I've spent the last couple days playing GalCiv3:Intrigue (with all DLC) on my primary Fedora Linux computer. I no longer have to boot in to a Windows install that is only used for running GalCiv3! This means I am playing more. A lot more. And I'm just thrilled with Valve, and their leadership on this.
GalCiv3 is not supported on SteamPlay, but like thousands of other titles I have found that it just works. You need to enable the Beta of SteamPlay in order to have the option to play it.
Stardock isn't responsible for the experience/stability/anything of GalCiv3 when using SteamPlay (but I haven't had an issue yet).
The Stardock Launcher was giving me some graphical problems, so I added the /nolauncher run option inside the Steam advanced startup options and it worked perfectly.
I had to disable my second monitor - otherwise I was getting a lot of weird graphical errors.
The swirly-cloud graphics that show the boundaries of black holes doesn't show up. Only the black dot in the center does.
It takes longer to startup the game. Maybe 4 minutes (I haven't timed it).
Other than that it has been flawless. I use a Nvidia GTX 750 Ti rev. A2 with the 396.51 Nvidia Driver.
I have just become a massive fan of Valve/Steam. Happy Gaming!
I've been reading that there are certain Nvidia driver versions that work, and the rest don't currently. 396.51 is listed as working. So for anyone having trouble make sure that this is the driver you have installed. Note: It isn't the newest driver in the 396 series.
So far, I haven't had luck getting it to run on Linux Mint. It installs, but then when I try to run it, it does something for a while (I see the process), but after about 2 minutes, it just dies (no indication of it either).
I'm not sure where you got that version of the driver, unless you're from the future. The latest nvidia driver is 390.87 which came out on August 27.
Actually, I got it to run. Turns out, Proton doesn't work for GalCiv3 in Linux Mint. Once I turned that off, and used Steam Play for Linux, the game worked.
It's pretty damn stable, at least from what I remember Wine being like. However, there are a couple of things that are annoying. The shipyard screen is terribly slow. The planet screen gets slow after a while as well. However, turn times seem to be faster. Usually the graphical stuff is slower (zooming in/out, dragging the screen around, etc), but not enough to be unusable.
The launcher also seems to be fine for me.
Interesting. The linux driver version shows 390.87 as the latest. However, if you select Windows, it will show 399.24 as the newest. Where did you install the driver from? I'm just looking on nvidia's website, perhaps they don't update it as often as I would think (at least not for Linux).
i can't start the game. only the launcher.
After loading for a bit it stops working.
I swear, I have had the worst luck with PPAs. Everytime I try to use one, it just makes my system more unstable. I tried installing that driver, but Steam wouldn't even open for me. So I rolled back to the 390 driver. All I had to do to get it to work was to Enable Steam Play for all titles in the settings area.
I tried this out today and I was pleasantly surprised that the game launched and so far so good.
Launcher works fine. First time the game reached Main Menu but then crashed when I tried a quick game. On second try I disabled Particles and Trails(can't confirm if that fixed it) in Graphics and the game loaded fine.
"Building Universe" takes a bit longer than usual and the game looks like frozen. Everything else seems fine. I've played just a few turns though. Will try more tonight.
i can't make it work no matter what i do.
Normal mode/safe mode not working. both freeze on Turinium Optimized.
It's been 2 and a 1/2 weeks, and I've played an embarassing amount of GalCiv3. It is stable for the most part. I do occasionally get a "freeze" - i'd say no more than once every 8-10 hours. That said, I get the same freeze in Windows, and due to some historical problems I suspect my video card is the culprit, not Proton/Steamplay.
Everyone having problems: I enabled Steamplay for all games, and I am running this through Steam. I never did the download and compile of Proton from github. I just enabled Steamplay beta for all games, added /nolauncher to the command line startup, and disabled multi monitor. Then boom. Apart from Blackholes being invisible everything else is working.
Since my initial post I have run in to 1 other issue. When the AI attacks me, if I have defending legions, then the game doesn't get past the "Legion Placement" screen. It just looks like it is waiting for something forever (let it run over night to see if it was just taking a long time). I have got around this by clicking "Quick Battle" - which I have to do quickly, else it stops responding. This is not a problem when I attack the AI and they have defending legions, only when they attack me and I have defending legions.


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Cisco incubator to connect UK startup clusters
Cisco is launching its National Virtual Incubator to harness innovation and incubation across the UK.
Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist
Cisco is launching a National Virtual Incubator which aims to harness innovation and incubation happening around the UK.
The programme will collaborate with other startup clusters around the UK, using Cisco's networking technology.
It will be a part of the vendor's innovation centre, IDEALondon, that will open in September and will be situated in London's Tech City, in Shoreditch.
Cisco has partnered with UCL and DC Thompson to create the IDEALondon which will champion several early stage startups which will be supported by the accelerator for six to nine months at a time.
"Our new centre is connecting dozens of clusters in the UK via video collaboration technology," said Tom Kneen, lead of the Big Awards programme, and head of business development at Cisco.
The National Virtual Incubator will provide communication between incubators, science parks, and universities that are working on different projects across the UK.
"The idea is to provide coverage around the country, but specialise in areas," said Kneen. " But if you're in Sunderland, you won't be disadvantaged as you can connect to London."
Different areas of the UK are known for producing different types of technology. Kneen described Dundee University which has specialised in gaming; Strathclyde University for renewable energies and sensors; Swansea for health; and Manchester for media. The virtual incubator will also connect with innovation clusters in Birmingham, Cambridge, Conventry and Greenwich. All of these areas will be connected back to Tech City in London which - thanks to the government – has grown into a centralised area for technology innovation in the UK.
"Early on, the government was criticized that all the noise was about Tech City in London, but we have interesting developers and research all over country," said Kneen. "It's good that we can offer something to support Tech City, but Tech City will also have a window to other places as well."
"When we open the innovation centre, we don't want to compete, we're not in that area for commercial reasons. We wanted to have something that's completely different niche around connectivity," said Kneen.
Kneen said that Cisco's ecosystem has allowed the networking vendor to implement the project. "We're well connected in the VC investment space, and we'd be able to connect startups to the right type of customers ," said Kneen. "These will be long term relationships, we're not trying to pull them away from anyone else."
One of the ways Cisco will find startups to work with is through its British Innovation Gateway (Big) Awards. The Big Awards is a competition for small businesses to show their technology innovation offerings, and is currently in the middle of its second year.
The awards is heading towards its semi-finals where 20 innovative businesses will go head-to-head to be chosen for a Dragon's Den style pitch final in November.
Last year, the competition awarded retail app SnapFashion with a $100,000 cash prize, in addition to winning a prize package which includes $30,000 of marketing support, $30,000 of PR and $15,000 in legal support.
The digital security company, Digital Shadows came in second place winning $25,000 and Six3 won $10,000 in third place.
The winners made it through rounds with 300 companies. From the semi-finals, six companies were chosen to battle it out in front of a group of Cisco "dragons" – CEOs, CTOs, and senior customers – who whittled down to the winners.
"Last year, we ran the competition spread around the Olympics for six months," said Kneen. "We had hundreds of entries from early stage startups, businesses formed by students and post-graduates, or more mature people who wanted to sell their own business."
"The UK should be able to grow the next Google or Amazon, but it doesn't," said Kneen.
The competition focuses on the "mega trends" in tech including: internet of things, big data, mobility and collaboration. Kneen said that they may ultimately come across technologies that would be interesting to Cisco, while proving to be a good partner to the government's active interest in small businesses.
"Cisco was a startup," he said. "And the culture internally is startup orientated. It's a benefit to our staff – mentoring and supporting startups brings an entrepreneurial spirit back into Cisco. We're motivated and inspired be working with these organisations."
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Q: Hook not updating when being called in useEffect I'm having problem with updating state after retrieving data from my API. The API response is just fine but for some reason my weatherData-hook does not update and returns undefined. What am I doing wrong?
Code:
const renderForecastTable = ({ weatherData }) => (

