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David M McLean, Skinny Devil Music Lab and Lexington Music Awards, January 2017
January 5, 2017 March 8, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general	America, awards, blues, David McLean, guitar, guitar lessons, Kentucky, lexington, Lexington Music Awards, Skinny Devil Music Lab, teacher, USA
Image courtesy of David M McLean
David M McLean is yet another of those prolific musical entities that are the engine room of independent music.
You know the sort of person who slogs away in the foreground and background, tirelessly making things happen and ensuring the world is a music-filled and art-filled place to live, breathe, and hear.
A writer, composer, guitarist, producer, teacher, and possibly most front-brain right now, the brains* behind the Lexifest music awards for Lexington, Kentucky.
* Refer to the interview for how the brains and brawn of this event are distributed and attributed.
In 2017, I spoke with David as he sat in his truck with his cell phone somewhere on a cool Lexington KY evening. We spoke so long that my intention was to break the interview into two parts. However, after a series of technical gremlins and many edits later, I've whittled this down into the one sound file.
Part of the editing leaves the back end of our chat slamming like a door in a stiff breeze, so apologies for the abruptness.
*** Audio file will be removed by the end of March 2020 ***
I'm looking forward to hearing about Lexifest 2017, and here's hoping the blizzards stay away from town in the run-up this year.
Michael Johnathon talks about the Woodsongs Front Porch Association and Gathering, August 2016
August 30, 2016 February 25, 2020 Overheard Productions Festivals, Interviews, L-Plate Learning, Music general	audio, australia, Bill Quinn, Front porch, Kentucky, KY, Lexington KY, Michael Jonathon, Overheard Productions, Pleasant Hill, Shaker Village, Songfarmers dot org, Soundcloud, USA, Woodsongs, Woodsongs Front Porch Association
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The Woodsongs Front Porch Association (WFPA) is an amazingly and elegantly simple creature.
Based in Lexington, Kentucky and the brain child of Michael Johnathon, singer-songwriter, performer, producer, tour organiser, and 36 other roles, it's spreading its tendrils across the USA and the world.
I'll not steal any WFPA thunder by block copying and pasting here, but please follow the links and your rewards shall be many and bountiful.
The Cliff Notes, as MJ would say: it's a cheap-as-chips member association which opens everyone up to a world of musical information, resources and networking, opens its arms, and invites the world of art and artists in to share, share, share.
On Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 2016, the WFPA is holding its second annual Gathering in Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky – see main picture for all the salient details of the 'wheres' and 'whens'.
Full details at www.songfarmers.org
It's the 'how much' that's the real news story here. And it's a good, good news story at a time when good news stories are pretty gosh-darned thin on the ground.
Choose your preference: click on a hyperlink or click on the audio file link below, and listen in as Michael explains WFPA and the Gathering in his signature succinct, clear, resonantly-voiced vocal stylings (even over the tech equivalent of two cans and a 9063 mile piece of string).
Some basic notes for the interview… which I never referred to.
Melissa Deaton-Johnathon's Tribute To The Luke Bryan Memorial Car Park, November 2015
November 15, 2015 February 24, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general	Country and Western, event, Kentucky, lexington, Lexington Kentucky, Luke Bryan, Melissa Deaton-Johnathon, tour, USA, winery, Woodsongs
Image courtesy of Melissa Deaton-Johnathon of PoetMan Records. Photo by Michael Johnathon.
At the time of recording, this was still something of a developing story, as the ripples from a fairly major event snafu were rippling outwards.
The press stories from Lexington Kentucky can tell the story better than a middle-aged music press writer from Sydney can. But put simply, there was a Luke Bryan concert at the Talon Winery and Vineyards in October 2015 that probably needed a better risk management plan.
To say the least.
Risk: half or more of the audience stay stuck in traffic at the time the concert starts, throughout the concert, after the concert, and as late as up to 4am the next morning.
Likelihood: high.
Severity/outcome: parody songs are written in the event's honour.
Melissa Deaton-Johnathon. Image courtesy of Rick Deaton.
And so it transpired.
Cut forward a few days later and the parody song (that Melissa Deaton-Johnathon wrote in her head in the car and then committed to Youtube posterity) was starting to go viral.
In stepped Lex-18 again, and the face and voice that launched several dozen Woodsongs Old Time Music Hour episodes was moving up to the majors.
Video and story from Lex-18: http://www.lex18.com/Clip/11920177/luke-bryan-fan-writes-parody
Very early one morning in Sydney, and later in the day only it was yesterday the day before in Lexington Kentucky (paging Dr Who to the TARDIS, Dr Who) Melissa spoke with Bill Quinn about the whole shooting match:
Image courtesy of Melissa Deaton-Johnathon
Interview: Michael Johnathon of Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour, 2014
Image June 3, 2014 January 29, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general	America, Bill Quinn, folk, folk music, Kentucky, Larry Neuzel, lexington, Lexington Kentucky, michael johnathon, Michael Jonathon, old time music hour, Overheard Productions, radio, television, Woodsongs
Image courtesy of Woodsongs dot com and Michael Johnathon. Photo by Larry Neuzel.
From humble beginnings in 1998, from a small venue that sat just 20 people in the audience, Michael Johnathon has built the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour into a public broadcasting colossus. Woodsongs is heard and seen around the globe each week from its current home in the Lyric Theatre, Lexington KY.
The program showcases bands, performers and troupes from across the broad spectrum of bluegrass, Americana, roots, acoustic and alt-country, and a few others around the blurred edges of folk.
It's a 100% community and volunteeer-run operation, making its longevity and sustainability all the more remarkable. And laudable.
It gets even better than that – but you'll have to listen to the interview for the part that rocked me back on my heels.
And upturned kayak.
The show has reached an eye-watering 750+ episodes as of April 2014, many of which are freely available from the Woodsongs website in audio and video formats. Apart from its legion of individual listeners, Woodsongs has spawned a string of coffeehouse groups which meet to experience the show as a community.
The log cabin. Image courtesy of Michael Johnathon.
And it's not like Michael has anything else to do with his spare time.
Like being a singer-songwriter of many years standing. Or touring. Or arranging other concerts. Or building a log cabin and surrounding structures plus landscaping and bridges etc. bare-handed. Or being a father of two adult children (and two more on the way in one hit).
No, I lied. He's all of that and more.
An just get a load of where he got his folk beginnings from. I can only interpret my silence at hearing who his neighbour was in upstate New York as a little mild shock and awe.
On a chilly autumnal morning in Sydney, I stepped off the Manly* Ferry and found a suitable-ish place to record an interview over the shaky airwaves from Australia to Lexington, Kentucky. A picture of my luxurious chair in the 'recording studio' appears below.
* For international audiences, 'Manly' refers to a suburb and location on the north side of Sydney Harbour named 'Manly'. We don't believe in forcing gender stereotypes onto our aquatic transport vessels. Actually, if anything, we refer to them as 'her' for the most part. Continue reading →
A Punter's Perspective 17 – Kids in Folk pt II: Almira Fawn (Kentucky, USA)
March 15, 2012 September 8, 2016 Overheard Productions Music general, Trad and Now	Almira Fawn, Chillax, Kentucky, singer-songwriter, USA, Woodsongs, youth performer
Almira Fawn
A Punter's Perspective
Random observations on the wide, weird world of folk from the side of the stage
#17 Kids in Folk pt II: Almira Fawn (US)
First published in Trad and Now magazine, September 2009
Last year I wrote a column about two young performers from New South Wales (then aged 11 years old), and I had cunning plans to make a semi-regular feature in my monthly A Punter's Perspective column in Trad and Now magazine to focus specifically on younger performers.
Plans are funny things, aren't they? We have endless fun making them, and then so often simply file them under 'F' for forgotten.
Or 'I' for 'I'll get back to that…'.
And then a funny thing happened on the way to a singing session one cold Saturday night in Canberra.
The radio announced a burgeoning young star from Lexington, Kentucky and I was hopelessly hooked.
I was stopped in the carpark outside Woolies in Dickson (Canberra), and found myself unable to get out of the car.
Instead, I sat transfixed to the Woodsongs Old Time Music Hour program, and the story of Almira Fawn (aged 11 at the time of recording, having turned 12 in the intervening few months).
It's quite a story, and one which could stretch over a year's worth of articles, were there time to tell them all.
Six billion eccentrics wander the earth
To me right, file diddle i ay…
– Peter Morton, Northumbria
This is the story of Almira Fawn, collected over the phone while talking with Almira, her dad Don, and mum Umi in Lexington, Kentucky. Also patched through via conference phone to Almira's manager of sorts, Beau, who runs a community radio station (The Penguin 106.7FM) in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Mylan announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the biologics license application (BLA) for their biosimilar to trastuzumab, MYL-1401O.
The submission is in collaboration with Biocon, and is filed through the 351(k) pathway with an anticipated FDA goal date set for September 2, 2017.
"We believe that our comprehensive package of analytical similarity, non-clinical and clinical data submitted with the BLA will demonstrate similarity of the proposed biosimilar trastuzumab to the reference product," said Mylan's president, Rajiv Malik.
Trastuzumab, marketed under the brand name Herceptin (Genentech) is a human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2) inhibitor indicated for the treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer and HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
For more information visit Mylan.com.


