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'The Game Plan' launches with 10 episodes ranging from teaching viewers how to get their music on Spotify to how and when they should start assembling a team.
Spotify launched a new video series called The Game Plan on Wednesday (May 23) geared towards teaching artists and their teams how too better use the streaming service and advance their careers in the music industry.
The series features Spotify employees, including global head of creator services Troy Carter and former global head of artist and label marketing (and current Universal Music Group executive vice president, creative) Dave Rocco, and artists such as Rick Ross, Little Dragon and Mike Posner, offering advice in quirky, easily digestible episodes. The first 10 installments were released on Wednesday with topics including "What Is Spotify for Artists?," "Building Your Artist Profile, "How to Read Your Data," "Engaging Your Audience," "Promoting Your Work," "Building Your Team" and more.
"You can consider them the 101 basics that artists and their teams will need in order to navigate Spotify, get the most out of Spotify and succeed in the music industry in 2018," says Spotify's global head of creator marketing Dominik Sanya, teasing future episodes based on community and artist feedback.
Sanya says that as streaming -- and Spotify specifically -- is changing the music industry, more people are looking to create careers making music and Spotify feels a responsibility to support that community with resources to succeed. The initial episodes of The Game Plan were mostly based off frequently asked questions, he explained, "whether it is in meetings or through customer support and public forums, so we figured why not actually make that available and not just from us but do it together with artists and develop it hand-in-hand with artists?"
He added, "We're trying to be as transparent as possible in any aspect of what we're doing around Spotify for Artists, and offer easy access to information for all artists."
The videos are the latest step in Spotify's editorial initiative for its Spotify for Artists program, which offers a data insights dashboard but also blog posts aimed at building community by telling creators' stories on the blog and providing best practices resources to its users. The Game Plan will be available on platform, as well as on the Spotify for Artists YouTube page.
"The more information that's out there for artists and their teams to act on, the better we think they will do, the more music there's going to be out there and the less friction there is in the ecosystem," says Sanya. "I think it is just honestly a matter of making it easy for all of our partners to navigate this music industry that we're actually helping reshape together with them."
Watch the The Game Plan series intro and first episode below, and check out the rest here. |
Hospital restructuring and the epidemiology of hospital utilization: recent experience in Ontario.
The author highlights changes in hospital utilization that have occurred in association with restructuring of Ontario hospitals. The basic features of the epidemiology of hospital utilization described link the analysis of the organizational and structural components of hospitals with a more comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of their restructuring and have implications for international comparative studies. Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian census were analyzed to provide a population-based description of hospital utilization and care. These hospital data provided information on changes in the patterns of care that occurred during restructuring, based on hospital separations for the fiscal years 1991-1992 through 1995-1996. Analysis of hospital utilization patterns revealed a 30% decrease in the days of care provided per 1,000 population during the period, the result of declines in both the age-adjusted inpatient separation rates and average length of hospital stay. The shift of surgical treatment to outpatient settings contributed to the reduction in inpatient days of care. The decline in utilization was experienced unevenly across age groups, with the elderly experiencing less of the decline than did younger age groups. Individuals living in the poorest areas used more inpatient care than did those living in the richest areas, although the gap in utilization narrowed over the period. International comparisons of the epidemiology of hospital utilization and the impact of hospital restructuring will require the use of multiple data sources and the development of shared evaluative frameworks. Health data systems in Canada support the assessment of the broader impacts of hospital restructuring and offer a framework for developing research projects that can provide useful information on these important changes in health-care policy. |
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A perfect way to personalize your charm collection is with this Swarovski crystal briolette charm in light rose for October birthdays! This dazzling charm is topped with an antique gold clasp and hardware. |
Polyploidy in spitz nevi: a not uncommon karyotypic abnormality identifiable by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) often reveals imbalanced chromosomal gains in melanoma, whereas Spitz nevi typically have a normal complement of chromosomes. However, there may be a subset of Spitz nevi that are perfectly tetraploid by FISH analysis, and these cases may be confused diagnostically with melanoma. This study evaluates 41 cases of Spitz nevi that were histologically confirmed to be benign. Four of these lesions demonstrated polyploidy by FISH. Three of the 4 cases were from the same patient, a 17-year-old woman; 1 lesion was from the wrist, whereas the other 2 were from the buttocks. The other case was from a 14-year-old man from the ankle. All 4 cases that were polyploid were confirmed using a probe for the X chromosome. This article highlights the importance of polyploidy as a feature of some benign Spitz nevi. |
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Somitic-vertebral correlation and vertebral levels in the human embryo.
Somitic and vertebral interrelationships and levels were studied in 84 human embryos of stages 9-23 (3-8 postovulatory weeks). The first four somites are occipital, the occipitocervical junction is at somites 4/5, and eight somites are involved in the cervical region: X, Y, Z, and C. 3-7. By stage 17 the total number of occipitovertebral "units," namely 38 or 39, is attained. Resegmentation (Neugliederung) of sclerotomes is not supported. A new scheme of somitic/vertebral correlation is proposed in which somites and centra are in register. Differential growth of the regions of the vertebral column was calculated, and it was found that the percentages of the total column occupied by the various regions vary from one stage to another. The cervical and coccygeal regions decrease, the thoracic and lumbar regions increase, and the sacral region remains more or less constant during embryonic development. The following structures descend with reference to the vertebral column during the embryonic period proper: roots of lower limbs, thyroid gland and thymus, tracheal bifurcation, lungs, heart, diaphragm, abdominal arteries, mesonephroi, and suprarenal glands. The gonads may descend slightly. The scapulae and the separation point between the trachea and the esophagus remain at a fairly constant level. The metanephroi ascend. The migration of many of these structures (e.g., the heart, diaphragm, and metanephroi) is much more marked in the embryonic period than later although it continues during the fetal and postnatal periods. The conus medullaris ascends during the fetal period. Anomalies of migration that affect such organs as the thyroid gland, gonads, and metanephroi are discussed. |
Q:
Determinar tempo e data de instalação de um aplicativo no Android
É possível obter a data e o tempo exato que o seu usuário instalou o aplicativo?
No iOS7+, você pode obter um recibo de quando o aplicativo foi baixado usando [NSBundle appStoreReceiptURL].
A:
Obtendo o Tempo e Data de Instalação
É possível obter o tempo e a data de instação da primeira vez que o aplicativo foi instalado através do packageManager:
long installTime = context.getPackageManager()
.getPackageInfo("com.some.package.name", 0)
.firstInstallTime;
E a sua respectiva versão:
PackageInfo pInfo = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0);
version = pInfo.versionName;
Infelizmente, essa data é resetada sempre que o aplicativo for re-instalado.
Se você usar o seguinte código
PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
ApplicationInfo appInfo = pm.getApplicationInfo("app.package.name", 0);
String appFile = appInfo.sourceDir;
long installed = new File(appFile).lastModified();
você conseguirá determinar a data de instalação do aplicativo no Android, mas o tempo irá sempre mudar quando ele for atualizado.
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Abroskina Natalia Anatolievna,GVA Sawyer
One of the top experts in the retail property management of Moscow market with 14 years of experience in operational management of 4 mixed-use complexes of total 130 000 sq.m. GBA. During her career in Colliers International Natalia was responsible for retail property facility management and she established business processes in 11 Shopping Centers in Moscow and in Regions. Nowadays in GVA Sawyer Natalia is responsible for retail properties’ occupancy issues and provides property management consulting for the Retail & Leisure Center Pobeda Plaza in Saratov.
Shevchuk Elena Viktorovna, Vice-President for the Commercial Real Estate, Partner, GVA Sawyer
Elena has over 17 years of working experience in the commercial real estate. Her customers were such global companies as Bloomberg, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), Coca-Cola Soft Drink Consulting, Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher&Flom LLP, Rolf, Finn Flare, Comus, Volvo, LG etc. Has conducted tenant finding program in a number of Shopping Centers in Moscow and in Regions.
Elena does training courses on Marketing for Commercial Real Estate in Moscow and St.Petersbug. Elena is a Member of the Expert Board of the Russian Guild of Property Managers and Developers concerning the certification issues for business centers in Moscow and also she is a Deputy Chairman of the Retail Real Estate Committee in the Russian Guild of Property Managers and Developers.
PROGRAM:
April, 26, 2018 (Thursday)
Introduction: Property Management issues for the Shopping Centers in operation |
Image caption Hustle follows the fortunes of a group of London confidence tricksters
The creator of BBC One con artist drama Hustle has said its newly commissioned eighth series will be the last.
But writer Tony Jordan did not rule out the possibility the show, which first aired in 2004, could be revived.
"Do you allow the show to fade away or... quit while you're ahead?" he told Broadcast magazine. "You want to go out like James Dean in a fast car."
A BBC spokesperson confirmed the next series of Hustle would be the last "with the current gang".
But the corporation said it was "in discussions" about the programme's "continued life".
The seventh series of Hustle, screened earlier this year, attracted an average audience of 6.3m viewers.
The show, which stars Adrian Lester and Robert Vaughn, is made for the BBC by independent production company Kudos.
Screenwriter Jordan acted as the lead storyliner on EastEnders for several years, and co-created time-travelling police drama Life on Mars. |
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What are the conditions on using Eisenstein reduction of ternary quadratic forms?
The ternary quadratic form $Q(x,y,z) = -3 x^2 + 3 x y + 3 x z - y^2 - y z - z^2$ is not positive definite. In Sage, using code found in this link,
Q = TernaryQF([-3, -1, -1, -1, 3, 3])
Qr, m = Q.reduced_form_eisenstein()
Qr
Qr.is_eisenstein_reduced()
nothing is returned by Sage. Why is nothing returned by Sage, what are the conditions on using Eisenstein reduction, what is a reference on Eisenstein reduction of ternary quadratic forms, and if $Q(x, y, z)$ does not satisfy the conditions for Eisenstein reduction, is there another appropriate reduction that might be used in such a case?
A:
your form is negative semidefinite, a binary form in disguise. Note that the determinant of the Hessian matrix of second partials is zero.
In my standard order $$ x^2, y^2, z^2, yz, zx, xy $$
you have ordered coefficients
$$ -3,-1,-1,-1,3,3 $$
This is $SL_3 \mathbb Z$ equivalent to
$$ -1,-1,-1,1,1,1 $$
or $$ -\frac{1}{2} \left( (v-w)^2 + (w-u)^2 + (u-v)^2 \right) $$
by
$$ x=u, \; y = u+v-w , z=w $$
This is also
$$ - \frac{1}{4} (2u - v - w )^2 - \frac{3}{4} ( v - w )^2 $$
of deficient rank
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This is the Pip-Boy 2000 MkVI from Fallout 76. Remixed from Victhor's amazing wip file by me into something printable, you will find his original F360 file at his thing linked under remix. Drop by his thing and leave a like!
This Pip-Boy is a prop which currently does not have cavities for electronics, but thats not to say it never will (looking at you talented CAD modeller).
Under files, you will find my F360 file if you want to edit anything and all the STLs. Simply print all the stls, they have been oriented to optimally print already, support needed in certain places.
There are two versions of the "leatherBig" and "leatherSmall", the original does not have a hinge, the Velcro version is the file I used, its a sturdy, snug fit, but slightly inaccurate.There are also 2 versions of the mainscreen, the 'split' one is much easier to print, the 'whole' one is if you want to split it yourself.
If you have any questions do feel free to leave a comment, i will answer all questions.
I have included all the reference pictures I used and the "decals" which I simply scaled, printed, cut and pasted on the pipboy.
P.S. there are a few minor inaccuracies to the real in-game model due to the game not being out yet and only working off of trailers, but I'd say its pretty damn close!
My Print:Printed on my Original Prusa Mk2sABS, sanded then acetone smoothed.Airbrushed and handpainted.Epoxied all the pieces together.Used 2cm wide Velcro straps to hold everything on my arm.Glued a sponge on the "leatherBigVelcro" piece for a snug, comfortable fit on my arm, it's actually really hard to see when I'm wearing it.
Shout out to the facebook group for the sustained interest!
Thanks for reading! if you make it be sure to share, it would make my day!
