I have been infatuated with the music from Heartless Bastards for nearly as long as I knew the band existed. It's hard for me to imagine music without the vocals of singer Erika Wennerstrom.
The inspired rock songstress, who celebrates her solo debut next month - is still somewhat of an underground music hero. I'm certainly hoping that her March 23rd album premiere brings her the long-overdue commercial success and critical praise she's so richy deserves.
Sweet Unknown was produced by Danny Reisch in Lockhart, TX, and features contributions from My Morning Jacket's Patrick Hallahan, Kelly Doyle, former Okkervill River member Lauren Gurgiolo, Heartless Bastards bassist Jesse Ebaugh and others. There's something somewhat frightening, yet utterly liberating when leaving the confines of a successful band to venture solo - especially a band whose latest record was called "effortlessly brilliant" by critics. But, such is the case with Wennerstrom who is taking a break from her Austin-based rock band, Heartless Bastards, to deliver this solo debut.
On going solo, Erika writes, "it was a really freeing experience. I found my strength in my vulnerability as an artist, and really, just as a person. It kind of forced me to allow myself to be a little more exposed and stand on my own two feet."
Patrick Coman's Tree Of Life (Feb 23) is a blues-heavy, cinematic-telling of tall plights and harrowing tales. Each song contains some fraction of their songwriter in this atmospheric film score blues.
Tree Of Life was co-produced by Peter Parcek and Marco Giovino (Robert Plant, Buddy Miller, Norah Jones). Delving into it with "Trouble #2." Here Coman narrates the lament, joined by female vocal accompaniment (Abbie Barrett and Kylie Harris) - together reminding us that not all trouble in the world comes from love - just most of it..
Hard-nosed artistic sensibility and Coman's dedication to purpose have paid dividends. Over the past year he's opened for a crop of revered Americana artists like Del McCoury, Robbie Fulks, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Joan Osborne, and John Fullbright.
Not every branch on the Tree Of Life tells the same story. In fact, it's quite the opposite. The album appears to be several somewhat disjointed tales made common by Coman's vocals and the band's application of the Blues. Each limb leads to a different adventure - with the binding being the spine of the tree.
It's utterly impossible to not hear reverence for bands like The Animals - who probably would have loved to cover "Don't Reach" during their 1964 residency at Newcastle's Club A Go Go. The recording notably features "Beehive Queen" Christine Ohlman.
My first thought when listening to these blues is, why the hell isn't Patrick Coman already famous? As it turns out the Artist turned his back on a career in the music business to spend his time as a stay at home father by day and full time musician by night.
"I wrote the majority of the songs that became Tree Of Life in the months leading up and immediately following the birth of my first child," Coman writes. "The tree of life represents the cosmic bridge between heaven and earth, which struck me as a perfect symbol of my daughter's journey into this world."
In addition to performing, Coman hosts the popular For the Sake of the Song concert series, which brings together top songwriters to collaborate in performing songs from their biggest influences alongside their own original work. He also produces and hosts the weekly "Local Folk" radio show on WUMB (Boston's NPR music station) and is a board member of the New England Americana Festival.
Dan Masterson would probably end up breaking your heart if it wasn't already stretched-out and over-shaken. This is a story about an album, but perhaps it's also the story of bootstraps and finding fortitude.. Masterson is a singer and storyteller for these troubled times. His new album, When Reality Calls, is a coming of age story told through rock, guitar and piano.
2018 finds Masterson is in a creative surge. Produced by Dave Brophy, this album grew through collaboration with longtime bandmates Alec Gaston (co-producer), Matthew Silva, and Jamie Howell. The ruckus produced here is beautifully compiled and while organic-feeling, the song clusters and overall album are cohesive - making this one of my early favorite releases of the year.
Like so many other great contemporary musicians, Masterson delivers tales about finding oneself in strange and uncertain times. When Reality Calls takes on issues of digital dependency, romance, and economic stress. These are instantly relatable stories narrated reliably, and with great skill.
This record gets high marks from the biggest frenetic in the room. Slow down, dear reader and listen to this album - you'll find plenty here to love. Highly Recommended!


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ONS and the Challenge of Open Networking
by Sean Michael Kerner
Guru Parulkar, Chair of ONS, outlines the challenges and the opportunities he sees for open networking.
At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) this week, vendors big and small are talking about the success and direction of the open networking movement, including Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and whitebox hardware. There's much reason for optimism, but there are a number of key challenges, too.
Guru Parulkar, Chair of ONS and the Executive Director at the Open Networking Research Center (ONRC), said in his opening keynote that open networking in 2016 has overcome many technological and business barriers.
"We can safely say that a new era of networking is here," Parulkar said.
The new era of networking is defined by several key trends: disaggregation, a move to software virtualization, and open source. Parulkar noted that from a hardware perspective, the increasing availability of high-performance, programmable network silicon is helping enable the new era of networking.
From a software perspective, there are multiple open-source SDN controllers and multiple platforms, including OpenDaylight and ONOS. Going a step further, there are multiple open-source network orchestration platforms, including Open-O and OSM. On top of that, there are many applications and use cases building on top of the open networking stack.
"Now the questions is, with all these open-source projects, progress, and adoption by the industry, can we declare success?" Parulkar asked. "Since I'm so plugged into this, I have to say - not really."
Parulkar noted that while open networking has made much progress and solved many problems, it has created many new problems as well.
He explained that the open networking journey began with the idea of disaggregation.
"We had been building our infrastructure with closed proprietary boxes, and we know what is wrong with that," Parulkar said.
That said, from a network operator's perspective, disaggregation can be very messy. Parulkar noted that it's very difficult for an operator to consume a disaggregated network platform and create an infrastructure that works end-to-end. As such, what is in fact happening is that vendors are making use of open networking approaches to create incrementally better platforms that are still closed, proprietary solutions.
"So we started out trying to break away from closed, proprietary solutions and we're now at the risk of ending up with closed, proprietary solutions unless we're careful," Parulkar said. "We have the risk of winning the battle, but losing the war and that's not what we want as a community."
Parulkar sees a need to also build and support fully integrated open source solutions that enable the disaggregated network experience. He emphasize that those solutions need proven scalability, performance, and ease of use to prevent closed solutions from dominating the industry.
Additionally, Parulkar sees a need for open standards to help prevent vendor lock-in. While open source can help in that regard, Parulkar warns that vendors shouldn't attempt to wield open-source as a strategic weapon, either.
"We want to build non-differentiated open-source platforms so that we can enable innovation and we can grow the pie so our industry can accelerate faster," Parulkar said.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at Enterprise Networking Planet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
This article was originally published on Wednesday Mar 16th 2016
ONS 2014 Keynote: Openness is Everything
Open Networking Summit Chair Guru Parulkar Defines SDN
ONOS Now a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
AT&T to Virtualize 75 Percent of its Network by 2020

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The most common reason for putting in a wooden fence is privacy. Two additional concerns with regard to installation are fence peak and property measurement. Horse & farm fencing installation prices $600-$5,000 and ranges from $5 to $30 per foot. The expense of this undertaking may be very excessive if you use prime-of-the-line materials, need customization or are coping with a big area.
Neighboring fences: In case your neighboring property has a wood fence and you place up a brick one, your own home goes to stand out - and never in a good way. The supplies are $10 to $25 per linear foot, and labor adds one other $5 to $eight. So, you might pay as much as $33 per linear foot as the price of having a gorgeous fence.
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Flowers from my mother's garden, translated into embroidery. Inspired by antique French millefleur tapestries.
It can be used as a bedspread, wall hanging, or throw. These items are handmade and all vary slightly. Small marks and imperfections are part of the process.
80 x 80" - fits a Full or Queen size bed.
100% cotton. Base fabric is a medium weight cotton in washed black, with multicolor embroidery.


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Rafinha (r.) will miss FCB's next three league games against Braunschweig, Bremen and HSV through suspension
Rafinha handed three-match ban
Munich - Following his straight red card in Saturday's 3-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern München right-back Rafinha has been handed a three-match ban for violent conduct.
The 28-year-old was involved in an altercation with BVB midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and will now miss the champions' upcoming Bundesliga assignments against Eintracht Braunschweig, SV Werder Bremen and Hamburger SV, but will return for the final game of the season at home to VfB Stuttgart.
The Brazilian international has enjoyed somewhat of a renaissance under Pep Guardiola in 2013/14, making 27 league appearances so far this term.


