Nirvana (band)
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| Origin | Aberdeen, Washington, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1987–1994 |
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| Website | nirvana |
| Past members | See members section for others |
Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Founded by lead singer-songwriter and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers before recruiting Dave Grohl in 1990. Nirvana's success popularized alternative rock, and they were often referenced as the figurehead band of Generation X. Their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock and roll culture.
In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album, Bleach, for the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. They developed a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. After signing to major label DGC Records in 1991, Nirvana found unexpected mainstream success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the first single from their landmark second album Nevermind (1991). A cultural phenomenon of the 1990s, the album went on to be certified Diamond by the RIAA and is often credited for ending the dominance of hair metal.[1]
Characterized by their punk aesthetic, Nirvana's fusion of pop melodies with noise, combined with their themes of abjection and social alienation, brought them global popularity. Following extensive tours and the 1992 compilation album Incesticide and EP Hormoaning, the band released their abrasive and less mainstream sounding third studio album, In Utero (1993). The album topped both the US and UK album charts, and was acclaimed by critics. Nirvana disbanded following Cobain's suicide in April 1994. Various posthumous releases have been overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love. The posthumous live album MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) won Best Alternative Music Performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards.
By 2009, Nirvana record sales were over 75 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. During their three years as a mainstream act, Nirvana received an American Music Award, Brit Award and Grammy Award, as well as seven MTV Video Music Awards and two NME Awards. They achieved five number-one hits on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and four number-one albums on the Billboard 200. In 2004, Rolling Stone named Nirvana among the 100 greatest artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility in 2014.
History
Formation and early years (1987–1988)
Singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic met while attending Aberdeen High School in Washington state.[2] The pair became friends while frequenting the practice space of the Melvins.[3] Cobain wanted to form a band with Novoselic, but Novoselic did not respond for a long period. Cobain gave him a demo tape of his project Fecal Matter. Three years after the two first met, Novoselic notified Cobain that he had finally listened to the Fecal Matter demo and suggested they start a group. Their first band, the Sellouts, was a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band.[4] They recruited Bob McFadden on drums, but after a month the project fell apart.[5] In early 1987, Cobain and Novoselic recruited drummer Aaron Burckhard.[6] They practiced material from Cobain's Fecal Matter tape but started writing new material soon after forming.[7]
During its initial months, the band went through a series of names, including Fecal Matter, Skid Row and Ted Ed Fred. The group settled on Nirvana because, according to Cobain, "I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans".[8] Novoselic and Cobain moved to Tacoma and Olympia, Washington respectively. They temporarily lost contact with Burckhard, and instead practiced with Dale Crover of the Melvins. Nirvana recorded its first demos in January 1988.[9]
In early 1988, Crover moved to San Francisco but recommended Dave Foster as his replacement on drums.[10] Foster's tenure with Nirvana lasted only a few months; during a stint in jail, he was replaced by Burckhard, who again departed after telling Cobain he was too hungover to practice one day.[11] Cobain and Novoselic put an ad seeking a replacement drummer in The Rocket, a Seattle music publication, but received no satisfactory responses. Meanwhile, a mutual friend introduced them to drummer Chad Channing, and the three musicians agreed to jam together. Channing continued to jam with Cobain and Novoselic; however, by Channing's own account, "They never actually said 'okay, you're in.'" Channing played his first show with Nirvana in May 1988.[12]
Early releases (1988–1990)
Nirvana released its first single, a cover of Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz", in November 1988 on the Seattle independent record label Sub Pop.[13] They did their first ever interview with John Robb in Sounds, which made their release its single of the week. The following month, the band began recording its debut album, Bleach, with local producer Jack Endino.[14] Bleach was influenced by the heavy dirge-rock of the Melvins and the 1980s punk rock of Mudhoney, as well as the 1970s heavy metal of Black Sabbath.[15] The money for the recording sessions for Bleach, listed as $606.17 on the album sleeve, was supplied by Jason Everman, who was subsequently brought into the band as the second guitarist. Though Everman did not play on the album, he received a credit on Bleach because, according to Novoselic, they "wanted to make him feel more at home in the band".[16] Just prior to the album's release, Nirvana became the first band to sign an extended contract[clarification needed] with Sub Pop.[17]
Bleach was released in June 1989, and became a favorite of college radio stations. After the album's release Nirvana embarked on its first national tour,[18][19] but ended up canceling the last few dates and returning to Washington state due to increasing differences with Everman. No one told Everman he was fired; Everman later said he had actually quit.[20] Although Sub Pop did not promote Bleach as much as other releases, it was a steady seller,[21] and had initial sales of 40,000 copies.[22] However, Cobain was upset by the label's lack of promotion and distribution for the album.[21] In late 1989, the band recorded the Blew EP with producer Steve Fisk.[23] In an interview around that time with John Robb in Sounds, Cobain commented that the band's music was changing, saying "The early songs were really angry... But as time goes on the songs are getting poppier and poppier as I get happier and happier. The songs are now about conflicts in relationships, emotional things with other human beings".[24]
In April 1990, Nirvana began working on their next album with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.[25] Cobain and Novoselic became disenchanted with Channing's drumming, and Channing expressed frustration at not being involved in songwriting. As bootlegs of Nirvana demos with Vig began to circulate in the music industry and draw attention from major labels, Channing left the band.[26] That July, Nirvana recorded the single "Sliver" with Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters.[27] Dale Crover filled in on drums on Nirvana's seven-date American West Coast tour with Sonic Youth that August.[28]
In September 1990, Buzz Osborne of the Melvins introduced the band to drummer Dave Grohl, whose Washington, D.C. band Scream had broken up.[29] Grohl auditioned for Novoselic and Cobain days after arriving in Seattle; Novoselic later said, "We knew in two minutes that he was the right drummer."[30] Grohl told Q :"I remember being in the same room with them and thinking, 'What? That's Nirvana? Are you kidding?' Because on their record cover they looked like psycho lumberjacks...  You're kidding me'."[31]
Mainstream breakthrough (1991–1992)
Disenchanted with Sub Pop and with the Smart Studios sessions generating interest, Nirvana decided to look for a deal with a major record label since no indie label could buy the group out of its contract.[32] Cobain and Novoselic consulted Soundgarden and Alice in Chains manager Susan Silver for advice.[33][34] They met Silver in Los Angeles and she introduced them to agent Don Muller and music business attorney Alan Mintz, who was specialized in finding deals for new bands. Mintz started sending out Nirvana's demo tape to major labels looking for deals.[33][34] Following repeated recommendations by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Nirvana signed to DGC Records in 1990.[35] When Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, Novoselic thanked Silver during his speech for "introducing them to the music industry properly".[36]
