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How 19th-Century Activists Ditched Corsets for One-Piece Long Underwear
Before it was embraced by men, the union suit, or 'emancipation suit,' was worn by women pushing for dress reform
Marlen Komar
The now "male coded" union suit was actually a game changer in the women's rights and dress reform movements. Bryan Mullennix/Getty Images
In the 1870s, many female tourists to Manhattan sought out the city's most curious boutiques—underwear stores that sold what was called "ladies' hygienic underdress."
"Through sheer weariness they may have omitted Central Park, passed by Stewart's, and forgotten Tiffany, but the 'chemiloon' is a thing to be remembered even when the feet are blistered and the back aches with premonitory pains of malarial fever," New York World reported in 1876. "There exists a deplorable ignorance regarding the nature and fashion of this mysterious garment, or rather combination of garments, which was introduced in whispers and is not yet discussed in ordinary tones. 'What is it?' is still the question of the masses."
The "chemiloon," or union suit as it was often called, was the predecessor of long johns and today's onesie—the one-piece pajamas you reach for before settling in with a cup of hot chocolate. Sure, when most people think of onesie pajamas, they probably zero in on the red flannel, full-body underwear with the bum flap—worn by the likes of Paul Bunyan, or by men with a predisposition for thick mustaches—not 19th-century women's intimate drawers. But the now "male coded" union suit was actually a game changer in the women's rights and dress reform movements.
Dress reform movements freed women from painful corsets, heavy bustles and disease-sweeping long skirts. "The great weight of their cloth dresses and huge cushioned bustles is something terrible to think of," The Daily Republican wrote in 1886. "Steels were put into their dress skirts to make them stand out. The weight of the goods crushed the corners of these steels and drove them into the flesh of women's backs, till in some cases the skin was actually scraped off their bodies as they walked." The union suit undergarment was touted as a healthier alternative to corsets, first during the more radical women's rights movement that fought for equality from 1850 to 1870, and then during the post-1870 movement that was run by upper-class clubwomen in social organizations who finagled reform by working within the confines of their gender norms.
Wedding corsets (cotton, silk, lace), 1874-1912. Chicago History Museum/Getty Images
According to Patricia Cunningham, author of Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art, one of the first union suits was patented in 1868, and called the "emancipation union under flannel." The garment combined a knit flannel shirt and pants into one piece. The long pants extended to the ankle, nixing the need for long stockings and garters, and later versions would have rows of buttons at the waist to help suspend several layers of skirts, discouraging the use of heavy petticoats that often weighed upwards of 15 pounds. Most importantly, it "emancipated" women from the pinching confines of the corset.
While it sounded like a much more comfortable option than metal crinolines and tight corsets, not many "ordinary" women rushed to buy the undergarment. Instead, it was mostly found in feminists' wardrobes. During the first wave of the dress reform movement, which was led by prominent suffragists and women's rights leaders like Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck in the northeast, the union suit was part of a packaged deal that would free women from frivolous fashions and make them more equal to men. Some of these activists not only championed comfortable underwear, but they also wanted to change clothing norms as a whole, which included removing bulky bustles, shortening skirts to the ankles and wearing them over pantaloons, often referred to as "bloomers."
An engraving of four examples of women wearing bloomers as advocated by women's rights and temperance advocate Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) circa 1850. Kean Collection/Getty Images
"Woman's dress...how perfectly it describes her condition!" Elizabeth Cady Stanton said in 1857. "Her tight waist and long, trailing skirts deprive her of all freedom of breath and motion. No wonder man prescribes her sphere. She needs his aid at every turn. He must help her up stairs and down, in the carriage and out, on the horse, up the hill, over the ditch and fence, and thus teach her the poetry of dependence."
An early version of the union suit was worn by reformer Mary Walker, one of the more radical activists in the women's movement. The Oswego, New York native was the only female surgeon during the Civil War, the first and only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor, and was known for her penchant for wearing trousers and suspenders—an affinity that got her arrested on more than one occasion. She believed tight garters and corsets "shackled and enfeebled" women, and designed what she called a "Dress Reform Undersuit" in 1871 as an alternative.
"It's important to remember that this was a garment that was worn by dress reformers, rather than the wider population. It was part of a type of anti-fashion clothing that aimed to be healthy, hygienic and outside contemporary trends," says Rebecca Arnold, senior lecturer in the history of dress at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. "Dress reformers argued that women's fashions rendered them incapable of much movement. Corsets could squeeze the chest and make breathing shallow, and the sheer bulk of skirts made it difficult to walk fast or navigate spaces with ease. To dress reformers, the layers of garments and additional trimmings also had a visual impact—making women look as though their role in life was to be decorative."
The union suit was initially embraced by some of the press, with reporters applauding the garment's convenience and thriftiness. In 1873, The Vermont Gazette reported that union suits were in such high demand that the local knitting mill had to employ night shift workers in order to catch up with orders. "They are at present about two months behind on their orders," the paper reported. In 1876, The True Northerner called the undergarment "a useful adaptation of a novel idea for ladies' underwear" that "ought to become very popular." The Michigan paper observed that not only did the union suit protect the entire person, but it also had the added perk of doing away "with the double thickness caused by the overlapping of the vest." In 1878, The Evening Star thought the union suit was brilliant for travel, and wrote about it with the same kind of fanfare travel bloggers write about non-bunching, space-saving hipster briefs today. "The underwear is also a matter of importance in taking a long journey, as the less trouble, the more satisfaction, and least time wasted. As a matter of economy, the fewer pieces, the better; and therefore the Union suit, which is simply drawers, chemise and corset cover, is by all odds the most desirable garment."
This 1879 ad for a union suit "for ladies and children" originally appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Stock Montage/Getty Images
At the same time, dress reform in general attracted negative attention from the 1850s through the 1900s, especially when Walker and other activists began to dress in bloomers and other traditionally male clothing. This terrified both men and women alike, but men in the mainstream press and men who had control over the media were the most vocal critics. Slipping on men's clothing signaled an expectancy to slip into their access to power, and because of this power grab, dress reformers were accused by male journalists and editors of ugliness, cross-dressing, even insanity, as a way to dissuade other women from participating. Women who persisted in wearing bloomers and other reformed clothing endured what suffragist Mary Livermore called "daily crucifixion," and the term "bloomerism" became synonymous with feminists who drank, abandoned husbands, cross-dressed and partook in general debauchery.
That's why the second wave of activists, who were mainly northeastern and midwestern clubwomen, decided to take a softer approach to dress reform. Rather than altering a woman's outward appearance, activists from 1870 to 1900 instead focused on changing her undergarments, pushing to loosen the corset and remove weighty petticoats. Reformers like Frances Russell, Olivia P. Flynt and Abba Goold Woolson cloaked these changes in an argument for healthier living, and joined the health reform movement.
"As cities got bigger, more populated, and dirtier, and as medicine and the study of medicine increased, there was an increasing call to address women's clothing," says Andrea J. Severson, a scholar of fashion and rhetoric in Arizona State University's Department of English who studied the language of the press in the early 1850s in response to the dress reform movement. "Disfigurement from corsets—though this was more rare, but made for good headlines—and long trains that swept up all kinds of dirt and trash outside and brought it into the home, both factored into this call to modify women's dress."
The respected, upper-class clubwomen promoted the idea that women could achieve beauty through healthy dressing. Abba Goold Woolson set up lectures in New England with prominent female doctors to discuss the health advantages of dress reform, for example, and Frances Russell, the chairman of the Dress Committee of the National Council of Women, lectured how healthy dress could aid women in being better mothers.
In 1875, Susan Taylor Converse from Massachusetts patented an upgraded version of the union suit, and dubbed it the "emancipation suit." The year prior, Converse displayed her emancipation suit at an exhibition of reform garments held by the New England Women's Club, which was one of the earliest organizations to advocate undergarment reform. The club gave Converse's onesie its stamp of approval, and her suit became the first to attract widespread public attention.
In 1875, Susan Taylor Converse from Massachusetts patented this upgraded version of the union suit, and dubbed it the "emancipation suit." U.S. Patent 167,436
The undergarments were mainly sold by the New England Women's Club or lecture-touring reformers, but with varied success. In 1874, the Club opened a dress reform shop in Boston on 25 Winter Street, a popular shopping area in the city. While orders began to come in from across the country, mismanagement caused the garments to be poorly made, which turned off shoppers. Around that same time, journalist and dress reformer Kate Field started a women's dress reform store in New York City, and created a window display with her sensible intimates to attract customers. But as The Kansas City Star gleefully explained, not many passersby were fans of the underpinnings. "The styles were so hideous that men, and women too, would cross over on the other side of the street to keep from looking at the frightful garments," the paper wrote. On the other hand, dress reformer and designer Annie Jenness-Miller sold her patterns through the mail, allowing women to make the undies themselves or go through seamstresses—a successful effort thanks to Miller's glamorous and traditionally feminine reputation.
When the suits were advertised in newspapers, the copy made an appeal to husbands' wallets. "The cry of 'hard times!' is still heard on every hand, but is it not true that in our history as a nation it never required so many yards of costly material for a woman's dress?" asked an 1875 ad for the emancipation suit in The Boston Globe. If the suit was adopted, the ad promised, it will "give to fathers' and husbands' heads and purses a respite from care and expense."