The sides of the cabinet have pierced openings, with a shallow drawer with cast brass knob on one side.
American Chippendale mahogany square flip top game table on conforming apron of cross banded mahogany veneer with applied beaded edge.
The top is supported by a conforming apron of cross banded mahogany veneer on square, tapered mahogany legs.
37" square table of Northern Chinese elm constructed in manner of bamboo furniture, with three half round elements for the apron and legs.
Assembled pair of Chinese Huanghuali wood stools, with a frame and panel top, waisted apron on four square legs which terminate in hoof feet.
Pair of Chinese elm wood stools with frame and panel top on square legs with hoof feet. China, 19th century.
lacquered cedar Chinese stool, with frame and panel waisted top on square legs terminating in a hoof foot.
American bench made table 24" x 54" birch top on a conforming apron with boldly turned cherry wood legs, circa l840, on cast brass cup / castors.
The top edge of the table is reeded and mounted on a conforming apron of cross banded mahogany veneer with reeded edge.
The circular top and apron are hinged to a columnar pedestal on a tri pod platform with carved scroll feet fitted with cast brass castors. England, circa l825. 50" diameter.


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"""
Define a suite a tests for the Component module.
"""
import pytest

from striplog.rock import Rock
from striplog import Component
from striplog import Lexicon

r = {'colour': 'grey',
     'grainsize': 'vf-f',
     'lithology': 'sand'}

r2 = {'grainsize': 'VF-F',
      'colour': 'Grey',
      'lithology': 'Sand'}

r3 = {'grainsize': 'Coarse',
      'colour': 'Grey',
      'lithology': 'Sandstone'}

r6 = {'grainsize': 'Coarse',
      'colour': 'Grey',
      'lithology': None}

r7 = {'coords': (123, 456)}

r8 = {'coords': (123, 456),
      'None value': None}

def test_init():
    """Test Rock() for backward compatibility.
    """
    with pytest.warns(DeprecationWarning):
        rock = Rock(r)
    assert rock

    rock = Component(r)
    assert rock.colour == 'grey'

def test_component_html():
    """
    For jupyter notebook.

    Hard to test this because attributes are returned in random order.
    """
    r = {'lithology': 'sand'}
    rock = Component(r)
    html = """

lithology	sand

"""
    assert rock._repr_html_() == html

def test_identity():
    """
    Test equals.
    """
    rock = Component(r)
    assert rock != 'non-Component'

    rock2 = Component(r2)
    assert rock == rock2

    rock3 = Component(r3)
    assert rock != rock3

def test_summary():
    """
    Test ability to generate summaries.
    """
    rock = Component(r)
    s = rock.summary(fmt="My rock: {lithology} ({colour}, {grainsize!u})")
    assert s == 'My rock: sand (grey, VF-F)'

    rock6 = Component(r6)
    s = rock6.summary(fmt="My rock: {lithology}")
    assert s == 'My rock: _'

    empty = Component({})
    d = "String"
    assert not empty  # Should have False value
    assert empty.summary(default=d) == d

def test_from_text():
    """
    Test generation from strings.
    """
    rock3 = Component(r3)
    lexicon = Lexicon.default()
    s = 'Grey coarse sandstone.'
    rock4 = Component.from_text(s, lexicon)
    assert rock3 == rock4
    rock5 = Component.from_text(s, lexicon, required='not there')
    assert not rock5  # Should be None

def test_None():
    """
    Test generation with None
    """
    rock8 = Component(r8)
    assert rock8 == Component({'coords': (123, 456)})

def test_tuple():
    """
    Test generation from tuples
    """
    rock7 = Component(r7)
    assert rock7 == Component({'coords': (123, 456)})

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We are located in "Palombaro", a small village in the inland of the Abruzzo region (Central Italy). Already long ago our forefathers called this village "sentry of Maiella" (due to its position at the edge of the mountain). Whoever drops by in this area is astonished by the amazing sightseeing, which offer a view over mountains, valleys, tiny villages climbing over unthinkable rocks, and finally, it is possible to see on a distance the deep blue color of our wonderful Adriatic Sea.
In our area there are several small and perseverant companies, which have a profound desire to rediscover or continue ancient jobs. Desire of feel again ancient traditions, remembering dateless tastes, trying at the same time to preserve our surrounding uncontaminated environment. Based on the just described track, you should place our decision to take over and restart our company, which was created from my grandfather and handed over to my father.
Getting closer and closer to the fascinating world of bees, and profoundly moved from our passion for those enchanting creatures, our company works mostly: on a family-business level, since 1997, in the full respect of nature, observing craftsman like traditions (the very same traditions handed from one generation to the next), and – least but not last – with the objective to provide our consumers a product, which is healthy, natural and genuine like only bees could ever donate us.
After years of "nomadic" beekeeping, which allowed us to reach the flowering of which our territory is lacking, we decided to return to a "sedentary" beekeeping first of all to protect bees.


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This is a flexible model of a hyperbolic paraboloid. The length of each generator remains the same during the motion. The highest and the lowest points move along orthogonal lines, the four midpoints move along a circle.
Created by Martin Ehrmann (2015) using POV-Ray - The Persistance of Vision Raytracer.


NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh vows he will lead the NDP into the 2019 federal election as he heads into next month's crucial byelection for the vacant Burnaby South seat in B.C.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh vows he will lead the NDP into the 2019 federal election as he heads into next month's crucial byelection in B.C.
In an interview to air Sunday on The National, Rosemary Barton asks Singh what he will do if he loses the Feb. 25 contest for the vacant Burnaby South seat.
"I will be the leader that leads the New Democratic Party into the 2019 election," Singh replies. "I'm confident we're going to do well in this riding. We're connecting with people, we're getting a lot of support. And we are providing solutions to the problems that people are faced with."
Singh is running in a seat vacated by former New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart, who is now Vancouver's mayor. A win would give the Singh a seat in the House of Commons and is seen as a crucial test of a leadership still in its relative infancy.
Singh has been without a seat since he was elected leader of the federal NDP in October 2017.
Former Liberal candidate Karen Wang quit the byelection race Wednesday over comments she posted on social media about Singh, writing that as the only Chinese candidate, she could beat Singh, who she noted is of "Indian descent." Singh was born in Scarborough, Ont., to parents who immigrated to Canada from Punjab state in India.
The Liberal Party has until Feb. 4 to nominate a new candidate. The party's constitution also allows the leader to appoint someone.


We have been very impressed with how well the children have settled back into school this week. They are now coming into the classroom and putting all their belongings away independently and then sitting down to do their morning writing activity with little support.
We have learned how to halve a shape this week by folding and cutting it. We have also used a part, part, whole model to show how a numicon shape can be shared equally. You can see a diagram of this below.
The children have been busy designing and making models out of wood this week at the workbench. They are using their measuring skills well when thinking about where to place wheels on the cars they have made.
Monday 29th April will be our Literacy Stay and Play for those parents who have signed up. If you are unsure if you have a place on this please speak to a member of the team.
The children have enjoyed the wet weather and had lots of fun using the brooms to sweep the rain water away from the playground. We also added some coloured paint to the rain water to see what happens when we mix the colours.
We have been busy making Easter cards in the afternoon as well as learning about the Easter story in RE.
We have also been making big and small helicopters out of paper to see which ones fly the best. The children made a large step out of blocks to fly them from and had fun comparing how each flew.
On Friday year 1 came to visit us to do an Easter Bonnet parade. The children loved looking at all their amazing hats they had created.
Please can we remind all parents that after half term children will be coming in to the class on their own so that they can get ready for the transition in to Year 1. We will be encouraging children to independently put away their belongings. An adult will still be available to speak to you at the door if you want to pass on a message.
This week in maths we have continued our work on subtraction with Numicon and Numicon rods. The children are now really confident at subtracting and writing the number sentence to match.
We have continued our work using the 'Tales Toolkit'. This week children have been selecting their own pictures to tell a story focusing on a character, setting, problem and solution to help them tell the story. Next week we will teach the children how to write the story.
In PE we have been focusing on balancing using the benches as well as finding out different ways we can move across the bench.
Both classes have enjoyed another visit to Forest School this week too.
This week has been science week so we have been doing lots of open ended experiments with the children. They have explored how different materials reflect light in the dark and how balls travel down tubes that are covered in washing up liquid, water and syrup.
On Wednesday we participated in world 'Sing Up' day. The children joined the rest of the school in the hall to sing 'One moment, one Person' song that we have been teaching them. This was filmed and will be sent off to be edited in with other schools.
In maths this week we have been continuing our work with subtraction using the Numicon 10. We have also been continuing to write subtraction number sentences to match our practical work.
Both classes enjoyed another trip to Forest School. Each child was asked to find an item that they felt was special and were asked to talk about why they chose that item.
On Thursday we had a special science assembly to celebrate science week. The children got to learn about what is needed to make fire, using energy transfer to set off rockets and they also learnt about gravity. They had lots of fun and were eager to make up their own experiments once they were back in class.
and development in the early years foundation stage.
We have also enhanced our music area by adding a variety of instruments, a microphone and some dressing up clothes. Mrs Manders has been teaching the children how to sing songs and use the instruments. There have been lots of children on the stage singing and pretending to be in a band!
On Tuesday we enjoyed a visit to the church to learn about the Easter story and also have an Easter egg hunt.
We have also been developing our oral telling skills for stories and we are now moving on to recording them in written format. The children have really enjoyed making up their own stories using pictures and props while we have been recording their stories for them in their writing books. The next step is for them to now record their stories.
On Friday we welcomed our mums in for a mothers reading morning to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday. The children have also been working hard making Mother Day cards- we hope you like them!
Please can we remind all parents that after half term we would like the children to come in on their own and put all their belongings away independently. This is to prepare them for an easy transition in to year 1. We recommend saying goodbye to your child at the door before they come in so that once they are in school, they can focus on putting their belongings away and doing an activity at the tables. In year 1 they will be expected to do the same.