After signing, the band began recording its first major label album, Nevermind. The group was offered a number of producers, but held out for Vig.[37] Rather than record at Vig's Madison studio as they had in 1990, production shifted to Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. For two months, the band worked through a variety of songs. Some, such as "In Bloom" and "Breed", had been in Nirvana's repertoire for years, while others, including "On a Plain" and "Stay Away", lacked finished lyrics until midway through the recording process.[38] After the recording sessions were completed, Vig and the band set out to mix the album. However, the recording sessions had run behind schedule and the resulting mixes were deemed unsatisfactory. Slayer mixer Andy Wallace was brought in to create the final mix. After the album's release, members of Nirvana expressed dissatisfaction with the polished sound the mixer had given Nevermind.[39]
Initially, DGC Records was hoping to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind, the same they had achieved with Sonic Youth's Goo.[40] However, the first single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" quickly gained momentum, boosted by major airplay of the music video on MTV. As it toured Europe during late 1991, the band found that its shows were dangerously oversold, that television crews were becoming a constant presence onstage, and that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was almost omnipresent on radio and music television.[41] By Christmas 1991, Nevermind was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US.[42] In January 1992, the album displaced Michael Jackson's Dangerous at number one on the Billboard album charts, and topped the charts in numerous other countries.[43] The month Nevermind reached number one, Billboard proclaimed, "Nirvana is that rare band that has everything: critical acclaim, industry respect, pop radio appeal, and a rock-solid college/alternative base."[44] The album eventually sold over seven million copies in the United States[45] and over 30 million worldwide.[46] Nirvana's sudden success was credited for popularizing alternative rock and ending the dominance of hair metal.[47]
Citing exhaustion, Nirvana decided not to undertake another American tour in support of Nevermind, instead opting to make only a handful of performances later that year.[48] In March 1992, Cobain sought to reorganize the group's songwriting royalties (which to this point had been split equally) to better represent that he wrote the majority of the music. Grohl and Novoselic did not object, but when Cobain wanted the agreement to be retroactive to the release of Nevermind, the disagreements between the two sides came close to breaking up the band. After a week of tension, Cobain received a retroactive share of 75 percent of the royalties. Bad feelings about the situation remained within the group afterward.[49]
Amid rumors that the band was disbanding due to Cobain's health, Nirvana headlined the closing night of England's 1992 Reading Festival. Cobain personally programmed the performance lineup.[50] Nirvana's performance at Reading is often regarded by the press as one of the most memorable of the group's career.[51][52] A few days later, Nirvana performed at the MTV Video Music Awards; despite the network's refusal to let the band play the new song "Rape Me", Cobain strummed and sang the first few bars of the song before breaking into "Lithium". The band received awards for the Best Alternative Video and Best New Artist categories.[53]
DGC had hoped to have a new Nirvana album ready for a late 1992 holiday season; instead, it released the compilation album Incesticide in December 1992.[54] A joint venture between DGC and Sub Pop, Incesticide collected various rare Nirvana recordings and was intended to provide the material for a better price and higher quality than bootlegs.[55] As Nevermind had been out for 15 months and had yielded a fourth single in "In Bloom" by that point, Geffen/DGC opted not to heavily promote Incesticide, which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America the following February.[56]
In Utero, final months, and Cobain's death (1993–1994)
In February 1993, Nirvana released "Puss"/"Oh, the Guilt", a split single with The Jesus Lizard, on the independent label Touch & Go.[54] Meanwhile, the group chose Steve Albini, who had a reputation as a principled and opinionated individual in the American indie music scene, to record its third album. While there was speculation that the band chose Albini to record the album due to his underground credentials,[57] Cobain insisted that Albini's sound was simply the one he had always wanted Nirvana to have: a "natural" recording without layers of studio trickery.[58] Nirvana traveled to Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, in that February to record the album.[59] The sessions with Albini were productive and quick, and the album was recorded and mixed in two weeks for $25,000.[60]
Several weeks after the completion of the recording sessions, stories ran in the Chicago Tribune and Newsweek that quoted sources claiming DGC considered the album "unreleasable".[61] As a result, fans began to believe that the band's creative vision might be compromised by their label.[62] While the stories about DGC shelving the album were untrue, the band actually was unhappy with certain aspects of Albini's mixes; they thought the bass levels were too low,[63] and Cobain felt that "Heart-Shaped Box" and "All Apologies" did not sound "perfect".[64] Longtime R.E.M. producer Scott Litt was called in to remix these two songs, with Cobain adding additional instrumentation and backing vocals.[65]
In Utero topped both the American and British album charts.[66] Time's Christopher John Farley wrote in his review of the album, "Despite the fears of some alternative-music fans, Nirvana hasn't gone mainstream, though this potent new album may once again force the mainstream to go Nirvana".[67] In Utero went on to sell over 5 million copies in the United States.[45] That October, Nirvana embarked on its first tour of the United States in two years with support from Half Japanese and the Breeders.[68] For the tour, the band added Pat Smear of the punk rock band Germs as a second guitarist.[69]
In November, Nirvana recorded a performance for the television program MTV Unplugged. Augmented by Smear and cellist Lori Goldston, the band broke convention for the show by choosing not to play their most recognizable songs. Instead, they performed several covers, and invited Cris and Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets to join them for renditions of three Meat Puppets songs.[70]
In early 1994, Nirvana embarked on a European tour. Nirvana's final concert took place in Munich, Germany, on March 1. In Rome, on the morning of March 4, Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, found Cobain unconscious in their hotel room and he was rushed to the hospital. Cobain had reacted to a combination of prescribed Rohypnol and alcohol. The rest of the tour was canceled.[71] In the ensuing weeks, Cobain's heroin addiction resurfaced. Following an intervention, Cobain was convinced to admit himself into drug rehabilitation. After less than a week, he left the rehabilitation facility and returned to Seattle. One week later, on April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound at his home in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood of the city.[72]
Aftermath and posthumous releases (1994–present)
Plans for a live album, Verse Chorus Verse, were canceled as Novoselic and Grohl found assembling the material so soon after Cobain's death emotionally overwhelming.[73] Instead, in November 1994, DGC released the MTV Unplugged performance as MTV Unplugged in New York; it debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, and earned Nirvana a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. It was followed by Nirvana's first full-length live video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.[54][74] In 1996, the live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah became the third consecutive Nirvana release to debut at the top of the Billboard album chart.[54]
In 1994, Grohl founded a new band, Foo Fighters. He and Novoselic decided against Novoselic joining; Grohl said it would have felt "really natural" for them to work together again, but would have been uncomfortable for the other band members and placed more pressure on Grohl.[75] Novoselic turned his attention to political activism.[54]
In 1997, Novoselic, Grohl, and Love formed the limited liability company Nirvana LLC to oversee all Nirvana projects.[76] A 45-track box set of Nirvana rarities was scheduled for release in October 2001.[77] However, shortly before the release date, Love filed a suit to dissolve Nirvana LLC, and an injunction was issued preventing the release of any new Nirvana material until the case was resolved.[78] Love contended that Cobain was the band, that Grohl and Novoselic were sidemen, and that she had signed the partnership agreement originally under bad advice. Grohl and Novoselic countersued, asking the court to remove Love from the partnership and to replace her with another representative of Cobain's estate.[77]
