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Jade Jackson releases her second full-length album, Wilderness, through Anti- Records. The LP is home to her new single 'Secret', which tells a story of addiction, loss, and the heartbreak that accompanies not just death itself but of a failure to fulfill dreams and to escape the tethers of home...
Fans of indie country music will find much to embrace in Jade Jackson's new album, Wilderness. The LP contains 12 songs (44 min, 28 sec) and is a fairly diverse affair. Sure there are your cliched country tracks ('Bottle it Up' and 'Dust'), but there are plenty of songs that stretch the genre to breaking point.
'Now Or Never'	is more an indie rock song, while 'Don't Say That You Love Me' is a pretty solid indie pop track with a western twang.
It's a huge leap forward when compared to her 2017 release, Gilded. Overall, it's an interesting album that throws its doors wide open to welcome everyone. It's a pretty solid and engaging release.
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The base of white with red coloured embroidery flowers are stunning that can't be missed at any cost. This small sized purse with solid handle is very captivating as well as easy to carry in parties or elsewhere. The beautiful embroidery of red flowers is being made with high-quality thread and the entire front of the purse is decorated with the leaves of the flowers adjoined altogether. The back of the purse also has dotted embroidery work that looks very graceful.


I understand that Indian Yellow is a transparent color. I don't mind if I mix the color with permanent. But I would like to know if there is a way to mix other colors from a limited palette to achieve Indian yellow?
Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you!
I would start with lemon yellow progressively mixed with dots of yellow ochre.
Thank you so much @dencal.
I actually mixed a variety of colors from lemon yellow, yellow ochre, and I experimented with burnt sienna and venetian red. The Venitian Red brought a more lively color.
My favorite color in the world. If you figure out a way, let me know! http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/discover/articles-and-inspiration/spotlight-on-colour-indian-yellow It used to be banned.
Well thank goodness for modern chemistry. Better than bovine urine (although they still use it in energy drinks) and I'm glad we can get the color without making cows suffer. Thanks for the article @Julianna.
This is why Mark's limited palette blows my mind! I just can't seem to get it.
If I am not wrong @Julianna Indian yellow was obtained from the urine of cow fed only with mango leaves, the diet is very hypocaloric and the cow suffer a lot from this.
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Down at Pax South the people behind Loot Crate announced a gaming edition of their popular "rando box of items" monthly subscription. Facing some competition from upstart loot boxes like 1up and NerdBlock it makes sense they would step in a take back their market share. Loot Crate will continue to deliver a monthly wearable but it rumored to diversify beyond just shirts which I would imagine would be mostly hats since they have similar value and would fit in the box. The crates will cost 25 dollars a month, so a little more expensive but if you love gaming swag and especially exclusive items which Loot Crate has been good at procuring this is the box for you.
For you Browncoats, they also announced a Firefly box that will be every other month. I love that show and world, but I can't imagine they won't be scraping the bottom of the barrel a few months in to that cycle.


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Q: Can the FTDI Tx and Rx tension level be different that it's VCC? I'm building my own FT232RL to convert a UART signal to USB.
The source of power will be the USB 5V, but for reasons of the circuit i already have it would be easier to let more of the circuit keep working at 3V3 (i use a DC DC from the 5V to 3V).
The FT232RL needs its VCC at more than +4V so it uses its internal oscillator.
From the datasheet i'm having trouble to understand if i can have its VCC at a voltage level and then receiving the signal on Tx and Rx at a different level, let's say 3V3.
What shall i look on the datasheet?
This is the circuit in question:

On the datasheet on page 26 there is an example where it shows we can connect VCCIO to the 5V from USB or the 3V3OUT of FT232RL, this is another question i have, instead of 3V3OUT can we use another 3V3? The reason is i don't think 3V3OUT provides enough current for all my circuit. (hope this doesn't cause a problem)
"The VCCIO pin is either supplied with +5V from the USB bus (jumper pins1 and 2 connected), or from the +3.3V output from the FT232R 3V3OUT pin"

A: Chapter 6.4 has an example circuit with optional 3.3V on the IOs.
Basically just put 3.3V on the VCCIO pin, which sets the level that RX and TX signals run on.