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Unixenus attemsi är en mångfotingart som beskrevs av Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin och Bruno Condé 1967. Unixenus attemsi ingår i släktet Unixenus och familjen penseldubbelfotingar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Externa länkar

Penseldubbelfotingar
attemsi

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I have ever sent you.
Jo pagal tha sirf mere liye....!!
Clearly,I am no match for your level of Ignorance...!!!
to tell you that you are beautiful.
Duniya ka sabse accha tohfaa waqt hai!
Word itself says 'I' m possible'!
Chodne ke liye ek kami hi kafi hai...!!
Joh apke andar teen baate jaan sake.
1. Mushkurahat ke peeche dukh !
2. Gusse ke peeche pyaar!
3. Chup rehene ke peeche wajah!
Pretending that you just don't care.


Here ia a full sister to the LAR Mellow heifer that sold for $23000. Her mother also sold at the Legacy in 2011 for 10K. This heifer is out of a family of cows that have produced well for us. She is one that does not like to be penned up. She is fine in the pasture and not a problem even with a calf at side. Just don't like the closed in a pen or worked.
Here is a chance to get a full sister to the LAR Mellow cow.


This print features the historic and current homes of the Chicago Blackhawks, a team whose history goes back to 1926 but who rose to a modern-era dynasty with three Stanley Cups. When I worked along Michigan Avenue, I had the good fortune to watch them each go by in a victory parade.
This illustrated piece was made for the fan who loves history, Chicago, and the long legacy of hockey in this city. It was drawn originally in pen and ink by hand.


The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (also known as "UT Southwestern") is a medical research center in Texas, United States. It is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world. Located in the Southwestern Medical District, UT Southwestern is situated on a 231-acre (0.93 km2) campus in Dallas. It has branch programs with affiliated hospitals at several sites in Dallas, Richardson, Fort Worth, Waco and Wichita Falls. The medical center is located adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and near UT Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Children's Medical Center, and the headquarters of the American Heart Association. The center includes three degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School. The medical center and its four affiliated hospitals: Zale Lipshy University Hospital, St. Paul University Hospital, Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Children's Medical Center Dallas make up the Southwestern Medical District. It is also affiliated with Aston Ambulatory Care Center.
Question and Answer about "University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center"


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Q: Making an ArrayAdapter accept LinkedHashSet instead of ArrayList In my app Im using a LinkhedHashSet instead of an ArrayList to hold ItemCategory objects (POJOs with name and id properties)
Now I want to load this LinkedHashSet in a Spinned without having to convert the LinkedHashsSet to an ArrayList beforehand. Is it possible? Here is my code
public static void loadSpinnerData(Context context, ArrayList<ItemCategory> array, Spinner spinner) {

    // Creating adapter for spinner
    ArrayAdapter<ItemCategory> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<ItemCategory>(context,
            R.drawable.simple_spinner_item, array);

    // Drop down layout style - list view with radio button
    dataAdapter
            .setDropDownViewResource(R.drawable.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

    // Attaching data adapter to spinner
    spinner.setAdapter(dataAdapter);
}

}
btw I've overriden the toString() method in ItemCategory object to return the category name:
public class ItemCategory {

    private int id;
    private String name;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return this.name;
    }

}

A: Don't use an ArrayAdapter. Instead, extend from BaseAdapter. You'll have to duplicate some of the behavior of ArrayAdapter, but you won't be hampered by its restrictions.

A: extend your adapter by BaseAdapter and override getCount method by returning size of LinkedHashSet.

A: Unfortunately, no you can't. If you look at the ArrayAdapter API reference, you'll see that you can only give it an array or a list of entries.

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Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery /
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions /
A. Chieffo (Alaide), N.M. van Mieghem (Nicolas), D. Tchetche (Didier), N. Dumonteil (Nicolas), G. Giustino (Gennaro), R.M.A. van der Boon (Robert), A. Pierri (Adele), B. Marcheix (Bertrand), L. Misuraca (Leonardo), P.W.J.C. Serruys (Patrick), et al. D. Millischer (Damien), D. Carrié (Didier), P.P.T. de Jaegere (Peter) and A. Colombo (Antonio)
Impact of mixed aortic valve stenosis on VARC-2 outcomes and postprocedural aortic regurgitation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Results from the international multicentric study PRAGMATIC (Pooled Rotterdam-Milan-Toulouse in Collaboration)
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions , Volume 86 - Issue 5 p. 875- 885
Objectives We sought to evaluate the impact of mixed aortic stenosis (MAS) on postprocedural aortic regurgitation (PPAR) and clinical outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Background The impact of MAS of TAVI outcomes is unknown. Methods and Results Data from a multicenter registry were retrospectively analysed. Outcomes were compared between patients with pure aortic stenosis (PAS; associated AR < 1+/3+) and MAS (associated AR ≥ 1+/3+). Study objectives were PPAR incidence and short- and long-term mortality. Overall, 1,062 patients were included: 419 (39.4%) with MAS and 643 (60.5%) with PAS. At 30 days, there were no differences in mortality, however, a higher incidence of major bleeding (22.7% vs. 16.8%; P = 0.016), PPAR ≥ 1+/3+ (42.6% vs. 26.5%; P < 0.001) and lower device success (89.3% vs. 93.3%; P = 0.019) was observed in patients with MAS. Of note, MAS was an independent predictor of PPAR ≥ 1+/3+ at multivariable analysis (OR: 2.882; CI: 1.851-4.488; P < 0.001). At 2 years of follow-up, no survival differences were present between MAS and PAS groups. Similarly, following stratification for PPAR ≥ 1+/3+, MAS had no protective effect on survival as compared with PAS. Conclusions MAS was associated with lower device success and higher PPAR incidence. However, despite these findings, it had no influence on long-term postoperative outcomes.
Keywords mixed aortic stenosis, postprocedural aortic regurgitation, TAVI
Persistent URL doi.org/10.1002/ccd.25975, hdl.handle.net/1765/86011
Journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
Organisation Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Chieffo, A, van Mieghem, N.M, Tchetche, D, Dumonteil, N, Giustino, G, van der Boon, R.M.A, … Colombo, A. (2015). Impact of mixed aortic valve stenosis on VARC-2 outcomes and postprocedural aortic regurgitation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Results from the international multicentric study PRAGMATIC (Pooled Rotterdam-Milan-Toulouse in Collaboration). Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 86(5), 875–885. doi:10.1002/ccd.25975
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Óscar Leblanc Labayen (* unbekannt; † 16. März 1967 in Madrid) war ein spanischer Radrennfahrer und nationaler Meister im Radsport.

Sportliche Laufbahn
Leblanc war von 1912 bis 1926 als Berufsfahrer aktiv. 1913 siegte er im Etappenrennen San Sebastian–Madrid. Er gewann zwei Etappen der Rundfahrt. Die nationale Meisterschaft im Straßenrennen gewann er 1914 vor Antonio Crespo. 1916 wurde er Vize-Meister hinter José Manchón.

Im Bahnradsport gewann er 1916 den nationalen Titel im Sprint.

Anfang der 1920er Jahre betrieb er Motorsport.

