
Root out bias. To address potential machine-learning bias, the first step is to honestly and openly question what preconceptions could currently exist in an organization's processes, and actively hunt for how those biases might manifest themselves in data. Since this can be a delicate issue, many organizations bring in outside experts to challenge their past and current practices.
Once potential biases are identified, companies can block them by eliminating problematic data or removing specific components of the input data set. Managers for a credit card company, for example, when considering how to address late payments or defaults, might initially build a model with data such as zip codes, type of car driven, or certain first names — without acknowledging that these data points can correlate with race or gender. But that data should be stripped, keeping only data directly relevant to whether or not customers will pay their bills, such as data on credit scores or employment and salary information. That way, companies can build a solid machine-learning model to predict likelihood of payment and determine which credit card customers should be offered more flexible payment plans and which should be referred to collection agencies.
A company can also expand the training data set with more information to counterweight potentially problematic data. Some companies, for example, have started to include social media data when evaluating the risk of a customer or client committing a financial crime. A machine-learning algorithm may flag a customer as high risk if he or she starts to post photos on social media from countries with potential terrorist or money-laundering connections. This conclusion can be tested and overridden, though, if a user's nationality, profession, or travel proclivities are included to allow for a native visiting their home country or a journalist or businessperson on a work trip.
Regardless of which approach is used, as a best practice, managers must not take data sets at face value. It is safe to assume that bias exists in all data. The question is how to identify it and remove it from the model.
Counter bias in "dynamic" data sets. Another challenge for machine-learning models is to avoid bias where the data set is dynamic. Since machine-learning models are trained on events that have already happened, they cannot predict outcomes based on behavior that has not been statistically measured. For example, even though machine learning is extensively used in fraud detection, fraudsters can outmaneuver models by devising new ways to steal or escape detection. Employees can hide bad behavior from machine-learning tools used to identify bad conduct by using underhanded techniques like conversing in code.
To attempt to draw new conclusions from current information, some companies use more experimental, cognitive, or artificial intelligence techniques that model potential scenarios. For example, to outsmart money launderers, banks may conduct so-called war games with ex-prosecutors and investigators to discover how they would beat their system. That data is then used to handcraft a more up-to-date machine-learning algorithm.
But even in this situation, managers risk infusing bias into a model when they introduce new parameters. For example, social media data, such as pictures posted on Facebook and Twitter, is increasingly being used to drive predictive models. But a model that ingests this type of data might introduce irrelevant biases into its predictions, such as correlating people wearing blue shirts with improved creditworthiness.
To avoid doing so, managers must ensure that the new parameters are comprehensive and empirically tested — another best practice. Otherwise, those parameters might skew the model, especially in areas where data is poor. Insufficient data could impact, say, credit decisions for classes of borrowers who a bank has never lent to previously but wants to in the future.
Balance transparency against performance. One temptation with machine learning is to throw increasingly large amounts of data at a sophisticated training infrastructure and allow the machine to "figure it out." For example, public cloud companies have recently released comprehensive tools that use automated algorithms instead of an expert data scientist to train and determine the parameters intended to optimize machine-learning models.
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While this is a powerful method for building complex predictive algorithms quickly and at lower cost, it also comes with the downside of limited visibility and the risk of the "machine running wild" and having an unconscious bias due to training data that is extraneous (like the blue shirt bias described above). The other challenge is that it is very difficult to explain how complex machine-learning models actually work, which is problematic in industries that are heavily regulated.
One of the potential options to address this risk is to take a staged approach to increasing the sophistication of the model and making a conscious decision to progress at every stage.
A good example is a process used by a major bank in building a model that attempted to predict whether a mortgage customer was about to refinance, with the goal of making a direct offer to that customer and ideally retaining their business. The bank started with a simple regression-based model that tested its ability to predict when customers would refinance. It then created a set of more sophisticated "challenger" models that used more advanced machine-learning techniques and were more precise. By confirming that the challenger models were more accurate than the base regression model, bank managers became comfortable that their more complex and opaque machine-learning approach was operating in line with expectations and not propagating unintended biases. The process also enabled them to verify that the machine-learning tool's balance between transparency and sophistication was in line with what is expected in the highly regulated financial services industry.
Careful Planning Is a Necessity
It is tempting to assume that, once trained, a machine-learning model will continue to perform without oversight. In reality, the environment in which the model is operating is constantly changing, and managers need to periodically retrain models using new data sets.
