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1 Programa Literatura Infantil Local para la carrera Licenciatura en Educación Program for teaching Primary Education children using local literature Inalvis Basnueva Cantillo Norma Leonard Carbonell Claribel Gamboa López Universidad de Guantánamo, Cuba Correo electrónico: cug.co.cu cug.co.cu cug.co.cu Received: April 6, 2017 Accepted: Jun 2, 2017 Resumen: En los planes de estudio vigentes para la carrera Licenciatura en Educación se ha concedido muy poco espacio para el desarrollo en los estudiantes del interés hacia la creación literaria del lugar donde vive, lo cual obstaculiza el rescate y promoción de los valores territoriales. En el trabajo se propone y fundamenta un programa de Literatura Infantil Local para la formación inicial de los estudiantes de la carrera Licenciatura en Educación, como resultado de la tesis de maestría de la autora principal. Palabras clave: Educación ; Planes de estudio; Literatura Infantil; Creación literaria Abstract: In the current syllabus for the Primary Education teachers, very little space has been granted for the development of students' interest in the literary creation of the place where they live, which hinders the rescue and promotion of territorial values. In this paper, a program that uses local literature in the teaching of primary education children is proposed. The proposal is based on the initial training of students of the Primary Education, and is a result of the M.Sc. thesis of the main author. Keywords: Primary Education; Study plans; Children's literature; Literary creation Introduction In the current historical-social conditions it is imperative to preserve the culture of the locality. "Keep in mind that a people without vernacular literature is still unknown by itself... The novel, the legend, the biography, the story, are bonds to unite us, eyes to see us, feelings to know and esteem us, that is, to be: to be for others and to be for ourselves "(Fornet, 1996, p.15). The work of rescue of cultural values of the territory echoes the urgent need to save culture, as a way to save the country, to preserve identity, to promote spirituality in the individual. It also responds to a conception expressed by the pedagogue José de la Luz y Caballero, when he considers that the universal must be found in the local.
5 relationship between the general and the particular, as dialectical pairs, and the singular as a manifestation in the integration of universal, national and local literature, but doing emphasis on the authors and texts of the province. Cuba and Guantánamo stand out in the contexts mentioned, since it is essential to distinguish the interest of the subjects to promote national and local identity among students, feelings of identity and belonging to both contexts, which will reveal national values and the profession specified in the selected figures and texts. In the curricula in force, very little space has been granted for the development of students' interest in the literary creation of the place where they live, which hinders the rescue and promotion of territorial values. The system of knowledge shown tax the general education of the student as it will facilitate continuity of the basic academic training received at the previous level of education, this favors the student by knowing the authors of the world, their country and locality, as well as analyzing their creations and evaluate them both in the formal and the content. Local literature favors the exchange of students with what is closest to them, allowing them to relate to writers who speak in their texts of the problematic centers of their interest. For this reason, the texts of writers such as Ana Luz García Calzada, Armando Puente Camino, Ramón Bartelemy Laffita, Gipsie Garrido, María Luisa Pérez López de Queralta, Lady Diana Castillo Villalón and Eldys Baratute Benavides have been selected and awarded at the territorial level. national and its texts are exponents of the most genuine of the locality. This approach to the literary text is done with the interest of making the students of the race able to feel and appreciate the beauty and ideals in the local children's literature. Encouraging them to read will encourage their teaching unit to teach Spanish Language classes, or other activities where they motivate their students through the expressive reading of texts or fragments of them. Development In the program designed for the attention to local children's literature from the curriculum for the Primary Education major, the cognitive, communicative and sociocultural approach is systematized, based on Roméu s (2007) ideas.
7 knowledge related to the authors and works of local children's literature in their Spanish Language classes. Other important moment that can be used for this purpose is recess, which must be assumed as an educational space cultural mediator and part of the formation of affective habits and relationships where pedagogical conditions are created so that students learn to share social spaces from positions of collaboration, tolerance, affection and responsibility. The library is in turn an ideal place for the dissemination of works in its different stages, historical dates and others; the community also becomes a space in which the local children's works and authors can be divulged and the teacher must know it through another space such as the creation workshops from the first to the sixth grade and through the subjects Appreciation the Arts, Library affairs, Artistic Education and the one that constitutes the axis of all of them: Spanish Language, contributes to that end. Local Children's Literature Program Rationale The proposed program gives special interest to the rescue of territorial values and their promotion, so this means for the teacher to show interest in the literary creation of the place where he lives, studies or works. All of this is relevant at the present time, since it is about the Cubans appreciating and defending their national culture. For this reason, it is emphasized, within the program's knowledge system, the study of Guantanamo writers of children's literature that will allow the teacher not only general knowledge to appreciate and value the literary text, but also data about their production, life and work. The contents are distributed in three themes in which it is proposed the study of authors and texts representative of the three fundamental genres of literature, as well as their main generic forms, selecting among the most relevant within Guantánamo literature. The eminently practical nature of the program facilitates the achievement of skills in expressive reading, recitation of poetic texts, oral narration and dramatizations of children's literary texts, so that the teacher acquires not only the basic knowledge in each subject but also implement them in school practice.
10 II The dramatic genre III The lyrical genre Total Essential values: Ethical and aesthetic values. Defense of kindness and justice. Patriotic and revolutionary values: love of the Homeland and Humanity, rejection of imperialism and any system of oppression. Human values of literary texts. Identity and sense of belonging. Love the profession and children. Methodological and organizational guidelines: The subject will be developed essentially through the practical classes, which will focus on the development of skills in students, not forgetting the theoretical basis that serves as a foundation for these, for it is proposed 2 hours of lecture at the start of topics 1 and 3, in order to bring students closer to the theoretical elements that will serve to interact with the literary text. The initial conference will be the presentation of the subject, the diagnosis and will guide the final work, which consists of the presentation of a paper, which includes the comprehensive analysis, taking into account the categories studied, the local literary children's text that is oriented. The first conference will pay attention to the literature in Guantánamo, for it must rely on the prologue of the Dictionary of writers Guantanamo written by Risell Parra Fontanilles and the work of Juan Torrel on the beginnings of literature in Guantanamo; the teacher will make a historical review of the literature in the province from the origins to the present, we will also value the presence of the Guantanamo narrators of children's literature in our context. It should be addressed in addition, in the historical review of literature in Guantanamo, related to local children's literature in the different stages or historical periods from the nineteenth century to the present day.
11 In addressing the epic genre, we must take into account, among other resources, its manifestations, sources of nourishment, authors and representative texts, topics it addresses, narrative style, character of conflicts and characters, literary forms, linguistic resources, forms elocutivas that it employs, as well as the presence of reality and fantasy in those texts. The concepts of narrative categories: argument, motive, character, stage, environment, narrator point of view, language, structure, theme and subject will be addressed as well; the generic forms: story, fable, legend, story, anecdote and a brief historical review on the literature in Guantanamo from the origins to the present. At the end of the topic of the epic genre, a generalizing seminar is held in which students can summarize and arrive at generalizations about the main generic forms of gender addressed by the local literature, emphasizing in the story as the most representative and with the greater number of writers who have approached it. For the realization of this seminar they can be supported in the search of information in institutions of the province as Houses of Culture, UNEAC, Hermanos Saíz Association, libraries and others, in which they will find enough information for the deepening in the content that is studied. In theme II, which is devoted to the study of the dramatic genre, we will begin with the practical classes, since the texts belonging to this genre are essentially manifested through the same categories of the epic genre, with few differences that the student has to discover From the management of the concepts already learned, 2 hours will be allocated for the seminar in which the knowledge related to the characteristics of the studied genre will be assessed, making the specifics corresponding to the locality, can be analyzed in situ, through interviews with writers and representatives of the Ministry of Culture of the province how much the existing theatrical groups (Guiñol and others) contributed to the development of the theater in the locality. With regard to theme III, which deals with the study of texts belonging to the lyrical genre, a lecture will begin where the concepts of language, motives, subject, subject, as well as measure, rhyme, types of stanzas and their various manifestations, or the stófica organization that the lyrical poems acquire; from this the practical classes will be used so that the student, in addition to systematizing the analysis of these categories, is in contact with new and proper ones of the sort; will also develop the ability of recitation with all the expressive and intonational resources they need.
12 The final seminar should be carried out, as in the previous topics, by evaluating in the mentioned institutions of the locality criteria, new bibliographies on the subject, interviews to the writers and representatives of the Ministry of Culture, to achieve the deepening in the characteristics of the genre and its peculiarities within the province as well as the authors and most representative works. In the dramatic genre, there are no outstanding authors in Guantánamo, although the production of the Guantánamo- Baracoa theatrical crusade and that of the Guiñol theater must be recognized, which is why it is recommended to adapt stories for dramatizations and staging of children's texts. In doing so, it must be borne in mind that the staging of stories, poetry, fables and historical facts carried out in primary schools require an earlier preparation that implies the adaptation of the work to a dramatic piece. This exercise raises the need for the teacher or the children themselves to master the essential aspects of the theatrical technique, such as precise dialogues, characterization, character development and awareness of the importance of action and conflict. In order to extend the scope of the subject, the possibility of contacting writers and artists of the locality should be considered for lectures, recitals, conversations, book reviews and other activities that stimulate interest in literature. The possibility of attending extraclassic theater plays for children, talks with directors, actors and playwrights should also be considered. It is suggested to use the projection of films, cartoons, recordings of songs, poetry, narrations and other means that complement the analysis of texts and the ways of making them reach the children, without it replacing their reading. In the work practice can be carried out tasks that are derived from the organization and direction of reading circles with children, the provision of talks and simple conversations for the dissemination of writers' texts, the promotion and development of reading contests, declamation and written expression, the creation and application of didactic games related to literature as well as the elaboration of means of teaching that can be used in Spanish Language classes. As part of the research component will develop tasks such as preparation of various types of fiches, summaries, synopsis, reports of readings, reviews, works of literary criticism and analysis of reading texts in force in Guantánamo. It is important the work that the students will carry out in the libraries of both the teaching units where they are inserted as in the university, in which they will do research that will facilitate the investigation of the author's data, about his life and work and other inherent elements to the literary text analyzed.
14 1. Abascal, Alicia. Children's literature. Havana, People and Education, 1988, p Collective of authors. University for all, Seminar of Literary Appreciation. Havana, Social Sciences, 2001, p Literary Studies. Benito Pírez Noy and others. Havana, People and Education, Reference Bibliography 1. Artiles, Freddy. Theater for children. La Habana, Letras Cubanas, 1981, p Bélic Oldrich and Josef Brabak. Introduction to Literary Theory. Havana, People and Education, 1988, p Collective of authors. Subjects of Theory of Literature. Editorial Pueblo and Education, Diaz Entralgo, Josefina and others. Artistic reading and narration. Havana, People and Education, 1989, p Timoféiev L. Fundamentals of Theory of Literature. USSR, Editorial Progreso, 1979, p. 268 Conclusions From what is expressed in the work we can conclude about the relevance of the teaching of local children's literature based on the cognitive, communicative and socio-cultural approach. In assessing the role of local children's literature in the training of undergraduate students in education Primary should emphasize the importance of locality in the formation and development of personality, which confirms its scope in favor of literacy training in Spanish Literature students. The program of the Local Children's Literature program responds to a broad profile, with mastery of communication, which contributes to the student's cognitive-communicative and socio-cultural development, to his axiological training, his creativity and his general culture, to solve problems independently that may be presented to him in the exercise of his profession. Bibliographic references Basnueva Cantillo, I. (2015). Programa de Literatura Infantil Local para la formación inicial de los estudiantes de la carrera Licenciatura en Educación. Tesis de Maestría. Universidad de Guantánamo, Cuba.
15 Cuétara López, R. y Hernández Herrera P. Á. (1999). Didáctica para los estudios locales. Curso 37. Congreso Internacional Pedagogía 99. La Habana. Fornet, A. (1996). El (otro) discurso de la identidad. La Gaceta de Cuba, (5), Fragoso Ávila, J., Caballero Cárdenas, E. y Céspedes Quiala, A. (2014). Orientaciones Metodológicas de la carrera de Licenciatura en. Plan D. La Habana: Ministerio de Educación. Ministerio de Educación. (2010). Modelo del profesional. Plan de estudio D carrera Licenciatura en Educación. La Habana: Ministerio de Educación. Ministerio de Educación. (2010). Programa de Disciplina: Estudios Literarios, carrera Licenciatura en Educación. Plan D. La Habana: Ministerio de Educación. Ministerio de Educación Superior. (2009). Plan del Proceso Docente. Licenciatura en Educación, carrera Licenciatura en Educación. La Habana: Ministerio de Educación. Montaño Calcines, J. R. (2006). La literatura y en desde para la escuela. La Habana: Pueblo y Educación. Ossorio Salermo, A. M. (2009). La literatura infantil local y su contribución a la formación literaria de los estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Educación. (Tesis de doctorado), Holguín, Cuba. Resik Aguirre, M. (1998, 27 de septiembre ). El alma de la nación. Entrevista a Miguel Barnet. Juventud Rebelde, p.4. Roméu Escobar, A. (2007). El enfoque cognitivo comunicativo y sociocultural en la enseñanza de la lengua y la literatura. (Comp). La Habana: Pueblo y Educación.


