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Hungary is a country with a highly favorable climate for grain production. Years of political and structural change limited output, but now crop levels are rising.
The International Grains Council (IGC) puts Hungary's 2014-15 total grain crop at 16.1 million tonnes, up from 13.6 million the year before. That includes 5 million tonnes of wheat predicted for 2014-15, compared to 5.1 million the year before. The 2014-15 maize crop is put at 9 million tonnes, up from 6.7 million the year before.
Barley production in 2014-15 is put at 1.3 million tonnes, up from 1.1 million.
The country is also estimated to have produced a 700,000-tonne rapeseed crop, up from 500,000 tonnes the year before.
Figures supplied by Hungary's Grain and Feed Association show grain production at the highest level for five years. Based on statistics from Hungary's Central Statistical Office and crop forecasts from the statistical office and the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, the association put the wheat crop at 5.235 million tonnes in 2014, up from 5.058 million the year before. It put barley at 1.279 million tonnes (1.062 million in 2013), oats at 132,000 tonnes (unchanged), maize at 9.059 million tonnes (6.725 million), sunflowers at 1.636 million (1.470 million) and rapeseed at 572,000 tonnes (524,000).
In a report on the country's agriculture prepared by the E.U., it was noted that "Hungary benefits from many natural features which provide favorable conditions for agriculture: fertile plains, an advantageous climate and the availability of water. The quantity of flowing water per inhabitant is said to be the largest in the world."
A study prepared by Anna Burger of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences outlined how Hungarian agriculture has developed.
"Hungarian agriculture has gone through a long and difficult development since the First World War," she said. "The semi-feudal agriculture of the Horthy era between the two World Wars was followed by a land distribution after the Second World War, which created an agricultural system dominated by smallholders."
However, the small farms were soon collectivized, she continued. "Despite the forced collectivization, the large farms developed well and the living standard of the peasantry grew significantly.
"After the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1990, political parties decided again to restructure agriculture. A new land distribution was carried out which created an agricultural system based on smallholdings. On the mostly too small, scattered holdings, the technical and technological levels, and the productivity are low.
"A small number of larger farms produce most of the marketed products. The only way out of this situation is farm concentration and the cooperation of smallholders."
She also notes the suitability of Hungary's landscape for agriculture.
"About 70% of the land area of the country is suitable for agricultural production, while one-third of the soils and the terrains are unfavorable for efficient farming," she said. "A great part of the country is lowland."
The E.U. produced its own short report on the development of Hungarian agriculture in May 2014 to mark10 years of the country's E.U. membership.
"The balance of these10 years of E.U. membership is clearly positive for agriculture and the rural economy in the Hungary," it said.
It also noted that the number of farms has fallen by a quarter in Hungary since 2003. "Farms in Hungary have grown by some 22% in economic size, with the value of production/holding showing 5.7% growth per year," it said.
"From 2004 to 2012, Hungarian agricultural income grew almost six-fold (average 21.8% per year), compared to overall wages and salaries in the economy which increased by 39% (3.7% per year) and GDP per capita growth of 10% (1.1% year)," it said. "The ratio of agriculture to overall earnings dropped sharply during the (global economic) crisis in 2009."
From 2005 to 2013, total spending in Hungary through the E.U. Common Agricultural Policy was €11.94 billion.
"Hungarian farmers received €7.4 billion in direct aids and market measures to support farm income and over €4.5 billion were spent modernizing agriculture, making it more sustainable and developing rural areas," the E.U. said.
Milling sector consolidation
Figures supplied to World Grain by the Hungarian Grain and Feed Association show a continuing trend to consolidation. In 2010 there were 45 companies with 62 mills. This year the association counted 41 companies with 54 mills.
The industry is highly concentrated. According to research done by the association in 2014, the 10 market leaders in milling account for 82% of flour production and the biggest six have 73%.
At the same time nominal capacity has stagnated rather than decreased. From 2010's figure of 7,542 tonnes every 24 hours, it fell only slightly to 7,321 tonnes every 24 hours in 2014. Production is 1.2 million tonnes of wheat flour per year and stagnating as the industry struggles with overcapacity. Even so, new mills have been constructed in recent years.
One bright spot is that flour exports are increasing. From 120,195 tonnes in 2010, the total rose to 181,645 tonnes in 2013. Prospects for 2014 are even better. Exports will approximate the level of pre-accession to the E.U.
Inside Hungary, flour consumption is decreasing. The association put consumption per individual at 81 kilograms in 2012.
Anti-biotech stance
Politicians and public opinion are highly anti-biotech.
"In Hungary there is both a deep-seated social distrust of biotech crops and the belief that Hungarian farmers profit from being a leading 'GMO-free' supplier of food and feed to European markets," the USDA attaché said in a report on the sector.
"Hungary has constitutionally banned genetically engineered plants from its agricultural sector and has recently amended its Act on Biotechnology. In 2011, non-transparent enforcement of new seed testing rules resulted in the destruction of corn fields and large fines for seed companies. Some politicians continue to portray GMOs as a threat to Hungarian agriculture."
Ethanol producer
A report prepared for Pannonia Ethanol put ethanol production in Hungary at 30 million liters in 2007, 150 million liters in 2008, 174 million liters in 2011, and about 350 to 400 million liters in 2013.
"While from 2000 to 2010 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector stagnated in E.U.-27, they increased by about 25% in Hungary, and the transport sector accounted for 18% of total GHG emissions measured in Hungary in 2011," the report said. "Based on the target set in the 2009/28/EC directive (RED) on the promotion of using energy from renewable sources, the share of energy from renewable sources in the transport sector has to reach 10% in Hungary
by 2020."
Pannonia Ethanol's facility uses some 650,000 tonnes of maize a year, producing up to 280 million liters of ethanol and 160,000 tonnes of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS).
It also produces 40,000 tonnes of Wet DGS and 5,000 tonnes of corn oil.
"Corn-based bioethanol is able to reach a greater GHG savings potential in Hungary than the European average because of the very low – practically zero at the moment – land-use change effect (which is the consequence of the abundant cropland quantity) and one of the lowest nitrogenous fertilizer use in Europe. But the efficiency of feedstock supply is relatively low for the time being," the report said.
"In the long term there is a potential to improve crop yields with a modest increase in fertilizer use. But with more effective machinery use and with greening the agriculture – which is an important policy goal of the E.U. – the GHG emissions per tonnes of feedstock values also could be lower in the future."
Capital: Budapest
Population: 9,919,128 (July 2014 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic 37.2%, Calvinist 11.6%, Lutheran 2.2%, Greek Catholic 1.8%, other 1.9%, none 18.2%, unspecified 27.2% (2011 est.)
Location: Central Europe, northwest of Romania
Government: Parliamentary democracy. Chief of state: Janos Ader (since May 10, 2012); head government: Prime Minister Viktor Orban (since May 29, 2010).
Economy: Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income nearly two-thirds that of the E.U.-28 average. In late 2008, Hungary's impending inability to service its short-term debt – brought on by the global financial crisis – led Budapest to obtain an IMF/E.U./World Bank-arranged financial assistance package worth over $25 billion. The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in a severe economic contraction in 2009. In 2010, the new government implemented a number of changes including cutting business and personal income taxes, but imposed "crisis taxes" on financial institutions, energy and telecom companies, and retailers. The IMF/E.U. bail-out program lapsed at the end of the year and was replaced by Post Program Monitoring and Article IV Consultations on overall economic and fiscal processes. At the end of 2011, the government turned to the IMF and the E.U. to obtain financial backstop to support its efforts to refinance foreign currency debt and bond obligations in 2012 and beyond, but Budapest's rejection of E.U. and IMF economic policy recommendations led to a breakdown in talks with the lenders in late 2012. Global demand for high yield has since helped Hungary to obtain funds on international markets. Hungary's progress reducing its deficit to under 3% of GDP led the European Commission in 2013 to permit Hungary for the first time since joining the E.U. in 2004 to exit the Excessive Deficit Procedure.
GDP per capita: $19,800 (2013 est.) inflation: 1.9% (2013 est.); un employment: 10.5% (2013 est.).
Currency: Euro. .80 Euros equal 1 U.S. dollar (Nov. 21, 2014).
Exports: $92.98 billion (2013 est.): machinery and equipment 53.5%, other manufactures 31.2%, food products 8.7%, raw materials 3.4%, fuels and electricity 3.9% (2012).
Imports: $89.52 billion (2013 est.): machinery and equipment 45.4%, other manufactures 34.3%, fuels and electricity 12.6%, food products 5.3%, raw materials 2.5% (2012).
Major crops/agricultural products: Wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, sugar beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products.
Internet: Code: .hu; 3.145 million (2012) hosts and 6.176 million (2009) users.


