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Luis Rengifo
Angels Make Several Roster Moves
By Mark Polishuk | June 11, 2022 at 5:49pm CDT
The Angels have made five roster moves, including optioning outfielder Jo Adell and left-hander Jhonathan Diaz to Triple-A. Infielder Luis Rengifo returns from the paternity list, while the Halos also selected the contract of right-hander Davis Daniel. To create room for Daniel on the 40-man roster, Anaheim designated outfielder Dillon Thomas for assignment.
One of the game's top prospects, Adell was first optioned to Triple-A in early May, and then called up again last week when Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day IL. Adell posted a .902 OPS over 21 plate appearances during this latest stint, a positive showing considering how overmatched Adell has looked against MLB pitching since debuting back in 2020.
To that end, it is a little surprising to see Adell on the way back to the minors, yet it could simply be a case of roster construction. Ward has been recovering well from his hamstring strain and is aiming to return on Tuesday, while Mike Trout was back in the lineup today after missing three games with a sore groin. With less of a need in the outfield and with Shohei Ohtani monopolizing the DH spot, there isn't a real everyday spot for Adell, and the Angels would prefer to see him get regular action in Triple-A rather than playing only sparingly in Los Angeles.
Thomas had his contract selected three days ago in another flurry of moves from the Angels, and the outfielder ended up appearing in one game during his cup of coffee on the active roster. The 29-year-old inked a minor league deal with Anaheim during the winter. Thomas has posted some big numbers at the Triple-A level for the Mariners' and Angels' affiliates in 2021-22, but that performance has only earned him five MLB games (the first five of his pro career). Primarily a corner outfielder with some experience in center, Thomas could possibly get the attention of another team in greater need of depth on the grass.
Today is Daniel's 25th birthday, and he'll receive an unforgettable gift in the form of his first call to the big leagues. A seventh-round pick for the Angels in the 2019 draft, Daniel has a 3.84 ERA over 161 2/3 innings in the minors, starting 31 of his 32 career games. This includes a 3.64 ERA over 47 Triple-A innings this season, though Daniel has a modest 19.3% strikeout rate.
Daniel could now be lined up for a start in the Angels' six-man rotation, though it remains to be seen exactly how the Angels may reshuffle their pitching order with an off-day coming on Monday. An extra arm will be needed in some fashion, as the Halos have a doubleheader coming up on June 18.
Los Angeles Angels Transactions Davis Daniel Dillon Thomas Jhonathan Diaz Jo Adell Luis Rengifo
Angels Place David Fletcher On 15-Day Injured List Due To Hip Strain
By Mark Polishuk | May 8, 2022 at 5:31pm CDT
The Angels announced a set of roster moves today, including the placement of middle infielder David Fletcher on the 15-day injured list with a left hip strain. Lefty Kenny Rosenberg was optioned to Triple-A, and outfielder Jose Rojas was placed on the injured list for an unspecified reason, implying a COVID-19 issue. Joining the active roster are outfielder Aaron Whitefield (as reported earlier today) and infielder Luis Rengifo.
This is already the second time Fletcher has been sidelined by a hip strain this season, and he will be visiting a specialist on Monday to determine the extent of the problem. Fletcher received cortisone shots during his first IL stint, and while the problem "hasn't really gotten worse, it just wasn't as good as we thought the injection would make it," he told reporters, including Mike DiGiovanna of The Los Angeles Times. A next step won't be known until Fletcher's doctor visit, and it is possible surgery might be required. Fletcher is hopeful that such a procedure wouldn't put his season in jeopardy, as "hopefully I'll get it fixed and be back pretty soon."
The Halos have become pretty accustomed to playing without Fletcher thus far in 2022, though Matt Duffy's ongoing presence on the COVID-related injured list will further complicate matters. Rengifo's call-up will give the Angels an extra infielder to join Tyler Wade, Andrew Velazquez, and Jack Mayfield in juggling the second base and shortstop duties.
While Anaheim may have enough offense in the rest of the lineup to get by with more of a defensive focus up the middle, it does make for an imperfect situation even if Fletcher is able to return. Fletcher (understandably) hasn't hit much in his limited playing time this season, and batted only .262/.297/.324 over 665 plate appearances in 2021. It was a big step backwards from Fletcher's very impressive 120 OPS+/122 wRC+ performance in the shortened 2020 campaign, or even his closer-to-league average numbers in 2019. If Fletcher does require surgery and need to miss a good chunk of the remaining season, the middle infield would seem like a natural trade deadline target area for the Angels if they remain in contention.
Los Angeles Angels Transactions David Fletcher Jose Rojas Kenny Rosenberg Luis Rengifo
Luis Rengifo Reportedly Facing Charges In Venezuela For Allegedly Falsifying Documents
By Anthony Franco | September 15, 2021 at 10:20pm CDT
An arrest warrant was recently issued against Angels infielder Luis Rengifo in his home country of Venezuela, according to reports from local news outlets (h/t to Sam Blum of the Athletic). Authorities allege that Rengifo and certain members of his family falsified divorce papers in order to sell property that jointly belonged to Rengifo and his estranged wife to Rengifo's sister without his wife's consent in 2019. Rengifo's father, sister and an attorney allegedly involved in the process — all of whom remain in Venezuela — have already been arrested, according to reports.
It is presently unknown if/how the allegations will affect Rengifo's playing status. Blum notes that local reports were also unclear whether the Venezuelan government plans to submit a request to have Rengifo extradited to face charges.
The Angels have declined comment. Rengifo released a statement through a spokesperson, stating "I am aware of the allegations in Venezuela and have hired a new attorney to defend me and my family. Due to the pending legal proceedings and investigation phase in Venezuela, I am not permitted to comment any further on this matter" (via Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times). Rengifo remains on the active roster and got the start at shortstop tonight against the White Sox.
Los Angeles Angels Luis Rengifo
AL Notes: Rengifo, Wilson, Biggio, Allen, Hamilton
The Angels announced they've optioned catcher Anthony Bemboom and infielders Luis Rengifo and Jack Mayfield. None of that trio will make the Opening Day roster. That's a bit surprising in Rengifo's case, since he had looked like the favorite to open the year as Los Angeles' top infielder off the bench. The Angels optioning out Rengifo and Mayfield could be good news for non-roster invitee Jose Rojas, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com was among those to point out. The 28-year-old Rojas has yet to make his MLB debut but has mashed at a .321/.487/.607 clip in Spring Training. Optioning out Bemboom, meanwhile, suggests the Angels will open the year with a catching tandem of Max Stassi and Kurt Suzuki.
More from the American League:
Justin Wilson went for an MRI after leaving Monday's game with tightness in his pitching shoulder. Those tests came back negative, the Yankees announced this afternoon. Manager Aaron Boone called the result "pretty good news," but it isn't clear if Wilson will be ready for Opening Day, relays Lindsey Adler of the Athletic (Twitter link).
Blue Jays infielder Cavan Biggio was scratched from today's lineup. It doesn't seem there's much cause for alarm. Biggio jammed his right pinkie finger and is day-to-day, manager Charlie Montoyo told reporters (including Mark Feinsand of MLB.com). X-rays came back negative and Montoyo says the club will reevaluate the issue tomorrow.
The Athletics optioned catcher Austin Allen this afternoon, Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to note. That sets up Aramís García to claim the backup job behind Sean Murphy to open the season. García was acquired from the Rangers this offseason as part of the Elvis Andrus trade. The 28-year-old has a .229/.270/.419 slash line over 111 MLB plate appearances.
Billy Hamilton looks likely to make the White Sox Opening Day roster, Scott Merkin of MLB.com writes as part of a reader mailbag. The speedster is in camp as a non-roster invitee. Presumptive fourth outfielder Adam Engel will start the season on the injured list, aiding Hamilton's chances of breaking camp with the team. Hamilton has really struggled at the plate in recent years, but his speed and outfield defense should make him a useful bench piece. If he indeed makes the club, he'll need to be added to the Sox's 40-man roster.
Chicago White Sox Los Angeles Angels New York Yankees Notes Oakland Athletics Toronto Blue Jays Anthony Bemboom Aramis Garcia Austin Allen Billy Hamilton Cavan Biggio Jack Mayfield Justin Wilson Luis Rengifo
Angels Place Luis Rengifo On 10-Day Injured List
By Mark Polishuk | September 26, 2020 at 9:42pm CDT
Prior to tonight's game, the Angels announced that infielder Luis Rengifo had been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a right hamstring strain. Righty Jaime Barria was also optioned to the team's alternate training site, while the two open roster spots were filled by infielder Jahmai Jones and right-hander Luke Bard, both called up from the alternate site.
It's been an altogether tough year for Rengifo, who hit only .156/.269/.200 over 106 PA and also had another IL stint due to hamstring problems at the start of the season. Rengifo didn't do much with quite a bit of regular playing time this year, as he was needed at second base since Tommy La Stella often played at first base and Andrelton Simmons' injury meant David Fletcher moved over to shortstop.
This performance came after Rengifo was on the verge of being traded back in February, as the Angels walked away at the last moment from a deal that would have sent Rengifo to the Dodgers as part of a trade package for Joc Pederson and Ross Stripling to Anaheim. While Rengifo is only 23 and has less than two years of MLB service time to his name, it wouldn't be a surprise to see his name again surface in trade talks this winter.
Jones is back in the big leagues after a one-game cup of coffee earlier this season that saw him make his MLB debut as a pinch-runner but not actually take the field or receive an at-bat. (Jones was in the Angels' starting lineup and doubled in his first plate appearance tonight, however.) A second-round pick for the Angels in the 2015 draft, Jones was a consensus top-100 prospect as recently as the 2017-18 offseason, though a pair of unimpressive years at Double-A lowered his stock. The 23-year-old Jones has a career .258/.338/.386 slash line over 2159 PA in the minors, and has mostly played second base over the last two years but has plenty of experience in the outfield.
Los Angeles Angels Transactions Jahmai Jones Jaime Barria Luis Rengifo Luke Bard
Angels Announce Roster Moves
By TC Zencka | August 29, 2020 at 5:42pm CDT
The Los Angeles Angels announced a number of roster moves today. Luis Rengifo and Ryan Buchter have been recalled from the team's alternate site, while Hoby Milner hits the 10-day IL and the recently-acquired Franklin Barreto has been placed on the COVID-19 injured list.
Barreto's placement on the COVID IL is a matter of protocol, as it will take a couple of days to complete the intakes tests before joining his new squad. Barreto was acquired on Friday in a straight-up swap for Tommy La Stella. La Stella, however, is already in the Oakland lineup for tonight's game against the Astros.
Rengifo re-joins the club and figures to get some extra playing time at the keystone until Barreto passes testing protocols. David Fletcher steps in as the de facto everyday second baseman now that Andrelton Simmons has returned to shortstop. Fletcher, however, can play all over the diamond and will likely continue to do so in order to give some run to Rengifo and/or Barreto.
Presumably, Maddon and the Angels will give time to all three players with the hopes of clarifying their second baseman arsenal ahead of 2021. Thus far, Barreto has managed just a 50 wRC+ mark in 211 at bats spread across four seasons, while Rengifo saw semi-regular playing time last year in his debut season. He's off to a slow start this year, however. In total, Rengifo owns a 82 wRC+ mark across 466 at bats.
On the pitching side, Milner heads to the injured list with right back spasms. The move is retroactive to August 26th. Milner, 29, has been utilized liberally this season out of the pen by Maddon. Across 11 appearances, the journeyman southpaw has managed a 3.86 ERA with 6 strikeouts to 2 walks in 7 innings.
Buchter takes over at least temporarily as a lefty option for Maddon. The former Oakland Athletic has made 9 appearances this season with the Angels, sporting a 5.40 ERA across 5 innings. Like Milner, the 33-year-old Buchter has been called upon fairly often, but rarely for more than a couple of batters at a time.
Los Angeles Angels Transactions Franklin Barreto Hoby Milner Joe Maddon Luis Rengifo Ryan Buchter
Angels Place Andrelton Simmons On IL
By Connor Byrne | July 28, 2020 at 8:31pm CDT
The Angels announced that they have placed shortstop Andrelton Simmons on the 10-day injured list with a left ankle sprain. The club reinstated infielder Luis Rengifo from the IL in a corresponding move.
Simmons, who incurred the injury against the Athletics on Monday, also dealt with left ankle troubles last year. Those issues helped limit Simmons to just 103 of a possible 162 games and a less-than-stellar .264/.309/.364 batting line across 424 plate appearances last season. While Simmons has never been anything close to an elite hitter, the 30-year-old has paired slightly above-average offense with spectacular defense when at peak form. The Angels are no doubt hoping he'll return to that level this season, though this latest injury doesn't help. It also doesn't do Simmons any favors, as he could in for an interesting trip to free agency during the upcoming offseason.
For the most part, the Angels turned to utility player David Fletcher at short last year when Simmons was unavailable. They'll do the same again Tuesday against the Mariners. Rengifo also saw some time at short in 2019, and he's back in Angels uniform after an offseason trade with the Dodgers that involved him fell through. Hamstring soreness delayed Rengifo's debut this season.
Los Angeles Angels Andrelton Simmons Luis Rengifo
Injury Notes: Rendon, Altuve, Hamels, Cubs, Orioles
By Connor Byrne | July 22, 2020 at 12:44am CDT
The Angels aren't sure whether third baseman and top winter acquisition Anthony Rendon will be ready when they open their season Friday, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com relays. Rendon, a former Nationals star whom the Angels signed to a seven-year, $245MM contract in free agency, has been dealing with oblique soreness since last week. If he's not able to take the field in a few days, the Angels are expected to use David Fletcher and Matt Thaiss at the hot corner, per Bollinger. The Angels' infield could also be missing Luis Rengifo, who Bollinger writes stands a "strong chance" of sitting out the opener on account of hamstring soreness.
Astros second baseman Jose Altuve left the team's preseason game against the Royals on Tuesday with a left leg contusion, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports. There's now some question as to whether the former MVP will be healthy enough to go when the Astros' season starts. "We're hopeful he'll be ready on Friday," manager Dusty Baker said. "We'll analyze him tomorrow and see where he is in the morning. Usually the day after that, you're pretty sore."
"It's going to be a while" before left-hander Cole Hamels debuts in 2020, Braves manager Brian Snitker said Tuesday (via Mark Bowman of MLB.com). Hamels dealt with shoulder inflammation during spring training and has recently battled triceps tendinitis, thereby preventing him from facing live hitters over the past several months. Considering how short this season will be, the Braves may have trouble getting much bang for their buck out of Hamels. They inked the longtime workhorse to a one-year, $18MM contract over the winter. That guarantee turned into approximately a prorated $7MM when the season went from 162 games to 60.
Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who has been fighting rib and back issues, seems to be progressing. Manager David Ross said Tuesday (via Jordan Bastian of MLB.com) that it "looks like all thumbs up from today" in regards to Rizzo. He's slated to start the team's exhibition game against Minnesota on Wednesday. Meanwhile, southpaw Jose Quintana – who underwent surgery on his left thumb three weeks ago – issued an encouraging update on his status (per Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune), saying he's not feeling any pain. It remains unclear when he'll be able to take the mound this season, though.
Orioles left-hander John Means will miss Opening Day because of arm fatigue, Joe Trezza of MLB.com tweets. As a result, offseason minor league signing and fellow southpaw Tommy Milone will start the Orioles' opener against Boston on Friday. It's not known when Means will be able to debut in 2020, but the Orioles are surely hoping it will be sooner than later. The 27-year-old Means was one of the few bright spots on Baltimore's talent-deprived roster last season, after all, as he logged a 3.60 ERA/4.41 FIP with 7.03 K/9 and 2.21 BB/9 across 155 innings.
Atlanta Braves Baltimore Orioles Chicago Cubs Houston Astros Los Angeles Angels Notes Anthony Rendon Anthony Rizzo Cole Hamels John Means Jose Altuve Jose Quintana Luis Rengifo Tommy Milone
Angels' Arte Moreno On Joc Trade, Rotation, Eppler
By Connor Byrne | February 18, 2020 at 12:59am CDT
The trade that would have sent Dodgers outfielder Joc Pederson and Ross Stripling to the Angels for infielder Luis Rengifo and outfield prospect Andy Pages appears to be dead. A report last week indicated Angels owner Arte Moreno was the one who put the kibosh on it. Moreno confirmed Monday that he did shoot down the LA-LA trade, per Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register, though he wasn't willing to say why.
"It wasn't all impatience. There were other things," Moreno said of the causes for the failed swap, which fell through as the Dodgers waited to acquire Mookie Betts and David Price from the Red Sox (that ended up happening). Now, according to Moreno, the Angels have "moved on."
Had the Angels gotten Stripling, he'd have looked like one of their most talented starters on paper. The club entered the offseason needing rotation help, and it has added a couple durable veterans in Julio Teheran and Dylan Bundy. It looks as if the the Angels continue to need front-end aid, though, especially with Shohei Ohtani set to stay off the mound for at least the first month and a half of the season.
The Halos did make a legitimate attempt to sign the No. 1 free agent available, right-handed ace Gerrit Cole, as they offered him $300MM over eight years back in December. But the Southern California native instead accepted the Yankees' record-setting offer of nine years and $324MM. Moreno discussed the Angels' Cole pursuit, indicating they simply couldn't match the Yankees' aggressiveness. "Walking in there and you knew, no matter what I bid, we're going to get outbid," he said. "We had a pretty big number out there."
With the season getting closer, it may now be too late for the Angels to land an impact starter. However, if all goes well into the summer and the Angels are contending, Moreno's hopeful they'll find one via trade. The team has "the financial flexibility" for such an addition, according to Moreno, who noted it's seeking someone "who can substantially help us, not a No. 4 or No. 5."
General manager Billy Eppler may be tasked with finding that type of starter in a few months, but his future's uncertain beyond 2020. The Angels exercised his option for this season late last year, though they haven't made the playoffs since hiring Eppler before 2016, so he could be on shaky ground. It doesn't seem they're going to rush into an extension for him just yet. Rather, "As a group, we need to win," said Moreno, who added, "I probably should fire myself" for the franchise's recent performance.
Los Angeles Angels Los Angeles Dodgers Billy Eppler Gerrit Cole Joc Pederson Luis Rengifo Ross Stripling
Details On Collapse Of Dodgers-Angels Trade
By Jeff Todd | February 11, 2020 at 11:53am CDT
The second (or perhaps third) prong of the Mookie Betts blockbuster involved a cross-town swap between the Dodgers and Angels. But when the first iteration of the Betts agreement became bogged down in health concerns and re-negotiations, the intra-LA deal fell apart.
Accordingly, as things stand, the Dodgers still employ outfielder Joc Pederson and swingman Ross Stripling — two rather talented players — along with prospect Andy Pages. And intriguing young infielder Luis Rengifo remains with the Halos, along with whatever other players would've been included.
In theory, there's nothing stopping the teams from resurrecting this agreement. It arguably would suit the Dodgers even better now, as the final version of the Betts swap cost the team an upper-level infielder and brought in a high-ceiling swingman with some MLB experience to go with veteran starter David Price. Adding Rengifo while parting with Stripling would restore much of the prior balance in the Dodgers' roster situation. While Pederson is hardly extraneous now that Betts is on hand, his role obviously won't be as robust.
Given the nature of the termination of talks, though, a revival doesn't seem likely. Per Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic (subscription link), Angels owner Arte Moreno personally halted the prospective agreement as uncertainty lingered. His specific intentions aren't known entirely, though as Ardaya writes, he has certainly operated with vigor and urgency of late after a string of disappointing seasons.
It's interesting to wonder what could come next. For the Angels, there's obviously a desire to add a rotation piece and perhaps pick up some more offense. And the club is willing to part with Rengifo in the right circumstances. It stands to reason that the Halos will continue working the phone lines even as Spring Training opens. Some rather notable candidates remain available, at least in theory, though at this point teams have likely already made their prices known.
And what of the Dodgers, who had notified Pederson that he was being sent out to Anaheim? These two veterans are still quite useful but will now enter uncertain situations with the knowledge they had been deemed expendable. No doubt the club would rather shed some salary and cash them both in for a younger, more flexible asset — as had been the plan when this deal came together. It's possible the team will have shifting interest in talks involving these players. The ultimate Betts deal involved different pieces than had been expected. No doubt the Dodgers will be interested in any scenario that conveys long-term value and roster flexibility.
Whether there's more action to come over the coming weeks is anyone's guess. But the potential energy for movement is undeniable.
Los Angeles Angels Los Angeles Dodgers Joc Pederson Luis Rengifo Ross Stripling