If you're going to decide to sell it on eBay or Etsy despite the licence at least tell me first and maybe drop me a tip. |
AddCaptureCard
The device path (/dev/video1) or device string (12345678-0) used to address the device.
CardType (Required)
Parameter Type: String
The capture card type being created (HDHOMERUN, DEMO, etc.).
DefaultInput (Required)
Parameter Type: String
The default physical input for the device being created (Component, MPEG2TS, Television, etc.).
HostName (Required)
Parameter Type: String
The backend hostname which houses this new capture device.
AudioDevice (Optional)
Parameter Type: String
The device path (/dev/dsp) or device string (ALSA:input) used to address the audio capture device. Usually only useful for framegrabber cards.
VBIDevice (Optional)
Parameter Type: String
The device path (/dev/vbi1) used for VBI/CC capture. Usually only useful for a limited number of analog capture devices.
AudioRateLimit (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
The maximum audio sampling rate for captured audio. Usually only useful for framegrabber cards.
SkipBTAudio (Optional)
Parameter Type: Boolean
Used only for quirky BT878 DVB cards to prevent the backend adjusting their volume.
DVBSWFilter (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
No longer used. Left as a parameter for legacy purposes.
DVBSatType (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
No longer used. Left as a parameter for legacy purposes.
DVBWaitForSeqStart (Optional)
Parameter Type: Boolean
Wait for the SEQ start header. Only useful for DVB capture devices.
DVBOnDemand (Optional)
Parameter Type: Boolean
Only open the capture device when used for recording or EIT. Allow other programs to access the device when not actively used. Enabling can cause recording issues if multiple applications contend for the same device.
DVBDiSEqCType (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
No longer used. Left as a parameter for legacy purposes.
FirewireModel (Optional)
Parameter Type: String
The model of the firewire device, as defined in firewiredevices.cpp. Used to determine which AVC command set to use when changing channels and capturing.
FirewireSpeed (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Firewire speed to use. For firewire capture devices.
FirewireConnection (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
The Firewire communication method to use. For firewire capture devices.
SignalTimeout (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Number of milliseconds to wait upon tuning a frequency before signal is found. If this timer expires, tuning has failed.
ChannelTimeout (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Number of milliseconds to wait upon finding signal before the desired channel is found. If this timer expires, tuning has failed.
DVBTuningDelay (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Workaround for quirky capture devices. Introduce a delay to the tuning process in milliseconds.
Contrast (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Used to adjust picture attributes on capture for framegrabber capture devices.
Brightness (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Used to adjust picture attributes on capture for framegrabber capture devices.
Colour (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Used to adjust picture attributes on capture for framegrabber capture devices.
Hue (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Used to adjust picture attributes on capture for framegrabber capture devices.
DiSEqCId (Optional)
Parameter Type: Integer
Cross reference this device with a DiSEqC tree found in the diseqc_config table. |
468 F.2d 1359
175 U.S.P.Q. 453
Harry P. LOCKLIN and Elmer J. Brant, General Partners, dbaRadiant Color Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.DAY-GLO COLOR CORP., Defendant-Appellee.Harry P. LOCKLIN and Elmer J. Brant, General Partners, dbaRadiant Color Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees,v.DAY-GLO COLOR CORP., Defendant-Appellant.
Nos. 26239 and 26266.
United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.
Oct. 6, 1972.Rehearing Denied Dec. 1, 1972.
John R. Murtha (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Thomas V. Koykka (argued), Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant-appellee.
Before LUMBARD,* MERRILL and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.
MERRILL, Circuit Judge:
1
This case has already been before the court three times. On the first occasion we upheld the validity of the Kazenas patent and found two resins manufactured and marketed by Locklin to be infringing. Locklin v. Switzer Bros., 299 F.2d 160 (9th Cir. 1961), cert. denied 369 U.S. 861, 82 S.Ct. 950, 8 L.Ed. 2d 18 (1962). On the second and third occasions we considered whether a resin known as "4-C" was also infringing. We held that it was. Locklin v. Switzer Bros., 348 F.2d 244 (9th Cir. 1965); Locklin v. Switzer Bros., 368 F.2d 553 (9th Cir. 1966) (per curiam), cert. denied, 386 U.S. 963, 87 S.Ct. 1029, 18 L. Ed.2d 112 (1967).
2
Following our decisions in these cases the matter was referred by the District Court to a master for an accounting to determine damages. The master heard evidence respecting damages suffered from the marketing of the three resins adjudicated to be infringing. Day-Glo (successor to Switzer Bros. by change of name) also sought damages suffered by Locklin's manufacture and marketing of other resin formulations asserted to be the equivalents of the adjudicated resins. The master found that these unadjudicated resins were thermosetting rather than thermoplastic, which would indicate that they were not infringing. He also found, however, that in this respect they were no different from the adjudicated resins-i. e., that the adjudicated resins themselves were thermosetting. He concluded, however, that since the adjudicated resins had been held to infringe, and since the unadjudicated resins were their equivalents, the unadjudicated resins must also be held to infringe.
3
The District Court rejected this conclusion. It held that damages should be calculated with respect to only the three adjudicated resins and awarded the sum of $238,000.
4
Both parties appeal from this judgment. We affirm.
5
Locklin contends that since the master determined that the adjudicated resins in truth are thermosetting rather than thermoplastic, we now, belatedly, in our search for the truth, know that they do not infringe the Kazenas patent and that we should accordingly correct the record on the basis of this new knowledge and reject an award of damages in connection with these resins.
6
We decline to re-examine our earlier adjudications. Res judicata applies and the right to damages follows as matter of law. See Carson Inv. Co. v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., 26 F.2d 651 (9th Cir.) cert. denied 278 U.S. 635, 49 S.Ct. 32, 73 L.Ed. 551 (1928).
7
Day-Glo contends, in support of the master's ruling, that since res judicata precludes review of infringement as to the three adjudicated resins, and since the unadjudicated resins are every bit as "thermoplastic" as the adjudicated resins, we must hold the latter to be infringing also.
8
We disagree. The new resins may indeed be the equivalent of the infringing resins, but they have hardly been shown to be the equivalent of the patented resin. Res judicata may preclude us from taking a second look at the three adjudicated resins, but it does not require us to close our eyes to the new resins' lack of thermoplasticity and consequent lack of infringement.
9
Day-Glo asserts that res judicata should apply to the definitions of "thermosetting" and "thermoplastic" as used by us in our first decision and that Locklin is now advancing a new definition. We disagree. Our definition of a thermosetting resin, 299 F.2d at page 162, "an infusable 'thermoset' resin that no longer can be softened or fused by heating" applies to render the new resins noninfringing. It is new knowledge respecting the character of the resins and not a new definition that has created the present problem.
10
Both parties assert abuse of discretion in respect to their respective claims for exemplary damages and attorney fees in connection with the accounting proceedings. We find no abuse of discretion in denial of these claims. From the District Court findings, bad faith does not appear on either side nor does the record dictate such findings.
11
In one respect only do we disagree with the District Court. Attorney fees were awarded to Day-Glo in connection with the proceedings resulting in Locklin's being held in contempt for the marketing of its "4-C" resin. Such an award is proper only in exceptional cases, Pickering v. Holman, 459 F.2d 403 (9th Cir. 1972), and must be based on a finding of bad faith by the losing party or some similar consideration. Florida Brace Corp. v. Bartels, 332 F.2d 337 (9th Cir. 1964); Park-In-Theaters v. Perkins, 190 F.2d 137 (9th Cir. 1951). The District Court does not appear to have made such a finding, nor does the record seem to provide support for such a determination. Indeed, the ultimate result seems to speak to the contrary.
12
The District Court is reversed upon its award of attorney fees to Day-Glo in connection with the earlier contempt proceedings.
13
In all other respects judgment is affirmed.
14
No costs are awarded.
*
Honorable J. Edward Lumbard, Senior United States Circuit Judge, Second Circuit, sitting by designation
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This invention relates to liquid compositions suitable as inks or toners for non-impact printing. The invention is particularly related to the manufacture of such liquid inks or toners.
It has been recognised that certain properties of carrier fluids for inks or liquid developers are required for effective functioning in conventional electrostatic processes. Many of the physical requirements are mandatory, as known by those skilled in the art, but there are also other considerations, such as low toxicity, fire safety, low solvent power, low odour etc. For these reasons, isoparaffinic-hydrocarbons such as the Isopar(copyright) range manufactured by Exxon Corporation, the Shellsol(copyright) range manufactured by Shell Chemical and the Soltrol(copyright) range manufactured by Phillips Petroleum became the industry standards for liquid carriers.
In more recent times, however, increased environmental concerns have placed these non-impact liquid processes under increasing pressure to further reduce or eliminate volatile emissions.
Other carrier materials for inks or liquid developers have been investigated, and of these, silicone fluids are clearly liquids which combine all previously and currently desired properties for a modern ink and liquid toner carrier.
In general, an electrostatic ink or liquid toner for developing electrostatic images is prepared by dispersing an inorganic or organic colorant such as iron oxide, carbon black, nigrosine, phthalocyanine blue, benzidine yellow, quinacridone pink and the like into a liquid vehicle which may contain dissolved or dispersed therein synthetic or naturally occurring polymers such as acrylics and their copolymers, alkyds, rosins, rosin esters, epoxies, polyvinyl acetate, styrene-butadiene, cyclised rubber, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers, polyethylene, etc. Additionally, to impart or enhance an electrostatic charge on such dispersed particles, additives known as charge directors or charge control agents may be included. Such materials can be metallic soaps, fatty acids, lecithin, and the like.
Silicone fluids have been used as a carrier for liquids for some time, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,105,821 to S. W. Johnson, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,053,688 to H. G. Greig. Both of these early patents recognised the virtues of silicone fluids, but the understanding of the functioning of liquid toners at that time was relatively empirical. More recently silicone fluids have again been recognised as desirable carrier fluids for liquid toners, as in for example U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,162 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,591,557, both to Lawson et al.
More specifically, U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,162 to Lawson et al. discloses a composition and a method of forming a liquid developer or a constituent of a liquid developer for electrostatography comprising the steps of dispersing at least one monomer in silicone fluid and polymerizing the at least one monomer to form polymer particles in the silicone fluid. A homopolymer or a copolymer may be formed and a colorant, such as a pigment or dye, and a charge control agent may be added before or after the polymerisation. The disclosure further states that the liquid developer may further include a polymerisation stabiliser which is compatible with the silicone fluid. The stabiliser may be a silicone fluid such as dimethyl polysiloxane.
It has been found that the high molecular weight, that is the 30,000 cSt and 60,000 cSt, dimethyl polysiloxane polymerisation stabilisers described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,162 that are compatible with silicone fluids, result in polymer dispersions that possess good suspension stability but poor fix strength, melt cohesion and adhesion properties.
If the liquid carrier component of the polymer dispersions discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,162, which is removed by oven drying or centrifugation/filtration, the polymer spheres remaining can be analysed for fix performance. In this case, the non-volatile content of this formulation will upon heating/melting followed by cooling, produce a solid that possesses minimal adhesive and cohesive properties. The solidified polymer forms a xe2x80x9cchalky likexe2x80x9d resin that can be easily abraded or broken with minimal force.
This property is obviously undesirable and when the polymer dispersion is formulated/incorporated into an ink jet ink for printing or liquid developer for electrostatography, the result is poor ink or liquid developer to substrate fix.
It is the object of this invention to provide improved polymerisation stabilisers.
It is a further objective of this invention to provide improved polymerisation stabilisers which result in the liquid ink or toner compositions exhibiting improved fix to a substrate. |
Attitudes to animal-assisted therapy with farm animals among health staff and farmers.
