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Posted on August 7, 2012 June 13, 2018
120 Reasons To Live: The Smiths
Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV's Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from '80s college rock to '00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show's classic era.
#120: The Smiths "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"
There's a fine line between nostalgia trip and beating a dead horse, so the final installment in this series of digging up old music videos goes to the band with the most appropriate song title for the occasion. The Smiths were the most furiously creative band of the 1980s; from 1983 to 1987, Morrissey and Johnny Marr redefined the aesthetics of popular music in an astonishingly conservative, classical way. The Smiths wore normal clothes and hardly ever wore makeup or used keyboards. That's the idea the video for "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" purports—everybody's a Smith. Of course, that's untrue. Morrissey and Marr were extraordinary. This writer interviewed Johnny Marr some years back and came away with the feeling that the Smiths were a pathological entity:
"The thing that brought us really close together is the essence of why Morrissey lives his life and why I live my life," said Marr. "Without the art of pop music and pop culture, life doesn't make any sense. It was a pretty serious, deep need. It wasn't just the need to escape our social situation, because underneath it all, one of the things that makes us the same is that we're both incredibly sensitive. There was this burden with serious mental problems that were taken care of by records."
Thank god for mental illness.
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120 Reasons To Live: Bomb The Bass
#119: Bomb The Bass "Beat Dis"
You know how the introductory paragraph above suggests that this series of 120 posts would include "industrial, electronica and more in between"? Yeah, that hasn't really happened for the most part. With one post remaining, it's apparent that 120 Minutes was not as musically varied as memory served; still, stylistic breakthroughs such as "Beat Dis"—the 1988 megasingle by U.K. act Bomb The Bass—regularly found a home on the program. Helmed by producer Tim Simenon, Bomb The Bass didn't invent sampling, but it sure did pioneer how to pile it on. As for MTV's further adventures in electronic-music/DJ programming, Amp (1997-2001) became a far more subversive vehicle for arty, creative videos.
120 Reasons To Live: Sparks
#118: Sparks "So Important"
Is it possible this was the only Sparks video to appear on 120 Minutes? Sparks, the L.A.-based duo of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, went on vacation in the late '80s and didn't really return until the early '00s. "So Important" is from 1988's Interior Design, and it's symptomatic of some issues that may be preventing the full-on Sparktacular rediscovery: dated style and production that's like a wall or tall shrubbery, inhibiting access to a deep reservoir of songs. Oh, but when Sparks returned with 2002's Li'l Beethoven and 2006's Hello Young Lovers, it began a renaissance in which the Maels' annoying musical traits (mixing classical with rock, extreme repetition of lyrics and melody, bad puns) became unique assets. Below is the masterpiece from the modern Sparks songbook, "Dick Around":
120 Reasons To Live: Aztec Camera
#117: Aztec Camera "The Crying Scene"
Hailing from East Kilbride, Scotland (the same town that birthed the Jesus And Mary Chain), Aztec Camera gained early notoriety for 1983 single "Oblivious," whose video features boyish frontman Roddy Frame as new wave's own Peter Pan. (In a now-familiar theme, that clip would have been the obvious choice here but is not available online.) By the time of 1990's Stray, Aztec Camera was no longer relying on eyeliner and strummy, lightweight songs. Stray wasn't pure gold, but first single "The Crying Scene" represents a respectable toughening-up of Frame's songwriting with a peculiarly American touch. Frame was Aztec Camera's sole constant—the band cycled through approximately 25 members over its lifespan, including former "fifth Smith" Craig Gannon for a spell—until he began recording under his own name in 1995.
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120 Reasons To Live: Robyn Hitchcock
#116: Robyn Hitchcock Owns This Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UzmtXKxJnA
If the price was reasonable, we'd buy a full-length recording of Robyn Hitchcock simply talking. It's possible that no human has strung together more original sentences than him. It must be exhausting being Robyn Hitchcock. In an earlier post we bemoaned the lack of his videos on YouTube (though "Balloon Man" sneakily appears here in crap-o-vision), but this series of between-clip banter might be even better—even Dave Kendall seems impressed. "I didn't want to worship the devil," Hitchcock tells him, "so I came to Manhattan." The context here is funny, too; just think of the sad beauty of a song such as "She Doesn't Exist," from Hitchcock's 1991 album Perspex Island, having to rub up against the silver body paint of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away" on the record-store shelves and college-radio airwaves. There oughta be a law.
120 Reasons To Live: Superchunk
#115: Superchunk "Driveway To Driveway"
Once again we stretch the elastic boundaries of what constitutes 120 Minutes' "classic era" to include this 1994 video from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Superchunk, but we do so in order to point out two things:
1) This clip for "Driveway To Driveway" puts the lie to our earlier notion that indie rock killed 120 Minutes by not making videos. The more likely explanation is that Viacom/MTV didn't see much business sense in airing promotional videos by indie labels such as Matador (let's please not get into this any further).
2) Mac-and-Laura breakup album Foolish proved that Superchunk could do more than the pogoing pop/punk of "Slack Motherfucker"; that it might be a band that survived your college years; that it was every bit as "important" as Pavement even though the group rarely got more than an acknowledgment of workmanlike accomplishment from the press box.
120 Reasons To Live: Material Issue
#114: Material Issue: "Valerie Loves Me" and "Kim The Waitress"
Here's the video for 1991's "Valerie Loves Me," in which the members of Material Issue take turns stalking a woman, the bass player going so far as to camp out in the ladies' restroom. Granted, the vlip doesn't do justice to "Valerie," a high-school mix-tape staple that's in the rarefied airspace of "Melt With You" as far as those matters are concerned. That Material Issue pulled off a 1960s mod, English act in the midst of 1990s Chicago is charming and bizarre, but there was a dark side, too. (And we're not referring to the sad collection of humanity that shows up at power-pop conventions.) Singer/guitarist Jim Ellison committed suicide in 1996 after the group had parted ways with its label the previous year and Ellison had ended a long-term relationship.
Cheer up, campers: It's a Material Issue Double Shot! Here's the band's cover of "Kim The Waitress," written by those other power-pop heroes, the Green Pajamas:
120 Reasons To Live: The Jesus And Mary Chain
#113: The Jesus And Mary Chain "Darklands"
The weird thing about Darklands is that it's so much better than Psychocandy. The latter gets all the respect and praise, but much of that debut is just noise. The Jesus And Mary Chain's 1987 sophomore album is a fulcrum: It releases much of the childish, annoying feedback of Psychocandy and hasn't yet completely tipped over into the drum-machine dystopia of 1989's Automatic. On the title track, Jim and William Reid combine their love for the Velvet Underground and girl groups and blanket it with slow, shuddering chords. Darklands—it's the new black.
120 Reasons To Live: Dramarama
#112: Dramarama "Last Cigarette"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAELH8WuXI
After last week's self-important proclamation that, for some reason, the final 10 120 Reasons To Live entries should, like, count for something and represent important musical moments … well, here we are with the ultimate alt-rock footnote, Dramarama. Originally from Wayne, N.J. (of Fountains Of … fame) and later situated in Los Angeles, Dramarama was beloved by KROQ (Dramarama bassist Chris Carter went on to produce 2004 Rodney Bingenheimer documentary Mayor Of The Sunset Strip) and got signed by Elektra in the '90s. "Last Cigarette" is from 1989's Stuck In Wonderamaland, and there's something annoyingly honest about it, in some ways the same as a country song that doesn't mince words or seek to deliver any message but the plainest one: "Last cigarette/One before I go to bed."
120 Reasons To Live: Pulp
#111: Pulp "Disco 2000"
As we move into the final 10 entries in 120 Reasons To Live, there is a slow, dumb realization of the waves of regret that will come crashing down on us after there is no more space to fill. Did we really use up a spot just to make fun of Killing Joke? Two Lemonheads videos? The rest of the self-analysis will be saved for a special after-the-fact director's commentary post. Maybe. Pulp's popular era (circa 1996) is disconnected from the prime 120 Minutes era by a good half-decade, but if Blur was counted in our list then it's a crime not to include the better (OK, best) band of the Britpop movement.
If the riff to "Disco 2000" sounds familiar, maybe it's because Jarvis Cocker is a huge fan of Laura Branigan's appearance on an episode of CHiPs.


