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In the early sixteenth century, Frezzaria was an area devoted to the production and sale of fine artisanal goods, particularly arrows (frezze – hence). It is placed in San Marco district, very close to La Fenice Theatre. This is the view as you see it from the close bridge, Ponte dei Barcaroli.


We're delighted to announce that John Devitt and Shuko Oda will be opening their second Koya site at the new Bloomberg Arcade development in the City in late November. The new 60-seater udon noodle bar will focus on traditional and simple Japanese dishes served all day, beginning with a traditional and contemporary Japanese breakfast with dishes such as their signature English Breakfast Udon with egg, bacon and shitaki.
The lunch and dinner menu will feature Koya favourites such as their Kinoko Hot Udon with mushrooms and walnut miso and brand new dishes including Tonkatsu – breaded aged pork loin with cabbage and fruit miso sauce. In keeping with the tradition of Koya, chef Shuko will develop a daily blackboard specials menu at Koya in the City, offering seasonal dishes which continue to broaden the perspective of Japanese cuisine.


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The new connector features a USB docking station, making it easier to connect to a router, even if it is in another room and eliminating the need to run a cable from the router to the Explora.
Once connected, users are able to access Catch Up Plus which includes 1 000 movies in the M-Net Collection, as well as the ability to set recordings remotely, and it also allows access to Showmax for an additional R69 for DStv Premium customers
The DStv WiFi Connector is available from most DStv service centres or DStv agencies, as well as retail stores for R199.
The new connector features a USB docking station, making it easier to connect to a router, even if it is in another room and eliminates the need to run a cable from the router to the Explora.
Once connected, users are able to access Catch Up Plus, as well as the ability to set remote recordings, and access Showman for an additional R69 for DStv Premium customers
Injustice 2 – Shattered Alliances
Bryan Turner
On the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, we share a series of videos showing the rediscovery by South African engineer of the first Apollo computer guidance system.
Thought to be lost, it was bought as scrap and existed as little more than a rumour until Francios Rautenbach tracked it down and extracted the software.
He tells the story over a series of videos (below) that were first brought to the world's attention by Gadget in 2016:
Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
Staying true to the classic story, director Jon Favreau utilises pioneering film-making techniques to bring the iconic characters to the big screen in a new way. Also featuring James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon, Disney's The Lion King opens in cinemas this weekend.
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I worked out twice this week; now I am sore and just sitting around on the computer!
I usually do some sort of cardio exercise five to six days per week for 45 to 60 minutes each session, whether it's jogging, stair-climbing, or moving on the elliptical machines at the health club.
I used to 3-4 times a week before school and the second job started.
That's been the biggest change in my life since becoming an RN. I don't work out as often or as hard as I'd like to. I still do workout though, 2-3x/week. I used to work out 4-5x/week prior to nursing. I'm usually too exhausted after work. I try to work out before work now.
I do however rake my lawn with a rake, use a non-powered push lawnmower and do a daily walk. I use walk time as thinking and planning time, so it doesn't feel like a chore.
My job is reasonably active with me being on my feet all day.
No, I don't. I used to do Zumba 4 days a week.
Whenever I have to restart my exercise routine, I start out by walking. So, I think this week is a good time to start walking again.
I'm more like you. During most of school I also worked full time. Don't know how I pulled that one off, LOL, and I fit in a work out or a walk when I could, if I had any "daylight time" free!
Right after I got my license, and school was over and I was looking for a job, I really got back into it. But, that ended. I didn't renew my membership and low and behold the club I worked out at has now closed.
I've been thinking about working out tho...... haha.
Yes. At least 60-120mins of cardio 3 times a week and some weight lifting.
I do, but only for 15-20 minutes a day. I am new to working out and have no stamina. Hopefully I can gradually get up to an hour a day.
I take spin classes that are an hour long 3-4 days a week. Depends on if I work an extra shift.


Despite its rich brewing tradition, beers from England often seem to be overlooked with all of the frenzy surrounding Belgian and American breweries. Even German and Czech lagers seem to be regaining some cachet after the initial backlash against lagers. I think part of the problem is that some of England's best beer styles are low alcohol and best at their freshest (unlike many other beers that are shelf stable for at least a few months). Most of the American craft beer movement was built on English styles (adapted to American tastes and ingredients) IPAs, Brown Ales, Porters, and Imperial Stouts are all rooted in the British tradition. Maybe that is the problem, are we overly familiar with the flavors, always looking for what's next?
I have the same problem, while I love drinking a great mild or bitter when it is put in front of me, they aren't the sort of beers that I tend to get really excited about. The ideal English session ale has a relatively simple flavor that doesn't fatigue the palate (unlike my low-alcohol IPA). Brewers strive to use a light hand with assertive specialty malts and hops, letting the base malt and yeast strain play lead roles. I'm the sort of person who tends to order samples when I'm at a bar, and I almost never orders a second glass of the same beer (what's next?).
However, there are some English breweries deviating from tradition and brewing really interesting beers. I think Thornbridge is producing some of the best beers of this young group. Jaipur IPA is crisp, minerally, and bright (on tap and the fresher the better), and unlike many other English "IPAs" it is not just a bitter. Thornbridge Bracia is an almost gruit-like imperial stout with peat smoked malt, chestnut honey, and licorice. I wish they were getting the sort of hype that BrewDog does because their beers are certainly better. Williams Brothers is also sending some interesting casks to America. I thoroughly enjoyed a glass of New Beginnings, which is a golden bitter lightly hopped with Amarillo Nelson Sauvin on cask.
To straddle the line between these two divergent English brewing identities, my friend Nate and I decided to employ a traditional English technique, parti-gyle mashing. I've mentioned it before, but parti-gyle simply refers to running off multiple beers from a single mash. In this case, the mash was composed of traditional enough ingredients: bready Maris Otter, light-coffee brown malt, slightly burnt chocolate malt, a variety of caramel toned crystal malts, and a healthy dose of chewy oats.
After conversion was complete, we took the bulk of the first runnings were used to produce an English-inspired beer Imperial Oatmeal Brown Porter (although I'm not sure an English brewery has ever brewed one). The second runnings (with a scoop of the first to boost the gravity ) were converted into a moderate gravity beer on the big side of Dark Mild at 4.5% ABV. Both worts were modestly bittered with hops, and then fermented with White Labs Yorkshire Square. Nate and I are planning to bottle in a few days so the batches are carbonated in time for a pre-trip to England party that he has been brewing for.
Big: 1.25 oz. Styrian Goldings (Pellet, 5.00% AA) @ 75 min.
.5 tsp Yeast Nutrient @ 15 min.
.5 Whirlfloc @ 15 min.
Quick oats from Whole Foods. Two kinds of brown malt, 1.5 lbs were the darker variety.
Filtered DC water, no adjustments.
Took 3 qrts of the first runnings a put them into the second runnings, 2 qrts back the other way.
Boiled first runnings for 30 min, then added 1.25 oz of Styrian Golding pellets.
Small beer got .75 oz of Crystal @ 6% AA @ 60 min for ~18 IBUs.
Chilled both beers to ~67 F, strained, shook to aerate. Yeast cake from 3.5% Vienna IPA thing. 4 oz for the big half, 3 oz for the small half.
Good fermentation on both by 18 hours.
2/13/12 Moved downstairs ~55 F to help clear the beers before bottling.
2/18/12 Bottled the 4.5 gallons of smaller beer (1.009) with 3 1/8 oz of table sugar, and the 5 gallons of the big beer (1.015) with 3 1/2 oz of table sugar. Aiming for about 2.3 volumes of CO2 for both.
6/9/12 Despite the reasonable target carbonation target the beer quickly became over-carbonated, with both halves drying out a few more points after bottling. Not sure what caused it. Full tasting notes, pretty happy with how the beer turned out otherwise.
Do you calculate your second running OG before brew day, or is it you get what you get? If you calculate it, what is the formula/software you use?
You can ballpark the total gravity as what you would get from the mash if you were brewing a normal batch with the same total volume. From that number you can estimate that about 2/3 of the gravity will be in the first half of the runnings. The other rule that applies is that the first 1/3 of the runnings will have half the gravity (if you want less of the strong beer). In this case we wanted the beers to be a bit closer in starting gravity than 2:1, so we swapped a few quarts of the runnings between the two pots.
Really glad you like our beers.
Cool to see an American view on the UK 'craft' brewing scene. Thornbridge might not make as much noise as Brewdog, but they're certainly regarded as being at the top of the craft pile.
The traditional way to parti-gyle (at least for the last 200-odd years) is to blend post-boil. That way you can mix the different worts to hit the target gravity exactly.
The separate worts to make separate beers technique died out about 1780.
I'm getting a bit tired of explaining this. I've yet to see a modern homebrewing source that describes correctly the type of parti-gyling that still continues today (for example at Fullers).
I've stopped mentioning any of this on homebrewing forums because people just shout at me.
I certainly won't debate you on the history of English brewing (not sure anyone could), but what would you call this method if not parti-gyle?
From a practicality standpoint, the problem with blending post-boil is that it limits your options in terms of hopping or flavoring the runnings differently. This may be fine for a brewery like Fullers that is making a range of beers that all have a similar bitterness to original gravity ratios, but often isn't what I am trying to. In the end the name of a technique is less important than the beer it produces to me.
Combined grist brewing is what Derek Prentice calls the technique. As he knows more about British brewing techniques than anyone I've met, I'm not going to argue with him.
for your first mash how many qts/lb did you do?
Did you throw all the water in to get 7 some gallons?
Did you mash lowers 1.25 or so and then sparge before second running?
You have to take all of the loss to grain absorption and dead space into account for your first runnings. We ended up adding about 8 gallons of water initially (~1.5 qrts/lb) and then another 2 gallons to boost the volume/temperature before running off. For the second runnings you return exactly what you put in, so just another 7 gallons.
Is it really surprising that people have not responded well to pedantic scolding about the "authenticity" of terms that they're using to convey practical brewing information?
If the particulars of the technique are outdated, that's an interesting historical footnote, but not necessarily a reason to break out the red pen.
I agree with the post above. I don't think mike deserves a scolding about terminology that has clearly shifted meanings, especially after all that he has contributed to the beer community.
Anonymouses - There is an important and recognizable difference between disseminating information and "pedantic scolding." The problem with text-based discourse between strangers is that many of the recipients of the former construe it as the latter. Most people are not receptive to criticism or refutation of their ideas in this context, and will fight to preserve them against logic and fact-based evidence (which, though not given here, I would assure you that Ron has plenty of).
Anyway, as someone who frequently practices "combined grist brewing" but has always referred to it as "parti-gyle brewing" I appreciate learning the distinction. Not sure CGB is going to catch on though, it's a bit of a mouthful. "Parti-gyle" flows off the toungue much more easily.
Well said above. Though, wholly apart from the veracity of the facts, one could take issue with (i) the tone and insistence and (ii) the rigid view of linguistics that would require a historical justification for a simple turn of phrase.


