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Fleet Foxes' Shore shows a sense of quiet resilience in the face of change
By Kyle Whiting
"Summer all over / blame it on timing" are the first words you hear upon playing the latest Fleet Foxes album, Shore. It's a sucker punch of a thesis statement, a profound metaphor delivered with the casualness of a non-sequitur.
The Seattle-based band's fourth LP exists at the precipice of change, the metaphor of shifting seasons constantly extrapolated to mirror our turbulent society. On Shore, Fleet Foxes stand at the edge of a beach, watching the setting sun slowly dip below the lapping waves. The atmosphere they create is as soothing as a sea breeze, but still bristles with the anticipation and anxiety of the night air: the world is about to change, but how?
Robin Pecknold, the band's lead singer, sings with an unrestrained, child-like sense of wonder. He constantly sounds like he's making discoveries for the first time, lending an added weight to his often mundane observations. His honest perspective is refreshing: he even dedicates an entire song ("Sunblind") to lovingly sing about the many artists that have influenced him. The song is full of lines like "And in your rarified air I feel sunblind / I'm looking up at you there high in my mind / Only way that I made it for a long time / But I'm loud and alive, singing you all night," but they read as genuine adoration rather than over-the-top idolatry. The track carries a feeling of blissful freedom, like a kid's last night of summer vacation, a calm before an inevitable storm.
A lot of this record's emotional weight lies in that pocket. There's a subtle feeling of nervous tension that never becomes overbearing, an acknowledgement of the oncoming tide without succumbing to its power. There's a quiet strength in this joy, a subtle act of resistance and defiance in the face of grief. The lighter sounding cuts, like the thumping "Maestanza," still adhere to this sobering theme. Pecknold's perspective of isolation is refreshingly positive, drawing strength from shared experiences: "Ache for the sight of friends / Though I've been safe in the thought / That the line we walk / Is the same one."
The production across the album is consistently urgent, pushing some of the heavier topics forward. The opening track, "Wading In Waist-High Water," features a glorious explosion of sound that bursts through the hazy mix. "Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman," references Philip Glass and Steve Reich with looping guitar lines and chanting numbers, while the somber piano of album closer "Shore" carries a quiet melancholy. Each song is richly textured and expertly mixed, with subtle layers of soft instrumentation lurking below Pecknold's exuberant melodies. "Going-to-the-Sun Road," the emotional core of the record, is led by a gorgeous choir of winds that dissolves into barely audible, reedy textures and brass buzzes toward the end.
In the outro of "Going-to-the-Sun Road," Portuguese singer Tim Bernardes croons "A estrada do sol / O começo de tudo / E as nuvens que agora se afastam / Mostrando um caminho que está sempre lá / E que é qualquer lado que a gente quiser caminhar." "The road of the sun / The beginning of everything / And the clouds that now move away / Showing a path that is always there / And that is where we want to go." What a beautiful way to describe an uncertain future: not as dark, foreboding storm clouds, but an inevitable journey that radiates light.
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Given that squares are venues for gathering, and markets have always been the places of real life images of any nation, the project's idea was to create an ambience that would become a new city's stage. Scenes of quotidian life would be acted on it, with the space itself transformed into scenery adjusted to various situations.
The green market facility is placed along Major Ilić Street, so it makes a barrier toward the crowdest street in the location – Major Ilić Street, opening the market's space to the representative green area of former Cardo Maximus and Constantinople Road. The ambience is defined both by the facility and by the levelled field and canopy starting from the market facility, covering part of the location and being dismantled upon request.
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James Campbell (1790––1876) was Scottish businessman and politician. With his brother William Campbell, he formed company called "J. & W. Campbell & Co., General  Warehousemen." James was the father of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Ancestry and early life
James  Campbell  was  the  second son  of  a  family  of  nine,  and  was  born  in  1790, on the farm of Inchanoch, near  the  Port of Monteith,  in  Perthshire,  where  his  father, James McOran, was  tenant  of  a  farm  on  the  Gartmore  estate. The family tradition was the following:- About the year 1660, a young Campbell of Melfort, in Argyllshire, who had got into trouble at home, came to the Menteith district under the assumed name of McCoran or McOran. He was received into service by the Earl of Menteith, who knew his history, and was soon appointed to the charge of the Earl's household. He afterwards married a niece of Haldane of Lanrick, and was settled by the Earl on the farm of Inchanoch. There he and his descendants lived, bearing in Menteith the name of McOran; but when any of the family migrated to settle elsewhere, they resumed the old Clan name of Campbell. In consequence of some arrangements between the proprietors of Gartmore and Rednock, leading to an exchange of lands, including Inchanoch, James McOran in 1805 surrendered his lease and migrated with his wife and family - the family consisting of four sons and four daughters - to Glasgow, where, in accordance with the family rule, they arrived, not as McOrans, but as Campbells.

The eldest son, John, went to America, leaving James the eldest of the sons remaining in Glasgow. The third son, Alexander, died unmarried in 1822. The fourth, William, afterwards of Tullichewan later went into business with James.

After some short time at school, James was apprenticed to McLachlan & McKeand, warehousemen, High Street, the former of whom had known the family at the Port of Menteith, and now proved a warm friend to them in Glasgow.

Early business in Glasgow
In 1810, at twenty years of age, he entered partnership in a clothier business with Matthew Paterson. The firm had been Paterson & Scott, but now became Paterson & Campbell, 163 Trongate. This arrangement came to an end in 1812. He afterwards carried on business alone, as a clothier, at 41 Brunswick Place, under the firm of James Campbell tertius & Co. In 1817 he disposed of that business in order to join his brother William Campbell, under the new firm of J. & W. Campbell & Co.

In these different changes James Campbell was guided by the advice and enjoyed the support and substantial assistance of his old masters, Mr. McLachlan and Mr. McKeand. They advanced the capital which enabled the new firm to begin business, and they were partners with them for the first three years.

The firm opened at 5 Saltmarket. They seem originally to have contemplated chiefly a trade with hawkers, but it soon branched out into a general wholesale and retail drapery or dry goods business.
In 1820 the brother Alexander was assumed as a partner, and for two years, until his death in 1822, the style of the firm was J., A., & W. Campbell & Co.
In 1823 the business was removed to new premises at 34 Candleriggs Street, where it continued for a generation. The retail department occupied the first floor; the wholesale the premises behind, which were added to from time to time as the business grew; and the manufacturing departments the upper floors. An additional retail department was opened in the Prince of Wales' Buildings, Buchanan Street, in 1841, but owing to the extension of the wholesale business the retail departments both in Candleriggs Street and Buchanan Street were disposed of, and the firm moved to new premises at 29 (later 137) Ingram Street in 1856, where the business, wholesale exclusively, was continued.

Political life
Mr. Campbell also took his part in political life.

He was amongst the most active of those who arranged for the banquet to Sir Robert Peel, in January, 1837, on the occasion of that statesman coming to Glasgow to be installed as Lord Rector of the university. He was one of the deputation (the others being ex-Provost Dalglish, Mr. Thomas Dunlop Douglas, and Mr. Leckie Ewing) who carried the invitation to Sir Robert. The deputation travelled by postchaise, and one of the incidents they had afterwards to relate was that they did not allow the carriage wheels to be washed, so that they might arrive at Drayton Manor with the mud of their journey bearing witness to their haste and eagerness.
He stood as a candidate for the Parliamentary representation of Glasgow, in the Conservative interest, in 1837, and again in 1841. He was unsuccessful, but he bore the disappointment with perfect equanimity. He continued to take a warm interest in politics, but this did not interfere with his being on the best of terms with men of all classes of his fellow-citizens.