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Current Situation of Sony Entertainment
Topics: Music industry, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pages: 16 (3914 words) Published: February 29, 2012
Facts and Starting points for Sony Music Entertainment
Chapter 1: Mission, Vision Core Competences
Sony BMG does not have a publicized mission statement. However, the mother company Sony has changed its mission statements several times in history, whereas it is the following: ''To become a leading global provider of networked consumer electronics, entertainment and services.'' (Sony 2010)
Equal to the mission, SONY BMG does not have a publicized vision. The general vision of Sony is: ''We Help Dreamers Dream,
Sony is a company dedicated to the love of life. We develop things for any kind of imagination. We develop Products that stimulate the senses and refresh the spirit and create ideas that always surprise and never disappoint.'' (Sony 2010)
- One of the worldwide leaders in information technology products
- broadband entertainment company
- designing succesful new products and brands
- one of the most popular innovative consumer brand
- succesful convergent revenue streams
- own entertainment network
From a hardware perspective, Sony's strategy is focused on four gateways to the networked world: 1) Digital televisions and set-top boxes; 2) VAIO personal computers; 3) Mobile devices, such as the CLIE handheld devices and digital phones; and 4) PlayStation game consoles. Sony has the vision, technology and content to forge a direction in consumer entertainment that no other company can match.
Chapter 2: Analysis
In this chapter, different data will be used to gain information about the marketing model of Sony BMG . To have the most up to date marketing model, results from the last 3 years will be used. (2009, 2010, 2011) * Analysis of 2009,10 and 11
Sony Analysis
Sony BMG 2009
Sony music entertainment business consists primarily of Sony Music Entertainment (SME), which operates worldwide outside of Japan, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan Inc. (SMEJ), which operates in the Japanese market. Sony has changed its business segment classification from 2010, whereas in 2009 SME was part of all other income. Increase in Sales
* Due to consolidation of Sony BMG
However, when the consolidation is excluded, the sales would have decreased * Due to lower sales of Sony Music Entertainment
* Settlement payment to copyright infringement
Decline in Operating Income
* Due to copyright infringement costs
* Sony sold '' The sony center am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, for 10 milion yen less than the actual value Strategy 2009
* Focus on generating hits for both well-known and emerging recording artists * Create new and Innovative business models for a music market in transaction * Licensing deals with Sony Ericsson, Apple, Nokia, Vodafone, MySpace and Amazon. The goal is to expand number of service providers who are offering music from Sony Artists and offer a diversified way of how the consumer acquires music. * Sony United Initiative; Integrating its music into wide range of Sony products and related services
Sony Music Entertainment 2010
Sony has changed its business segment classification from 2010, whereas music is one segment.
Increase in Sales
* Sales included the full year result of SME which was consolidated on the 1st of oct. 2008 * Withouth the consolidation, sales in music segment would have declined with a percentage of 5 * Releases of Susan Boyle, Michael Jackson and Ikimono-Gakari
Operating Income Increased
* Declining expenses of the previous year
* Improved results of Sony Music Entertainment & Sony Music Entertainment Japan inc. (releases of the albums from artists above)
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Mintel Press Office
Social and Lifestyle
Football frenzy: Half of Americans are professional football fans
Mintel Press Team
Available 24 hours a day, Mintel's global public relations team is pleased to provide accredited journalists with access to our research, arrange interviews with our expert analysts and share the latest insights across categories and countries.
September 10th, 2015September 10th, 2015
With the NFL regular season officially underway, new research from Mintel reveals that half of Americans are professional football fans (50 percent), making the sport a clear fan-favorite among US adults. Joining professional football at the top of sports fans' must-watch list are college football (35 percent), professional baseball (32 percent) and professional basketball (30 percent).
According to Mintel research, two thirds of US adults are sports fans (67 percent), individuals who watch at least half of their favorite team's games or events in at least one sport. Per Mintel's definition, 56 percent of women and 80 percent of men qualify as sports fans. Though men (63 percent) are much more likely than women (38 percent) to watch football, it is the most popular sport among fans regardless of gender. In fact, 38 percent of men report that they almost never miss their favorite football team's game. A similar trend is seen among college football fans, with 45 percent of men and 26 percent of women reporting that they are fans. In conjunction, baseball and basketball rank third and fourth most popular among men and women, with men (43 percent) being twice as likely as women (22 percent) to be fans of professional baseball and professional basketball (40 percent vs 21 percent of women).
Furthermore, male sports fans are more likely to play fantasy sports (23 percent) than women (13 percent), with men (45 percent) showing greater interest in game and player statistics than women (31 percent).
"Following sports is a widely popular tradition in the US due to a rich history at both the collegiate and professional levels, as well as the notion that athletics embody the American ideals of hard work, perseverance and striving for greatness. Our research shows that sports like college and professional football have strong fan bases among male and female sports fans and are as much of an American pastime as baseball," said Lauren Bonetto, Lifestyles and Leisure Analyst at Mintel. "Furthermore, the popularity of fantasy sports illustrates the level of dedication Americans have to sports overall and could lead to increased engagement as those in fantasy leagues may watch additional games to gain a competitive edge."
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29% of American sports fans eat chili during games
The majority of sports fans agree that eating and drinking is a big part of watching sports (60 percent). Nearly all sports fans consume beverages while watching sports at home with at least half reaching for water, soda or beer. Among sports fans age 21 and older, 63 percent report consuming alcoholic beverages while watching sports, with 50 percent of these fans drinking beer. In comparison, 54 percent of fans report drinking soda and 64 percent drink water while watching sports.
Though many fans drink alcohol while watching sports, it appears few are "drinking to get drunk;" sports fans tend to opt for beer (50 percent) and wine (31 percent) over mixed drinks with hard alcohol (28 percent). In particular, male sports fans are significantly more likely than female fans to consume beer while watching sports (56 percent vs 42 percent).
Overall, 83 percent of fans snack while watching sports. Mintel research shows that 82 percent of US adults buy salty snacks for themselves, and sports fans are no exception: 68 percent of fans eat salty snacks while watching sports. Outside of snacks, chili, a staple of some football tailgate spreads, is eaten by nearly one third of sports fans (29 percent) during games.
Millennials use game time to socialize
While two thirds of fans prefer to watch games from the comfort of their own home rather than in person (69 percent), nearly half of American sports fans view sports as a tool for socializing. A full 46 percent agree that following sports is more about being social than anything else, including 59 percent of Millennials.
Millennials are also most likely to agree with similar motivations for watching sports. Three quarters (74 percent) of sports fans agree that following sports is a good way to bond with family and friends, increasing to 78 percent of Millennials. Further, 52 percent of sports fans overall and 67 percent of Millennials agree that following sports makes them feel more connected to their community. Millennial sports fans are the most likely generation to watch sports with others, including 45 percent who report watching with friends, compared to 34 percent of fans overall.
Compared to Millennials, children show less interest in watching sports. In 2014, a third of kids age 6-11 watched sports on TV at least occasionally (33 percent). This is down from 39 percent in 2013, and is a sharp decline from 2008, when nearly half of children age 6-11 reported watching sports (45 percent).
