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In honour of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - by Grace Back
November 25th marks the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women. According to research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2.2 million Australians have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a partner, whilst 3.6 million have experienced emotional abuse from a partner.
But, efforts to prevent and end violence against women at the global, regional and national levels show that there is widespread impunity on sexual violence and rape. Starting on this year's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and for the next two years, the UN Secretary-General's UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, will focus on the issue of rape as a specific form of harm committed against women and girls in times of peace or war.
The 2019 theme for this year is 'Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape'. Like in previous years, this year's International Day will mark the launch of 16 days of activism that will conclude on 10 December 2019, which is International Human Rights Day.
As part of the day, some Australian brands are calling light to the statistics surrounding violence against women - and using their voices for good.
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1 in 5 Australian women aged 15+ have been involved in a sexually/physically abusive relationship. Starting 8am tomorrow, November 25 we are donating 100% of our profit and donations for 24 hours to a cause very close to our hearts. All the information will be shared tomorrow, and we would love if you could get involved #itsnotok #biologiserum
Biologi will be donating 100% of online profits from all sales made Monday to Rize Up Australia to fund the Education and Awareness of Domestic Violence Against Women in Australia, as well as opening up a channel for donations of all amounts through the Biologi website. The brand also released a moving video as part of its campaign.
Australian not for profit Hope + Heal, which provides weekend residential retreats in NSW for women survivors of domestic violence, will be holding a vigil at Sydney's Martin Place Square to commemorate the day. The charity is aiming to raise awareness for the issue and encourage those impacted to seek support. Roses will be laid to pay tribute to the 45 women who have been murdered as a result of domestic violence this year.
Show your support with the hashtag, #orangetheworld.
If you need help contact the Australian Helpline 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732).
Grace Back
Grace is our Digital News and Entertainment Editor. When not stuck in a seemingly endless Instagram scroll, you'll find Grace with her head in a good book.


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More than 100,000 of the house's furnishings have been damaged by the fire, which also caused extensive damage to the rest of the home.
BBC News has more: The fire started at the back of the property on Friday morning, when a gust of wind blew a fire alarm into the attic, trapping it and burning all of the contents in the attic.
It then spread to the other two properties and into the house itself, as a blaze tore through the main building.
It is now believed to have been started by a faulty electrical wiring system.
In total, around 100,064 items have been destroyed.
One man was treated for smoke inhalation, while two people were treated for minor burns.
The fire was declared under control at around 11:30pm on Sunday.
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The owner added that he had been cleaning the house for five years and had had no problem with anything.
He also said he did not know what caused the fire to start.
The owners' other property, a guest house in Newington, south-west London, was destroyed in the blaze.
A fire official told BBC News: "It's believed that the electrical system in the guest house caused the house to catch fire, and as a result it's now completely destroyed."
BBC News understands that a number of items in the house have been returned to the owner.
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At a time when teenagers are confined to home, Richard Hogan's new book has useful tips for parents
Irish Times Article Link > https://www.irishtimes.com/timely-advice-for-coping-with-the-screenager-in-our-lives-1.4204427
In this time of social distancing most parents of teenagers are spending a lot more time in closer proximity to their offspring. How's it going for you?
As in any relationship, new stresses and changes in routine can solidify it – or exacerbate cracks that are already there. If the suspension of life-as-we-know-it is increasing tensions between you and your teenagers, the advice in a new book entitled "Parenting the Screenager" is worth contemplating.
Family psychotherapist Richard Hogan wants parents "to think about the teenager in your home in a different way". You may need to change the way you co-exist with your adolescent son or daughter, rather than struggling to uphold the status quo that might have worked in the past.
He has written a "practical guide for parents of the modern child", living in a digital world that is so different from when we were growing up.
"I wanted parents to get an insider perspective – what is going on for their child." He hopes it will help families "manage the parent-child relationship through the storm of adolescence".
It's clear where his sympathies lie – with the tweens and teenagers, whose mantra of "my parents don't understand me" is probably truer than ever for this generation. If we don't understand the digital world they are inhabiting, he believes that it will then be harder than ever to comprehend adolescent behaviour.
He feels even more for this generation right now. They were already dealing with the long-term doomsday of climate change and now they have this short-term unprecedented crisis unfolding around them.
"It is such an uncertain time for them and their minds are so young to be able to interpret all of this, which is why parents need to help them and be clear and concise about it and not over-dramatise it."
Hogan felt compelled to write this book after his years of working with teenagers, both clinically as director of the Therapy Institute in Dublin and in schools, having been a teacher in the Catholic University School (CUS) on Lesson Street for 14 years. It was also motivated by issues parents raise in feedback to his weekly Learning Points column in the Irish Examiner".
He uses case studies from his clinic to show the impact of an adolescent's "ecology" ie family unit on their behaviour. The common theme he observes among families seeking help with young teenagers is the that the parents see them as recalcitrant and reticent; not talking and railing against authority. Parents are unable to open up lines of communication.
"They would see the reticence as some major issue going on," he tells The Irish Times. "When I talk to the teenagers, they say parents don't really understand the world we are in."
Instead of parents feeling a sense of loss in these teenage years – where has that once-delightful child gone? – they should see it as time of being together differently, he suggests. What's more, it is important to remember that adolescents may also experience a sense of loss as the scales fall from their eyes as regards us parents. We're no longer the all-knowing heroes of their early childhood.
"You are not the Colossus you used to be; you make mistakes and you are not cool anymore," he points out. "There is a loss in that dynamic. The pillars are no longer what they were."
Supportive position
In Garmin speak, there's "recalculating" of the relationship to be done on both sides as teenagers head for adulthood.
During this process, we need to be "at their side, not on their side", he stresses. "I think that's a crucial thing; when you are by their side you are in a supportive position; you are listening to them in a calm way. When you are on their side, say if they are talking about a bullying situation in school, you become anxious, you become hyper and in conflict with the school.
"You are not actually supporting them and you are not a safe place for them to come to." As soon as they see you tend to overreact, they will stop coming to you. "When you are by their side you are their safe space."
Try to help them solve the issues for themselves and never get into a negative interaction with the school, says Hogan, who has seen how that can happen so quickly.
"Parents exacerbate the issue by alienating themselves with the school. When the joint system of home and school work together it is very powerful."
To take a stance over anything that suggests to the teenager that you're both in this against the school together, "is a very dangerous position". He's not disputing a parent's right to fight with a school – just not in front of the teenager.
Technology has dramatically changed all our lives in recent years and in this easy-to-read, concise book, Hogan works through the most challenging issues when parenting a screenager.
Right now, admittedly, is the worst possible time to be trying to tackle the root cause of many of screenagers' problems – too much time on screens. Confined to barracks, they are more dependent than ever on their devices for communication with peers, entertainment – and links to educational resources of course.
If research in the past has found that teenagers are spending, on average, nine hours a day on their devices, just think what that has soared to over the last 12 days. While any pre-coronavirus, screen time limits in your household may seem positively quaint now, it is more important than ever to reflect on our approaches to what screenagers have to cope with.
This is not a normal situation, so we can't parent it the way we should when the pandemic is over. Here are a few of the topics on which Horgan offers advice:
Building communication
Parents often describe feeling like an interloper in their child's life.
"We must not allow ourselves to be placed on the periphery of our children's life," he writes.
Tips for building communication include:
Identify the times they are more likely to open up
Make it clear you are always available for a chat
If they do come to you with something, make sure you don't overreact
Stay involved with their life. Keep up with who are their friends and make them welcome in your home.
"You have to be involved in your children's life – the research is there, when you're not, the chances for risky behaviour are increased dramatically."
Online pornography
"As soon as your child has a smartphone, they are only ever a few clicks from hardcore sexual imagery," he reminds us. Children as young as eight have been brought into his clinic because they were found viewing extreme pornography.
"Can you imagine what that does to a young mind – particularly where there is a seed of vulnerability?"
In the book he quotes the American serial killer Ted Bundy who, before his execution for raping and killing more than 30 women, said, "those of us who are influenced by pornographic violence are not inherently evil; we are your sons, husbands and brothers and pornography can reach out and snatch a child out of any house no matter how diligent the parents are".
Much closer to home was the revelation last year that Gardaí found internet searches for "child porn" and "animal porn" on the phone of one of the two boys convicted of murdering Ana Kriégel. He also had thousands of porn images on his phone, some of which depicted sexual violence.
Boys are most likely to be viewing porn but "girls get normalised into the behaviour because the boys are being normalised into it", says Hogan.
"The images dehumanise women and the research is very clear – it's not just opinion – that it disturbs minds and warps intimacy."
He sees the fall-out across the board: girls who get forced into sending compromising images over their devices because guys think it's normal and, down the line, to adult relationships, "where they don't know the difference between explicit online pornography and intimacy".
Parents' vigilance is crucial in minimising children's contact with such images, with measures such as filters on devices. The browser history on phones can be checked at night, if you are imposing the "no-technology-in-the-bedroom" boundary that he recommends.
But he doesn't think the onus can be all on parents and believes the State should do more. The owners of porn sites should be fined, he suggests, if those sites can be accessed without having to put in an email address and verify age.
Meanwhile, building your child's self-esteem is, he adds, "an important part of preventing your child from constantly looking for approval, which is often at the root of this issue".
"Gaming disorder" was recognised in 2018 by the World Health Organisation as a new mental health condition. And the American Psychiatric Association found that "gaming prompts a neurological response that influences feelings of pleasure and reward, and the result, in the extreme, is manifested as addictive behaviour".
"It's immersive and it's dangerous," says Hogan, because players "are being targeted by very clever game designers".
Parents often don't understand the social aspect of online gaming and how being a good gamer can give teenagers a great reputation in the classroom, motivating them to play more to improve further – which can cause a drop in hygiene standards, in real-life activities and an increase in school refusal.
At first parents tend to have the illusion that they are upstairs "safe". And, frankly, it might suit parents to have a child occupied with quiet gaming, allowing them to have down time themselves. But then they're annoyed when the child does not want to stop.
In his clinical experience, parents don't seek help until a child's gaming has reached an intolerable level, reminiscent of addiction. He looks at the pattern and policy in the family home around the use of technology and usually introduces parents to the concept of "self-deception" – that they have contributed to this.
"A comfortable dynamic has developed between the game and the parenting. They have outsourced their parenting."
He always asks, if their son wasn't gaming, what would he be doing? "And the answer generally is 'I don't really know' – that's the issue."
He sees it as a significant factor in the "huge new crisis" of school refusal. Either the student's gaming has left him sleep deprived and unable to get up in the morning, or he simply doesn't want to leave his game at home.
In addition to keeping all gaming devices out of the bedroom and setting limits on the time they can spend playing them, he recommends letting teenagers occasionally choose an outing for the whole family to do.
Meanwhile, at this time, "we have to be realistic, they will be gaming more", he concedes. "But we can't let them off on it all day long – we have to be sensible about it."
Students in third, fifth and sixth years, in particular, should be in a study routine in the morning and not allowed to game until later in the day.
"They can't move from games into study because their brains will be too hyped."
One of the most prevalent issues he encounters in the therapeutic setting is teenage anxiety. This can be fuelled by technology – and now living through a pandemic is a challenge to all those with mental health issues. Young people look to adults for guidance in a crisis so if "we are overly worried and overdo this 'doomsday shopping'," it just going to heighten their fears.
"How we manage this now is a great lesson for our kids about resilience – that we don't overact to stressful situations."
As mammals, we like to be around each other, yet technology has been dividing us in recent years, with less real connection between people.
"That is one of the issues definitely with anxiety – teenagers feeling that sense of separation."
Yet for the time being, while we have no choice in our physical separation, we will have to make the best of online connection.
Parents need to teach children that anxiety is inevitable for all of us but it comes and it goes – it is not a permanent state.
"The difference between a child who can manage their anxiety and a child who cannot is having this understanding."
It is not a matter of "beating" anxiety but coping with it. Avoidance of the stressful situation is not the answer because they will never learn that the anxiety would have dissipated eventually if they had persevered.
To parents who wonder why they have such an anxious child, they may need to look around them.
"In my experience a child's anxiety has more to do with the system or ecology they are navigating than anything inherently pathological inside them."
While electronic and digital media enables a particular form of bullying, it is an age-old problem. Don't react emotionally and "you must not ban your child from their devices", he stresses. Otherwise they will never come to you again. Listen and avoid lecturing but tell them what you would do in such a situation.
"The most dangerous aspect of this type of bullying is that it can make a child feel completely alone, embarrassed and trapped. By providing them with supportive parenting you will become that safe space they need to vent."
Which brings us back to the supreme importance of parent-teen communication – with more opportunities than ever to practise it right now.
As a parent of three daughters, aged almost three, six and nine, Hogan has yet to have hands-on experience of parenting a fully-fledged screenager. But already he is trying to prepare his daughters for going out into the world.
"You have to be tough now; you have to have a thick skin and deconstruct those feckin' images that they are bombarded with about size."
On the basis of him saying to Hannah, Lizzy and Sophie at the beginning of the book that "nothing I have read in a book or theory I have studied in university ever taught me how to be a good father like you three girls", we can look forwards, perhaps, to an updated edition some years down the line.
Parenting the Screenager by Richard Hogan is published by Orpen Press (€17).
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English title: Use of aerial photography in forestry.
The article is a treatise on use of aerial photography in forestry and its prodpective applications in Finland, based on the writers visit to Techniche Hohschule Dresden in Germany and experiences in his work in Forest Service.
Optimal conditions and principals of aerial photography are described. There is potential in use of aerial photography in Finland. The terrain is relatively flat, and large areas, especially in Lapland, are inadequately mapped. However, to fulfil the current requirements for forest maps, aerial photography should be carried out as aerial stereo photography at a sufficiently large scale. At a certain scale terrain survey becomes cheaper than aerial photography.
In forestry, aerial photography cannot substitute terrain survey, but it complements it. Aerial photographs could, for instance, form a photo archive of a region or be used as a basis for planning drainage of peatlands. In research, aerial stereo photography could become a new discipline.
The article has a German summary.


