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UMich sued for stonewalling on FOIA of Trump-related emails
Anthony Gockowski | Editor in Chief, Alpha News
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3:01 PM
The University of Michigan is being sued by The Mackinac Center for Public Policy after the school repeatedly failed to release internal correspondences related to Donald Trump's election.
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Michigan Capitol Confidential reporter Derek Draplin on November 16 instantly faced roadblocks when the university's FOIA specialist, Shannon Molen, claimed that the "large number of requests currently being processed" had forced her to employ a provision that grants the university an additional "10 business days beyond the initial due date," compared to the general five-day limit.
Draplin, who had requested "any emails from President Mark Schlissel which contain the word 'Trump' from July 1, 2016 to November 16, 2016," then received a note on the last day of the extension from the university's chief freedom of information officer, Patricia Sellinger, who informed him that he would need to pay a "good-faith deposit" in order for his request to be processed.
[RELATED: Anti-Trump UMich protesters use 'privileged folx' as shields]
The check was sent December 15 and deposited December 20, just four days before the school would close for Christmas break, after which it confirmed that it would provide the records in 14 days, though nothing was ever sent.
On January 27, the university again said the documents would be available in 7 to 10 days, but again failed to send any such materials, according to a press release on the matter.
Finally, the school informed Draplin on February 9 that only four emails matched his request, asking him for the remainder of the processing fees as a condition of their release, and a check was cashed on February 22 to complete the request.
Michigan Capitol Confidential, which is overseen by the Mackinac Center, claims it still had yet to receive a single document as of March 1, more than 100 days after Draplin filed his initial request.
Correspondingly, the Mackinac Center filed suit against the university Thursday over its "egregious" delay in providing the records, a move that Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Director Patrick Wright explained "should not be necessary."
[RELATED: Prof prevails in FOIA fight for race-based admissions data]
"This was a simple request. Any of us could find the relevant documents in 30 seconds with a simple word search in our sent email folder," he pointed out in a press release. "There is no reason it should take over 100 days for the University of Michigan to follow the law."
John Mozena, the Mackinac Center's vice president for marketing and communications and the publisher of Michigan Capitol Confidential, explained that his "team was interested in learning more about the decision-making process that led to the actions taken by this public university and its employee," namely President Schlissel, who repeatedly expressed his pubic distaste for Trump in the wake of the election.
"In his professional role as head of a public university, President Schlissel took a very public stance against President-Elect Trump and the people who elected him," Mozena noted, calling the university's delay in the matter "so egregious" that his organization was "forced to turn the matter over to the courts so they could uphold basic principles of government transparency."
Notably, the Mackinac Center claims that it finally received four emails sent by Schlissel on March 2, the very day that it filed the lawsuit, though the organization says it will still pursue the case "because it took the university 106 days to provide the records."
[RELATED: GVSU settles with conservatives, gives up 'speech zones']
"The documents are important, but at this point, it's really about the delay," Wright explained. "People and the press have a right to information no matter how embarrassing or inconvenient it might be to the public officials involved."
For its part, UMich disputes the Mackinac Center's timeline, issuing a statement to The Michigan Daily claiming that it provided the documents several days earlier, on Feb. 27.
"The University has not been served with the lawsuit, but I can assure you that UM fully complies with our state's Freedom of Information Act," asserted university spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald. "In this case, the University sent the Mackinac Center the materials the reporter requested on Feb. 27, just a few days after receiving payment."
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @AGockowski
Anthony Gockowski
Editor in Chief, Alpha News
Anthony Gockowski is the Editor in Chief at Alpha News. Previously, he was a Contributing Editor and an Investigative Reporter for Campus Reform. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, Intercollegiate Review, The Catholic Spirit, and The College Fix. In 2015, he was named a fellow for the Student Free Press Association. His reporting is regularly featured on Drudge Report, Fox News, National Review, and more.


Now that Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp is out Marvel will be jumping into high gear promoting their next film, Captain Marvel. The film will see the origins of Captain Marvel and will be set in the 90's. And given that many of the actors will look a bit too old for the period, and now Kevin Feige has confirmed how they will handle this.
Starring alongside Brie Larson's Captain Marvel the film will feature Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Clark Gregg who will finally return to the big screen as Phil Coulson. But the main issue is the actors are a bit too old to play their younger selves during the 90's, so to tackle this Feige has revealed they will digitally de-age the actors for the whole film.
At first, this could seem a bit worrying for the film but given the studios use of it in the past it will most likely look great. Marvel has previously digitally de-aged their actors for brief scenes, including Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. And this will be the first time it has been used for a long duration of time, assuming they will appear in the film for an extended period.
But ultimately we will have to wait for the first look at the film before we can pass any judgment on the de-aged characters. So, for now, stay tuned to SuperBroMovies for any updates.
Captain Marvel releases in theaters March 6, 2019.


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DIVIDED HIGHWAY
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ABOUT THE BAND...
MIKE SHUTTLEWORTH
CHRIS PECK
Jeff Heath
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In July 2005, Mike Shuttleworth formed Divided Highway (DH) with some of the leading musicians in the tri-state area.
Most recently Mike, along with drummer Chris Peck from the band UnSeen, Jeff Heath on bass guitar, and ex-Phoenix keyboardist Mike Folyton.
Together they cover a wide variety of classic to modern rock. All four members of DH come from years of rocking smoke-filled taverns and possesses a sincere love for entertaining their fans. All contribute to the band with amazing vocal performances with a backdrop of mind-blowing guitar, bass, keyboard, and drum licks that leave audiences speechless. The DH power house is truly a must see event!
Former members of DH include founding members Mike Sesvold and Brandon Onstad, Jim Heineman and Anthony Robarge. All of the former members are great friends of the band and often come back for cameo appearances.
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Immerse Raises $1.5M to Expand Its VR English Language Classes Worldwide
Immerse, a language learning startup focusing on teaching English in VR, has secured a $1.5 million Series A investment, something the company says will allow them to both expand the current product to Oculus Quest 2, and set up partnerships with institutions in Spain, South America, and other markets affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The investment round was led by Eagle Venture Fund. According to CrunchBase, this brings the company's overall funds to $2.4 million.
Immerse's team of VR engineers have spent the last three years building its software, which allows English teachers to hold immersive classes in VR—especially important for language formation during the protracted school and university closures due to COVID-19.
The company's software focuses on taking students to different locations and putting them into situations where they learn practical applications of English, including everything from dealing with a cancelled flight to business-related subjects like giving public talks in English.
'Sword Art Online' Inspired VR Headset Kickstarter Delayed by "a few days", Reveal Video Here
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Immerse first found success breaking into the Japanese market, establishing an office in Tokyo. With the new investment, the company says they're quickly expanding beyond East Asia; the company is currently working on partnerships with "some of the largest schools" in Spain and South America.
"In a time where isolation keeps us safe, giving both young and old learners that connection is incredibly important for both learning, as well as mental health" says Immerse CEO Quinn Taber. "The opportunity to leave your room, explore a new culture, and go on an adventure with your friends is a welcomed respite from loneliness and isolation."
Immerse says it will also be looking to break into more markets affected by the pandemic.
Neat, but post about the upcoming/updating games that don't have Oculus/big publisher marketing budgets and need all the help they can get for promotion, they're so cool. Also Population One just launched too (though I'm not hyped like some of you).
http://voxmachinae.com/articles/2020-09-25_Lockdown_Update.shtml
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/jfn43p/secret_reveals_strange_machinery_hidden_in_a/
https://youtu.be/AvK-3fkl5Qs
https://youtu.be/ZrPXrHn3LEA
https://youtu.be/YrEu7WzX_Ag
https://youtu.be/GQip1XG8wCI
https://youtu.be/M3Zn9LZtbDs
https://youtu.be/g80xjh4JD1A
https://youtu.be/bys6Lm8cIi8
https://youtu.be/5__4g73ssLc
https://youtu.be/YF-r8lr7Cw4
https://youtu.be/XV667tWKsFU
https://youtu.be/l6biuWeAYk0
https://youtu.be/-3QJTYDPt4s
https://youtu.be/A4za4CEUeuw
https://twitter.com/BlastonGame/status/1318911837153406978
https://twitter.com/NeatCorp/status/1318193991352000513
https://twitter.com/ROTUVR/status/1318322348777336833
https://twitter.com/SinnStudio/status/1318612056212492292
https://twitter.com/DavigoGame/status/1317999148268802050
https://twitter.com/SkywardDigital/status/1317420095707127808
https://twitter.com/ven_adventure/status/1316391047845621761
https://twitter.com/TheClassifiedX/status/1318530656826175488
https://twitter.com/mahfouz_games/status/1318617004543254537
https://twitter.com/XWingVR/status/1318002998941937664
https://twitter.com/SwordReverie/status/1318990436594233346
https://twitter.com/CyberspaceVR/status/1318566140109611008
Also this new (legit or not, who knows) PC VR kit coming up, claiming to have things like good resolution, finger/pressure tracking, face/eye tracking and an extra hip mounted sensor to decouple orientation from HMD/controller movement, all for ~450 and a ~50 accessory for wireless use with PC (or cloud). Cmon!
https://www.deca.net/decagear/
https://youtu.be/Wjun1PahYxw
https://youtu.be/xwVZp0GdB7U
Quinn Taber
Amazing! Thanks for the great article. We appreciate all the awesome work you guys do here at RoadtoVR