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Way Back
by TLC (featuring Snoop Dogg)
Album: TLC (2017)
On this track, T-Boz and Chilli from TLC reminisce on the good times growing up as they welcome an old friend back into the fold. "Everybody has that feeling - I don't care if it's a family member or a friend - that no matter how long it's been since you've seen each other, when you do, it's just like yesterday," T-Boz told Entertainment Weekly. "You remember your good times with that person. And that's that good feeling that we were going for when we wrote it."
The appropriately old-school rapper Snoop Dogg makes an appearance on this track with a verse about the good old days when he would be creeping on the ladies. "I'm just the same OG, giving y'all a little TLC," he rhymes.
T-Boz (Tionne Watkins) wrote the song with the songwriter James Abrahart and the track's producer, D'Mile (Dernst Emile). Snoop Dogg also earned a writing credit for his contribution.
"Way Back" was the first single released from the fifth TLC album, the first recorded without Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died in 2002, the year their fourth album, 3D, was issued.
The video, directed by LCR$, was the first one they made since "Damaged" in 2003. The clip finds them throwing down at a '90s-style block party in Los Angeles.
The TLC album was executive produced by Ron Fair, who has also worked with the likes of Christina Aguilera, Mary J Blige and The Black Eyed Peas. The horns that Fair added to this track and others were performed by the same musicians that played on Michael Jackson's Bad and Thriller.
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using System;
using Voxalia.Shared;
using BEPUphysics.Character;