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May 8, 2013 | Matter of Public Importance
Government: policy initiatives
I am pleased to rise to make a contribution in relation to the matter of public importance.
I would like to start my remarks by pointing out that I came to this place to uphold standards of decency and integrity in public office, particularly in relation to Labor values of defending the rights of people in the workplace, and to make sure that we advocate consistently for those who continue to miss out on the long-term economic prosperity and growth that we have enjoyed here in Victoria.
I start off by making the point that there continue to be a number of people in the community of Ivanhoe continue to miss out and their voices continue to fall on deaf ears under this Napthine Liberal government. I might start with police and emergency services in Victoria, particularly under the former police minister, the Minister for State Development, who is now perhaps nothing more than a broken-down full forward being shuffled off into the forward pocket. He has been moved out. He continues to make it into the team but he has been dumped to the forward pocket. They have moved him out of the key roles.
They have done that because out in the Ivanhoe electorate we continue to miss out on the things that this government talks about in relation to services.
We know the former police minister continues to drop his head every time the pressure is applied. We have seen him time and again tell untruths in this Parliament and tell untruths to the community of Heidelberg in relation to police services. We know that because on 28 April 2011 he said there would continue to be staffing of 80 hours per fortnight at the police station in West Heidelberg. That police station has been closed since January 2012, under this government. I note that in a letter dated 17 May 2011 Dean Stevenson, the superintendent, said:
… as you are aware, the Heidelberg West police station is currently under review and until a decision is made into its future, the directional signage will remain in place.
The superintendent knows the police station is under review and everyone in West Heidelberg knows the police station is closed, yet we continue to get these untruths from the former police minister in relation to services for people in West Heidelberg.
I point out that he continues to say, as he did on 27 February 2012, that a shopfront available to the folk of West Heidelberg is supplemented by many additional patrols in the region. That is just totally incorrect: the police station is closed. If the minister took the time to come out to West Heidelberg, he would know that. We in the Ivanhoe electorate continue to be ignored.
I will also look at health. Just recently we have had a merger proposal put forward by the Liberal government. Last time they were in office — we reclaimed the seat of Ivanhoe from the Liberal Party in 1996 — they had plans to privatise the Austin Hospital. They just cannot help meddling in services for the public at the Austin Hospital. Now the secret is out: a merger between Northern Health and Austin Health. We all know about that. Rather than address the systemic and endemic funding and service issues at Northern Health, the government's plan is to poison the well at Austin Health.
It wants to put members of the Ivanhoe community to the back of the queue and send maternity and birthing services up to Northern Hospital. The government wants to take services away from people at the Austin Hospital and put those people at the back of the queue rather than addressing the needs of the growth areas in the outer northern suburbs. We are not going to stand for it; we have caught this government out again.
There was $45 million that we had to fight for to secure the completion of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre, for which we had 3000 signatures on a petition in March 2011. We may well have lost government at the end of 2010, and we accept that we got booted out. But I can tell you we pulled out 3000 signatures from the Ivanhoe community, from people who wanted that $45 million secured. We had to fight for that, and we got it with the community's support, because they know that when it comes to the Austin Hospital the Liberals cannot be trusted.
They know that from past experience, and they know that from the government's plans to merge our hospital with Northern Hospital.
We will not stand by and watch while you appoint your Liberal cretins to run the Austin Hospital — Judith Troeth and the rest of those people in the Liberal Party that you just think you can park to run organisations in our community, who do not speak up or stand up for the people at the Austin, while you refuse to appoint a CEO to run Northern Health because you just want it to let it run into the ground. Because you only want to appoint your own mouthpieces — —
The DEPUTY SPEAKER — Order! Through the Chair — the use of 'you' is not permitted.
Mr CARBINES — Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Education is another weak link that this government has in the local community.
We have seen several school sites in my electorate being sold off — in Heidelberg West in Heidelberg Heights and the Bellfield Primary School site — being sold off. The government refused to upgrade the Olympic Village Primary School site. The Haig Street Primary School site is now being sold off, and we have also seen the Banksia-La Trobe Secondary College site being sold off. None of that money is being invested into local schools. They are currently all at capacity. Three years, three budgets, three strikes — there has not been one bit of funding for capital projects in the Ivanhoe electorate under this government; that is what it is doing.
One government secondary college, Viewbank College, with 1200 students — some 3000 parents send their kids to that school — has not received one cracker from this government in three years. Rosanna Golf Links Primary School had a $1.5 million master plan done by the previous government. It is now sitting collecting dust under this government.
The only money we have got from this government in relation to education services came when classrooms at Olympic Village Primary School in West Heidelberg burnt down and the government decided it would cough up a couple of dollars from insurance to rebuild a couple of buildings. We still had to put out petitions and fight to get those funds. This government is not committed to schools in the Ivanhoe electorate, and we will hold it accountable again for its failure to deliver to local communities in West Heidelberg. It is not acceptable.
Let us look at transport services and bus services. There are no additional services for people travelling on the 517 bus service through Viewbank. Rosanna train station is falling down, and there is not one dollar to upgrade that station; it is in the same state as it has been for the last 30 or 40 years. We know that this government is not committed to duplicating the Chandler Highway to address significant bottleneck issues. We have a new fair weather Treasurer, who stands there and thinks it is all nice and easy at the moment. However, when the clouds starts to descend and the chickens come home to roost where will we he be? That is what I would like to know, because he certainly has not spent any time in the Ivanhoe electorate.
The Ivanhoe electorate also has a problem in relation to services and livability for people. The crooks who run Places Victoria were appointed by this government. They are Liberal Party hacks, and they have totally stuffed it up. The former Premier appointed his mates. Not only did the former chair of Places Victoria, Peter Clarke, get the flick, so did the former Premier. If you put your mates in to run these shows, we will remember. We remember the gravy train. We remember the Kennett days. We remember the gravy train that appointed these people. How is Places Victoria going?
The government is sitting on public housing land and school sites in the Ivanhoe electorate but is refusing to do anything with the land because Places Victoria has fallen into a heap. The government continues to appoint cronies to run these organisations, and people in the Ivanhoe electorate continue to suffer. They are suffering in relation to the Austin Hospital. They are suffering in relation to vacant school sites. They are suffering in relation to public housing rental increases. They are suffering in relation to public housing properties being sold off. People are being pressured and muscled to leave their homes.
We sought to have the Ivanhoe structure plan scrapped and redone by the Banyule City Council. We sought interim planning controls from the local upper house member, Matthew Guy, the Minister for Planning and a member for Northern Metropolitan Region, to protect our suburbs from developers until he approves the Ivanhoe structure plan. He says that he accepts the Ivanhoe structure plan, but he is waving the developers through.
He is saying, 'Get out there and make sure that you develop and get your planning approvals for mega-monster, 8-storey buildings in Ivanhoe before the Ivanhoe structure plan is completed'. That is what he is allowing them to do, instead of putting in interim building controls to protect people in the Ivanhoe electorate. We will hold him to account for as long as he continues to look after his developer mates and gives them free rein and a green light to build whatever they like in the electorate.
We all remember when those opposite cut out the supply of whooping cough vaccine. These people do not care about families. We all remember them jacking up the rents for public housing. We have a range of concerns in relation to this government. This government is responsible for the lowest ever investment in new public housing stock in Victoria. Not since 1956 have we seen a government provide such low levels of investment in public housing in Heidelberg West.
The only activity we see are the 'For sale' signs going up on public housing sites for the government's developer mates. When I walked down to the Palladium at Crown this morning there they all were, making lots of money with their developer mates instead of coming in here and doing business for the people of Victoria.
There is one point on which I fundamentally disagree with what others have said — this is not the same old government. This is a new government with a new Premier and a new Treasurer. It has moved a few people on who did not perform — it has tried to hide them — but it still believes in the same rubbish and still protects the same cronies. On this side of the house we accept and understand that this is a new government. We hold it to account for what it is doing in the community. We will not get let it get away with cosying up to its developer mates and its cronies trying to silence the people of Victoria.
The sooner we get a better understanding on this side of the house of what we need to do to attack this new government for what it does and the beliefs it holds, the sooner we will remove it from office.

