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April 17, 2014
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It is true that the court system can be scary and overwhelming for anyone, much less someone who comes to it in a vulnerable position to begin with. Without strong legal advocacy and other professional support for people in abusive relationships, their abusers can easily persuade or intimidate victims out of pursuing legal action.
A majority of the victims in the study were living in poverty. This fact once again reinforces the dire need for civil legal aid, which provides legal representation, advice, and information to low-income people with non-criminal legal problems such as domestic violence, child custody, or employment issues.
If we as a society are serious about preventing domestic violence, the expansion of civil legal aid for domestic violence victims must be in the policy mix. It makes no sense to ignore a tool proven to help individuals and families break free over the long-term from the cycle of violence and return to living safe, healthy and productive lives.

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Running Music: The 10 Best Remixes for Working Out
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The are two main advantages to a good remix: First, the DJ or producer typically favors a heavy beat, which is great for workouts. And second, it gives you an excuse to dust off a once-loved song that you played to death.
This month's playlist highlights 10 of the best recent remixes. You'll find "You da One" by Rihanna totally reinvented and a version of Breathe Carolina's "Blackout" that replaces the raging synths with jazzy ones. Plus, you'll be able to hear what a 1990s-era piano loop does to Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..." and what The Wanted's "Glad You Came" sounds like with a harder edge.
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Avicii - Levels (Skrillex Remix) - 142 BPM
Flo Rida & Sia - Wild Ones (Project 46 Remix) - 126 BPM
Breathe Carolina - Blackout (Wideboys Remix) - 128 BPM
Rihanna - You da One (Almighty Radio Remix) - 129 BPM
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (Hotline's Miami Vice Club Remix) - 118 BPM
Cobra Starship & Sabi - You Make Me Feel... (Felix Leiter Remix) - 127 BPM
Maroon 5, Christina Aguilera & Mac Miller - Moves Like Jagger (Remix) - 128 BPM
Madonna, Nicki Minaj & LMFAO - Give Me All Your Luvin' (Party Rock Remix) - 132 BPM
Katy Perry - Part of Me (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Remix) - 130 BPM
The Wanted - Glad You Came (Alex Gaudino Full Radio Vocal Remix) - 128 BPM
To find more workout songs, check out the free database at Run Hundred. You can browse by genre, tempo, and era to find more tracks with your ideal BPM.
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The electronic bass drum is now emulating a double bass drum in 16th notes. Listen to the lyrics again and catch the inside joke. Purple Rain is a shower of semen which fluoresces purple under black light. Songfacts This anonymous assessment is on par with what I am suggesting. While Prince is Masturbating his guitar, moans and squeals can be heard from this action— displaying the orgasmic sounds of a human but denoted by his guitar Tricey Diva3 Holmes states: In , there was a minute live Prince video that MTV showed pretty much every hour on the hour.
It was a medley of "Baby I'm A Star" and "I Would Die 4 U" that ended with a very long, never-boring guitar solo, at the end of which Prince's guitar literally ejaculated. The neck shot white foam all over the crowd, and the crowd roared. Men and women, straight and gay, atheist and devout, parents and children—they left that show with Prince's guitar jizz all over their faces, clothes and hair, and they loved it. Holmes Computer Blue Wendy? Yes Lisa Is the water warm enough? Yes Lisa Where is my love life? Where can it be?
There must be something wrong with the machinery Where is my love life? Tell me, tell me Where has it gone? Somebody please, please tell me what the hell is wrong Until I find the righteous one Computer blue Until I find the righteous one Computer blue Oh Yeah yeah. To begin, the keyboards and guitar are playing a somewhat Middle- Eastern sounding riff of a minor 2 nd followed by a Perfect 4th.
The original video, taken from the movie Purple Rain depicts more of a sadomasochistic theme at play. Prince, is gyrating his hips in a stiff fashion and the synth brass line that has a slow attack, is echoing the movement of his hips. Conversely, this lewd scene from Purple Rain also serves for a different possible scenario.
What I am now proclaiming is that Prince is reconciling with his faith in God by acting as a priest— the members of his band are acting as the holy congregation—and the lyrics and music are the Gospel. Warner Bros. Discussion The six Prince compositions presented, lead listeners into a world where the titillating backdrop of instrumental arrangements also parallels and at times, eclipses the sexually suggestive lyrics.
Prince has successfully taken his audience to all destinations erotic while whetting their appetites for the next course. Thus, original hierarchies become the underprivileged and the underprivileged become the privileged. In this manner, the lyrics, which can be viewed as having a dominant role as the primary source of titillation, can now be viewed as submissive or at least equal to the musical arrangement. Make no mistake, what has transpired from these early years of musical genius is no easy feat by any artist.
By this I mean that Prince has managed to stretch and push the limits of sexuality within the six proposed themes, while also arousing his public into consensual submission. More importantly, and not as obvious to many, the sexual nature of anthropomorphism within his musical arrangements became the fuel that enabled his lyrics and onstage antics to reverberate an auditory representation of sexual onomatopoeia. Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller.
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Sometime after this dream, she left her husband and entered into a rewarding relationship with another man with whom she could share her life and her interests. Creatures of the Deep: the Crocodile, Whale, Dolphin, Octopus Watching a crocodile devour an animal or a human being is a horrifying experience and crocodiles in dreams, speaking to us from the oldest level of the limbic brain, can arouse primordial fear in the same way as a dinosaur would. Yet the dream above shows the crocodile or alligator in a different light.
I remember reading about a group of people living on the banks of a river in the Sudan. Apparently the crocodiles in this region are not aggressive towards humans nor are humans afraid of them. Children climb on their backs, swim with them and are totally at ease with them. The Whale People all over the world have been appalled by the spectacle of the whale-hunt and have made strenuous efforts to outlaw it. It seems so barbaric, so predatory and so wrong that man should kill this wonderful mammal. Equally, evidence is coming to light that naval exercises in the deep ocean have disturbed and disoriented whales, driving them inshore to die stranded on beaches.
The New Zealand Aboriginal film Whale Rider illustrates both the loss of the shamanic connection with whales and its recovery through the extraordinary courage of a young girl. This film draws attention to the recent phenomenon of people wanting to swim with whales and dolphins, as if trying to recover the feeling of that ancient relationship with these creatures of the deep and, at the same time, recovering the lost connection to their instincts.
People return exhilarated as well as deeply moved by these encounters. Sometimes, their lives change out of all recognition as a result of them, particularly the lives of children. These types of encounters have been filmed many times and it is an incredibly beautiful sight to see someone swimming with dolphins or with a whale and her calf, gracefully keeping in tune with their movements and seeming able to communicate with them and draw an empathic response.
In a story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle that described the rescue of a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a spider web of hundreds of pounds of crab traps and yards of ropes. These had all become wrapped around her body and her tail, with a line tugging at her mouth. A fisherman saw her struggling and radioed an environmental group for help.
They decided that they could only release her by trying to untangle the web of ropes in which she was enmeshed. For hours, at great risk to themselves, they worked with curved knives to free her. When she was eventually freed, the divers said that at first she swam in joyous circles. Then she swam up to each and every one of them and gently nudged him.
He said he will never be the same after that experience. Others said it was the most moving and beautiful experience of their lives. What a contrast this story offers to the totally unnecessary killing of the whales by the Japanese and other whaling fleets. Years ago I had a dream that I was on a liner with many other passengers.
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I was looking out to sea while the others were on the other side of the ship. Suddenly, an enormous whale rose out of the water and headed straight for the ship. It was so huge that I thought it would capsize it, but as the whale approached it became clear that it simply wished to communicate with us. I saluted it and thanked it for showing itself. I took the dream as a message to humanity, traveling in the ship of consciousness, unaware of the great sea of the soul and its messenger, the whale. This dream was so inspiring that she began writing a novel. In , an incident was reported suggesting that dolphins have an empathic instinct similar to humans that could we directed to protecting other species.
