Scandinavia, in full, was planned as an acre of Disneyland adjacent to Frontierland but due to a misread blueprint it was placed much further North where Walt Disney failed to retain power over its goings-on. Luckily, most of the employees remained cute and rosy-cheeked, painting birds on things and braiding their hair in that adorable way after getting out of the sauna.
The problem was the next generation who didn't go through the rigorous Disney training and rebelled in the worst, least guest-friendly way: Playing unsanctioned park music.
The new Norwegians referred to themselves as "The Black Metal Inner Circle". They gathered at a record shop in Oslo and formed a religion. It was super cute until they stabbed a dog and a dude and burned a grip of churches down. The Norwegian scene was giving the Swedish scene a bad name and things were getting dark. WWWDD?
Things have settled down a bit since Scandinavia was sued by Disney's shareholders for brand derision. The lesson is this history is to read blueprints twice.


(JTA) — Plenty of Jewish actors as well as films and shows with Jewish content made this year's Golden Globes shortlist.
Here are the Jewish nominees for the award, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Winners will be announced on Jan. 6 during the awards show on NBC.
Adam Driver was nominated for best supporting actor in a film for his role in "BlackKkKlansman." Driver, who is not Jewish, plays a Jewish cop who teams up with an African-American officer to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan branch in the Spike Lee film, which was also nominated for best motion picture.
Composers Justin Hurwitz and Marc Shaiman were nominated for best original film score for "First Man" and "Mary Poppins Returns," respectively.
"The Kominsky Method" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" were both nominated for best musical or comedy television series. Rachel Brosnahan, who is not Jewish but plays the Jewish protagonist in Amazon's "Maisel," is also up for a nomination for best actress. Alex Borstein was nominated for best supporting actress for her role as Brosnahan's sidekick in the Amazon series.
Brosnahan is joined in that category by Alison Brie ("Glow") and Debra Messing ("Will & Grace").
Sacha Baron Cohen's performance in his satirical ambush show "Who Is America" earned him a nomination for best musical or comedy television actor.


Run-offs and endorsements, investigations and speculations, awards nominations and controversies – all make for the first full week in December 2018. The cold air goes from nippy to brisk in a flash, sometimes bringing the sweat even depending upon just how the region wants to treat us that day.
Each day is another day to be progressive, unapologetically and uniquely so, moving forward with passion and compassion, with empathy and morality, across the spectrum when possible. We remember the good with the bad of those lost, keeping perspective on the human spirit that binds us all. Well, most of us, anyway. Of course, hearts and minds take time to change and evolve, some longer than others, some never. But we press on, making the argument for our better angels – so to speak.
If I'm done waxing poetic, it might be time for some events. Put down the fortune cookies, sir, and get with the program.
Get comfy at Treo with moody music to chill out to. Billed as an "atypical intro to Fall in New Orleans," alternative R&B and cozy remixes will fill the air with $5 cocktails and a free welcome shot with Jameson. Be sure to grab your tickets at the hyperlink provided, and prepare for some Chill without the Netflix.
Celebrating 5 years of serving kids in the area, STEM NOLA presents STEM Fest, a fun and family-friendly event of innovation, creating, and making. Meet professionals and participate in the hands-on building of projects ranging from hydraulics and chemistry to robotics and wind power. Be sure to pre-register attend at the hyperlink listed.
Presented by Entergy and sponsored by the Apache Foundation, The Big Treesy Giveaway is hosted by the NOLA Tree Project and New Orleans Parks and Parkways to spread awareness and love of the local environment, with a focus on planting and adopting trees. 1 free tree per resident, tree planting workshops available with a Plaquemines Parish citrus tree sale included. A green time for all.
In Jefferson, LA, at the LASTA Yard across from Ochsner Hospital, will be the Louisiana Steam Train Association X-Mas Party for members. Not too much more information is given, but the weekend after will see a Santa's North Pole Train event, featuring a train ride, movies, and more. For enthusiasts of a classic manner of travel, this could be a blast. Be sure to gain your membership here.


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Mustafa Kizilcay (* 1955) ist ein türkisch-deutscher Universitätsprofessor für Elektrotechnik.

Sein Haupteinsatzgebiet ist die Universität Siegen, wo er seit 2004 arbeitet und dort auch das Institut für Elektrische Energieversorgung leitet. Zuvor war er bereits zehn Jahre Professor an der Fachhochschule Osnabrück, seinen Titel "Doktor-Ingenieur" erhielt er im Jahr 1991 an der Universität Hannover.

Seine Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch diverse Ernennungen, Auszeichnungen und Publikationen, darüber hinaus ist er Mitglied in einigen technischen Fachverbänden und Gremien, wie z. B. VDE, VDI oder IEEE.
1994 erhielt er den Literaturpreis der Energietechnischen Gesellschaft für die Veröffentlichung seines Werkes Low-Order Network Equivalents for Electromagnetic Transients Studies.

Zudem ist er seit einigen Jahren im Bereich der künstlerischen Fotografie tätig. Erstmals in Erscheinung getreten  in diesem Bereich ist er durch eine Ausstellung im Jahr 2011.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Homepage
 Homepage des Instituts für Elektrische Energieversorgung, inkl. Profile der Mitarbeiter

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Persönlichkeit der Elektrotechnik
Hochschullehrer (Hochschule Osnabrück)
Hochschullehrer (Universität Siegen)
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Facies Architecture and Sequence Stratigraphy of Delta Systems: From Exploration to Reservoir Performance
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Location: Day 1+2 - geoLOGIC Classroom
+15 level 540-5 ave SW, Calgary AB
Day 3 - AER Core Research Centre
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Course is geared to geologists needing a review and update as well as to petroleum reservoir engineers and geoscientists working on reservoir modeling and production in deltaic reservoirs.
Course provides a theoretical framework for understanding how deltas originate as well as be a practical guide for interpreting and mapping ancient delta systems in subsurface.
This 3-day short course will provide both a theoretical framework for understanding how deltas originate as well as be a practical guide for interpreting and mapping ancient delta systems in subsurface. The course will cover basic definitions, theory of delta forming process and the significance for recognizing these processes in ancient systems, a description of the essential facies components of a delta and the implications for subsurface facies architecture, and finally a survey of the different types of delta systems. Emphasis will be on recognizing river-, tide-, wave- and mixed-influence delta systems. Many of the examples are from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, including the Dunvegan Formation and Milk River/Chungo in the Alberta basin.
Several case histories, emphasizing both exploration and production scale characteristics will be covered including; The Dunvegan Delta (Alberta) and Prudhoe Bay Field (Alaska). In addition, several outcrop examples will be discussed to give participants an idea of the lateral heterogeneity in delta systems and its effect on reservoir flow behaviour.
The course will include a series of powerpoint lectures, followed by several well-log correlation and core interpretation exercises. Core examples will be from the Dunvegan Formation in Alberta. The course is designed as an up-to-date review of the last 25 years of new ideas in deltaic sedimentology and will appeal to geologists needing a review and update as well as to reservoir engineers and geoscientists working on reservoir modeling and production in deltaic reservoirs.
1. Basic definitions and classification,
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Exercises will include:
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3. Well Log correlation
Dr. Janok P. Bhattacharya is the Susan Cunningham Research Chair in Geology in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His main research interests are in the areas of fluvio- deltaic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He worked at ESSO Resources Calgary, before completing his Ph.D. in 1989 at McMaster University. Following a post-doc at the Alberta Geological Survey, Janok worked for ARCO Exploration and Production Research in Plano, Texas, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the University of Houston, where he was the Robert Sheriff Professor of Sequence Stratigraphy. He is an AAPG Grover Murray Distinguished Educator, GCAGS Outstanding Educator, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, and AAPG SW Section Distinguished Educator. Janok is a past president of SEPM and has served as SEPM Sedimentology Councilor (2011-2013), GCSSEPM President (2008), AAPG Distinguished Lecture Committee co-chair, AAPG Education Committee co-chair, AAPG/SEPM (2011) Theme Chair, 2008 SEPM Convention Vice Chair, and 2004 Technical program chair. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Research. He has authored or co-authored over 200 abstracts and over 90 technical papers. He is an active member of CSPG, GAC, AAPG, SEPM, GSA, and IAS.
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Daranz, an Alibaba-owned Company, is Preparing to take on Amazon
By Patricia Oluoch, Rush Hour Daily
Updated on November 26th, 2021
Daranz, an Alibaba-owned company, is preparing to take on Amazon/courtesy of Facebook
Daraz, Pakistan's largest e-commerce retail platform, aims to host 300,000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the next two years, according to its CEO, as the company seeks to strengthen its position in the domestic market in the face of potential competition from global giant Amazon.
E-commerce growth in the 220 million-strong country has yet to fully take off, unlike in neighboring India, where the market is dominated by retail behemoths like Amazon and Walmart, as well as large local platforms run by India's Reliance and Tata groups.
Daraz, a Pakistani startup that was acquired by Chinese giant Alibaba in 2018, has 100,000 SMEs on its platform.
"Within the next two years, we want to have 300,000 active and educated SMEs selling on our platform, which will essentially create a million jobs," CEO Bjarke Mikkelsen told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
Pakistan's rapidly growing middle class, over 60% youth population, and over 100 million broadband subscribers make it a lucrative market for e-commerce platforms.
Amazon announced earlier this year that Pakistani entrepreneurs will be able to sell their products on its platform.
Mikkelsen met with Prime Minister Imran Khan and his finance and investment teams before the interview to discuss coordination on free zones where tech companies would receive special incentives to thrive, as well as an e-commerce university that Khan said Pakistan would open.
Daraz employs 10,000 people in four other South Asian countries: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar, and has access to 500 million customers. Over the last two years, it has invested $100 million in Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to Mikkelsen.
He said the company is aiming for nearly $1 billion in sales this year through its platform, which has seen 100 percent year-over-year order growth in the last four years.
According to data from the commerce ministry, the e-commerce sector in Pakistan grew by over 35% in the first quarter of2021, to 96 billion Pakistani rupees ($548.89 million), up from 71 billion in the same period last year.
Pakistan accounted for 35 million of the 70 million users who visited the Daraz website last month. According to Mikkelsen, more people in Pakistan are now willing to use digital services.
He went on to say that e-commerce accounts for only 2% of the retail market in the South Asian countries where Daraz operates, but that it could be scaled up 10 to 20 times.
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Title River D
Artist / Creator Jill Timm
Press Name Mystical Places Press
Place of Publication Wenatchee, WA
Structure / Binding Hard cover case-style binding with seven hinged windows.
Medium / Materials Ink jet printed.
Number of Pages 14 pages (one under the front cover and one under a door).
Dimensions (WxHxD) 2.67 x 2.87 inches
River D by Jill Timm
Please contact 23 Sandy for current availability.
River D, in Lincoln City, Oregon, is the shortest river in the world. You will see ALL of in this little book. Full photo page spreads have windows that open up to reveal details and close up images of river life.
Jill Timm has the unique distinction of being able to trace her interest and talent in book making as far back as the fifth grade when she created her first book from boards covered in construction paper and bound with staples. The book was a creative exploration of her interaction with a visitor from outer space who was shaped like a spoon. Later design courses at Utah State University whetted her appetite for making books, and a whimsical book based on a simple handheld pencil sharpener was quickly followed by a small book devoted to a photographic tribute to the interior and exterior essence of a pocket watch. She was a professional multimedia, instructional and graphic designer for IBM after receiving her MFA in Computer Graphic Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Jill took book making classes at the Visual Studies Workshop with Hedi Kyle and Scott McCarney while in Rochester. Always interested in learning from the experts, Jill had enrolled in classes from a number of book making masters. Listed in Who's Who Among Young American Professionals and Who's Who in California, Jill has rightfully earned a good share of awards and professional achievements for her work in both fine arts graphics (she's an outstanding serigrapher), book arts, photography, graphic design, and art direction. Jill has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships. She has work in corporate and University collections across the United States. What Jill began with her first book in the fifth grade has come full circle with the establishment of her Mystical Places Press in Austin, Texas in 1998. Which then moved to Wenatchee, WA in 2002. The name Mystical Places reflects her dedication to the spirit and aesthetic of the natural environment. Her artist books are included in several consumer crafts and bookmaking books. Articles about her books have been published in the Miniature Books Society and The Microbibliophile periodicals. Her books are included in the Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books by Robert Bradbury. And in 2004 Jill's book Ship Wreck won the MBS Distinguished Book Award.