Men also adopted the union suit because of its comfort. "For men, the union suit was warm and practical, its use extended far beyond dress reformers to become a staple for many men in the late 19th and early 20th century." Arnold says. "It is not exactly the same as the women's version. But an aspect of dress reform was a utopian belief in blurring gender in dress to make it more practical for both sexes." There were some key differences between the gendered union suits—men's suits lacked buttons to hold skirts and didn't have a ruched bust for support, as some of the women's suits provided.
Criticism of men wearing "women's undergarments" was kept at bay because the union suit already mimicked something in men's wardrobes: bathing suits. According to Daniel Delis Hill, fashion historian and author of History of World Costume and Fashion, men's union suits were a natural extension of earlier versions of men's one-piece knit swimsuits developed in the 1850s by knitting mills.
In 1911, S. T. Coopers and Sons' Kenosha Klosed Krotch union suit became the first national print advertisement for men's underwear. Pinterest
"Combinations, or union suits, are growing in favour for gentlemen's wear, as they allow a fine feeling or ease in movement," a 1910 ad for Atheenic Mills Company explained. "There is no rucking up as with an undershirt, and the tightness of pant bands round the waist is avoided." As interest in the underpinning waned for women in the turn of the 20th century, the onesie stayed popular for men, and in 1911, S. T. Coopers and Sons' Kenosha Klosed Krotch union suit became the first national print advertisement for men's underwear. Oil paintings of men bending over suggestively in their onesies ran in the Saturday Evening Post, bringing an unexpected punch of sex appeal to the previously homely piece.
Women moved on from the suit not because it was a flash-in-the-pan fad, but because social conventions were too hard to defy. "For women, the pressure to conform to body ideals means it can be difficult to reject more restrictive underwear completely, except for women in rural and working class communities for whom practicality was often a more important concern," Arnold says.
After the 1910s, the suit became a male-gendered staple, and its ties to the emancipation suit and the women's rights movement began to fade from public memory. Men more widely adopted the suit because it wasn't a political garment for them, allowing them to buy it without backlash. But while men buttoned farm clothes and business suits over their onesies, dress reformers continued to fight to loosen the ties of their corsets, even as society kept trying to lace them back in.
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Nvidia has announced its Omniverse, a virtual environment the company describes as a "metaverse" for engineers, will be available as an enterprise service later this year.
CEO Jensen Huang showed a demo of the Omniverse, where engineers can work on designs in a virtual environment, as part of the keynote talk at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference, a virtual event being held online this week. I also moderated a panel on the plumbing for the metaverse with a number of enterprise participants.
Huang said that the Omniverse is built on Nvidia's entire body of work, letting people simulated shared virtual 3D worlds that obey the worlds of physics.
"The science-fiction metaverse is near," he said in a keynote speech. "One of the most important parts of Omniverse is that it obeys the laws of physics."
The Omniverse is a virtual tool that allows engineers to collaborate. It was inspired by the science fiction concept of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. The project started years ago as a proprietary Nvidia project called Holodeck, named after the virtual reality simulation in Star Trek. But it morphed into a more ambitious industry-wide effort based on the plumbing made possible by Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD) technology for making its movies. Nvidia has spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars on it, said Richard Kerris, Nvidia media and entertainment general manager, in a press briefing.
Above: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at GTC 21.
Image Credit: Nvidia
Omniverse debuted in beta form in December. More than 17,000 users have tested it since then, and now the company is making the Omniverse available as a subscription service for enterprises. It's just the kind of thing that engineers need during the pandemic to work on complex projects remotely.
BMW Group, Ericsson, Foster + Partners, and WPP are using Omniverse. It has application support from Bentley Systems, Adobe, Autodesk, Epic Games, ESRI, Graphisoft, Trimble, McNeel & Associates, Blender, Marvelous Designer, Reallusion and Wrnch.
And support comes from the likes of Asus, Boxx Technologies, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro. More than 400 enterprises are going to use the new version for enterprises starting this summer. It comes with enterprise support for fully established enterprises, Kerris said.
What the Omniverse can do
USD's roots at Pixar
What Nvidia added
The Omniverse today
The metaverse of the future
Above: Omniverse will be used across industries for design.
The Omniverse, which was previously available only in early access mode, enables photorealistic 3D simulation and collaboration. It's a metaverse that obeys the laws of physics, and so it enables companies and individuals to simulate things from the real world that can't be tested easily in the real world, like self-driving cars, which can be dangerous to pedestrians if they aren't perfected.
Mattias Wikenmalm, technical specialist at Volvo, said on the panel that it's necessary to simulate not just the car but the context around the car like a city environment.
"The foundation is still the data, and this is the first time we can be data native, where we don't have to focus on moving data between different systems. In this case, data is a first-class citizen," Wikenmalm said. "It's so nice we can just focus on the data and borrow our data for different applications and transform that data. Exchanging data between systems has been complex. If we can get that out of the way, we can start building a proper metaverse."
BMW is using Omniverse to simulate a full car factory before it builds it. And there's no limit to the testing. If someone wanted to create an entire city, or building a simulation of the entire United States for a self-driving car testing ground, it would be possible.
It is intended for tens of millions of designers, engineers, architects, and other creators to use at the same time. The designers can work on the same parts of their designs at the same times without overwriting each other, with changes offered as options for others to accept. That makes it ideal for large teams to work together.
Above: Nvidia Omniverse
Susanna Holt, vice president of engineering for Autodesk, said on the panel that being able to understand someone else's data is important and it means you don't have to be locked into a single tool or workflow.
"We need the bits to talk to one another, and that's been so hard until now," she said. "It is still hard, as you have to import and export data. With USD, it's the beginning of a new future."
The Omniverse uses Nvidia's RTX 3D simulation tech to enable engineers to do things like work on a car's design inside a simulation while virtually walking around it or sitting inside it and interacting with it in real time.
Martha Tsigkari, partner at architectural firm Foster + Partners, said on the panel that the architecture and construction industries really need the ability to transfer data easily from one site to the next.
"Being able to do that in an easy way without having to think about how we change that information is really important," Tsigkari said. "In order to run really difficult simulations, or understand how buildings perform, we need to use all kinds of software to do this. Working in these processes right now can be painful, and we need to create all of these bespoke tools to do this. A future where this becomes a seamless process and opens to all kinds of industries is a fantastic opportunity that we need to grasp and go for."
Engineers on remote teams will be able to work alongside architects, 3D animators, and other people working on 3D buildings simultaneously, as if they were jointly editing a Google Doc, Kerris said. He added that "The Omniverse was built for our own needs in development."
Above: Inside Out is Pixar's 2015 film.
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD) is the HTML of 3D, and it's the foundation for sharing different kinds of images from multiple parties in Ominverse, said Kerris.
"We felt that with the entire community starting to move towards this open platform for exchanging 3D information including the objects, scenes, materials and everything, it was the best place for us to start with the foundation for what this platform would become," Kerris said.
Pixar's USD standard came from over a decade of film production.
Guido Quaroni is director of engineering and 3D immersive at Adobe and before that he was at Pixar, where he was responsible for open sourcing USD. In a panel at GTC, he said the idea emerged at Pixar in 2010 as the company was dealing with multiple libraries that dealt with large scenes in its movies.
"Some of the ideas in USD go back 20 years to Toy Story 2, but the idea was to formalize it and write it in a way that we could eventually open source it," Quaroni said.
Above: Nvidia's Marbles at Night demo showcases complex physics and lighting in the Omniverse.
He worked with Sebastian "Spiff" Grassia, head of the team that built USD at Pixar.
"We knew that every studio kind of had something like it," Quaroni said. "And we wanted to see if we could offer something that became the standard because for us the biggest problem was the plugins and integrations with third parties. Why not give it to the world?"
The problem that they had was that they needed to be able at any point in the film pipeline, to extract an asset, to massage it with a third-party tool, and stick it back into the production process without losing information, said Michael Kass, distinguished engineer at Nvidia and software architect of the Omniverse, in an interview.
Grassia said USD is an interchange format for data.
"It represents decades of Pixar's experience in building software that supports collaborative filmmaking," Grassia said. "It's for collaborative authoring and viewing for a very large 3D scene. It handles combining, assembling, overriding, and animating the assets that you have created in a non-destructive way. That allows for multiple artists to work on the same scene concurrently."
Before USD, artists had to check out a piece of digital art, work on it, and check it back in. With USD, Nvidia has enabled sharing across all applications and different ways of viewing the art. The changes are transmitted back and forth. A large number of people can view and work on the same thing, Kass said. A feature dubbed Nucleus serves as a traffic cop that communicates what is changing in a 3D scene.
Early on, Pixar tried to create tools itself, but it found there were tools like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Unreal Engine, or Blender that were more advanced at doing particular tasks. And rather than have to train those vendors to continuously update their tools, Pixar made USD available as an open standard.
Above: Omniverse Enterprise
The platform also uses Nvidia technology, such as real-time photorealistic rendering, physics, materials, and interactive workflows between industry-leading 3D software products.
Pixar buit a renderer, a data visualization engine, dubbed Hydra. It was designed in a way to hook up other data sources, like a Maya image. So the artists can work with large datasets without having the vendor translate everything into their own native representation.
