*While the Old Testament (Jewish Bible), is written in narrative, the Talmud is more of a scholarly collection of philosophies regarding how to live life. These words instantly calmed me.
One of our biggest challenges is keeping ourselves and each other afloat, while the greater forces in control of the media promote grand helplessness.
I hope this offers warm inspiration.
Love you, and I'll be back with something by Wednesday.
Yeah, it seems like there are a lot of people telling us that there's nothing we can do about practically anything & everything!
Exactly, Silver. They're promoting and latching onto a pervasive helplessness. We need to stay above that. And we shall. Thank you.
The same from me to you, EC. Thanks for your loving heart.
Yep, around in circles they go and that is all they ever conclude for us, nothing one can do. Sad.
It's frustrating. I understand the feeling, and of course, I get that way too. But I don't understand staying in it and wallowing versus doing something - anything - to take action. Make a phonecall, take a walk, write a blog post...Thanks, Pat.
I copied that to Wednesday's post. More people need to see it!!
That's great, Fishducky. I agree. I was just on the phone with a new friend because of that post. The message is one the world needs right now.
Just when you can't think of the perfect message, someone else shares it.
that quote does bring a peace. Perfect in this very trying time.
It's nice that we can always find healing words and scores of loving people.
Thank you for caring, Joanne.
Thanks, Robyn. We can do that and perhaps not feel so inadequate. Much love from me to you.
You're welcome and gratitude to you, Wilma.
I agree. Love and gratitude.
Thank you, Robyn! There is a lot we can do starting with ourselves and our immediate surroundings. We will not give up.
No we won't and can't.
Oh this is a beautiful saying and so difficult to do when something so horrible happens. From this horrific turn of events, I see hope in all the people that have come out to show their compassion and love to their fellow man/woman. There are no words that can offer peace to the people directly affected by this most recent tragedy but I hope they see how the majority of people are behind the Jewish people and their faith.
That's true. Thank you for your heartfelt sentiment. Our local synagogue received two sets of flowers, anonymously, immediately following the shootings. A note said "We're glad you're here." Most of human kind is loving and caring. It's too easy to forget that.
Nicely phrased. Thanks for sharing.
Wise words. We need any inspiration we can find.


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A serious event took place today in Laknas, Kamza. Police announce that a 13-year-old has died after committed suicide with a gun.
"It is suspected that the citizen E.D. 13, committed suicide with his father's hunting gun in an old flat owned by his family. Based on pre-examination of the body of the victim there were no signs of violence or other damage caused by any other factor other than damage caused by the hunting weapon," informs the police.
The investigative group at the scene, under the lead of the Prosecutor is investigating for the full disclosure of the circumstances of the tragedy.


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2016 Toyota Mirai Name For Fuel-Cell Sedan; Hydrogen Station Funds Coming For Northeast (Video)
John Voelcker November 17, 2014 Comment Now!
The hydrogen fuel-cell sedan that goes on sale in North America roughly a year from now will be known as the 2016 Toyota Mirai, the company announced today.
The model name--confirming a rumor that had circulated for several months--was announced by Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda in a video released this evening.
The 2016 Mirai will be formally unveiled to the U.S. public at this week's Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Since the design of the production model was released in June, Toyota's hydrogen vehicle had been known only as the "Fuel Cell Sedan."
The mid-size four-door sedan will have a range of about 300 miles, the company says, and will be capable of being refueled in less than five minutes at a high-pressure hydrogen fueling station.
Toyota Fuel Cell Sedan at Aspen Ideas Festival [photo: Riccardo Savi]
Along with Toyoda's announcement of the Mirai model name, Toyota's North American CEO Jim Lentz announced a company commitment to assisting with the installation of fueling stations in five Northeastern states.
As it has done in Southern California, where it is helping to fund the creation of the earliest hydrogen stations, Toyota will collaborate with a national operator to develop a network of refueling sites.
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The partner for the Northeast will be Air Liquide, whereas the California operator was First Element Fuel, a startup formed specifically to provide hydrogen for the upcoming crop of fuel-cell vehicles.
In May, Toyota loaned First Element $7.3 million toward the costs of building 19 hydrogen fueling stations in southern California.
The planned fueling network in the Northeast comprises 12 "strategically selected" locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell at hydrogen fueling station, Fountain Valley, CA
Lentz said the sites will provide "the backbone of a hydrogen highway for the Northeast corridor" in the greater New York City and Boston regions.
More details of the collaboration between Toyota and Air Liquide will emerge over the coming months.
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"We believe that behind the wheel of the Mirai, we can go places we have never been," Toyoda said in his announcement, "to a world that is better, in a car that is better."
Toyota has been the most vocal proponent of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles as the appropriate zero-emission solution for future transport.
The cars emit only water vapor as oxygen from the air is combined with hydrogen fuel to produce electricity in the fuel cell.
Honda is also planning to launch a production fuel-cell car in 2016, based on the FCEV concept car it showed at last year's Los Angeles Auto Show.
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But the companies have actually been beaten to the punch by a Korean competitor:
Roughly 60 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell small SUVs will be on the roads of southern California by the end of this year, its maker says.
The 2016 Toyota Mirai will go on sale in Japan next spring, and in the U.S. next fall.
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El Regne de Baviera, en alemany, Königreich Bayern, va ser un estat que va existir des de 1806 fins a 1918. L'elector Maximilià I de Baviera, de la casa de Wittelsbach es va convertir en el primer rei de Baviera el 1806. El tron va pertànyer a la seva família fins a la dissolució del regne després de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Molts dels límits moderns de Baviera van ser traçats després de 1814 amb la signatura del Tractat de París (1814), en la qual Baviera cedia el Tirol i Vorarlberg a l'Imperi austríac, mentre que rebia Aschaffenburg i parts de Hesse-Darmstadt. Com a part de l'Imperi Alemany, el regne era superat en grandària només per Prússia.

Des de la unificació alemanya el 1871, Baviera ha continuat sent part d'Alemanya fins al dia d'avui.

Regnat de Maximilià I
A la guerra de 1805, d'acord amb un tractat de l'aliança signat a Würzburg el 23 de setembre, les tropes bavareses, per primera vegada des dels dies de Carles VII, van lluitar de costat a costat amb els francesos i pel tractat de Pressburg, signat el 26 de desembre, el principat de Eichstädt, el Marquesat de Burgau, la senyoria de Vorarlberg, els comtats de Hohenems i Königsegg - Rothenfels, les senyories d'Argen i de Tettnang i la ciutat de Lindau amb el seu territori havien de ser agregats a Baviera. D'una banda Würzburg, obtingut el 1803, havia de ser cedit per Baviera l'elector de Salzburg a canvi del Tirol. Per el primer article del tractat l'Emperador va reconèixer l'assumpció de l'elector del títol de rei com Maximilià I de Baviera. El preu que Maximilià tenia reticent pagar aquesta accessió de la dignitat era la unió de la seva filla Augusta amb Eugène de Beauharnais. El 15 març 1806 ell va cedir el Ducat de Berg a Napoleó Bonaparte.

