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Documentary film as "home movie": Going beyond a public face to reveal a private one
Two films at the Camden International Film Festival in midcoast Maine explore universal truths through the intimacy of family -- with love, and with shame
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In this scene from "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?", the filmmaker uses negative image from "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Almost all of us have home movies of our families somewhere, from the flickering black and white of 8-millimeter film to the Instagramable perfection of an iPhone video. We like to think of them as a kind of homespun cinema verité, capturing our lives as we lived it.
"I was trying to undermine this public face and try to rediscover a private face that's more honest."
But filmmaker Travis Wilkerson thinks home movies are something more than that.
"They are actually propaganda films for families," he says. "They're full of wonderful people you'd like to have dinner with."
The movies represent our public face, says Wilkerson, whose "intimate Southern gothic" film "Did You Wonder Fired the Gun?" aired over the weekend at the Camden International Film Festival, which showcases documentary filmmaking and "the next generation of nonfiction storytellers."
"I was trying to interrogate that," he said at a panel discussion called "What Do Cameras Do?" at the annual festival in midcoast Maine. "I was trying to undermine this public face and try to rediscover a private face that's more honest."
That goes to the heart of two films at CIFF that were both "home movies" of a sort. In Wilkerson's film, he acts as a detective trying to get to the truth of a shameful moment in his Alabama family's past: In the 1940s, his great-grandfather shot and killed a black man – and got away with it. It's a movie that resonates deeply today, as the country grapples with racism and Confederate memorials.
The other "home movie" is much gentler, but also tries to get beyond the public face of a family. For "In the Waves," filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills shot 150 hours of film, documenting her grandmother's grief over the loss of her sister, and her coming to terms with her own mortality, and the life she's lived.
A scene from "In the Waves."
"It's really personal," Mills said at the panel discussion. "The thing I was surprised about with the camera that it actually allowed this opening with her. …. We were able to take a really special journey together."
Mills' lyrical film captures small, intimate moments with her grandmother Joan and her grandfather William in their Cape Breton lives: the two of them having dinner together, with the silences (companionable and less so) that mark a long marriage; her grandmother vacuuming the house in her underwear; her grandfather performing a keening folk song, his back to the camera, in his bedroom.
"I always felt like the camera was an extension of me," she said of the process. "It was very intuitive, moment-by-moment, how not to disturb the flow of what you were experiencing."
But as moderator Jason Fox, the editor of the film journal World Records, said: "The camera doesn't record truth; it produces something different. Every time a camera comes into the situation, it changes things."
Wilkerson used a large camera, which amplified his "otherness" on his return to the South. He remains separate, but also damns himself for the racism that has run through his family, from his murdering (and apparently sexual abusing) great-grandfather to his aunt, a white supremacist who attends Confederate reenactments.
He begins the movie with a voice-over that says, "This is not another White Savior story. It's a white nightmare story."
He draws a line between his great-grandfather and Atticus Finch, the hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Using footage of the film washed in red (he later carries the symbolism further by using negative-image footage of the film), he then shows the difference between the fictional, saintly character and his deeply flawed, real-life relative.
"My white relative from Alabama wasn't standing on the steps of that jail, bravely stopping the lynching of a black man," he says in narration. "No, my great-grandfather would have been one of the members of that racist lynch mob, reeking of booze, carrying a rope and a pistol, wearing a fedora and a terrifying smile."
In one effective scene, he uses actual home movies to play off the idea of a family's public face. The frames show a family gathering in October 1946, a playful moment of mugging for the camera. Then he reveals that it's the same month his great-grandfather killed Bill Spann.
"Was it taken before, or after?" he asks. "One of them has his name inscribed on a death certificate; one of them is making home movies."
In the film, Wilkerson is using his family as a stand-in for white society as a whole. Although Mills' movie is very different, she's also reaching for some universal truths. Fear. Acceptance. Regret.
One moment that stays with me comes about 18 minutes in, when her grandmother talks about falling in love with her husband. She says that she knew that her sister liked William, and that William liked her. But she says she "controlled" things, and made sure she got him. She muses that if she had two lives, she'd let it happen naturally "and see where everybody would end up."
Mills asks her, "You got what you wanted, right?" She answers: "Yeah. But did Poppy? Did he get what he really wanted?"
A faded newspaper clipping from "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?"
The titles of these two "home movies" reflect the different sensibilities and, yes, agendas of the filmmakers. Wilkerson chose a line from a Phil Ochs civil rights folk song, "William Moore," about a white activist who was shot to death on a road in the South, his killer never brought to justice.
"Did you wonder who had fired the gun?" Ochs sings. "Did you know it was you who fired the gun?" — meaning we are all implicated in racism.
Mills title is more poetic, and its meaning seems to be captured in a moment in which we hear her grandmother reading a story aloud: "She didn't look back. She looked at the mountains, and the waves that carried her toward them."
The rhythm of that is lovely, and it too has broader symbolism, about facing the last days of our lives.
Two "home movies": One made with love, one with shame, if not outright hate. Both peeling back the public face to reveal the private one.
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Village elders in India ordered the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman after they found out she was in a relationship with a man from a different community, police said Thursday.
Police in a rural part of West Bengal arrested 13 people in connection with the alleged offense that left the woman in critical condition in the hospital, police told the BBC.
"The relationship was going on for almost five years," Birbhum police chief C. Sudhakar said. "When the man visited the woman's home on Monday with the proposal of marriage, villagers spotted him and organized a kangaroo court.
"During the 'proceedings,' the couple were made to sit with hands tied."
Sudhakar told the BBC that the elders took action because the woman was from their tribal community and her boyfriend was from a non-tribal community nearby.
So-called "kangaroo courts," made up of village elders, do not have an official capacity but are not uncommon especially in India's more rural areas.
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The Best Swim Goggles for Adults and Kids
We've reviewed this guide, and we still think all of our picks are good options.
We spent 50 hours using 33 pairs of swim goggles in South Carolina and the Dominican Republic, subjecting them to many miles of pool swimming, hundreds of waves, and buckets of sand, salt, and chlorine. In the end, we determined that for recreational swimmers who want to extend the time they can spend in the water, the Aqua Sphere Kayenne is the best pair of swim goggles for most adults, and the Aqua Sphere Kayenne Jr is the best swim-goggle model for most kids.
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Aqua Sphere Kayenne
The best swim goggles for adults
With an excellent seal, superior comfort, minimal fogging, simple adjustments, and minimal visual distortion, these classic yet thoroughly modern goggles are tough to beat.
$30* from Amazon
*At the time of publishing, the price was $33.
Aqua Sphere Kayenne Jr
The best swim goggles for kids
The same durable, comfortable, low-fog goggles—but for kids.
$20 from REI
Unveiled in 2010, Aqua Sphere's Kayenne goggles come in both adult and child sizes. We were impressed with the Kayenne's durable frame, proprietary silicone eyecup, on-the-fly adjustable strap, and remarkably scratchproof and fog-resistant lens. Perfect for competition, an hour of lap swimming, or a week in the sand and sun of the Caribbean, the Kayenne represents a technical step up from competing models.
Speedo MDR 2.4 Goggle
Comfortable goggles with panoramic lenses for adults
If our top pick is sold out or you don't like a curved lens, these goggles are a great backup pick for most adults.
If our top picks are sold out, the eyecups on the Speedo MDR 2.4 Goggle fit a wide range of faces—even my 8-year-old son's—and this model ranked among the most comfortable of all the goggles we tested. Although the MDR 2.4 is built for adults, we found that most adults and kids loved it. The flat, angular lenses allow for a panoramic view, and the lenses are also set slightly farther away from the eyes, making this pair a good choice for long-eyelashed folks, or for swimmers who have issues with visibility distortion and blurriness when wearing goggles with curved lenses.
Aqua Sphere Moby Kid
Durable backup goggles for active kids
If our top pick is sold out, look to this tough pair of kids goggles as a comfortable, inexpensive, and durable choice.
The Aqua Sphere Moby Kid features a super-soft silicone frame and eyecups; a flat, distortion-free, fog and scratch-resistant lens; and wide, easily adjustable straps that don't tangle hair but spread wide in the back to help the goggles stay in place. The Moby Kid also seals tightly on a variety of small faces, especially on very young swimmers, and we found that the pair remained comfortable during even our longest forays in the pool.
Budget pick
Speedo Hydrospex Classic Goggle
Affordable adult goggles that just plain work
These no-frills goggles are better defined by what they don't have—and that's a good thing.
Speedo Jr. Hydrospex Classic Goggle
Simple goggles on a budget for swimmer kids
The same great budget goggles, but for kids.
The Speedo Hydrospex goggles come in adult and child versions. They aren't as easy to adjust as some of our other picks, and they don't offer the panoramic field of vision of their spendier brethren. But if you're looking to swim only occasionally, or if you simply need a good, no-frills pair of goggles, the Hydrospex is a reliable, comfortable, fog-free option that won't break the bank. The flexible nose bridge works on a variety of face types, while the eyeglass-quality Lexan lens remains clear and scratch resistant and prevents fogging like a champ.
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Our pick: Aqua Sphere Kayenne
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Runner-up for adults: Speedo MDR 2.4
Runner-up for kids: Aqua Sphere Moby Kid
Budget pick: Speedo Hydrospex
