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First Fruits by Eggman (Review)
Releasing a solo album while being affiliated with one of the great pop bands required some guts.
First Fruits by Eggman
1996 / Creation
Eggman is the brainchild of one Sice, also known as the lead singer of one Britain's great musical exports, the Boo Radleys. This album is a collection of 10 great pop songs, all penned by Sice. In many ways, this was daring move by the guy. Releasing a solo album while being affiliated with one of the great pop bands required some guts. I know I'd be shaking in my boots if I was under the shadow of the mighty Boos.
However, Sice pulls it off with little incident, and gives us this little gem. Just under 33 minutes in length, First Fruits is a great little album, kind of like the punchy little kid you always root for. It's just hard not too like this album. I hesitate to compare this with the Boos' work, although it's very difficult to do otherwise. I'll just say that it does sound similar to Wake Up!, without it's brooding lyrical mood. Nor does it have any of the heavy experimentation that Wake Up! did. In many ways, this is a very nice and compact record. It comes, says what it needs to say, and doesn't mess around. It's very refreshing, but it does seem a little lightweight, kind of like a little brother to the Boos.
But you've got to like the gutsy nature of this album. The songs are incredibly pleasant and catchy, especially the opener "Purple Patches" and "That's That Then (For Now)," where Sice proclaims boldly that "I don't need anything else but to be here with you." Trembling, beautiful organs and strings give way to swaggering guitars that will have you nodding your head in time. It's kind of like restrained psychedelia, with Sice's beautiful vocals soaring over everything. On tracks like these, his voice is at its boldest. But on the ballad "Out of My Window," his vocals take on a humble, almost fragile quality that matches the beautiful string arrangements.
"I'll Watch Your Back" is a bright-eyed piece, dominated by the harpsichord. Again, Sice's vocals float around in the background, as he states "You need to make up your mind, you need to choose. And I'll watch your back." The album closes with the title track, another great song with a Wurlitzer piano taking the main stage. Again, Sice adds his great voice and harmonies. First Fruits comes off as a sort of tribute to his musical heroes. Sice sings "I'll be where you have gone. I'll sing where you have sung. I'll shine my light when you have gone." It's a great way to end this album, a nice little reminder of the past. In many ways, this album reminds me of the optimism of childhood, with all of its open-eyed wonder and charm.
As said before, all of the songs are penned by Sice. But he's joined by several people, including Boo-buddies Martin Carr, Rob Cieka, and Tim Brown. But the project is undeniably Sice's. If you're looking for a nice lightweight pop album, pick up First Fruits. While it may be hard to separate Sice from the Boos, this album proves that Sice is his own talent. Hopefully, we'll see some more from him in the near future.
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Pygmalion by Slowdive (Review)
This was Slowdive's swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.
Souvlaki by Slowdive (Review)
Souvlaki is Slowdive's best collective effort, funneling the atmospherics of their previous efforts into a more cohesive package.
Just for a Day by Slowdive (Review)
My first introduction to Slowdive, and an album that left such an impact on me that I still compare new albums to it today.
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From start to finish, the Boo Radleys explore the whole of pop, ranging from short, punchy numbers full of hooks to long ballads.


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When he wasn't flying, Bean always enjoyed painting as a hobby. Attending night classes at St. Mary's College in Maryland in 1962, Alan experimented with landscapes. During training and between missions as a test pilot and astronaut, he continued private art lessons. On space voyages, his artist's eye and talent enabled him to document impressions of the Moon and space to be preserved later on canvas. His art reflects the attention to detail of the aeronautical engineer, the respect for the unknown of the astronaut and the unabashed appreciation of a skilled painter.


