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REE Automotive Awarded $17 USD Million Funding from the UK Government
Funding will allow REE to advance commercial production of its breakthrough REEcorner™ technology and ultra-modular EV platforms
Project to help accelerate industry shift towards net zero-emissions with REE's technology designed to support extensive range of electric vehicles
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- REE Automotive Ltd. (NASDAQ: "REE"), an innovator in e-mobility which recently started to trade on Nasdaq, today announced that its REEcorner™ technology was awarded $17 million USD funding from the UK government as part of a $57 USD million investment, coordinated through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The investment is in line with the UK government's ambition to accelerate the shift to zero-emission vehicles and de-carbonize the UK's transport networks. The award funding follows an intensive vetting and selection process from which REE's project and three other transformational projects were selected amongst dozens of companies. Together, the 4 projects could save nearly 32m tons of carbon emissions, which is equivalent to the lifetime tailpipe emissions of 1.3m cars. The investment will help drive energy-saving technology across a wide range of vehicles and propel forward a green economy recovery.
The UK funds will allow REE to facilitate commercial production of its breakthrough REEcorner™ technology and ultra-modular electric vehicle platforms, including engineering design, validation, verification and testing and product homologation.
REEcorner™ technology packs critical vehicle components (e.g. steering, braking, suspension, powertrain and control) into a single compact module located between the chassis and the wheel, thus enabling fully-flat EV platforms. REE's ultra-modular EV platforms are designed to offer enhanced payload capacity by providing more room for carrying passengers, cargo and batteries and enhanced body design flexibility and autonomous capability.
Ian Constance, Chief Executive at the APC said: "These projects tackle some really important challenges in the journey to net-zero road transport. They address range anxiety and cost, which can be a barrier to people making the switch to electric vehicles and they also provide potential solutions to the challenge of how we decarbonize public transport and the movement of goods. By investing in this innovation, we're taking these technologies closer to the point where they are commercially viable, which will strengthen the UK's automotive supply chain, safeguard or create jobs and reduce harmful greenhouse emissions."
Minister for Investment Lord Grimstone said: "By investing tens of millions in the technology needed to decarbonize our roads, not only are we working hard to end our contribution to climate change, but also ensuring our automotive sector has a competitive future that will secure thousands of highly-skilled jobs. Seizing the opportunities that arise from the global green automotive revolution is central to our plans to build back greener, and these winning projects will help make the widespread application and adoption of cutting-edge, clean automotive technology a reality."
Mike Charlton, REE's COO: "REE is honored to have been selected as recipient of the UK funding to support REE investment in the UK automotive ecosystem following an extensive vetting and selection process. With the opening of our Engineering Center in the UK in February this year, this reaffirms our commitment to the region and is in line with our plans for the mass production of our breakthrough REEcorner and electric vehicle platform technology. The UK is an ideal location for a pioneering automotive company like REE thanks to the country's commitment to vehicle electrification which dovetails with our vision of propelling a zero-emissions, greener future for our generation and those to come."
About REE Automotive
REE is an automotive technology leader creating the cornerstone for tomorrow's zero-emission vehicles. REE's mission is to empower global mobility companies to build any size or shape of electric or autonomous vehicle – from class 1 through class 6 – for any application and any target market. Our revolutionary, award-winning REEcorner technology packs traditional vehicle drive components (steering, braking, suspension, powertrain and control) into the arch of the wheel, allowing for the industry's flattest EV platform. Unrestricted by legacy thinking, REE is a truly horizontal player, with technology applicable to the widest range of target markets and applications. Fully scalable and completely modular, REE offers multiple customer benefits including complete vehicle design freedom, more space and volume with the smallest footprint, lower TCO, faster development times, ADAS compatibility, reduced maintenance and global safety standard compliance.
Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with subsidiaries in the USA, the UK and Germany, REE has a CapEx-light manufacturing model that leverages its Tier 1 partners' existing production lines. REE's technology, together with its unique value proposition and commitment to excellence, positions REE to break new ground in e-Mobility.
For more information visit: www.ree.auto
Keren Shemesh
Chief Marketing Officer | REE Automotive
media@ree.auto
Limor Gruber
VP Investor Relations | REE Automotive
investors@ree.auto
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This communication includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, may be forward-looking statements. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "likely," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plan," "projects," "believes," "views," "estimates", "future", "allow", "aims", "strives" "endeavors" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements include, among other things, the Company's statements about the Company's strategic and business plans, relationships or outlook, the impact of trends on and interest in its business, intellectual property or product and its future results. These forward-looking statements are based on REE's expectations and beliefs concerning future events and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. These factors are difficult to predict accurately and may be beyond REE's control. Forward-looking statements in this communication or elsewhere speak only as of the date made and REE undertakes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws. In light of these risks and uncertainties, investors should keep in mind that results, events or developments discussed in any forward-looking statement made in this communication may not occur. Uncertainties and risk factors that could affect REE's future performance and cause results to differ from the forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to: REE's ability to commercialize its strategic plan; REE's ability to maintain and advance relationships with current Tier 1 suppliers and strategic partners; development of REE's advanced prototypes into marketable products; REE's ability to grow and scale manufacturing capacity through relationships with Tier 1 suppliers; REE's estimates of unit sales, expenses and profitability and underlying assumptions; REE's reliance on its UK Engineering Center of Excellence for the design, validation, verification, testing and homologation of its products; REE's limited operating history; risks associated with plans for REE's initial commercial production; REE's dependence on potential suppliers, some of which will be single or limited source; development of the market for commercial EVs; intense competition in the e-mobility space, including with competitors who have significantly more resources; risks related to the fact that the Company is incorporated in Israel and governed by Israeli law; REE's ability to make continued investments in its platform; the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and any other worldwide health epidemics or outbreaks that may arise; the need to attract, train and retain highly-skilled technical workforce; changes in laws and regulations that impact REE; REE's ability to enforce, protect and maintain intellectual property rights; REE's ability to retain engineers and other highly qualified employees to further its goals; and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in REE's final prospectus relating to its business combination filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 1, 2021 and in subsequent filings with the SEC. While the list of factors discussed above and the list of factors presented in the final prospectus are considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements.
About the Advanced Propulsion Centre
The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) collaborates with UK government, the automotive industry and academia to accelerate the industrialisation of technologies, supporting the transition to deliver net-zero emission vehicles.
Since its foundation in 2013, APC has funded 170 low-carbon projects involving 402 partners, working with companies of all sizes, and has helped to create or safeguard over 50,000 jobs in the UK. The technologies developed in these projects are projected to save over 260 million tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of removing the lifetime emissions from 12 million cars.
With its deep sector expertise and cutting-edge knowledge of new propulsion technologies, APC's role in building and advising project consortia helps projects start more quickly and deliver increased value. In the longer term, its work to drive innovation and encourage collaboration is building the foundations for a successful and sustainable UK automotive industry.
In 2019 the UK government committed the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) to accelerate the development of a net-zero vehicle supply chain, enabling UK-based manufacturers to serve global markets. ATF investments are awarded through the APC to support strategically important UK capital and R&D investments that will enable companies involved in batteries, motors and drives, power electronics, fuel cells, recycling, and associated supply chains to anchor their future.
For more information go to apcuk.co.uk or follow us @theapcuk on Twitter and Advanced Propulsion Centre UK on LinkedIn.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced today that she will be introducing comprehensive legislation this fall to attack the problem of wasted food.
"About 40% of the food in the U.S. is wasted. That costs us money, is bad for the environment, and means people are going hungry when perfectly good food is ending up in a landfill," Pingree said.
At the consumer level, Pingree says one of the provisions of the bill will seek to reform the way "sell by" or "best by" dates are used on products.
"A lot of people mistakenly think there is some sort of government standard for 'best by' dates and that you have to throw out food once the date has passed," Pingree said. "The truth is that it's the manufacturer who comes up with those dates and much of the time the food is perfectly safe to eat well after the date has passed."
Pingree says one provision she is considering is a requirement that manufacturers print a disclaimer below the sell-by date, stating that it's only a recommendation and the food can still be safe to eat after that date.
reforms of procurement policies for school lunch programs to help them buy those kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Fifty million Americans are food insecure, and Pingree says reducing food waste could make a big difference to them.
"If we reduce food waste by just 15%, we would be able to adequately feed 25 million hungry Americans," Pingree said.
In 2011, Pingree introduced the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act—a comprehensive bill to make local food more accessible. The bill contained several dozen provisions and most of those proposals were later incorporated into the Farm Bill, passed by Congress and signed by the President last year.
Pingree announced the bill today at the New York Times' Food for Tomorrow conference in Pocantico, NY.