This guide is the result of around 13 hours of online research, about 20 pool hours spent sifting through and weeding out 33 pairs of goggles, and more than 10 miles of solo swimming in lap pools and amidst the waves of Folly Beach, South Carolina. It also includes the collective impressions of three South Carolina pool-owning families and their kids. And it takes into account thoughts from my wife, my brother, my sister, and five kids (ages 4 to 12) after a weeklong trip to the Dominican Republic in which we wore the top 10 sets of test goggles almost nonstop during daylight hours.
I spoke with Bruce Wigo, then the president of and now a consultant for the International Swimming Hall of Fame—who started swimming competitively in 1957 and has been swimming pretty much every day since—about the modern swim goggle and what makes a good one. After determining our favorites, I grilled Speedo design director Nate Tracy about the goggles he designs. I also spoke with Mirko Bosio and Todd Mitchell, Aqua Sphere's research and development manager and swim business manager, respectively, about fit, technology, lens construction, visual distortion, anti-fog technology, and the care and feeding of a pair of goggles.
As for me, I've been covering watery goods for Wirecutter since 2015, writing about surfboards, wetsuits, water guns, and all manner of beach gear. My writing has appeared in Outside, Men's Journal, and Garden & Gun magazines. I'm also the author of Ghost Wave and a co-author on Surfing: 1778–Today. My reporting on topics ranging from national news to science and travel also appears frequently in The New York Times (parent company of Wirecutter).
I live on the water in Charleston, South Carolina, and I have been a fairly serious recreational pool and ocean swimmer since my days at the University of Georgia back in the late 1980s. I'm a dad to a pair of kids, who were 8 and 12 at the time of testing and have been swimming unassisted with and without goggles since they were 2. And two of their best friends, who helped with our tests, are budding young competitive swimmers—the younger having won a state championship in the backstroke in the 7-and-under division. Their parents are goggle connoisseurs.
We tested these goggles in pools and oceans, and at our local water park.
This guide is for recreational swimmers who want to extend the time they can spend in the water—and by that, we mean kids and grown-ups who plan to frolic in the ocean or pool this summer, or those who swim laps for fun or fitness. If you'll be swimming a lot, a comfortable, quality pair of goggles is simply the most important piece of gear you can buy.
As a mainstream product, swim goggles actually have a startlingly short history. According to an article available on the website of the International Swimming Hall of Fame (PDF), 14th-century Persian pearl divers used primitive swim goggles made of highly polished pieces from tortoise shells. Polynesians likely used the air pockets in rings of bamboo as goggles long before that, too. But even as recently as 1972, champion swimmer Mark Spitz didn't wear goggles while swimming to victory and seven gold medals in the Olympics. And he wasn't alone: The great swimmers of the '40s, '50s, and '60s usually swam without goggles, too.
"It's hard to believe that [Spitz] only wore goggles for practice at that time," said Bruce Wigo, president of the International Swimming Hall of Fame at the time of our interview. "Go back and look at films even to the early '80s, and competitors weren't wearing goggles. I swam my entire career without them, but today I wouldn't even go in the water without them. Goggles completely transformed swimming. Prior to the development of modern goggles, the great swimmers of the '40s, '50s, and even '60s could only swim an hour and a half a day due to chlorine and salt irritation. With goggles, workouts went from 3,000 meters a day to 20,000."
Today, goggles make it far easier to see underwater. Fish can see clearly underwater because their eyes have evolved to allow for advanced in-water focal length. We humans, on the other hand, need a layer of air between our eyes and the water in order to focus. Goggle lenses and dive masks do exactly this—and in fact, during our trip to the Dominican Republic, we found that our kids grabbed goggles first. Goggles can't replace a mask, snorkel, and fins in a "real" snorkel outing, of course, and no pair of swim goggles is suitable for wearing much deeper than 6 feet, because they're not built to handle the same level of pressure as snorkel and scuba masks. But for shallow swimming above tropical reefs, goggles are "just easier than having to put all that stuff on," my son said.
Goggles also make disgustingly scientific sense: Perhaps you've noticed through the years that when you swim in a chlorinated pool, your eyes sting. Chlorine is added to pool water as a disinfectant, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that sting is not a result of the chlorine itself. Rather, it's the chemical binding of the chlorine to the body waste of swimmers—most specifically, sweat and urine. When the ammonia and other human waste chemicals combine with chlorine, they form "disinfection by-products," chemical compounds including dichloramine and trichloramine, which not only cause red eyes but also can irritate the respiratory system (and make the pool smell "chlorine-y"). The solution—at least for your eyes—is to wear goggles.
If you're a competitive swimmer, you probably already have a pair of goggles you love (likely the Speedo Vanquisher or something similarly spare and hydrodynamic), so we didn't look at competition-grade goggles for this guide. Though the sleek, low-profile Aqua Sphere Kayenne in particular would make for an excellent set of competitive goggles—particularly for open-water swimmers—our key criteria for this guide included comfort, ease of use, visibility, seal, and affordability. The tenth of a second you might gain in the 400-meter freestyle from a super-sleek set of goggles simply didn't fit into our equation. We also didn't cover prescription goggles in this guide. (If you are looking for a pair, we recommend a visit to SwimOutlet.com or GogglesNMore.)
We did consider kids goggles for this guide, often finding that our favorite goggles came in multiple sizes. In our tests, our top picks often ranked high for both the kids and the adults, illustrating that the point at which a kid transitions to a junior or adult pair of goggles can be a little fuzzy—in many cases we found that an adult small or medium fit our 8-year-old just fine (the adult Kayenne was his absolute favorite goggle style in the bunch). In general, though, kids younger than 6 years should certainly use children's goggles. Kids 6 to 14 should consider a "junior"-size set of goggles.
Why buy goggles for a little kid who can't swim yet? My wife and I have found over the years that wearing a well-fitted pair of goggles can reduce a kid's fear of the water before they even learn to swim (they tend to experience less fear around getting their faces wet, and they avoid the feeling of burning chlorine water in their eyes, too). And once they do learn to swim, goggles will ensure that they don't finish a day at the pool looking like their eyeballs have been seared by shark laser beams.
All of this is to say that whether you're in search of a solid set of goggles for lap swimming, a game of Marco Polo, or a trip to a tropical port, our picks for kids and adults will serve you well.
After extensive research, we ordered and tested 33 goggle models for kids and adults. This is just the kids stack.
A search for "swim goggles" on Amazon or SwimOutlet.com reveals a bewildering variety of choices. During our first round of testing, Amazon returned more than 8,100 hits for swim goggles, while SwimOutlet.com generated 498. During our research, we spent around five hours poring over the top-rated options at SwimOutlet.com and in Triathlete Magazine. We spent another eight hours looking at the best-reviewed models on Amazon. Then, we relied on personal and expert knowledge to narrow down the list of what we needed to test.
Goggles fall into three categories. The first, in-eye-socket goggles, are so named because they feature a small lens cup that sits inside your eye socket when you have them strapped to your face. People most often use this type for competition. The goggles fit tightly and can become quite uncomfortable, producing red rings on your face ("raccoon eyes") as they place excessive pressure on your eye sockets. We tested goggles of this type, and while we didn't love any of them, we found that they were far more comfortable than those that might have been available a couple of decades ago.
Generally speaking, the second category, fitness and recreation goggles, features wider, pressure-dispersing straps, very soft silicone eyepieces, and oversized lenses that provide a wider field of vision. Because the compressional force of these goggles is spread over a wider area, they tend to avoid "raccoon eyes," and you can wear these goggles comfortably for a long time. Our picks—and most of the models we tested—fall into this category.
The final goggle segment includes mask-style goggles. These comprise a newer, smaller category that started with Aqua Sphere's Seal mask back in 1998. These goggles most closely resemble snorkel and scuba goggles, but without a sealing portion that covers the nose. They offer a wide fit around the face rather than the eyes and come with a panoramic single- or dual-lens system. Mask-style goggles aren't terribly hydrodynamic, but they can be a good choice for folks who feel claustrophobic in smaller goggles, or those who want a nice, wide field of vision for open-ocean swimming. Very young kids might appreciate the more wide-open feel of mask goggles, too, because of the easy on-off factor. We cover a few good ones in our Competition section. We also considered novel add-on technologies—extra straps like the Frogglez design, plus nose plugs, earplugs, and more.
During our research, we learned that most goggle lenses come in different colors and tints for different swimming setups. For example, clear and light-blue lenses are the best for morning and indoor swimming. Blue lenses also allow for better visibility in the open water. Gray-tinted lenses, on the other hand, are best for sunny, outdoor conditions. Yellow, orange, and amber-tinted goggles are good for low-light conditions.
A good pair of goggles should be fog-free—and it shouldn't distort the world around you in any way.
In the end, we weeded our testing list down to 15 goggle models for kids and 18 for adults. A good pair of goggles should have soft gaskets and an easily adjustable strap that splits at the back of the head to hold it in place. (Most good straps do this.) It should seal without the strap putting undue pressure on the back of the head, the eyes, or the nose bridge. It should also be durable, standing up to waves, sand, sunscreen, and 6-foot depths. And a good pair of goggles should be fog-free—and it shouldn't distort the world around you in any way.
The author's wife and kids spent hours taking goggles to different depths to ensure durability.
First, we checked our orders right out of the box to confirm that they'd arrived defect-free with the promised accessories. We also read the instructions, many of which were badly translated and unclear. Aegend's instructions, for example, had the following in the "To Prevent Fogging" section: "Anti-fog coating will wear off over time. Use Anti-fog Solution can help the goggles be fog-free effectively. Saliva, toothpaste and baby shampoo gently applied to lenses can all be used as temporary measures but are not recommended for long-term solution." Then, in the very next section it says: "Please do not wash it by organic cleaning liquid or it will reduce the using effect." Huh?