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Q: CUDA H.264 decoder initialization problems I am trying to develop multi-streaming H.264 video player based on cudaDecodeD3D9 example from NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.2.
Application works correctly with a few streams but it raises assertion (CUDA_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) in cuvidCreateDecoder function for 12 streams with resolution 800x600 or 9 streams with resolution 1920x1080. cudaMemGetInfo returns 387MB (for video card with 1GB) and 1.3Gb (for video card with 2GB) available memory. Does memory fragmentation cause this? How can I use available memory?
VideoDecoder::VideoDecoder(const CUVIDEOFORMAT & rVideoFormat,
                       CUcontext &rContext,
                       cudaVideoCreateFlags eCreateFlags,
                       CUvideoctxlock &vidCtxLock)
: m_VidCtxLock(vidCtxLock)
{
// get a copy of the CUDA context
m_Context          = rContext;
m_VideoCreateFlags = eCreateFlags;

// Fill the decoder-create-info struct from the given video-format struct.
memset(&oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_, 0, sizeof(CUVIDDECODECREATEINFO));
        // Create video decoder
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.CodecType           = rVideoFormat.codec;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulWidth             = rVideoFormat.coded_width;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulHeight            = rVideoFormat.coded_height;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulNumDecodeSurfaces = FrameQueue::cnMaximumSize;

        // Limit decode memory to 24MB (16M pixels at 4:2:0 = 24M bytes)
while (oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulNumDecodeSurfaces * rVideoFormat.coded_width * rVideoFormat.coded_height > 16*1024*1024)
{
    oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulNumDecodeSurfaces--;
}
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ChromaFormat        = rVideoFormat.chroma_format;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.OutputFormat        = cudaVideoSurfaceFormat_NV12;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.DeinterlaceMode     = cudaVideoDeinterlaceMode_Adaptive;

        // No scaling
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulTargetWidth       = oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulWidth;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulTargetHeight      = oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulHeight;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulNumOutputSurfaces = MAX_FRAME_COUNT;  // We won't simultaneously map more than 8 surfaces
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.ulCreationFlags     = m_VideoCreateFlags;
oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_.vidLock             = m_VidCtxLock;

size_t available, total;
cudaMemGetInfo(&available, &total);

        // create the decoder
CUresult oResult = cuvidCreateDecoder(&oDecoder_, &oVideoDecodeCreateInfo_);
assert(CUDA_SUCCESS == oResult);
}

Can cuvidCreateDecoder work with resolution over 1920x1080? When I try 2560x1920 stream cuvidCreateDecoder asserts CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_SOURCE.
My environment

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*Hardware: NVidia GTX 550 Ti 1Gb, NVidia GT 610 2Gb, driver version 306.23

*Windows 7 x64

*Visual Studio 2010 SP1

*Windows SDK 7.1

*NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit v.4.2, v.5.0

*NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.2.

A: For the memory issue, see this answer.
For the question on resolution, Compute Capability 2.0 and earlier GPUs do not support larger than HD resolution for cudaDecodeD3D9. This is why you can't decode a 2560x1920 stream.
Kepler GPUs can support much larger resolutions.

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Anne Just and Claus Bonderup created this garden together. She is the composer of the flowers along the many pathways, and in each individual space, while he primarily ensured the overall principles of composition, every detail in interaction, their work fruitfully fusing.
The garden is thoughtfully composed, yet it appears, akin to the English romantic garden, as if it were designed, not by human hands, but by nature, and is thus sympathetic to nature's own unique beauty. It is ingeniously constructed into garden spaces, where subtle visual dialogue between the geometric composition of place and the profusion of flowers and trees is continuous, generating organic interplay and intense splendorous colour. The individual garden spaces are often highlighted in a specific colour, thus producing a peculiar atmosphere and fragrance for each. The Yellow Garden, is one example, then the Red Garden and Iris Hill. This achieves order in a luxurious abundance of flowers and greenery.
In the latest book about the garden Anne Just's Have, The Garden at Hune, Elsemarie Bukdahl pinpoints the dynamic relationship between Anne Just and Claus Bonderup as the rationale for the garden's organic interplay between floral art and architecture.


Three years ago, almost to the day, Wendy Davis filibustered for 13 hours against a piece of Texas legislation designed to drastically reduce access to abortion in the state, especially for Texas' most vulnerable individuals.
Despite Davis' efforts, and the national attention she brought to the issue, the bill ended up passing during a special session of the state legislature, and a nasty and prolonged legal battle ensued. We saw the culmination of that battle this morning, when the Supreme Court issued a decision in favor of the Texas abortion provider that was fighting to keep its doors — and the doors of other clinics that have been forced to close under HB 2 — open in the state.
Davis, who recently launched a women's-rights nonprofit, talked to Rolling Stone shortly after the decision came down about how it feels to finally get some good news in the realm of reproductive rights, her hopes and fears about the upcoming election and why she's hopeful for the future of gender equality.


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Mathilda  is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mathildidae.

Species

 Mathilda amaea Dall, 1927
 Mathilda amanda Thiele, 1925
 Mathilda argentina Castellanos, 1990
 Mathilda barbadensis Dall, 1889
 Mathilda bieleri Smriglio & Mariottini, 2007
 Mathilda boucheti Bieler, 1995
 Mathilda brevicula Bavay, 1922
 Mathilda brownae Smriglio, Mariottini & Swinnen, 2017
 Mathilda cancellata Kuroda, 1958
 Mathilda carystia Melvill & Standen, 1903
 Mathilda cerea Kuroda, 1958
 Mathilda cochlaeformis Brugnone, 1873
 Mathilda coronata Monterosato, 1875
 Mathilda cryptostoma de Folin, 1874
 Mathilda decorata Hedley, 1903
 Mathilda epicharis de Folin, 1870
 Mathilda fusca (Okutani & Habe, 1981)
 Mathilda gemmulata Semper, 1865
 Mathilda gemmulifera Kuroda, 1958
 Mathilda georgiana Dall, 1927
 Mathilda globulifera Dall, 1927
 Mathilda granifera Dall, 1927
 Mathilda hendersoni Dall, 1927
 Mathilda herberti Mariottini, Smriglio & di Giulio, 2009
 Mathilda houbricki Bieler, 1995
 Mathilda lacteosa Dall, 1927
 Mathilda letei Prki & Smriglio, 2007
 Mathilda maculosa Bieler, 1995
 Mathilda magellanica P. Fischer, 1873
 Mathilda malvinarum (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
 Mathilda maoria (Powell, 1940)
 Mathilda mozambicensis Mariottini, Smriglio & di Giulio, 2009
 Mathilda quadricarinata (Brocchi, 1814)
 Mathilda quinquelirata Kuroda, 1958
 Mathilda retusa Brugnone, 1873
 Mathilda rhigomaches Melvill & Standen, 1912
 Mathilda richeri Bieler, 1995
 Mathilda rushii Dall, 1889
 Mathilda sagamiensis (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
 Mathilda salve Barnard, 1963
 Mathilda sansibarica Thiele, 1925
 Mathilda scalaris (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
 Mathilda scitula Dall, 1889
 Mathilda sinensis P. Fischer, 1867
 Mathilda trochlea Mörch, 1875
 Mathilda vanaartseni De Jong & Coomans, 1988
 Mathilda yucatecana (Dall, 1881)
 Mathilda zmitampis Melvill & Standen, 1901

Species brought into synonymy
 Mathilda canariensis Dautzenberg, 1890: synonym of Mathilda gemmulata Semper, 1865 (synonym)
 Mathilda elegans de Folin, 1870: synonym of Liamorpha elegans (de Folin, 1870) (original combination)
 Mathilda eurytima Melvill & Standen, 1896: synonym of Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, 1792
 Mathilda granolirata Brugnone, 1873: synonym of Mathilda cochlaeformis Brugnone, 1873 (synonym)
 Mathilda haasi Mienis, 1978: synonym of Mathilda gemmulata Semper, 1865 (synonym)
 Mathilda jeffreysi Dall, 1889: synonym of Tuba jeffreysi (Dall, 1889)
 Mathilda neozelanica Suter, 1908: synonym of Brookesena neozelanica (Suter, 1908)
 Mathilda rosae Hedley, 1901: synonym of Charilda rosae (Hedley, 1901)
 Mathilda telamonia Melvill, 1912: synonym of Mathilda sinensis P. Fischer, 1867

References

 Bieler R. (1995) Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). In P. Bouchet (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 14. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 167:595-641

