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April 12, 1961, the first man of our planet, the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, ascended into space and flew the Earth on the Vostok spacecraft. After that, we have many times witnessed the heroic flights of astronauts. On ships "Vostok" was carried out the flight of crews of astronauts and the first man's exit into outer space. During the flights of the Soyuz multi-seat ships, the ships were docked to each other and to the Salyut orbital station, the possibility of long flights and crew changes was demonstrated, a wide range of research was conducted in all fields of science and the national economy for the peaceful use of space. Citizens of many countries, including Poland, Germany, France, India, Syria, and America took part in flights on Russian spaceships. July 15, 1975
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Edme Marie Cadoux, né à Blacy (Yonne) le  et mort à Thizy (Yonne) le , est un sculpteur français.

Biographie
Sa naissance en 1853 dans une modeste famille de carriers bourguignons destine Edme Marie Cadoux au métier de tailleur de pierres. Pourtant, avec le soutien de son instituteur et celui du député républicain Paul Bert, il quitte sa région en 1870 pour aller étudier à l'École des beaux-arts de Paris pendant une dizaine d'années. Élève de François Jouffroy et d'Antonin Mercié, entre autres, il apprend le modelage et la mise aux points. Plus tard il deviendra président de la chambre syndicale des praticiens.

Il expose au Salon des artistes français chaque année entre 1874 et 1935. Il y reçoit des médailles de première, deuxième ou troisième classe, ainsi que des mentions honorables. En 1887, il obtient une médaille de troisième classe pour son groupe de marbre À la fontaine, destiné à la Résidence à Tunis.

Encouragé par Auguste Bartholdi, ses compétences le désignent alors pour aller expertiser la qualité des marbres du Filfila (Algérie). On espérait alors pouvoir les préférer aux marbres Italiens. C'est pendant son séjour à Philippeville qu'il perd sa fille Marie, âgée de neuf ans, orpheline de mère depuis peu. Il rentre en France, seul et ruiné. S'ajoute encore la perte de Paul Bert, mort au Tonkin (Indochine) dont il était devenu un familier.

Il retrouve son atelier de Montparnasse, voisin de celui d'Antoine Bourdelle. Il épouse Léonie Trouttet, dont il a trois enfants. Les commandes de l'État lui permettent alors de vivre comme praticien pour Alfred Boucher à la réfection de l'Opéra de Paris, pour Émile Peynot à l'hôtel de ville de Paris ou au palais de justice de Rouen, pour Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse aux frontons de la Banque de France, à la façade du théâtre des Champs-Élysées pour Bourdelle, avec Anatole Guillot à la réfection des trophées et statues du château de Versailles, pour des commandes de bustes d'hommes politiques (Le pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, Lepère, Bonnerot, Vaulabelle, Paul Bert).

Outre ces portraits en buste, genre dans lequel il excelle, il édifie des monuments publics mettant souvent en scène des enfants, comme dans le groupe monumental de la fontaine de Bléneau (Yonne), où un jeune garçon verse l'eau à une fillette tournée vers lui en un gracieux mouvement du corps.

Après la Première Guerre mondiale, il travaille comme architecte et statuaire à l'érection de nombreux monuments aux morts, préférant aux images guerrières celles d'enfants offrant des fleurs aux soldats comme pour le monument de Crécy-en-Brie (actuellement Crécy-la-Chapelle), où ce sont les enfants des soldats disparus qui ont posé.

Il passe ses dernières années à Thizy, où il ne cessa d'avoir des projets de toutes sortes peu relayés par les élus locaux de l'époque, comme celui d'une école d'apprentissage de la sculpture qui ne vit jamais le jour.

Il meurt à Thizy .

Œuvres

Œuvres dans les collections publiques

 En Belgique
 Philippeville : Monument à la gloire du troisième Zouave, œuvre en plâtre aujourd'hui disparue.

 En France
 Auxerre : Buste de la mère de l'artiste.
 Avallon : Buste de Vaulabelle, (1799-1879) journaliste.
 Bléneau :
Église : Autel et corbeaux en haut-relief.
 Fontaine monumentale Châtaigner.
 Guillon : Monument funéraire de la famille Tarteret.
 Joigny : Buste du député Bonnerot.
 L'Haÿ-les-Roses, mairie : Marianne, les Sciences et les Lettres, cheminée monumentale.
 Montbard :
Monument à Daubenton, 1901, buste en bronze, œuvre disparue.
 Buste de  Debussy, député de la Côte d'Or.
 Montréal: Chapelle funéraire Lamary
 Nancy : Buste de Merlin de Thionville.
Paris:
cimetière du Père-Lachaise : Monument funéraire de  Georges.
 Buste d'Ignace de Loyola.
 Buste de  Gerbeau.
 Buste du commandant Renaud.
 Saint-Fargeau : Buste de Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, ministre d'État.
 Saint-Père, église : Sacré-Cœur, statue en pierre.
 Saints-en-Puisaye, Église : L'Arrestation de Saint Prix, bas-relief de l'autel.
  Thizy, Église: Statue de saint Germain des Roses (œuvre de jeunesse). Chapelle funéraire Dujon-Montarlot. Atlantes  au balcon de sa maison familiale. Chats, Aigle marquant le passage d'une Méridienne aux maisons du village.

 Versailles : Buste de Paul Bert.

 En Tunisie
 Tunis : À la Fontaine.

Monument aux morts de la Première Guerre mondiale

 Cramaille
 Crécy-la-Chapelle
 Marmeaux
 Rampillon
 Saponay

Œuvres éditées
 Marianne : nombreux bustes, modèle avec ou sans bonnet phrygien.
 Coquilles : femme couchée, diverses dimensions.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930,
 Marie-Claude Garderet, Edme-Marie Cadoux 1853-1939, catalogue d'exposition , Auxerre, musée Leblanc-Duvernoy, 1983.
 Bernard Léger, « Sur les traces du sculpteur avallonnais Edme-Marie Cadoux », Bulletin de la Société d'Études d'Avallon, volume 85, .

