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luv is a disc jockey, and these days is also known as sweet daddy luv. A fixture on the Montreal scene since the early nineties, he has made a name for himself as a slinger of an eclectic mix of musical styles reflecting the best of the old school and the cutting edge of the new school. The sweet daddy has numerous club residencies and one off DJ gigs under his belt and has played with the best; proving himself a doppelganger of musical forms with the ability and deep record collection to mix any style necessary to rock and shock the party. His most recent speakerbox endeavors include the THUMP night (with Mark Vicente and The One Tash, where "house is a feeling") and the Jazz Amnesty Sound System (with co-founder Andy Williams).
For 12 years luv helped run North American operations for the mighty Ninja Tune (including sister labels Big Dada and Counter Records), honing his skills at a multitude of Ninja related events. During this time he also helped start up the experimental audio/visual label, C0C0S0L1DC1T1, which spawned the release of three solo albums under two different pseudonyms: Identification's Identify, The Dorkestra's Merry Tales and Fractured Melodies and the latest Identification release, 2010's Slinkity Sounds. The sweet daddy has many aliases and was known for a time as the Chillbot Slider; a member of The Nanobot Auxiliary Ballet… who released a self-titled album and EP. In the midst of all this activity he has djed, performed live and spread luv, all over North America, Europe and Australia.
sweet daddy luv continues to come correct from deep within the Record Canyon so keep your ear to the ground… sound good
what is djluvsrecords.com?
djluvsrecords.com is what it sounds like, lovingly hand picked selections from dj luv's record collection. With over 100 years of recorded music out there, and more coming out every minute, wouldn't it be nice to have a well worn disc jockey go through this wealth of music and offer up the nuggets for you?
Deep within the Record Canyon great music of all ages is herded into a finely blended mix of aural treasures you never knew you needed to know. All genres of music have something of worth, but usually one has to wade through at least 90% of unoriginal, uninspired or just plain bad tracks to find it. Let me guide your sonic caravan through the wide open plains of the internet to a safe oasis that quenches your thirst with the sounds of luv.
The site is about my love of music and desire to spread these wonderful sounds to my friends and family and their friends and family (and so on). All podcasts follow old skool mixtape rules (one continuous live mix). Included are track listings with buy links (where possible) to encourage people to search out the music they discover here and buy an original copy (physical and/or digital). If we don't support good music who will? If anyone has information about any of my missing buy links please send the info my way and I will amend the listing.
Welcome to djluvsrecords.com, come listen.
***Any questions, concerns, buy link information or just plain kind words can be sent to info@djluvsrecords.com.
feel free to connect via facebook and twitter for updates on when new mixes go up, when I am playing shows and other random non sequiturs.
dues owed
A mega thanks to Anders Bell who has selflessly helped me design this website.
Plus a proper thank you to Paul Watson for having the steady hands to draw the dj luv's records logo.
The background image is from a good friend and great photographer Stephen Lebovits, thanks for this image and the many others used for mixtapes.
Much luv to all my family and friends that have supported me in my endeavors. I hope you all enjoy the tunes.
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original soundtracks
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As a growing number of humans in North the US and Europe have distanced themselves from mainstream spiritual traditions during the last centuries, a "crisis of religion" has emerged and garnered a lot cognizance. yet Glenn Hughes, writer of A extra appealing query: The religious in Poetry and Art, contends that regardless of the withering approval for faith-based worldviews, our instances don't evince a decline in spirituality. One want simply think about the hunt for "alternative" spiritual symbolisms, in addition to the expansion of teams espousing fundamentalist non secular viewpoints, to acknowledge that religious issues stay a colourful a part of lifestyles in Western culture.
Hughes deals the concept the fashionable "crisis of religion" isn't an issue of vanishing religious issues and effort yet quite in their disorientation, whilst they continue to be pervasive forces in human affairs. and since artwork is the simplest medium for spiritually evocation, it truly is our most vital touchstone for interpreting this non secular disorientation, simply because it continues to be a chief resource of notion for religious experience.
A extra appealing Question is anxious with how paintings, and particularly poetry, services as a automobile of non secular expression in today's sleek cultures. The ebook considers the assembly issues of artwork, poetry, faith, and philosophy, partly via analyzing the remedies of attention, transcendence, and paintings within the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan. an enormous component of A extra attractive Question is dedicated to special "case experiences" of 3 influential glossy poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and T. S. Eliot. In those and its different chapters, the booklet examines the human want for inventive symbols that evoke the secret of transcendence, the ways that poetry and paintings remove darkness from the non secular meanings of freedom, and some great benefits of an individual's loving examine of serious literature and art.
A extra appealing Question has a particular aim—to make clear the religious capabilities of artwork and poetry on the subject of modern confusion approximately transcendent reality—and it meets that objective in a fashion obtainable by means of the layperson in addition to the student. by means of analyzing how the simplest paintings and poetry tackle our desire for non secular orientation, this booklet makes a invaluable contribution to the philosophies of artwork, literature, and faith, and brings deserved recognition to the importance of the "spiritual" within the learn of those disciplines.
Arguing 'new atheism', pushed principally through Darwinian objections to God's life, has constrained debate to a systematic framework, The Atheist's Primer reinstates the significance of philosophy within the debate approximately God's lifestyles and in so doing recovers the prestigious philosophical culture of atheism, which Dawkins and others have obscured.
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Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is frequently defined because the founding father of smooth Jewish suggestion and as a number one thinker of the overdue Enlightenment. one in all Mendelssohn's major matters used to be tips on how to conceive of the connection among Judaism, philosophy, and the civic lifetime of a contemporary nation. Elias Sacks explores Mendelssohn's landmark account of Jewish practice--Judaism's "living script," to take advantage of his well-known phrase--to current a broader interpreting of Mendelssohn's writings and expand inquiry into conversations approximately modernity and faith.
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Analysis of Klavierstücke Op. 33 a by A. Schoenberg – Part II
This second part of Analysis of Klavierstücke Op. 33 a by A. Schoenberg will shade light specifically on the topic of the development and its relation with the 12-tone rows and the so-called "tonal areas"
Charles Rosen states:
1- In relation to the first part of the statement, where he talks about the techniques of thematic transformation, has already been detailed in point two of the statements of Zamacois (found in Part I of the related article).
As for the "transposition and adaptation in a rapid modulating sequence", I will base the "twelve-tone areas" on the different modes used in the series and their relationship with the tonal processes of the harmony of common practice, on which the Structure of the classical sonata:
Understanding the tonal area A, formed by the modes O1 and its respective retrograde R12, with Bb as the first note of O1, and E of R12.
Another set of modes are also found in the exhibition: I8, with its first note Eb (note the relation of just fifth between this and the first note of O1, this list of just fifths will be expanded later) and its retrograde, RI5, with his first note on A (same relation with R12). In bar 28 (see appendix A), it could be said that a "modulation" occurs in the twelve-tone areas, since another area appears for the first time in the work, this time for A2. This is formed by: O10, whose first note is a DO, (a second higher ascending than O1, acting as a II) and I2, whose first note is an FA (also this time the same ratio of just fifths is given between the modes of the areas that occurred in the exhibition).
Finally, and in bar 29 (3rd beat) is A7, formed by: O8, with its first note on an F (fifth just ascending of Bb, acting as a V) and I1, starting with the note Bb, also showing the same ratio of just fifths between modes that appears for the first time in bars 1 and 2.
This last area is the most extensive, since it covers up to the cadence in bar 32, to return to A in the next bar, as a recapitulation.
2- It can be clearly seen that, in the exhibition, the first motivic presentation and its corresponding texture (homophonic) occupies two bars. With the second (melody accompanied) lasts three bars. And the third, something more contrapuntal, two more bars. It can be inferred, then, that from bar 28, the motivic development develops in shorter periods, that is to say, developing approximately by bar (see the motivic analysis made in the annexe).
As for the harmonic movement, in the exhibition, Schöenberg presents and develops two modes of the series, O1 and RI5, during the first 14 bars, while from the last eight of the bar 27 and up to the bar 32, the I2 modes, O8, O10, I1 and RI12 are presented in a total of 5 bar.
3- I consider that the development function described by Rosen is fulfilled in this work, since in the first part of this central section (last quaver note of bar 27 to the 3rd beat of bar 30):
And then, from the 4th beat of the bar 30, a liquidation begins:
Here we can find the Matrix or 12-tone row that Schonberg used to compose this piece:
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Q: Proof that $x_n$ = $\left(\frac{ncos(n)-23}{n}\right)$ has a convergent subsequence Looking to see if I am doing this proof correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
Consider the sequence {$x_n$}$_{n=1}^\infty$ where
$x_n$ = $\left(\frac{ncos(n)-23}{n}\right)$
This is not a convergent sequence. Prove that it has a convergent subsequence. Do it by making use of the appropriate theorem, and be sure to confirm that the hypotheses of that theorem holds (by making use of the triangle inequality).
My solution:
Proof: $\left(\frac{ncos(n)-23}{n}\right)$ = cos(n) - $\left(\frac{23}{n}\right)$. This is a bounded sequence (I think). Since $x_n$ is a bounded sequence, it follows by the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem that $x_n$ has a convergent subsequence. I'm not sure where to start for confirming it using the triangle inequality though.