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MUSEUM OF #MOSAICS IN DEVNYA
The Museum of Mosaics in Devnya displays early-Byzantine mosaics1 from Marcianopolis. The idea for its organization was born within the process of archeological research that started in 1976 and continued for five seasons with interruptions. In the process of research, a large late-Roman building decorated with mosaics was found (The House of Antiope).
THE GORGON #MEDUSA MOSAIC
The mosaic covers the living-room cum dining room (triclinium) floor (8,00 x 8,00 m) and represent the shield of the goddess Pallas Athena decorated with the decapitated head of Gorgon Medusa. It was intended to ward the evil away and to petrify ill-wishers with terrifying appearance and freezing gaze (apotropaion).
According to Greek mythology Gorgon-Medusa
(Gr. "the Horrible") was the most horrible and only mortal of the three daughters of the sea deities Phorcys and Ceto, granddaughters of the earth Gaea and the sea Pontus. Initially she was first among beauties of beautiful hair, which Minerva turned into snakes when Gorgon was raped by Neptune in her temple. Gorgon's face petrified everyone who looked at her.
According another version of this myth she lived in the endmost West with her sisters Stheno and Euryale. The Gorgons were notorious for their horrible appearance: female creatures of wings covered with steel scales, snakes instead of hair, wolf's fangs and eyes and touch that turned all living creatures in stone.
The hero Perseus (the shower-of gold born son of Zeus and Danae, daughter of King Acrisius of Argos) decapitated the sleeping Gorgon-Medusa stepping forward with his back to her and looking at her reflection in his copper shield (presented to him by Athena Pallas) and cut her head with his curved sword (a present from Hephestus).
Perseus escaped the Gorgons chasing after him on the winged sandals (presented to him by Hermes or Mercury). Perseus presented the head of Gorgon-Medusa to Athena Pallas who attached it to her shield (or aegis) to scare her enemies.
A Panonian Volutes Mosaic detail – opus tesselatum. The second half of the 4th Century.
THE #SATYR AND ANTIOPE MOSAIC
The floor of the building bedroom (cubiculum) (5,60 x 4,40 m) is covered with mosaic, depicting one of the
numerous love affairs of Zeus, the supreme Greek god. It is an extremely rare plot among the preserved mosaics dating back that far. According to Homer, the nymph Antiope was the beautiful daughter of the river-god Asopus, or according to others, daughter of king Nycteus of Thebes. She was seduced by Zeus, who had changed into the looks of a young satyr (mythical creatures followers of Dionysus, the god of wine, personifying the unleashed animal fertility). Fearing her father's wrath, she fled from Thebes to Epopeus, the King of Sicyon (in Peloponnesus, South Greece) who married her. Nycteus, upon his deathbed, charged his brother Lycus (heir to the throne) with the task to get Antiope back to Thebes. Lycus killed Epopeus. He took Antiope with him to Thebes. On the way back, on Mt. Cithaeron she gave birth to the twins Amphion and Zethus, but she was forced to abandon her infants. For years on end Lycus and his wife Dirce mistreated Antiope severely. When her sons, Amphion and Zethus, grew up (raised by a shepherd), they exacted a terrible vengeance upon Dirce by tying her to the horns of a ferocious bull.
A geometrical ornament (a detail) – opus tesselatum. An antique building with mosaics, oecus. In situ. The beginning of the 4th Century.
THE PANONIAN VOLUTES MOSAIC
The Panonian Volutes Mosaic was discovered during rescue excavation works in 1949 in the eastern part of Marcianopolis, in a building of unknown use (perhaps an old Christian basilica). The decoration of the mosaic consists of repeated geometric patterns in four clours (probably imitating sarcophagus decorations). The technique applied in the making of the mosaic was the opus tesselatum where larger tesseras of marble and baked clay were used.
The Museum was built by project of Architect Kamen Goranov standing partly on the ancient foundations of the building with the mosaics3. This ancient building was erected at the end of the 3rd – the beginning of 4th c (the time of Constantine The Great) on the location of earlier building/s that had been destroyed during the Gotts invasions of 250–251. This building existed with repairs and reconstructions until the beginning of the 7th c. The building occupies a whole quarter (insula) of length 37,15 m (north-south) and width 37,75 m (east-west).
The building's plan follows the traditions of the Greek-Roman atrium-peristil residential place. Twenty one residential-, processing- and storage rooms of total area 1 402 square meters are arranged around a closed yard (atrium) (5,87 x 11,11 m), paved with stone slabs and brickwork water well in its middle, surrounded on three sides by covered colonnade (cryptoporticus) (92,63 m2). The walls of the residential rooms were covered by coloured paint and murals of plaster. Five of the building's rooms and porticoes are covered with multi-coloured floor mosaics, one of the best examples of the Roman mosaic art of that period found in Bulgaria.
Three of these mosaics are displayed in the rooms where they have been found (in situ) and the rest were transferred to a new carrying base following their conservation and partial restoration. The mosaics were made in the classical techniques opus tesselatum and opus vermiculatum out of small cubeshaped stones (tesseras) of marble, limestone, baked clay and coloured glass (smalta), in 16 colours. The mosaics depict mainly personages and scenes of the Greek and Roman mythology, exotic animals and birds, floral- and geometric shapes.
The museum halls display diverse exhibits related to the architecture of the building and domestic life of its residents.
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2 Gold #Necklaces Found in Bulgaria's Roman Colony Debelt
Two #gold necklaces have already been found in the recently discovered Romantombs in Debelt, in southeastern Bulgaria.
The news was reported Sunday by the Bulgarian Standard daily.
The archaeological team began research of the tombs last week. The two #Romantombs emerged at the beginning of the month after a truck carrying concrete for a construction site near the village of Debelt in the Strandzha mountain caused the precious discovery.
The truck was on a dirt road near the main one between the Black Sea city of Burgas and Sredets. The road caved in under its weight and uncovered the #marbleplates of a Roman tomb, most likely dating from the 2nd-3rd century A.C. Another tomb was discovered nearby in the aftermath.
The #archaeologists say the finds, mostly from very rich burials, have already exceeded their expectations. A skeleton of a man buried with clothes weaved with gold treat and beads is part of these finds. Because of the clothes and the bronze embalming vessel discovered beside the skeleton, they think this was someone wealthy and from the gentility.
Another skeleton, believed to be of a woman, was found nearby, along with the two priceless and well-preserved gold necklaces.
The necklaces are decorated with semiprecious stones and have two images – of the mythical creature Basilisk and of the official sun god of the later Roman Empire Sol Invictus (Invincible Sun). They further have some inscriptions, whose decoding is forthcoming.
Archaeologist, Krasimira Kostova, notes that the woman has been a member of the religious society of the Gnostics and for this reasons the gold necklaces were placed inside her tomb – with the belief that they bore a strong defending force.
The other finds include a gold pendant, and 2 bronze coins. These are the first discoveries in Debelt, associated with the Gnostic movement, which flourished precisely during the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.C.
"Debelt is one of the key archaeological sites in Bulgaria. This is a Roman city, a colony of the highest level, meaning it is a direct copy of the organization and planning of #Ancient Rome. It has been founded in year 70 A.C. by retired Roman #legionnaires," Director of the National History Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BAS, Lyudmil Vagalinski explains.
There are 15 Roman colonies on the Balkans, 3 of them in Bulgaria, with Debeltbeing the earliest one.
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King – Using Amazon CloudFront to Deliver Mobile Games to Over 200 Countries
by Jeff Barr | on 06 AUG 2015 | Permalink | Share
I recently spent some time on the phone with the folks from King to learn more about how they use Amazon CloudFront to serve game content to a world-wide audience.
All About King
The company was founded in 2003. At that time, they built web games easily accessed from the various portal sites that were ever so popular at that time. Around 2009 their initial experiments with Facebook games were a success, as were subsequent Facebook-centric mobile games. With the handwriting on the wall becoming clear, they built socially connected, cross-platform games that ran equally well on the web and mobile devices, allowing their users to pick up the nearest convenient device and resume playing while maintaining their progression in the games. The goal is to let users connect and play anywhere, at any time, on any device.
As of the first quarter of 2015, their 364 million players come from over 200 countries and rack up 1.6 billion game plays per day. Many of these plays occur in short bursts while the player is in the subway, waiting for a dentist appointment, or waiting in line. The players (many of them in the over-24 age group) don't think of themselves as gamers, but they do enjoy being entertained by casual game play. Players come from all over the world — many from the United States and Europe, with other markets including Japan, China, and Korea (amongst others) also important. The game logic is universal, but promotional activities and in-game events are tailored to local calendars and markets.
Delivery Challenges
We talked at length regarding the challenges that come with the need to deliver game content to a global user base. Some players are on older mobile networks (2G or 3G), with limited bandwidth, modest amounts of peering, and intermittent connectivity. Regardless of location or technology, players need fresh content so that they can use the game instead of waiting for it to load.
The team at King chose Amazon CloudFront as the content delivery vehicle for their games. The factors that influenced this decision included:
Global Reach – They are able to take advantage of CloudFront's global network of edge locations. With locations in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, CloudFront is able to deliver content efficiently to users all over the world.
Platform Features – They appreciate the fact that the CloudFront service gains new features on a regular and frequent basis (see CloudFront What's New for a comprehensive list).
API Access – The developers and operators at King are able to use the CloudFront API to manage game content as an integrated part of their application release cycle. This self-service model allows them to get fresh, consistent content out to their users as quickly as possible.
Cost-Effectiveness – Because AWS does not charge for data transfers between an AWS-hosted origin (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)) and CloudFront, origin fetches are cost-effective.
Scale – CloudFront currently delivers hundreds of terabytes of content for King every day, with spikes to half of a petabyte or more when they launch a new game or initiate a large-scale marketing program.
Performance – With a goal of providing the best possible user experience (which they called "bite-size moments of magic" on our call), they track latency, responsiveness, and load times for each game. All of the metrics improved when they switched to CloudFront.
To learn more about CloudFront, read the Getting Started Guide.
— Jeff;
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Q: Simple oscillator When we are studying harmonic oscillations, we come across with this equation:
$\ddot{x} + c^2x = 0   \tag{1}$
We know immediately that the period of the x oscillations is equal to $T = \frac{2\pi}{c}$
The question is:
I know how to prove the period is that equality AFTER solve the equation, but there is a way to discover it before to solve it (Suppose is the first time you see that, and don't know x is a trigonometric function)?
I imagined to put x(t) = x(t+T), but this change nothing in  equation ($1$).

A: You actually not need to solve the equation, Once you have given a equation of the form
$$a= \ddot{x}=-\omega_0^2x$$
You can compare to find $\omega_0$ and thus $T=2\pi/\omega_0$.

If the potential energy has a minumum at equilibrium,nearly every bound system oscillates like a harmonic oscillator about its equillibrium position if it slightly perturbed.
$$U(r)\approx U(r_0)+ \frac{1}{2}(r-r_0)^2\left(\frac{d^2 U}{dr^2}\right)_{r_0}$$
from where we can deduce
$$k=\left(\frac{d^2 U}{dr^2}\right)_{r_0}$$
Once we have $k$, We can get $T$ simply by applying
$$T=2\pi\sqrt{\frac{m}{k}}$$

If the force law is given then
$$F=ma=-kx\Rightarrow a=-\frac{k}{m}x=-\omega_0^2 x$$
from which one can deduce time period.
Although these all true only for simple harmonics oscillator.