We were cognizant of the reviews of certain goggles where customers complained of snapped straps, so we stretched, distended, and distorted our goggles to what we reckoned were points of near failure. Goggles from Aqua Sphere, Cressi, and Speedo feature ratcheting systems with buttons and pull switches for on-the-fly adjustments, and in our tests all of those ratchet systems worked as advertised, with no gear stripping (and we found them to be, frankly, game changers).
Next, we performed two weed-out tests for the kids goggles and then the adult goggles, giving numerical scores of one to five to each pair for the following criteria: ease of on/off, overall comfort, adjustability, hair pullage, staying in place, fogging, distortion, and seal. Several pairs of goggles dropped off the list right away.
Whether you're lap swimming, playing at a water park, or tackling huge waves, a good pair of goggles should remain fog-free.
Then we scheduled a goggle-fest for our friends' competitive-swimmer daughters and my aquatic son and daughter. The kids dove, splashed, and adjusted goggle straps for hours, reporting back on fogginess, pressure points, and how well the goggles stayed put on their faces and heads. After that first run, we handed off the goggles to other friends, who have a pool and two elementary-school-aged kids of their own. They kept the goggles for several days, using them daily, and reported back to us, as well.
For the initial testing of adult goggles, my wife and I spent half a day in the pool beneath the blazing South Carolina sun, scrutinizing fit, fogginess, adjustability, pressure points, and visual distortion. For the second round of adult goggle testing, I took the eight finalist pairs of goggles to Folly Beach near my home in Charleston. There, during a series of morning swims, I tested the goggles by swimming along the beach in the surf zone and bodysurfing amidst fairly substantial waves. I came away pleasantly surprised by how well the non-in-eye goggles kept out water amidst punishing conditions without my having to tighten them down so hard that they hurt.
Some goggle sets also included nose plugs and earplugs. We tested them, too—but none of those accoutrements were comfortable. Though earplugs make me claustrophobic, they do make particular sense for some people as they help prevent swimmer's ear; nose plugs, meanwhile, can keep microscopic nasties from setting up shop in your sinuses. If you need either, we recommend dedicated plugs such as Putty Buddies, this dual set from Blupond, or Doc's Pro Plugs. Originally designed for surfing, Pro Plugs really work.
Our final round of testing for adult and kids goggle models happened at the Club Med resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. There, my brother, my sister, and I, plus our significant others and five children, gathered for a wonderful weeklong trip with Grandma. With a tremendous stretch of protected beach and the biggest pool I've ever seen, plus a separate pool with lap lanes, Punta Cana was goggle nirvana. We brought the goggles to the pool and beach every day, trying and retrying them, slathering them accidentally with sunscreen, burying them in the sand, and generally just using and abusing them in the salt, sun, and chlorine.
The Aqua Sphere Kayenne was a tester favorite. It's comfortable, low on fog, and easily adjustable.
Industry leaders are industry leaders for a reason, and this is as true for swim goggles as it is for any other category. From the moment we opened the durable case for our Aqua Sphere Kayenne goggles, both the adult and kid versions, we noticed the superior workmanship in everything from the storage boxes to the clasps to the lens coatings, the instructions, and the attachment points. Aqua Sphere designs and builds all of its goggles in Italy, paying particular attention to "touch points" (PDF), namely any place the goggles touch the body. The company also subjects goggles to rigorous quality control, and it shows.
Aqua Sphere's Kayenne model has been around since 2010, and it's a proven design whose line has expanded to cover a range of sizes and tints for swimmers of all ages. Our adult Kayenne featured a mirrored, scratch-resistant, UV-shielding lens. It wasn't too dark for indoor pools but provided a perfect, soothing tint for middle-of-the-day forays into the blinding blue Caribbean. We were particularly impressed at how well the lenses of the Kayenne goggles managed to stay relatively fog-free compared with the other goggles we tested.
The Kayenne fits a broad range of face shapes, from kids to adults. Here, the adult mirrored mask fits the author's 8-year-old son.
In our tests the slightly curved triangular lenses of the Kayenne fit an impressively broad range of face types: my narrow face, my wife's wider face, and my 8-year-old son's smaller face (whether he was wearing the adult or kids goggles). In fact, while my 11-year-old daughter loved her pink and blue Kayenne Jr pair, she was equally happy with the adult version. Amazon reviewers also mention that these goggles are particularly good for folks with flatter faces who might struggle to fit into other models and brands. At right around 180 degrees, our visibility with the Kayenne models was nearly as wide as with mask-type swim goggles.
All Aqua Sphere goggles feature an easy-to-adjust and comfortably wide ratcheting strap system called a Quick-Fit Buckle. For the adult Kayenne, adjusting the goggles is as simple as pushing a small, sturdy button and pulling a strap that holds a line of ridges to lock the straps in place. For the junior version, adjustment involves lifting a small and equally sturdy lever to accomplish the same thing. As long as you aren't careless, the straps won't tangle in your hair or pull your hair at all.
As for durability, one reviewer on Slowtwitch.com puts it best: You can get kicked in the face during a triathlon swim race while wearing the Kayenne, and both you and your goggles—and eye sockets—will probably survive. In our tests, they avoided scratches despite the abuse we subjected them to. Our Kayenne goggles—both the adult and kids versions—also came with a nice hard-plastic case, as well. If you want yours to stay in like-new condition for a long time, rinse them after use and keep them boxed up.
In the Dominican Republic, the Kayenne pairs became the go-to goggles among the adults and kids, whether we were swimming in the lap pool, floating above a school of parrotfish, or coming face-to-face with a young barracuda.
The Aqua Sphere Kayenne goggles have received top marks from many publications. Non-paid triathletes review them highly in a study posted on Slowtwitch.com, too. One comments, "[I] have used them in the pool and also for open water (salt). I must say that I am very impressed. Best I have ever worn." Another writes, "I didn't find a single thing to dislike about these goggles, and I will be switching to these over the Tyr goggles that were my current pair." The Kayenne is also a favorite of seven-time Olympic swimming medalist Amanda Beard, as well as a slew of the best triathletes in the world, including Timothy O'Donnell. Since the Kayenne goggles' introduction in 2010, they have sold "a few million pairs," according to Aqua Sphere spokesperson Melissa Rodgers, and they're still going strong.
For me, the view from the Kayenne goggles was as clear as glass. My wife, however, is somewhat farsighted, and she has long eyelashes. For her, the up-close view through the Kayenne was slightly blurry, and she said that her eyelashes rubbed against the lenses right at the end. According to Speedo engineer Nate Tracy and Aqua Sphere's Mirko Bosio, this sort of distortion is something that major manufacturers work hard to overcome—but it's still a problem for some people nonetheless.
Speedo's Clearsight technology makes these goggles especially good for people with wide faces or long eyelashes.
Unveiled in 2015, the Speedo MDR 2.4 Goggle is an impressively comfortable pair of goggles. If our top pick is sold out, or if you have a flatter face, longer lashes, or farsightedness, you might prefer this model. During testing, we found that the anti-fog coating on the MDR 2.4 was not as robust as that on our top pick. The anti-fog properties worked well enough—they just didn't keep the fog at bay for quite as long as our top pick did during swimming. In the field, my family loved how well these goggles stayed on, even when the ocean was throwing us around while we were bodysurfing and surf swimming.
The MDR 2.4 features a ribbed elastomeric silicone gasket that fits around the outside of the eye socket and encourages a highly flexible seal. Rather than being curved, the lens design on this set of goggles is split and angled, a technology that Speedo calls Clearsight. Speedo's Nate Tracy explained to us that for people like my wife, those who are farsighted and have long eyelashes, flat lenses can prevent visible distortion inside the active viewing area of the goggles. These goggles may also be a better fit for people with wider, flatter faces.
The MDR 2.4's adjustment system is fairly easy, involving a button-actuated ratchet. If the lens is too loose, simply give it a quick tug while you're swimming. If it's too tight, push the button to loosen it without missing a stroke. Note that the strap doesn't feel quite as strong as that of our top pick—and because it's thinner, it's a little less comfortable on the back of the head. We also read customer reviews on Amazon complaining of snapped straps, though we ran ours hard and had no such problems.
These durable kids goggles endured buckets of sand, swipes of sunscreen, and hours of pool and ocean time.
If our top pick for kids is sold out, the Aqua Sphere Moby Kid is a great backup choice. It's one of the most durable kids goggles we tested, and extremely affordable. We found that it worked for a wide range of kids' faces, too, from my 4-year-old niece's tiny frame to my 8-year-old son's face.
As with Aqua Sphere's more expensive goggles, the company put a lot of engineering into this little eye protector. The lenses are flat and completely distortion-free, and at our local pools they proved to be scratch-, leak-, and fog-free. The wide, comfortable straps are a variation on Aqua Sphere's usual ratchet system, featuring a tiny but tough spring-loaded lever for loosening or tightening that is easy to adjust but locks down securely once in place. We also found that it's easy to teach even a young child to operate this ratcheting system—and once they learn, they can tighten and loosen the goggles on their own. The straps spread widely at the back of the head to hold the goggles in place, too.
The eyecups on the Moby Kid are made from Aqua Sphere's proprietary soft silicone, so like our top pick, they feel very comfortable and seal well. In our tests, these goggles withstood long stints in the ocean and the pool. We recommend the non-opaque-frame versions, as they'll give a child more peripheral vision and a more wide-open feel (for sunny days, we recommend the blue or smoke lenses). As with the Kayenne, keep the Moby Kid goggles in their case and rinse them after use for the best upkeep—with good care, they could last until your kids have kids!
The Speedo Hydrospex is a no-frills option that just plain works.