A: It follows directly from $|\cos(n)|\le 1$, $\frac{a}{n}\le a$ for any $a>0$,  $n\in \mathbb N_{>0}$. With these two, it is clear that
$$\left |\frac{n \cos (n)-23}{n} \right |=\left |\cos(n)-\frac{23}{n}\right |\le |\cos(n)|+\frac{23}{n}\le 1+23=24$$

A: Note that
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x_n=\frac{n\cos(n)-23}{n}=\cos(n)-\frac{23}{n}
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so
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-2\le x_n\le 1
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for $n\ge23$. Therefore the sequence is bounded.

A: Since $x_n = \cos n - 23/n$ and $23/n \to 0,$ $x_n$ has as many subsequential limits as does $\cos n.$ It is well known that $\{\cos n: n\in \mathbb N\}$ is dense in $[-1,1].$ It follows that for every $x\in [-1,1],$ there is a subsequence of $x_n$ that converges to $x.$

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10 things you need to know this Tuesday morning - Nigerian Newspapers
Good morning! Here is today's summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. The Nigerian Government has extended the deadline for the citizens to connect National Identification Number (NIN) with their SIM card registration records.
The new deadline is now January 19, 2021 for those with NIN, while those without NIN, the deadline has been extended to February 9, 2021.
2. The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, is dead.
The monarch died on Monday, after contracting the deadly COVID-19 disease.
3. The National Assembly on Monday passed the 2021 budget.
The lawmakers passed the budget after raising the proposed estimate of N13.082 trillion to N13.588 trillion.
4. Anweh Damian, member of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Makurdi, Benue state, has died of COVID-19 complications.
The association announced his death in a statement signed by A.A. Uche, MDCAN secretary, FMC Makurdi, on Monday, adding that the physician died on Saturday.
5. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), says four of his children have tested positive for coronavirus.
Mustapha, who is the chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19, during a media briefing in Abuja in Monday, said a family member who is one-year-old tested positive for the virus.
6. The federal government has approved new measures to curb the further spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, speaking at a press briefing of the task force in Abuja ordered the closure of all clubs, bars and restaurants, while also restricting number of guests at weddings, conference to 59 as new strain of coronavirus hits the country.
7. Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday berated the military over the attacks on travelers and villagers by Boko Haram insurgents in Jakana area of the State.
Zulum said that he was majorly disappointed for the fact that majority of the attacks within the last two years, took place between Auno and Jakana, a distance of about 20 kilometers.
8. The Nigerian government has expressed optimism that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will call off the current industrial action in January, 2021.
Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, said the ongoing negotiation between Nigerian government and ASUU would lead to the end of the strike.
9. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 356 new COVID-19 infections in the country.
The public health agency said that the country sadly recorded six additional deaths, while 180 patients were discharged from isolation centers across Nigeria, after recovering from the infection.
10. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Monday assured Nigerian People that the network of airports across the country are fully prepared for the usual surge in passenger traffic during the Yuletide.
Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs of FAAN, said the agency has heightened security in all its airports, especially the major international gateways in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano.
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48 hours into a nine-day cruise on the Baltic Sea, I successfully traded a first season DVD of the TV show SMILF for a bottle of French wine.
Confused?
About two weeks ago, my friend Dan asked me to help punch up some scripts for a new live music/theatrical show he was producing on the Lightdream Cruise Line – a ship that is the size of some small cities – with 4000 passengers aboard and over 1200 staff members… Always one for an adventure, I took the gig, fondly recalling the last time I was on a cruise back in high school… I bathed in crystal blue waters, ate unlimited five star food, seduced beautiful women and sipped tropical cocktails by the pool… I was hoping this would be the same thing.
Ehhh, not so much.
Following a 17-hour travel day, Dan, the show's producer Mark and I boarded the ship in Brest, France. Following our long trip, I was craving a glass of red wine and some Netflix. We met our cruise liasion, Sarah, and she gave us the lay of the land…
"So where's like, the best bar on the ship?" I asked.
"Oh honey, there's no alcohol until we reach Copenhagen in four days," she said.
"Excuse me?" I replied.
"Yep. And all the restaurants are closed. Oh, and be aware that there's no internet or facilities open now… This is called 'Dry Dock.'"
"And where can I jump overboard?"
As I contemplated learning how to make "toilet merlot" in my cabin, I got the rundown on what exactly "Dry-Dock" is.
"Dry-Dock" is when the ship is being refurbished, rebuilt and cleaned. For weeks, it is in a state of disrepair and thousands of contractors from over 50 countries tear up carpets, put up stages and gather for their three meals a day in the makeshift dining room. People are monitored, allowed 45 minute meal windows, told to avoid sexual contact, can be kicked off board if they have weapons or contraband and nobody is allowed off the ship once they are on…
Sound familiar? Yeah, that's because it sounds exactly like prison.
The view during 'Dry Dock.'
If I was going to write a Yelp review about the makeshift dining room where we were forced to eat, I would describe it as "Just a cut below Cracker Barrel…with all the ambience of a shopping mall Red Robin."
Still, it was our only option and Dan, Mark and I became our own little prison gang, talking under our breaths about Broadway shows and musical theater as massive Scottish, Irish and Croatian guys cursed in their own languages, swallowed gallons of coffee and made us feel like we had to kick one of their asses to establish our dominance in the jail yard…
"I guarantee you we're the only guys in this dining room right now discussing The Greatest Showman," Mark said.
The food was constantly recycled and turned into a "new dish" the following day. For instance, the leftover "Breaded Chicken and Peppers" from the night before suddenly showed up again the next morning in the "Breaded Chicken Veggie Scramble." At one point, I counted four meals in a row featuring a fish called branzino.
Enjoying my 5th Branzino dish of the week…
One day in the slop line, I chatted up one particularly nice Irish pipe-fitter named Lochlin as we were served what was being passed off as "Lamb Stew."
"Hey man – where's the booze on this ship?" I whispered. "Somebody's gotta have something?"
"Booze? You gotta cohme to Deck One," he replied in a thick brogue. "We smahggled in everything… booze, dihrty mags, DVD's."
And just like that, my trip was saved.
"Wait – why do you have DVDs?" I inquired.
"Shite – with no intehrnet – DVD's are our only fohrm of entertainment. They're in high demahnd… Unless you have a thumb drive with pornahgraphy on it – that's what everybady wants."
He wasn't lying. As it turns out, thumb drives with porn on them were traded among the contractors like cigarettes at Riker's Island. If I could only download my weekly browsing history on Redtube.com, I'd be a very rich man.
"So how much are DVD's worth?" I asked.
"Depends," he said. "I just traded seahson one of Stranger Things for four pahcks of smokes… it was fookin' brahlliant."
It was then that I remembered I had a few DVD's with me in my backpack. With any luck, I'd have something valuable on me… I also had a thumb drive that, if I recalled correctly, had Toy Story 3 on it from a family trip a few years back. I ran to my cabin to assess my stash.
In my bag, I had brought DVD's of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Why I had this I have no idea.) Major League and Major League 2 (Research for a baseball comedy I was writing) and the first season DVD screener of the Showtime TV show SMILF – about a single mom who dates the wrong guys in Boston. It didn't look very good, but the actress was hot. (I was sent the screener by the Emmy nominating committee, fyi).
I then checked my thumb drive, for Toy Story 3. It was gone. The only thing on it was my latest acting "demo reel."
That night, Dan and I went downstairs to Deck One to see if we could get our hands on anything… a sip of wine, a beer… something to take away the endless jet lag and long nights of rehearsal.
Lochlin vouched for us – and the DVD's were thrown on a table. About nine guys came and glanced at them, seeing if any of these films seemed appealing. Sadly, nobody was interested in Benjamin Button or the Major League movies.
"The Benjamin Button movie is too sad and we all fookin hate bahseball," Lochlin informed me.
SMILF however, had some people intrigued. They wanted to know if the girl got naked, had any sex scenes, if it was funny, etc. I told them I wasn't sure because I hadn't watched it yet, but a small bidding war began.
My SMILF DVD's started a crew-wide bidding war
One guy offered up a German porn magazine and two Heinekens. A Croatian guy said he had two packs of cigarettes and homemade Rakia – some type of homemade alcohol. Finally, Lochlin offered me a bottle of Bordeaux he had paid a Phillipino busboy 5 euros to smuggle on.
Lochlin took me to the bowels of the ship. These were the DiCaprio cabins from Titanic and the party going on down there was exactly what you think it would be. A guy was DJ-ing off a laptop, people were dancing and drinking… and there was even a guy giving makeshift haircuts using what I would refer to as my "pube clippers."
10 Euros got you a trim.
In Lochlin's room, he showed me how he and four other guys slept in the same room and shared a "Shoilet" – which is a combination of a shower and a toilet. I looked in the bathroom and nearly had a panic attack. These guys were living like pirates in the 1700's but without barrels of rum, wenches and chests of gold.
He also told me the ship's morgue was only two doors down the hall.
"The morgue?" I cringed. "For what?"
"About ten fuckers a year die on this ship," he said. "Someone will prahbably die before we set sail tomorrow."
Jesus Christ.
I urgently prodded Lochlin to produce the wine and I swiftly stuck it in my bag. I also noticed a couple of other bottles in his room as well. With two more days until Copenhagen, I offered up my thumb drive for another one.
"OK, look my friend – I'm actually an actor – on this drive is a three minute demo reel of a bunch of TV shows and movies I've been in… it aint much, but maybe worth at least a glass of wine?"
"Hmmm, "he said, actually contemplating the trade. "What mowvies have you been in?"
"Uhmm… A couple Disney shows, a Jim Gaffigan movie … I dunno – nothing you've probably ever seen…"
"Fuck that, Ill just take SMILF."
I handed it over to him, and with that, I had my hands on a mediocre bottle of French Bordeaux.
Dan, Mark and I savored every pour of that wine that evening. As we giddily went off to bed, hoping to finally have a decent night's sleep, we passed three contractors casually walking from the top deck somehow holding six beers in their hands.
"Woah, what the fuck?" Dan said. "Where'd you guys get that?"
"At the contractor bar upstairs," the guy said.
What? A contractor bar? We ran up and caught the last five minutes of a ship regulated "pop-up bar" for the workers. It had been here the whole time and nobody had told us. As it turns out, all of the ship contractors were allowed to come to this bar for a two hour drink window… It was like when the caddies are allowed an hour in the swimming pool in Caddyshack.
Beers were $1.00 and a mini bottle of wine was $1.75. Mark bought the entire bar a round for $14.50.
$1.75 for a Mini Bottle of merlot? HELL YEAH.
The following night we were back up with the contractors, who were amazed that a couple of Americans had actually gone down to Deck One and made a wine deal with a Irish guy. One guy from Warsaw informed me that I had been ripped off. He would have given me three bottles of wine for SMILF.
We finally sailed towards Copenhagen and I was reminded of how beautiful the world can be outside of Los Angeles. The contractors left and the passengers got onboard and the drinks flowed and a lot of overweight older couples explored the ship and bought things that nobody in their right mind should ever buy.
At an onboard art auction, I watched two 75-year-old women violently bid on a 72 x 36 painting of a unicorn walking through Times Square… The lucky winner paid $2875 dollars for it.
Meanwhile, the cruise sailed on. We helped establish the flow and structure of the show. After a few days, you start to learn a lot from cruise employees. Most of them are on board for nine months at a time, and many of them are running from some dark, hidden past. It's almost like the porn industry mixed with hotel management… Which often leads to bad decisions.
Sarah explained it further.