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/* eslint-env mocha */
/* globals Cart */

import faker from 'faker';
import { Factory } from 'meteor/dburles:factory';
import { Products } from '../../../imports/api/products';
import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { expect, chai } from 'meteor/practicalmeteor:chai';
import { Mailer } from 'meteor/lookback:emails';
import spies from 'chai-spies';

chai.use(spies);

import { resetDatabase } from 'meteor/xolvio:cleaner';

import { cartReminder } from './cartReminder.coffee';

// Setup mock data
Factory.define('user', Meteor.users, {
  emails: () => [
    { address: faker.internet.email() },
  ],
  profile: () => ({
    name: faker.name.findName(),
    companyName: faker.company.companyName(),
    customerNumber: 16,
      // lastOrder: [Factory.get('product'), Factory.get('product'), Factory.get('product')],
      // favourites: [Factory.get('product'), Factory.get('product')]
  }),
});
//
Factory.define('product', Products, {
  name: faker.lorem.word(),
  producer: Factory.get('user'),
  producerName: faker.name.findName(),
  daysNotice: 5,
  price: faker.random.number(1000),
  stocklevel: 500,
  unitOfMeasure: faker.lorem.word(),
  category: 'Produce',
});

describe('earlyReminder Method', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    resetDatabase();
  });

  it('should be called from Method', () => {
    chai.spy.on(cartReminder, 'apply');
    Meteor.call('/email/cartReminder');
    expect(cartReminder.apply).to.have.been.called();
  });

  it('should look for cart items', () => {
    chai.spy.on(Cart.Items, 'find');
    cartReminder();
    expect(Cart.Items.find).to.have.been.called();
  });

  it('should not send an email if there are no cart items', () => {
    expect(Cart.Items.find().count()).to.equal(0);
    chai.spy.on(Mailer, 'send');
    cartReminder();
    expect(Mailer.send).to.not.have.been.called();
  });

  it('should send an email if there is a cart item', () => {
    expect(Cart.Items.find().count()).to.equal(0);
    const soup = Factory.create('product', { name: 'soup' });
    const user = Factory.create('user');
    expect(Meteor.users.findOne(user._id)._id).to.equal(user._id);
    Cart.Items.insert({
      productId: soup._id,
      userId: user._id,
      qty: 1,
    });
    expect(Cart.Items.find().count()).to.equal(1);
    chai.spy.on(Mailer, 'send');
    cartReminder();
    expect(Mailer.send).to.have.been.called();
  });
  it('should increment the reminderLevel of the cart item', () => {
    const soup = Factory.create('product', { name: 'soup' });
    const user = Factory.create('user');
    const cartItemId = Cart.Items.insert({
      productId: soup._id,
      userId: user._id,
      qty: 2,
    });
    expect(Cart.Items.find().count()).to.equal(1);
    chai.spy.on(Cart.Items, 'update');
    chai.spy.on(Mailer, 'send');
    cartReminder();
    expect(Mailer.send).to.have.been.called();
    // expect(Cart.Items.update).to.have.been.called();
    expect(Cart.Items.findOne(cartItemId).reminderLevel).to.equal(1);
  });
});

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Q: Extracting strings in specified format in python In python Im writing code to extract string from alphanumeric characters. The code should extract only string and print in the following format.
Input should be given in the form of IND1234AUS1234 (i.e Characters must be separated by few digits)
For the above input python code should extract string IND and AUS and print as IND to AUS
Input must not given in any other formats other than mentioned above and if given in wrong format, code should print invalid input. (example of wrong formats of inputs are 1234INDAUS, IND1234, 123IND123AUS, INDAUS1234)
Below is the code i have tried. It extracts string but I don't know how to seperate and print as IND to AUS
My program prints only INDAUS
test_string  = input()
only_alpha = ""
for char in test_string:
    if char.isalpha():
      only_alpha += char
print(only_alpha)

Please help me with the code. I don't know to write code for validating invalid inputs as i mentioned above.

A: You whould use a regex to

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*validate the content [A-Z]+\d+[A-Z]+\d+ : upper with digits twice

*retrieve the uppercase content at the same time ([A-Z]+)\d+([A-Z]+)\d+ parenthesis to make captuting group anr get content with .groups()
def extract(value):
    m = re.search(r"([A-Z]+)\d+([A-Z]+)\d+", value)
    if m:
        return " to ".join(m.groups())
    return "Invalid Input"

Testing
value = "IND1234AUS1234 "
res = extract(value)
print(res)  # IND to AUS

value = "INDAUS1234 "
res = extract(value)  # Invalid Input
print(res)

A regex that checks the length of each part would be
"([A-Z]{2,5})\d{1,5}([A-Z]{2,5})\d{1,5}"

A: This looks like a perfect way to use regex:
def validate(a):
    match = re.match("([A-Z]+)[0-9]+([A-Z]+)[0-9]+", a)
    if not match:
        raise ValueError()
    else:
        return match[1] + " to " + match[2]

>>> validate("IND1234AUS1234")
"IND to AUS"
>>> validate("USD1234EUR1234")
"USD to EUR"
>>> validate("123IND123AUS")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
    validate("123IND123AUS")
  File "<pyshell#20>", line 4, in validate
    raise ValueError()
  File "<string>", line None
SyntaxError: <no detail available>

Quick explanation: "([A-Z]+)[0-9]+([A-Z]+)[0-9]+"

