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Former THE ALMIGHTY Frontman To Open For BOB DYLAN
Former THE ALMIGHTY frontman Ricky Warwick will be opening for Bob Dylan at Stormont Castle, Northern Ireland on June 26. Commented Ricky: "This is unbelievable to be sharing the same stage with the great man, a mile from where I was born and spent the first fifteen years of my life, the venue is also ...
ROLLING STONE Magazine Publishes 'Greatest Albums Of All Time' List
The editors at Rolling Stone magazine recently polled an array of musicians, critics, and influential industry figures to come up with these 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Nearly 300 such music experts (including METALLICA's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, BLACK SABBATH's Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, ANTHRAX's Scott Ian, IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson, THIN ...
BLACK SABBATH, SEX PISTOLS Among Nominees For 2004 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
BLACK SABBATH are among the nominees for the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Others on this year's ballot include PRINCE, former Beatle GEORGE HARRISON, JOHN MELLENCAMP, JACKSON BROWNE, THE SEX PISTOLS, LYNYRD SKYNYRD and ZZ TOP. Ballots were mailed this week to voting members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which ...
KING'S X To Open For SAMMY HAGAR In Texas
Due to a last minute cancellation by LYNYRD SKYNYRD, KING'S X will be opening for SAMMY HAGAR this Friday and Saturday. Upcoming KING'S X tour dates: Aug. 08 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (w/ SAMMY HAGAR) Aug. 09 - Dallas, TX @ Smirnoff Music Centre (w/ SAMMY HAGAR) Sep. 07 - Zoetermeer, ...
SAMMY HAGAR/LYNYRD SKYNYRD Dates Canceled
The last five dates of the SAMMY HAGAR/LYNYRD SKYNYRD co-headlining tour were canceled when SKYNYRD's lead guitarist, Gary Rossington, who had open-heart surgery in February, was told by doctors to immediately drop off the trek in order to combat medical fatigue. Ticket holders for the scrapped shows — between August 1 in Pelham, Alabama, and ...
KISS: New Compilation CD To Surface In August
A brand new KISS compilation, titled "20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection", is scheduled to be released on August 5 through Universal Music, according to ICE magazine. This is the latest in a long series of best of albums from Universal artists (there are literally over 100 of these titles in the series). Other groups ...
VAN HALEN One Step Closer To ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME Nomination
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination committee met last Thursday (June 5) in New York and have narrowed the potential candidates for the 2004 induction to a list of about 30, according to Hits Daily Double. Voters get to pick three, with the 15 artists who receive the largest number of votes to ...
VAN HALEN Eligible For Induction Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
VAN HALEN are among the front-runners eligible for 2004 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other first-time contenders include BLACK FLAG, THE CRAMPS, X and SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES. Previous nominees that have yet to garner induction include BLACK SABBATH, CHICAGO, ALICE COOPER, DEEP PURPLE, GENESIS, KISS, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, THE NEW YORK ...
PHILIP ANSELMO Speaks Out On The Future Of PANTERA, DOWN And Collaboration With TONY IOMMI
PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo stopped by the studios of Sirius Radio in New York City on Tuesday, May 20 and spoke to "Hard Attack" host Don Kaye about the current status of all of his musical projects, including PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT RITUAL and his much-rumored collaboration with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi. The following are ...
METALLICA To Appear On LYNYRD SKYNYRD Tribute Album?
METALLICA will be contributing a LYNYRD SKYNYRD cover to a forthcoming tribute to the Southern rock band, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The album, due in early 2004, will also feature 3 DOORS DOWN (who recently recorded a version of "That Smell" for the collection), FUEL and KID ROCK. No further information is ...
SAMMY HAGAR, LYNYRD SKYNYRD To Tour Together
SAMMY HAGAR and LYNYRD SKYNYRD will team up for a summer tour kicking off July 19 at Wisconsin's Rock Fest, according to Billboard.com. The full list of dates for the Jim Beam-sponsored Party of a Lifetime tour is not yet finalized, although the acts are expected to be out together well into August. The co-headlining ...
DEEP PURPLE To Embark On World Tour In September
DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan has revealed in a "Q&A" session posted on his official web site that the group will embark on a world tour in September in support of their upcoming CD and has described the band's forthcoming summer tour with LYNYRD SKYNYRD as "one of those fun things." "I understand we'll be ...
DEEP PURPLE, LYNYRD SKYNYRD To Tour Europe
DEEP PURPLE and LYNYRD SKYNYRD will be teaming up for a European tour in May/June. Confirmed dates are as follows: May 29 – Schwung Hallen - Roeselare, BEL May 31 - Filaforum - Milan, ITA Jun. 01 – Campo Fiera - Conegliano Veneto (Treviso), ITA Jun. 03 – Palaghiaccio - Roma, ITA Jun. 04 – ...
ANTHRAX Sign With SANCTUARY, Set American Release Date For New CD
ANTHRAX have set a May 6 American release date through Sanctuary Records for their latest CD, "We've Come For You All". "We've Come for You All" is the first new studio effort in five years from vocalist John Bush, guitarist Scott Ian, bass guitarist Frank Bello, drummer Charlie Benante and new guitarist Rob Caggiano. Special ...
SAMMY HAGAR Confirms Live Album, PLANET US Delay
Former VAN HALEN frontman Sammy Hagar has sent out a message to his mailing list updating fans on his upcoming plans. It reads as follows: "Hey REDheads, The Internet moves quicker than me so I'll give you a half-ass version, lol, of what's going on. The tour this year is still being put together. That ...
DEEP PURPLE, GIRLSCHOOL Confirmed For Belgium's SCHWUNG 2003 Festival
DEEP PURPLE, GIRLSCHOOL, and LYNYRD SKYNYRD are among the artists confirmed for Schwung 2003 festival, set to take place May 29 in Roeselare, Belgium (located around 40 km from Bruges). For more information, visit www.debevers.be. ...
BACKDRAFT Split With Singer, Seek Replacement
Sweden's BACKDRAFT, who are described as a bland of "the best of LYNYRD SKYNYRD, ALLMAN BROTHERS and ZZ TOP," have fired singer Jonas Åhlén (a.k.a. Reverend Soarthroat) as a result of the rest of the band's "dissatisfaction with his contributions to the songwriting process," according to the group's official web site. "The slow pace and ...
KABÁT: Czech Metal Veterans Launch Seven-City American Tour
KABÁT, the Czech Republic's #1 metal band, kick off their first American tour Thursday, Nov. 7 in New York at Brooklyn's Club Warsaw. Formed in 1984 in the northern Bohemian city of Teplice, KABÁT's early sound could be termed as old-school thrash, which effectively put them on the Czechoslovakian communist government's black list of subversive ...
EXODUS' GARY HOLT: 'Living In The Past Is For Losers'
Even though EXODUS are best known for their classic late '80s recorded output, guitarist Gary Holt refuses to live in the past, insisting that the Bay Area thrash veterans' decision to continue performing their earliest material has nothing to do with nostalgia. "Living in the past in for losers and assholes," Holt told Metal Rules. ...
ACE FREHLEY, DAVE LEE ROTH, VINCE NEIL, Others Confirmed For Florida's ROCKTOBERFEST
KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, DAVE LEE ROTH, MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil, DOKKEN, WARRANT, FIREHOUSE and QUIET RIOT are among the artists confirmed for Rocktoberfest, an all-day rock festival set to take place on Saturday, October 19th in Polk City, Florida. Billed as the biggest one-day outdoor festival in Florida history, Rocktoberfest will be staged ...
KID ROCK, LYNYRD SKYNYRD Record New Version Of Southern Classic
KID ROCK and LYNYRD SKYNYRD have recorded a new version of "Gimme Back My Bullets", the title song to the Southern rock band's 1976 album, but have no firm plans to release it. SKYNYRD frontman Johnny Van Zant says that the song could appear on the next SKYNYRD studio album or on an archival collection. ...
VISION OF DISORDER Guitarist Looking For Singer
V.O.D. (VISION OF DISORDER) guitarist Matt Baumbach has placed the following ad in the Musicians Looking for Musicians section at subCreate.com: "V.O.D. guitarist needs singer… Hi, I'm looking for a singer to perform on songs that are already written. All u need is a kick-ass rock voice ala STP, STONES, SKYNYRD, Cobain, Cornell. ...
RAGE Announce Asian Mini-Tour
Germany's RAGE will follow up an August 17th appearance at the World Rock Festival in Seoul, Korea (where they are scheduled to appear alongside SAVATAGE and LYNYRD SKYNYRD, among others) with a three-date headlining tour of Japan. The details are as follows: Aug. 17 – Seoul, KOR @ World Rock Festival Aug. 26 – Tokyo, ...
America's Volume Dealer - C.O.C.
Four years after the group's Wiseblood release, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY have returned with a new album that sees the group sticking to a tried-and-tested formula without having made any attempts to update their songwriting in a way that would make it more consistent with the current music trends. Considerably more guitar-heavy than the Columbia Records ...
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Archive News Jun 25, 2001 - update 2
CORPORATE AVENGER, who feature in their ranks former MIND FUNK vocalist Pat Dubar, have lined up a host of live shows in support of their upcoming Koch Records debut. The dates are as follows:
July 14 - Las Vegas, NV @ Sanctuary
July 17 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain ...
Archive News Apr 17, 2001
BIOHAZARD and GRAVITY KILLS have both officially signed with Sanctuary Records, according to informed sources.
BIOHAZARD's upcoming album, Uncivilization, is presently scheduled for a June 25th European release through SPV / Steamhammer Records, and it is expected that Sanctuary will attempt to issue the CD in the US as close to that date as ...
Archive News Mar 28, 2001
More information has trickled in about the forthcoming JUDAS PRIEST CD, entitled Demolition, which has a May 28th European release date. According to the band's official web site, the album will include 13 or 14 tracks, some of which have the following titles:&nbsp
01. Machine Man
02. ...