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WWE Theme Songs have a big role in a Superstar's character development in my opinion.
I am a firm believer that there is not just one thing that can make a crowd resonate with a WWE Superstar. Wrestling ability, promo skills, charisma, unique attitude and impressive body physique are all things that are needed to get a wrestler popular or over with the audience. These factors help tell a story about that Superstar and what they are about.
However, I feel that WWE Theme Songs are not appreciated enough despite being a huge reason for the success or failure of a Superstar. Good music and/or lyrics in WWE should tell you a lot about the persona of a wrestler. For example, every time that glass would shatter in the 1990's, fans knew that 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was coming out to raise some hell on some poor S.O.B. Fans knew instantly from the lyrics of D'Generation X's theme that Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Chyna were a trio that loved to test authority and rebel against the system.
Hence, I have decided to talk about 5 WWE Current Superstars that have theme music which gives the WWE Universe a great idea as to what their personality is like.
5. Nia Jax's Force of Greatness (by CFO$).
Nia Jax Theme Song lets fans know she is a force to be reckoned with, and we love it.
Nia Jax has a theme song which explains what she is all about. From the moment Jax stepped foot into the WWE, we all knew she was going to bring something to the Women's Division we had not seen before.
Nia Jax has a different physique compared to any other Woman to have graced the WWE ring and that makes her so special and unique. The 'Force of Greatness' theme song truly captures Jax's character, specifically with the main lyric in the song 'I am not like most girls, I don't just take what I am given....', because it reiterates the key parts of Nia's identity to WWE Fans: Firstly, Nia Jax is original and one of kind, and secondly, nothing will get in Nia's way of destroying and railroading her opponents.
This is why I truly believe that Nia Jax has a theme that matches with what we should understand about her and her persona. I personally think it is one of the best theme songs in WWE's recent history.
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With the attendees about even with their loyalties for either Boston or Los Angeles, the event was a relaxing night of enjoying sports.
The World Series came to an end on Sunday with Boston besting Los Angeles in five games.
The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce sponsored a weekend viewing party for Game 4 of the World Series at the Pecos Valley Conference Center for local fans.
Coming about 12 hours after the seven-hour, 18-inning marathon of Game 3, which ended around 2 a.m. on Saturday, Robert Defer and his Chamber of Commerce staff were prepared for another long night if necessary.
Fortunately for everyone who likes baseball games ending in nine innings, Game 4 lasted just under four hours, ending with Boston coming out on top, 9-6.
There were about 50 tickets pre-sold for the event with a handful of baseball fans showing up throughout the early portion of the game. Due to other events in the city, the number of attendees was a little lower than expected.
Hot dogs, nachos and Frito pies were the main dishes served with homemade desserts and a cash bar. For those who weren't fans of either baseball teams, one of the four 65-inch televisions was showing the Oklahoma State/Texas football game.
Defer declined to name the actual baker for the deserts, saying she didn't want it out in the open, but all the desserts that were made were gobbled up in the first six innings.
With the attendees about even with their loyalties for either the Boston Red Sox or the Los Angeles Dodgers, the event was a relaxing night of enjoying sports.
The first runs of the game didn't take place until the bottom of the sixth inning. With two three-run homers being hit in the span of one complete inning, the fans had plenty to cheer for in the final three innings of the game.


For the moment at least, where do you begin when it is like Tryvexan? It is time for us to embark on a Tryvexan journey and you can discover Tryvexan in a variety of styles, shapes, and sizes. In that case, you run the risk of being branded as a wimp. I suspect this is providing a few insight. Don't get carried away with Tryvexan. That wasn't fulfilling our fantasy. Do you publish photos of your Tryvexan online for the amusement of your friends? I want to focus less on Tryvexan. I hope that's not a quandary for you in the context of Tryvexan although I'm certain to help you with it.