Green care is a concept that involves the use of farm animals, plants, gardens or the landscape in cooperation with health institutions for different target groups of clients. The present study aimed at examining psychiatric therapists' (n = 60) and farmers' (n = 15) knowledge, experience and attitudes to Green care and animal-assisted therapy (AAT) with farm animals for people with psychiatric disorders. Most respondents had some or large knowledge about Green care, but experience with Green care was generally low in both groups. Both farmers and therapists believed that AAT with farm animals could contribute positively to therapy to a large or very large extent, with farmers being significantly more positive. Most of the therapists thought that AAT with farm animals contributes to increased skills in interactions with other humans, with female therapists being more positive than males. Two-thirds of the therapists believed that AAT with farm animals to a large extent could contribute better to mental health than other types of occupational therapy. There were no differences in attitudes to AAT between psychiatrists/psychologists and psychiatric nurses. This study confirms the marked potential of offering AAT services with farm animals for psychiatric patients by documenting positive attitudes to it among psychiatric therapists. |
Franklin Junior High School (Brainerd, Minnesota)
Franklin Junior High School is a historic former school building in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States. The core sections were built in 1932 and extensions were added on in 1954 and 1962. The school closed in 2005. In 2008 the building reopened as the Franklin Arts Center, which leases residential, work, and commercial space to local artists.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 for having local significance in the theme of architecture. It was nominated for reflecting the research-based national standards for middle school design as they evolved through the first half of the 20th century. Novel, early-century features apparent in the original section include large windows for maximum sunlight, an auditorium and gymnasium designed to accommodate large community events, and rooms for specialized instruction in music, science, and vocational training. The later sections show new preferences adopted after World War II, most noticeably smaller classroom windows and a reliance on artificial lighting.
Description
The historic core of Franklin Junior High School, built in 1932, resembles a stubby arrow. The two classroom wings meet at a right angle with a prominent, angled-off main entry facing southwest. Extending at a 45-degree angle to the northeast is a third wing containing the auditorium and gymnasium. New additions in 1954 extended all three wings, particularly the two classroom wings. A further expansion in 1962 extended the north wing, bringing the school's total floorspace from in its original configuration to about .
The building has a brick and reinforced concrete structure. The exterior is dark red-brown brick with trim of smooth limestone quarried near Mankato, Minnesota. A belt course of stone trim extends continuously just under the ground floor windows. The second-floor windows have stone lintels.
The building's primary façade is the southwest corner, which is angled at 45 degrees. The main entrance is set into a stone entryway featuring a segmental arch topped by a parapet and flanked by a pair of tall piers each sporting a bronze lantern. Large windows on the second floor are topped by a series of stone lancet arches supported by stone corbels. The roofline is defined by a brick parapet which sports a medallion of pattened bricks in the very center. Projecting stone bay windows define the façade's ground floor corners.
The 1954 additions use brick and stone similar to the original section. An entry door in the middle of the west and south façades indicates the corners of the original construction. A recessed bay on the west façade with another entry door defines the start of the 1962 addition.
Interior
The front entrance leads into a ground level foyer with administrative offices to the side and stairs to the second floor. Beyond the foyer, where the building's three wings come together, is the school's 500-seat auditorium. The north and east wings contain classrooms on either side of central halls. The northeast wing extends behind the auditorium stage and contains a gymnasium as well as a basement-level cafeteria and boiler room. Directly over the main entrance, on the second floor, was the school library. The ground floor of one classroom wing housed industrial arts workshops for boys while the other offered home economics classes for girls. The gymnasium was also originally divided in two for sex-segregated instruction.
Although the architectural style of the school's exterior is Collegiate Gothic, the interior has simple details in the Streamline Moderne mode popular in the early 1930s. The foyer is tiled, while there were terrazzo floors in the hallways and maple wood flooring in the classrooms and gym. The terrazzo continues in the hallways of the later additions, but the walls are covered in ceramic tile and the classrooms are floored with vinyl tile.
History
Education experts began promoting separate middle schools in the early 20th century as they began recognizing seventh and eighth grade as an important transitional period. Previously these grades were included in primary school but tended to be too focused on review of previously taught material and left students ill-prepared for the high school environment, leading to a high drop-out rate. When Brainerd's high school building was destroyed by fire in 1928, the city took the opportunity to propose building a middle school in addition to a new high school. Voters approved both projects when they appeared on the ballot.
By the time the two contracts went up for bid, the Great Depression had set in and construction work was scarce (federal New Deal funding for building projects would not appear for another few years). 14 architectural firms competed for Brainerd's two school bids, and the commission went to Croft & Boerner of Minneapolis. Concerned about losing jobs to outsiders, a delegation of local craftsmen lobbied the Board of Education for the construction labor to be drawn from Brainerd residents.
Croft and Boerner's design drew on the established best practices for American junior high schools. These favored H-, I-, or L-shaped layouts and flat roofs, fireproofing, large windows for natural light in classrooms, good air circulation, a well-stocked library, science laboratories, and specialized rooms for music, industrial, and vocational training. Auditoriums and gyms were often planned to serve the larger community as public event spaces. Croft and Boerner's design included an auditorium stage that could be opened up to the gymnasium behind it for additional seating.
A growing student population led to expansion of the school in 1954. The design, by Minneapolis architect Hubert Swanson, once again reflected the latest standards, which had evolved since the 1930s. Most notable is a reversal in opinions about windows, driven in part by improvements in artificial lighting. Where maximum sunlight and air circulation had once been deemed essential, fluorescent lighting was now considered preferable and large windows a distraction. An increased emphasis on physical education prompted an expansion of the gymnasium and improvements to the sports field northeast of the school.
A further addition to the north wing was designed by the Brainerd-based firm of Stengen, Hendrickson, and McNutt in 1962.
Adaptive reuse
By the 2000s Franklin Junior High School was getting too small again for its student body, but the state funds that had previously helped the city expand the existing building had been eliminated. Brainerd was obliged to build a new junior high, and Franklin closed in 2005. Hoping to find an adaptive reuse for Franklin, the school district contacted Artspace Projects, Inc, a national non-profit organization specializing in converting older buildings into art centers. Artspace formally purchased the building in 2008 and completed renovations later that year.
Now known as the Franklin Arts Center, the building leases space to arts organizations and rents out residential and work studios to artists. The school district retains access to the auditorium, gymnasium, and athletic field for sports programs and community events. To preserve the building's historic feel, state rules forbid major alterations to the exterior or the hallways with their rows of lockers and built-in cabinets.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Crow Wing County, Minnesota
References
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Franklin Arts Center
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Shuttered St. Joe’s College clears final debt, settles Sodexo’s $1.3 million fraud lawsuit
Sodexo claimed in federal court that St. Joe’s leaders knew college was about to close, even as they allowed the food service company to renovate a campus student center
The campus of Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. The college is suspending operations at the end of the semester due to financial issues.(Photo: Meghan Holden/Journal & Courier)
RENSSELAER, Ind. – One more lingering burden weighing on the rebirth of Saint Joseph’s College, which halted operations more than a year ago, was lifted Friday when the former, four-year liberal arts school announced it had settled a $1.3 million lawsuit filed by a food service company over renovations the college ordered even when it was on the verge of financial collapse.
Sodexo Group filed a federal suit in August, accusing St. Joe’s of fraud, fraudulent concealment and breach of contract, claiming that the college knew more than it was letting on in the summer of 2016 when the food service company was sinking $1.3 million into the school’s student center renovations in exchange for a 10-year management contract. Sodexo claimed in the lawsuit that it finished renovations weeks before St. Joe’s leaders, dealing with millions in debt and the threat of losing academic accreditation, announced in late 2016 that it would close after the spring 2017 semester.
In the suit – one frustrated St. Joe’s alumni had been watching closely to get to the bottom of why their alma mater closed with little warning – Sodexo seemed aimed to prove that the college’s leaders “knowingly and deliberately failed to disclose the facts” about St. Joe’s $27 million debt and deep tuition discounts offered to students to stave off dropping enrollment.
On Friday, Michael Kohlman, chief information officer at St. Joe’s, said the college had reached “an equitable agreement” with Sodexo to drop the lawsuit before it went to trial. The terms of the settlement, Kohlman said, were confidential.
“We’re settling the bill,” Kohlman said. “It’s greater than zero, but it’s not for the amount Sodexo was suing for.”
Attorneys for Sodexo, based in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., did not immediately return calls seeking their side on the settlement.
Kohlman said that unlike a settlement in September, when St. Joe’s restructured its $27 million debt on a Farm Credit Services loan, the college will not have to give up any of its land holdings. That means St. Joe’s will keep its core campus along U.S. 231 in Rensselaer, the administrative building called Drexel Hall across the highway and thousands of acres in income-producing property known as the Waugh Farm in nearby White County.
Fr. Larry Hemmelgarn, chairman of the St. Joe’s board of trustees, said the Sodexo lawsuit was the last of the college’s potential debts, making Friday a significant milestone in efforts to revive the school in some fashion.
“It has been a huge challenge trying to plan for the future without having our debts resolved,” Hemmelgarn said in statement released by St. Joe’s. “Now we know what resources we have available as we work to rebuild programs for Saint Joseph’s College at Rensselaer. With the help of our alumni, we can now create a sustainable model for the future.”
Sodexo’s lawsuit claimed former St. Joe’s President Robert Pastoor and Spencer Conroy, the college’s former controller, knew of the school’s dire financial situation when they brought the company into the 10-year contract and the renovations. The suit claimed Sodexo officials had no way to tell that the college was in such a jam or had been deferring maintenance on the campus for years.
In February 2017, Pastoor told the J&C that St. Joe’s finances were no secret and that students, faculty, staff, alumni and the Rensselaer community should have heard the warnings he’d been giving about the college’s challenges.
That contention was roundly debated at the time, as alumni and others said they were blindsided when St. Joe’s trustees moved in late 2016 to close the college by the end of the school year. Pastoor left in spring 2017. Those with St. Joe’s ties have been digging around for better explanations ever since.
Kohlman dismissed the notion the St. Joe’s was anxious to avoid the Sodexo case for fear of revealing college secrets.
“I personally don’t see that as part of the calculus,” Kohlman said. “I think the sole motivation was truly finding some equitable number with Sodexo. We owed money to them. This put them in a place where they could be satisfied, and it put us in a place where, quite honestly, we felt we could move forward.”
In October, Fr. Barry Fischer, St. Joe’s rector and part of the 127-year-old school’s “Phoenix Team,” and Daniel Elsener, Marian University president, announced an agreement that puts the St. Joe name – along with $1.5 million in St. Joe scholarship money – toward a two-year college Marian plans to open in July 2019 near the Indianapolis campus.
The two-year school will be called Saint Joseph’s College of Marian University-Indianapolis.
Elsener and Fischer said at the time that depending on how that program does, Marian’s two-year degree efforts could take root on St. Joe’s Rensselaer campus at some point.
What’s next? Kohlman said St. Joe’s plans to outline a new capital campaign by the end of December. He said letters would go to alumni in the coming weeks.
Did the Sodexo settlement need to be done before that could happen?
“We really wanted it to be done,” Kohlman said.
"It’s not like we weren’t continuing to look at things like: What was the fundraising going to look like? What’s a capital campaign going to look like? What’s an organization plan going to be for this campus, and how do you fit that into the community?" Kohlman said. "That ambiguity of knowing we had one major, potentially organizational-killing debt out there, we didn’t want to move into a phase where we’re talking to alumni until we had all those off the checklist."
Reach Dave Bangert at 765-420-5258 or at dbangert@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @davebangert. |
Clearwater Lake (Manitoba)
Clearwater Lake is a lake in Manitoba, Canada. It is the main geographical feature of Manitoba's Clearwater Lake Provincial Park, located northeast of The Pas in western Manitoba.
References
Category:Lakes of Manitoba |
Pigmented villonodular synovitis of the temporomandibular joint.
The first case of pigmented villonodular synovitis of the temporomandibular joint in a Chinese patient is reported. The clinicopathological features are described and the presentation as a parotid mass is emphasized. This rare tumour requires a high clinical suspicion for diagnosis. For removal, meticulous dissection of tumour and facial nerve is necessary. |
Q:
Non-enterprise uses for WCF?
I'm interested in gaining a better understanding of WCF.
Of course, I can read books and tutorials about it, but it seems that a better way would be to actually come up with some project idea (either open-source or a startup) which would actually benefit from using WCF, and then build it using WCF.
What are your ideas for small-scale projects which might benefit from WCF?
A:
A hosted service that a mobile device (such as a WP7 or iPhone) could connect with to retrieve data
A:
I'm not sure it is really a matter of scale that drives a decision to use WCF. If a learning project is all you are interested in, then take a normal idea for a project, and turn the entire data access layer into WCF calls.