namespace Voxalia.ClientGame.NetworkSystem.PacketsIn
{
    public class YourPositionPacketIn: AbstractPacketIn
    {
        public override bool ParseBytesAndExecute(byte[] data)
        {
            if (data.Length != 8 + 24 + 24 + 1 + 8)
            {
                return false;
            }
            long ID = Utilities.BytesToLong(Utilities.BytesPartial(data, 0, 8));
            Location pos = Location.FromDoubleBytes(data, 8);
            Location vel = Location.FromDoubleBytes(data, 8 + 24);
            double gtt = Utilities.BytesToDouble(Utilities.BytesPartial(data, 8 + 24 + 24 + 1, 8));
            TheClient.Player.PacketFromServer(gtt, ID, pos, vel, (data[8 + 24 + 24] & 2) == 2);
            TheClient.Player.DesiredStance = (data[8 + 24 + 24] & 1) == 0 ? Stance.Standing : Stance.Crouching; // TODO: NMWTWO/etc. handling better!
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When I am not teaching, or grading, or sitting on committees, or reviewing, or doing one of the many other exciting things that no one told me about before I got this job, I pretend to know what the rest of the Dialogue Systems Group is doing and to be able to give good advice, while the rest of the Dialogue System Group pretends to care about said advice, but keeps doing what they were doing anyway — the awesome stuff you can read about elsewhere on this site.
I studied Computational Linguistics and French Philology in Potsdam and Toulouse. I received a Master's degree from Potsdam University in 2008, for a thesis on "Classifying Clause-embedding Verbs for Computational Semantics". After working in the PTOLEMAIOS project on topics in computational semantics and parallel corpora, I moved to IMS in Stuttgart in 2009. I joined the SFB-732 "Incremental Specification in Context" working in a project on statistical ranking models for disambiguation and choice in (mostly LFG-based) parsing and generation. My PhD thesis on "Syntactic and Referential Choice in Corpus-based Generation" is about to be submitted to the Faculty of Computer Science at Stuttgart University.
In October 2014, I joined the DSG lab in Bielefeld. My ongoing research interests are on incremental generation in the context of situated dialogue, multimodal systems and grounded semantics.
Human Language Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of the Algarve, Portugal. My master´s thesis focused on the impact of language variety, speaking style and gender on speech recognition in the Spanish version of Windows 7. I am currently starting to work on the generation of disfluencies in incremental spoken dialogue systems.
Being part of the DSG group from October 2017, I work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. David Schlangen. Currently, my main research focus is the MeetUp challenge, a new visual and conversational grounding dialogue task. The primary idea of this project is to naturally model human-human interaction, that is dependent on visual input (images) and also goal-oriented. I am largely interested in research on situated dialogue, grounded semantics, multimodal interaction, and machine learning. I have received MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück (Germany) with two majors being artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. My Master Thesis's focus was on modelling of scalar conversational implicatures in a human-human dialogue. I have also received my Bachelor Degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the Perm State University in Russia in 2015. The primary focus of my Bachelor Thesis was devoted to the process of automated summarization and use of WordNet as the source of words for paraphrase when creating abstract summaries. I also studied Linguistics at Leiden University (the Netherlands) in the first half of 2015.
Reading some classic literature, playing piano, or going out with friends are my free time activities. I also like animals and hiking.
In March 2018 I embarked on my PhD journey at Dialogue Systems Group. I am part of the CINEMENTAS project cluster with CoR Lab funded by HRI-EU. In 2013, I completed my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at University of Southampton, UK and worked in industry and research lab for about 4 years.
I am interested in understanding 'human learning' and how artificial agents can learn in a co-operative environment. My research focuses on explainability and multi-modal (language and vision) learning using dialogues.
I enjoy adventure travels (hiking, camping) and in my leisure time I paint and sketch.
I am a PhD student and a member of both the phonetics group and the dialogue systems group.
After having finished my MA in Münster, Germany with my thesis experimentally examining speech rhythm, I joined the Bielefeld groups in October 2013. My PhD project aims at improving incremental speech synthesis systems in terms of naturalness by implementing disfluencies.
I studied Cognitive Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Bielefeld University and received my Bachelor of Science in 2011 and the Master of Science in 2013. The title of the Master's thesis is "Integration and evaluation of a component for multimodal emotional expressions".
In December 2013 I joined the Dialogue Systems Group and I am also a member of the research group for Applied Informatics at Bielefeld University.
At present I am a PhD student of "Intelligent Systems" supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing Britta Wrede and Prof. Dr. David Schlangen.
My current field of research is incremental dialogue management for human/robot interaction.
My PhD topic is "Situated Statistical Incremental Natural Language Understanding" (NLU) in spoken dialogue systems where I attempt to ground language with the world such that a dialogue system can automatically interpret spoken utterances (e.g., to automatically identify an object referred to by a speaker). I use speech as well as other modalities, such as gaze and gestures. My current work extends our model of NLU to work better with linguistic processing, as well as better fusion with gaze and gestures. I am interested in speech recognition, language modeling, semantics, understanding and interpreting language, dialogue systems, psycholinguistic motivations behind model approaches, multi-modal processing for interpreting intention, as well as fully-interactive incremental systems that have some notion of their surroundings (and can be used in robots, virtual agents, cars, smart phones, etc.).
I earned my undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in computer science, minor in Japanese. I comlpeted my masters in the Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technology program, where I spent one year at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and my second year at Nancy 2 University (now Lorraine University) in Nancy, France. My masters thesis was in language modeling and was supervised by Martin Kay. I have been in with CITEC, Bielefeld University, and the DSG group since October 2011.
I like running, pine trees and miso ramen.
I got my bachelor and master degrees from LanZhou University in northwest China.
I worked on image processing from Sep. 2010 to June 2013. My master thesis is about image dehazing.
Last October I joined the DSG group. Now I am working on hand gesture recognition and also interested in dialogue systems and machine learning.
I have received my B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and my M.Sc. degree in Human Media Interaction from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Here I also received my PhD on the subject of nonverbal listening behavior for human-agent interactions. During my studies I did internships at TNO Defense, Safety & Security in Soesterberg (NL) and USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles (USA). In March 2014 I joined the Sociable Agents (CITEC) and Dialog Systems group from University Bielefeld to work on the ICSPACE-project. The goal of the project is to build an incremental online virtual coach to assist in sensorimotor learning tasks. Within this project I am building the incremental dialog system for the virtual coach. My further research interests lie in social signal processing, social behavior synthesis and virtual agents.
When not working you might find me at an (indie) rock concert, watching a movie, playing floorball or some videogame.
Before arriving in the DSG in April 2014, I worked in the Cognitive Science group at Queen Mary University of London as a PhD student under Matthew Purver, investigating models of self-repair processing in dialogue, and also as a researcher with Matthew and Arash Eshghi on the RISER project on the automatic learning of incremental grammars. Prior to that I did an MA in Linguistics at University College London. I'm currently working on DUEL ('Dysfluencies, exclamations and laughter in dialogue'), a David Schlangen and Jonathan Ginzburg (Paris 7) headed project and the ICSPACE ('Intelligent coaching space') project with David, Stefan Kopp and Iwan de Kok from the CITEC group. I'm confident with the collective brains of the amazing people I'm lucky enough to work with, we can head towards the elixir of embodied intelligent agents which truly understand us.
Random fact: Enjoys karaoke a bit too much.
I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Dialogue Systems Group, based in the University of Bielefeld, until 2015. Now at carmeq, Berlin (subsidiary of Volkswagen, human-machine interfaces).
Study of naturallly occurring human-human and human-computer interaction, in view of speech technology applications.
Obtaining natural interaction data in lab settings, using task-based interaction and minimally invasive sensors.
Development of methods for multimodal data acquisition and analysis.
Understanding interaction phenomena such as turn-taking and alignment in dialogue.
Developing systems to test hypotheses on dialogue phenomena.
I was part of the dialogue systems group from 2008 to 2012, working on incremental dialogue management modules for the InproTK toolkit.
Currently I am working at Carmeq GmbH building in-car spoken dialogue systems.
I studied computer science, phonetics and linguistics in Hamburg, Geneva, and Granada, and received my master's-level diploma in 2007 for work at IBM research on automatic accentuation detection in speech synthesis corpora. Then I joined David Schlangen's "Inpro" project (then at U Potsdam) on incremental and projective processing in dialogue systems. My task was to develop InproTK, the toolkit for incremental spoken dialogue processing, spearheading the work on incremental speech recognition, architecture, and speech synthesis. This work resulted in my PhD from Bielefeld University in 2013. I returned to Hamburg in 2011 as a researcher and instructor at Universität Hamburg with Wolfgang Menzel, continuing my work on incremental speech in close collaboration with the DSG group, and is picking up on the prosody/syntax interface.
I cycle to work, no matter the weather and ride my bike around town at practically every Critical Mass.
I joined the DSG in october 2013 and support the team in acquiring and analyzing multimodal linguistic data. Moreover, I assist in the test-driven advancement of the mumodo software package.
Besides my work for the DSG, I am studying for a Master's degree in linguistics at Bielefeld University, with a special focus on computational linguistics and speech technology. In 2012, I received a Bachelor's degree in clinical linguistics from the same university. My studies included a nine-month internship in a hospital for neurorehabilitation.
Topics of special interest to me are the application of computational linguistic methods and models to clinical problems and the treatment of erroneous speech in dialogue systems.
I am a student assistant in The Dialogue Systems Group at Bielefeld University and joined the group in April 2011 after I met Prof. David Schlangen for the first time in a tutorial called "Dialogsysteme".
Currently I am doing my Bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics and Text Technology.
I am mainly working in the mint.Lab, which is a laboratory the DSG established in 2011 and where experiments and research studies take place.
between humans and – in general – computers.