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As you continue to drink me in you will find time and time again I am there with you, I am limitless, I am constant, I am unexplainable. For in your own mind you desire to understand, and so you invent explanations. But these explanation, though well meaning, are sorely inadequate. So you are left with a convenient, explainable, even rational concept simple for you to grasp, explain, and understand. But the reality is I am far beyond all of these things. I am far beyond any convenient explanation. In fact, many aspects of who I am defy and contradict what your mind perceives to be possible. But even still I love you. Even still I welcome you to my embrace. Even still I call you out of the darkness to enjoy our fellowship together in the light of my presence.
And you desire this closeness, yet undermine it in your heart in your pursuit of your desires for convenience and security and stability. In your desire to move away from faith, and remain in realms already known, already comprehensible, sensible, and reasonable, you gravitate towards the simple and predictable and away from the glory and paradox that is at the very center and core of who I am.
And so I am bringing these things to your awareness. I am speaking to your mind to awaken your heart. I am shaking your sleep, to interrupt the dreams of your slumber and bring you into the reality of who I am, who my son is, what you have been given, and the identity of who you are in union with me. Though I work to awaken you, still you resist. Even though you will be liberated, able to walk freely without guilt, shame, or condemnation, still you walk in the darkness and in the shadows because it suits you.
So allow me to encourage you today. Allow me to awaken your eyes to see beyond flesh and blood. Allow me to speak to your heart and foster creativity. Allow me to shake your circumstances and expose the dross. Allow me to blow the winds of change and remove the chaff. For as I do all these things you will be left what what is pure. What remains will be good for you. You will be left with what will bless you, serve you, and prosper you, and the rubbish of your former way of living will be removed as you continually renew your mind in the truth I am showing you even this day.
For there is so much in store for you, but it will require the walk of faith. It will require single-mindedness. It will require union together with me, for apart from me you can do nothing. So open your heart and open your eyes and open your ears that I may speak to you, shine on you, awaken you, and embrace you in the understanding and revelation of the fellowship and union we have together. For in this place you will experience the fullness of joy that will never be taken from you, but will continue with no end.


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Matthew Friedman Steps Down as Executive Director of Center for PTSD
by Matthew Wiencke
In the mid-1960s, Matthew Friedman had to make a crucial decision. As a PhD student in pharmacology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he was studying the neurobiology of physical dependence and tolerance of drugs—doing novel mice experiments to show dependence and withdrawal syndrome with the drug scopolamine. One of his advisors was Jerome Jaffe, a psychiatrist who later became the drug czar under President Nixon. Friedman could stay on with Jaffe studying addictive drugs, or find a new avenue. It was a tough decision. If he had stayed with Jaffe, Friedman says, "I might have found myself in the Nixon White House supporting Jaffe when he was dealing with the drug problems, particularly with the Vietnam veterans."
Matthew Friedman has led the National Center for PTSD since it was founded in 1989. Photo by Jon Fox.
Yet Friedman could not see himself doing drug abuse research. He was fascinated by one of the first biological theories of depression, proposed by Joseph Schildkraut in 1965, and decided instead to study the neurobiology of depression. So in 1973, after completing his M.D. at the University of Kentucky, and residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and later at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Friedman landed a job as staff psychiatrist at the V.A. Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. He soon was studying super sensitivity of receptors in depressed patients. His move to Vermont (Friedman is a Dartmouth College '61) to work with veterans also took him in an entirely new direction professionally—into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His road to PTSD, he says, was completely by accident, "an homage to serendipity."
Now, after helping countless patients and becoming a world leader in clinical research and treatment of PTSD, Friedman is retiring as executive director of the National Center for PTSD, a post he has held for almost 25 years—since the Center opened its doors to veterans in 1989.
Friedman started working with veterans long before. When he joined the White River VA in 1973, Vietnam veterans were coming into the medical center, "suffering tremendously. And we didn't really understand what it was." By 1978, Friedman was chief of psychiatry services there, and in 1979 he helped found one of the nation's first community-based, multi-site mental health treatment programs for veterans, named Veterans-Integrated Community Care (VICC). When the grant money funding VICC ran out, there was such a public outcry that the Vermont Congressional delegation helped continue the program.
In 1984, Friedman chaired a special committee on PTSD, authorized by the full U.S. Congress, to determine what improvements were needed in veterans' mental health care. "In many ways the committee was my analogy of the Irish monks preserving Aristotle in the Early Middle Ages," says Friedman. "We kept the flame flickering until the National Center came to be." Under his direction, the committee did an unprecedented survey of 450,000 veterans' outpatient mental health visits. The committee's recommendations led, eventually, to most of the VA's 172 hospitals adopting a specialized approach called PCTs (PTSD Clinical Teams). Key members of Friedman's committee later joined him in creating the National Center for PTSD, a congressionally mandated multi-center consortium within the VA health-care system established in 1989 with Friedman as executive director.
With Paula Schnurr, now acting executive director of the National Center for PTSD and a long-time research collaborator, Friedman completed three major VA multi-center clinical trials on PTSD. The firstwas a seminal study that changed the whole landscape in PTSD research, says Schnurr. "It showed you could bring rigor to large-scale psychotherapy research." It focused on group therapy and involved 360 Vietnam veterans. The second trial compared two PTSD treatments for 284 women veterans and service women, the first multi-center VA trial to do so.
The success of the Center, says Schnurr, is due in huge part to how Friedman gains people's "respect and trust. That's one of his greatest strengths, that people accept him as a leader and it's not just because they respect him," she says, "they really trust him and they like him." "He has unbelievable confidence in people and it's effective," adds Jessica Hamblen, deputy executive director of the Center and associate professor of psychiatry at Geisel.
Friedman is considered a pioneer in the field of traumatic studies. He is known for his long-time devotion to research on the causes and treatments of PTSD, and to advocating on the part of veterans and civilians who have suffered from war, domestic violence, terrorism and natural disasters. After working with federal and New York state officials following 9/11, Friedman and colleagues developed a Psychological First Aid manual which they made available to national and state authorities following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The manual has since been used for helping survivors of many disasters and other mass casualty situations over the long term. "His leadership has changed health care for veterans and in fact, for all across the globe," says Robert Ursano, director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. He has also led or contributed to all of the major U.S. practice guidelines for treating PTSD including those of the American Psychiatric Association and the joint VA/Department of Defense guideline.
Yet with all his clinical research, health policy work, and new initiatives at the Center, Friedman has always taken time to see patients. He has been a practicing clinician for over 40 years, both at the White River VA and at DHMC. "No matter how busy he was, he made the time to see patients," says Schnurr. "Being the clinician that he is, that has helped his research, his leadership, anything he's touched I think he's gone back to that information from his patients."
Friedman is very candid about the sacred trust he keeps with his patients struggling with PTSD. With a new patient, he explains, he will often say, "Look, I understand how hard this is for you and I respect you for coming forward. And if it gets too hard, let me know and I'll back off. And I always keep my word." Friedman says it's important to have "a realistic calibration" of what can be expected through treatment. "To understand that we have treatments for PTSD and we actually have our cures," he says. "Some of our treatments are fantastic and very effective, but there's certainly room for improvement."
Friedman will continue at the Center as a senior advisor. He also supervises residents who provide direct patient care to 10-12 patients per week. He continues his research as well, in clinical neuroscience, and recently was certified in mental health by the Red Cross. "One of the most important evolutions of my own thinking is to be a public health psychiatrist," he says. "So I'm still learning, still preparing, and that's what people should always be doing."
Tags: faculty,mental health,PTSD
Written by Matthew Wiencke
Matthew C. Wiencke is a writer in the Geisel Office of Communications and Marketing.
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I. "Szász" Henrik (ném.: Heinrich I. von Sachsen), (919/922, Nordhausen – 955. november 1., Pöhlde kolostora) bajor herceg volt 947-955 között. I. Henrik német király második, Mathildával kötött házasságából született. Ő volt a későbbi Gizella magyar királyné nagyapja.

Élete

Henrik hiába próbált meg részt venni a királyi hatalom gyakorlásában, kísérletei sikertelenek maradtak. Bátyja, Ottó Lotaringia királyságát jelölte ki számára, ahol azonban Henrik nem tudott érvényesülni; 940-ben a helyi nemesség elűzte.

941-ben, egy felkelés leverése után Ottó a Luitpoldingek Bajorországát jelölte ki fivére számára azzal a céllal, hogy a délkeleti hercegséget jobban betagozza az ottói birodalomba.

I. Henrik kiemelkedő sikerei között sorolható fel a sikeres védelem a támadó magyarok ellen.

A Luidolfingok 953-as felkelésének leverésében Ottó legfontosabb szövetségese volt.

950-ben Henrik megkapta a cseh uralkodói címet is, 952-ben pedig Friaul hercegségét Isztriával, Aquileiával, Veronával és Trienttel.

Henrik földi maradványait a Regensburgi apátságban helyezték végső nyugalomra.