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Pope says people more important than economies as nations begin to lift coronavirus restrictions
By Zack Budryk - 05/31/20 02:33 PM EDT
Pope Francis Pope FrancisPope Francis gets COVID-19 vaccine Pope says the 'movement' of violence at the Capitol must be condemned Feehery: The great schism MORE, in his first noon address from his balcony since Italy ended its lockdown, said that as nations reopen they should prioritize human lives over the economy.
"Healing people, not saving (money) to help the economy (is important), healing people, who are more important than the economy," Francis said, according to Reuters. "We people are temples of the Holy Spirit, the economy is not."
The address overlooking St. Peter's Square was the first in about three months. A crowd of hundreds gathered for the speech, a fraction of the tens of thousands who would normally be present. Attendees wore masks and practiced physical distancing. The square, which reopened Monday, has not been the site of an address by Francis since March 1. Italy, which has seen more than 33,000 deaths from the virus thus far, is set to lift the last restrictions Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The Pope went on to lead a silent prayer for health care workers who have lost their lives during and the pandemic and expressing hopes that the world would emerge more united.
"People do not come out of a crisis like this the same as before. We will come out either better or worse than before. Let's have the courage to emerge better than before in order to build the post-crisis period of the pandemic positively," he said.
The pontiff has frequently spoken of the need for people and nations to come together during the crisis, saying in April that once the "time of trial" was over, nations should work to eliminate global inequalities.
"We are all frail, all equal, all precious. May we be profoundly shaken by what is happening all around us," Francis said during the Feast of Divine Mercy last month. "The time has come to eliminate inequalities, to heal the injustice that is undermining the health of the entire human family!"
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Death Rally
Discussion in 'General Gaming' started by used44, Jun 26, 2011.
Attention iPhone gamers. Destructoid alerted me to this game earlier today and I downloaded it on a whim and it's totally awesome. I haven't been this addicted to a iPhone game since Game Dev Story. It's a top-down racer/shooter. Lots of vehicle/weapon unlocks/upgrading. Best part? It's free right now, and possibly tomorrow? Jump on it if you're interested. Let me know what you think here.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/death-ra ... 20153?mt=8
Downloading... in case you didn't know... this was made by some of the same people who made Alan Wake.
It's on PC as well.
It used to be retail. Now it's freeware.
The graphics are shinier on the IPad, though.
Tyrranis, Jun 27, 2011
"This application requires the iPhone 3.2 Software Update"
...The first-gen iTouch my dad gave me only goes to 3.1.3.
De-Ting, Jun 27, 2011
keepithowitis Rookie
it's fun! i only wish my iphone had a bigger screen
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Would be nicer if stop could be installed only once, instead of once per function, but that's an improvement I guess.
somewhere at the top of the generated RcppExports.cpp so that the stop symbol is only installed once, instead of once per function ?
You might also need to make this function static in order to support unloading DLLs on certain platforms. This is not important for packages but is important for sourceCpp(). IIRC, it caches dynlibs and those can be unloaded and reloaded several times in the same R session. On certain platforms, the ctors for the static variables failed to be called when the dynlib was loaded again, even though the dtors did get called on unloading, which caused crashes. I fixed this by giving static scope to the functions wrapping the static variables.
A reverse depends check is running, but I do not have very good resources for those now (maybe a company like RStudio would like to help there, hint, hint, ...) so it will take a moment.
@eddelbuettel at some point we probably should talk more about doing revdep on the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC) with prrd.
* check_slice_result() no longer allocate, but protect anyway. rchk.
* protect result of wrap before the List ctor.
* using Rcpp::export(rng = false).
* Shield<> before CharacterVector ctor, until RcppCore/Rcpp#947 gets merged in Rcpp.


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Q: Unable to connect NodeJS app in Azure App Services to Azure MySQL Database I have deployed an NodeJS (with ExpressJS, Sequelize) to Azure App Services. The simple APIs with no database connection work, however when I use the part of the app where I load the data from my Azure MySQL Database, it's having problem with certificate. I get this log message from App Service Log Stream:
Unhandled rejection SequelizeConnectionError: unable to get local issuer certificate

I have followed the steps from here on how to enable firewall and use the certificate (BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt.pem).
Using the same instruction, from my laptop, I can connect to the remote Azure MySQL database, using this CLI:
$ mysql -h <my-db>.mysql.database.azure.com -u <my-user> --ssl-mode=REQUIRED --ssl-ca=.\BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt.pem -p

I have followed other StackOverflow / Github questions related to this and I followed their configurations like this:
const mysql = require('mysql2');
...
var sequelize = new Sequelize(config.db, config.username, config.password, {
    host:    "<my-db>.mysql.database.azure.com",
    port:    3306,
    dialect: 'mysql',
    dialectOptions: {
        ssl: {
            ca: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/ssl/BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt.pem")
        }
    }
});

Do I need to set additional key/cert under ssl?
ssl: {
    key: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "./certs/client-key.pem"),
    cert: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "./certs/client-cert.pem"),
    ca: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/ssl/BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt.pem")
}

I am using Node 12 (Node 12.13 in Azure App Service) and here's my package.json dependencies:
"dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
    "express": "^4.17.1",
    "faker": "^4.1.0",
    "mysql2": "^2.1.0",
    "sequelize": "^5.21.5"
}

