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Wedding Songs & Music
Adele's Happiest Love Songs to Consider for Your First Dance
The 25 superstar knows how to write a breakup ballad, but it's her love songs that would make the perfect soundtrack for your first dance.
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By Allison Fox November 20, 2015
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Adele's new album, 25, drops today and, like the rest of the world, we've been counting down the days. Of course, there are some heartbreaking breakup songs (hello, "Hello"!), but Adele's third album is filled with a few wedding-worthy tunes too.
To celebrate the superstar's latest release, we combed through her albums to find her happiest love songs to help inspire your first dance. If you're looking for a unique first dance song, this list is certainly for you. Disclaimer: This list may cause you to shed a tear or two (or maybe a few, okay, a lot) … this is Adele we're talking about.
"When We We're Young"
"You still look like a movie/You still sound like a song/My god, this reminds me/Of when we were young." Fresh off Adele's new album, this track is all about reconnecting with past loves-a perfect first dance for the bride and groom with a story of rekindled romance. In an interview with SiriusXM, Adele said the song was about "everyone that you've ever fallen out with, everyone that you've ever loved, everyone that you've never loved … And you're all thrown together at this party when you're like 50, and it doesn't matter and you have so much fun and you feel like you're 15 again."
"Remedy"
Adele's son Angelo inspired several tracks on 25 including "Remedy". The lyrics are about pure love and always being there for someone, which is why we love it for a wedding: "But when the pain cuts you deep/When the night keeps you from sleeping/Just look and you will see/That I will be your remedy."
"Sweetest Devotion"
"The sweetest devotion/hitting me like an explosion/All of my life, I've been frozen/the sweetest devotion I've known." It's another song from 25 that was inspired by motherhood, but the melody and lyrics are so happy that it can apply to your new husband or wife, too. Make this song your first dance on the big day and you might find all your guests hitting the dance floor with the one they love most.
"One & Only"
"You've been on my mind/I grow fonder every day/Lose myself in time/Just thinking of your face." Remember what it feels like to have a serious crush? No? We suggest you put this song on from 21 and let Adele remind you!
"Lovesong"
"However far away I will always love you/However long I stay I will always love you/Whatever words I say I will always love you." This one is a Cure cover, but sorry Cure fans, Adele's version (which appeared on 21) is just too good.
"Daydreamer"
"You can find him sittin' on your doorstep/Waiting for a surprise/And he will feel like he's been there for hours/And you can tell that he'll be there for life." This song, from her debut album 19, will probably sum up exactly how you feel about your fiancé if you knew he was the one right when you met.
"Crazy For You"
"Lately with this state I'm in I can't help myself but spin/I wish you'd come over/Send me spinning closer to you." If you're looking for a ballad that has a more playful vibe, this song from 19 will fit the bill for your first dance. And as if the gentle guitar wasn't enough, Adele's pitch-perfect notes might just send your guests over the edge as you and your new husband sway on the dance floor.
"Make You Feel My Love"
"I'd go hungry; I'd go black and blue/And I'd go crawling down the avenue/No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do/To make you feel my love." This rendition of Bob Dylan's song, which appeared on 19, is so beautiful, we suspect Dylan himself might be a fan of the fresh spin on it. If it doesn't reduce you to a complete puddle of tears, you could even consider it for a father-daughter, mother-son, or first dance at your own wedding.
"My Same"
"I thought I knew myself, somehow you know me more/I've never known this, never before/You're the first to make up whenever we argue/I don't know who I'd be if I didn't know you." On 19, Adele sings back and forth about a relationship where it is a clear case of opposites-attract. You can list all the reasons why you two make no sense at all, but it still works-sounds a lot like most relationships, right?
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Looking to the documentation of the Serial class of the arduino: there is a function parseInt() that does the magic :-)
Here is the documentation: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Serial/ParseInt

A: Although i am not an expert, i sorted the issue as follows:
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The change i did was to replace Serial.read(); with Serial.parseInt();
Also keep in mind that LED's have a certain forward voltage, so depending on the LED you are using and the overall setup, dimming varies. In my case the smallest value was 140 using a straw hat 0.5W LED.
Good luck!


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A: While technically you don't need to have a lot of cities, most victory conditions will get easier if you have a sizable empire.  This doesn't mean you have to build as many cities as you can fit, but it does mean that you should try to have as many or more cities as your opponents.
The major exception is Cultural.  Because the cost of social policies increases based on the number of cities you have, this victory actually gets harder if you control more than 3 or 4 cities.  The key here is that puppeted cities do not increase social policy cost, but they do contribute to culture points, so you want to have as many puppeted cities as possible.