External links

Mathildidae

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I have a hard time trusting in things that I can't see.
I was driving home from a trip to my old hometown recently and it was dark. We joke that this particular area of Southwest Minnesota is called the "kill zone" because of the large number of dead deer you will see along the road.
The road was winding. I realized that I could see very clearly between the two white lines that border the 2-lane highway…but beyond that, into the ditch and farther into the empty corn fields next to me, was dark. At times, if there were no other cars around, I could shine my brights and see just a bit more into the ditch. But most of the drive was done not knowing if there were deer out in the shadows.
During drives like this I find myself in constant prayer for protection. I know that there is a good chance that danger is out beyond my sight line. I can see the evidence of it scattered along either side of the highway . I am afraid of the "what-ifs", the deer unexpectedly coming across the road, the concern that I might hit something. This can make for a long and miserable drive.
I find the same to be true in my faith walk at times.
Comfortable with God in-between the two white lines, I put Him inside of my little box and trust Him in the spaces where I can see clearly and feel I have control.
But in the shadow, in the unknown….that can be harder for me.
What-ifs can weigh heavy and fear can be debilitating.
Fear has dominated many areas of my life – is it a struggle for you as well?
I trust God well when things are calm, when I know what to expect, even in hindsight when I can reflect on His faithfulness.
I struggle most with trust during those times when the future is unknown, when the danger feels real and present. I start to question God's timing, His provision, even His love for me.
Why is it that this is my natural response? Haven't I seen the many ways He has been a shelter for me, a refuge in times of a storm?
Then why does my trust only extend to the places that I can see and control?!
This is the part of my faith walk that needs continual refinement. I am a little hard-headed if you must know, and sometimes I have to walk through the fire and experience God's grace fully to build that trust.
But each time I experience fear of the unknown, I learn to trust a little deeper, to extend my faith out beyond the borders that I have placed God between.
That in any moment of difficulty I can say "I know, that I know, that I know, that God is good, He is faithful and He has got this thing"…whatever it may be.
I don't want to live a life worried about the "what-ifs." My experience time and time again is that when I look back on a situation that seemed scary at the time, my worst fears were never realized.
Life hasn't always been easy. We have had to learn some difficult lessons along the way. Yet, I know for certain that God has always been there.
In those times when I can't see past the white lines and I sense danger is lurking in the shadows….I can be confident that God is in that place as well.
To walk in faith, to have trust without borders, may just mean that I need to turn over every part of my life to His care and believe that no matter what the outcome, that He IS present.
This continues to be a work in progress for me and I am just so grateful for God's grace in those many times that I have doubted.
How about you? Do you struggle with trusting God? Can we commit together that we will stop listening to the lies that we can't trust God in ALL things and start walking in full faith between the white lines and beyond?
Here at God-sized Dreams, we are partial to the song Oceans, by Hillsong United.
It encapsulates the ideas of facing big struggles, turning to Jesus, and the freedom of resting in His embrace.
we're going to explore these issues as presented through the lyrics of the song.
Great post! I thought of this Saturday morning when I went for a jog walk. I prayed some circles on paths that were unknown and known. I prayed for the people in those places…strangers…but people that I felt God calling me to pray for. We fear unknown roads, but God knows ALL roads. He is our Spirit; we can trust in Him through love and prayer.
The lesson in this message is so near and dear to my heart. I've spent too much of my life in what-if-land–that place of fear and hiding, and I've learned that God does not dwell there. It is not a place of peace. God waits just outside the gates of that dark and depressing place. Waits for us to come running into His safe and loving arms. Trusting the Lord in everything has not come easy, and it is a lesson I have to learn again and again. Most times my fears are not realized. But I have seen my fears become reality. And I have seen the beauty of God's truth that He brings good even out of our worst times. Those things that we fear can be the very things that God uses to bring us closer to Him and bring us out of hiding to live boldly for His glory. Thanks, Kristin, for a beautiful message!
Yes, Kristin, for me there is always some kind of setback. Sometimes it lasts a while…sometimes just a moment. But the quicker I get my focus back on the Lord and not the circumstances, the sooner my soul is filled once again with peace. And, yes, I am obviously a work in progress, too!
Yes, it's easy to trust God when the road is clear, but when you hit a deer at 60 mph . . .
I'm learning to trust that God is with me regardless of what may jump out of the shadows.
Thanks Constance – I think this is all we can do – keep trusting even in the what ifs, and the unknowns!!
So timely for me. Thanks for these beautiful words, Kristin. So grateful for you.
Thanks Mandy! Love you and am praying for you!!
Just the message I needed to hear today! I used to live by "kill zone," so I know exactly what you mean. That road was always so scary, but I love how you tied it in with trusting God. So grateful for your words. Love you, friend!
Thank you Lisa!! Love you too friend and praying for you and that foot to heal!!
I know all too well how debilitating what-if's can be. I think that's why I'm most thankful for the refining moments bc I KNOW without a doubt I can trust God to not leave me. I just have to look back and remember when I forget.
Oh, and I know all about those dead deer on the highway!! When we lived in Iowa they were horrible, and it was terrifying to drive at night on the highways. You never knew when one would hop into the road in front of you!
Love this song. I only recently discovered this song and it is my new favorite. I so want to chase my God-sized dreams without fear and doubts. Great post!
Praying with you and for you Sharon that God would fill you with a peace about the dreams He has for you!!
Coming off of that mission trip last week – and having flown through quite a bit of turbulence on the way home – it was amazing to see how God had changed me in just one week. My fear of flying, which I believe began when my kids were born, but intensified after September 11th, was simply gone. Despite all the bumps – good sized ones too, drinks were spilling – I was actually able to laugh my way through them. Praise God. He took my fear. I've lived in that "kill zone" for so long and now I see just how God can truly deliver us.
This message really spoke to me, Kristin. I've been a believer for a little over three years now and during that time there hasn't been something that has really rocked me to the core. My pastor preached this past Sunday on standing firm in your faith. It made me think about how firm my faith may be. As I enter a season of sending my son off for His first deployment am I fully trusting God? What if something happened to my husband or my son? Would I still trust Him? I always appreciate how you ladies share your heart here. Blessings to you.
Beth can I just say that for only being a believer for 3 years – you have a powerful voice for God!! Do you realize that?! So grateful for you and your encouraging spirit. God is going to do mighty things through you friend!!


There are many misconceptions about breastfeeding. Here are three!
You can't get pregnant when breastfeeding. Actually, you can get pregnant as soon as your period starts. Exclusive breastfeeding for the first few months after birth without onset of a period has been shown to reduce hormones for ovulation, but it's still not foolproof.
Breasts get saggy with breastfeeding. Actually, saggy breasts have more to do with pregnancy and age.
You can't breastfeed if you're sick. Actually, breastfeeding protects Baby with antibodies in the breastmilk.
Now that those breastfeeding myths have been revealed, just enjoy that intimate time with your baby!
Nursing Nonsense: 3 Breastfeeding Myths Dispelled!


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Bobcat compact wheel loader wins global design award
The new Bobcat L85 compact wheel loader (CWL) has been announced as a product discipline winner in the 2021 iF Design Awards.
According to Bobcat, the L85 succeeded in an "automobiles/vehicles" subcategory decided by a 98-member jury, made up of independent experts.
It was selected from almost 10,000 entries submitted from 52 countries, the firm claims.
CWLs are often used by less experienced operators, so "intuitiveness and maximum visibility are key for confident operation", the American-founded firm says.
With this in mind, when developing the L85, Bobcat went for a short, steep rear bonnet and fully glass doors on both sides, to maximise side and rear visibility. The rear-view camera and LED lights further improve visibility.
All of the operator controls are grouped on the side console, with the joystick connected directly to the seat armrest.
In terms of specifications, the L85 is powered by a 68hp Bobcat D24 engine. It has lift height of 3.25m and a cab height of 2.49m, as well as an operating weight of 5,091kg.
With a standard bucket capacity of 0.8m³, there is a bucket range available of between 0.6m³ and 1.2m³.
According to the company, the L85 can be used in construction; landscaping; rental; industrial; waste; recycling; and agriculture, but is "also ideal for road work, snow removal, maintenance and many other applications".
The L85 model, introduced at the company's revolutionary 'Next is Now' launch event in October 2020, is now in full production at the Bobcat plant on the Dobris campus in the Czech Republic.
Also read: Massey Ferguson wins Award for MF 8S tractor series
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Imitation Rock Sculptures, Fake stones and boulders, from polystyrene styrofoam for window display, film and theatrical.
As each rock or stone prop is individually sculpted, we can make the to order for you at a specific size, shape or colour. We also have a range of rock finishes that you can choose from which can save time, and also development costs for a new finish.
Our lightweight rocks are commonly used for shop window displays; where we can sculpt them to your desired size to fit your windows. We can also cut in flat surfaces or shelves into the rocks for placing products.
As well as retail display, our imiration rocks are used for film, tv and theatrical use. Being light weight they are easy to move around on set, and the special coating makes them much stronger than plain polystyrene. We can fit secure hanging / rigging points into most of our rock sculptures - depending on their shape.