Kass and his colleagues at Nvidia found that USD was a "golden nugget" that let them represent data in a way that could be used for all sorts of different purposes.
"We decided to put USD at the center of our virtual worlds, but at Pixar, most of the collaboration was not real time. So we added on top of USD the ability to synchronize with different users," Kass said.
Above: COVID-19 simulation in Omniverse.
The real test has been making sure that USD can be useful beyond the media and entertainment applications. Omniverse enables collaboration and simulation that could become essential for Nvidia customers working in robotics, automotive, architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing.
"There really isn't anything else like it," Kerris said. "Pixar built the standard, and we saw the potential in it. This is a demand and a need that everybody has. Can you imagine the internet without a standard way of describing a web page? It used to be that way. With 3D, no two applications use the same language today. That needs to change, or else we really can't build the metaverse."
Nvidia extended USD, which was built for Pixar's needs, and added what is necessary for the metaverse, Kass said.
"We got to stand on top of giants but we are pushing it forward in a direction they weren't envisioning when they started," he added.
Nvidia built a tool called Omniverse Create, which accelerates scene composition and allows users in real time to interactively assemble, light, simulate, and render scenes. It also built Omniverse View, which powers seamless collaborative design and visualization of architectural and engineering projects with photorealistic rendering. Nvidia RTX Virtual Workstation software gives collaborators the freedom to run their graphics-intensive 3D applications from anywhere.
Omniverse Enterprise is a new platform that includes the Nvidia Omniverse Nucleus server, which manages the database shared among clients, and Nvidia Omniverse Connectors, which are plug-ins to industry-leading design applications.
With all of the applications working live, artists don't have to go through a laborious exporting or importing process.
"Omniverse is an important tool for industrial design — especially with human-robot interactions," said Kevin Krewell, an analyst at Tirias Research, in an email. "Simulation is a big new market for GPU cloud services."
The Omniverse and USD
Above: Nvidia's Omniverse platform.
aren't going to lead to the metaverse overnight.
Tsigkari said that getting so many creative industries to work together has been a huge challenge, particularly for architecture firms that have to pull so many different disciplines to get work done from conception to completion.
"You need a way to allow for the creative people to quickly pass things directly from engineers to consultants so they can do their analysis and pass it on to the manufacturers," she said. "In the simplest way, this doesn't exist."
At the same time, different industries work on different timetables, from long cycles to real time.
"For us, this has been really crucial to be able to do this in a seamless way where you don't have to think about the in-between space," she said.
Holt at Autodesk said she would like to see USD progress forward in dealing with huge datasets, on the level of modeling cities for construction purposes.
"It's not up to that yet," she said. "Some changes would be needed as we take it into other areas like construction."
Grassia said there are features that allow of "lazy loading," or different levels of detail becoming visible as a huge dataset loads.
Lori Hufford, vice president of applicatiosn integration at Bentley Systems, said on a panel her team has had good results so far working on large models.
"I'm really excited about the open nature of USD," said Hufford. "We've been very impressed with the scale we have been able to achieve with USD."
Above: WPP is using Omniverse to build ads remotely.
The enterprise version will support Windows and Linux machines, and it is coming later this year.
What can you do in this engineer's metaverse? You can simulate the creation of robots through a tool dubbed Isaac. That lets engineers create variations of robots and see how they would work with realistic physics. So they can simulate what a robot would do in the real world by first making the robot in a virtual world. There are also Omniverse Connectors, which are plugins that connect third-party tools to the platform. That allows the Omniverse to be customized for different vertical markets.
BMW is using Omniverse to simulate the exact details of a car factory, simulating a complete physical space. The company calls the factory a "digital twin." The factory has enough detail to include 300 cars in it at a given time, and each car has about 10 gigabytes of data.
Thousands of planners, product engineers, facility managers and lean experts within the global production network are able to collaborate in a single virtual environment to design, plan, engineer, simulate and optimize extremely complex manufacturing systems before a factory is actually built or a new product is integrated.
Milan Nedeljkovic, member of the board of management of BMW AG, said in a statement that the innovations will lead to a planning process that is 30% more efficient than before. Eventually, Omniverse will enable BMW to simulate all 31 of its factories.
Above: Bentley's tools used to create a digital twin of a location in the Omniverse.
Volvo is designing cars inside Omniverse before committing to physical designs, while Ericsson is simulating future 5G wireless networks. Industrial Light & Magic has been evaluating Omniverse for a broad range of possible workflows, but particularly for bringing together content created across multiple traditional applications, and facilitating simultaneous collaboration across teams that are distributed all over the world.
Foster + Partners, the United Kingdom architectural design and engineering firm, is implementing Omniverse to enable seamless collaborative design to visualization capabilities to teams spread across 14 countries.
Activision Publishing is exploring Omniverse's AI-search capabilities for its games to allow artists, game developers and designers to search intuitively through massive databases of untagged 3D assets using text or images.
WPP, the world's largest marketing services organization, is using the Omniverse to reinvent the way advertising content is made by replacing traditional on-location production methods with entirely virtual production.
Perry Nightingale, senior vice president at marketing services firm WPP, said on a panel that he is seeing collaboration on an enormous scale with multiple companies working together.
Above: Nvidia's Omniverse can be used for entertainment creation.
"I'm excited how far that could go, with governments doing it for city planning and other sorts of grand scale collaboration around USD," Nightingale said.
Nvidia will use Omniverse to enable Drive Sim 2.0, which lets carmakers test their self-driving cars inside Omniverse. It uses USD as Nvidia transitions from game engines to a true simulation engine for Omniverse, said Danny Shapiro, senior director for automobiles at Nvidia. Nvidia's own developers will now be able to support new hardware technologies earlier than they could in the past.
"We initially built it for our own needs, so that when technologies were being developed in different groups that they could share immediately, rather than have to wait for the development of it into their particular area," Kerris said. "The same holds true with our developers. It used to be if we brought a technology out, we would then work with our developers, and it would take a period of time for them to support it. However, by building this platform that crosses over these, we have the ability now to bring out new technologies that they can take advantage of day one."
Above: Omniverse enables collaboration on complex projects.
One question is how well Omniverse will be able to deal with latency, or interaction delays across the cloud. That would be important for game developers, who have to create games that operate in real time. Scenes built with Omniverse can be rendered at 30, 60, or 120 frames per second as needed for a real-time application like a game.
Kerris said in an earlier chat that most of what you're looking at doesn't have to be constantly refreshed on everybody's screen, making the real-time updating of the Omniverse more efficient. Nvidia's Nucleus tech is a kind of traffic cop that communicates what is changing in a scene as multiple parties work on it at once.
As for viewing the Omniverse, gamers could access it using a high-end PC with a single Nvidia RTX graphics card.
Huang said in his speech, "The metaverse is coming. Future worlds will be photorealistic, obey the laws of physics or not, and inhabited by human avatars and AI beings."
He said that games like Fortnite or Minecraft or Roblox are like the early versions of the metaverse. But he said the metaverse is not only a place to play games. It's a place to simulate the future.
Above: Dean Takahashi moderates a panel of Omniverse experts at the Nvidia GTC 2021 event.
"We are building cities because we need to simulate these virtual worlds for our autonomous vehicles," Kerris said. "We need a world in which we can train them and test them. Our goal is to scale it so so you could drive continuously drive a virtual car continuously from Los Angeles to New York, in real time, using the actual hardware that's going to be inside the car and give it a virtual reality experience plugged into its sensory inputs, the output of our simulator and fool it into thinking it's in the real world. And for that, it has to be an extremely large world. We're not quite there yet. But that is what we are moving towards."
For game companies, I can foresee game publishers eventually trading around their cities, as one might build a replica of Paris while another might build New York. After all, if everyone works with USD technology, there might not be a need to rebuild every city from scratch for simulations like games.
Ivar Dahlberg, technical artist at Embark Studios, a game studio in Stockholm, said it is tantalizing to think about trading cities back and forth between game developers who are working on city-level games.
"Traditionally, developers have focused on a world for someone else to experience," he said. "But now it seems there are lots more opportunities for developers to create something together with the inhabitants of that world. You can share the tools with everybody who is playing. That ties in quite nicely to the idea of a metaverse. USD is definitely a step in that direction."
Tsigkari said, "That is an experience that may not be very far out. It won't matter if one company builds Paris, London, or New York. It will be more about what you are doing with those assets. What is the experience that you offer to the user with those assets?"
As I saw recently in the film A Glitch in the Matrix, it will be easier to believe in the future that we're all living in a simulation. I expect that Nvidia will be able to fake a moon landing for us next.
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It is a difficult task to go on after a start that turned out very well. TRIPFOLK is Bazar Blå's answer to the success of their first CD. The album was recorded under similar conditions as the debut but with even more extravagant ideas about production possibilities.
The result is new folk music – respectful to its origin but enhanced with a lot of sonic and stylistic experiments. Tracks like BB Cool, Sushi and Laija show the way. Half of it was recorded – thanks to quite a lot of meringue, cream, vanilla ice and chocolate sauce - in a cottage belonging to Johan's family. To finish, they went back to the first make-shift studio .. and the mosquitoes.