A group of dolphins began to circle closely some life guards who were swimming off the coast of New Zealand, calling to more dolphins for help and tightening the circle in such a way that no-one could break out of it, banging their tails on the water and making a tremendous rumpus. Eventually, it gave up and swam away. The dolphins by their protective action had saved the lives of five exhausted and perplexed people who were unaware of the danger that threatened them. Whereas the efforts of humans had failed, the dolphin continually called to the whales, eventually persuading mother and calf to move out into the open sea.
In her article she brought up other examples of altruistic behavior on the part of animals, in particular the story told to her by a game warden in South Africa of an elephant who had lost most of its trunk. This elephant should have died very quickly but instead, it was being kept alive by other elephants who used their own trunks to suck up water from the water-hole and squirt it into the mouth of the injured elephant. We could take note of these examples and understand that our own capacity for empathy and compassion may derive ultimately from the archaic programming of our mammalian brain.
The Octopus Encountering the octopus or sea-monster in dreams can be a terrifying experience, particularly if one is dragged down by its tentacles or limbs far below the surface of the sea. A client had a dream that a huge sea-monster had attacked a ship and dragged it down into the depths. This was the beginning of uncovering a long-forgotten childhood trauma—an experience of sexual abuse by a grandfather of which neither of us had any idea at the beginning of her analysis.
The Domesticated Animals The domesticated animals - those who have lived closer to human habitations—such as the bull, cow, horse, pig, dog and cat—may personify a level of the instinct that is closer to and, therefore, more accessible to the conscious personality. All these animals were, in past civilizations, associated with the Goddess: the cow with Hathor in Egypt and Inanna in Sumer, the bull with the rites of the Cretan goddess and the Greek god, Dionysus, the pig with Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the horse with Athene, the dog with Hecate and the cat with Isis.
It is helpful, when interpreting dreams, to hold these ancient associations, as well as more personal ones, in mind. In the Islamic tradition, pork may have been considered an unclean food because the pig was once sacred to the goddess because of its fertility. As the goddess was replaced by Allah as supreme deity, so her sacred food became unclean. The Bull Many women have dreams of being pursued by a bull. Writers and analysts often associate the bull with un-integrated sexuality, and there the dream interpretation rests.
But the image of the bull is so fascinating and complex that, just as with the snake, a book could be written on its symbolism alone. In Bronze Age lunar culture, the bull like all horned animals, represented the life-giving potential of nature, associated with the horns of the crescent moon and sacred from time immemorial to the goddess. It was the principal animal symbol of her dying and resurrected son who personified the eternally regenerating life force of the earth. Bulls were sacred animals in the lunar culture of the Bronze Age.
In Crete, the dangerous art of bull-vaulting was a part of sacred ritual in the courtyard of the temple at Knossos. In ancient Greece, white bulls were sacrificed to Poseidon, the god of the sea. The god Dionysus was often portrayed as a bull and bulls were sacrificed to him and their raw flesh eaten in a ritual feast.
Later, in the Mithraic rituals of the Roman period, the blood of the sacrificed animal drenched the initiate standing beneath a special platform. Any or all of these ancient images stand behind the dream image of the bull today, held in our unconscious collective memory, for the soul does not forget such things. If someone is not in a right relationship with this creative energy, it can turn negative and destructive; its horns can toss, rend and kill.
A bull appearing in a dream in a way that frightens the dreamer can be a warning of the need to become aware of powerful instincts that are threatening the dreamer or can indicate the need to find a channel of expression for a deeply denied longing to create or to heal. The bull is, after all, the symbol of St. Luke, the healer-physician. It often seems to me that people charged by bulls in their dreams are unable to recognize and acknowledge their creative gifts or their ability to heal. A woman who had countless dreams of being chased by a bull finally had a dream in which she was sitting by one, singing to it, while the bull, enchanted, listened to her song.
One of Jung's closest colleagues, Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz, told an amusing story of a client of hers whom she knew had the talent to write, but who insisted that he was not a writer. One day he came to her with a dream in which he was being chased by an enormous bull. Running for his life, at the last minute he leapt over a fence and looked back.
The bull had risen up on top of the fence as if to leap over it after him, and as he did so his extended penis was exposed. At the end of his penis was a ball-point pen! The unconscious could hardly have given a clearer or more witty message to the dreamer. Conneda, son of the king and queen of Connaught in Ireland, sets out on a quest which takes him into a forest. There he meets a Druid who tells him to mount the little shaggy horse he will shortly come across, to let the reins fall loose on its neck and to let it guide him where it will.
Conneda does as he is told, mounts the horse and is taken first beneath the deep waters of a lake and then over a mountain flaming with fire. The burns he sustains in the flames are healed by a magic bottle of elixir—All-Heal—which, the little horse tells him, is concealed in one of his ears.
Surviving these dangers and trials, Conneda is told by the little horse to kill him, flay his hide and afterwards anoint the remains with the elixir. Deeply distressed at having to kill his friend, Conneda nevertheless does as instructed and is amazed to see a handsome prince, who had been changed into the form of the horse by a wicked wizard, emerge from the flayed remains of his faithful friend. The prince takes him into a fairy city where his brother gives Conneda the magic trophies he has set out to find.
At times the horse in dreams seems to symbolize the instinct that, so to speak, carries the conscious personality on its back. The attitude of the conscious self towards the horse that carries it is of vital importance. Now attitudes are changing. The sight of a dressage horse moving absolutely in tune with the music being played and in sympathy with the leg and hand movements of its rider is one of the most moving and beautiful things that it is possible to see.
In dreams, therefore, it is important to be aware of how the horse is behaving. Is it able to move freely, even under the control of the bridle or, if unbridled, to gallop in freedom across the land? Is it out of control, too tightly bridled, exhausted, lame or injured? Perhaps this statue symbolizes the predicament of the instinct which has to endure the suffering we force on it by our conscious attitudes. The horse can also represent the body in dreams. The horse as body carries us faithfully through life. Often its rider has no idea that its weight has become burdensome to the animal-instinct.
Our intense relationship with our animals—horse, dog or cat—represents the externalized expression of a relationship that could be established with our own instinct. It too could benefit from the same quality of compassionate attention and affection we give to our animals.
That caring attention may, in fact, calm and soothe our own instinct. I could see its jaw was somehow distorted, the muzzle enlarged - as if its lower lip jutted forward below the top. It was bleeding too, its skin hanging in ribbons. As it turned towards me, I saw the flesh of its right shoulder shredded and bunched together like a knot of ribbons. A woman said it was in a terrible way, and implied it should really be put down.
Asked to relate this image to what might have happened to her as a child, her six-year-old self came back to her. She suddenly remembered that she had been given a wonderful Chinese painting of chrysanthemums by a friend of her parents, in the expectation that she would color it. She had been thrilled and did indeed color in the flowers but then, wanting to add something to the magic, she had cut pictures of fairies and flowers and other images she loved out of her books and pasted them onto the picture. When her parents saw what she had done, she was severely beaten beatings were a regular occurrence in her family.
Not understanding why her parents were so angry with her, she was deeply imprinted with the idea that her instinctive and joyous impulse to create was wrong or bad and would invite punishment. This was the primal wound to her limbic brain that lay behind the image of the bleeding and flayed palomino horse.
The negative charge of that experience affected her life forty years after it happened, giving rise to severe episodes of depression whenever she embarked on a commission or tried to express her creativity she was an artist. Imprinted on her nervous system was the expectation of punishment if she took up her brushes and dared to express her creative gift.
Here is the dream of a dyslexic twelve-year-old girl, deeply distressed by her difficulties at school and unsure of her path in life: I am with a little old man with a long white beard who takes me up to the attic of a house.
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It is empty except for twelve trunks. We look into each of the trunks and they are all empty until we come to the last. In this one there is nothing save a tiny black horse with a jewelled saddle and bridle, studded with rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. The horse is alive. The old man hands it to me. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the girl became fascinated by horses, became an event rider and a highly respected riding teacher.
Birds As long ago as the Neolithic era, birds were regarded as messengers of the Great Mother.
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All birds were sacred to her, among them the crane, the swan, the goose, duck, owl, diver bird and vulture as well as smaller birds like the dove and the swallow. These find their way into later mythologies and into fairy tales that tell of the magical guidance of swans, doves or hoopoes, as in the famous twelfth century Sufi story of The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud Din Attar. In dreams birds may appear as messengers of the soul.