Családja

Felesége Bajor Judit, akitől négy gyermeke született:
 II. Henrik bajor herceg,
 Hadwig
 Gerberga
 Brun

Jegyzetek

Források
Genealogie Mittelalter

Bajor uralkodók
A 910-es években született személyek
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Citizens are the driving force in new space race
Mine your own telescope images with new free software.
By Staff Writers on Mar 16 2015 03:13 PM
An application developed by NASA and asteroid mining hopeful Planetary Resources is being made available free to amateur astronomers and citizen scientists to help them discover new asteroids.
The application is based on an algorithm developed as part of a NASA challenge and can be used on any basic Windows or Mac computer. An Ubuntu version is also on the cards.
"Amateur astronomers may take images from their telescopes and analyse them with the application," Planetary Resources said.
"The application will tell the user whether a matching asteroid record exists and offer a way to report new findings to the Minor Planet Centre, which then confirms and archives new discoveries."
The fundamentals of asteroid detection have changed little since before Pluto was discovered in 1930, the company said.
"Astronomers find asteroids by taking images of the same place in the sky and looking for star-like objects that move between frames," it said.
What has changed is the number of telescopes scanning the sky. These telescopes produce a volume of data that "makes it impossible for astronomers to verify each detection by hand".
"This new algorithm [and software application] gives astronomers the ability to use computers to autonomously and rapidly check the images and determine which objects are suitable for follow up, which leads to finding more asteroids than previously possible," Planetary Resources said.
The algorithm upon which the application is based came out of the Asteroid Data Hunter challenge, which was announced at 2014's influential South by Southwest Festival.
Forming part of the wider NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge, the data hunter portion offered US$55,000 awards "for participants to develop significantly improved algorithms to identify asteroids in images captured by ground-based telescopes".
Several solutions came out of that process, and NASA and Planetary Resources stitched those together to produce the free desktop application.
"The winning solutions of each piece of the contest combined to create an application using the best algorithm that increased the detection sensitivity, minimised the number of false positives, ignored imperfections in the data, and ran effectively on all computer systems," Planetary Resources said.
Jason Kessler, program executive for NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge, said the contest had succeeded in helping NASA create "non-traditional partnerships" with the space enthusiast community.
"The Asteroid Data Hunter challenge has been successful beyond our hopes, creating something that makes a tangible difference to asteroid hunting astronomers and highlights the possibility for more people to play a role in protecting our planet," he said.
Replacing humans
Participation in image identification projects is traditionally a key avenue for people to get involved in citizen science.
However, the advent of tools such as the one created by NASA and Planetary Resources points to a trend away from using humans for this task in future.
Author and citizen science curator, Chandra Clarke, told students at the University of Miami late last year that citizen scientists and astronomers that put their time into identifying objects from images were likely to suffer what she called "click fatigue" at some point.
"You have to be a pretty hardcore nerd to want to stick with a lot of these projects for the long term because they are a lot of grunt work," she said.
"There's only so many images you want to flick through over time to identify this kind of stuff.
"There's enough variety of these projects that you can skip from project to project and so help out that way and contribute quite a number of hours, but at a certain point you're going to get tired of even doing that."
In any event, Clarke believed the days of these types of citizen science projects were numbered.
"That kind of project is eventually going to be replaced by computer processing," she said.
"The reason why we're not doing it by computer right now is because humans are still much better at image recognition but big companies are starting to throw barrels of money at that problem.
"These types of projects won't be on the horizon, say, [in] five years - ten on the outside."
Clarke is, however, an advocate for the ongoing role of citizen science. She first got into it via space advocacy, including early projects that asked citizens to identify craters on Mars.
"I got into it in part to find out how can we make more people comfortable with science," she said.
"If you have people actively involved in science projects, how much does that impact their fear, their understanding [and] comfort level [with science and technology], and how do we measure those kinds of things?
"I don't think we've had a really good conversation about that yet and what that means."
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Jason Momoa is a man of few words.
Here's proof: We managed to ask him 15 questions in five minutes. Fifteen!
We had to ask: Who does he think will win in a fight between Khal Drogo and Aquaman? "Aquaman. No doubt," he said.
He talked about having James Wan as a director ("Awesome!" he said) and having Nicole Kidman play his mom Queen Atlanna. "It's pretty amazing. She's a very profound artist and she really upped my game and I'm very thankful," he said.


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When a protected mode program executes a pushf instruction, the real processor flags will be pushed onto the stack. Thus, examining the flags pushed on the stack is not sufficient to determine the state of the program's virtual interrupt flag. These services enable programs to get and modify the state of their virtual interrupt flag.
The following sample code enters an interrupt critical section and then restores the virtual interrupt state to it's previous state.
This function will disable the virtual interrupt flag and return the previous state of the virtual interrupt flag.
AH will not be changed by this procedure. Therefore, to restore the previous state, simply execute an Int 31h.
This function will enable the virtual interrupt flag and return the previous state of the virtual interrupt flag.
This function will return the current state of the virtual interrupt flag.


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Q: Different caption for list of figures and tables How can I modify the codes for adding different caption to 'list of figures and tables'? For example,
\begin{figure}[h!]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[height=7cm]{indir.jpg}
  \caption[Caption for TOC]{Caption for report}
  \label{fig:figure}
\end{figure}

and
\begin{table}[!h]
\small
\centering
\caption[Caption for TOC]{Caption for report}
\begin{tabular}{cccc}
\hline
Row1    & Row2  & Row3  & Row4\\
\hline
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{t1}
\end{table}

In the above examples, 'list of figures and tables' caption and report caption can be different.
So, In the codes below, there is no section for the 'list of figures and tables'. The caption is shown as same in 'list of figures and tables' and report. Is there any way to modify?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{format=hang}

\title{Title}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}

\newcommand{\weirdCapFigure}[2]{\sbox{0}{#1}#1
  \rule{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-0.5\wd0}{0pt}%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth+0.5\wd0}{\caption{#2}}
}
\newcommand{\weirdCapTable}[2]{\sbox{0}{#2}
  \rule{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-0.5\wd0}{0pt}%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth+0.5\wd0}{\caption{#1}}
  #2%
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\begin{figure}[h!]
  \centering
  \weirdCapFigure{\includegraphics[height=7cm]{example-image}}
  {Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed felis risus, ullamcorper ac suscipit ac, molestie non orci. Nam neque orci, facilisis in euismod sed, suscipit quis dolor.\label{fig:heyelenturkiye}}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!h]
\small
\centering
\weirdCapTable{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed felis risus, ullamcorper ac suscipit ac, molestie non orci. Nam neque orci, facilisis in euismod sed, suscipit quis dolor.\label{t1}}
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Row1    & Row2  & Row3  & Row4\\
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Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Thank you.

A: The custom macros for figures and tables (\weirdCapFigure and \weirdCapTable) contain a \caption command, so you can provide an extra argument to the macros and pass that argument to the \caption call.
If you want the TOC caption (actually List of Figures/Tables caption) to be optional, then the implementation becomes a bit more complicated. In that case you need to test whether the argument has been supplied, and if it is supplied then you should call \caption command with the optional argument, otherwise you should call \caption without the optional argument.
By default optional arguments come first. A default value is supplied with an extra set of square brackets, for example \newcommand{\weirdCapTable}[3][] which means that the command has three arguments, the first is optional, and the default value is empty. Note that the argument #1 is always assigned, either with the supplied argument or with the default argument.
Borrowing some code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/58638/ you can test for an empty argument and call the appropriate \caption command.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{format=hang}

\title{Title}

\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\section{Introduction}

\newcommand{\weirdCapFigure}[3][]{\sbox{0}{#2}#2
  \rule{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-0.5\wd0}{0pt}%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth+0.5\wd0}{%
  \if\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax%
  \caption{#3}%
  \else%
  \caption[#1]{#3}%
  \fi}
}
\newcommand{\weirdCapTable}[3][]{\sbox{0}{#3}
  \rule{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-0.5\wd0}{0pt}%
  \parbox[t]{\dimexpr.5\linewidth+0.5\wd0}{%
  \if\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax%
  \caption{#2}%
  \else%
  \caption[#1]{#2}%
  \fi}
  #3%
}

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
  \weirdCapFigure[caption for list of figures]{\includegraphics[height=7cm]{example-image}}
  {Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed felis risus, ullamcorper ac suscipit ac, molestie non orci. Nam neque orci, facilisis in euismod sed, suscipit quis dolor.\label{fig:heyelenturkiye}}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
  \weirdCapFigure{\includegraphics[height=7cm]{example-image}}
  {Figure without optional caption}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[h]
\small
\centering
\weirdCapTable[caption for list of tables]{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed felis risus, ullamcorper ac suscipit ac, molestie non orci. Nam neque orci, facilisis in euismod sed, suscipit quis dolor.\label{tab:t1}}
{\begin{tabular}{cccc}
\hline
Row1    & Row2  & Row3  & Row4\\
\hline
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
\small
\centering
\weirdCapTable{Table without optional caption.\label{tab:t2}}
{\begin{tabular}{cccc}
\hline
Row1    & Row2  & Row3  & Row4\\
\hline
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
Lorem & ipsum & dolor & sit \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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When I started blogging last February or so, I was immediately addicted, and it became a daily routine - almost like brushing my teeth! As most of you know, I posted so much, and so often, that I ran out of photo space on my original site. So, I decided to come over here, and pick up where I left off, but somewhere in that transition, I started desperately desiring a break. With the holidays and my big move quickly approaching, this just seems like a good time to conclude the blog.
Thanks SO much for reading, and I wish you all the best!
Oh you will be missed my friend....good look in the move and I hope the holiday season brings you much joy.
Aw, Abby, I will miss reading it and being inspired! look forward to talking to you on facebook from now on. ha! :-) Praying everything goes smoothly for you in the move!
You will be missed. Thank you for sharing with us all that you have. Have a great time with all your new adventures that life will bring to you. All the best to you. Have the best of Holiday's.
Thank you Dan & Deanna - all the best to you as well, and enjoy the holidays! I will miss your sweet comments.
Boo! hah i jsut found yoru blog and now your not blogging mahhhh- ahah. On the serious note, i will look over ever single post carefully the style you have is amazing and jsut perfect. I love the cakes the rooms everything! So i fyou start again, can you make the photos bigger :) thank you for all your posts!
hey my hubby knows internet stuff and can modify any template so def ping me if you do- its nto that hard really! i am still sroooling all over your work. I think you should open a boutique. you def ahve style and know a market that women love.