You want your song to be remembered? It turns out melody is more important than lyrical cleverness, a unique sound, or studio technique. This makes sense because when someone is remembering and singing your song in their head the melody is all they have.
Recorded music is relatively new in our human experience. If you sang a song with someone and they wanted to share it with others later, all they could do was sing it. Songs could go around the world this way and not change much. So melody was the bedrock of repeatability.
Even rap and hip hop have been adding melodious elements into their offerings. It turns out that's something we crave deep down.
For most of you this isn't even an issue. Your songs are naturally melodious. But if you want them to be truly memorable, turn that up a notch. And don't forget to surprise that part of your listener's brain that looks for patterns. Take your melody into an unexpected place. You will surprise and delight the brocha and you will stand apart from all the other music out there.
Oh, and they'll remember you when they've forgotten everyone else.
When you're ready to record your memorable music, book some time at Rough Wood Recording Studio.


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A new Ikea Alicante store.
In Alicante a new Ikea Alicante Furniture store will open it doors in 2015.
The Ikea will be located in Rabasa Alicante. There shall also a new shopping center will be build. Also next to this, there will be a new construction site. On this site will include housing beside the shopping center. Up to 13.500 houses are planned to be build next to the shopping center. The new Ikea Alicante will occupy 300 000 square meters. The Ikea will provide for 9000 direct and indirect jobs in the city.
The Ikea is estimated to bring around 5 million customers each year to Alicante. So this would definitely be a major boost for the entire region. The Job opening will be directed at mostly people from Alicante. So that is more environmentally friendly. The employees will drive easily to their nearby work each day. Till now all this is just a rumor.
The Ikea in Alicante will be closer for most people than the newly build Ikea in Valencia or the on in Murcia.
The commercial site will also include an 120 000 square metres for restaurants, offices and commercial buildings.
Other planning ?
Unfortunately some false rumours have surfaced of the Ikea being built across La Zenia Boulevard Shopping Centre in Orihuela Costa. Although this would have been a great place to build an Ikea.
In Alicante it can simply attract more tourist from the North side of Costa Brava like Benidorm and Calpe. So people from Orihuela Costa will have to choose either drive 30 minutes to the Shopping Centres in Murcia and visit the Ikea there. Or go to Alicante which takes you around 45 Minutes.
For the Moment people can visit the Ikea in Valencia or the Ikea in Murcia.
This article will be update as soon as we hear more news.
Update Ikea Alicante.
After years of struggle for Ikea a final decision could be close to a solution in the nearby future.
The mayor of Alicante and the company admitted that they were negotiations.
But nothing has been concreted till now.
However the mayor said that there will be an announcement early in the spring 2017.
The plans are that the Ikea would open an extreme large store on a 50 000 square meters area. Alongside with an other medium size shops. More specifically in the Rabasa area.
nearby the Decathlon.
Ikea will open a new furniture store in Alicante