I kept these articles because I found them so interesting and have drawn on them to write this section. They perceive a dimension to existence which in our hyperconscious civilisation we have almost entirely lost touch with — and which is vital to their profound reverence for the whole business of being alive. One story in particular seemed to stand out.
A woman wrote describing how her husband had been fascinated by owls and had photos of them around the house. It came closer, hooting at intervals, and finally settled in the tree outside my window, where it ceased hooting and made a series of clucking, comforting noises which sounded so comical that I burst out laughing.
I closed my eyes, and slept in great peace till the morning. This changed and the animals and the other forms of life stopped speaking to aid humans in their learning of many things, among them, listening. In earlier shamanic cultures, people would have been aware that the animal and the human world interacted with a hidden dimension of reality.
The hoopoe has held great numinosity for me ever since I read the Sufi story of The Conference of the Birds. So when a close friend of mine had several dreams about the hoopoe, a most beautiful bird with black and white striped wings, a pink breast and a striking crest, which can be seen in southern Europe and countries around the Mediterranean, I felt it came to life for both of us. While on holiday in Crete she had a dream that three hoopoes appeared to her as she lay in a dark cave, one of them feeding from her hand. I was lying on my right side, exactly as I was in reality, and seemed to be in a dark cave.
The ceiling was low. To my right, at the mouth of the cave, I could see a sliver of light. It became brighter, illuminating a shelf of soft green grass at the entrance. Over this shelf stepped a hoopoe. I said in amazement: "Robert my husband will not believe this. The first bird flew towards me, over my body, becoming slightly heavier and greyer, its beak more parrot-like. It flew down to my right hand and started feeding from it, although I could not imagine what I might have upon which it could feed. It rejoined its companion at the cave mouth, becoming more like a true hoopoe again.
A third hoopoe entered, I remember little else of the dream, except my voice saying: "I do believe. It was my birthday. All day the palm of my right hand itched uncomfortably. When I got home, the research began. She was so moved and inspired by this dream and others in which the hoopoe again appeared that she wrote an MA thesis on the history and mythological meaning of the hoopoe. In the prologue to her thesis she wrote:.
The Butterfly The butterfly is one of the oldest symbols of transformation and regeneration, No one who, as a child, has waited for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly can forget the moment when the earth-bound caterpillar turns into the beautiful, fragile winged creature that can fly. The Bee Bees as well as all insects that spin cocoons or weave webs, serve as images of the miraculous interconnectedness of life.
The intricate intercellular structure that secretes the golden essence of life is an image of the network of invisible nature that relates all things to each other in an ordered harmonious pattern. Perhaps this is the meaning of the tale in which the infant Zeus is fed on honey in a cave in Crete, and why honey was the nectar of the gods. Furthermore the busy bee, following the impulsion of its nature to pollinate the flowers and gather their nectar to be transformed into honey, was an example of the continual activity required of human beings to gather the crops and transform them into food.
Everyone suddenly knew what I knew, which is that Prince was like nothing else, and that he was everything. Kids who liked music talked about the music. Kids who liked art talked about the visuals. And out on the basketball court, all they could talk about was the honey he was tonguing down. This was still about a month and a half before the movie came out, so no one knew much about Apollonia yet.
That would change. Later on, I got into the music business myself. I got to meet Prince several times. I roller-skated with him. I went to parties that he threw. But I always felt like a fan, never a peer. I remember once I was at Paisley Park. I slipped up. Maybe he actually felt bad that he had turned a generation of kids toward foul language and impure thoughts.
I hope not. I was just trying to get out of paying a fine that was justified, for cursing that was probably justified, learned from music that will forever be justified. P rince was singular in his music. He was his own genre. That same singularity extended to everything. He went the other way in life, too. As he got older, the way he managed his career showed off that contrary streak. In the summer of , his old band, the Revolution, reunited at First Avenue in Minneapolis. They were all set up for him to join in and play. He drove right past. Prince was a great drummer, and he was always marching to his own beat.
In moments of extreme sadness, pop-punk psychology may not be welcome, but it sometimes seemed like his need to do things his own way, and only his own way, overtook him. Control was job one to him, which allowed for amazing things in the studio and onstage, unprecedented leaps of inspiration and synthesis and an energy so prolific it seemed like it would never be shut off. But it also suggested that there was a level of mistrust when it came to letting the outside world in.
There is a fictionalized version of this in Purple Rain , where one of the main points of contention throughout the film is whether The Kid played by Prince will listen to a song on a cassette given to him by Wendy and Lisa.


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PORT ORCHARD -- Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge wants to know what happened in a series of recent meetings between two judges and former death row inmate Brian Keith Lord, who faces a new murder trial in September.
Lord, a Silverdale carpenter, was convicted in the 1986 rape and beating death of 16-year-old Tracy Parker.
Two years ago, however, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, ruling that Lord's attorneys didn't call witnesses who say they saw Parker alive the day after investigators said she died.
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But the private contacts Haberly has had with Lord and the sealed decisions she rendered afterward recall a few of the difficulties that shadowed Parker's death and Lord's trial 15 years ago.
The development also rekindles concerns for Parker's mother, Barbara Waaga of Port Townsend.
"The justice system just isn't," she said this week. "I've given up thinking things will work out, that the system will take care of what's right and what's wrong."
There was trouble with the system from the day Parker turned up missing in September 1986, Waaga said.
Not until after her daughter's schoolmates and family members had mounted their own search and turned up the dead girl's blood-stained garments did then-Sheriff Pat Jones send his deputies to search for the girl's body.
"Despite all the evidence to the contrary," Waaga said, "deputies kept insisting that she was a runaway."
If the investigation got off to a rocky start, the trial was no better.
Coarse remarks between the defendant and the prosecutor, C. Danny Clem, and disrespectful comments Clem made about Lord's attorney -- muttered in open court -- brought a rebuke from the trial judge, Karen Conoley, and local editorials castigated the prosecution.
As the trial progressed, a technician from the state crime lab acknowledged that he had lied about mishandling a key piece of evidence -- the blood-stained hammer that prosecutors said was the murder weapon.
And a deputy sheriff testified that he'd been asked to lie about the same thing.
Hauge, a two-term prosecutor who was elected in 1994 to replace Clem, doesn't expect a repeat of the 1987 trial. But he and his deputies want no mistakes this time.
"Our primary concern is that some irreversible error will come back to haunt us -- again," Deputy Prosecutor Randy Sutton said.
Sutton said neither Lord's "ex-parte" meetings with Haberly nor her decision to seal the record are prohibited acts. But arguments for and against both should have been presented in open court.
To find out more about the meetings, Hauge and Sutton will offer Haberly three motions at a 3 p.m. hearing today.
They want Haberly to appoint a new defense team; they want her to unseal the record; and they want her to remove herself from the case.
So far, this much is known about the "ex-parte" meetings and the decisions they generated:
Haberly handed off one of Lord's motions to a second judge, Leonard Costello, who appointed a special third attorney to handle the motion in private.
Costello then slapped a gag order on his proceedings.
"It's the strangest thing I've ever heard," Sutton said. "Motions were filed and were on the calendar, but we have not been privy to them. We should be."
But Fred Leatherman, Lord's lead attorney, defended the two-judge development as odd but necessary.
"These things happen," he said.


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Have you ever been in the presence of a machine, one that is older than you, much older, and see it work just as efficiently as the day it was made. Well, last Wednesday, on our Wilkinsburg excursion, we did exactly that.
Our group was taken to a press works and were shown the workings of an old fashioned cast iron printer, one electrically outfitted but still functioning as it did when it was made more than a century ago. It was complex, and yet very simple at the same time. The machine was set running, the wheel turned, the press was set in motion, the rollers were covered in ink from the ink disc, the paper was inserted, the “press” occurred and the printed page was left there for the printer to pull out from the machine.
We were taught how to set the type with furniture into the iron form, a process much more complicated than just typing and printing on the computer, but then again, there were something hand crafted about it, like working with pottery or making a great drawing or painting or anything else artistic.
