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Blue Ivy Is Every Kid In This Video Of Her Busting Tina Knowles Lawson For Breaking The Rules
by Michelle Stein
Setting and enforcing rules is something that not only keeps kids safe, it also helps keep caregivers sane. With that said, it's natural for young children to selectively follow certain rules (like jumping on the couch when they think no one is paying attention). But by golly, they will be the first to point out when other people aren't doing what they're supposed to. Sometimes, this can be extremely inconvenient — like when you're trying to sneak in snacks and candy at the movie theater. Of if you're Tina Lawson "illegally" recording a video at the Paris ballet. That's because Blue Ivy busted her grandma for breaking the rules, and the video is so relatable.
Recently, Beyoncé Knowles' mother, Tina Lawson, was filming herself marveling over a Paris theater, where they were getting ready to watch the ballet, Elle reported. "I'm in Paris, France, and I'm at the most beautiful theatre I've ever seen in my life about to look at the ballet. It's a walking ballet, it's so cool," Lawson said, according to the Daily Mail. As Lawson was showing off the beautiful architecture, viewers can clearly hear Blue Ivy ratting out her grandma. "You're not supposed to take videos, Grandma! You're not supposed to," the 6-year-old insists, as Lawson completely ignores her and continues talking. (LOL.)
"Such a gorgeous theatre," Lawson eventually says toward the end of her clip. "The architecture is beautiful. Really pretty." Despite Lawson's blatant disregard for the rules, the famous grandma went ahead and posted the video Wednesday on Instagram. She captioned masterpiece with, "When you are trying to sneak a video," along with a laugh-crying emoji for good measure.
Of course, plenty of Instagram users thought it was funny — and not to mention, an all-too-relatable moment. "Hahaha! Busted grandma," one follower commented.
"These kids will snitch on all of us," another person wrote. "I thought Grandmas could make it, but no."
"If you snuck in food...don't tell Blue," another follower warned.
"Haha awwww kids always ratting ya out," yet another commented.
Still, not everyone could relate. (Because the internet.) Other Instagram users viewed Blue Ivy's behavior as disrespectful, and they took Lawson's video as an opportunity to criticize Beyoncé and JAY-Z's oldest child.
"Raising a rude and spoiled little monster," one disgruntled follower commented. "Money don't buy class."
"Tina tell her to hush up!" another person urged. "Yall are the grown ups stop letting blue tell u and her parents wat to do OMG SHE'S A LIL GIRL."
Um, wow. Personally, as a parent, I thought the video was funny and relatable. Because kids Blue Ivy's age — like my son — apparently take great delight in calling people out who aren't following the rules. For example: The first few times he was aware that we weren't technically supposed to be bringing outside snacks into the movie theater, he was highly concerned about my smuggled treats. And he made it a point to scold me loudly while inside the theater. It's a weird thing, though, if you think about it. Although my transgression was "harmless," purposefully breaking rules in front of your own kid seems like a slippery slope.
Of course, Blue Ivy ratting out her grandma isn't the first time she revealed her adorably authoritative side. Back in January, Bey and JAY-Z's eldest child hilariously shushed her parents when they were clapping during the Grammy Awards, Us Weekly reported. The power couple was reportedly clapping during Camila Cabello's moving speech at the time — and it isn't clear whether Blue wanted her parents to let her finish before applauding, or if the clapping was just too loud. Either way, the clip is pure gold.
I mean, what parent hasn't had their child try to shush them out of embarrassment? Or point out when rules are being broken? It kind of seems like a universal thing to me. Which is precisely why I suspect the internet strangers throwing shade at Blue Ivy for being "bossy" or "disrespectful" aren't actually parents. It's cute and harmless; take a chill pill, folks. Besides, for a 6-year-old having to sit through boring adult situations, I'd say her behavior is more than appropriate.


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Q: How to Submit Deeply Nested Resource using Restful APIs (HATEOAS) Say I have an application resource that contains contact details resources, and contact details contains addresses resources.
Eg.
Application
--> Name
--> Application Amount
--> Application Contacts
--> --> Contact 1
--> --> --> Address
--> --> Contact 2
--> --> --> Address

When doing a POST to Application, I am creating the root application.
For all sub resources like Application Contacts, I do a POST to create Contact 1 etc...
My question is, Application = to submit somewhere for processing, but I do not want to submit it before everything is filled in, aka all children resources.
So the order of submission
1) Create Application Resource --> POST /Application --> Get ID
2) Create Contact 1 Resource --> POST /Application/id/Contacts --> Get ID
3) Create Contact 1 Address Resource --> POST /Application/id/Contacts/id/Addresses
4) Create Contact 2 Resource --> POST /Application/id/Contacts --> Get ID
5) Create Contact 2 Address Resource --> POST /Application/id/Contacts/id/Addresses
6) DECIDE TO SUBMIT HERE <--- ?? HOW?

Josh

A: Your design isn't RESTful. Your resources are probably 1-to-1 mappings with your business entities? I don't advise this, because it exposes the guts of your domain model to the outside world, which can cause versioning problems. It also makes problems like this harder than they need to be - although you might be using a REST framework that forces this design on you :-( .
The thing to remember is that resources in REST are abstract representations of the element of your domain model that you want the outside world to see, and they may well need mapping and transformation before they can be converted to domain objects. They can be arbitrarily complex.
The solution here, I'd say, is to let the POST to create the Application also create the Contacts and their Addresses. The client can then either supply URLs for existing Contacts and Addresses (which the server can dereference to the domain objects), or the necessary details to create new ones in a single POST. Then the responsibility of creating and associating the entities in a transactional way falls upon the server. It just returns a reference to the URL that identifies the new Application. If you need to know the URLs for the Contacts, then you re-GET the Application, and it will contain them.
Assuming a JSON mime type for your resource, the initial POST might look like this:

{
    Name: "Application name",
    Amount: "123.00",
    Contacts: [
        {
            Name: "Contact name",
            Address: {
                HouseNumber: "45",
                StreetName : "Sesame Street"
            }
        }
    ]
}
Return: {href:  "/Application/6789"}

A GET to /Application/6789 would then return something like:

{
    Name: "Application name",
    Amount: "123.00",
    Contacts: [
        { mimeType: "application/vnd.com.myStuff.contact+json", href: "/Contact/203" }
    ]
}

A: Hope I understood your question correctly. Let me know if I missed the point and can always come back with something new.
So if all the "sub-resources" are already created from step-1 to step-5. In each of the step, there should be a returned ID to confirm the successful creation of the resource. Like,
POST /Application
Return: {appid:  "/Application/id"}

Thus, as soon as the step-5 POST returns, the last resource is created.  Then the next step is to start the application 'processing'.
"Application Processing" could be thought as a resource, and the business actions are: "create the processing" resource and "Check for processing results"
They can be modeled using POST and GET respectively on the 'Processing' resource.
To create the processing resource
POST /Application/id/Processing
Return:  {processingid: "/Application/id/Processing/id"}

To check the processing resource
GET /Application/id/Processing/id
Return: {processingid: "/Application/id/Processing/id", <other info>}

To get the whole application back,
GET /Application/id
Return: {all info on the application including processing status as well…}

Hope this help.

A: Most likely you will have a status field of some sort to indicate whether application has been submitted or not. In this case I would suggest the following two approaches:
1) Post to an application resource with its status field set to a proper value to indicate your intent:
POST /application/654321
status=submitted...

Here is the quote from Fielding Dissertation:

"REST components perform actions on a resource by using a
  representation to capture the current or intended state of that
  resource and transferring that representation between components."

2) Post an application to a specific collection /submittedapplications which you can also use to search your submitted apps via GET:
POST /submittedapplications
id=654321...

Since there are most likely additional processing steps beyond just updating the application resource you should use POST verb to indicate that double submission is not OK.
BTW both approaches are not mutually exclusive, you can certainly implement both in the same API.