There is another method using energy conservation. Consider one dimensional motion.
$$E=\frac{1}{2}m\dot{x}^2+U(x)$$
or
$$t=\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\int \frac{dx}{\sqrt{[E-U(x)]}}+\mathrm{constant} $$
The  points at which the potential energy equals the total energy,
$$U(x)=E$$
give the limits of the motion. There are turning points.
The period of oscillations is given by
$$T(E)=\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\int_{x_1(E)}^{x_2(E)} \frac{dx}{\sqrt{[E-U(x)]}} $$
That's another method to deduce time period without solving equation of motion.


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Not one, not two, but three teams picked up their first wins of the season in Tucker Gardner Cambs & Hunts Premier League, Division Two as struggling sides came to the fore.
Harry Darling hit an unbeaten century as Bottisham-Lode beat Thriplow & Whittlesford by 166 runs. Opener Darling struck 102 not out, and with support from Harrison Peak (25) and Edward Fletcher (33 not out), the team posted a daunting 219 for 2.
Eaton Socon had two games in two days at the weekend with a 33-run defeat at Saffron Walden II on Saturday followed by a four-wicket win at Blunham on Sunday.


SOCI 1301: Principles of Sociology. The Design Chart Assignment is a project requirement that all students in this section of SOCI 1301 must complete. The assignment is to apply a film to the course and vice versa. Eddie pulls together multiple elements from the SOCI 1301 class and applies them to the dystopian film The Road. The depth and breadth of the submitted project is fantastic in its imagery as well as its written content. Eddie thoroughly examines such sociological elements as norms, deviance, social mobility, and family. He also shows mastery of the course content by capturing images and quotations from the film that effectively illustrate these aspects of the course. This shows the reader that he has critically examined The Road and made sense of it with a sociological perspective. Moreover, his use of PowerPoint software to create the project allows for a narrative progression. Eddie's work on this project is a fantastic example of practical application of what is learned in the classroom.


AUSTIN – Five Texasbased projects totaling about $18 million have been proposed to begin to compensate Texas for lost human use of natural resources resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The three artificial reef and two state park projects are part of the latest round of early restoration led by state and federal Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees.
The five Texas projects are among a total of 28 restoration projects across the Gulf that BP has agreed to fund under a conditional agreement with the trustees. The trustees plan to present all the additional early restoration projects for public review and comment in coming months. If selected for inclusion in a final early restoration plan, the 28 projects collectively would represent close to $600 million. This latest round of proposed early restoration follows two previous phases totaling $71 million.
The five proposed Texas-based projects are listed below. All costs are approximate.
• Galveston Island State Park Beach Re-development (Galveston County). The project would construct multi-use campsites, tent campsites, an equestrian trail head, beach access via dune walk-over boardwalks and other recreational enhancements on the Gulf side of Galveston Island State Park. The purpose is to restore the loss of recreational opportunities by enhancing access to the Gulf. Estimated cost: $10.7 million.
• Sea Rim State Park Amenities (Jefferson County). The project would construct facilities to provide enhanced recreation within Sea Rim State Park, including a fish cleaning station, restroom facility, and two wildlife viewing blinds, in order to enhance fishing experiences, wildlife observation, and educational interpretive opportunities. Estimated cost: $210,000.
• Texas Artificial Reef off the Mid or Upper Coast (Jefferson or Nueces County). This project would place artificial reef structures offshore if the necessary large-scale materials are available. Or, it would enhance existing, permitted nearshore reef sites using constructed, stable and clean materials. Artificial reefs are used by fishermen and scuba divers as recreational areas because of the aquatic community that develops in reef habitat. Estimated cost: $1.8 million.
• Brazoria Near shore Artificial Reef Artificial Reef Enhancement (Brazoria County). This project would enhance a nearshore reef site off Freeport. Estimated cost: $2 million.
• Matagorda Nearshore Artificial Reef (Matagorda County). This project would include construction of a new near shore artificial reef off of Matagorda. Estimated cost: $3.5 million.
These latest proposals show trustee early restoration efforts continuing during the government legal case against BP, seeking penalties under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act. The first phase of the trial ended in April, with the second phase to begin in September.
In 2011, after negotiations with the trustees, BP agreed to provide up to $1 billion to fund early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico to begin addressing injuries to natural resources caused by the spill. The purpose is to speed the start of restoration before the injury assessment process is completed. The latest proposals would continue to tap the $1 billion agreement.
The trustees continue to actively seek public input on restoration project ideas through various means, including public meetings, electronic communication, and a public website managed by NOAA for all the trustees, which includes a database to share project information and receive public project submissions.
In addition to the latest restoration projects identified, the trustees are continuing to identify other early restoration projects to address natural resource damages resulting and will seek BP's approval for funding them. Ultimately, all early restoration plans will be incorporated into a single, comprehensive Oil Pollution Act Restoration Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.
Texas trustees include Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the General Land Office and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Other trustees include federal agencies and state agencies from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.


USFRA, in partnership with Discovery Education, launched the Discovering Farmland curriculum in 2015, which uses content and videos from the award-winning documentary, "FARMLAND, a film by James Moll." New this year is the Digital Exploration (investigating food product label claims) and Interactive Lesson Plans which build off the four free lesson plans (Farming as an Industry, Educated Consumers, Breaking Down Stereotypes, and Challenges in Farming and Ranching). These activities further inspire students in urban areas to gain real world insights and understanding of where their food comes from and how it is grown and raised.
Since the inception of Discovering Farmland, it has reached more than 1 million students. 16,000 curriculums have been downloaded, and the Digital Exploration has garnered 6,500 views. In 2017, new tools will include FARM360 virtual reality (VR) immersion experiences, four new digital lesson bundles, video vignettes with companion activities, and more.
Included below is the Discovering Farmland copy to repurpose on your website (click this link to access an image to be used in conjunction with the text below).
In January 2017, the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance launched their Digital Exploration and Interactive Lesson Plans as part of their Discovering Farmland curriculum, which is based on the award-winning documentary, "Farmland, a film by James Moll." Building off the four free lesson plans, these new activities further inspire students in urban areas to gain real world insights and understanding of where their food comes from and how it is grown and raised.
The SMART Farm Virtual Field Trip explores innovative technologies in agriculture that allow today's farmers and ranchers to produce our nation's food. Prepare your students for the Virtual Field Trip with our standards-aligned activities designed to cultivate classroom conversations and prompt students to dig deeper into today's world of farming and ranching.


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Kyle Busch Adds Winter Showdown to his Bucket List of Victories
Posted on February 4, 2018 by Fan4Racing
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After winning the prestigious Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in December, NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch can now add the fourth annual SPEARS SRL Winter Showdown to his career bucket list of victories.
Busch missed his mark by two spots in last years Winter Showdown and made it a point to return to Kern County Raceway in Bakersfield, California this year in pursuit of victory.
Busch started in fourth-place on Saturday, February 3rd then made his way to second-place by lap 26 and battled hard with local favorite and two-time Winter Showdown winner Derek Thorn to finally take the lead on lap 63. He went on the win the race, the trophy and $30,000 by 1.78 seconds over second-place finisher, Buddy Shepherd, who was also the pole sitter to start the race.
"It was an awesome day — I didn't think it was going to turn out this way after practice on Thursday, but the guys really went to work on this Mobil 1 Toyota Camry," said Busch after the race. "I can't say enough about everybody at Rowdy Manufacturing – this is a KBM car, a Rowdy car. Our Hamner Racing engine was so strong underneath the hood today. Thank you to Toyota and TRD (Toyota Racing Development). Thanks to all the fans out here today at Kern County Raceway — you guys are awesome coming out and supporting your local short track. I can't say enough about Wayne and Connie Spears — they do an amazing job for the West Coast and what they do to keep the SRL going and everybody at the Southwest Series. It was a lot of fun racing against Derek Thorn, Buddy Shepherd, Noah (Gragson) there for a little while and everybody else we had to race with today. It was a blast — I had fun. I love these cars and was able to go out there and have a great day."
After coming up short in last year's event, Busch's victory was extra special for the NASCAR driver.
"It means the world. It's something that I am passionate about — I love short track racing and the Super Late Models, they are my favorite," said Busch. "I like traveling across the country and racing these things – we've won in Michigan, we've won in Canada, won in Indiana, Florida, Georgia, everywhere. I can't say that I've ever won in California — so this is my first time in California winning with one of these cars. That's pretty awesome to do it here in the Spears Winter Showdown. It's a lot of fun and there is great competition out here as well – these guys aren't slouches by any means. We had our stuff really hooked up today and I want to thank Lincoln Welders, Basset Wheels, Five Star Bodies, Schroth, Interstate Batteries, Axalta, SRI, Stock Car Steel and ProMoly – they do a lot of work for as well. It's a blast to come out with all of our partners and put on a great show for the fans."
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use centreon::plugins::templates::catalog_functions qw(catalog_status_threshold);