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text: A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO QRQ CW by Joe Gerry, KH6/W3GW Introduction Perhaps you have heard them on the low ends of either 40 or 80 meters CW. Those signals that, at first listen, sound like a digital mode, but are not coming in on the usual PSK or RTTY frequencies. But wait, on further listening you may have found them to sound oddly familiar. Well, you just may have stumbled onto a high speed CW QSO, or as practitioners of the art call it, QRQ CW. Just what are we talking about when we say, QRQ CW? Fred, W3NJZ, proposed the following definition in an article he wrote for the FISTS Newsletter, FISTS being a club dedicated to the care and feeding of Morse code and CW (1). Fred felt QRQ CW was Morse code sent at speeds from 60 to over 100 wpm and comprehended by ear without the use of computers or code readers. We are not talking about CW operators sitting at their 'mills' , or typewriters, making 100 percent copy of a Press Wireless transmission as in the old days. No, QRQ CW is conversational Morse code, sent at high speed, read by ear, with QSK, so that we approach a duplex conversation, similar to a conversation on the telephone. History For most of us old timers the word 'telegraph' brings back memories of visored operators sitting at railroad depots, tapping a key, and listening to a clicking sounder. The word comes from the Greek 'tele', meaning 'far' and 'graphein', meaning 'writing'. William Pierpont, N0HFF (SK), in his book, 'The Art and Skill of Radiotelegraphy', tells us the first telegraphs used smoke, reflected light, and mechanical systems called semaphores to transmit messages (2). Indeed, semaphore links transmitted messages across Europe 2. up until the middle of the 19th century. Vestiges of these old semaphore links exist today in place names, such as Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. These systems used relay stations every few mile


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#ifndef API_TEST_VIDEOCODEC_TEST_FIXTURE_H_
#define API_TEST_VIDEOCODEC_TEST_FIXTURE_H_

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "api/test/videocodec_test_stats.h"
#include "api/video_codecs/video_decoder_factory.h"
#include "api/video_codecs/video_encoder_factory.h"
#include "modules/video_coding/include/video_codec_interface.h"

namespace webrtc {
namespace test {

// Rates for the encoder and the frame number when to apply profile.
struct RateProfile {
  size_t target_kbps;
  double input_fps;
  size_t frame_num;
};

struct RateControlThresholds {
  double max_avg_bitrate_mismatch_percent;
  double max_time_to_reach_target_bitrate_sec;
  // TODO(ssilkin): Use absolute threshold for framerate.
  double max_avg_framerate_mismatch_percent;
  double max_avg_buffer_level_sec;
  double max_max_key_frame_delay_sec;
  double max_max_delta_frame_delay_sec;
  size_t max_num_spatial_resizes;
  size_t max_num_key_frames;
};

struct QualityThresholds {
  double min_avg_psnr;
  double min_min_psnr;
  double min_avg_ssim;
  double min_min_ssim;
};

struct BitstreamThresholds {
  size_t max_max_nalu_size_bytes;
};

// NOTE: This class is still under development and may change without notice.
class VideoCodecTestFixture {
 public:
  class EncodedFrameChecker {
   public:
    virtual ~EncodedFrameChecker() = default;
    virtual void CheckEncodedFrame(webrtc::VideoCodecType codec,
                                   const EncodedImage& encoded_frame) const = 0;
  };

  struct Config {
    Config();
    void SetCodecSettings(std::string codec_name,
                          size_t num_simulcast_streams,
                          size_t num_spatial_layers,
                          size_t num_temporal_layers,
                          bool denoising_on,
                          bool frame_dropper_on,
                          bool spatial_resize_on,
                          size_t width,
                          size_t height);

    size_t NumberOfCores() const;
    size_t NumberOfTemporalLayers() const;
    size_t NumberOfSpatialLayers() const;
    size_t NumberOfSimulcastStreams() const;

    std::string ToString() const;
    std::string CodecName() const;

    // Name of this config, to be used for accounting by the test runner.
    std::string test_name;

    // Plain name of YUV file to process without file extension.
    std::string filename;

    // File to process. This must be a video file in the YUV format.
    std::string filepath;

    // Number of frames to process.
    size_t num_frames = 0;

    // Bitstream constraints.
    size_t max_payload_size_bytes = 1440;

    // Should we decode the encoded frames?
    bool decode = true;

    // Force the encoder and decoder to use a single core for processing.
    bool use_single_core = false;

    // Should cpu usage be measured?
    // If set to true, the encoding will run in real-time.
    bool measure_cpu = false;

    // Simulate frames arriving in real-time by adding delays between frames.
    bool encode_in_real_time = false;

    // Codec settings to use.
    webrtc::VideoCodec codec_settings;

    // Name of the codec being tested.
    std::string codec_name;

    // H.264 specific settings.
    struct H264CodecSettings {
      H264::Profile profile = H264::kProfileConstrainedBaseline;
      H264PacketizationMode packetization_mode =
          webrtc::H264PacketizationMode::NonInterleaved;
    } h264_codec_settings;

    // Custom checker that will be called for each frame.
    const EncodedFrameChecker* encoded_frame_checker = nullptr;

    // Print out frame level stats.
    bool print_frame_level_stats = false;

    // Path to a directory where encoded or/and decoded video should be saved.
    std::string output_path;

    // Should video be saved persistently to disk for post-run visualization?
    struct VisualizationParams {
      bool save_encoded_ivf = false;
      bool save_decoded_y4m = false;
    } visualization_params;
  };

  virtual ~VideoCodecTestFixture() = default;

  virtual void RunTest(const std::vector<RateProfile>& rate_profiles,
                       const std::vector<RateControlThresholds>* rc_thresholds,
                       const std::vector<QualityThresholds>* quality_thresholds,
                       const BitstreamThresholds* bs_thresholds) = 0;
  virtual VideoCodecTestStats& GetStats() = 0;
};