Per a la constitució interna de Baviera també l'aliança francesa també va tenir importants conseqüències. Maximilià I era un dèspota il·lustrat del tipus del , els principis tolerants havien ofès ja penosament als seus temes administratius i, el 1803, havia discutit amb els vells estats la qüestió de les reformes. Però els canvis revolucionaris introduïts per la constitució proclamada l'1 de maig de 1808 eren a causa de la influència directa de Napoleó. Es va purgar la classe política medieval que sobrevivia a les dietes i els gremis locals somnolents. En lloc del vell sistema de privilegis i d'exempcions prevaldria la igualtat davant la llei, la responsabilitat universal als impostos, l'abolició de la servitud, la seguretat de la persona i la propietat, llibertat de consciència i llibertat de premsa. Van ser creats en el paper, basat en una llicència estreta i amb energies molt limitades, però mai no van ser convocades a una assemblea representativa.

El 1809 Baviera es va veure de nou involucrada en una guerra. Va fer costat a França contra Àustria. Els tirolesos es van revoltar contra l'autoritat bavaresa i van tenir èxit tres vegades en la derrota de les tropes bavareses i franceses que intentaven tornar a prendre el país. Àustria va perdre la guerra de la Cinquena Coalició contra França, amb qui es va enfrontar més asprament encara fins al tractat de Schönbrunn de 1809. S'ha glorificat sovint com van executar l'heroi nacional del Tirol, el líder de la revolta Andreas Hofer, el 1810 a Màntua, quan es va perdre una tercera i final batalla contra les forces franceses i bavareses. Pel tractat signat a París el 28 de febrer de 1810 el Tirol del Sud va ser cedit per Baviera al Regne d'Itàlia i alguns petits districtes a Württemberg, rebent a canvi Salzburg, Innviertel, Hausruck i els principats de Bayreuth i de Ratisbona. La política de Montgelas fins ara havia estat encertada, però l'estrella de Napoleó ara havia assolit el seu zenit i l'oportunista astut havia observat ja les mostres del canvi que venia.

Els esdeveniments de 1812 van continuar; el 1813 Baviera va ser convocada per afegir-se a l'aliança contra Napoleó Bonaparte, la demanda era apassionadament recolzada pel príncep hereu Lluís i pel mariscal Wrede, el 8 d'octubre va ser signat el tractat de Ried, pel qual Baviera es va unir amb els aliats. Montgelas va anunciar a l'ambaixador francès que l'havien obligat temporalment. Va agregar: "Baviera té necessitat de França".

Entre 1799 i 1817 el ministre Montgelas va seguir una política de modernització i va posar les fundacions de les estructures administratives que van sobreviure fins i tot la monarquia i és (en la seva base) vàlida fins avui. L'1 de febrer de 1817, Montgelas havia estat acomiadat, i Baviera havia entrat en una nova era de reforma constitucional.

El 26 de maig de 1818, la constitució del Regne de Baviera va ser proclamada. El Parlament tindria dos càmeres, una cambra superior que comprenia l'aristocràcia i als nobles, incloent-hi els terratinents, els oficials del govern i els candidats hereditaris de classe superior de la corona. La segona càmera incloïa els representants de petits terratinents, de les ciutats i dels camperols. Els drets dels protestants van ser salvaguardats en la constitució amb els articles que donaven suport a la igualtat de totes les religions, tot i l'oposició pels partidaris de l'Església Catòlica Romana. La constitució inicial gairebé va provocar desastres per a la monarquia, amb controvèrsies com ara que l'exèrcit havia de jurar lleialtat a la nova constitució. La monarquia va apel·lar al Regne de Prússia i l'Imperi Austríac per al consell, els dos van rebutjar prendre mesures a favor de Baviera però l'estat es va estabilitzar amb l'ascens de Lluís I de Baviera al tron degut a la mort de Maximilià I el 1825.

Regnat de Lluís I

El 1825, Lluís I de Baviera va ascendir al tron. Durant seu regnat, les arts van prosperar i el rei personalment va ordenar i va assistir financerament la creació de molts edificis neoclàssics. Lluís també va impulsar la industrialització de Baviera. En assumptes exteriors, Baviera va fer costat als grecs durant la Guerra d'independència grega amb el seu segon fill, Otó que va ser elegit Rei de Grècia el 1832. Pel que fa a política, les reformes inicials eren liberals i reformistes. No obstant això, després de la Revolució de 1830, Lluís va donar peu a la reacció conservadora. El 1837, els catòlics romans van donar suport al moviment clerical dels ultramontans, que va prendre el poder al parlament bavarès i va començar una campanya de reforma a la constitució, que va llevar els drets civils que havien estat concedits anteriorment als protestants, així com fer complir censura i la prohibició de la discussió lliure de la política interna. Aquest règim va tenir breu durada a causa de la demanda pels ultramuntans de la naturalització de l'amant irlandesa de Lluís, que era resistida pel rei, i els ultramuntans van ser expulsats.

Després de les Revolució de 1848 i la caiguda de popularitat de Lluís, aquest va abdicar per evitar un cop potencial i permetre que el seu fill, Maximilià II de Baviera arribés el tron. Maximilià II va respondre a les demandes del poble per a un Estat alemany unit atenent l'Assemblea de Frankfurt, que es preposava crear aquest Estat. Maximilià II es posava al costat de l'aliat de Baviera, l'Imperi Austríac per rebre la corona imperial d'una Alemanya unida, en oposició a l'enemic d'Àustria, el Regne de Prússia.

Regnat de Lluís II

Amb la derrota d'Àustria a la Guerra Austroprussiana, els estats alemanys del nord van quedar unificats ràpidament a la Confederació Alemanya del Nord, sota el lideratge del rei de Prússia. Les inhibicions en política internacional que anteriorment havia tingut Baviera cap Prússia van canviar radicalment, igual que les de molts dels Estats alemanys del sud, després que l'emperador francès Napoleó III comencés a parlar de la necessitat de França d'una "compensació" de la seva pèrdua del 1814, que incloïa el Palatinat bavarès com a part de les seves demandes territorials. Lluís II va signar una aliança amb Prússia, el 1870, contra França, que era vista pels alemanys com l'enemic més gran a una Alemanya unida. Al mateix temps, Baviera va augmentar els seus lligams polítics, legals i comercials amb la Confederació Alemanya del Nord. El 1870, la guerra va esclatar entre França i Prússia amb la guerra francoprussiana de 1870. Es va enviar l'exèrcit bavarès sota el comandament del príncep hereu prussià a lluitar contra l'exèrcit francès.

Amb la derrota i humiliació de França contra les forces alemanyes combinades, va ser Lluís II de Baviera qui va proposar que el rei Guillem I de Prússia fos proclamat emperador alemany o kàiser de l'Imperi Alemany (Deutsches Reich) conegut com a Segon Reich que va ocórrer el 1871 a Versalles. Els territoris de l'Imperi alemany van ser unificats sota el ceptre del Rei de Prússia, incloent els Estats de la Confederació Alemanya del Nord i tots els Estats alemanys del sud, amb l'excepció principal d'Àustria. L'Imperi també va incloure el territori abans francès de l'Alsàcia-Lorena, que va ser annexat en gran part a causa del desig de Lluís II de moure la frontera francesa lluny del Palatinat.