"Millennials tend to agree that following sports is about being social. Our data indicates Millennials prefer to watch sporting events as part of a larger group and gravitate towards social media in order to stay connected and engaged both online and offline," concluded Bonetto.
Press review copies of the Marketing to Sports Fans US 2015 report and interviews with Lauren Bonetto, Lifestyles and Leisure Analyst, are available on request from the press office.
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First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Intelligence in Recent Public Literature
By Gary C. Schroen. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 379 pages.
Reviewed by J. Daniel Moore
There have been a number of illuminating accounts of the CIA's involvement in Afghanistan in the period 1980–2001, most of them critical. Such well-regarded studies as the 9/11 Commission Report, Steve Coll's Ghost Wars, Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon's The Age of Sacred Terror, and Ahmed Rashid's Taliban detail US missteps in South Asia and foreshadow the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. In contrast, retired CIA officer Gary Schroen's First In is a "good news" story for the Agency, recounting the brief, successful, CIA-led operation to assist the Afghan opposition in overthrowing the Islamist Taliban regime in the fall of 2001.
Schroen's memoir is mostly a straightforward account of his role leading the Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT) from mid-September to the end of October 2001. He opens with the gripping story of the al-Qa'ida-orchestrated murder of legendary ethnic-Tajik commander Ahmed Shah Masood on 9 September 2001 by two Arab assassins posing as journalists. Schroen had met Masood several times during earlier assignments in the region, meetings arranged by Masood's close friend and political aide, Masood Khalili. It is Khalili who is Schroen's chief source for the horrifying account of Masood's assassination through a suicide bombing that almost killed Khalili, as well.
Al-Qa'ida and its Taliban ally surely anticipated that Masood's death would lead to the rapid military collapse of the Tajik-led Northern Alliance, which had been holding out against the stronger Taliban for nearly five years. Instead, the terrorist attacks in the United States two days later sparked the Bush administration's worldwide war against terrorism. The NALT deployed nine days after the 9/11 attacks, joining the Northern Alliance forces north of Kabul. The subsequent CIA-led military operation resulted in the destruction of the Taliban regime by early December, although Usama Bin Ladin and other top al-Qa'ida leaders escaped.
Readers should find of special interest Schroen's account of how the NALT materialized in the days following the attacks. His reaction to the horror of 9/11 is honest and personal. He describes how his colleagues in the Near East Division responded to the televised coverage and details how he received a call at home two days later requesting him to meet the following morning with the chief the Counterterrorist Center, Cofer Black. When Black asked Schroen to take a small team into Afghanistan, link up with the Northern Alliance, and obtain its cooperation to go after Bin Ladin and al-Qa'ida, he accepted without hesitation. He was, after all, highly qualified for the job: He had had three tours in Islamabad working the radical Islamic target, including a last assignment as chief of station; he spoke Farsi; and he already knew many of the senior people in the Northern Alliance.
The speed at which the NALT came together—reaching the Panjshir Valley by 26 September—speaks eloquently of the CIA's flexibility and ability to react in a crisis. Schroen and his deputy assembled the team in short order, with each officer identifying a trusted colleague who brought special skills to the endeavor. Schroen chose a young, talented, Farsi-speaking operations officer with whom he had served in Islamabad. His deputy selected a fellow Special Activities Division officer, a paramilitary expert and former Marine who spoke Russian and wore a corduroy sport coat in meetings with Northern Alliance officials. Three additional specialists joined the team: a former SEAL whose strong organizational skills and high energy got the team kick started and packed up for Afghanistan; a retired Agency officer and Vietnam veteran who served as field medic and more; and a communications genius who kept equipment working in a difficult environment.
The CIA's agility in responding to the 9/11 attacks stood in stark contrast to the difficulties US military special forces encountered in getting "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan. Schroen documents his team's efforts while still in Washington to coordinate planning with special operations officers, who were preoccupied with chains of command and uncertain of their mission and status relative to the CIA. Ultimately, the NALT left for Afghanistan without the special forces representative they had hoped to include. The first special forces team reached the Panjshir Valley on 17 October, nearly a month after the NALT's arrival. More special forces units soon followed, joining other CIA teams already in country. The joint CIA-special forces teams made short work of the Taliban. Agency officers provided the cultural and language expertise, while the military personnel coordinated air and ground fire-support assets. These working relationships remained excellent through the crumbling of Taliban resistance on 6 December.
Schroen played a crucial role in leading the NALT's sometimes painful early negotiations with the Northern Alliance leadership and in interfacing with CIA headquarters. He deftly walked the tightrope between a demanding Tajik-led alliance that sought to promote its own political interests over those of other tribal groups, and a US national security community that seemed to lean too much, in Schroen's view, in the direction of placating Pakistan, once the Taliban's backer and now an advocate of a non-Tajik post-Taliban government. Schroen left the NALT in early November 2001, before the fall of Mazar-e Sharif, Kabul, and Kandahar. His successor, who presided over the final stage of the battle for the capital, appears to have provided the author with colorful details of that phase of the campaign. Leaders of other Agency teams also furnished Schroen with firsthand accounts.
While certain aspects of the Afghan campaign remain classified, First In does a good job getting much of the story out to the American public. One marvels at how much detail, some of it politically sensitive, made it into print—so much, in fact, that it raises a disturbing question about whether the publicity might have negative repercussions for the Afghan officials who cooperated with Schroen and the CIA during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.
First In describes a gung-ho success story for the Bush administration and the CIA. Still, Schroen speaks out in the book's Afterword against what he attests is the administration's relative loss of interest in Afghanistan. With the National Security Council's increasing preoccupation with Iraq after mid-2002, Afghanistan took a back seat in the allocation of financial and personnel resources, he argues, and the possibility of the capture of Bin Ladin and defeat of al-Qa'ida receded.
Schroen is on firm ground when he describes what he personally experienced. When he records events learned second-hand, he relies on anecdotes. When he discusses US policy in the Islamic world, he is merely voicing an opinion. Schroen's foray into the policy realm at the conclusion of First In struck this reviewer as a stretch—perhaps the result of a publisher who thought that criticism of the Bush administration by a CIA veteran might sell well. That aside, overall, the action story is an important and compelling one, and Schroen tells it well.
J. Daniel Moore is a retired CIA operations officer who has field experience in South Asia.
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Q: Passing values and calling functions from other functions I have this class that consists of 3 functions. Each function is in charge of one part of the whole process.
.load() loads up two files, re-formats their content and writes them to two new files.
.compare() takes two files and prints out their differences in a specific format.
.final() takes the result of .compare() and creates a file for every set of values.
Please ignore the Frankenstein nature of the logic as it is not my main concern at the moment. I know it can be written a thousand times better and that's fine by me for now as i am still new to Python and programing in general. I do have some theoretical experience but very limited technical practice and that is something i am working on.
Here is the code:
from collections import defaultdict
from operator import itemgetter
from itertools import groupby
from collections import deque
import os