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Vinyamar
"Tuor is Led by the Swans to Vinyamar" by Ted Nasmith
Location South-west corner of Nevrast, on the slopes of Mount Taras
Type City
Description City on the slopes of Mount Taras
Inhabitants Noldor of Turgon
Gallery Images of Vinyamar
Vinyamar (Q, pron. [ˈvinjamar]) was a settlement built by Turgon in Nevrast, on the slopes of Mount Taras,[1] early in the Exile of the Noldor. It was perched upon high terraces that looked towards the sea. It was never visited by the servants of Morgoth but after its abandonment it became weathered. Turgon's great hall had its walls and roof covered with a deep growth of plants.[2]
Vinyamar was the first recorded Noldor stone construction after they had returned to Middle-earth.[2] Vinyamar's population was primarily Noldorin, with a large influx of Sindarin elves.
In F.A. 50[3] Turgon and Finrod took a journey along the river Sirion. At the Meres of Twilight they slept and both received a dream from Ulmo, bidding them to see places of strength.[4] Two years later[5] Turgon discovered the hidden way and vale of Tumladen wherein he determined to build Gondolin. In F.A. 64 Turgon led a third of his people to the valley to begin construction of his hidden city.[6] By F.A. 116 Gondolin was full-wrought and Turgon led the remainder of his folk to the city; from then on Vinyamar was abandoned and fell into decay.[7]
Much later, in F.A. 495, Tuor came to the deserted settlement. Marvelling, he entered Turgon's old hall and on a wall, lit by the setting sun, he found a shield, hauberk, helm, and sword. The shield bore a filed of blue and a white swan's wing. Tuor took these items and wore them. In the meantime, Voronwë was rescued by Ulmo from a shipwreck and was brought near the city; when the two met, they left Vinyamar together for a journey that led to Gondolin.[2]
[edit] Etymology
The name is Quenya for "New Home" from vinya "young, new" and mar "house, home, dwelling".[8]
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "The Grey Annals": §74
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Return of the Noldor"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "The Grey Annals": §113
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names", Vinyamar
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What's the Difference Between a Growth Stock and a Value Stock?
The Motley Fool's Austin Smith answers the question: "What is the difference between a growth stock and a value stock?" Austin identifies value stocks as those which are mis-priced, or trading to a discount to their intrinsic value. Value investors are buying companies with the expectation that shares will rise to reflect the real value of the company. Meanwhile growth stocks are those which investors are buying with the expectation of large earnings in the future. There are a few tell-tale signs covered in the video to help you identify whether you're looking at one type of stock or another. Austin reminds investors that growth and value strategies aren't mutually exclusive, and thinks Warren Buffet said it best when he quipped that "growth and value investing are joined at the hip".
Social Security Benefits: Is Waiting Just Plain Wrong?
Dividend stocks have gotten more popular than ever as a source of income, but what if you don't need the cash that dividends provide? Reinvesting dividends often makes a huge difference to your long-term performance, but there are cases when it's the wrong move. In this installment of our Ask a Fool series, Fool contributor Dan Caplinger answers a reader's question about when you shouldn't reinvest dividends. Dan notes that reinvesting dividends can work out badly if a stock stumbles, and so you should closely evaluate each dividend-payer in your portfolio to see whether dividend reinvestment is appropriate. He also gives some guidelines for other situations when you should think twice about reinvesting your payouts.
Fool.com - In the video above, I answer a question that came from Melissa on Facebook: "What is the minimum number of shares I can buy?" My take? The number of shares isn't what matters; it's about the amount allocated. When investing in small increments, though, there are a few things to keep in mind, including discount brokerage minimums, trading commissions, or low- or no-fee plans like a Direct Stock Purchase Program. To submit a question of your own, find us on Facebook or Twitter via the #AskAFool hashtag.
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Heisteig ist der Name eines bewaldeten Höhenzugs zwischen Wiedergeltingen und Weicht in den bayerischen Landkreisen Ostallgäu und Unterallgäu. Mit Heisteig wird auch der genau über den Höhenzug verlaufende Weg bezeichnet.

Name
Gelegentlich findet man auch die Schreibweise Haistaig oder Haisteig. Auf der topographischen Karte der Bayerischen Landvermessung aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts findet sich für den Höhenzug nördlich von Weicht die Schreibweise Heusteig. Auch die lokale Ausschilderung des Staatsforstes verwendet die Version Heusteig. In den aktuellen amtlichen Kartenwerken wird hingegen die Schreibweise Heisteig verwendet. Der Name "Heisteig" leitet sich vom Mittelhochdeutschen Begriff "heien" oder "geheit" (ebenso haien/gehait) im Sinne von "hegen" und "gehegt" ab.

Höhe
An der höchsten Stelle des Heisteigs im Gemeindegebiet von Wiedergeltingen befindet sich ein großes Hügelgrab. Hier wird eine Höhe von ungefähr  erreicht. Über das Umland erhebt sich der Heisteig um etwa 30–40 m.

Geologie
Der Heisteig ist Bestandteil einer etwa elf Kilometer langen Mittelmoräne entlang der Wertach, zwischen den Orten Rieden im Ostallgäu und Amberg im Unterallgäu. Im Bereich des Heisteigs besteht die Mittelmoräne aus mindeleiszeitlichem Schotter.

Geschichte

Der Heisteig ist eine der bedeutendsten Fundstätten von Bodendenkmälern im näheren Umkreis. So finden sich hier bis zu 200 Hügelgräber. Des Weiteren wurden an der Ostseite und an der Westseite jeweils Reste von römischen Siedlungen gefunden.
Südlich von Wiedergeltingen finden sich an der Ostseite des Hügelzugs Reste einer Wölbacker-Flur, welche die frühe Besiedelung des Gebietes unterstreichen.
Der Heisteig als Weg war wegen seiner aus den damaligen sumpfigen Wertachauen herausgehobenen Lage eine wichtige Nord-Süd-Wegeverbindung zur Zeit der alemannischen Besiedelung und wurde deshalb entsprechend gepflegt.
An der Ostseite des Heisteigs befand sich bis in das späte Mittelalter die heute verschwundene Siedlung Hermannstetten.

Bis in das Jahr 1804 stand auf dem Heisteig am südlichen Ortsrand von Wiedergeltingen offenbar eine zwölf Meter hohe steinerne Bildsäule mit Laterne. Als Standort dieses Leuchtturms wird ein kleiner künstlicher Hügel mit dem Namen Lehenbühl (auch: Lehbüchl) angegeben. Das beschriebene Bauwerk soll auf einen römischen Wachturm zurückgehen, dieser Bezug ist jedoch rein spekulativ, da bislang keine entsprechenden Nachweise erbracht werden konnten. Aus der Beschreibung ergibt sich vielmehr ein Hinweis auf das Domkapitel in Augsburg, welches eine eigene Stiftung zum Unterhalt der beschriebenen Laterne eingerichtet haben soll. Mit dem "Bildersturm" der Säkularisation wurde der Turm jedoch zerstört und später durch das Wiedergeltinger Kriegerdenkmal ersetzt, welches an die Gefallenen des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges 1870/71 erinnert.