A: Victory by Score:
As many as you can (as your cities population gives you points), I'm in doubt that you can win with 1 city.
Diplomatic Victory:
I could be wrong, but the more - the better, you will have more diplomatic points, but with one city you could win also.
Scientific Victory:
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Cultural Victory:
1 is enough if you gain required amount of culture points, but some strategies will work better if you have 3 (probably more cities).
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Amount of Fat in A granola bar
Welcome to the nutritional fat content in 31 different types of a granola bar, ranging from 32.2 g to 0.9 g per 100g. The basic type of a granola bar is Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain, where the amount of fat in 100g is 19.8 g.
19.8 g of fat per 100g, from Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain corresponds to 30% of the fat RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 bar (or 21 g) the amount of Fat is 4.16 g. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 6%.
Top twenty a granola bar products high in fat
Below is a summary list for the top twenty a granola bar items ranked by the amount or level of fat in 100g.
1. Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated : 32.2g (50%RDA)
2. Granola bar, soft, milk chocolate coated, peanut butter : 31.2g (48%RDA)
3. Snacks, granola bars, soft, coated, milk chocolate coating, peanut butter : 31.1g (48%RDA)
4. Snacks, granola bars, hard, almond : 25.5g (39%RDA)
5. Snacks, granola bars, soft, coated, milk chocolate coating, chocolate chip : 24.9g (38%RDA)
6. Snacks, granola bars, hard, peanut butter : 23.8g (37%RDA)
7. Snacks, granola bar, GENERAL MILLS NATURE VALLEY, SWEET&SALTY NUT, peanut : 22.86g (35%RDA)
8. Snacks, granola bars, hard, peanut : 21.4g (33%RDA)
9. Snacks, granola bar, QUAKER, DIPPS, all flavors : 20.42g (31%RDA)
10. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, nut and raisin : 20.4g (31%RDA)
11. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, peanut butter and chocolate chip : 20g (31%RDA)
12. Snacks, granola bars, soft, almond, confectioners coating : 20g (31%RDA)
13. Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain : 19.8g (30%RDA)
14. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, raisin : 17.8g (27%RDA)
15. Breakfast bars, oats, sugar, raisins, coconut (include granola bar) : 17.6g (27%RDA)
16. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, plain : 17.2g (26%RDA)
17. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, chocolate chip : 16.57g (25%RDA)
18. Snacks, granola bars, hard, chocolate chip : 16.3g (25%RDA)
19. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, peanut butter : 15.8g (24%RDA)
20. Snacks, granola bar, KASHI TLC Bar, chewy, mixed flavors : 15.71g (24%RDA)
Following on from the twenty top a granola bar items or products containing fat we have a more comprehensive break down of Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain, and the highest item containing fat which is Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 31 types of a granola bar.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 31 different types of a granola bar based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the fat content in a granola bar.
Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain should be considered along with the fat content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Snacks.Other important and fat related nutrients are Saturated Fat, Calories, Protein and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Saturated Fat is 2.37 g (12% RDA), the amount of Calories is 471 kcal (24% RDA), the amount of Protein is 10.1 g (18% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 64.4 g (50% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Saturated Fat, Calories, Protein and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the fat levels in a granola bar.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.Comparing the fat content and the nutritional density in 100g for Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain; We class this as a high fat content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
Comparing fat in a granola bar vs Cheese
The amount of fat in Cheese is 33.14 g per 100g.As fat percentage of the RDA this is 51 %. Comparing with Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain, in 100g contains 19.8 g of fat. As a percentage of the RDA this is 30 %. Therefore, Cheese has 13.34 g more fat than Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain. In terms of fat percentage this is 67 % more fat. Cheese has an overall nutritional value score of 14 out of 100, whereas Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.
The highest content of fat in the food items under the general description or type of a granola bar, is Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated with 32.2 g of fat per 100g. Comparing Cheese with Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated; Cheese has 0.94 g more fat than Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated. In terms of fat percentage this is 3 % more fat.
100 calories of snacks, granola bars, hard, plain is a serving size of 0.21 g, and the amount of Fat is 4.2 g (6.37% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Protein, in 100 Calories are as follows; Saturated Fat 0.5 g (2.55% RDA), Protein 2.14 g (3.82% RDA), Carbohydrate 13.67 g (10.62% RDA). This is shown in the fat RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 bar (or 21 g)
For the food Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain the typical serving size is 1 bar (or 21 g) which contains 4.16 g of Fat. The fat percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 6 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 16.7 servings of the typical serving size 1 bar (or 21 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Saturated Fat content is 0.5 g, the Calories content is 98.91 kcal, the Protein content is 2.12 g and the Carbohydrate content is 13.52 g. The percentages are shown below in the fat chart, for the typical serving of fat and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 bar or 21 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. The number of calories from Fat is 36.6 (kcal).From protein the number of calories is 8.3 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 54.1 (kcal).
Grams of fat in a granola bar (per 100g)
This list of 31 types of a granola bar, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated through to Snacks, granola bar, fruit-filled, nonfat where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional fat content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much fat in a granola bar.
The list below gives the total fat content in the 31 items from the general description 'a granola bar' each of which show the fat amount as well as Saturated Fat, Calories, Protein and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 31 food items shown in the fat chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for a granola bar based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of fat per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for a granola bar ranked by the amount of fat per 100g is shown below in the a granola bar calories chart.
Average Content for a granola bar
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of fat contained in 100g of a granola bar, based on the list below of 31 different items under the general description of a granola bar, is 17.15 g of fat. This average value corresponds to 26.38 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Saturated Fat is 6.37 g, the average amount of Calories is 428.90 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 8.67 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Fat is found in Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, plain which in 100g contains 17.2 g of Fat. This corresponds to 26 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Saturated Fat is 7.24 g, the amount of Calories is 443 kcal, the amount of Protein is 7.4 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 67.3 g.
Using the list below for the 31 different a granola bar nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of fat is found in Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated which contains 32.2 g of fat per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 50 %. For this 100g serving the Saturated Fat content is 22.72 g, the Calories content is 531 kcal, the Protein content is 5.2 g, the Carbohydrate content is 55.2 g.
The lowest amount of fat in 100g is in Snacks, granola bar, fruit-filled, nonfat which contains 0.9 g. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 1 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Saturated Fat is 0.2 g, the amount of Calories is 342 kcal, the amount of Protein is 5.9 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 77.6 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a fat range of 31.3 g per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 22.52 g for Saturated Fat, 189 kcal for Calories, 0.7 g for Protein, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high fat foods in your diet. For example 100g of Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain contains 19.8 g of fat. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the fat nutritional content.
The food with the highest fat content per typical serving is Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated which contains 9.13 g in 1 oz (or 28.35 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 14 %. For this serving the Saturated Fat content is 6.44 g, the Calories content is 150.54 kcal, the Protein content is 1.47 g and the Carbohydrate content is 15.65 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing fat which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods rich in fat.
A granola bar List, fat Content per 100g
1. Snacks, granola bar, with coconut, chocolate coated - Fat
Nutritional Value : 13 / 100 food group - Snacks
32.2 g (50%) 22.72 g (114%) 5.2 g (9%) 55.2 g (42%) 531 kcal (27%)
9.13 g (14%) 6.44 g (32%) 1.47 g (3%) 15.65 g (12%) 150.54 kcal (8%)
2. Granola bar, soft, milk chocolate coated, peanut butter - Fat
31.2 g (48%) 17.065 g (85%) 9.6 g (17%) 54.1 g (42%) 536 kcal (27%)
3. Snacks, granola bars, soft, coated, milk chocolate coating, peanut butter - Fat
31.1 g (48%) 17.01 g (85%) 10.2 g (18%) 53.4 g (41%) 508 kcal (25%)
Other serving sizes 1 bar (or 37g):
11.51 g (18%) 6.29 g (31%) 3.77 g (7%) 19.76 g (15%) 187.96 kcal (9%)
4. Snacks, granola bars, hard, almond - Fat
25.5 g (39%) 12.51 g (63%) 7.7 g (14%) 62 g (48%) 495 kcal (25%)
6.12 g (9%) 3 g (15%) 1.85 g (3%) 14.88 g (11%) 118.8 kcal (6%)
5. Snacks, granola bars, soft, coated, milk chocolate coating, chocolate chip - Fat
24.9 g (38%) 14.22 g (71%) 5.8 g (10%) 63.8 g (49%) 466 kcal (23%)
Typical Serving size of 1 bar (1.25 oz) (or 35g):
Other serving sizes 1 bar (1 oz) (or 28g):
6. Snacks, granola bars, hard, peanut butter - Fat
23.8 g (37%) 3.2 g (16%) 9.8 g (18%) 62.3 g (48%) 483 kcal (24%)
6.75 g (10%) 0.91 g (5%) 2.78 g (5%) 17.66 g (14%) 136.93 kcal (7%)
7. Snacks, granola bar, GENERAL MILLS NATURE VALLEY, SWEET&SALTY NUT, peanut - Fat
22.86 g (35%) 6.857 g (34%) 9.14 g (16%) 61.14 g (47%) 487 kcal (24%)
Typical Serving size of 1 bar (or 35g):
8 g (12%) 2.4 g (12%) 3.2 g (6%) 21.4 g (16%) 170.45 kcal (9%)
8. Snacks, granola bars, hard, peanut - Fat
21.4 g (33%) 2.52 g (13%) 11 g (20%) 63.7 g (49%) 479 kcal (24%)
9. Snacks, granola bar, QUAKER, DIPPS, all flavors - Fat
10. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, nut and raisin - Fat
20.4 g (31%) 9.54 g (48%) 8 g (14%) 63.6 g (49%) 454 kcal (23%)
Typical Serving size of 1 bar (1 oz) (or 28g):
11. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, peanut butter and chocolate chip - Fat
20 g (31%) 5.59 g (28%) 9.8 g (18%) 62.2 g (48%) 432 kcal (22%)
5.6 g (9%) 1.57 g (8%) 2.74 g (5%) 17.42 g (13%) 120.96 kcal (6%)
12. Snacks, granola bars, soft, almond, confectioners coating - Fat
20 g (31%) 5.668 g (28%) 8.6 g (15%) 60.13 g (46%) 455 kcal (23%)
7 g (11%) 1.98 g (10%) 3.01 g (5%) 21.05 g (16%) 159.25 kcal (8%)
13. Snacks, granola bars, hard, plain - Fat
19.8 g (30%) 2.37 g (12%) 10.1 g (18%) 64.4 g (50%) 471 kcal (24%)
14. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, raisin - Fat
17.8 g (27%) 9.57 g (48%) 7.6 g (14%) 66.4 g (51%) 448 kcal (22%)
Typical Serving size of 1 bar (1.5 oz) (or 43g):
7.65 g (12%) 4.12 g (21%) 3.27 g (6%) 28.55 g (22%) 192.64 kcal (10%)
15. Breakfast bars, oats, sugar, raisins, coconut (include granola bar) - Fat
17.6 g (27%)
16. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, plain - Fat
17. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, chocolate chip - Fat
16.57 g (25%) 6.061 g (30%) 5.65 g (10%) 70.2 g (54%) 418 kcal (21%)
18. Snacks, granola bars, hard, chocolate chip - Fat
3.91 g (6%) 2.74 g (14%) 1.75 g (3%) 17.3 g (13%) 105.12 kcal (5%)
19. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, peanut butter - Fat
20. Snacks, granola bar, KASHI TLC Bar, chewy, mixed flavors - Fat
15.71 g (24%) 1.213 g (6%) 18.57 g (33%) 53.26 g (41%) 429 kcal (21%)
5.5 g (8%) 0.42 g (2%) 6.5 g (12%) 18.64 g (14%) 150.15 kcal (8%)
21. Snacks, granola bars, soft, uncoated, chocolate chip, graham and marshmallow - Fat
22. Snacks, granola bar, KASHI TLC Bar, crunchy, mixed flavors - Fat
15 g (23%) 1.436 g (7%) 15 g (27%) 62.78 g (48%) 446 kcal (22%)
6 g (9%) 0.57 g (3%) 6 g (11%) 25.11 g (19%) 178.4 kcal (9%)
3 g (5%) 0.29 g (1%) 3 g (5%) 12.56 g (10%) 89.2 kcal (4%)
23. Snacks, granola bar, chewy, reduced sugar, all flavors - Fat
12.5 g (19%) 5.008 g (25%) 5.55 g (10%) 69.4 g (53%) 412 kcal (21%)
3 g (5%) 1.2 g (6%) 1.33 g (2%) 16.66 g (13%) 98.88 kcal (5%)
24. Snacks, granola bar, GENERAL MILLS, NATURE VALLEY, with yogurt coating - Fat
11.43 g (18%) 1.372 g (7%) 5.71 g (10%) 74.29 g (57%) 423 kcal (21%)
4 g (6%) 0.48 g (2%) 2 g (4%) 26 g (20%) 148.05 kcal (7%)
25. Snacks, granola bar, KASHI GOLEAN, crunchy, mixed flavors - Fat
9.23 g (14%) 4.687 g (23%) 17.88 g (32%) 59.58 g (46%) 393 kcal (20%)
4.34 g (7%) 2.2 g (11%) 8.4 g (15%) 28 g (22%) 184.71 kcal (9%)
26. Snacks, granola bar, QUAKER, chewy, 90 Calorie Bar - Fat
8.33 g (13%) 2.083 g (10%) 4.17 g (7%) 79.17 g (61%) 408 kcal (20%)
2 g (3%) 0.5 g (3%) 1 g (2%) 19 g (15%) 97.92 kcal (5%)
27. Snacks, granola bar, KASHI GOLEAN, chewy, mixed flavors - Fat
6 g (9%) 2.52 g (13%) 13 g (23%) 49.47 g (38%) 304.2 kcal (15%)
28. Snacks, KELLOGG, KELLOGG'S Low Fat Granola Bar, Crunchy Almond/Brown Sugar - Fat
7.4 g (11%) 1.1 g (6%) 8 g (14%) 78 g (60%) 390 kcal (20%)
29. Snacks, granola bars, QUAKER OATMEAL TO GO, all flavors - Fat
6.67 g (10%) 1.299 g (6%) 6.67 g (12%) 75.47 g (58%) 389 kcal (19%)
4 g (6%) 0.78 g (4%) 4 g (7%) 45.28 g (35%) 233.4 kcal (12%)
30. Snacks, granola bars, oats, fruits and nut - Fat
6.3 g (10%) 0.73 g (4%) 7.7 g (14%) 77.42 g (60%) 397 kcal (20%)