I found the form of a comedy and tragedy mask, one I spied while we were being explained the workings of the printer. With it my group and I found a crown and we set the print into the iron mold. We affixed the furniture, and when we checked that it was solid and would hold, we gave it the to the printer and she made four copies for us.
Here is mine. The whole experience was so splendid and I highly recommend the place we went to, the woman who runs it is very professional and her work is very beautiful.


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When the Bucks County-born country-rock band Levee Drivers won the "Cream: Best of Philly Rising" competition at World Café Live nearly a decade ago, you figured it was only a matter of time before the young group with an old soul released its first full-length album.
It's taken longer than anybody associated with the band could have possibly imagined after winning the contest in January 2008, but that time, finally, is now.
Levee Drivers, formed in 2007 by then-recent Pennsbury High School graduates and childhood friends August John Lutz II and Jason Schultz, along with Conwell-Egan graduate Jeff Orlowski, will celebrate the long-awaited release of "Motel City Honey" Friday night at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia. The bill also will include their longtime friends and collaborators the Lawsuits, as well as the Virginia-based Dawn Drapes.
It will be an emotional night for a band that has persevered through multiple highs and lows and frequent personnel changes (mostly on bass), as well as the heartbreak of Schultz's death in 2015, a few years after he had left the group.
Singer/guitarist/harmonica player/songwriter Lutz and drummer Orlowski are the only original members still with the band, which has established itself as one of Philly's best live acts on the strength of constant gigging. The lineup also includes Pennsbury graduate Kyle Perella, who joined on bass in the early days before eventually replacing Schultz on lead guitar, and western Pennsylvania native Jon Covert, Perella's roommate in Fishtown who took over for Ben Plotnick on bass in June 2016 after Plotnick got a job working for Yelp in San Francisco.
"The way the band was always changing lineups made it really hard (to complete a full-length album)," Perella said in a telephone interview, "especially for August, who at the time was more of a perfectionist. The only thing we could really do was find our niche playing as many shows as we could. I always wanted to record, I was ready to record, but August always talked about why we didn't do it, and he was right."
It certainly wasn't due to lack of material. Even in the band's earliest days, there were plenty of Lutz originals to work with. It's just that the timing was never right, for whatever reason. The band did put out a couple of EPs, and Lutz released his debut solo EP, “O’ My Foolish Heart," in 2015, but a full-length release remained elusive.
Even after Levee Drivers finally recorded the material for the album in November 2015 at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi (a studio owned by the Drive-By Truckers' Matt Patton), it would be nearly another two years before the album's release. During that period the band tried in vain to find a label before eventually deciding to self-release, a process that Perella described as "really depressing."
"We wanted to get the album out to as many people as possible in the industry before we released it," he said. "We have an awesome manager (Marley McNamara), and we wanted to take advantage of the connections she had. A lot of bands, especially local, put a record out, play a release show that probably does pretty well, a decent amount of people buy the record, but then kind of nothing happens. We didn't want that to happen. We wanted to do it a better way if there was a better way.
"We struck out doing that, but it was still worth it, just the connections we made. We met some labels in Chicago that really liked us, but for whatever reason, timing or who knows, it didn't work out. But through the failures we've met a lot more people, and we still feel like it'll have some momentum after its release."
The band helped finance the release through a GoFundMe campaign that allowed fans to donate in exchange for tiered packages, everything from a digital download of the album ($10) to a private concert ($500). The band is donating a portion of the money it receives to the Moyer Foundation, the organization founded by former Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife Karen to aid families affected by grief and addiction.
The 10-track album, which includes the rollicking lead single "There You Go," is a mix of material the band has had for a while and newer songs, all of which were intended to form a cohesive set of music.
"August is a very prolific writer, he's always writing," Perella said. "He's got enough old material, we could make five albums. But it was always less a case of, let's record our best songs, and more of, let's write a really strong, cohesive album.
"But now August has kind of caught the bug of recording. He was always reluctant to record because he's such a perfectionist, but now he's almost obsessed with it. He wants to make another one and get as much out there as possible."
For now, though, the band is just happy to have one full-length album to celebrate. Finally.
"Oh, yeah, it's exciting," Perella said. "It's a lesson in never giving up, I guess. Me and Jeff and August have been in the band a really long time now, we could've given up a long time ago. We jumped a lot of hurdles to get to this release show. It's something other bands might have taken for granted and done a little cheaper and easier than we've done it. We really worked for this one."
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War In The Air [DVD]
The classic BBC television documentary. In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour episodes. The series took two years to make. It featured the pick of nearly twelve million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, and was heavily weighted towards the role of the Royal Air Force. The series starts with an RAF ill-prepared for the outbreak of war in 1939, its aircraft outclassed and outgunned by a new generation of Luftwaffe fighters and bombers. World War Two in the air is covered in great detail, in every theatre of operations, from the Battle of Britain and the role of RAF Coastal Command to the bombing of Nazi Germany and the air war against the Japanese. The series culminates with a look at the Berlin Airlift, the air war in Korea and the new generation of military jets facing new threats and new enemies in the Cold War world... WAR IN THE AIR was broadcast to huge critical and public acclaim. For decades, it was considered essential viewing for every new RAF recruit. However, it has never been repeated on BBC Television. Now, Simply Media, in consultation with the BBC and the Imperial War Museum, are able to offer this major series complete and uncut on DVD for the very first time, making use of pristine film prints of the original episodes.
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To prolong the operating life of your industrial gearboxes regular gearbox inspections and maintenance is essential. On the other hand removal of the gearbox for a full inspection and a possible overhaul can cause undesirable lengthy downtime and breaks in shift work or production lines.
Here are our Top 10 tips to minimise downtime whilst ensuring your gearbox a long life.
1. Gearbox Ratings
Check the gearbox is operating within its manufactures specification of both mechanical and thermal ratings. On many occasions it can be seen gearboxes are put into an application beyond their design specification and are been driven by an increased input power than the maximum recommended.
2. Good housekeeping
May sound simple but often gearboxes are operate in a dirty dusty environment whilst this is usually unavoidable it is important to minimise the effects the workplace environment. This could result in an increased operating temperature of the gearbox or even possible contamination into the gearbox. Therefore industrial gearboxes should be regularly dusted and brushed clean.
3. Shaft Seals
Check for oil leaks at the input and output shaft of your gearbox. Leaks indicate the seals have failed, thus allowing ingression of dust, debris and water from the environment together with a loss of lubrication. These should be replaced without delay to prevent internal contamination of the gearbox or lack of lubrication to the internals.
Water, dust and debris should not be permitted to ingress internally into the gearbox through the breather. They should be of the correct type and style and kept clean at all times allowing the gearbox to breathe with ease.
Lubrication should be adhered to the gearbox manufactures specification for type, grade and quantity. Regular renewal again should be carried out to the gearbox manufacturers recommendations.
6. Temperature (Overheating)
Look for signs of overheating, discoloured or burnt exterior paint or dark oil in the sight glass. Monitor the gearbox temperature on a regular basis observing for any sudden changes in temperature using an infrared temperature gun.
7. Gear Wear / Contacts
Inspect the internal gears via the removal of inspection covers or with the aid of an endoscope. Look for signs of wear in the form of pitting and spalling (material from the surface of gear tooth flanks being removed). Check contacts between gear teeth for misalignment using engineers blue which could be indicative of wear in bearings or the bearing housings.
8. Backlash and Shaft Endplay
Using a dial indicator check for any increase in backlash between the mesh of the gears also for any increase in the end play or lift at the input and output shafts. An in increase in backlash could be an indication of wear in gear teeth which is not always visible to the naked eye. An increase in shaft end play or lift would indicate wear within the rolling elements of the bearings or even wear in the bearing housings.
9. Vibration Analysis
Many gearboxes operate in a noisy environment therefore on occasion’s variation or increase in noise from a gearbox cannot always be recorded. Regular Vibration Analysis of the internal bearings and gears will confirm any significant changes in the condition of the internals of the gearbox and help prevent any unplanned loss of production.
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Forget faux firs. When it comes to decking their halls, the Liefur family says live Christmas trees are the way to go.