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"Stenciled on the top in faded Old English font was her name: The Reaper."
By Vera Sola | January 30, 2019
Vera Sola
A family of spiritualists, writers and performers generations deep; a home haunted by legends of literature and music; personal upheaval and a sense of being unseated in time: these are the origins of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vera Sola.
As a child she played classical piano, later guitar and bass, learning more by instinct than instruction. An obsessive reader and writer, she'd forever written poetry and been fascinated by wordplay, falling in love at a young age with Russian literature and the work of Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. All this, along with a career as a stage and voice actor—combined with years of touring in Elvis Perkins' band—would serve as a launching point for Vera Sola.
But it wasn't until early 2017, when she booked time at Native Sound Studio in St. Louis, that she began to experiment with the idea of recording her own material. What emerged from the sessions was her debut album, SHADES, a collection of ten finely-honed and immaculately-rendered ballads. Poems and stories delivered in a mannered but casually dismissive style—full of sorrow, yet arch and wry. Songs of the present that conjure the past. Accounts of women and their ghosts: echoes of memories that just won't quit; of relationships over or current but fleeting; of the extinction of species; the violent capture of a feminine landscape and the spirits that stick around long after; messengers from the other side.
(Photo Credit: Pola Esther)
Before I sang or really committed myself to guitar, I played the bass. Though it's my favorite, it's no longer my primary instrument: The bassist I work with now far surpasses me in talent and taste. But when I made my record, the bulk of the arrangements could be distilled to the reckoning of two instruments: my voice and my bass. Both in their current form entered my life as if from another world. The story of my voice is for another time. This one's about the other, the Reaper.
The airline broke my Harmony on the way back from touring in Europe. They wouldn't let me carry it on the plane. I fought hard but the gate agent took it anyway and left it to baggage handlers who were merciless with her soft hollow form.
Soon after that I'd break my nose following a second red-eye flight and three-days-straight awake. When I finally stumbled home I was so exhausted I lost all depth perception. Dropped something, came up hard and hit the steel lip of my kitchen table. I was too tired to feel pain, so I went to sleep and woke nearly 20 hours later covered in blood, my face crushed. Doctors tried to help but couldn't do much by then, so I just taped myself up.
That was in early summer. In winter the Harmony was still in the shop, so bashed around it had been by that transatlantic passage that they had to set it and clamp it and leave it for a while. I was still wearing the bandage on my nose when I went to look for a replacement ahead of a recording session.
I grew up working with horses and I've always found instruments to be similar. No two are the same and most are disagreeable. Even those with the best of pedigrees. They buck and they bite.
Now, I can handle most anything with four feet, but it's not the same when it comes to four strings. For me, the bass itself has to feel like an extension of my own body, the meter of my blood. In this situation I didn't want to risk borrowing from a friend or using what the studio had on hand, so I went looking for something to approximate my sweet semi-hollow Harmony. I must have tried 10 or 12. I hated all of them.
I remember exactly how and where I was sitting, swearing over a violin-bodied beast, when I gave up.
I was listless, resentful, plucking at the Hofner, staring off into space, when I caught a flash of dark red and rust sitting in a coffer on the counter. I put down the Beatle bass and, before the shop owner could pull it back down to the dark at his feet, asked him what he had in there.
"A '66 Mustang. We just got it in. Haven't taken a proper look at it yet. It's in terrible condition."
He opened the case. The polar opposite of my Harmony. Solid-body and beaten, it looked more like a battering ram than any music-maker. Deep gouges all through the clotting of dark red paint. A sandy ditch below the strings where so many picks had been. Divots in the fretboard, little graves. And all of the hardware, once silver, covered in a murk of rust. It looked impossible and unplayable. There wasn't any logical reason why it should be in such condition and still be capable of making sound.
"May I try it out?"
"Sure. Like I said we haven't taken a look at it yet, it came in a few minutes before you, we don't know the story behind it and don't know whether it'll even make a sound."
Despite the grime-thick of its round-wound strings, that my fingers stuck to its sweat, and that by all logic it should have sounded terrible, it was incredible. I couldn't believe it. It responded to my softest breath. Honestly, I'd never even considered myself to be all that good but I got that thing in my hands and I was god damn Bootsy Collins. It was madness.
I paid in cash. Next to nothing. Really. They told me they'd look at it and call me in a couple of days. Far sooner than I expected, I got the message that it was ready. To come in when I could and ask for a luthier with the name of an Egyptian king. He was a formidable man in a small back room.
"That thing's yours?"
"You know at first I couldn't believe anyone would have paid money for her, but her guts are perfect. Untouched. It's hard to believe when you take a look at her body. But I didn't have to do a thing to her wiring, pickups are in mint condition. Everything's original. You got an insane deal on her. Oh, but there's one thing."
"Yep?"
"We have to tell you about this. I guess for legal reasons. I don't know. Or it's just something you should know about."
He pulled her up and opened the case.
"You'll see all her hardware is shiny again. All that gunk is gone."
"Woah. That's awesome. Great job. Thanks."
"Full disclosure. We can tell from the solvent we use to clean it, and the color it turns when it comes off. All of that was blood…and did you see what's on the case?"
He closed her up. I hadn't really looked at it until now. Stenciled on the top in faded Old English font was her name: The Reaper.
As for the Harmony, it healed up fine, but I don't play it much anymore. When I entered the studio to record what would become my album, I didn't take anything with me except for my acoustic guitar. I didn't intend to make anything other than a couple of sparse recordings for my own personal satisfaction. I figured if it turned out to be more than that I'd hire real musicians. But very quickly after my arrival I realized I'd gotten into something much deeper, and whatever it was I needed to do alone.
Unprepared for that reality, when it came to over-dubbing the bass, I did what I usually avoid and borrowed from the studio. A Hofner. Not the violin kind, but a softer hollow body in blonde. It was actually pretty cool. It's a beautiful bass. I've got a lovely photo of me tracking those first takes. The sound was just fine.
But on my second trip to St. Louis, for the doubling down on my commitment to this new sprawl, I brought the Reaper.
From the very first note, the difference in tone and feeling and fire was remarkable. I re-tracked everything I'd already done. The Reaper is deep and round and complex in overtone. At once capable of light and dark, a blithe spirited punch and the heaviest of rumble. But it's not just the sound of the thing. Listening back to those stems it's as if they'd been played by two different people. With the Reaper in my hands so many harmonies and countermelodies and unborn ideas came out of me like so much blood.
And I'll tell you something funny. Take it for what you will.
My friends in St. Louis fell in love with her. When I left to return home for a minute, I knew they had some sessions on the books so I offered to leave her at the studio. Upon return for round three I asked how they liked her, who played her, all of that.
"We tried," they said. "We tried it on a number of things. At first we just couldn't get a good tone out of it. After a few goes it just quit. It wouldn't even make a sound."
"I'm not usually superstitious or anything," my friend David chimed in, "but I think it only likes to work with you."
During that round of recording, I tracked what I consider to be the strange, unsettling scaffold of the whole album—what became, to me, the real body of the music. Many of those lines I haven't been able to properly replicate since. My current bass player and I are still trying to figure out what's going on with some of that stuff. I can't really account for it, it was pure expression. Channeling more than anything. I chock it up to some ineffable bond we've got, me and the Reaper.
I guess it's because we're very similar, she and I. Rough around the edges but kind inside, stubborn with a sense of humor, battered but somehow thriving, hard to figure out and even more impossible to explain.
Anyway, I play her whenever I have the chance. I keep her close. She's with me right now in fact. I'm on an airplane, a transatlantic flight. But she's not like the Harmony. I let her travel below in the hold. I'm not all that worried about anyone breaking her.
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6 Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" Covers We Love (One Is by a Hedgehog, FYI)
You know we love our covers 'round here. It's one of the best things about the Internet being around, these myriad spins on top-40 hits: But what really gets us is when a catchy pop tune collides with an adorable animal. We couldn't resist when Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" got guested-on by a goat. And since we're similarly powerless in the face of a hedgehog re-creating Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" video, we think it's high time for a roundup of the best imitations of Miley's breakup melody/demolition fest. As the saying goes, hedgehogs first. That just optimized Monday's tolerable factor. Now, this hedgehog has gotta tip her hat to Nic Cage, who as far as I can tell is the original beeface dramatist "Wrecking Ball" cover artist: I know—the Cage one brings new meaning to the phrase "scary good." Meanwhile, this kitten keeps things short, sweet and swingy: OK, those are the awww ones. Now I feel you've earned some legit musical covering. This duo performance from Mike Squillante and Adriana Louise has shivery-good vocals: I have a soft spot for this countryfied one by the Gregory Brothers: And speaking of brothers: if you're like, hey, but
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You know we love our covers 'round here. It's one of the best things about the Internet being around, these myriad spins on top-40 hits: But what really gets us is when a catchy pop tune collides with an adorable animal. We couldn't resist when Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" got guested-on by a goat. And since we're similarly powerless in the face of a hedgehog re-creating Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" video, we think it's high time for a roundup of the best imitations of Miley's breakup melody/demolition fest.
As the saying goes, hedgehogs first.
That just optimized Monday's tolerable factor. Now, this hedgehog has gotta tip her hat to Nic Cage, who as far as I can tell is the original beeface dramatist "Wrecking Ball" cover artist:
I know—the Cage one brings new meaning to the phrase "scary good." Meanwhile, this kitten keeps things short, sweet and swingy:
OK, those are the awww ones. Now I feel you've earned some legit musical covering. This duo performance from Mike Squillante and Adriana Louise has shivery-good vocals:
I have a soft spot for this countryfied one by the Gregory Brothers:
And speaking of brothers: if you're like, hey, but I love insane cuteness and high-quality singing. Can't we find something that combines the two? We can.
I think those two might get 500,000 valentines at school this year.
What's your favorite?
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User experience design practitioners face many challenges in seeing the value of their work through to implementation. It can be an overwhelming endeavor to effect the changes in organizational process necessary to overcome these challenges. Recently, we ran a workshop called Advancing UX in Your Organization at Fluxible 2013 in Kitchener, Ontario to start participants on a journey of identifying areas for potential change in their own work environments and consider ways to make that change happen.
The Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) project is focused on coordinating the software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test. The IBM products that manifest these disciplines are Rational Requirements Composer – a requirements management application, Rational Team Concert – a change and configuration management application, and Rational Quality Management – a quality management application. Jazz Foundation is the centralizing hub for the integration and functional services of these applications.
One of the goals of Jazz Foundation is to use and provide a single consistent UI framework for supporting tasks across applications. A significant piece of this is the main web banner and navigation system. Without these unifying navigational elements in place, the only way to navigate between applications, and the projects within them, is to point your browser to a particular URL. This works for ad hoc visits to different applications, or if all your time is spent in a single application. But it doesn't work so well when you need to move between different types of artifacts within the software development lifecycle, such as between a requirement and its related test case, or between a development plan and its related test plan.
Our challenge was to design a 'container' and functional elements to support this type of fluid movement.
Article published in interactions Magazine, Volume 16, Number 1 (2009), Pages 66-68.
The question of whether or not visual design has value in software might seem moot. For decades now, graphical user interfaces have been the dominant paradigm . We revere the visual fruits of Apple; we delight in the graphical levity of the pervasive Web 2.0 look; and we get a visceral tickle out of the many visual and interactive effects of the Microsoft Vista, Linux Ubuntu, and Mac OS X operating systems. We like to be delighted and engaged visually. And why not? Whether our use of computer software is business or personal, we spend a lot of time with machines and the soft stuff that helps us get things done. The time spent might as well be pleasant.
This sentiment is appreciated in mainstream software, yet things have been a little different in the world of software development for programming and business tools, where user delight and the virtues of visual elegance have not been so widely or confidently embraced. Things appear to be changing, and exposure to design is a significant part of this change.
Access the full article through the ACM Digital.
Author and lead of this effort to produce guidelines for designers and developers working on Jazz web applications.