A: According my test, I can connect to mysql. You can add additional key/cert yes or not.
If you add, you can see my code like below,
/*configuration*/
const sequelizeInstance  = new Sequelize("***db", "azure_root@***mysql", "Ja***.****20", {
host: "***mysql.mysql.database.azure.com",
dialect: 'mysql',
dialectOptions: {
    ssl: {
        ca: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt.pem'));
    }
}
});

/*test connection*/
try
{
    sequelizeInstance.authenticate();
    console.log('Connection has been established successfully.');
}
catch (error) {
    console.error('Unable to connect to the database:', error);
}

If not, you just set ssl=true like the document .
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February 1, 1950 – January 5, 2023
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Michael Lynn Robinson, age 72, passed away from Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer on January 5th, 2023. Loved ones surrounded him during his final stay at the Ann Arbor VA hospital, where the staff did everything in their power to make him comfortable.
Michael was born on February 1st, 1950, the eldest son of Gerald Max Robinson and Laura Bernice Chisolm. He was raised in Michigan along with his younger brothers, Roger Robinson and Steven Robinson.
Michael served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, in the 5th Infantry Division. Years after his service, he visited Vietnam for vacation. While exploring the sites and taking many photos of his trip, he happened to stop by a coffee shop where he met Thu Thi Nguyen, who was working there at the time. They later married in 1993. Thu and her son, Vinh Le, joined Michael back in America, in 1995.
Michael became fluent in Vietnamese and took on hobbies such as homebrewing, playing guitars, and tinkering with amplifiers. He avidly watched war movies and read novels. His final project was fixing a Volkswagen Beetle. After the car sat in a garage for years, he purchased it and undertook a 2-year long project to get it road-ready. After several daunting tasks made doable by his penchant for cleverly solving problems, he was able to drive the car on the road a few times, months before his passing. His longest drive was going to and from a few cities away, both trips without any stops or breakdowns. He named the car "Rudy", after a character from "The Book Thief", one of his favorite movies and books.
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Lost London
Vic Keegan's Lost London 117: Shakespeare in Pall Mall
17th November 2019 23rd November 2019
When James Boydell opened a gallery there, he started a big trend
Victor Keegan
Walk down Pall Mall today and you are denied entry to almost every building on its south side, unless you are a member of one of the posh private clubs there. It is difficult to believe that in the late 18th century this street was a hive of public artistic activity, mainly revolving around Shakespeare.
This was triggered by the artrepreneur James Boydell, who opened the Shakespeare Gallery, designed by George Dance the Younger, in 1789 at Number 52 Pall Mall. It soon contained 180 specially commissioned paintings depicting scenes from Shakespeare plays, many by established artists such as James Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and George Romney.
In those days Pall Mall was a mixture of high-class residences, bookshops and bourgeois brothels. A statue by Thomas Banks showed Shakespeare between representations of the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting. Underneath was an inscription from Hamlet: "He was a Man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again".
The statue was removed in 1869, when the building – by then occupied by the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom – was demolished. It was re-erected at the far end of Shakespeare's garden at New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it still resides (pictured above).
Entry to the Shakespeare Gallery was free and its intention was to direct British art in a more classical direction, choosing rich literary themes instead of portraits. Boydell also had a business plan. Like Hogarth earlier in the century, he sold engravings of the paintings here and on the continent with great success until the Napoleonic wars broke out, cutting off the continental market. This led to his bankruptcy and a fire sale of all his artworks in a lottery.
On January 28, 1805, William Tassie, a London gem engraver, struck lucky. His three guinea ticket to the lottery won him the gallery's entire contents. Tassie refused an offer from Boydell's nephew Joshua to buy them back for £10,000 and they were later sold at Christie's for just over £6,000, way below their cost price.
As a result, the Boydell collection, which in its day challenged the artistic supremacy of the Royal Academy – which had itself been located in Pall Mall until 1780, when it moved to Somerset House – bit the dust. Many of the paintings disappeared for ever. But some have been retained in galleries and private collections.
The Boydell gallery was but the biggest of a mini explosion of artistic galleries in Pall Mall, often featuring Shakespeare. In 1788, the year before the Boydell gallery was founded, Thomas Macklin's Poets' Gallery, which showcased over 50 British poets including Shakespeare, opened to an enthusiastic response.
In 1794, James Woodmason moved his New Shakespeare Galley from Dublin to Schomberg House at 88 Pall Mall, across the road from Boydell's initiative, which he copied by using illustrations and text employing some of Boydell's artists. Among the works Woodmason commisioned were Matthew Peter's Death of Juliet as she prepared for suicide, dagger in hand, and Fuseli's depiction of Titania falling in love with Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Shakespeare galleries in Pall Mall must have left something in the air, because in the 1840s, some years after their closure, the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was living in nearby Duke Street, commissioned paintings of Shakespeare scenes from some of the top artists of the day, including Edwin Landseer and Charles West Cope. They were hung in his spacious dining room, which came to be known as "the Shakespeare Room".
There were other kinds of gallery in Pall Mall too. Henry Fuseli opened a Milton Gallery in the late 1790s; Christies had their showroom there; Schomberg House, the facade of which still exists today (complete with statues made of artificial Coade stone), was host to the studio of Thomas Gainsborough.
There were also the exhibition rooms of the Polygraphic Society, which aimed to make multiple copies of oil paintings available for people who couldn't afford the originals. At the eastern end, at Spring Gardens, the Society of Artists had its main exhibition venue, while on King Street, off St James's Square, there was another gallery, the Imperial Museum, (later the European Gallery) which showcased British and Continental paintings.
There are still lots of paintings in Pall Mall, but they are all behind the closed doors of the clubs. There is nothing, apart from the Schomberg facade to remind us of the street's former glories.
The rest of Vic Keegan's Lost London series can be found here. His latest volume of poetry can be bought here.
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New 'Zootopia+' Trailer and Episode Guide
Published: Monday, 07 November 2022 12:40
The cute critters from Disney's ZOOTOPIA return in a new 6-episode short-form series, Zootopia+ on Disney+ starting Wednesday, November 9. Watch the new trailer and check out the episode guide for the short-form series.
Zootopia+ heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form series that dives deeper into the lives of some of the Oscar®-winning feature film's most intriguing residents, including Fru Fru, the fashion-forward arctic shrew; ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser, the sweet-toothed cheetah; and Flash, the smiling sloth who's full of surprises.
The series is directed by Josie Trinidad (Co-Head of Story, "Zootopia"; Head of Story, "Ralph Breaks the Internet") and Trent Correy (Director, "Once Upon a Snowman" and "Drop"), and produced by Nathan Curtis (Associate Producer, "Encanto" and "Raya and the Last Dragon").
Episodes debuting Nov. 9 include:
1. Hopp on Board – When Judy boards the train from Bunny Burrow to Zootopia to begin her life as the big city's first bunny cop, Stu and Bonnie's youngest daughter, Molly, hitches a ride atop the train, forcing the down-to-earth duo out of their comfort zone and into an action-packed rescue mission.
2. The Real Rodents of Little Rodentia – Newly engaged, Fru Fru kicks off wedding planning with enthusiasm and flourish—at least until her scene-stealing cousin Tru Tru arrives to assume the role of Shrew of Honor. A battle for the spotlight ensues until a close call with a giant donut reveals that for better or worse, no one knows you better than family.
3. Duke the Musical – After being wrangled and arrested in a giant donut—compliments of Officer Judy Hopps—clever criminal weasel Duke reevaluates his life, pondering where he went wrong—in song. In a musical aptly staged in his own mind, Duke contemplates how to go from a small time crook to the Big Time!
4. The Godfather of the Bride – A touching tale about the powerful arctic shrew known as Mr. Big revisits Fru Fru's big day when he delivers a revelatory father-of-the-bride speech. Taking guests back in time to his days as Mr. Small, a new immigrant to Zootopia, he imparts the wisdom he gained then about the importance of friends, family and community.
5. So You Think You Can Prance – ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser persuades his boss, Chief Bogo, to audition for "So You Think You Can Prance." The stakes are high as the ultimate prize is a dream-come-true opportunity to dance on stage with megastar pop sensation Gazelle.
6. Dinner Rush – As super server Sam urgently tries to finish her restaurant shift to make a once-in-a-lifetime Gazelle concert, Flash and Priscilla show up at the last minute with hopes of a once-in-a-lifetime dinner.