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Célestin Oliver est un footballeur et entraîneur français, né le 12 juillet 1930 à Mostaganem, en Algérie, et mort le  dans le 8e arrondissement de Marseille. Comptant 5 sélections en équipe de France entre 1953 et 1958, il participa à la Coupe du monde 1958 en Suède où « les Bleus » terminèrent .

Biographie

Parcours en club
Célestin Oliver arrive à Sedan, club évoluant en Division 2, avec son frère Christian Oliver en provenance de Mostaganem, en 1953. Il joue au poste d'inter ou demi. Avec les Ardennais, il accède en Division 1 en 1955, puis remporte la Coupe de France en 1956.

En 1958, il rejoint Marseille où il reste trois saisons.

Il joue ensuite à Angers en 1961, puis termine sa carrière de footballeur professionnel à Toulon, en 1963-1964.

Il devient alors entraîneur-joueur en championnat de France amateur (CFA), au SSMC Miramas d'abord puis au SM Caen pendant cinq ans (il dispute 15 matchs de Division 2 lors de la saison 1970-1971, à 40 ans). Alors qu'il raccroche définitivement les crampons, il est recruté comme entraîneur par le prestigieux Stade de Reims, en Division 1, où il est écarté avant la fin de la première saison. Un peu plus tard, il assure deux saisons comme entraîneur en Division 2, à l'US Boulogne puis au SC Toulon.

Parcours en sélection
En amateur, il participe au tournoi des Jeux olympiques de 1952 à Helsinki, comme attaquant.

International dès 1953, il prend part aux phases éliminatoires des mondiaux de 1954 et 1958. Il est ensuite sélectionné en équipe de France pour la Coupe du monde 1958, sans toutefois participer à l'épopée des Bleus.

Reconversion
Devenu professeur d'EPS, il crée la section sport-études football du collège Grande Bastide à Marseille, championne de France à trois reprises et qui sera la pépinière d'une vingtaine de professionnels dont Éric Cantona, Thierry Gros, Christophe Galtier, Patrick Blondeau, Cédric Carrasso et les frères Gavanon. Il est chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes académiques.

Palmarès de joueur
 International français A de 1953 à 1958 (5 sélections et 3 buts marqués)
  de la Coupe du monde en 1958 avec la France
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de France en 1956 avec l'UA Sedan-Torcy
 Vainqueur de la Coupe Drago en 1955 avec l'UA Sedan-Torcy.
 Champion de France D2 en 1955 avec l'UA Sedan-Torcy.
 Vainqueur du Challenge des champions en 1956 avec l'UA Sedan-Torcy.

Références

Liens externes

 Statistiques de Célestin Oliver sur pari-et-gagne.com

Naissance en juillet 1930
Naissance à Mostaganem
Naissance en Algérie française
Footballeur international français
Joueur du CS Sedan Ardennes
Joueur de l'Olympique de Marseille
Joueur du SCO Angers
Joueur du Sporting Toulon Var
Joueur du SM Caen
Footballeur aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1952
Entraîneur français de football
Entraîneur du SM Caen
Entraîneur du Stade de Reims
Entraîneur de l'US Boulogne
Entraîneur du Sporting Toulon Var
Décès en juin 2011
Décès à 80 ans
Personnalité pied-noire
Professeur d'éducation physique et sportive
Décès dans le 8e arrondissement de Marseille

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CLEEN Foundation Bags Excellence Award in Promoting Public Safety Security from Crime Reporters Association in Nigeria (CRAN)
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For Immediate Press Release
The CLEEN Foundation on the 25th of November 2021 bagged an award of excellence in "Promoting Public Safety in Nigeria" from Crime Reporters Association in Nigeria (CRAN). The Foundation was presented with this award at the annual CRAN Lecture/Award series at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos.
For over 23 years, the CLEEN Foundation under several projects have held numerous interventions to aid public safety and security for all. The organization with support from development partners have carried out advocacies and interventions with key stakeholders, conducted research and produced publications in line with the objective of entrenching public safety, security, access to justice, and accountable governance in Nigeria.
CLEEN Foundation has carried out several flagship projects/interventions in the past in the bid to promote public safety and security in Nigeria and beyond. Some of these interventions include the Civil-Military Relations project designed to address concerns on the relationship between the military and the public, the National Crime and Victimization Survey, and many others. The intent of programming for the CLEEN Foundation is to improve citizens' safety against crime either from state actors or non-state actors. This intent has become the driving force for the foundation in its design and implementation of projects and activities.
The CLEEN Foundation has received several awards including a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York, the United States of America since June 2020, and Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights based in Banjul, The Gambia.
Mrs. Ruth Olofin
Acting Executive Director