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Sculpteur français du XIXe siècle
Sculpteur français du XXe siècle
Naissance en juillet 1853
Naissance dans l'Yonne
Décès en mars 1939
Décès dans le département de l'Yonne
Décès à 85 ans

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The challenge was received yesterday afternoon by Labour's General Secretary, Tim Barnett.
Commodore of the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), Norbert Bajurin, confirmed that a challenge had been lodged.
He acknowledged that the challenge did not accord with the Labour Party's constitution, but claimed that the constitution was a cynical sham designed to make it difficult for outsiders to challenge for the position.
Mr Bajurin said that the leadership contest should be reopened to allow the GGYC's racing team, Oracle Team USA, to challenge for the position.
"The most recent version of Labour's constitution is a low point in the long and colourful history of this regatta," said Mr Bajurin.
"The party has no boats, and while it owns a number of properties it has not a single clubhouse for nautical members to attend. To our knowledge it has never organised any sort of regatta.
Bajurin said legal action was a "very real prospect" if David Cunliffe refused to accept a formal challenge.
"We would prefer that this matter be settled on the water," said Bajurin. "We already have a plan for how we would like the leadership contest to operate, including detailed design plans for a class of catamarans the candidates would be required to race in.
A legal challenge against the cash-strapped Labour Party could prove a disaster, particularly as the GGYC's challenge is being bankrolled by billionaire Larry Ellison, one of the richest people in the world.
But the prospect of racing against Team Oracle will also frighten members of Cunliffe's inner circle.
Assembling a team to sail a Team Cunliffe boat would prove daunting and would be an early test for the new leader, even if Cunliffe could find the money to design and build a world class racing boat.
Party secretary Tim Barnett confirmed that the challenge was being taken seriously.
"We're still looking into the matter, but we already have contingency plans in place, should David be required to put his leadership up.
David Cunliffe told reporters this morning that he was not afraid of Larry Ellison or the Oracle Team.
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Q: Coldfusion Search HTML  Then Add All  Source URLs To Array I need help understanding how to make the loop continue after finding the first occurrence.

The loop created by @luxdvie is brilliant (link here). I'm trying to extend that loop to find all image file names and put them into an array.
I'm testing it at trycf.com (link here) but sometimes our internet filter at work blocks the site.

I think the logic to get this done is to find the first occurrence of an image source, set the end of that as the start of the new step and continue looking for the next occurrence until the end of the text area.

Here is the code I'm trying to do this with:

<cfset search_text_area = #form.overview_text#>
<cfset length_of_text_field = #Len(search_text_area)#>
<cfset image_url_header = "https://ImagesFolder/subFolder/">
<cfset image_url_closure = '"'>
<cfset image_extension_png = ".png">
<cfset image_list_array_on_submit =[]>
<cfset continue_searching_url = true>
<cfset first_pass = true>
<cfset go_thru_again = false>
<cfset counter = 0>

<cfloop condition = "continue_searching_url eq true">
<cfoutput>
    <cfset counter = counter+1>
    <cfif counter GTE 5>

        <cfbreak>
    </cfif>

    <cfif starting_index_url eq 0>
        <cfset continue_searching_url = false>
        <cfcontinue>
    </cfif>

    <cfif first_pass eq true>
        <cfset starting_index_url = find(image_url_header, search_text_area)>
        <cfset ending_index_url = find( image_url_closure , search_text_area, starting_index_url )>
        <cfset full_occurrence_url =  mid(#search_text_area#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
        <cfset local_occurrence_url = mid(#search_text_area#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
        <cfset ArrayAppend(image_list_array_on_submit, (local_occurrence_url))>
        <cfset first_pass = false>
        <cfset go_thru_again = true>
        <cfset starting_index_url = #ending_index_url#>
    </cfif>

    <cfif go_thru_again = true>
        <cfif starting_index_url NEQ length_of_text_field>
            <cfset starting_index_url = find(image_url_header, search_text_area)>
            <cfset ending_index_url = find( image_url_closure , search_text_area, starting_index_url )>
            <cfset full_occurrence_url =  mid(#search_text_area#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
            <cfset local_occurrence_url = mid(#search_text_area#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
            <cfset ArrayAppend(image_list_array_on_submit, (local_occurrence_url))>
            <cfset first_pass = false>
            <cfset go_thru_again = true>
            <cfset starting_index_url = #ending_index_url#>
        <cfelse>
            <cfset starting_index_url = 0>
            <cfcontinue>
        </cfif>
        <cfset go_thru_again = false>
    </cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

A: If the source is a carriage return delimited textarea you could treat the text area as a list that is chr(10) delimited:
<cfset search_text_area = #form.overview_text#>
<cfset length_of_text_field = #Len(search_text_area)#>
<cfset image_url_header = "https://ImagesFolder/subFolder/">
<cfset image_url_closure = '"'>
<cfset image_extension_png = ".png">
<cfset image_list_array_on_submit =[]>
<cfset continue_searching_url = true>
<cfset first_pass = true>
<cfset go_thru_again = false>
<cfset counter = 0>

<cfloop from="1" to="#listlen(search_text_area,chr(10))#" index="linex">

<cfset thisrow=listgetat(search_text_area,linex,chr(10))>

<cfif findnocase(image_url_header,thisrow) gt 0>
    <cfif findnocase(image_url_closure,thisrow,findnocase(image_url_header,thisrow)) gt 0>
        <cfset starting_index_url = findnocase(image_url_header,thisrow)>
        <cfset ending_index_url = findnocase(image_url_closure,thisrow,findnocase(image_url_header,thisrow))>

        <cfset full_occurrence_url =  mid(search_text_area, (starting_index_url), ((ending_index_url)-starting_index_url))>
        <cfset local_occurrence_url = mid(search_text_area, (starting_index_url), ((ending_index_url)-starting_index_url))>
        <cfset ArrayAppend(image_list_array_on_submit, (local_occurrence_url))>

    </cfif>
</cfif>
</cfloop>

A: I figured it out, have a look at this code on trycf.com. I'll post it here for reference. To solve this problem, I started with a conditional loop. Inside that loop I use IF statements to switch between a first pass and subsequent passes. I check for certain conditions to exit the loop. My code relies on ColdFusion's find() and mid() functions to locate an image tag's source URL.
<cfsavecontent variable="SearchText">

Two images with source set to URL:

and one more for testing:

</cfsavecontent>

<cfset search_text_area = #SearchText#>
<cfset length_of_text_field = #Len(search_text_area)#>
<cfset image_url_header = "https://ImagesFolder/subFolder/">
<cfset image_url_closure = '"'>
<cfset image_extension_png = ".png">
<cfset image_list_array_on_submit =[]>
<cfset counter_array =[]>
<cfset continue_searching_url = true>
<cfset first_pass = true>
<cfset go_thru_again = false>
<cfset counter = 0>
<cfset next_position = -1>

<cfloop condition = "continue_searching_url eq true">
<cfoutput>
    <cfset counter = counter+1>

    <cfif first_pass eq true>
        <cfset starting_index_url = find(image_url_header, SearchText)>
    </cfif>
    <cfif go_thru_again eq true>
        <cfset next_position = #ending_index_url#>
    </cfif>
    <cfif starting_index_url eq 0>
        <cfset continue_searching_url = false>
        <cfcontinue>
    </cfif>

    <cfif first_pass eq true>
        <cfset ending_index_url     = find( image_url_closure , SearchText, starting_index_url )>
        <cfset full_occurrence_url  = mid(#SearchText#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
        <cfset local_occurrence_url = mid(#SearchText#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
        <cfset first_pass           = false>
        <cfset go_thru_again        = true>
        <cfset next_position        = #ending_index_url#>
        <cfset ArrayAppend(image_list_array_on_submit, (local_occurrence_url))>
    </cfif>
    <cfset ArrayAppend(counter_array, starting_index_url)>
    <cfif go_thru_again = true>
        <cfif starting_index_url NEQ length_of_text_field>