From time to time I'll hear a new album and I'll love it and I'll occasionally put it on repeat. This is one of those moments where repeating the album over and over is not enough. And there's two that I'm covering in this review. I won't bore you with all the tracks. You'll have to get both albums and listen for yourself.
The very first track, 'A Million Lights' is one of those songs that makes you want to look at life differently. While stargazing is a standard in this critically acclaimed song, the point in this song is to really keep looking past the stars. That's where we find our hope, our rest found only in God. The video is really a masterpiece as Michael is on board a space craft from what looks to be something from Star Trek or maybe Star Wars. But the lyrics capture the message in a unique way that only Michael can write them. Why shouldn't we look to the stars? Remember, David, Daniel, Jeremiah, all were astrologers and they praised God for the universe He created. It's not the stars that we worship, but it's God.
The next song on this album that I want to cover is 'Conversation'. This is a prayer to God. We have so many distractions that we deal with everyday. Financial troubles, death, relationship issues, social media woes and something we miss is that God is looking for us to say that we need help. All He's looking for is for us to have a conversation with Him. When we do that He comes down to us and it's at that point we can talk freely with God. This is definitely a unique pop-style song with ambient vocals streamed throughout the song. The lyrics are all centered on having that conversation we need to be having with God.
I think what I get out of the overall song is this, so many groups of people that you and I both know have been marginalized and shunned and in essence have been turned away from the church. Michael is writing the code here for how we need to start standing against injustice and to create a bridge in our communities and to bring people back into God's love, those who have been looked down upon in society.
This song is one of many on this album that talk about injustice. I am encouraged by this album and I don't easily get encouraged like this. I really love this album already. All the different sounds and vocals and harmonies incorporated into a this pop album is truly breathtaking and surreal.
You can get this album when you visit michaelwsmith.com. Official release is February 16, 2018.
Right away, people will assume that I am going to talk about Michael's title track, 'Surrounded (Fight My Battles', but I won't. It's a great song. And that already has been covered by artists like Bethel and Misty Edwards and many churches across the nation. Already it's a church favorite and will be for the next couple of years. This review is not about the title track though. Let's get started.
When I started playing the album on my computer, immediately I was drawn to the first song. For the record, I don't always like listening to the first song. Normally, I'll skip to the second to last or the very last song to get some perspective on what the album is about. But this first song really drew me in immediately. It's called 'Your House'. Hands beginning to clap in the beginning as the song builds onto an upbeat tempo. If you're sitting down, most likely your foot does a little bouncing thing. Maybe you start nodding your head to the music a little bit. And the lyrics?
One voice calling out, "the King is among us!"
Already impressive on the first verse of this gathering song. But the chorus is what really draws me into the presence, and it makes me want to dance.
And while the chorus seems boring, these lyrics are the same ones that we sing in many other songs dating back to the 1980's when Hosanna! Music was popping out albums. I grew up in the '90's and so I can recognize the same songs that I grew up with in this very song. It's a gathering song and we are gathering together to come into God's house and worship Him with all we are, with thanksgiving and praise.
'King of my Heart' is another track that simply states that God is good. How many times have we messed up? Countless times i'm sure. No one is perfect. But it is through grace that we come to know the goodness of His glory in our lives. God doesn't have to love us but He chooses to do so and our response to that is, "You are good." "You're never gonna let me down" is a line that is bridged in this gospel truth of a song. For me, it's a song that I can lift my hands to and just thank God for His grace and mercy. I can find hope in His goodness. There's just not much more to say on that. God is good!
No matter what happens today or tomorrow, our desire should always be to build our life upon the love of Christ. As the old song goes, "On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand." Let this be the prayer and desire of our hearts.
'Surrounded' is by far the best worship album that Michael W. Smith has recorded since releasing 'A New Hallelujah' in 2009. No offense, 'Sovereign' just couldn't even come close to being one of my favorites.
To pre-order this album, visit michaelwsmith.com. Official release is February 23, 2018.