Summer taxes are sent out on July 1 and are due and payable through August 31st. A 3% late fee will be assessed on September 1st. The City does not accept postmarked mail as the payment date, nor does it waive penalties.
Winter taxes are sent out on December 1st and are due and payable through February 14th. A 3% late fee will be assessed on February 15th. Payments will be accepted at City Hall until February 28th. The City does not accept postmarked mail as the payment date, nor does it waive penalties. After February 29th, taxes are considered delinquent and must be mailed to the Newaygo County Treasurer's Office, PO Box 885, White Cloud, MI 49349. Please make sure to contact them at (231) 689-7230, as additional charges may be incurred at that time.
What is the treasurer responsible for?
The treasurer is responsible for performing professional fund management, tax administration, financial administration including budget control, investments, accounting, and auditing. He/she keeps and deposits all money or funds in such a manner and only in such places as the council may determine, reporting the same detail to the city manager. This person also collects payments for city taxes and all other fees and payments. In addition, the treasurer plays a principal role in municipal borrowing, and manages tax title accounts. Overall, the treasurer serves as the municipality's cash manager.
Summer taxes will be sent out on July 1 and be due and payable through August 31st. A 3% late fee will be assessed on September 1st. The City does not accept postmarked mail as the payment date, nor does it waive penalties.
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'China's gateway': Daniel Andrews' Belt and Road pitch to Beijing
By Richard Baker
October 3, 2020 — 11.30pm
Premier Daniel Andrews directly courted some of China's biggest Belt and Road Initiative companies, including one subsequently blacklisted by the US government, to help build Victoria's huge pipeline of infrastructure projects including his signature Suburban Rail Loop.
Internal documents obtained under the freedom of information act show Mr Andrews pitching for money and expertise from Chinese state-owned companies in his trip to China in October last year, with a promise to "facilitate" their access to Victoria and "collaborate" on the state's biggest projects.
Victoria, he said, would become "China's gateway to Australia".
Daniel Andrews has defended his dealings with China. EDDIE JIM
Among the projects the Premier listed were the uncosted but multibillion-dollar Suburban Rail Loop, the North East Link road project and the Airport Rail Link.
The details of Mr Andrews' pitch to China come amid deteriorating relations between Canberra and Beijing over trade, and as the Morrison government announced it would legislate to cancel any agreement between states and a foreign power deemed to challenge national security.
The $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative is Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature policy to invest in infrastructure globally including roads, rail, pipelines and telecommunications systems. But western governments, including Australia and the United States, increasingly view it as a foreign policy and propaganda tool, as well as a potential debt trap for developing nations.
The federal Labor opposition also rejects the idea of Australia signing up to the Belt and Road Initiative, but Mr Andrews insisted again on Friday that he was committed to it and the relationship with China after signing a Memorandum of Understanding on the project in 2018.
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"I've got no change to the position I've outlined on many, many occasions. I think a strong relationship and a strong partnership with China is very, very important," he said.
The almost 80 pages of released documents include Mr Andrews' speech notes at an intimate "roundtable" meeting with the heads of Chinese corporations and government ministries at Beijing's Grand Hyatt hotel on October 22 last year. The trip was Mr Andrews' sixth to China as Premier.
Among the attendees at the dinner was Dr Lu Jianzhong, the president of the China Communication Construction International Company and the chairman of John Holland (a fully-owned CCCC subsidiary), which is a bidder on North East Link.
Earlier this year, CCCC was listed by the US departments of Commerce and Defence as part of China's "Military-Civil Fusion development strategy". It also appeared on a separate black list as having been involved in the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea.
China "must not be allowed to use CCCC and other state-owned enterprises as weapons to impose an expansionist agenda," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time.
At the October 22 dinner, Mr Andrews told the executives and Chinese government representatives that he wanted Chinese companies to establish offices in Victoria and bid for projects. He wished to "convey Victoria's desire to collaborate with international partners" including "leading Chinese firms in attendance on major transport infrastructure projects".
Of the Suburban Rail Loop, he said: "We are currently seeking registrations of interest from organisations with the experience and capability to assist in the delivery of this mega project."
The project, Mr Andrews' largest and most popular infrastructure announcement at the 2018 state election, is estimated to cost at least $50 billion and is yet to be funded. Mr Andrews has previously said private investment would play a big role.
The Premier said the Belt and Road Initiative "highlights Victoria's desire to work collaboratively with China", that Chinese companies' "talents and capacity are critical to our success", and their "collective expertise and experience, particularly in recent projects of significant scale and complexity, align precisely with our current agenda".
Daniel Andrews visiting pandas during his 2015 China trip. SUPPLIED
"You will find the Victorian market accessible, and my government will welcome your participation and do what it can to facilitate success," he said.
During the meetings, Mr Andrews told Chinese officials that his government was spending more on infrastructure than the Commonwealth was for the rest of the country.
The meeting with companies, including CCCC bidding on projects, prompted a probity warning to Mr Andrews with a request he not discuss specifics of the North East Link procurement process and that he have two Victorian officials by his side at all times to record discussions.
"It is recommended that you offer similar meetings with the relevant global heads of other constructors that are also in bid teams," his department advised.
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The documents also reveal that Victoria last year put a detailed list of proposals to China for co-operation under the program, which were developed by a liaison group led by senior Labor MP Danny Pearson and the deputy consul general from China's Melbourne Consulate, Jianhua Zeng.
The group, which Mr Andrews described in a letter to a senior Chinese official as "ensuring alignment on shared objectives", last met earlier this year.
The documents also show other key priorities for Mr Andrews on the trip were establishing relationships with China's ministers for Science and Technology, Commerce and Culture and Tourism.
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He was hoping to achieve smoother customs processes at the Chinese end to enable easier access for Victorian meat and dairy exporters, with a particular focus on infant formula. His pitch on Victorian red meat was to replace protein lost because of China's African Swine Fever outbreak.
COVID-19 and rising tensions at a national level have stalled Victoria's Belt and Road progress this year. A "road map" of projects planned for release this year is yet to eventuate and a planned trip to Beijing in March by Mr Pearson, who was then Mr Andrew's parliamentary secretary and is now a minister, was cancelled.
While federal governments and state governments across Australia have sought and welcomed Chinese investment in recent years, the Belt and Road program is regarded differently. Victoria is the only Australian signatory to the $US 1 trillion infrastructure program.
A NATO economic and security committee briefing on the Belt and Road in May linked the policy to China's expansion of naval power. "There should be no mistake that elements of the BRI and China's related foreign policies pose a challenge to Western values." The counter view is that poor countries involved in the Belt and Road are getting infrastructure built that they could never have afforded on their own.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and senior ministers such as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton have been critical of Victoria's dealings with China on the Belt and Road, claiming it undercuts the role of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Daniel Andrews giving a speech at the parallel sessions of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in 2017. SANGHEE LIU
A spokesman for DFAT said the federal government was not consulted nor given the opportunity to comment on Victoria's signing of the Framework Agreement with China last October.
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas rebuked Mr Morrison earlier this year for "vilifying" China after he called for a probe into China's handling of the initial coronavirus outbreak.
Rory Medcalf, head of the national security college at the Australian National University, said on Friday that the Belt and Road Initiative was so important to China's quest for global influence that it was broadly beyond the ability of state and local governments "to play in that space without clear consultation at a national level".
Professor Medcalf said although the language in Victoria's agreements with China was innocuous, the apparent unquestioning involvement of first world governments such as New Zealand or Victoria made it harder for poorer nations to protect their interests.
China was likely to continue to invest in projects in Australia without governments' signing up to the Belt and Road Initiative, he said.
But the former secretary of Australia's defence department, Paul Barratt, said Australia should have been a signatory to the Belt and Road when it was first proposed by China in 2013 because it was our largest trading partner.
"It's not our enemy. The agreement is non-committal and you just examine issues case by case," said Mr Barratt, now an adjunct professor at the University of New England.
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The documents also give an insight into the negotiations over the wording of the Framework Agreement signed by Mr Andrews last October, including China's insistence it specifically mention co-operation on aged care.
Life expectancy in China has increased markedly with improved living standards, making aged care a priority for the world's most populous nation.
Despite disclosing some material related to Victoria's BRI interactions with China, Mr Andrews' department chose to withhold a small amount of documents and blacked out key passages from other documents.
A letter from Mr Ning was exempted from release under FOI on the basis it would disclose confidential information from a foreign government. Six other documents were redacted in order to protect recommendations, advice or opinions expressed to the Premier by his advisers.
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Long time lurker and decided to finally join.
We are currently planning a trip to iceland and trying to get our camera equipment sorted, without getting overwhelmed.
Long time pentax user. MX,ME,ME SUPER, K100D, K5. Currently saving my pennies for the K1. We shoot wide variety of subjects, and enjoy birding. We are trying to figure out if we need/want a different lens for our trip or should we use what we have. What would your ideal lens combo be?
If feels like a lot. I do know, less is more, but we are going along way and will not be going back. So I figure this covers landscapes , if we stitch the 50mm shots. Macro for up close stuff, fish eye for fun, 150-500 for birds, 18-250 for walking around lens, 40mm for Pocket, WR for the rain.......also, gorilla pod, and a tripod.
I have been eyeing the 1.7x adapter for a teleconverter, and the 50mm FA, and the 77mm FA limited. But I haven't picked them up because I think the K1 is probably a better investment.
I would appreciate some input from the forum.
Also, just to note. In the past we have never brought more than 2 or 3 lenses and got on just fine. So...... what would your combo be and why? Also if there is a lens you think would be IDEAL, I'd like to hear why?
Welcome to the forum. I think your selection would work well. Would it be necessary to take both 50mm's? Having said that, I probably would.
To say I'm somewhat jealous would be a massive understatement.
My lens choice would be perhaps different to most folk, it is as follows... 50mm A f1.7, 50mm A f2.8 macro, 35-105 A f3.5, 150-500mm Sigma f5-6.3.
By way of an explanation for my choices, keeping overall kit as light as possible, then in order, something for low light, a great wee macro, a walk around "stack of primes" and something for your birds.
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Welcome! My kit for travelling is the one you see in my signature!
Is this for your k5 or a future k1? Out of your current lens list, I might go with the 10-17, F 50 1.7, and I guess that 18-55 WR. Wide, walking zoom, and low light / portrait lens group. I could see selling a bunch of those lenses and getting the new 28-105 or a similar 3rd party full frame lens.
great lens fisheye at one end, ultra wide at the other, great for landscapes, cities, and fun shots.
MOstley for the WR capabilities, but it's actually a good quality lens for most situations.
The walk around all day, all situation lens. Plus it has macro.
The main question to ask yourself is " Do I want to be changing lenses throughout the day?" Look at you schedule, pick the lens that suits that activity, and make the most of it.
Kinda my thought was as a backup.
Thanks. It might be worth a trial at home but....that 150-500 for birds is going to come. Especially because there should be a number of species we have never seen before.
Well we typically try to do a big trip ever couple years. This will be the first with our little one who is 1 yr old. So very exciting.
Your lens selection is different if only because of only manual focus. Can you explain the stack of primes. To be honest in don't use the 35-105 much.
Good question. We are not sure we will be able to get the K1 before the trip. Though I'm trying....so let's say for this time. It's for the k5, and it there is some overlap to the K1 that's a bonus.
Many folk say... it's as good as carrying around all those focal lengths of primes.
Well we are used to changing lenses. So that's not a problem. But we typically pick one or two for the day depending on the activity and leave the rest.
For example on a hike we might bring the 18-250, the macro and 80-320. But this totally depends on the season. Of there are now flowers the macro tends to stay at home.
Or if birding we might only bring the 150-500 and the 40mm macro.
Or in town maybe the fish eye, and the 18-250, and 50mm.
it covers the whole spectrum.
Is there a reason you need the backup? Is it for the macro? Is it for the extra light? Is it because the 40mm XS wouldn't make a good back up for some reason?
The 40 actually would be a good backup. Ilk have to reconsider.
So I've skimmed the threads for the 35-105. I should probably use it more, considering some of the reviews. I do find it heavy, and unless I'm shooting stationary objects I'm useless for manual focus. Unless shooting on an old ME.