ISLAMABAD (February 27 2005): The Board-in-Council on Saturday decided that the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) may refer major cases of tax-related crimes, involving huge amount of revenue, to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), but the Board will decide which case has to be given to FIA. Moreover, taking action on the presentations of Member Customs and Member Direct Taxes, the CBR also constituted a committee comprising senior tax officials to review the new reward rules. The purpose is to check the discretionary powers of tax officials under the new rewards system.
These decisions were taken by the Board-in-Council headed by CBR Chairman Abdullah Yusuf here on Saturday. All line and private members attended the meeting.
After the meeting, officials told Business Recorder that CBR is empowered to give cases for investigation to any federal agency under tax laws. The CBR has decided to refer cases for investigation to FIA keeping in view the scope of case and amount of evasion. The tax authorities will see which cases have to be referred to FIA.
Commenting on the decision, a tax consultant opined that by taking this decision, the CBR has shown its inability to cope with unscrupulous/fraudulent and mischievous taxpayers. It has once again conceded its weak position that the present tax machinery is not capable to enforce the writ of law. Transferring of revenue yielding cases to FIA's non-technical people would open another pandora's box for corruption by the concerned enforcement officers.
Tax consultants expressed surprise that the decision has been taken at a time when the Revenue Board, under the leadership of a professional chairman, has successfully been propagating the taxpayer-friendly regime.
All the statutes administered by CBR contain deterrent penal provisions including prosecution of defaulters. If the administrative machinery of CBR is not capable enough to press into service theses provisions, it creates ample justifications for the abolition of entire Revenue Board, they said.
They claimed that the decision taken by the Board-in-Council was a measure which exposed the tall claim of CBR stalwarts to the effect that CBR has become an efficient, modern and taxpayer-friendly organisation, consequent to reforms.
Officials said that the Board-in-Council took serious notice of the existing rewards rules, which are neither transparent nor provide equivalent opportunity to all tax officials to claim rewards. It was noted with concern that Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised audit objections on the existing reward rules. Moreover, Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has also given directives to CBR to devise transparent rewards rules replacing the existing ones.
During the presentation, Member Direct Taxes Salman Nabi proposed that the salary structure of CBR employees should be improved so that the authorities should sanction as minimum reward as possible.
The Board-in-Council constituted a three-member committee, including officials from customs, income tax and Human Resource Management (HRM) wing. The committee will review the new reward rules.
Officials said that the Board-in-Council observed that those tax officials who are claiming rewards would continue to file their claims. Furthermore, the use of secret funds should be minimised, replacing with transparent reward rules in view of the best international practices.


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Sherlock: Crimes & Punishments Hits PS4, PS3 in September
Olga Ryzhko	Frogwares
Hi, PlayStation.Blog! It's Olga here with Frogwares, the studio behind the upcoming Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. We kind of met earlier this year when we announced that Crimes and Punishments was coming to both PS3 and PS4; I recall you said it was awesome, remember?
Today I'm incredibly happy to announce that the game will be released in September. I invite you to discover our brand new video dedicated to Sherlock Holmes:
If you remember, Crimes and Punishments lets you become the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. We know him to be mostly an analytical, deduction-obsessed supergenius who steps in to investigate where Scotland Yard fails. This is exactly what you can expect with Crimes and Punishments.
There are six challenging and sophisticated cases to solve that involve murders, thefts, and disappearances; the game is investigation in its purest form. It requires you to act as a detective, to collect clues, to speak to witnesses and suspects, and finally to tie all the evidence together, making your own deductions, coming to your own conclusions.
The more clues you uncover, the more things are added to the Deduction Space, a conceptual place where you'll attempt to link pieces of evidence together. Connected, they will eventually bring you to a conclusion for each case. My favorite thing about Crimes and Punishments is that your conclusions can be wrong depending on how you interpret the evidence, so it's perfectly possible to accuse the innocent and have them sent to prison.
Speaking of nineteenth century traditions, it's usually a death penalty when you accuse someone of murder. So act thoughtfully and do weigh your decisions.
Once you've reached your chosen conclusion, you decide how you want your culprit to be punished (Innocent or otherwise!) — this explains the name Crimes and Punishments: you decide whether to condemn them, or absolve them of their actions, if perhaps the reasons for their crimes were more complex than cold-blooded. So, you're literally deciding the fate of peoples lives which will definitely have enormous consequences.
I'd say that Crimes and Punishments sets two questions for you to answer:
Who is the culprit, and what evidence suggests this?
What do you propose is the best course of action?
I sincerely hope you'll have a good time along the way in September 2014 on PS4 and PS3, with 6 cases that will test your powers of deductive reasoning. Multiple suspects, and up to 9 conclusions per case will force you to think logically, disregarding emotion like the often cold Holmes himself.
For more info about the game, do not hesitate to visit our official website.
PS: We'll be showing the game at E3 next week, so if you're attending, don't hesitate to drop by the Focus Home Interactive booth to learn more!
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maxcoronel2014
Waiting for this game. The Unreal 3 choice for this one looks good. Any info about the price?
DangerChimp
Can't wait for this – loved the last one, warts and all. And let's not forget the best sidekick ever, Creepy Watson!!!
The big question: will this still be a budget title, or are you going to charge the same as a regular AAA title.
At a budget price, it's a delightful, buggy romp through Victorian England with plenty of laughs.
At full price, it's a janky mess not worth touching until it's in the bargain bin.
I love your games, but real talk.
NSDI
Most anticipated game this year! Go Frogwares! Loved every game of your Holmes franchise!
paulogy
Maybe it's just on my end, but I get "The requested video is not allowed to be played in embedded players."
Amnalehu
It sounds interesting. I wish the video would play :-(
IcedDice777
Oh, i'll be picking this one up on September for the PS4. I got the last one for the Ps3 at my local Gamestop for a great price and i found it very entertaining. Granted, i got stuck trying to figure out some puzzles. Looking forward to this. FrogWares should try to do a Horror version of this style of games.
My .02
Einhander138
Is this a disc release or PSN only?
hxoxbx
me encanta ya era hora en cuanto salga es una compra segura


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package topic

import (
	"bytes"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"testing"

	"github.com/m3db/m3/src/cmd/services/m3query/config"
	"github.com/m3db/m3/src/msg/generated/proto/topicpb"
	"github.com/m3db/m3/src/msg/topic"
	"github.com/m3db/m3/src/query/generated/proto/admin"
	"github.com/m3db/m3/src/x/instrument"

	"github.com/golang/mock/gomock"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)

const (
	testTopicName = "test-topic"
)

func TestPlacementUpdateHandler(t *testing.T) {
	ctrl := gomock.NewController(t)
	defer ctrl.Finish()

	mockService := setupTest(t, ctrl)
	handler := newUpdateHandler(nil, config.Configuration{}, instrument.NewOptions())
	handler.(*UpdateHandler).serviceFn = testServiceFn(mockService)

	consumerSvc := &topicpb.ConsumerService{
		ServiceId: &topicpb.ServiceID{
			Name:        "svc",
			Environment: "env",
			Zone:        "zone",
		},
		ConsumptionType: topicpb.ConsumptionType_SHARED,
	}

	// Test topic init success
	updateProto := admin.TopicUpdateRequest{
		ConsumerServices: []*topicpb.ConsumerService{consumerSvc},
		Version:          2,
	}
	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
	b := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
	require.NoError(t, jsonMarshaler.Marshal(b, &updateProto))
	req := httptest.NewRequest("PUT", "/topic/update", b)
	req.Header.Add("topic-name", testTopicName)
	require.NotNil(t, req)

	returnTopic := topic.NewTopic().
		SetName(testTopicName).
		SetNumberOfShards(256).
		SetVersion(1).SetConsumerServices([]topic.ConsumerService{
		func() topic.ConsumerService {
			svc, err := topic.NewConsumerServiceFromProto(consumerSvc)
			assert.NoError(t, err)
			return svc
		}(),
	})

	mockService.EXPECT().
		Get(testTopicName).
		Return(returnTopic, nil)

	mockService.
		EXPECT().
		CheckAndSet(returnTopic, 2).
		Return(
			returnTopic.SetVersion(3),
			nil,
		)

	handler.ServeHTTP(w, req)
	resp := w.Result()
	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	require.NoError(t, err)
	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)

	var respProto admin.TopicGetResponse
	require.NoError(t, jsonUnmarshaler.Unmarshal(bytes.NewBuffer(body), &respProto))

	validateEqualTopicProto(t, topicpb.Topic{
		Name:             testTopicName,
		NumberOfShards:   256,
		ConsumerServices: []*topicpb.ConsumerService{consumerSvc},
	}, *respProto.Topic)

	require.Equal(t, uint32(3), respProto.Version)

	// Test removing all consumers.
	updateProto = admin.TopicUpdateRequest{
		ConsumerServices: []*topicpb.ConsumerService{},
		Version:          3,
	}
	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
	b = bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
	require.NoError(t, jsonMarshaler.Marshal(b, &updateProto))
	req = httptest.NewRequest("PUT", "/topic/update", b)
	req.Header.Add("topic-name", testTopicName)
	require.NotNil(t, req)

	returnTopic = returnTopic.SetConsumerServices([]topic.ConsumerService{})

	mockService.EXPECT().
		Get(testTopicName).
		Return(returnTopic, nil)

	mockService.
		EXPECT().
		CheckAndSet(returnTopic, 3).
		Return(
			returnTopic.SetVersion(4),
			nil,
		)

	handler.ServeHTTP(w, req)
	resp = w.Result()
	body, err = ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	require.NoError(t, err)
	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.StatusCode)

	require.NoError(t, jsonUnmarshaler.Unmarshal(bytes.NewBuffer(body), &respProto))

	validateEqualTopicProto(t, topicpb.Topic{
		Name:             testTopicName,
		NumberOfShards:   256,
		ConsumerServices: []*topicpb.ConsumerService{},
	}, *respProto.Topic)

	require.Equal(t, uint32(4), respProto.Version)
}

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Jazz series from promotion body Bridge Music featuring UK and international touring bands and original music from Scottish based jazz ensembles.
Guitarist Joe Williamson is one of the most active members of Glasgow's vibrant jazz scene. Known for performing with award-winning quartet Square One, as well as Spark Trio and Graham Costello's Strata.
Tonight his quartet will perform a selection of modern jazz standards from the likes of John Scofield and Pat Metheny, as well as some classic standards.
Joe Williamson (guitar), Matthew Carmicheal (sax), Mark Hendry (bass), Greg Irons (drums).
Doors 7pm, reserved seating £7 in advance or pay on door.


Back in May 2012, a district court judge threw out a lawsuit that Oracle filed against Google. The latter was accused of using some of Oracle's Java APIs to design APIs used for the Android OS. More precisely, Oracle said that Google copied more than 37 Java APIs, and 11 lines of Java source code for Android without permission. The judge ruled that APIs are not copyrightable, leading to his dismissal of the case. But Oracle appealed the decision two years later, and was rewarded with a 69-page decision in its favor. The case was remanded back to lower court.