Am 26. April 1945 stürzt ein aus La Rochelle kommendes Flugzeug der Luftwaffe vom Typ Heinkel He 111 mit fünf Personen an Bord in den Wald auf dem Heisteig ab. Alle Insassen des zweimotorigen Bombers starben. Eine aus Eichenholz gefertigte Gedenktafel auf dem Heisteig, etwa 500 m nördlich von Weicht, erinnert heute an die Todesopfer.

Sonstiges
Im Konzept zur Fortschreibung des Kapitels 'Windenergie' im Regionalplan des Planungsverbandes Donau-Iller von 2011 wurden unter anderem auch einzelne Bereiche am Heisteig als Vorranggebiet der Kategorie 2 (u. a. Konflikt mit den vorhandenen Hügelgräbern) für raumbedeutsame Windenergieanlagen ausgewiesen. Einige Investoren bekundeten ihr Interesse an dem Bau von einem oder mehreren Windrädern. In der letzten Teilfortschreibung des Regionalplanes hingegen sind am Heisteig keine Windkraftanlagen mehr vorgesehen.

Einzelnachweise

Berg in Europa
Berg in Bayern
Jengen
Wiedergeltingen

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Q: Go GAE app works locally, when deployed I get 404/nothing I'm working on a serverside part of a PartyCon project. It is written in Golang on Google App Engine platform. I have just implemented a few new things which work perfectly LOCALLY. However, when deployed, I cannot rich console.go script.
Here is my app.yaml configuration (sorry, this is how stackoverflow shows yaml files):
application: party-serverside version: alpha-1 runtime: go
api_version: go1

handlers:

#handlers for api
- url: /api/.*
  script: api/api.go

#handlers for console and webpage routing
- url: /redirect
  script: redirecter/redirecter.go

- url: /admin_console/choose
  script: admin_console/choose.go

- url: /post-request
  script: webpage/post-request.go

- url: /console
  script: console/console.go

 #handlers for static files
 - url: /css/console.css
   static_files: console/page/css/console.css   upload: console/page/css/console.css

- url: /console/page
  static_dir: console/page

- url: /
  static_files: webpage/index.html
  upload: webpage/index.html

- url: /
  static_dir: webpage

- url: /css
  static_dir: webpage/css

- url: /js
  static_dir: webpage/js

- url: /img
  static_dir: webpage/img

- url: /fonts
  static_dir: webpage/fonts

And my console.go file:
package console

import (
    "appengine"
    "appengine/user"
    "database/sql"
    _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
    "html/template"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "strconv"
    "time"
)

//for deployment
var dbConnectString string = "****************************"

//for local testing
//var dbConnectString string = "root@/party"

func init() {
    http.HandleFunc("/console", consoleHandler)
}

func consoleHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    redirectIfNeeded(w, r)
    c := appengine.NewContext(r)
    u := user.Current(c)

    logoutUrl, e := user.LogoutURL(c, "/redirect")

    if e != nil {
        panic(e)
    }

    email := u.Email
    data := WebpageData{LogoutUrl: logoutUrl, UserName: email, NewPartyUrl: "/console/newparty"}

    template := template.Must(template.New("template").Parse(generateUnsignedHtml(u)))

    err := template.Execute(w, data)
    if err != nil {
        http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
    }

}

func generateUnsignedHtml(u *user.User) string {
    firstPart := fileValue("./console/page/firstPart.html")
    table := generateTable(u)
    secondPart := fileValue("./console/page/secondPart.html")

    html := firstPart + table + secondPart
    return html
}

func generateTable(u *user.User) string {
    con, e := sql.Open("mysql", dbConnectString)
    if e != nil {
        panic(e)
    }
    defer con.Close()

    var parties []Party
    partyRows, err := con.Query("select id, name, datetime, host, location from parties where author='" + u.Email + "';")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    var id int
    var name string
    var datetime string
    var host string
    var location string

    for partyRows.Next() {
        partyRows.Scan(&id, &name, &datetime, &host, &location)
        parties = append(parties, Party{Id: id, Name: name, DatetimeString: datetime, Host: host, Location: location})
    }

    html := ""
    for i, party := range parties {
        actionsHtml := "Edit Delete"
        html += "
" + makeTd(strconv.Itoa(i+1)) + makeTd(party.Name) + makeTd(party.DatetimeString) + makeTd(party.Host) + makeTd(party.Location) + makeTd(actionsHtml) + "
"
    }

    html += "
"
    return html
}

func makeTd(content string) string {
    return "" + content + "	"
}

func redirectIfNeeded(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    expire := time.Date(2000, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, time.UTC)
    cookie := &http.Cookie{Name: "ACSID", Value: "", Expires: expire, HttpOnly: true}
    http.SetCookie(w, cookie)
    cookie2 := &http.Cookie{Name: "SACSID", Value: "", Expires: expire, HttpOnly: true}
    http.SetCookie(w, cookie2)

    c := appengine.NewContext(r)
    u := user.Current(c)
    if u == nil {
        url, err := user.LoginURL(c, r.URL.String())
        if err != nil {
            http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
            return
        }
        w.Header().Set("Location", url)
        w.WriteHeader(http.StatusFound)
        return
    }

    con, e := sql.Open("mysql", dbConnectString)
    if e != nil {
        panic(e)
    }
    defer con.Close()

    //check whether user is admin
    admRows, error := con.Query("select email from admin_users;")
    if error != nil {
        panic(error)
    }
    var email string
    isAdmin := false
    for admRows.Next() {
        admRows.Scan(&email)
        if email == u.Email {
            isAdmin = true
        }
    }

    //check if he is validated user
    validRows, error2 := con.Query("select email from party_validated_users;")
    if error2 != nil {
        panic(error2)
    }
    email = ""
    isValidated := false
    for validRows.Next() {
        validRows.Scan(&email)
        if email == u.Email {
            isValidated = true
        }
    }

    var url string

    if user.IsAdmin(c) || isAdmin {
        //user is declared as admin in db or is admin of gae app
        //we are allready here
        url = "/console"
    } else if isValidated {
        //user is validated
        //we are allready here
        url = "/console"
    } else {
        //user is not validated yet
        url = "/redirect"
        w.Header().Set("Location", url)
        w.WriteHeader(http.StatusFound)
    }
}

func fileValue(path string) string {
    content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    return string(content)
}

type WebpageData struct {
    LogoutUrl   string
    UserName    string
    NewPartyUrl string
}

type Party struct {
    Id             int
    Name           string
    DatetimeString string
    Host           string
    Location       string
}

Any idea why this happens? Thanks in advance :)

A: For Go applications, set the script handler to "_go_app".  For example:
handlers:
    url: /api/.*
    script: _go_app

AppEngine dispatches all requests for Go applications to a single compiled executable. This is different from Python where you can specify a different script for each handler.

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God is sovereign over all things, even closing times for stores (Romans 11:36).
Everything that comes from God is good and right, including inconvenient circumstances (Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalm 18:30).
What was bad was grandma's heart. A comfort-loving sinner by nature, I looked at the inconvenience of the situation rather than at the orchestration of God, and in so doing, I not only disobeyed the direct command, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18), but I also reflected to Anna the opposite of what I would have liked to have taught her—trust that everything God does is good and right, and rejoice in His providence.
The Bible points to the power of example to quicken truth to the heart (John 13:5, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Philippians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 1:4-7, 2 Thessalonians 3:7-10, 1 Timothy 1:15-16, 1 Peter 2:21). One of the greatest teaching tools we have is the consistent correlation between our truth-filled words and our practice of the truth. Children are great imitators, so if we want them to learn gratitude, we just need to reflect grateful hearts. It's simple—to teach gratitude, be grateful.
It may be simple…to understand. But we all know that it is hard to live. We often fall short of worthy imitation. We can confess the right things—"God is sovereign; God is good; all things work together for good…", but very often there is a discrepancy between our confessional theology and our functional theology. We know the truth, but we don't live in accordance with the truth.
So how can we teach our children…and our grandchildren to "rejoice always and give thanks in all circumstances" when we ourselves struggle? How can we possibly be a blessing to our children, when we so often fail to practice what we preach?
Recognize our root problem is that we are sinners. We are idolaters loving the wrong things. We are prone to treasure the lesser (convenience). rather than the greater (God and His glory and providential purposes). The solution to sin is still repentance and grace. Authentic examples confess their sins and ask for grace to fight indwelling sin.
Fight the fight of faith, "speaking to our souls," rather than listening to ourselves. The truth is that God is good; everything He does is good and right, He is our greatest treasure, this "slight and momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17), and…"every word of God proves true" (Proverbs 30:5)! Everything else is rubbish compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ (Philippians 3:8). We must frame all of life in light of Gospel reality.
We have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken…"Therefore let us be grateful…let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe," (Hebrews 12:28-29).
Everything God does is good and right. A five-year-old taught me that parked at a store in Newfoundland. You are right, Anna. It is a good thing the store was closed.
May God grant us the grace to teach and learn together—at any age.