"Every year we get a real tree," said Erik Leifur as he was shopping with his family for the perfect tree.
Apparently, there's just something about the scent and sentiments.
"You get the smell, and also it's like a custom," he said. "Every year you can go pick out your tree with your family."
At the Holiday Hills Christmas tree tent on I-10 near DeZavala, crews were busy Thursday unloading fresh shipments from Oregon.
It seems live trees are in demand.
"I've had several people (say) this is the first live tree they've gotten," said Holiday Hills' Jeraldine Bush.
She said prices are the same as last year.
A six-and-a-half-foot Noble Fir was going for $67. A towering 16-foot Noble Fir was tagged for $1,100.
Shopping grocery and home improvement stores is a way to trim tree costs.
The HEB Plus at Loop 1604 and Bandera was selling the a six and a half foot Noble Fir for $37. And a 12-foot Noble was $150.
Artificial trees do have their fans because they require no water, don't aggravate allergies and are reusable.


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House Speaker Richard Corcoran is watching Tallahassee like a hawk -- suspicious of everything unless it's transparent, he admits. And even then, he'll put it under a microscope.
In the dead of night he creeps down the stairs, turns on a light and flushes out cockroaches -- well, figuratively speaking.
That's what he said Tuesday at the annual Associated Press meeting for reporters and editors. "... There are cockroaches everywhere and I think you're seeing that," Corcoran, R-Land O' Lakes, told the media gathered on the Capitol's top floor. "You turn on the lights, and there's Enterprise Florida and you say, let's take a closer look ..."
In a press gaggle later, he gave Gov. Rick Scott's requests for $85 million for job incentives and $76 million to promote tourism zero chance for passage in the House.
Free enterprise "lifts all boats," he said. "Florida shouldn't be into picking winners and losers" and the money we're giving to "these top 1 percent companies" coming in to compete with existing businesses could go to education, police departments, a myriad of needs closer to "the people."
Corcoran said he and Senate President Joe Negron are friends -- they are not "on a collision course," as some have suggested, because the budget will be done on time and on target no matter what. But he said the House won't go along with borrowing money by issuing bonds for big projects, for instance, land for a reservoir and improvements to higher education. "We're not bonding," he said.
Another thing Corcoran isn't accepting members' earmarks without a lot of explantion. And, above all, he isn't raising taxes. Scott's education budget proposal is DOA, he said, because it would produce $475 million more in tax revenue as a result of rising property values. That's a tax increase in Corcoran's book. "The House is not raising taxes," he declared.
A committed conservative, the speaker is proud of his crusade to expose public officials who engage in what he considers unethical, even "borderline corrupt" conduct -- including officials who serve outside the Legislature. Jacksonville Judge Mark Hulsey III of the 4th Judicial Circuit, for instance, resigned after Corcoran pushed the House to begin impeachment proceedings against him. (Among other inappropriate remarks, Hulsey was accused of uttering a racial insult: Blacks, the judge said, should "get back on a ship and go back to Africa.")
From the day he took the gavel, Corcoran has vowed to initiate sweeping ethics reforms and end Tallahassee's culture of government by behind-the-cutain lobbying. "I think we're achieving a level of transparency that's never existed in Florida government before," he said.
Corcoran admits he is driven by philosophical commitment.
He had a reputation even in 2008, when he served as an aide to House Speaker Marco Rubio, as a "my way or the highway" kind of leader and a stickler for clean, open government.
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THE sounds and style of music played by the famous reggae band, Big Mountain has taken party goers by storm, when they performed at the Heritage Hotel’s car park on Saturday night.
It was a solid 2 hours of non-stop reggae music, which kept those that were attending the concert on their feet.
They really enjoyed the songs, the music and they danced-away throughout the entire show.
Local supporting bands get the show rolling around 8pm, before the Joaquin Quino-led band stepped onto the stage, bringing with them the hype of the night.
The band has had a good number of fans in Honiara and they have flocked the venue, to be part of an unmissed opportunity to see the Big Mountain live in the City.
One of the fans speaking to Solomon Star said that he was a big fan of the band for many years.
“I have missed their first show in 2016 and decided not to miss this one again.”
Another fan added that the groove that Big Mountain brought with them is like a wind coming down from the mountains, so cool, refreshing and nice.
“When it blows through your body, you feel really nice. I am dancing a lot because I really enjoyed their music style,” the crazy fan said.
The band was here in 2016 and this is their second tour to the Hapi Isles.
In an interview upon their arrival, Quino said that he is happy to be back this year in Honiara.
“I really like this place and I love you people,” Mr Quino added.
It was a night that most fans will not forget, as they have had another chance to see the band again. For most, this is their first time to see the band members in person.
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homeowner was hospitalized, but they didn't know he had a house
sitter. One suspect waited in the car while his three accomplices
broke into the house. The house sitter heard glass breaking, got a
handgun and hid in a bedroom while the suspects stole guns, money
and jewelry. When he thought the intruders had left, he stepped into
the hallway -- only to find himself face to face with a gun-toting
burglar. The house sitter quickly fired two shots, killing the
suspect. The other suspects fled, but were later arrested.
Yesterday, we reported that it was likely that sweeping gun control measures would be proposed in Pittsburgh. Today, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto held a press conference to propose a trio of anti-gun city ordinances that, if enacted, would constitute ...
Michael Bloomberg, former NYC mayor and billionaire patron of the Nanny State, may be gearing up for the presidential race in 2020. He gave the idea of running as an independent candidate “serious consideration” in ...
Today, the California Department of Justice released the first in a series of regulatory proposals regarding the mandatory background check process when purchasing ammunition, which is scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2019.
Speaking in Montreal this month on the anniversary of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique tragedy, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed his government’s plans to further restrict legal access to handguns and “assault weapons” and refused to rule ...
David Hogg wants a federal tax on firearms and ammunition. He has repeatedly broached the idea, including multiple times on Twitter, and only sometimes suggests a use for the tax revenue. Hogg’s tweets on a ...
As we’ve noted recently, much research purporting to demonstrate connections between access to guns or right-to-carry laws and increases in crime is seriously flawed. Often it's an attempt to curtail or eliminate Americans’ rights under the Second ...
On December 5th, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a group backed by out-of-state elites, announced it will pursue its most extreme anti-gun legislative agenda to date during the upcoming 2019 Washington Legislative Session.
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Jiezhen mold of make up yesterday to introduce what is plastic mold mechanical polishing, today show everyone generally in plastic injection mold mechanical polishing process.
In order to get high quality polishing effect, the most important thing is to have a high quality oil stone, sanding and polishing tools such as diamond grinding paste, and AIDS. And polishing procedures after the choice depends on the early stage of the processing surface condition, such as machining, electrical discharge machining, grinding, etc. Mechanical polishing general process is as follows:
(1) coarse behind after milling, edm, grinding process such as the surface of the rotational speed can be selected in 35, 000? The rotation of the 40, 000 RPM surface polishing machine or ultrasonic grinding machine polishing. Commonly used methods include using Φ 3 mm in diameter, the wheels of the WA # 400 to remove white edm layer. Then the manual oil stone grinding, strip sharpening stone and kerosene as a lubricant or coolant. Generally the use of this order # 180 ~ # 240 ~ # 320 ~ # 240 ~ # 600 ~ # 800 ~ # 1000. Many mold manufacturers in order to save time and select start from # 400.
(2) a fine threw the semi finished mainly use sand paper and kerosene. Sandpaper the number in the order: # 400 ~ # 600 ~ # 600 ~ # 1000 ~ # 1200 ~ # 1500. In fact # 1500 sandpaper only suitable for hardened steel (52 HRC above), and is not suitable for hard steel, because it may cause burns on the surface of the pre hardened steel.
(3) the essence behind mainly use diamond grinding paste. If mixed with polishing cloth round diamond grinding powder or paste grinding, is usually the grinding order is 9 microns (# 1800) to 6 microns (# 3000) ~ 3 microns (# 8000). 9 microns diamond grinding paste and polishing cloth wheel can be used to remove # 1200 and # 1500 # sandpaper hair left by the grinding crack. With sticky mat, and then polished diamond grinding paste, the order of 1 1/2 mu mu m (# 14000) ~ m (# 60000) ~ 1/4 microns (# 100000).