*

*([A-Z]+): One or more A-Z characters, in parenthesis so we can index them later

*[0-9]+: One or more digits

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Top 10 Films of 2022
Another year is coming to a close, believe it or not, my fifth year writing one of these lists. More than any of the previous years — when films like Roma and I'm Thinking of Ending Things topped the lists — this has been a year of great change for me. In the first year post-Covid closures I've ventured back into theaters more and yet seen fewer movies than anytime in the last few years. As a result this is the first time in some time my list will feel somewhat incomplete. Despite monumental change for me personally, the types of film that spoke to me remained quite consistent. My favorites of 2022 feature a great deal of coming of age stories, a theme that still resonates with me as much at age 28 as it did at age 23 when Lady Bird topped my 2017 list.
Still, there are quite a few films left to see this year and things can still change a lot. For now, here are my top 10 films of 2022.
Triangle of Sadness Review
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" exclaims the filthy rich Russian cruise patron Dimitry (Zlatko Buric) suddenly finding himself in a situation where his money is worthless. The shit-peddling — he sells manure, you see — oligarch quoting Marx conjures quite the shocking mental image, but his about face was anything but surprising. Only a few minutes prior the gregarious gazillionaire had been summoning the words of Reagan and Thatcher to defend his enormous wealth as a ship full of bourgeois relentlessly puked up thier overpriced dinners. Opulence and absurdity abound, but subtlety is of short supply in Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winning Triangle of Sadness.
Three Thousand Years of Longing Review
A lovelorn soul, a genie — or in this case Djinn — trapped in a bottle, three wishes. It's a tale as old as time, or at least far back as the early 16th century when Antoine Galland began regaling eager listeners with the stories of Aladdin and his Magic Lamp. Certainly the cautionary tales of wish fulfillment date back even further. Storytelling has long been a cornerstone of the human existence and George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City) is hoping filmgoing audiences are still hungry for such tales with his new film Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Nope Clouds Over its Own Lofty Ideas
All eyes on me. We live, now more than ever, in an attention economy. If you can't catch someone's eye immediately then they're on to the next. Swiped left, scrolled up, you're awash in ever expanding sea of content, marooned by whatever the newest outrage or shock is. No longer does the world focus on the work, the craft, it's all spectacle, all the time. The appetite for attention is voracious and to quell it requires pushing beyond the boundaries of safe and natural. Spectacle for the sake of spectacle can be dangerous, Jordan Peele recognizes that with his third feature, Nope, he just can't quite push that message through the artifice of his own attention grabbing blockbuster.
Sundance: After Yang
Loss is a strange experience. Someone, or something close to you is suddenly gone, their existence extinguished and, yet, they still occupy the minds and stories of everyone who ever knew them. The life of a lost one "can keep unfolding itself to you" as Mr. McCarthy tells a grieving Greg in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. But what if the lost love one isn't a person and what if all their memories could be explored, like a diary for those left behind. These ideas set the stage for Kogonada's After Yang.
Uncharted Gets Lost in IP and Fan Service
"Nuns, why's it always gotta be nuns" exclaims Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) in a clear riff on the famous Indiana Jones lament. Except Drake is not staring down hundreds of pythons, he's standing in a quiet Spanish church as a friendly Sister walks by. Hewing far closer to Spider-Man in National Treasure than Raiders of the Lost Ark, no scene in Uncharted better represents the gulf between what it wants to be and what it actually accomplishes.
The world of film is undergoing a massive change. More women and people of color are getting the opportunities to tell stories than ever before. This progress has been slow, at times frustratingly so, but the direction is a good one. As film diversifies so has The Academy, again, often slower than we would like, but the change is evident. After the debacle that was #OscarsSoWhite in 2015, The Academy began its deliberate effort to diversify membership. Record numbers of women, people of color, young people and non-Americans have joined the ranks of Academy voters and the fruits of that diversification have finally begun to bear. Add to that continued change the advent of the Academy's new digital screening portal, making it easier than ever for members to see eligible films. Not every voter makes time for every film, but with easier access, more may have done so this year
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World
Ask just about anyone and they'll tell you that they want to do the right thing. An instinct for altruism is natural but it doesn't always come from the purest place. Plenty of times good deeds and kind words are as much about self preservation as they are about real impact. As the most insidious voices have grown louder in the the last few years, so too have the performative ones denouncing them. With his directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, Jesse Eisenberg has a little fun with performative wokeness.
The Tragedy of MacBeth Proves Coen's Solo Chops
Nearly nine years have passed since the Coen Brothers wondered, on 700 screens nationwide, what their lives and art would be without each other. For as bleak and apocalyptic as their prognosis was, the simple fact remains, Joel and Ethan Coen are not Llewyn Davis. Of course the master filmmaking duo are individually talented, but if anyone needed the proof, The Tragedy of MacBeth, Joel Coen's first solo effort is a visually stunning powerhouse.
Evan's Top 25 of 2021
As I contemplate this year in film, I find it difficult to contextualize against previous years. Streaming options have expanded with Paramount+ and Peacock joining the fray in earnest and the result has been a race for content, revivals of long dead properties and some truly awful movies. Undoubtedly my average film from 2021 has been worse than previous years, but as with the product of any 365 day period, this year has given us a lot of really special filmmaking.

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Ferdinand Maria Lodewijk van Beieren (Lodewijk Ferdinand), (Madrid, 22 oktober 1859 - München, 23 november 1949), was een Beierse prins en medicus.

Lodewijk Ferdinand was de oudste zoon van Adalbert Willem van Beieren (de jongste zoon van koning Lodewijk I van Beieren) en diens vrouw Amelia van Bourbon (een dochter van Francisco de Paula van Bourbon en Louise Charlotte van Bourbon-Sicilië). Hij was, van vaderszijde, een neef (oomzegger) van koning Maximiliaan II van Beieren, van koning Otto I van Griekenland en van prins-regent Luitpold van Beieren.

Lodewijk Ferdinand studeerde geneeskunde in Heidelberg en München. Hij werkte als chirurg en gynaecoloog alvorens regimentscommandant van het achttiende Beierse Infanterie-regiment te worden. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog werkte hij als chirurg in het Münchener garnizoenshospitaal. Hij was een groot liefhebber van auto's. Ook was actief als amateur componist.

Op 2 april 1883 trouwde hij, in Madrid, met zijn nicht Maria de la Paz (een dochter van koningin Isabella II). Het paar kreeg de volgende kinderen:

Ferdinand Maria (10 mei 1884-5 april 1958), huwde met Maria Theresia van Spanje (12 november 1882-23 september 1912)
Adalbert (6 juni 1886-29 december 1970), huwde met Auguste von Seefried auf Buttenheim (20 juni 1899-21 januari 1978)
Maria Pilar (13 maart 1891-29 januari 1987)

Huis Palts-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
Beieren, L

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Praise for "Odes to Tools"
Todd Davis, winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize and author of Some Heaven and The Least of These, is a professor of creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University's Altoona College. Todd's own poetry is influenced by the natural world, by family relationships, and by his personal knowledge of the Amish and Mennonite who live and farm in central Pennsylvania.
He was pleased to be asked to say something about fellow Pennsylvanian Dave Bonta's Odes to Tools, and I think his words reflect succinctly and beautifully what many of us feel about the integrity that exists between Dave's life and his poetry.
In Odes to Tools, Dave Bonta's wide-ranging intellect and voracious curiosity are on full display, as is his insistence that we come to know the world that is forever passing from us. A meditation on everything from a measuring tape to a spirit level, this first book of poems demonstrates what all of Bonta's readers at Via Negativa already know: here is the uncompromising voice of a man who has not allowed the broader culture to dictate what is important to him, or what is vital about the natural world that sustains us and the relationships that might actually transform us. As he says in "Ode to a Socket Wrench:" "with the click of a lever // the past screwed down / the future loose." Bonta's voice is one that offers keen insight into how we might move into that future, all of our senses intact, especially our common sense.


FS Environmental Awareness program started inside our KG- classrooms years ago, using the motto "Reduce-Reuse-Recycle" and from there it spread to the whole school as well as other local schools. The main objective is to encourage children to modify behaviors and educate others about environmental issues. Using the simple "reduce-reuse-recycle" model, math, science and reading lessons incorporate different environmental aspects. Composters are used daily and students eventually use this compost for growing their own plants from seeds, teaching them from beginning to end how the process works.
Environmental stewardship is one of our school values. We believe in the responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices.
Installation of photovoltaic cells on the roofs of the Upper School's buildings and parking spaces to generate enough energy to cover the entire electricity usage on campus.
Students and teachers are planting, maintaining and harvesting their own organic crops, as part of our student-learning centered program – stop by to see what vegetables we have this season!
Visit our student centered clubs on both campuses, aimed mainly at organizing environmental activities.
RFS will soon be replacing the fuel-run heating system with an electricity run VRF or heat pump system, making the system more efficient and saving considerable running cost.
Rain water is collected from the roofs of our buildings, and stored in 11 wells on both campuses to be used for irrigation, toilets, cleaning and other purposes. Upper School water wells collect 2500 cubic meters seasonally.
Drain water is taken from the school cafeteria, filtered and reused for irrigation.
RFS believes that the most significant learning takes place outside the traditional classroom. In this light, the Upper School is in the midst of planning the addition of two new outdoor learning spaces on campus. There, many elements such as a bird blind for the study of bird migration, a pond to enable the study of eco-systems, a greenhouse and a second botanical organic garden to study bio-diversity will be incorporated. We are also planning to install a shaded outdoor classroom (Quad) in the middle of campus to encourage more outdoor activities.


All eyes will be on Augusta this Thursday when the greatest golfers in the land swing it out for the chance to sport the famous Green Jacket.
Five-time major victor Phil Mickelson sees Woods, who hasn't won a major since the 2008 US Open nor a Masters since 2005, threatening the all-time record of 18 major wins by Jack Nicklaus.
However, McIlroy has been in sublime form this season, culminating in victory in the Players Championship at Sawgrass, and many suspect this is the week he will add to his tally of four majors for the first time since 2014. "You have to do it first in order to truly understand that you can do it".
He's 43 now, something that comes into focus when he removes his hat and his bald spot seems bigger than ever.
As much as Augusta National is renowned for its beauty, it is also known as a place where patrons are not allowed to run or take photos during the tournament. Will this be the year that an amateur wins the event?
McIlroy needs a victory at Augusta National to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in having claimed all four major titles. And that remains problematic for Woods, last seen on national television missing a short putt to lose to little-known Lucas Bjerregaard with a berth in the semifinals of the Dell Technologies Match Play tournament last month.
"I feel like I can win", said Woods, who won four times here. "I put myself there with chances on the back nine on various Sundays and just haven't done it".
Wear and tear is an issue for any older athlete, and Woods is no exception. Looking at the statistics in iron play he's really strong with his iron.
But I also expect to play my best in front of him, to show what I've got.