The day before the case was set to go to trial in October 2002, Love, Novoselic, and Grohl announced that they had reached a settlement. The next month, the best-of compilation Nirvana was released, featuring the previously unreleased track "You Know You're Right", the last song Nirvana recorded.[79] It debuted at number three on the Billboard album chart.[80] The box set, With the Lights Out, was finally released in November 2004. The release contained early Cobain demos, rough rehearsal recordings, and live tracks recorded throughout the band's history. An album of selected tracks from the box set, Sliver: The Best of the Box, was released in late 2005.[81]
In April 2006, Love announced that she was selling 25 percent of her stake in the Nirvana song catalog in a deal estimated at $50 million. The share of Nirvana's publishing was purchased by Primary Wave Music, which was founded by Larry Mestel, a former CEO of Virgin Records. Love sought to assure Nirvana's fanbase that the music would not simply be licensed to the highest bidder: "We are going to remain very tasteful and true to the spirit of Nirvana while taking the music to places it has never been before".[82] Further releases have included the DVD releases of Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! in 2006,[83] and the full version of MTV Unplugged in New York in 2007.[84] In November 2009, Nirvana's performance at the 1992 Reading Festival was released on CD and DVD as Live at Reading,[85] alongside a deluxe 20th-anniversary edition of Bleach.[86] DGC released a number of 20th anniversary deluxe-edition packages of Nevermind in September 2011[87] and In Utero in September 2013.[88]
In 2012, Grohl, Novoselic, and Smear joined Paul McCartney at 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief.[89] The performance featured the premiere of a new song written by the four, "Cut Me Some Slack". A studio recording was released on the soundtrack to Sound City, a film by Grohl.[90][91] On July 19, 2013, they played with McCartney again during the encore of his Safeco Field "Out There" concert in Seattle, the first time Nirvana members had played together in their hometown in over 15 years.[92][93]
In 2014, Cobain, Novoselic, and Grohl were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the induction ceremony, Novoselic, Grohl and Smear performed a four-song set with guest vocalists Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, St. Vincent, and Lorde.[94][95] Novoselic, Grohl, and Smear then performed a full show at Brooklyn's St. Vitus Bar with Jett, Gordon, St. Vincent, J Mascis, and John McCauley as guest vocalists.[96] At the ceremony, Grohl thanked Burckhard, Crover, Peters and Channing for their time in Nirvana. Everman also attended.[97]
At Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party in 2016, the surviving members of Nirvana reunited to perform the David Bowie song "The Man Who Sold the World", which Nirvana covered in their MTV Unplugged performance. Beck accompanied them on acoustic guitar and lead vocals.[98] In October 2018, Novoselic and Grohl reunited during the finale of the Cal Jam festival at Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino County, California, joined by guest vocalists John McCauley and Joan Jett.[99] On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Nirvana among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[100] In January 2020, Novoselic and Grohl reunited for a performance at a benefit for The Art of Elysium at the Hollywood Palladium, joined by Beck, St Vincent, and Grohl's daughter Violet Grohl.[101]
Musical style
Cobain described Nirvana's initial sound as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff".[55] When Nirvana recorded Bleach, Cobain felt he had to fit the expectations of the Sub Pop grunge sound to build a fanbase, and suppressed his arty and pop songwriting in favor of a more rock sound.[103] Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad argued, "Ironically, it was the restrictions of the Sub Pop sound that helped the band find its musical identity." Azerrad stated that by acknowledging that they had grown up listening to Black Sabbath and Aerosmith, they had been able to move on from their derivative early sound.[104]
Nirvana used dynamic shifts that went from quiet to loud.[63] Cobain sought to mix heavy and pop musical sounds, saying, "I wanted to be totally Led Zeppelin in a way and then be totally extreme punk rock and then do real wimpy pop songs." When Cobain heard the Pixies' 1988 album Surfer Rosa after recording Bleach, he felt it had the sound he wanted to achieve but had been too intimidated to try. The Pixies' subsequent popularity encouraged Cobain to follow his instincts as a songwriter.[105] Like the Pixies, Nirvana moved between "spare bass-and-drum grooves and shrill bursts of screaming guitar and vocals".[106] Near the end of his life, Cobain said the band had become bored of the "limited" formula, but expressed doubt that they were skilled enough to try other dynamics.[63]
Cobain's rhythm guitar style, which relied on power chords, low-note riffs, and a loose left-handed technique, featured the key components to the band's songs. Cobain would often initially play a song's verse riff in a clean tone, then double it with distorted guitars when he repeated the part. In some songs the guitar would be absent from the verses entirely to allow the drums and bass guitar to support the vocals, or it would only play sparse melodies like the two-note pattern used in "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Cobain rarely played standard guitar solos, opting to play variations of the song's melody as single note lines. Cobain's solos were mostly blues-based and discordant, which music writer Jon Chappell described as "almost an iconoclastic parody of the traditional instrumental break", a quality typified by the note-for-note replication of the lead melody in "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the atonal solo for "Breed".[102] The band had no formal musical training; Cobain said: "I have no concept of knowing how to be a musician at all what-so-ever... I couldn't even pass Guitar 101".[107]
Grohl's drumming "took Nirvana's sound to a new level of intensity".[108] Azerrad stated that Grohl's "powerful drumming propelled the band to a whole new plane, visually as well as musically", noting, "Although Dave is a merciless basher, his parts are also distinctly musical—it wouldn't be difficult to figure out what song he was playing even without the rest of the music".[109]
Up until early 1992, the band had performed live in concert pitch. They then began tuning down either a half step or full step as well as concert pitch. Sometimes all three tunings would be in the same show. By the summer of that year, the band had settled on the half step down tuning (E♭).[110] Cobain noted, "We play so hard we can't tune our guitars fast enough".[111] The band made a habit of destroying its equipment after shows. Novoselic said he and Cobain created the "shtick" in order to get off of the stage sooner.[112] Cobain stated it began as an expression of his frustration with previous drummer Channing making mistakes and dropping out entirely during performances.[113]
Songwriting and lyrics
Everett True said in 1989, "Nirvana songs treat the banal and pedestrian with a unique slant".[114] Cobain came up with the basic components of each song (usually writing them on an acoustic guitar), as well as the singing style and the lyrics. He emphasized that Novoselic and Grohl "have a big part in deciding on how long a song should be and how many parts it should have. So I don't like to be considered the sole songwriter".[115] When asked which part of the songs he would write first, Cobain responded, "I don’t know. I really don't know. I guess I start with the verse and then go into the chorus".[63]
Cobain usually wrote lyrics for songs minutes before recording them.[115] Cobain said, "When I write a song the lyrics are the least important subject. I can go through two or three different subjects in a song and the title can mean absolutely nothing at all".[116]  In comparison, Cobain stated that the lyrics to In Utero were "more focused, they're almost built on themes".[117] Cobain didn't write necessarily in a linear fashion, instead relying on juxtapositions of contradictory images to convey emotions and ideas.  The songs are] like a mixture of both of them. That's how most people my age are".[118]
Legacy
Characterized by their punk aesthetic, Nirvana often fused pop melodies with noise.[66] Combined with their themes of abjection and alienation, the band became hugely popular during their short tenure.[119] Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that prior to Nirvana, "alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores, and major labels considered it to be, at the very most, a tax write-off". Following the release of Nevermind, "nothing was ever quite the same, for better and for worse".[120] The success of Nevermind not only popularized grunge, but also established "the cultural and commercial viability of alternative rock in general".[121] While other alternative bands had hits before, Nirvana "broke down the doors forever", according to Erlewine. Erlewine further stated that Nirvana's breakthrough "didn't eliminate the underground", but rather "just gave it more exposure".[122] Erlewine also stated that Nirvana's breakthrough "popularized so-called 'Generation X' and 'slacker' culture".[122] Immediately following Cobain's death, numerous headlines referred to Nirvana's frontman as "the voice of a generation", although he had rejected such labeling during his lifetime.[123]