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Gucci Mane spoke to MTV News from jail on Wednesday and, despite his location, was in good spirits and excited about the release of his new LP, The State vs. Radric Davis. The album made it into the Billboard top 10, and Gucc wanted to thank all the fans for their support and also apologize for not being on the outside to perform for them.
Gucci also revealed that he already has his next album done and as soon as his jail term is over, he's going to work on yet another LP. Both projects are slated for 2010.
"I got an album coming out April 2010," Gucci said. "It's called The State vs. Radric Davis: The Appeal," he said. "Seventeen tracks. It's already recorded, getting mixed and mastered as we speak. I'm dropping a trilogy with The State vs. Radric Davis. When I get out, I'll be working on the third part to the trilogy. The final [will be called] The State vs. Radric Davis: The Verdict. That'll be [in stores] December of 2010."
Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in jail for a probation violation last month. Gucci's lawyer Dwight L. Thomas told MTV News he's hoping his client will be a free man sometime in the top of the year.
Meanwhile, his current LP is continuing its run, and his record company Asylum just released the video for "Heavy." Gucci also said Young Jeezy recorded a verse for the remix of the track.
"We already recorded two songs," Gucci said of his freshly squashed beef with Jeezy. "One song was the 'Trap or Die 2' remix — I jumped on there for him and he did a verse for my song 'Heavy' with Shawty Redd on the beat. We just haven't released it yet."
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Fringe Review: Improv, She Wrote @ theSpaceTriplex
Chloe Burrell at Glasgow Caledonian University
Straight out of Dublin, enter Improv, She Wrote. Made up of a cast of 10 men and women aged between 18-25, Trinity College Dublin's best and only improv group have added something completely unique to this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival with quirky characters, witty comedic patter and just sheer randomness.
I'm normally very hit or miss with improvised comedy; it either succeeds and triumphs or falls flat. Improv, She Wrote was definitely a success, making the audience scream with laughter. What I loved about this particular improv show is how out of the blue every line was that they performed. I was on the edge of my seat, highly anticipating their next move or act.
Image courtesy of Imogen Redpath
The performance was centred around audience interaction, the cast playing a series of games and performing skits that required suggestions from the audience. These included a series of locations or types of relationships.
Based on these suggestions, the group were able to form mini-dramas just like that on the spot, something which takes a lot of skill and talent, which each cast member had bucketloads of. For such a young group of people, their expertise was endless.
Starting out in 2008, Improv, She Wrote was formed in Trinity College Dublin, originally just running as a series of workshops and performing to small crowds. The group gained popularity and grew in size, eventually becoming more prominent and developing a professional edge.
They participated in the PBH Fringe in 2017 and 2018, consistently achieving a full house. Going from strength to strength this year, the group is excited to showcase their unique form of comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Anyone who is struggling for something to see at this year's festival, I highly recommend Improv, She Wrote: it is truly informal but allows you to get involved and have your say on how you want the show to pan out.
Improv, She Wrote is a rib-tickler; a group of talented individuals showcasing a unique talent and ability. It is not one to be missed.
The show will run from August 2-10 at theSpaceTriplex (Venue 38) and more information can be found here.
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March 18, 2019 -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has named periodontist Homayoun Zadeh, DDS, PhD, as a defendant in the college admissions scandal in which wealthy parents allegedly paid to help their children secure admission to elite schools.
The FBI claims in an affidavit that Dr. Zadeh, a practicing periodontist and tenured associate professor of dentistry at the University of Southern California (USC), bribed the senior associate athletic director at USC to get his daughter recruited to the university's lacrosse team. The affidavit alleges that a profile created for his daughter falsely portrayed her as an elite lacrosse player in Los Angeles, even though she did not play the sport competitively.
The university has since placed Dr. Zadeh on leave, the first step in terminating tenured faculty. He is still listed as a periodontist at Brighton Periodontal and Implant Dental Group in Woodland Hills, CA.
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To better understand and address unmet health needs in rural communities throughout the country, the American Heart Association partnered with verynice to develop a toolkit and build capacity around a more human-centered approach to research. Through reviewing existing design research methodologies, learning from a diverse array of experts about the importance and use of listening, and piloting this framework in the rural town of Salinas, CA, AHA and verynice were able to refine a process that could be easily adopted by staff and adapted to the unique needs of other communities. This bottom-up approach marks a significant shift in an organization that traditionally has operated top-down as a leading expert in national health policy.This project is about an ongoing collaboration between the American Heart Association and verynice to shut our mouths, widen our eyes, and open our ears.
This framework was designed to allow teams at AHA to be clear about their purpose, stage, and scope of community-based design research.
Starting with exercises as simple as drawing what you have in your refrigerator, helped lead to greater findings about food preferences, availability, and other health related issues.
Worksheets were a last minute inclusion given our shortage of Spanish speaking facilitators. However, these turned out to be a huge advantage in documenting the workshop and sharing the results.
Collectively map each participant's journey on the wall helped spark a larger group discussion about similar patterns and differences.
• Understand the assets, needs, and circumstances of rural communities as they relate to health.
• Align AHA's scientific understanding of health with a more human-centered perspective.
• Build staff capacity in more qualitative, design research and rapid ethnographic methodologies.
Therefore, we set off to build not just a design research tool for AHA to get to know its constituents and their needs better, but a process for research that could be easily understood, used, and shared throughout the organization to encourage this new line of inquiry. Even by starting small, this project had the potential impact of helping AHA better address the needs of rural communities throughout the country.
Knowing that this could not be a one-size-fits all type of approach, verynice collaborated with AHA to develop a process that was structured enough to guide teams, but flexible enough to fully account for different use cases and communities. After a thorough review of various qualitative and design research methodologies and resources, as well as hearing from experts in a diverse array of fields (e.g. social worker, journalism, facilitation, entrepreneurship, and music) about the importance of listening, verynice created a simple framework to guide AHA's community-driven work. This utilized a collection of existing methods and new approaches, but recontextualized them to be the most actionable for AHA. Quite simply it states that to Learnwith any community, AHA must Question, Listen, and Reflect. Each stage of the process is outlined below.
Question - This is a crucial stage focused on Research Preparation. Not only does it ask teams to consider what they what to learn and from whom, but equally important, it questions what they plan to do with that information.
Listen - After answering those critical questions, then and only then can a team move onto Research Implementation. Here a team can select and utilize methodologies that help it achieve the objectives of situating itself within a new context, exploring unmet needs, and evaluating potential solutions.
Reflect - After implementing the research, comes research documentation. This stage is included to help teams make sense of their findings, synthesize insights, and share them with their others to consider next steps. As an iterative process, this is also a stage where it is important to check if the original research questions (i.e. the purpose of the study) has been adequately addressed or if new ones came up.
To test the methodology, verynice collaborated with the AHA in conducting an initial pilot study in Salinas, California, which is a rural, largely agricultural community in northern California. On Friday, September 01, 2017, verynice lead a participatory idea generation workshop at the Alisal Family Resource Center. In this 2 hour interactive workshop (2 hours), facilitators guided 14 Spanish speaking participants through various activities to learn from the solutions that participants create themselves. The language is important to note as it was just another lesson for the importance of localizing the toolkit and the methodologies.
Using food as a simple universal topic, the first activity had participants draw their favorite food OR the contents of their refrigerator. Following the activity, a couple of people were invited to stand up and share with the group. While this exercise was the most straightforward, the combination of a simple topic and sharing component acted as an icebreaker.
Each participant individually filled out completed worksheets in order to log information regarding their process of acquiring food as well as to indicate the party responsible for the task, and the relative ease/complexity of the task.
Once all participants were done populating their worksheets, the lead facilitator solicited a volunteer to come to the front of the room. Together with the volunteer, the lead facilitator plotted the participant's answers on the pre-drawn journey map. Once completing the sample, all participants were invited to the front of the room in order to plot their responses.
Next, participants were asked to select the point of their journey they dislike the most, and complete an empathy map inspired by that low point. The purpose of an empathy map is to allow the participants to reflect on the pain point by describing in detail their feelings, as well as what they were hearing and seeing the last time they experienced said pain point.
The final exercise, inspired by all previous activities, asked participants to invent a new solution (potentially informational materials, programs, or initiatives that the AHA could initiate) that can reduce the negative aspect(s) of their journey. At the end of the exercise, a selection of the participants will share their solution with the group in order to close out the day.
Through these simple activities centering around food, the conversations quickly zoomed out of the fridge and into much broader territory. One participant shared that although she works on the fields harvest fresh produce, that that same produce is not available or affordable to her and her family. But we also heard about the triumphs that some single males had found in partnering up to go shopping and cook together as a way to ease the effort and cost involved. Apart from these anecdotal findings, the group by and large shared how their candid appreciation for AHA to come not with answers, but with questions, ready to listen.
For both AHA and the community members that participated in Salinas, the lessons learned are only as important as the actions they inform. Not only is AHA planning a return visit to Salinas in order to start co-creating some solutions together in a sort of community-driven health hackathon, but also there is a wide number of ways in which this work has begun to spread.
After each workshop, AHA adds to its growing body of research to share with its teams spread across the country and refines the framework and methodologies further.
Leveraging the Toolkit for Urban Communities - Presented with the opportunity last fall, verynice and AHA partnered with Nicole Chan's Design for Community Change class at Santa Monica College (SMC) to explore the issue of food deserts in South LA. In this collaboration, the first cohort of SMC's interaction design students got to treat AHA as a client and leverage the framework developed by verynice to get out of the classroom and into the community.
Listening within the AHA - On September 29th, verynice facilitated a panel discussion with 4 experts on listening at AHA's Los Angeles offices. Panelists included: Marlon Fuentes (VR Producer & Ethnographer), Austin Bauer (Career Coach), Marya Bangee (Grassroots Organizer & Strategic Consultant), and Rosy Serrano (Clinical Social Worker).
In all, this project recognized that to be heard and to listen are two tremendously rewarding gifts for all parties involved. Within the broad category of health in America, many of the communities that are disproportionately served are the ones which few organizations or services committed to truly hearing their needs. This project is an ongoing collaboration between the American Heart Association and verynice to shut our mouths, widen our eyes, and open our ears.