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A cylinder guard must provide the safe protection of the cylinder valve against impact. However it has other important features which are often overlooked such as ergonomics, for the grip and handling of the bottle, and aesthetics for brand differentiation. Guards come in various designs to suit their applications. Material choices vary with polymers an increasingly popular choice as it enables good value for money and lots of aesthetic options. Other qualities such as corrosion resistance and impact recovery make it a desirable option. However, tools required for the injection moulding are expensive and have long lead times. Getting a design wrong can have a disastrous effect on a company's product release schedule and bottom line.
Simpact Engineering Ltd, based in Warwick, are a CAE (Computer Aided Engineering ) consultancy who specialise in the use of advanced modelling &simulation tools for the virtual development of new products. Originally operating in the automotive market for vehicle crash testing, they have diversified into several markets and been at the forefront of the use of CAE in the packaged gas industry. This article summarises the application of CAE for the advanced design and development of a new protective guard for GCE's Combilite valve for larger 30L cylinders which needed to pass drop tests at weights of 80kg (EN ISO 1117).
Step 1, Concept Design – A selection of guard concepts were generated in CAD with the given design brief and initial meetings with GCE. These were generated using CAD design software and used to discuss design space, refill and operating access, ergonomic, material and cost requirements. GCE reviewed these with potential customers and users choosing the highlighted guard for development.
An FEA (Finite Element Analysis) model of the complete cylinder assembly with the above guard was generated using the Altair HyperWorks software. This replicated the drop test described in EN ISO 1117. The image below (left) is a cross section of the FEA model in which Simpact have perfected a technique to include the fluid that sloshes inside the cylinder on impact (seen as spheres). The model takes around 2hrs to run on a multi CPU high end PC.
The developed model allowed Simpact to make a detailed assessment (see image below right) of the protection offered to the valve, enabling the geometry of the guard to be tuned to give a robust pass of the drop test. In addition to the drop tests described in EN ISO 1117, GCE had a number of in-house loadcases which were derived from some common handling scenarios. The design was assessed with the FEA model against these and included a crane lift and kerb drop.
Nylon 66 was the chosen material for the guard and as there are different grades and manufactures of this material (such as DuPont Zytel, Grilon etc.) the model was used to investigate which material offered the most economical solution (the FEA model requires material mechanical properties as input and these were obtained from the tensile testing of dog bone samples provided by the materials provider).
The CAD model of the guard was updated with the design refinements from Step 2 and rendered using the 3D Studio Max Design software. By building various environments (industrial and medical) this allowed GCE to visualise the new guard in anticipated uses. This proved to be a highly effective way of communicating the new design throughout the company and to potential customers.
Once the design was signed off, Simpact's supplier, Malcolm Nicholls Ltd, was commissioned to produce a rapid prototype model of the guard.
This was printed in a rigid resin using SLA (Stereolithography) technology and the main purpose of the rapid prototype was to allow GCE to carry out a fit and function assessment with their existing valves and cylinders and receive customer feedback.


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Jennifer Irina Arveláez Padrin (born 28 October 1982) is a retired Venezuelan athlete who competed in the long jump and triple jump. She won multiple medals on regional level.

Her personal bests are 6.03 metres (Ponce 2006) in the long jump and 13.76 metres in the triple jump (Barinas 2007).

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Living people
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Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
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The official name of the school remains the Walter A. Haas School of Business. However, the official name is now used only in limited cases, such as diplomas from the school. Please contact the Marketing and Communications Office if you have any questions about when and where to use "Walter A. Haas" in the school name.
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Obama, Reid, other Congressmen Push Homosexuals in Military
To liberal Americans, who worship Europe and other nations, the world's greatest defense establishment (the American military) is seen as just a playground for their sexualization experiments.
UPDATE 9/30/09: Boston Globe implies Pentagon wants to rescind ban on homosexuals in military
-- From "Reid Backs Plan to Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy" by Carl Hulse, posted at The New York Times 7/14/09
With a possible fight brewing in Congress over repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, came down . . . solidly in favor of eliminating the ban.
"We're having trouble getting people into the military," Mr. Reid told reporters when questioned about whether he could support an 18-month moratorium on enforcing a prohibition on gays in the armed forces. "And I think that we shouldn't turn down anybody that's willing to fight for our country, certainly based on sexual orientation."
Mr. Reid said he would go the proposal, being considered by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, one better and support a permanent repeal of the ban.
From "Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate" by David Crary, The Associated Press 7/13/09
When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries - and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
In the United States, more than 12,000 service members - including dozens of highly trained Arabic linguists - have been dismissed since 1994 because it became known they were gay. . . .
In Britain, on the other hand, gay and lesbian service members marched in crisp uniforms in the annual Pride London parade July 4. Gay Australian soldiers and sailors had their own float in Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras parade. In Israel, the army magazine earlier this year featured two male soldiers on the cover, hugging one another.
America's "don't ask, don't tell" policy - which prohibits gays from serving openly in the armed forces - is the target of intensifying opposition, and President Barack Obama says he favors lifting the ban. But he wants to win over skeptics in Congress and the Pentagon, and a fierce debate lies ahead that will inevitably touch on the experiences of allied nations that have no bans.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, has just launched a campaign for a bill to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." He observed British troops in Iraq operating smoothly with a serve-openly policy and bristles at the contention that America's armed forces would suffer morale and recruiting problems if they followed suit.
"We are the military leaders in the world - everybody wants to be like us," said Brian Jones, a retired sergeant major who served in the Army Rangers. "Why in the world would we try to adjust our military model to be like them?"
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Reggae Boyz whip Cayman in Nations League opener
@Normal:Jamaica players Adrian Mariappa (left) and Michael Hector celebrate with goal-scorer Cory Burke (right) during the Jamaica vs Cayman Islands Concacaf Nations League match at the National Stadium on Sunday night.
Jamaica's Reggae Boyz barely broke a sweat as they turned in a dominant display to thrash the Cayman Islands 4-0 in their opening match in the CONCACAF League of Nations encounter at the National Stadium last evening.
Darren Mattocks (2nd and 58th) and Cory Burke (35th and 66th) both scored braces for the Boyz, who were coming off a 2-0 loss to South American team Ecuador in a friendly international in New York last Friday.
Despite dominating the first period, the Jamaicans only had two goals to show against their neighbours, who kept all their 11 players behind the ball for the entire half, as they looked to frustrate the hosts.
When Mattocks gave the Jamaicans the lead shortly after the kick-off by heading in a Owayne Gordon left-sided cross, it seemed the floodgates would open right away, but the Jamaicans were made to wait for their next goal.
Gordon, who had an excellent game for the Reggae Boyz, also assisted on the hosts second goal, putting the ball on a platter for Burke to score into an empty goal. Jamaica's custodian and captain Andre Blake had little to do in the first stanza, as The Cayman Islands team failed to register a shot on target.
NEAT FINISH
Mattocks, who plies his trade for DC United in Major League Soccer, bagged his second goal of the match 13 minutes into the second period, when he headed home a cross from the returning Adrian Mariappa. Burke, who also plies his trade in the MLS for the Philadelphia Union, scored his second goal of the match with a neat finish from 12 yards out.
Substitute Alex Marshall, playing in his first match for the Reggae Boyz at the National Stadium, came close to scoring 10 minutes later, but after dribbling his way past three defenders, his skied his effort from 10 yards out with the goalkeeper at his mercy.
The Reggae Boyz had to play the final 17 minutes of the match with 10 players after substitute Javon East was forced off with an ankle injury.
Jamaica will travel to Curacao on October 14 to take Bonaire in their second match of the tournament. They will then host Suriname at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on November 14.