He received the honour of knighthood in 1842, as Lord Provost, on the occasion of the birth of the Prince of Wales.

Church at the Disruption
Being in municipal office in 1843, he could not but have some prominent share locally in the ecclesiastical agitations of that year, as the Church of Scotland was split in what is known as the Disruption. James, contrary to his brother William, adhered to the Church of Scotland, and took much interest in the appointment of ministers to the seven (out of ten) City charges in Glasgow which were left vacant by secessions - the Town Council being then patrons of the City churches. He also took an active part in the organization and progress of the Lay Association in aid of the Schemes of the Church, and of the Endowment Scheme under Professor James Robertson.

Residences and last years
Sir James' residence in Glasgow was at 129 Bath Street, later the offices of the School Board. The house was built by him in 1829. It was at that time in the farthest west division of the street: any houses farther west, in that part of the town, excepting those about Blythswood Square, were suburban villas.

His practice for many years was to rent a country house for the summer months. His country quarters in 1836 were Kelvinside House, opposite the present Botanic Gardens. The house in Bath Street was shut up for the summer, and the family and whole belongings removed to what was then the country.

Another of James' characteristics was his interest in farming. The tastes of his early years clung to him all his life through. He was able to gratify to the full his love of country occupations on his purchase of the estate of Stracathro, Forfarshire, in 1847. Here, also, his constructive talent found scope for its exercise, in the erection of farm-steadings and other buildings, in which respect he contributed not a little to the general improvement which has taken place in the farm buildings of that part of Forfarshire.

In his later years, however, as the infirmities of age increased, he resided almost wholly at Stracathro, where he died on 10 September 1876, in his eighty-seventh year.

Family
In 1822 he married Janet, daughter of Henry Bannerman, Esq., Manchester, who predeceased him in 1873.

He was survived by two sons:

James Alexander, elected 1880 as M.P. for the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen
Henry (who assumed the additional name of Bannerman in 1872, in accordance with the will of an uncle), who was M.P. for the Stirling Burghs from 1868, and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

They also had 4 daughters: Jane, Helen, Mary and Louisa.

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1790 births
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The Cottonwood 200 bike ride is a three-day ride held over Memorial Day weekend and is open to riders of all ages (under 18 must have a parent riding, too). It begins on Saturday with approximately 75 miles from Topeka to Council Grove. On Sunday the 50-mile ride is from Council Grove to Cottonwood Falls and back, and on Monday the final 75-mile ride is from Council Grove back to Topeka, for a total of 200 miles.
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Globe trotting Amos calls in at Huntingdon Hall
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GLOBE-trotting laughter master Stephen K Amos returns with his new tour show which calls in at Huntingdon Hall on Thursday (January 19).
In the last twelve months, Stephen has performed his unique brand of feel-good comedy all over England, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Australia, Tazmania, New Zealand, and the Seychelles.
What did he find when he got there? People. People like you and me and some of them said the most ridiculous things. To his face!
For such a mild-mannered chap, Stephen K Amos has recently been feeling quite annoyed. Thankfully, this talented comic who has been wooing audiences across three decades now, is not keeping that annoyance to himself; instead he'll be offloading it onto his crowds for a new national tour entitled World Famous.
"For the first time in a long time, I am feeling really annoyed," he confirms. "So when I've been trying out new stuff with audiences, I've been warning them, 'you know what, I'm pretty annoyed at people'. And for some reason they all laugh at that, perhaps because I'm not normally seen as a confrontational type."
The main source of his current ire is social media with its pack mentality and irrational hunting down of individuals for a comment they've made, an opinion they've expressed or, sometimes, just for having the temerity of being alive.
"I'm in despair about the world at the moment, and mainly annoyed at what people are prepared to say and do on social media. I see some of my comedy friends on Twitter getting into conversations with complete strangers and, really, what is the point in that?
If you don't like my stuff, you don't have to go online to tell me. But people go out of their way to set up a Facebook page to tell everyone, 'I hate so and so'.
There are so many other things to get excited about that effect all of us: like Britain having a new PM that we haven't voted for, or potentially having Trump as leader of the free world."
This unnecessary taking down of people isn't just restricted to social media. Stephen also cites the case in Australia of an audience member who made a point about austerity on that nation's version of Question Time.
"This guy just asked a simple question about him not being able to feed his kid and he got a round of applause.
Somebody who saw that programme set up a GoFundMe page that raised over $300,000 in 24 hours for his family, and by the Sunday, a national newspaper had done a hatchet job on him.
And all he had done was ask a question on a TV programme."
Despite the mental fatigue he's feeling for the state of the planet, Stephen is still driven by hunger and enthusiasm for the stand-up world he has been a part of since emerging in the late 1990s. And he's getting particularly excited by the thought of performing for audiences who have very mixed opinions.
"The only good thing about hearing that people voted Brexit or that there are people who would vote for Trump is knowing that those people are out there in my audience.
Gone are the days when you had like-minded friends who share all your beliefs and now you just can't preach to the converted.
That makes for a great challenge to me as a performer. I'm not one of those comics who say something just to create debate or whatever; I'll back up what I say or believe in and I'm open to hearing your point of view without abuse or denigration and with respect."
For World Famous, Stephen will also be reflecting on some of the fairly extraordinary things people have said to his face recently, all of which debunks any suggestion anyone might have that we live in a wholly enlightened era.
"I was asked to do a breakfast TV show in Australia and the make-up guy just said, 'you're fine as you are'.
I said, 'no one goes on TV fine as they are. Just admit that you don't have make-up for black skin.'
And on a live show, somebody said to me, 'oh Steve, didn't I see you in that Hollywood movie?' I was a bit puzzled and he pointed at me and said, '12 Years a Slave?' That's just a couple of examples."
Once his World Famous tour is over, he aims to take another stab at America and head over there for six months to try and get his name around for some work.
"I have a hunger right now for America and to represent British stand-up. There's Eddie Izzard and maybe James Corden with his talk show, but still not many British comics have broken through over there.
I noticed that Bill Burr came over to the UK in the summer and sold out these big venues, but why is it not the other way around? There are so many good British guys who would do well over there."
And it's not just the world's stand-up stages that he wants to dominate, as he has ambitions to do more acting work, having previously trodden the boards in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, been heard on radio with What Does The K Stand For? and appeared on screens in Daniel Sloss' web comedy MUFF.
"I would love to do more acting but I've been touring every year since 2005 and so I'm never really around long enough which is why I'll try America for six months for some casting opportunities.
If they're after a suave, black James Bond figure, then give me a call. Idris Elba can't always be flying the flag on that."
But before he pursues those ambitions stateside, he will be lavishing upon audiences what one critic dubbed his 'warm insight and spiky charm'.
"I don't mind that description at all. It's very much a conscious thing as I'm aware of the perception of me being a very happy-go-lucky, carefree sort of guy.
But I have a point of view and sometimes I want to make a statement about something.
However, I never forget that it's a comedy show and people have paid to laugh; I don't want to just stand in front of an audience who will simply agree with everything I say.
I want to throw spanners in the works and have a mixture of people in front of me of different ages and from different backgrounds.
I want them all to be laughing at the same things, and when you've done that, with thought and humour, then you're onto a winning streak."
It's a winning streak Stephen K Amos has been on for a very long time, and World Famous looks set to keep him firmly on it.
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Q: How to use gitignore files in Xcode 5 I am still pretty new to using git, and I am a little confused on how to ignore files.  I know you make a file named .gitignore, and usually have it at the root directory of your project, but is that it?
Am I supposed to add it to my Xcode project in Xcode 5?  Most of my research has shown what should be IN the .gitignore (like Gitignore/Objective-C.gitignore), but the closest I've found to my question is:  How to add .gitignore file into Xcode project.
While that does say HOW to do it, is this what one does?  Or do you just leave it in the base folder and it doesn't matter whether it is in the project or not?