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The Jiushin Kan Malta
The Dojo - Jiushin Kan
Jiushin Ryu Jujutsu
The Bajada Brothers
History and Introduction
Jujutsu (also commonly and incorrectly spelled as jiu-jitsu and ju-jitsu), is a Japanese martial art and a system of close combat. Jujutsu is classified as a grappling art, but consists of both striking and grappling. It covers a vast array of techniques, such as takedowns and throws (nage-waza), joint locks (kansetsu-waza) and chokes (shime-waza). The art was an essential part of training for the samurai warriors.
"Jū" can be translated as "yielding, gentle, soft, supple, flexible, or pliable", and "jutsu" can be translated as "art, skill, or technique". "Jujutsu" thus has the meaning of "yielding-art", as its core philosophy is to manipulate the opponent's force against him/herself rather than confronting it with one's own force.
Jujutsu has been known from feudal times under various names, such as yawara, kumiuchi, kogusoku, taijutsu, wajutsu, torite, and even judo (as early as 1724). The names jujutsu and yawara were the most widely used.
The old jujutsu schools (koryu) were not limited by style boundaries, but made use of the best possible methods and techniques that their circumstances allowed. They were truly mixed martial arts schools and comprehensive systems.
To date, many koryu jujutsu still exist thanks to unbroken transitions of leadership through the ages. When the Edo period brought lasting peace to Japan, jujutsu evolved into unarmed combat systems for civilian life. These are correctly classified as Edo jujutsu. After or near the end of the Tokugawa period (1868), what is known as gendai (modern) jujutsu started developing.
Some of the ryu also include seifukujutsu (adjustment and restoration art) and kappo (resuscitation methods). It was believed that one who knows how to cause damage to the body and to life, must also know how to reverse it and preserve life.
Over time, gendai jujutsu has been embraced by law enforcement officials worldwide, and continues to be the foundation for many specialized systems used by police. The most famous of these specialized police systems is the taiho-jutsu (arresting art) system formulated and employed by the Tokyo Police Department. Jujutsu techniques have been the basis for many military unarmed combat techniques (including British/US/Russian special forces and SO1 police units) for many years.
Some derivative forms developed into competitive sports, most notably judo (Olympic sport), BJJ and sambo. Jujutsu skills and techniques were fundamental in the development of MMA (mixed martial arts) competition, where they continue to prove their worth.
Original Kodokan Judo (founded in 1882 by Jigoro Kano) was a form of, and a development of, jujutsu. In fact, it was a collection of some of the best techniques from a number of jujutsu schools. It was Kano's vision to unite jujutsu under one system with the ideals of 'mutual benefit' and 'minimum efort, maximum efficiency'. Several of Japan's prominent jujutsu masters frequently gathered under the guidance of Kano to form the syllabus of judo and its technical ruleset. One such event was the famous gathering at the Butoku Kai in 1905.
One of the most prominent jujutsuka at the time was Mataemon Tanabe, 4th soke (headmaster) of Fusen Ryu. Mataemon Tanabe was a pioneer of modern ne-waza (ground fighting). He developed his skills mostly through experience while touring the country with his father, since the age of 14, accepting challenges and taking part in tournaments, often fighting older and heavier men. He bested the Kodokan exponents with his ground fighting skills on many occasions, and thus, it is of no surprise that Kano invited Tanabe to input his knowledge in the formation of Kodokan Judo. He was equally skilled in tachi-waza (stand-up techniques). Tanabe has long been considered as one of the greatest gendai jujutsuka.
Jujutsu, the current standard spelling, is derived using the Hepburn romanization system. Before the first half of the 20th century, however, jiu-jitsu and then ju-jitsu were preferred, even though the romanization of the second kanji as jitsu is unfaithful to the standard Japanese pronunciation. Jitsu has a different kanji character and meaning. Since Japanese martial arts first became widely known of in the West in that time period, these earlier spellings are still common in many places. Ju-jitsu is still a common spelling in France, Canada and the United Kingdom, while jiu-jitsu is most widely used in Germany and Brazil.
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The working processes of artists: Tim De Cotta
In this video, LASALLE students Nicole Kessler and Marian Saturno speak to musician Tim De Cotta on his (many) musical influences, how he talks about social issues through music and how to keep your art pure. Tim De Cotta is a vocalist, bassist, songwriter and producer styled in R&B and hip hop, and founder of events company Getai Group. This video can also be viewed on YouTube.
Between February to April 2019, BA in Arts Management students from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, embarked on an artist documentation project as part of their module History & Contextual Studies: materials, methods, history. The first-year students were tasked with interviewing an artist to better understand an aspect of their practice – their processes and influences, issues they were interested in exploring through their artmaking – and to produce the result of the interview in the form of a video.
The students were given brief parameters for the project but creative freedom in how they executed the
brief and shot and edited their videos. They were also allowed to select any artist to interview. Some immediately gravitated to an artist they admired, some selected from within their own artistic communities, while others chose artists they were unfamiliar with or simply curious about. Six of the best videos will be shown in partnership with ArtsEquator.
This video of Tim De Cotta is part of a video project by BA Arts Management students of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. This is the last of the six-part series. For more videos, click here.
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We just launched Fantastic Floridas, a new online journal, with the purpose of highlighting the intersection of Florida, literature, books and the uncategorizable. We think that, over the course of the year, the aesthetic will start to crystalize. Other than posting weekly, we are frankly finding this lack of boundaries to be pretty refreshing. Which is why we are now taking open submissions of any work that has a Florida connection.
We will say: the stronger the connection the better.
We will say: no fiction or poetry please (we do that elsewhere).
Literary writing about Florida (place-based, history-based, weird Florida, cultures, subcultures… all of which could be with a journalistic or personal approach).
Evergreen coverage of Florida literary happenings and culture (like conferences and MFA programs and reading series… be it in the form of a profile or personal essay or whatever).
Personal essay / review hybrids about books/stories/poems set in Florida (in other words, not a straight-forward book review). This could focus on one work or be an examination of several works in relation to one another.
Personal essay / review hybrids about non-literary media set in Florida (TV, movies, etc).
Essays about what the hell "Florida literature" means.
Anything that subverts the dumbed-down stereotypes of what Florida is supposed to be.
We cannot offer payment for this feature (for now!). We ask for first serial rights, and electronic archival rights. Rights revert to you upon publication. If your piece is published elsewhere, please credit Fantastic Floridas.