            <cfoutput>#counter#. #starting_index_url#, #next_position#
</cfoutput>

            <cfset starting_index_url   = find(image_url_header, SearchText, next_position)>
            <cfset ending_index_url     = find( image_url_closure , SearchText, starting_index_url )>
            <cfif starting_index_url eq 0>
                <cfset continue_searching_url = false>
                <cfcontinue>
            </cfif>
            <cfset full_occurrence_url  = mid(#SearchText#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
            <cfset local_occurrence_url = mid(#SearchText#, (#starting_index_url#), ((#ending_index_url#)-#starting_index_url#))>
            <cfset first_pass           = false>
            <cfset go_thru_again        = true>
            <cfset next_position        = #ending_index_url#>
            <cfoutput>#counter#. #starting_index_url#, #next_position#, #ending_index_url#
</cfoutput>
            <cfset ArrayAppend(image_list_array_on_submit, (local_occurrence_url))>

        <cfelse>
            <cfset go_thru_again = false>
            <cfset starting_index_url = 0>
            <cfcontinue>
        </cfif>

    </cfif>
</cfoutput>

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Sorry guys… I haven't been posting lately and as you've probably guessed it's because I have been really busy. I performed in my first theatre show 2 weeks ago and it went very well! I had a monologue to do and everything and we got great feedback from the audience. My close friend came on the second night when we were performing the show and he said that he was vey impressed. He said it was like seeing another side of me because I'm usually quite shy in real life. The show really pushed me to my limits and actually made me realise that there was more to me than meets the eye. Yesterday, I was also invited by one of the producers to join a drama workshop they are holding in 2 weeks. I've really enjoyed doing these projects and they take my mind away from all the schoolwork I have to do and they're fun!
I hope you had a great Easter because I was having a great time!☺I stayed with my mum and brother in Manchester during the Easter holiday, it was great seeing them again. We went all out for Easter, my mum made so much food and we had some of our family members over as well. Even though it was Easter holiday, I was doing a lot of revision because I have my first exam in 6 weeks. I have to start revising especially soon because for 2/3 of my subjects, I'm going to be tested on ALL of last years and this years topics😢I have 3 mock exams next week as well, so I have to be prepared for those. Hopefully after my exams, I will get the chance to post more regularly and start doing more music/TV/Film posts!


Christ Church is a liturgical church, meaning we follow a specific order in our worship. Our worship includes music, the reading of scripture, a message that connects scripture to our daily lives, prayer, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians of any age are welcome to receive Holy Communion.
Our small worship band leads the congregation in a blend of traditional hymns and contemporary music with songs and liturgy projected on a screen.
Sunday School is available for children and youth in grades kindergarten through high school. A staffed nursery is available for children younger than kindergarten age.
Sunday starts with families together for announcements and music. Children are dismissed to Sunday School during the first part of the worship service, and rejoin their parents to receive communion. You are welcome to keep your children with you throughout the worship service.
After worship we have a time of fellowship and hospitality. Plan to stay, connect with our families, tell us about your worship experience, and ask questions about the church.
Many of our members dress casually for worship. Please dress in a manner that is comfortable for you.
Christ Church is a small, growing congregation that welcomes everyone in worship, spiritual growth, and service. We are looking forward to worshipping with you.


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DomovAbout IDAS
IDAS is back!
We kindly invite you to the 14th International Debate Academy Slovenia – IDAS 2017, an intense week of World University Debate Format/British Parliamentary Debate Format training and debate tournament which will happen from November 18 (arrival) to 25 (semi-finals, finals and departure) in Kranjska gora and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
IDAS is a jointed event by Pro et contra, Institute for culture of dialogue Slovenia and World Debate Institute, USA. The program is aimed at university students, teachers, debate instructors, organizers, and judges. It uses the WUDC/BP format, and will be conducted in English. In 13 years of IDAS there were more than 1300 participants from more than 40 countries and the program have had an important impact to the university debate programs in the region and globally – from Serbia to USA. Trainers usually come from different parts of the world, having an extensive expertise in the format as professional coaches, trainers and judges or debaters with the highest achievements at the global WUDC tournaments.
Please, join us at https://www.facebook.com/idaslovenia to follow the updates where you also can check the programs and trainers from previous IDASs.
TRAINING PROGRAM is very intense and demands an active participation of all participants. Morning debate theory lectures are followed by exercises, there are two practice debates per day and a wide selection of debate and content electives. Program is diverse, targetting different expectactions and level of experience, very useful for debaters with little and with a lot of experiences. There is also a special track for coaches, trainers, judges and teachers who would like to start using debate in different settings – from debate clubs to regular classrooms.
Trainers and judges who already confirmed their participations at IDAS 2017: Maja Cimerman, Duncan Crowe, Lindsey Dixon, Gina Iberri – Shea, Julia Mikić, Rhydian Morgan, Arlan Navaraez. More to be announced!
Mednarodna študentska debatna akademija 2017
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Meet Jerry, a two year old chihuahua and Chinese crested mix, who now lives with his fur-brother Harry, a five year old chihuahua, in a loving home with Meg McLean and Colin Laforge of Toronto, Ontario.
Jerry, who is new to the family, was a recent rescue. Meg found him online while browsing through a rescue site. The couple thought he was too cute to pass up, so they went to meet him. When they arrived the lady at the rescue told them he was from a puppy mill and the people who bred him had told her they'd forgotten they had him. He had lived locked in a crate for six months, lonely, unloved and was completely emaciated -- skin and bones. His little body was covered in acne from living in filth and he was afraid of everything.
At first he wouldn't let them touch him and kept his tail so tucked between his legs they initially thought he had something wrong with his spine. After a month of the couple rehabilitating him with care and love, he finally started to play and become more trusting and independent.
Now, slowly, everyday he does something different as he gets used to his new life with this loving family. His most recent way of opening up is to offer a lick of affection every once in a while. His new mom says Jerry is a pure and innocent soul through and through, that loves to play catch and is the most forgiving dog they have ever met.
Jerry's brother Henry, who the couple have had longer, was purchased from a breeder after he was returned by another family. He was their last pup and they had decided to retire from the dog breeding business so little Henry was the last of the lot.
Meg describes Henry as being super chill: "I joke that he's Bob Marley reincarnated. He never barks, sleeps all day, and loves snacks."
As you can probably tell, from the many photos of him sleeping, Henry loves to snuggle.
Make sure you follow their adorable adventures on Instagram @kinghenry_alexander, so you can keep up with Jerry's rehabilitation story and watch him blossom into an outgoing rescue pup with the help of his parents and his brother Henry.