A: .gitignore files are processed regardless of whether or not they're tracked.  They're usually tracked, just as the main branch is usually called master, and since if they're not tracked they're vulnerable to e.g. git clean I can't figure why anyone would leave them untracked, but it's irrelevant.  Only what's in them matters.


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Gerd Rienäcker (3 May 1939 – 3 February 2018) was a German musicologist.

Life
Rienäcker was born on 3 May 1939 in Göttingen as son of the chemist . Rienäcker studied musicology from 1959 to 1964 (minor subject: "art science'") with Ernst Hermann Meyer, Georg Knepler, Walther Vetter, Peter H. Feist and Carl Heinz Claasen at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and also musical composition with Hans Georg Görner.

From 1964 to 1966 Rienäcker worked as music dramaturge (for opera, operetta, concert) at the . In 1966 he became scientific aspirant, from 1967 to 1985 scientific assistant at the Institute for Musicology of the Humboldt University. There he obtained a doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on dramaturgical principles in operas by Paul Dessau, Siegfried Matthus, Udo Zimmermann and Robert Hanell. Doctorate. In 1984 he habilited on the dramaturgy of the finale in operas by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Louis Spohr, Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner. In 1985 he was appointed university lecturer, in 1988 associate professor and in 1990 professor for "Theory and History of Music Theatre" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 1996 he had taught at several German universities.

His research interests were on the one hand the theory of music theatre as an institution and genre, the history of opera and operetta, Wagner's operas and dramas and Bertolt Brecht's significance for music theatre; on the other hand, the European compositional history of modern times and methodological problems of music historiography and music analysis. These interests resulted in the contents and methods of his courses (among others on the dramaturgy of music theatre, the history of notation and instrumentation, the analysis of works of opera and operetta, the analysis of music theatre productions) as well as the topics of several books and many essays.

Among his academic students were Peter Wicke, Daniela Reinhold, Antje Kaiser, Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, Sebastian Klotz and .

Rienäcker had two more siblings: Doctor Anne Rienäcker (b. 1951), married to Wilke and Doctor of physics Jürgen Rienäcker (b. 1936), whose son, the computer scientist Uwe Rienäcker, is married to the artist .

Rienäcker died in Berlin at age 78.

Publications

Books
 Gedanken zu einigen sinfonischen Werken sowjetischer Komponisten : Einführungsmaterial für Kulturfunktionäre. Berlin: Central Committee of the German/Soviet Union Friendship, Kulturpolitik, Arbeitsgruppe Musik department, 1969
 Die 11. und 12. Sinfonie von Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Einführungsmaterial für Kulturfunktionäre. Berlin: Zentralvorstand d. Ges. f. Dt.-Sowjet. Freundschaft, Abt. Kulturpolitik, 1970 (together with Vera Reising)
 Zu einigen Aspekten dialektischer musikalisch-dramaturgischer Figureninterpretationen in neueren Werken des Opernschaffens der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. East-Berlin, Dissertation A, 1973
 Arbeitsmaterial zur Werkanalyse. Berlin: Hauptabt. Lehrerbildung d. Ministeriums für Volksbildung, 1979/81 (together with Wilhelm Baethge and Hella Brock)
 Finali in Opern von E. T. A. Hoffmann, Louis Spohr, Heinrich Marschner und Carl Maria von Weber. Gedanken zur Theorie u. Geschichte d. Opernfinales. Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Dissertation B, 1984
 Article in the encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd edition Kassel 1994 ff: Ensemble, Finale, Introduktion, Quartett (vokal), Terzett (vokal)
 Vorträge und Aufsätze 1982–2000. Sonderausgabe zum Internationalen Richard Wagner Kongress 1. bis 4. Juni 2000 in Berlin. Berlin 2000
 Richard Wagner. Nachdenken über sein "Gewebe". Berlin 2001
 Musiktheater im Experiment. Fünfundzwanzig Aufsätze. Berlin 2004

Essays / reports
 Publikationsverzeichnis der Festschrift für Gerd Rienäcker zum 65. Geburtstag (für die Jahre 1967–2004), Berlin 2004
 Gedanken zum Verhältnis musiktheoretischer Lehrsysteme zur musikgeschichtlichen Entwicklung. In Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft. Jg. 9/2, 1967, .
 Ernst Hermann Meyer – Sinfonie in B. In Heinz Alfred Brockhaus et al. (ed.): Sammelbände zur Musikgeschichte der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Band I. Berlin 1969, .
 Vertane Chancen. Nachdenken über Bach-Bilder in der DDR. In Joachim Lüdtke (ed.): Bach und die Nachwelt. Volume 4: 1950–2000. Frankfurt/Laaber 1996/2005, .
 Die industrialisierte Idylle – zur Revue 'Im Weißen Rößl, written on 30 November 1997 for the production of  at the Kleist Theatre Frankfurt/ Oder
 Händel und die Opera seria, Berlin 2003/04
 Stichworte zu Bachs musikalischer Theologie, Berlin 2004
 Der Zauberer hinter dem Zauberer – zur Dramaturgie des ersten Finales der Oper Faust von Louis Spohr, Berlin 2004
 Fibel-Musik? Anmerkungen zu Hanns Eislers und Paul Dessaus Vertonung der "Kriegsfibel". In Nina Ermlich Lehmann (ed.): Fokus "Deutsches Miserere" von Paul Dessau and Bertolt Brecht. Festschrift Peter Petersen zum 65. Geburtstag. Hamburg 2005, .
 Im Blick zurück nach vorn : Komposition als Vermittlung zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. In Maren Köster und Dörte Schmidt (ed.): "Man kehrt nie zurück, man geht immer nur fort". Remigration und Musikkultur. Munich 2005, .
 Musizieren im Zeichen Benjamins – Rückfragen an Geschriebenes. In Hanns-Werner Heister, Wolfgang Martin Stroh and Peter Wicke (ed.): Musik-Avantgarde. Zur Dialektik von Vorhut und Nachhut. Eine Gedankensammlung für Günter Mayer zum 75. Geburtstag. Oldenburg 2006, .
 Wagner und die Neudeutsche Schule. In Detlef Altenburg (ed.): Liszt und die Neudeutsche Schule. (series: Weimarer Liszt-Studien, vol. 3). Laaber 2006, .
 Unterwegs zu Dmitri Schostakowitsch – in fünfzehn Schritten, Berlin 2006/07
 Über das Einleiten – Gedanken zur Ouvertüre der Oper "Die Zauberflöte" von W. A. Mozart. In Friederike Wißmann, Thomas Ahrend and Heinz von Loesch (ed.): Vom Erkennen des Erkannten. Musikalische Analyse und Editionsphilologie. Festschrift für Christian Martin Schmidt. Wiesbaden 2007, .
 Peter Konwitschny – Marxist und Realist. In Anja Oeck (ed.): Musiktheater als Chance. Peter Konwitschny inszeniert. Berlin 2008, .
 Thesen zur "Dreigroschenoper". In Musik & Ästhetik. VOlume 13/50, 2009/April, .
 ... von moralischen Konnotationen befreien. Über DDR-Musikgeschichte vor und nach 1989/90. In NZfM. Vol. 171, 2010/2, .
 Peter Konwitschny inszeniert Verdi. In Camilla Bork et al. (ed.): Ereignis und Exegese. Musikalische Interpretation – Interpretation der Musik. Festschrift für Hermann Danuser zum 65. Geburtstag. Schliengen 2011, .
 Stichworte zu Bachs musikalischer Theologie. In Thomas Phleps and Wieland Reich (ed.): Musik-Kontexte. Festschrift für Hanns-Werner Heister. Vol. 2. Münster 2011, .
 ... aber ändre die Welt, sie braucht es! In Ulrich Tadday (ed.): Hanns Eisler. Angewandte Musik. (series: Musikkonzepte, Sonderband). Munich 2012, .
 Künftigen Glückes gewiß, gewiß, gewiß. – fünf Sätze über Eislers "Ernste Gesänge" In Hartmut Krones (ed.): Hanns Eisler. Ein Komponist ohne Heimat?. (series: Schriften des Wissenschaftszentrums Arnold Schönberg, vol. 6). Vienna 2012, .
 Hanns Eisler – ein Sonderfall. In Hartmut Krones (ed.): Hanns Eisler. Ein Komponist ohne Heimat?. (series: Schriften des Wissenschaftszentrums Arnold Schönberg, vol. 6). Vienna 2012,.
 Musizieren über Traditionen. Die Soldaten von Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Einstein by Paul Dessau. In Detlef Altenburg and Rainer Bayreuther (ed.): Musik und kulturelle Identität. (Report on the XIII International Congress of the Society for Music Research, Weimar 2004). Vol. 2: Symposien B. Kassel 2012, .
 Musik im Raum – Musik als Raum? Notate zu einigen Passagen des Requiems von Berlioz. In: Veronika Busch et al. (ed.): Wahrnehmung, Erkenntnis, Vermittlung. Musikwissenschaftliche Brückenschläge. Festschrift für Wolfgang Auhagen zum sechzigsten Geburtstag. Hildesheim 2013, .
 Ernst Hermann Meyer über Georg Friedrich Händel – einige Notate. Händel-Jahrbuch. Vol. 60, 2014, .
 Schostakowitschs Klage um Jüdisches Leid. In Deutsche Schostakowitsch-Gesellschaft (ed.): Schostakowitsch-Aspekte. Analysen und Studien Berlin 2014, .