            Tid	Temperatur	Vind	Nederbörd

        {
        weatherData.Map(hour =>

                {hour.Time}	{hour.Temp}
                {hour.WindSpeed} m/s {hour.WindDirection} grader
                {hour.AvgPrecipitationIntensity} mm

)
            }

)

const Weather = (props) => {
    const [weatherData, setWeatherData] = useState([]);
    const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
    const location = useLocation();

    useEffect(() => {
        const getWeather = async () => {
            const response = await fetch(`weather`);
            const json = await response.json();
            setWeatherData(json);
            setLoading(false);
        }
        getWeather();
    }, [])

    return(
        loading ? <></> : renderForecastTable(weatherData)
    )
}

export default Weather;

JSON-response:
[
  {"time":"4/9/2021 8:00:00 AM","temp":"6","windDirection":"216","windSpeed":"8.7","avgPrecipitationIntensity":"0"},
  {"time":"4/9/2021 9:00:00 AM","temp":"5.5","windDirection":"213","windSpeed":"7.9","avgPrecipitationIntensity":"0.2"},
  {"time":"4/9/2021 10:00:00 AM","temp":"4.7","windDirection":"218","windSpeed":"7.1","avgPrecipitationIntensity":"0.3"},
  {"time":"4/9/2021 11:00:00 AM","temp":"5.5","windDirection":"214","windSpeed":"7.3","avgPrecipitationIntensity":"0.3"},
  ...
]

A: renderForecastTable consumes an argument and attempts to destructure a weatherData property, but it is passed the weatherData state array, renderForecastTable(weatherData). Looks like you also have a typo, weatherData.Map should probably be weatherData.map, with a lowercase "map" function. Since the weatherData is defined as an array I'll assume you meant to simply pass it to the renderForecastTable function.
Consume weatherData array, no destructuring and fix "map" typo.
const renderForecastTable = (weatherData) => (

            Tid	Temperatur	Vind	Nederbörd

        {
        weatherData.map(hour =>

                {hour.Time}	{hour.Temp}
                {hour.WindSpeed} m/s {hour.WindDirection} grader
                {hour.AvgPrecipitationIntensity} mm

)
            }

);

fetch can return rejected promises and there could be errors processing the response, so you should surround the fetching logic in a try/catch.
const Weather = (props) => {
    const [weatherData, setWeatherData] = useState([]);
    const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
    const location = useLocation();

    useEffect(() => {
        const getWeather = async () => {
            try {
                const response = await fetch(`weather`);
                const json = await response.json();
                setWeatherData(json);
            } catch(error) {
                // handle any rejected promises or thrown errors processing response
            } finally {
                setLoading(false);
            }
        }
        getWeather();
    }, [])

    return(
        loading ? null : renderForecastTable(weatherData)
    )
}

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Lviv is a unique city in which history, culture, mentality of two worlds – the East and the West – are tolerantly merged. It is interesting to note that the city lies at equal distance from Crimea (or, specifically, the city of Theodosia), former medieval Kafa, and Venice. Obviously, Lviv's geographical location at the intersection of global cultures and civilizations has influenced its inimitable atmosphere. Despite many sufferings brought by numerous wars over the long centuries of Lviv's history, the city's architectural landmarks remained almost intact.
Lviv is a large regional center, occupying the area of 155 sq. kilometers. About 730,000 people reside permanently in Lviv. Most of the city's population is comprised of ethnic Ukrainians, though other communities such as Poles, Jews, Greeks, Germans, Armenians, Russians, etc. are also represented.
Lviv is a city of students. About 150,000 students study in higher education institutions with a wide range of specializations. According to public opinion polls, Lviv is the second most popular city in Ukraine after its capital – Kyiv. Starting from December 1998, the central part of the city was included in the cultural and historical heritage of UNESCO. 20% of all architectural landmarks are located in Lviv.
Lviv is an open air museum and the embodiment of the Ukrainian culture and European charm, unforgettable panoramas, and unique monuments of architecture, old traditions and, surely, flavored coffee in the legendary Lviv coffee houses. Guests are charmed by the special atmosphere of majestic calmness reigning in the city and pleasantly striking hospitality of local habitants.
Lviv is the city of numerous old universities, unique scientific establishments and archives, and famous libraries and museums. You can stroll about quiet streets, each time discovering something new and interesting for yourself.


Opinions vary about what went wrong after the disintegration of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Landfill Siting, when four members resigned in protest last week.
For most of five months, the members had worked together amicably, sorting through issues by consensus. It all fell apart, they say, when the process seemed to turn political.
What is certain is that those in opposing camps had conflicting views about the committee's intended mission. At the heart of the controversy was an 11th-hour decision made by a majority of the committee members to remove O'ahu's current landfill site at Waimanalo Gulch from consideration.
"The mission was to select a new landfill site which would replace Waimanalo Gulch," said Todd Apo, who led the effort to scratch O'ahu's current landfill.
Apo points out that Frank Doyle, director of the Department of Environmental Services, had instructed the committee at the beginning of the process not to consider Waimanalo Gulch as a potential site.
Member Cynthia Thielen, one of the four who walked out, said "Frank Doyle can't bind future city officials," and pointed to the letter appointing committee members, which asked the panel to "recommend one or more sites to the City Council."
"Our mission was clear," Thielen said. "We were to submit 'one or more sites.' There was absolutely no restriction from considering Waimanalo Gulch as one of those sites. And there was no requirement that we only submit one site."
Thielen called the final committee report submitted to the mayor and city on Monday "tainted" because it excluded the site that ranked highest under the committee's own, 31-point, double-blind criteria scheme: Waimanalo Gulch.
"Using our own criteria, the result was that Waimanalo Gulch was the most favored site, by a significant margin," she said.
Waimanalo Gulch scored 113 points, compared with 99 points for Makaiwa Gulch. The other three sites on the final list — a quarry in Ma'ili, a location referred to as Nanakuli B, and the Ameron Kapa'a Quarry in Kailua — all scored 97.
After four members refused to vote on the Waimanalo Gulch issue Monday — the last day the report could be submitted to the mayor — the remaining nine voted to remove the current landfill from future consideration.
At that point, Thielen and committee members Eric Guinther and Kathy Bryant-Hunter, all of whom live on the Windward side, walked out in protest, as did Bruce Anderson.
Thielen complained that the committee had spent nearly five months making decisions by consensus, only to have the process degenerate into a not-in-my-backyard vote that resulted in Waimanalo Gulch's removal from the list.
Guinther was so disgusted by the outcome that he sent an e-mail to committee facilitator Dee Dee Letts on Tuesday asking that his name be eliminated from the final report.
"I would certainly not bother, if I had it to do over again," said Guinther, an environmental consultant who attended every meeting.
"I lost work, because it was a volunteer thing," he said. "I think the final straw for me was a letter from Jeff Stone of Ko Olina Resort threatening a lawsuit if I didn't remove Waimanalo Gulch from the list. Nobody wants a landfill in their area, so for Jeff Stone to somehow think he's more important than the state of Hawai'i and the people of O'ahu, that was the crowning blow."
Guinther said he also was miffed that some committee members who showed up for the final vote had attended only one or two previous sessions.
The committee, which started out with 16 members, had narrowed to a core of about a dozen who attended regularly.
The City Council is not bound by the advisory committee's report, and can still consider Waimanalo Gulch when it selects the next landfill by the June 2004 deadline.
"In my view, we were there to make a decision," maintained Apo, vice president of corporate operations for the Ko Olina Community Association, who forced the final vote. "And if we could have made it with a consensus, great. But there was no consensus. Voting was ultimately the only way we were going to get there."
Anderson, former state health director, said he had worked to keep Waimanalo Gulch under consideration.
His view is that it's irresponsible to walk away from a landfill that has an expected capacity of at least 20 more years, and many more than that if the city's recycling and waste management policies are improved.
"First of all, the city owns Waimanalo Gulch, so they don't have to buy it," he said. "It's much cheaper to operate because they've got cover material there. And all the infrastructure is in place. It would cost millions for the city to put the landfill anywhere else."
The city could make Waimanalo Gulch a win-win situation by giving the host community millions in financial benefits, he said. The unsightliness of it could be corrected with inexpensive landscaping, and offensive odors eliminated if and when the city completes a third boiler at the H-Power facility.
"The only time it smells is when H-Power is down and they have to take garbage to the landfill," Anderson said.
He believes the city boxed itself into a corner when it caved in to pressure from Leeward interests unhappy about the landfill, and promised to shut down the landfill near Kahe Point by 2008.
But promise it did, and committee member Cynthia Rezentes, who lives on the Wai'anae Coast, believes that pledge constitutes a contract between the city and the community that must be fulfilled.
"It took almost four years before the city would commit to the community that 2008 would be the end of it," Rezentes said. "Many of us, by the way, had struggled through that whole process. From our standpoint, Waimanalo Gulch should have been a closed issue, because that battle had already been fought."