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All-Female Team Leads Lyric Theatre's Production Of 'Lucretia'
By Brian Moline
The Lyric Theatre at Illinois production of "The Rape of Lucretia" opens Thursday evening at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana.
Darrell Hoemann/Lyric Theatre at Illinois
Lyric Theatre at Illinois' production of the Benjamin Britten opera "The Rape of Lucretia" opens Thursday at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana.
It tells the story of a woman who becomes a pawn in a power struggle between men in ancient Rome and pays the ultimate price.
Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline spoke with two members of the all-female production team, conductor Julie Gunn and director Kirsten Pullen about this beautiful and heartbreaking opera. Pullen said it's the first time she's ever directed an opera.
"This is my first opera, and I did not imagine doing it," Pullen said. "Julie (Gunn) asked me, and I was actually gobsmacked. We were having a whole conversation about wanting to have an all-woman team, and wanting to do this in a particular way, and then she said, 'you know, somebody like you.'"
Pullen is the department head for Illinois Theatre, and Gunn is the co-director of the Lyric Theatre program.
"The Rape of Lucretia" opens tonight in the Tryon Festival Theater at Krannert Center. Details on tickets and showtimes are available at the Krannert Center website.
Story source: WILL
lyric theatre @ illinois
the rape of lucretia
kirsten pullen
julie gunn
krannert center for the performing arts
Lyric Theatre Performing 'La Boheme' At Krannert Center
Lyric Theatre To Perform 'Putnam County' At Allerton Music Barn Festival
Nathan Gunn Directs, Sings Lyric Theatre's 'Don Giovanni'
Lyric Theatre Presents 'Hansel and Gretel' At Krannert Center
Lyric Theatre Previews 'The Light In The Piazza'
Lyric Theatre's 'Viva Verdi' Opens Thursday At Krannert Center


Saltire Court is back on the market for the first time in six years.
Following a spell when it was fully occupied, space has opened up at the Edinburgh building following the departure of law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn.
Arefurbishment of 50,000 square feet has been completed with new flooring, ceilings and lightings.
Common areas have also been overhauled at the cost of around £2million with redecoration throughout the atrium and lift lobbys, replacement to the mechanical and engineering plant, building management system and the installation of a secure barrier entry.
Nadir Khan-Juhoor, partner at Knight Frank, is jointly marketing the property on behalf of the landlord. He said: "The launch of Saltire Court is an exciting opportunity for occupiers in Edinburgh to acquire first-class office accommodation in an envious position, with views of Edinburgh Castle."
"The vacant accommodation has been comprehensively refurbished to compete against some of the best Grade A stock available in the city."
Mike Irvine, partner at Montagu Evans, said: "Saltire Court is one of Edinburgh's most established office buildings. Its strategic location between the Exchange district and the core city centre provides close proximity to the city's business community while also allowing staff easy access to the amenity of Princes Street and George Street."
Current tenants are Deloitte, Dundas & Wilson, KPMG and Martin Currie Investment Management. The building also has The Atrium and Blue restaurants as well as the Traverse Theatre.


Deborah Ponting MIM; BA; B Ed St; Dip Ed; AFHEA; AALIA –Deborah is currently employed as a sessional lecturer and researcher at Queensland University of Technology. She is a qualified teacher and librarian and when Head of the Centre for Learning and Innovation at Ormiston College, helped redesign and configure the library spaces. She presented a paper on the redesign at EBLIP9 in Philadelphia in 2017. The paper was published in ACCESS in November 2018. Deborah graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Educational Studies, and Graduate Diploma of Education and graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Masters of Information Management. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate member of ALIA. Deborah is President of Community Management Solutions and has been a board member since 1991.
Deb will present at the Capacity Building School Libraries Conference.


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Studies in synthesis and rearrangement
Axon, Barry William
Reference: Thesis (PhD--Chemistry)--University of Auckland, 1980
Degree Name: PhD
Degree Grantor: The University of Auckland
Identifier: THESIS 81-025
Rights: Copyright: The author
The cyclisation of 1-(p-methoxyphenylethyl)-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanol (7) has been studied with a view to synthesising the podocarpane type tricyclic diterpenoids. Literature reports have claimed that acid catalysed cyclisation of the isomeric alcohol 3-(p-methoxyphenylethyl)-2,4,4-trimethylcyclohexanol (39) gives cis and trans-fused isomeric products in almost equal amounts. A detailed study of the reaction has shown that the earlier reports are incorrect and deuterium labelling of (7) in conjunction with careful analysis of the mass spectrum of the product has revealed new features about the mechanism of the cyclisation reaction. Routes towards the total synthesis of C-2 functionalised diterpenoids have been sought. Much experimentation has produced a successful route involving condensation of 4-ethylenedioxy-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanone (141) with p-methoxyphenylacetylene (89) followed by selective hydrogenation and cyclisation, The exploratory reactions and successful synthesis are discussed.
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.
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Item #: ECM04K Manufacturer: Meraki Greetings Front: No Text. Inside: Left blank for a personal message. Size: 4-3/4 in. x 6-3/4 in. Di-cut design embellished with iridescent flitter. Each card is individually cello wrapped and includes a black and white printed envelope.
Item #: ECM06K Manufacturer: Meraki Greetings Front: You're a Peach. Inside: Left blank for a personal message. Size: 4-3/4 in. x 6-3/4 in. Di-cut design embellished with iridescent flitter. Each card is individually cello wrapped and includes a black and white printed envelope.