sub custom_nas_status_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    my $msg = sprintf('status : %s [replication health: %s]',
        $self->{result_values}->{health}, $self->{result_values}->{replication_health});
    return $msg;
}

sub custom_nas_status_calc {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{result_values}->{health} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_health'};
    $self->{result_values}->{replication_health} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_replication_health'};
    $self->{result_values}->{display} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_display'};
    return 0;
}

sub custom_share_status_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    my $msg = sprintf('status : %s', $self->{result_values}->{health});
    return $msg;
}

sub custom_share_status_calc {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{result_values}->{health} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_health'};
    $self->{result_values}->{display} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_display'};
    return 0;
}

sub set_counters {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{maps_counters_type} = [
        { name => 'nas', type => 1, cb_prefix_output => 'prefix_nas_output', message_multiple => 'All nas are ok' },
        { name => 'share', type => 1, cb_prefix_output => 'prefix_share_output', message_multiple => 'All shares are ok' },
    ];

    $self->{maps_counters}->{nas} = [
        { label => 'nas-status', threshold => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'replication_health' }, { name => 'health' }, { name => 'display' } ],
                closure_custom_calc => $self->can('custom_nas_status_calc'),
                closure_custom_output => $self->can('custom_nas_status_output'),
                closure_custom_perfdata => sub { return 0; },
                closure_custom_threshold_check => \&catalog_status_threshold,
            }
        },
    ];

    $self->{maps_counters}->{share} = [
        { label => 'share-status', threshold => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'health' }, { name => 'display' } ],
                closure_custom_calc => $self->can('custom_share_status_calc'),
                closure_custom_output => $self->can('custom_share_status_output'),
                closure_custom_perfdata => sub { return 0; },
                closure_custom_threshold_check => \&catalog_status_threshold,
            }
        },
    ];
}

sub new {
    my ($class, %options) = @_;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(package => __PACKAGE__, %options);
    bless $self, $class;

    $options{options}->add_options(arguments => {
        "filter-name:s"       => { name => 'filter_name' },
        "warning-nas-status:s"    => { name => 'warning_nas_status', default => '%{health} =~ /warning/i' },
        "critical-nas-status:s"   => { name => 'critical_nas_status', default => '%{health} =~ /critical/i' },
        "warning-share-status:s"  => { name => 'warning_share_status', default => '%{health} =~ /warning/i' },
        "critical-share-status:s" => { name => 'critical_share_status', default => '%{health} =~ /critical/i' },
    });

    return $self;
}

sub check_options {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::check_options(%options);

    $self->change_macros(macros => ['warning_nas_status', 'critical_nas_status', 'warning_share_status', 'critical_share_status']);
}

sub prefix_nas_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    return "NAS '" . $options{instance_value}->{display} . "' ";
}

sub prefix_share_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    return "Share '" . $options{instance_value}->{display} . "' ";
}

my %mapping_health_level = (
    0 => 'unknown',
    1 => 'ok',
    2 => 'information',
    3 => 'warning',
    4 => 'critical',
);

sub manage_selection {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{nas} = {};
    $self->{share} = {};
    my $result = $options{custom}->get(path => '/cluster/servicesets/*all*/services/nas', ForceArray => ['service', 'item']);
    if (defined($result->{services}->{service})) {
        foreach my $entry (@{$result->{services}->{service}}) {
            if (defined($self->{option_results}->{filter_name}) && $self->{option_results}->{filter_name} ne '' &&
                $entry->{properties}->{ssid} !~ /$self->{option_results}->{filter_name}/) {
                $self->{output}->output_add(long_msg => "skipping '" . $entry->{properties}->{ssid} . "': no matching filter.", debug => 1);
                next;
            }

            $self->{nas}->{$entry->{properties}->{ssid}} = {
                display => $entry->{properties}->{ssid},
                health => $mapping_health_level{$entry->{properties}->{nasHealthLevel}},
                replication_health => $mapping_health_level{$entry->{properties}->{repHealthLevel}},
            };

            foreach my $item (@{$entry->{shares}->{item}}) {
                $self->{share}->{$entry->{properties}->{ssid} . '.' . $item->{id}} = {
                    display => $entry->{properties}->{ssid} . '.' . $item->{id},
                    health => $mapping_health_level{$item->{summaryHealthLevel}},
                };
            }
        }
    }

    if (scalar(keys %{$self->{nas}}) <= 0) {
        $self->{output}->add_option_msg(short_msg => "No nas found.");
        $self->{output}->option_exit();
    }
}

1;

__END__

=head1 MODE

Check NAS status.

=over 8

=item B<--filter-counters>

Only display some counters (regexp can be used).
Example: --filter-counters='^nas-status$'

=item B<--filter-name>

Filter nas name (can be a regexp).

=item B<--warning-nas-status>

Set warning threshold for status (Default: '%{health} =~ /warning/i').
Can used special variables like: %{health}, %{replication_health}, %{display}

=item B<--critical-nas-status>

Set critical threshold for status (Default: '%{health} =~ /critical/i').
Can used special variables like: %{health}, %{replication_health}, %{display}

=item B<--warning-share-status>

Set warning threshold for status (Default: '%{health} =~ /warning/i').
Can used special variables like: %{health}, %{replication_health}, %{display}

=item B<--critical-share-status>

Set critical threshold for status (Default: '%{health} =~ /critical/i').
Can used special variables like: %{health}, %{replication_health}, %{display}

=back

=cut

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: How do I sort a list of pairs of ints? I'm trying to enter data as a list of integer pairs, sort pairs by the first pair value, then the second value, and then output the sorted pair values;
#include <list>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
//experiment with list sort of pair
using namespace std;
int main (int argc, char* argv[]){
    int N,x,y;
    list< pair<int,int> >::iterator it;
    list< pair<int,int> > a;
    cout<<" number of pairs?"<<endl;
    cin >> N;
    cout<<"enter pairs, with space between 1st and second of pair"<<endl;
    for(int i=0;i<N;++i) {
        cin >> x >> y;
        a.push_back(make_pair(x,y));
    }
    cout<<"sorted pairs;"<<endl;
    sort(a.begin(),a.end()); // Sorts first the x, then the y-coordinate
    for (it=a.begin(); it!=a.end(); ++it) {
        cout << " " << (*it).first << " " << (*it).second << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

A: std::sort, from the <algorithm> header, only works with random-access iterators, which std::list does not have.  But std::list does have its own sort member function, which uses a different algorithm.
a.sort();