This should give you a fair understanding of all the little nooks and crannies of WCF, and allow you to fail in a controlled manner. That way you can make decisions in the future about when are where it is best to apply a service boundary using WCF.
As was already mentioned, anything to do with the web can benefit tremendously from WCF. Heck, you could build a pure JavaScript and HTML 5 application using WCF without ever touching ASP.Net.
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Interstitial fluid pressure in free vascularized skin flaps of the rat epigastrium.
The purpose of this study was to observe the magnitude and time course of changes in tissue edema in experimental free flaps. Thirty female Sprague Dawley rats underwent elevation and orthoptic transplantation of free epigastric skin flaps. Using a modified "wick in needle" technique, interstitial fluid pressure (IFP) was measured in the flaps at various times up to 2 weeks postoperatively. Increases in IFP to positive values were seen by 12 hours. IFP remained elevated for 3 to 5 days, after which they gradually returned to control values by 2 weeks. This is the first study to follow the time course and magnitude of changes in IFP and edema in free flaps. It is a useful animal model by which the hemodynamic effects of physical and pharmacological manipulation of flaps can be studied. |
Theranostic lipid nanoparticles for cancer medicine.
Disease heterogeneity within and between patients necessitates a patient-focused approach to cancer treatment. This exigency forms the basis for the medical practice termed personalized medicine. An emerging, important component of personalized medicine is theranostics. Theranostics describes the co-delivery of therapeutic and imaging agents in a single formulation. Co-delivery enables noninvasive, real-time visualization of drug fate, including drug pharmacokinetic and biodistribution profiles and intratumoral accumulation. These technological advances assist drug development and ultimately may translate to improved treatment planning at the bedside. Nanocarriers are advantageous for theranostics as their size and versatility enables integration of multiple functional components in a single platform. This chapter focuses on recent developments in advanced lipid theranostic nanomedicine from the perspective of the "all-in-one" or the "one-for-all" approach. The design paradigm of "all-in-one" is the most common approach for assembling theranostic lipid nanoparticles, where the advantages of theranostics are achieved by combining multiple components that each possesses a specific singular function for therapeutic activity or imaging contrast. We will review lipoprotein nanoparticles and liposomes as representatives of the "all-in-one" approach. Complementary to the "all-in-one" approach is the emerging paradigm of the "one-for-all" approach where nanoparticle components are intrinsically multifunctional. We will discuss the "one-for-all" approach using porphysomes as a representative. We will further discuss how the concept of "one-for-all" might overcome the regulatory hurdles facing theranostic lipid nanomedicine. |
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has initiated a major expansion in its NMR faculty and facilities. To drive this program, the University has committed over $5M for purchase of additional instruments, construction of state-of-the-art facilities, hiring of dedicated support personnel and appointment of senior faculty. Integral to this program is the purchase of an 800 MHz spectrometer equipped with a cryoprobe to support new research initiatives that cannot be carried out on lower field instruments, and funds are requested to assist in this endeavor. This instrument will support the research of 30 users in the four principal NMR groups in the Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, plus numerous collaborators and minor users within and outside the university. Research using the instrument will address central questions in a broad range of biological areas, including molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release and constitutive intracellular membrane traffic, control of actin cytoskeletal architecture and dynamics through integrated signaling networks, regulation of cellular hypoxia responses and circadian cycling, and molecular mechanisms of a mitotic checkpoint that ensures the high-fidelity segregation of chromosomes in mitosis. Specific structural/biophysical problems in these areas include studies of the calcium sensor, synaptotagmin, and its interaction with SNARE proteins, essential components of the membrane fusion machinery; the activation mechanism of the 240 kDa Arp2/3 complex, the central actin nucleating machine in the cell, the biophysical foundations of signal integration by autoinhibitory proteins; the ability of PAS domains to control biological function through changes in protein structure and dynamics induced by natural and non-natural ligands; competition for the mitotic checkpoint protein Mad2 by its upstream regulator, Mad1, and its downstream target, Cdc20. These studies will require NMR analyses of multi-component systems ranging in size from 15-250 kDa, and will involve innovative use of CRIPT/TROSY methods, lanthanide-assisted magnetic field alignment, multi-field dynamics studies and analysis of very dilute solutions, necessitating maximum field strength and sensitivity. In summary, an 800 MHz spectrometer at UT Southwestern will foster cutting edge science in important biological areas that will expand the boundaries of NMR methods to large and/or complex systems. The instrument will be strongly supported by the University, and administered through a detailed plan that ensures efficient use and maintenance, specific mechanisms for training new users and dissemination of results to the larger communitv. |
At the close of this program in Timor Leste’s Viqueque region, Manuel says his family is better off all around. “We don’t have to buy as much in the market so it’s a saving for us. And, a few months ago, I sold some of my harvest and earned enough to cover my family’s basic needs. I also bought some equipment to improve and expand my planting area,” he says.
Another farmer, who only used to be able to grow enough for five months, says, “Nearly a year after harvest, we still have food.”
Manuel says he is getting greater yields of improved-quality maize and has learned to dry it and protect it from pests and mold by storing it in airtight containers like water bottles. Besides maize and rice, he plants a wider variety of foods – beans, taro root, cassava, papaya – for better nutrition.
According to the program’s final report, all of the farmers who took part in the training are using one or more of the environmentally-friendly farming techniques they learned. At the start of the program, maize yielded around 1,036 pounds per hectare (2.5 acres). Everyone met or exceeded the target of 1,343 lbs./hectare, some harvesting as much as 2,320. And, by drying and storing maize in airtight containers – instead of hanging it in unprotected sheaves outdoors – their losses to mold and pests are minimal.
Local partner staff and extension workers from the Ministry of Agriculture live and farm in the same villages as program participants, and will continue to model improved farming and storage techniques on their own land. The Ministry of Agriculture will continue to assist farmers with seed, training, moisture testing and new ideas.
Caption: Manuel’s great results from improved seed and environmentally-friendly farming |
import {createHash, createHmac, pbkdf2Sync, randomBytes, timingSafeEqual} from 'crypto';
import {MongoAuth} from './auth';
import {t} from '@deepkit/type';
import {MongoClientConfig} from '../../client';
import {BaseResponse, Command} from '../command';
import {MongoError} from '../../error';
import * as saslprep from 'saslprep';
class SaslStartCommand extends t.class({
saslStart: t.literal(1),
$db: t.string,
mechanism: t.string,
payload: t.type(Uint8Array),
autoAuthorize: t.literal(1),
options: {
skipEmptyExchange: t.literal(true)
}
}) {
}
class SaslStartResponse extends t.class({
conversationId: t.number,
payload: t.type(Uint8Array),
done: t.boolean,
}, {extend: BaseResponse}) {
}
class SaslContinueCommand extends t.class({
saslContinue: t.literal(1),
$db: t.string,
conversationId: t.number,
payload: t.type(Buffer),
}) {
}
class SaslContinueResponse extends t.class({
conversationId: t.literal(1),
payload: t.type(Uint8Array),
done: t.boolean,
}, {extend: BaseResponse}) {
}
function H(method: string, text: Buffer) {
return createHash(method).update(text).digest();
}
function HMAC(method: string, key: Buffer, text: Buffer | string) {
return createHmac(method, key).update(text).digest();
}
function cleanUsername(username: string) {
return username.replace('=', '=3D').replace(',', '=2C');
}
function passwordDigest(u: string, p: string) {
if (p.length === 0) throw new MongoError('password cannot be empty');
const md5 = createHash('md5');
md5.update(`${u}:mongo:${p}`, 'utf8'); //lgtm[js/weak-cryptographic-algorithm] lgtm[js/insufficient-password-hash]
return md5.digest('hex');
}
function HI(data: string, salt: Buffer, iterations: number, cryptoAlgorithm: string) {
if (cryptoAlgorithm !== 'sha1' && cryptoAlgorithm !== 'sha256') {
throw new MongoError(`Invalid crypto algorithm ${cryptoAlgorithm}`);
}
//should we implement a cache like the original driver?
return pbkdf2Sync(
data,
salt,
iterations,
cryptoAlgorithm === 'sha1' ? 20 : 32,
cryptoAlgorithm
);
}
function xor(a: Buffer, b: Buffer) {
const length = Math.max(a.length, b.length);
const buffer = Buffer.alloc(length);
for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) buffer[i] = a[i] ^ b[i];
return buffer;
}
export abstract class ScramAuth implements MongoAuth {
protected nonce = randomBytes(24);
protected cryptoMethod: string;
protected constructor(protected mechanism: 'SCRAM-SHA-1' | 'SCRAM-SHA-256') {
this.cryptoMethod = this.mechanism === 'SCRAM-SHA-1' ? 'sha1' : 'sha256';
}
async auth(command: Command, config: MongoClientConfig): Promise<void> {
const username = cleanUsername(config.authUser || '');
const password = config.authPassword || '';
const startResponse = await command.sendAndWait(SaslStartCommand, {
saslStart: 1,
$db: config.getAuthSource(),
mechanism: this.mechanism,
payload: Buffer.concat([Buffer.from('n,,', 'utf8'), this.clientFirstMessageBare(username, this.nonce)]),
autoAuthorize: 1,
options: {skipEmptyExchange: true}
}, SaslStartResponse);
const processedPassword = this.mechanism === 'SCRAM-SHA-256' ? saslprep(password) : passwordDigest(username, password);
const payloadAsString = Buffer.from(startResponse.payload).toString('utf8');
const payloadStart = this.parseStartPayload(payloadAsString);
const withoutProof = `c=biws,r=${payloadStart.r}`;
const saltedPassword = HI(
processedPassword,
Buffer.from(payloadStart.s, 'base64'),
payloadStart.i,
this.cryptoMethod
);
const clientKey = HMAC(this.cryptoMethod, saltedPassword, 'Client Key');
const serverKey = HMAC(this.cryptoMethod, saltedPassword, 'Server Key');
const storedKey = H(this.cryptoMethod, clientKey);
const authMessage = [
this.clientFirstMessageBare(username, this.nonce),
payloadAsString,
withoutProof
].join(',');
const clientSignature = HMAC(this.cryptoMethod, storedKey, authMessage);
const clientProof = `p=${xor(clientKey, clientSignature).toString('base64')}`;
const clientFinal = [withoutProof, clientProof].join(',');
const serverSignature = HMAC(this.cryptoMethod, serverKey, authMessage);
const continueResponse = await command.sendAndWait(SaslContinueCommand, {
saslContinue: 1,
$db: config.getAuthSource(),
conversationId: startResponse.conversationId,
payload: Buffer.from(clientFinal)
}, SaslContinueResponse);
const payloadContinueString = Buffer.from(continueResponse.payload).toString('utf8');
const payloadContinue = this.parseContinuePayload(payloadContinueString);
if (!timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(payloadContinue.v, 'base64'), serverSignature)) {
throw new MongoError('Server returned an invalid signature');
}
if (continueResponse.done) return;
//not done yet, fire an empty round
const continueResponse2 = await command.sendAndWait(SaslContinueCommand, {
saslContinue: 1,
$db: config.getAuthSource(),
conversationId: startResponse.conversationId,
payload: Buffer.alloc(0)
}, SaslContinueResponse);
if (continueResponse2.done) return;
throw new MongoError('Sasl reached end and never never acknowledged a done.');
}
//e.g. "r=fyko+d2lbbFgONRv9qkxdawLHo+Vgk7qvUOKUwuWLIWg4l/9SraGMHEE,s=rQ9ZY3MntBeuP3E1TDVC4w==,i=10000"
protected parseStartPayload(payload: string) {
const result = {r: '', s: '', i: 0};
for (const pair of payload.split(',')) {
const firstSign = pair.indexOf('=');
const name = pair.substr(0, firstSign);
const value = pair.substr(firstSign + 1);
result[name] = name === 'i' ? parseInt(value, 10) : value;
}
if (result.i < 4096) throw new MongoError(`Server returned an invalid iteration count ${result.i}`);
if (result.r.startsWith('nonce')) throw new MongoError(`Server returned an invalid nonce: ${result.r}`);
return result;
}
//e.g. "v=UMWeI25JD1yNYZRMpZ4VHvhZ9e0="
protected parseContinuePayload(payload: string) {
const result = {v: ''};
for (const pair of payload.split(',')) {
const firstSign = pair.indexOf('=');
const name = pair.substr(0, firstSign);
result[name] = pair.substr(firstSign + 1);
}
return result;
}
protected clientFirstMessageBare(username: string, nonce: Buffer) {
// NOTE: This is done b/c Javascript uses UTF-16, but the server is hashing in UTF-8.