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Q: What does SCM stand for in meaning of trac, redmine Here's similar question, but it doesn't seem to be correct in meaning of trac, redmine.
Does anyone know this for sure?

A: Both, really. Software configuration management encompasses source code management. Trac and redmine do both, really. VCS (version control system) is typically a better term because it's unambiguous.

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This is one of our Budget series of posts to give you an idea of how much we spent traveling around the world. Here we will look at Thailand. Check our posts to see what kind of activities we did and where we stayed!
In Thailand we used the Thai Baht. We converted to US dollars using the current conversion rates at the time of our visit. It was approximately 3 baht to $0.01.
We stayed in several places in Thailand. Our first time was in Bangkok for a few days in January before we headed to Myanmar. We returned to Thailand on the the 5th of March and we stayed mostly in small hotels or guesthouses. Much of our time in Thailand, we were traveling with Della's parents. There was one hotel that we stayed at for 2 nights that Della's parents paid for as a gift.
This included a lot of things! Entrance fees to museums and wats, a movie in Bangkok, a day with elephants, a cooking class, and even a snorkeling trip!
We only count alcohol costs when it is not purchased with other food.
We loved the food in Thailand and often ate out for lunch and dinner. Only a very few of our accommodations included breakfast, so we often purchased that as well.
This included a lot of added toiletries as well as several souveniers. It is amazing how many things we start to buy when we know that we can send it home with Della's parents! 😉 We also had to purchase a new battery for Eric's fitbit.
We traveled around a lot in Thailand! This cost is actually quite low when you think about where we went. We traveled by bus from Chiang Rai, to Chiang, Mai, to Mae Sot, to Sukhothai, to Ayuthaya. Then we traveled by train to Bangkok. After that, we flew to Koh Lanta.
This divides out to $61.53/day which is under $100/day budget! Now that's what we were hoping for in Asia! We even felt like we splurged on activities and accommodations, and we were able to remain this low, so it just goes to show that Thailand can be an inexpensive place to travel.
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Q: PC not consistantly working after upgrading CPU I have a PC with Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, E6700 CPU (Core 2 duo) and 8 GB of ram (ddr2 800)
I wanted to upgrade my CPU, and so I went to the motherboard's website:
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/list.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&m=p5b%20deluxe
I saw it supports most of the core 2 quad processors, yet my bios was not up to date for these CPU's, so I upgraded the BIOS. The process finished successfully and everything kept working well.
Today I went to buy a core 2 quad q9450 from a person (used) that showed me on his PC a couple of times that it works,
When we tried to install it on mine the computer is not working all the time -> out of 8 boots it loaded twice and the other times nothing happened (just fans spinning ...) , when some of the times we heard error beeps.
Between the times we tried to load we tried to clean dust and replace the RAM with his working sticks and have only 1 stick, nothing made it work.
We also tried a Core 2 quad Q9400 that he had and got the same results.
When installing back my E6700 it worked well - and he showed me on this PC's the both of his Core 2 Quad processors are working well all the time.
Since I seen it working twice on my PC I bought the CPU - I like the challenge :) and now I am looking for ways to understand the problem and fix it.
Does anyone has an idea why this could happen ?
BTW the bios version I upgraded to is "P5B Deluxe BIOS 1238"

A: OP's edit to original question:

So the problem is solved: I removed all the parts and had a massive dust clean with my friend's large "air pressure" machine, also some gentle clean on the CPU area on the motherboard and afterwards it worked like a charm.