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Q: Join two dataframes on one column that contains substring of other I am trying to left-join df2 onto df1.
df1 is my dataframe of interest, df2 contains additional information I need.
Example:
#df of interest onto which the other should be joined
key1 <- c("London", "Paris", "Berlin", "Delhi")
other_stuff <- c("Tea", "Coffee", "Beer", "Tea")
df1 <- data.frame(key1, other_stuff)

#additional info df
key2 <- c("London and other cities", "some other city", "Eastberlin is history", "Berlin", "Delia is a name", "Delhi is a place")
more_info <- c("history", "languages", "trades", "art", "commerce", "manufacturing")
df2 <- data.frame(key2,more_info)

What I now want is that df2$key2 is searched for the precise occurrence of df1$key1 and then merged onto df1 (e.g. match Berlin to Berlin, but not to Eastberlin, and Delhi to Delhi but not to Delia) while ignoring the other words surrounding the match.
Desired outcome:

key1
other_stuff
more_info

London
Tea
history

Paris
Coffee
NA

Berlin
Beer
art

Delhi
Tea
manufacturing

I tried variations of regex_left_join
joined<- regex_left_join(df1,df2, by = c("key1" = "key2"),  ignore_case= F)
and fuzzyjoins
joined<- df1%>% fuzzy_left_join(df2, by = c("key1" = "key2"), match_fun = str_detect)
They both only give a result for the exact match (key1=key2=Berlin) and give NA for everything else.
How do I do this?
I also tried Merging two tables where one column is substring of the other in R but the logic in the SQL there is the wrong way around. I tried several other Stackexchange approaches, but they are "too fuzzy" for my data.