In 1992, Jon Pareles of The New York Times reported that Nirvana's breakthrough had made others in the alternative scene impatient for achieving similar success, noting, "Suddenly, all bets are off. No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions". Record company executives offered large advances and record deals to bands, and previous strategies of building audiences for alternative rock groups had been replaced by the opportunity to achieve mainstream popularity quickly.[124]
Nirvana didn't invent alternative rock, but they were one of the bands foremost in bringing it to the masses. The Seattle trio had an unmistakeable sound - a genius blend of Kurt Cobain's raspy voice and gnashing guitars, Dave Grohl's relentless drumming and Krist Novoselic's uniting bass-work that connected with fans in a hail of alternately melodic and hard-charging songs that would become signature classics. – Billboard magazine[125]
Michael Azerrad argued in his Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana (1993) that Nevermind marked an epochal generational shift in music similar to the rock-and-roll explosion in the 1950s and the end of the baby boomer generation's dominance of the musical landscape. Azerrad wrote, "Nevermind came along at exactly the right time. This was music by, for, and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked, ignored, or condescended to."[126] Regarding the success of Nevermind, Fugazi frontman Guy Picciotto said: "It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had ... It felt like we were playing ukuleles all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did."[127]
Nirvana is one of the best-selling bands of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.[128] With over 25 million RIAA-certified units, the band is also the 80th-best-selling music artist in the United States.[129] The band have achieved ten top 40 hits on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, including five No. 1's.[125] Two of the band's studio albums and two of their live albums have reached the top spot on the Billboard 200.[130] Nirvana has been awarded one Diamond, three Multi-Platinum, seven Platinum and two Gold certified albums in the United States by the RIAA,[131] and four Multi-Platinum, four Platinum, two Gold and one Silver certified albums in the UK by the BPI.[132] Nevermind, the band's most successful album, has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums ever.[133] Their most successful song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", is among the best-selling singles of all time, having sold 8 million copies.[134]
Awards and accolades
Since their breakup, Nirvana has continued to receive acclaim. In 2003, they were selected as one of the inductees of the Mojo Hall of Fame 100.[135] The band also received a nomination in 2004 from the UK Music Hall of Fame for the title of "Greatest Artist of the 1990s".[136] Rolling Stone placed Nirvana at number 27 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004,[137] and at number 30 on their updated list in 2011.[138] In 2003, the magazine's senior editor David Fricke picked Kurt Cobain as the 12th best guitarist of all time.[139] Rolling Stone later ranked Cobain as the 45th greatest singer in 2008[140] and 73rd greatest guitarist of all time in 2011.[141] VH1 ranked Nirvana as the 42nd greatest artists of rock and roll in 1998,[142] the 7th greatest hard rock artists in 2000,[143] and the 14th greatest artists of all time in 2010.[144]
Nirvana's contributions to music have also received recognition. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted two of Nirvana's recordings, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "All Apologies", into its list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".[145] The museum also ranked Nevermind number 10 on its "The Definitive 200 Albums of All Time" list in 2007.[146] In 2005, the Library of Congress added Nevermind to the National Recording Registry, which collects "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" sound recordings from the 20th century.[147] In 2011, four of Nirvana's songs appeared on Rolling Stone's updated list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ranking the highest at number 9.[148] Three of the band's albums were ranked on the magazine's 2012 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", with Nevermind placing the highest at number 17.[149] The same three Nirvana albums were also placed on Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Best Albums of the Nineties", with Nevermind ranking the highest at number 1, making it the greatest album of the decade.[150] Time included Nevermind on its list of "The All-TIME 100 Albums" in 2006, labeling it "the finest album of the 1990s".[151] In 2011, the magazine also added "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on its list of "The All-TIME 100 Songs",[152] and "Heart-Shaped Box" on its list of "The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos".[153] Pitchfork Media ranked Nevermind and In Utero as the sixth and thirteenth greatest albums of the 1990s, describing the band as "the greatest and most legendary band of the 1990s."[154]
Nirvana was announced in their first year of eligibility as being part of the 2014 class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on December 17, 2013. The induction ceremony was held April 10, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York, at the Barclays Center.[155] As the accolade was only applied to Cobain, Novoselic and Grohl, former drummer Chad Channing was not included in the induction, and was informed of his omission by SMS.[156]
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- Alternative rock groups from Washington (state)
- Grunge musical groups
- 1987 establishments in Washington (state)
- 1994 disestablishments in Washington (state)
- Musical groups established in 1987
- Musical groups disestablished in 1994
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You: We are going to visit relatives this week.
Kid/Teen: Mmmmm.(Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap)
You: Make sure you finish your studies.
Kid/Teen: Mmmmm.(Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap)
You: Are you even listening to......
Kid/Teen (Looking Horrified): That person said what about me! (Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap)
Or, does your child/teen play lots of games,
Can't leave a device,
Can't live without a device?
Then your child/teen may have digital addiction
These young addicts include 3-year-olds who scream when they can't have their tablets, middle-schoolers whose grades nosedive because they can't quit texting or posting on Facebook, and high-schoolers who compulsively play online games.
It makes people think: Digital Addiction is becoming a big problem!
Digital Addiction's effect is metabolic syndrome, the first step to diabetes!
Signs that may show that your child has digital addiction are:
If you said yes to any of those questions, you might want to have some ideas:
1. Write up a schedule specifying how much screen time your child can have each day and give consequences for breaking the rules.
2.  That means yours, too.
3. Use parental controls to limit your child's cell phone, TV, computer time, and other electronics.
4. Find out what's going on in your child's life. Kids who are stressed or depressed are more likely to develop a screen addiction.
5. Tell your child to spend at least one hour each day playing outside.
6. Get your child involved in volunteer work, sports or other community activities.
You should set a good example for your child and follow these rules.
Digital Addiction is becoming a problem! Please try to prevent it.


Starting from v0.99 of the Graphics32 library, implementation of VCL components was changed.
This section describes behavior and properties of TCustomImage32 and TImage32 controls, as well as new realization of layers.
Since TCustomImage32 and TImage32 share the same behavior, I will denote both of them here as TImage32. Most of the discussion concerns TImgView32 as well.
TImage32 is an image displaying visual component, which also holds a collection of layers.
The image is defined as a TBitmap32 object and there exist several properties which specify how it is scaled and positioned within the control's boundaries. I will denote this image as Bitmap Image here.
The layer is, generally speaking, an entity which 'knows' how to combine itself with the back buffer of the control. TImage32 maintains a collection of layers, see 'Using Layers' for details.
When the image paints itself, it runs through several Paint Stages which determine the order in which layers and the bitmap image are painted. This order is completely customizeable.