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Headquartered in New York City, Paramount Group, Inc. is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust that owns, operates, manages, acquires and redevelops high-quality, Class A office properties located in select central business district submarkets of New York City and San Francisco. Paramount is focused on maximizing the value of its portfolio by leveraging the sought-after locations of its assets and its proven property management capabilities to attract and retain high-quality tenants.
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Warmer climate prolongs mushroom season
September 1, 2012 - 06:20
The wild mushroom season has grown longer the last 40 years in Norway and elsewhere in Europe. More chanterelles, certainly, but the changes can be challenging.
Keywords: Climate Change, Food, Mushroom, Nature
By: Magnus Holm
Scientists attribute longer mushroom seasons to climate change. (Photo: Strobilomyces/Wikimedia Commons)
Researchers from the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute have studied how the mushroom season has varied in the past four decades.
Together with European colleagues, they have analysed data from Norway, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland from 1970 to 2007 and found a clear tendency: the mushroom season starts later and lasts longer.
Extensive survey
The researchers have studied the most common cap mushrooms in each country, a total of nearly 750,000 individual fungi. They've looked at when the mushroom season starts, peaks and ends.
Their results have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
"In all four of the countries we studied, the autumn mushroom season has been prolonged. It starts a little earlier and ends a little later," says Assistant Professor Håvard Kauserud of the UiO's Department of Biology.
Ways in which the mushroom season have been altered vary from country to country and among different mushroom groups.
According to Kauserud, mushrooms that decompose dead organic matter, known as saprotrophic fungi, have a longer season than species living in symbiosis with plant roots. These are designated as mycorrhizal fungi, which include such delicacies as chanterelles and porcini.
Researchers observe a general trend toward longer and later mushroom seasons.
"In all four countries the average fruiting period has shifted to a little later. This means the main peak of the mushroom season comes a little later than before and the season is prolonged," says the researcher.
Effects of climate changes
The changes are particularly dramatic in the United Kingdom, where the mushroom season has been radically extended. According to the researchers, this is probably because the UK generally has a coastal climate, with mild winters and relatively cool summers. Scientists believe that climate changes are the probable cause of the extended mushroom season.
Håvard Kauserud links changes in the mushroom season with our warmer climate. (Photo: Yngve Vogt)
"We think this is an effect of climate changes, in other words a warmer climate. This is also manifested by the lengthening of the growth season for plants, which the mushrooms depend upon," explains Kauserud.
"In many countries the mushroom season ends when the frosts and snow come. In all four of the countries, we see the first nights with frost are coming later in the autumn than they used to. This is probably a factor enabling the fruiting of the mushrooms to last longer."
Good news and bad news
The fungi researchers' findings are great for mushroom pickers:
"Our findings indicate the mushroom season is getting longer, which can be viewed as good news. The longer growth season possibly enables plants to supply their associated mushrooms with more carbohydrates so that more fruit bodies can sprout up," says Kauserud.
However, a lengthened mushroom season isn't necessarily without problems. Fungi are integral to many ecosystems and they are essential in decomposing dead material. A later and longer mushroom season can thus have consequences for the ecosystems we depend on for life.
The mycologists think changes in the active seasons for mushrooms can impact the carbon and CO2 balance on the planet. But the question is how?
"More favourable climatic conditions for decomposers would in theory lead to a faster terrestrian carbon cycle and increased natural emissions of CO2. Favourable conditions for mycorrhizal mushrooms would increase metabolism among host plants, generating more photosynthesis. So more carbon would be organically trapped – in other words less CO2," says Kauserud.
"Mycorrhizal fungi can also decompose dead organic matter and contribute to a faster cycle of nutrients and increased quantities of CO2. So here are two effects that pull in opposite directions when it comes to greater or lesser quantities of CO2. We don't know enough yet about the total effects."
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Your personalized events calendar shows if and when a geocaching event is nearby. You can view details about an event, its location on a map, or see if your friends are attending the event. And you can select RSVP to log your "Will attend" right there.
The events calendar shows events from the previous, current, and upcoming month within a 100 mile (160 km) radius from your home coordinates. You can select any date to see further information about up to 2 events near you that day, and the closest Mega- or Giga-Event.
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Hey, that's cool! I think I like it.
Two things: I'm seeing up to 3 regular and/or CITO events per day (which I think is just fine, but you said it would be 2 events) and the Going Ape 2017 mega isn't showing up on 8/19, even though it's within my 100 mile radius.
Nice feature. It helps to fill in the vast empty space on the dashboard.
Your personalized events calendar shows if and when a geocaching event is nearby.
The events calendar shows events from the previous, current, and upcoming month within a 100 mile (160 km) radius from your home coordinates.
Give us a setting so we can define what "nearby" means to each of us and you'd have a real winner. If I had the option, I'd set mine to only about 40 km. Any farther and I most likely need to pay for a ferry and/or cross into another country.
Like Windstorm+, I'm also seeing a max of three events rather than the quoted two, and no Mega/Giga events.
A suggestion: The "Search events" link appears after you select a date, but all it does is a regular event search with the results sorted by distance from home. By its placement, it implies that it might search for all events on that date, since that's when it appeared as an option. In order to reduce this confusion, it should be moved somewhere else and/or relabeled to something like "Show all nearby events" and/or made to be visible all the time.
Another suggestion: It would be great if events that I've logged as "Will attend" were highlighted in some way in the list, as well as the date highlighted on the calendar. That would make it easy at-a-glance to see what events are coming up that I need to remember to show up at.
Cool. Very very cool. With a few improvements, it might eliminate the need for our local event calendar, which is a shared Google calendar that is manually maintained.
Here are a few thoughts after playing around with it a little.
I have to open the event listing to see when the event is. I can get a rough idea of where it is from the direction and distance indicated, and if I click I get a better idea where it is from the map that appears. But I still have to open the listing because I can't find the time the event is being held.
There is no way to get back to "today" after I've been scrolling around, other than to scroll around again.
I would like more control over the search radius. Better yet, I'd like control over the shape of the search region. I might attend a meet & greet event within 20 miles of home, but I work 40 miles from home and I might also attend a lunchtime event within a few miles of work. And I might attend a special event (a mega-event or perhaps Venona's FINAL ACTIVITY EVENT 2017) that is within 50 miles of home. But a search radius of 100 miles is overkill.
Sometimes the map shows me nothing I can recognize. I can zoom in/out using the scrollwheel on my mouse, but it would be nice to include some sort of visible controls for zooming in/out.
The calendar shows me this month and next month. There are local events scheduled for the month after that, but I have to use the "Search events" link to find them.
How are the top 3 events selected for the calendar? On 8/27 there's an event 71 km from me (GC7AG22), but it doesn't show. The three listed are all farther away (113.6 km, 116.68 km, 134.55 km).
GC7AJKK doesn't show at all on my calendar on Sept 1. It's 51 km away.
Ditto the request to customize the search radius. Most of the ones over 100 km / 62 miles away from me are in another country.
That looks good, and will be very useful.
FWIW you should remove the full stop (period) from the hyperlink to the dashboard in the OP as clicking it results in a runtime error, and it's only a matter of time before somebody thinks something is broken.
My only complaint is that the calendat floats (sinks?) down below my recent activity list. It would be nice to have it immediately below "Premium Tools". This is on my tablet in portrait mode. In landscape it is high and to the right, which is good.
I'm another one keen for the user to be allowed to customise the distance we want to be shown. Generally I don't want to go 100 miles for an event, but I might for a CITO and certainly a Mega. Giving us the option for setting each of these types (or at least, all 3 together) would be great. Actually, when you go to the Events Quick Search from the main geocaching home page, the default for that is 30 miles, so it seems odd that your calendar has more than tripled that.
I know there is an event on 10.4 miles form me on 20th August, but it's not showing at all on the calendar (nothing is for 20th). But clicking the "search events" link it's the first result that shows up - as it's the closest to home!
Another case in point - when I select 10th August, it shows me 3 Side Tracked 10th Anniversary events, ~17 miles, ~31 miles and ~40 miles away. It DOESN'T show me the event I hosted which was only ~10 miles from my home co-ords! Does it not show anything you own or attended?
Also, why limit the results panel to 3 when you select at date? To be most useful, it should show ALL events for that date within the given radius.
So, a good idea which will be great once a few annoying bugs are ironed out.