"Everybody sleeps together at first," she said. "But then you realize you're gonna have to see them every day for nine months. One night you have sex, the next day you're fighting over the last box of Frosted Flakes in the buffet."
"So I'm guessing you've stopped sailing your boat in company waters?" I joked.
"No way," she said. "I banged a sushi chef last year."
Another thing about cruise employees is that they are obviously extremely removed from current pop culture. At one point, Sarah told me that her favorite film of the past five years was "That amazing Ben Affleck move The Accountant."
"You have to get off this ship," I said.
The final night of the cruise and our show was up and running. I had befriended a bunch of new people and watched the show come together. One of the stage directors actually told me that I'd make a great cruise employee as I enjoyed talking to everybody and having a good time.
"I'm flattered, man – but I gotta get back to my family," I said.
"Oh, you're one of them…" he said with a sense of disappointment.
I had just been "Family Shamed" by a cruise ship employee.
He apologized for the way he reacted and just said he didn't know a lot of people who were married with children. I told him not to worry about it and we wrapped up the show for the night.
He then excused himself and went to the shoilet…
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I am uncomfortably straddling a white folding chair with 40 other people, ages ranging from 21-60 on a 103-degree day in Alta Dena waiting to work as an extra on a network TV show for the day. The pay isn't terrible – $142.37 – or something like that, plus whatever gargantuan amounts of Craft Service snacks, candy, sodas and mini sandwiches I can shove into my shoulder bag to take home, but the overall feeling is grim. There is some old Greek food suffering beneath a sneeze guard nearby, a lot of discarded banana peels and a large fan blowing cool air towards us to keep us comfortable – like we're NFL running backs playing a September game in Phoenix.
The scene has a prison-like feel to it. There are the lifers, the newbies and the guys who are only here for a few days trying to get their health insurance. I fall into that last category, but the fear of getting sexually assaulted by one of the older "inmates" is very real. Only problem is I can't kick anyone's ass to prove that I'm "tough." Instead, I choose to bury myself into my iphone and hope the 45% charge lasts another 8 hours.
A year ago I was in New York City promoting my own TV show in Times Square for Tru TV. Now I am listening to a 22-year-old kid talk about how Hot Tub Time Machine is the main reason he dropped out of college to try to make it as an actor. You gotta love this business.
Typical extras holding area
The majority of chatter amongst these "background players" or "atmosphere" is about the world of extras. Many relay the legendary scene in Ben Hur where an extra forgot to take his watch off during the chariot race. (Look it up – it's hilarious). Others talk about how Ricky Gervais ripped off their idea when he did his Extras TV show. However, the subject that keeps coming up time and time again is the "bump up." A "bump up" is when an extra is promoted from an extra to a principal role. Suddenly, the lucky bloke can go from zero to hero and earn Screen Actors Guild daily rate. However, according to everyone, incidents like that are more rare than finding a piece of sushi that hasn't been in the sun for six hours beneath the cast and crew food canopy.
I am here today because I need to make $6300 before the end of the year as a way to qualify for Screen Actors Guild health insurance, a plan I have somehow managed to attain for the past twelve years. This year, however, the jobs dried up, a ton of work went non-union and I have finally aged out of the commercial actor category of "young, shaggy haired beer-drinking party guy."
At this pay rate, it will take me working nearly every day for three months to earn the necessary SAG income to keep my family on the health plan. Alternative options – Obamacare and Cobra – basically guarantee that I will be paying 75% more money for lesser benefits. It has long been noted that SAG has terrific health care. The problem is that you need to earn an outrageous amount of money to qualify for it, and this year has been an ice bath as far as SAG work has been going.
"My dad was Jimmy Smits' stand-in on LA Law," a man named Sonny who was dressed as a Native American jewelry salesman bragged to the lot of us huddled beneath the blue pop-up tent. "He told me to find a niche as an extra. When I started out I only played Latino, only roles were for prisoners or a gang members. Now that I play Native American, I work all the time."
I suddenly found myself wishing I had some Native American cheekbones.
Snacks all day long at Craft Service. Experienced extras call it "Crafty."
As the day rolled along, I began to hear everybody's story. You coop someone up for long enough, they will eventually tell you their life's narrative. Every extra on set seemed to have a tale about the one legendary time they were "bumped up" to a principal role. One woman claimed she was bumped on Two and a Half Men because Charlie Sheen fired the original woman who had been cast for her one line of "Suck it, Charlie." A guy who often plays blue-collar types said he got his bump on Dharma and Greg and had his career-defining moment in a bar fight scene when he raised his fists and said, "Meet my two friends… Mary-Kate and Ashley."
And then there was Sonny, who said he specifically learned the extinct Native American language Kiowa to nab a line in a Civil War series. His line was "D'on T'ap Piii." Which translates roughly to "See deer eating."
I stared at Sonny for a long while. He did look familiar, as that Native American guy you sort of see in films, but I wasn't sure. Which meant he was a great extra. One who blended in. He bragged of his work on The Alamo, Oz, The Longest Yard, Texas Rising, Hatfields and McCoys. Dances With Wolves and of course, That 70's Show. The way he saw it, he was an integral part of these films. A guy who went uncredited – but felt he deserved all the success.
"There should be an extras lifetime achievement award," he offered.
As a young actor, I did some extra work at age 22. At the time, like most young dreamers, I thought I was a small break away from my own series and I treated the other kids in the high school dance scene like castaways and future failures. When I started booking some jobs and enjoying the confines of an air-conditioned trailer with a private bathroom, I swore I'd never go back to the extras holding again. Yet, here I was. A 15-year TV veteran with a decent resume that I was too embarrassed to share with the other inmates. I decided to shut up and do my time and maybe get out of there with a few Clif bars and some coconut water.
Then, there was a call to action.
"Peter, Mike, Donna, Marla, Zach – party scene, now!" An Assistant Director yelled at us, directing us towards the makeup department to get touched up.
I put down my phone and walked over to the area, when Donna, one of the younger extras, mentioned that she often worked on the show. She then proceeded to refer to one of the makeup artists as her "glam squad."
A short, effeminate man named Ty erupted in her face.
"Don't call me 'glam,' don't call me 'glam squad' or I'll shove this hairbrush up your ass," he screamed.
Emily, another makeup artist stopped him before any penetration took place. It was surreal. Never in my life had I seen a fight between an extra and a makeup artist. It was like the Cubs-Pirates bench clearing brawl in the National League Wild Card this season. You couldn't believe it was happening.
It was a major altercation. Apparently, Ty was sent home and Donna was threatening to sue the show for harassment. It didn't make sense. In my opinion, being called the "glam squad" wasn't nearly as bad as being referred to as "background" or "ambience."
My scene was fairly easy. I had to drink some iced tea and mouth the words "peas and carrots" to another extra. The entire time I was placed in the corner of the party and they shot about 9 angles and we let the main actress do six takes before she was happy. As the director stood merely three feet from me, I tried to convince him that a line would be appropriate for my character. I pitched him ""D'on T'ap Piii."
He didn't respond. Apparently he didn't speak Kiowa.
Kiowa. A lost language.
Lunch was at 1:00 and the extras were told to not touch or come near any food until the entire cast and crew had eaten. I was actually quite full from snacking – so I didn't need to rush, but a lot of the extras bitched and moaned about the lack of respect. I turned to a fellow extra named Tony, who was about my age.
"Why can't everyone just relax?" I asked him.
"Welcome to the Screen Extras Guild," he responded.
An hour later, following one of those naps when you fall asleep with your chin in your hand, there was a small rumbling about a potential bump up for one of the extras. Apparently, a producer had seen one of us and wanted to add a line. The bit was that the lucky person would confront the female star of the show – who was wearing a fur jacket – with an uncomfortable long hug and then said, "you feel like a plushie." All the extras began rehearsing their lines as if this was an audition for the next Coen Brothers film and we all got excited. I even took a walk around the tent and worked on my delivery.
Eventually, the female star and the director came to the extras tent and started looking around at all of us as if we were cattle being sold at a livestock auction. The female actress passed the first few folks, skipped the youngsters and then whispered to her director, "I need a middle-aged schlub."
I am certainly creeping up on middle age, but I don't feel like I look that way. I'm in great shape and still have hair and my skin has been hiding from the sun throughout the years as I write my life away. However, I was chosen as one of the three finalists to play "middle-aged schlub."
We all went and had a private audition with the actress and director. I immediately messed up my hair, raised my jeans to mom-jean height and did my best to look like a total Midwestern chump who would give a hot girl a "long hug" and make her uncomfortable.
The author – doing his best to appear like a middle aged schlub.
"Mmm, you feel like a fluff – wait, what's the line?" The first guy said, immediately messing up his chances.
"You feel like a plushie," said the next guy who was 40 pounds heavier and 100% balder than me.
When my turn came, I looked deeply into the actress' eyes. She stared back at me for about five seconds. I knew this was my job to lose… so I did my best to "eye-bang" her and get the job on the spot. Instead, before I could get my line out, she interrupted me.
"You look like that guy from that Tru TV show," she said.
"I am that guy!"
"What are you doing in the extras tent?" She replied.
"Trying to get my health insurance," I said, hoping she would feel my pain and give me the bump up on the spot. I dug deeper into my plea, mentioning that my family had been sick a lot the past year and I was a huge fan of the show.
"You might be too recognizable," she blurted. "Second guy, you got the job."
And with that, the fat, bald guy went off to his own folding chair, better food and a holding area behind the video village where the producers and directors hung out.
I returned to my spot in the tent. All the other extras wanted to know what had happened and I told them I relayed the story as best I could. When I mentioned that the female star had said I was "too recognizable" the tent wanted to know why. After all, not one of these folks had any idea who I was. I told them. Nobody had even heard of my show.
"I get recognized all the time," said Sonny. "People stop me when I walk down the street."
The rest of the day I watched my phone dwindle down towards the 3% range and eventually die. In a way, I felt like that iphone charge… A year back I was flying high at 100%. Now, I was hanging onto 3.
Actor Kevin Costner as a beer-swilling extra in the film "Night Shift" (1982) A legend to extras everywhere.
Before I left, I managed to fill my bag with enough high fructose corn syrup snacks to kill a small village and I hopped into the first awaiting white van that would shuttle us back to the parking lot. Luckily, I ended up in the same row as the female lead actress from earlier.
"Hey," she said. "I'm sorry about that moment back there… I just recognized you from that other show – I didn't mean to make you feel bad."
"Amazingly, you're the first person to know me from that like, ever," I said.
She smiled.
"I'll tell you what. Give me your manager's name and I'll make sure we get you in for a small role this season," she offered.
I couldn't believe it. Here she was telling me that she would go out of her way to get me a speaking part on her show. I got her personal email and said I'd be sending my demo reel and headshot over immediately. We exchanged good-byes and I returned my mom jeans to the costume department and signed out for the day.
As I walked to my car, the lead actress shook my hand and said I would be hearing from the production office very soon.
As of today, I'm still waiting for that call…
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I believe you need to have a ardour for it. The actual job of a dressmaker just isn't what most individuals assume. It is not glamorous and its quite a lot of technical and administrative kind of labor. If you're in an space where you may take sewing and sample making classes, you should to see if you'll truly like it. Runway reveals and making lovely sketches are only a really, very small a part of it, if in any respect.