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Evil Dead The Game (PS4/5)
Powah Dunk | May 17, 2022 | Review | No Comments
Evil Dead is a cult horror franchise that boosted cheesy one-liners and chins that could cut glass into the mainstream, it has been years since we saw Ash in the medium of video games and Evil Dead The Game is here to hold fans after Ash and the Ghost Beaters got cancelled.
First, Evil Dead The Game is a mostly multiplayer experience, while there are currently 5 single-player missions where you unlock costumes, audio recordings and extra characters it isn't exactly what I would call a substantial meal.
The missions generally teach you how to get to grips with the game as survivors after you've played through the brief tutorial, they are a great way of learning the map and getting a cheeky dose of fanservice, the first mission involves the task of taking Linda's head to the shed!.
There are tons of references within the missions to the 3 Bruce Campbell lead films and Ash Vs Evil Dead, safe to say if you aren't familiar with the exploits of Ashley J Williams a lot of this isn't going to appeal to you.
Evil Dead The Game is for want of a better word, nice to look at, graphically pleasing even and has plenty of the ol' red stuff that the franchise is known for.
Sadly you can't tweak any of the in-game graphics which means especially on consoles you've got to live with an unhealthy amount of motion blur, you can remedy this on PC but not so far on consoles.
Many of the original voice actors are back and of course, front and centre is Bruce Campbell voicing 4 different versions of Ash, the music and sound effects while fine initially don't seem quite well mixed and tend to drown each other out when things get a little hectic.
The main bulk of Evil Dead The Game is a 4 Vs 1 competitive multiplayer involving 4 "Survivors" trying to stop the Demon who is controlled by another player.
This is done by finding 3 pieces of a map, then collecting the Kandarian Dagger and some Lost Pages from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, then using these you banish "The Dark Ones" and then have to defend the Necronomicon from being destroyed before it can seal away Evil.
Matches usually consist of the Survivor team running around a giant map comprised of places from The Evil Dead and Ash Vs Evil Dead, scavenging for supplies and weapons before taking on the objectives while the Demon sets out to make your job hell.
Survivors are broken down into archetypes, leaders, warriors, hunters and support and have abilities suited to that type, you have melee weapons such as Ash's iconic chainsaw to hand axes and spades and of course, you've got ranged weapons because what Evil Dead game would be worth it's salt if it didn't have a Boomstick?.
Each hero type has certain abilities such as Cheryl Williams who is a supporting character and can drop a heal with an AOE and Scotty who's a warrior who can shout, causing enemies damage and pushing them back.
You'll get further perks through levelling up characters, this is done through use or using "Spirit Points" which are gained through online matches, you then dive into the stat tree and spend some precious skill points.
Combat is mostly melee focused with a weak and heavy attack, a "finisher" style move if you knock the foe off of their balance bar as well as a dodge attack which is tied to a stamina bar, you find Shemp's Cola which fills your health and amulets which grant you a shield, finally Pink F drinks allow you to improve stats mid-match to help you stand against the ever-growing Demonic presence.
Demons select from 1 of 3 armies, traditional deadites, the electric alien type of deadite and the undead army from Army of Darkness led by the imposing Evil Ash.
You glide around the stage in first person much like "The Entity" from the films, trying to scare and kill the Survivors ensuring Evil can continue to roam the land.
You collect orbs of "Evil Intent" as you fly around and this powers your abilities, you can spawn troops, possess vehicles, trees and survivors, charge survivors with a dash to bring up their fear and spawn playable boss characters to bring the heat.
Initially, you'll have little idea where your prey is until they start to make noise or drive vehicles, then you can start to hunt them down and bring up your skills by terrorising them and levelling up much in a similar way to survivors.
Being a horror title fear is a key component in the game, spend too long in the dark, keep triggering traps or spend too long around the demonic presence and you'll get scared, once this happens not only can the demon see wherever you are but can posses you causing all kinds of chaos.
Again each Demon team has its own particular sets of abilities and skills that you can unlock through playing as them or again via spirit points, while all playing slightly different than each other it seems the current flavour of the week is Evil Ash as 9 out of 10 times you'll be facing him down.
Over the last few days, I've polished off all the missions and played a lot of the game online thanks to a healthy player base, made even healthier due to cross-play with Xbox and PC.
Evil Dead The Game is a load of fun but does feel like after a few games you've seen everything it currently has to offer.
There is an Army of Darkness map coming soon but as it stands you have 1 large map and 1 set of objectives which starts to wear thin after a while, this is a shame as the game is a lot of fun even if it's mostly carried by fanservice.
While I'm not usually a fan of these online multiplayer experiences, I love Evil Dead The Game and will continue to play the game down the line with Season Pass 1 already being available. I would LOVE more objectives, maybe a horde or defence mode, basically I'm just begging for more combat.
Finally, a rather weird omission is there is no reference or content from The Evil Dead reboot which I would have loved to see, still, it's early days and will hopefully see much more content over the coming months.
Fun and full of fan service just a little light on content currently
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Q: colorbox ajax example on Mac Chrome has flicker when closing I'm checking out the colorBox examples in Chrome (Mac, 19.0.1084.46 on a MB Pro)
http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/example1/
Flash / Video (Ajax/Embedded)
Flash / Video (Iframe/Direct Link To YouTube)
Sometimes when I close the modal it disappears, but then flashes back on and disappears. It's just a split second and only happens in Chrome. I also see some flickering in the overlay for those samples. Anyone else see this? Any ideas for fixing?
Thanks!

A: I know it's an old post, but I was struggling  with the same flickering issue today. Here is what helped me: hiding the modal window content with onCleanup callback (it happens right before the modal closes).

A: For me, It seems to work perfectly fine. I do not see the modal appear and disappear in a split second after i close it, in chrome.
My chrome Version 19.0.1084.52


Ryan Andersen is an American composer and producer currently making music in Paris, France. Andersen has been writing music for the last 15 years and primarily creates soundtracks for media like podcasts, streaming video, film, television and advertising.
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For omnichannel retailers it is crucial to make sure that an item that has already been sold in the brick-and-mortar store isn't sold again in the web store. This is solved with NP Retail and NP Ecommerce as they have shared inventory.
Let's use this "Festina Classic Steel" watch as an example. It's for sale both in the brick-and-mortar store as well as the web store. In NP Retail you can look up the watch, by means of the "lookup" function. Here it is. As you can see, there is currently only one "Festina Classic Steel" watch in stock.
In the web store an online customer considers buying this particular Festina watch. Since the watch is currently in stock, it is possible to add the watch to the cart of the web store – but the customer hesitates.
Meanwhile another customer buys the watch in the brick-and-mortar store. This is how the purchase looks in NP Retail. The sales person finds the watch through the buttons on the left, adds the watch as a sales line, and presses "Go To Payment", then "Cash" and finishes by tapping the "OK"-button.
Let's go back to the web store and see how this affects the online customer. He has finally decided to buy the watch, so he presses "Add to Cart". However, since the watch is no longer in stock, the watch cannot be added to the cart, and the customer is therefore redirected to the product page of the watch, where he is also presented with a message informing him that the watch is currently out of stock.