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Review: Alexander Hawkins Octet at Café Oto
By ljazzn on 28 February 2013 • ( 1 Comment )
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Review: Alexander Hawkins Octet
(Café Oto. 26th February 2013. Review by Rob Edgar)
The audience at Cafe Oto on Tuesday was treated to two sets of music by pianist/ composer Alexander Hawkins; the first consisted of members of the octet pared down into smaller ensembles and began with Oren Marshall and Byron Wallen on tubas with Mark Sanders keeping things together on the kit. Their piece set the mood for the rest of the evening; it featured sections that sounded through-composed with dissonant contrary motion counterpoint, flashes of free furious cacophony, and a general ebb and flow character with the first theme acting as a reference point throughout.
At the end of the piece, the crowd was briefly stunned into silence before erupting into deserved applause and were fully primed for the next group with biting double stops and sinewy sul ponticello from cellist Hannah Marshall playing against whines, key-clicks and multiphonics of Chris Cundy on bass clarinet and Percy Pursglove's whirlwind of notes on the trumpet.
Alexander Hawkins actually made his first appearance as pianist towards the end of the first half, underpinning the shrieking,wailing, sometimes almost Ferneyhough-like spinning complexity of Pete McPhail and Peter Evans (on flute and piccolo trumpet respectively) with a gnarled and expressionistic chaconne.
"I'm going to have to spend the rest of the evening with my back to you I'm afraid" said Hawkins (he'd had a four hour delay on the motorway, a delay which had eaten into the scheduled rehearsal time) before he began conducting the new BBC commission which made up the second half of the concert. This piece – which does not yet have a title – was fifty minutes of uninterrupted bliss, walking the line between improvised and composed flawlessly, it featured the usual compositional techniques of thematic development and variation (the calm second theme turned on its head to create another passage for example) and grew organically like a flower opening but also featured eight musicians who had equal time in the spotlight and considerable freedom with how they interpreted the lines. Hannah Marshall's frenetic cello at times sounded as though a colony of ants had been let loose to scurry up and down the fingerboard, Peter Evans again blew us away with a delicate solo that almost sounded polyphonic at times followed by equally gentle interplay between the flute and drums, and one particularly conspicuous aspect of the night in general, was that all the players managed to coax new, unusual and sometimes even disturbing sounds from their instruments.
At the end of the piece, the audience was briefly silent once more, we needed time to reflect and let the vast and powerful music sink-in before flaring up in rapturous applause.
The (so far untitled) piece for octet has been recorded in the studio for broadcast on Jazz On 3 on 25th March 2013, as part of BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring.
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In addition to Halvorstorps IS, 203 other teams from 30 different countries played in Boys 15. They were divided into 50 different groups, whereof Halvorstorps IS could be found in Group 28 together with FK Bromma, SK Vard Haugesund and The Rainbow Team.
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A big challenge for geophysicists and seismic interpreters is to do good work today and to make results available to tomorrow's workers. With rapidly-advancing subsurface data acquisition, analysis, storage, and access tools at our disposal, how do we maximize their use for accurate and efficient project execution and retain information during and after project completion? This requires a two-fold approach: geoscience-focused technological innovation, and a philosophy of interdisciplinary collaboration and communication.
Seismic analysis is a synthesis of many different data types — the seismic data itself, wells, velocity models, geology, cores, previous work — which in turn generates more data and parameters that are important to reservoir engineers, economists and drillers. Furthermore, geoscientists are inherently interested in exchanging ideas and information, but not necessarily the information-technology business models whereby that happens.
What will be helpful then are not new software applications in which to create, analyse, and record, but versatile innovations that help us increase the efficiency of existing data and tools required for interpretation, archival, and transmission. These solutions will acknowledge and fit the subsurface workflow of geophysical interpretation and model building, followed by dynamic well planning and drilltime model refinement, and not the other way around. The user should not be constrained by the tools.
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It's not uncommon for creative people to have more than one musical outlet for their muse. Musicians as diverse as Felix Mendelssohn, George Gershwin, Tony Bennett and Joni Mitchell could all paint, for instance.
I know fewer examples of great visual artists who are musically gifted, but TONY GREEN certainly fits that description. The New Orleans native is one of the city's better-known painters, and lately his musical star has been rising as well: numerous appearances at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, musical tours in Italy, Germany, Hungary & Switzerland, and rave reviews for his last three Gypsy Jazz CDs.
As a guitarist growing up in the '60s and 70's, Tony's idol is of all people the Belgian gypsy jazz giant Django Reinhardt. Green got turned onto Reinhardt's style of music while studying art in Brugges, Belgium, in 1978.
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Q: pointer changes value without being passed as argument Following is a code snippet from a code involving some transformations on a binary tree.
void fixPrevPtr(struct node *root)
{
    static struct node *pre = NULL;