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Lufttransport er et norsk flyselskab der primært flyver ambulance-helikoptere og fly på vegne af den norske og svenske regering. Derudover flyver selskabet overvågning af havet for Kystvakten, transport af skibslodser, og regulær passagerertrafik fra lufthavne på Svalbard. Det har base på Tromsø Lufthavn.

Historie
Selskabet blev oprettet i 1955 og fusionerede i 1995 med Mørefly.

I 1978 startede selskabet med at flyve minepersonale fra den nye lufthavn i Longyearbyen på Svalbard til de andre lufthavne på Svalbard, Svea Lufthavn og Ny-Ålesund Flyveplads. Siden 1994 har Lufttransport brugt Dornier 228 turboprop fly til ruterne på Svalbard. I 2002 begyndte selskabet at samarbejde med lodstjeneste i Bergen, og flyver nu lodser ud til skibe på havet. I 2005 startede de også at flyve på ruten fra Bodø til Værøy.

Lufttransport har siden oktober 2008 været ejet af Knut Axel Ugland Holding.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

 Lufttransports officielle hjemmeside

Flyselskaber fra Norge
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In 1960, Laurence Graff opened a shop in Hatton Garden, the hub of London's old jewellery quarter, beginning a journey that would eventually encompass 55 stores around the world, 600 employees and a family fortune in excess of $4bn (€3.6bn). It's a success story that's now maintained by the founder's son, Francois Graff. We caught up with him at the company's Bond Street offices.
The Official Ferrari Magazine: Why do diamonds exert such a powerful allure?
Francois Graff: It's the intangible factor, the thing you can't really put your finger on. Ferraris have it, because I experience it every time I sit in one. If you asked a hundred different people, you'd get a hundred different reasons why they get that feeling. With our diamonds, people buy them for many different reasons: some wear them, some collect them, some simply want something rare and special.
TOFM: Does your love of Ferrari go beyond simply enjoying the cars?
FG: As a custodian of a global luxury brand, you have to be something of a student not only of your competition, but other important brands. Ferrari is a phenomenal company. Ask an Eskimo to choose the most famous car in the world and, while he may not say Ferrari, it'll be a red car. He'll know it's red and he'll know what it looks like. To have that sort of brand power is incredible. It's what we all aspire to.
TOFM: Why is Graff so successful?
FG: We haven't forgotten the original brand ethos. I know in my heart the true strength of our brand is keeping that original spark alive. Once that's lost you never get it back. Also, most of our pieces are one-offs. That gives a very special feeling to a client. It's also something I know a lot of people enjoy about their Ferrari.
TOFM: Can you talk me through the basics of the process?
FG: It's become extremely innovative. We have scanners that are similar to the MRI machines used in the medical sphere. You can imagine how many variables there are in a rough stone: it has stresses, marks inside, impurities, the permutations are infinite.
TOFM: Presumably there isn't a finite supply of your core source material.
FG: There isn't an inexhaustible supply, but there's certainly a supply. Right now, it's outstripped by demand, which means prices remain strong, notwithstanding all the turmoil in the world. [pause] China is still growing. I've just got back from that region, it's still an incredible hub of energy.
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Meeka Quan
Meeka Quan (cello) began her cello studies at age six in San Francisco with Suzuki Method teacher Beth Goldstein. After winning our Khuner Concerto Competition in 1997 at age 15, she made her solo debut with a professional orchestra, playing the Dvořák's Cello Concerto with the Pacific Symphony in Orange County, under the direction of Carl St. Clair. Meeka was offered a scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Music's Young Artist Program when only 15, where she finished her high school diploma. She then earned her Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance in 2002. During her last year in Cleveland, Meeka performed Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the CIM orchestra.
At age 22, Meeka made her first audition for a professional orchestra, trying out for the associate principal cellist position with the Utah Symphony. Winning the highly competitive audition, she remained in Salt Lake for five years. As Meeka Quan DiLorenzo (having married Emmy-Award winning composer Anthony DiLorenzo), she moved to the Seattle Symphony as Assistant Principal Cello in 2009. An avid chamber musician, she has performed with members of the Juilliard and Cleveland string quartets, and has received invitations to the Aspen, Ravinia, Taos, Kingston, Sun Valley and Kneisel Hall music festivals. She has been a prizewinner in several national and international competitions. (Resume updated by Concerto Committee in 2016 from reliable online sources.)


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Pippirull var ett humor- och satirprogram i Sveriges Radio P3. Programmen sändes mellan 15 juni 1998 och 31 januari 2003. Medverkande i programmen var Olle Palmlöf, Bobbo Krull, Kjell Eriksson, Mårten Andersson, Fredrik Jonsson, Natanael Karlsson och Anna Charlotta Gunnarson.

Programmen byggde dels på satiriska betraktelser över omvärlden, ofta i form av dialoger mellan Palmlöf och Krull, dels på imitationer av kända svenskar (utförda av Andersson). De oftast imiterade var artisten Dr Alban och skådespelaren Mikael Persbrandt.

Dr Alban stämmer programmet
Artisten Dr. Alban kände sig kränkt av de imitationer som sändes och stämde därför Sveriges Radio för grovt förtal i fem fall. Stockholms tingsrätt valde att fria Sveriges Radio på alla punkter.