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An Aesthetics of the Common
Fiona Woods initiated the Free Space project (2016–2019) to research practices of commoning and commonist activism in Limerick City. Through a series of event-based experiments such as the collaborative Laboratory of Common Interest, she has produced the visual and textual publications Alternative Economies, Contested Sites, and The Community Devastation Project. During a Workspace Social at Ormston House in 2018, Woods asked: "Where is public space in Limerick? Where do communities access culture?" Questions that are increasingly difficult to answer.
On the occasion of the Feminist Supermarket, Ormston House has invited Fiona Woods to publish an extract of her on-going theoretical research as a Fiosraigh Scholar at Technological University of Dublin. An Aesthetics of the Common introduces the proposal to counter the destructive force of extractive capitalism through the world-making project of the Commons. From academic theses to personal experience, Woods argues for the continuous (inconvenient, uncomfortable, messy) struggle to prioritise the common good over private interest, and to maintain the co-operative management of resources and non-exploitative modes of production.
You can download An Aesthetics of the Common for free here.
About Fiona Woods
Fiona works with aesthetics and critical spatial practice, often in a co-productive capacity with others. She employs social, public and institutional circuits to explore ideas of what we have 'in common'. Her practice crosses critical inquiry and artistic intervention, and she participates in several international research projects. Her most recent work, The Laboratory of Common Interest, explores themes of alternative economies and the politics of bodies, through modes of co-production oriented towards a politics of the Commons.
Woods' public art project, Walking Silvermines, is part of the Arte Útil archive initiated by Tania Bruguera. She has carried out commissions and research residencies in Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Lithuania, Australia, Canada and the US. She is currently a PhD researcher and Fiosraigh Scholar at the Graduate College of Arts and Media Research Centre, at the Technological University of Dublin.
Fiona Woods An Aesthetics of the Common ISBN 978-1-9999513-7-5 © 2020 Fiona Woods, Ormston House. Photograph: Aro de baloncesto, La Habana (2017) by Yangtse Clemente Garcia, courtesy of the artist.
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Loving Lucy; Leaving Desi
Lucille Ball was a comic genius, and Desi Arnaz wasn't far behind. That's something of which I've been sharply reminded recently, while watching early I Love Lucy re-runs to welcome in the new year. Lucy's subversion of the "happy homemaker" trope worked for me as a kid growing up in a house with a brand-new TV set. And over a decade later, while a student in Tokyo, I watched with delight as my roommate's young nephews roared with laughter at Lucy's antics, dubbed into Japanese.
Despite the joyousness of the sitcom, which ran from 1951 to 1957, most of us know there were cracks in the Ball/Arnaz marriage that kept widening even while the show that celebrated a fictive version of their union was a high-flying hit. Desi may have truly loved Lucy, but his obsessive philandering (coupled with chronic alcoholism) led Ball to file for divorce in 1960, once their last show together was in the can. Given the two stars' vivid personalities and their long-range impact on Hollywood, it made sense for Aaron Sorkin to undertake a film about the ups and downs of their lives together. And it seems smart of Sorkin, an award-winning screenwriter before he took up directing, to use as his structural framework the week leading up to a particularly fraught live taping of I Love Lucy.
There's nothing like a ticking clock to enhance a film's dramatic appeal. In Being the Ricardos, we move through a fall 1953 work-week, Monday through Friday, in which a new episode of the show is written, rehearsed, and put on its feet before a live studio audience. Aside from the usual artistic pressures, this particular week presents an enormous challenge, because a blind item in Walter Winchell's column has pegged Ball as a member of the Communist Party. Given the political pressures of the era, if the rest of the media turn against her now, the popular TV series will be no more. This possibility hangs over the taping of the episode, while Ball herself pays more attention to another newspaper item, one emphatically implying Desi's marital infidelity. This is strong stuff, and it leads to a climax that works wonderfully well, combining both victory (Ball's patriotism is endorsed by her fans) and defeat. It's the matter in between that I find problematic.
Though Sorkin appears to have whittled down his Ball/Arnaz saga to one climactic week, he stuffs that week so full of hot-button issues that we can barely keep up. To wit: in and around the tensions provoked by the news items, Lucy and Desi announce she's expecting a baby. This wasn't historically true of the week in question, and the pregnancy contributes nothing of value to the specific story being told, though it allows us to see Desi's clout when he demands that the pregnancy be worked into the show, in defiance of previous TV industry mores. Ball gets a feminist rant too, in support of her Lucy character. And Sorkin jumps outside the structure he's set up in other ways, adding flashback to earlier points in the life of the couple (their first date, her evolution into a redhead, her insistence that Desi—not some white guy—play her husband on her new TV show). We leap into the future too, with the three key members of the I Love Lucy writing team—now much older and played by different actors—looking back on the implications of that frenzied week as well. The result is a tangle, one that some bravura performances (particularly by J.K. Simmons as William "Fred Mertz" Frawley) can't unsnarl.
For those who've seen the film, here's an L.A. Times breakdown of how well it jibes with the historical facts of the Desi/Lucy relationship.
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haineshisway January 4, 2022 at 12:15 PM
You liked it more than I did. I found the direction average at best and the writing extremely lazy. Bob Carroll and Madeline Pugh weren't like the character versions in the film - they didn't snipe at each other like that. Nor did the show have an idiot director like that. The actual way that the scene where Hoover calls and speaks to the audience is much more interesting and dramatic, IMO, and on top of all that, what's with the inept anachronisms - did no one have the courage to tell Mr. Sorkin the word "show runner" wasn't a thing until 1990? Or that they didn't call I Love Lucy a "taping" because - there was no tape back then, "meal penalty" wasn't an expression then either. I didn't hate it or anything - I thought the actors were mostly fine.
Beverly January 4, 2022 at 6:28 PM
Thanks for stopping by, Mr.Guy Haines (but shouldn't you be out playing tennis?) I love your pointing out the behind-the-scenes TV anachronisms. But I admit I can't follow your point about the Hoover phone call. Did you like it or not? (We know that historically it didn't happen that way, but it certainly makes for an effective moment, imho.)
haineshisway January 7, 2022 at 6:25 PM
I thought the Hoover thing was okay, but not as interesting as what happened in real life, where it was Desi who came out to the studio audience and said something along the lines of, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair." It got cheers and on they went. Why not just do that? If you haven't seen CODA, I highly recommend it - it does everything right.
I'd like to see CODA, but I'm not sure I have the right screening service. Where can it be viewed?
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How Long Should Sex Last? Average Time In Bed May Be Linked To Penis Shape
Apr 7, 2016 11:48 AM By Lizette Borreli @lizcelineb l.borreli@medicaldaily.com
The pressure put on men to last longer in bed is epitomized in modern pop culture by rapper Missy Elliot who sings how she doesn't want "no one-minute man," and dancehall artist Ms. Thing who needs a "one-, two-, three-hour man." Most men don't want to finish first in the bedroom for fear of coming up short.
So, how many minutes of sex are enough, and how many are too few?
In an article for The Conversationalist, Dr. Brendan Zietsch, a psychologist from the University of Queensland, writes about what he has learned researching how long heterosexual couples report penetrative sex actually lasts.
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He writes: "I know there's a lot more to sex than putting the penis into the vagina and ejaculating, but the rest is not always easy to define (kissing? Rubbing? Grinding?). To keep things simple and specific, we'll just focus on the time to ejaculation."
The average time it takes for couples to have sex may be linked to a man's penis shape. Pexels, Public Domain
How do we define the beginning and end of sex? The definition is penis-centric. Zietsch measured the official time from penetration to ejaculation by observing data from 500 couples around the world who used a stopwatch to time their sex acts over a four-week period. Participants pressed "start" at the time of penile penetration and "stop" at ejaculation. A stopwatch was the preferred method of choice because people are more likely to be biased if simply asked how long they take without proper measure. Also, it's a difficult measure since people don't normally stare at the clock while having sex.
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The findings revealed the average time for each couple, across all the times they had sex, ranged from 33 seconds to 44 minutes. Meanwhile, the average across all couples was 5.4 minutes. This means a couple will typically go for an average of 5.4 minutes every time they have sex.
Interestingly, condom use and circumcision did not affect duration in the bedroom. Some men believe condoms make them lose an erection because it removes all the sensitivity and feeling. However, a 2015 study found heterosexual men aged 18 to 24, who cited condoms as a barrier to an erection, were more likely to be suffering from general erectile dysfunction whether or not they used a condom.
Meanwhile, the country of origin did not affect sex duration, unless the couples came from Turkey, which tended to be significantly shorter (3.7 minutes) than couples from other countries. A couple's age did influence how long sex lasts, with the older the couple, the shorter the sex.
Depending on what side of the sex duration spectrum men fall on, an average of five minutes could be good or bad. But, according to a 2008 study of United States and Canadian sex therapists, sex that is "too short" lasts one to two minutes, "adequate" lasts three to seven minutes, and "desirable" is seven to 13 minutes. The range for "too long" went from 10 to 30 minutes.
It seems that anything longer than ten minutes is ideal, but unusual.
So, why do we last as long as we do? Whether it's two minutes or 30?
Zietsch suspects penis shape could affect sex duration in bed. In a 2003 study, using artificial vaginas, artificial penises, and artificial sperm (corn syrup), researchers found the ridge around the head of the penis is able to scoop out pre-existing syrup from the vagina. In other words, the repeated thrusting men do during sex could function to displace other men's semen, before they ejaculate. This ensures their swimmers will have a better chance at reaching the egg first for fertilization.
"Incidentally, this could explain why it becomes painful for a man to continue thrusting after ejaculating, since that would risk scooping out his own semen as well," writes Zietsch.
So, how long does sex really last? Clearly there's no "normal" definition.
When it comes to the heat of the moment, pleasure has no number.