}  // namespace test
}  // namespace webrtc

#endif  // API_TEST_VIDEOCODEC_TEST_FIXTURE_H_

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Arne Duncan's Statism, part two
Filed under: 1 — clarelspark @ 9:18 pm
Tags: Arne Duncan, Cornell University science teaching program, Dalai Lama, education budget, Howard Gardner, President Obama, statism
Don't miss the Howard Gardner encounter described at the bottom of this blog. It is shocking and revealing about the practice of multiculturalism by a "genius" educator.
Here is what you will not find in this issue of Ed.: any mention of multiculturalism or identity politics. For the numerous photographs in this edition, introducing the new Secretary of Education to alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, demonstrate beyond a doubt that the faculty is diverse with respect to 'race', gender, and sexual orientation. Indeed Harvard, like other elite universities, was a pioneer in the production of the group-think that favors bureaucratic collectivist thought. As for science, that word is sprinkled through the issue, but only in the sense that managerial "progressives" use it, as the gathering of statistics that will guide the next step in "incremental" reform. Dean of the Ed school, Kathleen McCartney, tells us that "Duncan made difficult choices that were based on evidence and driven by data." (p.3)
But you will find no exploration on how science education is faring in the republic. The closest we come to "science" is the essay on the use of a medical model: just as doctors and interns make rounds in the hospitals, "instructional rounds" will help managers to find "common ground" in evaluating teaching effectiveness. They give an example of a "diverse" network for evaluating the "good" classroom: Whereas in Connecticut only superintendents make the rounds, " some rounds are more diverse and also include principals, teachers, staff members, and local union leaders….Once the group forms, they identify a problem that the school or district is struggling with, observe classrooms, debrief, and then focus on what needs to be done next." (p.24)
The assumption here is that the scientific knowledge, rigor, and relative certainty that comes with advanced medical training is automatically applied when persons who may or may not have had a training in science and its methods are making decisions that will affect the ability of students to learn the skills necessary to participate as citizens in a democratic republic. For we are faced with unprecedented challenges and polarizing controversies, such as the value of science itself (the Foucauldians say it is bourgeois conspiracy), or what to do about the related controversies that confront us, particularly the measures to be taken with respect to climate change, pollution, and public health. Without training in critical thought and the separation of fact from opinion, no sane consensus can emerge on the policies that will remedy our numerous emergencies. Am I too "secular" here? Nowhere in this issue of Ed. is the anti-intellectualism of numerous communities confronted as a gigantic obstacle to the reforms Duncan and Harvard wish to initiate. But then top-down thinkers do not consider the condition of communities where religiosity trumps creatively adapting to the modern world, and where all eggheads are suspect as totalitarian thinkers, stealing their children from them and insulting their ancestors.
Allow me to digress for a moment. I trained to be a science teacher in the mid-1950s in the Cornell State College of Agriculture, with my tuition state-supported. It was assumed that we future science teachers might be the only science teacher in a remote rural high school that had no study specimens, so not only did we study chemistry, physics, the biological sciences (including zoology, botany, human physiology, microbiology, etc.), and geology, we learned to make our own slides of cells (using rats), to trap and stuff small animals, and to pick up a fragment of a bat skull or a piece of fur from the woods and meadows and identify it by order, family, genus and species. I also took a course in nature literature that alerted me to "nature fakery" or the sentimentalization of Nature by numerous popular writers from the late nineteenth century on. The few required education courses alerted us to the problem of discipline (i.e., obedience) in the classroom: I would say it was an obsessive concern that seemed an end in itself, perhaps outweighing mastery of one's field. (I got to practice teach at Ithaca High School in a chemistry class; the male science faculty complained to my Cornell supervisor that I wanted to join them at their brown-bag lunches, thus hampering their alacrity in telling dirty jokes.)
My own beliefs about classroom order were tested in my first teaching job at Jamaica High School in Queens, where I was given a class of young people who had already failed biology and were now forced to repeat the course. They were working-class kids, many were black, others were tough veterans of the streets with Polish and Italian names. I was twenty years old (having finished college in 3 1/2 years), and my first few classes were filled with conflict as these rough boys were testing my resolve. I looked at the biology curriculum that was given to me, and quietly tossed it away, instead concentrating my first efforts at finding out what these youngsters had experienced with drug peddlers, alcohol, and other matters related to their survival. [Today I would have added other health concerns and how to identify mental illness in their peers.] They responded well to an emphasis on real-life immediate concerns and at the end of the semester one of them came up to me as representative of the group and asked me to be their teacher the next semester. (That I remember this moving gesture so vividly speaks to its force in shaping my outlook as I grew older.) And the principal, to reward me for my "baptism by fire" promised me the honors class in chemistry if I would return. Alas, it was not to be. I had a prestigious fellowship for the Masters of Arts in teaching science at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and went off to paradise for husband-shoppers.
Because I had already had teaching experience, I was invited to audit the graduate class in methods for teaching science conducted by one Fletcher Watson. The very first session, I asked this leader in science education, "what would you recommend to a young woman teaching science in a rough inner city school?" The answer: "That could never happen." That was the end of my love affair with Harvard, though they offered me another fellowship if I would return to take a Master's in "guidance." (This on the basis of my final exam where I might have startled them with the assertion that teachers wishing for order in the classroom should meet the intrinsic and pressing needs of students, and "order" would follow.) So if this blog sounds a bit testy, you know where I am coming from. [Added 8-25-11: Harvard probably spotted a potential child-centered progressive.]
Back to Ed. There is a lovely photo of the Dalai Lama, seated in Harvard's Memorial Church. His speech, "Educating the Heart," was co-sponsored by the Education and Divinity schools. Here are the quotes they published, preceded by "In particular, he questioned whether education and intelligence alone bring inner peace. 'Those people who are more compassionate, those people are religious man, community man, family man…Much peaceful, much happier.' In contrast, 'there are very smart scholars and professors who are full of competition, full of jealousy, and full of anger. Sometimes they even commit suicide,' he said, pausing when he realized who was in the audience. 'I don't mean disrespect to the academic community.' The Dalai Lama also stressed that compassion starts at home. 'If you see people who are more calm and ready to show love and kindness toward others, those people probably had a mother who provided more affection at a young age.' " The article closes with a mention of his watering the roots in a tree-planting ceremony attended by deans and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, "in addition to blessing a pregnant woman's belly…." (p.11) The link to Arne Duncan's inspirational mother Sue is completed here.
I could stop, but in fairness to Arne Duncan, I should mention his objectives as described in the McQuaid article: "The Obama economic stimulus package contains a huge windfall for education, approximately $115 billion–more than double the department's annual budget…Most of those funds are going to avert catastrophic school budget shortfalls caused by the recession. But the stimulus also includes an unprecedented $5 billion in discretionary funds. The largest share belongs to the Race to the Top program, in which states will compete for grants by showing they're innovating. Duncan's hope is to leverage that cash to create a brushfire of reform at the local level: funding and ultimately "scaling up" successful reforms and seeding them elsewhere. But his window of opportunity is quite narrow–the money will run out in two years." (p.18) Elsewhere, "The agenda spans proposed changes in preK to college, pounding the bully pulpit to promote charter schools, merit pay, and national standards, and what's likely to be a contentious fight over No Child Left Behind." (p.20) [Added 9-6-09: AD appeared as guest on Stephen Colbert last night. He mentioned two other objectives, also described in Ed.: lengthening the school year as the long summer break was suitable to an agrarian society, not an urban one, and creating the school site as a community center where adult learning could take place, as well as other student activities. Colbert did not ask him where the necessary funding would come from. The interview was preceded by a film showing the pair's, but mostly Colbert's, prowess in shooting hoops.]
Remember McQuaid's characterization of Duncan as an "outsider" like his close basketball pal Obama in "Arne Duncan's Statism, part one"? Here is how the article ends: Education may lose out if Obama is too distracted, but "Duncan's membership in the close-knit group of Chicago transplants in the Obama administration–including top advisors David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, and social secretary Desiree Rogers (John W. Rogers' ex-wife)–will help him keep his issues in the mix." (p.21)
File this article and the entire Harvard Ed School apparatus/organism under the heading "the Machine that is not a Machine though it resembles one to the naked eye."
A postscript on Howard Gardner. HG, a protege of Henry A. Murray(yes our Henry Murray, though you won't find him on Gardner's Wikipedia entry), was a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award, and in the late 1980s he came out to visit the HGSE alumni. At UCLA he gave an illustrated lecture on his famous theory that there are "multiple intelligences." The slides I remember in particular were one of a black youngster shooting hoops, and the one female represented staring at herself in the mirror. I confronted him for deploying these stereotypical images as if sports served as the route to learning for black kids, while girls kept journals, indulging their narcissism. The smiling mask suddenly disappeared and he snarled at me, whispering "Why did you come here?" I have not emphasized enough in these blogs the emphasis on sports and "active learning" in the issue of Ed. that I have presented here. I could have included the photo of Duncan and Obama playing basketball together, used in the McQuaid article.