    if (root != NULL)
    {
        fixPrevPtr(root->left);
        root->left = pre;
        pre = root;
        fixPrevPtr(root->right);
    }
}

Here 'pre' is initialised in every function as NULL. But when function entered 'if' clause and     root->left=pre, was executed, pre that was being assigned was not NULL. It was somehow changed by the function fixPrevPtr(root->left).
My question is that how does it get changed without being even passed into the function.
Thanks in advance.

A: This bit is incorrect

Here 'pre' is initialized in every function as NULL.

It only gets initialized once due to the static keyword. If the function changes the value then next time the function has that value instead of null.

A: pre is static so it keeps it's value from call to call.  fixPrevPtr() is recursive (calls itself) so any change to pre "sticks".

A: static struct node *pre = NULL;

Initialize pre once due to the static keyword.
But the next time you enter in this function, pre will have the last value assigned to it.
I suggest you to read this : Static variable inside of a function in C
In the C standard :

6.2.4 Storage durations of objects
An object whose identifier is declared with external or internal linkage, or with the storage-class specifier static has static storage duration. Its lifetime is the entire execution of the program and its stored value is initialized only once, prior to program startup.

A: pre is a static value , it stored in the data segment, and it scope is not only the fixPrevPtr but also the all other function in this  process, so of course fixPrevPtr itself can change it.

A: you have added static keyword with the struct node * pre = NULL that's why it is retaining a value from a previous function call when pre = root; was executed.
remove static and you are good to go
you can read about static variables from this link http://ee.hawaii.edu/~tep/EE160/Book/chap14/subsection2.1.1.6.html

Static automatic variables continue to exist even after the block in which they are defined terminates. Thus, the value of a static variable in a function is retained between repeated function calls to the same function.


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"""Support for Litter-Robot "Vacuum"."""
from __future__ import annotations

import logging
from typing import Any

from pylitterbot.enums import LitterBoxStatus
from pylitterbot.robot import VALID_WAIT_TIMES
import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant.components.vacuum import (
    STATE_CLEANING,
    STATE_DOCKED,
    STATE_ERROR,
    STATE_PAUSED,
    SUPPORT_START,
    SUPPORT_STATE,
    SUPPORT_STATUS,
    SUPPORT_TURN_OFF,
    SUPPORT_TURN_ON,
    StateVacuumEntity,
)
from homeassistant.config_entries import ConfigEntry
from homeassistant.const import STATE_OFF
from homeassistant.core import HomeAssistant
from homeassistant.helpers import config_validation as cv, entity_platform
from homeassistant.helpers.entity_platform import AddEntitiesCallback

from .const import DOMAIN
from .entity import LitterRobotControlEntity
from .hub import LitterRobotHub

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

SUPPORT_LITTERROBOT = (
    SUPPORT_START | SUPPORT_STATE | SUPPORT_STATUS | SUPPORT_TURN_OFF | SUPPORT_TURN_ON
)
TYPE_LITTER_BOX = "Litter Box"