Referenser

Externa länkar
 Sveriges radios presentation

Radioprogram startade 1998
Humorprogram i Sveriges Radio
Radioprogram nedlagda 2003


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I recently had an opportunity to be at the Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayag (Allahabad). It is the world largest human gathering in one place with millions of people assembled at the SANGAM, the confluence of the three rivers of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati. It was a sight to see and digest the enormity of the spiritual and religious significance of the place itself. One is spell bound by the extent to which the eyes can see the spread of the place and people having the holy dip in the river. One is able to see a massive makeshift city with all possible arrangements for the devotees and visitors from ordinary people to the VVIPs, from small Sadhus to high profile saints, from self proclaimed God men to religious leaders, all for the purpose of salvation and a better life.
Although, I had a better understanding of what triggers people in India and the masses who are looking for something to hold on to and be able to create an identity for them self, there is something more interesting that I noticed and that is the two real faces of India. The divide is so apparent that you cannot miss it. At one end of the river there is so much glory and at the other end there is so much misery and poverty that is visible.
The disparity in India is not just restricted to economic and social disparity, we also find that even at the place of God there are the haves and the have not's and they all are served by the middlemen who are the path to reach God.
At one end of the river which is the new area in the Mela are located, the shivirs of the great saints who serve the interests of the rich and the powerful. They are the intermediaries between the rich and God. These include the likes of Swami of Parmarth Niketan, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar, Asharam Bapu, Murari Bapu and a lot more of the same stature. Their following consist of the people from the upper strata of Indian society with most of them having followers from the international community as well. The photograph above is one such camp where the high and the mighty visit throughout the day and night. They have very good accommodation for their VIP guests, and they are treated like kings. I can't say that their camps are not open to those from the lower strata of society but none are visible around the place. The camps are guarded by state police personnel with guns, may be they are there to protect the VVIPs who are coming in their fancy cars with red lights flashing all along throughout the day. Special arrangements are made for the VIPs to visit the Sangam and all doors are open for them.
What a way to reach God, the easy way for some. These camps are a true reflection of the divisions in our society. The other interesting part of this side of the river is that they are all so concerned about the poor and want to do so much for them. I guess that is how they get donations to expand their religious empires. It is like many of our National socialites, who have NGOs through which they help the poor. In the name of the poor they have misused the funds to their advantage. Having said this, I want my readers to understand that I am not putting anyone down or hurting the sentiments of anyone; this is just my own reflection of what I have seen and felt. It is my way to saying what I see in the Kumbh Mela is a true reflection of our society and that even in the house of God we have a divide that is visible. I hope God is witness to this type of event. Is this the kind of religion and spirituality that we want to embrace?
The other side of the River is another story, this is where Bharat lives. These are the millions who are shivering in the cold around fire burning with food being cooked in small makeshift tents. There are no red light flashing cars, in fact everyone seems to be on foot. There is water all over and people walking through them, there are no red or green carpets all over. These are just ordinary people of Bharat who also want a place in the house of God. Their middlemen are the small time Sadhus and babas who are a reflection of the community they serve.
What a contrast and how ever religion has not been left from the reality of the haves and the have not's. This is my India, a country of so much diversity in field of social, economic and religion. But a Nations that is held together through a tight tope called spirituality and trust me there is still true happiness on this side of the river Ganges.