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Vipers Elevate Blair to Head Coach
2 years 3 months 1 week ago Wednesday, October 10 2018 Oct 10, 2018 October 10, 2018 10:09 PM October 10, 2018 in Sports
EDINBURG – There's good and then there's great. The Vipers have tasted greatness twice, winning titles in 2010 and 2013.
The Vipers hope to get back to that championship greatness with new head coach Joseph Blair.
"Just to be a part of that now and be where I can call myself the captain of the ship, it's an amazing opportunity for me I'm really looking forward to," said Blair at Wednesday's press conference. "Not only to get wins on the basketball court, but also be a big part of the community at the same time."
For the last three years, Blair was Matt Brase's right hand man.
But with Brase now a member of the Rockets' staff, the franchise gave Blair his first shot to be a pro basketball coach.
"I played for over a decade," said Blair. "I was very fortunate to play basketball for as long as I can remember, but playing and coaching are two different things. It's a heck of a transition. It's a big learning curve. Now to come full circle from a professional basketball player to a professional head coach, it's an amazing situation for me."
With the NBA G-League draft still 11 days away, the Vipers' roster is far from finished.
One player that could be back is Isaiah Hartenstein, who was signed by the Rockets this summer. Blair says Hartenstein could be one of the Vipers' success stories.
"That's the feedback I got not only from the coaching staff, but Chris Paul, James Harden are saying the same thing. Like this guy already knows our stuff. That's what we want to continue to do as we have these players come in."
The Vipers' first home game inside Bert Ogden Arena is November 3rd. Coach Blair knows with a big new arena, come big expectations.
"You just want to justify the Vipers logos all over the place here," said Blair. "So we want to bring a lot of wins to this organization this year. A lot of home wins in particular. The pressure is there, but if we can continue to do build the culture that I'm trying to create here, I feel confident the wins will take care of themselves."
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I have a small number of railcars on the DLS that use SetFXTextureReplacement() to change between a random set of textures. Unfortunately, although this works in TS12, these same cars are not working in TANE. I know this was working in an earlier version of TANE, but it appears not to be working any more (at least, not in build 76401). One example would be 124060:15044 on the DLS.
Is anyone else having problems with this? Am I just doing something wrong that accidentally worked in previous versions?
My guess is that the "skins" variable is null when passed into SetFXTextureReplacment() since a null variable disables the texture replacement. The function does work for me in 76401 in a test asset based on Andi's Engine Shed tutorial in the N3V WiKi.
Perhaps you could try testing/debugging the script to determine if the texture asset is loaded correctly. I did track through your boxcar script but nothing leaped out at me.
I can confirm that the function works when I have used it, however several other functions display behavior that makes it difficult to tell if they work or not.
the replacement started to work.
In my asset I was calling up one of Andi's texture group assets which is built in. I wonder if this issue is related to this post (http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?120522-Correcting-content-for-TANE&p=1412463#post1412463)?
It's definitely the case that all texture references should be via "*.texture". Using image files in place of texture files has been discouraged for a long time, and emulation of this feature doesn't exist in T:ANE except for a few very specific use-cases such as coronas where the "*.tga" usage was simply to prevalent to disallow.
Thanks, Chris, for the confirmation! It might be nice to flag this as an error when you get a chance; it took me a couple of weeks to figure this one out. I've also updated the WIKI page above.
It might be nice to flag this as an error when you get a chance; it took me a couple of weeks to figure this one out.
I've also updated the WIKI page above.


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But probably the most important edges are the ones we expose to our fellow weirdos developers - our APIs.
I always find Commons Lang's StringUtils.isBlank() vs StringUtils.isEmpty() to be a bit confusing!
JUnit's Assert.assertEquals(String, String, String) always requires a sneak peek at the javadoc to get the arguments right. They fixed it with the Assert.assertThat(String, T, Matcher<T>) style though!


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#pragma once

#include <string>

#include "envoy/config/trace/v2/trace.pb.validate.h"

#include "extensions/tracers/common/factory_base.h"

namespace Envoy {
namespace Extensions {
namespace Tracers {
namespace Datadog {

/**
 * Config registration for the Datadog tracer. @see TracerFactory.
 */
class DatadogTracerFactory : public Common::FactoryBase<envoy::config::trace::v2::DatadogConfig> {
public:
  DatadogTracerFactory();

private:
  // FactoryBase
  Tracing::HttpTracerPtr
  createHttpTracerTyped(const envoy::config::trace::v2::DatadogConfig& proto_config,
                        Server::Instance& server) override;
};

} // namespace Datadog
} // namespace Tracers
} // namespace Extensions
} // namespace Envoy