I will be teaching at Swansea Festival of Stitch on August 10 2018. It is an unfortunate clash with Festival of Quilts, but the programme looks great.
I have called my class 'Beautiful Surfaces' as that is something I have been working on for a while. When I say 'that', it is a theme inspired by a quote from a letter that Nietzsche wrote in a letter to a friend. He said that, (roughly translated) "without terrible depth, there are no beautiful surfaces". Now, I have my own deep and meaningful exploration of the phrase going on, but as far as surface design goes, I am keen to create a complex, 'deep' surface on cloth, before I begin piecing or stitching. Experience has shown me that there is a flexible order to the processes I use and I am hoping to save the students a bit of time in avoiding the mistakes I learnt through my gungho experimentation.
It will be a packed day, but with good preparation the students will dye, discharge, stencil, foil and mark-make.
Other work – I am still stitching into 'My Mother's Chair' – a deeply personal piece, that due to the use of her old household textiles, has a life of its own. I am stitching with my mother's collection of hosiery thread – a limited palette of nylon, wool and cotton. The number of skeins defies understanding! As the top fabric, an old tea stained tablecloth, slides and moves and billows and stiffens like a wild thing, it will never be quilt-perfect, but it will speak its narrative.
When blogging first began, I was a great blogger and built some great connections, posted regularly and added thoughtful content. Then came big-life – births, deaths, weddings, funerals, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and more life!
What have I been doing lately, (trying to cover everything between posts is impossible)? Well, after a long wet, cold, winter hiatus, we are back on the new studio build. It will be a good space, with a lovely view, in time! At the moment we are still having regular debates about roofing, windows, etc. We are organic self builders, rather than detailed planners. That method has worked for us over the years as ideas emerge and existential knowledge alters them. For example, only through pondering over time, did we decide to lower the ground, (hence the pile of boulders – our house is built on rock not sand!) and that was a great decision – the studio nestles in the space rather than looming alongside our little cottage. Rest assured, we do pay scrupulous attention to building safety and strength! Here is my previous space – Strawberry Studio, (named after the designers of my favourite skirt from the 70s). It is a wonky place built over 20 years ago – my first attempt at building 'a room of one's own', (the DH had to help – a lot!). The old little studio was recommissioned as the wedding kitchen, but that was two years ago and I have since worked in a bedroom. I am not moaning – many great artists have no workspace, let alone a spare bedroom. I am excited and feeling privileged in equal measure. My main hope with this dedicated space are, apart from available work surface, to free up household cupboards and floors, and to be able to find what I want when I want it!! Oh, and to make great art!
Still setting fair the workroom. "Setting fair" – used to love the end of the day when I worked with horses and everyone was mucked out or turned out, the tack was clean and, last of all, the yard was swept. My current studio activity is the textile equivalent of mucking out, in the hope of being able to set fair for a very busy winter of high-brow art! Before that, some work that is more craft than art.
I have had a white knitted felt bag base knocking around for several years. Adding a few hand-dyed fabric scraps and beads, means it is now a finished item.
In the spirit of the autumn feeling I always get, and it feeling like autumn already, I am in a use it up, tidy it up, sort it out, throw it out mood. I have had a clamshell purse frame for ages and ages. I used it with some hand-dyed velvet which I embroidered with some cotton from Paint Box Threads – a Festival purchase.
I loved the process – much easier than I expected. For a first try it is good, but not, of course, perfect. I learnt that using cotton velvet makes life difficult and you can see – as I point out the flaws!! – that the thickness of the fabric make neat corners nigh on impossible. A lightweight Panne velvet would have been a dream and any silk, wool, or cotton without bulk would do well. Just needs a polish to clear up any glue strand on the metal and I am good for any soirée you care to invite me to!
A freezer paper stencil and blue oil stick, close meander stitched in variegated blue thread around the letters and open meander stitching to fill. Simple but I like it.
Strawberries make mighty fine prints. This may well fade to browns, but I love transitions, so that's okay! Just using the trimmed tops – we ate the berries!
Here is July's CQ 11″ X 11″ Journal quilt. The year's theme is 'Text'. This quarter the techniques all use applied colour, (as opposed to dyed colour). Here I have drawn onto the cloth with Inktense pencils, then sprayed with water. This does cause colour-bleed, but I like it. Bubble-stitching with blue and then white thread, emphasises the blurring. To focus on the lettering I have adjusted the scale of the quilting.
Last 11″ X 11″ CQ Journal quilt of the second quarter. Year's theme 'Text', quarter's method – stitch. June is hand stitched in threads which contrast the text and background.