It's a nice additional feature but looks like it's buggy - An event GC797P1 is 39km from me but doesn't show up on Aug 21 (in fact I get no events on that day so I don't even see the '21').
The event does show up if I click the 'search events' link below, but of course that 'search events' link only shows up if I click on a different date - when I click where '21' should be, the 'search events' link disappears!
Have you thought about setting up a Beta Testers group and having loads of us from around the world all test out your new features for a week or two before general release?
* also to the previous, highlight days (and/or events) where a Will Attend has been posted.
Hey, nice! I would however also like to see a customisable distance. For tomorrow I get an event 128km away, which is a lot! Are the green days on the calendar those where I logged a will attend and the piggy pink ones those where I didn't? I just logged a 'will attend' on an event, thus yes, seems to be the case. Neat!
What does RSVP mean, btw?
It's french... Répondez s'il vous plaît meaning "Reply if you please".
I didn't think along those lines with the general dumbing down of the website (sorry, I'm so sorry!). Might be difficult to understand for non-French speakers, or if this is a commom expression in the US for people in the rest of the world. What about 'Attend'?
I guess that in this case, "Will Attend" is the desired log.
It's one of those things that we can expect to see in a wedding invitation.
There are some other acronyms around... RIP, INRI, CV, QED, LGBoTP (Let's Get Back on Topic Please) etc.
Might be difficult to understand for non-French speakers, or if this is a commom expression in the US for people in the rest of the world.
It is a common expression in the US - not only on wedding invites but just about any type of invitation - typically you'll see RSVP and a phone number or name. That means you are expected to let the host/hostess know whether or not you plan to attend so they have an idea of what/how many to expect.
The event that you have logged a Will Attend on should be displaying a little calendar icon in the event details on the Events Widget. Let me know if it's not showing up for you and we'll get a bug entered.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be changing this back to 'Will Attend' as we realize that RSVP may not translate appropriately for everyone. You'll see that change happen in the next few day or so.
Thanks for letting us know, Windstorm+. It's displaying the same for me. We'll be adjusting the priority order of events to show the Mega/Giga events first if there is one within the radius and there are other events that are closer to your home coords.
to allow the user to access the full list of caches scheduled for that date?
Thanks for the feedback, thebruce0.
We'll discuss the adjustable distance option as a team - need to figure out some logistics behind that one.
Great idea to display an event outside of the radius that has a Will Attend or Attended on it - super useful for geotravelers! We have a ticket on the board to get this one implemented.
Days that have a Will Attend or Attended posted should be displaying in green on the calendar and have a little icon next to it in the list view. We are seeing some bug reports of the green shading not occurring for these events and will try to get it sorted out soon.
If there are more than 3 events within the radius for a particular date then the 'Search events' is supposed to bring the user to the filtered search results that show them all event types. Soon we will be adding the radius (within 100mi/160km) and a sort order by ascending date to these results - at which point the user can change the filters to any radius they prefer.
Can you share the GC codes for these 2 issues, please? We'd love to get to the bottom of why some events aren't showing up on the calendar for people.
It would be nice if there were some indication whether the three displayed events are all that are scheduled for that day, or whether the "Search events" link will turn up additional events that might be of interest.
Thanks a lot for your answer, Jayme. I'm looking forward to the change.
I'm getting neither the green highlighted day nor an icon on the list for an event I logged as "Will attend" for tomorrow. It's GC79DQY, the first one in my list for August 19th (International Geocachin...). The screenshots below were taken in IE11, but I see the same thing in Firefox 55.0.2.
I think what niraD meant is that if, for example, there are only two events shown, then you know that's all there is on that day. However, if there are three listed, there's no way to know at-a-glance whether there are only three events on that day or if there are more. You'd have to go to the full event search, sort by date, find the date in question, and see if there are any other events.
The event calendar does not appear to count "will attend" logs on one's own event. We're hosting an event tomorrow (GC79YQ6) and logged "Will attend," but that date still ain't green on the calendar. Not like I really need the extra reminder on our own event, of course; just pointing it out.
As I'm going to an event today I noticed one little niggle in usability. Not sure how to solve this properly though. Maybe there isn't a solution.
And a thought: would it be possible to add temporary locations to the event calender (or for everything) for those people that travel a lot? Add the travel date range and location somewhere and events during that time are also displayed on the calender. Thinking further, this might also be cool for notifications on newly published caches (maybe using the existing settings) and other things.
To be honest, I hadn't even stumbled on that feature until you mentioned it. I just figured that if you clicked on one of the events, that it would take you to its listing. It isn't obvious that clicking on it will do otherwise. Maybe there should be a little expand/collapse arrow indicating that clicking will expand rather than navigate you somewhere?
I just stumbled on another reason why I hadn't noticed this part of the feature. I often middle-click on links to open them in new tabs, rather than just clicking and not knowing if it will open in the current tab or in a new one. When you middle-click on one of the event links (before expanding and showing the map), it opens the listing in a new tab.
Thank you to everyone who is using the new events calendar and providing feedback. There are a lot of great features and ideas that we are documenting and prioritizing to add/update in a follow-up iteration. We are looking into some of the sorting issues and will be giving Megas and Gigas additional priority when viewing the upcoming events on a specific day. Multiple people have requested that the distance should be configurable and I think there is a valid use case to consider so we will be looking into this, but I cannot commit to a timeline on that change yet.
As you might know there was a pretty major astronomical event yesterday so if we are slower to respond it isn't because we aren't listening!
Why is the closer event not being listed in the calendar, and should it be at the top of the listing as it is my closest event.
Thanks for the helpful, detailed bug information, Boggin's Dad. We've heard about this troublesome bug from a bunch of folks and are working to get it figured out. Hopefully we'll have a fix soon.
There does not seem to be a rhyme or reason as to when dates turn green for events I've posted "Will Attend."
I posted "Will Attend" for three separate events in August: GC79DN7 on 11 August, GC79W4W on 15 August, and GC79YQ6 on 19 August.
Today I am seeing one green square on the calendar, on 11 August.
Yesterday I saw one green square on the calendar, for 15 August.
Other days I have seen zero green squares.
Greetings! A new build has been released for the event widget to resolve some of the issues that have been reported, particularly with not showing events that are nearby. There were a few things going on, but mainly we were previously capping the number of events that were being returned so for some of you who are in areas with lots of events you were not seeing all of your events - in certain cases this affected nearby events more than others.
We are hiding archived events unless you logged a 'will attend' or 'attended'.
"RSVP" has been updated to "Will Attend"
Thanks for the fixes. I'm now seeing a green box for a previous date where I attended an event, which wasn't working before. I don't have any upcoming Will attends at this time, so I can't test that part.
Thanks for the feedback, The A-Team. Glad to hear that it is indeed working more like what we expected. We will be chatting as a team about adding some more customizable options for the calendar widget soon. The feedback that we have been hearing from everyone here has been super helpful. Stay tuned!
I'm not seeing the event owner listed in the events calendar anymore. Under the event name, it says something like "by | 18.75 mi" (with a little direction arrow in front of the distance).
In addition to the customization of the search radius, and some indication of whether the three events shown are all that are scheduled for that date or just the first of many, I would also like to see the time of the event in the calendar widget.
...I would also like to see the time of the event in the calendar widget.
Yep! We would LOVE to include that, as well. Unfortunately it's a bigger project than just adding it to the widget, as we don't currently have that information (we don't ask for it during the cache submission process). There is another team that is planning some improvements in that process and we have asked for that tidbit to be included. It would be a nice win for the calendar widget for sure.
I'd guess that including the time of the event would require a change to the Event Cache submission form, to include a field where the event owner notes the time. Otherwise, how can the widget know the event's time?
Yep. Jayme H pointed out that the DB doesn't currently have that information.
I've gotten used to our local Google calendar that shows events (which is maintained by a volunteer). It includes the times of the events. Thus, when I saw Groundspeak's new event calendar widget, I missed seeing the times of the events on the calendar, and mentioned it.
Is this still happening for you? With the recent fixes we released I can't repro it anymore. Let me know if you are still seeing only pink/red on days that you have logged a 'Will Attend' or an 'Attend' for an event.
I'm also seeing something like what Windstorm+ described.