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Alone on Top of the World
Dawn came far earlier than it did for those down below. The bright, cold rays hit the upper edge of the valley, making the bare rock glow as if on fire. The sheep began to get restless. Aerin woke up.
It was bitterly cold in her small valley on top of the world. Even an hour later, when the sun reached the grass on the valley floor, she walked around in her huge, wooly cloak that made her look twice as big as she really was. The sun rose, pale and watery in the thin air, and shone its cold rays on her little world.
It was just her, in that tiny valley on the summit of Mt. Odinokii—her and her flock of Ambrulo sheep. Everything about the valley was special. There was a special reservoir cut below the valley because rain almost never fell that high up and every drop that did was precious. The grass was special since normal grass would not grow in such cold and thin air. The sheep were bred specially for high altitudes and it was said that it was the thin air that made their hearts delicious beyond imagining.
Aerin herself was special. She had been chosen and had trained for five years until she was an expert on everything concerning the Ambrulo sheep: breeding, diet, surgery, infant delivery, psychology. She stood alone in expertise concerning the Ambrulo.
She led the sheep out of their pen and into the long fenced-in lane towards the water trough. As they walked, the sheep pushed against levers that drove the pump that brought the water up from the reservoir below. Aerin walked next to them, calling them by name and inspecting them. Once they had all drank and started grazing, she went over to the pulley and looked down.
The pulley was her only contact with the world. There were actually two pulley and two platforms: when one went up, the other went down, a thousand feet or more to the first staging platform. Beyond that, there were more ropes and pulleys and then a narrow, treacherous road that wound for miles down the side of the mountain until it reached habitable regions.
Every two weeks, she sent a sheep down and in exchange, received its weight in food—her only food for the next two weeks. The sheep was then brought down the mountain and two hundred miles to the palace, in full haste and with a full security detail. There, its heart was prepared by the one chef in the kingdom who was qualified, and then eaten by the king and his nobles.
Aerin went to the grazing flock and walked through them, burying her hands in their thick coats as she passed. "Nivis, perhaps? No, let him grow a little more. Jasquet, maybe? No, let her stay with her lamb a little longer. Peros? Okay, let it be Peros." She guided the chosen sheep out of the flock and towards a scale where she weighed it.
A flash of a red flag far below told her that they were ready. She guided Peros onto the platform, then closed the gate. A lever pulled, the anchor released and the platform swung free. She began adding small weights to the platform, until a moment later, sheep and platform began to descend.
Aerin stood looking out over the world, waiting. The darkest of blue skies above her reached out in all directions until it reached the curving horizon far away. Below, the land spread out like a mosaic of greens, browns and blues, except where huge white masses of clouds obscured her view.
Many minutes passed before the ascending platform arrived, filled with food and the next shipment's weight requirement. Long before, there had been notes for her from family and friends and the workers on the lower stages. No more, though. She unloaded her food in silence and carried it into her cave.
She lay on top of the observation tower, her high platform built in the very center of the valley. The sun had passed its zenith and was slowing dipping towards the western curve of the Earth. Aerin lay looking up into the featureless dark blue and this was how the high-air sprites found her, as they always did.
"Aerin, Aerin, come play with us. Come fly with us." Every time, like a greeting.
"I have no wings, my friends."
"Neither do we," they laughed. "Wings would do no good up here. Come, though, and be like us."
"But who would take care of the sheep?"
"What care do they need? There is nothing to harm them here."
"Who will give them water?"
"Let them figure out how to walk through the fenced lane by themselves. If they are too stupid, then maybe they do not deserve to live."
"Who will send them down every two weeks to the king?"
"The king? He will not starve without an Ambrulo heart to eat every two weeks. Do not worry about him." There were many sprites around her now, laughing, playing, beckoning her towards them. "Come, come be one of one, Aerin the Lonesome, Aerin the Solitary, Aerin, Queen of the Upper Airs." They laughed, but they were not mocking.
"And how would I become like you?" she asked, although she knew what they would say.
"Leave your confines. Jump from the edge of the mountain. Fly up among us and soar through the atmosphere, higher and higher. Too timid, too shy, too tied to the cruel, hard earth."
"I am not like you," she said, as she had said many times before. "The Earth has a pull on me which I cannot escape, even if I tried."
The sun had reached the borderland of the western horizon. Already, at the base of the mountain, it was full night. Aerin got up and herded the sheep into the cave, shutting the heavy doors against the freezing darkness that encroached on them.
She went to stand at the western edge of the valley and watched the sun descend to meet the Earth in a rack of fiery clouds. As she looked down on the world, alone, her heart ached with a pain that had nothing to do with the cold or thin air. The sun went down and black, icy night covered everything.
The sprites were playing and shouting in the air far above here, dancing among the cascade of glittering stars that pierced the blackness. The ache in her heart eased as she watched them and she smiled as she pulled her hood up around her head.
Life is still beautiful, she thought.
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July 20th, 2012 at 7:17 am
Very imaginative, David. Is she going slightly mad? I found the pulley system interesting. Does such a thing exist? Well done!
I kind of left that up to the reader to decide. For myself, I consider the sprites to be real, although obviously she going through a lot of loneliness.
loved the picture you created in this one david.
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Le domaine nordique de la Stèle est une station de sports d'hiver dédiée principalement au ski de fond du Massif central en France sur la commune de La Tour-d'Auvergne dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.

Accès
Le domaine nordique se trouve entre La Tour-d'Auvergne, au sud-ouest, et Le Mont-Dore et La Bourboule, au nord-est, dans le massif du Sancy, accessible par la route départementale 645 (de La Tour d'Auvergne au Mont-Dore) et la D 88 depuis La Bourboule. Un col qui ne présente pas de nom, dénommé par les cyclistes et les organisateurs du Tour de France côte de la Stèle ou montée de la Stèle et culminant à une altitude de  est au centre de la station.

Géographie
La station est développée dans la montagne de la Roche au sein des bois de la Charbonnière, de la Tour et de la Reine, sur la commune de La Tour-d'Auvergne. Le puy de Chambourguet () à l'est domine le domaine. Cet ensemble est dans le périmètre du parc naturel régional des volcans d'Auvergne.

Histoire

Activités

Sports d'hiver
Le domaine nordique de la Stèle compte 11 pistes de ski de fond de difficulté variable et en boucle et 3 pistes de liaison vers Charlannes, vers Chastreix et vers le Capucin pour une longueur totale de 91 km. Le domaine est géré par la communauté de communes du Massif du Sancy.

Fermée en 1988, l'ancienne station de ski alpin de Chambourguet, très proche de la Stèle, a été déployée pour les activités nordiques durant l'hiver 2020-2021 afin désengorger le domaine.

Cyclisme
La côte de la Stèle figure au programme de la  ( catégorie) du Tour de France 2020 entre Châtel-Guyon dans le Puy-de-Dôme et le puy Mary dans le Cantal. Le français Valentin Madouas passe en tête.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Liste des stations de sports d'hiver du Massif central
 Liste des ascensions du Tour de France dans le Massif central
 Liste des ascensions du Tour de France 2020

Station de sports d'hiver dans le Puy-de-Dôme
Stèle
Domaine nordique en France

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Q: How can I debug a geoprocessing service on the server? I've a geoprocessing script that I'm trying to get working.  I've turned on Show Messages, so I can see how far in the script I've gotten before the submitted job fails, but it's not helping, as I'm getting errors that I don't understand exactly, because I don't know where they occurred.  Is there any way to debug server geoprocessing scripts on the server?
EDIT:
Error is occurring in this code, which worked fine locally.  I'm not getting either of the messages returned, so something seems to be going wrong with the layers.
for layer in mxdLayers:
    try:
        arcpy.AddMessage("Layer name is %s" % (layer.name))
        layer.visible = visibleLayers[layer.name]
    except:
        arcpy.AddMessage("Layer not set: " + layer.name)

Error message is Layer: Unexpected error
Edit 2:
The error is not in the code above.  The following code takes the parameter and stores the passed in features in a scratch gdb.  Currently this is passed as an empty string, as I haven't gotten to testing this part yet.
# Get the passed point graphics and save to scratch workspace
inPointFset = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(9)
if inPointFset == '#' or not inPointFset:
    inPointFset = None
else:
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(inPointFset, os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace, r"scratch.gdb\Points"))

This code then changes the data source of the first mxd layer (which is why it's blowing up; the first layer doesn't reference the points feature class in the scratch gdb), but since the parameter was an empty string, I'm not sure why this is evaluating to true.
mxdLayers = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mapDoc)
if inPointFset:
    arcpy.AddMessage("Points")
    mxdLayers[0].replaceDataSource(os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace, r"scratch.gdb"), "FILEGDB_WORKSPACE", "Points")

A: I typically use a simple error handling class:
import sys
import traceback
import inspect

class ErrorHandling(object):
    '''
    ErrorHandling Provides User/Developers with detailed information about
    errors that occur in the code.  By using this class, you can better
    debug a program or solve on site issues.
    '''

    def __init__(self):
        '''
        Constructor - no parameters
        '''
        pass

    def trace(self):
        '''
        trace finds the line, the filename and error message and returns it
        to the user
        '''
        tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
        tbinfo = traceback.format_tb(tb)[0]
        # script name + line number
        line = tbinfo.split(", ")[1]
        filename = inspect.getfile( inspect.currentframe() )
        # Get Python syntax error
        #
        synerror = traceback.format_exc().splitlines()[-1]
        return line, filename, synerror

Then I reference it in a try except clause.
import arcpy, os
import ErrorHandling as ErrorHandling
try:
            <your code>
except arcpy.ExecuteError:
            EH = ErrorHandling.ErrorHandling()
            line, filename, err = EH.trace()
            m = "Python error on " + line + " of " + __file__ + \
                " : with error - " + err
            arcpy.AddMessage(m)

This way if any of my code errors it will give me a line number and explanation of the error.