References

External links

 Festschrift für Gerd Rienäcker zum 65. Geburtstag als PDF

1939 births
2018 deaths
20th-century German musicologists
21st-century German musicologists
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Writers from Göttingen


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package org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc

import java.io.File

import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.orc.OrcSuite
import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.test.TestHiveSingleton
import org.apache.spark.util.Utils

class HiveOrcSourceSuite extends OrcSuite with TestHiveSingleton {

  override val orcImp: String = "hive"

  override def beforeAll(): Unit = {
    super.beforeAll()

    sql(
      s"""CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE normal_orc(
         |  intField INT,
         |  stringField STRING
         |)
         |STORED AS ORC
         |LOCATION '${orcTableAsDir.toURI}'
       """.stripMargin)

    sql(
      s"""INSERT INTO TABLE normal_orc
         |SELECT intField, stringField FROM orc_temp_table
       """.stripMargin)

    spark.sql(
      s"""CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW normal_orc_source
         |USING org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc
         |OPTIONS (
         |  PATH '${new File(orcTableAsDir.getAbsolutePath).toURI}'
         |)
       """.stripMargin)

    spark.sql(
      s"""CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW normal_orc_as_source
         |USING org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc
         |OPTIONS (
         |  PATH '${new File(orcTableAsDir.getAbsolutePath).toURI}'
         |)
       """.stripMargin)
  }

  test("SPARK-19459/SPARK-18220: read char/varchar column written by Hive") {
    val location = Utils.createTempDir()
    val uri = location.toURI
    try {
      hiveClient.runSqlHive("USE default")
      hiveClient.runSqlHive(
        """
          |CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hive_orc(
          |  a STRING,
          |  b CHAR(10),
          |  c VARCHAR(10),
          |  d ARRAY<CHAR(3)>)
          |STORED AS orc""".stripMargin)
      // Hive throws an exception if I assign the location in the create table statement.
      hiveClient.runSqlHive(
        s"ALTER TABLE hive_orc SET LOCATION '$uri'")
      hiveClient.runSqlHive(
        """
          |INSERT INTO TABLE hive_orc
          |SELECT 'a', 'b', 'c', ARRAY(CAST('d' AS CHAR(3)))
          |FROM (SELECT 1) t""".stripMargin)

      // We create a different table in Spark using the same schema which points to
      // the same location.
      spark.sql(
        s"""
           |CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE spark_orc(
           |  a STRING,
           |  b CHAR(10),
           |  c VARCHAR(10),
           |  d ARRAY<CHAR(3)>)
           |STORED AS orc
           |LOCATION '$uri'""".stripMargin)
      val result = Row("a", "b         ", "c", Seq("d  "))
      checkAnswer(spark.table("hive_orc"), result)
      checkAnswer(spark.table("spark_orc"), result)
    } finally {
      hiveClient.runSqlHive("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS hive_orc")
      hiveClient.runSqlHive("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS spark_orc")
      Utils.deleteRecursively(location)
    }
  }
}