Accuracy requirement in more than one mu m (including 1 microns) of polishing process in the mold processing workshop in a clean polished interior can be achieved. If a more precise polishing is an absolutely necessary clean space. Dust, smoke, dandruff and saliva foam can be discarded after several hours of work to get high precision polishing surface.
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Apple is set to host a launch event on September 7. We can expect the Cupertino company to unveil the iPhone 14 series at the event. New iPad and Watch Series 8 models are also expected to arrive during the event.More iPhone 14 Pro News
iPhone 14 Pro is an upcoming mobile by Apple. The phone is rumoured to come with a 120 Hz refresh rate 6.06-inch touchscreen display. The iPhone 14 Pro supports wireless charging, as well as proprietary fast charging.
As far as the cameras are concerned, the iPhone 14 Pro is rumoured to pack a triple rear camera setup featuring a 48-megapixel primary camera. It is rumoured to sport a single front camera setup for selfies, an Unspecified primary camera.
iPhone 14 Pro is based on iOS 16. The iPhone 14 Pro is said to measure 147.46 x 71.45 x 7.85mm (height x width x thickness) .
Connectivity options on the iPhone 14 Pro are said to include Lightning.
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|Release date||September 2022 (expected)|
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|Dimensions (mm)||147.46 x 71.45 x 7.85|
|Refresh Rate||120 Hz|
|Screen size (inches)||6.06|
|Processor make||Apple A16 Bionic|
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Low-end and lower mid-range segment of smartphone market in India is dominated by Xiaomi, thanks to its value for money handsets. In this segment, Samsung also has too many smartphones but they lack at specifications and often considered as overpriced handsets. But now it seems that things are going to be changed. Actually, Samsung is working on a new low-end smartphone called Galaxy J7 Duo.
Previously, this handset was spotted multiple times online with the name Galaxy J7 (2018) but now it is expected to be launched as Galaxy J7 Duo as user manual has been leaked. According to SamMobile, the user manual of this smartphone was leaked on Samsung’s official Indian website. It is also expected that the handset might be launched by the end of this month.
Talking about Samsung Galaxy J7 Duo specifications, the handset is built around a 5.5 inch display with 720 pixels of HD resolution and is powered by Samsung’s in-house developed Exynos 7885 processor. The handset is expected to be launched in two variants – 3GB RAM and 4GB RAM.
The Galaxy J7 Duo is said to feature a duo of 13 and 5 megapixels sensors on the rear that are able to capture “Live Focus” bokeh shots. With dual SIM functionality and fingerprint sensor, the handset will run on Android 8.0 Oreo.
Further, none of the aforementioned information has been officially confirmed by Samsung, so take it with a pinch of salt.


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Kenya Moore Will Return To ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ For Season 12
Kenya Moore has reportedly signed a contract to appear in a full-time role for the upcoming 12th season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
On July 10, after the former Miss USA winner sat out of the show’s 11th season (aside from a cameo role on the season’s finale), People magazine confirmed Moore’s return as a source promised a “great season.”
“Kenya isn’t wasting time reminding everyone why she’s reality TV gold,” another source said.
Although an official casting announcement for The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 12 likely won’t come for a few more months, the outlet noted that several of the show’s stars, including NeNe Leakes, Kandi Burruss, and Cynthia Bailey, have confirmed publicly that they will be returning for the new episodes.
As for the remaining members of Season 11, including Porsha Williams, Eva Marcille, and Shamari DeVoe, their roles on the show have not yet been confirmed.
As fans of The Real Housewives of Atlanta will recall, Moore reportedly got on the bad side of Bravo TV after secretly marrying husband Marc Daly off-camera and refusing to expose their marriage to the cameras of Season 10. So, when it came time to begin filming on Season 11, she was left out of the cast.
While Moore, who first joined the show during its fifth season, only appeared briefly on the Season 11 finale episode, her attendance at a party thrown by Cynthia Bailey caused quite a rift between Bailey and Leakes.
As Moore and her co-stars film scenes for the upcoming 12th season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, People magazine said it was not yet clear how much Daly would be seen on the new episodes. That said, the magazine did note that Moore and Daly’s eight-month-old daughter, Brooklyn Doris, would likely be seen throughout the season.
Although Moore was initially disappointed that she wasn’t invited to appear in a full-time role on the show’s 11th season, she later told the magazine that the snub was for the best, noting her complicated pregnancy, which led to an emergency cesarean section last November.
“I was disappointed [not to be on the show again],” Moore said. “It broke my heart but with all the stress, I don’t know how I could have done it.”
“I’m hopeful that door isn’t closed for the future,” she added. “I think fans want to see this next chapter, and I’m ready to show them.”
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Opinion: More healthcare is better healthcare—Medical myth or reality?
The U.S. spends nearly $3 trillion a year on health care, significantly more than any other nation. In fact, America's annual health care spending is greater than the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of every other country except China, Germany and Japan. Yet our measurable health outcomes – from infant mortality to life expectancy – aren't any better than nations spending much less. I've written about this paradox before, pointing to a few factors that drive up health care costs. They include the perverse financial incentives of health care's fee-for-service payment model, the unjustifiably higher costs of devices and drugs in the U.S. and our systematic investment in specialists over primary care physicians.
- mHealth Tackles Readmissions
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- CNO Leads $1M Charge for New Scrubs, Uniforms
- Targeting Self-Insured Populations
- MA an Insurance Proving Ground for Providers
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Metamorphic Testing Keith Stobie Test Architect Microsoft
Oracles • Oracles, without re-implementingFor example, inverted functions.E.g. you can test SquareRoot() by using “square” as the inverted function:Y := SquareRoot(X)Assert.True( Y*Y == X )
Metamorphic Relation (MR) • Reuse existing test cases to generate more tests. (Existing tests as Oracles) • MR: Any relation among the inputs and the outcomes of multiple executions of SUT. SqRt(X)*SqRt(Y) == SqRt(X*Y) • Test 1: SqRt(9) == 3 • Gen Test 2: SqRt(9)*SqRt(2) == SqrRt(9*2)
Shortest Path examples • ShortestPath(G, a, b)find the shortest path between vertices a and b in graph G and also output its length, where G is an undirected graph with positive edge weights. (dijkstra’s algorithm) • Reverse: The shortest path between B and A should be the reverse of the shortest path between A and B. • Prefix: For any vertix, V, on shortest path between vertices A and B, the Shortest path between A and V must be the same sequence as the start of the path between A and B.
Test Boyer-Moore example • Boyer-Moore algorithmreturns the index of the first occurrence of a specified pattern within a given text. • MRs • Reverse: if string X exists in string Y, then the reverse of Y exists in the reverse of X.
References • An effective testing method for end-user programmershttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1083231.1083236 • Metamorphic Testing and Its Applicationshttp://www.csis.hku.hk/research/techreps/document/TR-2004-12.pdf • Case Studies on the Selection of Useful Relations in Metamorphic Testinghttp://www.csis.hku.hk/research/techreps/document/TR-2004-13.pdf • An Empirical Comparison between Direct and Indirect Test Result Checking Approaches (SOQUA 2006 – to appear in the ACM Digital Library. http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm )


The possibility of using a portable analyzer of the soil pH in the fieldwork.