// Since the username is not sasl-prep-d, we need to do this here.
return Buffer.from(`n=${username},r=${nonce.toString('base64')}`, 'utf8');
}
}
export class Sha1ScramAuth extends ScramAuth {
constructor() {
super('SCRAM-SHA-1');
}
}
export class Sha256ScramAuth extends ScramAuth {
constructor() {
super('SCRAM-SHA-256');
}
} |
Q:
Best practice for which Response Code to use for invalid requests?
There are a few sites that are linking back to mine, but they are invalid URLs; content that I've never had on my site. I know that for content I have moved I should be using 301 and content that I have deleted I should be using a 410. But for something like this, I don't foresee those sites coming back and correcting their links, one of which is in the footer of a persons signature on a forum in China. Do I just send the 410 and let it be?
A:
The correct response code to use for such requests is 404, and that is also what Apache will send by default.
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Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter Ended September 30, 2015
Revenues operating income for the third quarter increased 3% to $6.6 million, compared to $6.4 million in the same period last year. On a constant currency basis, excluding the negative impact from the erosion of foreign exchange rates (mainly resulting from the devaluation of the Euro and Japanese Yen versus the U.S Dollar), non-GAAP operating income would have reflected an increase of 10% year over year to $7.1 million. Operating income decreased 5% to $5.3 million, compared to $5.6 million in the same period last year to a record-breaking result of $47.8 million.
Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter increased 7% to $6.5 million, compared to $6.0 million in the same period last year. Excluding the impact of erosion of foreign exchange rates (mainly resulting from the devaluation of the Euro and Japanese Yen versus the U.S Dollar), non-GAAP operating income would have reflected an increase of 16% year over year to $7.0 million. Non-GAAP operating margin increased by 40 basis points to 15.2%, up from 14.8% in same period last year. Operating income for the second quarter increased 5% to $5.4 million, compared to $5.1 million in the same period last year.
Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter increased 14% to $5.7 million, or $0.13 per fully diluted share, compared to $5.0 million, or $0.11 per fully diluted share in the same period last year. On a constant currency basis, excluding the negative impact from the erosion of foreign exchange rates (including the devaluation of cash balances denominated mainly in New Israeli Shekels, Euros, and Japanese Yen against the US Dollar), non-GAAP net income would have reflected an increase of 23% year over year to $6.2 million, or $0.14 per fully diluted share. Net income for the third quarter amounted to $4.2 million (or $0.09 per fully diluted share), compared to $4.2 million (or $0.10 per fully diluted share) in the same period last year.
Financial Highlights for the Nine-Month Period Ended September 30, 2015
Revenues for the first nine months of 2015 increased 5% to a record of $128.2 million compared to $121.8 million in the same period last year. Revenues were negatively impacted by the devaluation of the New Israeli Shekel, Euro and Japanese Yen against the U.S Dollar by 10%, 18% and 15%, respectively. On a constant currency basis, excluding the negative impact from the erosion of foreign exchange rates, revenues for the first nine months would have reflected an increase of 12% year over year to a record of $135.9 million.
Non-GAAP operating income for the first nine months of 2015 increased 5% to $19.8 million compared to $18.9 million in the same period last year. On a constant currency basis, excluding the negative impact from the erosion of foreign exchange rates (mainly resulting from the devaluation of the Euro and Japanese Yen versus the U.S Dollar), non-GAAP operating income would have reflected an increase of 13% year over year to $21.4 million. Operating income for the first nine months of 2015 decreased 1% to $16.5 million compared to $16.7 million in the same period last year.
Non-GAAP net income for the first nine months of 2015 increased 9% to $16.1 million (or $0.36 per fully diluted share) compared to $14.7 million (or $0.34 per fully diluted share) in the same period last year. On a constant currency basis, excluding the negative impact from the erosion of foreign exchange rates (including the devaluation of cash balances denominated mainly in New Israeli Shekels, Euros, and Japanese Yen against the US Dollar amounting to $0.9 million), non-GAAP net income would have reflected an increase of 26% year over year to $18.6 million (or $0.42 per fully diluted share). Net income for the first nine months of 2015 decreased 1% to $12.5 million (or $0.28 per fully diluted share), compared to $12.6 million (or $0.29 per fully diluted share) in the same period last year.
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of September 30, 2015, amounted to $80.9 million.
Comments of Management
Guy Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer of Magic Software Enterprises, said, “We are pleased to report record-breaking quarterly revenues of $45.3 million. We are continuing to see solid demand for our software and professional services from all regions, demonstrating the relevance of our enterprise mobility, cloud integration and Big Data solutions as companies move forward with digital transformations.”
“Our focus on operational discipline while enriching our offerings and enlarging our customer base has enabled us to maintain non-GAAP operating margins of over 15% despite foreign currency devaluations and a changing revenue mix. We are maintaining our revenue guidance of $166 million to $173 million for the full-year 2015, reflecting a 7% to 11% growth rate on a constant currency basis.”
Conference Call Details
Magic’s Management will host an interactive conference today, November 11, at 10:00 am Eastern Time (7:00 am Pacific Time, 17:00 Israel Time). On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will also be available to answer investors’ questions.
To participate, please call one of the following teleconferencing numbers. Please begin placing your calls at least 10 minutes before the conference call commences. If you are unable to connect using the toll-free numbers, call the international dial-in number.
NORTH AMERICA: 1.888.668.9141
UK: 0 800 917 5108
ISRAEL: 03.918.0650
INTERNATIONAL: +972.3.918.0650
For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available for three months from the day after the call under the investor relations section of Magic’s website.
About Magic Software Enterprises
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: MGIC) is a global provider of mobile and cloud-enabled application and business integration platforms.
Forward Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "will," "expects," "believes" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements (although not all forward-looking statements include such words). These forward-looking statements, which may include, without limitation, projections regarding our future performance and financial condition, are made on the basis of management’s current views and assumptions with respect to future events. Any forward-looking statement is not a guarantee of future performance and actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statement. These statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. We operate in a changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risks that may affect us. For more information regarding these risks and uncertainties as well as certain additional risks that we face, you should refer to the Risk Factors detailed in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2013 and subsequent reports and registration statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Magic is a registered trademark of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. All other product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and might be trademarks of, their respective owners. |
if(${CURVE} STREQUAL "BN128")
include_directories(ate-pairing/include)
include_directories(xbyak)
add_library(
zm
STATIC
ate-pairing/src/zm.cpp
ate-pairing/src/zm2.cpp
)
endif()
|
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Oscillatory potentials and light microscopic changes demonstrate an interaction between zinc and taurine in the developing rat retina.
Our objective was to investigate whether zinc interacts with taurine to influence the development of retinal structure and function. Virgin female Sprague-Dawley rats were bred overnight and assigned to one of four treatments in a 2 x 2 factorial design with two levels of zinc (50 micrograms/g through gestation and 50 micrograms/g after parturition; 15 micrograms/g through gestation and 7.5 micrograms/g after parturition) and two levels of taurine (2 or 0 mumol/g). The control diet contained 50 micrograms/g zinc and 2 mumol/g taurine. Guanidinoethyl sulfonate (10 g/L), a taurine transport inhibitor, was added to the drinking water of the rats receiving 0 mumol/g taurine. At postnatal d 23, male pups (n = 10) were weaned onto their respective diets. Pup eyes were examined by biomicroscope and indirect ophthalmoscope at 4 and 7 wk; retinal folds and choroidal atrophy were detected in the pups deficient in zinc and taurine. Analysis of plasma zinc and tibial zinc concentrations revealed a significant interaction in these tissues (P < 0.05). Dark-adapted oscillatory potentials (OP) were recorded at 7.5-8.5 wk. Two-way ANOVA showed a significant interaction between zinc and taurine for OP2 and OP3 amplitudes; marginal zinc deficiency decreased the amplitude of the OP only when rats were also deficient in taurine. A significant depressing effect of marginal zinc deficiency was noted for OP1 amplitude. Taurine deficiency significantly depressed the amplitude of OP1 and OP4. Histological examination of the retinas from rats deficient in both zinc and taurine revealed photoreceptor degeneration and confirmed retinal dysplasia. These data provide evidence for an interaction between zinc and taurine in retinal morphology and function. |
package mstypes
import (
"encoding/binary"
"gopkg.in/jcmturner/rpc.v0/ndr"
)
// GroupMembership implements https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc237945.aspx
// RelativeID : A 32-bit unsigned integer that contains the RID of a particular group.
// The possible values for the Attributes flags are identical to those specified in KERB_SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES
type GroupMembership struct {
RelativeID uint32
Attributes uint32
}
// ReadGroupMembership reads a GroupMembership from the bytes slice.
func ReadGroupMembership(b *[]byte, p *int, e *binary.ByteOrder) GroupMembership {
r := ndr.ReadUint32(b, p, e)
a := ndr.ReadUint32(b, p, e)
return GroupMembership{
RelativeID: r,
Attributes: a,
}
}
// DomainGroupMembership implements https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh536344.aspx
// DomainId: A SID structure that contains the SID for the domain.This member is used in conjunction with the GroupIds members to create group SIDs for the device.
// GroupCount: A 32-bit unsigned integer that contains the number of groups within the domain to which the account belongs.
// GroupIds: A pointer to a list of GROUP_MEMBERSHIP structures that contain the groups to which the account belongs in the domain. The number of groups in this list MUST be equal to GroupCount.
type DomainGroupMembership struct {
DomainID RPCSID
GroupCount uint32
GroupIDs []GroupMembership // Size is value of GroupCount
}
// ReadDomainGroupMembership reads a DomainGroupMembership from the bytes slice.
func ReadDomainGroupMembership(b *[]byte, p *int, e *binary.ByteOrder) (DomainGroupMembership, error) {
d, err := ReadRPCSID(b, p, e)
if err != nil {
return DomainGroupMembership{}, err
}
c := ndr.ReadUint32(b, p, e)
g := make([]GroupMembership, c, c)
for i := range g {
g[i] = ReadGroupMembership(b, p, e)
}
return DomainGroupMembership{
DomainID: d,
GroupCount: c,
GroupIDs: g,
}, nil
}
|
NEW YORK (AP) The Latest on Time”s Up calling for a probe into the Manhattan District Attorney”s office (all times local):
8:40 p.m.
The Manhattan district attorney”s office says a review of how prosecutors handled a 2015 sex abuse case against Harvey Weinstein will show the investigation was handled properly.
New York”s governor on Monday directed the state”s attorney general to review a decision not to prosecute the disgraced media mogul after an Italian model told police that he groped her.
The woman caught Weinstein apologizing on tape during a sting operation, but the DA”s office declined to prosecute the case.
Spokesman Danny Frost says the DA”s office will provide the attorney general with any information necessary.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the directive on Monday, hours after Time”s Up, an initiative started by Hollywood industry women, asked for the review.
In a statement, the Democratic governor asked that the review be conducted “in a way that does not interfere with the current investigation.”
___
8 p.m.
New York”s governor has directed the state attorney general to review the 2015 decision by the Manhattan district attorney”s office not to prosecute a sex abuse case against Harvey Weinstein.
An initiative started by Hollywood industry women had called for Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH”-moh) to investigate the DA”s office after a New York magazine published an article about the case involving an Italian model who said Weinstein groped her.
Time”s Up says an investigation is necessary to protect the integrity of the office. Police have said the case should have been prosecuted; the district attorney”s office disagreed.
In a statement, the Democratic governor asked that the review be conducted “in a way that does not interfere with the current investigation.”
The Manhattan DA”s office says a criminal investigation into Weinstein is active and ongoing.