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Reasons Coventry is a great place to do business if it is regarding aerospace.
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        <input type="hidden" name="emails[0].Label" value="Work"/>
        E-Mail * :
        <input id="emails[0]_Value" type="email" name="email" class="emails" placeholder=" your@email.com"/>

        <input type="hidden" name="phones[0].Label" value="Work" id="phones"/>
        Phone * :
        <input id="phones[0]_Value" name="phones" type="text" placeholder="(incl. Area Code) Contact No. "/>
        Fields marked with an * required

        <input class="buttoninput" type="submit" value="Submit"/>

and here is my javascript:
    var fname = $('#insightly_firstname').val();
var lname = $('#insightly_lastName').val();
var email = $('.emails').val();
var phone = $('.phones').val();

//$.post("contactmail.php", {FirstName: fname, LastName: lname, email: email, phones: phone});
//      From a previous attempt - is it right track?

function sendMail(){

var fname = $('#insightly_firstName').val();
var lname = $('#insightly_lastName').val();
var email = $('.emails').val();
var phone = $('.phones').val();

function mailUser(email, fname, lname){
    alert('MAILING USER NOW');
    $.ajax({
        type: 'post',
        url: 'contactmail.php',
        data:{
            uemail: email,
            ufname: fname,
            ulname: lname
        },
        success: function(data){
            return true;
        }
    });

}

So basically the way I envision this should work is my form should run sendMail(), use the ajax call to pass the data to contactmail.php (a temp file that just contains an echo and a mail() ) and if it returns true should continue on with normal submission.
When I run it however it never pings contactmail.php (I tried to test it with a quick alert on the page). Is this intended? Can I even get a secondary page to execute in onSubmit? or can only action be used for this?

A: I don't see an .submit() function where you stop it using return false; so you can fire your ajax request.
$('form').on('submit', function(){
    sendMail();
    return false; //stop the default form submission
});

Now call sendMail() from withi this function.. But it needs to be modified to properly perform the redirect when you receive a true back from the server.
The next issue is that you declare a function within a function, but never actually execute the inner function. I also don't see a need for two functions here, it's totally redundant and unnecessarily verbose
Now we need to modify the send mail function and identify where we wish to redirect once completed.
function sendMail(){

    $.ajax({
        type: 'post',
        url: 'contactmail.php',
        data:{
            uemail: $('.emails').val(),
            ufname: $('#insightly_lastName').val(),
            ulname: $('#insightly_firstName').val()
        },
        success: function(data){
            if(data == true){
                window.location = 'mysite.com/thank-you.php';
            }
        }
    });
}

Two things to note above. I've removed your variable assignment. Once again, it's overly verbose. There's no need to declare a variable just to be used once. Also, I'm looking for a return true from contactmail.php in your success function. Also, I've used the window.location to redirect to a thank you page when the true.

A: I think you should use jquery serialize(). Something like this :
$('#commentForm').submit(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
       $.ajax({
         type: 'post',
         url: 'contactmail.php',
         data:$(this).serialize(),
         success: function(data){
             return true;
         }
     });
});

Then, in your contactmail.php file, you'll get all your data in $_POST. Note that the index of $_POST will be the same as the attribute name of the input.