Machine learning is one of the most exciting technical capabilities with real-world business value in the last decade. When combined with big data technology and the massive computing capability available via the public cloud, machine learning promises to change how people interact with technology, and potentially entire industries. But as promising as machine-learning technology is, it requires careful planning to avoid unintended biases.
Creators of the machine-learning models that will drive the future must consider how bias might negatively impact the effectiveness of the decisions the machines make. Otherwise, managers risk undercutting machine learning's potentially positive benefits by building models with a biased "mind of their own."
Chris DeBrusk is a partner in the financial services and digital practices of Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. He tweets @ChrisDeBrusk.
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Dhadak Means A Heart Beat or we can Say Dil ki Awaaz, Well the promotions of the movie was started from the very beginning of this project, and from a past one year on different social media platforms we had seen many on news related to this upcoming movie.
The movie is Directed by a well known Director Shashank and is Produced by Dharma Productions and Zee Studios . The Cast of movie is a main part here, Yes guys the Cast is pretty much good and you can say that the cast is hunted for this Movie very well, So the credit should go to the casting director here. The lead Cast is also a Star Child's, The male lead is played by Ishaan Khattar the Son of a Well known Indian Actor Rajesh Khatter ( Who is currently busy on the sets on Baypannah). And the Female lead is being played by Janhvi Kapoor a Daughter of Booney Kapoor and Late Sri Devi .
The Film is Remake of a Marathi Super hit film Sairat which was released is 2016. And now this one is going to release on 20th of July 2018.
The Duration of the Trailer is about 3 minutes, and you will never feel that when will be the trailer ending? Which means that the trailer connects you strongly with it, and you will be unable to leave the trailer, before completing . Personally I was not interested in this movie as the Star Cast was not a good selection to me firstly, when they were just spreading the news that this movie is going to be shoot. But they proved me Wrong both the actors are looking Very Good and The chemistry here is again a plus sign for film a Good chemistry also exists there in between them.
The Colours of the Trailer, the locations the Music All are up to the mark, So I will not criticise on any Aspect of the film. As it is a Remake of the film So the burden on the Actors is an obvious thing . But You will not see any burden on there faces during Trailer, Which proves that the pair is going to do well in this film.
The Ending of the trailer contains the Jhingaat, Theme adopted by Sairat which makes the trailer more amazing.
To me the business of this movie is going to be a good one, Because the Way Karan Joher is promoting the movie it is very clear that the movie will hit the bench mark of 50 crore in its first week easily. and May be it surprise us and Cross a 100 Crore Club like Raazi. But to me the Business of 70+ Will be an easy task for this film .
A good film for the youngsters, Teenagers, and also for mature people. So I will suggest you to watch this movie 1 time. And I think that it will be a worth watching.


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Medicine Dispensing and Pharmacy Licences
The Licensing Unit in the Affordable Medicines Directorate at the Department of Health (DOH) receives applications to prescribe and dispense medicines and publishes a list of approved individuals and pharmacies.
Over 5,500 licenced medicine dispensers in South Africa
Licence data includes name, address and expiry date of licence
Also data on Section 22A(15) Primary Care Drug Therapy (PCDT) permits
And pharmacy premises license applications
Medicines can only be accessed through individuals and pharmacies that are licenced to prescribe and dispense that medicine. Patients should be able to verify the registration of medicine dispensers.
There are three main components to the DOH Affordable Medicine Directorate's Licencing Unit data:
Dispensing licence: Applications are made to the Director-General: Health, in terms of Section 22C(1)a of the Medicines and Related Substances Act (Act 101 of 1965) for a licence to dispense medicines (authorised prescribers) or a licence to compound and dispense (homeopaths only). The list of approved licence holders is published as table in a PDF file.
Section 22(A)15 permit holders: Primary Care Drug Therapy (PCDT) Permit applications are made to the Director-General: Health in terms of Section 22A(15) of the Medicines and Related Substances Act (Act 101 of 1965). The list of approved permit holders is published as table in a PDF file.
Pharmacy premises licence: An application for a pharmacy premises licence is made to the Director-General: Health Section 22 and 22A of the Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act 53 of 1974) and its regulations. Data has not been published on pharmacy premises licence holders.