Speedo's Hydrospex Classic Goggle and Jr. Hydrospex Classic Goggle look outwardly plain, but they quickly became a favorite among our testers, young and old. I'd liken these goggles to the original iMac: Beneath a veneer of simplicity lies hours of detailed sweating.
The Hydrospex goggles are an affordable, no-frills option best described by what they don't have. For starters, you won't find an adjustable or replaceable nose bridge on these goggles. (The design takes care of that with an especially soft and flexible slice of silicone that stretches unobtrusively.) They also lack an adjustable ratchet strap. You make adjustments with a fairly old-school but perfectly serviceable clip—simply unhook the strap from its holder, adjust, and re-hook. You can't do this on the fly, but it works.
We took our Hydrospex goggles through their lap-swimming paces.
The body and eyepiece of the Hydrospex rely on nothing more than the same single molded piece of silicone that holds the nose bridge. The eyepieces themselves are also nothing special—they're just super-comfortable, uncomplicated eyepieces that keep water out, whether you're swimming laps, dodging set waves, or taking a dive. The shatterproof, eyeglass-quality Lexan lenses are clear, resistant to fogging, and—thanks to their flatness—completely distortion-free. In the Dominican Republic, my daughter, a young mermaid of the highest order, chose the Jr. Hydrospex more often than any other models in our testing stack. When I asked her why, she put it perfectly: "They work."
It's important to note that the Hydrospex models don't offer the wide field of vision that's common for a mask goggle or even for most modern offerings from Speedo or Aqua Sphere. But the clear silicone helps reduce the tunnel-vision effect you often find with black-framed non-panoramic goggles. They also come in an equally simple but effective range that includes blue- and gray-tinted lenses, all of which filter UV radiation.
We found some other seriously good models in this category. Two other great goggles were the SealBuddy PV10 and the Aqua Sphere Kaiman. The PV10 is particularly comfortable, but we found that it fogged a bit more than our top pick and runner-up. The Kaiman lost out because it pressed slightly harder against our eye sockets than the other models we tested. In both cases the lenses on these goggles were more curved than those on our top pick, too. The distortion these curves caused was apparent only in our peripheral vision, and I wouldn't necessarily call it annoying, but it was definitely noticeable. For swimmers who spend particularly long stretches in the pool, curved lenses can cause an eventually unacceptable level of eye fatigue.
Interestingly, nine pairs of goggles from different manufacturers turned out to be almost identical in their frame and lens design, with only subtle differences in the straps, lens tint, or eye cushioning. According to Aqua Sphere spokesperson Melissa Rodgers and Speedo spokesperson Rebecca Timms, this happens because many companies source their goggles from manufacturers in Asia, picking a line of goggles with specific features from a selection that the manufacturers offer and then selling them on Amazon or elsewhere. Such goggles are not subject to the same level of quality control that established companies such as Aqua Sphere, Cressi, Speedo, and TYR employ. And indeed, our research revealed that seven of these near-clone pairs of goggles were made in China.
Several showed promise when we unboxed them and strapped them on, but when submerged, every single pair of near-clone goggles from Aegend, Aquazone, Cooloo, GDealer, iFlying, iSpeed, Rosa Schleife, and Zoma produced ripples in our field of vision. Most were blurry when we looked at close-up features like hands or underwater objects—including the vital standard black-tile cross marker that indicates when a lap swimmer needs to turn. In some cases, the blurriness was bad enough that it induced mild disorientation, which would have likely degenerated into a headache if we had kept them on for a while longer.
We also tested wider, mask-style goggles for adults and kids. As we mentioned above, these goggles most closely resemble snorkel and scuba goggles, but they lack a sealing portion that covers the nose. They offer a wide fit around the face rather than the eyes, and they come with a panoramic single- or dual-lens system. Most mask-style goggles aren't terribly hydrodynamic, but they can be a good choice for kids who feel claustrophobic in smaller goggles, or who want a nice, wide field of vision for open-ocean swimming.
We tested the Aqua Sphere Seal and the Aqua Sphere Vista, as well. Aqua Sphere originally conceived the Seal in 1998 to give triathletes a wider field of vision and to prevent eye injury from fellow flailing swimmers. It's the longest-running mask-style goggle design around, with solid visibility and great comfort for a wide variety of faces. The Vista, meanwhile, has a notably wide, face-fitting gasket, and it was among the most comfortable goggles in all of our tests. One caveat: Our Vista pair lost a lens in the Dominican Republic. Aqua Sphere replaced it without issue, but that minor problem knocked it off our list of picks.
As for novel goggle technology, we couldn't ignore Frogglez. Invented by Christian Hahn, a Kentucky dentist, Frogglez were born from Hahn's frustration over watching his young kids struggle with goggles that were tough to put on and adjust, and whose straps pulled hair and pressed down on ears. In a classic inventor's tale, Hahn took one of his old wetsuits and cut out a neoprene strap system to replace the rubber strap on his kids' goggles with a force-dispersing soft yoke that stays put and goes on and off as easily as a trucker's cap. After a few years of prototyping, Frogglez went on sale in 2013.
Our overall take on Frogglez is that while the neoprene strap system is well-made and can be quite useful for both recreational and competitive swimmers—making putting on and taking off a cinch—a Frogglez strap is better put to use as an attachment on the competing goggles we've listed above. Our young testers found that the actual Frogglez goggles fogged too easily, while the lenses on the Frogglez UDT mask scratched and the silicone gasket split at the top of the nose, rendering it unusable. My long-haired daughter, in particular, appreciated the Frogglez strap, which seemed to fit every kid we tested it with.
If the kid you're shopping for doesn't like the straps on an existing pair of goggles, you have two additional options. Cressi's neoprene strap cover simply and comfortably covers the strap that goggles come with. Or, if you prefer, an easy-to-adjust bungee-cord setup like the TYR Bungee Cord Strap Kit replaces the strap entirely. The TYR strap kit gets good reviews for hair comfort, but I found that the bungee, which loops twice high and low around the head, slipped down on me and pressed against my ears as I swam. My son and I also agreed that the narrow bungee straps produced too much pressure at the back of the head.
We also tested the highly reviewed Speedo Kids Skoogles Goggle and TYR Kids' Swimple Goggles. Both are affordable, outside-the-eye-socket choices—particularly for younger kids with smaller faces—but in our tests the kids didn't find them quite as comfortable or easy to adjust as our top picks. Our young competitive swimmers, Sophie and Nola, were more accustomed to the in-the-eye fit of Speedo Jr. Vanquisher goggles, which come with four adjustable nose-bridge pieces for a customized fit. The Jr. Vanquisher pair is a solid choice for young speedsters, but considering its thin straps and more traditional goggle fit, non-swim-team kids preferred our other options.
Very young kids seem to appreciate the wider-open feel of mask goggles because of the easy on-off factor, and our young testers were drawn in particular to Cressi's Baloo kids swim goggles. Cressi has been a stalwart in the scuba-diving world since 1946. And this mask, with its UV protection, excellent anti-fog characteristics, tough crystal-clear lens, soft gasket material, and simple ratchet strap, was a favorite among our young testers. Like Aqua Sphere, Cressi engineers and builds most of its goggles (including the Baloo) in Italy, and we found the quality control on this pair of goggles to be top-notch.
Our only complaint about the Baloo is that it's not available with a tinted lens. If that's an important feature for you, try the Aqua Sphere Seal, which also fits a wide variety of kids' faces. We also tested the Babiators Submariners, a mask for little kids. Although these goggles were neat in concept, featuring wraparound visibility and a wide, comfortable strap, they simply fogged too much.
According to Aqua Sphere's Mirko Bosio, fogging happens when water vapor rapidly cools as it touches the inside of a lens surface. As soon as a pair of goggles meets the noncirculated, warm, humid air that a face imparts, you have the perfect recipe for the tiny droplets of water that create lens fog (visualize a mirror in a shower-steamed bathroom). "Think about how your car windshield fogs up when you get in it after a hard workout in the middle of winter," said Bosio.
To prevent this interior condensation, you should dunk your goggles in the pool or ocean before you swim to get them to the same temperature as the water, as opposed to putting them on dry and just jumping in.
In an anti-fog situation, you want to replace the droplets with a thin sheen of water. You can accomplish that by way of a surfactant or a hydrophilic (water-loving) substance that reduces the surface tension of water so that it will form a sheet instead of droplets. Your own saliva can work, as can baby shampoo if you apply it in a very thin coat (you should allow the baby shampoo to dry)—but according to Speedo's Nate Tracy, these solutions will ultimately wear away the more technologically advanced chemistry that the manufacturer sprayed on the lens during its creation. And contrary to other reports, you should definitely not use toothpaste—have you ever accidentally flicked even a tiny bit of Crest or Aquafresh into your eye?
The anti-fog chemicals that manufacturers use on most goggles do have a lifespan, but you can extend them with certain care and maintenance techniques.
First, always rinse your goggles after each use to remove damaging chlorine and salt. Second, avoid touching the inside of the goggles. "One of the big no-no's of anti-fog is touching the inside of the lens," said Speedo's Tracy. "The product team cringes when we see a fresh, out-of-the-box goggle get the spit/thumb treatment on their native journey." When this happens, he told us, anti-fog coatings might last only minutes versus months. Tracy continued: "There are some commercial options for re-applying anti-fog. They will not perform as well as the factory application, but they will help squeeze a couple more months out of your goggles."
Finally, remember that any pair of goggles can have a manufacturing defect and fail, so another tip is to buy your pair well before you plan to travel and give it a torture test right when it arrives. Simply bending it, flexing it, and yanking the on straps and clips will often reveal a defect in short order (and in enough time for you to order a replacement).
Mirko Bosio, R&D manager, Aqua Sphere, email interview
Nate Tracy, design engineer, Speedo, email interview
Bruce Wigo, president, International Swimming Hall of Fame, phone interview
How To understand and choose between the different types of swimming goggles, LoneSwimmer, February 4, 2015