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Durbin: Why Won't Leader McConnell Bring An Election Security Bill To The Floor?
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Rules Committee, today called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for refusing to bring a comprehensive election security bill to the floor following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, which showed that Russia was able to successfully attack our democracy in 2016. "At the CIA and intelligence agencies, millions of dollars are being spent to stop the Russians from making a mess … Continue Reading
Durbin Gives Pharma Fleece Award To Drug Companies Abusing Patent System
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today on the Senate floor, as part of his new "Pharma Fleece Awards" series of floor speeches highlighting egregious cases of pharmaceutical industry greed, slammed Celgene, Pfizer, and Sanofi for amassing a large number of excessive secondary patents to block generic competition. Many high-cost, brand-name drugs are shielded from competition due to manipulation of the patent system by "evergreening" or filing numerous additional patents to their pro… Continue Reading
Durbin, Duckworth, Lipinski, Foster, Schneider, Casten, Underwood Ask EPA To Inspect All Region 5 Facilities Using Ethylene Oxide
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and U.S. Representatives Dan Lipinski (D-IL-03), Bill Foster (D-IL- 11), Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), Sean Casten (D-IL-06), and Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14) today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately conduct inspections of all Region 5 facilities - including Medline Inc. in Waukegan, Illinois, and Vantage Specialty Chemicals Inc. in Gurnee, Illinois, which use ethylene oxide (EtO) for manufac… Continue Reading
Durbin: FDA Commissioner Refuses To Address Youth E-Cigarette Epidemic
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless to discuss FDA regulation of kid-friendly e-cigarette and cigar flavorings. During the meeting, Durbin urged Sharpless to use his authority as Acting FDA Commissioner to address the public health epidemic of youth use of e-cigarettes, by enforcing the Tobacco Control Act and "deeming rule" and immediately removing kid-friendly flavors from the market-flavors … Continue Reading
Durbin Meets With Transportation For Illinois Coalition
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with the Transportation for Illinois Coalition (TFIC), a group of statewide and regional businesses, organized labor, industry, governmental, and nonprofit organizations that have joined together to support strong transportation investments for Illinois. Durbin discussed his priorities for the upcoming White House negotiations regarding a comprehensive transportation infrastructure bill and his work to secure federal funding for Illinois pr… Continue Reading
Durbin: President Trump's March To War With Iran Is Reckless And Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON - Following a report by the New York Times stating that the White House was briefed on a military plan that envisioned sending as many as 120,000 U.S. troops to the Middle East to counter Iran, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today called on the Trump Administration to avoid another reckless war in the Middle East and to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement. In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin also stated… Continue Reading
Senate Dems Reintroduce Central America Reform And Enforcement Act
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats today announced the reintroduction of a major legislative proposal to address the root causes of the Central American migrant crisis. The proposal, which was introduced by Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), outlines the coordinated regional response needed to effectively manage the endemi… Continue Reading
Durbin, Grassley, King, Alexander Introduce Legislation To Codify HHS Rule To Require Disclosure Of Prescription Drug Prices In TV Ads
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), today introduced bipartisan legislation to codify recent regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require pharmaceutical companies to list prices of their prescription drugs in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements. Today's legislation ensures long-term implementation and clarity of this common-sense price transparency req… Continue Reading
Senators Oppose Defense Department Transfer Of $1.5 Billion To Pay For President Trump's Wall
WASHINGTON - Every Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies today slammed the Department of Defense for its transfer of another $1.5 billion to be used to build part of President Donald Trump's wall on the southwest border. In a letter to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, the Senators expressed concern that this reprogramming comes at the expense of the… Continue Reading
Durbin Highlights New Requirement For Drug Companies To List Prices On Advertising
CHICAGO - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today joined leaders from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, the American Medical Association, and AARP to highlight the newly announced regulation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will require pharmaceutical companies to disclose prices of their prescription drugs in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements. This regulation builds upon years of Durbin's legislative progress, and Durbin announced today that he and U.S.… Continue Reading
Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Durbin-Cosponsored Legislation That Supports Local Law Enforcement
WASHINGTON - At today's Senate Judiciary Committee markup, the Committee voted unanimously in support of two bills cosponsored by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) that support local law enforcement - the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act of 2019 and the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization. The STOIC Act addresses the growing problem of law enforcement officer suicides by reauthorizing a grant program for law enforcement family support services and exp… Continue Reading
Durbin, Young, Senators Introduce Resolution Condemning Brunei For Barbaric Laws
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Todd Young (R-IN), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) today introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the government of Brunei for recently imposing laws that include, among other troubling things, death by stoning for adultery and homosexual relations. Their resolution also calls for the repeal of these barbaric laws and visa bans for anyone involved in their implementation. "These recentl… Continue Reading
Durbin, Warren, Nadler, Katko Introduce Bill Making Bankruptcy Relief Available For Student Loan Borrowers
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-01), and John Katko (R-NY-24) today introduced a bicameral bill that would give Americans overwhelmed by student loan debt the option of obtaining meaningful bankruptcy relief. The Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2019 would eliminate the section of the bankruptcy code that makes private and federal student loans nondischargeable, allowing these loans to be treated l… Continue Reading
Durbin Meets With Mayor-Elect Lightfoot
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) met with Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot to discuss Chicago priorities and how he can assist her in the Senate. Durbin and Lightfoot talked about reducing gun violence, the Chicago HEAL Initiative, the 2020 Census, public housing, and transportation infrastructure funding. "I want to thank Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot for coming by and meeting with the Illinois Congressional Delegation. We spoke about the issues she'll face in her new adminis… Continue Reading
Durbin Opposes Jeffrey Rosen, President Trump's Deputy AG Nominee
WASHINGTON - In today's Senate Judiciary Committee markup, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be Deputy U.S. Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen. Durbin argued that Mr. Rosen does not have the qualifications to be Deputy Attorney General given his lack of experience in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and lack of understanding of its basic law enforcement components. "I sat down with Mr. Rosen - a blank slate, I knew nothing about him. … Continue Reading
Durbin: President Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies Have Made Our Border Less Secure
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, today slammed the Trump Administration for their failure to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. During today's hearing, Durbin called out the Administration's failed border security efforts - including the family separation policy, government shutdown, cutting off foreign assistance to the Northern Triangle countries, shutting down the Central Am… Continue Reading
Durbin: We Must Improve Health Outcomes For New Moms And Babies
WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor ahead of Mother's Day this Sunday, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today urged his Senate colleagues to pass the Mothers and Offspring Mortality and Morbidity Awareness (MOMMA) Act, which he introduced in March, along with U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL-02) and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). The legislation seeks to reduce America's rising maternal and infant mortality rate, especially for moms and babies of color who are significantly more l… Continue Reading
Durbin Questions Defense Secretary On DOD Involvement At The Southwest Border
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Vice Chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, today questioned Patrick Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense, and General Joseph Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the continued use of Department of Defense (DoD) funding and personnel at our southern border. In today's hearing, Durbin pressed Acting Secretary Shanahan on why there is no money appropriated in the fiscal year 2020 budget when i… Continue Reading
Durbin, Grassley Statement On HHS Rule To Require Disclosure Of Prescription Drug Prices In TV Ads
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today issued the following statement following an announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the issuance of final regulations requiring pharmaceutical companies to list prices of their prescription drugs in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements: "Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements are everywhere, and they tell you just about everything imaginable about the drug, other than … Continue Reading