A: Here I use the "regular" dplyr::left_join, but performed some selection in df2 when joining it with df1.
First create a vector that contains your target city. Then I will split df2$key2 by white space, and see if there is any word that matches the strings in the vector city. Then left_join it with df1.
library(tidyverse)

city <- c("London", "Paris", "Berlin", "Delhi")

left_join(df1,
          df2 %>% mutate(city = sapply(strsplit(df2$key2, " "),
                                       function(x) first(intersect(city, x)))),
          by = c("key1" = "city")) %>%
  select(-key2)

    key1 other_stuff     more_info
1 London         Tea       history
2  Paris      Coffee          <NA>
3 Berlin        Beer           art
4  Delhi         Tea manufacturing

A: The following works with the posted data examples but it uses two joins and is probably ineffective for larger data sets.
library(dplyr)
library(fuzzyjoin)

left_join(
  df1,
  regex_left_join(df2, df1, by = c(key2 = "key1"))[c(3, 4, 2)] |> na.omit()
)
#> Joining, by = c("key1", "other_stuff")
#>     key1 other_stuff     more_info
#> 1 London         Tea       history
#> 2  Paris      Coffee          <NA>
#> 3 Berlin        Beer           art
#> 4  Delhi         Tea manufacturing

Created on 2022-02-16 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

A: You don't get the expected result because those functions passes the second dataframe as the regex pattern, so instead you could use regex_right_join or fuzzy_right_join:
df1 %>%
  regex_right_join(df2, ., by = c(key2 = "key1")) %>%
  select(key1, other_stuff, more_info)

df1 %>%
  fuzzy_right_join(df2, ., by = c(key2 = "key1"), match_fun = str_detect) %>%
  select(key1, other_stuff, more_info)

output
    key1 other_stuff     more_info
1 London         Tea       history
2  Paris      Coffee          <NA>
3 Berlin        Beer           art
4  Delhi         Tea manufacturing