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Ramsell & Associates, LLC is pleased to announce that Naperville DUI lawyer Donald J. Ramsell will be speaking at the 2014 National College for DUI Defense's (NCDD) Summer Session.
The four-day, member only event will be held on the property at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The NCDD Summer Session commences on Thursday, July 23 and runs through Saturday, July 26. The program will be an intensive focus on developing and fine tuning trial skills for all attendees. The NCDD is a professional, non-profit organization dedicated to the enhancement of the criminal defense bar, and to the distribution of information to the public regarding DUI defense law. NCDD members represent the most experienced DUI defense attorneys in the country.
Naperville DUI lawyer Donald Ramsell will conclude Friday's summer session with his presentation entitled The "Just Say No" Case: Refusals at Every Stage of the Arrest. Ramsell has experience presenting at criminal law seminars across the country. Most recently he has presented at the 49th Annual Illinois Traffic Conference and MCDAA's 11th Annual Advanced DUI Defense Seminar in Maryland.
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La frontera entre Croacia y Eslovenia es la frontera internacional entre Eslovenia y Croacia, estados integrados a la Unión Europea y en el espacio Schengen.

Trazado

Empieza al este, junto al puerto esloveno de Koper (Capodistria) en el mar Adriático, a la bahía de Piran y muy próximo a la frontera con Italia, donde desemboca el río Mura. Sigue hacia el oeste por el río Drava hasta las proximidades del meridiano 15 este, donde empieza a seguir la dirección nordeste hasta el trifinio con Hungría. Separa los siete condados croatas norteños, incluido el condado de Zagreb, de las regiones eslovenas de Obala in Kras, Dolenjska in Bala krajina, Savinjska, Pohorge z okoliko y Prekmurje.

Historia
El territorio de ambos estados se formó como parte del Imperio austrohúngaro hasta que en 1918 entraron a formar parte del Reino de Yugoslavia. Al acabar la Segunda Guerra Mundial ambos serían repúblicas constitutivas de la República Federativa Socialista de Yugoslavia, y sus fronteras eran internas. A raíz de la disolución de Yugoslavia en 1991 ambos estados se independizaron. Desde 2013, con la entrada de Croacia a la Unión Europea es una de las fronteras internas de la Unión Europea.

Conflictos

Hay incertidumbres sobre las fronteras marítimas entre los dos países. El diario Business SEE informa que este conflicto se remonta a la antigua Yugoslavia, con una gravedad (clasificación SEE) de nivel 2 (escala de 1 a 10, siendo 10 muy grave). Antes de la entrada de Croacia a la Unión Europea, Eslovenia se quejó de las dificultades impuestas por Croacia de tener acceso a aguas internacionales en la bahía de Piran.

La adhesión de Croacia a la Unión Europea el 1 de julio de 2013 resolvió la situación de los pasos de aduanas entre estos países que controlaban los vehículos, facilitando el acceso sin restricciones a Europa. El 6 de junio 2010 se celebró en Eslovenia un referéndum para la aprobación del acuerdo de arbitraje internacional.

Referencias

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Q: EF Code First, Querying an object, int property on object is always 1? I've got a BuildingAudit class in my EF code first. This audit is associated with a Building. Each building can only ever have one active audit. But I track changes to the audit via a revision column on the class, which is a non null integer.
Every time I run an EF query. The revision always comes back as 1, even when my query includes a check for revision is equal to something other than 1. I don't understand. There is nothing in the mapping that would cause this, nothing in the POCO that would override that value after query. How can this be happening?
Here is my code:
BuildingAudit buildingAudit = null;
        if (revision == null)
        {
            buildingAudit = _buildingAuditService.CustomQuery().Where(x => x.BuildingId == selectedBuilding.Id).OrderByDescending(x => x.Revision).FirstOrDefault();
        }
        else
        {
            buildingAudit = _buildingAuditService.CustomQuery().FirstOrDefault(x => x.BuildingId == selectedBuilding.Id && x.Revision == revision);
        }

For those wondering the CustomQuery() merely generically exposes EF's Context.Set as queryable :
public virtual IQueryable<TClass> Query()
    {
        return Context.Set<TClass>().AsQueryable();
    }

Also my POCO:
 public class BuildingAudit : Entity
{
    public Guid BuildingId { get; set; }
    public virtual Building Building { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<AuditCategory> AuditCategories { get; set; }

    public Guid Auditor { get; set; }
    public virtual User Auditor { get; set; }

    public bool IsComplete { get; set; }
    public int Revision { get; set; }

    public BuildingAudit()
    {
        InitializeCollections();
    }

    private void InitializeCollections()
    {
        AuditCategories = new Collection<AuditCategory>();
    }
}

And entity which this class inherits from just has this:
public abstract class Entity
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public DateTime DateCreated { get; set; }
    public DateTime DateModified { get; set; }
    public string CreatedBy { get; set; }
    public string LastModifiedBy { get; set; }
    public bool Active { get; set; }
}

So nothing wonky there. Yet every time I debug this query, it will go to the else statement, the revision supplied in the .Where is NOT 1 so for instance 2. Yet when the object is returned, it has a revision of 1!
Anyone have any idea?
Here are some pictures, I have to crop to hide some sensitive information, but they are from one debug run through the above pasted code:

That's from checking the revision value in the else statement, clearly showing to return audits where revision = 2 for the selected building. Then:

The returned object property has revision 1...It should also be noted that I can save values other than 1 and the database properly reflects that, but I can't seem to query anything other than 1.
ANSWER:
if (revision == null)
        {
            assessment = _hazardAssessmentService.CustomQuery().Where(x => x.LaboratoryId == selectedLab.Id).OrderByDescending(x => x.Revision).FirstOrDefault();
        }
        else
        {
            int rev = (int) revision;
            assessment = _hazardAssessmentService.CustomQuery().FirstOrDefault(x => x.LaboratoryId == selectedLab.Id && x.Revision == rev);
        }

revision is nullable int in this function, but on the POCO is a plain int. Converting revision to a plain int made this stop happening. I am checking if it's null and it never would be at this part in the if, but not sure why that would cause EF to break without notifying of any error.