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Marc Anthony of Goodfield owns and operates Look Alive Taxidermy and Non Typical Hunter magazine. Anthony grew up in central Illinois and spent eight years as a commercial pilot before giving that up to spend more time with his wife Jan and three children, Victoria, Drake and Elesa. Anthony hunted on and off as a child but started seriously at age 30 and focuses on bowhunting for deer and turkeys. He's arrowed four bucks that meet the Boone and Crockett Club (net) standards and 20 Pope and Young Club qualifiers. Anthony is on the Pro Staff for Muzzy broadheads, Bear Archery, Vital Gear, Natural Predator, Non Typical Hunter and several other companies. He also is a member of the Outdoor writers Association of America, OWAA.
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Tennessee toms falling hard!
Family of four score
Tony Nolen, a fellow native of E. Peoria & Morton along with his 3 boys, rocked last week when they all harvested Tennessee toms. Nice job guys! It gives us Illinois boys (and girls) something to look forward to!
Take a Bite out of PETA!
Sign the petition to have PETA's tax-exemption status removed
Here's an excerpt from The Center For Consumer Freedom:
"Despite its deceptively warm-and-fuzzy public image, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has donated over $150,000 to criminal activists—including those jailed for arson, burglary, and even attempted murder. In 2001, PETA donated $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a criminal organization that the FBI classifies as "domestic terrorists." And since 2000, rank-and-file PETA activists have been arrested over 80 times for breaking various laws during PETA protests. Charges included felony obstruction of government property, criminal mischief, assaulting a cabinet official, felony vandalism, performing obscene acts in public, destruction of federal property, and burglary.
And PETA's leadership openly advocates breaking the law. Click here: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/010501_bruce_friedrich.wav to listen to PETA vegetarian campaign director Bruce Friedrich encouraging activists to commit arson against restaurants, medical laboratories, and banks.
Like millions of other nonprofit groups in the United States (e.g., universities , houses of worship, social service organizations), PETA pays no federal taxes on its income. But few of these other tax-exempt groups share PETA's total disregard for the law. In 2003 PETA collected over $24 million from Americans, avoiding over $3.5 million in federal income taxes. Because this tax break amounts to a huge subsidy, every American taxpayer is footing the bill for PETA's behavior.
PETA's tax-exempt status was granted by the U.S. government on the basis of the group's willingness to conduct itself in a lawful fashion. We believe that PETA has failed to live up to its end of the bargain, and that the Internal Revenue Service should cancel PETA's tax-exempt status.
If you agree, please add your name and contact information below. Your "signature"—along with those of thousands of other Americans—will be used to encourage U.S. government officials to take action. PETA is currently being investigated by the IRS, so this is the perfect time to make your opinion known.
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If you would like to sign a petition to remove PETA from it's tax-exempt status, go to this page and scroll down to sign the petition: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/154
Sham Wow or Sham "Pow"
Sham Wow guy arrested for punching hooker!
You can only appreciate this is you were at the IL. Deer Classic! Read this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/vince-shlomi-shamwow-pitc_n_180210.html
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Swiss got her 1st official health-test result and I am happy to announce that she is perfect in and out.
Since I have met with Sweep and some of his kids I was sure once I would like to have a puppy from him and I got the chance to make this dream come true. Thanks for Swiss to my friend (and the owner of Sweep and Reese), Nadine who did a looooot to make this possible and also big thanks to Swiss's breeder, Sonja who trusted me enough and gave me the only (and most beautiful brindle) girl from this litter.
More info about her on Swiss's page.
Bryn & Rynn - Happy 5th Birthday to my sweet Bryn!
~ Yang, Reese, Ypsi / Yumi, Rynn, Pip ~ 8 months old "babies"


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Introducing GSBI TECh : A commitment to continued accompaniment
by Alex Pan
Go to any social entrepreneur pitch event and you will see one graph over and over again, the "hockey stick" predicting exponential growth as the enterprise matures. Entrepreneurs feel pressure to project wildly ambitious growth curves in an effort to attract investment, but how realistic are these projections?
In reality, growing a social enterprise is hard, and the hockey stick growth curve is better left to the NHL or the world of Silicon Valley unicorns than the realm of social entrepreneurship. An analysis of Miller Center's alumni social enterprises shows that while most of our graduates grow significantly in the three to five years after completing our accelerator, most of these enterprises then fall into periods of either moderate growth, stagnation, or even decline. More of an "S" curve than a hockey stick. Yet we need a few hockey sticks if the social enterprise movement is going to make meaningful progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, or make a sizeable dent in the pressing social and environmental issues they seek to address.
What if social enterprises could break out of their growth plateaus or even preempt a slowing of growth to begin with? How could we as Miller Center, a social enterprise accelerator, accompany our social enterprise alumni to break through these plateaus and see them make tangible progress toward achieving these global goals?
This commitment to continued accompaniment was the impetus of the GSBI® Technology Entrepreneurship for Change (TECh) Cohort that culminates this Tuesday (today) at the GSBI TECh Showcase. The GSBI TECh accelerator engaged 14 social entrepreneurs who had previously graduated from either a GSBI accelerator program or were a Tech Awards Laureate run by our partner organization, The Tech Museum of Innovation. By connecting these entrepreneurs with some of our most seasoned mentors, and allowing them to engage in a flexible and customizable curriculum, we sought to support these diverse social entrepreneurs to break through to the next level of scale.
To learn more about each of the TECh social enterprises, click the thumbnail or here.
Each of these enterprises are pursuing unique strategies to reach scale, however some broad themes emerge.
Scaling by leveraging the existing "development" infrastructure
One effective mechanism to reach scale is to leverage existing infrastructure, such as governments and massive aid agencies, to take a product or service to market. This technique is being used by We Care Solar, who sells their innovative Solar Suitcase to provide emergency lighting to under-resourced health facilities throughout Africa. By partnering with Ministries of Health, NGOs, and UN agencies, they can reach far more people than they could through their own distribution channels.
Potential Energy is employing a similar strategy to get their clean cookstove into the hands of refugees in Northern Uganda, and Amplio Network is partnering with a number of NGOs and aid agencies who utilize their innovative Talking Book to create engaging and culturally relevant content to reach populations with low literacy skills.
Amplio Network's Talking Book used in a classroom setting.
Scaling through international replication or acquisition
Another strategy to scale is through replication and/or mergers and acquisitions (M&A), a strategy that seems to becoming more common as the social enterprise sector matures, and is essentially taking a validated business model from one geography and adapting it to work in new markets. This can significantly decrease the time and resources spent on getting a social enterprise up and running, and replicated enterprises may also present reduced risks for impact investors (see more on Miller Center's Replication Initiative).
This strategy of replication is being pursued in part by both Nazava water filters, who is seeking to bring their low cost water filter to new markets throughout Asia and Africa, and by SAI Sustainable Agro who is expanding its work to connect smallholder farmers with corporate value chains from India to South Africa, Ghana, and Uganda. It is also being pursued in a slightly different form by Pollinate Energy, who builds distribution networks for socially beneficial household products (clean cookstoves, solar lanterns, etc.) in underserved markets, such as slums and remote villages. Pollinate is unique because they merged in 2018 with Empower Generation, a fellow GSBI social enterprise alumni with an aligned purpose in a different geographic market. By leveraging each organizations competitive advantages they are realizing record breaking sales, and critically, an increased ability to empower women in their value chain.
Beneficiaries and a Nazava water filter.
Scaling through spin-offs
The final theme we see is established organizations seeking to scale by spinning off focused and innovative portions of their work. This strategy allows a successful and established organization to protect and maintain its core work, while leveraging its track record of success to build innovative new lines of business or impact.
For example, Solar Ear is pioneer in the hearing loss ecosystem and manufactures an affordable solar powered hearing aid that seeks to serve the 95% of people with hearing loss who cannot afford a traditional hearing aid. While this business is established and scaling, they are now looking to spin off a new service that seeks to identify and prevent hearing loss before it happens, and develop new technology that turns the ubiquitous cell phone, into a hearing aid device.
A similar strategy is being used by AREWA24 for profit Nigerian media platform that educates, inspires and empowers millions of marginalized youth, women and communities across northern Nigeria. AREWA24 spun off from the more well NGO Equal Access so that it can more nimbly serve its market, and attract the type of capital that will allow it to scale rapidly.
While this is analysis is a drastic oversimplification of the complex scaling strategies being used by the social enterprises in this cohort, we are excited to see some broad themes emerging. We hope to continue to support our alumni in the future to understand their best path toward scale and accompany them in addressing any roadblocks on that path. We hope that this model of accompaniment might help some of the hockey sticks you will see on Tuesday actually come true and that we will see social enterprises making sizeable contributions toward meeting the sustainable development goals.
Alex Pan is a Senior Program Manager, GSBI at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Supporting our network of over 1,000 social entrepreneurs, he is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of programs and delivering alumni accompaniment programs. Alex is an experienced program manager with a background in building the ecosystem that supports social enterprises in emerging markets. Before joining Miller Center, Pan worked for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) where he coordinated ANDE's global network of regional chapters, facilitated collaboration and knowledge sharing among ANDE's 240+ members and led ANDE's efforts around talent and invention-based businesses. Before joining ANDE, Alex worked for several international development NGOs in China, India, and Uganda. Pan has also worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he assisted in the development of their impact investing policy. He holds an M.A. in International Science and Technology Policy from George Washington University and earned his B.A. from Colby College where he studied International Development and East Asian Studies.
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Loki Entertainment Software has recently released a patch for Myth 2 for linux. The Patch is 1.3C but is not necessary. If you are currently playing the game with no problems, the patch is not needed. All previous patched will need to be installed prior to installing 1.3c. You can download all the needed files from Loki.