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Unreasonable Jealousy – If your significant other worries about you cheating on them when you're just heading out to pick up ice cream. Then that's extreme and is rooted in some major insecurities. Jealousy is fine, but it shouldn't be stifling.
Lying – I don't think this needs much of an explanation.
Putting Your Needs Last All the Time – Your needs always take the back burner to your significant other, that's not okay. Yes things collide and something may have to come before the other, but you shouldn't always take the backseat. Whether you make less money than your significant other that shouldn't matter either.
Being Shamed About Your Past Life – Your current partner brings up your life before them and shames you for it. We've all done stupid things and the person we're with has no need to be judgemental about it.
Emotional or Physical Abuse – This is without negotiation: Your partner is either emotionally or physically abusive, then you should leave your relationship immediately and without question.
Repeated Infidelity – I mentioned this in many posts how I feel about people dealing with Infidelity. It's not something you should deal with.
Lack of Support – You shouldn't have to deal with a partner who doesn't support your dreams. He/She should be your biggest fan in what you do and encourages you.
Hot and Cold Behavior and Constant Bickering – every couple argues. Dealing with someone who is inconsistent with their own darn feelings is ridiculous. Don't smother me with attention this morning and be cold with me in the afternoon.
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Q: Efficiency: Objects inside arrays or arrays inside objects? Given the same number of array/object layers, each index indicating the same things, what is the best order to nest the arrays and objects in?
I'm making a grid-based game, and I need to store several pieces of information about each square.  I know there's no getting around multiple levels of arrays/objects.  I've already got it working one way, so before I go changing a huge amount of code (I've got at least 5 functions with a heavy switch statement inside each one(to choose the layer we're working with), and maybe 10 others I'd also have to change, along with the initialization function), I'd like to know if this change actually lines up with best practices.
Currently, I've got it laid out like this: Game.grid.map[x][y][layer][direction], so a map with a regular 2D array, and each element is an object, containing the properties of "V","S","M", and "G", each of those containing an array. (Metal, Silicon, Gate, and Via)
I was considering switching to Game.grid.map[layer][x][y][direction]  I would have to change a little bit of the structure (such as where I have var base = this.map[x][y]; and then using base[layer][dir] But I could easily make this change and use variables baseM, baseG, and baseS.  It's just tedious to change it.  I would like to know if it would be more efficient to have 1 object with 5 large arrays rather than having a large 2D array with many very small objects.
I read somewhere that in pure arrays, it depends on how often the index changes on each level, with outer levels changing more slowly.  By this, it makes sense to change it.  I tend to deal with metal all at once, vias all at once, and Silicon and Gates together(ish).
Searching Google brought me to this QA: Fastest way to read/store lots of multidimensional data? (Java) but this only deals with pure arrays, not a mix of objects and arrays
===Edit===
1) So yeah, I missed that that QA I found was java instead of javaScript.
2) I modified their test a bit.
var arr = [];
for (int x=0; x<100; x++){
    arr[x] = [];
    for (int y=0; y<100; y++){
        arr[x][y] = [];
        for (int z=0; z<100; z++){
             arr[x][y][z] = 1;
        }
    }
}

This took about 10 ms.  (measured by pasting the function into the console and subtracting that time stamp from the 'undefined' time stamp.)  Between making the top level an object and making the bottom level a bunch of objects, it was also 10ms.  Making all the levels objects took 9ms.  This surprised me.  But it also means Bergi was right.  It doesn't matter.  I was concerned about the sheer number of objects in existence, but if 10,000 new objects takes less than 10ms, my 400-object grid shouldn't ever be an issue.
So really the only change in efficiency to be found is in how long it takes you to read/write code labeled in each way.  And for me, it's definitely easier to avoid parallel arrays on this one.  (I didn't realize this question would be on micro-optimization.)  Thank you to all who answered.

A: Read on parallel arrays and major order of multi-dimensional array. In theory, you can get some speed from cache locality, which depends on how you are going to typically access the array.
In practise, and especially in an interpreted language like JS, it will hardly matter (and there's much else to optimise first). Go for what makes the most sense to you, and stick with that.

A: How many objects are you talking about?  As @Bergi's answer mentions, there is a LOT more to optimize before you head down this road.  Technically arrays can be slightly faster to access via index during iteration thank objects via properties, even then it depends on the JS engine's implementation, which can vary a lot in tight situations like arrays of arrays.
Also, depending on the shear number of objects, you could hit memory constraints.  In the end, test in the browsers you care most about supporting. that's all it can come down to.  Avoid loops across too many items at once (Once you exceed 10k or so it can hiccup, over a million and you can have issues).


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I often stay at my boyfriend's place lately. He lives with her Mom and Dad and his sisters that's why I like going there. Not only am I able to bond with his family, I am also able to eat delicious home-cooked meals and help out on some house chores. :D I'm able to get to know my Kiddo a little bit more. Even his negative attitudes, unfortunately.
I found out that him being the youngest among his 3 siblings (not to mention being the only son), he's too stubborn. He's not a morning person and he doesn't do some tasks right away when being asked. He just do whatever pleases him. We even quarrelled over replacing the gaskets on the kitchen sink because he doesn't want to fix it right away. And he's the only person who can do it. I'm the type of person who wanted my commands to be obeyed right away because I don't like delays on whatever I'm doing. I feel like a nagging wife whenever we fight. LOL! After few more naggings and proddings, he will decide to fix it. That's when the fighting stops. :D And then we're back to being okay.
I can see that my boyfriend is trying to change his negative traits for our relationship to work. At least he's trying real hard. :) I also have a lot of bad attitudes and like him, I also try hard to eliminate those. It's just not that easy to change for someone but we have to at least try, right?


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"Out of Smalle Beginnings…"
An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636–1712)
Margery Somers Foster
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With its pleasant perspective on the American past, this book is a relevant document for higher education today. Government aid to universities, for example, has an early precedent in the grant of "£4OO towards a schoale or colledge" by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."
Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. Harvest time was a period for paying bills with corn or wheat made legal tender at varying rates. How the College looked upon "country pay" or "commodity money" may be understood in the phrase, "Cash received…Should be £5 per annum, but, being paid in money, £4 accepted." And "bookkeeping barter," in which one commodity was traded for another rather than used directly as money, might involve the College in accepting a cow for tuition: Harvard does not want the animal, but the College is in debt to someone who can use the cow.
Obtaining funds from what was at first hardly more than a subsistence economy, the College attempted to derive from them some reliable income. The instability, as well as the inadequacy, of investments necessitated repeated community support. One of the most important gifts was the "College corn"—the "fourth part of a bushell of Corne, or somethinge equivalent thereunto," given yearly by every family in New England, "which is able and willing," for scholarship assistance to "poor, pious, and learned" students. Another source of income came from the receipts of the ferry running between Charlestown and Boston; between 1640 and 1712 this operation contributed over three thousand pounds to the College, although some of the money received was "bad" or counterfeit wampum. By 1712 the growing endowment income had significantly stabilized and improved the running of the College.
Though seventeenth-century Harvard was tiny compared with modern colleges or universities, it was proportional in its size to the population of its time, and its economic influence in the community was at least as important as that of present-day educational institutions. Foster's study is a significant contribution to economic and business history. Using the long and detailed financial reports she has made for the College she is able to illustrate the behavior of money (or lack of money) and prices when America was at the beginning of its economic development. Her "historic multiplier" allows real values—such as the faculty salaries of Colonial Harvard—to be compared with those of today.