IT'S an asteroid Austin Powers would love. Vesta, the second-largest rock in the asteroid belt, boasts huge grooves around its equator that may be scars from a wild past.
The grooves appear in the best detail yet in new images from NASA's Dawn probe, which went into orbit around Vesta on 16 July.


Australia has won 13 Commonwealth games.
Australia first competed at the Games, then titled the British Empire Games, in 1930; and is one of only six countries to have sent athletes to every Commonwealth Games. The others are Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales.
Six of the 21 games have been hosted by Australia, with the city of Gold Coast hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Australia has placed first at 13 out of the 21 games (compared with England 7 and Canada 1) and has been in the top three for all meets except the first games in 1930.
After the 2006 Games, Australia was first in the all-time medal tally.
In all but one of the 18 Commonwealth Games held so far (excluding the 1978 Games), the Australian flag bearer has gone on to win a gold medal.
Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games on four occasions but have only won once via an international vote. That vote was for the host of the 2018 games, won by the Gold Coast.
Sydney 1938 was simply awarded.
Perth 1962 was a contest between Adelaide and Perth which Adelaide originally won at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Adelaide first won 13 votes to Perth's 3. Two years later that was overturned by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association prior to the 1958 British Empire Games in Cardiff, Wales. A New Vote awarded Perth with a 9 to 7 vote.
Brisbane 1982 was awarded after Lagos, Nigeria; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Birmingham, England all withdrew prior to the Bid vote that took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Melbourne 2006 was awarded to the city after Wellington, New Zealand withdrew their bid prior to the Bid Lodgement Deadline.
Positions are calculated by the number of gold medals earned, then the number of silvers is taken into consideration and then the number of bronze.
Figures from Commonwealth Games Foundation website. Those represented in bold are the highest scoring medal tally for each individual medal.
The 2006 Games saw the highest overall medal tally, including the highest number of silver and bronze medals. The 1994 Games remains the Games with the highest number of gold medals won for Australia.
Overall total of medals achieved for each individual Commonwealth Games sporting area from 1930-2006.
Figures from Commonwealth Games Foundation website.
This list shows the total number of athletes, male and female, and the total sports they were selected to compete in.
Arthur Tunstall has represented Australia as an official at 8 Commonwealth Games (1962, 66, 70, 74, 78, 86, 90, 94).
Donald Stockins has represented Australia as an official at 8 Commonwealth Games (1974, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 2002).
Shooter Phillip Adams has competed in 6 Commonwealth Games (1982, 86, 90, 94, 98, 2002).
Swimmer Susie O'Neill won 10 gold medals at three successive Games (1990, 94, 98).
Swimmer Ian Thorpe won 10 gold medals at two successive Games (1998, 2002).
Swimmer Leisel Jones won 10 gold medals at three successive Games (2002, 06, 10).
Swimmer Susie O'Neill won 6 gold medals at the 1998 Games.
Swimmer Ian Thorpe won 6 gold medals at the 2002 Games.
Shooter Phillip Adams has won 18 medals (7 gold, 9 silver, 2 bronze) at five Games (1982, 86, 90, 94, 2002).
Swimmer Susie O'Neill has won 15 medals (10 gold, 5 silver) at three Games (1990, 94, 98).
Shooter Bruce Quick has won 14 medals ( 1 Gold, 9 Silver and 4 Bronze) at 6 games ( 1990,1998,2002,2006,2010 and 2014).
Dorothy Roche, was 61 years and 10 months old when she won a gold medal in the women's fours in Bowls at the 1990 Games.
Jenny Turrall, was 13 years, 8 months old when she won a gold medal in the 400m freestyle at Christchurch, New Zealand in 1974. Jenny Turrall also won Silver medals in the 200m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle and the 4x100 Freestyle Relay -women at the 1974 Christchurch Games.
Australia has won gold in the following events for each consecutive Games since the beginning of each individual streak.
This list shows a summary of known Australian records and totals for each year and overall. A world record also covers all other records (Commonwealth, Australian and Games) but is not included in each individual tally. This also goes for each other section overlapping. The hierarchy is defined by the record key.
6 World Records were set during these Games.
44 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 2002 Games.
20 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1998 Games.
29 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1994 Games.
7 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1990 Games.
6 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1986 Games.
2 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1978 Games.
1 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1974 Games.
3 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1970 Games.
14 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1966 Games.
5 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1962 Games.
3 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1958 Games.
2 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1950 Games.
2 Commonwealth Games Records were set in the 1934 Games.
^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES 36 golds, two records to Australia". The Canberra Times. 44, (12, 684). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 July 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 11 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Wickham to carry flag at closing ceremony". The Canberra Times. 52, (15, 666). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 13 August 1978. p. 27. Retrieved 11 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "A closing honour to 'our Gael'". The Canberra Times. 60, (18, 568). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 August 1986. p. 23. Retrieved 11 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
^ "Flag bearers". Australian Commonwealth Games Association website on Pandora Archive. Archived from the original on 23 November 1998. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
"Australia at the Commonwealth Games". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 2007-07-29. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games was represented by a handful of athletes and abbreviated AUS.
Australia was one of only eleven countries to be represented at these inaugural Games.
At these first Games, Australia won only eight medals against England's 61. The Australians' return home was delayed because the RMS Tahiti on which they were due to travel sank during the Games.
Australia at the 1934 British Empire Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their second of 2 Commonwealth Games meets.
Australia hosted the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales and their team was abbreviated AUS. This was their third of 3 Commonwealth Games meets.
Australia at the 1950 British Empire Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their fourth of 4 Commonwealth Games meets.
Australia at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their sixth of 6 Commonwealth Games meets.
Australia hosted the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia and their team was abbreviated AUS. This was their seventh of 7 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their eighth of 8 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their ninth of 9 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their tenth of 10 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their eleventh of 11 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland and their team was abbreviated AUS.
This was Australia's twelfth of 12 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their thirteenth of 13 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1990 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their fourteenth of 14 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their fifteenth of 15 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated AUS. This was their sixteenth of 16 Commonwealth Games having participated in all Games meets up to these Games.
Australia at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was represented by a team selected by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) and abbreviated AUS.
Australia officially became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931 under the Statute of Westminster having become independent of the UK in 1901.
Australia is one of only six countries to have competed in all of the Commonwealth Games held since 1930, although they did attend the 1911 Inter-Empire Championships as part of an Australasian team. This impressive international record extends to its participation in every Olympic Games in the modern era.
At the first Games in 1930 Australia won only 8 medals against England's 61. However, by the first Games of the 21st century held in the city of Manchester, Australia's medal tally had moved to 207, ahead of any other country including England's 165.
The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) is the national body responsible for Commonwealth Games operations, publicity and development in Australia, specifically providing and organising funding, clothing, travel, accommodation and accreditation of athletes and officials to each Commonwealth Games. The ACGA is both an incorporated association and a non-profit organisation.
Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA), formerly Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA), is the Commonwealth Games Association for Australia. It represents the Commonwealth Games movement and organises the participation of athletes at the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games.
Australia hosted the Games in 1938, 1962, 1982, 2006, and 2018.