To avoid flicker and to speed-up scaling and blending operations, each layer and the bitmap image is painted to a back-buffer of the control. See the reference of TImage32 ancestor TCustomPaintBox32 for details of the back-buffer realization.
Finally, TImage32 supports change notification (OnChange event), which is done similar to change notification in TBitmap32. Basically, it redirects change notification from its layers and the bitmap image.
[See Also] ImgView and Layers Example


PLANET OF THE APES (2001) / **
Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by William Broyles Jr, Lawrence Konner, and Mark D Rosenthal, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth. Running time: 121 minutes. Rated PG for frightening scenes by the MFCB. Reviewed on August 15th, 2001.
By SHANNON PATRICK SULLIVAN
Synopsis: In the near future, astronaut Leo Davidson (Wahlberg) is lost in an electrical storm in space, and crash lands on a planet where apes are the dominant lifeform. Davidson comes to believe that they key to his escape lies in the remote Forbidden Zone. Allying himself with a ragtag band of humans, as well as human-friendly ape Ari (Bonham Carter), Davidson tries to reach the Forbidden Zone while being pursued by the malevolent ape leader Thade (Roth).
Review: Tim Burton is well-known for lending his films a distinct visual flair; in concert with a good script, this often produces a genuinely memorable moviegoing experience (such as 1999's "Sleepy Hollow"). Sadly, Burton's "re-visioning" of "Planet Of The Apes" is long on appearances but short on anything else. This is little more than a by-the-numbers action flick with an inordinate amount of money thrown at it. "Apes" is wonderful to look at; as good as the make-up was in the original, Burton's team has done an even more spectacular job in bringing the title creatures to life for the modern version. And there is much promise in an exciting early scene in which Wahlberg is captured by apes employing tactics that feel genuinely simian. But afterward, the picture degenerates into a standard chase story; there's even an annoying kid sidekick to complicate matters. The revelations which occur in the Forbidden Zone are likely to surprise very few, and a literal deus ex machina strains the bounds of coincidence much too far. Burton's biggest problem, though, is that he creates few characters of interest: Wahlberg is bland and unengaging, the villains are stereotypes, the other humans mere ciphers. Even Bonham Carter's unusual (and sometimes disconcerting) Ari simply services the plot. A pointless, tacked-on twist ending cements the banality of the whole exercise.
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cluster = LocalCluster(n_workers=4, threads_per_worker=2, local_directory="/tmp")
client = Client(cluster)
import optuna
study = optuna.create_study(direction="maximize")
study.optimize(objective, n_trials=100)
print(study.best_trial)
After Change
if __name__ == "__main__":
import optuna
study = optuna.create_study(direction="maximize")
// This is used to initialize the workers that will be used by Dask-ML
cluster = LocalCluster(n_workers=4, threads_per_worker=2, local_directory="/tmp")
with Client(cluster) as client:
study.optimize(objective, n_trials=100)
print("Number of finished trials: ", len(study.trials))
print("Best trial:")
trial = study.best_trial
print(" Value: ", trial.value)
print(" Params: ")
for key, value in trial.params.items():
print(" {}: {}".format(key, value))


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- Project Description: I am looking to enjoy something that I have at home either with a date or by myself. I need recommendations and I am too lazy/panicked to figure out what to do. I am going to use Last Resort to help set the mood with either a movie or some music with a fun drink!
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TaskShare aims to help people manage and share simple task lists easily.
Honestly, my partner and I were in dire need of a better way to manage our lists. We were always remembering those one or two items we needed from this or that store. However, by the time we got there, either we had forgotten, or the list was with the other person.. it wasn't good.
We've been using TaskShare for about 8 months, and it is a part of our life/flow now. I hope others find it useful.
Create a new taskboard by using the ginormous button on the home page. New lists are added by the New Tasklist button on the top left to create your first list. Clicking on the list title (default is New List) brings up a small nav.
Share your list by sending them the pages address. Done.
Okay, first thing we need is a new Taskboard. Click on the Create TaskBoard Now button on the homepage. It should take you to your new Taskboard! How simple was that?
Looking good! Hm, but we need a place to put our todo list.. Click on the New Tasklist button on the top left to create your first list.
Okay, so that is something. But, let's not keep the name New List, Let's pretend we are going to share your weekly grocery list with your partner. Let's make it a little more clear. Click on the list title (New List) and a menu appears
Options! Okay, we want to rename this, so let's hit the pencil.
Type in 'Groceries' and hit enter or click on the Done button.
All right! We need to actually add some items to our grocery list, so click the list title (Groceries) again to bring up the menu. This time, hit the plus icon.
Just start adding items into the list, hitting enter or Add button. to add that item to your list.
When you've added all the items you want, click the Done Adding button to get rid of that input area.
Feel free to have as many lists as you want. Share your lists by giving someone the url of the page; it's that simple.
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For the fig-swirl: Melt butter over medium heat in a saucepan. Add brown sugar and stir to dissolve. Halve all of the figs and toss in the saucepan with water and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until you have a chunky-jammy mixture. Add salt with one or two stirs, set aside and let cool completely.
Ice cream: In a small pot over medium heat, combine milk and granulated sugar until sugar is comletely dissolved and the milk is just barely lukewarm. Whisk in the egg yolks. Set mixture in the fridge and wait until the fig mixture is cooled.
Using an ice cream machine, pour liquids into the frozen basin and process according to maufacturer instructions, i.e., let spin and thicken for 20 minutes before adding mascarpone, fig jam mixture, and the nuts. Continue to process for +/- 10 minutes. Pour semi-frozen mixture into a pyrex dish or glass tupperware. Freeze for at least two hours before serving.


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Scottish Labour pledge to give free school meals to every child in General Election manifesto
by Chris MussonSCOTTISH Labour will unveil a General Election pledge today for free school meals for all - even though Jeremy Corbyn would have no power to introduce the policy.
Richard Leonard, the party’s boss in Scotland, will make the promise today as he published his own manifesto ahead of December 12.
But the UK Government has no control over the Scottish education system, which is devolved.
And aides admitted they could only guarantee it become reality if Scottish Labour - currently the Scottish Parliament’s third party - win the 2021 Holyrood elections.
But they said the Scottish Government should use extra cash coming to Scotland via increased public spending down south for the policy.
Mr Leonard said it would benefit about 700,000 children primary, secondary and special educational schools, and cost an extra £190 million per year
He said: “It cannot be right that in the fifth biggest economy in the world, one in every four children in Scotland is living in poverty.
"After a decade of Tory austerity and SNP complacency, it is time for real and radical change.
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"Children should not be put in a position where they are left behind through no fault of their own and through no fault of their family.
"Scottish Labour will end the scourge of child poverty once and for all.”


Defining cache configurations via CacheManager in Beta1
Infinispan’s first beta release is just around the corner and in preparation, I’d like to introduce to the Infinispan users an important API change in org.infinispan.manager.CacheManager class that will be part of this beta release.