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Unknown ending
Monk mistakes
Die Hard 2 mistakes
The Phantom of the Opera questions
Lilo & Stitch mistake picture
Anna Kendrick movies & TV shows
Edward Scissorhands plot
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Timothy Olyphant
F**k Marry Kill
Suggested corrections Add a plot summary Significant dates Titles starting with L
Question: Does anyone know what kind of keyboard Matthew was using in his apartment?
Question: You'll have to forgive my ignorance regarding a comment made by Matt Farrell. He said that it took FEMA five days to get water to the Superdome. What exactly was he talking about?
Socks1000
Chosen answer: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city of New Orleans, with many of the residents temporarily housed in the Superdome. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was highly criticized for their response (or lack of), including how long it took to supply the Superdome with adequate water and food. Matt's pointing out to John how the government isn't nearly as capable of responding to disaster as people think.
OneHappyHusky
Question: Is there a reason why John McClane's previous exploits aren't mentioned in this film? He is known, and mentioned for his association with, Nakatomi in DH2 and for Dulles airport and Nakatomi in DH3 but in this one, none of his past "adventures" are mentioned bar a couple of subtle almost hidden quotes (eg. the agent Johnson scene). Is this due to any kind of copyright thing or ownership issues between the films or just that they weren't mentioned by any characters? Just seems strange to me that the previous exploits aren't talked about even a little bit.
The_Iceman
Chosen answer: The screenwriters probably felt it was unnecessary to keep rehashing the same old information in every film. It becomes tedious and stale to an audience that is already familiar with the franchise's story line. For anyone who has not seen the previous movies, it would probably be meaningless.
raywest
Question: Near the end of the film, when McClane, his daughter Lucy, and the hacker Matt Farrell are about to leave in the ambulance, there is a sign with the number 5 hanging out of a warehouse in the background - does this mean there will be a Die Hard 5?
Allister Cooper, 2011
Chosen answer: Looks like a standard 5 mph speed sign to me. You can't read too much into that. In addition though, Bruce Willis has already stated in a few interviews that he'd be more than happy to do another one.
Question: When the FBI take McClane and Farrell and the voice of Maggie Q is recognised by Matt - how does she know McClane is with Matt? She says to get her a line to the FBI driver and get me all the info on John McClane. At which point did they even know John McClane's name or who he was?
Answer: The radio line mentioned the officer's name in the seconds after Gabriel's voice recognition picked up Farrell's name.
Answer: They would have called ahead to DHS to advise them that a NYPD office of SO SO name would be coming to hoover building escorting Mr Feral. I would only assume when they said his name and Matt's name over the police band it triggered a hit for Matt's name, and then they listened to it, causing them to know who is riding in the LEO car. Hypothetically of course.
Question: The movie takes place on the July 4 weekend, so why is Lucy living at her dorm at Rutgers University? Wouldn't the university normally be closed during the summer months?
Answer: Nope. Most universities offer classes year round.
Question: Is the "Fire Sale" procedure used in this movie a real-world idea or just a movie creation? Could it ever happen?
Answer: It is strictly hypothetical and most likely couldn't happen without having many, many insiders and the best hackers in the world, but even then, who knows if that could be probable in a "Post 9/11" climate.
Question: What is the name of the PDA/gadget used by Justin Long to hookup to SATCOM's network?
Chosen answer: The Nokia 9300 is a Nokia Series 80 Symbian Smartphone introduced in 2004. It is used as a normal though bulky mobile phone in closed mode; when it is flipped open it can be used like a very small notebook computer with a 640 x 200 screen. The phone also has speakerphone functionally, which is activated automatically when the phone is flipped open. - Wikipedia.
Question: Why is Kevin Smiths' character called Warlock?
Chosen answer: Warlock is his computer name just like Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix is called Neo even though his "real" name is Thomas Anderson.
Shannon Jackson
Question: Throughout the film, Thomas Gabriel is shown be to an extremely intelligent and talented computer hacker with enormous resources at his disposal as well as an equally talented entourage of computer hackers. My questions are, why did he hire other hackers to write code for him and then kill them? He must have realised that this would draw attention? Couldn't he or any of his colleagues have done it themselves instead?
Chosen answer: First off, from the time they started killing off their hired hackers, there wasn't much anyone could do about it. They weren't worried about calling attention to themselves because they were doing plenty of that with their fire sale. Secondly, the number of systems they would have to hack would require lots of different methods and directions of attack. Way too much man power for Gabriel to let them all in on the plot without risking exposing their plans way too early. The idea of one hacker breaking into all of the systems they need is a nice Hollywood cliche, but rather unrealistic. People spend hours, days, or even weeks trying to hack one single system. Gabriel doesn't have that kind of time. The reason his one "extremely intelligent and talented computer hacker" is able to do everything he does is because all of their hired hackers had already passed off all of the programs and algorithms they needed. That's why he appears to have "enormous resources at his disposal" at all.
Garlonuss
Question: How did the emergency operator start the car when Matt tells them to start? And why did Matt do so when McClane was ready to start the car with just the wires?
a_shyam41
Chosen answer: The on-board assistance system that Matt was using to contact the operator is specifically designed to allow for emergency usage in just such a way. They usually require a password to verify the user, which is exactly what Matt was trying to BS his way around. However, even though McClane is willing to hotwire the car, there are two problems with this. First, cars in recent years have become much harder to hotwire. Second, even if McClane was able to do it, the on-board assistance would have been triggered and it would assume (rightly so) that the car was being stolen and authorities would be alerted. With a likely GPS in the system, it'd be hard to get away from that one. By using and fooling the system, they now have the ability to get around unencumbered.
Also, the airbags wouldn't have deployed when he hit the bumper with a trash can. They're designed to go off only when the vehicle is in motion thanks to a vehicle speed sensor that arms the system over a certain speed to avoid costly repairs in the event you just bump something or vandals just wanna be vandals. I remember a funny commercial with an elderly woman using her purse to hit a car bumper when the driver honked at her as she slowly crossed the street. Hilarious, but not accurate.
Question: Completely ignoring the fact that the road assist thing in the car wouldn't work due to the networks being down, why did Matt go through all that trouble? Wouldn't it have been much faster for John to speak to them and say something like "This is officer John McClane, badge number ***** I need to use this vehicle for a police emergency" or something like that?
Answer: There was no guarantee the operator would believe John was really a cop, even if he gave his badge number. Also, for the purpose of the movie, Justin Long's bit as a scared little boy, is just funnier, and meant to inject humor into the plot.
Question: If the movie plot is over a 4th of July weekend, wouldn't offices be closed? It appears to be a regular non-holiday weekday with so many people working.
Answer: Government offices would definitely be closed, however, in a big city like DC, not everyone would have the weekend off, and between the people who still have to work and the ones going out of town for the holiday, traffic would be about the same if not worse.
Captain Defenestrator
Question: Why does it take Matt Farrell so long to log off and unplug his keyboard at the gas utility hub? What exactly is he supposed to be doing before he can remove his keyboard from the computer, and what would happen if he just pulled out the cord without doing the lengthy procedure first?
Answer: He's trying to stop the hackers from sending all the gas to their location. He leaves it as long as possible.
Ssiscool
Question: Later on in the film, Matt says to Gabriel that it would take him months to download the data unless he eliminated the congestion and then realises that the fire sale was to do just that... Kick everyone off all the networks so that Gabriel can use all available bandwidth. But Gabriel hacked into the Government the night before, which triggered the servers at Woodlawn to download the data as a backup. If it would have taken months to download the data BEFORE the fire sale, why were the Woodlawn servers able to download the same data in less than a day?
Answer: In the film they mentioned that utilities, transportation systems, and communications were what was causing the congestion. Yes, Woodlawn already began the download process the night before when the FBI got hacked, but by the time Gabriel had began his download from Woodlawn, he was already in the process of eliminating the congestion causing the download to hasten. Once the Power station was blown up it gave plenty of time to free up an entire 1/3 of the country's bandwidth to complete to download. Also it was not less than a day. They visited Warlock the next night and the final events didn't happen until the proceeding day.
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Plot hole: Since they took down the telephone network, it would have been impossible for Justin Long to even be speaking to the emergency response woman for the car, much less send a signal to start the car up.
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Suggested correction: Is it possible this is a satellite phone call akin to Onstar?
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No, the BMW system requires a cell signal to work, which was taken down earlier in the movie.
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Since they took down the telephone network, it would have been impossible for Justin Long to even be speaking to the emergency response woman for the car, much less send a signal to start the car up.
Thomas Gabriel: McClane? I thought I killed you already. John McClane: I get that sometimes.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and first responders known as White Helmets said government shelling killed at least eight people Sunday in Saraqeb and Nairab towns in eastern Idlib.
BEIRUT: Opposition activists and Syrian state media are reporting at least 13 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and insurgents in the northwestern part of Syria.
An uptick in violence has increasingly tested a Russia-Turkey sponsored truce in place since September that has averted a government offensive on insurgent-held Idlib and surrounding areas. The area is home to 3 million people.
A local hospital director, Maher Younis, told the state-run Ikhbariya TV that insurgents killed at least five people when they fired missiles at the government-held town of Massyaf in the adjacent Hama province.