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There are some exciting things going on in the world of He & She today! First, Totally Rad Actions has posted part one of a two-part interview with us! We were so stoked to be able to share some of our thoughts with them. Hopefully everyone will enjoy a little sneak peek into Erin and I's company concepts and visualizations :) Check out the first part here!
We're also really excited to share a publication in Utterly Engaged. If you don't know about this e-magazine, you've gotta check it out! A few weeks ago, I had the awesome opportunity of meeting and photographing the folks of Sweet Lucie's home made organic ice cream! They were seriously the sweetest family with some of the best ice cream i've ever tasted. No exaggeration. And being organic was a great topper – especially since Erin and I are new to the organic way of life. They have a SWEET vintage style ice cream cart with the coolest vintage ice cream truck I've ever seen! To learn more about them, check out the magazine article here and their website here.


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I long to merge with Your heart, but this space between keeps us apart! One day we'll merge at last, the point beyond passion, the Critical Mass!
* Deep Elevation, deep, deep elevation! You know I heard it in a dream? Deep Elevation, in the rocks by the stream, Deep Elevation! Deeper and Deeper, Higher and Higher, that's the way you want to go, deeper and deeper, higher and higher and this Love is gonna blow!
We've got to crawl through the fire, though the flames are getting higher. We've got to walk through Hell's gate to find the stairway to heaven…….meditate!
Deeper and deeper, higher and higher that's the way were gonna go, deeper and deeper, higher and higher and this Love is gonna blow!!
"On the banks of the green, green, green, Ganga dream. As the magenta rose offerings flow downstream. I made a vow, to serve Thee through the Sound and then I dove down deep into that Ganges River and I heard the Sound! Then I came up into the sunrise and I saw Your eyes.
"Deeper and Deeper, Higher and Higher that's the way your gonna go! Deeper and Deeper, Higher and Higher and this Love is gonna blow!


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By Bill Adams Reviews - Vinyl February 26, 2019
Royal Trux – White Stuff (vinyl LP)
Listening to White Stuff – Royal Trux' first album of new material since 2000's Pound For Pound – I simply could not stop thinking about and drawing comparisons between it and Danny Boyle's film T2 Trainspotting. In the film, all of the characters who survived the events which played out in Trainspotting had found life after heroin addiction and discovered new fascinations and addictions – be it crime, working out, pornography, dealing, pimping or pushing and more. The world carried on, and T2 sees the characters attempting to move with it while not actually being able to change who they are at their core. White Stuff functions in a very similar manner to T2 in that, nearly twenty years later, the bandmembers have smartened up and gotten clean [read: the heroin in which every note the band once played was steeped is cleaner and tighter], analogue recording and production has been replaced with digital, and the fuzzier, dronier and Stones-esque styling has been refreshed and tightened.
Needless to say, White Stuff would like listeners to believe that it's a brand new day for Royal Trux, but take long for listeners to figure out that, while the presentation might be new, fresher and cleaner, the bandmembers haven't forgotten who they are and (in an absolutely obvious effort to be coy) what they know now is more white than it is tar.
As the album's title track opens its A-side, listeners will be able to find plenty of recognizable elements present from the Royal Trux of old – Jennifer Herrema's shredded vocal rasp dominates the track along with Neil Haggerty's warhorse guitar tone – but there are noticeable alterations about the band's sound too; where the mixes of the band's songs were often confusingly dense and fuzzy, there's a cleanliness and clarity comparable to the sounds on Bowie'a Berlin album trilogy. The sound here is crisp and airy, and the metallic clank about it gives the cut a propulsive quality which is really exciting and delivers where lyrics about trolling through a Duty Free shop come up short. By the time the song finally begins to fade out, listeners will find themselves absolutely on board with the promise and possibilities that "White Stuff" implies; the refresher presented here is the sort that concedes some energy to the band's beginnings, but it isn't bound to those sorts of limitations. This is a new thing, and opening the album this way gets listeners receptive to that.
The A-side keeps the energy first presented in "White Stuff" up at the "full-to-brimming" mark as it goes. The guttural low end affixed to "Year of the Dog" gets the song pumping and actually comes close to pushing Royal Trux out on dance floors which sets the stage for the groovy, trip-hoppy vibe of "Purple Audacity #2" (which also sees Herrema reducing her stripped, strangled rasp down to a sexy purr or exhausted rasp) before Royal Trux stumbles a bit and repeats that vibe with an added infusion of Jim Carroll-esque, lean addiction storytelling in "Suburban Junky Lady" before circling around and returning to the noisy, attenuated and overdriven snarl that "White Stuff" featured for "Shoes and Tags." In that movement, do something completely against their own convention: they sew the A-side of White Stuff up into a neat, tidy set so tightly, they could easily stop and call what they've got a really, really effective EP – but they don't. They give up one more cut ("Get Used To This" is a hip hop guest track which features Kool Keith and feels like a contrivance intended to draw crossover appeal) as a delightful post script, and then listeners will be left scrambling to lift the needle, flip the disc and find a second helping.
…And "Sic Em Slow" perfectly revives White Stuff's running to start the B-side, with a great blend of urban music and dirty shirt rock n' roll which quickly comes to characterize the movements here. Now, it's important to point out that nothing about "Sic Em Slow" overtly states, "this is the direction we're going to be headed in," the sound of it simply proves to be the tie which binds both the side and songs together. Parts of "Sic Em Slow" can be heard in the greasy, scruffy tone of "Every Day Swan" and the fumbling-towards-pop spittle which drips from "Whopper Dave" as well as the uncharacteristically nimble and clean-toned "Purple Audacity #1" – but that is not to imply that the whole side is intended to fit a concept, just that this B-side is a finer mosaic than its counterpart. Rather, the little common bits which manifest from track-to-track pull the side along and give it a coherence which has been previously unheard of, coming from a Royal Trux album. That movement also makes a climax which comes in the part lo-fi/part epic/part twenty-first century party anthem entitled "Under Ice" feel all-the-greater and more satisfying, and leaves nothing wanting as it closes both the side and the album. "Under Ice" plays so well and ambitiously, in fact, that it's hard to believe that the song is the work of a band so steeped in No Wave and heroin chic as Royal Trux is; it's a revelation.
After running front-to-back with the album and recognizing the strides that Royal Trux has made with its tenth album, any listener will be able to recognize both the achievement that White Stuff is as well as similarity to T2. Like the movie, the music is a move forward for Royal Trux and it does express great growth and development, but it doesn't attempt to forget who the band is, at its best. White Stuff is the absolute best kind of return – better than any fan could ever have hoped for.
(Fat Possum Records)
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Royal Trux' White Stuff album will be released on March 1, 2019.
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These operate of four (4) AA Alkaline batteries and fire about 120fps using 0.12g BBs. The BBs are internally held and gravity fed and what's more, they are fully automatic!
Unique and cute electric gun: M16 assault rifle to mini size! It is a slightly unique electric gun that has been deformed to the size of a handgun.
FULL AUTO MODEL: Equipped with a full-fledged electric gun mechanism, you can fire a BB bullet one after another just by pulling a trigger.
Safety installation: The safety is automatically applied except when firing and it prevents misfires. You can fire by pulling the trigger while holding the lever on the side of the body.
Hop-up system: By providing rotation to bullets, we have a fixed hop-up system that allows you to fly BB bullets further with little power.
About 70 BB bullets can be put in the main body.
Use four alkaline batteries: Operated by 4 x AA Alkaline batteries (not supplied) and usually stored in the grip.