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Musical scholar and Texas music expert Dr. Delmer Rogers earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California in1952, followed by his master's (1953) and doctorate (1967) from the University of Michigan.
Collection consists of music-related materials, including student papers from Rogers' courses in the University of Texas College of Fine Arts, Roger's collection of sheet music, and music research papers.
Rogers' research and writing courses ("Music in Texas" or "Music in North American Life") focused on music topics, and some of the papers include photos and audio/video recordings. Inclusion in this archival collection was optional for each student and was not a course requirement.
The Delmer Rogers Collection is organized into three series: I. Student papers; II. Sheet music; III. Research material.
Student papers are arranged by the semester and year of the class, and then alphabetically by the student's surname. Sheet music is arranged alphabetically by the composer's surname.
Delmer Rogers Collection, 1987-2014, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Allen, Erick, "Contemporary Blues at Antone's"
Colangelo, Cristen, "Ragtime Through the Life of Scott Joplin"
Hawkins, Ray, "The Heritage of Old-Time Fiddling"
Herrera, Bryan, "Buddy Holly: A Piece of the 'American Pie'"
Hoover, Lance, "Carl Venth's Contributions to Texas Music"
Howard, James, "Jazz in Texas: Its Influence and Growth Both Within and Outside the State"
Leon, Stacy, "The Thirteenth Floor Elevators"
Libby, Kris, "I Love the Slide of the Steel Guitar"
Maxwell, Randall, "Czech Music in Texas"
"The National Impact of Early Texas Radio"
"The Development of Music Education in Texas"
"Western Swing: A True Hybrid"
Peña, Leticia, "Country Music: Hank Williams"
Richard, Cheryl, "The History of Music in Austin through Progressive Country and the Armadillo World Headquarters"
Richard, Paul, "Rock and Roll: The Product of Black and Blues"
Sáenz, Omar, "History of Rock 'n' Roll II"
Stauffacher, Eric, "Willie Nelson: The Pope of Country Music"
Teter, Stephen, "Maintaining Musical Growth in Austin, Texas: 1890-1920"
Ash, Michael, "The Style and Influence of Jazz"
Brown, Dana, "Texas Blues Lyrics and Their Relation to Texas Black Culture"
Fisher, David, "Transients in Transition: Music and Culture of the 'Drag' in Austin, Texas"
Jong, Kevin, "A Study on American Minstrelsy"
Kelsey, Sandra, "The Natchez Trace Collection and the Civil War"
McCool, Brian, "Minstrel Show Music: Mirror of a Changing Society"
Millican, Amy, "A History of Black Gospel Music"
Norris, Robert, "'El Río Colorado': Profile of an Austin Cojunto"
Parker, Kevin, "Texas: A Footprint in American Hymnody"
Rawl, Leslie, "Jazz: A History and Analysis"
Ruffena, Julie: Austin Jazz Educators and the Austin Jazz Scene"
Sekin, Christopher, "Buddy Holly: White Shoes, Black Soul"
Smith, Russell, "Progressive Country's Rise and Fall in Austin, Texas, 1972-1976"
Wong, mavis, "Ballad-Making as a Preserver of the Mexican-American Tradition"
Anderson, Leslie, "The Ragtime Era"
Buchanan, Elaine, "Elementary Music Education"
Carter, Shannon, "The Sharir Dance Company"
Ceballos, Mark, "Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Music"
Cobb, Julia, "Janis Joplin's Struggle with Conformity"
Gorman, Shawn, :"The Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame: Interview with Cliff Bruner and Roy Lee Brown"
Lawler, Amy, "The Austin Pickers"
Lewis, Millette, "Texas Blues and Its Influences"
"An Analysis of Sacred Songs"
"Rusty Weir: A Lover of the Other Side of the Hill"
"Texas Revolutionary Movements in Country and Western Music in the Twentieth Century"
Schaub, Kevin Ann, "Willlie Nelson: The Man and the Lion"
"Bob Willis: What Made Him King"
"They Call It Texas Swing"
Thompson, Holly, "Country Music: A Message to the People"
"The Life and Songs of Willie [Nelson]"
"The 70's: A Musical Decade in Austin"
Benítez, Omar, "Corridos: Spanish Music in Texas"
Boone, Pamela, "Willie Nelson's Effect on Austin Music"
Dietz, David, "The History and Culture of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians"
Fisher, Peter, "The Legend Behind the Armadillo World Headquarters"
Henry, Michael, "History of the Blues"
Hoogendam, Melissa, "The German Saengerfest"
Hunt, Sheila, "Jazz: The Music and the Musicians"
Ianelli, Vincent, "Music on the Reservation: A Study of Indian Music in Texas"
McCracken, Annemarie, "Forty Years of Rhythm and Blues: An Interview with Clifford "Honky Tonk" Scott"
McKenzie, Dudley, "An Era of Sounds: Austin in the 1960s"
Meeker, Jason, "The Erlewine Guitar Factory: Home of a Creator"
Shehan, Mike, "Texas Indian Music: A Peripheral Perspective"
Uribe, Mireya, "Willie Nelson: His Road to Success"
Warner, Greta, "Jazz and Texas Jazzers"
Mears, C. Lane, "Tracing the Roots of Afro-Americans Into Blues and Robert Johnson"
Adams, JOhn, "Electronic Musical Instruements"
Albanese, Lara, "Protest Songs and Singers of the 1960s"
Bishop, Margo, "Two Interviews with Allen Wayne Damron"
Bruderer, Bart, "Louis Armstrong: Musician and Entertainer"
Cascio, Michael, "A Regional Analysis of the Blues"
Christner, Bryan, "Development of the Blues"
Cochran, Sara, "Protest Artists of the 1960s"
Colangelo, Richard, "The Boy from Brooklyn: The Life and Music of George Gershwin"
DeKeyser, Valerie, "The Blues Rock On"
Fuller, Christopher, "Elvis Presley: Musical Entity"
Gray, Teri, "The Folksong and Its Use in Twentieth Century Protests Movements"
Grosser, Jeff, "'Everything is NOT Okay'; Punk Music: An Anti-Social Commentary"
Harris, Deby, "A Survey of Several Women Jazz Compsers of the Twentieth Century"
Masters, T. Glan, "Jazz It Up"
Meyer, Robert, "'I Want to Live in the Whole World of Music': A Brief History of the Life and Work of Henry Cowell"
Miller, Steve, "The Rise of Heavy Metal"
Omid, Mani, "A Brief Overview of the World of MIDI"
Rubes, Kelly, "Texas Czech Music: Post-WWI to the Present"
Shamsi, Isra, "The Police: An American/British Rock Band"
Stanley, Paul, "Jerome Kern and His Musicals"
Wimer, Michael, "Lightnin' Hopkins, Albert Collins and Johnny Winter: A Study of Three Generations of East texas Blues Musicians"
Worthington, Nancy, "The Kerrville Folk Festival: An Overview"
Barrington, Beverly, "Anglo-American Culture and Music in Texas"
Bell, Brooks, "The History of Blacks, the Blues and Blind Lemon Jefferson"
Bishop, Brett, "The Anglo Culture: Its History and Its Music in Texas"
Clark, Matt, "Origins of German Singing Societies in Texas"
Dodge, William, "A New Germany in Texas"
Espinoza, Lupe, "The Life of the Afro-American in Texas as Told by the Blues"
Handley, John, "The Anglo Texans and the History of Country and Western Music"
Kelly, Christopher, "The History of German Texans: Trailblazers in Land and Song"
Price, Kathryn, "History of the Black Culture in Texas and Texas Blues"
Schmidt, Julie, "Out of Africa: A Cultural History of the Afro-American and a Profile of Black Gospel Music"
Stahl, Clifford, "Folk Music of the Hispanic Culture in Texas Society"
Vela, M. Damon, "Hispanic Culture in Texas"
Benson, Maurice, "MTV Music Television: Will the Music Industry Ever Be the Sam?"
Campbell, Tim, "Leonard Bernstein and His 'Candide,' 1956, 1974, 1990"
Hough, Jessica, "Jazz Influence on Twentieth Century Classical Music"
Jacques, Christina, "Alan P. Merriman and Ethnomusicology"
Lozano, John, "Music in Early Movies"
Matthews, Ashley, "Bessie Smith: 'Empress of the Blues'"
Montgomery, Sally, "Understanding Orchestral Instruments"
Ray, Elizabeth, "Electronic Music: What Is It Doing to American Music?"
Richardson, Theresa, "New Music Directions: A Look at the Past and Into the Future"
Schneider, Robert, "The Life and Music of Aaron Copland"
Shaddix, Eric, "Electronic Music: The Instruments of a Unique Musical World"
Shenfeld, Brad, "The Country Blues: Delta, Piedmont and Texas"
Sparks, Taylor, "The Doors and Their Legacy"
Spies, Tara, "A Century of the Color Barrier in American Music"
Stewart, Christopher, "The Electric Guitar"
Wilmeson, Teresa, "The Gay Divorcee: Fred & Ginger Dance to the Music"
Barker, Kristina, "Austin City Limits"
Bien, Ryan L., "The Cojunto-Tejano Music Festival"
Duong, Hoa L., "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
Engeling, Lisa F., "The Life of Janis Joplin"
"Townes Van Zandt: The Texas Troubadour"
García, Alissa Y., "Cowboy Songs: A Rich legacy"
"The Austin Club Scene: How It's Survived-Or Has It?"
"Flaco Jiménez: The Accordion Wizard Keeping Tex-Mex Alive"
Kennedy, Glenn, "Apolitical Blues: Music and Politics in Austin"
Lin, Paul, "Austin City Limits"
Masters, T. Glen, "Native American Ceremony"
Miller, Charles, "Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Blues Continue"
Pellegrino, Laura C., "The History of Texas Music: How Did Wo Get Here?"
Roth, Andrew, "Stylistic Development of the Bles"
Thai, Tong, "Texas Blues Singer"
"Bobby Mack: Blues So Hot It Burns Down the House"
"They Danced Until Dawn and Other Untold Texas Legends"
"The Texas International Pop Festival: Peace and Love and the Power of Music"
Wiggington, Fred, "Scott Joplin's Treemonisha"
Wilson, Debra C., "Music Therapy"
Blue, Andrea, "Jazz and a Jazz Legend Explored"
Castleman, Joe, "The Development of Electronic Music in the United States"
Chapin, Derek, "Chapters in African American Music"
Churchill, George Michael, "The Music of the Choctaw Nation and the American Indians"
Coplin, Doug, "From Africa Through the Blues"
Cox, A. Catherine, "Afro-American Music Before the Civil War, with Special Emphasis on Spirituals"
Crider, Allen, "Robert Johnson and the Country Blues"
Downie, Aaron, "The German Influence in American Music"
Egan, Karen, "New Orleans: Its Jazz Origins and Jazz Musicians"
Guscher, David, "Germans in the United States: Origins and Influences"
Gore, Allison, "A History of the Mexican-American People and Music: Ethnographic Interview with Johnny Degillando and Vincente Alonzo on Cojunto Music"
Hernández, Gabriel, "Creating Space for Music"
Hobbs, Kelly, "The Ghost Dance Past and Present, Including an Interview with Keri Brown"
Hook, Jason, "The Development of Early Rural Blues from a Musical, Social and Historical Perspective"
Rao, Rachel L., "Black American Folk Music and the Spirituals"
Timmons, Susan, "The History of Country Music, with a Look at Austin's Own Candace Howard"
Whitson, Melissa, "Music of the French Americans"
"The History of Country Music"
Casper, Mardy, "The Early Years of Johnny Cash"
Davis, Bryan M., "The Roots of Reggae"
Garganta, René, "An Overview of Texas Mexican Song Genres"
"Willie Mae [Big Momma] Thornton"
Hunt, James, "Sound Recording and Its Effects on Music"
"True Beliver: An Interview with Alejandro Escovedo"
Jones, Mark C., "The Vietnam War and American Music"
Montgomery, Brian, "The Guitar: From Its Creation to the Present"
Sherman, Darrel, "The Past, Present and Probable Future of American Folk Music"
"The Texas Troubadour: Ernest Tubb"
"Bill Monroe: The Beginnings of Bluegrass"
Vad, Chanda, "Madonna: Skin Deep"
"liu Thanh Smoo: On the Rebound"
Veselka, David, "The New Country"
Walton, Johnetta L., "The Early Roots of Country Music: Before the 20th Century"
Warren, Colleen, "The Early Years of Nat 'King' Cole"
"The Black Classical Musicain: Twentieth Century"
Chapa, Patrick, "The Austin Music Scene"
Hart, Katherine, "The Swing Era"
"An Examination of the Lutheran Musical Heritage: The Mary Voight Interview"
Klingele, Tim, "Stevie Ray Vaughn [sic]"
Neblett, Nicholas C., "The German Influence on Texas Music"
"The Geezinslaws: An Interview with Sammy Allred"
"Historic Honky-Tonks in the Texas Hill Country"
Nguyen, Thomas G., "Janis [Joplin]"
Reyes, Martin, "Texas Jazz and Jack Teagarden"
Rubio, Estela, "Kennedy: The Subject of the Mexican-American Heroic Corrido"
Beran, Deanna L., "Stevie Ray Vaughan: A Texas Music Legend"
Blyveis, Naomi, "Women in the Field of Classical Music, with a Special Look at Amy Beach"
"Scott Joplin, 'The King of Ragtime'"
De la Fuente, Monica, "Gospel Music in the United States: Mahalia Jackson"
Farías, Robby, "Mexican Ballet Folklórico"
"An Interview with Glen Alyn"
"An Interview with Sam Irwin"
"Face to Face with Edward 'Mr. Fats' Fuentes"
"Music Publishing: An Interview with William Preciado"
Django Reinhardt: The Mysteries, Contradictions and Legacy of a Musical Genius"
"Erik Hokkanen, an Interpreter of the Spirits of Music"
Lassiter, Amy, "Jacque Vilman: A True Entertainer"
"An Interview with Jesse Botello"
"What Music Means to Me"
Martínez, Jenny R., "Hammerstein: A Theatrical Giant"
Norton, Gregory E., "Scratching the Surface of the Blues"
Oestreicher, Susan, "To Rise from Opression Singing the Blues: The Musical and Literary Triumph of Black Americans"
"The Role of Women in American Music: The Puritans to the Present"
Pitsch, Shane, "Different Roads: The Story of My Life in Music"
Alley, Robert, "Jack Teagarden and Ornette Coleman: Texas Jazz Musicians"
Butala, Sweta, "Instruments of India"
Choi, Mike, "The Evolution of Jazz Music"
"Johnny Gimble: His Gun is a Fiddle"
"Western Swing: A Legacy of the Texas Frontier"
Karnstadt, Cynthia, "Alive and Well in the Hispanic Heart" Cojunto!"
Norton, Gregory E., "Austin and Dallas in 1994: A Peep Into Their Pop/Rock Scenes"
Quirein, Erica, "Buddy Holly: A Rock 'n' Roll Legend"
"Perk Williams: Reflections of a Country Music Star"
Unanmed author, "Music Publishing: Getting Music to the Public"
Calica, javier, "K-NACK: The Jewel of Austin" (radio station), Spring 1993?
Ceballos, Mark A., "The Emergence of Tejano Music: An Interpretive History"
Morris, Margo Camille, "Indian Music in Texas"
Stanton, Michael, "Buddy Holly: Texas Rock Legend"
Tran Huu Can, "History of Vietnamese Music"
"Merry Birds," published by Thos. Goggan and Bro., photocopy, 1904.
Lecture: What's red, white, black, and brown?