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Q: How to download SQL DB into CoreData for ios I would like to know what I have to think about in order to download an SQL DB into core data? I am not sure what frameworks I would have to use or if there are any particular requirements when formatting the SQL DB.
Any help, suggestions, links to tutorials would be hugely appreciated.. I have done some searching around and its just hard to make sense of things because I am not sure if what I am looking for is even correct.

A: Im not sure if I understand what you are after, but maybe 2 links would be helpful:

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*an application that lets you load you data to a Sqlite DB from a lots of formats (Excel, xml, ...) is  Navicat. It's an easy way of getting data to the DB. As David H mentioned, you could then work with the data without using Core Data via an Sqlite wrapper like FMDB. Then you can access the data with SQL commands.

*A totally different tutorial is offered by nsscreencst.com: Importing into Core Data is a tutorial that shows how you can import JSON data to Core Data from a web API. This might be related to your use case. Unfortunately the videos there cost $9/month, but IMHO they are doing a terrific job.
(I'm not affiliated with either of the above companies)

A: This is just not possible - even though Core Data can use SQLite for storage there is no import/export. You really have two options:
1) If you have one database you want to use Core Data with within an iOS app, then you can write a really simple Mac App that interacts with your SQL store, and essentially replicates it in Core Data using a Core Data Schema you create based on your SQL database. The advantage of this is that is simpler to test and develop using a mac app. The final Core Data repository can then be used by your iOS app (by including the Core Data Schema with it).
2) Do all the import in your iOS app. This may take longer to develop but you can then dynamically download the SQL database into the phone and use SQLite to read it.

A: To import your data you have to create NSManagedObjects objects from every single record in your SQLite database. Depending on the complexity of your database model this can be very tricky.
There is a good introduction by Marcus Zarra on how to create NSManagedObjects from JSON: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2363996/480069. This should give you an idea on how to start. As Marcus said be aware of the relationships in your object graph so you don't end up in a loop when having complex relationships.
There are also a lot of good tutorials out there how to serialize NSManagedObjects, so just give Google a try: NSManagedObject serialize.

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Java is not preferred by many online chat sites at the moment. However some of them using Java apps on their flash or html text chat services. There is not any UAE chat services which is working with Java mainly, so we don't able to provide information for you on this section. However there are still alternatives for you to meet people from this country on internet that you will need to use flash or html chat platforms. If you would like to meet them on these platforms, you can take a look at other services alternatively. These are free services with no registration.
Kalamngy Arab Chat: Kalamngy Arab Chat is working with flash and html. You can meet people on chat rooms on this website and you can make new friends from whole around the world. There are also chat rooms for each Arab countries. One of these is United Arab Emirates.
Arab Jostars: Arab Jostars chat is very famous in Middle East countries. There are many online people from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Syria and Egypt on this channel. You will enjoy to talk them. The website language is Arabic.
Arab Chat: There are various channels on this chat platform. You can join any channel you want on here and one of these channels is Arab Chat. You can meet new people and make new friends from Emirates on here. No registration required and no payment required.
ChatKom: ChatKom another popular chat platform in North America and West Asia. You can make new Arab friends on here and talk to people in Arabic language. English is not allowed on here. You can send and receive private messages to people freely. You don't need to create account, you don't need to pay for talk to people.


At What Point Does Chevy Volt Battery Show Signs of Range Loss?
At what point will the Chevy Volt show signs of range loss?
This has been a question for some time in the EV community. General Motors made a bold and brave move to limit access to the Volt's 16.5kWh battery to around 10kWh. The brilliance of this move both protected the battery from overcharging and left Volt drivers with the same driving experience with zero loss of range for years of ownership.
Few remember, but it was GM's design that forced Nissan and Tesla to provide the eight year 100,000 mile battery warranty that has set the standard for the industry.
Editor's Note: Due to a communication breakdown this article was posted prior to finishing the test. Will update in the near future.
Most Volt owners sit back and listen to stories of range loss with other brands with a large grin on their face knowing they have yet to experience it. As stated before, it is primarily in the protected design that has hidden this natural chemistry degradation from our sight. With over 60,000 Volts and a half a billion miles, it is only a matter of time. Chemistry still is chemistry.
Recently, I came upon a 2012 Volt in good condition with 97,000 miles for $14,000 that I just couldn't pass up. I secured the used Volt for my younger brother but not without some basic testing and comparison to my own 2012 Volt with one fourth the miles. This Volt was a fleet vehicle in Florida averaging over 40,000 miles per year. My Volt is pampered and kept in a shaded garage. Though the conditions of the fleet vehicle cannot be known, the Florida temperatures are not as tough as Phoenix but hotter than my North Carolina Volt.
With the 97,000 miles driven on this MY2012 Volt, it is clear that many, if not the majority of the miles, were using the gasoline powered range extender. My hypothesis was that the battery should not suffer due to the excess ICE miles. My curiosity was now to find out.
When I received the Volt the guess-0-meter registered 35 miles of total range. I took the Volt out on an easy drive averaging 48 mph. It achieved 45 miles of AER all electric range. The number is relative to many factors, but comparing to my well cared for Volt, I achieved 50 AER on the same path and similar conditions. The first test showed 10.3 kWh used.
Another interesting discovery was that the charge took nine hours opposed to the typical eight on my Level 1 charger.
If you have ever seen the movie "Black Beauty," there is also no telling how hard this horse has been ridden. Still this 97,350 mile Volt is "not" showing any changes in the intended driving experience. Though degradation occurs in all batteries, it happens at a lesser rate when the charge is limited and thermal conditions are managed. Bottom line, the AER driving experience has not changed past the GM specifications.
Many naysayers wait with baited breath for EV battery replacements. With high mileage EREVs like the Chevy Volt, they will have to wait a bit longer. At some point the Chevy Volt may give up 4-8 miles of AER at 98 MPGe, but will continue on its extender for many, many miles to come.
I plan on doing a bit more tests prior to turning it over to my brother. If you have any tests you would like to see, then leave a detailed comment below.