If Amazon has their way, devices like the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot will become the ultimate home communication system of the future. According to a report out of Recode, Amazon is not only working on new Alexa-powered devices that should be able to make phone calls, they'd like multiple units throughout a house to act as an intercom system as well. Their report is based on multiple sources, who expect new Alexa devices in the coming months.
This news follows-up a report from the Wall Street Journal in February suggesting that Amazon and Google were both working on adding phone functionality to their home assistant tech. The thought was that you could initiate phone calls using your voice and an at-home speaker assistant. Recode's report suggests that Amazon is indeed going forward with this functionality while adding on the intercom stuff too.
We still don't know how Amazon will implement a phone feature. Will they let you use your current phone number? Will they have to create a Google Voice-like system that provides a single master phone number? However they do it, consider me interested.


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The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren't so lucky, dying at once. The True American traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter.


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# The IP address the notebook server will listen on.
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# The base URL for the notebook server
# c.NotebookApp.base_project_url = '/'

# The port the notebook server will listen on.
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# Whether to prevent editing/execution of notebooks.
# c.NotebookApp.read_only = False

# Whether to open in a browser after starting. The specific browser used is
# platform dependent and determined by the python standard library `webbrowser`
# module, unless it is overridden using the --browser (NotebookApp.browser)
# configuration option.
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False

# The full path to an SSL/TLS certificate file.
# c.NotebookApp.certfile = u''

# Hashed password to use for web authentication.
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# To generate, type in a python/IPython shell:
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#   from IPython.lib import passwd; passwd()
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# The string should be of the form type:salt:hashed-password.
# c.NotebookApp.password = u''

# The full path to a private key file for usage with SSL/TLS.
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# IPython: an enhanced interactive Python shell.

# IPKernelApp will inherit config from: KernelApp, BaseIPythonApplication,
# Application, InteractiveShellApp

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AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A USER RATE SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF GOODLAND, COUNTY OF SHERMAN, STATE OF KANSAS; TO PROVIDE FUNDS NEEDED TO PAY FOR ALL EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CITY'S WASTE-WATER TREATMENT WORKS AND REPEALING SECTIONS 14-203(b); 14-204(3) AND 14-204(4), OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF GOODLAND.
SECTION 1. An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account – Capital Improvement Reserve Fund and Municipal Equipment Reserve Fund). Deposits in the replacement account shall be made at least quarterly from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue m the amount of$59,200.00 annually.
SECTION 2. The minimum charge per month shall be $4.56. In addition, each contributor shall pay a usage rate for operation and maintenance including replacement and reserve of $1.08 per 100 cubic feet of water ( or waste-water) used (or contributed) as determined in Section 14-203 of the Code of the City of Goodland, and an additional $0.00 per 100 cubic feet of water (or waste-water) used (or contributed) as determined in Section 14-203 of the Code of the City of Goodland for debt retirement.
SECTION 3. For those contributors that contribute waste-water, the strength of which is greater than normal domestic waste-water, a surcharge in addition to the normal user charge will be collected The surcharge for operation and maintenance including replacement rs $0.91 per pound of BOD and $0.91 per pound of SS, and the additional surcharge for debt retirement is $0 00 per pound of BOD and $0.00 per pound of SS.
SECTION 4. Sections 14-203(b); 14-204(3) and 14-204(4) of the Code of the City of Goodland are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect January I, 2005 and be in force from and after said date and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law.
Passed and approved by the Commission of the City of Goodland, State of Kansas, on the 1st day of November, 2004.


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Almalgul Menlibayeva
Originally from Kazakhstan, Almagul Menlibayeva splits her time between Berlin and Almaty. Her signature aesthetic, in which photographs and videos are combined, takes on a post-Soviet nomadic form, that of contemporary Kazakhstan, following her initial training at the school of futurism of the Soviet avant-garde. In what she calls "her archaic atavism," an almost mystical anthropomorphism, she explores the collective unconscious of the populations of the Central Asian steppes between the Baikonur Caspian Sea and the Altai.
After 80 years of Soviet control and the ravages of cultural genocide, her work signifies the revival of an ancient voice: after a long period of neglect, the eternal song of the tribes resurrects the celestial gods and the myths of Mongolia. In her recent photography series, Almagul reveals a terrible report denouncing the moral and environmental consequences of the drying of the Aral Sea. Her shocking images, almost mythological in scope, constitute overwhelming proof of the environmental disaster.
Indeed, the Aral Sea, a saltwater lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which was once the 4th largest lake in the world, was methodically drained, causing one of the most important environmental catastrophes of the 20th century. The diversion of the rivers fed the intensive cultivation of cotton in Uzbekistan and the rice fields in the desert of Kazakhstan. These gradual punctures first caused salinisation, then evaporation and the progressive drying up of the lake, leading to the disappearance of indigenous species and the pollution of soils with fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides. The poisoning has caused rates of cancer, anemia and tuberculosis in the region to explode, not to mention the appalling increase of infant mortality and the experimentation and storage of biological weapons by Russia, the future consequences of which are still unknown. Almagul uses the desolate scenery of these barren desert shores to revive gods and goddesses of a lost past, the last hopes of a people and nature that have been scorned and desecrated.
In images of profound simplicity, she embodies the desolate ruins of a fallen steppe empire where the grass no longer grows, and recalls the abandonment of its nomadic populations sacrificed to the oppression of communism, the uprooting of its values, civil wars, the greed of men and natural disasters. To revive these lands of exile, Menlibayeva embodies them in the form of fantastical creatures, hybrid four-legged centaurs, daughters of wolves or red foxes, horned beasts cradling lambs.
Stranded mermaids guard in vain beached wrecks on poisoned shores, a derisory Titanic, eaten away by rust and salt, now deprived of a future of sailing and glory, immobilised under a burning sun. A fictitious frozen army of virgin soldiers awaits an invisible and volatile enemy, which could be called gas or radiation, and watches over the young dead who appear to sleep, without a blanket or a shroud, like soldiers or fallen sinners. In this lifeless universe, however, sharp irony and ridicule also appear, with scenes reminiscent of tourist brochures or the erotic-chic kitch imagery of arms trade fairs.
Most importantly, Almagul renews, in a poetic and sensual way, the shamanism that has survived Communism and Islam. She appeals to the supreme god of Central Asia and the Turkish pantheon, Tengri, who controls the celestial sphere, all creations and rebirths. She portrays him as an innocent young man who carries a lamb in a steppe with a clear horizon and no borders. To give him a voice, she becomes a shaman, those messengers whose souls leave the body in a state of ecstasy, serving the spirits, protecting the members of their tribe from misfortune, finding the missing, uncovering the causes of diseases and discovering the cures, reading the future in sheep's bones, driving away evil spirits.
Her status as an artist implicitly allows her to assume this role of healer and to take on the forms necessary for this renewal. She becomes the regenerative mirror of the world of these sacrificed animals, the architect of temples to be rebuilt, open to the winds, between the Muslim worlds, the great achievements of the ancients, the traditional yurts and colourful ribbons that in their twists and turns recall the old Silk Roads. She recreates the cohesion of these nomadic peoples and shows the path being forged for a possible future.
She has made a visual and poetic contract with the spirit of the Taiga, the rivers to which she intends to return the waves, and the great blue sky in order to appease the wrath of nature, after man has so viciously desecrated it. She is the link between the world of the visible and the invisible, of the present, the past and the future which, in her work, are in constant communication.
Véronique Maxé