SERVICE_RESET_WASTE_DRAWER = "reset_waste_drawer"
SERVICE_SET_SLEEP_MODE = "set_sleep_mode"
SERVICE_SET_WAIT_TIME = "set_wait_time"

async def async_setup_entry(
    hass: HomeAssistant,
    entry: ConfigEntry,
    async_add_entities: AddEntitiesCallback,
) -> None:
    """Set up Litter-Robot cleaner using config entry."""
    hub: LitterRobotHub = hass.data[DOMAIN][entry.entry_id]

    async_add_entities(
        [
            LitterRobotCleaner(robot=robot, entity_type=TYPE_LITTER_BOX, hub=hub)
            for robot in hub.account.robots
        ]
    )

    platform = entity_platform.async_get_current_platform()
    platform.async_register_entity_service(
        SERVICE_RESET_WASTE_DRAWER,
        {},
        "async_reset_waste_drawer",
    )
    platform.async_register_entity_service(
        SERVICE_SET_SLEEP_MODE,
        {
            vol.Required("enabled"): cv.boolean,
            vol.Optional("start_time"): cv.time,
        },
        "async_set_sleep_mode",
    )
    platform.async_register_entity_service(
        SERVICE_SET_WAIT_TIME,
        {vol.Required("minutes"): vol.All(vol.Coerce(int), vol.In(VALID_WAIT_TIMES))},
        "async_set_wait_time",
    )

class LitterRobotCleaner(LitterRobotControlEntity, StateVacuumEntity):
    """Litter-Robot "Vacuum" Cleaner."""

    @property
    def supported_features(self) -> int:
        """Flag cleaner robot features that are supported."""
        return SUPPORT_LITTERROBOT

    @property
    def state(self) -> str:
        """Return the state of the cleaner."""
        switcher = {
            LitterBoxStatus.CLEAN_CYCLE: STATE_CLEANING,
            LitterBoxStatus.EMPTY_CYCLE: STATE_CLEANING,
            LitterBoxStatus.CLEAN_CYCLE_COMPLETE: STATE_DOCKED,
            LitterBoxStatus.CAT_SENSOR_TIMING: STATE_DOCKED,
            LitterBoxStatus.DRAWER_FULL_1: STATE_DOCKED,
            LitterBoxStatus.DRAWER_FULL_2: STATE_DOCKED,
            LitterBoxStatus.READY: STATE_DOCKED,
            LitterBoxStatus.CAT_SENSOR_INTERRUPTED: STATE_PAUSED,
            LitterBoxStatus.OFF: STATE_OFF,
        }

        return switcher.get(self.robot.status, STATE_ERROR)

    @property
    def status(self) -> str:
        """Return the status of the cleaner."""
        return (
            f"{self.robot.status.text}{' (Sleeping)' if self.robot.is_sleeping else ''}"
        )

    async def async_turn_on(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
        """Turn the cleaner on, starting a clean cycle."""
        await self.perform_action_and_refresh(self.robot.set_power_status, True)

    async def async_turn_off(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
        """Turn the unit off, stopping any cleaning in progress as is."""
        await self.perform_action_and_refresh(self.robot.set_power_status, False)

    async def async_start(self) -> None:
        """Start a clean cycle."""
        await self.perform_action_and_refresh(self.robot.start_cleaning)

    async def async_reset_waste_drawer(self) -> None:
        """Reset the waste drawer level."""
        # The Litter-Robot reset waste drawer service has been replaced by a
        # dedicated button entity and marked as deprecated
        _LOGGER.warning(
            "The 'litterrobot.reset_waste_drawer' service is deprecated and "
            "replaced by a dedicated reset waste drawer button entity; Please "
            "use that entity to reset the waste drawer instead"
        )
        await self.robot.reset_waste_drawer()
        self.coordinator.async_set_updated_data(True)

    async def async_set_sleep_mode(
        self, enabled: bool, start_time: str | None = None
    ) -> None:
        """Set the sleep mode."""
        await self.perform_action_and_refresh(
            self.robot.set_sleep_mode,
            enabled,
            self.parse_time_at_default_timezone(start_time),
        )

    async def async_set_wait_time(self, minutes: int) -> None:
        """Set the wait time."""
        # The Litter-Robot set wait time service has been replaced by a
        # dedicated select entity and marked as deprecated
        _LOGGER.warning(
            "The 'litterrobot.set_wait_time' service is deprecated and "
            "replaced by a dedicated set wait time select entity; Please "
            "use that entity to set the wait time instead"
        )
        await self.perform_action_and_refresh(self.robot.set_wait_time, minutes)