Provisional patent applications are a lower-cost, quicker way to establish a filing date for your invention. So shouldn't everyone file one?
A "regular" utility patent application — one that gets examined at the U.S. Patent Office — is known as a nonprovisional patent application (catchy, I know). In contrast, a provisional patent application does not get examined. It is merely a placeholder document that expires in twelve months. During that twelve months, you must file a nonprovisional version of the application, or you will lose your filing date. Why does that matter? It matters because the examiner will look at everything before that filing date when searching for prior art. So, the earlier your filing date, the less potential prior art you have to deal with. Patents are first-come-first-served. You can also think of it as a race to the Patent Office. In general, the first person who invents something and files a patent application (ANY patent application) will be eligible for a patent on that invention. There's no prize for second place.
So what's the catch? Why wouldn't you always go with the quicker-to-complete option? Well, the provisional application only functions to cover the material it contains (in its written description and in its images). When you go to file your nonprovisional application later, any claim that has support in the provisional application will be entitled to its earlier filing date. Any claim that does not have support in the provisional application will get the later filing date of the nonprovisional. That means your provisional needs to be as thorough as you can make it.
What Are the Benefits of a Provisional?
I'm assuming you are in a position where a patent application is advisable in the first place. With that in mind, there are several benefits to filing a provisional application, as compared to a nonprovisional.
It generally costs less to prepare. Mainly because of items 3-5. That means you can do it more easily, in terms of budget, and that you can buy yourself 12 months to decide whether to proceed with the next step.
It generally takes fewer days to prepare. Mainly because of items 3-5.
The provisional does not need to contain formal claims.
It does not require formal illustrations.
It does not require formal numbering of components.
It does not have a mandatory format.
The filing fees at the USPTO are much lower. Generally in the range of $150 instead of $800.
There are no downstream costs. The application simply sits there for twelve months.
Prosecution costs (the costs of examination-related activities) are pushed out twelve months into the future.
It's confidential. Provisional applications are not published. If you abandon the application, it will remain secret. If you file a nonprovisional based on it, the provisional will become publicly available after 18 months.
It can, sometimes, reduce the cost of the later-filed nonprovisional patent application. This is because some of the work will already be completed. However, this happens less often than you might expect.
You can take the twelve months to further develop and refine your invention, then file a nonprovisional that includes the updated version of your invention. You should consider filing additional provisionals along the way, to supplement the original one. Several unexpired provisional applications can be wrapped into a single nonprovisional (and vice versa, by the way).
Like a nonprovisional, it preserves your right to file anywhere else in the world. As long as you do it within 12 months.
You can legally claim that you have a "Patent Pending" as soon as you file.
What Are the Drawbacks of a Provisional?
Despite all of the great benefits listed above, there are several things you should consider before going ahead with a provisonal application.
It adds cost to the overall patenting process, because you are filing an additional application. You can go straight to a nonprovisional if your invention is ready and you have the budget for it.
If you aren't careful, you can forget that your later development wasn't mentioned in the provisional application. That means you aren't yet covered for that new development. This isn't a huge deal in the US, but other countries require that you file a patent application before you go public with anything. So, before you go public (e.g., by selling your product or demonstrating it at a trade show), make sure everything about your invention is covered in a patent application that has already been filed.
It pulls forward your deadline for filing any international patent applications. You must file in foreign (non-US) countries within twelve months of your first patent application, regardless of whether that's a provisional or a nonprovisional. Filing a provisional means your deadline in both the United States and everywhere else in the world is now the same: one year from the filing date. That changes the budgeting considerations and also might mean you have to decide on international protection before you have a lot of information on how your invention is doing (both in the market and at the Patent Office).
If you're at the point where you're considering whether to file a provisional patent application, talk to your patent attorney about the factors outlined above. Provisional applications are often a great option, depending on where you are in the invention process. As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions.


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Distance Education: APH Directory of Services Listings
Education or training provided through the use of audio and/or visual communications technologies. Includes online courses, satellite courses, videotaped courses, correspondence courses, teleconferencing, and other methods of delivery in which teacher and student are not physically in the same place.
There are a total of 31 listings found in Distance Education.
University of Alabama at Birmingham: Department of Leadership, Special Education and Foundations
Education Building, Room 2321
http://www.uab.edu/education/home/teacher-education-program/special-education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock: School of Counseling, Human Performance and Rehabilitation
Dept. of Counseling, Adult and Rehabilitation Education
pbsmith@ualr.edu
http://ualr.edu/ma/RHBLO/
University of British Columbia: Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
cay.holbrook@ubc.ca
http://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/
bnaimy@calstatela.edu
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ccoe/
San Francisco State University: Department of Special Education
Programs in Orientation & Mobility and Visual Impairment
srosen@sfsu.edu (O&M); ysiu@sfsu.edu (TVI)
mobility.sfsu.edu (O&M program); viprogram.sfsu.edu (TVI program); sped.sfsu.edu (Dept. of Special Education)
School of Special Education
kay.ferrell@unco.edu
http://www.unco.edu/cebs/sped/
Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
1291 Taylor Street, NW
nlsref@loc.gov
http://www.loc.gov/nls
Florida Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Impaired
4210 West Bay Villa Avenue
Tampa FL 33611-1206
sdalton@fimcvi.org
http://www.fimcvi.org
Normal IL 61790-5910
http://www.coe.ilstu.edu
Indiana State University: Promoting Achievement for Students with Sensory Loss
Blumberg Center, Bayh College of Education
Terre Haute IN 47809
Karen.Goehl@indstate.edu
https://passprojectisu.org/
Kentucky Department of Education: Office of Special Education and Early Learning
300 Sower Blvd. 5th Floor
http://education.ky.gov/specialed/blindef/Pages/default.aspx
Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education/University of Massachusetts Boston
NERCVE
Boston MA 02125-3393
hhenshaw@ric.edu
https://www.nercve.org/
Carroll Tech
c/o Carroll Center for the Blind
http://www.carrolltech.org/about/
Western Michigan University: Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies
Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5218
paul.ponchillia@wmich.edu
http://www.wmich.edu/visionstudies/
University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
274 Barkley Memorial Center
esiegel1@unl.edu
http://cehs.unl.edu/secd/visual-impairments
Baruch College, Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP)
barbara_difiore@baruch.cuny.edu
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/ccvip/
Hunter College of The City University of New York
Department of Special Education, 909W
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/education/dept/specialed/index.shtml
New York State School for the Blind
2A Richmond Avenue
Batavia NY 14020
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/specialed/nyssb/
H.M. Michaux, Jr. School of Education
http://www.nccu.edu/soe/vitp.cfm
Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority
Halifax NS B3H 1S6
pottied@apsea.ca (by e-mail)
https://www.apsea.ca/families-students/blind-visually-impaired/
Assistive Technology and Accessible Educational Materials Center
470 Glenmont Avenue
paula_mauro@orclish.org
http://ataem.org
Portland State University: School of Education
Department of Special Education
Portland OR 97207-0751
http://www.pdx.edu/sped/vil
Salus University
College of Education and Rehabilitation
Elkins Park PA 19027-1598
http://www.salus.edu
Box 13019 SFA Station
Nacogdoches TX 75962
humanservices@sfasu.edu
http://www.sfasu.edu/humanservices/
Texas Tech University: Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities
Room, 220, College of Education, Box 41071
Lubbock TX 79409-1071
n.griffin-shirley@ttu.edu
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/education/outreach-and-research/sowell/index.php
Virginia Consortium for Teacher Preparation in Vision Impairment
Fairfax VA 22030
kavila@gmu.edu
http://kihd.gmu.edu/training-grants/teacher-prep-program/
Washington State School for the Blind
janet.merz@wssb.wa.gov
http://www.wssb.wa.gov/
West Virginia University Department of Special Education
Morgantown WV 26506-6122
http://specialed.wvu.edu/home/certification/low_vision_blindness