class avs_auto:

    def load(self, fileIn1, fileIn2, fileOut1, fileOut2):
        with open(fileIn1+'.txt') as fin1, open(fileIn2+'.txt') as fin2:
            frame_rects = defaultdict(list)
            for row in (map(str, line.split()) for line in fin1):
                id, frame, rect = row[0], row[2], [row[3],row[4],row[5],row[6]]
                frame_rects[frame].append(id)
                frame_rects[frame].append(rect)
            for row in (map(str, line.split()) for line in fin2):
                id, frame, rect = row[0], row[2], [row[3],row[4],row[5],row[6]]
                frame_rects[frame].append(id)
                frame_rects[frame].append(rect)

        with open(fileOut1+'.txt', 'w') as fout1, open(fileOut2+'.txt', 'w') as fout2:
            for frame, rects in sorted(frame_rects.iteritems()):
                fout1.write('{{{}:{}}}\n'.format(frame, rects))
                fout2.write('{{{}:{}}}\n'.format(frame, rects))

    def compare(self, f1, f2):
        with open(f1+'.txt', 'r') as fin1:
            with open(f2+'.txt', 'r') as fin2:
                lines1 = fin1.readlines()
                lines2 = fin2.readlines()
                diff_lines = [l.strip() for l in lines1 if l not in lines2]
                diffs = defaultdict(list)
                with open(f1+'x'+f2+'Result.txt', 'w') as fout:
                    for line in diff_lines:
                        d = eval(line)
                        for k in d:
                            list_ids = d[k]
                            for i in range(0, len(d[k]), 2):
                                diffs[d[k][i]].append(k)
                    for id_ in diffs:
                        diffs[id_].sort()
                        for k, g in groupby(enumerate(diffs[id_]), lambda (i, x): i - x):
                            group = map(itemgetter(1), g)
                            fout.write('{0} {1} {2}\n'.format(id_, group[0], group[-1]))

    def final(self):
        with open('hw1load3xhw1load2Result.txt', 'r') as fin:
            lines = (line.split() for line in fin)
            for k, g in groupby(lines, itemgetter(0)):
                fst = next(g)
                lst = next(iter(deque(g, 1)), fst)
                with open('final/{}.avs'.format(k), 'w') as fout:
                    fout.write('video0=ImageSource("MovieName\original\%06d.jpeg", {}, {}, 15)\n'.format(fst[1], lst[2]))

Now to my question, how do i make it so each of the functions passes it's output files as values to the next function and calls it?
So for an example:
running .load() should output two files, call the .compare() function passing it those two files.
Then when .compare() is done, it should pass .final() the output file and calls it.
So .final() will open whatever file is passed to it from .compare() and not "test123.txt" as it is defined above.
I hope this all makes sense. Let me know if you need clarification. Any criticism is welcome concerning the code itself. Thanks in advance.

A: Do you mean call with the name of the two files?  Well you defined a class, so you can just do:
def load(self, fileIn1, fileIn2, fileOut1, fileOut2):
    ... // do stuff here
    // when done
    self.compare( fileOut1, fileOut2 )

And so on.

A: There are a couple of ways to do this, but I would write a master function that calls the other three in sequence.  Something like:
def load_and_compare(self, input_file1, input_file2, output_file1, output_file2, result_file):
    self.load(input_file1, input_file2, output_file1, output_file2)
    self.compare(output_file1, output_file2)
    self.final(result_file)

Looking over your code, I think you have a problem in load.  You only declare a single dictionary, then load the contents of both files into it and write those same contents out to two files.  Because each file has the same content, compare won't do anything meaningful.
Also, do you really want to write out the file contents and then re-read it into memory?  I would keep the frame definitions in memory for use in compare after loading rather than reading them back in.
I don't really see a reason for this to be a class at all rather than just a trio of functions, but maybe if you have to read multiple files with mildly varying formats you could get some benefit of using class attributes to define the format while inheriting the general logic.