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Q: MQTT - Function display output in Dash I was trying to display the MQTT response subscribed to a particular topic on Plotly Dash. Unfortunately, the on_message function which subscribes to the topic does not display anything. I am new to Python and Plotly dash and could not get things working
import dash
import dash_html_components as html
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc
import flask
from dash.dependencies import Input, Output, State
import json
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt

external_stylesheets = ['https://codepen.io/chriddyp/pen/bWLwgP.css']

server = flask.Flask(__name__)
app = dash.Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=external_stylesheets)
app.config.suppress_callback_exceptions = True

app.layout = html.Div([
                                         html.Div([
                                                    html.Button('Register', id='post-val', n_clicks=0)

                                                ],style = {'marginTop': 50, 'margin-left' : '600px'}),

                                        html.Br(),

                                        html.Div(

                                            id='textarea-state-example-output', style={'whiteSpace': 'pre-line'}
                                            ),
                                        html.Div(

                                            id='textarea-state-example-output1', style={'whiteSpace': 'pre-line'}
                                            ),

                                 ],style={'width':'100%', 'margin': 20})

MQTT_HOST = "172.17.0.2"
#MQTT_HOST = 'localhost'
MQTT_PORT = 1883
MQTT_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL = 45
MQTT_TOPIC_Registration = "gw/register"
MQTT_TOPIC_Registration_Response = "gw/registerresponse"
mqttc = mqtt.Client()
mqttc.connect(MQTT_HOST, MQTT_PORT, MQTT_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL)

@app.callback(
    Output('textarea-state-example-output1', 'children'),
    [Input('post-val', 'n_clicks')]
    )

def display_Output(clicked):

    MQTT_HOST = "172.17.0.2"
    #MQTT_HOST = "localhost"
    MQTT_PORT = 1883
    MQTT_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL = 45
    MQTT_TOPIC_Registration_Response = "gw/D4351D552DA8/registerresponse"
    if clicked:
        def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
            client.subscribe(MQTT_TOPIC_Registration_Response)

        def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
            data = json.loads(str(msg.payload.decode("utf-8","ignore")))
            return str(data)

        mqttc = mqtt.Client()
        mqttc.on_connect = on_connect
        mqttc.on_message = on_message

        mqttc.connect(MQTT_HOST, MQTT_PORT, MQTT_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL)
        return 'Print' +str(mqttc.on_message)

@app.callback(
    Output('textarea-state-example-output', 'children'),
    [Input('post-val', 'n_clicks')])

def update_output(clicked):

    if clicked:

    MQTT_MSG=json.dumps({"gw_macid": "[32,74,2,255,255,144,255,203]",
                         "zigbee_mac_id": "60A423FFFE4292F1",
                         "gw_ip" : "192.168.0.105",
                         "gw_fw_version": "19.4.h-597",
                         "status_report_interval": 1,
                         "net_config": 2,
                         "network_gateway_ip": 171986689,
                         "device_net_mask": 4294967040 });

        mqttc.publish(MQTT_TOPIC_Registration, MQTT_MSG)

        res = mqttc.subscribe(MQTT_TOPIC_Registration_Response)
        if len(res)> 0:
            return "Gateway with MAC id" +gw_mac_id +"registered successfully"
        return "Gateway cannot be registered :("

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(host='0.0.0.0',port=8050,debug=True)

Upon running the app it displays Print<function display_Output.<locals>.on_message at 0x7f3690143700>
What changes to the display_Output function will fetch the response received?
Thanks in advance

A: The on_message function doesn't return anything, it's run on the MQTT client's network thread when a new message arrives.
So trying to add it to your page's rendering party won't do anything meaningful

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Over the centuries, cities have gained limelight and have significantly grown powerful with an increased level of importance. The rapid growth and urbanization posing a fatally critical threat to the future as the population is growing with each day. The development from the rural to urban life and the journey to an urban civilization has left the city in tatters. It has had adverse impacts on both social and environmental frontiers. Such rapid growth has led to the uncontrolled growth of population in countries that are in the process of development, and this growth is interpreted by means of concrete structuring with no apparent thought given to fundamentals such as feasibility, aesthetics, health, safety, road network or transportation. This leaves a very small window for even accommodating places for recreation in unplanned cities. Such spaces use shared spaces for recreation. Spaces like markets or public squares or streets. The cultural heritage of India lies solely in its old cities, towns and ancient settlements. Due to globalization and groundbreaking pace of urbanization in the recent times, the historic fabric has been radically altered. As cities have evolved through aspirations and ideas only, with no functional thought whatsoever, it is vital for a developing country like India to recognize that without regard for its heritage it cannot build a future, or that a development without its heritage would be only unsustainable.