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Cebu City - Cebu Province Destinations
Visayas Cebu Province Cebu City
The City of Cebu is the capital city of Cebu in the Philippines, and is the second most significant metropolitan center in the Philippine Islands. The city is located on the eastern shore of Cebu, and is the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Cebu is the Philippines' main domestic shipping port, and is home to more than 80% of the country's domestic shipping companies. Cebu also holds the second largest international flights in the Philippine Islands, and is a significant center of commerce, trade, and industry in the Visayas, and Mindanao region. According to the 2007 Philippine census, the city has a population of 798,809 people.
Cebu City is the center of a metropolitan area called Metro Cebu, which includes the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, Talisay, Naga. Metro Cebu has a total population of about 2 million people. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport, located in Lapu-Lapu City is only a twenty-minute drive away from Cebu City.
To the northeast of the city are Mandaue City, and the town of Consolacion, to the west are Toledo City, the towns of Balamban, and Asturias, to the south are Talisay City, and the town of Minglanilla. Across Mactan Strait to the east is Mactan Island where Lapu-Lapu City and an aquarium attraction are located.
Cebu city is an important cultural center in the Philippine Islands. The city's most famous landmark is Magellan's Cross. This cross, now housed in a chapel, was supposedly planted by Ferdinand Magellan when he arrived in the Philippine Islands in 1521.
A few steps away from the Magellan's Cross is the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño (Church of the Holy Child), an Augustinian church which was elevated to the rank of church in 1965 during the 400th year celebrations of Christianity in the Philippines, held in Cebu.
The City's religious festival, Sinulog Festival, held every third Sunday of January which celebrates the festival of the Santo Niño, the patron saint of Cebu. The Sinulog is a dance ritual of pre-hispanic indigenous origin. The dancer moves two steps forward and one step backward to the rhythmic sound of drums. This movement resembles somewhat the current (sulog) of the river. Thus, the Cebuanos called it Sinulog.
When the Spaniards arrived in Cebu, the chronicler, Antonio Pigafetta, sailing under convoy with the Magellan expedition, offered, as a baptismal gift, to Hara Amihan, wife of Rajah Humabon, and later named Juana, the image of the Santo Niño. The natives likewise honored the Santo Niño de Cebu in their indigenous Sinulog ritual. The Sinulog ritual was preserved but limited to honoring the Santo Niño. Once the Santo Niño church was built in the 1500s, the christian natives started performing the Sinulog ritual in front of the church, the devotees offering candles, and the native dancers shouting "Viva Pit Señor!" (Hail Mister).
In the 1980s and 2000s, the city authorities of Cebu made the Sinulog Festival part, and parcel of the religious feast of the Santo Niño de Cebú to its cultural event.
Attractions at Cebu City
Asiatown IT Park
Basilica del Santo Nino de Cebu
Buhing Kalbaryo Festival
Casa Gerordo
Cebu Taoist Temple
Fluvial Parade of the Child King
Fort San Pedro
Fort San Pedro National Museum
Heritage of Cebu Monument
Jesuit House of 1730
Magellan's Cross
Mantawi Festival
Pasko sa Sugbu
Phu-Sian Temple
Sinulog
Southwestern University Museum
Yap-Sandiego House
Places at Cebu City
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Richland has second highest traffic fatalities in Ohio
Increasing traffic fatalities across Ohio sparked a campaign to get drivers to slow down.
Richland has second highest traffic fatalities in Ohio Increasing traffic fatalities across Ohio sparked a campaign to get drivers to slow down. Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1LVMp2Z
Kaitlin Durbin, Reporter Published 7:50 p.m. ET July 1, 2015
An Ohio State Highway Patrol Mansfield post patrolman watches traffic along Ohio 13 for speeding, driving left of center and failure to yield violations. Patrol is stepping up enforcement efforts to decrease traffic fatalities in the state.(Photo: Kaitlin Durbin/News Journal)Buy Photo
MANSFIELD – An increasing number of traffic fatalities across Ohio — and particularly staggering numbers in Richland County — has sparked a campaign to get drivers to slow down, especially over the holiday weekend.
As of June, Richland County has experienced 10 fatalities in eight separate crashes, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol Mansfield post Commander Lt. Matt Them. That is a 500 percent increase from last year when the patrol handled two deaths, he said.
The numbers placed Richland County tied with Clark County for second highest number of traffic fatalities in the state in 2015, compared to 2014. The only county higher was Lorain County, with 12 fatalities, according to a OSHP news release.
"The big thing is just to pay attention to the road and now to allow yourself to get distracted," Them said. "We want to reverse this trend in Richland County. We don't want to lose any other lives."
Overall, numbers were up across Ohio, too. The patrol recorded 487 traffic deaths so far in 2015, which is 76 more than recorded in June of 2014, according to a OSHP news release.
May 2015 was the deadliest May the patrol has seen in a decade.
The 19 percent increase inspired the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Department of Transportation to launch a new initiative using 130 permanent ODOT digital message boards to spread traffic safety messages across Ohio roads.
The boards will rotate between two messages: the year-to-date number of traffic deaths in 2015 and a traffic safety message, such as "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over."
Two boards will go up in Richland County this weekend on U.S. 30 and I-71.
The message boards aren't the only efforts locally to promote safe driving.
Them said records show the majority of Richland County crashes are occurring in the northern part of the county, so they've assigned more troopers to the area and are using aviation to pinpoint drivers specifically for speeding, failure to yield and driving left of center.
The three target areas have been key factors in the majority of the county's traffic fatalities, he said.
"The signs are visible, but drivers aren't stopping."
Where statewide troopers are seeing an increase in crashes among drivers under the age of 25, locally there hasn't been a trend. Drivers have ranged from age 25 t0 75, Them said.
Richland County's stats also didn't follow national trends when it came to alcohol and seat belt use. The number of fatal crashes statewide involving alcohol tripled in 2015, but it wasn't a major contributor to Richland County fatalities, being suspected in two of the eight crashes.
Fatalities where the driver was not wearing a seat belt doubled during the month of May. In Richland County, three of seven drivers were not wearing their safety belt.
The staggering statistic not mentioned in state numbers was pedestrians who were killed in crashes this year.
Three of ten traffic deaths in Richland County have been pedestrians struck during the crash, Them said.
"That's out of the ordinary," Them said.
This weekend is a trial run for the message boards, as the holiday typically sees an increase in fatalities and impaired driving. But officials hope it serves as an effective reminder for motorists to "just drive" throughout the remaining year.
"We hope that by coupling the Patrol's enforcement with the highly visible ODOT signs, we can impact driver behavior and save some lives," Lt. Brett Gockstetter, Sandusky Post Commander said.
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Влади́мир Ива́нович Пове́ткин (26 февраля 1943, село Солдатско-Степное, Быковский район, Сталинградская область — 10 октября 2010, Великий Новгород) —  и реставратор, cоздатель и первый директор Новгородского Центра музыкальных древностей .