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The Sports Archives – Real Madrid: The Story Behind The Famous Brand!
Posted on August 6, 2013 by thesportsarchives
Real Madrid football club is a good example of how an organisation has succeeded in developing a valuable resource – its brand. From this, it has developed a strategy that has managed to promote it and maximise its potential.
This valuable resource is in itself a result of Real Madrid club's own set of resources. An important resource has been the players who have passed through the dressing room, helping to influence the current club, its corporate culture and its tradition of success generated throughout its history. The brand Real Madrid already had significant value. The main contribution of the management model applied by President Florentino Perez, was first to value the brand, giving it increasing value and then finding various channels to monetise it. This has helped to achieve a competitive advantage over other clubs, enabling the growth and diversification of the club's activities centred on the main football theme.
To achieve the club's objectives, the strategy has begun restructuring and refocusing its business to ensure healthy sustainable development. The marketing strategy is to develop the brand to not just be football-centric, in order to develop new business and improve their position in traditional businesses.
Real Madrid has experienced significant success in the development of this strategy, which has allowed Real Madrid to rise to the top of the richest football clubs, by dethroning Manchester United. It has undertaken a dramatic transformation in the income generation capacity of the club that has doubled its revenue in the past years, not purely relying on match day football ticket sales for the Madrid home games.
This amazing ability to generate commercial revenues from sponsorship programs, merchandising and licensing placed Real Madrid in a different position from other European clubs providing a significant competitive advantage. To fully understand the power of Real Madrid's brand, one needs to fully appreciate its history, and the men that have helped forge its place in the world.
Real Madrid C.F. is a sports club with over 100 years of history. During the 2000-2001 season it won the FIFA award as "best club of the twentieth century." The award makes Real Madrid a world leader in football and sport in general. However, in recent years, the club's focus has not been limited exclusively to sport. The business management model, new in Spain, has attracted interest from other teams, the financial press and the investment community at large.
Don Santiago Bernabeu
We can not understand the greatness of Real Madrid without talking about its inventor, Don Santiago Bernabeu. He grew up in Madrid. He studied at the College of the Augustinian Fathers, where he began playing football because he says "it was the best way to keep warm in the yard". His skills attained such infamy in 1909, at only 14, was called to the youth section of Real Madrid, while attending the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros.
At that time the club didn't have its own stadium so the board rented land in O'Donnell Street. According to historians, Santiago Bernabeu was the most helpful in preparing the football pitch, and even painted the wooden fence which had been purchased by Don Pedro Parages.
Aged 17, he was promoted to the senior team and his contribution was so good that soon his colleagues chose him as captain. Mientras grew as a player, went on to graduate law degree, as was the wish of his father.
Rebuilding Real Madrid
When the war ended, Real Madrid had no land, their funds had been plundered and it didn't have enough decent players to form a team. Undaunted, however, Bernabeu methodically contacted friends and supporters of the club to get the club re-enrolled in the Spanish League.
No doubt, this dedication saved the club from extinction and embedded the best qualities of Bernabeu on the club. He was an athlete who always demonstrated tenacity, showed sacrifice, vision and a great love for the colours of the football club.
To achieve their aims of making Madrid the best club in the world, Santiago created an action plan where each person was responsible for a certain area. He also set up independent technical bodies for each section of the club and even for each category of football. Real Madrid began to emerge throughout Spain first, and then throughout the world in new disciplines such as basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and gymnastics, among others. That style was later taken on board by other clubs in several European countries.
A New Stadium Was Born
His plan also included building a new Chamartin Stadium, which at that time was the largest in Europe, and Sports City where they could develop a variety of services for the junior and club members.
Despite the administrative success, Real Madrid lacked the results on the football pitch. This was why Senor Bernabeu went looking for the best players in the world. He then contracted, among others, the Argentinean Alfredo di Stéfano, who helped the team win their third league championship after 21 years without a big win.
Such was the influence of the president and the gratitude of the members that on January 4, 1955, the General Meeting decided unanimously to rename the Nuevo Chamartín Stadium, the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Senor Santiago did not like the idea, unsurprisingly, as he always shunned the limelight. He felt the former name of giant stadium was part of his life, but as it was the wish of the Real Madrid community, he reluctantly accepted.
Such was his honesty that the team never agreed to pay him a salary as president. His honesty was sealed in a famous saying in Spain: "I believe in God, in Spain and in Don Santiago Bernabeu", which perfectly illustrates the blind trust people had for the man.
After several victories in the First Division League, Santiago Bernabeu then launched the idea of organising a tournament between the winners of each European League. This project evolved into what is now called the Champions League.
The Flesh is Weak; The Spirit Strong
When Don Santiago learned that he was terminally ill, his health suffered for the first time. He, however, continued with all his commitments to the club he loved so much. His last appearance at the stadium that bears his name caused an unforgettable scene.
120,000 spectators stood and gave him a standing ovation with a mix of applause and tears of tribute to the man who had turned his personal dream into joy for all the Madrid fans.
The last time he addressed the Board of the Club, and could barely stand. Five days later he died. They say that on his deathbed, he asked close friends to promise they would not leave his wife destitute.
It was on June 2nd 1978. Over one hundred thousand people marched through the chapel in the stadium to bid a last farewell. Soon after, at the inaugural World Championship in Argentina, there was a minute's silence in his honour.
As you can see, the history of Real Madrid is fed by noble and honest men. They were both managers and other players and coaches, who made the club a focus point for unparalleled sporting values and human spirit.
A Personal Perspective
Finally I would like to comment about the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. I am not old enough to remember, but my 80 year old father tells me that in this area, there were only sheep fields. In fact, I've seen pictures of Madrid in the forties and fifties where you do not see a single building, only open fields and pastureland. It's funny and endearing at the same time, now that the Chamartin area is no longer a local community as in the forties. It is now a top flight financial centre, known as AZCA, with some of the most exclusive and expensive commercial and office space in Spain. And there in the middle of it all, the Bernabeu stadium stands majestic, paying tribute to Real Madrid's nine European Cups, thirty-two leagues and a host of trophies.
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A Focus on Watersheds
By Lisa BlandIn Project News, Rivershed Story
Ella Parker's Rivershed Story
Ella Parker has always loved rivers, even before participating in the Rivershed Society of BC's Sustainable Living Leadership Program (SLLP) in the summer of 2018. She grew up in the Yukon and has extensive river experience, including day- and week-long trips in the summer to the Takhini River with her family and multi-day river trips with high-school experiential learning programs.
For Ella, following a life-long love of rivers on an immersion journey into BCs largest rivershed seemed like an obvious and exciting thing to do.
"I was drawn to the SLLP program because of the outdoor education component and the desire to be in community in nature again, instead of just by myself in nature," says Ella.
Ella Parker (L) and Myka Kollman (R) rafting in the Fraser Canyon.
Ella grew up in Whitehorse, in the Yukon rivershed. After high school, she moved to Squamish and completed a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences at Quest University with a focus on natural science and multidisciplinary studies. Ella currently lives in Prince George, completing an internship with the University of Northern British Columbia's Integrated Watershed Research Group.
"I wanted to get a better sense of the Fraser River and BC rivers because I've been in BC for four years for my undergrad, I knew I would be living in Prince George for my internship, and I still had an abstract sense of the Fraser River's identity and diversity," she says. "I think that's what drew me to the SLLP."
Along with the life-changing experience of being on the mighty Fraser for nearly a month with a group engaged in learning, the SLLP journey brought many academic concepts into focus.
"One of the most fascinating courses I've ever taken in university was called Inland Waters and covered the science of lakes and rivers—I've had a focus on water since then," says Ella. "The course covered the physics and chemistry of lakes and rivers, understanding nutrient flows and interactions with the land, agriculture and development, the hydrological cycle, and our requirements for water and wastewater treatment—it was the heart of everything that humans do. Understanding it from a physics and chemistry perspective was really interesting."
The Stein River, a major tributary entering the Fraser River near Lytton, BC.
Ella's interest in rivers also led her to a six-month internship as a research assistant with the University of Northern British Columbia's Integrated Watershed Research Group.The group's focus is to create a multidisciplinary approach to studying the health of the land and water at the watershed level, examining climate change, hydrology, sediment, ecosystem health, and the social aspects of watershed management, as well as developing communication tools for watershed stakeholders.
It is for this research group that Ella applied her SLLP community action project, called Stream Monitoring for Change: A Collaborative Video Project. The film project is part of a pilot monitoring program between UNBC's Integrated Watershed Research Group and School District 91 with the goal to connect high school students to their watersheds. The pilot program is called the Small Streams Living Laboratory (SSLL). Students will monitor and assess the physical, chemical, and biological health of streams, as well as future restoration initiatives using scientific protocols designed by the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation.
In her video project, Ella will facilitate the monitoring process and provide technical support to students as they document their experiences learning about stream monitoring, ecology, and environmental values in Murray Creek in the Nechako rivershed. The project goal is a 15-minute video with the potential to inspire and promote other collaborative student stream monitoring programs in communities across BC and the Yukon.
Camping out in the Williams Lake River valley.
"Going into the SLLP journey, I didn't have much awareness about what stream restoration looked like in BC and the Fraser River," says Ella."Meeting various teachers and learning about programs they were doing with their students and connecting with restoration consultants and water-related educational specialists helped put me in the context of the people involved in stream restoration and made the concepts easier to envision. Learning more about what's possible and what people are already doing was really inspiring and gave me the confidence to put the movie project together."
Other concepts, such as the health of the Fraser rivershed, emerged from Ella's river journey, and provided a way to understand the issues.
"The biggest eye-opener I had about the Fraser River was the effects fishing has on salmon," says Ella. "I knew a bit about fishing and the salmon industry, and how salmon were being overfished but I didn't feel it until I was on the river and we talked to people who were interacting with the fish because it's their food source, and they're seeing it from year to year and noticing the changes. Because we were on the river for so long, it really hit home about how hard it would be to be a salmon."
Sockeye drying in a St'át'imc First Nations fishing camp in the Fraser Canyon.
While the SLLP journey provided direction for her academic goals, in addition to building a sense of community connection, Ella's highlights included direct experiences with the river, other participants, and her solo hike in the Fraser Canyon, where she had the space and time to think about the fate of the Fraser River, especially while blanketed in the intense smoke during the wildfires that occurred across BC in August 2018.
Ella hiking at the Cathedrals camp spot in the Fraser Canyon.
"Some of my highlights were singing in the boat and the group dynamic—it was great having all the relationships in the group," says Ella. "Anytime we got to swim in the Fraser alongside the canoe or the rafts and I felt the power of the river taking me along, that's when it hit me—the awareness of what we were doing, and that the river was bringing us along on this wild ride."
Ella Parker and SLLP facilitator, Megan Rempel being towed behind the Voyageur canoe in English Bay at the end of the SLLP journey.
A wild ride rafting the rapids in the Fraser Canyon.
Ella commented that the SLLP journey confirmed one of her suspicions."I am happiest and come most alive in the kinds of environment where we are committed to a collective learning journey in an outdoor setting," she explains. "Being in a group and having the fun aspects but also a shared dedication to developing ourselves and our ideas is the most invigorated I have felt in a long time—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. I'll make an effort in my life going forward to recreate environments like this, whether it means going more into environmental education or incorporating it in the field I go into and the jobs I'm seeking. This is how the trip changed my life the most."
Ella in Kinney Lake in the Fraser headwaters.
"I realized I wanted water to be more of a focus of my life," says Ella."Every time I go to a new place, I want to go and find the water and to be aware of which watershed I'm in. It doesn't seem right to separate any part of a watershed when it all flows together."
Note* Filming and stream monitoring for Ella's project was conducted in October 2018 with the film completed by December 2018. To read more about the project, see Ella's blog post: Stream Monitoring for Change in School District 91 and watch her film Stream Monitoring for Change in SD91 here:
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algorithms -- for example Boyer Moore, Rabin-Karp etc.
testing or do I need to generate the test data myself?
> algorithms -- for example Boyer Moore, Rabin-Karp etc.
> testing or do I need to generate the test data myself?
concatenate several books or collected works together.
You'll still have to generate test cases yourself.
> concatenate several books or collected works together.
> You'll still have to generate test cases yourself.
very simply comparing letter by letter is not likely to be inefficient.
Better would be DNA-type strings.
I suppose I'll have to generate them myself using rand().
> very simply comparing letter by letter is not likely to be inefficient.
> Better would be DNA-type strings.
> I suppose I'll have to generate them myself using rand().
English text as at least one.
probably want some very special test cases that are not at all random.
Collection does not work with strings?