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Review: Macabre - Grim Scary Tales (2011)
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Chicago's Macabre is definitely what you'd call a niche sort of band. Their lyrics are focused exclusively on mass murderers and their sound is an unholy amalgamation of death metal, punk, grindcore, thrash, and nursery rhymes. Yes, that's right...many of Macabre's songs impart their gory tales in a sing-song fashion that inserts itself into your brain just like those silly rhymes from the kindergartens of yore. The band has been on the periphery of my awareness since the '90s, but none of their peculiar qualities ever intrigued me enough to investigate their work. Recently, though, a copy of their latest release Grim Scary Tales crossed my desk and offered me the opportunity to take in whatever it is this unique outift has to offer. I'll admit that I was pleasantly surprised, for some of the break-neck grindcore that the band is known for has been replaced by a concentrated - though tongue-in-cheek - effort at songcraft.
Grim Scary Tales is still all about murder and gore, though Macabre's source of inspiration is more historical in nature than has been shown on albums past. From Dracula to Lizzy Borden, Gilles de Rais to Nero, the band draws from myth and sanguine reality to paint a crimson portrait of the worst that humanity has had to offer. While many of the characters are known to the average metal consumer, I personally found the band's research into the more obscure acts of violence to be an educational bonus. "The Bloody Benders", for example, tells the story of a family of psychopaths who lived (and killed) in Kansas in the 1870s while "Mary Ann" recalls the many victims of English black widow Mary Ann Cotton. Interesting, if gruesome, stuff.
Musically the album is all over the map. The basic Macabre grind still finds it's way into most of the tracks to one degree or another, with "Locusta" and "Burke and Hare" being the most familiar to the band's long-time fans. "Nero", however, has a strong psychobilly influence and clean, almost operatic vocals from frontman Corporate Death. "The Bloody Benders" is set to a twangy bluegrass melody, while "The Big Bad Wolf" is more of a speed/thrash offering and "Mary Ann" could almost be called a power ballad. The vast array of influences on display isn't limited to those examples, making Grim Scary Tales a sonic smorgasbord that's sure to please (and irritate) just about every extreme music fan. The only time that the band sticks to one style is on their true-to-form cover of Venom's "Countess Bathory", so be prepared for quite a roller-coaster of an album. Whatever direction they happen to be on at the moment, one thing's for sure - the guys of Macabre are probably some of the most underrated musicians in metal today. They consistently deliver sharp solos, catchy riffs, relentless double-kick, and groovy bass throughout the album.
If you don't mind the morbid subject matter and the constant switching of stylistic gears, Grim Scary Tales is an album that can be fun to listen to and educational to boot. Their back catalog is almost certainly not my cup of tea, but I'm curious to see what Macabre has in store for their next release. Hopefully they won't take another six years to put it together!
1 Locusta 3:00
2 Nero's Inferno 2:46
3 The Black Knight 4:08
4 Dracula 5:13
5 The Big Bad Wolf 4:09
6 Countess Bathory 3:29
7 Burke and Hare 4:20
8 Mary Ann 3:40
9 The Bloody Benders 2:49
10 Lizzie Borden 1:36
11 The Ripper Tramp From France 3:41
12 Bella The Butcher 3:03
13 The Kiss of Death 3:27
14 The Sweet Tender Meat Vendor 5:07
Total Runtime 50:28
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Labels: 2011, death metal, Macabre, USA
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In 2008, Ebel's iconic Beluga line has been reinterpreted in a delightfully modern and dynamic manner that accentuates the rounded curves of its case, further enhanced by the subtle technique of progressive gem-setting. As the talking-piece of this new Beluga collection, Beluga Caviar is issued in a limited edition of 10 and brings a fascinating sense of aquatic life, relish and mystery to the wrist.
First brought to European by 14th century Venetian trading ships in the 14th century and often referred to as "black pearls", caviar has come to epitomize luxury and exclusivity. The prestigious Beluga caviar variety, consisting of the largest eggs, has a rich, creamy flavor and a delicate texture, but is prized above all for its sheer rarity.
The opulent, gently curving 38mm case in 18K-750 white gold encircles an amazingly expressive "caviar-paved" dial. Glareproofed on both sides, the sapphire crystal lends even greater depth to this unique watch face, graced only by slender diamond-polished "leaf" hands and concentric circles composed of 86 unequivocally evocative onyx half spheres.
This captivating picture is exquisitely framed by 162 brilliant-cut diamonds and 16 brilliant-cut black diamonds, totaling 3.84 carats. Reflecting the pearl-like or beaded motif and the same maritime inspiration, stingray was a natural choice for the finely flowing leather strap, secured with a matching white gold buckle.
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If you're not already familiar with what Google+ is, it's basically the Facebook of Google. It was founded in 2011 and is it comparatively more recent then a number of other social networks online pages like Facebook and Twitter. Google+ is officially the second largest social networking giant after surpassing the big bad Twitter itself with over 350 million active users. Google has actually now made it obligatory for all Gmail users to possess a Google+ account. Google+ app is the 4th most made use of app and is used by 30 % of the mobile phone users.
A lot of companies and online marketers have disregarded Google+ but bit do they know Google search ranks Google+ pages and profiles as a normal internet web site. If your Google+ page has 100 active followers your Google search ranking position will improve by about 14 areas. The posts on Google+ likewise assist you maintain ranking. Lots of Social Media Company use Google+ to market various products.
Inside of your Google+ account, you are going to notice an area that is called Hangouts. This is an amazing feature inside of Google+. You are able to shoot live video interviews without needing a webinar software to do so. A feature that also goes along with this is the Google Helpouts Marketplace. This is something special right here. You are able to charge people money for offering up your advice on a topic you know plenty about. A cool training course was just released that teaches you from A to z the steps involved with making money with Google Helpouts. Check out this honest The Paid Expert review video.
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Spotify has entered the Indian market after a long wait. Earlier, there were reports that the service will be launched in India on January 31. However, it was launched in India only a few days back. It has been launched as both premium and freemium models in the country.
Well, Spotify music streaming platform will be compatible on both Android, iOS and other platforms. It will let users enjoy an ad-free experience with the premium account. Also, it lets offline play and download options. With a free account, users can access all the content but there will be some ads. Notably, there is a 30-day trial for interested users to try out the premium features.
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Despite its sleek looks, which suggest a high price tag, the Sharp Aquos Crystal for Sprint is quite affordable. The carrier is asking for $239.99 for a device with no contract. Its subsidiaries Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile on the other hand, will offer the handset for $150 with no-contract plans.
The Sharp Aquos Crystal looks stunning in the flesh thanks to the almost complete lack of screen bezels, as well as a dedicated earpiece. It certainly is the most memorable budget device I have ever encountered – it simply doesn't fit the bill for one.
Build quality and ergonomics are exceptional. The lack of screen bezels allow for seamless one-handed operation, while the overall fit and finish of the device, like its design, does not match its price tag.
The 5" 720p display is nice and crisp if a tad lacking in pixels by today's high-end standards. The Snapdragon 400 chipset with 1.2GHz quad-core CPU, coupled with 1.5GB of RAM, kept the almost stock Android 4.4.2 KitKat running pleasantly smooth. Just don't expect the device to set any benchmarks on fire.
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Weekly Ketchup: La Lohan to Play Manson Girl, and the Lone Ranger Returns
Plus Washington, Travolta hop onto Pelham One Two Three
by Greg Dean Schmitz | March 28, 2008 | Comments
LINDSAY LOHAN AT THE CENTER OF A MEDIA CIRCUS? NO WAY!
Lindsay Lohan's next project after the Renaissance Faire romantic comedy, Ye Olde Times (with Jack Black) will be The Manson Girls, in which she will star as Nancy Pitman, one of the women who were part of Charles Manson's murdering cult in the 1960s, according to an article at E! News. No director or screenwriter has been announced yet, but the producer is Brad Wyman, whose long filmography of movies I haven't heard of includes a few good ones I have seen and liked, with Monster, probably being the most appropriate reference point for The Manson Girls, and Trees Lounge being worth mentioning just because Steve Buscemi = awesome.
IF HE HAS A SIDEKICK, HE'S NOT REALLY A "LONE" RANGER…
Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures have announced renewed plans to revive The Lone Ranger as a theatrical franchise, starting with a script by the writing team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who similarly revived Zorro and pirate movies with The Mask of Zorro and Pirates of the Caribbean. Starting as a radio show in the 1930s, the Lone Ranger, and his trusty Indi… err, Native American sidekick, Tonto quickly became two of the most easily recognizable and ambiquitous figures in American popular culture. Growing up in the 1970s/1980s, I remember fairly fondly both the Lone Ranger cartoon on Saturday mornings (bundled with Zorro and Tarzan), and reruns of the 1950s black and white cowboy TV show. Right around then, however, is where the Lone Ranger faded away from pop culture, and we haven't seen much of him since, except for a failed attempt by the WB to revive the TV show in 2003. I'm pretty sure that the reasons for the Lone Ranger's decline have given plenty of American Studies majors easy fuel for term papers, and just off the top of my head, it probably has something to do with the Lone Ranger seeming old fashioned in a modern world. Well, yeah, he is a cowboy. On a horse. In the 1800s. Anyway, it sounds like Disney has high hopes that they can revive the character, Tonto and Silver, as they continue to try to find a way to replicate the success of Pirates of the Caribbean. I think the only way they'll quite pull *that* trick off with this movie, though, would be to slap a black mask on Johnny Depp.
WORLD OF WILLISCRAFT
Filming starts on The Surrogates on April 28th in Boston, directed by Jonathan Mostow (U-571, Terminator 3), aiming for a release via Touchstone Pictures on November 20th, 2009. The reason we might care is because this is a futuristic science fiction thriller, based on a mini-series published by Top Shelf Comics, starring Bruce Willis as a cop, along with Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black). The premise is that it's the year 2054, and most of humanity now interacts with the rest of the world through robotics (hence the title), sort of like one of those Massively Multiplayer games, but the virtual world is the actual world. And, then, I would assume, something bad happens, and Bruce Willis is a bad ass cop who has to put things right. Well, yes, I did assume that, but I then also read a script review, and I was more or less right, except the plot sounds even more like I, Robot than I would have guessed.
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE GIANT ROBOT MOVIES
There was a news story about a post-apocalyptic graphic novel adaptation, Afterburn, that Tobey Maguire has picked up to produce. I guess that's interesting, especially if the book, which I haven't read, is any good. I'm going to start this little entry, though, on one line at the bottom of the story, which is that Maguire is still working on getting a Robotech movie going. The original announcement is actually old news from last fall, but even just the acknowlegement that he's still working on it is kind of cool, I think. In other giant robot news (and really, the Robotech thing was just so I could type *that*), Matt Stone revealed to the Onion AV Club this week that he and South Park partner Trey Parker have given up on their live action movie plans, which includes Giant Monsters Attack Japan, which would have featured both giant monsters and robots, has been shelved. Nature abhors a vacuum, so cue Disney, director Robert Zemeckis (Beowulf) and screenwriter Michael Dougherty (cowriter of X2 and Superman Returns), and their very own giant robot movie, Calling All Robots, which would be done in the same CGI screen capture style as Beowulf, according to a report at Variety.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: "TWIST" STORIES BEFORE M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN WAS EVEN BORN
Countdown, marking the directorial debut of screenwriter Michael Brandt (he's worked on 3:10 to Yuma, and the upcoming Wanted and A-Team movies), has been given the greenlight by Summit Entertainment, one of those new indie distributors that is getting into wide releases (such as Never Back Down). Countdown is actually an adaptation of Death Ship, a story by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come) that inspired a classic episode of The Twilight Zone. Along with The Box, starring Cameron Diaz, and directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), we might be seeing a mini-trend of movies based on Twilight Zone episodes originally written by Richard Matheson. Anyway, the story of Death Ship is that a spaceship sent to a distant planet discovers their own ship already crashed there, with them all dead inside it, and they have to figure out what's going on.
NEW JACK CITY 2: JUDD NELSON NEEDS WORK
Once again finding the more enticing franchise story at the bottom of a story about a movie that might actually be better, while reading this story about a tollbooth worker-turned-screenwriter, I discovered that he's already been hired to work on New Jack City 2. Quick experiment to demonstrate how Hollywood apparently works: walk into your local cheapie video store, pick up a tape/DVD, and look at the NPC symbol on the back. Now, walk left or right sequentially however many steps the numbers in the NPC suggest, except the last two. Stop, face the closest shelf, and pick up a DVD/tape matching the last two numbers (shelf number and DVD/tape placement on the shelf). Okay, take $30 million out of your pocket and make either a sequel or a remake. Congratulations, you landed on New Jack City, Warner Premiere. Yes, it's a direct-to-DVD project, and will probably stay that way, but that makes it no less strange (note: I don't know the budget, and it's probably not $30 million). Anyway, what the story was really about is a movie called Brooklyn's Finest, which is about cops in Brooklyn, will be directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), with an ensemble cast including Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere, and a May production start date. Apparently, Richard Gere came aboard after Mel Gibson backed out. I'm sometimes amused by what actors replace who when they suddenly become unavailable, but that's a tangent for another time.
THE REMAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
The casting of the remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (a 1974 movie about a highjacked subway train) has been rounded out, with John Travolta as the leader of the bad guys, Denzel Washington as the main good guy (a cop) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) playing the Mayor of New York. Playing compare and contrast, Travolta's role was originally played by Robert Shaw (Jaws), Washington's was played by Walter Matthau, and Gandolfini's mayor role was played by character actor Lee Wallace, whose most memorable role may be playing another mayor, in Tim Burton's Batman. Pelham is also of interest to movie nerds, as the idea of a gang where each guy took a color as a code name (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown) was the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's bad guys in Reservoir Dogs.
SOMETIMES A CAR IS JUST A CAR
According to FilmJerk.com, last week's excitement that Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might actually be the sixth Dirty Harry movie was not only premature, but totally misguided. If their source is correct, it turns out the movie is actually a quiet drama about an elderly bigot (Eastwood) whose world view is changed when a Hmong family moves in next door, and he befriends their teenage son, bonding over appreciation of the older man's classic Ford Gran Torino. It sounds like it could be great drama, especially if THEN he reveals that he's actually a retired cop named Harry Callahan and the two continue their "bonding" by going out and shooting bad guys. Well, one can dream.
SHAKING THE REST OF THE KETCHUP OUT OF THIS WEEK'S BOTTLE
Making sure his name doesn't fall out of the top 100 or 1000 or whatever of web searches by fantasy-starved nerds, Sir Ian McKellen said the words "Hobbit" and "Gandalf" this week. When they finally get around to making the Hobbit movies, he assures us that will be there as Gandalf to look all wise and old and awesome and… stuff.
Legion is an thriller from Screen Gems (Sony) about the Archangel Gabriel's (Paul Bettany) quest to protect a baby that may be the second coming of Jesus, and the people who come together to help him. The movie is going to have a fairly large ensemble cast which includes Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton and Kate Walsh (Private Practice).
Ricky Gervais (The Office, Extras) has a clever-sounding comedy in the works called This Side of the Truth about a world in which everyone tells the truth, and his cast is getting rounded out with the likes of Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Garner and Jonah Hill.
Nailed is the name of the new comedy from director David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings), and it tells the story of a waitress (Jessica Biel) who gets a nail shot in her head, which leads her to go to Washington to fight for health care rights, where she falls in love with a congressman (Jake Gyllenhaal). James Marsden, Catherine Keener and Tracy Morgan also costar.
Comedian Tim Allen is making his directorial debut with a movie called Crazy on the Outside, about a recently paroled ex-con (Allen) who tries to seduce his parole officer (Jeanne Tripplehorn, from HBO's Big Love). Sigourney Weaver costars as Allen's older sister, with J.K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson from the Spider-Man movies) playing Weaver's husband. Other cast members include Ray Liotta, Kelsey Grammer and Julie Bowen (possibly known best for playing Jack's wife, Sarah, in LOST). I will say this… that's definitely not the cast I would have expected from Tim Allen's directorial debut.
A Perfect Getaway is a thriller directed by David Twohy (Pitch Black, that marks two times in the same column I got to reference that movie!) about a couple on vacation in Hawaii who run into another couple who are actually vicious killers. Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn are the vacationing couple, and the murdering couple will be played by Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) and Kiele Sanchez (best known for the appropriately killed off Nikki on Lost, there I got to reference that twice, too!).
The script for Sam Raimi's return to horror, Drag Me to Hell, was reviewed over at Latino Review this week, where it received a C-. Ouch.
Robert de Niro and Al Pacino reteam again in the cop thriller, Righteous Kill, this fall, and the trailer is now online.
Greg Dean Schmitz can be contacted via his MySpace page, there's a RT Forums thread devoted to him, and his IMDB discussion thread is currently a very lonely place.
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A large-scale documentary "Sea Silk Road"
Employees of the TV companies of Shanghai, Guangdong (South China) and Fujian (East China) provinces have started working together on the filming of a large-scale documentary film "Sea Silk Road". A film about the past and present of the Maritime Silk Road will be released on wide screens in October next year, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The film project, which will be filmed by Shanghai, Guangdong and Quanzhou (Fujian) TV channels, was approved in 2014 by the Office for Press, Publishers, Television, Radio Broadcasting and Cinematography of China.
The picture through the history of trade, cultural exchanges, customs and customs of peoples living along the Silk Road will show the past and present of the region.
According to the plan, the motion picture, consisting of the 7 series, tells about sea transportation, trade, finance, science and technology, culture, migration, dreams, shows the history of countries and peoples living along the trade route.
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The Scouting Association fired him, saying that "inclusivity is at the heart of modern scouting and is a value we hold dear." "Inclusivity" means everyone, but in the current Western climate, the word has mutated to mean "exclusive to Muslims." Anything that is considered offensive to Islam is "Islamophobic," a punishable offence.
While Brian Walker may have been offensive in his comparison of the niqab to Darth Vader, he did not deserve to be fired for it. In the West, it is still acceptable to insult and offend Christianity and other religions, but Islam is increasingly exempt. Yet even though Walker did not insult Muslims, he was still deemed to have committed an offence worthy of firing for making a negative reference to a garment that is a symbol of female inequality and oppression.