As a result of the development of the Infinispan second level cache provider for Hibernate, we have discovered that the CacheManager API for definition and retrieval of Configuration instances was a bit limited. So, for this coming release, the following method has been deleted:
void defineCache(String cacheName, Configuration configurationOverride)
And instead, the following two methods have been added:
Configuration defineConfiguration(String cacheName, Configuration configurationOverride);
Configuration defineConfiguration(String cacheName, String templateCacheName,
Configuration configurationOverride);
The primary driver for this change has been the development of the Infinispan cache provider, where we wanted to enable users to configure or override most commonly modified Infinispan parameters via hibernate configuration file. This would avoid users having to modify different files for the most commonly modified parameters, hence improving usability of the Infinispan cache provider. However, to be able to implement this, we needed CacheManager’s API to be enhanced so that:
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Existing defined cache configurations could be overriden. This enables use cases like this: Sample Infinispan cache provider configuration will contain a generic cache definition to be used for entities. Via hibernate configuration file, users could redefine the maximum number of entries to be allowed before eviction kicks in for all entities. The code would look something like this:
// Assume that 'cache-provider-configs.xml' contains
// a named cache for entities called 'entity'
CacheManager cacheManager = new DefaultCacheManager(
"/home/me/infinispan/cache-provider-configs.xml");
Configuration overridingConfiguration = new Configuration();
overridingConfiguration.setEvictionMaxEntries(20000); // max entries to 20.000
// Override existing 'entity' configuration so that eviction max entries are 20.000.
cacheManager.defineConfiguration("entity", overridingConfiguration);
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Be able to define new cache configurations based on the configuration of a given cache instance, optionally applying some overrides. This enables uses cases like the following: A user wants to define eviction wake up interval for a specific entity which is different to the wake up interval used for the rest of entities.
// Assume that 'cache-provider-configs.xml' contains
// a named cache for entities called 'entity'
CacheManager cacheManager = new DefaultCacheManager(
"/home/me/infinispan/cache-provider-configs.xml");
Configuration overridingConfiguration = new Configuration();
// set wake up interval to 240 seconds
overridingConfiguration.setEvictionWakeUpInterval(240000L);
// Create a new cache configuration for com.acme.Person entity
// based on 'entity' configuration, overriding the wake up interval to be 240 seconds
cacheManager.defineConfiguration("com.acme.Person", "entity", overridingConfiguration);
Another limitation of the previous API, which we’ve solved with this API change, is that in the past the only way to get a cache’s Configuration required the cache to be started because the only way to get the Configuration instance was from the Cache API. However, with this API change, we can now retrieve a cache’s Configuration instance via the CacheManager API. Example:
// Assume that 'cache-provider-configs.xml' contains
// a named cache for entities called 'entity'
CacheManager cacheManager = new DefaultCacheManager(
"/home/me/infinispan/cache-provider-configs.xml");
// Pass a brand new Configuration instance without overrides
// and it will return the given cache name's Configuration
Configuration entityConfiguration = cacheManager.defineConfiguration("entity",
new Configuration());
If you would like to provide any feedback to this post, either respond to this blog entry or go to Infinispan’s user forums.


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Here are images of the first page of sheet music for the track Chicago. The first represents the version of the track
as notated for this project, the second shows this track after going through transformations. The track was first transformed to WAV, then opened in SonicVisualiser and transformed into
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The images show that their notations are extremely different (although the tempo remains the same) - the transcription includes only one instrument, has changes to its time signature and has lost the lyrics and title text.
The transcription is therefore extremely inaccurate and would be unsuitable for further study or entry into digital collections.
This is just the first page of each notation, however if you wish to view images of the full track and the full write-up you can them in my GitHub repository.


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Snapchat recently released a new filter on their app, which shows how you would look like if you were several years older. By older, I meant by at least 30 to 50 years older to the point grey hairs as well as a moustache might show up.
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Skedula is pretty easy to use, but it does take a little getting used to. Luckily, we have Jose Grullon here at IAL who's a Skedula master. A Skedula ninja. If Skedula was Hogwarts, he'd be Albus Dumbledore. He's helped teach me a lot about Skedula, and I'm passing his knowledge along to you now.
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ASPARAGUS WITH JAMON SERRANO AND SUN-DRIED TOMATOES
Here's how to make the dish
- Wash your asparagus spears, chop off an inch to remove the tough ends. Julienne your jamon and sun dried tomatoes.
- Place asparagus on a microwave-safe dish. Pour olive oil and balsamic vinegar on top to lightly coat spears.
- Cook asparagus in microwave oven for 30 seconds. And take out of oven right away. Do not over cook it to keep it crunchy.
- Crack an egg on top of the spears. Season lightly with salt and freshly cracked black pepper. Baste asparagus and egg by spooning the liquid on top of the spears.
- Throw dish back into the microwave oven and cook for 20 more seconds. Serve!
From my kitchen to yours with love, Mwahhh! -S
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This is a quick report of a good idea with very poor logistical planning. The boys and I wanted to do something one weekend in may, and there was Mt Diablo in the distance. So I had the idea of riding our bikes up the mountain and bringing enough gear to spend the night. We planned to go to Juniper Camp, which is quite close to the top of the mountain.
Larissa dropped us off at the north entrance to Mt Diablo, and then drove away before I really tried out the stability of the configuration. The first time we tried to ride, we fell over sideways, to the vast amusement of a gaggle of observers assembling to ride up the mountain.
The bike and gear configuration turned out to be not very stable
After getting rinsed off, we took a walk around Juniper. The original plan was to do a night hike up to the summit, but that got unamimously vetoed by all participants. We all think another run would be nice, but this time with the bike trailer instead of a hillbilly contraption.
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First I want to write a little bit about what actually CSS is.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) - is a style sheet language that people use to describe the look of a document written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language). So in simple words HTML is like a skeleton of the page, where using different tags we write the structure of our web page, and CSS is a style sheet that helps us to change colors, position, length and height, font and a lot of other things of our blocks from the web page.
Let’s take a look of some CSS styles, and difference between them.
1) What is a difference between Border, Padding and Margin?
Here is an example of very simple HTML and CSS code:
HTML
CSS
And here is what we see on the screen:
-First div has a border. Border is a frame around our block, I would say Border goes outside of our block. If we have width: 200px; after adding border: 3px; at the exit we will have width: 206px. Border has 3 characteristics: width, style, color. You can add border to all sides of the div, and add to the specific side like border-left or border-bottom as well.
-Second div has padding. Padding is a space between content and border area. If we have width: 200px; after adding padding: 30px; at the exit we will have width: 260px. By default padding is set to zero. You can add padding to all sides of the div writing (padding: 30px); or you can specify the side (padding-right: 30px).
-Third div has margin. Margin is a space between content. If we have width: 200px; after adding margin: 50px; at the exit we will have width: 200px, but our element will move 50px from the top, and 50px from the left side element, and if we add more content this div will always has a distance around it 50px. You can add margin to all sides of the div writing (margin: 50px); or you can specify the side (margin-right: 50px). And I want to mention about margin: auto, it is a style that helps to horizontally center that element within its container.
So here is an image where you can see what goes after our content. We can find that first around our block is padding (inside our div), then goes border (outside of our div), and then margin (distance between other content).
2) What are the differences between relative, absolute, and fixed positioning?
