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Pink Floyd Were Masters At Achieving Product-Market Fit - Seven Lessons Every Business Should Heed
John Greathouse Contributor
I offer street-smart startup advice.
U.K. progressive rock band Pink Floyd created their 1973 masterpiece, Dark Side Of The Moon (DSOTM), in a manner befitting of the most savvy entrepreneur – their customers paid them while they rehearsed the material, while simultaneously giving them critical customer feedback.
DSOTM only reached #1 on the U.S. charts for a single week, yet it remained in the Top 200 for more than 18 years. This success doesn't take into account the millions of views on YouTube of unauthorized versions of the album or the countless streams of individual songs from the album.
When the album was remastered in 2003, it sold over 800,000. In 2018, founding band member Roger Waters generated more than $100 million touring 150 shows. By 2019, total non-streaming sales of DSOTM eclipsed 50 million units.
Given the innovative manner in which the band created, polished and finalized their material in front of live audiences, it's no surprise the album has stood the test of time. The band's deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits, resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from Pink Floyd's approach to ensuring product-market fit.
Market Validation Done Right
Obtain Customer Feedback Before You Release Your Product - Musicians spend their entire youth writing songs and performing them in front of live audiences, which ensures that their initial album is validated by their fans before they enter the recording studio.
Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Instead of refining their material based on customer feedback, they are often lock away in a recording studio, isolated from their fans. Thus, it is no surprise that many bands suffer the sophomore jinx, in which their second album fails to achieve the success of their initial release.
Pink Floyd recorded DSOTM after a year of writing and performing the material in front of live audiences. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.
Lesson: Avoid the sophomore jinx with your product launches by continuing to seek market validation, despite your initial success.
Get Paid To Create Your Product - Pink Floyd persuaded their fans to compensate them as they created their new material, performing the ever-evolving DSOTM material for paying audiences before they recorded a single note.
Lesson: Wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. This is sometimes done in the form of providing consulting services, which gives a venture the opportunity to build tools they can later productize, while generating near-term cash flow.
Externalize Success, Internalize Failure - Pink Floyd didn't get everything right when they recorded DSOTM. For instance, when Claire Torry was brought in as a session vocalist on the song, "The Great Gig in the Sky," she was paid the equivalent of $12 (£30), which translates into about $70, in 2019, adjusted for inflation.
Though this was a standard rate at the time, in retrospect, it seems inappropriate, given that her haunting performance defines the song and stays with the listener long after the song fades out.
In 2004, 31-years after the album's release, the band reached a confidential financial settlement with Ms. Torry and her contribution to the song's creation is now acknowledged in the song-writer credits.
Lesson: When mature entrepreneurs fail, they do not blame others. When they succeed, they share their success by giving public attribution to everyone who materially contributed to the positive outcome.
Passion Pivot - Pink Floyd was redefining its musical direction at the time the band recorded DSOTM. Several years prior, the band's leader, Syd Barrett, experienced a drug aggravated mental breakdown and left the band. Prior to his departure, Syd had written and sung most of the band's material.
Some musicians would have felt pressure to record hit singles. In contrast, Pink Floyd followed their passion and created long-form, unified musical pieces they wanted to hear, rather than the pithy, three-minute singles demanded by their label's executives.
Lesson: Startups should pursue opportunities which ignite their passions, rather than solving problems identified by investors and other so-called experts.
Trust Your Customers - Though DSOTM's themes of mortality, insanity, greed and aggression are not common in mass-market music, the band respected their audience's intelligence and trusted that they would "get it."
Lesson: Respect for your customers' opinions comes naturally when you can efficiently gather and evaluate their unfiltered feedback.
Keep It Fun - There was a risk that the band's audience might have rejected DSOTM's melancholy themes. Pink Floyd averted this possibility by injecting humorous spoken responses to a series of interview questions throughout the album, such as; "I don't know I was really drunk at the time" and "I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do." The working-class grammar of these lighthearted phrases underscored that the band was not taking itself too seriously.
Lesson: Startups should judiciously use humor as a self-deprecating tool to establish an authentic rapport with their customers.
Quality Over Hype - Paul and Linda McCartney were interviewed by the band for potential inclusion on the album. Even though including a former Beatle on DSOTM would have generated significant media interest, the band chose to not include Paul and Linda's comments on the album because they were, "trying too hard to be funny." Pink Floyd's refusal to compromise DSOTM's quality in exchange for a short-term public relations boost proved to be a bold and artistically appropriate choice.
Lesson: Startups are often faced with similar PR opportunities, which offer short-term rewards but may hamstring the venture in the long term. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain.
Get Paid To Play
Entrepreneurs should unabashedly copy Pink Floyd's simple, yet effective market validation strategies. Creating your product based on your target market's reactions, at every stage of the development process, enables you to make bold choices with confidence, even when such decisions seem to defy conventional wisdom.
Follow John's startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.
John Greathouse
I am a serial entrepreneur and investor turned Professor of Practice at UC Santa Barbara. I led Computer Motion's $110 million IPO and the $236 million sale of Expertci


The debate on devolution, not only between parliaments, but for cities and other places across the whole of the UK, has never been more important to the future of our country. In the runup to the 2015 General Election all major parties have committed to devolution in some form and it will be a key issue in manifestos.
This report sets out the shared ambition of ResPublica and the Core Cities Group – Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield – for the fullest possible devolution of public spending and tax raising powers to the UK's largest cities and city regions. It argues for a rebalancing of the relationship between central government and cities, as the only real solution for addressing the interconnected challenges of local economic growth, public service reform and better governance.
Devolving powers to new and emerging city regions and combined authorities will have the capacity to change and transform their social and economic environment, and will be essential if cities are to deliver on the twin objectives of growth and reform. The report argues that cities will need far greater control over public resources to shape local economies and design integrated place-based services that meet local needs and achieve local outcomes, and that UK cities must enjoy equivalent levels of self-governance to other international cities and municipalities if they are to compete and prosper.
The report offers a roadmap for city based devolution, and eight recommendations to ensure that the current momentum in the devolution debate is not lost, demanding action which starts before the 2015 General Election.
Pre-election: there must be legislative reform to give authorities greater flexibility in working across functional economic areas.
Post-election: in the first 100 days of the next parliament a Devolution Agency needs to be established to oversee the changes.
1st year: devolved funds for transport, housing and employment.
By 2016: a devolution pilot in one city region where income and corporation tax variation would be devolved and implemented.
By 2020: pilot extended to all city regions.
The report was covered in several other national, local and specialised press, including Mail Online, the Belfast Telegraph, the Shropshire Star, the Yorkshire Post, the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Glasgow Evening Times, Herald Scotland, The Scotsman, LocalGov and the Local Government Chronicle.
The report also received broadcast coverage; our Director Phillip Blond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC News Channel, BBC Leeds, BBC One's Reporting Scotland and STV.
All major political parties should set out their commitment to a radical programme of devolution to the UK's Core Cities in their 2015 General Election manifestos.
The next UK Government should establish an independent body, the Devolution Agency, to take forward the process of devolution for all the UK's cities and regions in general and England's in particular.
The next UK Government should commit to extending the legislative framework for city-based devolution.
The next UK Government should achieve full place-based devolution and avoid siloed decentralisation.
The next UK Government should deliver fiscal devolution to the Core Cities by the end of the next Parliament.
The next UK Government should enact a 'Duty to Collaborate', to commit all city authorities to collaborate with neighbouring authorities and all other public and private sector partners at the trans-city level to form combined authorities or other models of collaborative working and association.
Cities should commit to new levels of accountability and governance.
Cities should commit to a model for devolving still further to localities.