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Prodyot (P.K.) Basu
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Professor Basu has extensive experience in accurate prediction of performance of engineering systems like civil structures, machines, railroad hardware, automobiles, and aircrafts, as well as inspection and evaluation of the structural integrity of civil infrastructure components.
His current research interests include multiscale behavior of composites, rapid repair of damaged structures using composite patches, real-time health monitoring of bridge structures, and accurate modeling and simulation of complex high-performance material systems. Two ongoing sponsored projects are as follows:
ERDC , U.S. Army: This two year research project is concerned with modeling and simulation blast and ballistic impact resistance of structural components made of a novel composite material. In creating the simulation model extensive laboratory tests are being undertaken to accurately characterize the new material. For validating the simulation model actual blast and ballistic impact tests are being undertaken at ERDC facilities.
Tennessee Department of Transportation: The research is concerned with evaluating the effectiveness of patch repair of locally damaged regions of bridge superstructure components. The research is to be undertaken in three phases. The first phase is concerned with laboratory testing of composite patch repair of small scale typical structural components in steel and concrete, and simulation of same on the computer. The next two phases will comprise of application of patch repair technique to prototype bridge superstructure structure and monitor the performance under operating conditions as well as by actual standard truck loading tests.
Dr. Basu is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He has served on the engineering faculty at Washington University- St. Louis from September 1974 to May 1984 and also as the Associate Director and Acting Director of Center for Computational Mechanics at the same university. Prior to this, from 1964 to 1973, he served on the faculty of Bengal Engineering College affiliated to Calcutta University at that time. Currently, this 150 years old institution is known as Bengal Engineering and Science University with the status of a National Institute of Technology.
He is a Fellow and Life member of ASCE, Senior Member of AIAA, Member of ASME, and has been a member of a number of other national and international professional societies. He holds a Professional Engineering license from the State of Tennessee. For more than 40 years he has served the engineering profession in various capacities.
Over the years he has taught all the department courses related to structural engineering and mechanics as well as geotechnical engineering offered at undergraduate and graduate levels. At the present time he teaches two graduate level courses: Finite Element Analysis and Structural Dynamics and Control.
Currently he is the principal investigator of two sponsored research projects, one with DOD and the other with Tennessee DOT. The multiyear DOD project is concerned with improved blast and projectile impact resistance of structural components using a new composite material which is being developed for the purpose through laboratory testing, field experiments and rigorous computer based simulations. The DOT projected is concerned with rapid restoration of the strength of damaged infrastructure like a bridge by repairing with bonded composite patch repair. He is the Co-PI of a soon to be awarded approved NSF project related to bridge health monitoring.
For full profile, click here.
Click here to visit the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering website.
D.Sc., Structural Mechanics
M.S., Structural Engineering
Calcutta University
B.S., Civil Engineering
Jadavpur University
B.S., Physics
Lucknow University
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Roxanne Donnery
Wow! A federal trial with a verdict of $2.2 million, a settlement of $1.2 million and cries of payback, revenge and retribution, all involving the county executive, the mental health commissioner, the sheriff, a suspended jail administrator and two fired whistle-blowing nurses.
It reads more like the script for a Jerry Springer show than our county government. Another embarrassment for Orange County!
According to The Times Herald-Record and court papers I have seen, the complaints regarding the jail's mental health unit are of serious concern: Over-medication of inmates, a part-time psychiatrist who was often unavailable, a lack of responsiveness by the mental health unit during emergencies and bureaucrats ordering that prisoners be tied down.
There is something terribly wrong with our county government when legislators are not notified of the problems occurring in various departments that we are responsible to fund. I have been a legislator for almost four years and am a member of the committees that have oversight of both the sheriff's office and the Mental Health department. But I was told nothing of the problems that came out during the testimony for this trial.
There is something terribly wrong with a governmental system whose only communication to its legislators is through newspaper articles and when its commissioners feel no responsibility to legislators whose job it is to fund these departments.
There is obviously a great need for change in Orange County government. We had a courthouse two years late in completing, a $92 million jail not open though completed, a sheriff who believes in a hands-off policy and seems to do what he pleases, a lack of true oversight of the Legislature's committees, poor communication between the county executive and legislators, and now a commissioner of mental health with questionable policies. Recently, when we in the minority party had unanswered questions concerning the jail, we had to refuse to pass a bond to finally get some answers.
There is a need for change in Orange County procedures! But, change takes time, and time is NOT what we have in the mistreatment of people!
We must ensure the proper treatment of the mentally ill in our jail today, not tomorrow. We must have a psychiatrist on call 24 hours a day. There must be a policy in the Mental Health Department that when they receive a referral, the inmate must be seen today, not tomorrow, not in a week or two as I have heard has happened. If a person enters the jail on medication, the prescription must be validated today by a doctor.
A reporter asked me who I felt was responsible for this latest Orange County scandal brought to light by the two nurses fired for telling about the mistreatment of the mentally ill in our jail. Though some local officials must be held responsible, I also believe New York state is to blame. About 35 years ago, abusive behavior toward the mentally ill was found prevalent in our mental hospitals. When new medications were found that could control and stabilize psychotic and disturbed persons, more and more institutions were closed, and patients were discharged to group homes or left on their own. The mental health pendulum had begun to swing, but it didn't stop in the middle to find balance.
The decision to close all of our mental hospitals has caused so many of our mentally ill to live in our streets and sit in our jails. So many are unable to become responsible for their own medical care, see a doctor, fill their medical prescriptions or take their medicine without supervision. Our governor just recently was allowing our Middletown Psychiatric Center to close. We must fight to ensure that doesn't happen.
We have a serious problem in our county jail with the Mental Health Unit. We must correct a terrible wrong with proper and responsible treatment of our mentally ill inmates. This is not the time for political posturing, excuses or the blame game. Changes need to be made today, not tomorrow!
Roxanne Donnery, D-Highland Falls, represents Orange County's 14th Legislative District.


"Map your address or latitude,longitude into your relationship with government".
Adam Kennedy and Jeffrey Candiloro's spatial engine Geo2gov won the MashupAustralia Transformation Prize for a mashup that solves a data problem for other hackers. Most hackers were spending an inordinate amount of their time dealing with locating, downloading, cleaning, formatting and otherwise overcoming problems getting access to the data they wanted to use in their application before they even got to start building it. Geo2gov was used by itsbuggeredmate and you can use it now.
What does Geo2gov do exactly?
AK: The simple summary is that geo2gov is a spatial search engine. The longer version is that geo2gov takes a location in a variety of different formats (address, postcode, suburb, place name, ip address, etc) and converts them to a GPS location, then drills that point through half a dozen spatial layers to identify federal, state, local and ward level locations, as well as your statistical location within the most recent census. Finally, it expands these basic identifiers with information on elected members and other data. [so you can link through to OpenAustralia.org to find out what they are saying and doing]. For the techies, the notable part is that we use a highly tuned and somewhat unusual database schema that lets us complete the entire process from end to end in around a quarter of a second. This makes geo2gov fast and cheap enough to be added to just about any website that would like to let users search for government information based on their address.
JC: At a more prosaic level, we're building (have built) a piece of the infrastructure necessary for Government 2.0 applications. Knowing where a user is in relation to government services is critical for many of those applications. We'd rather they use geo2gov and then spend their time building wonderful new tools and applications rather than trying to re-solve a difficult but solved problem.
What I would be interested to know is you experience in contacting the originators of the data you used – did you speak to them direct, were they are the hackfests? You used a phenomenal number of datasets! Were some better than others? (don't need to point the finger but any pluses and minuses would be good).
AK: Dealing with the government has been a varied experience to say the least. Things have been generally positive at the federal level, but much more mixed at the state level. Access to data gets harder as the states and their Lands Department budgets get smaller, which is understandable. Our experience with mining-heavy states has been more problematic than it should have been, as they seem to have a mercantile attitude to their data. Fortunately, all states are required to provide several types of geo data to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, who then release the whole compilation as Creative Commons. This has allowed us to sidestep a number of problems with small or difficult state governments.
JC: The other thing we have encountered is that some government agencies don't know what data they do have and/or who is in charge of it internally. I've encountered situations where what is on the website is the province of the 'web-people' and completely separate to other business units.
I understand from Pamela Fox that there were some pre hackfest workshops that you attended, which was where you came up with the idea of the geo2gov so that it was 'ready to go' at the actual hackfests.
Can you tell me how you heard about these and how they worked.
AK: For the most part, access to these hackfests was about being on the relevant mailing lists for the larger events early enough to hear about them. The smaller mini-hackfests we went to were generally organised around a specific theme, such as Open Australia or learning how to use Google Maps. One of the main benefits was that we were able to get a feel for what types of entries other contestants were aiming for, resulting in our decision to pursue a specific niche project that was both sorely needed and which nobody else was attempting to solve.
JC: The deeper roots of geo2gov can be found in a project I started early in 2009. I wasn't working at the time and figured I should do something useful with my time. A solid technical challenge that also allowed me to give something to the community was what I was looking for. Trying to figure out how to solve the problem of determining a person's representatives based on their street address seemed like a good fit – no-one else was doing it and I had no GIS experience!
What motivated you to participate and clearly put a huge amount of effort into it?
AK: I'm quite sure Jeffery will have a much more noble answer than me for this question. I'm a sucker for competition. From a more practical perspective, I found it easier to commit a lot of time up front because our project had a very specific scope and isn't prone to feature creep. Now that it works, it requires very little time to maintain.
JC: We live in a representative democracy which only works if the people are engaged with their representatives. A tool that makes it easier for people to be engaged seems like the logical next step.
Beyond that, there was the technical challenge – can this problem be solved? Then as we progressed we found all these other potential use cases for knowing where in 'government' you are.
What are your backgrounds – would you describe yourselves as being part of the spatial industry or more mainstream IT? Is this your first foray into geocoding etc.
AK: This competition was the first time I've ever had to work with spatial data. I'm a programmer and systems designer, and for the last couple of years I've been working as the architect and lead developer for the web team at Corporate Express.
JC: This was also my first real foray into spatial data. I'm a project manager/technical lead most of the time, writing code where and as needed. Right now I'm working as the web development manager for NetComm.
If more public sector information were freely available would it present you business opportunities?
AK: Every new piece of public sector information opens more opportunities than the one before it, because it might able to be combined with every other piece to produce something novel. Right now, most of the interesting combinations we've seen don't appear to have business opportunities large enough to justify doing a startup. But each new dataset means more combinations and a higher chance we find something novel and valuable enough to move on, and I think we're getting closer to the tipping point where the new government data will spawn new businesses.
JC: Of course, if any of your readers have a great business idea built on/using our service we'd love to hear from them!
Was there any data you would have liked but couldn't get?
AK: Our weakest area is local government. We've got good coverage of the councils themselves and their boundaries, but assembling a list of every councillor in every local government was just way too hard, as the data is too highly fragmented.
JC: We'd also like access to historical geo-spatial data. Ie, the electoral boundaries for the past 10 general Federal elections in a GIS format. Unfortunately I don't think the data exists in those formats.
What will happen to geo2gov now? Are people continuing to use it (do you have stats) and are you continuing development?
AK: Current usage is pretty light and ad-hoc but every few weeks we hear from someone else that is using it, or would like to use it. There's a general consensus with Open Australia to switch over to us from their current postcode search, and we expect to see strong growth in different websites using geo2gov in the lead up to the 2010 federal election. The main area of development is around the identifier scheme we created during the project, which provides a way of allocating a unique id to things like electorates and members across all levels of government without the need for a central authority to allocate them.
We'd like to provide a way to use it as a unifying translation mechanism, so you could take something like a federal APH politician id and automatically convert it into a TweetMP name, or an Open Australian URL for that member. We've also been doing a bit of experimentation with the 2006 Census.
How will (or would) you keep the data current – will the dataset providers alert you when they have an update or do you have to go looking? Can you get updates automatically e.g. by RSS feed?
AK: About 80% of the work on geo2gov was the creation of a sort of data depot, so we could download and drop in data from different sources and then run a single repeatable program that extracts, normalises, marshals and combines the data into the final database that is used by the search engine. So while we do need to manually locate and pull new copies of the data files, the process of building an updated release requires very little work.
JC: The data doesn't change that often. The big changes (including changes to electoral boundaries) only occur every 3 to 4 years with a general election. There are the occasional by-elections but they aren't hard to handle. One of the benefits of living in a stable democracy is that the governments tend to last full terms.
Your entry said 'geo2gov can be easily incorporated directly into other mashups as a search or address box, and can be deployed as a virtual applicance locally in addition to the regular online Amazon EC2 cloud-hosted service'.
So is it currently on Amazon?
AK: Correct, although not because we need the power. We went through the exercise of putting it on Amazon primarily as a risk mitigation exercise. As a public service we are funding out of our own pockets, we were nervous about cost control. By building geo2gov as a virtual appliance from the start, if we do come under pressure from a high volume user we can shed that load by simply giving them their own copy of the server.
And finally the dollars. I am not sure how you make your living but is this just a hobby or do you hope to make money out of it – or at least cover your costs if you do host it on Amazon?
AK: Paying for a single Amazon server is about as expensive as the cost of playing squash or cricket, so it is tolerable as a hobby in the short term. In the medium term we're confident that the service can cover its own hosting costs, or some high-volume user will step up and take over the hosting of the service.
JC: Plus, there is the notion of service to the community. We're both beneficiaries of living in this wonderful country. If we can, in some small way, give something back then I'm happy to do it.