In a Cowboy vs. Cowboy showdown, Donald Cerrone earned his tenth submission victory against Alex Oliveira. Cerrone looks to face Patrick Cote at Fight Night Ottawa in his next fight on June 18 on FS1.
Donald Cerrone's debut at welterweight couldn't have went better. 'Cowboy' submitted Alex Oliveira via triangle choke in the first round and is now a winner of 9 in his last 10.
Cody Garbrandt lived up to the hype at Fight Night Pittsburgh in front of his hometown fans. Garbrandt knocked out Augusto Mendes in the first round to remain undefeated at 8-0.
Sean Strickland won his fourth UFC fight at Fight Night Pittsburgh when he knocked out Alex Garcia in the third round. It's Strickland's first UFC knockout and his second finish.
Ashlee Evans-Smith earned her first UFC victory at Fight Night Pittsburgh with a marquee win over ranked bantamweight, Marion Reneau. Evans-Smith survived a first round barrage en route to the split decision victory.
Ahead of their Fight Night Pittsburgh main event showdown, Donald Cerrone and Alex Oliveira spoke at Open Workouts about what being nicknamed "Cowboy" means to them. Don't miss the fight live and free on FS1 Sunday, Feb. 21.
Watch the official weigh-in for Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Cowboy from Stage AE in Pittsburgh, PA.
After going the distance with Holly Holm last July, Marion Reneau is prepared to bounce back and takes on Ashlee Evans-Smith in the UFC FIGHT PASS featured bout of Fight Night Pittsburgh on Sunday. Don't miss the FIGHT PASS prelims starting at 5:30p ET.
Fighting is about more than wins and losses for Alex "Cowboy" Oliveira. Hear from him and his trainer about his rough past and how fighting helped him become someone kids can look up to ahead of his Fight Night Pittsburgh main event clash.
Derek Brunson and Roan Carneiro offer a preview of their upcoming clash at Fight Night Pittsburgh on Feb. 21, 2016, breaking down the matchup and what each fighter brings to the battle.
UFC Minute host Lisa Foiles runs through the potential impact to the UFC Rankings at Fight Night Pittsburgh this Sunday, Feb. 21, including possible shakeups to the women's bantamweight, the men's featherweight and middleweight charts.
Cowboy Cerrone talks about his love for riding motorcycles, specifically Harley Davidson, as he's in the market for a new ride as he makes his move up to 170. Cowboy faces Cowboy Alex Oliveira at Fight Night Pittsburgh.
Donald Cerrone's relationship with fans as an everyday 'Cowboy' and working class man has helped grow his persona. Being a dominant UFC veteran helps too. Don't miss 'Cowboy's' next fight in his welterweight debut against Alex Oliveira on Sunday.
UFC Minute host Lisa Foiles takes a look at the newest additions to Fight Night Pittsburgh on Sunday, Feb. 21: Kelly Fasholz, Anthony Smith and Augusto Mendes.
In the co-main event between Derek Brunson and Roan Carneiro, two middleweights in the top 15 clash for the right to stay among the ranks. Hear UFC commentator Joe Rogan preview the crucial battle at Fight Night Pittsburgh.
Go inside the infamous ranch of UFC veteran Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone and don't miss 'Cowboy's' welterweight debut at Fight Night Pittsburgh live on FS1 at 9pm/6pm ETPT on Sunday.
It's a matchup of Cowboys on Sunday night in Pittsburgh. Alex Oliveira prides himself the Brazilian 'Cowboy' and in his main event debut he looks to take down Donald Cerrone. Don't miss the action on FS1 at 9pm/6pm ETPT on Feb. 21.
UFC.com insider Forrest Griffin and host Matt Parrino take a look at the main and co-main events of Fight Night Pittsburgh and how the outcomes could affect the rankings. Don't miss Cowboy Cerrone vs. Cowboy Oliveira on FS1 Sunday, Feb. 21.
Cody Garbrandt travels home to Ohio and his old high school wrestling room in the lead up to his bout at Fight Night Pittsburgh on Sunday. Don't miss Garbrandt on the main card beginning at 9pm/6pm ETPT on FS1.
Donald Cerrone will make his debut at 170 pounds after falling to lightweight champ Rafael dos Anjos back in December. Don't miss Cerrone vs. Alex Oliveira at Fight Night Pittsburgh on Sunday, Feb. 21 on FS1.
The UFC may have Valentine's Day weekend off, but get ready for a jam-packed slate coming up over the next few weeks. It starts next week in Pittsburgh, with open workouts on Friday, the official weigh-in Sataurday and Cowboy vs. Cowboy on Sunday night!