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Fight For Your Mind
14 tracks, 67:57
Fight for Your Mind is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by Ben Harper. It was his last solo album before adding The Innocent Criminals to his line-up. Reviews were generally very positive, praising Harper's fusion of multiple genres, from Folk ("Another Lonely Day"), folk rock ("Gold to Me"), Black Sabbath-style riffing heavy metal ("Ground on Down") and politically-charged reggae ("Excuse Me Mister"). After Harper's well-received debut, Welcome to the Cruel World, he expanded on his fanbase by touring relentlessly with jam bands lik… read more
Fight for Your Mind is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by Ben Harper. It was his last solo album before adding The Innocent Criminals to his line-up… read more
Fight for Your Mind is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by Ben Harper. It was his last solo album before adding The Innocent Criminals to his line-up. Reviews were generally very positiv… read more
1 Play track
2:58 89,503 listeners
Ground On Down
Another Lonely Day
3:43 203,119 listeners
Please Me Like You Want To
Gold To Me
Burn One Down
Excuse Me Mr.
People Lead
10 Play track
Give a Man a Home
By My Side
Power of the Gospel
God Fearing Man
11:48 45,317 listeners
One Road To Freedom
Philadelphonic
G. Love & Special Sauce
Calvin Russell
Le Premier Clair De L'Aube
Tété
Oh Yeah (The Original Demos: 1992)
G. Love
Gravity At Last
Ayo
White Lies for Dark Times
Ben Harper and Relentless7
Under The Table And Dreaming
Crimes Of Passion
Food In The Belly
Xavier Rudd
Where The Oceans End
Raggamuffin
Wednesday 21 July 2021 95
Tuesday 27 July 2021 91
Thursday 29 July 2021 97
Tuesday 3 August 2021 99
Saturday 7 August 2021 99
Monday 9 August 2021 95
Thursday 12 August 2021 87
Friday 13 August 2021 139
Monday 30 August 2021 94
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Friday 10 September 2021 88
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www.benharper.net
Twitter (@BenHarper)
Facebook (benharper)
1,378,469 listeners
Ben Harper (born in Pomona, CA, on 28 October 1969) is an American Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. As well as solo albums, he has recorded as Ben Harper and Tom Freund, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Ben Harper And The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, and Ben & Ellen Harper. Harper grew up listening to blues, folk, soul, RnB, and reggae. Harper's blend of groove-laden funky soul and folky handcrafted acoustics helped him to gain cult status during the course of the 1990s and widespread attention towar… read more
Ben Harper (born in Pomona, CA, on 28 October 1969) is an American Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. As well as solo albums, he has recorded as Ben Harper and Tom Freund, Ben Harper &a… read more
Ben Harper (born in Pomona, CA, on 28 October 1969) is an American Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. As well as solo albums, he has recorded as Ben Harper and Tom Freund, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Ben Harper And The… read more
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
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The John Butler Trio
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BOSTON — Xander Bogaerts kept up his powerful start that's helped the Boston Red Sox get off on a fast run.
Porcello (2-0) gave up three runs and six hits, striking out seven without allowing a walk over 7 1/3 innings. He retired 20 of 21 batters — and 17 in a row — after giving up two runs in the first.


An Alberta crown corporation sought out Convverge's assistance to modernize its SharePoint Intranet.
Working together with the Alberta crown corporation, Convverge was able to apply our user driven approach to technology to deliver a modern experience.
Our client received a modern web platform that looked and felt great to use. It has positioned them to take advantage of new modern features and functionality. Finally, there is no longer the worry for unexpected system downtime.
We believe the best solutions and user experiences should be simple and engaging, and that's what was delivered to our client.


Here is the newest TV Spot, and it contains very little that has been shown before. It mostly is of a scene where Bilbo is talking before all the dwarves and Gandalf. Now this is just speculation, but I think that this occurs just after the incident with the three trolls, when the the rest of the company is still questioning Bilbo's courage.


On Wednesday, lawmakers from around the nation visited what Georgia officials call the crown jewel of Early Care and Learning Centers in the state. The lawmakers are in Atlanta for the National Conference of State Legislatures. WABE's Michelle Wirth reports Educare Atlanta in Mechanicsville is one of only eighteen U.S. centers of its kind.
Steve White directs Educare Atlanta.
He leads lawmakers into Arosha Stewart's classroom where's she teaching three year olds.
The center in Dunbar Elementary School serves children from ages six weeks through pre-kindergarten. White says Educare Atlanta focuses on high quality learning for low-income, at-risk children. He says the center stresses parent engagement, uses research-based learning strategies and requires its lead teachers to have a bachelor's degree. White also says it partners with the Center for Working Families to aid parents with employment and financial stability.
The center opened in 2010 and is a collaboration between Sheltering Arms Early Education and Family Centers, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Atlanta Public Schools. It's paid for with federal, state, local and private funding.
Gail Hayes with the Annie E. Casey Foundation says the center is producing results. She says one example is an assessment that predicts whether students will be proficient readers by third grade.
And many lawmakers like Maryland State Delegate Carolyn J.B. Howard say they plan to take back what they learned to their home states.
Other state lawmakers were also impressed, but say the challenge will be using their limited resources to provide the same kind of high-quality learning.


text:
UToledo physicist awarded $1.1 million to boost performance of solar cells
By Christine Billau : April 9th, 2019
A physicist at The University of Toledo was awarded a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-high efficiency solar cells that accelerate the conversion of the sun's energy into electricity.
Dr. Yanfa Yan, professor of physics, is teaming up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the photovoltaics project to create what are referred to as all-perovskite tandem solar cells that would have a higher conversion efficiency and lower cost.
While the majority of solar panels based on polycrystalline absorber materials on the market today have about a 16 percent efficiency rating, Yan's goal is to raise the bar by creating a cell with more than 25 percent efficiency.
"We are excited about this opportunity and eager to collaborate with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to push the performance of solar cells to a higher level and make contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's clean energy goal," Yan said.
Yan's work is one of 25 projects recently awarded a total of $28 million in federal funding by the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office, which supports early-stage research and development to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of solar technologies on the grid.
"This $1.1 million award recognizes The University of Toledo as a national leader in photovoltaics research," Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur said. "This is part of an effort to innovate toward a cleaner energy future. With First Solar's footprint in northwest Ohio and the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization at The University of Toledo, Toledo is a hotbed for clean energy and photovoltaics research. This is another success story for northwest Ohio's green energy economy."
Yan is one of the leaders of UToledo's area of excellence in solar energy, water quality and sustainable technologies.
"I am delighted about Dr. Yanfa Yan's continuing success in advancing his research on perovskite solar cells," UToledo Vice President for Research Frank Calzonetti said. "Building upon his remarkably impressive publication record in solar energy science, this award confirms the quality and importance of his research and provides him and his collaborators funding to develop techniques to increase the power conversion efficiency of these cells up to 28 percent."
This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 at 3:44 am and is filed under Natural Sciences and Mathematics, News, Research, UToday .