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Q: How to achieve scalability in a simple web service It could be a stupid query, but i came across of this query multiple time. what if you have just one web service, doing a normal calculation (say A+B).
Now, this service is being used by billions of user. How can you make sure that your service is scalable? how can you say that it can handle billions of hits.
Initially it seems a stupid question to me even. But practically, if you have just one web service which is doing normal calculation even, it cannot handle billions of hits.
So, how can we achieve scalability where billions of growing users wants to use this service.
Note: It is requested to not to reply based on hardware part or load balancer. This query is just related to the software (other then loadbalancer)

A: At some point you are going to be constrained by limitations such as CPU, RAM, or OS/NIC connections. This question is remarkably vague, but things to look at in the general case:

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*make appropriate use of caching (there isn't anything to cache for A+B, but in most real cases there is)

*ensure the overheads are minimal - for example, there's a difference in overheads between WCF with lots of protocol options enabled (for example, sessions + transactions + message encryption) and a raw socket server; ServiceStack is a nice compromise in the middle, offering lean throughput, without as much overhead as WCF

*if some parts of the service involve an external time-bound resource, you might need to consider an async-based implementation

*measure everything and optimize; we use mini-profiler to help show us where to spend time

but perhaps more important than anything:

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*design the system such that you can scale out by adding another app-server

Sorry, but even if you don't want to do it - it is the best tool you have here. There are lots of issues trying to do this on a single node (not least, uptime) - for example, it is going to want to run garbage collection at some point; if all your traffic is going to a single node, that could cause a backlog ripple big enough to hurt


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Planning your Legacy
A general counsel started years before he left his company.
John Gilmore, Corporate Counsel - September 22, 2015
Noah J. Hanft NYLJ/Rick Kopstein
After you've reached the pinnacle of your law career—becoming a seasoned general counsel—you're likely coming up on some other milestones in your life. You may be considering what's next for you, and whether it's possible to attain the same level of personal and professional fulfillment doing something else.
This was a question that former MasterCard GC Noah Hanft considered not long ago after an almost 30-year career with the company. Last year he retired to become CEO of the International Institution of Conflict Prevention and Resolution a month later. CPR, as it's called, is an independent nonprofit organization that specializes in helping global businesses and their lawyers resolve commercial disputes more cost- effectively and efficiently using alternative dispute resolution.
He had also been thinking about the company he was leaving behind. In fact, he began planning for a post-Hanft law department several years before he even considered leaving.
Recently, Hanft took time away from his busy schedule to talk about the transition and his legacy.
John Gilmore: Your official departure was April 2014. When and how did you have that first conversation with your CEO?
Noah Hanft: My CEO had a very clear understanding of my thinking early on in the process; not the specific date, but generally what I had in mind. I let him know at least two-and-a-half years ago about my interest in alternative dispute resolution and that it was ultimately where I wanted to go.
JG: Given that, how involved were you in helping to find your replacement?
NH: I think the most important thing for a general counsel is to think early on in the process about succession. It's critical to ensure that you bring on people (and enough people) with the potential for success. I was closely involved all through the last five years in discussions about who the potential successors would be.
But when it gets down to decision time, it is really important that the CEO make the decision. However, the board of directors and the senior management team as a whole also need to be comfortable with that individual, so it's a collective effort to get to a successor.
JG: What was your relationship with Tim Murphy, who ultimately became your successor?
NH: Tim worked for me a number of years as assistant general counsel, and we worked closely together, including on the IPO that brought MasterCard public. Even in the early days, Tim was someone I quickly realized could take on more because of his combination of intellect, interpersonal skills and maturity. He was promoted quickly and given increasingly broad responsibility in a variety of areas, including leadership positions outside of the law department in the business organization.
JG: Was he going out of his way to take on those projects, or was it you identifying his potential and assigning those projects to him?
NH: I think it was a combination of both. The successful individual will have the drive to not be limited by the job description and show a real hunger to take on more. When you combine the willingness to take a chance with someone and their drive, it leads to a potential win-win.
JG: What kind of relationship do you have with him now?
NH: We do stay in touch. One of the things I suggested to him was that he be sure to make changes in the group and put his identity on the department, and that I'd support him in terms of whatever he decided. I let him know I was there to help anytime he wanted, but I was confident he could make his own decisions.
JG: Thinking about the legacy you left behind at MasterCard, how does that compare with the legacy you hope to leave at CPR?
NH: Like any organization, you want to build it to be as high functioning as possible. I care deeply about the quality of the environment, so that remains equally important where I am. Having a collegial, honest, forthright and supportive environment at CPR is as important to me as it was at MasterCard.
Having people enjoy what they do and work collaboratively is extremely important. I'd like to leave that environment behind when I leave. Probably most important is changing business culture to be oriented toward thoughtful dispute resolution as opposed to a knee-jerk litigation environment. We're far from getting there, so it may be some time before I move on, because there's a lot to be done.
If there's one thing Noah Hanft's career path highlights, it's the misconception that succession planning should be taking place at the very end of one's tenure. It should be a natural part of the hiring and mentoring process, and it should be integrated into the general counsel's job as early as possible.
The advantages are significant and will benefit both the general counsel's career and the organization's well-being in multiple ways. When looking for candidates who may eventually inherit the general counsel role, a legal department is not going to look for less than top-tier talent. Hiring the best in their fields, even if they don't end up becoming GC, inevitably benefits the entire organization.
Managing a law department that consists of the best can help define the general counsel as a true leader within the organization. And a succession plan will not only guarantee the organization's future well-being, it will also help the general counsel move on without being held up by unresolved issues.
Hanft serves as a great example of this approach; his deep investment in finding and grooming a successor enabled a smooth transition for both.
Here are the takeaways to focus on:
Hire top talent from the beginning: Hiring is a critical function of your role as general counsel, and the quality of the people you hire becomes a reflection of your own success.
Start mentoring potential successors long before your retirement: Succession planning should begin before you start considering your retirement. Identifying and mentoring a successor can be a long process, and you want to make sure your departure will not be too disruptive for the organization.
Ensure broad input and support from the entire team: While the general counsel shoulders a large part of the responsibility of planning for a successor, it's also essential to seek input from other key stakeholders, including the CEO, CFO, HR and board members.
Benchmark internal candidates against potential external candidates: While finding an internal candidate for the role of general counsel makes economic and logistic sense, you should also periodically review potential external candidates who may be more suitable for the role.
Leave a healthy and well-functioning organization: Finding the right general counsel to replace you will not only contribute to the organization's future well-being, it will also secure your legacy and help your future career and personal endeavors.
John Gilmore is the founder of BarkerGilmore, a leading legal recruiting firm. He has placed more than 3,000 candidates for Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies across all major industries. He can be reached at jgilmore@barkergilmore.com.
Reprinted with permission from the October 2015 edition of the Corporate Counsel Magazine© 2015 ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved.
Further duplication without permission is prohibited. ALMReprints.com – 877-257-3382 - reprints@alm.com.