depressed, fearful, suicidal, and have feelings that they are going crazy. No patient is eager to discover that he/she has been violated by people they loved and trusted. The false memory people are not portraying the way the mind works to the public. The mind tries to protect itself, and it is inclined to deny harsh memories, rather than latching onto trauma memories because of some therapist's suggestion of abuse.
Uncovering a victim's history, does not depend on a single memory. New memories are blended with old ones and new explanations for what has happened reconsidered, until a verifiable more accurate chronology begins to present itself. At the onset of therapy, if the victim doesn't know, the therapist can warn at the onset of therapy that hand gestures, hypnotic patterns, lights and codes words will trigger the subconscious mind of the victim. The field of what might be called "aromic therapy" is still in its infancy, but has great potential. The sensations of smells are closely linked with emotions in the mind. If a therapist is trying to trigger a particular memory and emotional content, smells associated with the memory will work better than anything to pull up the emotional content. This is because of the way smell is processed by the mind which first perceives it by the smell setting off a combination of "detection codes" in the olfactory bulb that are then relayed through the limbic system. The memories of smells are very closely attached to emotional memories. This only makes sense in away, because smells are used by a newborn child to identify its mother, they are used by lovers, and in other situations where the sense of smell plays an important role in our emotions toward something. The use of smells to trigger and to heal multiples is wide open for exploration.