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The Fart Party Volume 2
I enjoyed reading Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies so much that I picked up her previous book, The Fart Party Volume 2. I'm glad I did. It was a different experience than the book I'd read, but equally enjoyable.
This book is much more a webcomic collection than the newer book, which has some longer stories. I like reading these volumes in backward chronological order, because it's like getting to know a new friend and then hearing more stories from her past.
Volume 2 picks up after Volume 1 (which I haven't read yet), which she ends with her then-boyfriend leaving her for law school. Here, she opens with an introduction that reveals that they first tried a long-distance relationship. That retelling of the story with a different interpretation makes it seem more authentic.
Wertz's subjects are those of an aimless young woman, which qualifies as escapism for me. In addition to the struggles of having a remote boyfriend, she grapples with a waitress job, appearing at conventions, and visiting other artists. She travels to New York for the first time, foreshadowing her later move there in Drinking at the Movies. She's so young, sometimes, in her reactions and struggles — still trying to figure out what love means, and how much she should consider cartooning a career.
Her simple self-caricature, with its hair helmet and huge bubble eyes, is surprisingly evocative and expressive. Her anger at daily frustrations is understandable, as she portrays it, amusingly exaggerated in violent images that are better here on the page than worked out in real life. Even the smallest incidents have a reason to be told. It's such an unexpected story in her refusal to be a girl before she's a person.
Much of this book is a sketchy version of her usual style, as she traveled for a month and kept a diary in simple, stick-figure form. Her face, though, is still similar, a comforting focus of the page. The volume ends with some sketches of the city and her thoughts on saying goodbye to San Francisco. Read more at Julia Wertz's website.
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CIS and Clifton Hunter wins Appleby Under 18 football championships
Posted byCay 03 Sports December 9, 2022 December 14, 2022 Posted inLocal sportsTags:Clifton Hunter High School, Football
Cayman International School (CIS) Blue and Clifton Hunter High School (CHHS) were crowned 2022 Appleby Under 18 girls and boys high school football champions respectively this past week.
On Wednesday, the young ladies from CIS Blue defeated their schoolmates CIS White 6-0 at the Camana Bay SC to secure top spot and finish the season unbeaten. CHHS' young men got past Triple C 2-0 on Thursday at the CIFA Field to top off an unbeaten season and win their first Appleby Under
18 high school football championship, prising the prestigious trophy from two-time winners and defending champions Cayman Prep.
2022 marked historic seasons for both CIS and CHHS. With this victory, a girls team from CIS has now won all three Appleby Under 18 titles since its inception in 2019 (there was no high school football season in 2021 due to COVID-19). Likewise, for student athletes at CHHS, the Appleby Under 18 boys' title takes the school's tally to an unprecedented three high school football
championships in 2022 as their younger classmated secured the Dart Under 13 boys and girls titles in October.
Finishing runners-up in the Appleby Under 18 girls league was Cayman Prep with St. Ignatius Catholic securing third-place. In the boys league, the runners-up and third-place spots are still up for grabs as a number of postponed games are expected to be played before the schools break for Christmas.
Simon Raftopoulos, Partner at Appleby, who was on hand to present The Appleby Cup, team and individual trophies to the CIS Blue players following their victory, said, "It's a real honour for Appleby to be able to support the community like this and gratifying to see the leagues keep growing in leaps and bounds. We remain, as a firm, deeply committed to Cayman and its community."
Appleby has sponsored the flourishing Under 18 high school football leagues since the leagues' inception in 2019. Sponsorship of the Under 18 high school football leagues falls under the firm's social responsibility objectives – making a positive social and economic contribution to the Grand Cayman community.
The CYFL, a registered non-profit organisation, was officially formed in 2019 to organise and administer the primary and high school football leagues.
The organisation's goal is to ensure that students from ages six to 18 have well organised inter-school football to participate in.
The hallmarks of the leagues are inclusiveness, fair play and school pride.
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by Toni Ryder-McMullin
Fraudsters Target Magic Circle Law Firm's Managing Partner
The Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance's UK managing partner and solicitor, Michael Bates, has been impersonated by scammers in a bid to con unsuspecting members of the public.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have now warned law firms after the emails sent had misused the name of Clifford Chance and Michael Bates by inviting those recipients who received the email to view an attachment (which was not attached) in relation to a client matter.
The SRA was informed that the online scammers had clearly done their homework as the emails in question appeared to be genuine, however, with close inspection the internet fraudsters had spelt the London-based banking and capital market's expert's forename incorrectly.
The SRA was told the emails had the title "CE051218P (Clifford Chance) – Introduction" along with one email address used to be "[email protected]". It was verified to the SRA that the email was signed off with the misspelt forename "Micheal" and also provided a contact number of "0044 (0)7537 183432".
However, the real Mr Bates, who was promoted to the UK managing partner last year, is not connected to the fake emails in any way.
A spokesperson for Clifford Chance said:
"We are aware of recent emails impersonating the firm as part of an attempted email scam, and have both published an alert on our website and worked with the SRA to ensure the details are available for anyone to easily verify. We recommend that anyone receiving a suspicious email deletes it and does not reply or, if there is genuine ambiguity, to contact us."
The regulator stresses to law firms that when a "firm's or an individual's identity has been copied exactly (or cloned), due diligence is necessary" and warned that anyone receiving emails of a similar nature should conduct their own due diligence by checking the authenticity of the email.
Unfortunately, these kind of phishing-style fake emails are a common occurrence and is not the first time identities of solicitors and firms have been used in this way and will certainly not be the last.
Email modification fraud is now the most common type of cybercrime against solicitors, where cyber criminals intercept and falsify emails between a client and the firm. Just last month, during a presentation about cyber crime at the LegalEx conference, the SRA highlighted that the vast majority of cyber attacks reported to them involve email compromise – and everybody is now 20 times more likely to be a victim of cyber crime than a victim of in-person crime.
conveyancing and probate are at extremely high risk of email fraud due to the nature of work carried out as they deal with large amounts of money which have to be transferred to many accounts – this gives fraudsters a huge opportunity to impersonate a firm's email domain to any recipient such as clients, suppliers or employees.
Whilst there is no silver bullet to protecting your firm from these kinds of attacks, guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre to law firms suggest that there is no single solution to email security and that firms must adopt a multi-layer approach to protecting themselves from cyber attacks.
The theory being that if one layer of defence is breached, there are additional layers of security that still offer protection. One such layer is to include the implementation of DMARC protocol on a firm's domain – which actively blocks phishing attacks and prevents 3rd parties from impersonating your domain name to stop cyber criminals sending a perfectly legitimate looking email to staff or clients pretending to be from the firm.
Another layer would be to implement a cyber security policy within your firm by providing comprehensive staff training on the main cyber threats to create a cyber aware culture within your organisation. Staff who are well-trained and remain vigilant will be an asset to the business. Taking the time to have regular training sessions for all staff will be repaid as hackers fail to gain access.
As a conveyancer, do you have robust measures in place to safeguard your email system which identifies fraudulent email communications?
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There are several TIFF file formats (not JUST byte order encoding) - including LZW, G3 compressions, but also various Color Depths (bits per pixel) supported.
In our case, we convert all of our images to BI-TONAL (black and white) - or 1 bit per pixel.
While GemBox (Document and Spreadsheet) allow for saving to TIF file format, it does NOT allow us to specify the Compression nor Color Depth (bits per pixel).
This would be a welcome addition.