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Rubrik enhances hybrid cloud capabilities with Andes 5.0 platform release
by Mark Cox • November 14, 2018
Enhancements in Rubrik's latest release include certification for SAP HANA, instant recovery capabilities for Oracle database instant recovery and improved Microsoft Office 365 protection on the Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform.
Oracle Live Mount in Rubrik 5.0
Data management vendor Rubrik has announced the Andes 5.0 release of their Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik gives each of its releases names, which last for the duration of that release cycle. The 4.x cycle of the platform was named Alta.
"Our 4.x release was all about expanding the platform to more enterprise and hybrid cloud use cases," said Chris Wahl, Rubrik's Chief Technologist. "Now we are taking it to pain points around digital transformation. We have stitched together a hybrid cloud model. Now we need to cover more of the mission-critical uses in the data centre that we haven't addressed in the past. We want to deepen our bench, to take a lot of pain out of the fragmentation where customers want to keep the light on on-prem, but also expand into the cloud."
The new and expanded use cases include new support for the SAP HANA in-memory database, and expanded support for Oracle and for cloud-native applications, including Microsoft Office 365 and NoSQL databases.
"SAP HANA protection is brand new for Andes 5.0," Wahl said. "We are now a certified vendor integration with HANA." This enables database administrators to use native SAP tools like SAP Hana Cockpit and Studio, to quickly provide point-in-time recoveries with intelligent log management. It also lets them defend against Ransomware through data immutability.
Support for Oracle has been expanded with the addition of the ability to Live Mount Oracle databases. Live Mount provides recovery and clones in a few seconds, to maximize business uptime and accelerate application development.
"We've had Oracle support for quite some time," Wahl indicated. "In the past, we worked with the database administrators and provided RMAN scripting to protect and recover Oracle. With Live Mount for Oracle, we are stepping this up. This was something that required a fair bit of customization with the database to avoid issues with existing workloads. In addition, all of the heavy lifting that a database admin has to craft by hand is now automated. That's a big heavy-hitter."
Office 365 recovery capabilities have also been enhanced.
"You can now use our Polaris SaaS platform to simplify Office 365 backup for Mail and Calendar without any deployment of software," Wahl said. "You just log into the Polaris dashboard and point to it, and we do all the protection and ingestion with no footprint."
Rubrik Andes also enables Rubrik Datos IO, the NoSQL data protection platform they acquired earlier this year, to back up NoSQL databases directly to the Rubrik Cloud Data Management platform.
Chris Wahl, Rubrik's Chief Technologist
"We have also developed a new feature, Elastic App Service [EAS], which makes sure that Datos data has a place to live," Wahl stated. "EAS is a landing point for database backups, which provides all the scripting. Once you tag a volume, it will Autotune itself for a particular workload." EAS supports Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
An enhancement to protection for the InterSystems Caché, database relied upon by leading Electronic Health Record provider Epic is also in this release.
"We have provided protection for Epic EHR environments in the past, and now we are expanding that," Wahl said. "The previous iteration assumed that the environment was virtual. Now physical support has been added, so that Rubrik can talk directly to the storage frame." The first storage vendor's hardware to be supported is Pure Storage, and this will be expanded to other vendors.
Another new item is NAS Direct Archive, which manages massive unstructured datasets across both data centre and cloud storage systems.
"We now protect NAS systems of all sorts," Wahl said. "Andes talks to the customer's NAS vendor of choice and works with their APIs and determines a long-term retention destination. It manages everything without the need for a large Rubrik footprint."
In addition, Rubrik introduced Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure, a joint purpose-built solution that gives customers a single solution to protect and manage data from on-premises to Microsoft Azure.
"This is completely new, and it's something that our channel partners will love," Wahl said. "We've tried to make using the public cloud as simple as possible, but we wanted to make it even easier. The goal of Rubrik Accelerator is to make it so easy to onboard into Azure that its not even a second thought."
While Rubrik has relationships with all the big hyperscalers, the partnership with Azure around this type of solution is the first for Accelerator.
"Azure is excellent from partnership perspective, and it was simple for us to get us together and shake hands," Wahl said. "This is our first such partnership – but we also have very strong relationships with Google and Amazon."
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Das Robert-Bosch-Haus (gelegentlich: Villa Bosch genannt) in Stuttgart ist der ehemalige Wohnsitz des Fabrikanten Robert Bosch bis zu dessen Tod im Jahr 1942. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg diente es den Amerikanern als Gästehaus und später den Franzosen als Konsulat. Seit 1986 hat die Robert Bosch Stiftung hier ihren Geschäftssitz. Das Haus befindet sich inmitten eines Parks in der Heidehofstraße 31 im Stadtteil Gänsheide im Stuttgarter Stadtbezirk Ost.

Architektur

Das Robert-Bosch-Haus wurde 1910/11 von den Architekten Jakob Früh und Carl Heim für den Industriellen Robert Bosch gebaut und gilt als einer der letzten hochherrschaftlichen Villenbauten des späten Historismus in Stuttgart. Die Immobilie beherbergt 25 Zimmer und ist denkmalgeschützt.

Der Baukörper ist ein Kubus, dem ein flach geneigtes Walmdach aufliegt. Hierin lassen sich Einflüsse der Schinkelschule des 19. Jahrhunderts erkennen, die auf Vorbildern der italienischen Frührenaissance des 15. Jahrhunderts beruhen. Besonders veranschaulicht dies der nordostseitig eingefügte und das Anwesen überragende Belvedere-Turm. Seitlich wird der Baukörper von einer eingeschossigen Veranda nebst ebensolchen Erkern eingefasst.

Vorbild für die Fassadengestaltung der Villa ist der ländliche Villentyp, geprägt von hierarchischen Baustrukturen. Der hohe Sockel besteht aus grob behauenem Sandstein. Das Hauptgeschoss weist feinere Rustikaquaderung auf. Die Beletage wird über eine zweiläufige Treppenanlage erreicht, die in einen viersäuligen Portikus mündet. Das Obergeschoss ist schlicht gehalten und sandsteinverkleidet. Dem Obergeschoss sitzt ein niedriges Attikageschoss auf, das zurückgesetzt ist, also nicht bündig mit dem Obergeschoss abschließt und mit einem Dreieckswalmdach abschließt. Die Geschosse weisen unterschiedliche Fensterformen und -größen auf. Durch die Verwendung von Stahlbeton für die Decken und Treppen liefert die Villa bereits Konstruktionsprinzipien der Moderne.

Für die bauplastischen Arbeiten am Robert-Bosch-Haus und dessen umgebenden Park war der Bildhauer und Schmuckdesigner Franz Boeres verantwortlich. Er fügte in das historistische Innere der Villa die vorhandenen Jugendstilelemente ein. Bruno Paul, Avantgardist der modernen Zweckarchitektur, gestaltete das Speisezimmer.

Von der Heidehofstraße ist die Villa über ein mächtiges Portal erreichbar. Dieses wurde 1934 umgestaltet und beispielsweise mit dem Relief des "Bosch-Zünders" versehen.

Haus Heidehof der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
Das weitläufige Areal um die Villa Bosch misst 13.000 m². Damit bestand auf dem Grundstück genügend Platz, um einen Neubau zu errichten, der für Zwecke der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung genutzt werden konnte. In den Jahren von 2002 bis 2004 entstand im südwestlichen Grundstücksbereich das Haus Heidehof. Die Bauzeit von drei Jahren geht auf einen zwischenzeitlichen Baustopp zurück, der aus nachbarschutzrechtlichen Gründen vor dem Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart zu entscheiden war. Errichtet wurde die Immobilie von Peter Kulka. Sie steht in der Tradition der klassisch-modernen Bauweise Ludwig Mies van der Rohes. In dem 3000 m² großen Schulungszentrum finden Tagungen, Seminare und andere Veranstaltungen statt. Der Bau beherbergt zudem einen Speisesaal und ein Gäste-Casino nebst (Bewirtungs-)Terrasse.