A: if revision at if (revision == null) is an integer it will always return false because int is a non-nullable type
if you want to enable a null check use int? as Type
Edit:
Make sure the Type of BuildingAudit.Revision is the same as the revision value you check against. It seems the parser of EF does a full type check, which would be Nullable<int> to int.


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Soukey is just taking her final exams at a secondary school in Dakar when she learns that her father has chosen a better fate for her: She is to become the third wife of the old director of a peanut factory, the very elegant Mr. Gueye. Soukey refuses and runs off. Her friends decide to foil the plan. When Soukey meets a young lawyer from Paris, it is love at first sight. And when, in addition, Mr. Gueye is arrested for getting rich too quickly, Soukey is beside herself for joy. Only her parents are in the depths of despair. But the young people forgive them and force them to follow Farandole, which also leads to Gueye's release. "With Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook, we thought it would be fascinating to transpose this musical comedy, performed at the Café de la Danse in Paris, to a natural setting and to film it as a 'live' happening. It was an attempt to conciliate a stage production with street theatre, a theatre of the wind, sun and sea, respecting the elementary rules of documentary film-making: to shoot only one take per frame, with no rehearsal, leaving a door open for the 'wind of events'". Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb read more
COCORICO! MONSIEUR POULET
Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia and Jean Rouch formed their own company, DALAROU, in order to produce this picaresque, feature-length narrative film in which a market peddler (Lam) takes a friend (Damouré) to the countryside for an outing. Instead, they meet with a series of supernatural adventures, including an encounter with a sorceress, and don't return to Niamey for a year. The three travel through the countryside selling chickens in an old 2CV that takes on an almost character-like role in the film. Structurally, the film is composed of ten-minute sequence shots with very little editing.
"The subject of this film is the "marginals" of Africa. I have come to the conclusion that changes in society are due primarily to those few people who are on the fringe of society, those who see the economic absurdity of the system… They have to find some way to make a living without being trapped by the system. The plot deals with how three men go with their car into the countryside to buy chickens for resale in a large city… The car you see belonged to Lam, the main character… The car had no license, no brakes, no lights. I thought it would be most interesting to show the routine of the marginal economy." Jean Rouch read more
This film was shot around the same time as Les Maîtres Fous (1954) and marked Rouch's departure from a straightforward ethnographic approach to his distinctive "ethno-fiction" approach in which the film is improvised with his West African friends.
In Jaguar , Damouré, Lam and Illo play the roles of young Africans who, at that time, migrated from the interior during the dry season to the Gold Coast in search of work. Their picaresque and rambling adventures along the way provide the antic story-line of the film. The different episodes of the film were worked out by the actors at the time of shooting.
"A film like Jaguar was fun. It was shot as a silent film and we made it up as we went along. It's a kind of journal de route – my working journal along the way with my camera. We were playing a game together, we were all in the same car going down to the coast. … We shot the film like that in one year. The narration was done later on, and the film was not edited on a beach but was actually filmed in the camera in the final order you see it on the screen. I brought the film back two years later… we improvised the commentary in one day and it was first class." Jean Rouch read more
LE RÊVE PLUS FORT QUE LA MORT
Jean Rouch recounts three dreams of friendship and Dionysian adventures. First dream: Damouré, the man who introduced Rouch to the rituals of the River Niger, returns home after making his fortune in Ghana. He drives through present-day Niamey in his black, open-top Jaguar. Damouré soon realises that things are not what they once were. So in order to rectify this, he decides to make a ritual sacrifice. Second dream: Rouch and his friends take a trip down the River Niger, but they can't take Damouré along because he doesn't have permission to leave the country. So Damouré's place is taken by Lam Ibrahim Dia, a young Peul cowherd. During the trip, he tells of his marabout journey to Nigeria, where he discovered marvellous white cows that came from India. They even spoke Hindi, but the locals didn't trust them because they didn't have horns. Third dream: in an ancient theatre, a multicultural group of actors gives a strange performance of Aeschylus' 'The Persians.' "Barbarians" dance and speak in adapted ancient Greek and the modern Peul language. For the sake of convenience, the accomplice poets have translated the dialogues into the language of their colonisers. Close by, in the shadows, the actors' ancient doubles from 25 centuries earlier seek out the light. read more
LES MAÎTRES FOUS
Les Maîtres fous is set in the region of Accra, in Ghana, and chronicles the great annual possession-ceremonies of the Hauka (spirits of power) and of the winds who are said to bring madness. During the ceremonies, the Hauka spirits seize the initiated, who, entranced, take on the identities of colonial authorities like the guard, the general, the admiral, but also the locomotive – all those roles are played by the possessed.
It was toward the end of the twenties that the Hauka cult emerged in the Niger region. During the thirties, many of its followers, persecuted by the French colonial regime and ostracized by orthodox Moslems, moved to the coastal region, where they lived as migrant workers.
"Rouch's commentary tries to interpret the cult as a sort of adaptation-therapy. The film itself has lost nothing of its astonishing power, a power that resembles an intense vortex forcefully attracting the unknown ." M. Friedrich read more
MADAME L'EAU
Madame L'Eau is an improvised feature film with a strong documentary style. As in previous films, Rouch follows his three friends (Damouré, Lam and Tallou) with his camera. And despite the pervading ironic overtone, the principal issue is serious: drought. Damouré, Lam and Tallou are no longer able to endure the drought ravaging their fields in Niger, and set off in search of a solution. Damouré suggests they contact their friend in Holland, the country of water and windmills. How do the Dutch manage to transport water (for free) from one point to another?
The three men decide to visit Holland. Very impressed, but still a little disappointed by the height and size of the mills, they continue their search. Finally they find what they've been looking for: a wooden windmill which they can even make themselves! Together with a Dutch engineer and some African carpenters they set out to build this windmill on the banks of the Niger river. Their dream becomes true. The film crew, the engineer and an "assembly kit" travel to Niger. In a combined effort they manage to build the mill in one month and there stands, in full splendor: a windmill; initiated, built and maintained by themselves. read more
This film is a sequel to Jaguar and offers a comic yet moving foreshadowing of Madame L'Eau (1993). At the end of Jaguar , Damouré and Lam had founded a company known as "Petit à Petit" from the proverb: "little by little the bird makes his bonnet" – the bonnet being the turban of a chief. Petit à Petit, the company, has prospered and Damouré is sent to Paris to see how people live there on the occasion of a skyscraper being built in the Ivory Coast.
Damouré, Lam and Illo play contemporary African businessmen who want to build a tall building in their village of Ayorou Niger, and decide to go Paris to see how people live in multi-story buildings, and to investigate Parisians in general. While in France, they assemble a team of expatriate Africans and French bohemians and return to Ayorou. The group eventually disintegrates under the tension of building construction, and the three men retire to their straw hut on the river to contemplate how to create a modern Africa not inspired by Paris.
The film develops many of Rouch's recurring preoccupations: the creation of a "reality" by starting from fiction, the confrontation between blacks and whites, although this time in Europe and not in Africa, and the development of a "shared anthropology." read more