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Q: android application not compiling I  get the following error when I try to run the project in Android studio.I have recently added Butterknife dependency in gradle.After adding I get the following error.Please help me!!!I have included the error and the gradle file below.
Gradle:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"
    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.jobinsabu.destination"
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}
repositories {
    // ...
    maven {url "https://jitpack.io"}
    maven {url 'http://yanzm.github.io/MaterialTabHost/repository'}
}
dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1'
    compile 'com.prolificinteractive:material-calendarview:1.2.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.4.0'
    compile 'com.flaviofaria:kenburnsview:1.0.7'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'
    compile 'com.github.jd-alexander:library:1.1.0'
    compile 'se.walkercrou:google-places-api-java:2.1.2'
    compile 'com.github.ganfra:material-spinner:1.1.1'
    compile 'io.nlopez.smartlocation:library:3.2.1'
    compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.19'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.0.+'
    compile 'com.miguelcatalan:materialsearchview:1.4.0'
    compile ('com.github.ozodrukh:CircularReveal:1.3.1@aar') {
        transitive = true;
    }
    compile 'com.ogaclejapan.smarttablayout:library:1.6.0@aar'
    compile ('com.github.florent37:materialviewpager:1.1.3@aar'){
        transitive = true
    }
    compile 'com.rengwuxian.materialedittext:library:2.1.4'
}

Error:
Information:Gradle tasks [:app:generateDebugSources, :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources, :app:assembleDebug]
Warning:Dependency org.json:json:20140107 is ignored for debug as it may be conflicting with the internal version provided by Android.
         In case of problem, please repackage with jarjar to change the class packages
Warning:Dependency org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.5 is ignored for debug as it may be conflicting with the internal version provided by Android.
         In case of problem, please repackage it with jarjar to change the class packages
Warning:Dependency org.json:json:20140107 is ignored for release as it may be conflicting with the internal version provided by Android.
         In case of problem, please repackage with jarjar to change the class packages
Warning:Dependency org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.5 is ignored for release as it may be conflicting with the internal version provided by Android.
         In case of problem, please repackage it with jarjar to change the class packages
:app:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:checkDebugManifest
:app:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72311Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportCardviewV72301Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportDesign2311Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportMediarouterV72300Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportRecyclerviewV72311Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportSupportV42311Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGithubFlorent37Materialviewpager113Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGithubGanfraMaterialSpinner111Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGithubJdAlexanderLibrary110Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGithubKsoichiroAndroidObservablescrollview152Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGithubOzodrukhCircularReveal131Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServices840Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesAds840Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesAnalytics840Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesAppindexing840Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesAppinvite840Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesAppstate840Library UP-TO-DATE
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HB 2173 Higher educational institutions, public; tuition and fee increases, public comment.
HB 2350 Higher educational institutions, public; tuition and fees, foster care youth.
HB 2620 Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, educational programs.
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SB 1464 Manufacturer or distributor; right of first refusal.
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Konstitutionella arbetarförbundet var en icke-socialistisk arbetarorganisation, grundad i Helsingfors efter storstrejken 1905.

Konstitutionella arbetarförbundet hade enligt sina stadgar till ändamål att arbeta för utjämnandet av klassmotsättningarna genom politiska och sociala reformer i strängt demokratisk anda. Förbundet var formellt tvåspråkigt, men i praktiken dominerade svenskan; 9/10 av medlemmarna var svenskspråkiga. Medlemskåren bestod av kroppsarbetare, småföretagare och lägre tjänstemän, vartill även ett antal akademiskt bildade personer deltog i verksamheten. Till förbundet hörde lokala föreningar, både svensk- och finskspråkiga, på flera orter i södra Finland; störst var Helsingfors konstitutionella arbetarförening (grundad 1906), som utförde ett betydande arbete på det kommunala planet. Förbundet (som hade intima relationer till Arbetets vänner och Svenska folkpartiet) uppställde till en början egna lantdagskandidater, som upptogs på Svenska folkpartiets och Ungfinska partiets listor. En av Konstitutionella arbetarförbundets representanter, typografen F. Ahlroos, invaldes i den första enkammaren, och senare satt även Helsingforsföreningens mångårige ordförande (1906–1914), skolmannen Mårten Holmberg i lantdagen en kort tid.

Efter 1910 började den konstitutionella arbetarrörelsen småningom avmattas; sedan Finland blivit självständigt ökade aktiviteten åter temporärt. Beslut om förbundets upplösning fattades 1930, varefter dess tillgångar delades mellan skyddskårerna i Helsingfors och Borgå.

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A bid to save a visitor centre at an historic cathedral has been launched by a weekly newspaper.
The Coventry Observer has begun its #SavethePriory campaign to try to keep the city's Priory Visitor Centre open.
The building, opened just 13 years ago, shows off the preserved ruins of Coventry's first cathedral, St Mary's Priory and Cathedral, and houses artefacts of significant historical importance.
But Coventry City Council has decided to cut £100,000 worth of funding for the centre and close its doors to the public.
It is feared the cuts could mean the centre is shut permanently.
The campaign was launched on the Observer's 3 March front page, pictured below.
Observer news editor Lauren Clarke said: "The Observer is proud of Coventry's rich history and could not just sit back while a gem like the Priory Visitor Centre and all it represents shuts – possibly forever.
St Mary's fell victim to Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century, and was replaced by the building of St Michael's Church.
However, St Michael's was bombed almost to destruction during the Coventry Blitz in the Second World War, and has itself been replaced as the city's cathedral by a structure opened in 1962.
What have the visitor figures been like for the centre in recent years?
Is it really worth saving?
£100,000 a year seems like a lot of money in today's climate.


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Q: Use embedded neo4j with neo4j client I can connect my neo4j server using the neo4jClient and every thing works fine.
For unit testing scenarios I want to use a different local server to perform unit testing to my neo4j DAL layer.
so I tried the neo4j embedded version. I can create nodes and query them using the deprecated
GraphDatabaseService graphDb = new GraphDatabaseFactory().newEmbeddedDatabase(DB_PATH)
ExecutionEngine engine = new ExecutionEngine(graphDb);

1)What is the new way to create embedded neo4j instance?
2)How can I query the embedded using the neo4jClient? tried connecting with local host but with no success(is the embedded version has web host?)

A:
What is the new way to create embedded neo4j instance?

You actually already did it with the code in your question!
The documentation on the hello world app for embedded neo4j shows this code:
graphDb = new GraphDatabaseFactory().newEmbeddedDatabase( DB_PATH );
So you're already there.

How can I query the embedded using the neo4jClient? tried connecting with local host but with no success(is the embedded version has web host?)

If by the "neo4jclient" you mean the tool that people use in their browsers to visualize graphs, here's how to do that.
When you create an embedded neo4j database, the DB_PATH is important.  Basically you just end up creating a directory by that name locally.
The neo4j browser application can be pointed at any graph path.  It doesn't run embedded, it runs along with the server, so practically speaking what you'll do is configure the server to point to that directory you created for the embedded DB, and then it'll work.
See this documentation, you need to set:
org.neo4j.server.database.location=data/graph.db
Where data/graph.db is the same as DB_PATH in your embedded example.

A: Check with this example, it will help you.
Application.java

package hello;

import java.io.File;

import org.neo4j.graphdb.GraphDatabaseService;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.Transaction;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory;
import org.neo4j.kernel.impl.util.FileUtils;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.config.EnableNeo4jRepositories;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.config.Neo4jConfiguration;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.core.GraphDatabase;

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application implements CommandLineRunner {

 @Configuration
 @EnableNeo4jRepositories(basePackages = "hello")
 static class ApplicationConfig extends Neo4jConfiguration {

  public ApplicationConfig() {
   setBasePackage("hello");
  }

  @Bean
  GraphDatabaseService graphDatabaseService() {

   return new GraphDatabaseFactory().newEmbeddedDatabase("C:/neo4j-community-2.1.7/data/graph.db");
  }
 }

 @Autowired PersonRepository personRepository;

 @Autowired GraphDatabase graphDatabase;

 public void run(String... args) throws Exception {

  Person greg = new Person("Greg");
  Person roy = new Person("Roy");
  Person craig = new Person("Craig");

  Person abc=new Person("ABC");
  Person def=new Person("DEF");
  Person ghi=new Person("GHI");

  /*System.out.println("Before linking up with Neo4j...");*/
  for (Person person : new Person[] { greg, roy, craig,abc,def,ghi }) {
  /* System.out.println(person);*/
  }