    @property
    def extra_state_attributes(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        """Return device specific state attributes."""
        return {
            "clean_cycle_wait_time_minutes": self.robot.clean_cycle_wait_time_minutes,
            "is_sleeping": self.robot.is_sleeping,
            "sleep_mode_enabled": self.robot.sleep_mode_enabled,
            "power_status": self.robot.power_status,
            "status_code": self.robot.status_code,
            "last_seen": self.robot.last_seen,
            "status": self.status,
        }


"Yes, I can get you the recipe." I reply.
At a time when 5% of our children in the United States eat enough fruits and vegetables to grow into healthy adults, a second grader begging me for a recipe chock-full of chard — a dynamic leaf and stem duo that grows well here in Ronan, Montana, is typically cheap, full of nutrients, beautiful, and delicious — feels like a victory. I want every child to have a chance to grow up healthy. I want every kid to love vegetables and fruits and want to eat them all the time. While the problem of children not consuming vegetables and fruits is complex, at least part of the answer seems relatively simple.
Two things I've learned about kids and vegetables:1) Often we have to try a new food many times before we like it. Some of the battle is simply "exposing" kids to vegetables and encouraging a willingness to try new foods. My students are all now members of the "Two Bite Club." Ronan second graders tried two bites of spinach, pumpkin, garbanzo beans, white cheddar cheese and farro to become members. As a member of the Two Bite Club, they have agreed to be brave and try two bites of healthy foods. Every time I feed kids vegetables one or two blurts out "I like it!" The look of genuine shock and excitement on their face as they learn they like a new healthy food makes it all worth it.
2) When kids grow or cook food, they are more likely to want it. I fell in love with vegetables working on a produce farm so this makes sense to me. Our school is in the process of getting a garden, which is so exciting. Currently we connect with food through cooking in the classroom.
In many schools today, time can feel tight. There are curriculum standards to meet and making room for extra projects is challenging. However, we can connect nutrition education into our curriculum standards and have a more engaging lesson because of it. Cooking and eating food lends itself to integrating well with science, math, language arts, geography and history. The world we live in is complex; we must foster creativity in our children and encourage the ability to understand and work with complexity for them to be successful in the unknown future we are attempting to prepare them for. When we create holistic lessons that are hands-on and cross-disciplinary, my hope is that students are more engaged and therefore more prepared to tackle the complex systems they will encounter in their futures.


Add additional TV SoundBox Speaker Receivers to your Serene Innovations TV SoundBox TV Listening Speaker system.
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Up to 50 TV SoundBox Speaker Receivers can be paired with each Serene Innovations TV SoundBox base.
Never had the chance to use the product due to the unclear description of the product. It cost me shipping to my location plus shipping it back and have nothing to show for the money I spent. Also after shipping it back a week ago, I am still waiting for a refund.
I already had one, including the transmitter. The new one performs as well as the original. Can I buy a transmitter without a receiver?
Talent Y35R203 3.5mm Stereo Male to Dual Left /Right RCA Male Adapter Cable 3 ft.


Discussion in 'For Sale and Auction' started by ed_o_brain, 16 May 2010.
It's only done 80-something miles in my tenure of ownership. I bought it new from Wiggle during the middle of last year for £1.4k, reduced from it's rrp of £1.8k. Yours for a princely £999.
This bike is in stunning condition. I'm selling it in order to raise some funding for my photography venture. It has a full SRAM Rival Group set, FSA bars and seat post, Kore stem, Fizik saddle. It has a 39/50 compact chainset and it has a 11-28 cassette. It has Mavic Aksium wheels and a 54 cm/Medium frame.
This is quite simply the most stunning and fastest bike I've ever ridden. It's also the most impractical for most the cycling I do - I love my mudguards. That said, if the 'tog venture ever turns out to be a success, I wouldn't hesitate in buying it again!
Please note, as it's Carbon Fibre, I won't post it. Will deliver anywhere that's reasonable to get to on the train from New Mills.
I thought I'd give this a bit of a bump.
Price dropped to £900 to spark a bit of interest, don't think of offering me any less.
I can deliver in the localities of Telford, Manchester and Derby. At cost anywhere else for 20 pence per mile outside the SK22 post code.
Too small for me, but what a great deal!
Have you tried selling this on Bikeradar? Its a lovely bike and a great price - bikes like this usually sell quickly on Bikeradar.
Lovely bike... but too small and would never get it past the wife!
Very, very tempting, and my size too... oh, sod it, you have PM!