This is a foggy shot of Alcatraz from the wharf area. Its often foggy so don't wait for a sunny day to visit! Its also grimy inside, so be careful what you touch. You need to get tickets from the Blue and Gold fleet (usually a day or so beforehand) to get there.
The TransAmerica building, its right downtown.
Another shot of colorful Chinatown, which is probably the cheapest place in SF for souvenirs.
Moody Monday entry: Fashionable, Bush bashing is very fashionable lately.
Coincidentally I took this picture about the same time as San Francisco Daily Photography posted his. Seeing that he did it in black and white, I immediately copied his good idea. His angle makes his picture more interesting. Anyway, the guy stands on that corner in Chinatown quite a bit and waves his signs around.
Barbary Coast Trail sign San Francisco California.
I thought about cropping the cigarette out, but decided to go with the authentic look. The Barbary Coast Trail is a halfway decent walking tour of San Francisco. It covers Union Square, Chinatown, North Beach, and Fisherman's Wharf. Some of the stops are a bit obscure, and I hated waiting for the cable car at the end to take me back to the start because there is always a big line for the cable cars. The entire walk is a decent hike, so don't go on it with someone who is not at least halfway into walking or you'll have to stop every block, it is pretty hilly in parts. Dougan's World has more.
This is the way my head naturally slants, I just fix the rest of the pictures.
The San Francisco Skyline from the East Bay a few days ago.
San Francisco from the north.
A part of the city as seen from Highway 1 near Muir woods. The golden gate bridge is blocked by the hills. A nice drive on a sunny day.
It was a nice weekend!
Of the many types of birds that live around the San Francisco bay, I think the pelican is the most interesting.
A Christmas tree in a union square shop.
Banana slugs of Alcatraz island.
Bklasky has more on the slugs.
I posted previously on Pier 39 here.
San Francisco Pier 39 sea lions.
The sea lions hang out by pier 39. Sometimes you get lots like this picture or sometimes you only get a couple rafts full, although lately they're always full. Its generally hard to out-stink a place where fisherman frequent, but the sea lions manage to do it with style. If you have visions of yourself swimming with them like dolphins, forget it, they have known to attack swimmers. Its worth a visit if you're doing the touristy thing, and if you get bit, you'll have a scar to show off to your buddies. John's Blog has more on the area.
Golden Gate bridge from east bay.
A view of the Golden Gate bridge from an east bay park (Point Isabel, Richmond). I like the clouds over the hill (not sure what its called) in Marin.
SF Zoo, saddest elephant ever.
The San Francisco Zoo is not a known for being a great zoo for good reason. Its out of the way and something you can see in every other semi-major city. I would skip it and all other bay area zoos unless you're a big zoo buff. Rich Burridge's Blog has a lot more information and a bit more at Master of 500 Hats.
Its worth the visit even on a foggy winter day. More pictures at Carl Mercier's blog and David Farrar's blog.
USS Pampanito in the San Francisco Bay.
This is a close up of the sub yesterday, the USS Pampanito. It and the ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien are currently parked at pier 45, fisherman's wharf. I suggest gawking from the pier unless you're a big navy buff. Yelp, John's Blog, and Tangily Mooed's Blog have more.
Sub and ship with alcatraz in the background.
Golden gate bridge from the bay.
Union square San Francisco California.
Christmas and palm trees in the same shot! Downtown San Francisco's Union Square is a modest place, with quaint boutiques and hand-made craft shops galore. Oh wait, nevermind that, its a place where you shop until you drop where only the brightest and loudest succeed in getting your attention. Its crowded, but thats part of the fun, who doesn't like silver men doing the robot? Might as well walk around at least once if you visit, its as real as any other part of SF. Take the BART to the Powell Street station to get there. Don't plan on staying in a hotel here unless you think $300 a night is a bargain. Union Square is on the Barbary Coast Trail.
San Francisco bay tour boat.
A tour boat parked at the wharf, how many millions of people have these boats taken on their one hour cruise? I posted more about the tours here. There is more from Nodge, who I suspect never had fun in his life. It is generally windy on the ocean though, he's got that right, especially when your boat is racing along at 30mph. The bay is usually calmer but colder in the morning.


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3 masquerade (noun) making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth"
(verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as the expert on the Internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"
5 discrepant (adjective satellite) not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements"
(noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; "he gave credence to the gossip"; "acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years"
8 effrontery (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
10 discredit (noun) the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"
12 cursory (adjective satellite) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
15 reunite (verb) unify again, as of a country; "Will Korea reunify?"
16 antiquate (verb) give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"
17 ultimate (adjective satellite) being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
(adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
(adjective satellite) being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple"
19 noisy (adjective) full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds; "a noisy cafeteria"; "a small noisy dog"
(verb) squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
(verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
(adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons"
23 forbearance (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
24 effete (adjective satellite) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
(verb) place too much a load on; "don't overload the car"
(verb) fill to an excessive degree; "The air was surcharged with tension"
(verb) fill to capacity with people; "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
27 harmonious (adjective satellite) existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships"
28 persevere (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
29 seance (noun) a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor"
30 vigilance (noun) vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble"
31 despondent (adjective satellite) without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
34 impeccable (adjective satellite) without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"
37 magisterial (adjective satellite) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
(adjective) of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"
39 obnoxious (adjective satellite) causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
43 sapiential (adjective satellite) characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God; "a sapiential government"
47 tractable (adjective satellite) readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"
49 servitude (noun) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"
52 penurious (adjective satellite) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
53 extinct (adjective) of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
(adjective satellite) of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
(adjective) no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"


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require 'spec_helper'

describe Railsyard::Backend::Controller::Authorization do

  before do
    class Foobar
      include Railsyard::Backend::Controller::Authorization
    end
  end

  subject { Foobar.new }

  describe ".authorizer" do

    it "defaults to Railsyard::Authorization::None" do
      Railsyard.stubs(:authorization_adapter).returns(nil)
      Railsyard.stubs(:authorizer_initializer).returns(nil)
      subject.authorizer.should be_a Railsyard::Authorization::None
    end

    it "uses the configured adapter + given block otherwise" do
      custom_adapter = stub
      custom_adapter_class = stub
      custom_adapter_class.expects(:new).with(subject).returns(custom_adapter)