Биография
Родился в селе Солдатско-Степное Сталинградской области. Воспитывался матерью Марией Фёдоровной Байбаковой. Они много переезжали, пока не остановились в Курске, где он поступил и закончил художественно-графическое педагогическое училище. Службу проходил на Северном флоте.

В 1969 году переехал в Новгород, где начал сотрудничество с Новгородским музеем-заповедником, занимаясь в основном живописью, графикой и деревянной скульптурой.

В 1975 году Владимир Поветкин начал реставрировать и реконструировать археологические находки — деревянные предметы быта древних новгородцев, в том числе и музыкальные инструменты. Уникальные в звучании лирообразные гусли середины XI века с надписью на обломке «Словиша» были восстановлены по его собственной методике в 1978 году. За эту работу его имя было внесено в Книгу рекордов России «Диво: чудеса, рекорды, достижения». Позднее занялся реставрацией берестяных грамот. Участвовал в восстановлении самой древней в славянском мире книги — Новгородской Псалтыри XI века.

В 1990 году создал Центр музыкальных древностей, который сначала функционировал как общественная организация при Советском Фонде культуры.

С 1991 года стал самостоятельным — Автономной некоммерческой организацией Центр культуры Поветкина В. И. «Музыкальные древности». Идею создания мастерской по восстановлению древнерусских музыкальных инструментов активно поддерживал Д. С. Лихачёв. Основная работа центра связана с исследованием и популяризацией древнего музыкального искусства. Поветкин неоднократно выступал на конференциях, мастер-классах, фестивалях как в России, так и за рубежом.

В октябре 2007 года выступил с докладом «Звучащие приспособления, открытые на Городище близ Новгорода» на научно-практической конференции «У истоков русской государственности», которая была устроена Новгородским Межрегиональным институтом общественных наук, институтом истории материальной культуры РАН и Новгородским государственным объединенным музеем-заповедником.

Владимир Поветкин был одним из инициаторов создания журнала «Чело», также выполнял иллюстрации к рубрикам журнала.

Умер 10 октября 2010 года. Похоронен на Западном кладбище в Великом Новгороде.

Избранные публикации
Автор многочисленных публикаций в области музыкальной археологии, фольклора и этнографии. С полной его библиографией можно ознакомиться здесь . Вот некоторые из них:
 О Лихачеве, Новгороде, гуслях и молитве
 Зачем-то Балашову был нужен фольклор
 На грани жизни и позора, или летний Солнцеворот в Новгороде / (1994)

 Обретение Новгородской Псалтыри, или Реставрация древнего воскового рукописания
 Лучинное освещение в Древнем Новгороде//Российская археология. — № 3. — Июль-Сентябрь 2009. — С. 50-57.
 Бубенцы и колокольчики среди прочих шумящих и ударных приспособлений в обиходе древних новгородцев // Новгородский исторический сборник. Вып. 11 (21). — СПб., 2008.
 Гудебные сосуды древних псковичей. Ч. 1 // Псков в российской и европейской истории: (К 1100-летию первого летописного упоминания). Т. 1. — М., 2003. — С. 224—234;
 О происхождении инструментальной коллекции Новгородского Центра музыкальных древностей // Музыка Кунсткамеры: К 100-летию Санкт-Петербургского музея музыкальных инструментов / Сост. В. В. Кошелев; Авт. предисл. В. В. Кошелев; Ю. К. Чистов, Е. П. Лярская; РАН. МАЭ им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера); С.-Петербург. Гос. музей театр. и музык. искусства. — СПб.: МАЭ РАН, 2002. — С. 229—234. — Библиогр. в примеч.: с. 234. — Рез. англ.
 Два превращения смычкового музыкального инструмента. (Из опыта восстановительных работ) // Новгород и Новгородская земля. История и археология. (Тезисы научной конференции). Вып. 6. — Новгород, 1992. — 101 с., 1000 экз. — с. 82.
 Новгород музыкальный по материалам археологических исследований. Сезон раскопок 1995 г.//Новгород и Новгородская земля. История и археология. (Материалы научной конференции. Новгород, 23-25 январ 1996 г.). Вып. 10. — Новгород, 1996. — 252 с., 1000 экз. — с. 125
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 Фильмография
В 1984 году вышел документальный фильм Живые струны, где В. И. Поветкин выступил в сюжете про лирообразные гусли.

Награды и звания
 Кавалер международного ордена Св. Константина Великого,
 Заслуженный работник культуры РФ,
 Почётный гражданин Великого Новгорода (24.05.2007),
 Специальная премия Национальной премии «Культурное наследие» за 2006—2007 и памятная медаль Национального Фонда «Возрождение русской усадьбы» за заслуги в сохранении памятников Отечества («за восстановление и использование в социо-культурных целях деревянного флигеля городской усадьбы Игнатовского в Великом Новгороде»)
 Юбилейная медаль «В память 1150-летия Великого Новгорода».

Мнения
 Академик Валентин Лаврентьевич Янин:
— Поветкин — это тот человек, о котором должен знать каждый новгородец. Не знать просто стыдно. Дело всей его жизни — это, конечно, восстановленное им звучание древнерусских инструментов.
Но он же — участник раскрытия берестяных грамот, их сохранения и отчасти прочтения. Наконец, исключительно его умению и служению обязаны мы тем, что удалось прочесть древнейшую славянскую псалтирь.
Собрав из десятков тысяч кусочков воска трехстраничный текст, Владимир Иванович сделал, казалось бы, невозможное. Гений реставрации, вне всяких преувеличений.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Владимир Иванович Поветкин. Биографическая справка
 Поветкин, Владимир Иванович
 Анна Кривошеина На каких гуслях играл Садко?/Интервью с В. Поветкиным
 Памяти Владимира Ивановича Поветкина
 Биография Владимира Ивановича Поветкина на сайте Центра музыкальных древностей
 Авт. яaн Capb.  Polchas o narodnoi muzyki. Vladimir Povetkin,  05.03.1983 Peredacha na Estonsoje radio

Выпускники Курского художественно-графического училища
Почётные граждане Великого Новгорода
Реставраторы по алфавиту
Похороненные на Западном кладбище (Великий Новгород)
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Cerise Poolman and Joe Kou #getreal with when when we tell ourselves that we cannot change because we're not ready. Are we not the ones who determine when and how we change?