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Motivating Online Students with Tradebooks
Terence Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 29, 2010 in San Diego, CA, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-78-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
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Research on student motivation has found that the teacher behaviors are a main factor in developing a student's interest or motivation in a course, but as more instruction moves online, strategies need to be developed to assist in developing the distance learning student's interest and motivation in the course content. The use of content rich tradebooks as part of a course's reading assignments can provide an effective motivating and interest developing supplement to an online class, providing experiences and enrichment that go beyond the textbook, helping students to clarify, organize, extend, and enrich the content instruction.
Cavanaugh, T. (2010). Motivating Online Students with Tradebooks. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2010--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 386-391). San Diego, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved January 18, 2021 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/33365/.
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Connected Kitchen
10 Weird High-Tech Kitchen Gadgets You Don't Need
Each year, new products promise to make cooking easier, faster, and more fun. Don't fall for it.
By K. Thor Jensen
https://www.pcmag.com/news/10-weird-high-tech-kitchen-gadgets-you-dont-need
The intersection of science and food is a fascinating place. The rise of molecular gastronomy has introduced techniques from chemistry and physics to the palate, and having access to a database of nutritional information at your fingertips makes eating healthy easier than ever.
That said, a lot of the technology that makes its way into the kitchen is, for lack of a better word, useless. Some of the best chefs in the world do all of their work with just a good knife and a frying pan, after all. That doesn't stop the world's gadget makers from pumping out piles of ridiculous junk.
Year after year, products hit the shelves promising to make cooking easier, faster, and more fun, typically in the form of clunky devices that end up doing one thing very well: taking up space in your kitchen cabinets. In this slideshow, we'll spotlight 10 of the most ridiculous, from wiener steamers to meat polishers.
1. RoboStir
Laziness is a curse in the kitchen. If you've ever cooked professionally (or watched Gordon Ramsay scream at people), you know that commercial kitchens are already in motion, chefs and assistants moving at top speed to get plates out on time. Kitchen gadgets seek to remove all that unsightly work, and one of the most ridiculous is the RoboStir(Opens in a new window), a tripod with silicone feet that rests inside your pot or pan and supports a mechanical oscillator that can tirelessly move a spoon for hours at a time, leaving you free to do other stuff like watch TV or go to the bathroom. That is, if it worked; customers unanimously deride the thing for its instability, low power, and general cheapness.
2. Rollie Eggmaster
For some reason, eggs are a popular inspiration for kitchen gadget makers. Everybody thinks they have a better way to prepare them, but nothing beats the classic "fried in plenty of butter." Especially not the Popsicle-like abominations dispensed by the Rollie Eggmaster(Opens in a new window). Crack the shell, pour the egg down the tube, and in minutes you have a weird-looking egg on a stick that's impossible to eat in any kind of human, dignified manner. If you have dietary restrictions that prevent you from eating anything that's not in tube form, this is the gadget for you.
3. Juicero
Most of the gadgets and devices on this list are relatively inexpensive, hoping that novelty factor and low price point will let them sell through their inventory. And then there's Juicero(Opens in a new window), a $700 cold-press juicer that doesn't let you use your own fruit and vegetables. In classic Internet of Things mode, the Juicero won't work unless it has an active Wi-Fi connection, which it uses to determine if the produce packs you buy from the company for as much as $10 each are still good (by scanning a QR code, of course). This hot mess of unnecessary technology somehow managed to raise $120 million(Opens in a new window) in Silicon Valley funding, which is patently ridiculous.
4. Marivac Food Tumbler
One common theme you'll see in a lot of these gadgets is that people apparently hate to wait for anything. Marinating meat is an important step in the preparation of many dishes, and it's all about taking the time to let those juices seep in. But if you just can't deal with leaving it alone, there's the Marivac Food Tumbler(Opens in a new window), a $179 device that lets you do it in 10 minutes with the aid of a vacuum-sealed container and a rotating barrel that looks like something you'd polish rocks with. Apparently the paddles on the inside of the drum "stretch food fibers," which doesn't sound terrifically appetizing.
5. Fat Magnet
There's always an enemy in the diet world. Sometimes it's carbs, sometimes it's fat. If you're freaked out about your lipid intake, please don't stoop to buying a Fat Magnet(Opens in a new window). The technology behind this gadget is pretty simple: pop it in the freezer and the cold plate on the end will cause grease and fat to coagulate on top of your dish, letting you easily remove it. Unfortunately, there are two major problems. One, fat is the vehicle which transports many different flavor notes, so you're ruining your palate. And two, the thing just doesn't work. It's made of flimsy aluminum and never gets cold enough to make the fat change state and clump up.
6. Towel-Matic Paper Towel Dispenser
There's lazy, and then there's "can't pull a paper towel" lazy. For those of you who can't imagine putting forth the effort to get a paper towel like a normal human being, meet the Towel-Matic(Opens in a new window), a $60 "touchless" device that rotates out a fresh paper towel when you wave your hand in front of its integrated infrared scanner. A special device identifies the type of towel in the dispenser and automatically positions the perforation where it can be most easily ripped. This is the kind of thing that's so ridiculous it's hard to even write jokes about it, but thankfully all of the Amazon reviews are hovering in the one-star range.
7. Hot Dog Steamer
There's a reason hot dogs are a go-to meal for harried parents across America: they're insanely easy to cook. You can throw them on the grill, toss them in a pan, or dump them into a pot of boiling water and they'll be just fine. Hell, in a pinch you can eat them cold out of the fridge. So the very idea of a purpose-built device(Opens in a new window) that does nothing but steam wieners is the height of absurdity. This model also has "bun warmers," because God forbid you put your hot dog on a room-temperature roll.
8. Flatev Tortilla Maker
Tortillas are the perfect peasant food. Inexpensive to produce, filling, and capable of transforming into tacos that can hold all kinds of ingredients, they're truly the backbone of Mexican cuisine. So why would you need a $250 device that makes them one at a time from Keurig-like pods? Meet the Flatev(Opens in a new window), which was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and is set to launch in the summer of 2017. The toaster-sized device does just one thing: transform pods, which you can only buy from the company, into single fresh-baked tortillas, in about a minute. This is both insanely wasteful and fills a need none of us has ever had. Oh, and you have to keep the pods in your fridge, too, so set aside some space there.
9. Eddington Egg Cuber
Back to eggs for another device that's almost hilariously useless. Do you love to eat hard-boiled eggs but can't stand their elliptical shape? Do you wish you could stack your eggs into massive towers instead of eat them? Then you're the only human being on Earth who needs an Eddington Egg Cuber(Opens in a new window). Just drop a hard-boiled egg into the plastic mold, screw down the compression top, and put the whole contraption in the fridge for an hour. When it's done, your egg will be a perfect cube. Yes, it takes an entire hour to do a single egg, so you should probably buy at least a dozen if you're going to make anything interesting.
10. RippleMaker
We've all marveled at the artistry of the cute barista down at the corner coffee shop who can make beautiful leaves on the top of your lattes. Guess what? She's about to get replaced by a robot, if the creators of the Ripple Maker(Opens in a new window) have their say. With a tagline like "The full range of human emotion created in coffee, on coffee," you know that there's a lot of hot air being blown here. How does it work? Like many awful gadgets, it has disposable pods that contain a blend of coffee grounds, which it squirts in 3D on top of the foam in your cup to create just about any image that the heart desires in just 10 seconds. Right now, it's only available for specialty coffee shops in the US, Canada, and parts of China. With a retail price of $1,300, this is a pretty steep investment for personalized lattes.
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Review of "Brahms: The Boy 2"