Medicine dispensing licence holders
Surname: Of the individual licenced to dispense medicine
Premises Address: Address from which the licensee is approved to dispense from
Commence Date Expiry: Expiry date for the licence
Resource contact name:Licensing Unit, Directorate: Affordable Medicines, Department of Health
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Isistius is een geslacht van kraakbeenvissen uit de familie van valse doornhaaien (Dalatiidae) en behoort derhalve tot de orde van doornhaaiachtigen (Squaliformes)

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 Isistius brasiliensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (Koekjessnijder)
 Isistius labialis Meng, Zhu & Li, 1985
 Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964 (Langtandkoekjessnijder)

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Electroshock Therapy for Bipolar Disorder - Acupuncture Without Pain
Medicomat provides support to return to a harmonious state of health by: Delivering meta-therapy balancing treatments Delivering phytotherapy, stone therapy, and many other frequencies for balancing of pathological processes Destroying viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites Patient energetic compatibility with foods, herbs, homeopathic products, nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals Comparing previous examination changes and resultsThe essence of the holistic approach is based on the fact that the whole person should be treated and not the disease, because one and the same disease does not manifest itself equally in every patient and cannot be treated in the same way in everyone. . So we can say that quantum medicine can cure almost every hallucination but it does not cure every individual.
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Acupuncture is a three thousand-year-old method of healing. According to ancient Chinese philosophy, energy or (Qi) flows through channels or meridians in the body, which contain well-defined individual acupuncture points. Each channel pertains to a particular organ and touches upon neighboring organs in a complex matrix system. Each of the acupuncture points along the meridians has specific functions. Acupuncture involves stimulating these points with fine stainless steel needles to initiate those functions.
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Fully Automatic Therapy Machine, Electroshock Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Medicomat No Pain. So far, the most extensive study of acupuncture on headache activity was conducted on 15,000 people who have suffered from migraines or frequent headaches. 3200 randomly selected respondents were selected to continue with regular therapy in addition to undergo acupuncture treatments. A similar number of respondents took the only regular therapy, while the rest had only acupuncture treatments, which consisted of 15 sessions over three months.The primary concern of overweight and obesity is one of health and not appearance. Obesity is a serious disease with serious health risks.
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Ally McCoist praises El-Hadji Diouf for keeping cool against Celtic
• On-loan striker made Rangers debut in 2-2 draw at Ibrox
• Was targeted by away fans over 2003 spitting incident
Mon 7 Feb 2011 13.26 EST First published on Mon 7 Feb 2011 13.26 EST
Celtic supporters abuse El-Hadji Diouf during their team's 2-2 draw against Rangers. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images
The Rangers assistant manager, Ally McCoist, has praised El-Hadji Diouf for keeping his cool amid the white-hot atmosphere of the Old Firm derby at Ibrox on Sunday.
The on-loan Blackburn Rovers forward made his first start for the Scottish champions against Celtic and came through the match without too much controversy, despite some attention from Scott Brown.
The Celtic captain was booked for celebrating in Diouf's face after scoring the equaliser as the Scottish Cup fifth‑round tie ended in a 2-2 draw.
Diouf – who spat on a Celtic fan in 2003 while playing for Liverpool – claimed Brown taunted him throughout the game but said he was determined not to react to the provocation, an attitude which was welcomed by McCoist.
"I thought he was terrific," he said. "There were one or two incidents where maybe people were trying to wind him up, which we expected.
"The Celtic crowd were trying to wind him up a bit and I thought our fans got behind him tremendously well. He's a good player and that's why we have, thankfully, got him. He handles situations like that and he handled it in this game.
"He can take the ball, he can take people on, he can get free-kicks. I thought he handled the situation well and we are pleased he came through it fine."
McCoist was also happy with the efforts of Nikica Jelavic, who has recently returned to action after almost four months out through injury.
"He is still not firing 100% but Jelavic, as you can see, is a good player," added McCoist. "He leads the line well and he does some great things. He just over-hit the pass a little bit for Steven Davis for the tap-in. I've not looked at it again but he could maybe even have finished it himself.
"You can see that he's a good player and, in my opinion, Nikica is only going to get better between now and the end of the season because his fitness will come back again.
"When you're back from a long-term injury, it takes a wee while and you get niggles and things but he seems to be well on the road."
However, the Croatian striker was outshone on the day by the teenager Jamie Ness, who claimed his first goal for Rangers with a superb strike in the opening minutes. "It was a highlight for everybody, apart from the Celtic fans obviously," said McCoist.
"What a strike. I was right behind it and, as soon as it left his boot, I knew it had a chance. It flew right into the top corner, it was a heck of a strike. He won't score many better goals throughout his career, never mind in an Old Firm game."
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