I approach my diary often in times of great need, in order to work out feelings and emotions which are very difficult to live with. I realise things can and often will seem to get a whole lot worse before they begin to get better. Once we begin to move away from the rules of the flesh, along with its needs and desires, and begin to move closer to God/Source – the spirit of the flesh (the part of us most closely associated/identifying with our earthly bodies, will put up a fight. It will kick and scream; yet, the Way Shower (Jesus Christ/ Yeshua Ben Yoseph) came to show us 'how' to overcome this trap.
A struggle with bitterness. Do we become 'more' bitter the closer we start to move towards God? The flesh knows we are going, so it strengthens its hold on us?
("Read Revelation (chapter) 12"… I heard a voice say).
And the devil is filled with rage, for he knows he has only a short time left.
The mark of the beast is the beast's name, or the number which stands for the name… 666.
A number is a vibration of units. Number '6' in Chaldean-Hebrew Kabala numerology represents 'love'…'earthly' love? I wonder how the number '6' can represent the devil.
(Do the 3 sixes represent 'earthly' love on the three levels of body, mind, and spirit? I think about the '7' churches (mentioned in Revelation). The 7th church equals the 'Crown chakra'….our connection to Source/God? Does the '6-6-6' represent our body/mind/state of soul without our connection to God?
The number (of the beast) stands for a man's name. My name…'Tracy'…ie my 'identity'… my 'marked' identity, in the world.
The number stands for a name…the number of the beast.
The 666 is the Body, Mind, and Spirit disconnected from God?
Q. What is the Mark of the beast? That which denotes a separation from God (a voice repeated in my head).
At this point in my diary entry I suddenly swayed off track, recalling a thought I have often pondered: Really, you must wonder… What 'does' one do with Eternity?
Getting to know our self…. Full Awareness of What We are. What the hell 'are' we? 'Really'?
I was wondering last night in bed: What 'is' life? (Now I remember my strained thoughts as a child, where I would sit and try to imagine 'nothing' existing. It seemed impossible). I just 'am'. We… ('we'?)… 'We' just are! What the hell? Think about it. What – in holy mackerel 'are' we? Or rather…What am 'I'? This answer came: We are just What I Am! Sh#%! Mind blowing.
A lotus flower on a pond – opening and closing – breathing IN…. and OUT…always.
Is there ever a time when we don't exist? Oh yes…the big 'sleep'…the 'shutdown'… the 'Mall is closed'. We retreat back into our sacks… we become no more. Do we wake 'again'?
An over abundance of sleep causes a tiny movement, of restlessness, and again we begin to wake up. Holy mackerel. With each new waking – a reaching for a new height – a new level of experience. What the hell… Just enjoy it!
All the bits and bobs.
This is our mishmash hole of (never-ending?) creative fluctuations, joys, and wonders.
And the big sleeps – in between it all – make it all bearable and surprisingly 'new' each time it all begins again.
Do your head in wondering. Do our head in wondering – what this 'life' is about.
Q. God, what 'is' life? ('Movement by thought equalling heat'!?).
Q. What is "fluctuating vibration"? (Any movement of thought through time and space).
Can I not be, if I am not 'Am' (?)!
Nonsense! Diddle-swash! Makeba! Zoom! Flip-flop freedom hopper. Catch me if you can! Zip! I'm gone… not there. Trying to catch me is like trying to catch the wind, or, compress electricity. Can you do it? Na!
"Oh, there must be some sinister side controller putting these thoughts into my (our) heads"? That is our trouble. Paranoia. "Something, or someone is controlling us – manipulating us", we might think. So, we fester in tormented paranoia; we drink the juice of the drink we have concocted for ourselves….which is? I don't know. You tell me!
The tantrums will pass and we'll get to know ourselves better…or not.
The Lord your God is One!
…that means 'I' am one. You, We, All, are One. One big mind of God – thinking thoughts for it self. Whatever we think, is.


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Not that kind of butter. Gross.
Bath bombs are pretty awesome – the fizz, the zoom, the fragrant bloom of colors. But Butter Bombs? They're awesomer. Mrs. Soap & Clay has taken the moisturizing powers of her mondo bath bombs to a new level – without sacrificing any of the fizzy fun.
What it is: a bath bomb filled with wedges of cocoa butter, shea butter, and apricot kernel oil for a moisturizing tub experience. Six brand new, citrusy scent options to select from!
Why that's awesome: Bath bombs are already skin soothing and moisturizing – so what's the big deal? Sometimes you need an extra vitamin and fatty acid filled boost. Winter skin can quickly become cracked and itchy, outdoor activities can leave you chapped and flaky – the Soap & Clay kidlets use these butter bombs after swim class to restore moisture. Whatever the reason, you will feel luxurious while soaking with these beauties!
Six new options for 2018 – read on for more information!
Bliss Bomb – this bamboo and white grapefruit blend is bright and happy – sure to leave you feeling the same way!
Boost Bomb – get your vitamin boost with this blood orange fizzy! The bloom on this one is just lovely.
Sun Bomb – sugared lemons make this bomb sweet, tart, and just lovely. Reminiscent of Trix cereal, which is pretty awesome.
Melt Bomb – sweet raspberry and zingy lime pair up to make a delightful scent sure to delight! Beautiful bloom.
Chill Bomb – juicy pineapple with a slightly spicy kick! Give this one a try – you won't regret it!
Ahh Bomb – so Acai is not actually a citrus fruit, but it smells so good that it had to be added to the line. Warm and intoxicating, this fizzy will have you relaxed and happy in no time.
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KEEN's iconic hiking shoe for women brings an updated look to all-terrain adventures.
KEEN have carried over the fit, durability, and performance of the award-winning Targhee waterproof boot and took its rugged looks to a new dimension. This shoe includes KEEN.DRY, a proprietary waterproof, breathable membrane that lets vapor out without letting water in.


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Physician reviewed megestrol patient information - includes megestrol description, dosage and directions.


One of the more interesting debates to come out of the XY-on rule change format is that of what is the better deck: Blastoise or Emboar? Both decks are very similar. They have unlimited Energy attachments thanks to Blastoise's Deluge Ability and Emboar's Inferno Fandago Ability, which allow them to power up attackers out of … Read moreBlastoise or Emboar?
A look at the two Plasma variants Andrew has been using in tournaments as of late.
Andrew's 4th place tournament report from the Collinsville, Illinois League Challenge using a Ninjask/Shedinja deck.
A look at how Plasma may fare in the BLW-LTR format.
A look at some of the key cards from our newest set – Legendary Treasures.
A look at the Fire Pokemon that threaten Virizion and Genesect's very existence for this upcoming Fall Regionals.
Is Team Plasma a legitimate play for Fall Regionals? Hmm…it does have a lot of problems facing it in the new format. Read to find out whether Plasma can free itself of these problems to be a threat in the upcoming tournament series.
A look at the gray areas of Blastoise headed into U.S. Nationals.
3rd Place Battle Roads Report using Blastoise/Keldeo EX/Black Kyurem EX.


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Kalamazoo Central's Isaiah Livers Going to the "D" with Pistons
Benson Published: July 30, 2021
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - MARCH 04: In what may have been one of the highlights of his career at Michigan, Kalamazoo Central's Isaiah Livers #2 of the Michigan Wolverines celebrates his teams Big 10 championship after defeating the Michigan State Spartans 69-50 at Crisler Arena on March 04, 2021 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
With all the hoopla (pun intended) surrounding over-all number one pick Cade Cunningham, people might not have noticed the Pistons in round 2 drafted Kalamazoo Central's Isaiah Livers. And judging by some of the reaction by the "experts", he might be the steal of last night's NBA Draft.
On ESPN, analyst Jay Bilas said "I see him as kind of a sharp-shooting forward. He's always struck me as an elite offensive player that he shoots over 40 percent from three, and that puts him in a high category among shot makers." Bilas say Livers will need to improve his defense.
Livers was named "Mr. Basketball" as a senior at Kalamazoo Central, and then as a freshman led Michigan to the NCAA tournament championship game. As a four year starter, he'll have more experience under his belt, too, as he starts his NBA career. Livers will be reunited with the man who brought him to Michigan, John Beilein, who is now a senior advisor to Pistons General Manager Troy Vincent.
A foot injury ended Livers' final season at Michigan at the start of the post-season, but many scouts say due to his skill set, Livers could enjoy an long career, if he can stay healthy. The Pistons drafted Iowa's Luke Garza at #52, this past season's consensus Player of the Year. You have to remind yourself that none of these kids have played a game yet, in the NBA yet, but with all the experts predicting stardom for Cunningham, with the three picks from last season's draft, if most of them pan out, the Pistons could be on their way back to mattering in Michigan.
Filed Under: Detroit Pistons, Isaiah Livers., Kalamazoo Central High School


Happy St. Patrick's Day out there laddies and lasses!
Slainte agus tainte, Stormcrow! Happy St. Pat's from Hot Springs Village. Ireland is one of my favorite places (and an ancestral home). I'd never experienced GREEN till I went there!
Happy St pat's day to you too....from the home of the "shortest ever St. Patrick's Day Parade"
So when you gonna come play some real Irish football?? Met a guy from Ft. Smith Saturday at the LR parade who wants to get a club kicked off there too. All we need is a few here and a few there to soldier on and before you know it we'll be all over the state!
I believe that a group has formed recently in the Little Rock area to play Irish Football. They meet at Burns Park (North Little Rock) on Saturdays at 3 p.m., near/at Field 22.
Excellent!!! Word is getting around. I'm actually the guy who founded that group. We're getting close to 30 active participants (not everyone makes it every week so 18 is our best single day turnout) and we seem to get one or two more new folks each week! We have a new shipment of O'Neills footballs coming in this weekend and also a few hurleys as well for when we expand to playing hurling.