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Posted on December 26, 2019	by bgibs122
Like every other music obsessive on Earth (and probably the more argumentative circuits in the Mars rover), I've put together a list of my favorite albums of the year. You, I assume, know this, and have probably put together your own list, too. As always, I'm making a list of my favorite albums of the year, not the most acclaimed ones or whatever "best" really means in this context, although it goes without saying that I'd describe all of these as being great.
While 2019 was great for albums, there wasn't one particular genre or scene that came to the forefront, which meant there was plenty of time to really dig into the stuff in your own little corner. It's likely that this is going to continue as we get further into a streaming world, but it's especially noticeable in year where most of the established stars are a no-show. But still, it was the kind of year where paring things down to a top 10 took a surprising amount of work, so, without further ado, let's begin.
15. The National – I Am Easy to Find
14. I Love Your Lifestyle – The Movie
13. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
12. Charly Bliss – Young Enough
11. Proper. – I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better
10. Chris Farren – Born Hot
Immortal being Chris Farren has spent over a decade living in the area where punk, indie, and pop all intersect, and Born Hot represents some of his best work. The trick with an artist like Farren, one who's constantly involved with some project or another (for instance, I first encountered him as half of Antarctigo Vespucci with Jeff Rosenstock), is that the constant output means the difference between "good" and "great" can often feel intangible, but Born Hot just clicks. The album draws a lot of pathos from binaries, like the one between the absurdist kitsch of the album rollout and the fact that it's an album about someone doubting their ability to love and be loved, or the one existing between opener "Bizzy" questioning everything about its protagonist and follow up "Love Theme From 'Born Hot,'" in which Farren implores his partner to just stay in love so they can avoid the hard questions. It's potentially heady stuff that never feels too pitying or suffocating against Farren's refined power-pop with a slight lounge music influence that never loses its spark over a 37 minute long runtime. Born Hot could fall by being either too undercooked conceptually or musically, but the album puts in the work and is a consistently rewarding listen because of it.
9. Willow – Willow
The Smith siblings' 2019 records this year are virtually a study in contrasts. Jaden's gauzy, busy rap album ERYS works itself into knots it can't untangle, while Willow's lush, self-titled effort (billed as an album but clocking at an EP-ish 22 minutes) unfurls at its own pace. Willow's casual pace matches its deliberating psych-soul production, which goes heavy on guitars and atmospherics without getting lost in its own vibe or having any redundant songs. Rather, the entire album flows nicely from one track to the next, and Willow's voice, possessing a distinct timbre, is used as an instrument just as often as it is for lyrics. She can be sweet on "born in the wrong decade" muser "Time Machine" or wail on distorted closer "Overthinking It" while sounding equally adept at both. While Willow can get a little faux-deep and "realign your mind's eye" at times, it largely scans as personable (also c'mon, teens are always going to sound a little like this), and it wasn't until the end of the year that I realized how often I listened to this thing. It's a brief listen, but one that never disappoints.
8. Leggy – Let Me Know Your Moon
"Angular" gets applied to so many damn bands, but Cincinnati (woo) self-described lush punks Leggy write riffs, hooks, and songs that truly bend and snap themselves in surprising directions. Songs will zip straight ahead only to introduce a yo-yoing riff during the chorus, a vocal line that pivots in a direction you weren't expecting, or slightly off-kilter interplay between guitar and bass and it's these choices that make Leggy songs memorable. The album's twangy punk rock sonic palette has a sneaky amount of variety from drone ("Eden") to alternative radio rock ("Not What You Need") to rockabilly ("Bad News") to grunge ("Prom"), but no matter the exact song, Let Me Know Your Moon has the liberation of a late night drive with the windows down. Leggy get hit pretty often with the "odd" tag, and it makes sense: they match their femininity with scuzzy, heavy hooks and lyrics like "I am not a burner phone," and while odd, it's also cool, because these choices stem from self-assurance. Leggy know what they're doing, and it's not only great, but singular. But maybe I'm saying this because my moon's in Virgo.
7. Lana del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Listen, this album's already topped so many year-end lists that being the 108th person to blurb it this month alone feels like an exercise in futility, but I get it: in a year that didn't have a pop culture lightning rod Album of the Year going into list season, Norman Fucking Rockwell! is as solid a pick as any. It's the album where Lana foregoes the flower crown trap bangers while bolstering her Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter side and working with an It producer (personal villain Jack Antonoff, whose entire Thing is mercifully absent here) for an album that's both of its time while still making room for something as left field as a Sublime cover. Maybe it's me, but Normal Fucking Rockwell! reads like a "buckle down and study" effort by Del Rey to make the best album she could, and it pays off, not just with songs that aspire for Greatness like, er, "The greatest," but also with affecting tunes like "California" and "Happiness is a butterfly," and "Venice Bitch," the sprawling, peyote-in-the-desert rocker that's still mindblowing a year later. Is it all enough to bump Ultraviolence from its spot as my favorite Lana album? Well no, not exactly, but to paraphrase NFR! Itself: fuck it, I love it.
6. Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow
"Well sometimes you do what you feel/Well most times I feel like shit" is both a line from Basking in the Glow's penultimate track "Impossible Game," and a summary of the album's perspective. It's one thing to tell yourself that you're going to be a better, more vulnerable, more giving person; you journal, you go to therapy, you regulate your emotions more…but it's another to run that shit back each and every day, and that tension is what Long Beach band Oso Oso's third album hones in on while being arguably the year's best guitar pop record. Basking in the Glow is an evolved sort of pop-punk album, one that gets the impulse to luxuriate in its own shittiness, but also knows that feeling is nothing next to goodness, and so aspiring to that glimpsed goodness is the best you can do. It also knows the best way to do this is to grow together with someone, and matches this light with hooks and melodies that are downright iridescent from the first listen onward. Anyone who put a song from, say, Plans on a mix CD would love "The View" or "Charlie," and acoustic strummer "One Sick Plan" is a perfectly sweet acoustic guitar strummer. Trying to be good has rarely sounded this great.
5. FKA twigs – MAGDALENE
"Motion" is the first word that comes to mind to describe FKA twigs' electronic art pop album MAGDALENE. Twigs, already a celebrated dancer, took up poledancing on the long road to MAGDALENE, and maybe it's my passing familiarity with the form, but I can't help but hear the motion of pole throughout the album (this is not an original thought: twigs herself featured pole in the music video for first single "cellophane"). You can hear it of course in singles like "sad day" and "holy terrain," but even slower numbers like "daybed" have the momentum of a spin held in midair. The album achieves this by sheer quality of craft: twigs produced it with a battery of collaborators including Nicholas Jaar, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Sounwave, and more for her best-produced work to date, one that has room for both slow meditations ("thousand eyes") and out and out gothic bangers with mutilated choirs ("fallen angel"). The guiding sound for this record is a minimalist, dark take on electronic music that reminds me more than a little of WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE ALL GO with the experience behind it. But the songs on MAGDALENE aren't just sonic achievements, they're twigs' most intimate and personal songs to date, written in the aftermath of heartbreak and an illness that sidelined her for years. There's a resilience and a power here, and the result is affirmation that can only come from self-expression, fitting for one of our most expressive modern artists.
4. PUP – Morbid Stuff
Toronto pop-punk band PUP's 2016 album The Dream Is Over (still a cover art all-timer) was an album-long treatise on the physical, mental, and spiritual unsustainability of being in a band, so of course it's the album that broke PUP through and meant them staying together as a band for even longer. Follow-up album Morbid Stuff is less overtly grueling, but possibly the darkest of the band's three albums, focusing on adult fears like mortality, failure, helplessness, and one's own inability to change. In some ways, it's a companion album to Basking in the Glow: while both albums feature people aiming for self-betterment, BitG responds to adversity by doubling its efforts, whereas Morbid Stuff goes from meditation and organic food to wishing the Earth would explode after a chance encounter with an ex. Sometimes Morbid Stuff can't help but grumble out of the side of its mouth about self-improvement, questioning how much this is all worth in a world that routinely goes to shit ("Free at Last," "Scorpion Hill"), while at other times, there's this longing for being a better person as a way to heathily cope with life's challenges ("Closure," "Sibling Rivalry"). Morbid Stuff also views substances less as a means of release and more akin to a punishment or self-flagellation; the macabre "Blood Mary, Kate, and Ashley" is fueled by a miserable acid trip, and singer Stefan Babcock howls "Let's get high out of our minds!" less like a celebration, and more like he knows that lighting a joint is the closest he can get to setting himself on fire. It's dark stuff for an impossibly great shout-along record, but PUP's always been in the business of misery.
3. Mannequin Pussy – Patience
Mannequin Pussy's 2016 (y'know, it occurs to me I haven't gone on record saying this anywhere, so let me fix that: 2016 was a fucking great album year) album Romantic was a 17 minute blast of shoegazey punk that's held up so well that I think I might have underrated it on that year's list, and third album Patience still manages to be a near-complete upgrade. There is of course flagship anthem "Drunk II," frontwoman Marisa Dabice's ode to feeling lost, messy, and vulnerable after a breakup that has room for both the lyric "I still love you, you stupid fuck!" and at least two guitar solos that's rightly gotten end of year accolades, but that's not all the record offers. Patience is still a Mannequin Pussy record, and as such, it's filled with one and two minute long ragers that tell off shitty romantic partners and labels while strengthening the self. These songs have all of Romantic's hardcore ferocity, but thanks to Mannequin Pussy's growth together as a band and the hand of producer Will Yip (the guy behind other polished and punishing masterworks like Title Fight's Hyperview and Turnstile's Time + Space), each one hits with a newfound clarity. The longer songs are just as rewarding, too, especially closer "In Love Again," where the album's grinding tension explodes into the joy of embracing the unknown with someone. Patience is the rare band level-up that never loses track of what drew your eye in the first place.
2. Kitty – Rose Gold
Rose Gold's CD version has a dedication on the inside cover that ends with Kitty saying the album is, "And, I think, for me." This feels like a revelation for singer/producer/rapper/composer Kitty. From viral hit beginnings to mixtapes and EPs to a label deal to Kickstarter and beyond, expectations have always pressed on Kitty's music in some form or another, be it D.a.I.S.Y. Rage's deliberately "go off" raps, the tentative pop/dance/EDM steps on Impatiens and Frostbite, or the post-pop of first album Miami Garden Club. Those expectations are absent on Rose Gold, an album Kitty freely admits she made just because she wanted to. The result is her most varied project to date, one that draws on everything she's done before, along with new influences from her work scoring video games and membership in indie rock band American Pleasure Club (formerly Teen Suicide, and fronted by Sam Ray; Ray and Kitty married in 2016). Rose Gold is also Kitty's first self-produced project, and the album spans from submerged electropop to dance music to snotty rap to '80s pop ("B.O.M.B. [Peter]" is the breeziest pop song I've heard this year) to an anxiety break to yes, chiptune, and despite the breadth of influence, it works sublimely. Rose Gold stands as a unified theory of Kitty: her history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme in all the best ways.
1. glass beach – the first glass beach album
Having listened to this album, I cannot imagine anything else being my 2019 album of the year.
The band's name comes from an actual beach in Fort Bragg, California, where disposed of glass refuse gets smoothed out and becomes part of nature again following life as man made, and something about that–the fluidity, the synthesis of natural and unnatural, the gestaltness of it–feels very much in line with glass beach and the first glass beach album. It's an album made up of so many chaotic parts and pieces that compliment each other so well you can't imagine it any other way. Just look at the song "Bedroom Community" for example (by all means, click that link and listen and then get back here): here's a song that begins like a showtune run through a vocoder but then drops in some guitar rocking before going back to showtune jaunt with some video game synths in the margins, runs the whole circuit again, throws in an instrumental and gang vocal break before pivoting hard to a jazz combo version of the song you're still listening to, and then that leaps into a Midwest emo run that finishes it out. Oh, and the song's about the way we commodify trauma (especially trans trauma) all the way down. It sounds insane, and frankly it kind of is, but the execution is as flawless on "Bedroom Community" as it is the first glass beach album's other epics, like the post-rock sprawl of "Dallas" and the band's titular "I just want my friends to be loved and validated" track that has this giant, stadium rock chorus that's the best thing mid-'00s Muse never wrote. At the same time, though, the band can do these quick and nibble punk bangers (shouts "Cold Weather"), spacey interludes, and flat out bizarre songs; in this fascinating interview that doubles as a reddit writeup, J describes "soft!!!!!!!" as as jazz ballad they weirded up with production, and honestly, that's as fitting a descriptor as any for this album's sound and creative process.
This somehow feels like an odd thing to bring up on a music site, but the music on the first glass beach album is just technically fantastic? The band shared the chords for "classic j dies and goes to hell part 1" and I mean, just look at this shit in all its aggressively seventh and slash chorded glory. Technical prowess isn't required to make good music, but glass beach's ability to dazzle and innovate elevates the album, and despite being a musically brainy record, it avoids the "look ma, no hands" pratfalls of most prog by not beating you over the head with it and instead just daring to be the loudest, truest version of itself. I heard somewhere lately during a best-of-the-'10s retrospective that sometimes albums that sound like the beginning of something really mean the end of it, and I don't know if the first glass beach album is the culmination of this decade's trends or a portent of the next's, but what I do know is that it is the only thing like itself that I've heard.
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Q: Firebase segue authentication Currently I'm working with a Firebase authentication and handled many errors like wrong username, password, empty fields etc and everything is working fine. However when I try to add a segue to the next page and use random email which is not exist in the database, Firebase auth didn't give me any errors and just pass the user to the next page. When I remove the segue and put random user it gives me an error that could not find such user which is what I'm trying to achieve with the segue. Please advise, what might be the problem?
AuthService file
func login(email: String, password: String, onComplete: Completion?) {
    FIRAuth.auth()?.signIn(withEmail: email, password: password, completion: { (user, error) in
        if error != nil {
            self.handleFirebaseError(error: error! as NSError, onComplete: onComplete)
        } else {
            onComplete?(nil, user)
        }