  Transaction tx = graphDatabase.beginTx();
  try {
   personRepository.save(greg);
   personRepository.save(roy);
   personRepository.save(craig);

   personRepository.save(abc);
   personRepository.save(def);
   personRepository.save(ghi);

   greg = personRepository.findByName(greg.name);
   greg.worksWith(roy);
   greg.worksWith(craig);
   personRepository.save(greg);

   roy = personRepository.findByName(roy.name);
   roy.worksWith(craig);
   // We already know that roy works with greg
   personRepository.save(roy);

   // We already know craig works with roy and greg

  // System.out.println("Lookup each person by name...");
   for (String name : new String[] { greg.name, roy.name, craig.name }) {
    System.out.println("--->"+personRepository.findByName(name));
   }

  // System.out.println("Looking up who works with Greg...");
   for (Person person : personRepository.findByTeammatesName("Greg")) {
    System.out.println("==>>"+person.name + " works with Greg.");
   }

   tx.success();
  } finally {
   tx.close();
  }
 }

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  FileUtils.deleteRecursively(new File("C:/neo4j-community-2.1.7/data/graph.db"));

  SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
 }
}

create a pojo file, Person.java

package hello;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import org.neo4j.graphdb.Direction;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.annotation.Fetch;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.annotation.GraphId;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.annotation.NodeEntity;
import org.springframework.data.neo4j.annotation.RelatedTo;

@NodeEntity
public class Person {

    @GraphId Long id;
    public String name;

    public Person() {

    }

    public Person(String name) {
     this.name = name;
    }

    @RelatedTo(type="TEAMMATE", direction=Direction.BOTH)
    public @Fetch Set<Person> teammates;

    public void worksWith(Person person) {
        if (teammates == null) {
            teammates = new HashSet<Person>();
        }
        teammates.add(person);
    }

    public String toString() {
        String results = name + "'s teammates include\n";
        if (teammates != null) {
            for (Person person : teammates) {
                results += "\t- " + person.name + "\n";
            }
        }
        return results;
    }

}

and create PersonRepository.java

package hello;

import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;

public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {

    Person findByName(String name);

    Iterable<Person> findByTeammatesName(String name);

}


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Use of 'Racist' Term in Rijksmuseum Indonesia Show Provokes Controversy
The museum's director said he would keep the term in the show, contrary to a guest curator's essay suggesting otherwise.
Alex Greenberger
Omicron Hits Museums, Nightclub Celebrates Banksy, and More: Morning Links for January 4, 2022
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Jan 4, 2022 8:08 am
Rijksmuseum Seeks $170 M. from Dutch Government to Acquire Rembrandt Painting
The work has been in the Rothschild collection for 177 years.
Angelica Villa
Rijksmuseum Plans Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever for 2023
The show is a collaboration with the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Maximilíano Durón
Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' Visible from the Back for Final Stage of Research
The painting is now displayed in a glass case, allowing audiences to see its back for the first time.
Rijksmuseum Discovers That New Acquisition Is by 'Father of Dutch Sculpture'
The work is the first by Claus Sluter to enter the museum's holdings.
Artificial Intelligence Restores Mutilated Rembrandt Painting 'The Night Watch'
With several sections extracted from the painting, the work can now be seen for first time in its entirety in centuries.
Rijksmuseum Opens Landmark 'Slavery' Exhibition Offering 'More Complete Picture of History'
The show focuses on 10 individuals who lived between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Rijksmuseum to Permanently Hang Works by Women Artists in Its 'Gallery of Honor'
Works by Judith Leyster, Gesina ter Borch, and Rachel Ruysch will be hung in the museum's central space.
What Are Rembrandt's Best Works? Eight Curators Discuss Their Favorite Pieces by the Old Master
Curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and other institutions reveal their favorite works by Rembrandt.

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The current trends in the food packaging industry are both a challenge and an opportunity for the market. In this article, I take a look at five main trends that actors in the packaging industry should be aware of.
Convenience and sustainability are the main drivers for the packaging innovations and new applications that we have come to see in the past few years. The grab'n'go lifestyle of today's consumer does not mean that we allow infringement on the quality of the consumable. And actually we see more and more luxury consumption such as artisan ice cream, single packaged home cooked meals or capsuled beverages. All this while consumers and producers are increasingly conscious of sustainability.
Traditionally plastic production has been more local with smaller companies and a limited geographical reach. Now these companies have started to consolidate, both forcing and enabling them to reach further out from their local markets. We also see an increase of the production of plastic raw materials for example in Asia that is imported to Europe, resulting in the globalization of the market.
At economic downturn, the end customer spending on food is relatively unaffected. Studies show that even though our spending habits may change slightly, a financial crisis has no significant influence on our previously formed eating habits. If anything, consumers change to lower cost foods with less nutritional value. But at the end of the day we literally need food to survive. And packaging of food will be needed.
Not only producers are growing in size, also the larger retailer chains are on the rise. These big retailers are gaining power with the ability to influence and put demands on the suppliers. Retailers are looking for more shelf stand out to attract the consumers, still at a competitive cost.
With retailer driven demands and consumer behavior come higher requirements on the performance of packaging. Packaging needs to be smart and flexible to reduce cost and waste. The design needs to increase shelf stand out and the mere aesthetics of the material is gaining importance. This comes very important for example when replacing glass packaging. These demands in turn place demands on the packaging material.


Most of the sanctuary's population consists of wolves or wolf/dog hybrids rescued from private owners or situations where the animals' health or well-being were at risk. I was somewhat surprised to discover, happily so, that it is illegal in many states to own or breed "wolfdogs" — though in some states like Alaska it is, oddly and disappointingly, legal to own a pure wolf. At Wolf Haven, these animals are paired where appropriate and placed in outdoor enclosures. They don't have free run as they would in the wild, but they do have a high quality of life under the circumstances.
While their rescue animals are not bred, Wolf Haven does participate in two federal wolf recovery and breeding programs — the Red Wolf and Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Programs — overseen by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in conjunction with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Species Survival Programs. Both wolf species were once common throughout the Southeast and Southwest U.S. Now, only fifty red wolves remain in North Carolina, and a USFWS study released this past February showed an approximate population of 109 Mexican gray wolves living in or near the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area along the Arizona/New Mexico border.
As an apex predator, wolves play an important part in balancing and protecting an ecosystem. Their reintroduction throughout the U.S. has been controversial (in particular and most recently, FWS' handling of the Red Wolf Recovery Program), but the overall positive impact wolves have had — as highlighted by the video How Wolves Change Rivers — cannot be understated.
Wolf Haven isn't all about wolves, either. The sanctuary, located on thirty-six acres of native prairie and Mima Mound habitat, spends a considerable amount of time and resources restoring the prairie and protecting the threatened Mazama pocket gopher.
It always saddens me to see wild (and in the case of wolfdogs, mostly wild) animals in cages, no matter how big those cages might be. And, as noted above, there have been concerns about the mismanagement and misuse of breeding and recovery programs; especially, in my opinion, when it comes to the involvement of the AZA. While the AZA's Species Survival Programs sound good on paper, it provides their association zoos an ongoing opportunity to showcase a captive wild population for entertainment purposes, and as such is something I have difficulty supporting.
That said, with Mexican gray and red wolf numbers in such a perilous state, I can't look past the good these recovery programs are capable of accomplishing in re-establishing wild wolf populations, if properly managed by all parties involved. Wolf Haven certainly deserves credit for playing a crucial role in this, and deserves support and encouragement for their ongoing work in helping provide sanctuary for captive and mistreated wolves and wolfdogs, as well as helping educate the public on the importance of these magnificent animals.