Every pregnancy is different. I have to repeat this to myself multiple times a day. You would think that by now I'd have the concept down pat…but I'm a little hard-headed sometimes. And this time? So many things seem so different.
The nausea came and went like it usually does. I still pee on myself when I cough, sneeze or laugh too hard.
And that's where the similarities end.
I can assure you that this is the most active baby I've had so far. Which…Lord help me if she ends up being my most active child. I'm not sure I can stand a more active child than Captain Destructo. She is partial to bouncing around from 11pm-1am and 8am-10am. And as promptly and randomly as it starts, it stops.
Don't get me started on indigestion, which I never really had to this degree before. I'm all fine and dandy until I try to lie down, and I have now resorted to sleeping in the upright position-which is as uncomfortable as it sounds, I promise.
And the Braxton Hicks? Well, the first go round I hardly noticed them. I would feel my belly tighten externally, but not really feel much internally. With the other two…it was something I noticed a little bit at the end, but it certainly was never more than annoying. This time…it's actually uncomfortable (like catch-while-I'm-walking-and-take-away-my-breath kind of uncomfortable). I don't know that I'd say that it's painful, but it is far from the "minor discomfort" that's mentioned in all the literature. I have definitely figured out some of the things that trigger them like not drinking enough water or holding in my pee. But I've also found that if I get too active or I pick up Asa, I can set them off too.
Oh.my.holy.hell…6-8 weeks. How did 40 dwindle down to that so quickly??
I've got a lot of stuff to do between now and then!
I'll get right on that…right after a long winter's nap!
They are all different. Honestly, my fourth child (and pregnancy) was so much different. Everything about it…from how I felt to how much weight I gained….to the fact she was a girl when I'd had all boys, to her blood type, which is different from the 3 boys, to the fact that I was induced with all three and actually did have a few real monitorable contractions on the night and early morning before the Pitocin began….so I was happy to know my body was trying.
Hey that's a picture of my nursery right now! where did you get that picture? that's exactly what it looks like. And with bed rest, mine will stay that way!
Good Luck with getting thru these last 6-8 weeks. Try laying on your left side to alleviate nausea and indigestion. If you need any help I am just a couple minutes away.
I so wish I was closer so that I could help you out and do some running for you. But know that I am here with all the moral support that you need!
Okay, now I feel bad! I didn't mean to scare you — want me to come help you clean up???