What are you planning this September 2014 to do by realizing why the US Constitution has created a type of democratic government with rules of balance of power, liberty, and belief in We the People to hold on for rights of people, and live with a life and family with happiness and peace. NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, Philadelphia www.constitutioncenter.org Today, September 22, the Center starts events to focus on the importance of the US Constitution and why Americans should understand its provisions -- not only for those who have an interest for law, but for all those who are American citizens and those who dream to become an American citizen in the future. Check it out. Teachers and Students may find helpful online Lesson Plans today. Talk to Parents and Friends and share what they know along with surf and search how one can be a strong and American citizen and make the US country strong and united. Share your thoughts. Read, Listen, Remember and Spread the Word. ASSEMBLY, FREE SPEECH and PUBLIC SPEAKING One day, you may do some Public Speaking on aspects of our US Constitution and American Citizenship. Let us know how it goes. Let's hold on to our love for LIBERTY. It takes a lot of Education year after year and work and co-operation with our citizens.


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Flash 5/2009, #3
KJ Kabza
Billions of Stars
"It fell from the heavens," she said.
Dom gathered his wits. "Sorry — what?"
"The planet." The woman nodded at the ball by Dom's feet.
Artwork © 2009, R.W. Ware
Dom pried the thing out of the hard ground, then held it up to inspect it. It appeared to be a planet: its icy poles chilled his hands, and its dirty continents smudged his fingers as he turned it about in his palms.
Dom looked around himself from where he squatted. The empty prairie stretched for miles, and the grass nearby was free of any footprints. He'd only noticed the planet because he'd nearly tripped on it. Who knows how long the thing had lain here?
With a grunt, Dom leaned forward and inspected the vacated hole. He found no clues, but did find a moon nearby. He pried that up, too, figuring they ought to be kept together.
"Wish I knew where you came from," he said to the planet.
It made a noise like a firecracker.
Dom jumped up and dropped it. "What the hell?" he said, and as an answer, the sky above him filled with clattering. When he looked up, he saw something unrolling down from heaven like a giant spool of thread, exhausting itself as it went.
The very end of it flopped onto the grass. It was an ordinary rope ladder.
Something climbed down — a woman, radiating light, clothed somehow in rainfall and spring wind.
She reached the ground. When she walked to Dom, her feet stopped just above the grass. "It fell from the heavens," she said.
"The planet." The woman nodded at the ball by Dom's feet. Dom picked it up again and studied its oceans, but they seemed undiminished by the drop. "It fell, the same way falling stars do."
Dom cleared his throat. "Listen. I'm guessing you're an angel. Did you come to, uh, take this thing back?"
She shook her head. Sunlight scattered from her hair. "I cannot. I can only answer the wishes made on fallen stars — or whatever else may fall. And you used your wish to know how it came here."
"What, and that's it?" Dom gestured at the rope ladder. "You came all the way down, and you can't bring it back?"
She looked unhappy. "I'm afraid so. Had you wished for the planet to be restored instead — "
"And how the heck was I supposed to know that's what I should've wished for?" Dom switched the planet to his other hand; it was a temperate one overall, but those poles were frigid. "And anyway, what does it matter? Stars fall all the time."
"There are billions of stars," she said. She nodded at the planet. "But very few have planets. And of the planets, nearly none have people."
Dom almost dropped it again. "There are people on this thing?"
The angel looked pained.
Dom sighed. "Don't worry yourself. I'll wish you to take it back up."
"But you only get one wish."
"I lost my chance with the planet," said Dom, fishing its moon from his pocket. "But we can wish on the moon."
KJ Kabza's short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online (here, here, and here), and others, and has been called "Delightful" (Locus Online) and "Very clever, indeed" (SFRevu). For updates on forthcoming releases and links to free fiction online, he invites you to follow him on Twitter @KJKabza and peruse kjkabza.com.
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Pamela Grant  (born 15 November 1982) is an Australian women's international footballer who plays as a defender. She is a member of the Australia women's national soccer team. She was part of the team at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.

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Taekwondo, also spelled tae kwon do or taekwon-do, is a Korean martial art. Taekwondo is the national sport of South Korea, and taekwondo is used in the training of the South Korean Army. It differs from arts like karate (Japan) and kung-fu (China), but shares much history (and some movements!) with these other arts. While there are many different sub-styles of taekwondo, the main ones practiced worldwide are ITF (International Taekwondo Federation), Mudokwan, and WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) Olympic Style. It is estimated that there are over 11 million practitioners of WTF Olympic Style taekwondo worldwide! With so many practitioners, WTF Olympic Style taekwondo has become the world's most popular and premier martial art. There are numerous tournaments at the local, regional, state, national, and international levels where students may choose to compete in sparring (gyo-ru gi in Korean), forms (poomsae), or breaking (kyek-pa) - including the Olympics or Junior Olympics! Taekwondo, judo, and karate are the ONLY asian martial arts in the Olympics.
Taekwondo is regulated globally by the Kukkiwon (or World Taekwondo Headquarters) in Seoul, South Korea. It was established by the South Korean Government in 1972. The Kukkiwon issues Dan certificates - or degrees - to black belts. These certificates are globally recognized. As a result, the Kukkiwon certificate has become among the most sought-after and highly-prized awards a black belt can earn.


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Q: Mysql WHERE statements priority during execution SELECT * FROM articles WHERE title LIKE '%query%' AND user_id=123
The user_id column is index. How Mysql will execute this query? I think, that LIKE have lowest priority, right?
Thank you.

A: EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM articles WHERE title LIKE '%query%' AND user_id=123

That will tell it all :)

A: MySQL will almost certainly use the user_id index.
For queries in general, the optimizer will work out the possible access paths and use some pre-computed statistics on the table contents to estimate which will be the quickest.
For example, if your articles tables also had a date column article_date that was indexed and you executed a query with predicates on both user_id and article_date. Then MySQL will have to estimate which index will be the quickest to select the required rows.
If there are thousands of articles a day by lots of different users, then the user_id index might be best. But if there are only a few articles a day, but most users post a large number of articles, it may be quicker to use article_date index instead.


Photo: Dr Jitka Nováková showing the computer record capacity to colleagues from Italy - Nicola Pecora, Alessio Platania, Simon Cernesi, Maria Milano, Leka Satukunananthan (UK).
Just before the opening ceremony of the WONCA Europe conference in Prague, the WONCA editor, Dr Karen Flegg, joined a group of four colleagues from Italy and one from the UK on a practice visit.
We were told that we were visiting Dr Jitka Nováková so it was with some surprise that I found on the door of the practice, the name of Dr Bohumil Seifert, Host Organising Committee chair for the conference. No doubt he was preoccupied with the conference organisation, however, his colleague, Jitka, explained the Czech system of general practice and showed us around the premises.
The practice which was located in Ordinace Karlín, Prague 8, and it is most unusual for the fact that it is a group practice with five doctors (two of whom are trainees) and two nurses. Apparently, most practices in the Czech Republic are solo.
The doctors work at different times in order to cover a five day a week roster for patients with appointments as well as walk-in patients. On two days a week the practice works from early morning until 6 PM and on two other days they are lucky enough to finish the formal work by 1 PM. Home visits are done outside these hours, and of course we all have paperwork to do at the end of our day. There are scheduled times to provide telephone information to patients.
There are three kinds of time slots for an appointment: 10 minutes for a common consultation; 20 minutes for a major consultation; 30 minutes for preventive checks, pre-surgery examination, social assessment etc. The longer timeslots seemed a good thing to assist family doctors to provide an excellent service and as you will read, be competitive with the "subspecialists".
The practice serves about 3800 patients, most from the local area - all adults, as children see paediatricians as the first point of care. The GP is not the gatekeeper the Czech Republic and patients can, in principle, refer themselves to all "suspecialised" doctors. The practicality is that, most tend to go through the GPs. We wondered if this was a result of the GPs being able to provide a high quality service through longish appointments and add-ons such as point-of-care testing.
The patients contribute to health insurance from their salary and the doctors are paid by the insurance companies. There is a further charge (90 CZK or about USD4) when patients are consulted at home or out of hours.
Practice nurses provide reception services, triage services, ECGs and point of care testing (for CRP and INR for example), and on certain days of the week venepuncture.
The patient record system is mixed electronic and paper based, but regardless of what is entered into the computer it is also maintained on paper.
The premises were very pleasant with the consulting rooms being large and painted in bright colours. A patient waiting area is decorated with large photographs of actors and other important people (though no family doctors I think) taken by one of the Czech Republic's famous photographers.
We conclude that while not the gatekeepers, the Czech family doctors have an opportunity to provide high quality care to their patients and thus be in a competitive position with certain sub- specialists.
Thanks to Dr Jitka Nováková for showing us the practice and explaining the Czech health system, and to practice principal, Dr Bohumil Seifert, who unknowingly hosted us in his absence practice visit!