      Railsyard.stubs(:authorization_adapter).returns(custom_adapter_class)
      Railsyard.stubs(:authorizer_initializer).returns(Proc.new { |param|
        param.should == custom_adapter
      })

      subject.authorizer.should == custom_adapter
    end

  end

  describe ".authorize!" do

    it "delegates to authorizer" do
      user = stub
      authorizer = mock
      authorizer.expects(:authorize!)

      subject.stubs(:authorizer).returns(authorizer)
      subject.authorize!
    end

    it "returns nil if there's no authorizer" do
      subject.stubs(:authorizer).returns(nil)
      subject.authorize!.should be_nil
    end

  end

end

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Monki has a Lights On Mix from Fono, plus there is another Simmer Down Selection.
All corners of the club in the mix from house to electronica to bass.
Steve Lawler is Pete's Club Scout, plus Justin Jay puts together the After-Hours Mix.
Black Coffee has the After-Hours Mix, plus Club Scouts heads to Miami.
Monki has a Lights On Mix from Applebottom and a special half-hour Best of British mix.
Monki has a special Lights On Mix from Kokiri.
B.Traits - forward thinking,underground dance music.
Grime, house and garage in the mix - with Bondax in the mix.
Another chance to hear the previous week's Toddla T show.
Meridian Dan passes through and chats to Toddla.
The Antiserum Where U Been?
George FitzGerald plays house and techno with real thought and soul.
Bristol's GotSome provide the Mixfluence, and Eats Everything picks a Rave Digger Anthem.
Upfront club music with groove, rhythm and soul.


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require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..','..','..','puppet/provider/ovs_base')

Puppet::Type.type(:l2_bridge).provide(:ovs, :parent => Puppet::Provider::Ovs_base) do
  commands   :vsctl       => 'ovs-vsctl',
             :ethtool_cmd => 'ethtool',
             :brctl       => 'brctl',
             :iproute     => 'ip'

  def self.skip_port_for?(port_props)
    port_props[:br_type] != 'ovs'
  end

  def self.get_instances(big_hash)
    big_hash[:bridge]
  end

  # def self.instances
  #   rv = super
  #   #debug("#{rv.inspect}")
  # end

  #-----------------------------------------------------------------

  def create
    debug("CREATE resource: #{@resource}")
    @old_property_hash = {}
    @property_flush = {}.merge! @resource
    #
    vsctl('add-br', @resource[:bridge])
    iproute('link', 'set', 'up', 'dev', @resource[:bridge])
    notice("bridge '#{@resource[:bridge]}' created.")
  end

  def destroy
    iproute('link', 'set', 'down', 'dev', @resource[:bridge])
    vsctl("del-br", @resource[:bridge])
  end

  def flush
    if ! @property_flush.empty?
      debug("FLUSH properties: #{@property_flush}")
      #
      # FLUSH changed properties
      if @property_flush.has_key? :stp
        vsctl('set', 'Bridge', @resource[:bridge], "stp_enable=#{@property_flush[:stp]}")
      end
      if @property_flush.has_key? :external_ids
        old_ids = (@old_property_hash[:external_ids] || {})
        new_ids = @property_flush[:external_ids]
        #todo(sv): calculate deltas and remove unnided.
        new_ids.each_pair do |k,v|
          if !  old_ids.has_key?(k)
            vsctl("br-set-external-id", @resource[:bridge], k, v)
          end
        end
      end
      #
      @property_hash = resource.to_hash
    end
  end

  #-----------------------------------------------------------------
  def br_type
    @property_hash[:br_type] || :absent
  end
  def br_type=(val)
    @property_flush[:br_type] = val
  end

  def external_ids
    # result = vsctl("br-get-external-id", @resource[:bridge])
    vs = (@property_hash[:vendor_specific] || {})
    result = (vs[:external_ids] || '')
    return result #.split("\n").join(",")
  end
  def external_ids=(val)
    @property_flush[:external_ids] = val
  end

  def vendor_specific
    @property_hash[:vendor_specific] || :absent
  end
  def vendor_specific=(val)
    @property_flush[:vendor_specific] = val
  end

  def stp
    # puppet has internal trancformation, and we shouldn't use boolean values. it works unstable!!!
    @property_hash[:stp].to_s.to_sym
  end
  def stp=(val)
    @property_flush[:stp] = (val.to_s.downcase.to_sym==:true)
  end

  #-----------------------------------------------------------------

  def _split(string, splitter=",")
    return Hash[string.split(splitter).map{|i| i.split("=")}]
  end

end
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Many poker players definitely enjoy the game of seven card stud, but some of them only know the basics, so they cannot fully comprehend the totality of the game. That's why it is significant for an aspiring player to know every bit of information about the game, so that the player can strategize better to win the game.
The world of poker has its own terms when it comes to hand values, face cards, etc., so if youre a novice and you want to learn the game of seven-card stud poker, then you should take the time to learn the language of poker.
1. High Card These are cards valuing from tens to aces.
2. Low Card These are cards from two to nine.
3. Concealed Pairs- These are the hidden cards or your hole cards.
4. Split Pairs This is the starting card where one is hidden and one is visible to your opponents.
5. Door Card – This is a set of cards given to players at the start of the game, and this consists of two face-down cards and one-face up card.
In seven-card stud, you must understand that there are several betting rounds, so a player must plan his every move in every round. He should also develop the ability to assess every situation as the chances of taking home the jackpot would only be possible if you are very wise in every step/decision you make.
The game of poker is definitely unpredictable, so a player must learn when to adjust his strategies in order to stay in the game and win the pot. In seven-card stud, a player must decide when to fast play and when to slow play. These depend on different situations.
When using the fast-play strategy, you must consider the cards that you have. You must apply the fast-play strategy if you have high cards in your hand. You can also play aggressively to eliminate players from each round, and to do this, you can bet, raise and re-raise.
On the other hand, using the slow-play strategy is effective when you have draw cards. In this case, you need a slower pace in order for you to gain some opportunity to improve your card at the end of every round. In slow-playing, you only need to call or check. If your hand improves, then you must switch gears and go to fast-play mode. But if it doesn't, then you must to fold to avoid losing more money.


All dogs are good dogs, Observer can confirm. ANU students were lucky enough to have visits from a variety of extremely good dogs to help weather the trials of elections. These floofs proved useful for both recently harangued voters and endlessly ignored candidates. This is doggos of the election, explained.
The job of a dog is straightforward: be the goodest boy possible (dogs of all genders are good boys). But just because this task is straightforward does not mean it is easy. Those that want to be perfect puppers must balance behaviour, cleverness, appearance, and pat-ability.
Description: Observer didn't get to meet Barney, as he was only out and about on Monday morning – a good strategy, as this is when people need doggos the most! Barney is an adorable eight month old pupper who got "a little bit too excited" as a result of all of the attention he got. Perhaps he just got a little too 'Shaken Up'.
Description: Magic's presence certainly was magical. He was a very good boy: the clever pupper was on campus almost all day on Tuesday, despite only being about a year old. His excellent and pat-able coat upheld Lift's promise of "free hugs". He was occasionally distracted from his duty to students by the smell of the nearby barbeque.
Description: Stanley is a weiner dog well versed in the world of BNOCs (big names on campus): he belongs to former Woroni Editor-in-Chief, and current Bossy Editor-in-Chief, Bronte McHenry. You may remember him from such events as Semester 1 Market Day. Stanley did not just wait for students to fawn over him – he demanded pats. He viciously attacked (read: nibbled) a Probity Officer, but was somehow still allowed to attend the ANUSA OGM. That is true power.
Description: In an election that has talked a lot about gender, Luna is the only good girl we have seen (though she is still a good boy, as discussed above). This pup was not as calm as the bigger doggos brought in by other tickets, but she was by far the most pick-up-able. She also wins the prize for Softest Ears.
Description: Gandalf was the only dog lucky enough to be allowed in the Pop-Up – as it is not a PARSA exclusion zone. With great power comes great responsibility, and Gandalf was certainly up to it – he was a very well behaved doggo. He even sat and stayed for pictures with his human at a distance.
Description: Loki is 16 months old, so he's really still a big pupper. Described by many students as a "cloud on legs", he earns the title of Floofiest Doggo of the Election. He would also frequently pose with his tongue out, as shown here. His presence was definitely helpful for Howarth, who running as an independent did not have any signage, merchandise, or flyers. With Loki by his side, though, Howarth didn't need to bother: students came in droves to sink their hands and faces into Loki's super soft white fur.
Voting for all positions closes at 4pm today (24 August).