text:
Jon Hopkins Covers Yeasayer's "I Remember"
From Hopkins' Late Night Tales mix
Jon Hopkins: "I Remember" (Yeasayer Cover) (via SoundCloud)
Jon Hopkins is the latest participant in the Late Night Tales mix series. (His is out on March 2). As previously reported, his mix includes a new cover of Yeasayer's Odd Blood song "I Remember", plus a collaboration with poet (and fellow Brian Eno collaborator) Rick Holland on a spoken word track. It also contains music from Four Tet, School of Seven Bells, Holy Other, HEALTH remixed by Gold Panda, Jónsi & Alex, and more.
In anticipation of the new release, Hopkins has shared full audio of "I Remember". Listen above. Below, listen to an album sampler.
Jon Hopkins: Late Night Tales album sampler (via SoundCloud)
Watch Jon Hopkins' video for "Open Eye Signal" via Pitchfork.tv:


text:
VAERS ID: 632051 (history)
MENB: MENINGOCOCCAL B (TRUMENBA) / PFIZER/WYETH M37314 / 1 RA / IM
Administered by: Private Purchased by: Public
Symptoms: Cellulitis, Drug administered at inappropriate site, Injection site erythema, Injection site pain, Injection site swelling, Injection site warmth, Pain in extremity
SMQs:, Drug abuse and dependence (broad), Extravasation events (injections, infusions and implants) (broad), Haemodynamic oedema, effusions and fluid overload (narrow), Tendinopathies and ligament disorders (broad), Medication errors (narrow)
ER Visit? Yes
Write-up: She complained that the vaccine burned at the time it was given. I then noticed that it was given in the subcutaneous fatty tissue of her arm and not the deltoid muscle. Within 2 hours she was complaining that her arm hurt. The next morning (Sat) she said her arm was very painful and had a small red spot were the vaccine was given. By that evening she had a half dollar sized red area and was given Benadryl. The next day (Sun) the red area continued spreading, swelling, and was hot to the touch. The area was from her elbow and up about 6 inches. She was given more Benadryl. By that evening it had spread about 2 more inches upward and an inch more below her elbow. Her primary MD was notified and advised us to go to the ER. The ER diagnosed her with cellulitis and prescribed Keflex 4X/day Sunday around 8:00 PM. Monday the area continued spreading and had wrapped around to the back side of her arm. We elevated, iced it, and gave her more Benadryl. This morning it was about the same or maybe a little less red.
https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=632051


The ISE Diploma in Business English is designed for students who have studied to general degree level in their own country. They would like to study for a master's degree in the broad area of Business but lack the academic qualifications for direct entry onto a master's degree programme. Equally, it is also necessary to improve business terminology, their academic study skills and their English, so that they can cope well on a master's degree the following year.
There are two specific aims of the ISE Diploma in Business English. The first is to boost the students' academic level to the equivalent of the end of an honours degree, as awarded by a British University. This is done through studying three assessed academic modules per term, on a variety of Business-related topics.
The second aim is to improve the students' academic study skills and English, so that by the end of the course, they are able to compose specific business documents in the appropriate register, write a 2000-word reasoned essay, give a 15 minute academic presentation, take adequate notes, read and summarize academic textbooks effectively and to participate fully in academic life.
In terms two and three students study both English and academic modules. The academic modules vary from year to year but this is a typical selection.
Студенты должны уже закончить или быть в процессе окончания университета в своей стране. The student's must submit an examination transcript of at least 70%. Мы также требуем минимум 5.0 баллов по экзамену IELTS, который должен быть сдан к концу августа в том году, когда студент собирается поступать. Students should also submit at least one academic reference on headed paper. Если есть такая возможность, то можно предоставить информацию о соответствующем опыте работе.


text:
Abbas advisor proposes naming city square after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
Al-Ayyam, independent Palestinian newspaper | Mar 10, 2011
"Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas... The weapons must be turned towards the main enemy (i.e., Israel)"
"Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and under-secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Sabri Saidam, delivered a speech in which he criticized [the fact] that many leaders don't participate in the [events marking] the anniversary of Martyrs... He emphasized that the weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel] and that internal differences of opinion must be set aside. Saidam noted the awful living conditions of the families of Shahids (Martyrs), in the country and outside of it, and as proof he said that the allowance to the family of Shahida (Martyr) Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., leader of the bus hijacking in 1978 in which 37 civilians were murdered) is a mere $123. He… emphasized that the anniversary of Dalal's Martyrdom-seeking (i.e., her terror attack) should be honored by inaugurating a square in her name in the city of El-Bireh."
st lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Categories in this Translated Source
Violence & terror » Promoting violence & terror , Glorifying terrorists and terror » Role modeling: From terrorist to hero » Dalal Mughrabi
Media / Schoolbooks » Print | Al-Ayyam, independent Palestinian newspaper
Personalities » Sabri Saidam | Palestinian Authority / Fatah


"We now have the use of a tractor and have bought our own topper or mower and a rotovator.
The farmer has always been great in doing whatever we wanted, order but it had to fit in with his other work, buy and tended to be done by huge machines at high speed. We can now look out of the window, say, "No Bustards on this or that patch just now" and within 10 minutes be mowing or rotovating.
It is great to have total control over how and when any cultivation is done, and the small kit is super for using small patches of land to the best advantage.


text:
Aspen Talk PIT - Passport in Time
Aspen Talk Passport in Time Project
Inyo National Forest, California, 2010
By Crystal West, North Zone Archaeologist
Over a period of three days, 20 PIT volunteers and Forest Service archaeologists documented a large grove of aspen trees containing a variety of unique historic tree carvings. The carvings dated from 1917 to the 1950s, with a few more recent carvings from local hunters. Crews recorded a total of 81 trees containing a total of 471 interpreted glyphs: 106 names, 102 initials, 156 dates, 32 messages or statements, 12 geographical locations and 63 graphics.
Most of the carvings we documented date between the 1930s and the late 1940s, and dramatically illustrate the life and thoughts of the male sheepherders who tended their flocks in the area. Most of these men came from the Basque region of Spain, as indicated by the language in which the carvings are written and the names and regions they discuss. These men used the white bark of the aspen tree as palate of sorts to communicate and express their lives as sheepherders and their desires, thoughts and political opinions about the events occurring in the world at the time.
One of the more memorable herders who documented his political beliefs on the trees was one Joaquin Gandara. Known for his elegant cursive style, he made numerous statements about the Spanish Civil War, which occurred in Spain from 1936 to 1939, and involved a political conflict between the Nationalist military forces and the established Republican government. The conflict divided the country and casualties were in the hundreds of thousands before the war was over.
The Nationalist forces overthrew the Republican government in 1939 and established the military dictator Francisco Franco. Gandara expressed his support for the Republican faction when he carved "Viva La Republica Mueran Los Facistas JG 1937," translated "Long live the Republic, Death to the Fascists." Another carving on the same tree contains the date 1937 and immediately below is an image of a female in what appears to be a military uniform (above). This image may be associated to an icon that was used to recruit for the War.
Other carvings made in 1938 by Gandara illustrate his loyalty to Spain such as "Joaquin Gandara 1938 Viva La Republica Muerta Los Facists " and "Facismo y Communismo son-los-2 estremos del salabajismo Viva la Republica Liberal Agraria J Gandara 27-7-1938," translated "Fascism and Communism are the 2 extremes of savagery, Long live the liberal agrarian Republic" (right). These carvings demonstrate the passion he felt for his country, despite being thousands of miles away and living in a foreign land with only sheep and trees to listen to his thoughts and emotions.
Other carvings of a completely different tone are also found within the grove. One carving dated 1938 makes a statement about the famous aviator and film producer Howard Hughes, "Howod Hoghes buelta al Mundo en 91 hors," translated "Howard Hughes flew around the world in 91 hours." Local sheepherder Billy Williams, thought to be from Bishop, California prefers to record the exact time and date on his carvings, "BW July 7th 1938 10:45 AM." Another carving by an unknown herder proclaims, "Rey De Los Indios," translated as "King of the Indians."
Various forms of women, sheep, horses, bota drinkers and dancers, carved in an elegant, fine-line style, are found throughout the grove. These images, created over 70 years ago, remain to tell the story of the vibrant Basque culture that these men carried with them – thousands of miles from their homeland – as they made a meager living by herding sheep in the Glass Mountains of California.
PIT volunteers donated over 372 hours of their time while documenting this important piece of history, which is rapidly deteriorating due to age and weather. Thanks to all the staff and volunteers, and especially to Nancy Hadlock and Richard Potashin, local Basque experts and interpretative staff at Manzanar National Historic Site. These latter two folks provided the background knowledge on the grove, taught us how to read and interpret the glyphs, introduced us to the Basque bota drinking competition, and shared traditional Basque stories around the fire one chilly August night.