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Q: How can I expose my postgresSQL pods with LoadBalancer service? I setup 1 master node and 2 worker nodes on bare matel server. I deploy my postgressSQL with 3 replica sets. This is my deployment file.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: postgres
spec:
  selector:
   matchLabels:
    app: postgres
  replicas: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: postgres
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: postgres
          image: postgres:latest
          imagePullPolicy: "IfNotPresent"
          envFrom:
            - configMapRef:
                name: postgres-config
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
              name: postgredb
      volumes:
        - name: postgredb
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: postgres-pv-claim
---
    kind: PersistentVolume
    apiVersion: v1
    metadata:
      name: postgres-pv-volume
      labels:
        type: local
        app: postgres
    spec:
      storageClassName: standard
      capacity:
        storage: 15Gi
      accessModes:
        - ReadWriteMany
      hostPath:
        path: "/mnt/data"
---
    kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
    apiVersion: v1
    metadata:
      name: postgres-pv-claim
      labels:
        app: postgres
    spec:
      storageClassName: standard
      accessModes:
        - ReadWriteMany
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: 15Gi
---
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: postgres-config
      labels:
        app: postgres
    data:
      POSTGRES_DB: postgresdb
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: root
---

I also follow the MetalLB https://metallb.universe.tf/installation/   and set up layer2 load balancer. which is running fine and I can even expose nginx pod with this service.
As you can see here.
NAME         TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP    PORT(S)        AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP      10.96.0.1       <none>         443/TCP        4h28m
nginx        LoadBalancer   10.107.29.158   153.10.19.35   80:30703/TCP   162m

These are my running pods
NAME                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-76d6c9b8c-lrljz       1/1     Running   0          3h29m
postgres-7dff8d6d74-8mlnt   1/1     Running   0          136m
postgres-7dff8d6d74-9zxsk   1/1     Running   0          136m
postgres-7dff8d6d74-xzkkx   1/1     Running   0          136m

What Issue Do I face?
When I try to expose the postgresSQL pods with load balancer I am not able to connect. Server is not reachable.
I try to expose as follow
kubectl expose deploy postgres --port 30432 --type LoadBalancer

I also try to create a yaml file for this service and still not successful.
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: postgres-svc
  labels:
    app: postgres
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - port: 5432
      targetPort: 30432
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    metallb-service: postgres

What Do I expect?
I want to expose my Pods to external network with this load balancer service so all the new data should be updated in all 3 replica set. Can you please help me to fix my service.yaml file?
I will be very thanks full

A: You don't specify a port in your postres container.
With kubectl expose you should specify a targetPort:
kubectl expose deploy postgres --port 30432 --target-port 5432 --type LoadBalancer

In your YAML you have to switch ports:
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: postgres-svc
  labels:
    app: postgres
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - port: 30432
      targetPort: 5432
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    app: postgres

Here also the selector was wrong. It has to match labels on the pod.

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Alexander For Ward 5 City Council
…Because You Know That It's Time For A Change!
Our 5 Goals For Ward 5
Ian Alexander has developed a strategic plan for Ward 5 that will 1) improve the image of our ward; 2) promote economic development within our ward; 3) promote services and programs that benefit our residential neighborhoods in the ward; 4) establish crime prevention programs within our ward; and 5) improve recreational and educational opportunities for our children and seniors.
1. IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF OUR WARD
Ward 5 is plagued by an abundance of liquor stores, abandoned properties, and trash transfer stations. These problems are located right next to our homes. They not only tarnish the image of the ward, but also reduce its attractiveness to new homebuyers and businesses. If elected, Ian Alexander will seek to ban the issuance of new liquor store licenses in our ward and would work closely with neighborhood leaders, ANCs, law enforcement officers, and community activists to close those problem liquor stores. He would fight to remove the problem waste transfer stations in the ward by proposing new legislation. Also, because the current tax code that establishes the higher tax rate for vacant properties has too many loopholes to be effective, Mr. Alexander will also sponsor tough, new legislation regarding vacant property tax rates.
2. PROMOTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN OUR WARD
Ward 5 has the largest amount of industrial space of all the wards in the city. However, most of that space is not being used. The New York Avenue corridor is perhaps one of the most valuable tracts of land in the city. If elected, Mr. Alexander will initiate legislation to provide tax relief for community friendly businesses and seek to further streamline the process of establishing and locating a new business in the District — this will bring many new jobs into Ward 5! He will lobby the area's grocery store chains and encourage them to open more stores in Ward 5. Currently, Ward 5 has only two food shopping centers that serve its 67,600 residents. Because economic development cannot be successful without job training, Mr. Alexander will promote the formation of job training programs that provide apprenticeships for at-risk youth.
3. PROMOTING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT BENEFIT THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS OF OUR WARD
If elected, Mr. Alexander will fight to keep the homestead exemption that provides a lower property tax rate for owners who live in their own homes. The Control Board is considering eliminating this exemption! He will work closely with the Department of Public Works to re-establish services such as street and alley cleaning, mowing our public parks, trimming our trees and planting new ones. He would also like to see the return of bulk-trash pick-up and the return of our recycling program. These services have been eliminated or reduced during the city's fiscal crisis. Alexander want to work with the police department on pursuing aggressive drivers who threaten the safety of our youth and seniors.
4. ESTABLISHING MORE CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS WITHIN OUR WARD
Although crime is down in Ward 5, we have nothing to celebrate. Unfortunately, many of our citizens do not feel comfortable taking an evening stroll through their neighborhoods. Ward 5 still has the highest high school dropout rate and highest youth-incarceration rate in the city. If elected, Alexander will work to establish peer mediation between rival gangs in Ward 5. Such programs have proven successful in other parts of our city. He will lobby to expand the scope of the Community Prosecution Initiative. This would assign a prosecutor to handle all cases within the police service areas of Ward 5. Currently, only those residents served by the Fifth Police District are covered by this successful program. Mr. Alexander will request that rigorous enforcement of drug-free zones around schools. He will encourage the public works, police, fire, and housing departments to form joint task forces to close down crack houses and open-air drug markets in our neighborhoods.
Many neighborhoods of Ward 5 have inadequate recreation facilities for youth and seniors. Mr. Alexander will propose establishing facilities that can accommodate both youth and seniors so that the two groups can successfully interact. There is so much that our youth can learn from the more senior members of our community. These facilities will be state-of-the-art recreation centers constructed in various hubs of the ward, each of which would specialize in a particular area, such as team sports, dancing and the arts, or computer science. He would also promote programs to combat teen pregnancy, teen drug use and drug dealing by teens.
5. IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND SENIORS
Next to a healthy home life, education is the most important part of a child's life. Schools should be child centered, but ours are bureaucrat heavy. Until recently, for every 10 students, there were three administrators, yet in some cases, one teacher for every 35 students. To support this bureaucratic nightmare, our teachers are overburdened with unnecessary paperwork when they could be spending more planning time for the classroom. If elected, Alexander would provide rigorous oversight on the Council and work closely with the community, Board of Education, Control Board, and Congress to provide common sense solutions to these complex problems. Alexander also supports School Choice and is in favor of the Charter School Program. He also does not want to see the current Out-of-Boundary Program dismantled by the current Public School Administration.
ABOUT IAN ALEXANDER
Ian Alexander, the son of two public school teachers, is originally from Poughkeepsie, New York. He has resided in Ward 5 since 1995. As a student at Catholic University, he was the first Black to serve as President of the Student Government.
He was the youngest member elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 5C-12) representing part of the Brookland community and still holds this position. As a community leader, he has advised the District Government and City Council Members on matters of public policy including decisions regarding street planning and repairs, recreation, social services programs, health care programs, public safety and sanitation issues. As an elected official, he considers it his responsibility to personally walk the neighborhoods and meet the people he represents.
Ian Alexander wants to hear from you. Please call him at 202-635-3800 or visit his campaign headquarters at 4007 12th Street, N.E. (across from the Brookland Elementary School).
Paid for by the "Alexander For Ward 5 Campaign Committee" Mark Rauschenberger, Treasurer.
4007 12th Street, N.E. / Washington, D.C. 20017 / Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4511 /
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Ok, so I had been neglecting Pinterest for some time now. I would login occasionally to look something up, read a few new blog posts, and pin (incorrectly) when I posted a new blog. I really didn't understand how Pinterest worked, and how it can dramatically work for you as a blogger.
What I Learned My First Year Blogging!
Despite taking that first step to publish my blog, I've still been hesitant about really putting myself out there. My intention with my blog is to create a space where I keep it all the way real, hence the name, OK, I'll Give You My Opinion! But, blogging can almost feel like a diary sometimes so it requires vulnerability.