I decided to go to the county tax tribunal and plead for a lower tax burden knowing full well it would be denied. I did not have any proof that my property value has declined due to the fact Wixom Lake is now not a viable recreational waterway, in fact it's probably only good for fishing when you figure out how to get your boat on the water.
I knew the board would make a statement to the effect the water will be coming back up, and of course they did. Assuming for the moment the water does not come back up even for the summer, businesses like Strykers Marina will likely be bankrupt or seriously financially injured by the end of the summer as will the other marinas on the lake. All property owners will take tremendous losses on value and you won't need any advance proof that will happen.
Everyone knows about this issue, it's all over the news. Would you buy on Wixom Lake right now or even in the future if you think this can happen again?
Ultimately, this will totally end up on the county's doorstep if it is not resolved quickly. The devastation will be equally shared.
It appears there is a lot of maneuvering going on and the right hand doesn't even know where the left hand is let alone what it is doing, or why.


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Q: Make app start and remain in landscape mode How can I start my app in landscape mode, and keep the screen rotation that way?

A: - (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
 return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft ||
   interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}

A: Implement the view controller's shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method and return  UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(orientation);
Also set the Info.plist keys UIInterfaceOrientation and UISupportedInterfaceOrientations to UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft and UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight. UIInterfaceOrientation will take a single value so assign one of them and assign both of them to UISupportedInterfaceOrientations.

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Nassau legislators approve bill to let police sue protesters who harass, injure them
Aug 02, 2021, 9:50amUpdated on Aug 03, 2021
Nassau County legislators voted Monday to approve a bill that would allow police to sue protesters who harass or injure them.
The measure passed by a vote of 12 to 6, largely along party lines.
The bill would make Nassau police officers and other first responders a protected class under the county's human rights law. Nassau correction officers would also be protected.
It would allow police to sue protesters with fines ranging from $25,000 to $50,000.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran issued a statement saying, ""I'm proud of the dedicated first responders who've made Nassau the safest County in America, and I will continue to stand against defunding the police. My administration is committed to protecting the brave men and women of law enforcement who keep us safe. There were many speakers today who questioned this legislation. Now that it has been passed by the Legislature, I will be making an inquiry to the Attorney General's Office to review and provide some advice."
Legislators listened to dozens of residents for hours and at times the meeting had to be stopped while lawmakers asked people not to resort to name calling. There was even a chant of "pull the bill" that echoed through the packed chamber.
Legislator Josh Lafazan sponsored the bill. He said in a statement to News 12: "There is no justification for violence against law enforcement officers. And these bills will add further protections in law to protect Nassau County's finest as they protect us."
Civil rights activists say this is in retaliation to the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted following the death of George Floyd.
Civil rights attorney Fred Brewington says, "This is an enormous grant of power to police who don't need to have this power and also don't need to try to utilize a lawsuit that will basically silence individuals by threatening them that they could lose their livelihood, lose their property and their bank accounts."
Civil rights activists say it could have a chilling effect on demonstrations and protesters' First Amendment rights.
A member of the Lakeview branch of the NAACP says she's in complete disbelief that the bill passed. The NAACP member says, "I cannot believe that Nassau County legislators would vote and try to suppress the freedom of speech that we all have as citizens. I also am disturbed by the penalties that are associated with it."
A full copy of the bill can be found here.


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Home Travel TipsPlanning Israel: the amazing and vibrating Tel Aviv
First time in Israel: a country with an ancient past and a troubled modern history.
A childhood dream-destination for many travellers, and not only because of its relevance in religious tourism.
First stop: Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is a vibrating modern town, young in appearance but at the same time rich of history. An absolute must is Old Jaffa: a grid of alleys inhabited by artists with an intense presence of galleries and exhibitions.
Walking around the alleys of Old Jaffa, our attention was attracted by the many artworks shown through the simple buildings' windows and by the murals visible all along our path.
Among the many attractions of this place, the Ilana Goor Museum deserves no doubt a visit. Built in the XVIII century, it has been an inn for Jewish Pilgrims arriving from the Port of Jaffa on their way to Jerusalem for about 100 years, before becoming a soap factory in XIX century. In 1949 the building hosted a synagogue and in 1983 Israeli artist Ilana Goor purchased it as her residence and later on established a museum where she could display her artworks and her huge art collection. The displayed pieces come from all over the world and space over any kind of creative expression, including paintings, sculpltures, tribal art, video performances and design items handpicked by Goor herself, resulting in an overall impression shining with personality and charm.
Also to be found in Old Jaffa is the unmissable Flea Market, a true paradise for curious and meddling people fond of this kind of venues. Whatever you are seeking, you will find it here: from old mobile's battery chargers to hidden treasures such as precious antiques and forgotten cult items. Lots of tourists enjoy spending their time here observing sellers and buyers lively bargaining for any cent, until another piece of history moves to the hands of its new owner.
Walking along a promenade with an astonishing view of the city skyline, visitors can reach Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv's main business street where the most expensive shops, restaurants and hotels can be found. The most important building in this corner of the town is Rothschild House, built by one the city's founding family in 1909. The whole boulevard is a UNESCO World Hertage and it is known as 'White City' for its characteristic Bauhaus style.
The area is crossed by a popoular cycle lane and a tree-lined road, and it opens to Habima Square, whose reputation as a cultural centre is boosted by attractions as the Habima Theatre, the Auditorium and Helena Rubinstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art .
But what really impressed us more than anything else has been Tel Aviv's night life. All kind of people, of any age and cultural background, are crowd the promenade's restaurants and bars, in such a fancy mixture that even London or New York would be jealous. Rothschild Boulevard is heart of such night life, where any sort of places can be found, including gay bars, music clubs, live performances, and much more, to entertain visitors and locals all night long.
Who would have guessed?
Where's Tel Aviv?
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When the War Comes / Až přijde válka
Czech Republic, Croatia 2018
web web2 trailer interview director
Directed by Jan Gebert, documentary, 76 min, eng subtitles, 16+ Written by Jan Gebert
Thursday 18.10.2018
Neimënster (Salle Krieps)
with the director, followed by a discussion
"I guess I'm dominant. I like giving orders." Petr, the protagonist of Jan Gebert's chilling documentary, smiles sheepishly during his graduation exam as he compares himself to a literary character. The reality, however, is somewhat different, for this teenager also leads a group called Slovak Recruits, a paramilitary organisation whose goal is "to defend and preserve the nation". We see Peter recruiting young men and submitting them to a humiliating military drill which clearly goes beyond merely "playing at soldiers". It is Full Metal Jacket in real life. And, by stepping back and taking into account Peter´s self-confessed longer-term ambitions, we get a picture not only of this angry young man´s desire to take things into his own hands, but also of a specific social atmosphere in which his extremist views, which are gaining appeal under the pretext of protecting traditional national values, meet little resistance on their way to becoming mainstream. The film was screened in this year's Berlinale´s Panorama section.
Berlin IFF 2018 (Panorama)
The film will be preceded by a special screening of the short film Europa im Herbst. Polska rodzinka by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron (Luxembourg, 2018, 8 min).
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SHIELD Helicarrier – 3 feet long!
Repaints of the Justice Jet and 4×4 from the Captain America First Avenger Movie toyline.
Marvel. SUCKFEST. Saw all the Avengers and Spidey stuff. Oh boy, is it bad. Articulation on the Avengers stuff has been cut way back across the line. Most have no body, wrist or ankle movement. The Spidey stuff all has T crotches. On the plus side, there are lots of vehicles coming out for the Avengers movie. The Justice jet gets an IM style repaint, there's a new Cap vehicle that looked like a small tank with wheels, the Quinjet and the f*****g HELICARRIER!
Helicarrier is three feet long, has the usual firing missiles and s***. Looks pretty good but is only big enough for the Quinjet to fit on it's runway. The Quinjet is pretty big. Only one figure can fit in the cockpit but it has other opening panels and stuff. There were no new Avengers figures apart from what has already been seen.
The Spidey stuff is horrible, just repaints of the same buck. Lizard is ok, but the design of his head is crap. He doesn't have the long snout. Massive fail.
Images and descriptions of the new vehicles can be seen after the jump!
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