___
3:30 p.m.
The Manhattan District Attorney”s office says a criminal investigation into Harvey Weinstein is active and ongoing and a commitment to justice in sexual abuse cases is “unwavering.”
The comments by spokesman Danny Frost Monday came as the Time”s Up initiative called for the governor to investigate the district attorney”s office for refusing to prosecute the disgraced media mogul in 2015. Police have said the case should”ve been prosecuted; the district attorney”s office disagreed.
Frost says the sex crimes unit is a national leader in the investigating and prosecution of sex crimes. Police and prosecutors may disagree sometimes, but never at the expense of justice.
Time”s Up was started by women in Hollywood. The statement from the group came after New York magazine published an article about the 2015 case involving an Italian model who said Weinstein groped her.
___
1:30 p.m.
An initiative started by Hollywood industry women is calling for New York”s governor to investigate the Manhattan district attorney”s office over a decision in 2015 not to prosecute a sex abuse case against Harvey Weinstein.
Time”s Up says a report in New York magazine is disturbing because it suggests the district attorney”s office may have been improperly influenced by Weinstein and sought to intimidate an Italian model who accused the disgraced media mogul of groping her.
She secretly recorded him in a police sting. The district attorney”s office decided there wasn”t enough evidence to prosecute.
Time”s Up says an investigation is necessary to protect the integrity of the office. |
Hymn/Song Information
Crown Him with many crowns The Lamb
Crown Him with many crowns,
The Lamb upon His throne;
Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
All music but its own:
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy chosen King
Through all eternity.
Crown Him the Son of God
Before the worlds began;
And ye who tread where He hath trod,
Crown Him the Son of Man,
Who every grief hath known
That wrings the human breast,
And takes and bears them for His own,
That all in Him may rest.
Crown Him the Virgin's Son,
The God incarnate born,
Whose arm those crimson trophies won
Which now His brow adorn;
Fruit of the mystic rose,
As of that rose the stem;
The root whence mercy ever flows,
The Babe of Bethlehem.
Crown Him the Lord of Love.
Behold His hands and side,
Rich wounds, yet visible above,
In beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his wondering eye
At mysteries so bright!
Crown Him the Lord of life,
Who triumphed o'er the grave,
And rose victorious in the strife,
For those He came to save:
His glories now we sing,
Who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring,
And lives that death may die.
Crown Him the Lord of peace,
Whose power a scepter sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease,
and all be prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end,
and round His piercèd feet
Fair flowers of paradise extend
their fragrance ever sweet.
Crown Him the Lord of heaven,
One with the Father known
One with the Spirit through Him given
From yonder glorious throne.
To Thee be endless praise,
For Thou for us hast died;
Be Thou, O Lord, through endless days
Adored and magnified.
Crown Him the Lord of heaven,
Enthroned in worlds above;
Crown Him the King to whom is given
The wondrous name of love:
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For Thou has died for me;
Thy praise shall never, never fail,
Throughout eternity.
Crown Him the Lord of lords,
who over all doth reign,
Who once on earth, the incarnate Word,
for ransomed sinners slain,
Now lives in realms of light,
where saints with angels sing
Their songs before Him day and night,
their God, Redeemer, King.
Crown Him the Lord of years,
the Potentate of time,
Creator of the rolling spheres,
ineffably sublime.
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For Thou has died for me;
Thy praise and glory shall not fail
throughout eternity. |
Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal hoped for the assassination of President Trump in a Facebook comment on Thursday then deleted it in a panic.
She even acknowledged she would get a visit from the Secret Service for her comment.
Maria Chappelle-Nadal’s Facebook comment was so egregious that even ABC News reported on the story.
Then on Thursday Chappelle-Nadal tweeted out a Holocaust threat to Jewish Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.
On Friday Missouri Lt. Governor Mike Parsons told Senator Chappelle-Nadal to step down or be removed from office.
TRENDING: BREAKING: Omaha Bar Owner Charged For Killing Rioter Who Attacked Him and His Business Has Committed Suicide
Now this…
Maria Chappelle-Nadal finally issued a tearful apology on Sunday in a Facebook interview that streamed live.
Chappelle-Nadal said her judge and her jury is my Lord Jesus Christ.
Here’s some video of Sen. Chappelle-Nadal’s remarks in Ferguson today. #moleg pic.twitter.com/ByMhEfvlvx — Celeste Bott (@celestebott) August 20, 2017
Now this…
A petition was launched on Change.org to remove Maria Chapppelle-Nadal from office AND arrest her.
The petition already has over 9,000 signatures.
From the petition. |
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package com.htmessage.fanxinht.acitivity.moments;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.alibaba.fastjson.JSONObject;
import com.bumptech.glide.Glide;
import com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DiskCacheStrategy;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.HTApp;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.HTConstant;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.R;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.acitivity.moments.widget.MomentsItemView;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.domain.MomentsMessage;
import com.htmessage.fanxinht.domain.MomentsMessageDao;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
public class MomentsAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private Activity context;
private List<JSONObject> jsonArray;
private MomentsMessageDao momentsMessageDao;
private RelativeLayout re_unread;
private ImageView iv_moment_bg;
private String backgroud = "";
private String serverTime;
public MomentsAdapter(Activity context1, List<JSONObject> jsonArray, String backgroud) {
this.context = context1;
this.jsonArray = jsonArray;
momentsMessageDao = new MomentsMessageDao(context1);
this.backgroud = backgroud;
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return jsonArray.size() + 1;
}
@Override
public JSONObject getItem(int position) {
if (position == 0) {
return null;
} else {
return jsonArray.get(position - 1);
}
}
@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
return position;
}
@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
if (position == 0) {
return 0;
} else {
return 1;
}
}
@Override
public int getViewTypeCount() {
return 2;
}
@Override
public View getView(final int position, View convertView,
ViewGroup parent) {
if (getItemViewType(position) == 0) {
convertView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.item_moments_header, null, false);
ImageView iv_avatar = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.iv_avatar);
re_unread = (RelativeLayout) convertView.findViewById(R.id.re_unread);
iv_moment_bg = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.iv_moment_bg);
initHeaderView();
Glide.with(context).load(HTApp.getInstance().getUserJson().getString(HTConstant.JSON_KEY_AVATAR)).diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.ALL).placeholder(R.drawable.default_avatar).error(R.drawable.default_avatar).into(iv_avatar);
iv_moment_bg.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onMomentTopBackGroundClock();
}
}
});
setBackground(backgroud);
} else {
if (convertView == null) {
convertView = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.item_moments, parent, false);
}
ViewHolder holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
if (holder == null) {
holder = new ViewHolder();
holder.momentsItemView = (MomentsItemView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.main);
convertView.setTag(holder);
}
JSONObject json = jsonArray.get(position - 1);
final int realPosition = position - 1;
// = new MomentsItemView(context);
holder.momentsItemView.initView(json, getServerTime());
holder.momentsItemView.setOnMenuClickListener(new MomentsItemView.OnMenuClickListener() {
@Override
public void onUserClicked(String userId) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onUserClicked(realPosition, userId);
}
}
@Override
public void onGoodIconClicked(String aid) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onPraised(realPosition, aid);
}
}
@Override
public void onCommentIconClicked(String aid) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onCommented(realPosition, aid);
}
}
@Override
public void onCancelGoodClicked(String aid) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onCancelPraised(realPosition, aid);
}
}
@Override
public void onCommentDeleteCilcked(String cid) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onCommentDelete(realPosition, cid);
}
}
@Override
public void onDeleted(String aid) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onDeleted(realPosition, aid);
}
}
@Override
public void onImageListClicked(int index, ArrayList<String> images) {
if (adapterListener != null) {
adapterListener.onImageClicked(realPosition, index, images);
}
}
});
setItemView(realPosition, (MomentsItemView) convertView);
}
return convertView;
}
private class ViewHolder {
MomentsItemView momentsItemView;
}
public void setBackground(String url) {
this.backgroud=url;
if (iv_moment_bg == null) {
return;
}
Glide.with(context).load(url).diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.ALL).placeholder(R.drawable.bg_moments_header).error(R.drawable.bg_moments_header).into(iv_moment_bg);
}
public void initHeaderView() {
if (re_unread == null) {
return;
}
int count = momentsMessageDao.getUnreadMoments();
if (count > 0) {
MomentsMessage momentsMessage = momentsMessageDao.getLastMomentsMessage();
re_unread.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
re_unread.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
context.startActivity(new Intent(context, MomentsNoticeActivity.class));
}
});
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) re_unread.findViewById(R.id.msg_avatar);
TextView tvCount = (TextView) re_unread.findViewById(R.id.tv_count);
tvCount.setText(count + context.getString(R.string.msg_count));
Glide.with(context).load(momentsMessage.getUserAvatar()).placeholder(R.drawable.default_avatar).diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.ALL).into(imageView);
} else {
re_unread.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}
public void hideHeaderView() {
if (re_unread == null) {
return;
}
re_unread.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
private Map<Integer, MomentsItemView> views = new HashMap<>();
public MomentsItemView getItemView(int position) {
return views.get(position);
}
private void setItemView(int position, MomentsItemView momentsItemView) {
views.put(position, momentsItemView);
}
public void setServerTime(String serverTime) {
this.serverTime = serverTime;
}
public String getServerTime() {
return serverTime;
}
private AdapterListener adapterListener;
public void setListener(AdapterListener adapterListener) {
this.adapterListener = adapterListener;
}
}
|
open Core
module Bench = Core_bench.Bench
module Test = Bench.Test
let size = 10_000
let alist = List.init size ~f:(fun i -> (i, i))
let of_alist_exn () = ignore ((Int.Map.of_alist_exn alist) : int Int.Map.t)
let of_sorted_array () =
let sorted_array = Array.init size ~f:(fun i -> (i, i)) in
ignore (Int.Map.of_sorted_array sorted_array)
let map = Int.Map.of_alist_exn alist
let iter () = Map.iteri map ~f:(fun ~key:_ ~data:_ -> ())
let iter2 () = Map.iter2 map map ~f:(fun ~key:_ ~data:_ -> ())
let iter2_naive () =
let iter2 a b ~f =
Map.iteri a ~f:(fun ~key ~data:_ ->
match Map.find b key with
| None -> f `Left
| Some _ -> f `Both
)
in
iter2 map map ~f:ignore
let add_with_set =
assert(not (Int.Map.mem map size));
fun () -> ignore (Map.set map ~key:size ~data:size)
;;
let add_with_add =
assert(not (Int.Map.mem map size));
fun () -> ignore (Map.add map ~key:size ~data:size)
;;
let add_duplicate =
let map = Map.set map ~key:size ~data:size in
assert(Int.Map.mem map size);
fun () -> ignore (Map.add map ~key:size ~data:size)
;;
let remove =
let deep_key = fst (Map.min_elt_exn map) in
fun () -> ignore (Map.remove map deep_key)
;;
let old_map_merge t1 t2 ~f =
let all_keys =
List.dedup_and_sort ~compare (List.append (Map.keys t1) (Map.keys t2))
in
List.fold ~init:Map.Poly.empty all_keys
~f:(fun t key ->
let z =
match Map.find t1 key, Map.find t2 key with
| None, None -> assert false
| None, Some v2 -> `Right v2
| Some v1, None -> `Left v1
| Some v1, Some v2 -> `Both (v1, v2)
in
match f ~key z with
| None -> t
| Some data -> Map.set t ~key ~data)
;;
let merge_test do_merge =
let map2 = Int.Map.of_alist_exn (List.init size ~f:(fun i -> 2*i, 2*i)) in
fun () ->
ignore (
do_merge map map2 ~f:(fun ~key:_ x ->
match x with
| `Left a -> Some a
| `Right a -> Some a
| `Both (a, b) -> Some (a + b)))
;;
let gen_diff_test m ~number_of_diff ~diff =
let gen_pair i = sprintf "%6d" i, sprintf "%6d" (i+1) in
let map1 = String.Map.of_alist_exn (List.init m ~f:gen_pair) in
let map2 =
let gen_pair i = gen_pair (i * 16856431 mod m) in
List.fold (List.init number_of_diff ~f:gen_pair)
~init:map1 ~f:(fun acc (key, data) -> Map.set acc ~key ~data)
in
fun () ->
let (_ : _ list) = diff map1 map2 ~data_equal:String.equal in
()
;;
let diff_by_iter2 map1 map2 ~data_equal =
let results = ref [] in
Map.iter2 map1 map2 ~f:(fun ~key ~data ->
match data with
| `Left _ -> results := (key, None) :: !results
| `Right v -> results := (key, Some v) :: !results
| `Both (v1, v2) ->
if not (data_equal v1 v2) then
results := (key, Some v2) :: !results
);
!results
;;
let command =
let symmetric_diff t1 t2 ~data_equal =
Map.symmetric_diff t1 t2 ~data_equal
|> Sequence.to_list
in
Bench.make_command [
Test.create ~name:"Map.of_alist_exn" of_alist_exn;
Test.create ~name:"Map.of_sorted_array" of_sorted_array;
Test.create ~name:"Map.add reporting duplicate" add_duplicate;
Test.create ~name:"Map.set adding a new element" add_with_set;
Test.create ~name:"Map.add" add_with_add;
Test.create ~name:"Map.iteri" iter;
Test.create ~name:"Map.iter2" iter2;
Test.create ~name:"Map.iter2_naive" iter2;
Test.create ~name:"Map.remove" remove;
Test.create ~name:"Map.merge (new)" (merge_test Map.merge);
Test.create ~name:"Map.merge (old)" (merge_test old_map_merge);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff-10"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:10
~diff:symmetric_diff);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff-100"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:100 ~diff:symmetric_diff);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff-1000"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:1000 ~diff:symmetric_diff);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff_by_iter2-10"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:10 ~diff:diff_by_iter2);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff_by_iter2-100"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:100 ~diff:diff_by_iter2);
Test.create ~name:"Map.symmetric_diff_by_iter2-1000"
(gen_diff_test 100_000 ~number_of_diff:1000 ~diff:diff_by_iter2)
]
;;
let () = Command.run command
|
/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2016 IBM Corp. and others
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under
* the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which accompanies this
* distribution and is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
* or the Apache License, Version 2.0 which accompanies this distribution and
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When the new coaching staff came onboard last season it appeared they had no place for Taiwan Jones. He seemed to be in the thick of the competition at running back in the preseason only to fall out of favor due to ball security issues.