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FIMI buys 70% Stern Engineering stake
Kobi Yeshayahou
Stern Engineering's products include faucets, soap dishes, and contact-less electronic hand dryers.
FIMI Opportunity Funds is acquiring 70% of Stern Engineering. FIMI, led by Ishay Davidi, will pay $34 million for the stake, reflecting a $49 million value for the company. Completion of the deal is contingent on various regulatory approvals.
Stern Engineering was founded in 1989 by Yossi and Yuval Stern. The two founders will remain with the company after the acquisition, retaining 30% of its shares, and will continue to manage it. Stern Engineering develops, manufactures, and markets electronic sanitation products that save water.
Stern Engineering's products include faucets, soap dishes, and contact-less electronic hand dryers. The company's products are included in most of the most prestigious public buildings and office buildings in Israel.
Stern Engineering sells its product in over 80 countries, has over 300 employees, and maintains production facilities in Kiryat Gat and Germany.
In 2013, Stern Engineering acquired Baran Advanced Technologies, which develops and manufactures keyboards and command and control buttons using piezoelectric and markets products mainly in the US. Baran's technology facilitates production of weather-resistant keyboards that need no external power source.
FIMI, founded in 1996, is Israel's first and largest private equity fund, with $5 billion in managed assets. The fund acquires control of companies and upgrades their value significantly. FIMI has acquired control of 88 companies and sold 58 of them to date in deals totaling over $5.5 billion.
Last week, FIMI completed the sale of its remaining 10.5% holding in Inrom Construction Industries Ltd. (TASE:INRM) for NIS 130 million. The investment was extremely successful for FIMI, which sold shares in Inrom for a total of NIS 1.3 billion in recent years, 10 times the amount of FIMI's investment in the company.
FIMI held its shares in Inrom through Inrom Industries, a private company, which still has holdings three other construction industry companies after the sale: Urdan Metal and Casting Industries, Alony Design (home design and bathrooms), and Orlite Industries (industrial products). These holdings are valued at NIS 200-300 million.
In addition to Inrom, FIMI also sold its holdings in several other portfolio companies in recent years through offers for sale on the TASE, including drug distribution company Novolog (Pharm-Up 1966) Ltd. (TASE: NVLG). Just before the end of 2018, at the height of the stock market plunge, FIMI managed to complete an IPO for security group G1, and also sold shares in an offer for sale. FIMI got a total of NIS 150 million for the G1 shares it sold.
Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on January 22, 2019
Ishay Davidi photo: Eyal Izhar
FIMI in talks to buy Teva's Kiryat Shmona plant
Shai Shalev and Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
FIMI buys 50% of Bird Aerosystems
FIMI buys top floor of Alon Towers for NIS 21m
Shai Shalev
FIMI sells Overseas Commerce stake

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Trinity è il terzo album in studio del gruppo musicale symphonic metal austriaco Visions of Atlantis, pubblicato nel 2007.

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import com.coremedia.iso.boxes.Container;
import com.googlecode.mp4parser.authoring.Movie;
import com.googlecode.mp4parser.authoring.Track;
import com.googlecode.mp4parser.authoring.builder.DefaultMp4Builder;
import com.googlecode.mp4parser.authoring.container.mp4.MovieCreator;
import com.googlecode.mp4parser.authoring.tracks.AppendTrack;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