See image below. For some events, the owner space is blank and the distance is moved far to the right. Maybe it's because the owners have an ampersand in their name, although an event on 9/3 shows up similarly and that CO does not have any special characters in their name. But it is odd. @Jayme H you probably see a similar calendar to mine, so you could look at event on 8/12, 8/18, 8/19, 9/1, 9/3, 9/14, 9/23, 9/30, 10/11, and 10/12 for examples. I saw this blank CO name on Firefox, Edge, and Chrome.
Hi @noncentric - thank you for the report. Previously the owner name was missing so we were working on adding it back in. Now the event owner name is being included, but our styling went a little sideways so it is being pushed down to a separate line and hidden in some cases. We've created a ticket and will be resolving it soon.
Nope, I posted on Wednesday that it's working now and you already responded.
D'oh! Yeah, I just reread your post that I already responded to. LOL!
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This Big Fish Games new release is brought to us by Five-BN Games & it's the next one in a series of Lost Land games. In this installment, Susan is heading home but a relic is found on Earth keeping her gone longer. The time away from her son has caused strain, as if she doesn't have enough to deal with, so Susan has to mend that relationship & save the World. No pressure!
Lost Lands: Redemption Collector's Edition is listed as a hidden object game but I'm kind of struggling with it being put into that category. To me it felt more like an adventure game with hidden object games used more like mini games. Lost Lands is a series & I've not played any games in this series before, so this is possibly the way these play out. I'm not saying anything is wrong with this but when I hear "hidden object" I don't think if solving puzzles & getting tasks. I think of lists of items to search for. I played for about 20 minutes of the 90 minutes of the free game play your given with this one & I only had 1 screen where I had a list of items to search for & it seemed to show up as an aside. More like a mini game than part of the actual game.
This is a Collector's Edition so if you choose to buy this game, you'll pay a little more for it, but you'll get more than you do with standard editions. According to the Big Fish site, you have a bonus chapter, morphing objects, collections, achievements, wallpaper, concept art & more. This full version is $19.99 but game club members can get it for $13.99.
My final observations for Lost Lands: Redemption Collector's Edition: The graphics are beautiful! Very lifelike & the text isn't glitchy when there is dialogue between characters. Be prepared for A LOT of dialogue though. I'm not a fan of that. It slows down the game, in my opinion. Sure, sometimes it's necessary to have some conversation when you have an in-depth story line like this one, but it seemed like each time I solved a puzzle, someone popped up to have a conversation with someone else. This is not an exaggeration, I'd say out of the short 20 minutes that I played, probably 7 minutes of that was character dialogue. That's a lot! If you're a fan of Five-BN Games, you'll probably enjoy this, it might be very characteristic of their work. If you like adventure games, give the 90 minutes free play a try. I'd say give the free play a try anyway. If you've got the time to sit back & play a game, you might like this one. It's not my cup of tea but I'm impatient & I like games with instant gratification. If you play this one, let me know what you think.
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Since we know how important at-home-entertainment is for all of us – every week we do a little "what's getting released on DVD/on demand/Netflix this week" round up for you, with nice little excerpts of our past reviews and more. You'll love it. Trust us.
OUT THIS WEEK & PROCEED WITH CAUTION:
Ghost in the Shell. Here's Emily Yoshida over at Vulture:
For all the liberties the new Ghost in the Shell takes with its source material, it's more invested in that title, specifically the "ghost" soul of its cyborg protagonist, than any of its predecessors in the long-running anime and manga franchise. That's not to say that it does anything dramatically interesting about that soul, or asks many challenging questions about what it's like for a person to persist, divorced from their original body. But it is obsessed with idea that Major "Mira" (Scarlett Johansson) must unlock her true individuality to defeat the system, an extraordinarily American narrative shoddily grafted onto the original story like a black-market crab-claw arm. The body rejects it almost immediately.
Black Butterfly. Here's April Wolfe over at The Village Voice:
At best, all this might sound like an amusing setup with the potential for twists and fun. But this movie has none of the goofy thrill of the good King adaptations. Goodman shoots everything in pea greens and dry browns shrouded in dull gray, which smothers in drab seriousness a story that could do with some style — and some self-awareness of how derivative it is. Pretty quickly, Jack goes full-on Annie Wilkes when he gives Paul the 12-step pep-talk to quit the bottle and get back to work on his screenplay. Ex-con Jack starts cutting any distractions from Paul's work, seizing his car keys and trapping him in the house under the guise of doing a good deed. If only Jack had a personality as strong as Kathy Bates' to prop him up.
OUT THIS WEEK & WORTH YOUR TIME:
Kong: Skull Island. Here's yours truly over at The Washington City Paper:
Kong: Skull Island is admirable in its desire to get right into the good stuff. The screenplay introduces characters with two lines of dialogue, sometimes less, and the threadbare exposition functions as a break from one jaw-dropping set piece after another. This is the rousing special effects extravaganza that Jurassic World should have been: director Jordan Vogt-Roberts barely has any pretense of a story and instead lets the creatures—who are frightening, awesome, and vivid—bellow and shriek for themselves. There is some resonance here, since Kong: Skull Island serves as a metaphor for misguided American exceptionalism surrounding the Vietnam War.
INSTANT VIEWING OF THE WEEK (more sci-fi edition):
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (now on Netflix). Here's what we said in our original review:
Rogue One represents a challenge for the ever-expanding Star Wars universe. It is the first big-screen entry that is not explicitly about the Skywalker family, so its failure could interrupt Disney's plan for an annual Star Wars movie until well beyond our lifetimes. The best thing about Rogue One is that director Gareth Edwards and his team see the challenge as an opportunity. By focusing on a new-ish set of characters and goals, we are able to see the intergalactic civil war with more grit, danger, and heroism than we have from the previous seven episodes. Rogue One is not perfect, but it represents an exciting growth – in cinematic and narrative terms – of what a Star Wars film can be.
Star Trek Beyond (now on Amazon Prime). Here's Matt Singer over at ScreenCrush:
Though it's made at the scale of a modern Hollywood tentpole, Star Trek Beyond has the soul of the quirky, personal indies Pegg co-wrote and starred in for director Edgar Wright, which blended genre trappings with rich themes and ideas. This movie isn't just fun; it's sincere and sweet and downright inspiring. At a time when the nightly news feels increasingly apocalyptic, Star Trek Beyond offers an upbeat alternative. In its rejection of the politics of fear, Star Trek Beyond is hopelessly out of touch with the zeitgeist. But sometimes being in touch with the zeitgeist is overrated. This movie doesn't put a mirror up to society, it shines like a beacon pointing a way forward, if only we're bold enough to take it.
Europa Report (now on Netflix). Here's what we said in our original review:
I don't know whether Sebastián Cordero saw Prometheus before he made Europa Report, but his stripped-down sci-fi thriller made me think of a famous quote from Jean-Luc Godard: "The best way to criticize a movie is to make another movie." Broadly speaking, both films have the same premise: a group of scientists travel to a planet on the hunch there might be some life there. Whereas Prometheus devolves with inane plot logic, Cordero and screenwriter Philip Gelatt stay true to their characters. Up until the bitter end, the scientists act like intellectually curious professionals, and while they care for each other, there are no heroics.
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Some numbers recently came out supporting what looks like strong growth in consumer credit - quite an improvement from a couple of years ago.
BusinessWeek: U.S. consumer borrowing rose in October to the highest level in two years, propelled by gains in non-revolving debt like auto and student loans.
Credit increased by $7.65 billion to $2.46 trillion, the most since October 2009, Federal Reserve figures showed today in Washington. The advance was in line with the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News that projected a $7 billion gain.
The good news here may be that lending from banks, credit unions, and finance companies must have markedly improved in the US.
Let's first take a look at the growth in revolving credit (credit cards, etc.). As the chart below shows, the revolving credit component has basically been flat over the quarter.
That must mean, as the BusinessWeek story points out, that the increase came from non-revolving credit. The next chart shows it to be the case indeed.
Now we are getting somewhere. The next obvious question is who exactly is providing non-revolving credit to consumers and what has been the longer-term trend. The next chart is quite informative. It turns out that growth in consumer credit is very much driven by the federal government and not by banks whose non-revolving loan ownership has been constant.
To put things in perspective, here is a longer period chart showing total non-revolving credit as well as that provided by banks, and by the US government.
Note that some of the growth in consumer credit in years past and recently was achieved via ABS securitization (not shown on the chart), but that certainly does not explain the full move in consumer credit.
Where is all that government sponsored non-revolving consumer credit coming from? Uncle Sam is generally not in the business of providing car loans, so that leaves government sponsored student loans. The table below shows the increases in student loan activity by the US Department of Education.
Consumer credit is indeed increasing at a nice clip, but it seems to have little to do with any easing of credit at banks and much more to do with US government sponsored programs.