    })
}

func handleFirebaseError(error: NSError, onComplete: Completion?) {
    print(error.debugDescription)
    if let errorCode = FIRAuthErrorCode(rawValue: error.code) {
        switch (errorCode) {
        case .errorCodeInvalidEmail:
            onComplete?("Invalid email address", nil)
            break
        case .errorCodeWrongPassword:
            onComplete?("Invalid password", nil)
            break
        case .errorCodeUserNotFound:
            onComplete?("Can't find user", nil)
            break
        default:
            onComplete?("There was a problem authentication. Try again", nil)
        }
    }
}

ViewController
@IBAction func loginBtnTapped(_ sender: Any) {
    if let email = emailField.text, let pass = passwordField.text , (email.characters.count > 0 && pass.characters.count > 0)  {
        AuthService.instance.login(email: email, password: pass, onComplete: { (errMsg, data) in
            guard errMsg == nil else {
                self.alert(title: "Error Authentication", errMsg: errMsg!)
                return
            }
        })
    } else {
        self.alert(title: "Username and password required", errMsg: "You must enter both a username and a password")
    }
}

A: hybridcattt is correct. I'm going to add a more specific answer. When using segues, make sure it the next screen is not directly connected from the button, otherwise it will fire as soon as you tap it, regardless of the result you're waiting for.
Connect your view controller instead to the next view controller, like so:

And then add an indentifier to that segue.
Finally, when you get what you're waiting for (e.g. successful logging in), then do the performSegue.

A: If you are creating a segue in a storyboard, it fires immediately and opens the next view controller. Login code you have is async, and storyboard doesn't wait for it.
It is very likely that loginBtnTapped method is not even called if you have a segue configured (try adding a breakpoint there)


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Rep. Barton s Electricity Bill Bad for Consumers, Bad for Public Health
Rep. Barton s Electricity Bill Bad for Consumers,
Bad for Public Health
Plan Would Exempt Power Plants From Certain Emissions Standards
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Draft legislation being circulated by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) will significantly erode public health and environmental standards by allowing new power plants to be exempt from certain emissions standards, Public Citizen said today.
The bill, which Barton reportedly will introduce next week, calls for suspending nitrogen oxides (NOx) standards for the operation of existing power plants. The plan also would allow a state governor during an electricity emergency to request the Environmental Protection Agency to waive for up to two years certain NOx emissions standards for new plants. Further, Barton s bill would allow a state s governor, upon declaring an emergency, to allow existing natural gas-fired power plants to exceed certain emissions limits for up to six months.
Nitrogen oxides are formed in high-temperature combustion processes, such as those found in automobiles and power plants. NOx emissions play a major role in the formation of ozone, which leads to global warming and contributes to the formation of acid rain. Exposure to NOx can negatively affect the respiratory system, particulary of children and the elderly.
"Instead of punishing profiteering power companies for creating this energy crisis, Joe Barton s draft legislation rewards them," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program. "Consumers should be outraged that Barton s bill will make it easier for these greedy companies to further pollute our environment while they rake in profits."
While Barton s proposal to gut environmental laws to build plants won t do anything to solve the electricity crisis, it will directly benefit his most generous campaign contributors. Nearly two-fifths of Barton s PAC contributions in the 1999-2000 election cycle more than $210,000 came from the energy industry, according to information from the Federal Election Commission.
"Joe Barton should know better than to reduce NOx emission standards," said Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen s Texas office. "With two Texas metropolitan areas [Houston and Dallas-Forth Worth] already out of compliance with minimum standards to ensure safe air, and three more areas on the verge [San Antonio, Austin and Longview/Marshall/Tyler], gutting environmental standards will only make matters worse — not just in Texas, but throughout the country."
In writing his bill, Barton misidentified the cause of California s electricity crisis. Although he has said that the Golden State s power problems are caused by a shortage of power plants, in fact, the problems stem from deregulation s removal of public accountability from the power generation market, Hauter said.
State and federal investigations have pointed to manipulated prices and intentional power plant shutdowns as primary factors causing skyrocketing prices. A growing bipartisan group of Western governors and lawmakers has urged the federal government to enact temporary, region-wide wholesale price caps as the most effective short-term method for controlling the cost of electricity. Barton, however, has rejected this bipartisan approach, as has the electric utility industry.
Experience has shown that an overabundance of power is not the solution to deregulation troubles. Montana, where the electricity market was deregulated in 1997, has such an abundance of power that the state exports 40 to 60 percent of the power it produces. Still, electricity prices there have risen more than 400 percent since 1997, and nearly 1,000 Montana workers have been laid off because some of the state s largest employers have been forced to purchase overpriced electricity from the state s deregulated wholesale market.
The electric utility industry already is the source of 27 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in the United States.
"It s time to clean the plants up not allow more unwanted deadly exposure to pollutants," Hauter said. "Barton should not use energy deregulation failures as an excuse to reward his political contributors."