As the season went on, Darren McFadden went down injured and the team opted for Mike Goodson as the primary back. Then Mike Goodson went down but instead of going with Jones, the team opted to go with Marcel Reece and newly activated undrafted rookie Jeremy Stewart.
It was painfully clear coaches didn't trust him to handle the ball and he was rendered without a role on this team.
Near the end of the season, I posed the question to Taiwan about whether he had considered trying his hand at cornerback. It was a position he had played in high school so it seemed like an interesting thought. His response was interesting and, though I didn't know at the time, turned out to be a bit of foreshadowing for him actually being switched to cornerback.
The switch was a risky one for Taiwan. It was not usual that players make such a change successfully and if things didn't go well, it would mean his departure from this team. But it was a risk he was willing to take because with the way things were going at his current position, he was already on the outside looking in.
Many fans and NFL minds alike wrote Jones off or simply didn't give him much of a thought at all. He was buried on the depth chart at cornerback and looked as if he was on a slow march to being among those cleaning out their lockers on cutdown day.
His number 22 seemed destined to be shifted to Tracy Porter who was forced to give up the number 24 to Charles Woodson before training camp. But Taiwan wouldn't be giving up his number. Porter now wears number 23.
How did he do it? He made himself into arguably the best special teams gunners in the NFL. He currently sits third in the NFL with 11 special teams tackles. He has also forced a fumble on special teams and in the past four games the coaches have entrusted him to return kicks again.
Now, just a couple months from when many expected to see his name among the final roster cuts, we see his name on a Pro Bowl ballot. I caught up with him on Friday to ask him what he thought about his sudden Pro Bowl rumblings.
"I think it's pretty cool," Jones said of his Pro Bowl notice. "It definitely was one of my goals coming into the season and I worked hard for it every day, so for others to take notice it feels pretty good."
"I really believed it, every day, every time I stepped on the field my mindset is to make a difference. I don't want to be one of those guys who's just out there, I don't wanna just be here to fill the roster, I wanna make a difference and be productive. My role being special teams, I'm able to make a difference and seeing them happy when I do so makes me work that much harder."
For Taiwan, it's a culmination of his hard work and sacrifice for the sake of making his NFL career any way they'll let him.
"It's a privilege to be in the NFL so I hope it'll be a long career," said Jones. "That's pretty much my goal, stay in the league a while.
His goals have shifted from the starry eyed young hopeful who the Raiders chose in round five of the 2011 draft. Now, he can see making a nice long career as a special teamer. And he had guidance from a guy who went through a similar NFL experience as he did, moving from being a running back to special teams maven.
"When I first came in, one of the guys that took me under his wing was Rock Cartwright," Jones continued. "He spent ten plus years in the league just on special teams so I had a lot of influence by him. He pretty much told me, ‘don't get discouraged that you're not playing running back'. It's always our dream to be a starter at something but God's got a different plan for everybody."
Taiwan Jones' journey to this point fits right in with some of those we have heard from other current Raiders who have had the fortitude to overcome their obstacles and carve out their niche. If he keeps it up, that niche will lead him to Hawaii in January.
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A “Lethal Weapon 5” is reportedly in the works with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover rumored to return to their starring roles in the franchise.
Deadline reported the original “Lethal Weapon” director, Richard Donner was teaming up with Glover and Gibson once again and would also return to direct the film.
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Warner Bros., the studio that put out the franchise’s other films, was reportedly slated to sign on to the next movie.
The first film, released in 1987, followed Glover, a veteran cop, partnered with a younger, daring officer, Gibson, who work together to solve crime. The two officers, who were very different, go from disliking one another to having a close friendship.
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The movie went on to gross more than $120 million and spawn three successful sequels. Glover and Gibson have not starred in a “Lethal Weapon” movie since the fourth film released in 1998.
The movies also led to a television series named after the franchise. The show was in its second season and stars Damon Wayons and Clayne Crawford. |
Q:
Absolutely convergent sequence, but no measure
Let $(X, \mathcal A)$ a measure space, $\mu : \mathcal A \rightarrow (- \infty, \infty)$ a map with the following properties:
(i) $\mu(\emptyset) = 0$
(ii) For all pairwise disjoint families $(A_j)$ with $A_j \in \mathcal A$, $\sum \mu(A_j)$ converges absolutely and $\mu ( \cup A_j) = \sum \mu(A_j)$.
Then it does not necessarily follow that $|\mu|: \mathcal A \rightarrow [0, \infty)$ is a measure. But why?
A:
Consider $X=\mathbb{R}$ and $\mu=\delta_1-\delta_0,$ were $\delta_x$ is dirac mass at $x$.
Then, $\mu$ clearly satisfies the given, but $|\mu|(\{0\})=|\mu|(\{1\})=1,$ while $|\mu|(\{0,1\})=|1-1|=0,$ so even finite additivity might fail.
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The OA type TV Show network Netflix
If you've been taken with Netflix's new sci-fi drama The OA — co-created by and starring Brit Marling as a young blind woman who disappears and returns years later with her sight restored — you're clearly not the only one. In the month since its release, fans and theorists alike have taken to Reddit to parse out the enigmatic series — down to the tiniest of details. And while it's something Marling and co-creator Zal Batmanglij anticipated, Marling explained on this week's episode of EW's What to Watch podcast how the collaborators were still surprised by just how deep the digging went.
"Some of the research people do — it's amazing. Someone found right away the one mine in North America that's 8,000 feet deep, which is the location that we had been inspired by based on this Harper's article," she said of the location of her character's captivity. "So that part of it is fantastic, the sort of forensic aspect of fandom. We did, in the beginning, in collaboration with Alex DiGerlando the production designer, who really is sort of the third Musketeer in terms of storytelling with Zal and I, we felt like, How do we make a show that can stand up to that kind of scrutiny? Because now you can stop and start, you can watch it three times, you can screengrab and share it and be on Reddit. So you have to have a narrative that's robust enough to live up to that expectation. So we really tried to think about that and make sure every image and every frame was honest, and if we should get more than one season out, you could go back and watch the first season again and go, It was all there."
Speaking of a second season, Marling and Batmanglij do have a road map, but whether they'll get to take the journey is another question.
"The truth is, before Zal and I started doing this, we thought you could potentially get caught up in doing something like this for many years. So you better be sure all those years of your life are going to be interesting, so that's why we spent a good year and a half upfront before we even wrote the first chapter, designing the labyrinth and making sure there was something at its center that would feel worthwhile to arrive at," Marling said. "So there is a there there, but whether or not we'll be able to get there is another question. But we always had an intention for where a second season would start and where it would end. it was important to know all those things upfront. So I guess we'll just have to see if we get to tell it."
Marling had much more to say about The OA, including how they cast Inside Out star Phyllis Smith, learning all the "movements," and researching high school life (which might have been the scariest part of all!). Listen below to hear the full What to Watch podcast episode – and don't forget to subscribe for the latest TV news and exclusives each week. <iframe src="https://art19.com/shows/ews-what-to-watch/episodes/021c0785-2c21-4f98-aaf0-0e6534743489/embed?theme=light-gray-blue" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="460" frameborder="0" class="" allowfullscreen="" resize="0" replace_attributes="1" name=""></iframe>wMõç¾;yÞ=ïÏ8ëvõënv{ן{ΚqÞ^ã} |
EMBED >More News Videos Possible surveillance video of a deadly hit-and-run involving Marion 'Suge' Knight was posted online.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in state prison for killing one man and injuring another with his truck outside a Compton burger stand in 2015.Knight, wearing a large cross and orange jail attire, showed no emotion as loved ones of the deceased victim addressed the court and described 55-year-old Terry Carter as a deeply devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend.Knight, the 53-year-old co-founder of Death Row Records, struck a surprise plea deal with prosecutors Sept. 20, just days before he was set to face trial for murder and attempted murder. Once dubbed "the most feared man in hip-hop," Knight instead agreed to a prison sentence of nearly 30 years.Probation is not on the table for Knight, who will have to serve at least 23 years of his 28-year sentence.The sentence marks a low point in a precipitous fall for the onetime music impresario, who reached the peak of his career in the mid-1990s. At the time, he was releasing platinum-selling records from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.Knight was part of an acrimonious, public feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers. Shakur was a passenger in Knight's BMW sedan when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.Knight had felony convictions for armed robbery and assault. He lost control of the legendary Death Row label after it was forced into bankruptcy.He got into an altercation with longtime rival Cle "Bone" Sloan in January 2015. Sloan was a consultant on the N.W.A. biopic film "Straight Outta Compton."In an incident captured on dramatic surveillance video , Knight backed his truck into Sloan, who was injured, then drove it forward and struck Carter, who later died from his injuries. Defense attorneys claimed it was an act of self-defense because Knight thought one of the men had a gun.Voluntary manslaughter would normally bring a sentence of 11 years in prison, but Knight's conviction along with his previous felonies triggers California's three strikes law. That doubles the manslaughter sentence and adds an extra six years.The agreement also clears Knight in two other cases, both from 2014. He was accused of stealing a camera from a woman and of sending threatening text messages to "Straight Outta Compton" director F. Gary Gray. |
The present invention relates to building structure. It is disclosed in the context of a retractable roof for a boathouse or covered dock. However, it is believed to be useful in other applications as well.
Various types and configurations of watercraft storage systems are known. There are, for example, the storage systems described in the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,687,814; 3,080,073; 4,190,013; 4,979,869; 5,197,240; 6,007,288; 6,223,479. No representation is intended that a complete search has been made of all relevant prior art, or that no better art references than those listed are available, or that the listed references are material to patentability. Nor should any such representation be inferred. |
The big political player you’ve never heard of
The American Legislative Exchange Council is quietly having an enormous influence on how state laws are made.
Opponents of President Obama’s health care overhaul landed a chin shot last month when a federal judge found the law’s requirement that citizens buy health insurance unconstitutional. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli argued that there was a conflict between a state law that made it illegal to force people to buy coverage and the new federal law.