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The Electron Pencil
"The blog has made Glab into a hip town crier, commenting on everything from local politics and cultural happenings to national and international events, all rendered in a colorful, intelligent, working-class vernacular that owes some of its style to Glab's Chicago-hometown heroes Studs Terkel and Mike Royko." — David Brent Johnson in Bloom Magazine
Category Archives: Municipal Takeovers
Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Data Breach, Flint Michigan Water, Hillary Clinton, Lead Poisoning, Municipal Takeovers, NGP VAN
Municipal Takeover Blues
Say, the former democratically-elected leaders of Flint, Michigan may have mismanaged their town into bankruptcy but they didn't lead poison their children, did they?
Situation Ethics
Man, we are all full of horseshit, no?
Our guy screws up and we stand on our heads rationalizing, deflecting, denying. Their guy screws up and we're aghast at the collapse of decency, civility and fair play.
To wit: the Democratic National Committee data breach. First off, I don't know if Our Great Nation is in danger of toppling from this but one or more Bernie Sanders operatives spent some quality time eyeballing and perhaps harvesting proprietary info gathered by the Clinton campaign. You might ask, So what? So would I, but, apparently, loyalists of the two main contenders for the 2016 party's nomination for president are pointing fingers at the opposition and accusing same of some of the worst atrocities ever committed in the name of democracy, or at least of the Democratic Party, which isn't always the same, natch.
I would have figured that party folk would be happy to share info with each other but the truth is politics is a cutthroat business and any intelligence the Clinton gang has amassed at great cost and effort must not, can not, and will not be shared with anyone else in this holy land lest Hillary's coronation be imperiled.
I also would have thought that the Sanders campaign was populated, at least in large part, by people who know the rules of the game and wouldn't be so oafish as to get caught peeking into data files they did not produce and therefore knew were off limits.
Gee, We Didn't Know
Read the arguments put forth by each side and your understanding of the concept of time will be sorely tested. Sanders apologists say the operatives spent, oh, 30 minutes…, no, 20 minutes — wait, wasn't it just a quick glance? — looking at the Clinton data. Clinton's army, though, characterizes the eyeballing as something akin to the amount of time cryptologists spent poring over the Rosetta Stone after it was first discovered. Listen to a Clinton supporter tell the tale and you'll come away thinking it was 45 minutes verging on several eons.
To the Clintonistas, the Sanders people are sneaky rats. To the Sanders faithful, Clinton's bunch are brownshirts.
Now the DNC has denied the Sanders campaign access to the party's NGP VAN database — even its own intelligence stockpiled there. The Sanders campaign has reacted by suing the DNC.
(Update: Sometime after midnight, the DNC and the Sanders campaign announced a deal had been reached to restore the candidate's access to the database.)
Just as the Republican candidates for the 2016 nom. are cannibalizing each other, trying to find ways to out-he-man each other, now the Dems are commencing internecine warfare. I'm telling you, if this hat-brim-bending results in an election victory for some science fictional creature like Donald Trump, Ben Carson, or Ted Cruz, I'm gonna have to move to another planet.
Anyway, here's the reaction of the Hillary-loving run-on sentence specialists at Wonkette:
Far be it from us to ever criticize the strategies of the Sanders campaign, but stealing Clinton's voter information because it was just so easy to do, and then acting like it was for some greater good because come ON, it's Bernie Sanders, after all — while still firing a guy for doing a naughty thing the Sanders campaign at the same time maintains was not really naughty, but kind of was, but for the greater good — seems, shall we say, problematic.
See, the Sanders side sez its tech geek did indeed espy Clinton's supposedly-protected data but, golly gee, that really isn't such a crime considering, well, it was right there waiting to be espied upon. Nevertheless, Bernie's campaign fired the tech geek. Nevertheless further, the campaign insists the tech geek wasn't transom-craning to benefit his boss but to reveal to the DNC how in-secure its data files were.
Now let's look at the Sanders-side reaction. Here's the pic of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz that accompanied the Daily Kos's take on the contretemps:
DWS Of The DNC
Clearly, the woman who's making the news show rounds complaining to high heaven about how dastardly Sanders-ites are is nothing more than a harpy, witch, bitch, ball-buster who surely possesses a carpenter's vise in place of a normal human woman's genitalia.
The above image bears as much real resemblance to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as this one does to Bernie Sanders:
The Daily Kos, of course, loves them some Bernie.
To many of the Sanders true believers, there isn't a hair's breadth diff. between Hillary and, say, Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. Or even Joseph Goebbels, for that matter.
I've been reading the ramblings of computer geeks regarding this dust-up and can only conclude that what Sanders' tech operative did while he had his fingers in the data pie is either flat-out highway robbery or nothing at all. Great. Thanks for the clarification, kids.
(In any case, here's a decent-enough lay person's explication of the basic plot.)
It'd be swell if both Dem sides could play nice and share their info with each other but that ain't the way it goes. Not when the presidency of this holy land is up for grabs and hundreds of gazillions of dollars are spent on each polling percentage point difference between aspirants.
Bernie's people are rats. Hillary's are tyrants. That's what it comes down to now.
Democracy. Y'gotta love it.
Don't Mess W/ Hillary
BTW: the swift reaction of the DNC to cut the Sanders campaign off from the data fountain sure seems a tad heavy-handed.
We know already that Debbie W-S is in Clinton's corner and that Stu Trevelyan, the fellow who runs NGP VAN, has worked with the Clintons for nearly a quarter of a century. It isn't much of a leap to conclude that once Sanders' tech geek had been caught red-handed, these two heavyweights would be more than happy to pummel the only potential impediment to Hillary's scheduled beatification.
If there's one thing we know about Hillary, it's that she's tough as nails — and the people she surrounds herself with are jungle cats. Were she a dude, we'd fall all over ourselves praising her for such vim. She's a dame, though, ergo her carnivorous nature is unsightly.
Man, we Murricans are backward when it comes to gender roles.
A Simple Precaution
You'd think Sanders' tech geeks would be savvy enough to keep a back-up of their own intelligence in their own database.
It's ludicrous to think all of Sanders' voter dope has been dumped in the NGP VAN database and exists nowhere else. If Sanders' geeks had taken that apparently elementary step, the Sanders campaign wouldn't be in bad shape as we approached the primaries.
Why, then, the outcry over being cut off?
Could it be that Sanders' people have grown accustomed to peeping at Hillary's data. And that, perhaps, Hillary's people do the same with Sanders' intelligence? Therefore, this whole pissing match was nothing more than an opéra bouffe?
Ipecac
If this 2016 presidential campaign hasn't already made you nauseated, you have an awfully strong stomach indeed.
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Breast cancer Government initiative
by MCNota - April 15, 2015
THE Australian Government has launched 'An invitation that could save your life' campaign.
Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among women in Australia, however if detected early and managed nine-out-of-10 cases can be successfully treated.
Australian women aged 50 to 74 will receive an invitation that could save their life as part of a $55.7 million initiative of the government.
Bob Baldwin said, "In my electorate 42.7% of female constituents are between the ages of 50 and 100+.
"An increased awareness on the provision of additional screenings is most welcome and I want to emphasise these services for this large demographic in my electorate, which comprises 21.8% out of the total constituency for the Paterson electorate," said Mr Baldwin.
"This campaign also marked the first time Australian women aged 70 to 74 have been specifically targeted for breast screening awareness, with an additional 220,000 breast screens expected to be delivered over four years as a direct result," Mr Baldwin said.
"I encourage all women in Paterson aged between 50 and 74 to make a breast screening appointment as we know the more Australian women who are screened, the more cancers that are detected. It's an invitation that could save your life."
The additional screening delivered as a result of the campaign could potentially lead to the detection of an extra 600 breast cancers across Australia a year.
More than 1.8 million women are screened every two years and more than 75 per cent of breast cancers occur in women over 50. Most women who get breast cancer also have no family history.
The 'An invitation that could save your life' campaign begins this week and will run across print, radio and online media to make sure women who receive a breast screen invitation in the mail are aware of its importance.
The Abbott Government's $55 million commitment will cover the cost of the promotional campaign, as well as the cost of additional invitations and free breast screenings generated as a result.
Women aged outside of the 50 to 74 age group are encouraged to talk to their GP or health professional to find out if breast screening is appropriate for them.
For further information, please visit www.australia.gov.au/breastscreen
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Adjusted for COVID, the International Studies Minor (ISM) is open to any major in the university, and is particularly valuable for any student seeking a career involving global awareness
Maile Orian, Mei Zhong and students on study abroad trip
by Gabriela Romero
The College of PSFA offers its International Studies Minor as a perfect pairing with any degree, delivering an unparalleled educational experience. Lead by a powerhouse team, faculty and head of PSFA ISM, Mei Zhong (Ph.D) and ISM advisor, Giancarlo Taylor (M.A.), the program deepens students' critical awareness, self reflection, and specific professional skills.
The minor nurtures the interest of domestic students' and "provides a venue of studies for students who want to do a research project," Taylor says.
ISM Students enroll in two courses abroad where they select a topic and do cross-cultural study and design data collection methods. Upon their return, students take their capstone research and collect and analyze data from the U.S., to compare to their findings abroad. They then create a well-rounded final report with this data and present it, making this minor applicable and valuable to all major types.
The ISM is comprised of six courses (18 units), four of which (12 units) are core courses. The program is designed for domestic students who have interest abroad, however, one of its courses, PSFA 280, is designed for international students' interest in the U.S and increase retention rate.
Maile Orian, a graduate with an International Studies Minor, has found her degree very useful. "When I was applying for graduate programs and jobs, I cannot stress how many times they all said the same thing: 'Wow. An international Studies Minor. That's very impressive. We don't see too many of these.' Needless to say, I received multiple job offers and graduate program acceptances," she said.
Since its establishment in 2009, the minor has illuminated students' global research pathways, mainly through study abroad opportunities. However, COVID-19 led Zhong and Taylor to get creative to meet students' needs on the same global scale.
"With COVID-19's magnitude and the massive evacuations to return students home, a re-thinking of the abroad experience became necessary. The ISM curriculum was adjusted to allow students to conduct research in alternative ways such as partnering with universities in the U.K. and Chile, participating in the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program, collaborating with international students at SDSU, or reaching communities in Little Italy. Shutting down travel also allowed DACA, or students with financial hardships to enroll in this minor without having to physically leave the country," Zhong says.
Taylor says, "students go with a purpose and are mindful. They gain a lot more out of study abroad compared to other students who leave and come back without another project to reflect on the experience."
Orian says, "the ISM immediately sets me apart from other applicants. The reason is because the work world is changing fast and cultivating diversity has become a prominent theme within organizations. More and more businesses (especially progessive and forward thinking ones) understand the importance of diversity and cross-cultural communication in everyday life.
"Companies value diversity and they want to see things, like the ISM, on your resume. The ISM adds value to you as an applicant/employee and makes you more competitive for the job market," Orian continues.
Learn more about the International Studies Minor program by visiting the website, or contacting Mei Zhong or Giancarlo Taylor.
The content within this article has been edited by Lizbeth Persons.
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To mark The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the National Portrait Gallery will stage an innovative touring exhibition bringing together 60 of the most remarkable and resonant images of Elizabeth II spanning the 60 years of her reign – some on public display for the first time. The Queen: Art and Image will tour to British venues before being shown in London, opening in Edinburgh in June, Belfast in October and Cardiff and London in 2012.
From Beaton and Leibovitz to Annigoni and Warhol, The Queen: Art and Image will be the most wide-ranging exhibition of images in different media devoted to a single royal sitter. Formal painted portraits, official photographs, media pictures, and powerful responses by contemporary artists will be shown in an exhibition which explores both traditional representations and works which extend the visual language of royal portraiture.
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Melinda French Gates to no longer give bulk of wealth to Gates Foundation
Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will no longer pledge most of her assets to the philanthropic organization, The Guardian reports.
According to the Wall Street Journal, French Gates still plans to distribute most of his fortune to philanthropic efforts, but largely outside of the Gates Foundation, one of the world's largest.
French Gates wrote, "I recognize the absurdity of having so much wealth concentrated in the hands of one man, and I believe that the only responsible thing to do with a fortune of this size is to take it away—as much as As thoughtfully and effectively as possible." a new letter.
In 2010, French Gates and her then-husband Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, launched The Giving Pledge with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
The campaign encourages the world's richest people to dedicate the majority of their wealth to charitable causes.
At the time, the former couple revealed in a joint letter that they have given "the vast majority of our assets" to the Gates Foundation in its efforts to prevent deaths from various diseases and "remove other barriers to health and education". .
However, since their divorce in 2021, French Gates and Gates have written separate letters detailing their different philanthropic commitments.
In 2015, French Gates founded Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company that seeks to advance social and business advancement for women and families across America, the report said.
In the letter to the French Gates, he reiterated his commitment to give away most of his wealth.
"I find that philanthropy is most effective when it prioritizes flexibility over ideology – and why I will continue to seek new partners, ideas, and perspectives in my work at foundations and in important ventures," she wrote.
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Q: Most efficient way to Concat Many String if they're not empty Im kinda new to DataWeave and i have like 20 Strings.
These Strings may be empty or have an actual values
Payload looks like this :
{
    str1 : "String 1",
    str2 : "String 2",
    str3 : "",
    str4 : "String 4",
}