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Cleaning shows that London's Virgin of the Rocks is nearly all by the artist's hand
After five years of research and conservation, Leonardo's masterpiece is once again looking its best
1st November 2009 00:00 GMT
Cleaning work on the National Gallery's Virgin of the Rocks has revealed that the landscape was painted by Leonardo—not his studio, as had been assumed. This follows the removal of damaged varnish, which was applied during restoration 60 years ago.
With Leonardo, conservation work is only undertaken after years of investigation. Last November the trustees of the London gallery authorised the treatment of the work after five years of research. The examination of the picture has provided an insight into how it was made, and its relationship with Leonardo's earlier version, now in the Louvre. Details were presented at a National Gallery conference to mark the 30th anniversary of its Technical Bulletin.
The first version of the Virgin of the Rocks was commissioned for Milan's San Francesco church in 1483, but there was a dispute with Leonardo, who sold off the painting in the early 1490s. This picture eventually ended up at the Louvre.
A second version was commissioned and installed in the church in 1503 and completed in situ—a process which took a further five years. The project took 25 years because Leonardo kept getting diverted (for instance, on The Last Supper, 1495-98, in Milan) and he was notoriously reluctant to finish his paintings.
The main differences between the first (Louvre) and later (National Gallery) versions is that the pose and draperies of the angel changed and the cross of St John the Baptist was added. The second version remained in the Milan church until 1780, when it was brought to England by artist Gavin Hamilton. It was purchased by the National Gallery in 1880 for £9,000.
The National Gallery's panel was last cleaned in 1949, when new varnish was applied. This has aged particularly badly, and came to represent what restorer Larry Keith describes as an "insuperable obstacle to a proper reading of the picture". In 2004, the painting was investigated with infrared reflectography, revealing the existence of two separate underdrawings, both from Leonardo's hand: the first depicts the Virgin in a different position and the second is much closer to the Louvre version. Around 20 paint samples were taken from the edge of the panel or damaged areas to examine the layers and underdrawing.
Curator Luke Syson is delighted with the results of the cleaning, which has revealed "the volume of the figures, the space in which they sit, and the subtlety of the transitions from light to shade—which are really quite extraordinary."
A key question is how much of the National Gallery painting is by Leonardo. Until now, it was believed that the figures were by Leonardo and the landscape by his studio, but it is now clear that this represents an oversimplification; the sharp distinction between figures and landscape does not hold. For instance, the hair of the Virgin is only partly by the master, and the slightly crude left foot of Christ might be by another hand.
Fortunately, paint losses are relatively minor. The only substantial missing areas are to the clothing of the angel and Virgin, where the red-lake pigment has deteriorated. Overall, the panel has survived remarkably well. Retouching work will take several months. The gallery anticipates that the Virgin of the Rocks will go back on display early next year.
The Louvre's picture is in worse condition, because of more serious paint losses and damaged varnish, which means the colours have darkened considerably. Conservation would be very complicated, and it is unlikely in the foreseeable future.
The fragility of the two versions makes it unlikely that they will ever be exhibited side-by-side. However, we can reveal that the National Gallery is planning an exhibition in 2011, inspired by Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks.
Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper as 'Illuminating a masterpiece'
Appeared in The Art Newspaper Archive, 207 November 2009
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It was not too much of a surprise that Pink Floyd would eventually get around to reissuing their back catalogue on vinyl…
Whilst things haven't exactly been quiet on the Floyd front (2014 brought a Division Bell box set and 'new' album The Endless River) it feels like ages since those infamous Immersion box sets (and the Discovery box) emerged, back in 2011.
A lot has changed; Floyd find themselves part of the Warner Music Group (at least in the UK/Europe) and there is also a new entity called Pink Floyd Records. The early albums which are issued next month will be very welcome, but you do wonder what audio improvements will be delivered when they re-reissue The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, which, after all, were remastered and reissued on vinyl as part of the archival programme five years ago.
It is also mildly surprising that band and label have not agreed to issue an all-bells-and-whistles VINYL BOX, with a book, as Universal have so successfully done with The Beatles and Queen. I'm sure if they were planning that it would have been announced yesterday, so it looks like we will just get all the records issued individually, in separate batches.
There is of course some unfinished business, namely a 5.1 mix of The Wall that was notable by its absence from the Immersion box. I keep hearing positive things about this but James Guthrie, who is the only man Roger Waters would choose for that particular task, has only got so much time on his hands and it seems he has been busy preparing the audio for these vinyl reissues.
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Prince didn't quite get to number one on the official album chart last week, but The Very Best Of Prince did grab the top spot yesterday on a busy physical albums chart. Ultimate Prince is way down at number 58 which can only be a reflection of its availability in shops and particularly supermarkets. 'Hits' sets and Purple Rain are one thing, but it will be interesting to see where HitnRun Phase Two – Prince's last 'proper' studio album – debuts next week.
Billy Ocean's Here You Are – The Best Of, which we previewed a few weeks back, does really well, shooting in at number two, right behind Prince. The bundling-a-hits-disc-with-the-new-album strategy has clearly worked a treat.
The Bad Company two-CD 1977 • 1979 live set performs creditably debuting at number 38, while Universal have got to be pleased with the Cream Classic Album Selection five-CD set slotting in only two places behind at number 40. We flatter ourselves that SDE highlighting Amazon UK's very cheap price may well have given the package a little helping hand up the charts.
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• The federal government tracks journalists at the border.
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A federal judge in San Francisco sided with California in the state's challenge to a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census, saying the move "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system." Critics of the citizenship query say it's intended to force an undercount of immigrants. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine the matter in April.
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The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson acknowledged that he had essentially rewritten "Sweet Little Sixteen" as an homage to the rock legend. Berry's publisher had another word for it: plagiarism. (Compare for yourself). The case was ultimately settled with the Beach Boys surrendering writing credit and publishing royalties.
Mark Zuckerberg's new vision for Facebook raised all sorts of questions.
Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to transform the essence of social media. After years of data privacy scandals, Facebook will start reorienting people away from public sharing and toward private conversations. Zuckerberg was vague on details, but said he envisioned a "digital living room" — in contrast to a digital town square — where conversations are intimate, ephemeral, and private.
A survey of 740 tech leaders found that more than half believed Silicon Valley would cease to be the global center of tech innovation within four years. Cost of living was among the reasons cited. The leading contender to take the tech mantle? New York City.
The authorities arrested a Stanford admissions officer on charges of attempted murder after he was accused of repeatedly stabbing his girlfriend. According to court records, James Shirvell, 26, attacked the woman after the couple ingested LSD. "I think it was a bad acid trip," Shirvell's lawyer told a judge. In a letter, the girlfriend vouched for Shirvell, saying he had "pure intentions" but was "possessed by another force."
Young men at Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp.
Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp in Amador County is California's last remaining youth prison work camp. It practices "rehabilitation through labor" and lacks traditional cells or prison walls. Brian L. Frank, a San Francisco photographer and himself a onetime juvenile offender, spent a year following the youths, capturing them both on the streets and in institutional bunkrooms. His images are surprisingly tender.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park has camping, cabins, and hundreds of miles of trails.
The origin of tourism in California is said to have begun in 1852 when a hunter stumbled upon a giant sequoia — 25 feet in diameter and 300 feet in height — and couldn't believe his eyes. Dubbed the "Discovery Tree," it was cut down a year later to attract tourists, with its stump serving as a dance floor and its hollowed out trunk as a bowling alley.
The area, home to two groves of more than 1,000 ancient sequoias, is now protected in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Travel pros suggest going in the spring, when the crowds are fewer and the white dogwood blossoms put on a show.
Leaked documents revealed that the federal government has been monitoring journalists, activists, and others who interacted with a migrant caravan that arrived in Tijuana late last year. Dossiers including photos and personal details were kept in a secret database and some journalists had alerts placed on their passports. The ACLU called the operation "an outrageous violation of the First Amendment."
Los Angeles's skid row is lined with tents.
Los Angeles officials agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by homeless advocates that is expected to strictly limit the city's ability to clear skid row, home to more than 2,000 people who live outdoors. Civil rights lawyers had argued that the authorities use minor "quality of life" offenses as a pretext to dismantle camps and destroy property. A downtown business leader said the city had mortgaged its future in a "misguided attempt to buy temporary peace with activists."
Kevin Tsujihara's relationship with a young actress is being investigated by WarnerMedia.
The Hollywood Reporter published a bombshell report with allegations that Kevin Tsujihara, the Warner Bros. C.E.O., offered to promote the career of a young actress as part of a quid pro quo sexual relationship. A reporter, who spent more than a year investigating the story, called it "a window into how the boys play in Hollywood."
Michael Jackson with James Safechuck, 10, in 1988. Safechuck has accused the late pop star of abusing him as a child.
HBO's "Leaving Neverland," about alleged child sexual abuse by Michael Jackson, has led to a fresh round of soul-searching about the pop star's legacy. Here's how a few critics have reacted.
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Q: How to aggregate data ignoring same values? Given I have the following articles collection:
[
   { "title" : "Title 1", "score" : 80 },
   { "title" : "Title 2", "score" : 85 },
   { "title" : "Title 3", "score" : 85 },
   { "title" : "Title 4", "score" : 90 }
]