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Un chaldron (anche chauldron o chalder) era un'unità di misura inglese di volume per gli aridi, usata principalmente per il carbone. La parola proviene da una grafia obsoleta di cauldron ("calderone"). Fu in uso dal XIII secolo fino al 1963 quando fu abolita per legge (Weights and Measures Act).

Carbone
Il chaldron era in uso per misurare il carbone a partire dal XIII secolo, perché la misura del volume era molto più pratica della pesatura di materie prime relativamente a buon mercato e di grande ingombro. Originariamente la misura non era standardizzata e vi erano molti differenti chaldron regionali, dei quali i più importanti erano quelli di Newcastle e di Londra. Il chaldron di Newcastle si usava per misurare tutto il carbone spedito dal Northumberland e da Durham, e il chaldron di Londra divenne l'unità di misura standard per il carbone nell'Inghilterra orientale e meridionale.

Furono fatti molti tentativi di calcolare il peso di un chaldron di Newcastle. Lo storico dell'industria del carbone John Nef ha stimato che nel 1421 pesasse 2000 libbre e che il suo peso sia gradualmente aumentato dai mercanti di carbone per via delle tasse (che erano calcolate su un chaldron) fino al 1678 quando il peso fu fissato a 52,5 cwt (pari a 2667 kg); nel 1694 la parità fu fissata a 53 cwt (2692,5 kg).

Un chaldron di Londra invece, era definito pari a "36 bushel rasi, ogni bushel pari a un bushel di Winchester e un quarto, e di 19,5 pollici di diametro". Ciò corrispondeva approssimativamente ad un peso di carbone di circa 28 cwt (1422 kg).

Il chaldron era anche il limite legale per i vagoni stradali trainati da cavalli, perché si riteneva che carichi superiori potessero danneggiare troppo le strade. Le ferrovie ebbero vagoni da un "chauldron" standard che erano larghi circa 10 piedi (3,0 m) e alti 6 piedi e tre pollici (1,91 m).

Il valore di un chaldron di carbone dipendeva dalla dimensione dei pezzi di carbone e dal loro contenuto d'acqua. Mercanti senza scrupoli potevano acquistare carbone in pezzi grandi per rivenderlo frantumato in pezzi più piccoli. Questo durò fino all'approvazione del Weights and Measures Act del 1835, che stabilì che a partire dal gennaio del 1836 il carbone dovesse essere commerciato esclusivamente a peso.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Unità di misura storiche
Unità di volume
Carbone

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Better Call Josh: A Retrospective on the Career of Josh Freese
Posted on 24 March 2021 7 January 2022 by Francesco Vecchio
From punk rock to pop, to heavy metal and new wave, Josh Freese is one of the most prolific drummers in the world. He has appeared on close to 400 records, performing and recording for: A Perfect Circle, Paramore, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, The Vandals, Sting, The Replacements, Guns N' Roses, The Offspring, Weezer, Sublime with Rome, Evanescence, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, Cher, Michael Bublé, Bruce Springsteen, Slash, Queens of the Stone Age, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, and many others.
Josh Freese was born on Christmas Day, 1972 in Orlando, Florida, but has lived in Southern California since he was 6 months old. Growing in a family of musicians (his father worked as a musical director at the Walt Disney Company and his mother was a classical pianist) he was surrounded by music all of the time, starting to play the drums at the age of seven years old. He started playing professionally at the age of 12 in a Top 40 cover band at Disneyland in California, starting touring and making records at the age of 15, first with Dweezil Zappa and then the Vandals. With the punk rock band the Vandals he recorded all the albums from 1990 to this day, except for Look What I Almost Stepped In… (2000).
From 1992 he started to work as a session drummer, recording for Suicidal Tendencies, Paul Westerberg, Tracy Bonham, Devo, and Danny Elfman for the soundtrack of Freeway. In 1996 he joined Devo, one of his favorite bands as inspiration to learn the drums. In that period Freese recorded for Guns N' Roses, Chris Cornell, Lazlo Bane, and Mike Ness.
In 1999 he joined, replacing Tim Alexander, the rock supergroup A Perfect Circle, recording their debut album Mer de Noms. With APC he played until 2011 when he left to pursue the committed work with Weezer. The album Thirteenth Step (2003) by APC is one of the most brilliant and creative works by Freese, who plays with majesty on a great variety of time signatures. Here's the transcription of the main grooves included in the album.
Still a member of A Perfect Circle, he recorded for some of the most famous artists in America, such as Evanescence, Good Charlotte, Kelly Clarkson, The Offspring, and more. In 2005 he played for Sting's Broken Music Tour, with guitarists Dominic Miller and Shane Fontayne, an important collaboration that will continue in the future. He also appeared on the DVD "Live 8 – July 2nd 2005" with Sting.
Josh Freese played with Nine Inch Nails on the With Teeth Tour in 2005-2006. With NIN he recorded some drum tracks on Year Zero (2007) and The Slip (2008). After the Lights in the Sky 2008 Tour, he left the band in order to spend more time with his family and his wife, who was pregnant with the couple's third child at the time.
As a solo artist, Freese released four albums for his record label Outerscope Records, where he wrote, sang, and performed just about everything. He has co-written songs with Queens of the Stone Age, The Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Dwarves, Devo, and Sting. With an established reputation as one of the most demanded session drummers in the music business, he also recorded for Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Nelly Furtado, Guns N' Roses, Slash, Kelly Clarkson, Joe Cocker, Social Distortion, and other artists. After toured with Weezer in 2009 and with Paramore in 2011, in the next year he toured with Sublime with Rome to replace the previous drummer Bud Gaugh.
Freese appears on the 2014 Bruce Springsteen album High Hopes, playing drums on the track "This Is Your Sword". He recorded drum tracks on Sting's albums 57th & 9th (2016) and My Songs (2019), playing for the tours in support of those records. Recently, in the time of Covid, he recorded for Danny Elfman, Paul Leary, and Samantha Fish, recording drum tracks at his studio in L.A. for what he calls his "day job."
Josh Freese plays DW drums, Paiste cymbals, Vater drumsticks, Remo heads. He uses DW 9000 series hardware and 9002 double-pedal.
Josh Freese's 2014 session rig | DRUM! Magazine
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The old adage is that real Ferraris come with big 12-cylinder motrs and the poseurs' models have little engines. Well, what about a Ferrari with a little 12?
This is the engine to the Ferrari 212 E Montagna. By 'the engine' I do mean the engine. This was a one-off design using what was basically an expanded version of Ferrari's mid '60s 1.5 liter V12 used in Formula One.
Four valves per cylinder meant the thing eventually produced some 300 horsepower, pushing a mere 500 kilos of dry weight.
The layout was a 180 degree vee, also called a flat 12.
The car ended up not in endurance racing, but in short-distance sprints. It ran in the 1969 European Hillclimb Championship (which was much more of a big deal back then) and absolutely dominated. The car won every race it entered and claimed the season title.
All I want to know is what that 12 sounded like wailing through the gears.