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Sir George Martin
Photo Credit: Robert Essel
Legendary producer of The Beatles, Oscar-nominated composer and founder of AIR Studios, Sir George Martin was one of the music industry's most versatile and imaginative talents. He produced a record-breaking 30 number one singles in the UK, and was recognised by the industry with five Grammys and two Ivor Novello Awards.
George entered the music business in 1950, and five years later became head of the Parlophone label at EMI. His early career was built on recording comedy with artists including Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore and Flanders & Swann. In 1962 he signed The Beatles to EMI and went on to produce every record they made until the band parted ways in 1970. He also produced a host of other artists in the 1960s and 1970s, Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Matt Monro, Elton John, Jeff Beck, John Williams, Cheap Trick and Ultravox.
With three other leading record producers, Ron Richards, John Burgess and Peter Sullivan, he established Associated Independent Recordings and opened AIR Studios in central London in 1970. Its sister studio, AIR Montserrat, was opened in 1979, and for ten years hosted many of the biggest names in rock and pop. Soon after AIR Montserrat was hit by a hurricane and closed, Sir George found an empty church in Hampstead, north London, and created AIR Studios Lyndhurst.
Sir George received his knighthood in 1996, in recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture. He died at on 8 March 2016, at the age of 90. We are all very proud of his heritage and to continue his vision.
1965 Associated Independent Recordings
Photo Credit: Abbey Road
The story of AIR begins long before we made our home in a congregational church in north London.
In August 1965, George Martin was helping the Beatles conquer the world. Help! had just knocked the Byrds' Mr Tambourine Man off the top of the UK singles chart. For the next 12 months Help!, followed by Rubber Soul and Revolver, would do battle with The Sound of Music soundtrack for the number one album spot (briefly assisted by the Rolling Stones' Aftermath). Despite the vast sales chalked up by the Beatles' records worldwide, Martin, their producer, was seeing none of the financial rewards, just a weekly salary from Parlophone. What he did next changed the record industry forever.
George Martin assembled a supergroup of record producers for some of the UK's top acts – Ron Richards, John Burgess, Peter Sullivan and himself – to form Associated Independent Recordings, or AIR. They proposed a new arrangement where AIR would fund the production of new releases, relieving record labels of the cost, and in return take a royalty on sales.
The new freelance producer set-up was a hit. From offices in Park Street, Mayfair, they continued to record the day's top artists at Abbey Road, Decca and other studios. Within two or three years they were making enough money to take on staff – young engineers like Chris Thomas, whose baptism of fire was The Beatles' White Album. They were able to bank enough of AIR's profits to build their own production facility.
1970 AIR Studios, Oxford Circus
Not far from Park Street, on the fourth floor of the Peter Robinson department store at Oxford Circus, was an old banqueting hall that George Martin decided could accommodate two spacious studios. The new facility would be a studio 'built by producers for producers'.
AIR Studios eventually opened in October 1970 with a star-studded two-day party fuelled by 450 bottles of Bollinger champagne. The first session, overseen by Chris Thomas and John Punter, was for the Average White Band's third album. Studio rates were £35 per hour. AIR quickly gained a reputation as an academy for the very best young engineers, and became a byword for the latest studio technology, pioneering 24-track recording, multi-track tie-lines between studios and 48-track mixing.
The larger Studio One had a live sound that was great for orchestral work, while the drier sound of Studio Two made it popular with bands. But the big drum sound that bands got in Studio One meant that it was booked out for months in advance, and film people couldn't get in. Two more studios were added to meet demand.
Classic albums recorded or engineered at AIR in its first decade include Meddle by Pink Floyd, Queen's Sheer Heart Attack, Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure (and their three following albums), Paul McCartney's soundtrack to Live and Let Die, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, and The Pretenders' eponymous debut album. T Rex, Genesis, Supertramp, ELO and a host of other big names all worked on new releases at Oxford Circus.
The facility eventually closed in 1991, when its 22-year lease ran out. Its time had come, not least because it had become difficult for major artists to come and go without being recognised by the shoppers on Oxford Street.
1979 AIR Montserrat
AIR's studio facility on Montserrat, a tiny British Overseas Territory in the eastern Caribbean, has passed into rock folklore. In 1977 George Martin fell in love with the island and decided to build the ultimate, get-away-from-it-all recording studio. Opened in 1979, AIR Studios Montserrat offered all of the technical facilities of its London counterpart, but with the advantages of an exotic location.
For more than a decade, AIR Montserrat played host to recording sessions by a who's who of rock and pop. More than 70 albums were recorded there in ten years, including Hot Hot Hot by Arrow, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity by The Police, Elton John's Too Low for Zero and Steel Wheels by the Rolling Stones. Duran Duran, Ultravox, Lou Reed, Black Sabbath and Eric Clapton all passed through the idyllic Montserrat studio.
Then, in 1989, disaster struck when Hurricane Hugo hit the island, destroying 90% of its structures. The building and its equipment were irreparably damaged, and, perhaps aware that record labels wanted their stars closer to home, George Martin called it a day. His love for Montserrat never faded and in the wake of a later devastating volcanic eruption his fundraising efforts went a long way towards putting the island back on its feet.
1992 AIR Studios Lyndhurst
Photo Credit: Lee Kirby
It was a bold move for George Martin to make the beautiful Lyndhurst Hall in Hampstead, north London the site of his next studio. Originally a church and missionary school, Lyndhurst Hall was designed in the Romanesque style by the great Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse (designer of the Natural History Museum) in 1884.
Built for congregational singing, the hexagonal hall has extraordinary acoustic qualities, which George Martin quickly recognised. A multi-million pound conversion of the church into a state-of-the-art studio facility was undertaken. George Martin opened AIR Studios Lyndhurst in December 1992 with a gala performance of Under Milk Wood in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales.
One of only a handful of studios in the world with full orchestral recording capabilities, AIR Studios Lyndhurst has delivered the Oscar-winning scores for Atonement and Grand Budapest Hotel and countless other film and TV productions, including Love Actually, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Darkest Hour, Wonder Woman, Interstellar, Casino Royale, Doctor Who, Sherlock and Black Mirror.
The co-owners Chrysalis & Pioneer sold the studio to Strongroom's Richard Boote in 2006. Richard sold the business in 2018. The new owner is committed to take AIR into a new era and ensure that it continues to rank among the world's finest recording studios.
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It was Alexis de Tocqueville who said that in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. I guess that's why I'm saddened by the behavior of Price and his colleagues — that apparently we deserve them and that they do, indeed, represent us.
I can only look at the recent vote on water rates in Paso Robles and shake my head in amazement. The voting citizens of Paso Robles elect a City Council to make critical decisions for us all. The council makes a long-range decision to have a source of water for the future. It is going to have a cost associated with it. Any major project will have a cost.
We have a protest ballot to force an election to override the council's work, and only 40 percent of the registered voters participate! Now it seems that we are following the Los Osos sewer situation and are looking at increasing costs. When we moved here eight years ago, we saw Paso Robles as a city of vision. Bridges, parks, public facilities and wineries were all built for the future. But, many of us know that water could someday be as precious as oil. I just hope the 60 percent of registered voters who did not vote are happy with the results. I am not.
Congratulations to Coach Crozier and the Cal Poly women's soccer team on an excellent season that was exciting to the very end. It was a pleasure to watch them overachieve with skill, effort and determination. We all look forward to 2010 for what is sure to be another great year of soccer for the Lady Mustangs. Thanks also to The Tribune for all the generous coverage and dazzling photos of our local soccer athletes.
LaVerne Hawkinson just doesn't get it (Letters, Nov. 11). On Veterans Day of all days, it should be clear why singing Christmas carols is no longer appropriate in the public schools.
As a World War II veteran and a true nonbeliever in any deity, I did not volunteer to fight for Christianity. The mono-theistic German Reich or the current Taliban reign should be a danger sign for people to resist a single ideology, including Christianity. The fact that Hawkinson had (was allowed) to say prayers in school was an affront to all the Buddhists, Jews and nonbelievers of her day (a day not that long ago).
Her Christian church is the place to go to sing carols, or she can sing in her home to her heart's content. The shopping malls realize the profit (no pun intended) of the carols and she can hear them there, as we all must.
What xenophobic reaction brought her to the supposed perpetrators of this ban, foreigners and noncitizens, to dictate her problem? I thought we could all vote.
My son is a senior honor student at Cal Poly. This quarter the tuition was raised, classes eliminated and teacher participation decreased, all without any prior notification.
In addition to the unexpected increased costs, my son recently received a bicycle citation. He was riding because he was unable to pay the parking pass fee.
The citation resulted in a $170 fine for riding the wrong way in the bicycle lane due to cars blocking the proper lane. The court official hearing the complaints offered decreased fines for driving under the influence, speeding and drug use violations of up to 50 percent off the fine, but only $20 less for the bicycle infraction including a mandatory diversion class.
The amount of the fine should raise the concern of the community, as well as the university, for partnering in the financial attack on students already strapped for funds.
The insurance industry is a big part of the problem and will never be a good part of the solution.
Profiteering has destroyed this country's medical system, from research to doctors.
We need to take a serious look at where the money is going and if it really is necessary for it to go there.
It is obvious that people who want Veterans Day moved to a Monday (Letters, Nov. 11) so they can enjoy not just a day off, but a three-day weekend, are not veterans and do not understand the significance of the day.
Veterans Day was initially known as Armistice Day. It was the end of The Great War, or the "war to end all wars," later to be renamed World War I.
The nations at war in 1918 agreed to an armistice (or a cease fire) that would take place on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, thus ending hostilities.
In 1954, after World War II and Korea, this day became Veterans Day, to recognize the military service of all Americans.
If people want to lose the significance of holidays and move them just to enjoy a three-day weekend, then let's forget all tradition and celebrate New Year's Day on the first Monday in January, the 4th of July on the first Monday in July and Christmas on the third Monday in December.
Maybe we could even celebrate April Fools' Day all year long.