/**
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public class AppendExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        String f1 = "C:\\Users\\sannies\\Downloads\\merge_73677.mp4";
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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico heading towards full-scale environmental disaster
by Jeremy Hance on 29 April 2010
With the news that the amount of oil leaking from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico could be as much as five times the original estimate put forward by British oil-giant BP, the situation moved from worrisome to desperate.
It is now believed that the 5,000 barrels of oil (210,000 gallons) are leaking from the ocean floor everyday, as opposed to 1,000 barrels of oil a day which BP originally estimated. As the oil slick was reported to be within hours of hitting the Louisiana coastline, a state of emergency was declared. The Gulf of Mexico coast is home to hundreds of species, including dolphins, birds, alligators, and turtles.
Regional fishermen are also dismayed as the Gulf of Mexico is one of America's richest fishing grounds and it is currently peak spawning time for many of the area's targeted marine life. Louisiana shrimpers have already filed a lawsuit against BP for economic losses due to the spill.
Oil started spilling after an explosion last week on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that left eleven people 'presumed dead'. Remote vehicles were unable to fix the plug and now the newest plan is to cap the leak, a process that will take four weeks and is not certain to succeed.
Labeling the spill of 'national significance', the US government has now stepped in to help deal with cleaning the spill and mitigating its impact—including an option to mobilize the military—though the government says BP will be responsible for all costs.
According to the Guardian BP recently lobbied hard—and succeeded—against tougher environmental requirements for off-shore drilling, including a remote-controlled switch that if working properly could have stopped the spilling. The device is required by Norway and Brazil, but not the US.
The spill also puts the Obama Administration in a difficult position, having announced last month a new plan to allow offshore drilling along the northern coast of Alaska, the eastern coast, and the Gulf of Mexico, essentially opening up millions of acres that had long been off the table to oil interests. While applauded by some Republicans and the oil industry, the plan was vigorously opposed by environmental organizations, as well as some coastal governors and senators.
At the same time, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnel said today that the spill will not deter him from pushing Virginia to be the first state on the East Coast to begin off-shore drilling.
The US consumes more oil than any other country in the world. In 2007 the US consumed over 20 million barrels of oil everyday: nearly three times the number two consumer, China. As far as production, the US comes in third after Saudi Arabia and Russia; it is the world's largest export.
Headlines since the spill have changed from "Drill, Baby, Dill", a mantra from pro-drillers, to "Spill-Baby-Spill", a reflection of the environmental costs of humankind's continuing reliance on fossil fuels.
NASA satellite image reveals massive oil spill
(04/26/2010) A newly released NASA satellite image reveals oil leaking from the BP oil rig that sank after it exploded April 20, 2010. The explosion killed 11 workers.
After oil rig explosion, leaking crude threatens Gulf of Mexico
(04/26/2010) Just weeks after a Chinese coal barge rammed the Great Barrier Reef, cutting a nearly two-mile swath through the reef and spilling three tons of engine fuel, fragile marine ecosystems are again threatened. Last Tuesday a BP oil rig platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, likely killing eleven workers. The blast also left oil leaking from the drill hole estimated at 42,000 gallons (or 1,000 barrels) of oil per day.
Half a trillion spent on fossil fuel subsidies mostly "a complete waste of money"
(04/22/2010) Despite a warming planet linked to the burning of fossil fuels, governments around the world still spend 500 billion US dollars a year subsidizing fossil fuel industries. A new study from the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development looks at the difficult political situation behind ending fossil fuel subsidies.
Under siege: oil and gas concessions cover 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon
(02/16/2010) A new study in the Environmental Research Letter finds that the Peruvian Amazon is being overrun by the oil and gas industries. According to the study 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon is currently covered by 52 separate oil and gas concessions, nearly six times as much land as was covered in 2003. "We found that more of the Peruvian Amazon has recently been leased to oil and gas companies than at any other time on record," explained co-author Dr. Matt Finer of the Washington DC-based Save America's Forests in a press release. The concessions even surpass the oil boom in the region during the 1970s and 80s, which resulted in extensive environmental damage.
Fossil fuel subsidies "bringing us closer to irreversible climate change"
(11/06/2009) The Green Economy Coalition is urging G20 finance ministers to rapidly put an end to fossil fuel subsidies. In a letter to the ministers the coalition argues that these subsidies are contributing directly to climate change and making it difficult for the world to transition to a greener economy.
US subsidies of oil and coal more than double the subsidies of renewable energy
(09/21/2009) During the fiscal years of 2002-2008 the United States handed out subsidies to fossil fuel industries to a tune of 72 billion dollars, while renewable energy subsidies, during the same period, reached 29 billion dollars.
Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished
(09/17/2009) A new report shows that the Corrientes region of the Peruvian Amazon, which suffered decades of toxic contamination by Occidental Petroleum (OXY), is far from being cleaned-up. The survey, conducted by US non-profit E-Tech International, found that heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and hydrocarbons still exist at levels above the safety limits set by Peru and continue to threaten the Achuar indigenous community, who have long fought against the oil companies.
Oil spill off Australia potential 'disaster' for marine wildlife
(08/30/2009) Oil is leaking from an offshore drilling rig in the Timor Sea near Australia's Northwest coast. Authorities say it will be weeks before the leak is plugged: they are awaiting the arrival of a drilling rig from Singapore to plug the leak.
Oil or Death in the Amazon
(06/06/2009) More than 70% of the Peruvian Amazon has been allocated for oil and gas extraction, and the current government of Alan Garcia has been pushing for more. Unfortunately, as usual, these policies are promoted by and only benefit a handful of people, but negatively impact the lives of many. However, Garcia's government did not foresee the potential consequences of their actions.
Oil and gas bonanza discovered in the Arctic
(05/28/2009) 30 percent of the world's undiscovered gas and 13 percent of its undiscovered oil is located north of the Arctic Circle, offering a potential bonanza for Russia, report researchers writing in the journal Science. Assessing natural resources around the North Pole, researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say the majority of undiscovered oil and gas will be found underwater on continental shelves, providing economic opportunities for countries with Arctic claims, including the U.S., Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Norway and Russia. The largest deposits of natural gas are expected in areas claimed by both Russia and Norway, whereas the most likely place for oil in the Arctic is in the Chukchi Sea, off northern Alaska.
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Tucson 2013 NYTSJI
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute - Tucson, Arizona 2013 at the University of Arizona
Javier Panzar
A reporter's murder in his hometown became Javier Panzar's impetus for delving into journalism. Since then, his reporting has taken him to the forefront of polarizing issues time and again.
Twitter: @jpanzar
New Perspectives in Nogales, Mexico
By: Javier Panzar | May 30, 2013 – 12:15 pm
Reporter Javier Panzar overcomes his fear of reporting in Spanish and finds new perspectives from those in truly alienating circumstances.
Deported to Mexico, but Not Planning to Stay
Increased federal penalties for migrants illegally crossing into the United States have skyrocketed in the last decade, but for many at the Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico, family trumps all.
Paul M. Ingram
By: Javier Panzar | May 24, 2013 – 11:25 am
Paul Ingram, a master's candidate at the University of Arizona's School of Journalism, spends much of his time focusing on science and environmental issues in the Southwest, the place he has called home since birth.
Tucson 2013 Institute Has Now Concluded
By: NYT Institute | June 1, 2013 – 1:10 pm
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute for 2013 in Tucson, Ariz., is now closed. While this website will remain posted there will be no new reporting.
Finding Lisa
By: Arielle Dollinger | May 31, 2013 – 4:25 pm
I put on my sunglasses with the round, olive-colored frames, drove to the factory, and sat in wait. Inside the building, the once-great designer, Lisa Frank, produced the heart-and-star-and-rainbow-covered folders that anyone who was anyone owned in elementary school.
About The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
During the Institute, students are working journalists supervised by reporters and editors from The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Opportunities for students include reporting, copy editing, photography, Web production, print and Web design, and video journalism. Institute graduates now work at major news organizations, including The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times itself, and dozens of midsize news organizations. More information »
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It's dubbed as the "Green Gateway to the World."
The Philippines is no stranger to environmental initiatives: we have an eco-friendly wet market, an eco-friendly city hall, and now, it seems, an eco-friendly airport. The Department of Tranportation announced that as of June 30, the New Bohol (Panglao) Airport is 90.14% complete. Poised to be the country's first "eco-airport", the airport is designed in order to be energy-efficient and sustainable, and is slated to open to commercial flights this August.
Dubbed by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) as the "Green Gateway to the World," the New Bohol (Panglao) Airport uses Japanese technology in order to stay environment-friendly. The passenger terminal building's sloping roof (reminiscent of Bohol's famous Chocolate Hills) will be installed with solar panels, which will account for one-third of the airport's overall energy requirement and the building's air-conditioning. Additionally, the building is designed to allow for an abundance of natural light and ventilation, and LED lights will be used.
The New Bohol (Panglao) airport is expected to accommodate around 2 million air travelers in its opening year, as compared to Bohol's current Tagbilaran airport, which can handle 800,000 passengers annually.


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Vote By Mail Voting
WHO CAN VOTE BY MAIL?
If you are a qualified registered voter of Taylor County, you are entitled to vote by mail (F.S. 101.62). The voter must personally vote the ballot unless assistance is requested by the voter.
REQUESTING A VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT (F.S.101.62)
A vote by mail ballot may be requested for a specific election or for all elections in the next two general election cycles. The request can be made in person, by mail, by telephone, or online at www.taylorelections.com. Only the voter or a designated member of his or her immediate family or legal guardian can request a vote by mail ballot for the voter. Immediate family means the voter's spouse, the parent, child, grandparent, or sibling of the voter or of the voter's spouse, or legal guardian.
A request from the voter must include the following information:
The name of the voter for whom the ballot is requested.
The voter's address (residence and mailing).
The voter's date of birth.
The voter's Drivers License (if available).
The voter's signature (written request only).
If the voter has designated an immediate family member or legal guardian to request his/her vote by mail ballot, that designee must provide the above information in addition to the following:
The requester's name.
The requester's address.
The requester's Drivers License (if available).
The requester's relationship to the voter.
The requester's signature (written requests only).
You must read and follow all instructions included with the mail ballot and on the mail ballot instructions page.
RETURNING YOUR VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT (F.S. 101.67)
Deadline to Return Vote by Mail Ballots
All voted mail ballots must be received in your Supervisor of Elections Office no later than 7:00 pm on election night.
3 Ways to Return a Voted Mail Ballot
Return your ballot through the USPS - remember to give your ballot at least 7 days mailing time to be received in a timely manner.
Hand-deliver your ballot back to the elections office during normal office hours.
Take advantage of our secure drop box located right outside our main office door. The secure drop box is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your convenience.
Dana Southerland, Supervisor of Elections, Taylor County
433 U. S. 19 N., Perry, FL 32347 • P.O. Box 1060, Perry, FL 32348
PHONE: (850) 838-3515 • FAX: (850) 838 -3516 • taylorelections@gtcom.net