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Michael Cherney (también conocido como Mikhail Chernoy o Mijail Chernoi) nació el 16 de enero de 1952 en Uzbekistán y es un empresario israelí conocido por el papel significativo que jugó en la década de los noventa en la industria del aluminio en Rusia. Es también el fundador de la Fundación Michael Cherney.

Biografía

Cherney nació en Taskent, hijo de una contable y un ingeniero, a quien constantemente acompañaba a realizar trabajos menores. Después del instituto fue reclutado por el Ejército Soviético y asistió a una universidad técnica.

Negocios

Michael Cherney alcanzó el éxito en los negocios tras asociarse con el empresario americo-ucraniano Sam Kislin, para fundar la empresa Transcommodities en 1991. Tan sólo en el primer año Cherney obtuvo ganancias del orden de dos millones de dólares. En la década de los noventa, Cherney fue requerido por el entonces Ministro de Metalúrgica para que suministrara carbón y coque a las fábricas rusas. Cherney suministró unas cien toneladas de carbón polaco con lo cual prácticamente resucitó la economía rusa.
Hacia 1994 Cherney y sus socios producían utilidades millonarias y fueron actores significativos en el proceso de privatización de las fábricas de la antigua Unión Soviética. Esto hizo que Cherney recibiera presiones de diversos sectores y finalmente, después de que uno de sus socios recibiera una brutal golpiza, decidió emigrar a Israel en 1994. Desde entonces ha manejado sus negocios desde ese país.

Campaña de desprestigio

Varios medios de comunicación, entre ellos The Guardian, han reportado que contra Michael Cherney existe una campaña de desprestigio. Se han publicado numerosos artículos relacionándole con diferentes actividades criminales y sin embargo nunca se le ha encontrado culpable de nada. Tanto así que un tribunal Suizo no sólo le exoneró sino que le dio una indemnización por las investigaciones que se le hicieron durante diez años y el perjuicio que significaron para su buen nombre. De acuerdo con la legislación suiza, la compensación por daños morales no puede exceder los 10,000 francos suizos, salvo contadas excepciones en "circunstancias especiales". Tal fue el caso de Cherney, a quien le fue entregada una indemnización de 30.000 francos suizos en parte por la gravedad de las acusaciones, y en parte porque la investigación se prolongó por casi 11 años.
Actualmente Michael Cherney tiene un proceso abierto ante la justicia española, basado en el testimonio de Jalol Haidarov. El libro Palabra de Vor asegura que Haidarov es el testigo estrella en el caso y que tan importante es su testimonio para inculpar a Cherney que ha sifo amenazado en varias oportunidades por éste. Sin embargo la cadena de noticias IzRus reportó en enero de 2011 que Cherney y Haidarov fueron vistos cenando amistosamente en el hotel Hilton de Tel Aviv lo cual ha generado serias dudas sobre la confiabilidad del testimonio de Haidarov.
Para defenderse de los ataques a su honra y buen nombre Cherney ha abierto páginas web en varios idiomas explicando su versión de las acusaciones. La página en español https://web.archive.org/web/20160110212036/http://michaelcherney.es/ fue lanzada en abril de 2011.

Referencias

Nacidos en Taskent
Emigrantes rusos hacia Israel
Empresarios de Israel
Empresarios de Rusia
Israelíes del siglo XX