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Een gemeente maakt deel uit van een cercle, waar er 49 van bestaan in Mali; de cercles maken deel uit van in totaal acht regio's van Mali.


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Home » Wayne Shorter's nimble rhythm section steps out on its own
Wayne Shorter's nimble rhythm section steps out on its own
by Peter Margasak October 9, 2015 August 18, 2021
Brian Blade, Danilo Pérez, and John Patitucci Credit: Anna Webber
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Pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade have served as the telepathic rhythm section in one of the greatest jazz bands of our time—the quartet that saxophonist Wayne Shorter has led since 2000. In that group those musicians have developed a highly refined sensibility, both elastic and elliptical, using a wide dynamic range to imbue performances with an endless sense of drama and surprise. They've occasionally worked together without Shorter, including a few pieces on the pianist's 2014 album Panama 500 (Mack Avenue), but on the recently released Children of the Light (released by the same imprint) they've emerged as a fully contained unit, which is hardly surprising considering the time they've spent together.
Without Shorter the trio fills more space than usual, and at first listen they sound more conventional here (although that's a relative assessment). The compositions—all written by group members, with the exception of Shorter's "Dolores," which the saxophonist recorded both as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and with the great Miles Davis Quintet—play with form and structure in a way that mirrors what the trio do behind Shorter, where compositional ideas are fluid. A track like the pianist's "Sunburn and Mosquito" conveys a remarkable grace for all of the harmonic and rhythmic contortions happening, the trio playing with time like they're molding a familiar hunk of clay—stretching, compressing, forming sharp angles, and balling it all up to start over again. Pérez usually injects lots of Afro-Cuban flavor into his playing, but here it's rather suppressed, arriving in disguised fashion, where a montuno rhythm pulses without necessarily conveying any sense of the Caribbean. You can check it out below.
Pérez wrote seven of the pieces here, and in most of them the title makes some reference to light, reinforcing the idea of illumination, searching, and clarity that the album title indicates: "Looking for Light," "Light Echo," and "Luz de Alma," to name a few. A handful of tracks feature electric keyboards and electric bass, giving them a postfusion vibe. But even though "Lumen" possesses some of those fussy trademarks, it slithers and rolls with an appealing warmth, especially when Pérez begins to makes stabbing interjections on an acoustic piano, delivering a sense of Cuban propulsion that's irresistible. "Light Echo," which blends with the trio's take on "Dolores," rides over a wonderfully twitchy, busy groove; Patitucci spinning hypnotic up-and-down patterns as Blade displaces, accelerates, and detonates beats. The transition into "Dolores" is sudden, but it feels right, especially as the trio tease out tense, terse asides from a flowing, elegant melody line. These musicians all have distinguished careers individually, but I sure hope they continue to realize the power they generate together.
Today's playlist:
Simon Toldam Trio, Kig Op 14 (ILK)
Nick Sanders Trio, Nameless Neighborhoods (Sunnyside)
Khatia Buniatishvili, Motherland (Sony Classical)
Gjermund Larsen, Trønderbarokk (Ora Fonogram)
Noel Akchote, Gesualdo: Madrigals for Five Guitars (Blue Chopsticks)
Tagged: Brian Blade, Children of the Light, Danilo Pérez, jazz, John Patitucci, Vol. 45 No. 2, Wayne Shorter


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Why Use a Core Library Plugin?
Developers know that duplicate code is a bad thing. Making changes to many areas of a project for it to stay consistent is an opportunity for bugs to creep in, and an unnecessary waste of time.
For a recent refactoring project, the client had a theme functions file that was 2500 thousand lines long. It connected to two other databases, registered 11 post types, and had the other site customisations. My task was to move that out of theme and into discrete plugins which would persist if the client changed the theme.
This post looks at how I approached handling the post types and taxonomies, and the customisations they needed.
In a previous project, I worked on how best to register a single post type. From this, my object-orientated Gamajo_Registerable library emerged.
With many post types and taxonomies to register, the design of the library makes a post type trivial to create. The concrete implementations only included code to meet internationalization requirements of strings. A developer can copy those strings into a new class and updated as necessary. The end result is a reduction in code, time saved now, and time saved in the future.
Some post type plugins have related renderer code or a taxonomy registration as well. Grouping these related classes together means a user can activate or deactivate the plugins independently to get all or none of the functionality.
Future developers can better guess which plugin some code is likely to be in.
Plugins with just a registration are immediately available to have later additions. The client or future developers don't have to re-organise code themselves.
Using Gamajo_Registerable would mean including the interface and classes in each post type plugin leading to code duplication. If I released a bug fix version of one of the classes, then having to update it in 11 plugins would be painful.
So, I created a Core Library plugin.
Bill Erickson and others have written about "core functionality plugins" before. My core library plugin is different – even when activated, on its own, it has no effect. What it does do is make re-usable classes and interfaces available that other plugins can assume are present.
I make the core library a must-use plugin. It requires the library files when PHP parses the plugin. The standard plugins do not instantiate their dependent classes until the init hook so there are no issues with load order.
I've created an example of a core library plugin on GitHub called Core Library Plugin Example.
I've pulled it from a real project, so I've anonymised the site's details and replaced them with X.
What's not included yet is a check to see if PHP already knows about the interface and classes yet. This could happen if an individual plugin included them. It wasn't needed on my client's site on this occasion so x_core() remains quite simple.
class, or the Custom Meta Boxes library.
The x-core.php and x-core directory would sit inside your wp-contents/mu-plugins directory (create it if it doesn't exist).
I've also created an example standard plugin, which depends on the core library plugin. I've called this the Core Library Plugin Consumer Example.
As before, I pulled this from a real project, so I've re-branded the client as X again.
The main plugin file contains a simple check to see if the x_core() function exists. If it doesn't, the plugin deactivates to avoid causing fatal errors. The theme can be setup with the TGM Plugin Activation class so all dependent plugins activate if x_core() is present. That's a topic for another day.
The plugin registers an offer post type, an offer type taxonomy, and show the offers within a Genesis child theme. The three classes keep everything as separate objects: a Post Type object, a Taxonomy object and a Renderer object. A plugin could add an Admin or UI object to amend post type columns or filters, or a Meta object for handling meta data boxes for the post type etc.
This object-orientated approach isn't specific to using a core library plugin. Having helpful classes in the library to add those features makes the other plugins smaller and consistent. The best example here is adding a row to the At a Glance dashboard widget. The library class only needs a post type and status from the standard plugin to work.
I see the main benefits of extracting out code as reduced maintenance, and a promotion of cleaner code.
What are your thoughts on using a core library plugin?