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We serve the needs of homeowners and business owners who need to keep their property looking and functioning at its best. Committed to total customer satisfaction, our seasoned professionals make sure to do the job right the first time, every time. We listen to our customers in order to figure out the best plan of approach to solve whatever problem they're having, and we take our time to make sure that everything is done correctly and thoroughly. No shortcuts, no surprises – only exceptional results for our customers!
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How hydropower works:
Hydropower is using water to power machinery or make electricity. Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds, precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean. The energy of this water cycle, which is driven by the sun, can be tapped to produce electricity or for mechanical tasks like grinding grain. Hydropower uses a fuel—water—that is not reduced or used up in the process. Because the water cycle is an endless, constantly recharging system, hydropower is considered a renewable energy.
The Water (Hydrologic) Cycle
When flowing water is captured and turned into electricity, it is called hydroelectric power or hydropower. There are several types of hydroelectric facilities; they are all powered by the kinetic energy of flowing water as it moves downstream. Turbines and generators convert the energy into electricity, which is then fed into the electrical grid to be used in homes, businesses, and by industry.
Types of hydropower plants
There are three types of hydropower facilities: impoundment, diversion, and pumped storage. Some hydropower plants use dams and some do not. The images below show both types of hydropower plants.
Many dams were built for other purposes and hydropower was added later. In the United States, there are about 80,000 dams of which only 2,400 produce power. The other dams are for recreation, stock/farm ponds, flood control, water supply, and irrigation.
Hydropower plants range in size from small systems for a home or village to large projects producing electricity for utilities. The sizes of hydropower plants are described below.
Impoundment
The most common type of hydroelectric power plant is an impoundment facility. An impoundment facility, typically a large hydropower system, uses a dam to store river water in a reservoir. Water released from the reservoir flows through a turbine, spinning it, which in turn activates a generator to produce electricity. The water may be released either to meet changing electricity needs or to maintain a constant reservoir level.
An impoundment hydropower plant dams water in a reservoir.
A diversion, sometimes called run-of-river, facility channels a portion of a river through a canal or penstock. It may not require the use of a dam.
The Tazimina project in Alaska is an example of a diversion hydropower plant. No dam was required.
Pumped Storage
When the demand for electricity is low, a pumped storage facility stores energy by pumping water from a lower reservoir to an upper reservoir. During periods of high electrical demand, the water is released back to the lower reservoir to generate electricity.
Sizes of Hydroelectric Power Plants
Facilities range in size from large power plants that supply many consumers with electricity to small and micro plants that individuals operate for their own energy needs or to sell power to utilites.
Large Hydropower
Although definitions vary, the Department of Energy defines large hydropower as facilities that have a capacity of more than 30 megawatts.
Small Hydropower
Small hydropower facilities have a capacity of 100 kilowatts to 30 megawatts
Micro Hydropower
A micro hydroelectric power system can produce up to 100 kilowatts.
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Q: How to pass values between service and controllers How can one pass values from services to controllers? I have been reading stackoverflow questions regarding this and none of the solutions seem to solve my problem. I am trying to access google spreadsheets using tabletop.js When I console.log from services I can see the values however when I try to access the spreadsheet values  from controller I get the following error: chartService.getProperty is not a function
The code for getting URL of the spreadsheet works fine. With get method. Not sure what I am doing wrong here.
Controller
angular.module('myapp')
  .controller('piechartCtrl', function (chartService, $scope, config) {
    $scope.values = chartService.getProperty();

  });

Service.js
angular.module('myapp')
.service('chartService', function(){
  return {
     getUrl: function init(path) {
        Tabletop.init( { key: path,
                         callback: showInfo,
                         simpleSheet: true } )
     }
  }

function showInfo(data, tabletop) {
    return{
      getProperty: function(){
        return data
      },
      setProperty: function(value){
        data = value;
      }

    }
  }
});

A: This is your service, the only thing i see you returning is the getUrl. so the only thing you will be able to access from the controller is chartService.getUrl function.
service('chartService', function ()
{
    return
    {
        getUrl: function init(path)
        {
            Tabletop.init({
                key: path,
                callback: showInfo,
                simpleSheet: true
            })
        }
    }

    function showInfo(data, tabletop)
    {
        return
        {
            getProperty: function ()
            {
                return data
            },
            setProperty: function (value)
            {
                data = value;
            }
        }
    }
});

To Get it working, while I don't think this is the ideal solution it should work...
service('chartService', function ()
{
    var returnObject =
    {
        getUrl: function init(path)
        {
            Tabletop.init({
                key: path,
                callback: showInfo,
                simpleSheet: true
            })
        },
        resultValue: {}
    }

    function showInfo(data, tabletop)
    {
        return
        {
            getProperty: function ()
            {
                return data
            },
            setProperty: function (value)
            {
                data = value;
                returnObject.resultValue = value;
            }
        }
    }

    return returnObject
});

then replace chartService.getProperty() with chartService.resultValue although this is in no was synchronous.

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Ariana Grande, arguably one of pop's most soulful singers, attended Aretha Franklin's funeral Friday (Aug. 31) at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan.
Following Ariana's performance, Reverend Charles Ellis walked to pop singer over to the podium to offer an apology.
He than called went on to call Ariana an "icon herself," before walking her off. As Ariana exited the stage she had some last words for Aretha.
"I love you Aretha," she exclaimed.


The cloud is sometimes discussed as if it's a mystical happy place to which technology and data can magically ascend. In reality, the cloud is literally grounded. Uploading something to the cloud means you're wirelessly transmitting data that is going to be stored on a physical server that's usually somewhere far away from your computer and office.
If you cut through the hype, you'll find that cloud-hosted solutions are generally cheaper, safer, and more convenient than traditional hosted solutions…but this isn't always true. Some solutions are better than others - in cost, practicality, and quality - so you need to know the difference before you make any decisions.
If you're in the market for a cloud-based platform (and you probably should be, unless you're perfectly happy with your current cloud setup), you need to be aware of certain fundamental qualities that are of critical importance to the security of your data.
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This involves your company's private data that it's personally and physically storing offsite. It must be absolutely secure, no matter what. Check the encryption and security standards of each new platform you consider, and only accept the service providers who are genuinely interested in keeping your data safe.
Have you heard of Dropbox? Of course, you have. It's one of the top names in the cloud storage field, and it's been around for years. This is a firm that's proven itself over time and has a long track record of satisfied clients who can attest they've never had a problem with its reliability. Many new companies could be just as reliable, but they can't prove it - only history can. So look for a company with historical data to verify its capabilities.
Client reviews and testimonials are also good if you can find them. Most big-name cloud service providers have lists of customer reviews on their own sites, but if you want to dig deeper, find someone who's used the service in the past, and have a direct conversation with them. If you can get a few positive recommendations and you don't hear any horror stories, you're probably good to move forward.
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If you get stuck on a problem, you may want resources to bail you out. That's why it's necessary for your cloud service provider to have some provision for self-help for its customers, whether it's an in-depth FAQ guide or a customer forum. For example, Salesforce has multiple customer forums - one for developers and one for regular customers - and they have contributed significantly to the company's success.
Not everything's going to run perfectly. When things go wrong or something needs to change, you need to be able to contact someone immediately. When you select a cloud service provider, find out how difficult it is to get in touch with a customer service rep, and what kind of interactions you have with the person who responds. It's worth sacrificing a few bells and whistles if it means being able to talk to a helpful real person during a crisis down the line.
Thousands of cloud-based platforms are out there, ready to help with anything from hosting your site to organizing your invoices, and many of them look the same on the surface. If you want to choose the right platform, you need to commit to doing some research.
Take your time to investigate competitors and the many variations of the same platform. Opt for free trials and spend some time getting to know each firm. This is a big decision and one you can't afford to make lightly. Make sure everything you need is in place before you step forward.