A: I might be totally off here, but why don't you do it exactly as you're saying?
Just call self.compare() out of your load() method.
You can also add return statements to load() and return a tuple with the files.
Then add a 4th method to your class, which then collects the returned files and pipes them to the compare() method.
Best Regards!

A: One of the more powerful aspects of Python is that you can return something called a tuple.  To answer this in a more generic Python sense consider this code:
>>> def load(file1, file2):
        return file1+'.txt',file2+'.txt'

>>> def convert(file1, file2):
        return 'converted_'+file1,'converted_'+file2

>>> convert(*load("Java", "C#"))
('converted_Java.txt', 'converted_C#.txt')

Each function takes two named arguments, but the returned tuple of the first can be "unpacked" into the input arguments of the second by adding a * in front of it.

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Diocese News 12.13.2021
Bishop Edward J. Burns Signs Decree Opening Synod Process
With this decree, signed December 12, 2021, Bishop Edward J. Burns. opens the process of the third synod of the Diocese of Dallas.
On Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021, I expressed my intention to convene a diocesan synod for the Diocese of Dallas. As I noted then: "This is a time of tremendous opportunity. This is not a time for going back to business as usual, but rather forward to fresh initiatives and bold witness to the enduring love of Jesus. This is a time to renew our faith in him and to strike out "into the deep water" with trust that the Lord is with us in the boat, battered as it may be by many headwinds, yet still continuing toward the destiny to which he calls us. This is a time to recover the original animating spirit of apostolic times, to see ourselves as one with those original apostles and disciples, with Mary, our Mother, and all the holy men and women who followed Jesus."
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Given this day, the Third Sunday of Advent, at St. Ann Parish, Coppell, in the Diocese of Dallas.
Most Reverend Edward J. Burns
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Santo Domingo o Sveta Nedelya (Света Неделя en búlgaro) de Sofía es una de las catedrales que la Iglesia Ortodoxa Búlgara posee en la capital de Bulgaria, y que se encuentra situada bajo la autoridad directa de la diócesis de Sofía.

Aunque se trata de un monumento cuyos inicios datan posiblemente del  (Sveta Nedelya fue originalmente, por esa época, una iglesia edificada con piedra y madera), se trata de un templo que ha padecido frecuentes daños con el transcurrir de los siglos, habiendo sido destruida en varias ocasiones para ser nuevamente reconstruida después.

Historia
Mencionada por vez primera por un viajero alemán, Stéphane Gerlach, en el año 1578, la iglesia se convirtió en el  en la residencia de un obispo. Conserva, desde aproximadamente el año 1460, los restos del rey serbio (y santo) Esteban Uroš II Milutin, lo que hizo que fuese rebautizada a finales del  como iglesia del Rey Santo (Свети-Крал), nombre que la catedral llevó hasta principios del .

El 25 de abril de 1856, la iglesia fue derruida completamente para hacer sitio para la edificación de un edificio de mayor envergadura, una catedral que medía 35,5 m de largo y 19 m de ancho. Las obras de la nueva catedral se iniciaron en la primavera de ese mismo año, aunque un terremoto que se produjo en la zona en 1858 prolongó los trabajos hasta 1863. La nueva catedral fue oficialmente inaugurada el 11 de mayo de 1867 en presencia de 20.000 personas.

La catedral fue renovada en 1898, añadiéndole nuevas cúpulas. Un exarca de la Iglesia oriental búlgara, José I, fue enterrado en la catedral en 1915.

Atentado de 1925 y reconstrucción

El 16 de abril de 1925, la catedral quedó arrasada por un atentado con bomba que pretendía acabar con la vida del rey Boris III, con el resultado de 128 personas fallecidas. La reconstrucción no se inició hasta el verano de 1927, para concluir en la primavera de 1933; la catedral fue nuevamente inaugurada el 7 de abril de 1933. En esta ocasión, el nuevo edificio medía 30 m de largo, 15,5 m de ancho, y tenía una cúpula central de 31 m de altura. El iconostasio dorado, que había sobrevivido al atentado, fue devuelto a la nueva catedral.

Las decoraciones murales fueron realizadas por un equipo dirigido por Nikolay Rostovtsev, entre 1971 y 1973. Posteriormente, entre 1992 y 1994, el suelo fue completamente renovado y se barnizó la columnata del norte. En 2000, la fachada fue rebajada; y en 2002, se instaló un sistema electrónico para el repique automático de las once campanas.

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El origen del nombre Sveta Nedelya es bastante oscuro. Puede traducirse como «Domingo Sagrado», «Santa Nedelia», o incluso «Santo Domingo» –también por el día de la semana–, dependiendo de la etimología que se tome como referencia. Según la página web ortodoxa búlgara pravoslavieto.com, la iglesia fue mencionada por un viajero alemán, Stefan Gerlach[¿ortografía?], en 1578, quien dijo que se la conocía por diversos nombres, entre ellos «La Iglesia del Señor» (en búlgaro: Gospodnya Tsurkva) e «Iglesia de Jesucristo» (Tsurkva Isus Hristos) pero, de forma más relevante, por el nombre griego de Kyriaki, una palabra que significa, literalmente, «Domingo» (el día de la semana), pero que a su vez deriva de Kyrios – «Señor» (o sea, Domingo, o Kyriaki = «El día del Señor» y de ahí la «iglesia del Señor». Más aún, Kyriaki es también el nombre de una mártir cristiana del , Ciriaca o Dominica de Tropea, conocida en búlgaro como Sveta Nedelya (Nedelya = «Domingo»). Así que, aunque parece hoy en día que su nombre se refiere a lo sagrado del domingo, día de la semana, puede que originalmente se refiriera a la joven mártir santa, o, en último término, a Jesucristo.