Im looking for the most efficient way to put the none Empty string between and

 html tag and then concatenate these Strings.
So results should look like this
 String 1

 String 2

 String 4

Here's my solution :
var str_arr = [
         "String 1",
         "String 2",
         "",
         "String 4",
]
---
concatenated_str:  str_arr joinBy ""

Is there any better solution than this one ?

A: I assume that you are using Mule4.
A couple of ways you can get it done.  The first way below "iterates" over your data three times:
%dw 2.0
output application/json
var data = {
    str1 : "String 1",
    str2 : "String 2",
    str3 : "",
    str4 : "String 4",
}
---
"
" ++ ((data pluck $ filter not isEmpty($)) joinBy "

") ++ "
"

This second way iterates over your data twice, this will be a more efficient solution:
%dw 2.0
output application/json
var data = {
    str1 : "String 1",
    str2 : "String 2",
    str3 : "",
    str4 : "String 4",
}
---
data pluck $ reduce (e,acc="") -> acc ++ "
$(e)
" default ""

NOTE: I added a complete solution to your problem as compared to just using the array made up and then running joinBy.  But yes if you have the collection joinBy will be a pretty good solution.
NOTE: Change the output to anything you desire, I suspect text/plain is what you want.  I used application/dw because I was using the Preview to test.


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Join us for a magical night and see one of the world's most endangered species. Start your enchanted evening with an introduction to the story of Sirocco learning more about his fight for survival and how the Kākāpō Recovery Programme is working to save the species. Then head in to the sanctuary for a fairy-lit walk to Sirocco's enclosure to see him up close and personal.