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ViewSonic Unveils Industry-First Foldable 135″ All-in-One LED Display Solution Kit
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Reduced Packaging Offers Enhanced Mobility and Easier Transportation
BREA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, introduces the industry-first 135″ All-in-One Direct View LED Display Solution Kit with a foldable screen. The foldable design significantly reduces the packaging size by nearly 50%, compared to the previous generation, offering greater convenience for transportation. With pre-assembled systems and a built-in motorized stand, this solution kit is ready for instant use, perfect for events, exhibitions, or any short-term usage.
"In advancing our All-in-One LED Display Solution Kit series, we've taken the latest generation to new heights by extending the foldable concept to the extra-large display, adding tremendous convenience for various business uses," said Dean Tsai, General Manager of Projector & LED Display Business Unit at ViewSonic. "With a folding 135″ large screen, the new solution kit delivers stunning audiovisuals with greater mobility and lowered shipping cost. It can be widely used in the rental business, hospitality, or other industries. By improving the flexibility of our solution, we hope to assist customers to achieve their business goals."
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The new All-in-One LED Display Solution Kit is optimized for better mobility and convenience in delivery. Thanks to the folding feature, the 135″ LED display can easily fit into both traditional freight elevators and large passenger elevators. The packaging size of the movable flight case is also reduced by almost 50% compared to its previous generation, reducing the shipping cost significantly.
The solution kit is pre-assembled with LED modules, cabinets, a system control box, and a motorized floor stand, all fitting into a moveable flight case. Once unboxed, the solution kit can be set up in just 10 minutes, saving time and effort for installation. Moreover, with just a press of the control buttons, the stand height can be adjusted to a maximum range of 65 cm effortlessly, and three heights can be set as preferences for convenient recurring use. With the 360° silent wheels, the display can be moved freely from one place to another.
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The 135″ Direct View LED Display Solution Kit offers an engaging seamless visual experience. The 1080p Full HD screen, which has 5mm frameless edges, delivers vivid ultra-large visuals without image grids, and its adjustable brightness of up to 600 nits allows the image to be seen clearly at any time.
Meanwhile, incredible audio from dual Harman Kardon speakers helps engage the audience with an immersive audiovisual experience. Suitable for museums and art exhibitions that demand high-quality performances, as well as luxurious reception rooms, auditoriums, or other large venues.
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The All-in-One LED Display Solution Kit is designed with a user-centric perspective in mind, integrating the LED modules, image stitching, power supply, and control systems into one device, offering intuitive installation and operation. It also boasts worry-free maintenance by supporting swappable modules, control systems, and full-front servicing using an electric vacuum suction tool.
For real-time content sharing, the new solution kit comes with Wi-Fi connectivity to cast from mobile devices intuitively. It also supports multi-content display functions – Picture-in-Picture mode can display two different contents on the main screen and in an inset window; Picture-by-Picture mode allows up to four different inputs on one screen simultaneously. These modes bring flexible display applications during demonstrations in exhibitions, video conferences, or online collaborations.
To learn more about the foldable 135″ All-in-One Direct View LED Display Solution Kit, please visit: https://youtu.be/6Pw3BbOBhrM
Founded in California, ViewSonic is a leading global provider of visual solutions and conducts business in over 100 countries worldwide. As an innovator and visionary, ViewSonic is committed to providing comprehensive hardware and software solutions that include monitors, projectors, pen displays, commercial displays, All-in-One LED displays, ViewBoard interactive displays, and myViewBoard software ecosystem. With over 35 years of expertise in visual displays, ViewSonic has established a strong position for delivering innovative and reliable solutions for education, enterprise, consumer, and professional markets and helping customers "See the Difference." To find out more about ViewSonic, please visit www.viewsonic.com.
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Nato a Kobryn, nell'Impero russo, Wilovsky è il nonno del rabbino bielorusso Yehezkel Abramsky che diresse il Beth Din di Londra per 17 anni; bisnonno dell'accademico Chimen Abramsky, professore di Studi ebraici all'University College (Londra) ed esperto bibliofilo di letteratura socialista.

Wilovsky occupò posizioni rabbiniche a Izabelin (1874), Babrujsk (1876), Vilna (1881). Vedendo che la posizione di Vilna lo distraeva dagli studi, diede le dimissioni e scelse di officiare come rabbino in una comunità più piccola, come quella di Polotsk (1883) e di Wilkomir (1887). Nel 1890 divenne Rabbino capo di Sluck, dove fondò una rinomata yeshivah nel 1896. Decise poi di svolgere le sole mansioni di supervisore generale e nominò preside il rabbino Isser Zalman Meltzer.

Per i suoi studi Wilovsky usò una copia del Talmud gerosolimitano annotato dal Gaon di Vilna. Dopo averlo studiato per trenta anni ed elaborato i suoi commentari per diciassette anni, Wilovsky iniziò a pubblicare un'edizione dello Yerushalmi che includeva, oltre al suo, tutti i commentari incorporati nelle precedenti edizioni.

Poiché il fondo di sussidio per la sua pubblicazione si era esaurito prima che potesse far uscire il Quarto Ordine talmudico dello  Nezikin, Wilovsky si recò negli Stati Uniti nel 1900 riuscendo ad ottenere il finanziamento necessario per altre edizioni della sua opera. Ritornato in Russia, dedicò il Nezikin ai suoi sostenitori americani.

Dal 1903 al 1905, Wilovsky ritornò negli USA, dove adottò l'acronimo del suo nome: "Ridvaz" (Rabbi Yaakov David ben Ze'ev") e l'Unione dei Rabbini Ortodossi d'America, al convegno di Filadelfia nell'agosto del 1903, lo elesse zekan haRabbanim (rabbino anziano). Nel settembre dello stesso anno fu eletto Rabbino capo delle congregazioni russo-americane di Chicago.

Cercò di introdurre ordine e specifiche funzioni liturgiche nei servizi religiosi delle sue congregazioni, ma incontrò opposizioni e ostacoli da parte di un precedente rabbino e rispettivi seguaci; irritato dai continui dissensi, lasciò il posto dieci mesi dopo la nomina e si dedicò a viaggiare a lungo per l'America, predicando e tenendo conferenze. Nel 1905 si trasferì a Safed, dove fondò una yeshivah, Toras Eretz Yisrael, ed ebbe una controversia con il rabbino Abraham Isaac Kook sulla corretta osservanza della Shemittah (anno sabbatico).

Opere
Le due opere principali del Ridvaz sono i commentari dello Yerushalmi:

 Chiddushei Ridvaz, modellato sui commentari del Bavli di Rashi, spiega il significato letterale del testo;
 Tosfoth haRid (Piotrków, 1899–1900), modellato sulle Tosafot. Confronta e contrappone il significato del testo in questione con altri testi talmudici e halakhici.

Altre opere (tutte in ebraico) includono:
 Migdal Oz (1874)
 Migdal David (1874), novellae su entrambi i Talmud;
 Chana David (1876), commentario del Trattato Challah;
 Teshuvoth haRidvaz (1881), responsa ebraici;
 Nimmuké Ridvaz (1904), commentario della Torah;
 Beth Ridvaz, spiegazione dell'opera Pe'ath Hashulchan di Rabbi Yisroel ben Shmuel di Shklov.