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Audio debates on current UK theatre. Always stimulating.
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A guide to the leading theatres outside the West End
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As You Like It is a difficult play for a director to ruin completely, but Polly Findlay comes very close. Her new production in the Olivier Theatre leaves no space for the actors, who are 'cabin'd, cribbed, confined' throughout by a misconceived and overpowering set design by Lizzie Clachan.
The theatrical maxim 'don't bump into the furniture' gets a whole new meaning in this National Theatre production, as the actors pick their way through and around a spectacular vertical installation of suspended desks and chairs that is supposed to stand for the Forest of Arden. Their acting space is reduced to a narrow strip at the front of the stage.
I've complained before about productions at the NT and the RSC where director and designer create overpowering installations as stage sets which would be better suited to Tate Modern. Findlay's production at the National of Antigone in 2012 was a prime example, and this time around the action and the characters are even more cramped by the concept.
The play opens, like Antigone did, in an office. It's a strange environment where the employees, wearing bright coloured jackets like City traders, sit at desks handling paper folders and Post-It notes. Each desk has a small bonsai tree, but in this controlled dystopia, where a bell signals the end of the shift, there is no individual expression. Orlando and his elderly sidekick Adam, dressed in overalls, enter the empty office to water the plants. And Orlando's wrestling bout with Charles takes place on the office floor, with the staff shouting and cheering.
All of which has nothing whatsoever to do with Shakespeare's play. I have no objection to highly conceptual updates of Shakespeare, such as Rupert Goold's Merchant of Venice, set in a Las Vegas casino. But the difference between Goold and Findlay is that the former director uses the wacky setting to set the actors free and generate some memorable performances -- such as Susannah Fielding's blonde bombshell Portia. In this As You Like It, one feels that the set is supposed to be the star and the actors are secondary. At times I was left wondering how carefully the director had thought about the text.
The wrestling bout between Orlando and Charles is a dramatic device. It is of no interest in itself, and its sole function is to show the transformational moment of Rosalind and Orlando falling in love. The focus of the scene has to be on the ringside anguish of the spectators Rosalind and Celia, one of them going suddenly weak at the knees and the other reacting with a mixture of sympathy and alarm. When played well, it's very funny. And it has to be primarily Rosalind's scene.
Unfortunately Findlay seems oblivious to the meaning of the scene. She places the emphasis on the wrestling itself, with a skinny Orlando facing a 20-stone heavyweight dressed in a Superman suit. Rosalind and Celia are just faces in the big crowd of cheering office workers and their reactions barely register.
There are plenty of other scenes in the play that are among the best that Shakespeare wrote, exploring the sexual ambiguity of the Rosalind-Orlando flirtation in the forest, but in this production they fall flat. The directorial focus on concept and set ignores the richness and subtlety of the text, and even the comic scenes with Audrey, Phebe and William fail to raise more than a smile. There's a nice moment when human sheep wearing Arran sweaters invade the stage on all fours, but it seems totally out of place in the grim humourless aesthetic of this production.
Amid the wreckage a few performances stand out. Patsy Ferran plays Celia with great comic brio, and in a better production she would be very funny indeed. Shakespearean veteran Patrick Godfrey is excellent as the aged Adam, and Paul Chahidi gives a very distinctive performance as Jaques.
Rosalie Craig is always clear and audible as Rosalind, but unlike Michelle Terry in the Globe production a few months ago, she gives no sense of the fragility and uncertainty that the character requires. She looks entirely comfortable in her masculine disguise and there's no feeling that this is a high wire act that could go wrong at any moment. Beneath Rosalind's self-assured and bossy treatment of Orlando, there is a richly comic perpetual improvisation which Craig does not convey.
I saw this play in an early preview. It is possible that some of the flaws in the production, particularly the lack of comic flair, will become less evident as it goes forward. But I fear that the director and designer between them have created a kind of Alcatraz from which the actors will struggle to escape.
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Ban Ki-moon: From the Ashes of War, Seeds of Peace
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A Turning Point for African Economies
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4 Ghanaian innovators awarded by the French government, out of 100 innovations for sustainable development selected in Africa
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Ms. Ruby Sandhu-Rojon Leaves Ghana
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UN SECRETARY-GENERAL – MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
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Ecobank EGM passes governance action plan
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British Council award for RGU's work with Ghana
Robert Gordon University (RGU) has been recognized by the British Council in Ghana for its efforts to engage with communities within the country
Catholic Church prevents March 7 opening of Clitoraid's 'Pleasure Hospital' in Burkina Faso
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Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Set To Slash Transaction Costs By Over USD 6 millions
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AngloGold Ashanti and Partners to Sustain and Expand Battle against Malaria
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Coalition Of Ghanaian Youth For Justice For Suwaiba
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type HashFunc func([]byte) uint64

// Interface is an a probabilistic data structure used to
// compute a similarity preserving signature for a set.  It ingests
// a stream of the set's elements and continuously updates the signature.
type Interface interface {
	// Signature returns the signature itself.
	Signature() []uint64
}

// MinHashSimilarity computes an estimate for the
// Jaccard similarity of two sets given their MinHash signatures.
func Similarity(x, y Interface) float64 {
	return similarity(x.Signature(), y.Signature())
}

func IsEmpty(m Interface) bool {
	var empty = true

	if m != nil {
		// Check whether each minimum is infinite.
		for _, v := range m.Signature() {
			if v < infinity {
				empty = false
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		}
	}
	return empty
}

// Similarity computes the similarity of two signatures represented
// as MinHash instances.  This estimates the Jaccard index of the
// two underlying sets.
func (m *MinHash) Similarity(m2 Interface) float64 {
	return Similarity(m, m2)
}

// Cardinality estimates the cardinality of the set. Both the
// signature for the empty set and the zero signature have 0 cardinality.
func (m *MinHash) Cardinality() int {
	return Cardinality(m)
}

// UnionCardinality estimates the cardinality of the union.
func (m *MinHash) UnionCardinality(m2 Interface) int {
	return UnionCardinality(m, m2)
}

// IntersectionCardinality estimates the cardinality of the intersection.
func (m *MinHash) IntersectionCardinality(m2 Interface) int {
	return IntersectionCardinality(m, m2)
}

// SymmetricDifferenceCardinality estimates the difference between
// the cardinality of the union and intersection.
func (m *MinHash) SymmetricDifferenceCardinality(m2 Interface) int {
	return SymmetricDifferenceCardinality(m, m2)
}