Australia has been churning out international EDM acts for ages, but this past year has seen a new style of dance music birthed from the "land down under". This list isn't filled with hard house Aussies like Tommy Trash or Knife Party. Instead we are highlighting Australian producers crafting tracks characterized by feathery synthesizers, crunchy 8-bit flourishes, and rhythms reminiscent of trip-hop.
Here are the five best acts hailing from for Australia.
Perhaps the biggest act from this new movement is 22-year-old Sydney artist, Flume. He has appeared on our list of top artists to watch in 2014 and has produced a remix for Disclosure. Flume is also a member of duo What So Not, which produces off-kilter "love trap" released through Mad Decent and OWSLA.
Flume is currently finishing up his 2013 U.S./Canada tour and will be performing on Hard Holy Ship in January, 2014. Listen to his newest collaboration with Chet Faker, Drop the Game, which was released through the artist management team Future Classic.
Another member of the Future Classic team, Hayden James has only been on the scene for 6 months but he has been making waves with his remixes of Dillon Francis' Without You ft. T.E.E.D and Basecamp's Emmanuel.
James' style is very relaxed and utilizes soulful R&B samples will soothing melodies. James has yet to be booked for international festivals or tour dates but he has been steadily performing throughout Australia. He is also booked as an opening act for The Plot Festival in Melbourne and Sydney.
As Wave Racer's Soundcloud states, "I like vocoders and arpeggios." This is evident in Wave Racer's energetic music which features booming bass and a cavalcade of varying vocal samples. Wave Racer has produced remixes for DCUP and Panama while performing in and around Sydney.
Wave Racer sets himself apart from the others on this list with loud tracks that are better served on the dance floor than on a long drive in the rain.
He has yet to perform in the U.S. but keep your eyes out, I have a feeling he will be filling many festival slots in 2014. Check out his remix to The Dofflin below.
19-year-old Drew Carmody has been producing tracks under the moniker L D R U since 2012 and has garnered attention from Skrillex, Diplo and A-Trak for his track "The Tropics".
L D R U's interesting brand of trap uses jungle-style rhythms and punchy vocal samples. The Sydney native has been performing throughout Australia with label mates Hayden James and Flume but keep a look out for U.S. tour dates in the New Year.
Here is the video for The Tropics released through POTATOwillEATyou.
Perth, Australia duo Slumberjack has been producing infectious trip-hop rythms with trap inspired melodies for the past six months with incredible success.
The duo has been hard at work crafting remixes for Wave Racer, DCUP, and Oso Gato. The two had a laugh with their re-imagining of the Game of Thrones theme song, with their track Jon Snow.
If you happen to be in Australia, they regularly perform throughout the country, if not you'll have to wait for them to come stateside like the rest of us.


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Coronavirus Survivor Stories: Queens Man Says 'I Don't Think I'd Be Home' If It Wasn't For Blood Plasma Donations
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Queens man who is recovering from the coronavirus believes blood plasma donations saved his life, and he's urging others to donate.
When you have to take on the battle with COVID-19 and fight for your life, Luis Noe says nothing else matters.
"Your perspective of life is completely changed," Noe told CBS2's Jenna DeAngelis. "Nothing meant anything except living and being around for my family."
The 43-year-old father first started experiencing a fever and restlessness on April 5, just a few days after his girlfriend got sick.
Both were quarantined in a room separate from his 69-year-old mother and his son.
"It becomes a little scary, especially as the seventh day went on and I was gasping for air," Noe said.
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In need of immediate medical care, his girlfriend, who was doing much better, took him to Mount Sinai Hospital.
"Right away, they just put me on oxygen and said, 'You're staying,'" Noe said. "I didn't get to say goodbye to my son or my mother."
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The ICU was not what he expected, but he had hope.
After all, he chose Mount Sinai because he knew it was experimenting with convalescent plasma treatment.
That's taking donated blood from recovered patients, who have antibodies that can attack the virus, and giving it to people like Noe to boost his ability to fight it.
"I had asked every doctor and every nurse that I would see about the convalescent serum, what would I have to do, I just kind of, like, begged them to get it," Noe said. "As soon as I saw that nurse come in with that convalescent drug, it was like Christmas."
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After a week in the hospital, he was sent home. He is still on oxygen but convinced whoever donated the plasma he received is the reason he is here.
"I don't think I'd be home if it wasn't for that. I don't know if I would be dead or I'd be on a ventilator," Noe said. "Please, if you can, donate your blood. It's going to save lives."
As soon as he's symptom-free, he plans to first hug his family, then donate plasma so more people can hopefully have the outcome he did.


Playing without their full starting lineup on Wednesday, the Cerritos College volleyball team suffered a straight set loss to host San Diego City College. The 20-25, 17-25, 22-25 loss was the fourth in a row for the Falcons, while the Knights improved to 9-3 on the season. The team will host their next four opponents, starting with a 6:00 p.m. South Coast Conference crossover match against Pasadena City College.
It was a close first set against San Diego City, who used their height at the net to counter the Falcons attack. After a second set where Cerritos fell behind early and wasn't able to bounce back, they regrouped in the third set. Looking to extend the match, Cerritos kept it close until the Knights were able to come away with the set and a sweep of the Falcons.
Freshman Alexia Torres (Downey HS) led the team with 10 kills, while the tandem of sophomores Jody Suski (Cerritos HS) and Nadia Arreaga (L.A.C.E.S. HS) contributed seven each. The Falcons played without setter Mirka Granoble (Downey HS), who missed the match due to an injury. Assuming the role of setter, freshman Lizbeth Vega (Paramount HS), concluded the match with 10 assists, while she rotated with Suski, who had 11 assists on the night. Sophomore Regan Stanton (Lakewood HS/Long Beach CC) led the back row with eight digs, with Arreaga and freshman Sierra Hernandez-Hardy (Bishop Amat HS) each checking in with five each.