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Taking corporate social responsibility seriously
Bond rate shift may suggest recession
"[Harvard Managment Company] was the first U.S. university endowment to join the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and through this network, Harvard has actively, and successfully, participated in encouraging major corporate entities to better control their methane emissions," said outgoing ACSR Chair Howell Jackson.
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Changes in Harvard Management Company investment strategy refocuses duties of panels that oversee the University's positions on shareholder resolutions
By Nate Herpich Harvard Correspondent
Since 1972, Harvard has maintained a pair of committees that together play a central role in the University's consideration of matters of shareholder responsibility related to the University's investments in publicly traded companies: the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) and the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR).
The chief responsibility of the ACSR — which consists of four faculty members, four students, and four alumni — has been to review shareholder resolutions raising issues of corporate social responsibility at publicly traded companies in which Harvard owns shares, and to make recommendations to the CCSR, which is responsible for the final decisions about how the University should vote on those resolutions.
Recently, in order to achieve wide exposure to public equity markets, Harvard Management Company (HMC) has come to rely increasingly on pooled investments and commingled funds typically managed by outside investment firms, rather than directly owning stock in individual companies. This has led to a review of ACSR's role and as a result, going forward, the committee will focus on developing guidelines that can help inform Harvard's external investment managers, and other interested investors, as they vote on a broad array of shareholder resolutions.
This move toward developing broadly available proxy guidelines is part of a larger set of activities intended to intensify Harvard's engagement with its external investment managers, with companies, and with other investors on issues of corporate social responsibility. These activities have included, among others, Harvard's decision in 2014 to become the first U.S. university to subscribe to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, as well as its announcement earlier this week to affiliate with the global investor initiative Climate Action 100+.
The Gazette recently sat down with outgoing ACSR Chair Howell Jackson, the James S. Reid Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, to better understand some of these changes, and to get a sense of how the ACSR fulfills its role.
GAZETTE: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today. Can you start by giving us a sense of just what the ACSR does?
Jackson: For many years now, through a series of evening meetings in the spring term, the ACSR has met to review a range of shareholder resolutions raising issues of corporate social responsibility at publicly traded companies in which Harvard owns shares. The committee has formulated its recommendations in light of what is now a wide and deep body of precedent, in areas that range from human rights to environmental practices, from equal employment opportunity to corporate political contributions, and beyond. The ACSR's recommendations have then been reviewed by the CCSR, which decides how to vote the proxies. In the vast majority of cases, the CCSR follows the ACSR's recommendations.
GAZETTE: It's interesting that the ACSR is composed of faculty, students, and alumni. What's the history of this arrangement?
Jackson: In the late 1970s, President Derek Bok wrote a series of letters in which he spoke to the ethical responsibilities of the University in its investment policies, and the importance of gaining input from the Harvard community on matters with regard to corporate responsibility. President Bok specifically identified shareholder resolutions as an area in which the University had a legal obligation to vote its proxies responsibly, as well as a long tradition of voting proxies on resolutions raising ethical issues. The current process of engaging the ACSR and CCSR reflects President Bok's commitment to having the voice of the community influence the University's voting of proxies. The process has also proved effective in communicating the University's positions on shareholder resolutions through the public release of annual reports published for many decades now. The reports disclose not just the proxy votes but the reasoning underlying the voting decisions. [Recent CCSR annual reports are available online.]
GAZETTE: So why the decision to make changes in the structure now, considering these past successes?
Jackson: The main motivation is that HMC has recently changed its investment strategy to hold fewer and fewer companies directly and to rely more and more on external management. Most of Harvard's holdings in the U.S. public equity markets are now held through pooled investments and commingled funds typically managed by outside investment firms rather than through individual stocks directly owned in the University's name. As such, Harvard does not itself vote on shareholder resolutions related to those holdings.
The University still maintains an obligation to oversee its investments responsibly and along the lines that President Bok laid out years ago. To this end, the University has chosen to continue to exercise Harvard's voice on shareholder resolutions through a new set of guidelines developed by the ACSR and CCSR and based on the University's proxy voting practices developed over the past several decades. These new guidelines distill the precedents of the ACSR and CCSR on a range of issues and will be shared with all external managers that HMC hires to invest in public companies. This past spring, the ACSR played an active role in drafting the first set of these new guidelines, and the ACSR will advise the CCSR in developing new guidelines and updating the existing guidelines as new issues of social and environmental responsibility arise in the future.
The ACSR will also continue to make recommendations on how Harvard should vote on shareholder resolutions for any public companies that remain as direct holdings of HMC.
GAZETTE: Is Harvard going to require external managers to follow its guidelines to the letter?
Jackson: No. The guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive, and HMC recognizes that external managers may not necessarily share Harvard's view on every issue. Nonetheless, HMC will expect its external managers to have a robust approach to stewardship and to make informed voting decisions. As one of a number of relevant considerations in assessing overall performance, HMC will consider assessing an external manager's stewardship practices in light of these guidelines. The University will also make the guidelines publicly available, so that other interested investors can make use of them as they see fit.
GAZETTE: HMC has in the past also engaged directly with corporations via various initiatives with regard to corporate shareholder responsibility. Does the ACSR play a role in advising Harvard on such initiatives?
Jackson:That's right. HMC was the first U.S. university endowment to join the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and through this network, Harvard has actively, and successfully, participated in encouraging major corporate entities to better control their methane emissions. One of the great advantages of this approach is that it allows HMC to collaborate with other like-minded institutional investors that participated in the PRI.
Going forward, HMC will continue to engage through the PRI in appropriate initiatives that align with the University's interests with regard to social and environmental responsibility. In its somewhat reoriented role, we expect that the ACSR will occasionally be called on to serve as a sounding board for HMC's proposals for engagement and to make recommendations to the CCSR on these proposals.
GAZETTE: How do HMC's PRI engagements relate to the University's proxy voting guidelines?
Jackson: Both reflect changes in the ways that institutional investors operate in modern capital markets. The proxy voting guidelines provide a vehicle for the University to communicate its views on issues of social and environmental responsibility in capital markets where large endowments increasingly rely on external managers. HMC's participation in the PRI reflects the fact that the most effective vehicle for influencing corporate behavior on these issues is often through collaborative actions with other institutional investors.
Substantively, the area where HMC has been most active to date in its PRI engagement has been the reduction of methane emissions, which is consistent with the University's public commitment to addressing climate change and also its strong record of supporting shareholder resolutions related to environmental issues. While it is difficult for me to predict what new engagement initiatives HMC may seek to pursue in the future, I would expect that they will be broadly aligned with the priorities expressed in the University's proxy voting guidelines for shareholder resolutions.
GAZETTE: For those who are interested in learning more about the University's new guidelines and HMC policies on active engagement, where would you recommend that they go?
Jackson: The new guidelines for HMC's external managers are now available online. I would particularly recommend the overview section at the front of the document. These pages summarize the proxy voting practices that the ACSR and CCSR have evolved over the years and attempt to articulate how the committees have decided which shareholder resolutions to support. HMC also posts a good deal of information about its engagement initiatives, and the University intends to continue its practice of making annual reports public online, including summary information on proxy voting, proxy guidelines, and HMC's engagement activities.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump will play host to Japan's Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago this week amid growing strain between the two countries over the president's planned meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and his push for new tariffs.
The visit will be an opportunity for the two leaders to discuss Trump's upcoming summit with North Korea, which Japan eyes warily. It will also serve as a test of whether the fond personal relationship the two leaders have forged on the golf course and over meetings and phone calls has chilled over Trump's recent moves, including his failure to exempt Japan from new steel and aluminum tariffs.
"We expect it to be very positive," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday of Abe's visit. "Obviously, the president has got a great relationship there, and it's going to be centered primarily on preparation for talks with North Korea as well as a lot of trade discussion is expected to come up."
The official visit will begin Tuesday afternoon with a one-on-one meeting followed by a small group discussion with top national security officials focused on the Kim summit. In the evening, the president and first lady Melania Trump will have dinner with the Japanese prime minister and his wife.
On Wednesday, the topic will broaden to other issues affecting the Indo-Pacific region, including trade and energy. Trump and Abe will also hold a joint press conference before the president and first lady host the Japanese delegations for dinner. Abe will return to Japan on Thursday morning.
Golf is not on the official schedule, but senior administration officials didn't rule it out completely. Trump and Abe played together during Abe's last trip to Florida a year ago and during Trump's maiden trip to Japan late last year.
When Trump hosted Abe at his private Mar-a-Lago club just weeks after his inauguration, North Korea launched its first missile test of Trump's administration, and the two delivered a joint statement denouncing the launch.
This time, Abe's visit comes weeks after Trump took him — and the region — by surprise when he announced he had accepted an invitation to sit down with Kim following months of increasingly heated rhetoric over the North's nuclear weapons program.
Among the major powers in Northeast Asia, Japan has been left out of the recent flurry of diplomacy with North Korea. Abe will be seeking reassurance from Trump that security threats to Japan won't be overlooked in the U.S.-North Korea summit, slated for May or early June.
Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for secretary of state, said the goal of the summit is to get North Korea to "step away from its efforts to hold America at risk with nuclear weapons."
Abe has voiced fears that short- and medium-range missiles that pose a threat to Japan might not be part of the U.S. negotiations and has said he worries Trump may "end up accepting North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons."
James Schoff, a former Pentagon adviser on East Asia policy and now a senior associate for the Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the North Korea summit will be front and center of the visit.
"Abe will want to know what Trump's trying to get out of the meeting and what he's willing to offer," Schoff said. "Abe will want to reinforce the idea that maximum pressure must continue until we get complete denuclearization."
Abe is also expected to push for exemptions on new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that have been granted to several key U.S. allies.
Takehiro Shimada, a spokesman for the Embassy of Japan, said the country can't accept Trump's decision on the tariffs and will be pushing Trump to reconsider.
"That's what we really wanted to ask the America side is, 'Why?'" he said.
Japan could also express support for a U.S. return to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that Trump abandoned on taking office. Trump opened the possibility of rejoining last week amid a trade dispute with China.
Abe is also expected to push the issue of Japanese abductees, one of his top policy priorities. Pyongyang has acknowledging abducting 13 Japanese, while Tokyo maintains North Korea abducted 17. Five have been returned to Japan. North Korea says eight others died and denies the remaining four entered its territory. Japan has not been satisfied with North Korea's explanation and has demanded further investigation.
Shimada said Abe would make the case to Trump that releasing the abductees could help North Korea prove they can be trusted to negotiate in good faith after years of deception.
That has sparked mass protests demanding Abe's resignation and imperils his chances of winning another term as ruling party leader in September and staying on as premier, despite a handy national election victory last year.