14:35:29 ralphm So let's start with those.
14:35:41 ralphm I am happy to see voting has started.
14:36:40 ralphm So with that well on the way, and the general meeting on Nov 22, there will be at most two more meetings with the current Board.
14:37:09 Guus Curious: assuming that Council will consist of 5 people again: why vote on exactly 5 candidates?
14:37:33 ralphm Guus: because if the Members really don't want a certain candidate they could vote them out.
14:37:49 Guus What's needed to vote someone out?
14:38:24 ralphm Hmm, that's a good point.
14:39:16 nyco switching to Condorcet method?
14:39:40 Zash In theory you could have done a single "Accept these 5 as council?" vote, but that gets messy with bot voting if it falls.
14:41:24 nyco do we have to improve? what would we be fixing?
14:41:39 Zash Lack of an election committe that puts forward a coherent proposal?
14:42:32 Guus Assuming that council will have the exact same amount of seats as the number of candidates, a vote is nothing more than a popularity contest. We _might_ want to avoid that.
14:42:48 Guus but I'm totally OK with just doing the dance, and be done with it.
14:43:06 ralphm Section 3.13 Voting Procedure for Election of Board and Council. Election of individuals to serve on the Board of Directors and on the XMPP Council shall proceed as follows. First, the number of individuals to serve on each body shall be limited beforehand by the Members as specified in Section 4.4 and Section 8.1 of these Bylaws for the Board and Council, respectively. Second, the Members shall vote on the candidates standing for election in accordance with Section 3.9 of these Bylaws. Third, the individuals elected shall be those receiving the highest percentage of votes cast, up to the limit set by the Members and with the proviso that no individual receiving less than a majority of votes cast shall be elected. Fourth, in the case of a tie for the final remaining position, the final individual shall be chosen in accordance with the procedures defined in "RFC 3797: Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection" published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
14:44:08 ralphm Moving on then.
14:44:28 ralphm We still haven't had a meeting, I think.
14:45:10 ralphm Guus: should we send an e-mail to Peter to find a slot?
14:48:18 Guus from screenshots of the app that they use, it can be deduced that XMPP was used.
14:50:26 nyco is this a real screenshot of the real app? or just a journalist taking a picture he likes?
14:52:14 nyco so, should we obsolete OTR?
14:53:17 Guus The ironchat screenshots lists messages in Dutch that clearly are example / demo texts.
14:56:58 Zash Isn't half the point of OTR that it works regardless of transport?
14:57:40 Guus Zash, I'm just trying to make the point that maybe there's nothing for us, the XSF, to obsolete, even if we wanted to.
14:58:26 Guus I'm not sure by the way if Dutch police actually broke OTR - the article implies that it's just as likely that the implementation that was used was broken.
14:59:03 Zash The XSF could issue an Informational XEP saying "OTR is bad and you should feel bad"
15:00:44 Guus I'm not knowledgeable enough to tell if OTR is actually that bad.
15:00:55 Guus I do think it's a bad idea to start writing XEPs on what not to do.
15:01:12 Guus XEP-0999: "Don't do drugs"
15:01:26 nyco what would be XEP-0666 ?
15:03:24 Zash Magic crypto dust didn't save them?!
15:19:48 Guus that's the (now seized) website of the company that sold the solution.
15:19:55 Guus index_new.php <-- meh.
15:22:16 moparisthebest I don't think I used Conversations with OTR, how did it handle key changes?
16:37:52 jonas' 15:05:19 Guus> The irony of successfully doing MIM on a technology that's designed to run in a federated setup... The irony for something like that to happen to *Iron*(y)chat. Sorry.
17:16:26 Andrew Nenakhov I think they MitMed it after getting access to server console via hosting company.
17:17:49 Andrew Nenakhov Wanna hear a fascinating story?
17:22:53 Andrew Nenakhov So I connected to his server with Xabber. Okk. Otr established. Fingerprints don't match.
17:23:01 Andrew Nenakhov I say hmm.
17:26:54 Andrew Nenakhov Aaaand the most fascinating part, once I told him, it's definitely fucked up, I was kicked from openfire console! (he gave me access), he was kicked from all his terminals and our xmpp axxouts were blocked.
17:29:34 Andrew Nenakhov Next,I come here and hear this story.
17:32:54 Andrew Nenakhov I actually liked the guy. So, hope he doesn't get jailed for long.
19:11:14 flow if it is expensive it has to be good, right?
20:08:48 jonas' somebody around to put https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/719 on the Board agenda?
21:43:40 Maranda 1500 euro phone? IPhone XS Max 256 :O?
21:45:55 Maranda Guus, I told some Meetecho fellows to contact you about a possible issue with OpenFire, and maybe that could "help 'em" stop flooding my server with s2s attempts with their things.
21:58:15 Zash Most likely a cheap android phone.


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Could the Boeing 787 Dreamliner be the New Air Force One?
Air Force One.
There is probably not a more recognized plane in the whole world than the one that carries around the President of the United States. It has been photographed more than any other plane in the world, it was the centerpiece of a major movie starring Harrison Ford, and it is getting pretty old and worn out.
Just to be totally accurate, Air Force One is technically the callsign of any Air Force aircraft that is carrying the President, just as Marine One is a Marine aircraft carrying the President. Multiple aircraft have carried the title of Air Force One over the years, but it is currently associated with two Boeing VC-25As which are highly customized 747-200Bs.
The first VC-25A was delivered in 1990 which means that these aircraft are coming up on a quarter century of flight around the world. While that is not exceptionally old by some standards, this platform is getting old as most airlines have retired these older models of the 747 which means that maintenance costs continue to rise as parts become less common.
So what aircraft is going to replace this iconic platform?
The Air Force put out a request for a replacement back in January of 2009 to have a new plane in service by 2017. A couple of weeks later, EADS(Airbus) took themselves out of the running leaving Boeing as the sole bidder, with the 747-8 and the 787 Dreamliner as the proposed offerings.
President Obama tours the 787 production line with Jim McNerney, Chairman, President & CEO of The Boeing Company (right) and Jim Albaugh, President & CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Photo by Marian Lockhart.
Interestingly, President Obama toured the facility in Washington where the 787 Dreamliner is assembled. I don't think that is necessarily an indication of an impending decision as much as a political move of some sort, but it certainly gets the wheels turning.
The 787 Dreamliner is arguably the most innovative aircraft in the world right now. Its carbon fiber construction, and high-tech roots make it incredibly suited to all types of applications. One of the biggest appeals is the fuel-efficiency and eco-friendly buzz words that make so many people swoon these days.
From everything that we can tell the Dreamliner is a great aircraft that is living up to the hype, but it is hard to know how good a plane really is until it has some real-time in service. That being said, I can think of a couple of reasons that this would be a very appealing choice for the most powerful office in the world.
As I already mentioned, being able to use those great buzz words of fuel-efficient and eco-friendly are just the type of thing that a president who is so worried about his image on the international stage would eat up. America has a terrible reputation when it comes to fossil fuel emissions and replacing the biggest fuel burner in the US government would definitely help that image.
Being in an election year where the economy is far and away the number one issue, picking the Dreamliner would be a great move from a political standpoint. The purchase itself wouldn't mean a lot since it is only for three planes, but it could make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things.
I'm sure Boeing would love to have their new baby shown off to the whole world every time the President gets on and off his plane. How many airlines would at the very least take a more serious look at the Dreamliner if the President of the United States called it his personal jet?
It is one thing to go and tour the plant and say that it is a great airframe, and all of the factory workers are doing a great job, but it is quite another to pick that plane to replace the most photographed, highly recognizable plane in the world. Like so many other companies across the country, Boeing can use all of the help they can get.
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NCA may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Australia
 National Capital Authority, a government authority for development planning of the Capital Territory
 National Crime Authority, defunct investigative agency

European Union
 National Competent Authorities, organisations for banking supervision in each EU member state
National competition authorities, in the context of European Union competition law

India
 Nuclear Command Authority (India)
 National Cricket Academy

Ireland
 National Consumer Agency, a defunct government body
 National Cycling Association, a defunct sports governing body

Norway
 Norwegian Church Aid, a charity
 Norwegian Coastal Administration, a government agency

Pakistan
 National College of Arts, Lahore
 National Command Authority (Pakistan)

United Kingdom
 National Campaign for the Arts, a lobbying group
 National Character Area, a type of region in England
 National Crime Agency, a law-enforcement agency
 The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, a health-care organisation for Greater Manchester

United States
 National Climate Assessment, a governmental interagency
 National Cheerleaders Association, an organization that holds cheer camps and competitions
 National Coffee Association, a coffee industry body
 National Command Authority (United States), a military doctrine
 National Communication Association, an organization to promote communication studies as a discipline
 National Conservation Area, a class of region managed by the Bureau of Land Management
 North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of six organizations that provide higher learning accreditation

Elsewhere
 National Citizens Alliance, federal political party in Canada
 National Computerization Agency, a Korean statutory agency for informatization
 Network of Concerned Anthropologists, an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology
 National Conscription Agency, an agency in Taiwan
 New Classical Adventure, a record label for classical music based in Hamburg, Germany
 Nigerian College of Accountancy, training institution in Jos, Nigeria
 Nippon Cargo Airlines, a cargo airline of Japan
 Nuevo Central Argentino, an Argentine railway company

Chemistry
 Amino acid N-carboxyanhydride
 Lithium nickel cobalt aluminium oxides, a group of lithium-ion battery cathode materials