It is huge! I tend to play with the JD 204 Jazz Pick and my fingers but I keep a bunch of different picks on my amp to use for different tunes.
If we go down this rabbit hole swapping tubes (if you have a tube amp) and type of string can really make a difference in your tone.
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 1:30am.


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 * The MainLoop continuously runs {@link VVVV.Core.Patch.evaluate} at a specified frame rate, and holds timing information
 * @class
 * @constructor
 * @param {VVVV.Core.Patch} patch the root patch
 * @param {Integer} [frames_per_second] default is 60
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VVVV.Core.MainLoop = function(patch, frames_per_second) {

  VVVV.fps = frames_per_second || 60;
  var framecount = 0;
  var dom = new VVVV.Core.DOMInterface(patch);
  var run = true;
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  var animFrameRequested = false;

  this.lowFrameRateCount = 0;
  var measureStart = 0;
  var print_framerate = false;

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Katrina Wilcox
Contact: Ms. Wilcox:
World History (1500-Present)
Enterprise High School
B.A. from The University of Alabama (Political Science and History)
M.A. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Secondary Education)
Calera High School (World History 9, US History 11, and Government/Economics)
Autaugaville School (World History 9, US History 11, Government/Economics, and Psychology/Sociology)
Hello, my name is Katie Wilcox, and I have been teaching at Wetumpka High School since 2018. I am originally from Enterprise, Alabama, and come from a strong military family. I received my undergraduate degree from The University of Alabama, and my Master's Degree from UAB. While still in college, I was fortunate enough to participate in multiple Congressional internships in Washington, D.C., and I studied abroad in Greece. I previously taught at Calera High School and Autaugaville School, teaching multiple grade levels at each school. I now teach Honors and Standard 9th Grade World History.Additionally, I am the Head JV Coach of both the WHS volleyball team and girls' soccer team. I am incredibly excited to be at Wetumpka and am looking forward to a wonderful school year. Go Indians!


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Q: Using vcpkg to install RTABMap with VSCode as editor I want to install RTABMap with vcpkg and then use VSCode as editor to include RTABMap into my C++  project. I installed RTABMap as described on their wiki with vcpkg install rtabmap:x64-windows (i also tried the x86 triplet) and then wanted to use it in my project. To get started I wrote the following cmake file based on an example  from their repository:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(RTABMap_Test VERSION 0.1.0)

set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
find_package(RTABMap REQUIRED)
find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED)

set(INCLUDE_DIRS
    ${RTABMap_INCLUDE_DIRS}
    ${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS}
)
set(LIBRARIES
    ${RTABMap_LIBRARIES}
    ${OpenCV_LIBRARIES}
)

include_directories(${INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_executable(RTABMap_Test main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(RTABMap_Test ${LIBRARIES})

and the following main.cpp file:
#include <rtabmap/core/Rtabmap.h>

int main(void) {
  return 0;
}

The cmake settings in VSCode are as follows:
 "cmake.configureSettings": {
    "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "G:/.vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake",
    "VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET": "x64-windows"
  }

However, when I run CMake: Build from VSCode, cmake fails with the following message:

-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.19041.0 to target Windows 10.0.19044.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.32.31332.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.32.31332.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Enterprise/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.32.31326/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Enterprise/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.32.31326/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Warning at G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/share/rtabmap/RTABMapConfig.cmake:78 (MESSAGE):
Asked for "gui" module but RTABMap hasn't been built with gui support.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
G:/.vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:843 (_find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package)
-- Found RTABMap: RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE-NOTFOUND;RTABMap_UTILITE_RELEASE-NOTFOUND;optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zlib.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/zlibd.lib
-- Found Protobuf: G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/tools/protobuf/protoc.exe (found version "3.21.12.0")
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - not found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found TIFF: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/tiff.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/tiffd.lib (found version "4.5.0")
-- Found HDF5: hdf5::hdf5-shared (found version "1.12.2")
-- Found ZLIB: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zlib.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/zlibd.lib (found suitable version "1.2.13", minimum required is "1")
-- Found JPEG: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/jpeg.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/jpeg.lib (found version "62")
-- Found ZLIB: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zlib.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/zlibd.lib (found version "1.2.13")
-- Found PNG: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/libpng16.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/libpng16d.lib (found version "1.6.39")
-- Found GIF: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/gif.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/gif.lib (found version "5.2.1")
-- Found LibArchive: G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/archive.lib (found version "3.6.2")
-- Found OpenCV: G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows (found version "4.7.0")
-- Configuring done
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE
linked by target "RTABMap_Test" in directory G:/FKIE/rtabmap_test
RTABMap_UTILITE_RELEASE
linked by target "RTABMap_Test" in directory G:/FKIE/rtabmap_test
-- Generating done
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.

On the other hand, when I run cmake . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=G:/.vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake I get this error:

-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.19041.0 to target Windows 10.0.19044.
CMake Warning at G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/share/rtabmap/RTABMapConfig.cmake:78 (MESSAGE):
Asked for "gui" module but RTABMap hasn't been built with gui support.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
G:/.vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:843 (_find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package)
-- Found ZLIB: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zlib.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/zlibd.lib (found suitable version "1.2.13", minimum required is "1")
-- Found ZLIB: optimized;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/lib/zlib.lib;debug;G:/.vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/zlibd.lib (found version "1.2.13")
-- Configuring done
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE
linked by target "RTABMap_Test" in directory G:/FKIE/rtabmap_test
RTABMap_UTILITE_RELEASE
linked by target "RTABMap_Test" in directory G:/FKIE/rtabmap_test
-- Generating done
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.

The two missing variables are set in the RTABMapConfig.cmake.in located at the root directory of the RTABMap repository and used by the CMakeLists.txt, so I assume that I don't have to set them manually, meaning -- as far as I can tell -- when vcpkg installs RTABMap it doesn't properly configure RTABMap.
What to do?

A: I had to write this as an answer due to character limitation. It's however more of a hint on what to look at rather then how to fix it.
Let's take a look at how RTABMapConfig.cmake is generated via the precursor file RTABMapConfig.cmake.in:
Lines 18-21:
find_library(RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE NAMES rtabmap_core NO_DEFAULT_PATH HINTS @CONF_LIB_DIR@)
find_library(RTABMap_CORE_DEBUG NAMES rtabmap_cored NO_DEFAULT_PATH HINTS @CONF_LIB_DIR@)

IF(RTABMap_CORE_DEBUG AND RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE)
#...

Not ideal for a .cmake.in but I'm not going to judge that. All that I'm going to say is that parts of the code rely on certain variables being set. The same variables that were "NOT FOUND" in your generation i.e. this line in the generation step:
-- [...] RTABMap_CORE_RELEASE-NOTFOUND [...]

If you would traverse the .cmake.in file down you would notice the same for the other "NOT FOUND" variable.
Later on we have:
Line 47:
set(RTABMap_LIBRARIES ${RTABMap_CORE} ${RTABMap_UTILITE})

Which is (as you probably know by now) empty.
Conclusion and possible solutions:

The RTABMapConfig.cmake can't find the proper libraries (if they exist) this can be caused either by the fact that during the vcpkg install phase something went wrong and the libraries weren't built OR the RTABMapConfig.cmake was poorly generated and needs to be fixed (the paths to the core and utilite libraries specifically)

*

*Check if something like rtabmap_core.lib exists and if not - compilation failed and you need to reinstall rtabmap

*If ad1) isn't the case then open up the RTABMapConfig.cmake and look at the paths to these libraries - fix them if needed.

EDIT: If I were you I would open up an issue on vcpkg's github.