Note

Voci correlate
 Ermeneutica talmudica
 Letteratura rabbinica
 Maestri ebrei
 Talmud di Gerusalemme

Collegamenti esterni
Chanah David - versione scan in PDF, su hebrewbooks.org
Kuntres haShmittah - versione scan in PDF, su hebrewbooks.org
Nimukei Ridvaz - versione scan in PDF, su hebrewbooks.org
Migdal David - versione scan in PDF, su hebrewbooks.org
Teshuvos haRidvaz - versione scan in PDF, su hebrewbooks.org


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Axe Valley currently has approximately 600 students in Years 7 – 11. After working in a formal partnership with Holyrood Academy since April 2016, Axe Valley Academy became part of the Vector Learning Trust in April 2017. From September 2018 we are into the next exciting stage of our development as Vector Learning Trust joins a formal partnership with Uffculme Academy Trust . We believe that the benefits of working with Holyrood and Uffculme, both Ofsted 'Outstanding' Secondary Academy's will provide us with the extra capacity to allow us as we look to further develop the Academy at pace in the coming months and years.
The core values that underpin our work are excellence, perseverance, respect and care. Everyone who works at the Academy shares this ethos and one of the key things that you will notice when you visit the Academy is the way in which we put people first. The progress and attainment of our students is paramount but we encourage our young people to achieve within a supportive learning environment. The positive relationships between our students, staff and families are perhaps what set us apart and these relationships form the basis of our continued improvement towards becoming an outstanding school.
We believe that every student in Axminster and its surrounding villages deserves a fantastic local education, with great teaching in every lesson, in every subject, every day. If you think that you have what it takes to join our team of hard-working and committed professionals, we look forward to welcoming you to the Academy.
This is an opportunity for the right person to come and join us on our journey. We are looking for someone who shares our vision to improve the life chances of the young people in the communities we serve and the passion to really want to make a difference.
As a contracted member of staff you will be automatically enrolled into either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme (whichever is appropriate).
Free car parking is available on the Academy premises. Spaces are on a 'first come first served' basis.
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The Chinese smartphone vendor, Comio, had entered India in May 2017. The firm has now made a decision to close down its local processes, media has learnt. The firm that was established by Topwise Communication (Chinese device maker) was initially targeting to trade almost a million units of Comio handsets by March 2018. On the other hand, it is claimed to have become unsuccessful to attain the original goal owing to problems with its Chinese promoters. Sanjay Kalirona, Comio India Director and CEO, has intimated the government authorities and firm's local partners about the hardships the firm encounters owing to its Chinese promoters' lack of support.
On a related note, HTC, the premium handset brand, earlier claimed that it is leaving the Indian market, turning into the first primary victim of the Chinese raid in the smartphone market of India. Top management of HTC India, comprising Vijay Balachandran (the sales head), Faisal Siddiqui (the country head), and Nayyar (the product head), have applied for the resignation, claimed three senior officials to the media in an interview.


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A spotlight on South American and Cuban inspired compositions.
Salsa, Samba and Tango rhythms have always been a source of inspiration for Jazz musicians. Steve Watermans' passion and knowledge of these artforms will take us on journey through Latin America. An evening of rhythm and colour!
The concert will feature music from Cuba, Brazil and Argentina with pieces from composers Paquito D'Rivera, Astor Piazzolla, Antônio Carlos Jobin as well as Latin influenced pieces by jazz composers Horace Silver and Steve Swallow and many others.
Steve Waterman is one of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the international scene.
He is a professor of Jazz Trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music and The Welsh College Of Music And Drama. He has conducted numerous Trumpet master classes and workshops ranging in size from small groups to big bands throughout the UK and in Spain, Finland, Latvia, South Africa, and Cuba.
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Let's start with the head of the royal family: Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen must be neutral in all political matters and can't vote, but she does have a ceremonial role in the UK government.
She opens each session of Parliament in person, and has visits with the Prime Minister as well as other world leaders..
In The Crown season four, episode four, Favourites, Mrs Thatcher reveals in her weekly meeting with the Queen (Olivia Colman) that her favourite child is Mark Thatcher (Freddie Fox). This shocks the Queen and she later discusses the issue with Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies).
"The Queen doesn't believe in breaking the rules, she does not want Charles to step aside when she passes. … Charles has not given any indication that he plans on stepping aside once Queen Elizabeth passes.
Because the British East India Company had a monopoly over the tea industry in England, tea became more popular than coffee, chocolate, and alcohol. Tea was seen as inherently British and tea-drinking was encouraged by the British government because of the revenue gained from taxing tea.
The Queen drinks Twinings Earl Grey tea with a splash of milk and no sugar. (You can make shortbread "biscuits" to go with your cup, too.) As you'd expect with a British Monarch, there is more tea to drink after breakfast.
"There were reports that, before the wedding, Meghan had left Kate in tears following a bridesmaid fitting for Princess Charlotte," the authors explained. "'Kate had only just given birth to Prince Louis and was feeling quite emotional,' a source said.
The Duchess likes her tea with a little bit of milk We already know the Duchess of Cambridge's tea preference is very traditional after a Kilcooley Women's Centre said on Twitter following her visit to the Ark Open Farm: "Just like us little bit of milk…. so down to earth we were enchanted."
Flash GordonIf you asked us to guess what Queen Elizabeth's favorite movie is, we'd probably go with a sophisticated classic like Casablanca… And we'd be very wrong. It turns out Her Majesty is actually a big fan of the zany sci-fi flick Flash Gordon.
She seems happy for Meghan and Harry, despite the drama But despite it being the exit heard around the world, the queen genuinely seems to want her grandson and granddaughter-in-law to be happy. … The queen knows she can't hold them back, so she seems to have accepted their decision to leave as best as she could.
The Royal family is not in power over the government. Their status is determined by the democratically elected government. There is nothing to overthrow. If the people really opposed the monarchy, they need only direct their elected officials to change the legal status of the monarchy.
Having Queen Elizabeth in one's corner is a huge deal for members of the royal family, and the monarch's body language suggests that she does have quite a fondness for Kate. Judi told Express that the Queen doesn't often use eye contact, but she does with Kate, which suggests she genuinely enjoys speaking with her.
Many royal watchers have been quick to point out that Diana, Princess of Wales, was not a direct relative of the Queen and yet was known as Princess Diana. However, this was never her official title, instead, it was a name given unofficially by members of the public because of how beloved she was.
The Queen drinks Earl Grey, Assam and Darjeeling tea with a splash of milk and no sugar.
Dancing QueenTurns out that Queen Elizabeth II's favorite song just might be "Dancing Queen" by ABBA. According to British music paper, NME, BBC radio DJ Chris Evans discovered this fun fact back in 2008 after a friend attended a dinner with the Queen.
Chocolate perfection pie! According to former royal chef, Darren McGrady, the Queen loves nothing more than his chocolate perfection pie, which is a pastry case filled with cinnamon, meringue and chocolate cream.
Occupied Royal Palaces, such as Buckingham Palace, are not the private property of The Queen. They are occupied by the Sovereign and held in trust by Crown Estates for future generations. The Queen privately owns two properties, Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, which are not publicly funded.
All that being said, it's worth remembering that royal experts say the likelihood of the monarchy being abolished is pretty low. Although royal author Nigel Cawthorne previously told Insider that the monarchy will be "severely damaged in the long term" by "Megxit," most experts suggest that things will not change.
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In 2007, in Arkansas the expected primary payer for hospitalizations is: Medicare 44%, Medicaid 20%, privately insured 25%, uninsured 7%, and all other insurers 3%.