Der Landschaftsarchitekt Peter Kluska hatte die Freiflächen des Geländes gestaltet. Er restaurierte nicht nur den als Naturdenkmal geschützten historischen Park der Anlage, indem er ihm dessen ursprüngliche Formen wiedergab, sondern schuf auch einen harmonischen Übergang zum neuen Teil des Anwesens.

Villa Dillmann
Robert Bosch zog in das Robert-Bosch-Haus auf der Gänsheide, nachdem er bis dahin und ab 1893 in der Villa Dillmann gewohnt hatte. Das parkähnliche Grundstück der Villa Dillmann liegt zwischen dem Zulauf der Dillmannstraße auf die Hölderlinstraße am Hölderlinplatz in Stuttgart-Nord. Nach seinem Umzug auf die Gänsheide brachte Bosch dort die Bibliothek des Vereins zur Förderung der Volksbildung unter, welchen er 1918 zusammen mit Theodor Bäuerle und Wolfgang Pfleiderer gegründet hatte.

Literatur

 Rainer Müller: Das Robert-Bosch-Haus, DVA, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-02939-3.
 Christine Breig: Der Villen- und Landhausbau in Stuttgart 1830–1930, ein Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Umsetzungen und Veränderungen des Bautyps Villa in Stuttgart (= Veröffentlichungen des Archivs der Stadt Stuttgart. Band 84), Stadtarchiv Stuttgart / Hohenheim, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 (Dissertation Universität Stuttgart 1998, 552 Seiten, mit Illustrationen)
 Martin Wörner, Gilbert Lupfer, Ute Scholz: Architekturführer Stuttgart. 3. Auflage, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-01290-0.
 Werner Buthge: Vom Feuersee zum Birkenkopf, Streifzüge durch den Stuttgarter Westen. 2. Auflage, Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-89657-129-8.
 Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.), Ralf Arbogast: Stuttgart zu Fuß: 20 Stadtteil-Streifzüge durch Geschichte und Gegenwart. 5. Auflage, Silberburg, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8425-1163-7.

Weblinks

 Wer wir sind auf bosch-stiftung.de, siehe Abschnitt Virtueller Rundgang (interaktiver 360°-Rundgang durch Robert-Bosch-Haus und den angrenzenden Park)
 Das Bosch-Haus Heidehof von Peter Kulka (Video, 2 Min.)

Einzelnachweise

Stuttgart, Robert-Bosch-Haus
Villa in Stuttgart
Robert Bosch als Namensgeber
Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
Stuttgart-Ost

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Following recent claims from the weekend that early test screenings for Deadpool 2 have yielded mostly negative reactions, another face from the reporting niche has stepped forward to debunk it all and quell concerns.
Taking to Twitter earlier today, editor-in-chief Steven Weintraub from Collider stated that his own sources in the industry have relayed a completely different tune. The first two early test screenings held for Deadpool 2 actually scored exceptionally well. In fact, everyone who has managed to be given the opportunity to go through the sequel have expressed nothing but love.
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It was previously said by multiple sources that "wasted" characters and "poor" storytelling marred the early test screenings for Deadpool 2. In addition, even 20th Century Fox was said to have been caught completely off guard.
It should be noted that an early test screening translates into an early version of the movie in the editing booth. There is still time for 20th Century Fox to take feedback into account. In that light, the early version is never the best way to judge if the final product will be good or not in the theaters.
To relay a few examples, both Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017) were well-received during their early test screenings before bombing in negative reviews following the premiere.
Deadpool 2 was directed by David Leitch this time around and will open in theaters on May 18, 2018.


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Early childhood stress: a parents' guide.
What kind of childhood stress should parents actually be stressing about?
When does letting a child cry it out cross the line into parental neglect?
Back when my daughter was a toddler and didn't want to go to bed, my husband and I, desperate for a decent night's sleep, decided to try the last resort of many exhausted parents: the "cry-it-out" method. Each evening we put her to bed, kissed her goodnight, and huddled in the next room as she cried (and we did tiptoe in occasionally for a quick hug). Eventually, utterly exhausted, she'd drop off to sleep.
If you read a December Psychology Today blog post with the alarming title "Dangers of Crying It Out," you might think the stress my husband and I inflicted on our daughter led to changes in the structure of her brain and put her at risk for developing diseases like diabetes and heart disease as an adult. The idea that something so seemingly innocuous could create ever-lasting damage is enough to make any parent want to wail all night.
But the Psychology Today post, and the many terrified responses it generated (take the horrifying-sounding "Cry It Out: The Method That Kills Baby Brain Cells"), missed something very important: Not all early childhood stress is created equal. Earlier this month, the journal Pediatrics published a wide-ranging and sensible policy statement on the lifelong effects of early childhood (that is, infancy through about kindergarten) adversity and toxic stress.
When parents stress about the wrong kinds of stress, it distracts us from a real and grave public health issue. But it's easy to get tangled and confused by media reports about stress hurting preschoolers. Here, then, is a brief guide to the three types of childhood stress responses.
In a positive stress response, the stress hormones (like cortisol, adrenaline, and epinephrine) are revved up briefly—curdling stomachs, dampening palms, speeding up heartbeats, quickening breaths, setting the brain to high alert—and then return to their normal state. Picture a little kid freaking out when a nurse approaches with a needle or hiding under a table on the first day of nursery school. It may break your heart as a parent to witness your child's tears, but it isn't going to create long-lasting damage. A positive stress response is mild to moderate and—importantly—includes the presence of a supportive adult who can help the child manage the stress.
A tolerable stress response is triggered by rougher experiences: the death of family member, a serious illness, a natural disaster, a bad divorce. As with positive stress responses, as long as a caring and responsible adult is involved, the risk that the cascade of stress hormones will trigger potentially long-term consequences for health and learning plummets.
Now kick that tolerable stress response up a couple of giant notches. Remove the supportive adult from the picture, jimmy the off switch for the outpouring of stress hormones, and now we're talking a toxic stress response. Young children who are abused, grow up with parents who are substance abusers, and have no responsible and caring adult in the picture—these are the ones who are at highest risk of suffering the damaging effects of prolonged and frequent toxic stress.
You've heard this before: that traumatic experiences in early childhood like neglect and abuse are common and are strongly associated with risk-taking and unhealthy lifestyles. Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, ongoing since the early 1990s, have linked these negative experiences with a higher risk for alcoholism, depression, heart and liver disease, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, and other problems. For some time now, many doctors and observers alike viewed these ailments as resulting from unhealthy lifestyles adopted as coping mechanisms by those raised in chaotic, stressful environments.
But as Pediatrics' reports summarize, years of research have demonstrated just how utterly vulnerable—physically vulnerable—the young brain is to toxic stress. If positive stress or tolerable stress is a sudden gust that whips things up momentarily and then settles back down, toxic stress is a hurricane that can permanently damage vital structures.
Here's how: Three key areas in the young child's brain are highly sensitive to large and ongoing doses of the stress hormones, and each can be molded, literally, by toxic stress. Toxic stress enlarges the amygdala, a brain structure that activates the stress response, triggering excessive release of stress hormones and bumping the risk for uncontrolled fear and anxiety. The prefrontal cortex normally helps to keep the amygdala's stress-activating role in check, but toxic stress can cause a loss of neurons and alter its ability to lessen the amygdala's activity; affected children may have difficulty coping with stress in later years. In a similar way, toxic stress can change the architecture of the hippocampus—important in memory and mood—and impair skills related to understanding and emotion.
As a general internist who takes care of adult patients with a litany of chronic diseases, here's what knocks my socks off: the notion that early toxic stress isn't just vaguely bad, but can create concrete, physical effects. Unmitigated toxic stress can leave a physical mark like a tattoo, imprinted forever. No matter how normal and unstressed a child's subsequent years, no matter how loving their parents or guardians, the early-childhood toxic-stress tattoo can doom a person to a heightened risk for chronic health problems in adulthood. Heart disease, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, autoimmune diseases: All of these can be triggered by the physical changes that result from early toxic stress. Not everybody who experiences toxic stress will end up with these problems, but the risk doesn't go away.
This is a staggeringly huge and complicated issue that affects individual children and society as a whole. (In 2008, state and local child protective services estimated that 772,000 children were maltreated in the United States.) A number of articles have suggested various approaches toward a solution. The Pediatrics position paper calls for pediatricians to go beyond simply identifying toxic stress to referring children and parents to effective and accessible programs and resources; primary care pediatricians, they exhort, should serve as liaisons to a multitude of services that can mitigate toxic environments. Jonathan Cohn, in last month's New Republic, calls for more spending devoted to early-childhood programs; Paul Tough in The New Yorker homes in on how treating adverse childhood experiences can improve adult health; and Nicholas Kristof implores us to improve children's lives by reducing toxic stress early.
But to institute such major changes, parents and policymakers alike must develop a clear understanding of what childhood stress really means. It's not a one-size-fits-all term, and frankly, discussions like that in Psychology Today are damaging and trivializing the reality of toxic childhood stress. There's a world of a difference between one young child who cries himself to sleep with nurturing parents hovering in the next room and one who cries night after night and is never comforted.