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LAFAYETTE, La. — Former UL Ragin' Cajun and current Chicago Bears All-Pro cornerback, Charles Tillman, returned to his alma mater on Saturday, May 17, 2014 to deliver the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's commencement address. Tillman spoke at the 11 a.m. general assembly for all graduates, their families and friends. Each academic college hands out degrees at separate ceremonies. Tillman, who was the winner of the 2013 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, spoke about the importance of giving back and helping others.
Tillman supports many charitable organizations. In 2005, he created the Cornerstone Foundation whose mission is to help improve the lives of critically and chronically ill children throughout Chicago. He created the foundation after his second-youngest daughter was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
Tillman played for the Ragin' Cajuns from 1999 to 2002. He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from UL in only three and a half years. He has played cornerback for the Chicago Bears since 2003. He's a 2-time Pro Bowl selection and 3-time winner of the Brian Piccolo award. In February 2014, Tillman was named the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, which honors a player's volunteer and charity work, as well as his excellence on the field. If you would like to book NFL athletes like Charles Tillman for a speaking engagement or appearance, you can contact Charles Tillman's booking agent for speaker fees at Sports Speakers 360. For booking agent and appearance fee information on how to hire Chicago Bears players for appearances, call 1.855.303.5450.


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20+ Facts About Ancient Greece That Might Even Surprise a History Professor
Ancient Greeks seem to have invented everything we use today: theater, Olympic games, philosophy, and yo-yos.
We at Bright Side absolutely love learning new things about ancient civilizations which is why we decided to write this article.
The Greek alphabet was invented at the beginning of the 8th century B.C.E. It was the first alphabetic script in history to have distinct letters for vowels.
The yo-yo was invented in Ancient Greece. It was first mentioned in 440 B.C.E. Yo-yos were made of wood, metal, or painted terra cotta disks.
Speaking of Gods... The head of the Ancient Greek Pantheon was believed to be Zeus, but this is not entirely correct. The thing is, Greece wasn't a single state — it consisted of different cities that didn't depend on one another. And every polis had its own cult. While believing in multiple gods, the ancient Greeks would usually only worship one god depending on where they lived or their status in life, in a concept known as "henotheism."
Classic Greek heroes often did pretty bad things from a modern perspective. Heracles had multiple lovers in addition to his 4 wives, and Achilles had an argument abandoned his friends during the Trojan War.
© Hercules / Paramount Pictures, © Troy / Warner Bros.
One of the most beloved Ancient Greek gods is Dionysus, the god of the grape harvest and fertility. There were festivals called Dionysia. The participants organized celebrations with food.
Another celebration that Ancient Greeks loved was the Olympiad. They loved it so much that they even based their calendars on it. The event was held once every 4 years in July/August. So, the first year of their first Olympiad was July 776 B.C.E.
During the Olympiad, all military conflicts were prohibited for the 3 months leading up to the event. This was done to make sure that all visitors could get to the location of the event safely. Wars still occurred, just not in the region of Ilia.
Women were generally not allowed to be in the Olympic games, neither as participants nor as viewers.
An exception to this rule was that they allowed women to enter horses into equestrian games. One example was the Spartan princess Cynisca, who won the event without even taking part in it. Her horses finished first in the games in 396 B.C.E. and 392 B.C.E, making her the winner.
© Sophie de Renneville / Wikipedia
There was a very popular myth in Sparta that weak boys were thrown away in a pit. This was described by the Ancient Greek historian Plutarch. But according to the most recent information, he distorted the information for the political elites of the time. Archaeologists did research in the place where the babies should've been, but they found no proof of Plutarch's words. In reality, prisoners and criminals were sent there.
But the way Spartans lived and raised their children was still pretty harsh. At the age of 7, boys were sent to special military camps. The kids slept on reed beds that they made themselves, and they weren't allowed to wear clothes until the age of 12. Some boys put nettles on their beds to keep themselves warm. The boys were constantly doing physical exercises and learning to use swords and throw spears. They were also supposed to find food by themselves.
One of Laconia's traditional foods tasted terrible. We don't know the exact ingredients (it was probably lentils with beef blood). There were many jokes about Spartan courage and this meal. The gist of the jokes was that only real Spartans would eat this terrible meal all the time.
© An-d / Wikimedia Commons
The Spartan army was the best in the Ancient Greek world and for a long time it was believed to be unbeatable, but many stories about it are exaggerations like, for example, the famous Battle of Thermopylae that the film 300 was based on. In reality, the Persians had to fight against 6,000 to 7,000 Greek warriors. The "300" Spartans were accompanied by Greeks from other city-states that also took part in the battle.
Besides, the 300 Spartans had way more equipment than they did in the film, like chest armor and helmets.
© 300 / Warner Bros., © Wikimedia Commons
The 300 Spartans weren't the only famous ones, there was also the Sacred Band of Thebes. By the way, these soldiers were the first ones to defeat the Spartans who were believed to be unbeatable. But the most amazing fact about these soldiers is that the band consisted of lovers who made vows at the shrine of Iolaus (one of the lovers of Heracles).
Love marriages were quite rare. In the best-case scenario, the spouses might have been attracted to each other, but husbands often cheated on their wives.
Being unmarried was also punished. In Sparta, there were laws against being confirmed bachelors, as well as marrying too late in life.
A married woman depended a lot on her husband. In Athens, they were legally considered part of a man's household rather than a legal person. Women could only vote, own land, or inherit property under special circumstances. It was also a bad idea to be outside alone and a respectable woman's name couldn't be said in public.
It was easier for women in Sparta — they were allowed to own land and play sports. But they had to cook the terrible black soup we described before and most likely eat it.
Preparing certain delicious and unusual meals in Sparta was prohibited.
© Troy / Warner Bros., © Jan Davidsz de Heem / Wikipedia
Women in Ancient Greece could gain independence by becoming a hetaera. They were wealthy and respected by society. But in order to become one, a woman had to study at a special school from early childhood.
Famous hetaera Rhodopis was the prototype of the first tale about Cinderella. According to the story, when she was bathing, her shoe was stolen by an eagle and thrown into the lap of an Egyptian pharaoh. He was stunned by the shoe and wanted the owner to be found. And that's how she became the Queen of Egypt.
© Jastrow / Wikipedia, © Cinderella / Walt Disney Productions
Many people think that all Greeks ate food while lying down. This is not entirely true. Reclining dining couches were usually reserved for men and, rarely, their female companions.
Banquets for men were called symposiums. They had a lot of fun and played games during these events.
© Μαρσύας / Wikimedia Commons
Average families had very dirty homes. First of all, this was due to the soot from the frying of meat, and from the wood that was used to light the place. The soot quickly covered the walls and got absorbed by the wood. In Homer's poems, you can find many mentions of the soot ruining the weapons that were hanging on the walls.
During its economic development period in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.E., Ancient Greece was the most developed country in the world. You can see it in the salary of people, which was about 12 kg of wheat. In the Roman empire, an average salary was only about 3.75 kg.
Would you like to visit Ancient Greece? Why are you interested in this historical period?
Preview photo credit Troy / Warner Bros., Jan Davidsz de Heem / Wikipedia