Piotr Guzy, Grzegorz Dubiel
Vol. 41, 1 (2015), s. 84-85
In environmental protection and in petroleum prospecting, apart from the commonly applied geophysical methods, geochemical methods are becoming more common. They include gas methods (the most popular consists in the “free gas method”) as well as bacteriological, bitumen luminesce, hydrogeochemical, geobotanical methods and redox methods which are based on pH and Eh analyses.Geochemical research supported by geophysical research constitutes a very accurate tool in locating deep hydrocarbon deposits and in research conducted in relation to natural gas storage facilities. The geochemical research takes into account qualitative and quantitative measurement of parameters characterising the soil environment which includes the acidity and alkalinity of soil pH. The application of the method based on soil pH analysis in terms of exploring deep hydrocarbon pools became an area of interest for the Gas Chromatography Methods and Surface Geochemical AGH. Until now, the method based on soil pH analysis was not used in Poland in terms of exploring deep hydrocarbon pools. Such research was conducted only in the US (Reid 1992, Klusman 1993, Tedesco 1995) but this was done in varying environments and thus the results varied. Soil pH measurement may be performed in compliance with the Polish Standard (PN-ISO 10390:1997) by creating a soil solution however according to the manufacturer, the measurement tool in possession of the Laboratory is suited for taking measurement of solid substances such as cream or soil. Due to the fact that preparation of a soil solution is relatively time-consuming, the author of the work makes an effort of analysing the differences between the standard measurements taken on the solution and in situ measurements taken on the soil using the same device, the latter being a lot faster. Measurements were taken using 56 samples drawn in the area of one of the natural gas deposits in the Carpathian Foredeep Basin. Research has shown that the average values from taking in situ measurements and the collection of soil solution measurements are very similar and amount to 4.65 and 4.93 respectively. The graphical representation of the statistical parameters of both collections (box plot) shows that their distribution is similar. For both collections, the modal class on the performed histograms is between 4.5 and 5.0. Taking into account the variability of the soil centre and the impact of surface and weather conditions on the soil, the collections of values were normalized and filtered. Then, such data was subjected to directional correlation. It showed 85% of corresponding directions of changes. Furthermore, the correlations of measured values performed using the Cartesian coordinate system where the R2 coordinate equals to 0.64, show a relatively high correspondence. The conducted analyses and comparative correlations have shown that in order to characterise the researched area, an in situ test of samples using a mobile analyser may be sufficient to identify the variability of soil acidity in the researched area, thus allowing to save the valuable time and labour consumption to a large extent.


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Here’s the romantic version: Mario Gonzalez, Jr., aka Zore, was hanging out across from the Museum of Science and Industry one day in 1989 when he was approached by a couple of kids. They were all at a gathering for Chi-Rock Nation, an organization that aims to create outlets for young people to be creative and artistic—the “Rock” is for Respect Our Creative Kids. The pair introduced themselves: Desie and Sensei.
“We have paint,” they informed Gonzalez.
He asked to see their paint, and when they handed it over he popped it in the trunk of his car.
“They started crying and shit,” Gonzalez told me. “Never tell anyone you have paint.”
Desie and Sensei had been interested in painting with Gonzalez, who at that point had, by his own measures, quite the reputation up and down the city of Chicago. “There was a time when I literally had all the walls on the South Side,” he said. “I had a monopoly on the South Side.” No wonder these “toys,” as inexperienced artists are referred to in the graffiti world, wanted to paint with him so badly.
“We got a wall,” they told him.
“(My crew and I) were like, ‘Okay, do it,’ ” Gonzalez recalls. They told him the spot they had in mind: an alley just north of 53rd Street in between South Blackstone and South Kimbark Avenues, sandwiched between several floors of condos and a McDonald’s and Mobil gas station.
That McDonald’s later moved, leaving the Mobil gas station, which will soon become a 267-unit high-rise development. Demolition of the existing property—including the graffiti wall—is set to start this December.
Back in 1989, Chicago graffiti saw little daylight. Most writers were active under overpasses and bridges, on “L” trains and in the abandoned factories and industrial sites that dotted much of the city. Walls were rare—you were more likely to get arrested painting on property that didn’t belong to the city, and your artwork was less likely to survive. But Desie and Sensei were intent on hitting this wall. And they did.
The first prominent graffiti in Hyde Park happened in the early seventies, when artists, often locals, began doing murals underneath the Metra tracks. Jon Pounds, executive director of the Chicago Public Art Group, says that these individuals were primarily interested in expanding the use of murals to Chicago at a time when they were beginning to become popular on the coasts. CPAG, founded in 1971, is an organization that is responsible for putting up the vast majority of the city’s public art installations.
“Since 1972, the types of materials employed have expanded to include spray paint, mosaics, direct application mosaics, and high-resolution digital prints,” Pounds wrote in an email.
Back in the day, Gonzalez assures me, the paint was everything.
“Graffiti writers were the first World Wide Web,” he said. “We would paint graffiti in one city and three days later somebody in Australia would show up with a response.” These kinds of global conversations were happening in Hyde Park through the seventies and into the late eighties, when Gonzalez and some friends founded SB Crew. (The SB was originally for Spray Brigade, but, like many other graffiti crew names, it can be turned to almost any phrase whose words start with S and B.) “Everybody wrote, everybody had style in the seventies,” Gonzalez added. “Like, even little kids.”
The crew was made up of “leftover guys from the eighties and leaders of the new school in the nineties” who were painting all over the South Side. They got their start hitting train cars, especially what is now the Pink Line—the canvas most accessible from Pilsen, where Gonzalez grew up. The crew, he claims, was the first to “bomb” the underpass near Promontory Point (where he would go after school to pick up girls) and many of the Metra underpasses.
By the time he was approached by Desie and Sensei about the 53rd Street wall in 1989, Gonzalez was a student at the SAIC. He ended up giving the kids back their paint to make them stop whining, and then let them show him their newfound spot. They began painting, with Gonzalez giving them tips on how to make their pieces look good. A few other members of SB Crew put their marks on the alley, but then they, as well as Desie and Sensei, moved on to bigger and better things. They still came back every now and then to do some maintenance: putting up small pieces and painting over the shoddier tags left by amateurs. “We left it to the toys,” Gonzalez said.
The toys inherited it. Around 2006, a few kids from Hyde Park started a graffiti crew—IDC—whose name, like that of any good crew, has come to mean many things, such as “I Define Creative” or “I Destroy Chicago.” It depends on who’s spelling it out.
The crew was founded primarily by the late Chris Gary and a couple friends while they were taking art classes at Gallery 37, through CPS’s after-school Advanced Art Program. It was the winter, and they were juniors in high school.
“I guess they were just sitting around in painting class and talking about how they wanted to start a graffiti crew,” said Shawn Bullen. “They started throwing out names and the first name that came up was I.D., for—I believe it was for ‘Indirect Disrespect,’ or something like that, or ‘I Dream.’ It pretty much just came out of nothing, people just sitting around coming up with ideas, and, you know, making meaning out of a couple letters.”
Bullen was introduced to the group when Gary saw him scribbling on the bleachers during a Laboratory School basketball game and invited him outside for a smoke.
“So man, I’m trying to start this graf crew,” Gary said.
“I didn’t know jack shit about graffiti, but Chris was kind of the one who introduced it to me,” said Bullen. “He was like, ‘You wanna be in this?’ So I said yes, and some weird-ass graffiti crew started and now it’s an art collective and people think its real.”
Bullen became one of the main leaders of IDC, and the 53rd Street wall was their de facto home base. They began hanging out there after school and on weekends. It was a safe spot to get stoned or drink without getting hassled too much by cops, but there was a much more obvious draw: a constantly evolving and changing gallery of graffiti artwork.
“The graf culture has a built in curatorial system,” said Eric Guo. He is friends with many of the people in IDC, and when he’s not working at Hyde Park Produce he is gathering funding for public art projects. “It’s a whole lot of politics of course, but it’s about gaining respect through technical skill, artistic content, and creativity. The writers are the curators, covering up whatever they don’t like. Other writers in turn can cover those pieces up, etc. The ‘curatorial integrity’ is built up over time through this ongoing cycle of creation and destruction.”
The members and friends of IDC jumped feet first into this cycle, throwing up tags on the 53rd Street wall and critiquing, in their own way, the artwork that would appear on it.
“We would just talk a lot of shit about other people’s artwork to the point where it was like, well, we better step our game up so we can actually do something as good as this,” Bullen said. “Working towards being good enough to even paint on that wall was this huge thing.” They sketched all day long, coming up with elaborate ideas for their first big piece.
Bullen and his crew finally painted something on the wall, in the summer of 2007. But when they went behind the McDonald’s the next day to revel in their artwork, the guy whose piece they had painted over had already returned the favor.