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Q: Resizing an Ext.js Panel using Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize I'v been trying to get my Data Grid table to resize with the window using Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize. I can easily get the height and width of the window then the browser resizes but I can't seem to find a way to resize the grid.
The grid itself is created from an instance of the Ext.grid.Panel class
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   Ext.EventManager.onWindowResize(function () {

      var w = Ext.getBody().getViewSize().width;
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I was trying this piece of code by it it returns an error because there is no setSize method on this object it seems.
Any suggestions?

A: You can use setWidth() and setHeight() function of grid to set the width & height of the grid.


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If you come along to the workshop next week then you too will be guided through the rationale and operation of the DeepScite tool, but until then you can dive straight into the source on GitHub!


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Q: Multiple do_shortcode($content) within one shortcode TLDR; How can I run a shortcode with multiple shortcodes inside of it?
I'm trying to run a shortcode with multiple shortcodes inside of it.
I can successfully run a shortcode with one shortcode inside of it with the following code in the theme:
add_shortcode('outside_shortcode', function($attr, $content = null) {
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add_shortcode('inside_shortcode', function($atts, $content = null) {
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    return
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and the following within the texteditor on Wordpress:
[outside_shortcode]
[inside_shortcode link='https://mysite/section1' image='funimage']
[inside_shortcode link='https://mysite/section2' image='coolimage']
[/outside_shortcode]

However, I want to add a second div within the outside shortcode and add a second shortcode within that. My idea was something like:
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However, the problem is that the reader doesn't know how to distinguish between $content.
Any idea how to fix this problem?
I have also tried
do_shortcode( ' [first_inside_shortcode] ' )

but, then I cannot have multiple sections within the code on the WordPress editor
For example, this does not work:
[outside_shortcode]
[inside_shortcode link='https://mysite/section1' image='funimage']
[inside_shortcode link='https://mysite/section2' image='coolimage']
[/outside_shortcode]

Instead, it only reads the first one.
Thanks!

A: You will need to work with $content inside your shortcodes PHP code.
So you went already right.

There is info in the WP docs about nested Shortcodes
https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API#Nested_Shortcodes

i found this information useful too:
https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-nested-shortcodes/

A: I figured it out!
Thanks @André Kelling for your help!
So, I made three sections of code and put them inside of each other in the shortcodes within the WP editor.
Here is the PHP
  add_shortcode('main_section', function($attr, $content = null) {
        return
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                    ' . do_shortcode($content ) . '

        ';
    });

    add_shortcode('middle_section', function($atts, $content = null) {
        $atts = shortcode_atts(
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        return
        '

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    add_shortcode('inside_section', function($atts, $content = null) {
        $atts = shortcode_atts(
            array(
                'link'  => 'https://example.com',
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        '

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And here is how I did it within the editor:
[main_section]
    [middle_section class='all']
        [inside_section link='https://example.com/section1' image='image1']
        [inside_section link='https://example.com/section2' image='image2']
    [/middle_section]
    [middle_section class='telco']
        [inside_section link='https://example.com/section3' image='image3']
        [inside_section link='https://example.com/section4' image='image4']
    [/middle_section]
[/main_section]


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(As Introduced)
Reps.	Wolpert, G. Smith, Seitz, Willamowski, Kearns, Faber, Gilb, Britton, Rhine
·	Permits assuming insurers, in the event of the insolvency of a ceding insurer, to make reinsurance payments directly to an insured or beneficiary, when such direct payments are specifically provided for in a reinsurance agreement.
·	In an insolvency proceeding, permits assuming insurers to introduce those defenses that it believes are available to the ceding insurer on a pending claim.
Direct payments by assuming insurer to an insured or beneficiary
(sec. 3901.64(A))
The Credit for Reinsurance Ceded Law currently permits a domestic ceding insurer, an insurer that transfers all or part of the risk it underwrites to an assuming insurer (sec. 3901.61), to take credit for reinsurance ceded as provided in sections 3901.62 and 3901.63 of the Revised Code as an asset or as a reduction in liability. Initially enacted as part of Sub. S.B. 137 of the 119th General Assembly, which addressed standards related to the accreditation of the Department of Insurance under the Financial Regulation Standards Accreditation Program of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. These sections are not amended by the legislation. However, division (A) of section 3901.64 of the Revised Code places an additional condition on a ceding insurer's receipt of credit for reinsurance ceded. Under this condition, a ceding insurer may take the credit for reinsurance ceded only if the reinsurance agreement in the reinsurance contract, and any agreement providing security for the payment of obligations under a reinsurance agreement, include two specified provisions. The legislation amends this condition to require reinsurance agreements and the other security agreements covered to provide for the specified provisions "in substance." The legislation then amends the two provisions; a description of the changes made to the provisions follows.
Current law provides reinsurance agreements must require reinsurance payments to be made by the assuming insurer directly to the domestic ceding insurer, or, in the event of its insolvency or liquidation, to its liquidator or statutory receiver. This provision is amended to permit direct payment of reinsurance to the insured or beneficiary of the ceded insurance policy in the event of the insolvency of the ceding insurer, as an alternative to making payments directly to the ceding insurer, liquidator, or statutory receiver. The legislation, however, does not permit direct payment to the insured or beneficiary unless the reinsurance contract or other written agreement specifically provides for this alternative.
Current law also provides reinsurance agreements must be payable by the assuming insurer on the basis of the liability of the domestic ceding insurer under the policy or contract reinsured, without diminution because of the insolvency of the ceding insurer or because a liquidator or statutory receiver has failed to pay all or any portion of any claims. This provision is amended by the legislation to clarify its applicability only in the event of the insolvency of the ceding insurer.
A reinsurer's direct payment to an insured or creditor may diminish the reinsurer's obligation to the insurer's estate under certain circumstances
(sec. 3903.32)
Currently, the Insurers Supervision, Rehabilitation, and Liquidation Act provides that a reinsurer's obligation to an insolvent ceding insurer's estate is not diminished by payment made directly to an insured or other creditor, "except when the reinsurance contract, and any agreement that provides security for the payment of the obligations under the contract, provides for direct coverage of a named insured and the payment is made in discharge of that obligation and the contract or agreement has been approved pursuant to [specified sections] of the Revised Code." The legislation amends this provision, first by clarifying that the payment made directly to an insured or other creditor would be a payment from a reinsurer, then by amending the current language quoted above to read, "except when the reinsurance contract or other written agreement provides for direct payment of the reinsurance to the insured or beneficiary of the insurance policy in the event of the insolvency of the ceding insurer." This amended language reflects the changes that the legislation makes to section 3901.64(A), above, with regard to the provisions that must be contained in reinsurance agreements in order for a domestic ceding insurer to take credit for reinsurance ceded.
In the event of the insolvency of the ceding insurer, assuming insurers may introduce defenses available to the ceding insurer on a pending claim
(sec. 3901.64(B))
The legislation proposes to enact law to provide for an assuming insurer's introduction of defenses on a claim pending against the insolvent ceding insurer on a policy or contract reinsured with the assuming insurer. The legislation provides that during the pendency of such a claim, an assuming insurer may investigate the claim and interpose in the proceeding on the claim, at its own expense, those defenses that it deems to be available to the insolvent ceding insurer or its liquidator. The legislation provides that the expense of the assuming insurer's intervention in the proceeding on the claim may be filed as a claim against the insolvent ceding insurer, to the extent of a proportionate share of the benefit that may accrue to the ceding insurer solely as a result of the defense undertaken by the assuming insurer. Further, where two or more assuming insurers are involved in the same claim and a majority in interest elects to interpose a defense to a claim, the legislation provides for the expense of the intervention to be apportioned in accordance with the terms of the reinsurance agreement as though the expense had been incurred by the ceding insurer.
Existing law states that a reinsurance agreement may provide that the liquidator or statutory receiver of an insolvent ceding insurer must provide written notice that a claim is pending against the domestic ceding insurer on the policy or contract reinsured. The legislation clarifies that the written notice, when provided for, is to be given by the domiciliary liquidator or statutory receiver to the assuming insurer, and that the claim is pending against the ceding insurer.
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