While Sean (Owain Yeoman) was working late on a project, his wife Liza (Katie Holmes) and son Jude (Christopher Convery) are attacked in their London flat during a home invasion. Liza suffers a concussion and Jude is so traumatized he stops speaking, communicating by writing message on a pad he wears around his neck. The family decides they need to take a break from the city and rent a guest house on the Heelshire property. The Heelshire home has been vacant since the murders that took place there a few years earlier. A speculator bought the house and attempted to turn it into luxury condos, but various delays caused him to abandon the project. While the family is strolling through the woods, Jude is drawn away from his parents toward a patch of ground with a porcelain hand sticking up from the dirt. Digging in the soft ground, Jude finds an antique doll that he calls Brahms. Liza cleans up Brahms and he becomes Jude's constant companion. During another walk with Liza, Jude finds a box with clothes for the doll. They also meet Joseph (Ralph Ineson) and his dog, a German Sheppard named Oz. Joseph describes himself as a caretaker of the grounds. Oz growls at Brahms and Jude. Strange events occur in the vacation home with a TV turning itself on, unexplained footsteps and voices, and Liza's nightmares involving Brahms. Is there more to this doll than just a creepy dead stare?
"Brahms: The Boy 2" is a sequel to the financially successful but critically derided "The Boy" from 2016. Both films heavily feature a lifelike antique doll and the odd events that occur in its vicinity. I hadn't seen "The Boy" prior to its sequel, but out of curiosity, I rented it after I watched the follow up. While both films share the same director and writer, I was shocked at how the creative team seemed to have forgotten what happened in the first film while making the second. And aside from that, the sequel is painfully dull and doesn't follow its own rules.
"Brahms: The Boy 2" implies the child of the married couple is already a little twisted before meeting the doll as he enjoys scaring his mother. In the opening scene, Katie Holmes' Liza walks in their home and Jude can be seen in the openings between the stairs. It's that classic horror movie scene where the victim walks in the room and the villain is slightly out of focus in the background, then walks out of the shot. In this instance, this sets up Jude frightening his mother, something he was taught to do by his father. Jude takes an abundance of joy in scaring his mother and that's supposed to set up the audience for what's to come. However, the film doesn't work that hard to frighten us for the rest of the scant 86-minute run time. The only other time the audience might feel a surge of adrenalin is when Joseph's dog barks when we meet he and Oz for the first time. No other moment in the film comes close to providing any sort of thrill after that.
Precious little happens in "Brahms: The Boy 2." After the home invasion in the opening minutes and a child being impaled on a sharp stick midway or so, there isn't much going on in the film. Katie Holmes struggles mightily to look concerned, confused and frightened by all the nothingness going on around her. It's a losing battle. Holmes and the rest of the cast are trying to swim upstream with both hands and one leg tied behind their backs. All they can do is flop around as artistically as possible. It's not pretty to watch.
If you haven't seen "The Boy" and plan to, you will want to skip this paragraph as there will be spoilers for the 2016 original. You've been warned. Ready?
In the final act of "The Boy," we learn Brahms, the actual child of the Heelshires, survived the fire that was thought to have killed him and was living in the walls of the home wearing a porcelain mask similar to the doll. Actions that appeared to be done by the doll, or a spirit living in the doll, were done by the now nearly 30-year-old Brahms. There was nothing supernatural about the strange events. In "Brahms: The Boy 2," the living Brahms is nowhere to be found and everything happening around the doll may be supernatural. Scenes from the first film are repurposed for the sequel while also retconning the story to make it fit. The way this film ends it makes it appear there is something else that channels the otherworldly forces at work. The film's writer, Stacey Menear, apparently doesn't mind changing or ignoring the rules of her own creation for the sake of expediency. Retconning is common in long-running genre franchises. Major and minor tweaks to the history of "Star Trek," "Star Wars" and the "X-Men" franchises don't seem to have hurt the desire of audiences to keep watching their favorite characters. Sometimes there is online fanboy outrage, but people keep buying tickets and the world keeps turning. However, when you are only two films into what is hoped to be an ongoing series, you can't be taking an eraser to your too brief history.
"Brahms: The Boy 2" is rated PG-13 for terror, violence, disturbing images and thematic elements. Terror, not so much. We see hot candle wax thrown in a character's face. A character is hit in the head with the butt of a shotgun. A woman is attacked in her home by two masked men. She fights back but is struck in the head and knocked unconscious. We see a boy bullying Jude about his mental issues after the attack. A child is shown impaled on a sharp stick. The carcass of a dead animal is shown in the forest. Disturbing images are shown in Liza's dreams.
Maybe the writer was out of ideas. Maybe the deadline crept up and the creative team played word association games to get the script done (the release date was moved back twice). Maybe the studio wanted to get another inexpensive film in the same universe out in theaters hoping no one would care it wasn't very good. "Brahms: The Boy 2" is worse than not very good, it's boring. It's less than 90 minutes long but feels like more than two hours. I give a film the benefit of the doubt if I get the impression the makers actually tried, but this pitiful sequel feels like those in charge gave up and slapped some scenes together so they could move on to the next project. They fulfilled their contractual obligations, cashed their checks and the audience be damned. I know movies are mostly about making money, but they should also be about not insulting the paying audience. On that front, the makers of "Brahms: The Boy 2" failed miserably.
"Brahms: The Boy 2" gets one dim star out of five.
Only one new film is opening in wide release this week, but there some interesting arthouse films that I might need to see as well. I'll review at least one of the following:
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IPCC AR6: Run-off, Streamflow and Flooding, Unspun Edition
01 Dec 2021 | Science Notes
Continuing our look at what the latest IPCC report says about rivers and flooding, especially in light of dogmatic alarmist claims that the recent British Columbia floods are entirely due to greenhouse gases as opposed to, say, failure of local governments to react sensibly to warnings based on the long history of flooding in that region, we take a look at what the new IPCC report says on the subject. Herewith the AR6 Chapter 8 Section 8.3.1.5, as usual with reference lists replaced with (--) and a few details elided out, but otherwise verbatim, starting with its summary statement: "the assessment of observed trends in the magnitude of runoff, streamflow, and flooding remains challenging, due to the spatial heterogeneity of the signal and to multiple drivers. There is however high confidence that the amount and seasonality of peak flows have changed in snowmelt-driven rivers due to warming. There is also high confidence that land use change, water management and water withdrawals have altered the amount, seasonality, and variability of river discharge, especially in small and human-dominated catchments."
AR5 reported low confidence in the assessment of trends in global river discharge during the 20th century. This is because many streamflow observations have been impacted by land use and dam construction, and the largest river basins worldwide differ in many characteristics, including geography and morphology. In regions with seasonal snow storage, AR5 WGII assessed that there is robust evidence and high agreement that warming has led to earlier spring discharge maxima and robust evidence of earlier breakup of Arctic river ice, as well as indications that warming has led to increased winter flows and decreased summer flows where streamflows are lower and that the observed increases in extreme precipitation led to greater probability of flooding at regional scales with medium confidence. [The Special Report on the Cryosphere] found robust evidence and high agreement that discharge due to melting glaciers has already reached its maximum point and has begun declining with smaller glaciers, but only low confidence that anthropogenic climate change has already affected the frequency and magnitude of floods at the global scale.