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Comedian Bill Burr rails against cancel culture: 'I also have the right to say whatever I want'
Added by i898 on December 3, 2021
The comedian appeared on The Pat McAfee show this week and shared his take on why he doesn't lose sleep worrying about being "canceled" online.
"This is a time to be irreverent, and it's also a time to be empathetic," Burr reasoned. "And you have to know how to do both. These people that are on the extreme right and left, I think, only represent about 15% of the population. And any time you're hardcore or extreme, you inevitably become intolerant. I just feel like 85% of the country on the right and the left is kind of sitting there, when are dad and mom going to stop screaming at each other."
"The thing is, I don't do anything in my act that's malicious," he added. "I'm not going out there to hurt anybody. But like, I also have the right to say whatever I want to say and say it the way I want to say it."
GRAMMYS NOMINATE LOUIS C.K., DAVE CHAPPELLE DESPITE SCANDALS
Burr admitted, "I'm not saying that I never have made mistakes, and most times I've, you know, pissed somebody off and made somebody cry. If they come up to me, and they have a legitimate thing then I'll apologize to them. But I'm not apologizing to a bunch of f–king people because I told a joke [at a show] that they weren't at."
WARNING: VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
Others have also addressed cancel culture. Comedian Al Franken, a former Democratic Minnesota senator, recently spoke out about being canceled after he was pressured to resign from the U.S. Senate in 2018 in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.
"It was a bit of a shock when it happened," Franken said on CBS Mornings in reference to the allegations and resigning. "This is me going back to my roots."
BILL BURR'S 'SNL' OPENING MONOLOGUE DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS FOR HITTING CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS
Three dozen of Franken's Democratic colleagues called on him to step down without due process. Later, nine senators admitted their decision was wrong.
Bill Burr admitted he doesn't worry about cancel culture when performing his stand-up comedy. (Will Heath/NBC)
When asked by cohost Nate Burleson if he believes he was canceled, Franken said, "I don't know what the vocabulary is. I believe it was just a point in time where everything came together. I think the nine [senators] have expressed exactly what I feel, which is what you should do, especially in the United States Senate, is have an ethics investigation. That's what I asked for and didn't get."
Burleson then followed up and asked if Franken thinks comedy should be free of "cancel culture criticism," citing the backlash from Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special as an example.
"Satire has a very important place. It's meant to be provocative. It's meant to start discussions. You offend very often … it's hard to figure out where exactly the line is, and people have different ideas of where that line is," Franken said. "I think we need to be careful and understand what the role of satire is."
Al Franken reasoned that "satire has a very important place. It's meant to be provocative." (Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images)
Lin-Manuel Miranda also addressed the concept of cancel culture, specifically regarding past criticism and complaints of colorism in his work.
The "Tick, Tick… Boom!" director sat down for a lengthy interview with The New Yorker and said he believes dissenting opinions are often misconstrued as "cancellation."
Lin-Manuel Miranda apologized after receiving backlash online and being accused of colorism in his work. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
"Once something has success, you're not the underdog trying to make it happen anymore. You have to graduate past the mindset of, like, 'It's a miracle I got something on the stage.' Because now that is expected of me. And people go, 'Yeah, but what about this? And what about this?' And that's fair! I do that with art I find lacking," he explained. "It's not cancellation. That's having opinions. So I try to take it in that spirit."
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Florida bill to shield people from feeling 'discomfort' over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender approved by Senate committee
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Heritage Foundation scholar breaks down 'absurd' federalization of elections in Democrats' bill
Von Spakovsky, who served under President George W. Bush and is now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Election Law Reform Initiative, told host Mark Levin that Sewell's bill, heavily supported by Biden and fellow...
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Embroidered sew-on patch, 1.5" Wide x 3" Tall. Select black/white or black/gold.
This bindrune was created for the "All Training is Sacrifice" essay. It is meant to symbolize the elements of Odin's sacrifice and exchange on Yggdrasil. In addition to an inverted and upright Ansuz(ᚫ), the rune most closely associated with Odin and used for mastery in the OATTH runes, the bindrune contains Laguz (ᛚ) (symbolizing the lake or the Well of Urðr), Eihwaz (ᛇ), symbolizing consciousness and the world tree Yggdrasil, Isa (ᛁ) , for concentration and inspiration, Hagalaz (ᚼ) from the Younger Futhark for creation through destruction, Gebo (ᚷ) for exchange, and even Tiwaz (ᛏ) for purpose, courage and victory.


Over the years doing the blog we have seen many different usernames and avatars – While some are just letters or initials and are self-explanatory there are many that are clever and are very intriguing titles.
We would like to offer the opportunity for you, our readers, a chance to share your story, and we hope you will. Don't be shy!!
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Is it a name that you use throughout the internet or solely for the Dinar Community?
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You can share about your avatar as well – We look forward to reading your interesting stories as we also hope you will enjoy reading others who have shared. Thank you all for sharing.