Carin Crook and Kirstin Cerulli, two moms who met through their kids' school PTA, are on a mission to change the world, one natural treat at a time.
Tired of pops and novelties filled with artificial colors, chemicals and ingredients that stain clothing on the outside and do who-knows-what on the inside, they teamed up to start an ice cream truck that offers "way better cold stuff" than is typically found on traditional ice cream trucks.
The seed of The Natural Scoop was planted in 2006, when Carin was vacationing with her family in Cape Cod. While on the beach, the jingle of an ice cream truck caught the attention of her 2-year-old daughter. Having fond memories of an ice cream truck coming through her own neighborhood as a kid, Carin was happy to buy her daughter a treat—until she saw the truck's offerings: pops and novelties filled with artificial colors, chemicals and foreign ingredients, not to mention no options for people with food allergies. Carin knew there had to be a better way.
The two friends put their heads together, and a new kind of truck was born. Introducing The Natural Scoop: Way Better Cold Stuff. All natural frozen treats. No chemicals or artificial anything. Ingredients you can pronounce. Allergen-free brands you can trust. Taste you'll love.
Carin and Kirstin's first step was to create an ice cream truck in their home town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, that parents would embrace and kids would love, with great options for people with specific food allergies, sensitivities or preferences. Thanks to the generosity and support of family and friends through Kickstarter, they launched The Natural Scoop in spring 2015, and it was a huge hit, with interest from across the country! They worked hard to give back to the community, donating to a number of charities, and will continue to pay it forward and help other small businesses get started.
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in which sport is the america's cup awarded?
By Negar Negar on Monday, November 15, 2021
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Early Challenges
The very first challenge would come from Englishman James Ashbury, who raced against a fleet from the New York Yacht Club just off Staten Island in 1870. After much dispute over the conditions for racing, Ashbury's Cambria finished tenth in the 17 boat fleet, prompting a second challenge the following year.
The 1871 America's Cup match was a precursor for many of the legal battles that would engulf the Cup over the next 100 years. After reportedly consulting his lawyers, Ashbury insisted on racing against just one boat, not an entire fleet and protested both the scoring of the races and the Race Committee who set the race course. In the end he limped home complaining bitterly about poor sportsmanship on the part of the Americans and insisting he had actually won the America's Cup, to no avail.
The next two Challenges came from Canada, but the northerners were no match for the Americans and were soundly beaten.
After years of boatbuilding, engineering and, of course, training, the 36th America's Cup is finally here, the latest in a series stretching back to the 1850s. As fans gather to watch the racing down in Auckland, New Zealand, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of the more notable moments in the history of this storied event. For real-time updates on developments down in Auckland, visit sailmagazine.com.
On August 22, the New York Yacht Club's schooner America wins a 53-mile race around England's Isle of Wight organized by the Royal Yacht Squadron. It is awarded a "100 Guinea Cup" or "Queen's Cup," as it was variously known. Later the trophy comes to be known as the "America's Cup," in honor of the schooner that won it.
The America's Cup trophy is officially donated to the New York YC through a "deed of gift" to be held in trust as a challenge trophy to promote friendly competition among nations. The deed of gift also serves to govern the rules by which other yacht clubs can challenge for the trophy.
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The first defense of the America's Cup against the topsail schooner Cambria. Two yachts represent the New York YC—the schooner Columbia, which wins the first two races, and then Sappho, after Columbia is dismasted in race three. Racing is held off Sandy Hook at the entrance to New York Harbor, site of many historic races in the early days of American yachting.
After a series of successful defenses, the New York YC adopts the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club rating rule, under which Nathanael Herreshoff designs such iconic yachts as Defender, Columbia and Reliance—the latter the largest racing sloop ever built with a length of 201ft and 16,000ft2 of sail
In his second challenge for the Cup, Lord Dunraven's 90ft Valkyrie III is defeated by Defender. Dunraven, who feels he was not treated fairly by the race committee following a pre-start collision in the second race, calls foul. His honorary membership in the New York YC is subsequently revoked as part of what comes to be known as the "Dunraven affair."
Sir Thomas Lipton, of tea fame, embarks on the first of a series of challenges with the William Fife III-designed Shamrock. Although Lipton would fail to ever "lift that auld mug," as he put it, he very much won in the eyes of the popular press as both a gentlemen and sportsman.
In reaction to the extreme size and dimensions of Reliance—what was called a "racing freak" in the parlance of the day—Herreshoff derives a new "Universal" rating rule intended to result in a new "healthier" generation of boats. Among the resulting classes is the iconic "J" class, which will be used for Cup racing until 1937.
America's Cup competition moves to Newport, Rhode Island. It's also the first of the J Class regattas (following an interruption of racing during World War I), with Enterprise defeating Lipton's Shamrock V. Eight years later, Sir Thomas Sopwith's Endeavour is defeated by Ranger in the final regatta of the J-class era.
In the wake of World War II, the 12-Metre class is adopted as the official class of the America's Cup, as the J-class becomes far too expensive. The first 12-Metre America's Cup takes place in 1958, with the New York YC's Columbia defeating the Royal Yacht Squadron's Sceptre.
The first Australian challenge joins the fray. The New York YC's Weatherly defeats Australia's Gretel four races to one in the first challenge from a country other than Canada (which had been among the earliest challengers for the Cup) or Great Britain.
France's creatively named France sails against Australia's Gretal II in a first-ever challenger elimination series, a tradition that continues to this day in the form of the Prada Cup. Gretal II moves on to the Cup finals but loses to Intrepid.
The Olin Stephens-designed Courageous, the first all-aluminum 12-Metre, wins the Cup against Australia's Southern Cross with Ted Hood at the helm. In 1977 with Ted Turner at the helm, Courageous goes on to win a second Cup against the Sun City Yacht Club's Australia.
The "longest winning streak in sports" comes to an end when Australia's wing-keeled Australia II with John Bertrand at the helm defeats Dennis Connor and crew aboard Liberty. In addition to the mystery surrounding Australia II's keel, the regatta offers high drama as the Australians come back from a 1-3 deficit to win the best-of-seven series.
The 12-Metre era goes out with a bang in the wild and wooly conditions off Perth, Australia, courtesy of the locale's sea breezes, known as the "Freemantle Doctor." Dennis Connor's Stars & Stripes 87 earns the right to officially challenge after defeating a dozen different teams from Canada, Italy, New Zealand, France, the UK and the United States. Stars & Stripes goes on to defeat Kookaburra III in four straight races thereby bringing the Cup back to the United States—albeit to the San Diego Yacht Club, on the other side of the continent from where it all started.
New Zealand's Michael Fay mounts a surprise challenge with KZ1, a monohull with an LWL of 90ft (the maximum allowed by the Deed of Gift), hull "wings" and a crew of 40. Dennis Connor and the San Diego YC are not amused and following a heaping helping of legal wrangling, respond with Stars & Stripes, a 60ft catamaran sporting a wing sail. KZ1 never stands a chance. Fay takes the San Diego YC to court, but loses there, too.
MUNICH, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 08: The America`s Cup is seen during the America's Cup on Tour presentation at the Olympic Park on September 8, 2006 in Munich, Germany. The America`s Cup is the oldest sports trophy of the world. (Photo by Sandra Behne/Bongarts/Getty Images)
USA-23 defeats Italy's IL Moro in the first Cup regatta of the International America's Cup Class (IACC), a new monohull class created in the wake of Fay's surprise challenge.
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's NZL 32, affectionately known as "Black Magic," sweeps Denis Connor's team, Stars & Stripes aboard USA-34 (built by the team Young America, which Stars & Stripes had defeated in the Defender elimination series) in five straight races. The 29th Cup is also notable for 1) the dramatic televised sinking of oneAustralia midway through the challenger selection process and 2) the involvement of an almost entirely female crew aboard USA-43, known as "Might Mary."
New Zealand's NZL 60 successfully defends against ITA 45 representing Italy's Yacht Club Punta Ala in the first Cup regatta with neither an American Defender nor an American Challenger in the history of America's Cup racing.
Russel Coutts and a number of his Kiwi compatriots jump ship and sign on with biotech mogul Ernesto Bertarelli's Swiss-flagged Alinghi challenge, essentially signaling the end of the nationality requirements that had been part and parcel of the Cup to varying degrees since its inception. The rebel Kiwis, er, Alinghi, sweep New Zealand's NZL 82 and helmsman Dean Barker 5-0, bringing the Cup back to Europe for the first time since it left in 1851.
Following Alinghi's successful defense in Valencia, Spain, in 2007, Bertarelli and the Société Nautique de Genève accept as the next "challenger of record" the Club Náutico Español de Vela, a Spanish "club" created for the sole purpose of ensuring the Cup stays in Valencia. U.S. billionaire Larry Ellison is not amused, and the Cup goes back to court. The result is another no-holds-barred "Deed of Gift" regatta, the same as when Fay challenged in 1988, in which the "rules" of the regatta are those set by the somewhat sketchy terms outlined in the original Deed of Gift.
Alinghi defends with a massive 90ft catamaran (again, the maximum LWL allowed under the deed) powered by a conventional soft sail. Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing challenges with USA-17, an equally massive trimaran powered by an even more massive wing sail. With young Aussie skipper Jimmy Spithill at the helm, it's no contest. A new multihull day has dawned.
Tragedy and triumph: the 34th America's Cup features a brand-new class of wing-sailed 72ft cats competing on San Francisco Bay. Despite the rule-makers' best efforts at keeping the boats in the water, Emirates Team New Zealand figures out a way to get its boat airborne, leaving the competition no choice but to follow suite. Unfortunately, the boats, though exciting to watch, have pushed the design too far for safety, and British Olympian Andrew "Bart" Simpson is killed following the capsize of Sweden's Artemis. Later, Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA successfully defend against Dean Barker and ETNZ in "the comeback," in which Oracle Team USA beats the odds by winning eight races in a row after falling behind eight races to one.
Russell Coutts, now selling his expertise to the Americans, and Larry Ellison shock and disappoint much of the sailing world by staging their 35th Cup defense in Bermuda instead of on San Francisco Bay. The general consensus, even among many U.S. Cup fans, is that it's a good thing when Emirates Team New Zealand wrests control from Ellison. Their victory is in no small part thanks to the use of bicycle-like "cyclors" (as opposed to hand-operated grinders) to provide the necessary hydraulic pressure to control their boat's foils and sails. Soon afterward, the Kiwis promise to stage the next Cup aboard mohohulls. The result is the AC75 monohull class we see today.
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Baucus health insurance plan aimed at priciest policies
But critics see cost for elderly, middle class
Aides to Senator Max Baucus said his plan would discourage employers from offering so-called Cadillac plans.
By Lisa Wangsness
Globe Staff / September 19, 2009
WASHINGTON - Critics say a proposal by Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus to raise money for the health care overhaul by taxing insurers on their most expensive plans could hit middle-class pocketbooks - particularly in New England, where health costs are high.
Baucus has proposed paying for more than a quarter of his $750 billion health care proposal with a 35 percent excise tax on "gold-plated'' insurance plans. It would be levied on insurance companies, which could pass on the expense to their customers.
The tax was meant to be a compromise, but it has already caused an uproar on both sides of the political aisle, with liberals and conservatives alike complaining it would hurt low- and moderate-income workers and older workers - particularly in high-cost areas.
The tax would hit about 10 percent of plans and 8 percent of taxpayers nationwide, according to Baucus's aides, who said state-specific estimates were not available. It is designed to not only raise revenue but also to discourage employers from offering so-called Cadillac health insurance policies, generous plans that many economists say encourage people to use more health services than they need, driving up prices for everyone.
But critics say the tax would disproportionately affect workers who are sick - and therefore choose plans that have better benefits - or older, since older workers can be charged more for their insurance.
"A more expensive plan isn't necessarily a better plan; it just may mean the workforce is older,'' said Celia Wcislo, assistant division director of Service Employees International Union 1199 and a member of the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority board. She said people with plans that offer maximum flexibility may have an illness that requires them to see their doctor often or to consult a range of specialists.
The tax would apply only to the marginal difference between the cost of the plan and the price thresholds set in the bill - $8,000 for an individual plan and $21,000 for a family plan - not to the total cost of the policy. Baucus has included a three-year transition period to cushion the blow in the 17 most expensive states, including Massachusetts, which has the highest premiums in the country for family plans. But because the thresholds would rise each year at the rate of inflation - not medical inflation, which is much higher - the tax would probably affect a significant number of New Englanders within a few years.
The average total cost of employer-sponsored insurance in Massachusetts in 2008 was about $4,800 for singles and $13,788 for families, according to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, conducted each year by the federal government. About 10 percent of Massachusetts employees have plans that cost more than $6,700 for singles and $17,000 for families.
Insurers this week announced they would increase premiums by about 10 percent next year in Massachusetts, where premiums have doubled in the past decade. Bruce Bullen, interim chief executive officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said "a very substantial number'' of his company's plans would be taxed under the proposal - he could not say precisely how many - and he said many could hardly be called "Cadillac'' plans.
"Our concern is whether or not this is just a hidden attempt to tax insurers, as opposed to a public policy designed to go after these excessively rich plans,'' he said.
In fact, it was meant to do both.
Baucus, a Montana Democrat, had originally wanted to limit the income tax exclusion on employer-based insurance, which would not only raise substantial cash but also, economists say, suppress premium inflation. But unions balked. Curbing those tax breaks, they argued, would disproportionately hurt workers who have sacrificed wage increases for years in order to maintain good benefits.
In July, Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, circulated an alternative proposal to tax insurers on high-end plans instead of workers. The Finance Committee's "Gang of Six'' bipartisan negotiators considered it more politically palatable approach and snapped it up.
But in a phone interview yesterday, Kerry said he was not so happy with Baucus's bill - he had proposed higher thresholds that would raise substantially less money but affect fewer plans, and therefore fewer taxpayers. Next week, when the Finance Committee begins voting on Baucus's proposal bit by bit, Kerry said he would suggest raising the thresholds, as well as alternative ideas for getting the rest of the money somewhere else. But he said he did think it was a good idea to tax insurers because it would force them to contribute something toward a health insurance overhaul. He said insurers would feel new competitive pressure to keep prices down once the "exchanges'' were set up, offering people a more transparent way to shop for insurance.
"I think the insurance companies have to be part of the solution,'' he said.
But Robert Book, a health economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, noted the 35 percent tax rate is close to the income tax rate for the wealthiest earners - so theoretically a low-income worker with expensive insurance could be indirectly taxed at a rate two or three times their income tax rate on a small portion of their benefits.
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In a vote by a travel magazine a few years ago the Mallaig Line was voted best railway line in the world beating - among others - the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In June I took the Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig and was endlessly spellbound by the variety of spectacular and evocative vistas along the route. At Arisaig, there was a silvery mist above Loch nan Ceall which reminded me of one of your Connoisseur stories, "The Mist on the Mere." The tea wasn't bad either.
I was just thinking recently about how things that seem contemporary to me are history to others. When I was a kid in the 1960s, I loved reading about and watching old horror movies. Still do. I remember telling my parents things like, "that was an old classic from 1942." Now I realize how they must have felt, when a kid talks about the old Batman movie with Michael Keaton, or something along those lines.
Thank you for sharing, Mark; and yes, Time moves in mysterious ways.