How can I get the number of articles that have a score greater than 82, without counting the equal values (in the example: 85), using the aggregation framework (the result should be 2)?
The idea is to get the rank of an article.
Is there a simpler solution than using a double aggregation (group scores in the first one, and then doing the count)?

A: Well, it seems I found the answer. Here is the solution:
db.articles.aggregate( [
  { $match: { score: { $gt: 82 } } },
  { $group: { _id: '$score' } },
  { $group: { _id: null, count: { $sum: 1 } } }
] );

Any other solution is welcome too, but this one seems to be pretty straightforward.


High Street Foundations | Rimmel, Collection, NYC, B.
A few of you have asked me to review a few high street foundations, so here it is! Being so pale, I often find it hard finding foundations that suit me. Also, with foundations, certain ones will work for me that will work differently for other people due to skin types. I have combination skin so some of my face is drier or oilier than other parts. Over the past week I have used 4 different foundations on different days and have been pleasantly surprised. I've rated them all out of 5.
Obviously there are a lot of other highstreet foundations that I've yet to try that might be amazing, so if you know of any, comment below!
Have you used any of the foundations I've mentioned? What did you think of them?


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Better the second time? NBA Finals ratings up
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NBA Finals ratings up from last year
NEW YORK -- The San Antonio Spurs' redemption title was a big hit with television viewers.
Nearly 18 million viewers tuned in to watch the Spurs clinch in Game 5 on Sunday night. That's a 10 percent increase from Game 5 between the same teams last year. Nielsen says viewership peaked at 22.4 million in the last half hour of the Spurs' 104-87 win.
The 10.3 national rating on ABC was up from 9.5 last year.
The five-game series averaged 15.5 million viewers and a 9.3 rating. That's up from 15.1 million viewers and a 9.1 rating through five games of the 2013 classic series.
Nielsen Social says it was the most-tweeted NBA game of the year, with more than 6.4 million tweets. The Spurs won their fifth NBA championship, preventing the Heat from winning three straight titles.


February 9, 2015 – Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn Hewson celebrated the accomplishments of the Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) recipients during the 2015 BEYA STEM Conference Gala held February 7 in Washington, D.C.
The conference was the largest gathering of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals and leaders who are committed to advancing diversity in the technology workforce. During the Gala, Hewson delivered remarks highlighting Lockheed Martin's commitment to diversity and inclusion.
During the conference Gala, Ernest Levert of Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control business in Grand Prairie, Texas, was honored with the BEYA Career Achievement Award for applying his passion for welding and decades of experience to solve advanced manufacturing technical challenges across the Corporation. During his 28-year Lockheed Martin career, Levert pioneered new welding innovations that impacted programs ranging from the ground, to the seas and even to outer space.
In addition to Levert's recognition, dozens of other Lockheed Martin employees received BEYA STEM Awards, including 37 "Modern-Day Technology Leader" awards, 11 "Science Spectrum Trailblazer" awards and two special awards.
Jonathan D. Madison, Ph.D., of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who received the Most Promising Scientist Award for his pioneering work on computational materials and data science.
Karmyn Norwood of Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics business in Meridian, Mississippi, who received a Special Recognition Award for her leadership in executing multi-billion dollar military aircraft programs and for her STEM community outreach efforts.
In addition to hosting the annual BEYA conference, the company recognizes its talent during other key events throughout the year, including the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference and the Asian American Engineer of the Year event.


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Blue Jays avoid arbitration with Saunders, Estrada
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Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Blue Jays agreed to terms on one-year contracts with outfielder Michael Saunders and pitcher Marco Estrada on Friday, avoiding arbitration.
Saunders will receive $2.875 million in 2015, while Estrada is set to earn $3.9 million.
Saunders was acquired by the Blue Jays from the Mariners in exchange for pitcher J.A. Happ last month. He hit .273 with eight homers, 34 RBI and a career-best .341 on-base percentage in 78 games last season.
The 28-year-old Saunders is a career .231 hitter with 51 homers and 182 RBI over 553 games with Seattle.
Toronto acquired Estrada from Milwaukee in a November trade, sending Adam Lind to the Brewers. The right-hander went 7-6 with a 4.36 ERA in 39 games (18 starts) last season.
The 31-year-old Estrada is 23-26 with a 4.23 ERA over 154 career games (71 starts) with the Nationals and Brewers.


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By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 years August 28, 2017 ago
The US has used the War on drugs to create a racial caste system: a successor to the Jim Crow days we thought we left behind. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is one of the most important American books in the last decade. Alexander systematically explores the policy changes from the days of Nixon through the present – exploring how each decision has created and allowed a system which criminalizes blackness, brownness, otherness in way that both creates new racial biases and confirms them by incarcerating millions of young black and brown men (and to a lesser extent, black and brown women).
By Aubrey Hicks, 8 years July 28, 2015 ago


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Leonard Orban (Brașov, 28 juni 1961) is een Roemeens technocraat die commissaris was voor Meertaligheid in de Europese Commissie, het uitvoerend orgaan van de Europese Unie (EU). Hij was verantwoordelijk voor het taalbeleid van de EU, de eerste Roemeense commissaris ooit en tevens de eerste die als enige de portefeuille meertaligheid had. Zijn termijn begon bij de toetreding van Roemenië tot de EU op 1 januari 2007 en liep af op 31 oktober 2009. Orban vervulde meerdere functies bij de voorbereiding van de Roemeense toetreding tot de EU, eerst als afgevaardigde en later al hoofdonderhandelaar voor zijn land.

Hij werd als Roemeens commissaris opgevolgd door Dacian Cioloș.

In januari 2015 werd hij presidentieel adviseur onder Klaus Iohannis. In 2021 ging hij met pensioen en werd hij geridderd in de orde van de Ster van Roemenië.

Leonard Orban is de broer van de politicus Ludovic Orban, premier van Roemenië in 2019.

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