Computing
 Network Computing Architecture (disambiguation)
 Neighbourhood components analysis, a supervised classification technique
 Nexus Computing Agents, trusted software programs in Microsoft's delayed Next-Generation Secure Computing Base initiative
 Nortel Certified Architect, the highest Nortel certifications
 .nca-File ( Nintendo Switch Content Archive- or Nikon Camara Color Adjustment-File)

Law
 Nature Conservation Act 1992, Queensland, Australia
 Noise Control Act, a U.S. law more formally known as the Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972
 Non-compete agreement, an agreement between an employer and employee prohibiting an employee from working for a competitor after separation

Places
 New Caledonia, French overseas territory, UNDP country code
 Nicaragua, by IOC country code
 Urban community of Nice Côte d'Azur, the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Nice, France and some of its suburbs
 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a protected area and World Heritage Site Arusha, Tanzania
 North Caicos Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands (by IATA code)

Other uses
 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, a landmark ceasefire agreement in Myanmar commonly known by its abbreviation
 NC.A (born 1996), Korean singer
 News Channel America, an American television news and entertainment network


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Back on the 18th May Graham was joined on the show by Hollywood Legend Will Smith, Musical Superstars Gary Barlow and Sir Tom Jones. It was a very exciting episode because Will Smith has been away for a while and seeing him back was just amazing. He was his usual self and you would not have thought he was any older.
One thing I have to say though is that it felt like the whole episode was about him. The main questions were all directed at him and it was only towards the end that Graham pointed questions towards Gary and Sir Tom Jones that weren't in relation to Will Smith. It felt quite bad for them two, especially Sir Tom Jones given his years in the entertainment industry. It was like they were sidelined in favour of the Hollywood titan that is Will Smith. Some of the earlier questions asked by Graham to Gary and Sir Tom Jones were usually in relation to what he just asked Will Smith.
Overall Will Smith was absolutely hilarious and the part I loved the most was how everyone in the studio, even Will Smith sang the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. Gary was given a keyboard to play the tune. It was good to see that he remembered pretty much every line from the song despite how long ago it was.