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CitySandbox: Berkeley Lab Launches Q&A Site for Civic Action
August 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
When Greg Niemeyer takes his kids to the park, he doesn't let them to play in the sandbox. It's because of the trash. And broken toy fragments. And the fact that local cats have made it their litter box.
He asks himself, "Why is this sand so dirty?"
The answer isn't something you will find on Quora, or on Google, either.
That's why Niemeyer — and the University of California at Berkeley Social App Lab he leads — is building CitySandbox — a place for people to Q&A on issues affecting their municipal community.
Niemeyer, who co-directs the Social App Lab and oversaw the development of CitySandbox, believes a major failing of the Internet is how self-focused its content is.
With the exception of commerce-based ranking sites such as Yelp, Niemeyer thinks the Web is still not closely tied to the physical world.
"There are fairly few resources that describe the world as a place where things don't need to be bought or sold, but where instead things can be acted upon by citizens," he said in an interview.
CitySandbox attempts to fill the gap by making physical location the central way to navigate questions, setting it apart from other question services. And the embedded Google maps let users see what people are saying about, for example, the park down the street.
But the real differentiator, according to Niemeyer, is CitySandbox's "Events" feature — soon to be reworked into "Challenges" — which encourages people to get their analog hands dirty.
Getting people to take part in challenges, however, has proven a challenge itself, according to CitySandbox lead developer Alex Nisnevich.
"Right now there are many civic issues that are discussed on the site, and the discussions are usually informative and helpful, but not once has any action ever been taken as a result," he said.
That's a shame, since just a little more than a month after launching, there are more than 240 users, 190 questions and 430 answers on the site.
But as physical-world as CitySandbox's focus is, there is still a serious tech/real-world discontinuity it has to address: Tech products such as CitySandbox are built quickly, and real vacant lots get filled at a much slower pace.
Thus Niemeyer thinks his app lab — protected from the ravages of market forces by its position in academia — is the ideal place to solve the harder problems.
Some might ask why academia is even needed in the space.
"Mostly we are expecting business to address problems. Recycling has become a business, for example," said Niemeyer. "We always tend to think that solutions are productive in a business sense."
That's not always so, and it means that CitySandbox's success will depend on people's desire to take action.
The real unanswered question remains: Can we rely on people to take civic action via the Web?
The CitySandbox team is optimistic. After all, you can't Quora-away the mess from a sandbox.
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Tamar Braxton Rushed To Hospital Following Suspected Suicide Attempt
By Bushra
Tamar Braxton who is a famous singer and television personality was rushed to a nearby hospital in Los Angeles. On Thursday night it was apparent that she tried to commit suicide but was saved as she was rushed to the hospital soon after. People and her fans can now feel at ease as she has gotten her stable signs back. She was found unconscious by her boyfriends in the apartment at 10:45 pm and he called up the cops to save her.
According to reports she had been drinking a lot and there was an unknown prescription of some drugs as well. If sources are to be believed Tamar tried to commit suicide but thankfully her life has been saved. When the police took over the case they realized that she has overdosed and it was declared as an emergency. Possible investigations have still been going on and further reports are being considered.
Tamar Braxton: What went wrong with the famous celebrity?
Tamar Braxton and Adefeso host a show together on YouTube which is known as Coupled and Quarantined and it is scheduled to air online every Thursday. Many fans were worried when they saw that there has been no new update on her YouTube channel. They all were astonished to see the message posted on her channel which stated that today's show will be canceled as Tamar is not feeling well. The channel person stated that a good lineup was expected for today's show but sadly it has been postponed. Although it stuck in everyone's mind that something isn't right but we couldn't really think why this is happening.
Her channel spokesperson also promised that the next episode on her channel will be bigger and better. Tamar Braxton is the sister of the famous singer Toni Braxton and she is a seven-time Grammy award winner. The reason for her unconsciousness was pills along with alcohol consumption and according to a statement from her close contacts, she was very down and had an emotional day. Recently Tamar Braxton was not happy with how the Braxton family values show was shaping up and she wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
She thought that being a part of this show is not fair and if you watch her interview which was given to Blast earlier you will realize how she feels. The production however was stopped due to coronavirus but it seems that she is not out of the show yet. She has been preparing for her own YouTube channel content for a long time now and this is why people have been following her regularly. You can catch up with the trailer of her own reality television show which is named Get Ya Life which will be releasing very soon.
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The YouTube content she is bringing from her house nowadays doesn't need to go to the studio so all will be well. Tamar Braxton belongs to a famous family and all her sisters including Toni, Traci, Towanda, and Trina are their names. She has also received many Emmy nominations and has been co-hosting many reality television shows and all the sisters have been working together in another reality television show called Braxton Family Values.
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What Was Stock Like? She is in-and-out of stock on GameStop.com and Amazon regularly. She is also showing up not only at brick-and-mortar GameStops, but Walmart, Walmart.com, Best Buy, and within a few weeks should be easy to find...I'd put her on the same time frame as Eye-Brawl and Thumpback. She may have a wider audience though. Nonetheless, hold out, be patient, and pay retail!
Hello, once again, I am busy.
Oh, I would like to share a recommendation. You really should play The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. It is like the best game ever and my my first Zelda game! Oh, also, good luck on finding LC Pop Fizz, LC Hex, S2 Drobot etc.
I hear that...I've been swamped as of late myself.
Thanks, I got lucky finding all 3 of the Magic Trio at GS.com...if they wouldn't have all been up at once, I don't think I would have ordered...I'm too cheap to pay shipping 3x, lol.
Yeah, I have actually been wanting to pick it up...When they made it a Nintendo Select I have been waiting for a time to get one of the BOGO 40-50% off deals...I would already have it, but the couple of times it lined up, it was out of stock.
Since you liked Twilight Princess I can only assume you'll like Skyward Sword and I have to recommend one of the best games of all time...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Get it on the 3DS or Virtual Console...it is a masterpiece! I'd actually suggest it before Skyward Sword.
Thanks...hope you can land them too. I feel like LC Chill and LC Pop should be out very soon. I'm thinking we will be waiting a bit longer for Hex and Drobot.
I have been looking for an oppertunity to find Ocarina of Time a little cheaper, but I am not super lucky in finding such a deal. I got Skyward Sword, it was a good game, it is just that Twilight Princess had a better story and it had much harder enemies. The bosses were harder, however, compared to Skyward Sword.
Good news, after all that thinking about getting Kirby's Dream Collection, I finally got it! I love the simplicity of old games, just something about it I enjoy.
To round it all up, Twilight Princess is a great game and it is not only a gamee, but I take it as a piece of art in a way.
Yeah, OoT is still full price on the 3DS. Target has a buy 2 get 1 Free this week if that helps. In terms of finding a used copy it is rough for the original stuff...that said, I'd imagine you could score a used 3DS copy for around $25-30.
I will prob pick up Twilight Priness nexxt time I can catch a sale.
Yeah, that is a nice package...I haven't gotten to spend much time with it, but they are some classic games no doubt! Kirby stuff is pretty unique and easy to pick up and play.
In all honesty I was loving Darksiders II...all 1-2 hours I've spent with it :( I started playing, got busy, and haven't touched it since. So, I am not very far into it. As far as gore, I haven't really seen anything to right home about...But, I'm sure things might escalate as I play more. I've also yet to hit the "puzzle" elements, but I have heard basically the same report as you. I believe THQ kind of followed the Zelda format in terms of gameplay. If you can swing it, I think you would enjoy it...that said, the longer you hold out, the more likely you are to catch a price break!
If I get to play more I will keep you posted.
Skyward Sword is another one I need to get back into...just don't have much free time, esp with as time consuming as it is to upgrade/record Skylanders etc. If I wasn't doing that, both games would have been completed long ago, lol.
In my weekly blog updates (don't always get to do them), I post what I'm currently playing and if I get back on DSII I'll try to highlight things.
Ocarina of Time would be the safe bet, but I imagine you'd enjoy DSII as well.