Editor's Note: The Annual Okinawa Burger Festival is held every fall in late November or early December depending on weather. At the time of publication of this article in 2014, the event is scheduled for December 14, 2014. If you know the date for 2015, 2016, etc. please let us know in the comments and we will update this post!
The reigning champion is the "ToTo La BeBe Special," which took top honors in 2013, and also happens to be my favorite so far. In 2013, the inaugural year of the festival, the town was expecting 4,000 visitors and was pleasantly surprised by more than 7,000 people showing up.
Because of the massive popularity the venue was moved to the Nou-Son Park, which also houses Ginoza stadium and has much larger facilities. There are no tickets or entrance fees for this event. The way things work at the festival is you visit the vendor of choice which will either sell you a whole or half burger. The latter size will come in handy if you want to sample several proprietors' burger creations.
When you receive your burger or half burger you will also be given a marble. If you deem the sandwich worthy, you put the marble in the jar with the label of the corresponding food vendor. At the end of the day, the establishment with the most marbles wins.
Parking can be found at the Ginoza Stadium, Ginoza Dome, village offices, or via a shuttle at Ginoza Flea and Farmer's Market. If you are missing your Five Guys, Fuddrucker's or In and Out fix then you have no excuse for missing this extravaganza of meat, cheese, bacon, and bun goodness.
Directions: The Burger Fest is just north of the Okinawa Expressway 9 Exit. Just look for the signs for the stadium on Route 329.
Great idea, not sure about actual execution…since in it's infancy. Only saw 6 vendor tents for the actual competition, and even the smallest of the lines had easily 40, 50, 60 people in it (and only 30 minutes into it nonetheless). Park-where-you-can worked well though and the classic car show was nice eye candy.