Rap-Up reports that Universal Republic plans on releasing Lil Wayne's next album I Am Not A Human Being II on November 13th. The lead single off said album is No Worries featuring Detail.
Mikkey Halsted releases his new mixtape, produced entirely by The Legendary Traxster. Track list and download link after the jump.
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The Floacist drops a new track titled Soul.
Another track off Quality Street Music.
[youtube=http://youtu.be/N6cao_09Ab0] Snoop Dogg joins Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith to talk Lakers Vs. Heat.
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Q: numpy qr factorization problems I'm trying to extract rotation matrix from affine transform matrix (via QR decomposition), but it gives me wrong rotations. After applying rotation vectors should have zero angle between them. I have no idea what is going wrong.
Here is the code that is currently giving the unexpected output:
import numpy as np
import math

np.set_printoptions(suppress=True)

def compute_affine(ins, out): # matrices 3x4
    # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8873462/how-to-perform-coordinates-affine-transformation-using-python
    # finding transformation
    l = len(ins)
    entry = lambda r, d: np.linalg.det(np.delete(np.vstack([r, ins.T, np.ones(l)]), d, axis=0))
    M = np.array([[(-1) ** i * entry(R, i) for R in out.T] for i in range(l + 1)])
    print(M)
    A, t = np.hsplit(M[1:].T / (-M[0])[:, None], [l - 1])
    t = np.transpose(t)[0]
    # output transformation
    print("Affine transformation matrix:\n", A)
    print("Affine transformation translation vector:\n", t)
    # unittests
    print("TESTING:")
    for p, P in zip(np.array(ins), np.array(out)):
        image_p = np.dot(A, p) + t
        result = "[OK]" if np.allclose(image_p, P) else "[ERROR]"
        print(p, " mapped to: ", image_p, " ; expected: ", P, result)
    return A, t

def dot_product_angle(v1,v2):

    if np.linalg.norm(v1) == 0 or np.linalg.norm(v2) == 0:
        print("Zero magnitude vector!")
    else:
        vector_dot_product = np.dot(v1,v2)
        arccos = np.arccos(vector_dot_product / (np.linalg.norm(v1) * np.linalg.norm(v2)))
        angle = np.degrees(arccos)
        return angle
    return 0

if __name__=="__main__":
    import numpy as np

    src = np.array([
        [1, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 1],
        [1, 0, 1],
        [1, 1, 1],
    ])

    uv = np.array([
        [0.1, 0],
        [0, -0.1],
        [0.1, -0.1],
        [1, 1]
    ])

    angle = 45
    rot_matrix = np.array([[math.cos(angle), -math.sin(angle), 0 ],
                                [math.sin(angle), math.cos(angle), 0],
                                [0, 0, 1]])

    dst = np.dot(src, rot_matrix)
    # compute affine matrices
    src_A, src_t = compute_affine(src, uv)
    dst_A, dst_t = compute_affine(dst, uv)

    src_Q, src_R = np.linalg.qr(np.vstack([src_A, np.cross(src_A[0], src_A[1])]))
    dst_Q, dst_R = np.linalg.qr(np.vstack([dst_A, np.cross(dst_A[0], dst_A[1])]))

    vec1 = np.dot(src_Q[:-1], src[0])
    vec2 = np.dot(dst_Q[:-1], dst[0])

    if not dot_product_angle(vec1, vec2) == 0:
        raise Exception("Angle is invalid should be zero")


In 1980, the High Line was a rusting, obsolete section of elevated railroad tracks running down the lower west side of Manhattan Island. The last train had run and the future looked bleak. The only thing standing between the High Line and oblivion was the cost of tearing it all down.
But some truly visionary individuals had a very different idea, and where most saw an urban dinosaur, they saw a golden opportunity. Fast-forward 29 years and the first section of the High Line Linear Park opened to the public.
Now open along the full 1.45 mile length, the High Line today is a massively popular attraction that brings in crowds every day, strolling among greenery high above the gritty streets of New York.