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Ecuador gives Swedish prosecutors green light to question Assange at its London embassy
Published time: 16 Jan, 2016 19:36
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands with Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patino (R). © Chris Helgren © Reuters
Swedish prosecutors may finally question Julian Assange over a six-year-old rape allegation, as Ecuador says it has granted permission to a request for such an interview filed by Sweden this week, provided Ecuador's laws are respected.
Sweden confirmed on Wednesday that it had formally requested permission to interrogate the famous whistleblower at the Ecuadorian embassy, following an agreement signed by the two countries last month establishing general legal cooperation between them.
READ MORE:Ecuador seals deal with Sweden to question Assange at London embassy
Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, told the Publica national radio station on Friday that the country was granting Sweden's request to interrogate Assange "as long as the sovereignty of the Ecuadorian state and the laws in the constitution are respected," AP reported.
He suggested that Swedish authorities could provide their Ecuadorian counterparts with the questions and they could be asked in the presence of a Swedish prosecutor.
Patino also confirmed in the radio interview that Assange will be free to leave his hideout in Ecuador's London embassy and live in Ecuador if Swedish prosecutors do not charge him following the interview.
"If they don't charge him, he can leave. We hope we won't have any problem with the United Kingdom. He would likely come to Ecuador, because he has already been granted asylum in our country," he said.
Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over three years.
Ecuador granted Assange asylum in 2012 after he sought refuge at its embassy while facing extradition to Sweden.
The 44-year-old Australian refuses to travel to Sweden to face questioning over rape allegations, saying he fears he would then face extradition to the United States and trial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified US military and diplomatic documents in 2010.
Swedish prosecutors dropped a sexual assault probe against Assange in mid-August after the five-year statute of limitations expired. They still want to question him, however, about a 2010 rape allegation, which carries a 10-year statute of limitation.
Assange has denied all of the allegations, saying the sexual encounters had been consensual.
READ MORE:Swedish prosecution drops 2 of 4 allegations against Assange due to statute of limitations expiry
Sweden has refused to question Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy for years, despite Assange offering to give his statement there.
"Julian has been offering his statement to the prosecutor by various means for five years [in total] and for three-and-a-half years since he went into the embassy – whether via video link or by the prosecutor coming to London," Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for WikiLeaks, told the Guardian after the latest development.
"Let's hope [the interview] can be carried out as soon as possible. Julian is very eager to get his point of view into the investigation," he said.
British police guarded the Ecuadorian embassy 24 hours a day for over three years.
The permanent guard was removed by Scotland Yard in October, saying it was no longer "proportionate," after racking up £12.6 million in costs to taxpayers.
UK classifies #Assange siege budget after being embarressed by the £12.6m spend https://t.co/TDFSXFuhLB More: https://t.co/8b8Pyk3tZS
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 15, 2016
A date has not yet been set for the interrogation.
"When all necessary permits and arrangements are ready, the interview will be performed by the supporting prosecutor to the case, chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, together with a police investigator," the Swedish Prosecution Authority said.


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Trinity Metro's new commuter rail line, TEXRail, is the recipient of an honor from the Regional Hispanic Contractors Association (RHCA). RHCA has selected TEXRail as its 2018 Project of the Year.
Trinity Metro has brought former Fort Worth City Council Member Salvador Espino on board as the agency's new director of government relations.