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Instrumentalism: The functional uses of national museums
An obvious example of such instrumental intentions can be found in how national museums can be deliberately utilised for reasons of economic and urban regeneration. Cases exemplifying such developmental intentions can be found in, for example, the locating of the Tate Modern in a disused power station in a relatively deprived location on the River Thames in London, or the construction of new national museums in Dubai and Qatar as part of major development projects undertaken in Arab Gulf states - often in conjunction with significant Western museums and galleries, such as the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the British Museum. Needless to say such developments are justified in part, at least, in terms of the museums themselves and what these developments can offer in terms of exhibition and display, and the creation of new cultural opportunities for cities, regions and countries through the utilisation of museums and their resources. Underlying these cultural and museums benefits, however, are the accompanying economic, social and political benefits that are anticipated to be created as, in economic terms, spill-over effects that arise as a consequence of having national museums located where they are. Teasing out the differing benefits that can be identified as being deliberately instrumental consequences that arise from national museums is difficult when such museums have been established for many years in the same place, and it is easier to identify them when museum locations are changed or new museums and subbranches are created. It can certainly be said that many local museum developments around the world have been undertaken with an explicit intention to create regenerative benefits for local areas, of which the case of the Bilbao Guggenheim (Sylvester, 2009, 113-36) is a prime example, but the extent to which this is equally as true for developments with national, rather than private, museums remains to be seen.
The sheer cost of establishing new national museums or relocating parts of their collections to new sites within countries, either at home or overseas, almost inevitably means that national governments are likely to have a real interest in how these museums contribute to their own, specific, political agendas, and, in a more general sense, to the 'nation' as a whole. Thus the establishment of the new National Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea has led to concerns that it has become subservient to the policy and managerial wishes of the state, and is being used to provide support for non-museum concerns, such as those of cultural diplomacy, rather than anything else (Lee, 2011, 382). Such a concern could also be levelled at other international collaborations between national museums in different countries, as with the moves by the Louvre to have parts of their collections exhibited in Arab Gulf state national museums: is the purpose of this concerned with matters of international relations and cultural diplomacy rather than with allowing for a greater and more geographically dispersed display of French national collections? In practice it is a bit of both, although it could be argued that the real beneficiary is the government of France rather than the peoples of any of the countries that are involved in this collections loaning process, as the French government can claim that its decisions contribute to international understanding, to cultural and economic development in the countries to which these loans are extended, and to the enhancement of France's own position and status in world politics regardless of anything else that these loans may contribute to. Such a view could also be taken to demonstrate that a consequence is that the French government enhances its own position as an important player in the game of international politics and thus contributes to French power in international negotiations, whilst equally legitimising France's international status as an important country to deal with. Whether this claim is true or not would depend upon the ability to measure French international political power and status both before the announcement of these loans and at a later date to establish some sort of longitudinal basis for evaluation. Given that nobody has yet undertaken such measurement means that the claim depends upon the extent to which it makes sense - and, in the absence of effective evaluative qualitative and quantitative data, that depends upon how meaningful the reader finds it be.
Despite this weakness in evaluating the reality of the outcome of instrumentalising policies it is evident that national museums are used for a large number of ancillary policy purposes - even if it can be extremely difficult to identify exactly what the results of these usages are. Indeed, the very establishment of the Louvre as the French national gallery was seen as 'a symbol of Revolutionary achievement and the cultural benefits of liberty' (McClellan, 1994, 92), both of which could then be used to bolster the legitimacy of the newly established revolutionary regime following the overthrow of the monarchy. A distinction can be usefully drawn here between policy instrumentalisation that is intended to have direct effects in terms of providing measureable outcomes, and that which is intended to have indirect effects through the production of symbolic outcomes. The former are largely concerned with explicit statements about what national museums 'should' be providing, while the latter operate through their more intangible effects in terms of ideology and legitimacy. Thus changing the educational role that museums and galleries can fulfil into this becoming what museums are primarily there to do, and a means to evaluate the effectiveness of national museums, also changes what these museums are meant to be providing, effectively making them extensions of the education system rather than anything else. Such a role can then be evaluated through the contribution that national museums make to educational performance and achievement - even if this is by no means a simple and unambiguous thing to do (Falk& Dierking, 2000, 173-74, 2013, 218-45; Hooper-Greenhill, 2007, 189-201). Regardless of the difficulties of this measurement some concrete evidence can be provided of the actual role that museums fulfil in terms of this instrumental function. With the more intangible and symbolic effects that museums can produce this becomes more and more difficult. Again, while the methodologies exist to identify the specific effects that museums may have in terms of these outcomes, it is by no means easy to apply them, and the evidence demonstrating these effects is not particularly methodologically strong (Galloway & Stanley, 2004; Jensen, 2013, 146).
These evaluative difficulties could lead to the position where the only meaningful approach to the analysis of museum effects would be to present a series of case-studies that are intended to demonstrate how and why museums are being used for instrumental ends by national political actors. This would shift the focus away from the specifics of national museums per se and towards the manner in which the museums sector as a whole can be used as a political tool for the fulfilment of particular policy objectives. To undertake this would necessarily require a consideration of the comparative policy importance of different arenas of governmental and political activity, and how this importance translates into a form of functional slippage for the museums sector where it is simply seen as being a contributor to, rather than a creator of, the policy requirements that governments are concerned with. At this stage it is apparent that the underlying assumption is that, for this to be relevant, the museums sector must be less important, in both political and policy senses, than are other policy sectors. The political and policy weakness of the museums sector could then be seen as the basic underlying reason for both its susceptibility to instrumentalising tendencies and the comparative ease with which instrumentalisation takes place. The question of the functions that museums fulfil becomes important in this consideration, as so often with questions in the museum sector. Museums are undeniably multi-functional organisations and this multi-functionality provides the opportunity for governments to shift the focus of their attention between functions quite easily: there is nothing about museums that establishes an effective functional hierarchy between their different activities, and thus there is nothing that is sacrosanct about which functions are to be considered significant or important at any given time. This flexibility could be seen as a weakness for museums when confronted with politically and policy-active governments insofar as their views about what are the most important functions for them to undertake can be potentially over-ridden with some ease as a result of the direct democratic legitimacy that governments have and which museums almost always lack. The same flexibility, however, can also be seen as a source of strength for museums as their capability to demonstrate their value to governments across a large number of discrete policy functions can provide them with a number of strategies to justify their continued existence. The ability of museums staff to show this value could also provide a demonstration of their political nous and management capabilities in being able to switch the arguments that they use to whatever the demands of national political actors may be, thus changing the focus from the structural weakness of the museums sector to the strength of the political agency that can be exercised by museums staff.
In many ways the evident weaknesses of the museums sector are, at least in part, a direct consequence of the multiple claims that come from within the sector about how good museums are at undertaking their functional activities. The claims that are made about the transformative role that museums can play through their direct contributions to education and identity formation are only a part of this, and the instrumentalisation of museums by political actors can be seen to be simply an extension of them. This then becomes a mutually reinforcing process of instrumentalisation and policy attachment (Gray, 2002). Where the focus of political actors is on policy concerns that are peripheral to the museums sector then claims about how museums can help in the fulfilment of these concerns can provide the sector with the finance, political support and legitimation of their existence that they require to ensure their survival. Providing supporting evidence for how good they are at this job - even if such evidence is methodologically dubious or relies simply upon anecdotal claims - can then lead governments to expect museums to be able to contribute to other policy objectives that they have, regardless of whether museums claim that they are capable of being able to do so or not. Thus museums can become entangled in a host of activities that do not fit comfortably with their already multi-functional nature but which they need to demonstrate their commitment to in order to continue to benefit from the resources that they have gained from earlier instrumental and attachment activities. This can generate claims that an excessive instrumentalisation of museum activities can shift the focus of what museums do away from their functional 'core' and towards policy concerns that are not those of the museums and their staff but those of other policy actors altogether. At worst this can become an implicit argument that museums should be isolated from the societies of which they are a part as a form of 'art's for art's sake' argument for museums, or that, in some sense at least, museum policy is more important than other policy concerns. Certainly these forms of arguments about the consequences of instrumentalisation are commonly employed: how useful they are is another question given that all policy is instrumental in one form or another
(Gray, 2008), meaning that the whole debate may not be as important as the disputing protagonists may think it is (Gibson, 2008).
Despite this questioning of the significance of the instrumentalisation debate it cannot be denied that it raises a number of important concerns regarding the politics of museums and how these play into the policies that museums are responsible for. Most importantly it raises questions about the political status of museums for governments in a different way to that considered earlier in this chapter. This change of focus moves away from the relative amounts of money that governments spend on the museums sector, or how governments can manipulate and control what occurs in museums and, instead, is concerned with the status of museum policies as a part of public policy as a whole. While national governments can clearly make use of national museums for their symbolic attributes in terms of both their own populations and their role in national identity formation, and in terms of their international status and significance, they can also make use of museums for far more mundane reasons that arise from their overall policy agendas. This can be understood by drawing a distinction between the sectorally specific and 'general' policy intentions of political actors: the former being concerned with the core decisions concerning what the sector is intended to be for, and do, in its own terms, and the latter being concerned with the policy intentions of political actors that are intended to under-pin the totality of their approach towards policy, and which cut across the concerns of individual policy sectors. In the case of the former quite detailed and specific policies concerning individual elements of what make policy sectors distinct would be expected to be produced, while, in the latter, more generalised policy expectations would be expected to be the order of the day, with these being turned into policy actions, objectives and intentions at the sectoral level. In the museums sector the difference would be between those policies that are concerned with the 'core' functions of museums (as seen in pages 3-6) and those which are concerned with, for example, environmental sustainability or antidiscrimination or the support of market competition. The latter policies are intended to apply in all areas of public policy while the former (as, for example, in the case of standards for the conservation of metal-work in museum collections) are strictly limited in their scope.
From the perspective of national political actors all these policies have an identical significance, but they have a quite different importance: they are all intended to be pursued by a variety of organisations and individual policy implementers, but their political meaning is quite distinct. 'Cross-cutting' policies lie at the heart of whatever political project national politicians seek to fulfil and can be expected to have a greater meaning for these politicians than those which are seen to be only marginally important to their large-scale political intentions. Integrating these marginal policy concerns with the broader policy intentions of governments can be achieved through a variety of devices, ranging from tying financial allocations to the meeting of general policy intentions to direct demands to incorporate these general intentions in sectoral policies. These variants imply the utilisation of versions of the carrot and the stick to those working within policy sectors in an attempt to get general intentions put into practice, but neither of these can be seen to be straightforward versions of policy instrumentalisation. Instead of making these general intentions the prime focus of the policies that are to be put into practice (which, after all, is the main concern of critics of policy instrumentalisation), they are simply expected to be built into the policy practice that individual sectors will be pursuing. The individual and specific policy concerns of different policy sectors are not therefore being replaced or over-written but are simply being expanded to incorporate newer policy expectations. It may also be true that older policy preferences are subtracted from the current policy stew that exists - on the basis, for example, that they are no longer part of the core government policy agenda - leading to a potential simplification of the policy expectations that museums could be expected to contribute to.
It would be unreasonable to expect that individual policy sectors would be left to simply pursue their own objectives and concerns given that this may well prove to be a recipe for policy confusion, with the potential for the creation of conditions where policies in different policy sectors conflict with each other, and where there is no overall sense of policy direction in existence in the first place. The establishment of general policy objectives and principles allows governments the possibility of assessing how the individual components of overall public policy are being met - or not - and the identification of policy sectors that may require direct intervention to ensure that they are playing their part in the overall aims that governments have established for themselves. There is an element in this argument that assumes that such a rational notion of overall government strategy can be seen to exist - which is an extremely dubious proposition as the garbage can model (Cohen et al., 1972) of policy development forcefully argues - but a less rational picture can also be constructed that is built around ideas and assumptions of relative policy importance. Governments have some reason to intervene in all policy sectors, whatever this reason may be, but while policy sectors are equal, as noted above, in terms of their significance and their requirement for continuous action and support, they are not equally as politically important as each other. This importance will vary over time and will be affected by a range of social, technological, economic and political factors (an argument dating back to Downs, 1972, and an important part of both punctuated equilibrium (True et al., 2007) and advocacy coalition (Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1999) approaches to policy change). While this opens the possibility that museums can become of real political importance at some times, given the right combination of circumstances and political interest, it is also the case that for most of the time museums are decidedly the poor cousins in terms of any hierarchy of policy importance for most governments. Indeed, the previous discussion in chapter 3 of museums in Eastern Europe, China and Cuba supports this idea as museum importance for their governments depended upon their role in terms of state restructuring or significant societal change rather than it being dependent upon their own intrinsic role as museums. The contribution of museums in periods of major turmoil is always of a secondary form - instead of being in the vanguard of change and change mechanisms they are always in a position of minor players: never Hamlet, much more the gravedigger. Thus museums are not seen to be key actors in policy terms by most national political actors except in their role as contributors towards the larger and, as far as central political actors are concerned, more important political objectives that they have.
This conclusion raises, again, the relationship of the museums sector and individual museums to the national political environment within which museums operate. It also, however, raises the question of how museums and their staff react to this seemingly permanent position of political unimportance. The national politics of museums cannot be only understood by looking at them from the top down: their own actions need to be taken into account to balance this picture. Are museums as powerless as versions of instrumentalism may lead one to believe, or are they able to intervene at the national level in ways that extend far beyond the view of them as simple contributing cogs in policy machinery that is dominated by national political actors? The final section of this chapter answers these questions by examining the relationship between national policies and museum politics.
Instrumentalism: The symbolic uses of national museums
National museums can be utilised to fulfil a wide variety of functional roles - of which their ideological, hegemonic and structural roles within society are important ones. Alongside these, however, there are other ways in which museums can be used that have little to do with the precise manner in which...
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Are national museums politically important?
In terms of being capable of undertaking their whole array of functional activities national museums require a number of things to be made available to them. At the very least these would include some sense of legitimacy to underpin their status as being 'national', with this often being found in ideological...
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National Museums and Monuments Act [Chapter 25:11]
The Act protects all areas of historical, architectural, archaeological, and paleontological value. Such sites cannot be altered, excavated, or damaged and material on them cannot be removed without the consent of the Executive Director of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ). Factories...
Instrument Front-End Functions
Input Port Cover A cover is used to protect the optics from launch conditions, the non-acquisition phase, and known outgassing episodes of the platform (e.g., the international space station(ISS)). The cover will "seal" the instrument against contamination. To mitigate a closed failure, the...
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The impossible institution: Designing a Palestinian national museum
Since the Oslo Accords granted Palestinians a degree of autonomy, a number of small museums and exhibition spaces have been set up, in addition to older folklore-focused institutions. In most cases, these institutions are not PA but charitable societies, private foundations, NGOs and other 'civil society'...
(Reimagining the State:Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities)
The main function of a National Innovation System
The main function of the National Innovation System is to promote and carry out the production, diffusion, and application of new knowledge and new technologies. Specifically, the National Innovation System has the functions of implementing and evaluating innovative activities, providing and allocating...
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The Zayed National Museum
The Zayed National Museum will not be a franchise like the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Instead, the Abu Dhabi Government initially drew on the expertise of the British Museum through a high-profile consultancy agreement. The consultancy came to an end in 2017 with the authority retaining...
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life is full of collisions, moments of impact sculpting your fate. life's opportunities---questions, decisions, actions (like molecules of air) bumping, repelling, brushing up against each other, ricochetting into oblivion...only to return again when you least expect.
see the beauty of these tiny iotas of time, mixing, then separating, yet all the time defining your life.
this year we planted three cayenne pepper plants. they grew to be about 12 inches tall. each plant produced 3 to 5 cayenne peppers, about 4 to 5 inches long. first green, then turning red, at which point we pruned them from the plant and hung them outside to dry in the sun. we will grind them into a fine powder once they are ready. another round of cayennes have since appeared on each of the three plants.
sometimes things just happen. after all, it's a moshBox world, right? yes. so fate would have it that our composting of kitchen scraps would lead to some of those scraps not being quite ready to give it all up for the soil---possessing the urge to cheat death. guess we can all relate to that. so, back in may, a plant started to grow in our backyard garden that wasn't part of our spring plantings. a weed? [we thought]...perhaps. but instead of pulling this weed, we decided to let it grow and satisfy our curiosity about what it might be. well, what it might be turned out to be a russet potato plant. but we didn't plant any russet potatoes, however, we do eat russet potatoes. so, yes, our kitchen scraps live on!
we planted six tomato plants this year in the web designer's garden. each plant is a different variety. we are happy to report that all of the plants are doing very well and we are starting to see our first green tomatoes on all plants. we are anxious to see them turn red and get the first tastes of these little beauties!
the moshBox garlic garden got a jump start this year with all of the warm columbus, ohio weather we had here. planted back in early november, the garlic is bursting with life and growing very well right now as a result of all the great sunshine we have been getting over the past few weeks. there are about 40 total garlic plants in the web designer's garden---representing a year's supply of future sunday gravies. yum!
when not working late in the design studio, this web designer is busy making delicious designs in the kitchen. shown above is the latest version of the perfect pizza. it involves homemade dough, fresh veggies like basil, onions, oregano and garlic, all from the garden when possible. also included in this tasty pie are certified D.O.P. italian tomatoes, fresh mozzarella di bufala cheese and extra-virgin olive oil. the entire process is an in-house proprietary secret developed over years of 'perfecting'. mangia! mangia!
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let's begin, again. 2012 is the year of 'evolution' for moshBox. web design is now 'responsive' and means tailoring web sites that not only work across 5 major web browsers [internet explorer, firefox, chrome, safari and opera], but also display correctly on the growing diversity of internet-enabled devices [computers, smartphones, tablets, netbooks, etc.]. moshBox is positioned to meet the present and future demands of the new 'mobile' web and its ever expanding presence in our lives as the web and our lives become, well, one. the bright side is that all of these new demands bring new opportunities to capture, and moshBox is here with a new look and new outlook to do just that—seize the web—carpe interrete!