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	public AdapterRegistrationException () {
		super ();
	}

	public AdapterRegistrationException (String message) {
		super (message);
	}

	public AdapterRegistrationException (String message, Throwable cause) {
		super (message, cause);
	}

	public AdapterRegistrationException (Throwable cause) {
		super (cause);
	}

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Gull Island Project
Churchill (Grand) River, Labrador, Canada
There is growing concern that Nalcor intends to proceed with the 2,250 MW Gull Island Project. This project would be even larger than the Muskrat Falls project, and would involve far more flooding – 232 kilometers of reservoir—that is almost four times the size of the planned reservoir behind Muskrat Falls. This is the province's mitigation plan for recovering its economic losses from the Muskrat debacle– by selling electricity to the energy-hungry market in the United States.
The proposed site of the Gull Island mega project. Photo: A. Lathem
According to the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Gull Island Project, it appears that the facility's main purpose will be to serve the electrical demands of the northeastern United States. This includes states such as New York which are marketing hydropower as clean and renewable energy. This false narrative has unfortunately caused widespread support for further hydroelectric development and expanded transmission corridors which damage the environment.
October 12, 2021 – The Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Grand Riverkeeper, and North American Megadam Resistance Alliance submitted a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as the premiers of the Atlantic provinces calling on them to oppose the Gull Island mega-hydro project. This letter is signed by over 80 organizations and community leaders, representing millions of members and including leaders of Indigenous communities.
Stop the Gull Island Megadam Webinar
Innu Nation Deal Trades Reparation for River Power by Chris Landers, National Geographic.
"The Mighty Fight for Muskrat Falls," by Ossie Michelin, Briarpatch Magazine.
"Two Gorges: A River Journey," by Alexis Lathem, About Place Journal.


On Sunday 25 January, the Mayor of Southwark, Councillor Sunil Chopra joined young people from the community organisation Blackfriars Settlement for a special photography session at the Gallery. Against the backdrop of the Gallery's permanent collection the young people took portraits of the Mayor with guidance from renowned portrait photographer Sal Idriss.
The session was the culmination of a year long project 'My London' which has seen young people working intensively with Idriss to take portraits of their family, friends, Gallery staff and visitors, as well as the wonderful characters they have encountered on their journeys around London.
An exhibition of the portraits will run from Sunday 1st February until 8th February in the Gallery's Linbury Room.


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The first full trailer for part one of the Frank Miller adaptation arrives.
A trailer for The Dark Knight Rises: Part One has debuted.
Frank Miller's legendary 1986 DC Comics miniseries forms the basis of the two-part animated feature, the teaser for which was posted on MTV.
The trailer sees Batman and Carrie Kelley's Robin battling the leader of the gang called 'The Mutants'.
Miller's four-issue series was set in an alternate future where an older Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl of Batman after an absence of many years.
Peter Weller (RoboCop) stars as Batman and Ariel Winter (Modern Family) as Robin alongside a cast including Robert Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche.
The Dark Knight Returns: Part One will debut on Blu-ray and DVD on October 23.
'Dark Knight Returns' animation planned?


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Q: How to color lowest volume candle when volume bars below volume SMA in Pine Script Im trying to code barcolor() function to mark lowest volume candle from those who below the volume(SMA,5), im tried Matrix, built_in functions eg. ta.lowest(), arrays (actually almost near my target but something wrong due to some bars marked wrongly or ignored by code or in some instances marked correctly) and so many staff, only im able to do is color all candles that corresponds all volume bars below volume(SMA,5) thats actually simple to do, below part of code  with arrays and also im attaching screenshot of the result.
//@version=5
cond = ma > vol
var float min_volume = na
length = ta.barssince(cond)

Vol_array = array.new_float(500, 0)

for i = 0 to 499
    if cond
        min_volume := vol < vol[i] ? vol : na
        for j = 0 to length
            array.fill(Vol_array, min_volume[j])
min_array_vol = array.min(Vol_array)

//barcolor(cond ? color.rgb(216, 8, 119) : na)
barcolor(min_array_vol == vol ? color.blue : na)

So the result should be: lowest volume bar below the series of volumes under SMA should be accounted and marked

A: Now that I understand what you are attempting to do, then this is the easiest way to determine the minimum volume in the segment where volume is less than the SMA(5) of the volume.
the segment volume is now set and the bar_index (not the offset) is also now set. How you use that data is up to you.
var float running_min_vol = 0.0
var int running_min_vol_idx = 0
var float min_vol_segment= 0.0
var int min_vol_segment_idx =0
sma_v = ta.sma(volume,5)

if ta.crossunder(volume,sma_v)
    min_vol := volume
    min_vol_idx: bar_index

min_vol := math.min(min_vol,volume)

if nz(ta.change(min_vol))<0
    min_vol_idx := bar_index

if ta.crossover(volume,sma_v)
    min_vol_segment:= min_vol
    min_vol_segment_idx := min_vol_idx