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Q: If $S = \{(1, 1), (1, 0)\}$, then $R' \simeq S^{-1} (R' \times R'')$. (from Altman, Kleiman) Problem
Let $R'$ and $R''$ be (commutative unitary) rings. Consider $R := R' \times R''$ and set $S := \{(1, 1), (1, 0)\}$. Prove $R' = S^{-1}R$. (By the convention of the book, I believe the exercise wants to find an isomorphism $R' \simeq S^{-1}R$.)
(This problem is from "A Term of Commutative Algebra" section 11.5 [number might differ] by Allen Altman and Steven Kleiman.)
Given Solution
Let's show that the projection map $\pi: R' \times R'' \rightarrow R'$ has the UMP. First note that $\pi S = \{1\} \subset R'^\times$. Let $\psi: R' \times R'' \rightarrow B$ be a ring map such that $\psi(1, 0) \in B^\times$. Then in B,
$$
\psi(1, 0) \cdot \psi(0, x) = \psi((1, 0) \cdot (0, x)) = \psi(0, 0) = 0 \text{ in } B \text{.}
$$
Hence $\psi(0, x) = 0$ for all $x \in R''$. So $\psi$ factors uniquely through $\pi$.
My Issue
I don't understand the solution. When I was trying on my own, I knew that I should use the UMP. Indeed, since for the projection map $\pi: R' \times R'' \rightarrow R'$ it is $\pi(S) = \{1\}$ the condition is fulfilled. There is a unique map $\rho: S^{-1}R \rightarrow R'$ with $\rho \circ \varphi_S = \pi$ where $\varphi_S: R \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ and $\varphi_S(x) := x/1$. We want to show that $\rho$ is an isomorphism. But (and here must be my mistake) $\ker(\rho) = \{(0, y) | y \in R''\}$ and $\rho$ cannot be injective.
I would appreciate it if somebody could clear up my misunderstanding. Thank you.

A: The issue with your issue is that $j(\{0\} \times R'') = (0,0)/(1,1)$, so your expression for $\ker(\rho)$ is wrong.
Let $W := \{1\}$. We have $W^{-1}R' \cong R'$ (we'll just identify them). Consider $\iota : R' \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ given by $\iota(x) := (x,0)/(1,1)$. Notice that $\iota(1) = (1,0)/(1,1)$ which is a unit by definition. It turns out studying this map along with the maps you defined does the trick by the following commutative diagram:

That's not super illuminating, so let's break it down. First, we get $\rho_S$ from your argument. Next, by identfiying $W^{-1}R'$ and using $\iota$, we can get a unique map $\rho_W : R' \rightarrow S^{-1}R$. Now we claim that $\rho_W \circ \rho_S$ is the identity. By composing maps, we get a homomorphism $\iota \circ \pi : R \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ and so by the universal property this must give us a unique homomorphism $\rho' : S^{-1}R \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ such that $\rho' \circ j = \iota \circ \pi$.  We claim that $j = \iota \circ \pi$, forcing $\rho' = \text{Id}$. This follows if we can show
$$(x,y)/(1,1) = (x,0)/(1,1).$$
Notice that
$$ (1,0)((1,1)(x,y) - (1,1)(x,0)) = (0,0),$$
so the result follows.
Next, we claim that $\rho_W \circ \rho_S \circ j = \iota \circ \pi$. Notice that
$$ \rho_W \circ \rho_S \circ j = \rho_W \circ \pi = \rho_W \circ \text{Id} \circ \pi = \iota \circ \pi.$$
By uniqueness this forces $\rho_W \circ \rho_S = \text{Id}$, and so $\rho_S$ has a left inverse. This forces $\rho_S$ to be injective, and clearly $\rho_S$ is surjective, so we win.
Alternatively, we can do the same kind of argument to show that $\rho_S \circ \rho_W = \text{Id}$, and we can get that $\rho_S$ is an isomorphism using just the universal property.