The GNU C Library is part of the GNU Project, and key developers have agreed to be responsible for the project direction (GNU package maintainers), and for adhering to GNU policy, those people are listed here.
The GNU C Library project uses a consensus-based community-driven development model.
Consensus: General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by an important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments. Consensus need not imply unanimity. Although it is necessary for developer work to progress speedily, sufficient time is required for the discussion, negotiation and resolution of significant technical disagreements. Developers need to ensure discipline with respect to release schedules in order to avoid long review times. Similarly, to avoid re-discussion, developers have the responsibility of ensuring that their contribution takes into account all interests concerned, and that this standpoint is made clear at an early stage of the work rather than, for example, in a final patch or commit. (Language based loosely on the ISO definition).
How do I build consensus?
1. How do I build consensus?
Define or reiterate success criteria.
Look for resolution on a singular technical problem, summarize participant positions, and eventually move it to a "resolved" state. Keep in mind consensus need not be unanimous and record complaints and concerns for future use.
Summarize the "resolved" list, and summarize the remaining identified technical problems.
A decision to take ownership of the malloc algorithm and implementation.
A decision that the TLS block should not be taken from the thread stack.
Lazy TLS allocation cannot be done safely from signal handlers and should happen upfront in dlopen.
The tunables framework should use one environment variable to express all library tunables.
Do not start a discussion if you don't have a well written success criteria.
Identifying, resolving and summarizing are the next key parts of reaching consensus. There is no easy way to describe what should be done at each step, but it should be noted that recording participant positions and summarizing are key aspects of moving the technical discussion forward. The conversation should move forward, avoiding discussion of previous points, and should be focused on the next technical problem to discuss.
Ultimately the health of the project is the responsibility of the project stewards (official GNU maintainers for the project), and these people should be counted upon to assist in all aspects of consensus building.
The following is a nonexhaustive list of items which have community consensus.
Anyone can commit a trivial patch to fix a spelling or grammatical error, as well as a typo, in a comment or manual. No developer review required. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha/libc-ports with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a locale related change where a bugzilla issue exists, government sources are cited, common uses are cited, and if there is an original author for the locale, that original author ACKs the change. No developer review required. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit an update to the libc.pot translation file given that the new libc.pot file came from the upstream translation project. No developer review required. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a change regenerating a file someone previously failed to regenerate, with the same version of the relevant tool such as autoconf. Only a mention of the commit is needed on libc-alpha, not the diffs of the regeneration.
Anyone can commit a change fixing obvious coding standards problems in a recently committed patch. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a change adding a bug number to ChangeLog, NEWS or both; there is no need to post such a patch.
Anyone can commit a change adding missing #include directives where it is clear what the right header is for functionality used in a source file. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a change adding LOCPATH settings for a testcase using locales. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a change fixing code typos in a commit (e.g. from last-minute untested changes) that break the build or testing, where it is clear what the right fix is. Post the patch and ChangeLog to libc-alpha with a short message and then push the commit.
Anyone can commit a change fixing the ordering of the Versions files. These files should be sorted for each version (alphabetically, first internal symbols used by other libraries, then public symbols).
Anyone can commit a change to any header to rename __block to __glibc_block or __unused to __glibc_reserved. Multiple versions of the same symbol can be created by appending a number e.g. __glibc_reserved1. Consenus was reached that glibc would use the internal prefix __glibc to avoid name collisions with other tools that comprise the implementation from a standard perspective. See https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00047.html. Note that __unused is used by source from BSD that defines it as the unused attribute for the compiler, while __block is used by Clang's -fblocks extension.
Anyone can commit a change to master fixing the date in a ChangeLog entry to match the git commit date. There is no need to post the patch for review, simply make the change and then push the commit. This is only allowed for master where consensus is that dates should be correct. There is still no clear consensus around what the ChangeLog date should be for a cherry-picked change into a non-master branch.
If you are a maintainer for a machine you are the expert and in a position of leadership. You should post your patches to libc-alpha/libc-ports for general review, but you may immediately commit your patches without the need for review. The community trusts your leadership and experience. If you are unsure about a change seek help and ask specific machine maintainers to review your patches for logical errors.
If you are not a maintainer for the machine you're proposing the change for, your patches are subject to consensus like any other patches and while review from a machine maintainer may be ideal, it is not strictly necessary for the patch to be accepted.
If a syscall is obsoleted by another syscall (or otherwise considered obsolete), there is no need to add a wrapper to glibc.
If a syscall cannot meaningfully be used behind glibc's back, or is not useful in the glibc context except for in the ways in which it is used by glibc, but can only be used directly by glibc, there is no need to add a wrapper to glibc (this probably applies to set_thread_area, for example).
If there's a glibc function that's not quite a direct wrapper of the syscall but provides all the functionality of it that can usefully be used in a program using glibc, there is no need to add a wrapper to glibc.
Wrappers to syscalls should be added by default (both for syscalls not used in glibc, and for cases such as futex where the syscall is used in glibc but can usefully be used directly as well) unless there is a clear reason not to. This includes for architecture-specific syscalls.
If a wrapper is provided, there should also be a header with corresponding declarations (that either provides any relevant constants / structures or includes appropriate kernel headers providing them).
There may be cases where a function is meaningful not just with Linux kernels supporting the syscall, and should be provided with some kind of fallback for older kernels, and possibly made part of the glibc API for systems with other kernels as well.
This follow a different procedure, as described in Release policy documentation.
There is consensus that locales do not need a geographic region associated with them. Language like Esperanto may simply be added to glibc as the eo locale.
Changes adding new public functions.
Changes involving general design issues.
Changes that have previously been controversial (including where it has been disputed whether a particular issue is actually a bug).
Changes that seem particularly risky for all or most users of glibc.
The source tree should always build and the testsuite should not regress without a clear reason posted to libc-alpha. If the build always works, and the testsuite is in a known good state, then the source is ready for any developers to commit changes. There is never any confusion about who or what patch regressed the testsuite, and bugs can be bisected because the source is always in a buildable state (or as close as possible).
Commits that break the build are immediately reverted.
Commits that regress the testsuite are immediately reverted.
Note that the libm tests (test-float, test-double, test-ldoubl, test-ifloat, test-idouble, test-ildoubl) test also the accuracy of routines and any new test might fail until the ulp files libm-test-ulps for that architecture is updated (see math/README.libm-tests). Note that unduly large ulps should not get added, these point to problems. So, for these routines, it's expected that the architecture files gets updated (after reviewing the change) as obvious.
Create a branch and push it to the public glibc git repository as a personal branch.
Test it on at least one architecture.
Merge the branch after getting reviews, additional tests - and no test failures.
Concurrent code in glibc is free from data races (as defined by C11 and its memory model) by default. A data race is if a possible execution contains two memory accesses, at least one of them is a write, at least one is not an atomic operation, and both are not ordered by happens-before. The transition to data-race freedom will be incremental for existing code, but new code should be data-race-free. If we decide to allow a data race in a certain situation because we reason that it is benign, this must get documented and needs closer inspection, repeatedly (e.g., to check that the generated code is okay). To avoid data races, use locks or atomic operations.


President Donald Trump tried to make the case for his border wall Tuesday during his State of the Union address by repeating a lie about violent crime along the Texas-Mexico border.
Looking broadly at the last 30 years, the rate of violent crime reached its peak in 1993, when more than 6,500 violent crimes were recorded. Between 1993 and 2006, the number of violent crimes fell by more than 34 percent and less than 2,700 violent crimes were reported. The border fence was authorized by Bush in 2006, but construction did not start until 2008.
The fence, therefore, played no role in lowering violent crime in El Paso. In fact, violent crime in the El Paso increased by 17 percent from 2006 to 2011. Contractors began building the 57-mile fence in 2008 and finished in 2009. Even then, in 2010, El Paso's violent crime rate was among the lowest in the country for a city of its size.
Continue reading: A border fence did not lower crime rates in El Paso. In fact, crime went up a bit.
I worked for my friend's dad who bought and fixed up buildings to resell them when I was a teen. He put a huge fence around one of these buildings once to keep the "riff-raff," as he called them. out. One morning, as we drove up to work, we noticed the entire fence had been stolen. He was pissed, and I pissed myself laughing.
Gawd, Vox is a horrible website (design wise), though. Worse than the "listicle nonsense" sites I have accidentally clicked on in the past.
← Magnetic north just changed. Here's what that means.