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Q: How to tell when a File is "Done" copying into a watched Directory? I'm using the WatchService API to watch a directory, and getting ENTRY_CREATE events when a user starts copying a file into the directory. The files I'm working with can be large, though, and I'd like to know when the copy is finished. Is there any built in java API I can use to accomplish this, or am I best off to just keep track of the created files' size and start processing when the size stops growing?
EDIT: Here is my example code:
package com.example;

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.StandardWatchEventKinds;
import java.nio.file.WatchEvent;
import java.nio.file.WatchKey;
import java.nio.file.WatchService;

public class Monitor {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String path = args[0];

            System.out.println(String.format( "Monitoring %s", path  ));
            WatchService watcher = FileSystems.getDefault().newWatchService();
            Path watchPath = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(path);

            watchPath.register(watcher, StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_CREATE, StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_MODIFY);

            while (true) {
                WatchKey key = watcher.take();
                for (WatchEvent<?> event: key.pollEvents()) {
                    Object context = event.context();
                    System.out.println( String.format( "Event %s, type %s", context, event.kind() ));

                }
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Which Produces this output:
Monitoring /Users/ericcobb/Develop/watch
Event .DS_Store, type ENTRY_MODIFY
Event 7795dab5-71b1-4b78-952f-7e15a2f39801-84f3e5daeca9435aa886fbebf7f8bd61_4.mp4, type ENTRY_CREATE

A: The only valid option to ensure, no other process is writing to the file anymore is to successfully obtain a Write lock on the file. Although a bit clumsy, you could use FileChannel and FileLock for that purpose
try(FileChannel ch = FileChannel.open(p, StandardOpenOption.WRITE);
    FileLock lock = ch.tryLock()){

    if(lock == null) {
        //no lock, other process is still writing
    } else {
        //you got a lock, other process is done writing
    }
 } catch (IOException e) {
     //something else went wrong
 }

You could as well obtain a lock using ch.lock() which is a blocking call. But since ENTRY_MODIFY events are continously generated when the file is being written to, you can as well use tryLock and wait for the next event.

A: *

*I think that the most common way to accomplish this is to copy the file into a temporary directory on the same partition and then move it to the monitored directory by an atomic move command.

*Perhaps a solution could also be achieved by playing around with the files time stamps

However both of these solutions need to be realized in the writing application. I think you cannot tell surely from the reading application.

A: This is the library that we use today:
https://github.com/levelsbeyond/jpoller
It's a fork of an open-source project that the original author no longer maintains. We've fixed a few bugs in it, and today use it in production.
It works by checking the size of files in a directory, and considers the file done (ready for processing) once the file size stops growing for a period of time.

A: When an entry is created, you will get an ENTRY_CREATE event. For every subsequent modification, you will get an ENTRY_MODIFY event. When copying is completed, you will be notified with an ENTRY_MODIFY.

A: If you have the ability to control the file writes, you can write to a temp file, then rename it to the target. That should generate a single ENTRY_MODIFY.
Something like:
Path tempFile = Files.createTempFile("tmp", "tmp");
writeSomeContents(tempFile);
Path target = Paths.get(targetFilename);
Files.move(tempFile, target);

I recommend waiting a few MS after receiving the notification, to wait for the move to complete.

A: Maybe you can tell by trying to acquire write access to the file, but this depends on two factors and requires research:

*

*The writing application must acquire exclusive write permission to the file and mustn't close the file before it is in fact complete.

*It must be possible to test for this from Java. I would give it a try whether opening the file as FileChannel for WRITE access throws an exception if the file is still locked for writing by another program. Unluckily, the Javadoc doesn't go into detail about this.

A: File file = child.toAbsolutePath().toFile();
if(file.isFile() && file.isWrite())
{
}

maybe this would be the way to find out what you want but not in the while statement.
It will work when you really access to file.


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Q: Getting rid of the "where" clause if a value = 'ADMIN' So there is the main table (named Table1) and one of the columns in that table has a column called company name. and there's a another table called Account and in that table it has the usernames of people and the company name that user is associated with. so only the information in table1 associated with the user's company should be shown, unless if they're an admin.
I'm working on an APEX app on Oracle
I currently have a query that looks like this:
Select
SUPPLIER,
sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS) TICKETS,
round((sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)*.1),2) COMMISION,
round(sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR),2) TOTAL_SALES,
round((sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)-(sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)*.1)),2) COMPANY_OWE,
CURRENCY
FROM TABLE1
WHERE
 Supplier = (select COMPANYNAME from Account where lower(USERNAME)=lower(:APP_USER)) AND
     PURCHASE_DATE_AND_TIME >= TO_DATE(:P2_START)
      AND PURCHASE_DATE_AND_TIME < TO_DATE(:P2_END)+ 1
group by
SUPPLIER,
CURRENCY

I'm running into trouble with the "WHERE" function.
Because I basically want to have a if...then... (or a case statement in this case)
where

IF

((select COMPANYNAME from Account where lower(USERNAME)=lower(:APP_USER)) == 'COMPANY1' AND (select USERTYPE from Account where lower(USERNAME)=lower(:APP_USER)) == 'ADMIN')

THEN

show all the rows; aka, Supplier = (select COMPANYNAME from BBAccount where lower(USERNAME)=lower(:APP_USER))  in the query

Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about writing a query for this?
I tried doing

Case statement When statement Then NULL

It doesn't work

I tried drawing a diagram, let me know if this makes it more clear:

Diagram

A: As it is about Apex, I'd suggest you to create a function:
create or replace function f_is_admin_01 (par_app_user in varchar2)
  return number
is
  -- function returns 1 if PAR_APP_USER is admin; otherwise, it returns 0
  l_usertype  account.usertype%type;
begin
  select a.usertype
    into l_usertype
    from account a
    where lower(a.username) = lower(par_app_user);

  return case when l_usertype = 'ADMIN' then 1
              else 0
         end;

exception
  when no_data_found then
    return 0;
end;

Now, you can use it in query as
select ...
from account a join table1 t on a.companyname = t.companyname
where (lower(a.username) = lower(:APP_USER) or f_is_admin_01 (:APP_USER) = 1)
  and t.purchasedate ...

Such an approach (I mean, having a function) can be useful elsewhere; for example, if you want to show certain page region only to admins - you'd put
return f_is_admin_01(:APP_USER) = 1;

into region's "Server side condition" (its type would be "Function that returns Boolean").
See if it helps.

A:
So there is the main table (named Table1) and one of the columns in that table has a column called company name. and there's a another table called Account and in that table it has the usernames of people and the company name that user is associated with. so only the information in table1 associated with the user's company should be shown, unless if they're an admin

I think that you could simply join - something like:
SELECT ...
FROM TABLE1 t
INNER JOIN ACCOUNTS a
    ON  lower(a.username) = lower(:APP_USER)
    AND (a.companyname = t.companyname OR a.usertype = 'ADMIN')
WHERE
    t.purchase_date_and_time >= TO_DATE(:P2_START)
    AND t.purchase_date_and_time < TO_DATE(:P2_END) + 1
GROUP BY ...

The inner join on ACCOUNTS is there to implement the filtering logic: the user must either the user belongs to the same company, or have the admin type.

A: EXISTS(...) is your friend:

Select SUPPLIER
        ,sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS) TICKETS
        ,round((sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)*.1),2) COMMISION
        ,round(sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR),2) TOTAL_SALES
        ,round((sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)
              -(sum(NUMBER_OF_TICKETS*AMOUNT_PAYABLE__FOREIGN_CUR)*.1)),2) COMPANY_OWE
        , CURRENCY
FROM TABLE1 t
WHERE EXISTS (
        SELECT 1
        from Account x
        where x.Supplier = t.COMPANYNAME
        AND lower(x.USERNAME) = lower(:APP_USER))
        AND x.PURCHASE_DATE_AND_TIME >= TO_DATE(:P2_START)
        AND x.PURCHASE_DATE_AND_TIME < TO_DATE(:P2_END)+ 1
        )
group by SUPPLIER, CURRENCY
        ;