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Q: iPhone does not react to charger unless turned off I have my iPhone 5S for less than a week. I have charged it fully only once. Cable, charger and phone are new and from the box.
When I connect it to the USB charger it does not display the lighting symbol nor does it charge. However, if the cable is inserted before it turns on or if I restart the iPhone with the cable inserted, then the charging begins. Taking the phone away from the cable for even a second spoils the magic, so you can imagine how annoying it is. I am suspecting this is a software error.
Connection to MacBook does not work either. When cable is inserted nothing happens. No app can see the phone and vice versa. This does not change even after the restart.
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The Adventures of Edward the Less is a 2001 animated miniseries fantasy comedy created by the former cast of the popular show Mystery Science Theater 3000 for SciFi.com, the Sci Fi Channel website. It tells the story of Edward, a Pudge who reluctantly embarks on a quest to destroy a magic token before it falls into the hands of the evil Dark Person.

Plot
Edward the Less is a Pudge, a race of short and merry people who spend their days in the Pudgelands dancing, eating horrible food, singing inane songs and whistling. But Edward is frustrated with the overly merry lifestyle and dreams of seeking out a magical city island he has read about, which includes tall people, skyscrapers, pizza and people who ride around in yellow cars and push each other around. Edward decides to leave his hamlet of Pushington Downs, along with his faithful sidekick Soapwort McFuggletoes. During their journey, the duo come into possession of a magic token, which they are forced to destroy so it will not fall into the hands of the evil Dark Person.

Cast
 Bill Corbett as Edward
 Kevin Murphy as Soapwort McFuggletoes
 Michael J. Nelson as The Noble One
 Paul Chaplin as Primatene (credited as Paul Schersten)
 Mary Jo Pehl as Ariadrina and The Lorekeeper
 Patrick Brantseg as Walt
 Mike Dodge as The Narrator

Production
Following the cancellation of the cult comedy Mystery Science Theater 3000, performers and writers from the show Patrick Brantseg, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson and Paul Chaplin conceived and created Edward the Less. The miniseries is a parody of the fantasy genre in general, but most especially of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; Edward the Less was inspired in large part by the release of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the first film of which was also released in 2001. The story structure, as well as specific characters and elements of Edward the Less, are directly inspired by The Lord of the Rings, including the Pudges, which are spoofs of Hobbits, and the Dark Person, which is inspired by the Dark Lord Sauron.

Michael Nelson created the music, much of which is comical music Nelson considers "a parody of real music." Some of the music was composed on ACID Pro, a digital audio workstation by Sony Creative Software. Mystery Science Theater 3000 alum Mary Jo Pehl joined the creators in voicing the characters, and Mike Dodge, who served as an MST3K writer for a few seasons, was cast as the voice-over narrator. Kevin Murphy said producing and recording Edward the Less went very smoothly because the whole crew had worked together before and quickly found their old sense of comedic timing again.

Artists Rich Larson and Steve Fastner, who have worked together on several works of fantasy art including comics and book cover illustrations, created the animated drawings for Edward the Less. Larson worked with the show creators on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and was looking forward to illustrating Edward the Less because he was often critical of Lord of the Rings illustrations and looked forward to spoofing them.

Edward the Less was written in three parts, in part because fantasy epic stories are usually structured as trilogies similar to The Lord of the Rings. Kevin Murphy said it was also structured this way so that the story could be easily continued if SciFi.com wanted more episodes beyond the original 13 they ordered. Murphy felt Edward the Less could work well in other media, including a book or a radio series in the style of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Notes and references

External links
Official site on SciFi.com Archived

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Goal setting is more than a lofty, feel good, concept. It is a problem solver, organizer and empowers, not only the individual but an entire organization. It is, in fact, the compass that guides everything you do. The secret of goal setting lay in the vision that comes from a solid foundation of core values, coupled with a standard of excellence. The first test of your compass is your passion about the goal AND its accomplishment. In fact it is very important that you are you so passionate about your goal, that you will not compromise it's ultimate achievement or it's standard of EXCELLENCE.
If this sounds preachy, it is! Today it is so hard to find honesty and commitment to goals or the standard of excellence. In politics and business it is very hard to find honesty or commitment to 'stated' goals, let alone, excellence! Why don't you start the New Year as an 'exception'. We talk about both the why and how of being the 'exception' in my upcoming book but you can start now by simply writing down YOUR core values and see where that leads you. I think you will be surprised!


GeTeBe provides services for various sectors of the automobile industry and its suppliers.
We focus on the support of vehicle manufacturers of cars and producers of superstructures as well as their contractors, no matter whether world-wide operating OEMs or regional specialists, German or international companies, manufacturers or importers.
The main goal of GeTeBe is to offer the producers of cars, superstructures or components a complete portfolio of services concerning homologation, type approval tests, engineering and auditing.
Of course we will meet the individual requests of our customers – no matter whether a capacity constraint has to be dealt with or full projects have to be managed at GeTeBe.
GeTeBe cooperates with various committees, organizations and service providers and therefore offers extensive services that accommodate your specific demands.