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The U.S. Navy on Monday announced it will decommission the USS Bonhomme Richard, the warship that caught fire and burned for days this summer at Naval Base San Diego.
The Navy cited extensive damage that would cost over $3 billion, including structural, electrical and mechanical repairs that would take five to seven years.
The 22-year-old ship burst into flames on July 12 and smoldered for more than four days off San Diego. More than 60 firefighters suffered from heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire remains unknown, according to the Navy.
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Have you ever experienced "prayer-block," about the same as writer's block? You want to pray, but the words don't come to your lips or your mind. Your heart is full but the message isn't relayed. There is much to pray for – we, God's creations, we, just mortals want to be prayer warriors for ourselves, our family, friends and for God's goodness and mercy flowing to all peoples. How often to pray for any one person? How to explain their needs? Have you said enough, asked enough? You've agonized over your prayers being 'in His will.' You've wondered if it's okay to 'ask' when at that moment you don't have a clue what is "in His will." When is it time to leave it to the Lord? The video below, Pray by Sanctus Real, expresses the way I have long taken as my way to deal with all of the above. See the music video below.
As often happens with my friend Carl Middleton at GOD'S ANSWER is Always Jesus, somewhere out there in the ether we had a meeting of the minds this week. I search for music I like, something that speaks to me, sometimes in a genre unfamiliar – something to wake me up to ways to worship and praise. This week I found Pray and then went to Carl's blog and found his topic is 'prayer.' I think it's a God-thing.
My prayer in times of prayer-block is "Father." Sometimes it's all I can do, but at those times I do feel comforted. Am I taking the easy way out? Surely He needs more than that from me, considering what I am bold enough to ask of Him.
"My voice shalt thou hear in the morning" … This sounds as if David has confidence that God hears his morning cry unto his Lord. Shouldn't we then also have this same confidence that God will hear us in the morning?
"I will direct my prayer unto thee" … There is purpose to David's cry. He doesn't just speak words unto the wind. He directs his words to God. The word "direct" in Hebrew, (as I understand it) is "aw-rak" and means … to arrange and put in order.
I had to smile when I read the first meaning of this word. It's … "to set in a row." My first thought was, I wonder if this is where the phrase, "putting your ducks all in a row" came from?
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You see, I like to think that my breath is His Spirit dwelling in me. He breathed into Adam and he became a living soul. I like how the name "Jesus" sounds as I speak it so softly that only He and I can hear it.
But anyway … what a great music choice this week.
Blessings my dear sister in the Lord.
Hi Carl, so glad you liked the song. I hear many people say prayer can be a challenge for the reasons I talked about you. I'm no expert but I think we (I) often make it far too hard. He knows our heart already.
The song puts tears in my eyes. Thanks. I enjoyed the song.
Kathleen, thanks for listening and commenting. It is a particularly beautiful song with a message that goes straight to the heart.