Significant trends in streamflow and continental runoff were observed in 55 out of 200 large river basins during 1948-2012, with an even distribution of increasing and decreasing trends (Dai, 2016) (see also Section 2.3.1.3.6). A global detection and attribution study shows that the simulation of spatially heterogeneous historical trends in streamflow is consistent with observed trends only if anthropogenic forcings are considered (--). Section 3.3.2.3 assesses with medium confidence that anthropogenic climate change has altered regional and local streamflows, although a significant trend has not been observed in the global average (--). Multiple human-induced and natural drivers have been shown to play an important but variable role in observed regional trends of streamflow for several different areas (--). For instance, decreasing runoff during the dry season has been observed over the Peruvian Amazon since the 1980s (--). Up to 30–50% of the recent multi-decadal decline in streamflow across the Colorado River Basin can be attributed to anthropogenic warming and its impacts on snow and evapotranspiration (--). In the Upper Missouri River basin, (--) found that warming temperatures have contributed to streamflow reductions since at least the late 20th century. Cold regions in the Northern Hemisphere have experienced an earlier occurrence of snowmelt floods, an overall increase in water availability and streamflow during winter, and a decrease in water availability and streamflow during the warm season (--).
Some studies have suggested that dam construction and water withdrawals can be the dominant drivers in observed trends in streamflow amount (--). Regionally, land use and land cover changes have been identified as important factors for streamflow (--). The impact of surface dimming from aerosol emissions on evaporation was identified as a discernible influence in Northern Hemisphere streamflows (--). While changes in annual mean streamflow present a complicated picture, recent studies of changes in the timing of streamflow in snow-influenced basins continue to support a prominent influence from warming (--). Global land runoff variations correlate significantly with ENSO variability (--).
Observed changes in flooding are assessed in detail in Chapter 11 and are summarized as follows. For changes in the magnitude of peak flow, recent studies show strong spatial heterogeneity in the sign, size and significance of trends (Section 11.5.2.1). For changes in the frequency and magnitude of high flows, the conclusions remain limited by the large influence of water management (Section 11.5.2.2). For changes in timing of peak flows, recent studies further support observed changes in snowmelt-driven rivers (Section 11.5.2.3). Observed changes in runoff and flood magnitude cannot be explained by precipitation changes alone given the possible season- and region-dependent decreases in antecedent soil moisture and snowmelt which can partly offset the increase in precipitation intensity (--), or the expected effect of urbanization and deforestation which can on the contrary amplify the runoff response (--). Simulations of mean and extreme river flows are consistent with the observations only when anthropogenic radiative forcing is considered (--).
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Power Statistics & Trends 2011 Edition
Statistics Map 2011
Demand Recovers
Capacity Increases
Generation Grows
Variability Increases
Investing in RES
Back-up Needed
Lower Emissions
Unavailability Increases
In 2010, electricity demand recovered in the EU-27,reaching 2008 - and thus pre-recession - levels. However, the recovery did not occur uniformly across Europe. In Germany and Spain, for instance, electricity demand increased compared to 2009 (by 5% and 3% respectively), but did not yet reach 2008 levels. In other cases demand rose to above pre-recession levels (Belgium saw a 11% increase over 2008). The trend of increasing electrification continues.
The EU's total installed capacity continued to grow in 2010, reaching 870 GW - an increase of 28 GW, or 3%.Renewables other than hydro accounted for the fastest growing sources, with over 22 GW being connected to the grid; this accounts for more than three quarters of the newly installed capacity. As for nuclear capacity, about 2 GW were withdrawn from the grids, notably due to the closure of the Ignalina power plant in Lithuania. Fossil-fired capacity also grew, although only marginally, by 1.8%.
All power generation technologies contributed to the increase in electricity generation.Renewables made up the lion's share, sustained by good performance of hydro in southern Europe, due to favourable weather conditions in the reference period, and an increase of installed capacity for wind, solar and biomass. Hydro generation grew by 7%, other renewable energy sources (RES) generation by 14% compared to 2009 levels. Fossil-fired generation saw an increase of 5%, particularly in gas. The nuclear increase was smallest in comparison, with 1% above 2009 levels.
Data shows the increasing share of variable generation technologies in the power mix:wind increased from 74,614 MW to 83,819 MW between 2009 and 2010, and solar PV from 15,244 MW to 22,981 MW in the same period. Forecasts for future growth are even more spectacular. The gap between capacity and generation is therefore expanding, requiring ever more back-up capacity. This will be especially true up to 2020, since alternative and complementary means such as large-scale storage or demand-side measures are unlikely to deliver beforehand.
Technologies: Use them all!
Power was and will be generated using all available technologies.Power Statistics & Trends 2011 shows that the entire range of power generation technologies has been used, although the proportions have shifted over time. This diversified mix is crucial to ensure security of supply and to achieve an optimal balance between variable RES and flexible and back-up capacity.
The electricity industry has invested significantly in RES capacity
The electricity industry has taken on the challenge and has become a significant investor in 'new' RES(mainly wind, solar and biomass). With 276,666 MW in 2010, its capacity has nearly doubled since 2000. But for the industry to deliver in an optimal way - carbon-neutral, commercially viable, at affordable prices - a system approach has to be applied, developing both RES and back-up within an integrated European electricity market, which is yet to be set up.
New conventional capacity is required
There is an important need to replace ageing power plants in Europe in the next years.The Large Combustion Plant Directive, as well as the Industrial Emissions Directive will take many older plants out of the system within the next decade. Power Statistics & Trends 2011 reveals that the needed installation of new capacity is not taking place, apart from a limited switch to gas and a massive introduction of renewables as a result of generous support schemes. Incentives for setting up conventional capacity are lacking, and limited operation hours affect business cases just as negatively as regulatory uncertainty and insufficient remuneration.
Total CO2 emissions decrease, but specific emissions increase slightly
As a result of decreased electricity generation between 2008 and 2009, the power sector's CO2 emissions fell further in 2009, from 1,186 GT CO2 to 1,127 GT CO2.However, the carbon intensity of the electricity industry - measured in grams of CO2 emitted per each kWh of electricity generated - increased slightly, from 368.4 g/kWh in 2008 to 369.7 g/kWh in 2009. A possible explanation could be the increasingly flexible operation of the fossil-fired fleet enforced by the deployment of variable RES. Faced with more frequent starts and stops as well as more frequent part-load operations, thermal power plants become less efficient and emit more CO2.
Conventional plants are less available - despite more maintenance
Availability of conventional power plants has deteriorated despite increased maintenance efforts.The analysis in this year's special issue "availability/unavailability of conventional power plants" shows that the forced outage rate has increased over the last ten years even though maintenance has increased as well. The higher damage rate and maintenance needs can possibly be linked to the more flexible operation mode (i.e. part-loading) of the conventional fleet. Moreover, the EU power fleet is ageing: more than 70% of the conventional power fleet is older than 30 years. The economic viability of conventional generation is severely constrained by the lack of revenues for existing plants and the lack of incentives for replacing them.


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The Supreme Court has ordered status quo to be maintained with respect to alleged illegal shed in a 50-year-old restaurant in Mumbai's posh locality Ville Parle (West) while directing the trial court to decide expeditiously the civil suit initiated by the restaurant against the demolition order of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
A bench of Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Indu Malhotra was hearing the plea of M/s Rasraj Restaurant against the order of the Bombay High Court which had allowed demolition of the said illegal structure.
"Without expressing any opinion on the merits and demerits of the controversy which is now admittedly the subject matter of Civil Suit pending in the City Civil Court, Bombay out of which this special leave petition arises, we direct the concerned trial judge to ensure expeditious disposal of the civil suit filed by the petitioners against the respondents strictly on the basis of the evidence adduced by the parties in the suit," directed the apex court.
Before the Supreme Court, Rasraj Restaurant was represented by senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Shyam Divan and Kunal Vajani of BlackRobe Chambers and AOR Sumeer Sodhi.
The petitioner contended before the Supreme Court that if the structure said to be illegal is demolished, the civil suit pending before the trial court will become infructuous.
It is to be noted that civic agency had in year 2014 served a demolition order to the restaurant for the illegal shed.
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