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RA-L Information for Editors
RA-L: Robotics and Automation Letters
MS: Manuscript
SE: Senior Editor
AE: Associate Editor
EiC: Editor in Chief
DEiC: Deputy EiC
RE: Reviewer
SPC: Conference Senior Program Committee
RR: Revise and Resubmit
AP: Accepted for Publication
COI: Conflict of Interest
The ambitious plan of RA-L implies that the Editorial Board has to perform extremely effectively: not only it will have to guarantee the highest standards of IEEE journals (with a complete peer review cycle, including revision and resubmission where appropriate), but it will also be subject to stringent deadlines. To make the Letters fly, RAS has appointed Senior Editors who are both extremely strong scientifically and exceptionally responsible and organized.
The term of a Senior Editor is three years, renewable once. A SE supervises an area, formed by a number of keywords, and cooperates with a number of Associate Editors to provide reviews and recommendations for papers in that area.
The main responsibilities of a Senior Editor are
To assist the EiC to select keywords representing the scientific sub-areas forming the area, and to update them from time to time
To suggest the names of AEs who can supervise the review process of papers in the sub-areas identified by the keywords
To monitor the performance of AEs
To supervise the automatic assignment of MSs to AEs, based on keyword matching, to check for possible COIs or other reasons to supersede the suggested assignment
To decide, in accord with the EiC, on the editorial (summary) rejection of MSs
To ensure the timeliness of the review process
To check the quality of the reviews (at least two) and of the comments provided by the AEs, and the consistency of the recommendation
To issue the decision letter to Authors, receive their comments and entertain any correspondence with them
To reach its goals, RA-L must guarantee a final decision within 6 months from submission, with no exceptions. In addition, for manuscripts with Conference option, RA-L must guarantee a recommendation for Conference presentation within about 3 months from submission. This will be possible following the time-line reported below. Deadlines involving SEs are highlighted in red.
The SE's service in handling a paper is acknowledged by the publisher (IEEE) including the name of the SE on the final electronically published paper.
RA-L Editorial Timeline
The schedule for a sampling of the conference options are shown below. Note that the day count is applicable to any RA-L submission, including those papers that are submitted to RA-L only (without a conference option). Most papers should progress through the review process faster than shown in this table -- the timeline shown here gives the absolute latest deadlines.
Time (days) Duration (days) ICRA 2022 RoboSoft 2022 Humanoids 2022 IROS 2022 CASE 2022 Action
Day 0 0 Sep 9, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 Manuscript received
Assignment of MS to SE and AE
Day 7 7 Sep 16, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 (Optional) Editorial reject of MS
Day 14 7 Sep 23, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 (AEs assign MS to REs)
At least three REs commit to review MS
Day 44 30 Oct 23, 2021 Nov 24, 2021 (REs submit reviews)
At least two good reviews per MS are received
Day 58 14 Nov 6, 2021 Dec 8, 2021 (AE interacts with REs to improve reviews)
AE submits recommendation
Day 72 14 Nov 20, 2021 Dec 22, 2021 (SE interacts with AE)
SEs endorses/revises AE recommendation
Day 86 14 Dec 4, 2021 Jan 5, 2022 (EiC checks process)
Authors receive reviews and RA-L recommendation
Day 86 - Dec 4, 2021 Jan 5, 2022 (For Conference option MS only) Reviews and Conference recommendation merged to Conference database
Day 100 (14) Dec 18, 2021 Jan 19, 2022 Authors of accepted MS submit final RA-L version
Day 116 30 Jan 3, 2022 Feb 4, 2022 Authors of RR MS resubmit revised MS
Day 116 - Jan 3, 2022 Feb 4, 2022 MS re-assigned to SE and AE
Day 123 7 Jan 10, 2022 Feb 11, 2022 AE re-assigns MS to REs (if needed)
Day 137 14 Jan 24, 2022 Feb 25, 2022 REs submit the second review
Day 144 7 Jan 31, 2022 March 4, 2022 AE submits the final recommendation
Day 148 4 Feb 4, 2022 March 8, 2022 SE endorses/revises recommendation
Day 151 3 Feb 7, 2022 March 11, 2022 (EiC checks process)
Authors receive the final decision
Day 165 14 Feb 21, 2022 March 25, 2022 Authors submit final files
Day 170 5 Feb 26, 2022 March 30, 2022 Camera-ready version appears on Xplore
Day 180 10 Mar 8, 2022 April 9, 2022 Absolute Final Publication Deadline
The editorial spirit of RA-L
The general principle of the editorial work in RA-L is that Editors and Reviewers are not there to be inflexible judges; rather their role is to help authors write better papers.
This reflects in the review comments and recommendation reports, which are always constructive in their criticism, not just noting deficiencies but also indicating how they can be mended. Any diminishing or disrespectful remark must be absolutely avoided. It is useful to authors of a rejected paper that a fair estimate is given of how far beyond the threshold a paper is, and what could make a new paper acceptable.
The quality level to be expected in a paper to appear in the RA-L is defined by the scope of the journal: a RA Letter is a timely and concise account of innovative research ideas and application results, reporting significant theoretical findings and application case studies in areas of robotics and automation.
By a loose analogy to existing publications, a Letter can be considered similar in quality to short papers in RAS T-RO or T-ASE, although the requirement of timeliness favours originality over maturity. In terms of a conference scale, we consider that a paper in the "A", "B+" or "B" classes could become, possibly through a deep revision and resubmission process, a RA Letter. In some cases, a paper that in its first submission would be in the "B-" class can become a RA Letter, if the paper has the potential to be substantially improved in a revised and resubmitted version, capitalizing on comments and suggestions in the first review.
The RA-L Review process
The review process for RA-L is managed using the PaperPlaza system. PaperPlaza provides a wide variety of tools to help SEs supervise the review process. AE assignments, interactions with AEs, and final decisions are all managed using PaperPlaza. To access the system, go to the PaperPlaza page, click Start and then Log in. If you have forgotten your login information, you can retrieve it using the PIN management page. It may be useful to spend a few minutes looking over the help pages, and in particular the Editor's FAQ at PaperPlaza Help Page.
Preliminary steps
Your action is started when a manuscript is assigned to your area (day 0). This will happen in most cases by automatic assignment based on keyword matching. Notice that the MS is simultaneously assigned also to an AE in the area under your supervision.
The first step is to look at the MS to preliminarily assess its eligibility for RA-L review.
If you consider that the paper is not suitable for RA-L or that you cannot supervise its review because of a COI, please contact the EiC immediately to alert him/her and decide further action, e.g. editorial rejection or SE reassignment. This preliminary evaluation phase should be as fast as possible, an in any case before a week (day 7).
If you deem that the automatic assignment to the AE should be revoked, and that the MS should be reassigned to a different AE in your area, please act immediately by using the proper functions in PaperPlaza. Please also make sure that the originally assigned AE is informed about the change and its motivations. Once again, it is important that AE reassignment is done as quickly as possible, and in any case before a week (day 7), to avoid wasting the AE time and delaying the process.
Both editorial rejections and reassignments are to be used sparingly. Criteria for editorial rejection are discussed below in this document. You should ask for a reassignment in the case where you detect a COI that was not apparent (see below for a definition of COI for SEs and AEs). Requests of reassignment for lack of specific knowledge of the SE or AE in the MS topic should be minimized. Indeed, you have been selected as SE, and your colleagues have been selected as AEs, not because of a deep competence in a narrow topic, rather for experience, vision and capability to assess scientific contributions in a wider area. Specific expertise and technical prowess in the MS domain, together with reliability and thoroughness, are criteria AEs should use to select the reviewers.
Vetting the MS Review Dossier
RA-L has a strict review quality policy: every submitted MS must receive a well prepared first review dossier within three months (more precisely, by day 86).
A review dossier includes the reviewers' comments, an AE report, and a recommendation (AP/RR/Reject) for RA-L. Submissions with Conference option also receive a recommendation (A/B/C/D/U) for Conference presentation.
The SE will receive the review dossier from one of his/her AEs before two months from MS submission (more precisely, by day 58). The SE vets the review dossier, takes action to improve it if needed, and submits a well prepared dossier to the EiC within two weeks (by day 72).
It is the SE's responsibility to make sure that all MS Review cases submitted are well prepared.
A well prepared MS Review case contains at least two "good" reviews, which are substantial, constructive and not diminishing the authors' efforts, even when they have to be negative or very negative. The AE report is expected to contain a summary of the reviewers' opinions (in the AE's own words) and the AE's opinion on the paper. If reviews are not clear enough, the AE Report should give a solid rationale for the decision to be taken. If two reviews are in disagreement, the AE Report should resolve the conflict. The AE should not merely give the average of the reviews as rating, rather he should take a decisive action and settle the conflict.
In no case is a MS case with less than two reviews, or including any sub-standard reviews or AE report (e.g., too short or shallow), or apparent inconsistencies between comments and recommendations, should be accepted by the SE. Should the SE receive a defective MS Review case, he/she will interact with the AE to make sure that further action is pursued promptly so as to reach the desired high review quality standards of RA-L.
The SE has two weeks to interact with the AE and to prepare a decision letter for the authors, which can use parts of the text of the AE's report.
The decision letter and the review dossier are sent to EiC for a final check on the procedures. Once this is cleared, the SE will sign and send the first decision letter to the authors. This must happen before day 86 from MS submission.
Revised and resubmitted manuscripts
If the decision on the first submission to RA-L is RR, authors will be asked to resubmit a revised version and a Statement of Changes within one month (day 116). The MS will be immediately re-assigned to the managing AE.
The AE will decide whether to ask the assistance of one or more of the original reviewers to re-assess the MS. The AE may directly decide on the new recommendation on the basis of his judgment whether or not authors have fulfilled the first review requirements.
AEs provide a second review dossier within a month from resubmission (day 144), including an AE report, all second reviews (if any), and the final decision recommendation. The SE has four days (day 148) to interact with the AE and to prepare the second decision, which is also the final one in RA-L and can only be an Accept for Publication or a Reject. Upon a final procedural check by the EiC, the decision becomes final and is communicated to authors (day 151).
The schedule described above is to be considered strict. Indeed, considering the time need after the final recommendation by authors to submit their final version, and technical publication times, very little slack is available before the absolute final deadline of 180 days from submission to e-publication.
When the final version of an Accepted paper is received, the Senior Editor has the possibility to verify that all required changes have been made in the final version, and s/he may request the AE to support in this phase also. Although rarely, a SE can withhold publication until all required changes are satisfactorily made. In case this can not be achieved by authors within 180 days from submission, which we set as a time limit for publication of Letters, the paper could be effectively withdrawn from publication.
Editorial (Summary) Rejections
AEs who believe a paper assigned to them should be editorially rejected inform the SE who makes the decision. The SE assigned to the paper makes the final decision as to whether the paper should be rejected without further review, or should go through the regular review process. Senior Editors should notify the EiC of the editorial rejections they propose and their rationale no later than one week from the submission.
Editorial rejects are to be used mainly for incomplete or otherwise clearly unsuitable papers (see below the official IEEE policy for more details). All editorial rejections must be approved by the EiC. If the reason for editorial rejection is lack of technical contribution, IEEE rules require that at least three persons concur in such decision. For these cases, the EiC and at least two members of the Editorial board (usually the SE and AE) have to consent. The recommended decision on such a paper should be "Unsuitable" (not "Reject"), and the decision should not be executed until a draft of the publication decision has been approved by the EiC.
Editorial rejections must be argued carefully. A non-specific, boilerplate letter will cause frustration in the authors. When in doubt, the paper should be sent for regular review. We expect that no more than 10-15% of submitted papers will be rejected without review.
For purposes of tracking editorial rejections, the EiC will add a comment on the paper's main page that states: "This paper was an editorial rejection. It was checked by the AE, SE, and EiC, and all agreed that it did not meet IEEE prescreening criterion X."
IEEE Policy Regarding Prescreening of Articles by Editors
Editors may prescreen articles immediately after they are submitted and before they are transmitted to referees for evaluation. The purpose of such prescreening is to verify that the article adheres to minimum criteria set forth by IEEE, as well as by the organizational unit responsible for the specific publication. Typical prescreening measures include the following:
a. The author(s) have followed the IEEE guidelines for style.
b. The author(s) have not obviously violated IEEE Policies.
c. The article is comprehensible (in other words, not so poorly written that it is unreadable).
d. The subject and contents of the article meet the scope of the periodical or a specific issue.
e. The article meets a minimum criterion for technical substance established for the periodical.
If the Editor assesses that a submission has met prescreening criteria 3.a through 3.d, but has not met criterion 3.e, the Editor shall consult with at least two members of the editorial board for concurrence. Rejection on the basis of criterion 3.e requires the agreement of the Editor-in-chief, the Senior Editor, and the Associate Editor. Rejection on the basis of criterion 3.e shall require the general agreement of the Editor and those consulted. An article is considered in review if it passes the prescreening process and is forwarded to referees. An "administrative reject" refers to an article that does not meet the prescreening measures and is, therefore, returned to the author(s) with explanation.
A RA-L SE is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a submitted MS if he or she is a co-author of the paper.
A RA-L AE is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a submitted MS if one (or more) of the authors.
· is, or has been, a student (including postdoc) or advisor of the AE, or
· has co-authored a paper or has closely collaborated in a research project with the AE in the previous five years, or
· is employed at the same institution (at the Department or Division level) as the AE, or
· there are any other circumstances which may create an appearance that the person might have a bias in the evaluation of the paper.
The criteria for COIs for RA-L AEs also apply to RA-L reviewers.
RA-L Editorial Time Line
Editorial Rejections


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THERE are jazz piano trios… and there are jazz piano trios. Over the years, the familiar piano/bass/drums line-up has come and gone, mostly offering standard fare with pleasant, yet unchallenging similarity.
In recent times, however, the trio format has undergone something of a renaissance, with perhaps the Esbjörn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) leading the way in shaking up the establishment and shining a bright, new light on the 21st Century jazz scene… until so tragically extinguished.
Then comes 'Walking Dark', a brand new studio album of, again, entirely original works – and an absolute triumph! – released by Edition Records, a UK label renowned for successfully nurturing and promoting exceptional new jazz talent. From the off, this creative soundworld delivers a highly exciting and engaging experience – Høiby's agile, driving and melodious double bass sounding like no other; Neame's seemingly effortless yet energetic piano work (a chromatic ripple here, a deftly high-flying solo line there, and characteristically complex chord progressions I can only dream of emulating!); and Eger coaxing the most gigantic and thrilling percussion via his unique and ebullient approach to drumming ('amazing to witness Anton eloquently teasing extraordinary sounds out of his kit, with trademark enthusiastic vigour, using kitchen utensils!).
Phronesis create such a remarkably integrated sound (no 'your turn next' soloing here) which benefits from the sharing of the compositional role. The twelve numbers on this album, totalling well over an hour, are clearly all from the same stable, yet the variety in writing provides a captivating journey of differing timbres, techniques and moods – and a breathtaking array of talent and craftsmanship from just three instrumentalists, recorded over a mere three days!
Highlighting tracks is difficult, and perhaps futile, with an album of this warmth and stature. However, Eger's 'Zieding' and 'The Economist' provide the only evidence you need to grab a copy of this album for yourself. Neame's brilliantly edgy and excitable 'American Jesus' contrasts with his floaty, spacial 'Passing Clouds', whilst Høiby (taking the majority of writing credits) gives us the wonderfully pulsating opening title track and the charming 'Suede Trees'.
If you're excited by groundbreaking contemporary jazz, I challenge you not to be impressed by the ride!