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Q: Питон. Работа с текстом, частотный анализ, форматирование строк передо мной стоит задача :

Создать txt-файл, вставить туда любую англоязычную статью из
  Википедии.          Реализовать одну функцию, которая выполняет
  следующие операции:                    прочитать файл построчно;
  непустые строки добавить в список;

*

*удалить из каждой строки все цифры, знаки препинания, скобки, кавычки и т.д.    (остаются латинские буквы и пробелы);

*

*объединить все строки из списка в одну, используя метод join и пробел,           как разделитель;

*создать словарь вида {"слово": количество, "слово": количество, … } для          подсчета количества разных слов,
  где ключом будет уникальное слово, а значением - количество;

*вывести в порядке убывания 10 наиболее популярных слов, используя метод format   (вывод примерно следующего вида:  " 1 place --- sun ---
  15 times \n....);

*заменить все эти слова в строке на слово "PYTHON";

*создать новый txt-файл;

*записать строку в файл, разбивая на строки, при этом на каждой строке записывать не более 100 символов и не делить слова.

(c учетом последнего комментария)основную ее часть, а именно считывание, формирование словаря и форматирование строки я выполнил следующим образом:
import re

f = open('wiki_text.txt','r')
text = str(f.readlines())
#print("%s\n" % text)

words = re.findall('[a-zA-Z]{2,}',text) #Регулярка для слов от двух букв
#print("%s\n" % words)

stats = {}
for w in words:
    stats[w] = stats.get(w,0) + 1

print(stats)
w_ranks = sorted(stats.items(), key = lambda x : x[1],\
      reverse=True) [0:10]
print(w_ranks)
_wrex = re.findall('[a-zA-Z]+',str(w_ranks))
_drex = re.findall('[0-9]+',str(w_ranks))
pl = [p for p in range(1,11)]
for j in range(len(_wrex)):
    places = '{} place,{} - {} times'.format(pl[j],_wrex[j],_drex[j])
    print(places)

Мой вопрос состоит в следующем: возможно ли проще организовать ранжирование слов по частоте, т.е при форматировании строки обойтись без вспомогательного массива с числовым обозначением мест ? И какими методами возможно осуществить замену слов в тексте по ключу и значению ?

A: Можно воспользоваться методом sorted так, чтобы избежать параметра reverse:
sorted(d.items(), key=lambda x : -x[1])


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Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar takes charge as Chief of Naval Staff
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): Admiral R Hari Kumar took charge as Chief of Naval Staff on November 30. He received the guard of honour at the South Block lawns as the new chief of Naval Staff. He took charge from Admiral Karambir Singh who superannuated after a 30-month tenure. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar said, "It is a matter of great honor for me to take charge as the 25th Chief of Naval Staff. Indian Navy's focus is on our national maritime interests and challenges."