I've used cats as weapons before. Not yet actually with a laser, it was with one of those little kitty-fishing rods; the stick with fuzzy things on the end of a string. A couple shakes got a stinky little kitten to climb right up someone's back and over her shoulder. Kitten warfare has progressed a lot since then. The advent of the laser pointer has caused a revolution in both the acts of kitty-warfare as well as kitty-fishing.
Most cats, when used with a laser, could destroy anything. Some say that you can make a perpetual motion machine by putting a piece of buttered toast on a cat's back. The paradox of the cat having to land on its feet and the buttered toast having to land face-down causes it to spin forever. I posit that if you attached a laser pointer to a cat's head, you'd get a perpetual destruction machine.
While laser pointers are edging out the common kitty-fishing rod, they will never replace it. True kitty-fishermen and kitty-fisher-catladies still appreciate the tug of the claws on at the end of the line, the fight of the cat, the thrill of the catch, but also the zen of jigging.


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Q: Is there a way to disable changing a SKU that has already been created in Magento? In Magento, when creating a new product, you can manually type in a SKU number. Later, you could decide to change this SKU number to a different number. Is there a way to disallow this in Magento? Once a SKU number is assigned, I want that to always be the SKU — I don't want to allow my users to assign a different SKU instead.

A: I can think of two approaches: event observer and a custom attribute backend model for the SKU attribute, the latter being the more thorough solution.
For the event observer it is possible to observe compare the value for the SKU property, see if it is changed, and set it to the original with a warning message. This should suffice unless the SKU attribute is saved using saveAttribute(), etc.
It is also possible to do the same logic in an EAV attribute backend model, which can easily be assigned to the attribute via a setup script. However, in the case of the SKU attribute, it already has a backend model, Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Attribute_Backend_Sku [link]. It would be quite easy to rewrite the validate() method using standard Magento class rewrites, add the desired value protection logic, and then call the parent method - making the solution quite portable.
And, whereas the backend model is used regardless of save via save() or saveAttribute(), this will ensure that all saves via the admin backend will be processed according to your logic.

A: One of the easiest way I can think of is to add a custom Javascript file to the add product page and check if a product id exist, which is only available after a product is save. If the product id is present then disable/hide the sku field. This is not 100% secure since you are using JS only, but assuming that you can trust admin users.


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Q: Bandbox issue while typing text on it Typing on bandbox search,sometimes cursor deletes previous letter and validates search option and executes hibernate query.Can any one tell me the reason for this??and how to avoid this problem.
I am using Hibernate,PostgreSQL and Zk framework.
Zul:

<bandbox id="mrnSearch2" sclass="mybandbox" tooltiptext="${c:l('bandbox_NameSearch.tooltiptext')}" mold="rounded" >
                            <attribute name="onSelect">
                 if(self.getSelectedIndex() != 1 ){
                    mrnSearch2.value= self.selectedItem.label;
                 };
                 mrnSearch2.closeDropdown();
                </attribute>
                </bandbox>

In Controller Class i am listing items with help of below method,
CommonBandpopup.generateMrnBandbox(mrnSearch);

(In  service implementation part i am having above method. )
public void onSelectedResult$mrnSearch() {
    Patient patient = (Patient) mrnSearch.getAttribute("selectedItem");
    if (patient != null) {
        mrnSearch.setValue(patient.getPatientMrn());
        textbox_PatientName.setValue(patient.getFullName());
    }

}


Most singers and musicians often dream of one day performing at Carnegie Hall and that dream recently came true for gospel recording artist Donnie McClurkin. The Hall was filled to the top tier on a Wednesday night and the audience arrived ready to sing along with two of gospel music's premier vocalists. McClurkin and the dynamic Kim Burrell definitely didn't disappoint the audience at the highly anticipated Gospel Sing Along in the Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage located in the legendary Carnegie Hall.
"Appearing at Carnegie Hall was a big night for all involved; it was a major accomplishment in my musical career and a personal landmark. God continues to amaze me," says McClurkin.


I usually save online things for fanfiction. Books belong in hand. It feels more right. And I know about the inter-library loan system, I've never had really any interest in using it. But I will make sure to check to see if any other nearby libraries have any of her books I haven't seen yet in the ones I go to.


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Bell V-280 Valor – First Year of Flight Proves the Future of Vertical Lift is Now
Publicat pe: 2018-12-18 09:00:00
The success of this cooperative effort demonstrates the ability to rapidly deliver revolutionary vertical lift capability to combat national security threats
Fort Worth, Texas (December 18, 2018) – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, and Team Valor marked the anniversary of the V-280 Valor's first flight by continuing to prove the aircraft's performance and technical maturity. As part of theArmy led Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program, the V-280 demonstrates that close collaboration between government and industry can deliver transformational speed, range and agility in vertical lift, in a fast and sustainable process.
"I am proud of the team's remarkable accomplishments during the first year of flight," said President and CEO Mitch Snyder. "By working with the government, we continue to prove the V-280 is the agile aircraft that our military needs now."
In nearly 85 hours of flight and more than 180 rotor turn hours, some V-280 flight testing milestones are:
Forward flight at 250 knots true airspeed
In-flight transitions between cruise mode and vertical takeoff and landing
50-degree banked turns at 200 knots indicated airspeed
4500 feet per minute rate of climb and sustained flight at 11,500 feet altitude
Single flight ferry flight of over 370 miles
Demonstrated low and high-speed agility with fly-by-wire controls
The V-280 continues to expand the envelope in flight testing and expects to complete all the key performance parameters in the coming months, including additional low-speed agility tests and full cruise speed in forward flight.
"This anniversary is an important milestone as we provide options for theArmy to meet its vision for a modernized force in the near future and regain overmatch in vertical lift," said Vince Tobin, executive vice president for military business at Bell. "We are prepared to field a suitable, affordable and sustainable aircraft to meet that accelerated timeframe."
With twice the speed and range of existing helicopters, the Bell V-280 Valor is digitally-designed to provide decisive battlefield advantages with superior agility, payload, and reliability that will vastly increase warfighter survivability and lethality.
To see updates on the V-280 Valor and learn more on the capabilities, please visit , and follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Thinking above and beyond is what we do. For more than 80 years, we've been reimagining the experience of flight – and where it can take us. We are pioneers. We were the first to break the sound barrier and to certify a commercial helicopter. We were aboard NASA's first lunar mission and brought advanced tiltrotor systems to market. Today, we're defining the future of on-demand mobility. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas – as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc., – we have strategic locations around the globe. And with nearly one quarter of our workforce having served, helping our military achieve their missions is a passion of ours. Above all, our breakthrough innovations deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. Efficiently. Reliably. And always, with safety at the forefront.
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The self-taught man was honored for his undeniable talent that encouraged him to develop his watchmaking skills which is how he came to create complicated watches and clocks and design several original models.
Self-taught watchmaker.
Les Spatiales: complete movement of the watch "suspended" in the air.
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Before Gaïa
Born in Naples, Vincent Calabrese moved to Switzerland right before he turned 18 in the early 1960s. After years spent working for others, he decided to set up his own company to make watches in the 1970s, when Swiss watchmaking was in the middle of a crisis.
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The 3 laureates : Günter Blümlein, Vincent Calabrese and Jean-Luc Maynaud
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It is to be noted that his first piece won the Gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva in 1977. Another of his biggest achievements is the Flying Tourbillon (1998) which had a "classic" or ""regulator" display. One special aspect of his work is that he developed all his watches on his own - from the movement to most of his components, as well as the case, engravings, enameling and jewel-setting.
Vincent Calabrese
After the success of his first timepieces, Calabrese went on to invent other watch models. In 1989, he created Two Hands, a type of chronometric lever in which the entire movement was housed on the minutes hand and which displayed a minuscule pendulum equipped with a pin-type lever escapement.
He also designed watches for the Techniques collection. They featured a patented power reserve indicator – which was also the world's thinnest at the time – and additional mechanisms such as indicators of weeks, days and time zones, so that the time display and setting could be done more easily.
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The Ludiques watch collection offered a new way of reading time via jumping hours that bounced around the dial or stood in the middle. He is also the brains behind the Philosophiques watches, bearers of very personal messages, which were equipped with a quartz movement and a unique dial with stage curtains also featuring jumping hours, images and even written messages.
After Gaïa
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