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This month's theme is Lost and we're delighted to welcome Fiona Barry from Anew Support Services to speak on this theme. Anew is a specialist organisation working specifically with pregnant women and new mothers who are experiencing or have recently experienced homelessness.
Our wonderful sponsor, The Tara Building, has been working with Anew since 2018. This month's theme, along with the shortlisting of Anew for a Charity Impact Award seemed like the perfect opportunity to invite Fiona to speak.
Fiona has worked in the social care sector for nearly 30 years and has had a senior role in a number of large homeless organisations. Fiona has a huge amount of drive and wants to deliver responsive services to the people who need it most, and works to ensure people who are experiencing homelessness exit it and return to education and employment as quickly as possible. This is what Anew strives to do with the women who find themselves in need of additional support.
Our own Michelle O'Connor wrote & co-produced the following video with David Laurence for Anew to showcase the amazing work they do. The video was animated by long-time CM_Dub supporter, Guy with Red Beard Motion. Then, Tara Building Alumnus Clare Dunne provided the voice over.
If you get a chance, please cast a vote for Anew in the Charity Impact Awards, as this award will allow Anew to continue their great work while they are often overlooked by some of the larger, more high profile organisations.
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Meet our speakers: Michael Bosonnet
Michael spoke as part of our #CMCommunity event in August, and before he took to the floor, Michelle spoke to him about what 'community' means to him. Michael is a member of the Tara Building, and has found that community to be hugely accessible.
Michael has a business background but works in a creative way and has found that the creative scene in Dublin, while it is exciting, isn't always entirely accessible. However, since joining the Tara Building, he has met all types of creatives: photographers, journalists, editors, stylists and music video directors.
He has attended most CreativeMornings in The Tara Building and really enjoys them. In particular, he loved Jennie McGinn's talk for #CMPioneer in November 2017. In that, Jennie spoke about the foundation and fall of Opsh, and how their failure led them to new directions.
Michael will be speaking in The Tara Building, as part of Culture Night 2018, where he will discuss the use of data in business and creativity. He will talk about his experience of using data and human decision making with the understanding that combining the two is powerful, which is where his RADAR method comes in.
Find out more about Culture Night at The Tara Building here, and about Michael here.
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Meet our speakers: Colette Henry.
Colette spoke as part of our #CMCommunity event in August, and before she took to the stage for her 2 minutes, she spoke to Michelle about what community means to her. Colette is a member of a few different communities, and one she set up herself is the 'Kinder to Earth' Facebook group that she runs in order to build awareness as to how we can be kinder to the earth.
'It's a community because we share ideas, innovations from companies that are doing well, and we support each others' posts. I moderate it and encourage others to share, but I also know that there are many people who enjoy the updates and have made changes but don't share posts or engage.'
Needless to say, World Clean-up Day is something that Colette is very passionate about. 'It is most certainly a community experience - we are cleaning our community, then we sit and chat and have a quick drink together. It brings people together…'
Colette has been an avid attendee of CreativeMornings since March, and has also been a member of The Tara Building since she attended #CMCourage with Nick Kelly.
She said: 'A friend invited me along to the event, and I had known Nick Kelly but hadn't seen him since moving back from London, so I wanted to see him. I was also finishing up a full-time job and beginning to look at co-working spaces in Dublin and Tara was on my list to see. I was the 4th person to get a ticket on that Monday morning when they were released! I never actually even looked at other co-working spaces!'
Colette is a face regularly seen at CreativeMornings now, and it's because she likes the vibe of the events. 'I love to see people meeting up with friends they didn't know were coming, to be introduced to new friends or randomly bumping into someone as they are queuing for coffee.'
For Colette, CM is all about the community: 'The speakers are important, of course, but I think the most important thing is the sense of community and support.'
World Clean Up Day is happening on September 15 and everyone is welcome, you can see the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1790086267727164/
Elizabeth Moen was our musician for #CMCommunity, and Specky Scribbler sat down with her for a coffee and some chats about creativity and community.
I got the opportunity to sit down and speak with Elizabeth Moen before she took to the floor for August's CreativeMornings. We sat down and discussed all things creativity. From Iowa City, Elizabeth never had ideas of becoming a singer-songwriter, and only wrote her first song during her junior year of college.
Then, the songs just poured out of her and she could not stop. Elizabeth said that she was surprised when she wrote something, about how open she was with her lyrics. It was in writing that she was her most honest, with herself and with others.
While in Iowa City, she was hanging around with writers, going to parties that were full of writers, musicians and artists. They all encouraged her to continue doing what she was doing, and when she came to Dublin first, she felt even more encouraged.
The music scene is Dublin, and Ireland as a whole, is very vibrant. There are small, intimate gigs taking part on a nightly basis, and open mic nights where everyone is encouraged to attend, with no obligation to take part.
Elizabeth was in Dublin for a month, and she said that every night she played music, or watched other people. It's what she loves about playing in Ireland: everyone is supportive. If they're not playing, they'll come and watch you play. Elizabeth says it's a really nice thing, that everyone is working incredibly hard as artists, but still remains supportive of other artists.
Elizabeth's booking agent for Ireland, Laura, asked Elizabeth if she'd be willing to play at CreativeMornings, and told her it was just a really good environment. As someone who is heavily involved in CreativeMornings, I feel it's a really supportive space. Hearing others say that the events are supportive and the audience appreciative is wonderful.
It's exactly what CreativeMornings strives to be, and is why we are up to the members of the community for the theme of Community. Dublin made Elizabeth go for it with her music, and the support she received here is something she has thoroughly enjoyed.
For Elizabeth, music is everything. When she's not touring, she lives out of her car. Everything she owned she gave away, sold or is in her car. She has no steady place to live and nothing holding her back, which she finds liberating.
Having no ties to any one place has enabled you to come to Ireland and tour for a month, before embarking on a 3 and a half month tour of the United States.
Her latest LP, A Million Miles Away, was released on September 1 and can be streamed on Spotify. Attendees got the opportunity to listen to it before it was released online, and it was powerful, powerful stuff. Give it a listen and see what you think, you won't regret it.
CreativeMornings/Dublin open every event with live music from local artists. This month, Dowry will be performing ahead of Briony Somers.
Michelle from Specky Scribbler sat down with the voice behind Dowry, Éna Brennan to discuss all things creative in Dublin (and beyond).
How did you get the gig to perform at CM?
I was recommended to the host by a mutual friend of ours, Robbie Blake, of Tonnta. He suggested to Aiden that I might be a good performer and so then Aiden sent me a brief email and asked if I'd be interested.
I definitely was, and the context of the event made me even more interested. I'd heard about CM, more so the international branches, but I'd heard about them and I liked the sound of them and then watching the archive I saw how engaged people are.
Then when I was asked to perform, I like having to think about the ways in which my music links in with the theme of the event: intention.
My music is going to open up the conversation in the room and I like that. It's something I'm really looking forward to.
How do you find the creative scene in Dublin?
I got involved in the creative scene/industry in Ireland initially through my social circles in university. Then I got involved in playing with bands, and with people who were in bands. So I initially started in the scene as a performer and then I began to appreciate performances based on participation.
What I love about it is that it's so supportive. We all go to each other's shows. We all collaborate with each other. Some people are in 5 bands. It's also the collaboration between visual artists and musicians.
What are you most excited about for Friday?
The engagement. I've chosen music that fits the topic and the event is a very focused one. You can be dynamic as a musician, and adapt to the audience. From watching videos of past events I saw that the audience are respectful and engaged.
I'll play music to fit a theme, a topic. It gets into the nitty gritty of that topic and it's a more considered approach to other gigs. I've had to think about how I open up the theme of the event, the conversation.
I'm mixing instrumental pieces and pieces with lyrics because as literal as some lyrics are, there is a tranquility in non-linguistic pieces of music. They are evocative in different ways for different people without being imposing.
I'm just excited to get involved.
June's theme is Craft, and ahead of our event on 29th June, our resident blogger, Specky Scribbler, met with our speaker, Gerry Scullion, to have lunch and pick his brains.
Gerry Scullion is only recently back in Dublin. He's been back just over 2 months, after spending 12 years in Australia. He set up Humana Design down under, where he offered his human-centred design services to everyone and anyone who wanted them.
I'll admit that when I heard that Gerry was a 'human-centred designer', I thought he coded things for humans. Like artificial intelligence or robots, or something like that. I guess human-centred design could include these things, but it also is a lot more.
When I spoke to Gerry, I had ideas in mind about what I'd ask him. How he came to be a human-centred designer, how he found CreativeMornings, what he thought about the creative community in Dublin. I basically asked him one or two questions and the rest of the time we talked about design, society and what we do.
Human-centred design is design that has people as its focus. Gerry said that being in a cafe was the perfect example of human-focused design. The services offered in a cafe are designed with people in mind, because people need to know how to react and interact with the different aspects of the cafe. That's what he does. He works everyone involved projects to design a service for people in the way they need it.
This is human-centred design. It's taking into account how every single human being interacts with the things that are around them. It's the consideration of the complexities of human perspective into problem-solving.
The other thing I wanted to know, was what Gerry thought of the creative scene in Dublin at present, having left years ago.
He said that he would not have come back to the same Ireland he left, because he wouldn't want to. He came back to Ireland because he saw potential in it, to become something great. He has been to design conferences here in recent years and he believes that design thinking in Ireland is onto something new.
Given that he's only been living here for around 8 weeks, he hasn't fully immersed himself into the creative sphere in Dublin. CreativeMornings is a good start, and his talk is sure to be a good one!
Andrea Horan is a powerhouse. She's the CEO of Tropical Popical, and founder of The Hunreal Issues, and our speaker for #CMGame
The Hunreal Issues came about after the 2015 referendum when Andrea wanted to engage women in politics in a way that appealed to her and her friends. She wanted to engage and educate them in a fun way, and The Hunreal Issues is perhaps most famous for Maser's Repeal the 8th mural on the wall of the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar.
So, Specky Scribbler spoke with Andrea to ask her about the power of art in politics, and how the creative scene in Dublin helps promote human rights.
Given that the past 2 weeks saw the both the reemergence and removal of Maser's mural, it seemed fitting to ask Andrea what she thought that meant for the repeal movement.
'I think it's a positive thing. The amount of media that were present at the removal was huge. We had TV channels, newspaper journalists, loads of people recording for social media. There's so much coverage had now, that it's bringing awareness to it.'
For Andrea, art was a really powerful platform for political engagement,
'Art provides a platform for people who don't have a voice. Everyone engages in a different way, and some people engage with art. For others, art is an extra platform, a platform that's visual. Art is playing a key role in getting the message out there - more people are buying and wearing t-shirts, they're mobilised and galvanised, all because of art - a mural on a wall.'
For Andrea, she only has one game in mind: spending the next 4.5 weeks to get the issue of women's rights in people's minds and pushing for the repeal of the 8th amendment.
Specky Scribbler wants to introduce you to: Fiona Ni Bhroin, our valued member.
Fiona Ni Bhroin was our live illustrator for a number of the CreativeMornings/Dublin events.
Fiona runs FioFioDesigns as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. She's always been a creative person: drawing, painting, designing, writing stories, recording music, taking photos, baking, sewing. Pretty much everything that has to do with making something.
Fiona is, once again a member of The Tara Building, and she wanted to try out live illustration or graphic recording. However, she did find that she preferred to take her time and so the illustrations were only finished the next week.
This because Fiona believes in the 'do what you love' idea and it allows her to jump from project to project, because she loves them all, and doesn't like to define what it is that she does.
Fiona loves the events and also loves the sense of community and meeting other like minded people. Her creativity has grown since becoming involved in the community.
Her favourite speaker? Caroline Foran's take on #CMGenius, when she outlined her life with anxiety.
It's my turn now. This is Specky Scribbler writing. Or, as I like to be called offline: Michelle.
I'm a full time freelance copywriter. This means that I tell and sell the story of your business. I specialise in content for online, ranging from social media posts, blogs and website pages. I first joined The Tara Building in April 2017, when I decided to bite the bullet and work for myself.
That's how I found out about CreativeMornings, when in June I found out that Will St Leger was giving a talk and I had to go.
For the next event, Aiden needed someone to live tweet it, and I agreed. I didn't think it would lead to me being the head of social and resident blogger for CM/Dublin, but here I am.
I love being involved in CreativeMornings/Dublin. I think the events are great for people in the creative world in Dublin, and are definitely needed. Apart from getting great coffee and breakfast while listening to wonderful people speak, the events are great for getting to know people in the creative industry.
My favourite speaker was Will St Leger, I left his speech moved to tears and wished I could experience it again.
My favourite musicians were Pine the Pilcrow. Their music was the perfect accompaniment to Donal Moloney's talk about Death; completely melodic, haunting and relaxing.
If you want, you can follow me:
CreativeMornings/Dublin is run by Aiden McGale, who spends a lot of time working behind the scenes to ensure everything runs smoothly for each event. Now it's his time to shine in this interview with our resident blogger, Specky Scribbler.
Aiden not only hosts CM/Dublin, but he also runs a boutique recruitment agency called Affinity Recruitment. This agency headhunts designers for companies in Ireland, and all over Europe.
In June 2017, Aiden took over CreativeMornings/Dublin from Brian Colhoun. He now curates and hosts each event with, as he says, 'lots of help from an amazing bunch of people who give up their time and skills every month'.
Aiden feels he has big boots to fill because Brian not only ran the events for a few yeats, but he was the one who brought CreativeMornings to Dublin in the first place! Even still, Aiden jumped in when he heard that Brian was looking for something to take over from him!
The reasons Aiden did this were twofold:
'I love the concept and CreativeMornings felt different to other meetups happening around town. … I work with designers everyday and wanted to be more actively involved in the creative community in Dublin, and having just moved my business into the Tara Building, it felt like the right timing and perfect home for CreativeMornings/Dublin.'
Given that Aiden is behind choosing the speakers for each event, it's incredibly difficult for him to choose his favourite. He did it, though!
His favourite speaker was Will St Leger, someone who has committed his life to art and activism and because, 'his talk is something that has stuck with me, not least because he did the whole thing without any notes!'
Aiden also introduced music to the events this year, and his favourite musician was actually the first musician he'd had, Jackie Hennessy.
'It was the first time we'd opened an event with music, The Tara Building was flooded with morning sunshine and Jackie's beautiful voice just filled up the room'.
It was this that lead CreativeMornings/Dublin to having musicians open the events ever since.
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By default, support of Selenium Web-driver is for Firefox browser only. That is the reason may be, if we/you use Firefox we/you did not face any issue while working with Firefox. But we can execute your scripts in the different browser like chrome, IE etc. Today we are discussing and work on chrome driver in this session.