An important concept to understand first is that every single element on a web page is a block. You set the element to display: block; or if that element is by default display: block; This means you can set a width and a height and that element will respect that. And know we will talk about positioning of these elements.
Position: static - is a default value. It means that the element will flow into the page as it normally would. Since it goes by default, it is very rare in use.
Position: relative - means block is positioned relative to itself. If you just set this position, and don’t add top, left, right and bottom values nothing will be changed, it will look like static. But if you do change these values, you will see how the block is moving on the page.
Position: absolute - means block is positioned absolute to his parent. If absolute positioned div doesn’t have parent, it will be the same as relative positioned block. When you add top, left, right and bottom values it will move depending of the window. But if this div has parent, it will move depending of it’s parent.
Position: fixed - means that block is positioned relative to its viewport. The viewport doesn’t changed even when you scroll the page, you will always see “fixed” block on the place where you put it. The perfect use is when you have left sidebar menu that people can see on your website walking to the down of the page.
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Brilliant. Compelling. Honest. Different. Extraordinary. This review has ended. * * (100 pages of blank space) * * Just kidding. I am required to do at least 500 words. (And they could all be superlatives.)
The idea of starting with the end is hardly brimming with novelty; it lacks the originality and outrageousness of Kaufman's devices to keep the audience off balance, but in Man On The Moon it is a suitable harbinger of things to come. If Kaufman had used this device he would have extended the dead time long enough to get a strong reaction from the audience. The movie makes you wait a while, but they barely push the envelope where Kaufman would have torn it and thrown it to the air in pieces.
Nevertheless, a Hollywood project that is driven by integrity is a rare thing indeed, and when it achieves the level of quality and entertainment value of this movie, it easily stands out as one of the finest efforts of the mature American film industry. That this project came right out of the heart of its creators is exemplified by the fact, unprecedented to my knowledge, that the members of the cast of TAXI played themselves as they look today, without apologies for the age discrepancies. The audience is expected to understand that this is a nostalgic tribute, a contrite act of belated appreciation and formerly denied respect. Other people also play themselves whether their recapitulated actions were flattering or unflattering.
But a great movie must entertain greatly, and Man On The Moon delivers solid entertainment, keeping your attention and curiosity from start to finish (or is it finish to finish?), and in the process it captures the essence and the tragedy of an exceptional entertainer. Man On The Moon proves that Hollywood can abandon the straight jacket of formulas and still succeed. Even Apollo XIII (man not on the moon) can not escape the formula rap, because in its case real life was true to formula, but Kaufman broke all the molds, and the absence of a detectable formula is one of the movie's great virtues. Hollywood's serious masterpieces tend to be sophisticated, its adventure blockbusters tend to be frantic, its sensitive masterpieces tend to be soft and soulful. But Man On The Moon is pathos without bathos, a serious movie that is very funny, a real movie that is not artsy, much less fartsy. Throw in Academy worthy performances by Jim Carey and Danny de Vito and the sense that you are seeing weird things that actually happened, mix it with total integrity and a lot of heart, add technical elements at the top of Hollywood's present capabilities, subtract special effects, dirty words, nudity, sex scenes and explosions, top if off with hearty laughs and a sense of tragedy, and the result is a movie worthy of your intelligence; assuming that you have enough, since it takes a little more than is needed to love Titanic and The Green Mile. Those two are four star movies in a scale of five, but Man On The Moon gets 4 ½.
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Faulkner leads W. Carolina over Gardner-Webb 71-59
CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) - Mason Faulkner had 22 points as Western Carolina defeated Gardner-Webb 71-59 on Saturday.
Carlos Dotson had 15 points and eight rebounds for Western Carolina (1-1). Kameron Gibson added 13 points. Xavier Cork had nine rebounds for the hosts.
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Deferred content for Flex 4 Group using [DefaultProperty]
2011 November 11th by todd anderson
Thought i would share a little gist with you about a solution i whipped up with regards to deferred content in a Flex 4 Group container.
If there are numerous children within a container and their style definitions are rather complex, there may be some lag within the rendering cycle. Though it may not cause the Flash Player to time-out or even invoke the beachball/hourglass of the user’s system, any perceived lag in rendering that is a considerable amount (to be discussed at a later date) could send the user packing if not in the very least curious as to the reliability of the application; needless to say, most UI heavy applications are those in which a user interacts heavily with the application in order to get something accomplished.
Setting UX/design decisions aside and trusting that optimizations – such as absolute positioning – are being used where appropriate, there still may come a time where the task at hand calls for a lengthly child list within a container, or even a rather small list with a heavy render cycle due to customization. In such a situation, having the ability to defer rendering is a great improvement to the perceived “snappiness” of your application.
Back in the Flex 3 days – well, i shouldn’t say “back” as the MX containers are still available in the SDK and i am sure there are still people working on Flex 3 whether grudgingly or not – the MX containers had a property called creationPolicy. This allowed a developer to define the how the container was to render its children – basically, whether it should build its display tree upon creation of the container or defer. If you deferred it by setting the property to ContainerCreationPolicy.NONE, you could at anytime within the life of the application call createComponentsFromDescriptors() on that container to have its children be created.
Now it should be noted that this functionality is at parity in Flex 4.x, yet only available to SkinnableContainers – and more accurately those that implement IDeferredContentOwner. Those containers within the Flex 4 SDK which are considered lighter-weight, such as Group and DataGroup, do not play host to skins or define style properties for graphical backgrounds but they also do not support deferred content inherently either.
I should stop here and say that even though Group and DataGroup are in the same boat as not being privy to a creationPolicy, the example code should really only be translated to a Group container. Deferred content for a DataGroup should be left to its defined layout and its properties. That said, there is a way to defer the child element creation of a Group rather simply; that is by utilizing the [DefaultProperty] metadata.
You can see the full gist of the moving pieces on my github, but just to give a quick example and rundown:
package
{
import flash.events.Event;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
import spark.components.Group;
/**
* Use the deferredElements property as the modifier that is handed the list of IVisualElements defined in MXML.
*/
[DefaultProperty("deferredElements")]
/**
* Group container extension in order to do deferred child element attachment.
*/
public class DeferredGroup extends Group
{
protected var _elementAddQuota:int = 10;
/* IVisualElement[] */
protected var _deferredElements:Array;
protected var _deferredElementsChanged:Boolean;
protected var _deferredElementAttacher:IDeferredElementAttacher;
public function DeferredGroup()
{
super();
}
/**
* @inheritDoc
*/
override protected function commitProperties():void
{
super.commitProperties();
if( _deferredElementsChanged )
{
queueDeferredElements();
_deferredElementsChanged = false;
}
}
/**
* Defines and executes the IDeferredElementAttacher implementation used in queue-ing up "packs"
* of IVisualElement instances declared in MXML and assigned as deferredElements.
*/
protected function queueDeferredElements():void
{
// Define IDeferredElementAttacher and listen for completion on attach of all elements within deferredElements.