“We all came back, all pissed off and sad, and we were like, ‘Man, it’s the greatest thing we ever did and it’s painted over in a day,’ ” he said, chuckling.
The guy showed up later and gave them a hard time for having painted over his piece the day before. They talked it out, however, and made peace.
“He eventually was like, ‘Yeah, but I respect what you guys do cause I can see that you’re getting a lot better,’ ” recalls Bullen. “Graffiti, in a lot of ways, is a bunch of guys trying to be tough who are really a bunch of softies who just wanna make art and get to know each other.”
“The wall brought a lot of very talented graffiti artists from all over Chicago together,” said one Hyde Park tagger, who asked to remain anonymous. “It was usually a friendly gathering—I don’t know of too much graffiti crew beef. But it was a way for amateurs to get better—you get to learn from watching other people paint, because painting, in itself, is its own art. And you got to see different styles. It’s a pretty, like, family-oriented community if you stay out of the trouble.”
The IDC family grew up and spread out across the continent, with members going to Canada, San Francisco, and the East Coast. I asked Bullen how “real” IDC can be with its membership spread so thinly.
“If a company had no office and no registration but was very active and many people knew about them and they were getting paid under that name—occasionally—it would be real,” he said with a laugh. “I always say, it’s as vague as an idea and as real as a company.”
Chris Gary, IDC’s founder, died in a freak boating accident in August of 2010. He was known as ‘Crusto,’ ‘Rusty,’ or ‘Rustoleum’ to the walls he wrote on. After Gary’s memorial service, Bullen brought people behind the McDonald’s so they could pay tribute in the graffiti community’s traditional way: creating a memorial in paint. He set out a big bag filled with spray paint cans and let people draw whatever they want. Many people who partook in the alleyway memorial had never tagged a wall before. Portraits of Gary and tributes such as “In Rust We Trust” were put up. Messages from loved ones, interspersed with Gary’s many monikers, dotted the wall from end to end.
“The wall was completely covered in his name and images of him, and it stayed that way for months—no other artists touched it,” Alice O’Keefe, a friend of Gary’s, told me in a Facebook message. “Every year on August 6, Chris’ death date, I lay some flowers there.”
Bullen told me that a guy who had once threatened to beat him and Gary up for painting over his piece near the Metra tracks came by the memorial to paint and pay his respects.
Each year since Gary’s death, the greater IDC community has come together to celebrate his life at the wall. This past summer they had a party and over a hundred people showed up. “The cops came through and they didn’t even care,” Bullen said. “They just told us to try and keep it down.”
In the 53rd Street wall’s heyday in the nineties, paint ran from Kimbark to Blackstone—on both sides of the alley. Now the painted area is just the northernmost wall of what is now the Mobil gas station property. A little over 120 feet long, it runs from the building that houses The Sit Down restaurant to the parking lot of MAC Property Management’s offices.
The entirety of the wall, and the adjacent gas station and parking lots, are set to be demolished this winter in order to make way for Vue53, a hotly contested high-rise development. The building, at thirteen stories, will have retail stores on its first floor with entrances facing 53rd Street; the back of the building—where the wall is currently—will be used for truck deliveries. The development is backed by the University of Chicago—it’s another step in 53rd Street’s controversial makeover, which is gradually making Hyde Park’s center a much flashier place.
The neighborhood also used to be a much rougher place than it is today. One of Chicago’s most famous gangs, the Blackstone Rangers, now known as the Black Peace Stone Nation, or the Stones, was started in neighboring Woodlawn and still has many members who live in the area. They were some of the first to deface the city’s walls, along with other gangs—it was a way to mark territory and spread influence.
“The first people to hit it were the gangbangers,” Gonzalez said of the 53rd Street wall.
That’s the unromantic version of the wall’s genesis story: just another alleyway getting tagged by criminals. And there was no lone Creator, just a bunch of different guys who claim they were the first.
“It’s organic,” Gonzalez said. “It’s like the pizza or the hotdog. Ain’t nobody started it, but you have, like, twenty people claiming it.”
Joe Check has lived with his wife in a house on South Blackstone Avenue, right next to the alleyway’s eastern entrance, for forty years. For at least twenty-five, he said, people have been coming almost every day to paint the wall. A retired school social worker, Check remembers the almost simultaneous appearance of the distinctive symbols in the alley and in his students’ notebooks.
“It was similar styles of lettering, stuff that I can’t read,” he said with a smile. He watched with fascination as more and more young people began to leave their painted mark on his alley.
“Usually there would be regular changes, because one group would follow on another group, and paint with rollers, and I noticed that people would come with plans,” he told me. “It wasn’t just all spontaneous, they had worked out what they were gonna do.”
Over the years, Check’s garage has been tagged more than a few times, but the next day kids would come and paint over it in white. Now, he says, “It’s understood that you don’t do that.”
I asked Check what he thinks should happen in light of the wall’s demolition.
“I really think that a space should be provided,” he said. “It can be supported by the community.”
“I don’t know how many people will be impacted by the loss of the graf wall,” Eric Guo wrote. “The wall is filling an admittedly niche demand at the moment. I feel that the major consequence to the community at large will be that far fewer practiced writers would come to Hyde Park.”
For whatever reason—perhaps as opposition to the university’s corporatism, or because of its intellectual reach, or just due to a certain brand of cultural awareness its inhabitants share—Hyde Park owns a kind of subversion that is acutely represented by this wall of graffiti.
“It was not significant, and it still to this day is not significant. It was started by toys and maintained by my crew, and then it went back to the toys,” maintains Gonzalez. About fifteen years ago he moved to San Francisco, and his artwork is now found in galleries all over the world. He’s had pieces shown in South Korea, Germany, Bangkok, Italy, and at Miami’s Art Basel. He gives off the feeling that when he left Chicago (“It would be insane to live in the same place your whole life”) he left the entire city to the toys.
Writers from the older generations still come by the wall every now and then to paint the kinds of pieces that put other graffiti glyphs to shame. Hundreds of artists have painted something on that wall—people from all over Chicago and all over the world. But with the demolition of the wall, the promise of impermanency that comes with each piece is being made good on in a profound way—all graffiti looks the same when it’s broken up, spread across a large pile of rubble.
“There is no category named Eternal,” Jon Pounds wrote me. “Nothing is permanent—do we really think Cloud Gate will exist in 500 years? OK—it’s permanent. After twenty years, we’ll decide.”
A team of marketers and building designers at Mesa Development LLC. has already made the decision of the 53rd Street wall’s impermanency. They still face a small but vocal faction of resistance from the community, but there is one question that neither side has attempted to answer: will there be another wall?
“There’s other graf walls in the city. There’s plenty of bridges and abandoned buildings to go and practice in,” Shawn Bullen told me. He will be back in Chicago this January—he moved to San Francisco a few years ago—to create a retrospective of the 53rd Street wall, a painted epitaph. This summer he’s going to be running a three-month long project to bring more public art to the South Side called—what else?—“I Decorate Chicago.”
“I figure life will go on normally,” he said.
When you visit the alleyway behind where the closed Mobil gas station is, where the McDonald’s used to be, where a 135-foot building may soon rise, you’ll see flakes of paint littering the ground next to the wall. You’ll see the cleansing gray paint, the canvas on which a piece has come to life—someone will reapply it there soon. There are some vague marks on the northern walls of the alley, leftover tags that were not washed away as easily as others, and you’ll see those, too. You’ll see the street lamps, the ones that give unparalleled, albeit orange, lighting for the paintingstel. You can touch the chipped-cement top of the low wall, and cut yourself on it if you’re not careful.
“That’s just a regular wall that would get tagged or bombed,” Gonzalez informed me. He added, with a little more heart, “It has many stories, I’m sure.”
At the end of our conversation, Bullen left me with this image: when they tear the wall down, you’ll be able to see the paint strata on the wall’s surface, padding its northern face like a horizontal tell.
“There’s inches upon inches of paint there,” he said.
This story has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: December 3, 2013
An earlier version of this story misstated the history of the “McMobil” site that the graffiti wall abuts. A McDonald’s and Mobil gas station occupied the site’s lots together until McDonald’s moved to 52nd Street in 2004.