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Carbiotix accepted into PepsiCo's Greenhouse Accelerator program
Carbiotix (publ) ("Carbiotix") announces today that the company has been invited to participate in PepsiCo's prestigious Greenhouse Accelerator. This will position AXOS onto centre stage with one of the largest food & beverage companies in the world.
PepsiCo's Greenhouse Accelerator is a six-month, mentor-guided program that supports the acceleration of the latest innovators. This year's?Greenhouse Accelerator program looks outside the box in areas like emerging science and technology that can help PepsiCo stay close to evolving consumer tastes and preferences. Each of the 10 participating companies will receive 20,000 USD in grant funding and begin a six-month business program designed to accelerate their growth through personalised mentorship from experts at PepsiCo. Mentors will collaborate with the companies to solve a range of business challenges, including business model development, scaling technology and go-to-market strategy. At the end of the program, PepsiCo intends to award one company an additional 100,000 USD in funding to continue its growth.
Kristofer Cook, CEO for Carbiotix, comments
"PepsiCo is on a mission to find innovative health and wellness companies that are focused on consumer health and personalised nutrition. It goes without saying, Carbiotix fits this profile perfectly, supplying a world-class prebiotic fibre ingredient that can satisfy a nutritional deficiency impacting 95% of the adult population, and a cost-effective and reliable diagnostic test to validate the effect and personalise the dosing of this fibre for each individual. It is truly an honour to join the 2021 Greenhouse Accelerator, receive a 20,000 USD grant, have the possibility of receiving an additional 100,000 USD, and collaborate with a food & beverage leader such as PepsiCo. Dedicated mentors from PepsiCo will help scale and grow our AXOS ingredient and LinkGut gut health testing service. From a timing perspective, this fits perfectly with our AXOS scale-up in Sweden and our ability to provide samples for formulation testing, as well as the planned completion of our first GRAS self-affirmation process in the US. This development will also accelerate the scale-up of our AXOS ingredient in the US, as supplying the US market will quickly become a priority and massive market opportunity for Carbiotix, as well as a template for AXOS ingredient scale-up in Europe.?
Participating in this accelerator will also position Carbiotix as an innovative and leading gut health company, and thus help promote AXOS and our LinkGut service to other top 10 and top 100 global food & beverage companies, in addition to leading supplement, pharmaceutical, and health & wellness companies interested in microbiome and gut health. We look forward to working closely with our PepsiCo mentors to further strengthen our strategic position in the areas of brand optimisation, product development, supply chain management, customer acquisition, and distribution. Forging long-term relationships with customers has always been a priority of Carbiotix and we plan to do the same with PepsiCo starting in 2021 and hopefully well beyond."
This is information that Carbiotix AB is obliged to make public according to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). The information was made publicly available by the company's contact person set out below on 11 January 2021.
Kristofer Cook, CEO
E-mail: kristofer.cook@carbiotix.com


Sometimes YES is the answer!
Absolutely amazing book to remind me that sometimes YES is the answer.
In true Shonda fashion, I laughed the whole way through this book while she pierced my heart as she talked to me about real life. I found myself having a conversation with her while she was talking.
I've recommended this book to so many people who are fighting fear of the unknown.
I F'LOVED RUTHLESS KING when I read the book. Then I listened to the audio. It was a totally new experience.
I felt so DIRTY, but in the best way ever!
I wanted to be Keira.
My anger exploded as I yelled at the radio while driving down the road.
Listening to Mounts demands come to life gave me the chills from the top of my head to my toes!
And I'm ready to do it again NOW!
What did you love best about Scarlett Red?
Just JUMP! That's all I can say! This is my first whole series on Audible and I'm so excited it's a series that I'm already in L.O.V.E. with. Sebastian and Talia are on fire. Enjoy the thrills and chills and the mystery.
If you could sum up Blackest Red: A Billionaire SEAL Story in three words, what would they be?
Sebastian and Talia may be one of my favorite book couples to date! I loved them from the beginning in Mister Black. It's a new experience for me to "listen" to a book read to me, but the narrators are great! I think I may be even more in love than I was before. I have caught myself telling my friends AGAIN to read this series! It's just perfect!!