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Bob Dylan was a major influence on the Beatles. The first time the Beatles met Dylan was during an American tour in 1964. Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana, a meeting which Ringo Starr describes as one during which the group giggled more than they ever had before. All the Beatles said that this was the beginning of their "herbal" days, with cannabis replacing alcohol and pills.
Dylan had been smoking marijuana for a while by 1964, having been exposed to it through the folk scene in Greenwich Village. Many sources say that the Beatles were stones during most of the filming of Help!, which is corroborated in The Beatles Anthology. The influence of marijuana, and later stronger drugs, especially LSD, had a profound effect on the group, both personally and musically.
Bob Dylan also influenced the Beatles directly through his music. It is said by Harrison that through John Lennon, the Beatles became big fans of Bob Dylan, beginning with Dylan's album Freewheelin'. The musical influence is most obvious in Lennon songs such as "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Yes It Is." Lennon's intentionally casual delivery mimics Dylan's vocals very closely.
Many have made the argument that Dylan and the folk scene in the United States made the Beatles more aware of social issues, such as civil rights and the anti-war movement of the 1960s.
Dylan would later become good friends with George Harrison, who spent time with Dylan in Woodstock, New York in 1968 during his brief hiatus from the Beatles. Dylan performed at the Concert for Bangladesh, and became a part of The Traveling Wilburys in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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28 September 2016: Inmarsat partner Singtel has completed one of Asia's first commercial installations of Fleet Xpress.
Inmarsat's maritime-focused, secure high-speed broadband service was fitted on "K" Line Ship Management Singapore's 9,600 TEU capacity container ship Houston Bridge.
Lim Kian Soon, Head of Singtel Satellite, said: "As the leading satellite communications services provider in the Asia Pacific region, we are pleased to help "K" Line to increase their vessel's efficiency with the Fleet Xpress service.
"K" Line is using Fleet Xpress to apply big data analysis for operational efficiencies by monitoring engine performance and fleet management. The service will also provide ship-to-shore internet connectivity to support crew welfare.
The experienced installation team from Singtel, one of Inmarsat's largest Fleet Xpress partners, migrated the vessel's Ku-band satellite internet service to Inmarsat's Ka- and L-band service. The installation involved changing the vessel's antenna hardware and reconfiguring its complex on-board network while ensuring that day-to-day operations were not affected.
"The launch of Fleet Xpress marks a new page in maritime communications with continuous connectivity and guaranteed performance across the world's oceans," said Gerbrand Schalkwijk, Chief Sales Officer, Inmarsat Maritime.


It was the new era of the Mull and Iona Glasgow Association ceilidh and dance last Friday night when youngster Ross Wilson from Bunessan and his team presented the new committee's first event – and what a night it was.
Proving that the old and the new were still very much supportive of the event, former chairman Charlie Kirkpatrick was MC for this event, the 151st Mull and Iona annual gathering.
At at 2am, when folks were making their way home, they were still laughing at his superb antics as MC.
The event was filled with good friends and new characters to meet.
The line-up of the more traditional concert saw superb performances from Mull and Iona Pipers, a well-suited Robert Robertson, gold medallist Carol MacLean, Manran's wonderful Ewen Henderson, Hector Mackechnie (a gold medallist from Lochaline) and winner of the Royal National Mòd song competition Anne Bennett from Dundee.
At the end of the ceilidh, the large crowd sang An t-Eilean Muileach and Soraidh Leibh is Oidhche Mhath Leibh before turning the room around for the annual dance.
This year Scottish dance band of the year, Trail West, were headlining, and what a party was created.
Chairman Ross Wilson thanked everyone for the tremendous support for the event, and for the members of all the other associations who were in attendance at the event.
Ross said: 'We're hopefully going to make more of a feature of the Royal National Mòd song at gatherings to come although the winner of this competition has always been invited to sing their winning song at the gathering.
'Many thanks also go to our sponsors Inverlussa Marine Services, a local business run by Ben Wilson, and to those many people who donated raffle prizes from Mull, Iona and Glasgow.
'Charlie was president of the association for 11 years until he stepped down at the previous AGM. Charlie is from Iona. He's lived in Glasgow for many years – worked in the police in Glasgow for more than 40 years – and is a well-known three row button accordion player.
'Known for his great jokes and MC capabilities. He dedicated a lot of his time to the association as president and still remains on the committee to help steer it.
(treasurer from Bunessan) and Catriona Currie (new secretary from Tobermory with strong family connections to Iona).
Ross concluded that this year was one of the busiest yet. He said: 'Thanks to the great attendance and raffle, we made a healthy profit this year which we will use to make more notable donations to local charities and groups back on Mull and Iona.


Silver bullet (シルバーブレット ,shirubā buretto?) is a recurring nickname in Detective Conan. Depending on the context, it can be a description for people with potential to destroy the Black Organization, a miraculous solution that cuts to the heart of a difficult problem, or an item that destroys evil.
Elena and Atsushi Miyano used the nickname for a drug they developed.
Vermouth uses "silver bullet" as a nickname for Conan Edogawa.
The boss and Vermouth once referred to Shuichi Akai as a silver bullet in reference to the danger he poses to the organization.
A cocktail called a silver bullet was a major case clue for the murder on the ghost ship during the showdown with Vermouth.
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WASHINGTON, DC — (RealEstateRama) — The House of Representatives yesterday passed a package of fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills, which included two amendments by Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) that provide increased funding for levee protection and repairs, and supports reliable access to a clean water supply.
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"Over the past few years, California has endured both severe flooding and severe droughts," said Rep. Bera. "My amendments will give Sacramento County the flexibility we need to respond to both these events. I am proud that I could help secure these important wins for Sacramento, which is home to more than 250 miles of levees and also important water projects that supply clean and safe water to our community."
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Bera's amendment provides an additional $3 million to the National Levee Safety Initiative which helps develop comprehensive safety guidelines for levees, maintain the National Levee Database, and provides funding assistance to states to set up participating levee safety programs.
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Bera's amendment provides an additional $2 million to help Western states, including California, build water reuse and recycling projects to ensure a reliable and clean water supply. This funding will help support important projects like the Sacramento Regional Water Bank project, currently being developed in the Sacramento region, to store more water underground during wet years so that they can be used during periods of drought.
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BufferStatusList::BufferStatusList(SInt32 num_output_endpoints,
      BufferManagementScheme::Type buffer_management_scheme,
      SInt32 size_buffer)
   : _num_output_endpoints(num_output_endpoints)
   , _channel_free_time(0)
{
   _buffer_status_vec.resize(_num_output_endpoints);
   for (SInt32 i = 0; i < _num_output_endpoints; i++)
   {
      _buffer_status_vec[i] = BufferStatus::create(buffer_management_scheme, size_buffer);
   }
}

BufferStatusList::~BufferStatusList()
{
   for (SInt32 i = 0; i < _num_output_endpoints; i++)
   {
      delete _buffer_status_vec[i];
   }
}

void
BufferStatusList::allocateBuffer(Flit* flit, SInt32 endpoint_index, SInt32 num_buffers)
{
   // We can surely allocate buffers here
   if (endpoint_index == Channel::Endpoint::ALL)
   {
      // Broadcasted flit
      for (SInt32 i = 0; i < _num_output_endpoints; i++)
      {
         _buffer_status_vec[i]->allocate(flit, num_buffers);
      }
   }
   else
   {
      // Before allocating buffer, always update the buffer with the _channel_time
      _buffer_status_vec[endpoint_index]->allocate(flit, num_buffers);
   }

   // Update Channel Free Time
   _channel_free_time = flit->_normalized_time + num_buffers;
   LOG_PRINT("Updated Channel Free Time to %llu", _channel_free_time);
}

UInt64
BufferStatusList::tryAllocateBuffer(Flit* flit, SInt32 endpoint_index, SInt32 num_buffers)
{
   // Check if buffers can be allocated at the downstream router
   LOG_ASSERT_ERROR((endpoint_index == Channel::Endpoint::ALL) ||
                    ((endpoint_index >= 0) && (endpoint_index < _num_output_endpoints)),
                    "Invalid Endpoint Index(%i): should be ALL(0x%x) or within [0,%i]",
                    endpoint_index, Channel::Endpoint::ALL, _num_output_endpoints-1);

   // Initially, set the allocated time to time when channel is free
   UInt64 allocated_time = _channel_free_time;

   if (endpoint_index == Channel::Endpoint::ALL)
   {
      // Flit broadcasted to all endpoints of a channel
      for (SInt32 i = 0; (i < _num_output_endpoints) && (allocated_time != UINT64_MAX_); i++)
      {
         allocated_time = max<UInt64>(allocated_time, _buffer_status_vec[i]->tryAllocate(flit, num_buffers));
      }
   }
   else
   {
      // Flit sent to only one endpoint of a channel
      allocated_time = max<UInt64>(allocated_time, _buffer_status_vec[endpoint_index]->tryAllocate(flit, num_buffers));
   }

   LOG_PRINT("Allocated Time(%llu)", allocated_time);
   return allocated_time;
}

void
BufferStatusList::receiveBufferManagementMsg(BufferManagementMsg* buffer_msg, SInt32 endpoint_index)
{
   _buffer_status_vec[endpoint_index]->receive(buffer_msg);
}