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—will cohen
sound design & music composition
Tag Archives: will cohen
Charlie & Olivia's rescue mission!
music, short film, sound design
I wrote some music and did the sound design and mix for a couple of films for Nick Junior recently, and having just filled up a skiff with modular synth stuff I tried to jam as much analogue synth noise into the music as possible. Here's my synth setup for any geeks who care:
Anyone who knows me personally knows I have a bit of a synth addiction… some like their cars, well… synths are much better and they don't depreciate.
I should cut to the chase, this film is written and directed by the most awesome Kim Majkut and Akin Akinsiku at Nickelodeon UK, and the lovely animation is by Pierre+Bertrand from Not To Scale. It's a beauty so have a look:
[vimeo 54881015]
Trailer sound design for Africa – David Attenborough's new BBC series
promo, sound design
I have just finished up some trailers for this new BBC wildlife series coming out in January, I can't lie it was f'ing good fun working on them.
They were directed by Claire Norowzian from Red Bee, and edited by Thomas Ioannou.
I always think of the BBC wildlife series as having really great sound design, hyper real stuff as if the sound recordist has a mic right in the subjects' faces… in these trailers there was quite a bit of work left to do, so I picked through shot by shot and added details where I thought it would help that sort of macro look on things. I spent a fair bit of time pitching elements of the sound to the track to try and stick it all together… you probably wouldn't notice most of it but stuff like the pitched cicadas on the flower timelapse and the whale pitched up to match the vocal in the track as we go from the sea to the waterfalls kind of help stick it all together.
I also did a bit of filtering/effecting of the track to make it fit into the scenes – for instance filtered under the water, then a bit of uplifting washy stuff as we come out and over the waterfall. Btw the track is 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' by Roberta Flack… it's a beauty. Have a look at the teaser here and look out for the other trailers on the telly innit:
Silver Arrow!
Sam Brock and I picked up an arrow at the BTAAs last night for The Guadian's 'Three Little Pigs'. Was a great night and was nice to have our work recognised as I thought some of the other work nominated was fantastic.
Here's the advert if you haven't seen it:
Scrapheap Symphony
I spent some time this summer working on a film for Brother Printers with Chris Cairns, Neil Mendoza, Marek Bereza to name a few, and at last it is out!
Firstly, all the sound in the film is real, nothing is faked, re-pitched or re-timed in post production. Ok there are a couple of fake bits, one being the deep pulsing hum at the very beginning, and the other being the paper feeding up in the breakdown shot. It's not the usual focused, foleyed and tweaked sound that I get involved in, in fact it's completely the opposite to my normal processes – everything was captured at source and only re-balanced in the final mix. The point of the film was to make a big clanging whirring mess to juxtapose the lovely Brother feller on the end – that's what I'm saying anyway…
A quick blurb:
Neil, Marek and their soldering army took apart various machines and hooked up whatever motors and mechanisms they could to some custom circuit boards (based on arduinos). The boards were set to receive midi (control data) which I was outputting from my laptop using Logic Pro. I composed / arranged a version of Bob Dylan's classic tune 'The Times They Are A Changin' by mapping out the various machines as an orchestra of sorts. In the early stages of production I used the first test machines that were wired up to approximate what the final arrangement would sound like. As I wrote the arrangement, I recorded the machines in separate passes, one by one, so that I could balance them against each other more musically.
The only day of the schedule I couldn't work on due to other commitments, was the shoot day. I left the set at 3 in the morning the day of the shoot, drove Chris, Marek and Neil to the local Holiday Inn near the set and waved goodbye hoping that on the day all would come good. I was gutted not to have been able to be there on the shoot day but I had my good friend Tom Belton on hand to cover me – he is a Logic ninja so I knew it was all in safe hands. On set my laptop was sequencing all the machines live from Logic Pro, the midi split out to each group from a Motu Midi Express 128. Have a look at the midi sequence here:
So after the edit, I re-compiled all the recordings I had made pre-shoot in testing and from the shoot day, and did a final mix in Pro Tools at Factory Studios. A lot of lessons learned, some late nights and some headaches but it was well worth it – thanks so much to Chris and co. for getting me involved, have a look at the final film:
St. John Ambulance 'Helpless'
commercial, sound design, tv
So, a bit of radio silence recently but I have been away and also… I have been working at the lovely Factory Studios for the last few weeks – one of their engineers Anthony Moore took on a big project and they needed an extra pair of hands.
Last week I took over a job from Sam Robson for BBH and St. John Ambulance – cue a fair amount of music editing and a lot of to and fro-ing over the stuff at the end, and voila, a truly harrowing but worthwhile job.
It's been one of the fiercest things I have had to work on, but its got a pretty strong message so I figure it's a good one, check it out:
It was directed by Benito Montorio, created by Dan Morris and Charlene Chandrasekaran, and produced by Matt Towell – nice one everyone, and thanks Factory for getting me involved!
I am working on something pretty exciting, can't say much until its finished but it involves circuit boards, a lot of electronics, some computer programmers – anyway here we go:
While I was reading up on this stuff, my mate Biffa told me to check out Trimpin – totally amazing work indeed, google his stuff and in the meantime here's one of his works:
While we are at it, you should probably check out Tristram Carey, one of the original hackers some say. If you have anything mega worth reading up, let me know!
A Mini Olympic celebration!
short film, sound design
I just finished the sound design on this film directed by Kjetil Njoten for WCRS in London. It was a nice end result to a challenging task!
This from Mini:
Fresh from recording all 205 National Anthems to be played at this summer's games, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has teamed up with MINI for one more performance. All stand please for conductor Gareth Newman and the London 2012 Limited Edition MINI's unique tribute to Team GB. With just 2,012 made, you can test drive a genuine piece of history by clicking here.
Have a look:
At some point I will elaborate on the technicalities of this but for the time being, thanks to Jack Bayley at WCRS for getting me involved, and also to Peter Maynard from the production company Betsy Works… and to Simon Thompson for helping me out with some top notch recording.
email: will_cohen at me dot com
Spectral Christmas Tree
Spectral mischief – Michael & Alexander, I thank you.
Stereo Induction Coil microphone!
Getting in a pickle with your foley…
Nick Toons burpfest


The most important thing to do when you first work on a creative brief is RESEARCH. Don't rely on planners to give you all the information you need; do your own research. Often the best insights are in the smallest of details. By getting to know the subject as well as possible and immersing yourself in the product, you are enriching your understanding of how something works. Little things other people assume are insignificant could be golden nuggets waiting to be formed into a great idea.
→ Uber cool interactive dirt poster.


Medium-duty truck body manufacturer Morgan Corp. will expand its manufacturing footprint into New England, it said, and a site search is under way to select a location capable of supporting the production of up to 3,000 truck bodies annually.
ACT Research announced that 20,400 orders for Classes 5-7 trucks were placed in September, a year-over-year decline of 7%.
The U.S. heavy-duty truck fleet grew to its largest size on record during the first quarter, expanding 3.2% from a year earlier, IHS Automotive reported.
Used heavy-duty truck values have hit record highs this year as lower-mileage models command high prices, industry analysts said.
Medium-duty truck sales rose 3.9% in September compared with a year earlier, but the month's total of 12,524 was the industry's lowest since February, according to WardsAuto.com.


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javascript ecmascript-6 formal-semantics
What are the precise semantics of block-level functions in ES6?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the new standardized block-level functions in ES6 by reading the raw spec. My superficial understanding was:
Block-level functions declarations are allowed in ES6.
They hoist to the top of the block.
In strict mode, they aren't visible outside the containing block.
However, this is further complicated by the fact that part of these semantics are specified to be "optional" and only mandatory for web browsers (Annex B). So I would like have the following table filled:
|  Visible outside of block?  |  Hoisted? Up to which point?  |   "TDZ"? |
|   Non-strict mode,   no "web extensions"   |                             |                               |          |
|   Strict mode,       no "web extensions"   |                             |                               |          |
|   Non strict mode,   with "web extensions  |                             |                               |          |
|   Strict mode,       with "web extensions" |                             |                               |          |
Also it is unclear to me what "strict mode" means in this context. This distinction seems to be introduced in Annex B3.3, as part of some additional steps for the runtime execution of a function declaration:
1. If strict is false, then
However, as far as I can see, strict refers to the [[Strict]] internal slot of the function object. Does this mean that:
// Non-strict surrounding code
function foo() {"use strict";}
should be considered "strict mode" in the table above? However, that's contradicts my initial intuition.
Please, bear in mind that I'm mostly interested in the ES6 spec itself, regardless of actual implementation inconsistencies.
As far as I can see, strict refers to the [[Strict]] internal slot of the function object.
No. And yes. It does refer to the strictness of the function (or script) in which the block that contains the function declaration occurs. Not to the strictness of the function that is (or is not) to be declared.
The "web extensions" do only apply to sloppy (non-strict) code, and only if the appearance of the function statement is "sane" - that is, for example, if its name doesn't collide with a formal parameter or lexically declared variable.
Notice that there is no difference between strict and sloppy code without the web-compatibility semantics. In pure ES6, there is only one behaviour for function declarations in blocks.
So we basically have
|      web-compat               pure
-----------------+---------------------------------------------
strict mode ES6  |  block hoisting            block hoisting
sloppy mode ES6  |  it's complicated ¹        block hoisting
strict mode ES5  |  undefined behavior ²      SyntaxError
sloppy mode ES5  |  undefined behavior ³      SyntaxError
1: See below. Warnings are asked for.
2: Typically, a SyntaxError is thrown
3: The note in ES5.1 §12 talks of "significant and irreconcilable variations among the implementations" (such as these). Warnings are recommended.
So now how does an ES6 implementation with web compatibility behave for a function declaration in a block in a sloppy-mode function with legacy semantics?
First of all, the pure semantics still apply. That is, the function declaration is hoisted to the top of the lexical block.
However, there is also a var declaration that is hoisted to the top of the enclosing function.
And when the function declaration is evaluated (in the block, as if it was met like a statement), the function object is assigned to that function-scoped variable.
This is better explained by code:
function enclosing(…) {
function compat(…) { … }
works the same as
var compat? = undefined; // function-scoped
let compat? = function compat(…) { … }; // block-scoped
compat? = compat?;
Yes, that's a bit confusing, having two different bindings (denoted with the subscripts 0 and 1) with the same name. So now I can succinctly answer your questions:
Visible outside of block?
Yes, like a var. However, there's a second binding that is visible only inside the block.
Hoisted?
Yes - twice.
Up to which point?
Both to the function (however initialised with undefined) and the block (initialised with the function object).
"TDZ"?
Not in the sense of the temporal dead zone of a lexically declared variable (let/const/class) that throws on referencing, no. But before the function declaration is encountered in the execution of the body, the function-scoped variable is undefined (especially before the block), and you'll get an exception as well if you try to call it.
Just for reference: in ES6, the above-described behaviour was specified only for blocks in function scopes. Since ES7 the same applies to blocks in eval and global scopes.
I'm not sure where your confusion comes from. According to 10.2.1 it's very clear what is or isn't "in strict mode". In your sample, foos [[Strict]] internal slot would be true indeed and will be in strict mode, but the block hosting it will not. The first sentence (the one you quoted) relates to the hosting block, not the content generated within it. The block in your fragment is not in strict mode and hence that section applies to it.