Boodle Fight is a Filipino tradition where food is served family style on banana leaves. Meant for large gatherings, it boasts a large selection of meat, seafood, and vegetables on a bed of rice eaten by hand. Seafood Island makes the boodle fight experience social and convenient, turning something reserved for special events into an everyday shared meal option.
Seafood Island's boodle feasts are a full scale production, arriving on large platters with meat and seafood selections themed according to province they are influenced by.
The menu is extensive, impossible to exhaust on a single visit. With traditional favorites, grilled specialties, fresh seafood, endless soup and rice variations; Seafood Island is a perfect choice for a festive and delicious lunch or dinner. A full service bar with an extensive cocktail and beer selection is also available, together with a plentiful selection of pica pica or pulutan to go along with the drinks. The Tequila Sunrise came highly recommend but beverages with a lighter kick like Kiwi Beer it is a crowd favorite. Offering classic dishes from all over the Philippines is quite an accomplishment and Blackbeard's does a great job at providing a taste of the country's well-loved and celebrated food tradition.
The Tali Beach Boodle Feast is a great first choice that has a selection of just about anything yummy on the menu – Barbecue Pork, Chicken Inasal, Grilled Tilapia, Grilled Squid, Grilled Talong, Grilled Tomatoes, Steamed White Shrimp, Steamed Crab, Sauteed Tahong, Lato, Green Mango, Watermelon and a extra large portion of Steamed Rice with Crispy Dulong.
Filipino sweet treats like banana wraps and fried ice cream are a fitting cap to end your festive boodle feast.
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The White Swan, White Acorn or Swan White acorn squash when mature is hard and encased in a thin creamy white to pale yellow hued skin that when cooked is edible though most often it is discarded. The pale yellowish-gold flesh of the White acorn squash is mild and sweet, with a smooth, delicate texture. Somewhat ovoid-shaped and pointed at the bottom, acorn squash is easily recognized by its thick, characteristic, longitudinal ridges which give it the appearance of its namesake.
While the traditional Green acorn squash was domesticated by Native Americans the White acorn squash is a fairly new variety that was developed in the 1980�s by squash collector and expert Glenn Drowns.
Known as a �bush acorn� variety the White acorn squash is also a popular garden squash since its fruits grow in a compact bush.
A stunning white pumpkin that tastes like an acorn squash. Small, 1/2 to 1 lb., globe-shaped, ribbed fruits have classic pumpkin shape and light orange flesh of excellent quality that can be used like acorn squash. Semi-bush plants are high-yielding with tolerance to Powdery Mildew.
F1 hybrid white acorn. Compact bush type plant produces high yields of 2 lb white acorn squash. This gourmet squash has extremely high quality white flesh. Very flavorful. Excellent choice for home gardens and specialty market growers. Might be also known as "Mashed Potatoes". 90 days.
MO USA: Pro: Prolific Con: Too Mild. Good if you like a very mild flavored squash. Great production (averaged about 6 per plant) storing well; however, I prefer a bolder/sweeter flavor.
IL USA: Squash is 9 inches long rather than round. May round out as they mature. Planted from 3 inch pots in mid May. Nice yellow in color. Will wait till stem turns black as I do for my regular Acorn Squash. Just picked first Acorn Squash. Will buy Cream of Crop again.
Sligo, North West, Ireland: Pro: mild flavour Con:Didn't plant enough. Planted this squash and hoped for the best. It did very well, even in the worst summer in Ireland in many many years. It was rained on, had cold weather and very little sun but still produced good numbers of squash outside.
WY USA: Pro:Prolific, easy to grow Con:long vines, not compact. easy to maintain, I got dozens of medium sized squash from 2 plants! I picked some young and they were very tasty as a sauted summer squash, and let others mature and harden outside and they stored well for at least 2 months. Wasn't a compact plant by any means though, it had at least 10 foot vines. Worth the space in my opinion.


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"Един мъж и една жена" () е френски филм драма от 1966 година на режисьора Клод Льолуш с участието на Жан-Луи Трентинян и Анук Еме.

В ролите

Награди и номинации
 1966 – Печели награда "Златна палма"
 1967 – Печели награда "Оскар за най-добър чуждоезичен филм"
 1967 – Печели награда "Оскар за най-добър оригинален сценарий"
 1967 – Печели награда "Златен глобус за най-добър чуждестранен филм"
 1967 – Печели награда "Златен глобус за най-добра актриса в драматичен филм" - Анук Еме
 1967 – Печели награда "БАФТА за най-добра чуждестранна актриса" - Анук Еме

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Външни препратки

 "Един мъж и една жена" в Rotten Tomatoes

Филми на Клод Льолуш
Филми от 1966 година
Френски романтични филми
Филми носители на Златна палма
Филми, носители на "Оскар" за най-добър оригинален сценарий

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Q: Kinect depth image flickering when processed using Parallel.For I'm converting depth data from the Kinect into an image (Bgr565 format). When I iterate through the array of depth pixels (to map them to a color) using a standard for loop, i get a good smooth image. But when I use Parallel.For, I get a flickering image.
Here's the code sections. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
// === Single-threaded depth to color conversion ===
        for (int i = 0; i < depthPixelsArray.Length; ++i)
        {
            depth = (short)(depthPixelsArray[i] >> DepthImageFrame.PlayerIndexBitmaskWidth);
            if (depth >= colorBoundary)
                unchecked { colorPixelsArray[i] = (short)0xF800; }
            else colorPixelsArray[i] = depth;
        }

// === Multi-threaded depth to color conversion ===
 Parallel.For (0, depthPixelsArray.Length, delegate(int i)
            {
                depth = (short)(depthPixelsArray[i] >> DepthImageFrame.PlayerIndexBitmaskWidth);
                if (depth >= colorBoundary)
                    unchecked { colorPixelsArray[i] = (short)0xF800; }
                else colorPixelsArray[i] = depth;
            }
            );

A: Seems to be that this could happen if you're rendering them while the parallel processing is going on. In the single-threaded case, the rendering and the processing are probably sequential operations so it all looks good. When you call Parallel.For all you get back is a ParallelLoopResult but the loop isn't completed yet. Rendering this still-processing result might be the cause of your flicker. You'll need to make sure IsCompleted on the result is set before proceeding to render.
Hope that helps!

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A Toronto writer turned to social media for help after she became trapped in a Hudson's Bay store after closing time on Wednesday.
Emily Keeler was shopping for sheets when the lights went out at the store at Yonge and Bloor Streets. She live-tweeted the "terrifying" experience as Twitter users drew comparisons with the 1980s-era children's show "Today's Special."
Sadly, she didn't dance with Jeff the friendly mannequin, though she did perform a little jig for a security camera during the time she was stuck inside.
We'll let Keeler's tweets tell the story.
I am trapped at @HudsonsBay_Co at Yonge and Bloor and everything is closed, no one is here. Do I head to bedding for the night or?
Bonnie Brooks, can you hear me?
@nathanwhitlock@HudsonsBay_Co this is actually terrifying!
Oh a person in the office building adjacent noticed me! Apparently I will soon be free!
@mattdpearce I was looking at sheet sets and the lights went off!
A dude shouted thru the glass to say I should try the mythical fifth floor back doors first.
Okay, thank you everyone for reminding me of Today's Special an Mannequin. I am smiling through the fear and isolation.
So I am going stand near the adjacent office again. Their security said they needed HBC's own security to get in here.
If they can't get a hold of HBC security in 10 or so, I guess I'll have to call the cops on myself?
Security in the office building is calling the manager of this particular store now. They can't find anyone who works in HBC security.
Thank you for being worried if you are, but I'm totally fine for now. The office security dude said he'll figure this out.
The in store radio is still playing. Including Bay Ads.
Non emerge police dispatcher was all "what do you mean, you're trapped in a department store?"
Like, the cops can't literally break me outta here, I guess?
Thank you all for supporting me through this experience.
@SilentVolume@shawnmicallef I will have a scary mall movie marathon annually, to commemorate this day.
Hi, new followers. I should warn you now that I barely leave my house, so very few exciting things actually happen to me.