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The settlement of all tips will be according the final score (including overtime). Unless noted before the contest, as long as the event is played on the scheduled day, all tips will remain valid. In addition, if inclement weather (or similar delay) pushes the start time past midnight local time, but the game is still played, then all tips will remain valid as well. If the game is rescheduled, all tips will be settled as "push".
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The result of a game is official after 5 innings of play unless the home team is leading after 4.5 innings. When placing tips on either runlines, total runs (over/under) the game must go 9 innings (8.5 if the home team is ahead) to have action.
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NBA games must go at least 43 minutes to be valid.
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A Liberal's Libretto: "There ain't no decency left..."
"There ain't no decency left..."
Here's a question: Where do people get off acting like they don't know any better - or better yet, where do people get off acting like, as the line from Chicago puts it, "they ain't got no class"?
Before I go any further- let me just remind you, Chickens, that I don't assume to be the end-all and be-all of class. But, I at least know when to chill-the-hell-out.
So - last night, if you watched the Oscars, you saw an awkward exchange when producer Elinor Burkett wrestled the microphone away from director-producer Roger Ross Williams after their film, Music by Prudence won for Best Documentary Short.
People are already saying you "pulled a Kanye." What happened?
BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn't invited to any of them. And he's not speaking to me. So we weren't even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I'm sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn't get up there very fast.
And that led to the rift. But didn't you see him at other events to discuss what would happen if you won?
BURKETT: He won't talk to me! This whole week, there have been events thrown by the International Documentary Association, and he hasn't passed any of the invitations on to me.
The movie was my idea. I live in Zimbabwe. Roger had never even heard of Zimbabwe before I told him about this. And you know, I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn't going to happen this time.
BURKETT: The final product, it's not that it's bad. It's not what I envisioned when I came up with this project. And it's not what we promised the boys in the band. It's just not what we wanted it to be.
About 15 minutes later, Salon reached director-producer Roger Ross Williams by cell phone as he celebrated backstage with family and friends. We asked for his side of the story.
WILLIAMS: Only one person is allowed to accept the award. I was the director, and she was removed from the project nearly a year ago, but she was able to still qualify as a producer on the project, and be an official nominee. But she was very angry -- she actually removed herself from the project – because she wanted more creative control.
But couldn't you decide ahead of time who would speak?
WILLIAMS: That was handled by the publicist for the academy. I don't know what they told her. The academy is very clear that only one person can speak. I own the film. She has no claim whatsoever. She has nothing to do with the movie. She just ambushed me. I was sort of in shock.
You seemed to run up there pretty fast. Didn't you see her coming up the aisle? What did you think was going to happen when she got there?
WILLIAMS: I just expected her to stand there. I had a speech prepared.
She claims she found the movie's story, that she brought it to you.
WILLIAMS: No, not at all. The truth is that she saw the band perform [in Zimbabwe], and told me about that, and then I opened up a dialogue with the [King George VI School & Centre for Children with Physical Disabilities] school and went on my own – which you would've heard about in my speech -- and spent $6,000 going to Africa shooting myself. And when people expressed interest in the film, I asked her to come on board. And then I regretted that decision. Then she sued.
It was quite a tussle. Does this diminish the Oscar at all?
WILLIAMS: Absolutely not. It's such a career achievement, to win an Academy Award. This is what the business is. There are times when there's disagreement and dispute and you always hope that people will rise up to the occasion. It doesn't diminish it. She disowns it and doesn't want any part of the film. I'm so proud of the movie .
OK, did your mother try and block her with her cane?
WILLIAMS: My mother got up to hug me. And my mother is 87 years old. She was excited. What are people saying about it?
They're saying it looked like she pulled a Kanye.
WILLIAMS: She did! She pulled a Kanye. And it's a shame, because this is such positive, happy film.
If you look at the footage right after the winner was announced, you can see Williams take off in a sprint to the stage - and in the back, you can see Burkett struggling to get out of the aisle.
I don't know, I think it's a huge publicity stunt - after all, just look at all the press.


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The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts founded by the institute in 1885). The publication was co-founded in 1885 by Princeton University professors Arthur Frothingham and Allan Marquand. Frothingham became the first editor, serving until 1896.

The journal primarily features articles about the art and archaeology of Europe and the Mediterranean world, including the Near East and Egypt, from prehistoric to Late Antique times. It also publishes book reviews, museum exhibition reviews, and necrologies. It is published in January, April, July, and October each year in print and electronic editions.

The journal's current editor-in-chief is Jane B. Carter. The journal's first woman editor-in-chief was Mary Hamilton Swindler.

From 1940 to 1950 the journal published articles by Michael Ventris, Alice Kober and Emmett Bennett, which contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Linear B script.

Notes

External links
 AJA Archive since 1885
 AJA on JSTOR

Archaeology journals
Quarterly journals
Publications established in 1885
Publications established in 1897
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States


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Q: websocket in php wont connect to server.php here is my code and this work perfectly it sends the message. but server.php doesnt receive it. now if I use javascript and html5 and send to ws://localhost:8000/instantchat/server.php it works of course. I am guessing I need to specify the server.php file on the socket_connect function somehow. If I change localhost with the ws URL or just with a direct path it will fail to look up host so it wont connect. any ideas how to do this?  I did go to php dot net and looked pretty much everywhere on google. Any help please will be greatly appreciated
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if(!($sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)))
{
    $errorcode = socket_last_error();
    $errormsg = socket_strerror($errorcode);

    die("Couldn't create socket: [$errorcode] $errormsg \n");
}
echo "Socket created \n";

//Connect socket to remote server
if(!socket_connect($sock , 'localhost' , 8000))
{
    $errorcode = socket_last_error();
    $errormsg = socket_strerror($errorcode);

    die("Could not connect: [$errorcode] $errormsg \n");
}

echo "Connection established \n";

 $message = array( 'action' => 'chat_text' , 'user_id' => '4' , 'chat_text' => '');
 $message = json_encode($message);

//Send the message to the server
if( !socket_send ( $sock , $message , '55' , 0))
{
    $errorcode = socket_last_error();
    $errormsg = socket_strerror($errorcode);

    die("Could not send data: [$errorcode] $errormsg \n");
} else echo "Message send successfully \n";

A: The code you've written here is not correctly negotiating a WebSocket connection. You will need* to use a WebSocket library to do that; see "Is native PHP support for Web Sockets available?" for a list of PHP WebSocket libraries.
*: While it's technically possible to write a client yourself based on the specification, it's rather complex, making it inadvisable to do so yourself unless you have some very unusual requirements.


Product design requires an open mind. Daniel Kerris' Synaesynth project isn't the result of stale and narrow thinking. The product is quite straight forward: a camera with connected computer turns colors it registers into sound. If you have a painting for example, you can move the camera over the painting and you will hear sounds, music. Synaesynth is in some ways similar to Matsui & Miyazaki's 'Sound for Colours' project we featured earlier. Kerris' take on making music from colors is more geared to turning your surroundings and images into music as opposed to making music by arranging colors as Matsui & Miyazaki did. How do you get to that idea and turn it into a product anyone can use? Daniel explained his Synaesynth project to us.
Have you ever thought of a musical street? A blue car passing will make a sound, followed by a green one making it's own sound, and a grey one, and then a red car also making sounds. All of the sudden your street is making music! (mind you, people will need to be more 'experimental' in their paint selection) Or imagine a shopping street in the spring: when the sun comes out many people start wearing more colorful clothes. What would the music sound like if you would turn spring clothes into sounds. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will be put into an entirely new perspective.
If you're not firmiliar with how IT-product design works, if you think it's just a matter of one's and zero's and techies: you're wrong. The source of Kerris' idea behind the Synaesynth project lies in a tram ride where Kerris pondered about turning the landscape passing by into music. Similar to Jennifer Greenburgs feelings on what makes a good photographer the product designer needs to be skilled in much more than just writing code. Anyone can learn writing code. You need inspiration, you need to look at the world around, question it and be inspired by it. You need to see connections between a problem you want to solve and areas that are completely unrelated to find solutions. And you need to experiment. From making the camera recognise the right colors (Daniel chose not to use average colors of an area but exact pixels), to selecting what a color sounds like (how does blue compare to red in sound? Blue and red are complementary colors visually speaking, but do they also need to be opposites sound wise?). Daniel stuck to opposites and was inspired by the the Doppler effect to add sound to blue and red: blue would be like a car driving away from you and therefor creating a lower tone, whereas red would get a higher pitch like a car moving towards you. He also asked people about people about their associations of colors and sounds. Not only people on the streets, but also orchestra's. One thing he learned is how incredibly subjective people are when it comes to colors and sounds. Did you notice we haven't mentioned writing code for a while? There's more to the apps we use than writing code.
There needs to be harmony to make the sounds of color something you want to listen to. That harmony is something Kerris needed to create in the code but he wouldn't solve it by writing code, he needed to make choices and translate them into code. To solve the problem of harmony Kerris let the hues determine the scale and the brightness the octaves to be selected. And there are many more challenges like this that Kerris needed to solve to create sound from colors, sounds that actually make sense, music. Many of his choices could have been made differently, but all of his choices we're inspired and thought through. And Synaesynth will need some more development, it will need more ideas. Or considering that Kerris already has several ideas on which way it could develop further, it's needs choices. Choices only Kerris can make for the project. Because he is the product designer.