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When to consult a doctor: Recurrent or persistent loss of voice.
What the doctor may do: Examine the throat for signs of infection, Prescribe a cough suppressant in the case of a troublesome dry cough, Prescribe antibiotics if there is an associated bacterial infection.
A serious infectious disease marked by acute attacks of shivering and high fever. It always requires medical treatment.
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A Day of Silents 2018
The Red Kimona
Essay by Fritzi Kramer
She swore that she hadn't meant to kill him that New Year's Eve of 1915. Gabrielle Darley had brought the pistol along for self-defense and it had been tucked in her fur muff when it fired the fatal shot into her lover, Leonard Topp. Her defense attorney, Earl Rogers, offered up a hole in the muff as evidence. The prosecutor saw it differently and declared, "If that isn't a moth hole, I'll eat the muff!" Rogers objected on the grounds that the prosecutor had failed to offer evidence that he had ever actually eaten a muff. The spectators giggled, the jury smiled, and the case continued. Darley was acquitted after a deliberation of just eight minutes. As a trial-as-entertainment, it had been a masterpiece.
As Darley told it, she was a naïve waitress barely out of her teens when she fell under the power of Topp, the charming bounder who promised to make her his bride but was merely interested in being her mack. If it sounds familiar, it was a tale that could have been stolen from the intertitles of any number of white slavery films that were doing big business at the time. A free woman after the verdict, Darley was whisked away to the home of famous singer and philanthropist Lark Ellen, whom Rogers had invited to the trial to prove to the jury that the smart set sided with Darley.
Years passed but one courtroom spectator was instrumental in returning Darley to the public eye. The defense attorney's daughter, Adela Rogers St. Johns, continued the story in the November 1924 issue of Smart Set magazine. "Gabrielle of the Red Kimono" sculpted post-trial Darley into a Magdalene-like figure of woe, used and abused by society and offered no escape from the life that had led to her tearful murder of her lover. It was a story made for the movies—if the censors would allow it.
Dorothy Davenport found Darley's tale ideal for her cinematic brand. Her early widowhood, the result of her husband Wallace Reid's tragic drug-related death, had inspired her to go behind the camera in order to champion social issues under the banner of Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions. Her biggest hit, the antidrug film Human Wreckage, is now lost but it provided a blueprint for bringing the story to the screen. Her two-pronged goal was to make movies that both entertained and educated and, if they grabbed headlines, so much the better.
The film version of the Darley story offers up numerous villains for Gabrielle to contend with, but the main antagonists are phony philanthropists, specifically the Lark Ellen figure here renamed Mrs. Fontaine. Reformers were among the great recurring villains of the silent era, ready to snatch infants from their mothers' bosoms (Bonner contends with them again as a single mom in It) and expose the darkest secrets of fragile waifs who were then turned out into blizzards. In The Red Kimona, these reformers are given another layer: cattiness. Gabrielle is there to provide them with salacious details so that they can revel in the sin while simultaneously condemning it. Red Kimona scenarist Dorothy Arzner later directed Dance, Girl, Dance, which featured burlesque dancer Maureen O'Hara giving similarly smirking high hats the lecture of a lifetime.
Both Arzner's script and the final film are careful to omit any hint of spiciness during the scenes showing Gabrielle's life as a prostitute and instead focus on her despair. In other ways, though, the picture is upfront to the point of bluntness; both Gabrielle's "kimona" and the streetlight in her New Orleans neighborhood are hand-tinted crimson, real cats lurk while the society matrons fish for lascivious details. One notable flourish is the rollercoaster ride enjoyed by Gabrielle and her only friend, Mrs. Fontaine's chauffeur (played by Theodore Von Eltz). The camera is mounted to the car and the audience is taken along for the ride; unexpected twists and turns that mimic the experience Gabrielle has had in life so far.
Davenport and Arzner, like St. Johns in her short story, played down the theatricality of the 1915 trial and concerned themselves with the regeneration of Gabrielle Darley, specifically, the lack of a social safety net for women in Darley's position and the need for women to be kind to their sisters in need. The titles, written by St. Johns, are an impassioned blend of religious pleading and social justice with a direct call to action: What would you do to save Gabrielle Darley? Davenport herself faces the camera, challenging the audience to answer. That challenge is amplified by Priscilla Bonner, who displays the kind of wide-eyed Gishiness that would be expected for the role, right down to being imperiled by George Siegmann. Her portrayal of Gabrielle is reserved, with a hesitant touch of hopefulness that is quickly smothered by an uncaring world.
While St. Johns's story and the film billed themselves as absolutely factual, there were several significant tweaks in the material. Darley had lived and worked in Arizona but St. Johns moved the "crib" to New Orleans, a far more notorious locale at the time. The real Darley's 1919 marriage to Bernard Melvin had been covered in the national press. "'Girl of Woe' Now a Bride!" blared one headline, followed by a description of the tearful reunion between the newly-minted Mrs. Melvin and her prison matron—but the matron is nowhere to be found when fictional Gabrielle comes around for help. Finally, America's entry into the First World War figures into the film, and this was likely the reason why the main events of the story were moved forward in time from 1915 to 1917.
While Davenport set out to make entertainment, her film's marketing was an uneasy blend of sensation and sex ed. "Packs a wallop! Fills the till!" screams one ad; no patrons under fifteen years of age admitted, whispers another. A screening in Pennsylvania advertised a lecture by a doctor to accompany the film. Filmgoers were assured that "this man will tell the truth about social hygiene and sex." Censors were as scissor-happy as could be expected. Pennsylvania demanded twenty-five cuts and reshot titles, too, while the British Board of Film Censors banned the picture outright. The critical response was generally poor. Photoplay proclaimed it "something terrible" while The Film Daily advised, "Unless you run a grind show you had better forget this one." Picture-Play was more tepid and said the picture was "supposed to stir you but misses fire."
In "Gabrielle of the Red Kimono," Adela Rogers St. Johns wrote that she did not know Darley's whereabouts but that "if she should happen to read this story, perhaps she will know that every hand was not against her." Whether or not Darley read that story, she certainly saw The Red Kimona. Davenport had taken the precaution of consulting both the judge and attorneys who had been involved in the Darley trial and studied the court record in order to avoid any hint of besmirching her protagonist. To protect the innocent and guilty alike, names were changed: Leonard Topp became Howard Blaine, Lark Ellen became Beverly Fontaine, but Gabrielle Darley remained Gabrielle Darley; this proved to be an expensive mistake.
Darley claimed that her reputation and blissful existence as a respectable wife had been damaged to the tune of $50,000, even as the movie had been sympathetic to Darley's plight, a plea for her to be allowed to join polite society. Actually, that was the same argument put forward by the plaintiff in Melvin v. Reid. Wasn't Gabrielle Darley deserving of a second chance? What right had they to splash the worst moments of her life on the screen using her real name? Were they not hindering the upward struggle of an unfortunate? While local courts sided with Davenport, the district court of appeals found that Darley was inherently entitled to privacy. The case still surfaces now and again when the Right to Be Forgotten is being debated.
Presented at A Day of Silents 2018 by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
DirectorWalter Lang
Runtime80 min
CastPriscilla Bonner, Theodore Von Eltz, Tyrone Power Sr., George Siegmann, Virginia Pearson, Emily Fitzroy
Production CompanyMrs. Wallace Reid Productions
Print SourceUCLA Film and Television Archive
FormatDCP


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The King and Four Queens (1956)
"THE KING TANGLES WITH FLESH AND FLAME IN THE HOTTEST WESTERN EVER MADE!"
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes
Synopsis: Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
The way that Raoul Walsh's The King and Four Queens begins with Clark Gable's con man Dan Kehoe being pursued across rugged terrain by a trio of horsemen, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a movie that's going to be jam-packed full of action. In fact, that couldn't be further from the truth. The King and Four Queens is a turgid melodrama that goes nowhere for most of its running time before coming up with an unexpectedly cynical ending.
Kehoe evades his pursuers and pitches up in some nothing little town where he learns of old Ma McDade (Jo Van Fleet — East of Eden, Cool Hand Luke — who was actually only forty-two when she made this movie), and her four daughters-in-law who live on a ranch a little way out of town. This old woman is the mother of the McDade boys, a notorious gang of villains, all but one of whom have recently been slaughtered. The identity of the surviving brother is unknown, although he's rumoured to be hiding out in the hills surrounding the ranch, just waiting for the opportunity to come down and claim the small fortune his Ma is guarding for him. Naturally, an incorrigible rogue like Kehoe is incapable of resisting the lure of all that loot just waiting to be stolen.
Even though he announces his arrival on the ranch by firing his gun into the air, Kehoe still earns a gun wound to the arm for his troubles from the rifle of Ma McDade but, after some toing-and-froing between Ma and her four daughters-in-law, Kehoe is taken under their roof for one night only while he recovers. Naturally, Kehoe manages to extend that stay and wastes no time playing each of the four women off one another in his attempt to learn the whereabouts of the McDades' ill-gotten gains.
And what women they are! There's no doubting the McDade boys sure can pick them. Not only are they each beautiful, they also haven't known a man's touch for a couple of years, so the sexual tension in the air is as thick as fog on a riverbank. The McDade women run the entire spectrum of womanhood: there's the predatory Ruby (Jean Willes — 5 Against the House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), a hard-boiled femme-fatale type, the playful Birdie (Barbara Nichols — River of No Return, Sweet Smell of Success), a sexually coquettish woman-child, the comparatively prim Oralie (Sara Shane), whose primness conceals a burning sexual frustration, and Sabina (Eleanor Parker — Escape from Fort Bravo), easily the most self-assured of the four women.
With Gable outnumbered by these women five-to-one, it doesn't take long to realise that The King and Four Queens is a Western written for women, which means it's big on seething emotions and not so keen on gunfights or brawls. Trying to make a Western that will appeal to women makes about as much sense as making a romantic comedy designed to appeal primarily to men, but the idea adds to the faint whiff of desperation about the project. Gable was fifty-five when he made this movie, and although he looks better here than in other movies he made in the fifties, he still isn't exactly a youthful fifty-five. His box-office appeal was fading fast in a year that saw the explosion of rock 'n' roll and youth culture, and he must have been seen as something of a throwback to a bygone era. The movie's title plays on his former reign as the King of Hollywood back in the 1930s, but he's far too old for the role — and not roguish enough — and scenes in which he seduces attractive women twenty and thirty years his junior simply don't work (Gable was even thirteen years older than Van Fleet!).
All this combines to make The King and Four Queens a dull plod of a movie. To its credit, it does manage to come up with an ending that defies our expectations — and which would have never got past the censors just a few years before — but it's far too late to salvage much from the wreckage which has preceded it.
(Reviewed 27th February 2014)