Which are the best structured products, derivatives houses in Asia?
Investors have been seeking more principal-protected products and hedging solutions for downside protection. Product providers with cross-asset structuring and sourcing capabilities stood out.
Rising interest rates, trade disputes and increasing market volatility have broadened the investment product offerings of structured products and derivatives houses servicing Asian clients.
In 2017, bullish equity markets boosted activities in equity derivatives. The increasing participation of retail investors looking for higher investment return was a major driver of equity linked products and derivatives.
During the awards period, investors have been seeking more principal-protected products and hedging solutions for downside protection. Product providers with cross-asset structuring and sourcing capabilities stood out in this highly competitive market landscape.
It is in this context that The Asset presents the winners of The Asset Triple A Private Banking, Wealth Management and Investment Awards 2018, Part II: House and Products Awards.
The winner of Best Structured Products House, Asia is Societe Generale (Socgen), the French bank is recognized for continuing to offer structured solutions to satisfy clients' investment and hedging needs in an increasingly complex environment.
Citi was recognized as the winner of Best FX Derivatives House of the Year Asia, for continuing to provide FX solutions to both corporates and retail clients across different markets in Asia.
SocGen is also recognized as the Best Derivatives House of the Year, Asia; Best Equity Derivatives House, Asia; Best Rates Derivatives House, Asia; Best Credit Derivatives House, Asia; and Best Commodities Derivatives House, Asia.
Winner of the Best Index Provider Asia is S&P Dow Jones Indices, for continuing to provide a wide range of innovative and top-of-the-line indexes for derivatives and structured products. FTSE Russell was the winner of Best Index Provider for ESG.
For a complete list of winners please click here.
Who are the best ETF providers in Asia?


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"TR3S and MTV Latin America co-produce new novela thriller "Ultimo Ano""
MTV Música y Más and MTV Latin America announce the network's third co-production in the novela format with the new psychological suspense thriller "Ultimo Año"; and teams up with Population Media Center (PMC) to integrate social consciousness into the scripts & creative of the new multiplatform property. First-ever initiative will unite researchers and writers to deliver engaging content with measureable results under new PMC methodology. Through the use of entertainment-education programming, characters will be developed to evolve into role models for the audience, encouraging the adoption of healthier behaviors to benefit individuals and their societies. The 70-episode novela "Ultimo Año" will be produced by Argos Productions in Mexico. "Ultimo Año" develops in the world of high school adolescence. Martin, an apparently ideal teenager, arrives at an elite school as part of a student exchange program. He lives with Benjamin, a popular kid who takes him under his wing and transforms him into his best friend. Both fall in love with the same girl. And mistrust develops, when a conniving Martin steals his friends, his popularity and his entire life. Faced with disbelief from family and friends, Benjamin begins to wage a solitary battle at unmasking the real Martin. "Social responsibility is always at the forefront of our brand, and our content continues to serve as a credible and valuable space to engage, educate and help shift the mindset of today's Hispanic Millennials," commented Charlie Singer, SVP of Content and Creative for Tr3s. "We're excited to introduce this innovative series at our Upfront this year, and look forward to magnetizing new and existing advertisers with the new series." "We are very excited to announce our latest production, 'Ultimo Año' and our partnership with PMC," commented Fernando Gaston, SVP of Production & Programming for MTV Latin America. "This new production, our third in the novela genre, will further complement our slate of premium content and reinforces our commitment of bringing entertaining programming, compelling storylines and social consciousness to our viewers." "PMC brings forth an extensive amount of research on issues affecting today's youth and having them work closely with our creative teams is an excellent way to weave these topics into our storylines. I am certain that their expertise coupled with our creative vision will deliver an entertaining, yet compelling story that will open up a dialogue on various topics affecting our viewers," commented Mario Cader-Frech, VP of Public Affairs for Tr3s & MTV Latin America. "The MTV brands have been leaders in developing cutting edge content for young adults throughout the world, a demographic that is becoming harder and harder to reach. By joining forces to develop this new novela, we have created a unique model that uses strong audience research to develop highly entertaining and engaging content with social and health messages that is also commercially viable. Even more, this programming provides an opportunity for advertisers to connect their marketing goals to their social responsibility vision. 'Ultimo Año' is filled with suspense, mystery, drama, and most importantly stories of love and relationships – a combination that will surely win over audiences and have a tremendous impact," commented Katie Elmore, Vice President of Communications and Programs for PMC. The Sabido methodology was developed in the 1970s by Mexican TV producer, Miguel Sabido, who created eight hit telenovelas that had an incredible social impact on the country. PMC has since adapted and replicated the methodology he developed in more than 27 countries around the world. The characters in "Ultimo Año" are developed based on the realities facing youth today. PMC has put together a Program Advisory Board that has helped to identify sexual health issues affecting youth, in an effort to integrate influential messaging into the dialogue and creative of the brand's third co-production in the novela format. The issues that will be addressed include contraception, reproductive health options, peer-pressure, HIV/AIDS and STDs, gender equality, cyberbullying, and education, amongst others. The multi-platform initiative will utilize blogs, social networks, and other transmedia extensions to stimulate discussions with the audience for quantitative and qualitative measurement. These informal discussions will be analyzed by Tr3s, MTV Latin America, and PMC to gain a deeper understanding of how the audience is relating and reacting to the storylines within the productions. Population Media Center uses entertainment media to change cultural attitudes and individual behavior with regard to health and social issues. To achieve this, PMC uses long-running serialized melodramas written and produced in participating countries by local people in local languages. Characters are created that gradually evolve into positive role models for the audience. The emotional bonds that the audience forms with the characters and stories help inspire audiences to make positive changes in their lives. PMC's serial dramas have addressed issues such as: the use of family planning, reproductive health, avoidance of AIDS, elevation of women's status, protection of children, and related social and health goals, depending upon the relevance of each to the policies of the country in which PMC is working. PMC has now worked in 27 countries. Scientific research has shown that PMC's programs lead to population-wide behavior change. Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más, owned and operated by Viacom International Media Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), reaches 6.1 million Hispanic TV households (45% of US Hispanic Total TV HH) and 34 million total TV households. The network's programming embraces the trilogy of cultures that represents Latino life – Latin American plus American equals US Latino – through original productions, key acquisitions, and content from MTV Networks' portfolio of entertainment brands. Tr3s embraces the key lifestyle aspects of Latino identity — milestones, making it and music — as well as social responsibility through its initiative "Agentes de Cambio", which tackles issues that affect Latinos today. The network also taps into the growing number of Latinos that are digitally connected through www.tr3s.com.


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Q: Fulltext index Code First EF Core 2.1? how do I add to my fluent api a full text index?
I just see HasIndex()
 public void Configure(EntityTypeBuilder<Company> builder)
        {
            builder.HasKey(x => x.Id);
            builder.Property(x => x.Id).ValueGeneratedOnAdd();
            builder.HasIndex(x => x.Name);
            builder.Property(x => x.Name).HasMaxLength(100).IsRequired();
        }

A: Creation of full text indexes is not supported in EF Core 2.1, there is an issue tracking this at https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/issues/11488
In summary;

In EF Core 2.1 we have initial support for for full-text search via the FreeText predicate in LINQ, but this only works with databases that have already been indexed. EF Core and the SQL Server provider don't provide any way to configure the model so that migrations or EnsureCreated can generate the right SQL for defining the indexes.