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Rouge: New Era Sessions
SABRE Awards, Gold, Southern Africa, Africa, 2018
Brand: Rouge
Agency: Instinctif Partners
SA's hip hop landscape
Hip-hop music has undergone significant CHANGE since it first emerged in the United States in the early 80s. Once seen as the voice of America's disenfranchised urban youth, the genre has risen to become the most listened-to music genre in the world.
Today, hip-hop influences every aspect of popular culture from movies and television, to fashion and even the very language we speak.
South Africa has been no exception in the adoption of hip hop culture. Once considered the music of South Africa's privileged Model C Kids, hip-hop now dominates national airwaves across the country and has come to be that sound that defines a generation.
Female underrepresentation
Despite all the progress made and the strides taken by the genre, one thing that has remained constant in the culture of hip-hop is promotion of the subjugation over-sexualization and defamation of women.


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Home / MAPS & GLOBES / AUSTRALIA / New South Wales
Original antique maps, town plans, hydrographic maps and road maps of the Australian state New South Wales from the 1800s to the 1950s.
Nlle. Galles Meridle ou Cote Orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande.
A Chart of The Track of the Alexander on Her Homeward Package from Port Jackson, East Coast of new South Wales to Batavia; Performed in the Year 1788 under the Direction of lieut. John Shortland.
A Topographical plan of the Settlements of New South Wales, including Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Broken Bay, Surveyed by Messrs. Grimes & Flinders. Communicated by Lt. Col. Paterson of the New South Wales Corps.
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Plan du comte de Cumberland (Nouvelle-Galles du sud)
Plan du Comte de Cumberland (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud) d'apres les Cartes Anglaises assujetti aux observations faites a bord des Corvettes Francaises en 1802.
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Map of New South Wales, Containing the Districts of Port Jackson, the Coal River, Illawarra or the Five Islands, and the County to the Westward of the Blue Mountains.
A chart of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land. Surveys in the interior of New South Wales. (with) Van Diemen's Land, from the most recent authorities and surveys. (with) Part of Australasia. (with) British settlements at Port Jackson, &c.
Map of Van Dieman's Land. Map of Part of New South Wales.
Chart of part of New South Wales, with plans of the harbours / respectfully dedicated to John Oxley, Esqr. Surveyor General of New South Wales, by his most obedt. servant, J. Cross
Sketch of the Coast from Darling Harbour to Elizabeth Bay Showing the Grants to Mr Mcleay and Six other Gentlemen.
Plan du Port Jackson Leve a bord la Fregate Thetis
Plan de La Ville de Sydney 1838.
New South Wales.
Sketch Shewing the relative Positions of the Lands under Survey to the Northward of Port Macquarie.
[Sydney Harbour] The Numbers Refer to the Plates as they are Arranged in the Work…..
Sketch Shewing the Squatting Districts in New South Wales. 1844.
Outline map shewing the positions of the proposed new counties, in the middle or Sydney district ….
Rivers Bogan and Macquarie.
Plan shewing the extent to which the lowlands on the River Hunter : and its tributaries between Oakhampton and Hexham were submerged by the great flood of August 1857.
Plan of the Port of Newcastle and Part of the Hunter River.
[Adelong] Plan of the Town of Adelong Murrumbidgee District County of Wynyard
Plan of the Parishes of Percy. Bruce. & Boyle, forming Portions of the Clergy & School Estates County of St Vincent N.S.W.
Plan of Darlinghurst Gaol 1861.
Sud-Ost-Australien
Plan shewing Extent and present Boundaries of the Outer Domain.
Map of the Eastern Part of Australia, Showing the Route of Messrs. Burke and Wills, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Expeditions In Search of Burke & Willis – Map of Eastern Australia: on which are Delineated, the Routes of Messrs. Burke & Wills.-McKInlay.-Landsborough, & Walker &c. ….
Sketch Shewing the Proposed Municipality of St. Leonard's East
[AUSTRALIA-NSW] Evans Head to Danger Pt. / Surveyed by Com. Fredk. W. Sidney, R.N. Assisted by E. P. Bedwell & J. T. Gowlland, Masters, & S. Guy, 2nd Master, R.N. 1864-5. Outer soundings by Navg
Trace of the Coast from Scott's Head to Smoky Cape Shewing the Entrance to the Macleay River N.S.W. 1866
[Sydney] Sketch Illustrating Watersheds in Various Schemes for Supplying Sydney with Water.
Plan of a Proposed Road Leading from the Abattoirs Glebe Island Through the Balmain Estate …
[AUSTRALIA-NSW] Montagu Island to Beecroft Head Surveyed by Captn. F.W.Sidney & Navg.Lieut.J.T.Gowlland R.N. assisted by J.G.Boulton and W.N.Goalen, Navg. Sub Lieut.s and C.George, Navg. Midn. R.N.1868.


Boys should report directly to the sanctuary upon arrival. Please allow extra time for traffic congestion as this can be a busy time in this neighborhood. Parents are welcome to park and come inside to enjoy rehearsal. Boys should wear their regular school clothes to rehearsal--please do NOT wear concert wardrobe until the concert.
Please be looking ahead at your singer's calendar, taking note of required dress rehearsal times and our concert venue location, First Congregational Church.
Are you interested in volunteering at our December 13th concerts? Volunteers commit to arriving early and providing help to MYC staff and singer ensembles as needed while enjoying complimentary admission to the concert. You can view the opportunities in the sign up link below.
One week from tomorrow, on Wednesday, December 2, we begin our Madison Symphony Christmas collaboration at Overture Center for the Arts. Singers will be receiving, at rehearsals this weekend, their backstage pass as well as a hard copy of the primer that was emailed to families last week. Please keep your pass with your music so it's ready to show at security. While we want everyone to take responsibility for their passes, please do not panic if it gets lost or damaged. MYC staff will be at security to help you. If you are absent this weekend, we will have a pass for you at security.
Discount coupons for tickets are still available and can be picked up from the MYC office or the rehearsal table this weekend.
Interested in helping shepherd singers backstage? A few spots remain--click the link below!
Orders, along with full payment are due no later than Monday, November 30, as we will be placing the order first thing on Tuesday morning.
The MYC office will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, November 25-27.