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Accounting (BCom)
All areas of study information should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook. The units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the Faculty of Business and Economics component of any bachelors double degrees.
Accountants are employed throughout industry, commerce and government and, in addition to their traditional reporting functions, provide advice on finance, taxation, and management issues. Students who choose electives from the finance area also have career options in banking, finance and the securities industry.
To complete the Accounting major in the Bachelor of Commerce students must complete:
The following eight units (48 points):
AFC1000 Principles of accounting and finance
AFC1030 Introduction to financial accounting
AFC2120 Financial accounting
AFC2131 Cost information for decision making
AFC2140 Corporate finance
AFC3120 Advanced financial accounting
AFC3131 Performance measurement and control
AFC3160 Auditing and assurance
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Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, At Bosque del Apache NWR south of Socorro.
This long-distance trail offers hikers a wide range of experiences beginning at the trailhead in Chihuahuan Desert Scrub, traversing desert grasslands, and passing through several life zones before ending at the highest point on the 57,191 acre refuge with a 360 degree view of several features of central New Mexico. Elephant Butte Reservoir, The Magdalena Mountains, Ladrone Mountain, Sandia Mountains, Manzano Mountains, Oscura Mountains, San Andreas Mountains and other features too numerous to be mentioned can be viewed in the panoramic view. Tracks of javelina, mule deer, rattlesnakes and an occasional cougar may be found on the wilderness trail. Cactus and other wildflowers bloom in season. The canyon is a special geological formation of ancient volcanic activity. For much of its length, this trail traverses the Chupadera Wilderness area of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.


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Very well maintained duplex. Each unit contains living room, eat in kitchen, full bath, two bedrooms, washer/dryer hook up, small fenced in area in backyard and a garage. Unit 117 has a new furnace.
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Columbus expats, now ensconced in NYC, Huntertones live that motto to its fullest. Not only does the band tour extensively, they make time to teach, absorb, and learn from their experiences. Those years of intensive travel imbue their most consistent, focused, and pleasurable album, Passport. Huntertones return to Columbus' historic Lincoln Theatre on April 5, 2019, at 8:00 pm (tickets and more info here). That's plenty of time to absorb this rewarding, joyful new album. Our thoughts about the album and official music videos are below.
Huntertones have always brought a keen sense of place to their music: the first song of theirs that made a strong impression on me was an ode to the Cleveland institution "Hot Sauce Williams." Co-producing with Banda Magda leader Magda Giannikou and working with mixer Nic Hard (Snarky Puppy), Huntertones bring that specificity to these tunes, not just window dressing or ambiance.
"Change" feels like the record's thesis statement; showing everything the band has learned and how everything fits together. The piece opens with glowing cells that recall Steve Reich and Philip Glass. It soon shifts into an easy-going '70s funk, studded with rhythmic curve balls and excellent playing from saxophonist Dan White and trombonist Chris Ott.
Huntertones choose their handful guests well and use them brilliantly on Passport The band's collaboration with Hope Masike, "Hondo," is a gem. Led by Masike's beautiful vocals and mbira melting around and flowing through an infectious melody, the band finds a tone like dappled sunlight. Jon Lampley's trumpet taps a vein of purity I'm not sure I've ever heard from him on record; he shadows, sweetens, and underpins the vocal without ever overpowering it. "Fergal's Tune" features the jaunty, nuanced violin of Fergal Scahill (We Banjo 3). That violin line, coupled with a showcase for Chris Ott's beatboxing and Lampley's head-nod sousaphone makes it the most typically "jam band" tune on the record but it resolves as a sweet, concise pop song at 3:12.
Passport is rich with moments of subtle, surprising drama. Josh Hill's slashing guitar imbues the simmering "Star of the East" with a fist-pumping, anthemic shine. Hill and pianist Justin Stanton lead "Change" into roller-coaster emotional shifts, leading to its dramatic conclusion of wordless vocals that remind the listener just how strong and close the vocal quality of the three-horn front line has grown.


At the 241st American Chemical Society's National Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. the URI assistant pharmacy professor told scientists from around the world that his URI team has now isolated and identified 54 beneficial compounds in pure maple syrup from Quebec, five of which have never been seen in nature.
These discoveries of new molecules from nature can also provide chemists with leads that could prompt synthesis of medications that could be used to fight fatal diseases, Seeram said.
"We know that the compounds are anti-inflammatory agents and that inflammation has been implicated in several chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, certain types of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's," Seeram said.
The irony of finding a potential anti-diabetes compound in a sweetener is not lost on Seeram. "Not all sweeteners are created equal," he said.
"Quebecol has a unique chemical structure or skeleton never before identified in nature," Seeram said. "I believe the process of concentrating the maple sap into maple syrup is what creates Quebecol. There is beneficial and interesting chemistry going on when the boiling process occurs. I believe the heat forms this unique compound."
Seeram said he and his team chose the common name of Quebecol for the new compound to honor the province of Quebec in Canada, which leads the worldwide production of maple syrup. Seeram's research was supported by the Conseil pour le developpement de l'agriculture du Quebec (CDAQ) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on behalf of the Canadian maple syrup industry.
Genevieve Beland, marketing director of the Federation added, "Maple products' composition is unique and we are at the starting point of a new era. Ten years from now consumers will appreciate 100 percent pure maple products because they are delicious, natural and have a number of healthy compounds."
"As we continued our research in the past year, we were astonished when the number of beneficial compounds that we isolated is now more than double the original amount," said Seeram, who has just released his findings.
Seeram is the organizer of the daylong symposium on "Bioactives in Natural Sweeteners," and is joined by scientists from Canada, Japan, Mexico and the United States to discuss natural sweeteners. Seeram's collaborations with Angela Slitt, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in URI's College of Pharmacy and Professor Lee, will also be presented during the meeting.
Seeram's findings will be detailed in his article recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Functional Foods. The title of the paper is "Quebecol, a novel phenolic compound isolated from Canadian maple syrup." In addition, Seeram and Lee's work on diabetes and maple syrup will also be published in an upcoming edition of the >Journal of Functional Foods.
Reiterating a statement he made last year, Seeram said no one is suggesting that people consume large quantities of maple syrup, but that if they are going to use a sweetener on their pancakes, they should choose pure maple syrup and not the commercial products with high fructose corn syrup.
"Pure maple syrup is not only delicious, it is so much better for you," Seeram said.
Funding of CDAQ is provided through Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food program. AAFC has been able to provide financial support for maple syrup research through the program 'Growing Canadian Agri-Innovations'.
Lavallee, Dave. "54 Beneficial Compounds Discovered In Pure Maple Syrup." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 31 Mar. 2011. Web.