// LessCardinality estimates the cardinality of the left set minus
// the right set. This operator is not symmetric.
func (m *MinHash) LessCardinality(m2 Interface) int {
	return LessCardinality(m, m2)
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Dag nabbit! Wish I had that line way back when mimicking someone was all the rage.
Nope. Apparently just great minds thinking alike but just at different times!
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back, Jim.
You can use it if you wish.
Hey where is everybody? Did I kill the thread?
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Sadie say: Oh no you won't!
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Is Sadie a Miniature Pincher?
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An electrical grid is a network that delivers electrical power from the power plants where it is generated to customers. See Figure 1. An electrical grid includes wires, substations, transformers, and switches.
Definition: A smart grid is an electrical grid that uses computer-based remote control and automation to deliver electrical power from where it is generated to customers.
In order to improve the delivery of electrical power, the continual developments in smart grid technology can be used to make a power distribution system more intelligent, efficient, and secure.
Figure 1. An electrical grid is a network that delivers electrical power from where it is generated to its point of use.
Upgrades to the electrical grid allow each critical component, such as substations and transformers, to have two-way communication. In this case, each device or location would be capable of calling for assistance if it were experiencing problems. It could also be called back to see the extent of the problem.
For example, if a critical component such as a transformer was overloaded or overheating, a message would go out to a monitoring station. When this information is received, the power could be rerouted until the transformer is inspected or replaced.
The monitoring station could also remotely call up the transformer and, with proper diagnostic software, determine its current condition and efficiency.
Two-way communication also allows one or more power sources on the generation side of the electrical grid to be accessed remotely and routed to a location needed by the customer, depending on the type and amount of power needed. The power may come from a centralized power plant, wind farm, or photovoltaic (PV) array.
Traditional centralized power distribution systems are aging and cannot keep up with the high demand being placed on the systems. Distributed power generation, interactive distributed generation, and microgrids are used to provide alternatives to aging centralized power distribution systems and relieve some of the stress of high demand.
Definition: Distributed power generation is the use of small-scale power generation technologies located close to the loads that are being served. Distributed power generation systems can include PV arrays, wind turbines, biodiesel generators, and other relatively small-scale power systems. See Figure 2.
A distributed power generation system may serve as the only source of power for residential, commercial, industrial, or remotely accessible areas. A distributed power generation system may be a stand-alone system or combined with a centralized power distribution system.
Figure 2. Distributed power generation produces electricity close to where it is used.
Interactive distributed generation systems are also small power generating systems. These systems must be interactive to connect to the utility's distribution grid for two-way power. See Figure 3.
Interactive distributed generation of electrical power is increasingly common as a supplement to traditional centralized power generation. This increases the diversity and security of the electrical energy supply and benefits both customers and electric utilities.
Figure 3. With interactive distributed generation, utility customers are served by both the centralized power plant and the power exported from interconnected distribution generators.
For customers, these systems can provide power to on-site loads and back up their stand-alone systems in the event of a utility power outage. For utilities, the additional power sources supplying capacity during peak loads increases the utility's capacity to serve customers without the need to build new power plants.
For example, back-up generators are generators that are placed in a fixed location and connected to the power distribution system through a manual or automatic transfer switch. When utility power is out, the back-up generator provides power without the need to unplug devices from receptacles and plug them into the generator.
Backup generators normally supply power only to the loads that must have power during a power outage.
A transfer switch detects when utility power has been removed, disconnects the utility distribution system from the loads, and connects the generator to the loads.
Transfer switches and generator control circuits can be manually operated or completely automatic, starting the generator and automatically controlling the power as needed. See Figure 4.
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) consists of new sensors, communication networks, and data management systems that are used to modernize the electrical grid and provide new capabilities to utilities and customers.
An AMI system is composed of sensors, smart meters, and meter data management (MDM) systems, wide-area communication, and home area networks (HANs).
Smart meters equipped with power quality monitoring capabilities enable more rapid detection, diagnosis, and resolution of power quality problems.
AMI provides for self-healing by helping outage management systems detect and locate failures quickly and accurately.
Power generation and storage options at the customer level can be monitored and controlled. AMI data provides the information needed to greatly improve asset management and operations.
Before AMI, utilities typically learned of outages when customers reported problems. Often repair crews were dispatched only to find problems were on the customer's side of the meter.
An AMI solution provides automatic notification of outages. For example, smart meters alert the utility when a customer loses power. This helps pinpoint outages quickly.
An AMI system also accurately records and sends messages on behalf of each meter and sensor when power is restored so utilities can see whether outages have been restored.
AMI implementation also reduces the need for everyday meter readings since readings are taken automatically and regularly.
Meter technicians used to be the first defense against energy theft. New systems fill this void with built-in analysis tools to detect possible theft or tampering.
By analyzing real-time data and comparing it with historical trends from the same meter or similar customers, MDM systems can identify patterns likely to suggest theft or tampering.
The system then automatically generates work reports for field managers to investigate. MDM systems can be linked with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) management systems.
As more power is delivered through the current electrical grid, renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind are raising concerns on how to maintain electrical grid balance and stability.
Balance can only be maintained and power quality increased through the precise measurement of voltage and current waveforms at multiple points on the grid.
Phasor measurement is a technology that can help maintain stability in the power grid.
Definition: A phasor measurement unit (PMU) is a device that measures electrical waveforms on the electrical grid. The unit of measure is the phasor. PMUs are also referred to as synchrophasor.
PMUs provide information to operators and planners to measure the state of the electrical grid and manage power quality. PMUs are precise grid measurement devices, taking measurements as often as 30 times per second. SCADA data is only taken around 4 times per second. PMU measurements are time-stamped to a common time reference provided through GPS tracking satellites.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) timestamps allow PMU data from different utilities to be synchronized and combined together to give a comprehensive view of all utilities affected. PMUs provide more precise information for analysis.
The use of this type of measuring system creates an accurate and reliable source for locating line faults. For example, with the time of signal travel, the signal sent down the power line can be used to pinpoint faults to within a few feet.
A similar technique is used to determine faults in a fiber optic cable by sending light through the cable and determining the time of the return signal from the problem.
Real-time monitoring and sensing are an essential component of a smart grid. The power industry has only recently begun to move to real-time monitoring systems to provide up-to-date information using two-way communication. At the utility level advancements are occur- ring more rapidly on the transmission side as compared to the distribution side.
The next-generation networked sensors have measuring and processing capabilities that help locate a faulted line and identify parts of the grid that might be susceptible to outages before they occur. For example, next-generation networked sensors can highlight power fluctuations that might be the result of a tree limb contacting a power line.
Another move the power industry has embraced is employing digital electronics in metering. At the customer level, electronic metering is still in development.
One of the concerns of introducing new devices is interoperability and the idea that certain technologies may be discarded if different technologies became standard.
It is certain, however, that in the future no meters will be based on electromechanical technology. Instead, meters will be digital and will communicate with both the customer and the utility. This technology will also use the Internet. See Figure 6.
Figure 6. Smart meters allow for remote control by owners and utilities.
For sensors on the smart grid, the power may not be available across the entire power distribution system. This is true on many transmission towers.
Batteries are often used to offset the lack of power. However, batteries eventually need to be recharged. To meet this challenge, a new power method called power harvesting is being introduced as part of the emerging smart grid technology.
Definition: Power harvesting is the process of obtaining power from the surrounding environment. See Figure 7. The primary sources of power harvesting are solar energy, vibration, magnetic fields, thermal (heat) energy, and radio frequency (RF) waves.
Figure 7. Power harvesting is the process of obtaining power from the surrounding environment and using it to power sensors.
New power sources are essential for the widespread use of sensors throughout the smart grid. Many challenges face these new technologies. For example, a few of these challenges include the energy storage of solar-based sensors for use at night, the ability to charge batteries in subzero temperatures, and the useful life of rechargeable batteries.
Microprocessor-based digital relays provide metering data, status information, and fault location, in addition to protection functions. The data is accessed through relay communication ports, local displays, or other human-machine interfaces (HMIs).
Many individuals within a utility organization use the data. For example, operators may need to know the fault location for a particular electrical disturbance.
Fault type and fault location, unavailable until the creation of fault-locating digital relays, are now required by most operating and dispatch centers to guide system restoration.
Digital relays use microprocessors to measure power (currents and voltage) and process this information through their internal logic to control the operation of a circuit breaker.
A digital relay is also referred to as a microprocessor-based relay.
A digital relay consists of sensors that monitor voltage and current and input this information into a data acquisition module that converts the signal from analog to digital output. See Figure 8.
The digital information is then analyzed by the data processing module to determine what outputs are needed. These outputs can be used to activate the digital relay or send feedback information to the operator on how the relay is performing.
Most digital relays have automated self-test functions that verify the correct operation of the relay. When a self-test detects a problem, a message indicating some type of failure is transmitted.
Figure 8. Digital relays process information received from sensors and determine an appropriate output to control a circuit breaker.
Digital relays allow the utility to change protection settings and logic based on the time of day and day of the week. Protection requirements may change as the system load changes.
Original settings are usually quite sensitive. Other settings may be less sensitive and tolerate higher loading. Other settings may be engaged when the digital relay triggers. When conditions return to normal for a period of time, the digital relay returns to its original settings.
Definition: Pulse closing technology is a unique means for verifying that the line is clear of faults before power interrupters are reclosed.
Pulse closing technology works by rapidly closing and reopening the power interrupter contacts at a certain point on the power waveform to generate a low-current pulse in the power line. Then the pulse closer analyzes the pulse to determine whether the contacts should reclose or remain open.
Pulse closing technology is a breakthrough in overhead distribution system protection up to 27 kV. Pulse closing is a superior alternative to conventional reclosing.
It significantly reduces stress on system components and improves power quality by reducing the voltage sags experienced by customers upstream of a fault.
Pulse closers are completely self-contained. See Figure 9. Embedded voltage and current sensors provide Three-Phase monitoring of line current and Three-Phase monitoring of line voltage on both sides of each interrupter.
The units provide a complete set of protection and control functions, with comprehensive diagnostics.
Figure 9. Pulse closers verify that a power line is clear of faults before reclosing power interrupters.
The communication module can provide a short-distance, secure Wi-Fi communication link to a nearby personal computer. A secure Wi-Fi connection can be used with a laptop computer to quickly and easily access and transfer detailed logs, geographical data, and other operational information over the wireless link.
A global positioning system (GPS) chipset in the communication module provides 1 ms accurate time-stamping of events to speed event analysis. It also provides location data.
With RF communications, system operation checks, diagnostics, downloads, and even uploads of new software can be accomplished. This communication system eliminates costly field visits to the equipment after it has been installed.
A memory module, installed in the base, backs up configuration data and site-specific information such as the device identifier, sensor calibration data, and operation counter reading. This system also allows passwords and security clearances to be established.