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Beyoncé breaks all digital music records with unmarketed surprise album
By Christopher Ratcliff	 December 17th 2013 08:00
Beyoncé's self-titled new album, Beyoncé (I feel like I didn't really need to say that), has destroyed the internet this weekend in a pre-Christmas gamble which has seen the ex-Child of Destiny installed as the new monarch of pop.
Picking the penultimate weekend before Christmas goes against all traditional new album release logic. Mid-November to Mid-January is a barren wasteland of Susan Boyle, greatest hits compilations and swing albums by nice young men your mum likes. Nobody good releases new music at this time of year. Nobody.
But then the Carter family rarely have been ones to stick with traditional record release logic, just look at Jay-Z who released his last album Magna Carta Holy Grail through a mobile app earlier in the year. (Read more about that in six musicians embracing app technology)
Beyoncé's fifth album was released last Friday exclusively on iTunes without any promotional marketing whatsoever. Here's some stats from the weekend courtesy of Consequence of Sound:
Beyoncé is iTunes fastest selling album ever.
It sold 828,773 copies in three days. (The previous record was Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience which sold 580,000)
The album went to number one in the iTunes chart in 104 countries (out of a possible 119)
Beyoncé led to the largest full-priced digital album sales week ever. (Lady Gaga's Born This Way was the previous holder with 662,000 and even that number was enhanced thanks to an Amazon promotion that sold the album for 99 cents)
There were 1.2 million tweets about the album within 24 hours of its release.
On Facebook, mentions of Beyoncé spiked more than 1,300% mere hours after the album's release.
Here's a picture of Beyoncé riding a golden bicycle to celebrate.
How did Beyoncé achieve this?
For a start Beyoncé has mimicked the element of surprise that other, far less mainstream, artists have utilised to great notoriety. Radiohead, Death Grips and My Bloody Valentine have all released albums from seemingly out of nowhere. It's generates a sudden rush of publicity, and the release can be controlled in the most agile way; exploiting any window of opportunity or not if a more news-worthy event suddenly gets in the way.
The surprise album release is not how mega pop superstars like Beyoncé are meant to do it though.
Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga each released a new album this year and each one had multiple single releases, music videos, fashion shoots, TV appearances, cross-promotional tie-ins and countless other expensive hype-builders months before their eventual album releases. Only, for those three artists, none of it really worked.
Lady Gaga's ARTPOP cost $25m to promote and sold just over 250,000 copies in its first week, this is a considerable flop and may lead to a major rethink at label Interscope and possibly lay-offs. Perry and Cyrus, the other supposed queens of pop, didn't sell much more, with 286,000 and 270,000 respectively.
Beyoncé has barely cost her label, Columbia, a single dollar to promote, and yet it has scored record-breaking figures.
She overstepped the exhausting hype machine and has done things on entirely her own terms and more importantly, in her own words:
I didn't want to release my music the way I've done it [before], I am bored with that. I feel like I am able to speak directly to my fans. There's so much that gets between the music, the artist and the fans.
Beyoncé has taken a gamble on social engagement and has come out as the biggest selling pop star on the planet since the digital music revolution.
Thank goodness for that too, as I was getting pretty sick of hearing about Miley bleeding Cyrus.
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The three main approaches to native advertising
Native advertising is one of the hottest marketing trends this year. From BuzzFeed to Twitter, the most admired businesses of our generation have been built on this supposedly new advertising medium.
However, from my experience, understanding of what it really means is surprisingly low. People might understand that it's akin to what was traditionally called advertorial, but few recognise the nuances of what is a surprisingly diverse medium.
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15+ of the worst things to happen to the internet in 2013
Because it can't all be sunshine, lollipops, rainbows and Google Hummingbirds.
We at Econsultancy consider ourselves as promoters of best practice. 'Achieve Digital Excellence' reads our brand new strapline in the big red dot up there, and with this modus operandi we carry a great responsibility.
The responsibility of wading through the darkest digital waters (confusing and potentially dangerous metaphor alert) and remaining constantly poised to spear the very best of the internet. We do so in order to bring you the most considered insight, through research, practice, good old fashioned investigation and occasionally asking Twitter for help.
Of course for every tasty salmon we catch, we also have a net-full of bottom feeding suction eels too. We don't really know what to do with them and they're piling up around the floor of the boat.
So let us unburden our unpleasant haul upon you, with this round-up of the worst things to happen to the internet in 2013:
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Econsultancy's top 25 blog posts of 2013
It's been another busy year on the Econsultancy blog and, thanks to a highly intelligent and attractive readership, we managed to pass 1m monthly pageviews for the first time.
Not that it's all about numbers, but it's good to have someone out there reading your painstakingly crafted articles.
The bad news is that, once again, I've missed out on the top spot, third was the best I could manage.
So here's a round-up of some of the most popular posts written by the Econsultancy team this year (see here for our top guest posts). Posts are ranked by number of page views.
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Can no-contract, unbundled offerings help cable companies cut the rate of cord-cutting?
As OTT options proliferate, driven by consumer demand for low-cost, flexible and customized content offerings, cable companies are experiencing painful losses.
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Voice in 2020 is (still) not about search
Well, here we are. We've made it to 2020, the year that so many believed would be a milestone for voice search, because allegedly, 50% of all search queries by 2020 were going to be conducted via voice.
The best digital marketing stats we've seen this week
Your stats round up for this week features CX, voice search, the gaming industry and marketers' top objectives.


1. Why are you blogging? The "why" is something that has to be asked in every aspect of your marketing program, and blogging is no exception. Are you blogging to establish yourself as an expert? Attract traffic? Make sales? Share your opinions? Choose one or two primary goals to keep in mind, and write each and every post with those goals at the forefront.
3. Who is your audience, who are you talking with? Are you writing to consumers, prospects, potential partners, other people in your niche? Depending on your audience, you will have a different "spin" on your blog posts. While you can have more than one group reading your blog, know who your primary reader is, and direct your posts to that person.
4. What do you want to write about? If you're passionate about your niche you'll have plenty of ideas initially to blog about. If you write about small business marketing for example, you could write about news, personal challenges, debunk myths, expert advice, products, or a combination of all of above. It's really important that you figure out your unique spin based on your business's unique selling proposition and your blog goals.
Blogging Breakthrough Tip – Once you've answered these four questions, create a list of at least twenty blog post ideas. (This is not an original idea, I've read this exact same thing many times over the past couple of years, and it is something you must do to get your blog going and keep your blog going!) If you can't come up with at least 20, you might be a tad too focused and might want to widen your scope a bit to ensure you have plenty of material to write about.
You never know where you'll come across great blogging ideas. I keep a pad by my desk and keep a running list. When I'm out and about I type ideas into my phone. As long as you keep your eyes and ears open, you'll find plenty to blog about.
What do you think? Feel free to share your thoughts below!


Résumé : This work deals with the topic of radiofrequency receivers based on Compressive Sampling for feature extraction in Cognitive Radio. Compressive Sampling is a paradigm shift in analog to digital conversion that bypasses the Nyquist sampling frequency under assumption of spectral sparsity of the signal. In this work, estimations are carried out on the compressed samples due to the prohibitive cost of signal reconstruction. After a state-of-the-art on Compressive Sampling for Cognitive Radio and a discussion on different compressive receiver architectures, our first contribution is a study of the mixing codes of a particular receiver, the Modulated Wideband Converter. A high-level analysis on properties of the sensing matrix, coherence to reduce the number of measurement and isometry for noise robustness, is carried out and validated by a simulation platform. Then, parametric estimation based on compressed samples is tackled through the prism of the Cramér-Rao lower bound on unbiased estimators. A closed form expression of the bound is established under certain assumptions and enables to dissociate the effects of compression and diversity creation. The influence of Compressive Sampling on estimation bounds, in particular coupling between parameters and spectral leakage, is illustrated by the example.