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namespace net {
class URLRequest;
}

class GURL;

namespace chrome_browser_net {

// Observes resource requests in the ResourceDispatcherHostDelegate and notifies
// the ResourcePrefetchPredictor about the ones it is interested in.
//  - Has an instance per profile, and is owned by the corresponding
//    ProfileIOData.
//  - Needs to be constructed on UI thread. Can be destroyed on UI or IO thread.
//    As for member functions, public members are meant to be called on the IO
//    thread and private members from the UI thread.
class ResourcePrefetchPredictorObserver {
 public:
  explicit ResourcePrefetchPredictorObserver(
      predictors::ResourcePrefetchPredictor* predictor);
  ~ResourcePrefetchPredictorObserver();

  // Parts of the ResourceDispatcherHostDelegate that we want to observe.
  void OnRequestStarted(net::URLRequest* request,
                        content::ResourceType resource_type,
                        const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
                            web_contents_getter);
  void OnRequestRedirected(
      net::URLRequest* request,
      const GURL& redirect_url,
      const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
          web_contents_getter);
  void OnResponseStarted(net::URLRequest* request,
                         const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
                             web_contents_getter);

 private:
  void OnRequestStartedOnUIThread(
      std::unique_ptr<predictors::ResourcePrefetchPredictor::URLRequestSummary>
          summary,
      const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
          web_contents_getter,
      const GURL& main_frame_url,
      const base::TimeTicks& creation_time) const;
  void OnRequestRedirectedOnUIThread(
      std::unique_ptr<predictors::ResourcePrefetchPredictor::URLRequestSummary>
          summary,
      const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
          web_contents_getter,
      const GURL& main_frame_url,
      const base::TimeTicks& creation_time) const;
  void OnResponseStartedOnUIThread(
      std::unique_ptr<predictors::ResourcePrefetchPredictor::URLRequestSummary>
          summary,
      const content::ResourceRequestInfo::WebContentsGetter&
          web_contents_getter,
      const GURL& main_frame_url,
      const base::TimeTicks& creation_time) const;

  // Owned by profile.
  base::WeakPtr<predictors::ResourcePrefetchPredictor> predictor_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ResourcePrefetchPredictorObserver);
};

}  // namespace chrome_browser_net

#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_NET_RESOURCE_PREFETCH_PREDICTOR_OBSERVER_H_


Fifteen-year-old Fadwa Garci was the toast of Tunisian fans when she conquered two Egyptian stars to emerge as the girls' cadet champion at the 2017 ITTF African Junior & Cadet Championship held in Tunis.
Her powerful strokes and shots made her a threat to her opponents while her unique celebration after winning point distinguished her out.
However, the starlet will be part of the Tunisian team to the 2017 ITTF World Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany from May 29 to June 5 and she is eagerly looking forward to meet and rub shoulders with amidst gathering of stars.
"World Championship is one of the biggest event in table tennis and every player dreams to participate in. I was privileged last year to compete at the ITTF African Championship in Agadir, Morocco and this was made possible following my recent performance at local and international stages. Again, I was opportune to be selected for the World Championship and I am so excited as I am really looking forward to the championships in Germany," she said.
Seeing and watching some of her idols remain Fadwa Garci's priorities in Germany. "I want to use the tournament to familiarise myself with the big world competition. I will try to play well, and especially to see closely the biggest players in the world that I love like China's Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen as well as Romania's Daniela Dodean," she added.


Waiting/hoping to start anew once more.
I've been pondering the stuttering stops that have occurred in the past. Pondering the successes I've enjoyed. Pondering on where to go, where to be, how to get there – "you have to start where you are" the sage advice of good sir Peter, and I believe Blood's wonderful guide also.
I'm very much amused at myself – the keeper of dates – who's had the last year and a half become a crater where my well honed process are but a jumble, smashed and littered – under-feet, but my eyes are up and forward. What the hell. At least I see the clouds. the sky.
I like listening to podcasts – it's like a conversation with friends, except they don't know you. The Green brothers have a lovely 'cast called Dear Hank and John – a podcast of dubious advice and all the news from /brit football club/ AFC Wimbledon and mars. Current episode had a question from megan asking 'who is Mr. Rogers?' – and John offered that he is the reason for all the kindnesses your parents have given you . And I thought -yeah, sounds about right. Their audience may skew 'young'. – Oh look – I can attempt to embed the episode (though the link above takes you to the start of the answer to the question.
Mr. Rogers. Yeah, we could use more folks like him.
Oh – I had this odd thought (SURPRISE!) about a litmus test for decency in people – I though of two questions – 'do you donate blood to the Red Cross or other blood banks?' & 'do you pick up litter even if it's not your trash?' – of course these pop into my mind as I rage impotently against the dying of the light, but alas I think they might have merit.
so this one has been all over the place – and I'm ok with that.
I like the advice I've offered recently – Take care of one another, ok?
Makes me think of good people, good times, good beginnings and good endings.
Until I write again, perhaps you will stop and start – I hope it goes well.


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FM-ligan i handboll, tidigare FM-serien i handboll, är Finlands högsta division i handboll för herrar. Den har spelats varje år sedan 1946. FM-serien i handboll för herrar bytte namn till FM-ligan i handboll år 2010. TPS från Åbo kammade hem det första finländska mästerskapet, 1943. Det första ligamästerskapet, efter namnbytet, vann HC West från Grankulla år 2010.

Såväl dam- som herrhandbollen i Finland har genom tiderna dominerats av finlandssvenska idrottsföreningar. BK-46 från Karis i regionen Västnyland toppar herrarnas medaljtabell.

Antalet lag som har spelat per säsong i högsta divisionen i handboll för herrar har varierat mellan tolv och nio lag.

Herrlagen i FM-ligan, 2014/2015
FM-ligan i handboll för herrar omfattar säsongen 2014/2015 följande nio lag:

 Atlas, Vanda
 BK-46, Karis
 Cocks, Riihimäki
 Dicken, Helsingfors
 Dynamo, Riihimäki
 HC West, Grankulla
 HIFK, Helsingfors
 SIF, Sjundeå
 ÅIFK, Åbo

Medaljtabell – Herrar, 1943-2014

Källa:

Källor
Webbkällor
 Finlands handbollsförbunds webbplats  (sparsamt på svenska)  Läst 21 december 2014.
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Handbollsserier
Sportevenemang i Finland
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Why you may never see a 4K Microsoft Surface display
As Microsoft readies its Surface Book 3 to ship later this month, you might be wondering: Why doesn't it have a 4K display? The answer, according to Microsoft, is simple: You wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway.
In 2015, the display resolution of the Surface Book was revolutionary: 3,000×2000 pixels, arranged in what is now a familiar 3:2 ratio. (It's still the same in the Surface Book 3, though the 15-inch version includes a 3240×2160 display.) But it's now 2020, and more laptop manufacturers are opting for true 4K (3840×2160) panels instead. According to Stevie Bathiche, Technical Fellow and an Applied Sciences Group lead at Microsoft, it doesn't sound like Microsoft will necessarily end up following suit.
In fact, if you've been following Microsoft's work in developing its high-resolution webcams, Bathiche's answer may not be that surprising. "One of the things I work on is the display technologies for Surface," Bathiche said earlier this month. "And there's a lot of interesting parallels to how we design our displays to how we design our cameras, and in our display technology."
Microsoft's goal, according to Bathiche, is to put "the right amount of pixels on the screen, so that you can't see the pixels themselves, and that's it." he said. "But beyond that, you don't really need any more pixels, because that would be silly—you can't see the difference between the higher number and the number we give you."
On Microsoft's displays, that's called the "eye limit"—the maximum number of pixels per inch that the eye can see, and no more. That's a function of the visual acuity of an ordinary eye with 20-20 vision, Bathiche said, at some arbitrary distance—in this case, at about a foot from the display. In this case, the eye limit is about the pixel density of the Surface Pro 7 (or Surface Book 3)—specifically 260 pixels per inch (ppi) to 280 PPI.
For reference, the Surface Pro 7 has a 12.3-inch PixelSense display (2736×1824, or 267 ppi) while the 13.5-inch Surface Book 3's display is 3000×2000 (267 ppi) and the 15-inch Surface Book 3 includes a 3240×2160 (260 ppi) display.
To be fair, Microsoft certainly isn't the first to introduce the concept of an eye limit. Steve Jobs famously introduced the iPhone 4 and its "Retina Display," a display that, when held about a foot from the eye, yielded 300 ppi, "the limit of the human retina to differentiate the pixels," Jobs said. That, according to Apple, produced an image that was essentially indistinguishable from a printed image like a magazine, with pixels that were unable to be individually seen. That's helped guide the evolution of displays on laptops and smartphones in the years since.
In fact, if you believe Bathiche, other laptop displays may never go beyond where they are now—unless they're just interested in marketing empty numbers.
"More than that is kind of silly," Bathiche said of even higher resolutions. "And you can kind of see the many device makers that understand that deeply. If you look at how their specs have gone over time, they don't go up! They're like, this is all we need."
It sounds like Microsoft is saying the same.
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By Team Thrill August 5, 2019 June 11, 2020 Lifestyle
15 Interesting Facts You Didn't Know About The Dalai Lama
Today we take it easy and peaceful while we talk about the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhist people. According to the Gulag school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is considered to be the successor in a line of two looks. An entity who embodies the compassion of all buddhas. The name is a combination of the Mongolic word Dalai which means ocean or big. And the Tibetan word lama which means master or guru. The institution of the Dalai Lama is a relatively recent one.
There have only been 14 Dalai lamas in the history of Buddhism. And the 1st and 2nd Dalai Lama's were given the title posthumously. But hold on here there are several things we need to reveal and explain in order for you to get the proper insight on a matter. So let's skip the intro and talk about the 15 interesting facts you didn't know about the Dalai Lama.
1. A Compassionate Being's Relationship With Tibet Is The Reason For The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama exists because a compassionate being has a special relationship with the people of Tibet in Central Asian Buddhist countries. It is believed that the entity of all Akita's para a deity of compassion has a special relationship with the people of Tibet. It decided to be reborn again to continue its important work. Thus reincarnating in benevolent rulers and teachers according to some legends its first incarnation in Tibet's early kings and emperors. Such as song stan campo but later on, Tibetans extrapolated it. Including the Dalai lamas in the reincarnation succession line. It is the book of Kadam which is the main text of the Kadampa school that states nowadays.
2. The Dalai Lama Is A Important Religious And Political Figure
The Dalai Lama is an important religious and political figure. The Dalai Lama is important for many reasons. He's a symbol of the unification of Tibet and represents the Buddhist values and traditions. He is the ecumenical figure that possesses religious authority beyond religious disparity and sectarian boundaries. Furthermore, from 1642 until 1705 the Dalai lama's or their regions headed the Tibetan government in Lhasa. The government that led most of the Tibetan Plateau in an attempt to complete Tibet's sovereignty. They did not manage to obtain this sovereignty because it was rejected by the Republic of China.
3. The 14Th Dalai Lama Comes From A Modest Family
The 14th Dalai Lama comes from a modest family. The recent Dalai Lama is named Tenzin Gyatso but his birth name was Lama Sandip. He was born on July 6, 1935, and was the fifth of 16 children. Seven of whom died at a young age, his parents were farmers who raised sheep and grew barley, buckwheat, and potatoes. Coming from a very small village in Northeast Tibet. He was identified as being the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama when he was only 2 years old. And he began his intensive religious training when he was 6. At the age of 15, he assumed the political power of Tibet.
4. The Dalai Lama's Been Living In Exile Since 1959
The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1959. He assumed power in 1950 but unfortunately in October of the same year. The People's Republic of China invaded Tibet four years later the Dalai Lama went to Beijing. In order to try to negotiate peace with Mao Zedong. China continued Tibet suppression using the army and the situation became more and more tensioned. Leading to the 1959 Tibetan uprising. The Dalai Lama and his closest advisers believed the Chinese government was to assassinate him consequently. He and several thousand followers fled to Dharamsala in northern India. And established the government of Tibet in exile. His current status in India is one of a refugee.
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5. The Dalai Lama And The Government Of Tibet, In Exile, Received From The CIA
The Dalai Lama and the government of Tibet in exile received funds from the CIA. From 1959 until the 1970s the government set up an exile in India. Received 1.7 million dollars a year from the CIA. The matter was rather controversial considering Dalai Lama's public stance in support of non-violence. On the other hand, the Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA's payroll from the late 1950s until 1974. Reportedly receiving fifteen thousand dollars a month. He received the money personally but used most of it to fund the government in exile activities. Especially international lobbying, so we were naive to think that the Dalai Lama was only concerned with spiritual matters.
6. He's Got A Ph.D. In Buddhist Philosophy
He's got a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy. Beginning his education at the age of six he had to learn logic Tibetan art and culture, Sanskrit, medicine and Buddhist philosophy. The last being divided into five other categories dealing with the perfection of wisdom, monastic discipline, metaphysics logic, and epistemology or the study of knowledge. He completed the Geshe-la ramp I degree or doctorate of Buddhist philosophy when he was 25. What is interesting is the structure of his final exams in the morning. He was examined by 30 scholars on Logic in the afternoon. He debated with 15 scholars on the subject of the middle path. And in the evening 35 scholars tested his knowledge on the Canon of monastic discipline and the study of metaphysics, His Holiness passed the examinations with honors.
7. The 14Th Dalai Lama Is The 1St One To Travel West
The 14th Dalai Lama was the first one to travel west and not only did he first travel west. But he also used his peacefulness and charisma to draw considerable support for Buddhism and the Tibetan resistance movement. He met and talked with many Westerners and has visited the United States, Canada, Western Europe, United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Greece, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia and so on. He has a habit of not only meeting state leaders but also the religious leaders of the countries he's visiting at this point. We could easily say he's a role model when it comes to diplomacy.
8. He's Worked With The United Nation On The Question Of Tibet
He's worked with the United Nations on the question of Tibet. Soon after his exile began the 14th Dalai Lama considered it would be necessary. The UN their collaboration led to the adoption of three resolutions by the General Assembly in 1959 1961 and in 1965 during all this. In 1963 his holiness promulgated a draft constitution for Tibet which assures a democratic form of government. In the last two decades, his holiness has set up educational cultural and religious institutions. Which has made major contributions toward the preservation of the Tibetan identity and especially its rich heritage? He has given many teachings and initiations including the rare Kalachakra initiation which he has conducted more than any of his predecessors.
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9. The Dalai Lama Stand For Religious Harmony
The Dalai Lama stands for religious harmony and by that, he doesn't mean that everyone should convert to Buddhism. On the contrary, he believes it's best to keep the religion. One was born into at the same time he explains that since in these modern times we experience migration waves and access to each other's culture and religion. Maybe it would be better to take time to learn the good aspects of other religions. Not tolerating someone else's religion should suffice. He believes that several factors including the possibility to travel and get established anywhere in the world. Have made the world turn into a community a multicultural multi-religious singular entity.
10. The 14Th Dalai Lama Was Awarded The Nobel Prize In 1989
His concern for global environmental problems. He had shown willingness to compromise and seek reconciliation despite brutal violations. The Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasized the appreciation for his insistence in advocating for peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect.
In order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people according to the press release in the opinion of the committee. The Dalai Lama has come forward with constructive and forward-thinking proposals. For the solution of international conflicts, human rights issues, and global environmental problems. Do you know which other political figure dedicated their life to charity and to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Mother Teresa who got it? In 1979 exactly 10 years before the 14th Dalai Lama.
11. The Dalai Lama's Got An Unexpected Position On ABortion