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The Big AT&T Plan Includes Short 'Thrones'
by P.J. Bednarski , Staff Writer @pjbtweet, May 23, 2017
The half hour sitcom and the hour-long cop show are lingering, constraining remnants of those old days, when people got dirty at work, wore wrist watches and wrote in cursive.
So, a long time ago.
Movies and series are no longer constrained by arbitrary time frames that fit into these things called "TV schedules."
The most acclaimed content we watch on TV --or whatever--comes in all shapes. Video's great achievements, though, have basically gotten longer, while the most popular devices have gotten smaller. Now traveling between hither and yon, we watch stuff.
Shorter would be handy.
That's what's going to happen, too.
At the annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference this week, AT&T's CEO salivated at the prospect of taking those six seasons of of HBO's "Game of Thrones" and splicing them into smaller, mobile-friendly units. Bite-sized, as they say. Maybe 20 minutes at a time.
"We now have the ability, and we are actually putting in place plans now, to begin curating Time Warner content uniquely for a mobile environment," said AT&T boss Randall Stephenson, anticipating the completion of its $85.4 billion acquisition of HBO parent Time Warner. "You can think of all the great franchises in Time Warner and what we will be able to do. . . "
Yes we can. AT&T can do what Verizon so far has not: Create a mobile-first video platform that gains some traction, unlike Go90, the bewildering mobile service it launched in 2015 with little fanfare (which seems to have been a mistake because it still has very few fans to speak of).
Consumer press has been absent; the trade press has been brutal. "WTF Is Verizon Doing With Its Streaming App Go90" TechCrunch asked bluntly last September. In January, Verizon laid off 155 Go90ers in a move it said might have looked bad but was a disguised good thing as it streamlines, blah, blah blah. (It could just be that Go90, which gets its name from the requirement for users to turn their phones 90 degrees to watch horizontally may have missed the memo. The Mary Meeker-endorsed trend is toward watching vertically. )
AT&T will have to face that vertical-horizontal test with HBO and all the other familiar Time Wariner product it can cut into pieces. But it will arrive on the scene with a big package of programs, and the potent DirecTV and DirecTV Now promotional platform.
The idea of short, I'd say, is going to be more potent than as big media and big money meet big ideas. YouTube, which knows short all right, is now planning its own stack of commercially supported programs that undoubtedly will have a mobile-first spin and other more traditional publishers are also debuting their own in-house series. Five years from now, or maybe just one or two, it's likely that not only will viewers be able to watch on any device; they'll also be able to choose the length that fits for the time they've got.
pjbednarski@comcast.net
@pjbtweet
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P.J. Bednarski is the Editor of Online Video Daily and VidBlog. You can reach P.J. at pj@mediapost.com.
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Peppa Pig and Daddy Pig headline SVR Family Fun Weekend (23rd April 2015)
Children's favourites Peppa Pig and Daddy Pig are the stars of the show as the Severn Valley Railway welcomes back its Family Fun Weekend on May 9th-10th.
Peppa Pig and Daddy Pig will appear at intervals at The Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley, where families can also enjoy magic shows from A Box of Tricks, see their favourite Peppa Pig episodes on a special cinema screen and burn off some energy on the outdoor play area and play tables.
Kids can get groovy at Kidderminster, with a children's disco by Disco Daddy at regular intervals throughout the day, or head to Arley to get active in the Let off Steam zone, with large bouncy castle and under 5s inflatable play area, or ride some waves on the surf simulator.
There's more bouncing to be done on the bouncy castle at Bridgnorth, where youngsters can also enjoy arts and crafts activities and face painting.
Families can also enjoy a ride on The Coal Yard Miniature Railway at Kidderminster for a small additional charge, while the Paddock Garden Railway will be open at Hampton Loade on the Sunday.
There is a wealth of exploring to be done at The Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley, where families can see the new SVR 50th Anniversary exhibition, taking people on a journey through the first half-century of the Railway.
Kids can also sort the mail in the Travelling Post Office, marvel at the impressive King George VI Royal Carriage and see the Railway's reserve collection of full-size steam locomotives.
The SVR's marketing and communications manager, Clare Gibbard, said: "Our Family Fun Weekends are always a sell-out and this year we're very much looking forward to welcoming Daddy Pig alongside Peppa, who remains as popular as ever with families.
"There is also a whole host of other activities taking place along the Railway during the weekend so families can enjoy a jam-packed day out, whatever the weather."
The SVR is celebrating its Golden Jubilee with a range of events, including new 'Sounds of the 60s' celebration on August 15th, and has just enjoyed a visit from HRH The Princess Royal.
For more information on up-coming events, activities and bookings, visit www.svr.co.uk, call 01562 757900 or visit the Severn Valley Railway Families Facebook page.


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insights into economic questions is already in profit in its first months of trading.
The Data City is a data science and software company which has created a unique set of tools that provide always-up-to-date analysis to inform investment and growth decisions and accelerate innovation in the UK.
Founders Paul Connell and Alex Craven teamed up with other investors to raise an initial £100,000 to start the company, and the Data City so far has a 100% success rate in bidding for projects, having already won business with a combined value of £300,000.
They are now looking for series A funding of £600,000 early next year to allow them to expand – with the ultimate aim of a seven-figure series B round to help them grow globally.
The company grew out of a longstanding partnership between ODILeeds and Bloom Media, and has built a groundbreaking technology platform capable of using open data and innovative web analysis to find out information such as where businesses operate, what sectors they work in, and the technologies they are using.
The Data City developed the first iteration of its product to produce the Leeds Digital Sector Map on behalf of Leeds City Council, publishing the results openly at DataMillNorth. Over 3,500 digital businesses were identified in Leeds and a total of 8,500 across the region. This was the first time that the Leeds City Region had been mapped in this way, helping cement its reputation as a leader in the digital sector.
Earlier versions of its technology have also been used to help the Digital Catapult to catalogue the Internet of Things (IoT) sector in the UK (IoT National Database), create a UK Tech Innovation Index with the Open Data Institute, which was used in the government's national Artificial Intelligence Strategy report. The Data City is currently helping MIDAS, Greater Manchester's Inward Investment organisation, to map the region's technology sector.
Rather than having to manually curate lists of businesses based on broad-spectrum information such as SIC codes, The Data City's platform uses a sector mapping tool, capable of assimilating detailed information from company websites and open data sources and analysing their language to understand exactly what they do. This allows them to identify disruptive technology trends and then find businesses associated with them.
It provides results in the form of a website, which is updated in real time, meaning that subscribers can access always up to date, continually evolving information rather than a static report.
"We began by delivering projects on a bespoke basis, but it was obvious that with investment we could build a scalable software platform that would enable us to serve a larger number of clients more profitably.
"The Data City uses a unique platform which processes and analyses data quickly and accurately, drawing on a much wider range of information and applying more sophisticated analysis to provide definitive economic insights, based on information found on the web and through open data channels.
"The Data City platform is important because the people responsible for making decisions and delivering promises about our great cities and places deserve to have the best data at their fingertips.
"We are using data and web-intelligence to do away with wasted time, money and duplication of effort spent evaluating and designing interventions. We are using machines to do the heavy lifting and giving this intelligence to the people who are making decisions and measuring their impact – informed by data that is open for everyone to see".


Closing a 12-year chapter of my life and career.
Regarding a Duke, a King, and an American presidency.
Like a tornado hit this place.
Allegory of the absentee president.
On exactly how talented a grifter we have elected.
Bonus Material: "Trojan Horse Play".
Examining the interiors of a catastrophic weapon.


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Q: Pass custom image on add to cart I'm trying to replicate the behavior that this site has:
http://pixers.es/fotomurales/hermosa-mujer-ejemplo-de-la-acuarela-59301559
As you can see you can select a certain portion of the image to buy it.
If you select any size and click add to cart it passes the selection to the cart.
I have managed to put the jCrop to create the custom selection (http://pixelbypixel.comli.com/jcrop/) but I don't know what would be the best way to pass this selection to the add to cart button (in woocommerce) and replace the actual product image on the cart with the selection.
I have found this: https://support.woothemes.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201449733-Is-there-a-Woocommerce-before-or-after-add-to-cart-hook-I-can-use-for-my-custom-plugin-
So I guess this would be the way to start:
    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'custom_enqueue_js' );
    function custom_enqueue_js() {
        wp_enqueue_script( 'custom-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/your-file-path/filename.js', array( 'jquery' ), '', true );
    }

    (function($) {
      $(document).off( 'click', '.add_to_cart_button' );
      $(document).on( 'click', '.add_to_cart_button', function() {
        //your code here
      });
    });

Any ideas what would be the way to do this?