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Turkey renegotiates its Western allegiances
By Ilya Roubanis on August 6, 2018
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set himself up for a collision course with Washington that could have serious political and economic implications for the relationship between Ankara and the West.
Turkey's allegiance to NATO can no longer be seen as unconditional as Ankara has become increasingly vocal and open about exploring options that go beyond its Euro-Atlantic partners, and would include deepening its relations with Russia, Iran, and China. Such choices can no longer be treated as populist outbursts of little significance. The growing animosity between Turkey and the US presents a challenge that could transform the Euro-Atlantic security landscape.
The Turkish economy, which was running at 7.4% in the first quarter of 2018, could fall on hard times if Erdogan continues down a belligerent approach towards his relations with both the US and EU.
Turkish economic policy is ambitious, with a clear political objective to emerge as a $2 trillion economy by 2023, reaching $500 billion in exports. Ankara will struggle to meet this objective if it continues testing the limits of its aspiration, vis-a-vis its relationship with the West, which could lead to the collapse of the economy.
Economic collision with Washington escalates
The Turkish Lira reached a new low on August 6 as Washington moved to impose sanctions related to the trial of an American Protestant pastor Andrew Brunson who has been accused of being a terrorist by Erdogan's government.
Since Jan. 1, the lira has depreciated 27% against the US dollar and 35% against the Euro.
The depreciating currency adds to inflationary pressure; which was at a whopping 16% in July. Erdogan has made it clear that he wants lower interest rates to maintain fast growth. Interest rates in Turkey are currently at 17.75%, while Ankara's political interference regarding monetary policy has become a major concern, especially following the appointment of Erdogan's son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, as head the ministry of finance.
The Turkish economy is heavily exposed to dollarised debt, which is becoming increasingly burdensome due to surging interest rates. Debt denominated in reserves currencies amounts to over 50% of Turkey's GDP, according to the IMF.
There are other vulnerabilities that the Turkish economy faces, picked up both by the IMF and international investment analysts: sizable external financing needs, limited foreign exchange reserves, increased reliance on short-term capital inflows. Sovereign bond yields reached 20% on Monday.
However, Turkey has weathered hard times before. The Turkish private sector has the critical mass to seek creative solutions, including plans to create an industrial zone in the United States, that is, a market in which it exports goods worth just under $12 billion in 2017. But, creativity alone will not suffice.
The dangers stemming from a culture of political bravado present both in Washington and Ankara is that the economy will suffer.
Ankara has made clear that it will not stop importing oil from Iran by November 4, 2018, thereby opening a second front in its confrontation with Washington. Iran is Turkey's biggest supplier of crude oil, with a 50% share of imports in the first half of 2018.
Furthermore, Turkey is now proposing an independent credit-rating agency to challenge the US-based big three: Moody's, Standard and Poor's, and Fitch. Turkey is offering a partnership with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), which account for 20% of the global economy.
According to statements by the President of the Turkish banking association to the pro-Erdogan government Anadolu Agency, this would challenge the "arbitrariness" of Turkish credit ratings.
The rift between NATO and Turkey is deepening
The confrontation could soon acquire strategic dimensions.
Less than a month after the July 2016 attempted coup, Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz gave an interview to Hurriyet in which he cited a "Eurasian camp" in the Turkish military that questioned Turkey's allegiance to NATO.
According to Gurdeniz, a number of officers saw the alliance between Washington and the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria and ongoing negotiations for the reunification of Cyprus as proof of a Western conspiracy against Turkey. In that interview, there was little reference to the Philadelphia-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
The argument made by Gurdeniz was that NATO no longer serves Turkey's interests. He questioned, for example, whether it was wise for Ankara to participate in NATO's Ballistic Missile Defense program.
In the meantime, the Turkish military was purging itself of the cream of the crop of the army, navy, and air force, going after the overwhelming majority of NATO officers in Brussels. Ankara was furious after Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and the United States moved to grand political asylum rather than extradite career officers wanted by the Turkish authorities.
This eventually led to Ankara obstructing the work of NATO allies at Turkey's Incirlik Airbase and the forced relocation of Germany's air force units supporting operations in Syria from Incirlik to Jordan's al-Asrak Airbase.
In a speech delivered in Brussels in July, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu confirmed that Ankara is committed to the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system, which he insists poses no threat to the alliance. One of the concerns for Washington is that the deployment of the Russian missile system in Turkey – which has also bought fifth generation F-35 fighter jets as a NATO member — would expose the aircrafts' top secret capabilities to Russia.
Ankara sets sights on Chinese cooperation
In a speech delivered in Ankara's Chinese Embassy on July 28, Brigadier General Chen Qingsong hailed a new era of strategic cooperation, noting that Ankara's "central corridor strategy" – which is designed to link Europe with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China – matches Beijing's One Belt, One Road initiative.
These rival strategic visions have provided some scope for military cooperation, and the two parties are planning to cooperate in sectors such as professional military education, military training, the defence industry, terrorism, intelligence sharing, robotic systems, artificial intelligence and cyberwarfare.
Seeking military cooperation in Russia and China, while scaling up the confrontation with Washington and, often, Brussels, suggests that Turkey does not want to be taken for granted. More often than not, allies take each other for granted.
Originally Published in New Europe: https://www.neweurope.eu/article/turkeys-relations-west-enters-new-crisis/
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Program Coordinator of the project Mrs. Thivya welcomed Mr. Rajendrapandian the president of the village who came to inaugurate the tailoring centre and Mr. James Victor Director of Serene Secular Social Service Society who are present to share the concept of the project. She also welcomed the adolescent girls and the women who were very eager in learning the skill of sewing for their small income.
Mr. S. James Victor Director of 5S said that we purely work and render support for the mill workers and this project will support them in their education, health, economical development, legal support and social entitlements. He also explained the issues of sumangali schemes and the common issues that the mill workers face in their working areas. He said that the various trainings and capacity buildings of this project shall surely help towards reducing the risk in life as well as in the work places. He wished all of them to take initiative to learn and get benefit from the opportunities availed for them all through this tailoring centre.
Mr. Rajendrapandian president of Anjukulipatty inaugurated the tailoring center and said that I am very privileged to be here and I am honored in inaugurating this center. He said that we are lucky to have SSSSS having taken our village as one among their working area. He insisted everyone to make use of all the programs available from SSSSS. He also assured his constant cooperation for implementing each program of the project in his village.
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Jeon, Kim, Kim, Lee, Jayaraman, Jung, Choi, Sohn, and Segonzac: Ralstonia solanacearum Type III Effectors with Predicted Nuclear Localization Signal Localize to Various Cell Compartments and Modulate Immune Responses in Nicotiana spp.
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Ralstonia solanacearum Type III Effectors with Predicted Nuclear Localization Signal Localize to Various Cell Compartments and Modulate Immune Responses in Nicotiana spp.
Hyelim Jeon1,†, Wanhui Kim1,2,† , Boyoung Kim1, Sookyeong Lee1,¶, Jay Jayaraman3,4 , Gayoung Jung3, Sera Choi3, Kee Hoon Sohn3,5 , Cécile Segonzac1,2,*
1Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
2Plant Immunity Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
3Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea
4New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (PFR), Mt Albert Auckland 1025, New Zealand
5School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea
*Corresponding author. Phone) +82-2-880-2229, FAX) +82-2-873-2056, E-mail) csegonzac@snu.ac.kr, ORCID Wanhui Kim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9622-1355; Jay Jayaraman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4959-9467; Kee Hoon Sohn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9021-8649; Cécile Segonzac https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-7556
¶ Current address: National Agrobiodiversity Center, Jeonju 54874, Korea
https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.OA.08.2019.0227
Plant Pathol. J. 36(1): 43-53 (2020)
The original version of the article contained an error in the Acknowledgments statement. The corrected version of Acknowledgments is as follows. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.
We thank Dr. Eunsook Park (University of Wyoming) for the kind gift of the organelle-specific marker recombinant plasmids. This work was carried out with the support of "Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development (Project PJ01317502)", Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea and the support of National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Project No. 2019R1I1A1A01060721, Basic Research and No. 2018R1A5A1023599, SRC). C.S. is supported by the Research Resettlement Fund for New Faculty and Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program through Seoul National University.
We thank Dr. Eunsook Park (University of Wyoming) for the kind gift of the organelle-specific marker recombinant plasmids. This work was carried out with the support of "Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (Plant Molecular Breeding) (Project PJ01317502)", Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea and the support of National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Project No. 2019R1I1A1A01060721, Basic Research and No. 2018R1A5A1023599, SRC). C.S. is supported by the Research Resettlement Fund for New Faculty and Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program through Seoul National University.
Ralstonia solanacearum Type III Effectors with Predicted Nuclear Localization Signal Localize to Various Cell Compartments and Modulate Immune Responses in Nicotiana spp.2020 February;36(1)