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Q: How can my code do an automatic traversal in different records and transform them to a Hashtbl (type derivation)? I wish to do traversals on different arbitrary records and analyse them and then transform them to a Hashtbl. And the code would do it automatically, no matter what record structure it is.

For example, I want to transform various records (may be different record types) into a hashtable.
say, for a record
{
   name = "john";
   age = 50;
}

then if I run my code, then this record would be automatically transformed to a Hashble which has two {key, value} pairs, {"name", "john"} and {"age", "50"}. Note that here I wish my code can detect 50 is a int, so it would use string_of_int to transform it to string.
if another record comes, say
{
   id = 12;
   type = "book"
   price = 34.5
}

then my code would automatically generate a Hashtbl - {"id", "12"}, {"type", "book"}, {"price", "34.5"}

How can I do that? How can I use code to analyse a record type?

A: You can't.
Due to type safety, OCaml does not have an introspection library.
But there's studies about "runtime type" : http://www.lexifi.com/files/resources/runtime_types.pdf which would permit that.
Note that's the lack of introspection ability is a strong choice of the OCaml compiler team.

A: You can use the type_conv or deriving tools/frameworks to implement a syntax extension that takes your record type declaration, and generates the expected conversion code (to a hashtable).
Alternatively (and it's a better idea, because much simpler), you could use existing extensions such as sexplib (s-expressions) or, or one of those generating JSON converters, and then work from that representation (s-expressions or JSON) to convert it to a hashtable.

A: Just to say another way what the others have said, a record whose fields are determined at runtime isn't an OCaml record. OCaml has static types, i.e., types that are fixed when the program is written. I think the best way to proceed in OCaml is just to reconceptualize the data as a dictionary, i.e., a dynamic set of name/value pairs. OCaml types for dictionaries are Hashtbl and Map. Now your question is very easy to answer (it seems to me).

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Thee Copa Republica Argentina resumed on a very busy Saturday, that showcased six games, split between Palermo, and on the AAP grounds, set in Pilar.
12:30pm: La Esquina vs. Fortín Mulitas.
12:30pm: La Bamba de Areco vs. Trenque Lauquen.
2:30pm: Chapaleufú vs. La Quinta.


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Q: In WinSCP can you use the * for upload path in filemask I am trying to set the WinSCP filemask so that any file in a local directory is uploaded to a remote directory on a file by file basis, without including the local directory name, itself, in the remote directory. The following works:
TransferOperationResult tR;
tR = session.PutFiles(_localPath + "*", _remotePath);

but I'd like to use a filemask instead of the + "*".
// Upload files
TransferOptions transferOptions = new TransferOptions();
transferOptions.FileMask = "*";

TransferOperationResult tR;
tR = session.PutFiles(_localPath, _remotePath, false, transferOptions);

Is that possible? With either * or *.* filemask then the _localPath uploads all files in the directory but includes the local directory name in the remote directory as well.  I checked WinSCP filemask and TransferOptions but I didn't see an easy way...

A: Keep _localPath + "*" and set TransferOptions.FileMask on top of that.
Or even better, use RemotePath.Combine.
TransferOptions transferOptions = new TransferOptions();
// a sample filemask, so that it makes a sense to set the FileMask
transferOptions.FileMask = "*>1H";

string sourcePath = RemotePath.Combine(_localPath, "*");
TransferOperationResult tR;
tR = session.PutFiles(sourcePath, _remotePath, false, transferOptions);

See a documentation of the localPath parameter:

Full path to local file or directory to upload. Filename in the path can be replaced with Windows wildcard to select multiple files. To upload all files in a directory, use mask *.

So a value of the parameter must be /foo/bar/*.
The TransferOptions.FileMask is an additional filter on top of the wildcard in localPath parameter.