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July 12, 2018 Vimeo, War crimes
Public Forum | Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Turkey and Kurds: The Verdict Turkey Found Guilty of 'War Crimes': Where do we go from here?
Watch the video of the event here
"At the conclusion of the peace negotiations, an amnesty must follow for all crimes committed by both parties, both in Turkey and abroad. Only in this case Turkey could be exonerated from the obligation to ensure the punishment of those responsible for war crimes and against humanity determined by the PPT"
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Judgement, 24 May 2018
Join Peace in Kurdistan, Kurdish People's Assembly in Britain, Roj Women Assembly, Freedom for Ocalan Campaign, UK, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) – for a special discussion hosted by Lord Hylton following release of the verdict dated 24 May 2018.
Tuesday, 17 July, 6.30 – 8.30pm at Committee Room 1, Houses of Parliament, via St Stephens Entrance: https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/events/.
Please arrive by 6.00 to allow time to pass through security.
Register for free event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-forum-permanent-peoples-tribunal-on-turkey-and-kurds-the-verdict-tickets-47822810313
The event will be chaired by: Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley lecturer of political sociology at the University of Cambridge
Speakers include: Gianni Tognoni Secretary General of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal;
Dr Radha D'Souza Reader in law at Westminster University; Julie Ward MEP; Professor Bill Bowring, Director LLM/MA Human Rights, Birkbeck, University of London; Margaret Owen O.B.E, barrister; Tony Simpson, Bertrand Russel Foundation, Editor of Spokesman; Dr Les Levidow, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC); Simon Dubbins UNITE international director; Steve Sweeney, journalist.
"The Turkish state [is] guilty of state crimes – including targeted assassinations, extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances – committed by different branches of the state's security forces and secret services, in Turkey and abroad, particularly in France"Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Judgement, 24 May 2018
One month before the presidential election in Turkey, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT), on 24 May 2018, issued a stinging condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. President Erdogan was found guilty of committing war crimes against Kurds in Turkey by the PPT which said he had been "tormenting" the Kurdish people in Southeast Turkey, causing them "incalculable suffering".
A panel of experts and activists – including a Judge from the PPT itself – will be discussing where the movement for peace and justice in Kurdistan goes on from here.
The Tribunal issued a report that called on President Erdogan to enter into immediate negotiations with the Kurds and withdraw completely from the largely-Kurdish enclave of Afrin in Syria.
The Tribunal's report was released at the European Parliament in Brussels, where UK MEP Julie Ward said it showed Erdogan waging a war "against every aspect of Kurdish culture." Phillip Texier, Tribunal president, honorary judge at the Court of Cassation of France, who has also served on the UNHCR, said that the "key cause" of the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds is "the denial to let the Kurdish people have their self-determination right exercised."
In the verdict and recommendations released Thursday, May 24, the Tribunal found that the Turkish state was responsible for "denying the right to self-determination of the Kurdish people's identity and presence, and the repression of its participation in the political, economic and cultural life of the country."
Very significantly, it declared that the Kurdish struggle for human rights is not a "terrorist" issue as Erdogan claims, but rather a "non-international armed conflict ruled by international humanitarian law" and thus should not be subject to anti-terrorism legislation.
The verdict <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6M9Dimo-Po&feature=youtu.be> contains a number of findings and recommendations including:
Turkey must immediately end all military operations carried out by its army in Syria and must withdraw its troops to within its national borders.
Turkey must investigate and punish the persons responsible for war crimes in Southeast Turkey during the period 1 June 2015 to 31 January 2017 as ascertained by the Tribunal.
Turkey must restore the rule of law, release still-detained magistrates and journalists, restore freedom of press, end the state of emergency and fully implement the European Convention on Human Rights.
Turkey must resume negotiations in good faith for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, which it halted in October 2014, and complete them within a reasonable time frame.
An amnesty must be granted for the crimes committed by all parties during the conflict and all still-detained political prisoners must be released.
Margaret Owen, MBE, an international human rights lawyer, who was recently in Turkey to attend the trial of Selahattin Demirtas, the Kurdish leader imprisoned by Erdogan and now running for president from his prison cell, said that trials in Turkey were "totally unfair, purely political" and the result of "extraordinary fictions" based on indictments that are groundless. She noted that there are currently 70,000 university students, many of them Kurds, now awaiting trial in prisons that amount to "concentration camps."
The purpose of this event is to build on the current momentum that takes advantage of the PPT verdict, and pushes forward with the next stage of activism dedicated towards achieving peace and justice in Kurdistan.
For information in UK contact
Peace in Kurdistan: https://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com
Register for the free event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-forum-permanent-peoples-tribunal-on-turkey-and-kurds-the-verdict-tickets-47822810313
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Sony Ericsson takes over title sponsorship of Nasdaq-100
WEBWIRE – Tuesday, August 29, 2006
29 August 2006 - New York City, United States – August 29th 2006 – Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, a leading innovator in mobile phone technology and applications, today announces the signing of a four year contract worth over $20 million to become title sponsor of the Sony Ericsson Open, formerly known as the Nasdaq-100 Open. The first Sony Ericsson Open will take place on the Island of Key Biscayne in Miami, Florida in March 2007.
The event will feature players from both the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour and the ATP. As part of the agreement, Sony Ericsson will enjoy extensive on-court brand presence, global advertising and promotional rights, top level hospitality and tickets to the championship. Mirroring their commitment to raising the 'glamour factor' of women's tennis Sony Ericsson will host an annual pre-tournament VIP party in Miami. A new logo identity that reflects the new sponsorship agreement is being unveiled today.
The Sony Ericsson Open is a mandatory tournament on the men's ATP Masters Series and the women's Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Played on hard courts, the tournament's reigning champions are Roger Federer and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Running over 12 days, 96 men and 96 women compete for the $6.9 million equal prize fund. As the leading international professional tennis tournament outside of the four Grand Slams, the tournament attracts more than 270,000 spectators and is broadcast in over 150 countries. The tournament, owned and managed by IMG, was founded in 1985.
Sony Ericsson will use this landmark sponsorship as a platform to further develop its brand profile in the Latin and North American regions. The prominent stature of the tournament and its glamorous location complement the Sony Ericsson brand proposition perfectly.
Sony Ericsson has been the global title sponsor of the Women's Tennis Association since 2005, and works with the Association to promote the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in over 80 cities during the year. Its involvement has created a natural platform for the convergence of technology, design, music and fashion allowing Sony Ericsson to bring a number of innovations to the women's game including, live scoring, instant replay, pre-match player interviews, interactive mobile phone content, music acts and the dazzling pre tournament parties.
Dee Dutta, CVP and Head of Marketing for Sony Ericsson explains; "Two years ago, we signed our first ever global sponsorship deal with the WTA. This partnership has proven to be successful in allowing us to grow our brand presence on an international scale. This success encouraged us to expand our involvement in professional tennis and to look at ways in which we could appeal to wider audiences, including those that follow the men's game. The announcement of the title sponsorship of the Sony Ericsson Open, one of the top five tennis tournaments in the world, is a demonstration of our commitment to these objectives".
Butch Buchholz, Chairman and Founder of the tournament said: "We are proud to welcome Sony Ericsson as our partner. Sony Ericsson has been an incredible supporter of professional tennis, and it is our intention to exceed their expectations with our event in Miami. I know the people of South Florida and the quarter of a million people that attend the Sony Ericsson Open each March will benefit from the energy and buzz Sony Ericsson will bring to Miami and Key Biscayne. This partnership will take the Sony Ericsson Open to a new level on the international stage."
Etienne de Villiers, ATP Executive Chairman and President said: "Sony Ericsson has demonstrated its commitment and enthusiasm for tennis through its association with the WTA. We're delighted that they have chosen to sponsor the combined ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA event in Miami. Their flair and understanding of consumers and entertainment make them perfect partners of the Miami event that has always been at the forefront in showcasing tennis in a new fashion and expanding its reach to fans. For example, Miami was the first tournament to introduce the new electronic line calling system which proved an instant hit with fans."
Larry Scott CEO of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, said "Since the signing of our landmark global title sponsorship agreement in 2005, Sony Ericsson has become a fantastic partner of women's professional tennis and played a pivotal role in both driving the growth of our game and supporting our plans to take women's tennis to the next level. It is thrilling that Sony Ericsson is today building upon their success in tennis and extending their partnership with us through the titling of their second major event after the Sony Ericsson Championships. The Miami tournament is one of the crown jewels of our sport, and Sony Ericsson's commitment to continuing to innovate and enhance professional tennis will only make it better."
George Pyne, President, IMG Sports & Entertainment commented, "Sony Ericsson has added so much to the sport of tennis since becoming the sponsor of the WTA Tour in 2005. We look forward to partnering with them to develop innovative programs and special fan events at this showcase tournament".
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications serves the global communications market with innovative and feature-rich mobile phones, accessories and PC-cards. Established as a joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in 2001, with global corporate functions located in London, the company employs approximately 6,000 people worldwide, including R&D sites in Europe, Japan, China and America. Sony Ericsson celebrates the 5th anniversary of the start of the joint venture on 1st October, 2006.
Sony Ericsson is the global title sponsor of the Women's Tennis Association, and works with the Association to promote the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in over 80 cities during the year. The Tour culminates at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid, Spain, from 7 to 12 November. For more information on Sony Ericsson, please visit http://www.SonyEricsson.com
IMG (www.imgworld.com) is the World's premier Sports, Entertainment and Media Company.
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