_deferredElementAttacher = new FrameDeferredElementAttacher( this );
_deferredElementAttacher.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, handleDeferredAttachmentComplete, false, 0, true );
// "Chunk" up lists of IVisualElements based on limit quota.
var i:int;
var startIndex:int;
var endIndex:int;
var length:int = _deferredElements.length;
var count:int = Math.ceil(length / _elementAddQuota);
for( i = 0; i < count; i++ )
{
startIndex = i * _elementAddQuota;
endIndex = startIndex + _elementAddQuota;
endIndex = ( endIndex > length ) ? length : endIndex;
_deferredElementAttacher.addElementPack( _deferredElements.slice( startIndex, endIndex ) );
}
_deferredElementAttacher.start();
}
/**
* Event handler for completion from the IDeferredElementAttacher instance.
* @param evt Event
*/
protected function handleDeferredAttachmentComplete( evt:Event ):void
{
// Kill reference.
_deferredElementAttacher.removeEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, handleDeferredAttachmentComplete, false );
_deferredElementAttacher.dispose();
_deferredElementAttacher = null;
// -> Do whatever you normally would do in a handler for CREATION_COMPLETE.
}
/**
* The amount of IVisualElements to "chunk" into packets for deferred queue.
* @return int
*/
public function get elementAddQuota():int
{
return _elementAddQuota;
}
public function set elementAddQuota( value:int ):void
{
_elementAddQuota = value;
}
/**
* The DefaultProperty array of IVisualElements declared in MXML markup.
* @return Array Required to be IVisualElement[]
*/
public function get deferredElements():Array
{
return _deferredElements;
}
public function set deferredElements( value:Array ):void
{
if( _deferredElements == value ) return;
_deferredElements = value;
_deferredElementsChanged = true;
invalidateProperties();
}
}
}
Essentially, I have defined the [DefaultProperty] to be the deferredElements property. By default, any Flex container’s [DefaultProperty] is the mxmlContent property. If left to default, anything declared in MXML within the container declaration is handed to the mxmlContent property which in turn is used to add the children to the container using ActionScript at a later time within its instantiation cycle. Just as an example, the Label and Button of the Group container defined in this MXML can be considered the array of IVisualElements known to the parent Group as mxmlContent.
<s:Group>
<s:Label text="Hello, World" />
<s:Button label="foo" />
</s:Group>
… and same goes for Flex 3 containers. Not much has changed, aside form non-parity in creationPolicy on Flex 4 containers that don’t implement IDeferredContentOwner. However, in the example provided above and in the gist, the declared children in MXML aren’t handed to the mxmlChildren, but rather the deferredChildren. Because of this, we can then check if we have deferred content upon a pass to invalidationProperties() and act accordingly – as is done by invoking queueDeferredElements() in the example:
/**
* Defines and executes the IDeferredElementAttacher implementation used in queue-ing up "packs" of IVisualElement instances declared in MXML and assigned as deferredElements.
*/
protected function queueDeferredElements():void
{
// Define IDeferredElementAttacher and listen for completion on attach of all elements within deferredElements.
_deferredElementAttacher = new FrameDeferredElementAttacher( this );
_deferredElementAttacher.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, handleDeferredAttachmentComplete, false, 0, true );
// "Chunk" up lists of IVisualElements based on limit quota.
var i:int;
var startIndex:int;
var endIndex:int;
var length:int = _deferredElements.length;
var count:int = Math.ceil(length / _elementAddQuota);
for( i = 0; i < count; i++ )
{
startIndex = i * _elementAddQuota;
endIndex = startIndex + _elementAddQuota;
endIndex = ( endIndex > length ) ? length : endIndex;
_deferredElementAttacher.addElementPack( _deferredElements.slice( startIndex, endIndex ) );
}
_deferredElementAttacher.start();
}
And in that method, an IDeferredElementAttacher (non-SDK, part of the gist) implementation is used to queue up smaller arrays of child elements and dequeued to start adding children to the target container. In this example that implementation is a FrameDeferredElementAttacher instance which waits a frame to move along in its queue. Included in the gist is also one for timer-based element addition.
This post got rather long as far as just wanting to show off how to defer child content of a Group container in Flex 4, but I just wanted to bring light my solution as there is no parity of creationPolicy on non-IDeferredContentOwner containers in the SDK.
See the whole gist here: https://gist.github.com/1340472.


David Kiptoo started hosting pop-up pizza nights out, in the suburb town of Ngong in 2020. Lured by freshly made pies featuring tomatoes, peppers, onions, and basil from his family's one-acre garden—as well as hand-crafted dough and meats of pastured cows from local Masaai butchers, visitors were seeking out both dinner and an experience. Traveling upwards of two hours from Nairobi to eat pizza, most never complained.
“It’s not just a meal, it’s a destination,” says David. “People come here to relax and enjoy the setting, not to grab a meal and run.”
"When the sun sets behind the scenic Ngong Hills, the light bathes everything in beautiful magenta tones, you cannot admire the breathtaking spectacle whilst indulging in the restaurant's mouth-watering highlights and fail to feel the strong life force energy. The aliveness, also known as the'ribba'"
The white-settler community and the tourists loved it, the locals made it popular, fast-forward nine years later and the restaurant's 7 branches bake 300 pizzas in four hours.


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Understanding Benign Overfitting in Gradient-Based Meta Learning
L. Chen, S. Lu, and T. Chen
Proc. of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
Sharp-MAML: Sharpness-Aware Model-Agnostic Meta Learning
M. Abbas*, Q. Xiao*, L. Chen*, PY. Chen and T. Chen
Proc. of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022.
Is Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta Learning Better than Model-Agnostic Meta Learning, Provably?
L. Chen, and T. Chen
Proc. of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2022.
Uncertain Graph Neural Networks for Facial Action Unit Detection
T. Song, L. Chen, W. Zheng, and Q. Ji
Proc. of the Assoc. for the Advanc. of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
Deep Structured Prediction for Facial Landmark Detection
L. Chen, H. Su, and Q. Ji
Proc. of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.
Face Alignment with Kernel Density Deep Neural Network
L. Chen, H. Su, and Q. Ji
Proc. of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
Embodied Conversational AI Agents in a Multi-modal Multi-agent Competitive Dialogue
R.R. Divekar, X. Mou, L. Chen, M.G.D. Bayser, M.A. Guerra, and H. Su
Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-demo), 2019.
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we are just a startup company
Project Leader
Supervise and Managing the development flow, but I'm still helping in the development due to limited team members.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Frontend Designer
Designing project and Frontend, but I'm also creating Digital Graphics.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Security Tester
Exploiting your security flaws are eazier than fixing it.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Social Media Manager
Managing Social Media for People get in touch.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Security Tester
Analyze and doing Security Research Stuff for the Project, but I'm also developing security features.
Reach your dreams as high as the sky, don't be afraid to fall because if you fall. you will fall among the stars.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Security Tester
Analyze and doing Security Research Stuff for the Project, but I'm also developing security features.
 Be like an adult who uses good skill and talent.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Project Design & Junior Front End Developer
Designing the Project will be developed, but I'm also helping Frontend Development.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Project Leader
Supervise and Managing the development flow, but I'm still helping in the development due to limited team members.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Frontend Designer
Designing project and Frontend, but I'm also creating Digital Graphics.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Social Media Manager
Coolest Social Media Manager.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>UX Designer
Well I'm just testing and reporting, but I'm also helping manage this project.
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