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Volume 6, Number 2
Welcome to the fall issue of Turtle Talk,
the Logo newsletter from Terrapin Software.
Logo Models and Methods for Problem-Solving is now available in an updated second edition. Written by William Spezeski, computer science professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Logo Models and Methods uses a myriad of graphical activities to teach Logo and problem-solving skills. Each chapter poses challenges, offers helpful tools, and suggests enhancements, exposing students to powerful problem-solving strategies.
Logo Models and Methods is targeted at high school and college students. Introductory concepts are followed by more in depth chapters which invite students to combine basic math and graphics with more advanced skills. Completion of Logo Models and Methods provides a basic course in computer programming.
Exercises, diagrams, and accompanying files have been updated in the second edition to take advantage of capabilities in Terrapin Logo v. 3. Discussion of Logo objects is integrated throughout the book and six new sections, from controls to robotics have been added. This new edition is now available at an introductory price of $24.95.
Learn more about Logo Models and Methods for Problem-Solving...
Students Discover Bees at Pali Elementary
One day second grade students at Palisades Elementary Charter School in Pacific Palisades, CA found a bee (aka Bee-Bot) in their classroom! This led to intense and excited speculation on what it was and how it worked. With lots of hands-on exploration, the students soon deciphered what the command buttons did and how to make the little robots move. Soon they were working collaboratively to create Bee-Bot dances and compete to enter their dance in the "Bee-Bot Hall of Fame."
At "Back to School Night" teachers showed Bee-Bot to visiting parents and described how it facilitated learning. Parents provided funding for six more Bee-Bots for the school. Soon the excited students were charged with the task of sending Bee-Bot "around the world" to visit each continent as they learned its name. According to Tech Instructor Valerie Belt, "Bee-Bots provide a great learning experience and we plan to continue working with them. We did 'left/right' turn practice which is tough for students at this age, so it is going to be SO good for them!"
Learn more about Bee-Bot Discovery at Pali Elementary...
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Benoit Mandlebrot, a pioneering mathematician who is considered the father of fractal geometry, recently died at age 85 in Cambridge, MA. Fractals are based on a set of mathematical principles Mandlebrot developed to model patterns in the natural world showing repeating patterns at different scales.
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I know there is an ongoing project for a live action short movie or series adaptation of Capcom's Street Fighter franchise starring Ryu and Ken who are the very characters of the whole SF universe. Today, I am very happy to learned through a post on Collider.com that there is a new teaser trailer that was just released plus a new poster and other high resolution images from the Street Fighter Assassin's Fist. Read on to see the full teaser trailer featuring Ryu and the other photos.
This SFAF is not a movie but a multi-format series of 12 episodes to debut on Machinima in May of this year and then after that it will be aired on TV. It tells the story of Ryu and Ken as they come of age. The trailer is very awesome and very true to what they really look like from the game, there is no alteration of any of their look an feature like what we see in Hollywood versions of whatever they adapt from books or games. I hope to see more trailers in the coming days and also hope to see the whole series when it comes out on Machinima. This is just awesome.


Previous message: Ownership of CIFS?
charge fees for access to the technology.
have enough to get off to a good start.
desktop.  They therefore "own" the client side of the CIFS protocol.
> What do you folks think? Is this just a mix-up of terms?


2 weeks post partum: Hair tied back, stretchy pants, hoodies galore. I'm officially in mommy gear mode. Dressing for comfort is a must! I'm too afraid to leave the room Louie is in to actually do my hair. I have a feeling I'll be stocking up on beanies because of this. Make up? PSSH - yeah right! I only put on chapstick when I leave the house. Maybe that's why I love chunky knit scarves. They somewhat hide the fact that I'm not wearing foundation. That's fine by me though; Louie doesn't care if I look nice. All Louie wants is food, clean diapers, sleep, and occasional cuddles. Hey, so do I! The hair curler and make up will just have to get used to being ignored for a while.


An OK Tire store location since 1999, OK Tire Forest Lawn has a new name and a new owner. Along with the street rejuvenation and name change from 17th Avenue to International Avenue, the new owner, Jeff Pollett invites you to the rejuvenated, updated and revitalized OK Tire International Ave. Offering mechanical services for all makes, models and years, new or vintage and tires for cars, SUV's and light trucks. They offer Lund truck accessories to dress up you ride and a "Just in Case" road hazard and repair coverage for your tires. Visit, call or text for all your vehicle needs.
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Start off a BUSY weekend of fights with an All New Inside MMA Friday on AXS TV. Bas Rutten and Kenny Rice will get you ready for LIVE coverage of Championship Fighting Alliance 11 and Ron Kruck will be in Las Vegas with interviews from Cain Velasquez and Antonio "Big Foot" Silva before Saturday's showdown at UFC 160. Plus, Anthony AND Sergio Pettis talk about their upcoming title fights.
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Dr. Andy Little Wins ACOEP Mentor of the Year Award
Monday, November 12, 2018 | General News
US Acute Care Solutions announced today that Dr. Andrew G. Little, DO, FACOEP, has received the Benjamin A. Field, DO, FACOEP Mentor of the Year Award, the top award for mentorship awarded by ACOEP.
The award is given each year to a member of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Medicine who has made outstanding contributions to teaching emergency physicians, residents, or students. Dr. Little, who a clinician and faculty at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, OH, is also an active mentor to both students and residents nationwide. He operates "EM Over Easy," a podcast program featuring emergency medicine speakers and touching on a wide range of topics related to the practice of emergency medicine and life as an EM physician.
Dr. Little said he was honored to be nominated and chosen for the award. He joins a prestigious group of previous winners, including USACS physicians Drs. Alan Janssen, Joseph Kuchinski, and Joseph Dougherty.
Dr. Little is a 2012 graduate of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency at Doctors Hospital. Dr. Little was president of ACOEP's student chapter from 2014-2015. He has been co-chair of the ACOEP's Airway Course since 2016 and has received numerous awards, including ACOEP's Resident of the Year award.
About USACS
Founded by emergency medicine physician groups in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Ohio and Texas and capital partner Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, USACS is the national leader in physician-owned integrated acute care, including emergency medicine, hospitalist and observation services. USACS provides high-quality emergency and hospitalist care to over 6 million patients annually at more than 220 locations and is aligned with leading hospital systems across the country. Visit usacs.com to learn more.
Marty Richmond
Corporate Communications Director
US Acute Care Solutions


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Q: Limitar o fluxo de entrada a valores do tipo int #include <iostream>
#include <limits>

using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;
int getVar(int num);
int getInt(int num);

int main(){

    int n;
    cout<<"Insira um inteiro. \n\n";
    getInt(n);

    return 0 ;
}
int getInt(int n){

    cin>>n;
    return getVar(n);
}

int getVar(int num){

    if(!(cin>> num &&  !num % 2 == 0)){

        cout<< num <<" Entrada nao corresponde ao tipo de variavel solicitado.\n\n";
        cin.clear();
        cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
        getInt(num);
    }
    else{
        cin.clear();
        cout<<"\n"<< num <<" Entrada recebida com sucesso!!! \n";
        return num;
    }
}

Quando digito um número que é aceito pela função, no caso um inteiro, tenho que digitá-lo duas vezes para que ele seja captado, eu gostaria que ele captasse a entrada direto na primeira tentativa.

A: Primeiro, se vai pegar um número que pode ser escrito com ponto flutuante, o tipo da variável deve ser float e não int. É esquisito fazer isto, porque se quer números inteiros, peça inteiros, aí não precisa fazer nada. Mas deve ser algum exercício maluco sem sentido. Pode usar outra forma, mas é mais complexo.
Para saber se um número que pode ter parte decimal é apenas inteiro, basta comparar ele com sua parte inteira, fazendo um cast simples como foi feito na condição. Assim está comparando o número com decimal e o número convertido para inteiro. Se eles forem iguais é porque a conversão não perdeu nada, então já era inteiro.
Tirei todas as declarações desnecessárias e as funções que não estavam trazendo nada útil ao código, pelo contrário, estava causado problemas.
#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    float n;
    cout << "Insira um inteiro." << endl;
    while (true) {
        cin >> n;
        if (!cin.fail() && n == (int)n) break;
        cout << n << " - Entrada nao corresponde ao tipo de variavel solicitado." << endl;
        cin.clear();
        cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n');
    }
    cout << endl << n << " - Entrada recebida com sucesso!!!" << endl;
}

Veja funcionando no ideone. E no repl.it. Também coloquei no GitHub para referência futura.
A verificação se cin.fail() foi usada para evitar que a digitação de caracteres não numéricos.
É possível simplificar um pouco mais o código se aceitar um pequena mudança de comportamento. Não poderia dar a mensagem de erro, teria que apenas pedir o número de novo.


In this bhajan the singer sings that he roamed at many places and finally Lord Sai Baba chose him to be His devotee. This makes the singer very happy.
This is the first track from Album - Sai Tere Hazaaron Naam sung by Rana Gill.