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I don't think I've seen Kiely so happy. We drove to Arizona and picked-up the most wonderful horse. She's Sahara, and was raised by a young lady from the time she was a foal. Sahara hadn't been ridden in a year, but was honestly, for a greenbroke, 5 year-old, she is an outstanding horse in every way. I think I love her almost as much as Kiely. She's Kiely's Flika. The horse had never been trailered, but went home on an 9 1/2 hour drive home in 106 degree weather. We stopped lots for water and treats. Believe it or not, she likes to go in the trailer now. Kiely has ridden her constantly.
Kiely did slide off when the horse reared. But all is fine, she spooked at the sound of a hula hoop that sounded like a rattlesnake. (Now, isn't that a coincidence? Arizona-rattlesnakes-we HAVE rattlesnakes. Duhr.) Then, Sahara jumped and bucked over a small fence and landed in a not-stickery catus...and got tangled in a metal chair. Kiely was under Sahara; and she only stepped on her leg with her front hoof. The horse spread her back leg so not to hurt Kiely. Of course she "cowgirled up" after Steve and the fire department gave her the okay.(Dang! Another call to our house) Kiely just got on Sahara about 4 or 5 more hours, she didn't even put Sahara away, slide off a horse and what's the rule of the west? Get back on. She had only one small bruise on her calf of her leg. I'm thankful for the lawn being so soft from the sprinklers that day. Corbin was on the horse with her and he was laughing-he slid off just like Kiely, only first.
I remember those days. I'm thankful that they were not hurt or even shaken. I'm grateful to such a sweet horse that loves my daughter so much that she would step in a metal chair to get away from hurting her. We all saw it. Grandmothers, aunts, uncles, sisters, and cousins. The whole thing was in slow-motion. My mother wanted to put Sahara in the pen and Kiely said, "I'm okay, I'm still riding with Randy." And she did.
Jurassic Park is in our Oak Grove and this is just a very happy posting. She needs a BFF (Best Friends Forever!) We are all happy for her. Kiely has been praying for another horse and crying about Boogie for over a year. She now has a treasure.
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What follows though is my most recent post, on the subject of the motives behind creating a new piece of work. This is a blog about high definition but I am also concerned with making art within this form and for a long time now I've been concentrating on the technology and then aesthetics, but my recent trip to Bergen to teach a workshop on the subject of HD to MA and Phd students and staff of an art school (not a standard academic institution) has altered my view on what I'm doing. This visit has opened up some issues for me and I wish to discuss how and why I make art so that I might articulate (also to myself) the process, so that I might better improve what I'm doing. This begins with the naming of the work and certain titles have arisen that say something about this project: Self Portrait The Narrow Road to the Deep North The Way North Nor Way Until I'm gone I might use one or none of these. They come from the fact of Norway itself – known in Norwegian as 'the way north'. 'Nor Way', because there's an element of 'no' way forward. Matsuo Basho's 'Narrow Road to the Deep North' was very influential on me. Beautiful and sometimes comic travel descriptions of late 17th century Japan, sometimes encapsulated in haiku form – the use of the title would be an homage. 'Self-portrait' because that's what this is at this stage of my life (a nod to Rembrandt here and his persistent and useful self-portraiture). 'Until I'm gone' is the subject of the text – who am I whilst here, how will it be when I'm gone – does the world stop – or just me. Was it here before me and how was it/will it be. I took a trip into the fjords and of course there were a lot of people on the boat – but you will not see them – only me and only what I saw. I couldn't help but abstract images of water, hills, of reflections. There's the issue of what the artist notices – what's in his or her eye and mind and therefore aesthetic – is it worth looking at ? I've seen so many small works of art in museum's and galleries that really are just neurotic responses to the world, that were not worth making (or at least worth it to the artist to get something out of their system but actually insulting to an audience who had travelled to see it. Moving image works occur in time – generally starting at one point and ending at another. Point A leading to point B. The use of narrative in video art has been frowned on in recent years because entertainment uses this strategy to entertain the audience as its primary force and the art system here doesn't want to associate with its strategies, as if art will become contaminated by that association. Artists tend to think of narrative as candy floss – a means of overwhelming the audience into submission. Then various strategies within narrative capture the audiences attention and others deliver fulfilment – narrative resolution being a strategy that sends the audience home happy. Except of course, its now been so overused that even Hollywood is faltering in its stride. So I wanted to think about narrative – about whether art should not use this strategy about whether the use of it automatically disables the art and turns it into entertainment. About whether things do not need to have a story – a line, a direction, about whether art can use narrative in its palette of expression – or whether narrative is too heady a strategy and will in fact take over a work that the audience is then left entertained by, rather than going through that more subtle of experiences that we call 'art'. Through looking at this I also wanted to look at the nature of what that more subtle experience was, about whether when looked at too closely it comes apart as you examine it. Entertainment makes an audience read a work. Assumption, expectation, congratulation (for having realised a point – but then modern art uses that strategy invariably), various ways of reading the information you have before you – and one very dangerous way: Interpretation. Much modern art requires approaching something that has disguised intentions – disguised because that strategy is considered allowable by the 20th century modernist project as it grew into conceptual form – if an intent or a concept was disguised or withheld then its revealing, the revelation of the point of the work, would come with added impact. So many works are a simple juxtaposition of two ideas where a frisson is generated in the viewers mind – how much more powerful if this frisson was 'revealed' rather than seen straight away. To me this is as disingenuous as a bad use of narrative form. Equally the pointless work, or the work that is solely concerned with form gathered weight in the curatorial mind, then a series of strategies that involved the use of irony – to show how we are now beyond being affected by the qualities that used to be paramount in renaissance and enlightenment works. These two are different of course but share common functions. But irony is the work of the cynic and the scoundrel, the craftsperson who avoids the point that comes when ideas like 'beauty', carrying a terrible relativistic edge to its meaning and appreciation. In this sentence I'm calling the artist a craftsperson because that person is avoiding 'the matter of art'. Of course the contemporary theorist is having terrible shudderings at my cavalier attitude to this well thought out area. But I make my comments because I am mindful of one important thing – that the artist is above all, a practitioner and needs be true to practice rather than theory, value, the market, the dominant curatorial project or any set of values or ideas that might sway the embodiment of the urge that makes people create art works as pure transmission from the deeper psyche. All an artist does is 'know' something, perhaps dimply, then follows their inspiration and intuition towards an expression in some kind of form, for display and exhibition to their fellow men and women. This gesture is the childlike gesture of finding something interesting and saying to ones fellow children in the play area – come, look see what I've found – what do you think of that. The artist show the audience what they are about to know and become familiar with, the artist journeys ahead to the horizon to see the landscape that lies beyond. Earlier in the dim light of early morning I awake and began to think about staging my new, as yet unmade work. I knew pretty much how I would formulate the images and sounds and the general direction of the work. Over the last couple of years I had made many installations that were to be experienced in part. One could enter a space and come upon a work that would simply continue before one entered and after one left. That way, my theory went, the issue of 'narrative was diluted and people could approach the work which involved a 'going' and leave without the addition and complimentary act in narrative of 'coming'. The narrative journey of moving between 'A' and 'B' was interrupted. I had taken on the issue of staging – moving the screen from the wall and perhaps suspending it above the audiences heads, or laying it down upon the floor, or doing away with it and projecting images on to objects. But now I realise that I have to go even further because all of the things I've tried are simply strategies – some very effective and to be used again. But now I wish to go more deeply into the form itself and I no longer mistake the material of the form, video, electronic data, digitality etc, as the form. The form is the concept, the idea of moving image itself. The idea in fact of 'image' moving or not. The idea of 'art' embodied or not, concept or form, material, displayed or not. But with all of this remaining true to the original engagement – I'm not talking here of my fellowship, but my original engagement with the act of making. I have spoken before about a compulsive inner urge to make inscriptions. I have been challenged on that through the argument that all that you do is chosen and so I am not free from responsibility towards choice at all points; but if you practice, you know that deep down beneath any set of intellectual constructions about what art is or why we do it is for want of a better descritption, the ground of the human condition. By this I mean that which moves us through the world – not as individual personas, but as the human species upon the human project. And here I use the term 'human' as descriptive as a local state, in our case biped, primate, carbon based. To me, 'human' means sentience embodied – and I don't care if that sentience is in carbon reptile, carbon mammal, silicon, gas whatever. If sentience is present then I call that 'human'. So, in the early hours I began to think of this piece I was upon in terms of its possible outcome: single screen, black box installation, multi-screen performance etc. I was trying various outfits on to my idea, my tailors dummy, to see what clothes best suited it. Of course it became relative – but that's part of the condition. I have various thoughts on how this will come about, but I do know that the act of making will begin t change what the work is, what thoughts I had had, will change and the material will start to 'speak'. I will apply simple conventions to the use of the footage I've shot and they will either enhance or deplete its power. My set of aesthetics gathered through many years of making will come into play and start to determine the relative use of these aesthetics and what you now see and hear before you will be one outcome of this act – one outcome because I now know, whatever I think this thing is, it is also many other things and can be displayed and exhibited in many ways. The artist must lead the curator and not the other way around. Most artists are within the zeitgeist and of course should be lead by the curator – but some artists must go ahead. As the Italians say: "Few are called, but many answer". So it gets harder and harder to find the work of the people that innovate, because innovation is not just something different from what you normally see. Sometimes innovation is very hard to see because it is in fact so different. But – importantly, I have begun my work and it excites me, makes me want to come back to it and develop it because I sense that it is a way through this conundrum. I am asking a Norwegian friend to translate my work into Norwegian and speak the voice part, my text will be in English – I have used this technique a few times now. It's necessary because we are in a global situation and the voices of the many languages will speak a common truth.