The Dalai Lama's got an unexpected position on abortion. First thing first we need to explain that Buddhists believe that life should not be destroyed. But they regard causing death as morally wrong only if the death is caused deliberately or by negligence. Therefore traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life. However, when asked about the matter the Dalai Lama has shown a nuanced position on abortion. Explaining that in spite of the traditional view there are cases in which abortion should be considered ethically acceptable. It could be the case that the unborn child is going to be disabled or that the birth could risk the life of the mother.
12. The Dalai Lama Advises People To Become Vegetarian
Number 12 the Dalai Lama advises people to become vegetarian. The Dalai Lama has said people think of animals as if they were vegetables and that's not right. So he advocates that people at least try to limit their meat consumption if turning vegetarian is impossible to him. This is a matter of compassion and he seems to be trying to make this world a more gentle and compassionate one. However, he himself is not a vegetarian anymore. At some point in his life, he had to give up the vegetarian lifestyle because he contracted Hepatitis and became very weak. After he got better he tried switching back to a vegetarian diet but this attempt was unsuccessful.
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13. The Dalai Lama Has Referred To Himself As A Marxist
Number 13 the Dalai Lama has referred to himself as a Marxist. Strongly criticizing capitalism for only being concerned with gain and profitability. The Dalai Lama explained that he considers the economic system of Marxism to be founded on moral principles. He believes have a distribution of wealth, the focus on equality and the concern for the working class. Which is the large majority of our signs that such a system is fair? He also emphasized that such a system takes care of those who are underprivileged and in need to some extent. However, talking about the flaws of the historical Marxist regimes. He pointed out that their main problem was that they placed too much emphasis on destroying the ruling class and not enough on compassion.
14. The 14Th Dalai Lama Is Yet To Decide If He Will Reincarnate
Number 14 the 14th Dalai Lama is yet to decide if he will reincarnate. In September 2011 the Dalai Lama retired from the central Tibetan administration in a statement he issued. The same day he explained that when he turns 90 he will consult the high Lamas on the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and the Tibetan public. Before he decides whether the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue or not. The idea is that the Dalai Lama has one specific. Thus some consider it to be time for the Tibetan people to choose their leader through democratic elections. In the meantime, China has a deep understanding of what democracy has enacted a law foreboding the Dalai Lama to be reborn outside of China.
15. If He Decided To Reincarnate, The Lama's Will Have To Follow Some Signs To Find Him
Number 15, if he decides to reincarnate the lamas, will have to follow some signs to find him. First thing first the Dalai Lama searches and selects a pension, Lama. The person is responsible for finding the reincarnated Dalai Lama. When the time comes he and his pairs will search for a boy who has been born around the same time. As the death of the last Dalai Lama, they will follow a series of signs including dreams the direction of the smoke. Once located the boy will be presented a number of artifacts among which are a number of items that belong to the deceased Dalai Lama. If the boy chooses the items that belong to the previous Dalai Lama this is seen as a sign in conjunction. With all the other indications that the boy is a reincarnation.
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Demi Lovato 'stable condition' after notification of apparent heroin overdose: source
Demi Lovato obviously suffers from an overdose of heroin, stars react
Singer Demi Lovato was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, reportedly after suffering a heroin overdose. Several stars have taken to social media to send their wishes.
On the eve of a hotly anticipated string of tour dates, pop music superstar Demi Lovato has reportedly been hospitalized for an apparent overdose of heroin after he was revived in her house with the opioid treatment drug Narcan.
According to various reports, law enforcement officials say that the 25-year-old one-time Disney princess pop was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles after she suffered from what appeared to be a heroin overdose.
A source close to Lovato tells Fox News that "Demi is still recovering and is in stable condition."
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Per TMZ, Lovato was shipped on Tuesday, just before 12 hours, after being treated in her Hollywood Hills home with Narcan, an emergency medication that is often used to revive the people in the cases of an overdose of narcotic drugs.
DEMI LOVATO A HEROIN OVERDOSE REPORT SPARKS REACTIONS FROM CELEBRITIES: "NO ONE IS MORE HONEST OR BRAVE'
According to TMZ, the overdose occurred when Lovato's house, and then came the ambulance, she was unconscious.
According to TMZ, the overdose occurred when Lovato's Hollywood Hills home, shown here, and then came the ambulance, she was unconscious.
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A rep for Lovato not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
A POLICE spokesman told Fox News that both the Los Angeles Police and Fire department responded to a medical emergency call" on the 8000 block of Laurel Drive in the Hollywood Hills district at 11:40 hours, However, the spokesman noted that the "POLICE could not confirm the identity of the individual at the time."
"Six years ago, I was drinking vodka out of a Sprite bottle at 9 in the morning, vomiting in the car"
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A LAFD official told Fox News that "medical workers transported a 25-year-old female patient to a local hospital," of the same address, but that "no condition of the patient is made available."
Lovato was preparing for a month long tour, which was supposed to start Thursday night in Atlantic City, N. J., and take her to places that are far-flung as Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
Earlier in the day, they tweeted a promotion for her appearance on the pre-taped Fox-show 'Beat Shazam" on Tuesday night.
Following the news, FOX announced that the episode with Lovato would be replaced. "Tonight is the previously scheduled episode of "Beat Shazam' was characterized by a guest of Demi Lovato," the statement read.
"In the light of the recent reports, we have decided the episode of "Beat Shazam' with a new episode. Our thoughts go out to Demi and her family."
Oh hi ? Guess who's on @BeatShazamFOX tonight at 8/7c? pic.twitter.com/53v6PPb4oh
Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) July 24, 2018
Last month, Lovato, who has struggled with substance abuse in the past, according to a new emotional single, that she had relapsed months after celebrating six years of sobriety.
In her new song "Sober" Lovato sings she is not sober anymore and apologizes for the "those who never left" her side and the fans after her journey.
Last month, Lovato revealed in a new emotional single, that she had relapsed months after celebrating six years of sobriety.
"Mama, I'm so sorry, I'm not sober more/And Dad, please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor," Lovato sings in the choir. "To those who never left me/We're off/I'm so sorry, I'm not sober any more."
The singer went on to apologize to her future love."
"For the man who is to the left of my bed/To make love the way that I saved for you in my head," the lyrics read. "And I'm sorry for the fans I lost/Who looked me down again/I want to be a role model/But I'm only human."
In the song, Lovato promises to get help and says it is not her intention to relapse.
Lovato has previously opened up about her struggle with drug and alcohol addiction.
Following the news, FOX announced that there is a pre-pasted " Beat Shazam!' episode with Lovato, who was scheduled for Tuesday evening, would be replaced.
They marked six years of sobriety on March 15, celebrates the milestone on Instagram with a "Self Love" T-shirt and a thank you to the fans. The next night she went on stage for her "Tell Me you Love Me" tour and gave a warm speech, Billboard reported.
"Six years ago, I was drinking vodka out of a Sprite bottle at 9 in the morning, vomiting in the car," she said to the audience. "And I thought, 'This is not fun anymore. This is not fun any more. And I'm just like my father." So I took a look at my life and I said: 'Something needs to change, I have to sober' — that's what I did."
The 25-year-old also spoke about her road to sobriety in a YouTube documentary, "Simply Complicated."
"I was not ready to be sober," she recalled. "I was secretly [cocaine] on planes, sneak into the bathroom, sneaking through the night. No one knew it."
Lovato, who first started acting at the age of 7 on "Barney & Friends," rose to fame after appearing in Disney Channel's 2008 "Camp Rock" where she starred as Mitchie Torres.
"I wouldn't start that young if I could do it," said Lovato and Variety in June 2017. "I have no regrets. It was difficult to transition from a child star to transform into a mainstream artist. It is something that is very challenging."
Fox News' Katherine Lamb contributed to this report.
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EGCO Brings Forward Plans for Khanom Plant
Thailand's largest private power producer, Electricity Generating Plc (EGCO), has accelerated its plan to build a new power plant in Khanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, by two years to ease the supply shortage. The previous plan was to build the 7.5-billion-baht facility once the concession of its old power generator there expires in 2016, but the recent outage in southern provinces spurred the move, said president Sahust Pratuknukul.
The Khanom plant, Thailand's first independent power project (IPP), has been operating for 17 years under a 20-year concession granted by the Energy Ministry. Once the new facility starts operation, the the old facility will be shut down permanently. Egco was awarded a renewal concession of 25 years last year.
The old power generators have a capacity of 824 megawatts, while the new one will have a capacity of 900 MW. Once the power purchasing contract by the Provincial Electricity Generating Authority is finished, construction can start immediately, so it will be ready by June 2016. Egco has another IPP in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, with a concession due to expire in 2015.
The company previously requested a concession renewal but the state opted to open the concession to competition because power capacity is not a concern there. Egco plans to bid for a new concession in the IPP third round. Mr. Sahust said the company's Rayong project is on a shortlist of the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) for IPPs, with the outcome due in June.
Egco designed a new power plant at the existing Rayong location with a capacity of 1,800 MW, higher than the old plant's 1,232 MW. The ERC projects new power output from IPPs will total 5,400 MW.
Egco's capacity is expected to rise by 41% to 6,120 MW in 2019 from 4,510 MW as of March this year. Additional capacity will come from the small power producer program, Xayaburi Hydro Electric in Laos and Quezon Power Plant in the Philippines. Shares of EGCO on the SET closed at 155.5 baht yesterday, down one baht, in trade worth 123 million.


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Father Bruce Lawler is a native of Clare, Iowa. He attended St. Matthew Grade School in Clare and St. Edmond High School in Fort Dodge. He attended minor seminary at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa and major seminary at North American College Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 5, 1980 at St. Matthew Church in Clare. He has served at Holy Spirit Parish and Kuemper Catholic High School, Carroll; Cathedral of the Epiphany, Sioux City; Bishop Heelan High School, Sioux City; St. Joseph Parish, Salix; Sacred Heart Parish, Sioux City; St. Mary Parish, Storm Lake; St. Joseph Parish, Schaller; St. Mary Parish, Larchwood; Holy Name Parish, Rock Rapids; and St. Mary Parish, Rock Valley. He also served as Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of Sioux City from 1988-1999. He became pastor of All Saints Parish in Le Mars and St. Joseph Parish in Ellendale in June 22, 2017.


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