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Bobby and Brandie met 2002 in a small gym back in their hometown of Steubenville, Ohio. From day one, fitness has been a part of their lives. When Bobby and Brandie got engaged, Bobby got a position with the Fort Wayne Freedom professional football team and they moved to Fort Wayne, IN.
Throughout their lives in Fort Wayne, Bobby and Brandie tried several gyms as they continued the enjoyment of working out together. In 2009, Bobby and Brandie had their first child. After their second child in 2012, Brandie noticed the "baby weight" was more difficult to work off than the first. She was sick of the same old workouts and felt burnt out.
A couple of friends had started talking about this "CrossFit" and it sparked Brandie and Bobby's interest. They were talking so highly about it and looking great, the couple decided to give it a try.
From the start, Brandie loved the support of the CrossFit community as well as never having to do the same work out twice. For Bobby, it was the comradeship of the athletes, the coaching and the opportunity to compete at CrossFit competitions.
The couple had joined CrossFit and fell in love instantly. So much so they decided to open their own box and share it with friends, the community, and the Lamplight Inn family.
Additionally, Bobby and Brandie believe it's important that their children are also able to choose healthy habits. The couple brings their 3-year old daughter, Bella, into the box regularly, and have gone as far as buying her very own children's CrossFit weights. Bella has been a staple of their CrossFit family since the beginning, and Bianca, once she is old enough, will also become a part of the Mad Apple family.
We do believe CrossFit is for everybody. We modify movements to fit every individual's needs. You receive the expertise of our coaches and put in the dedication to reach what it is you want to accomplish. However, as much as we love CrossFit, we understand it may not be for you. So we went a step further and offer Endurance, Gymnastics, Mobility, Self Defense and Olympic Lifting classes. Just know if you want to put in the work, we will give you the opportunity to meet your goals.


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Immokalee is a small, rural town of 25,000 residents in northern unincorporated Collier County. It's relatively remote and off the well-carved tourist trail of South Florida. This town that many of our clients call home is heavily agricultural, with swamps drained to clear the way for farming. It's one of the foremost centers for tomato cultivation in the U.S., and the Seminole Tribe of Florida has one of its six reservations on the site, where it operates one of its gaming casinos. The fact that it's a small town with limited access to medical facilities makes an Immokalee car accident or other serious personal injury that much more of a big deal. As our Immokalee personal injury lawyers will further discuss below, car accidents are not the the only type of serious injuries that occur in this small Collier County town.
Common personal injury claims that we often see in Immokalee include:
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The Immokalee personal injury lawyers at Garvin Injury Law are committed to fighting for your rights to be treated fairy, provide you adequate compensation and hold bad drivers and otherwise negligent people or corporations accountable.
Immokalee Car Accidents
In a single year, the Collier County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol reported nearly 7,400 crashes on the streets and highways of unincorporated Collier County, with about 7 percent of those occurring in the Immokalee area. Much of this date on Collier County traffic accidents has come from crash reports which many drivers refer to as a Collier County accident report. Of those, about 7 percent involved bicyclists or pedestrians. Our personal injury attorneys know that Immokalee bicyclists and pedestrians are likely to suffer especially serious injuries because they lack protection from vehicles.
When law enforcement analyzed Immokalee area car accidents by day and time, they found most crashes occurred between Friday and Sunday, and most often between noon and 5 p.m.
Florida has numerous laws that outline the duty for drivers to use reasonable care to avoid harming passengers and other motorists. Failure to meet these requirements may result in a finding of negligence if someone else is hurt. Some examples include:
Duty to drive at a reasonable, prudent speed, taking into consideration the condition of the road, weather conditions and existing traffic.
Duty to keep a proper look out and remain alert.
Maintaining an assured clear distance. Drivers who are in the rear in rear-end collisions must overcome a rebuttable presumption of negligence, which can help a personal injury lawyer in Immokalee secure compensation for victims of these crashes.
It should be noted that while law enforcement might make a determination on fault at the scene of the accident and note that finding in their official report, that's not necessarily the last word when it comes to the civil case. It's ultimately up to the judge or jury weighing your civil claim. If your damages are severe enough to warrant coverage outside of personal injury protection (PIP) benefits, as outlined in F.S. 627.737(2), you may have the right to pursue damages from the at-fault driver.
Residents of Immokalee should also be aware that they may receive a summons to appear for collier county jury duty; if you have received a summons for Jury duty in Collier county please check the Collier County Clerk's Website.
If you would like to discuss your Immokalee car accident case please feel free to Contact the Immokalee personal injury attorneys at the Garvin Injury Law by calling 239.267.5657.
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