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Who owns the Federal Reserve Bank and why is it shrouded in myths and mysteries?
The Federal Reserve Bank (or simply the Fed), is shrouded in a number of myths and mysteries. These include its name, its ownership, its purported independence from external influences, and its presumed commitment to market stability, economic growth and public interest.
Soon after Woodrow Wilson replaced William Taft as president, however, the Federal Reserve Bank was founded (December 23, 1913), thereby centralizing the power of U.S. banks into a privately owned entity that controlled interest rate, money supply, credit creation, inflation, and (in roundabout ways) employment. It could also lend money to the government and earn interest, or a fee—money that the government could create free of charge. This ushered in the beginning of the gradual rise of national debt, as the government henceforth relied more on borrowing from banks than self-financing, as it had done prior to granting the power of money-creation to the private banking system.
Three years after signing the Federal Reserve Act into law, however, Wilson is quoted as having stated: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men" .
"Independence has really come to mean a central bank that has been captured by Wall Street interests, very large banking interests. It might be independent of the politicians, but it doesn't mean it is a neutral arbiter. During the Great Depression and coming out of it, the Fed took its cues from Congress. Throughout the entire 1940s, the Federal Reserve as a practical matter was not independent. It took its marching orders from the White House and the Treasury—and it was the most successful decade in American economic history" .
The study reveals that, for the first time, middle-income households no longer constitute the majority of American households: "Once in the clear majority, adults in middle-income households in 2015 were matched in number by those in lower- and upper-income households combined." Specifically, while adults in middle-income households constituted 60.1 percent of total adult population in 1971, they now constitute only 49.9 percent.
A number of critics have argued that, using its proxies at the heads of the Fed and the Treasury, the financial oligarchy used the financial crisis of 2008 as a shock therapy to transfer trillions of taxpayer dollars to its deep pockets, thereby further aggravating the already lopsided distribution of resources. The Pew study unambiguously confirms this expropriation of national resource by the financial elites. It shows that the pace of the rising inequality has accelerated in the aftermath of the 2008 market implosion, as asset reinflation since then has gone almost exclusively to oligarchic financial interests.
Proxies of the financial oligarchy at the helm of economic policy making no longer seem to be averse to the destabilizing bubbles they help create. They seem to believe (or hope) that the likely disturbances from the bursting of one bubble could be offset by creating another bubble! Thus, after the dot-com bubble, came the housing bubble; after that, the energy-price and emerging markets bubble, after that, the junk bond market bubble, and so on. By the same token as the Fed reinflates one bubble after another, it also systematically redistributes wealth and income from the bottom up.
Therefore, ending the recurring crises of financial markets requires placing the destabilizing financial intermediaries under public ownership and democratic control. It is only logical that the public, not private, authority should manage people's money and their savings, or economic surplus. As the late German Economist Rudolf Hilferding argued a long time ago, the system of centralizing people's savings and placing them at the disposal of profit-driven private banks is a perverse kind of socialism, that is, socialism in favor of the few: "In this sense a fully developed credit system is the antithesis of capitalism, and represents organization and control as opposed to anarchy. It has its source in socialism, but has been adapted to capitalist society; it is a fraudulent kind of socialism, modified to suit the needs of capitalism. It socializes other people's money for use by the few" .
 Hilferding's book, Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development, has gone through a number of prints/reprints. This quotation is from Chapter 10 of an online version of the book.
 Margrit Kennedy, Occupy Money: Creating an Economy Where Everybody Wins, Gabriola Island, BC (Canada): New Society Publishers, 2012.


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Plastic Entanglements at Jordan Schnitzer Museum shows we're all in this environmental mess together
Visual Arts by Ester BarkaiPosted on 10/11/2018
Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials is an often beautiful, sometimes gross but altogether engaging new exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The line from the movie The Graduate comes to mind: "One word … plastics." More than 50 years after a family friend offered that succinct career advice to the new graduate played by Dustin Hoffman, we are all faced with the problem of what to do about plastics.
Plastic, we read in the introductory statement to the exhibit, is "one of the most successful human inventions in the history of material sciences."
Plastic also brings with it an environmental threat. The exhibit, which originated last spring at the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, is organized in three sections — Archive, Entangled Present, and Speculative Futures. They showcase art that reflects plastic as both a beautiful medium and a frightening prospect.
The show presents 58 works, all either made of plastic or featuring it as a subject, by 30 artists whose videos, installations, sculptures and drawings fill the large Barker Gallery.
The very first piece you see in the show, entering the Archive space, is Economies of Scale (2013) by Pamela Longobardi, a row of objects arranged by size, progressing from minuscule to larger; a calligraphic line of plastic items, thin to thick, retrieved from oceans around the world.
The work looks like art but also functions as an archeology project. The QR code provided by the artist leads to a website that traces where each piece came from. Legs from a doll, a plastic corn on the cob, a fishing buoy (identified as "Japanese tsunami drift" in the catalog) — these are some of the plastic junk retrieved from oceans around the world.
Longobardi's single line looks spare compared to works like Willie Cole's Chandelier (2015), a massive sculpture hanging from the ceiling in the Entangled Present. It's composed entirely of plastic water bottles and is as messy and complicated by consumerism and ecology as any other work in the show.
While taking notes for this review I became aware that the shell of the pen I was using could easily be one of the objects I was writing about. Then, in Speculative Futures, my pen ran out of ink; I realized I would soon be throwing it away, perhaps to wind up in a pile of trash such as that shown in the video Landfill Dance (2012) by artist Tejal Shah, which portrays a strange futuristic group of dancers moving in a world of debris and decay.
Perhaps the plastic parts of the pen might be washed up in a body of water or, worse, in an actual body, as did the plastics pictured in Chris Jordan's video, Camel Gastrolith. This gastrolith, which came from a camel's stomach in the Arabian Desert, is a compacted, tangled sculpture in which more than 500 plastic bags and other human-made materials are presented as a product or artifact of our times.
Back in my kitchen at home, I was reminded of the recent change in Eugene's recycling program. Since last spring, local recyclers have no longer accepted plastic tubs or colored plastic bottles for recycling because facilities in China are no longer willing to process them.
While the nearly 60 works at the Schnitzer relate more or less to the theme of entanglement, the act of selecting plastic as a medium, or focusing on it as subject matter, can itself be considered political — particularly in an era when science about pollution is dismissed by those in high places.
President Donald Trump said recently he was the president of the country, not the "president of the globe." This exhibit says no country can exist as an island. We are interconnected — entangled — by our material culture and by the one Earth we share.
Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials runs through Dec. 30 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Lectures and events begin 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Straub Hall room 156 with artist and activist Dianna Cohen's presentation "Plastic Pollution: Art to Action."
Art and Contribution
The passions of New Zone's Dianne Story Cunningham
Visual Arts 6 days ago
Dianne Story Cunningham
Members of the art collective the New Zone Gallery get a guaranteed "Featured Artist" show once a year and a "Spotlight" show afterward. The relatively … Continue reading →
Photographing Plankton off Oregon
A talk with photographer Sarah Grew
Visual Arts 2 weeks ago
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Tiny Pricks
Artists across the U.S. are stitching some of the dumbest — and offensive — things Trump has ever said
This month President Donald Trump broke records — his own records — for tweeting. He tweeted and re-tweeted more than a hundred times in one … Continue reading →


Definition - What does Wing Reflector mean?
A wing reflector diverts the light's rays from a light bulb downward onto the plant. The wings of the reflector further capture additional light and focus it towards all the plant's surfaces that are placed beneath the light.
Without a reflector, the light from the bulb is dispersed upwards, as well as downwards, and much of the beneficial lighting is lost on the ceiling and walls of the growroom, grow tent or greenhouse. A basic wing reflector is normally made of aluminum and features a bent design that resembles wings. Reflectors come in a variety of lengths and widths to suit various size of lighting systems. Most winged reflectors are designed for horizontal bulb placement, but there are reflectors available that allow vertical bulb placement.
A reflector's purpose is to reflect light onto a plant and also protect other surfaces such as ceilings or walls from excessive heat exposure. Unlike traditional reflectors, a wing reflector further captures and reflects the light's rays onto the plants. A wing reflector is not air-cooled, so it reflects not only the light of the bulb, but also its heat. The additional heat may be welcome in a cold greenhouse during a cold snap.
Recently, manufacturers have worked to improve the basic design of the wing reflector. Many commercially available wing reflector models feature adjustable wings that can increase the growing space beneath the light by 65 to 88 per cent. Some wing reflectors also have a patented glass polymer coating that lets the grower further adjust the color spectrum of the lighting system.