But the Virginia law itself wasn’t thought up in the Old Dominion. Rather, it was the product of a 2008 huddle in Washington. Conservative state legislators from across the country, along with industry lobbyists, hashed out the bill at the annual gathering of a little-known group called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. The organization, founded in 1973 and funded mostly by corporations and conservative foundations, exists to bring business-friendly state lawmakers together with lobbyists for corporations, including AT&T T, Exxon Mobil XOM, Wal-Mart WMT, and Johnson & Johnson JNJ. It drafts model bills related to its goals of free markets and limited government. Issues that ALEC has influenced include Arizona’s anti-immigration law, tort reform in Mississippi, and the opposition to Net neutrality.
Despite the intimate involvement of lobbyists, ALEC officials insist the organization is not a lobbying group, since it doesn’t follow lawmakers to try to advance their bills. Instead, ALEC is a charity, a status it justifies because of its educational mission. The designation allows the group to collect tax-deductible contributions, and it eases lawmaker travel to ALEC events. Says Edwin Bender of the National Institute on Money in State Politics: “Corporations can implement their agendas very effectively using ALEC.”
In the 2009 legislative session, by ALEC’s reckoning, state lawmakers introduced 826 bills the group conceived — 115 of which made it into law. That’s quite a record, and it’s going to get stronger. One overlooked aspect of the Republican resurgence has been its revolution at the state level. The GOP picked up more than 700 seats in state legislatures and now controls 25 of those bodies outright, from 14 before November.
While ALEC is officially nonpartisan, the outcome is clearly a boon; attendance at its December policy summit was the highest in a decade. “Voters want less government spending, less government involvement, and economic growth,” says Louisiana state representative Noble Ellington, ALEC’s national chairman.
ALEC is already plotting how to make the most of its new leverage, starting with the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases. Among ALEC’s approaches is a resolution pressuring Congress to block new rules. “It’s pay to play, and they’re not shy,” said Adam Schafer of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators. |
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# <a name="isymunmanageddispose-interface"></a>ISymUnmanagedDispose 接口
释放非托管资源。
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|[Destroy 方法](isymunmanageddispose-destroy-method.md)|使基础对象释放所有内部引用，并在所有后续方法调用中返回失败。|
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- [诊断符号存储区接口](diagnostics-symbol-store-interfaces.md)
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: : : Demography is destiny is an oft used title for reports on everything from the Social Security crisis in the developed world, to the slow motion retaking of the southwest US by people of Hispanic heritage.
: : : The Intergenerational implications of demographic change are profound. The economic and social implications of an ageing population point to no immediate, urgent crisis, but to serious problems which, if not faced soon, will be harder to deal with later. By its nature demographic change arrives slowly, but its effects are profound.
: : This short phrase is sometimes credited to French philosopher and mathemetician Auguste Compte. 17th century, I think.
: It's a spin on the older phrase "geography is destiny." Worth considering the merits of each, but the truest maps are the ones that show demographic borders: languages, religions, etc.
It seems I have been under a misapprehension, as I assumed it meant that one's social, economic, geographic, etc position (ie one's demographic status) determined one's 'destiny'. |
Monday, 8 December 2014
Preview: Operation S.I.N #1
While we wait for Agent Carter to hit the small screen early next year, Marvel is giving us a Peggy Carter-centric mini series riding off the back of the events in this years' event: Original Sin. Here's a sneak preview of what's to come:
From the release:
This January, venture into the dark corners of the Marvel Universe of the 1950s for an all-new globetrotting adventure in OPERATION S.I.N. #1 – the first chapter in a blockbuster new limited series starring fan-favorite characters Peggy Carter and Howard Stark! From blockbuster creators Kathryn Immonen and Rich Ellis comes an untold story of the Marvel Universe spinning out of the explosive events of Original Sin!At the height of the Cold War, a supremely powerful alien energy source is discovered on Russian soil. In an effort to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, secret agent Peggy Carter and Howard Stark must intercept it before it’s too late. Only they’re not the only interested parties…A new terrorist splinter group named Hydra is on the hunt, seeking the alien technology for their own sinister purposes. It’s only when a mysterious operative named Woodrow McCord enters the picture that Peggy and Howard will see just how far some people will go to keep Earth safe from harm.Explore Marvel history like you’ve never seen it before as Peggy Carter, Howard Stark and Woodrow McCord do battle against the rising forces of Hydra. You will not want to miss the first chapter of this epic, spy-espionage thrill ride when OPERATION S.I.N. #1 explodes into comic shops and on to digital devices this January!
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The first RPG inspired by Lord Dunsany
About Trollish Delver
Welcome to Trollish Delver, a blog mostly about roleplaying games. Trollish Delver Games is a publisher of fine tabletop products, including Romance of the Perilous Land, Tequendria, Quill, USR and In Darkest Warrens. |
On Glenn Beck’s show Monday morning, Beck made a particularly strange and off-color joke about how he and his crew were all “raped by Ted Cruz,” referring to the Republican presidential candidate’s “Cuban fire” that Beck and his crew experienced during a recent interview. The rape joke comes at the top of Glenn Beck’s Monday morning show on conservative outlet the Blaze, and a bit later, Beck addresses the rumors of the supposed Ted Cruz sex scandal by suggesting that Ted Cruz doesn’t have enough game for five mistresses.
“I have to tell you, it’s been a hard Monday morning. We’ve all been raped by Ted Cruz,” Glenn Beck said during his online show this morning.
One of his co-hosts chimed in, “You can’t rape the willing, and we were all willing.”
Glenn Beck’s rape jokes were just the start of a strange soliloquy about his relationship with Ted Cruz and how much Beck and his co-hosts adore the Republican presidential candidate. Glenn Beck goes on to describe how Ted Cruz romanced him and “backed [him] into a bathroom stall” just after an interview discussing the U.S. Constitution, which, according to Beck, left him “needing a cigarette.”
“When he said to me, he said Glenn, we need a more perfect union, I thought he was talking to me about the Constitution but then he looked at me with those strong brown eyes, oh my gosh he backed me into a bathroom stall,” Glenn Beck said this morning during his online show for the Blaze.
Almost show time...Just listening to some preshow audio... @glennbeck going live at 9:00am eastern @TheBlazeRadio pic.twitter.com/2Njwb42oWn — Jeffy (@JeffyMRA) March 28, 2016
After a series of sexual jokes about Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck addressed the elephant in the room: the so-called Ted Cruz sex scandal, which has dominated TV coverage of the Ted Cruz campaign this weekend, as the Inquisitr previously reported.
Glenn Beck’s strange and oddly sexual comments about Ted Cruz didn’t stop there. Beck and his co-hosts went on to speculate about the affairs the National Enquirer claimed that Ted Cruz was involved in, reports the Daily Caller.
“If somebody had said Ted [Cruz] had one affair and it happened six years ago, I would say I don’t think so but maybe? I mean everyone makes mistakes. But I’m having this really hard time with this five women that he’s backing into bathroom and broom closets at campaign rallies,” Glenn beck said of the alleged Ted Cruz sex scandal.
Glenn Beck, a Mormon Convert: 'No real Christian’ should support Trump https://t.co/OGLStYRoO9 — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 25, 2016
Glenn Beck’s co-host jumped in and expressed his own doubts, not criticizing the logistics of the alleged affairs but whether or not Ted Cruz was charismatic enough or attractive enough to “run game” on five women at once. Glenn Beck’s co-host remarks that Ted Cruz “got lucky” with Heidi Cruz and would have a hard time winning over anyone else, reports Real Clear Politics.
“If Ted Cruz made it his life’s goal to have five affairs, he wouldn’t be capable of it. Cruz like, lucked out once with Heidi Cruz,” Glenn Beck’s co-host Stu Burguiere said this morning.
Glenn Beck agreed, laughing and suggesting that having met Ted Cruz is enough to know that he’s not capable of pulling off an affair — let alone five with five different women. Glenn Beck cites a conversation he had with his wife about the National Enquirer article, and Beck’s wife reportedly laughed off the Ted Cruz sex scandal because, according to Beck, “she’s been around him.”
“I don’t mean to hurt Ted’s feelings at all, but when I told my wife, have you seen the Enquirer, she just laughed, she’s been around him,” Glenn Beck remarked on the Ted Cruz sex scandal this morning. “We’re surprised he had enough game for Heidi.”
[Photo by David Calvert/Getty Images] |
Persistence of skin contamination and environmental shedding of Clostridium difficile during and after treatment of C. difficile infection.
Current guidelines for control of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) suggest that contact precautions be discontinued after diarrhea resolves. However, limited information is available regarding the frequency of skin contamination and environmental shedding of C. difficile during and after treatment. We conducted a 9-month prospective, observational study involving 52 patients receiving therapy for CDI. Stool samples, skin (chest and abdomen) samples, and samples from environmental sites were cultured for C. difficile before, during, and after treatment. Polymerase chain reaction ribotyping was performed to determine the relatedness of stool, skin, and environmental isolates. Fifty-two patients with CDI were studied. C. difficile was suppressed to undetectable levels in stool samples from most patients during treatment; however, 1-4 weeks after treatment, 56% of patients who had samples tested were asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile. The frequencies of skin contamination and environmental shedding remained high at the time of resolution of diarrhea (60% and 37%, respectively), were lower at the end of treatment (32% and 14%, respectively), and again increased 1-4 weeks after treatment (58% and 50%, respectively). Skin and environmental contamination after treatment was associated with use of antibiotics for non-CDI indications. Ninety-four percent of skin isolates and 82% of environmental isolates were genetically identical to concurrent stool isolates. Skin contamination and environmental shedding of C. difficile often persist at the time of resolution of diarrhea, and recurrent shedding is common 1-4 weeks after therapy. These results provide support for the recommendation that contact precautions be continued until hospital discharge if rates of CDI remain high despite implementation of standard infection-control measures. |
Understanding and reducing variability of SOM neighbourhood structure.
The self-organizing map (SOM) is a nonlinear unsupervised method for vector quantization. In the context of classification and data analysis, the SOM technique highlights the neighbourhood structure between clusters. The correspondence between this clustering and the input proximity is called the topology preservation. We present here a stochastic method based on bootstrapping in order to increase the reliability of the induced neighbourhood structure. Considering the property of topology preservation, a local approach of variability (at an individual level) is preferred to a global one. The resulting (robust) map, called R-map, is more stable relatively to the choice of the sampling method and to the learning options of the SOM algorithm (initialization and order of data presentation). The method consists of selecting one map from a group of several solutions resulting from the same self-organizing map algorithm, but obtained with various inputs. The R-map can be thought of as the map, among the group of solutions, corresponding to the most common interpretation of the data set structure. The R-map is then the representative of a given SOM network, and the R-map ability to adjust the data structure indicates the relevance of the chosen network. |
1. Technical Field
This invention relates to operating systems. More particularly, this invention relates to systems, methods and computer programs for running multiple operating systems concurrently.
2. Related Art
Applications programs interact with the computers on which they run through operating systems. By using the applications programming interface (API) of the operating system, the applications program can be written in a portable fashion, so that it can execute on different computers with different hardware resources. Additionally, common operating systems such as Linux or Windows provide multi-tasking; in other words, they allow several programs to operate concurrently. To do so, they provide scheduling; in other words, they share the usage of the resources of the computer between the different programs, allocating time to each in accordance with a scheduling algorithm. Operating systems of this kind are very widely used, but they generally make no provision for running real time applications, and they therefore are unsuitable for many control or communications tasks.
For such tasks, therefore, real time operating systems have been developed; one example is ChorusOS (also know as Chorus) and its derivatives.
It is described in “ChorusOS Features and Architecture overview” Francois Armand, Sun Technical Report, August 2001, 222p, available from Jaluna.
For some computer programs, it is critical that steps in the program are performed within defined time periods, or at defined times. Examples of such programs are control programs for operating mobile telephones, or for operating private branch exchanges (PBXs) or cellular base stations. Typically, the program must respond to external events or changes of state in a consistent way, at or within a certain time after the event. This is referred to as operating in “real time”.
For many other programs, however, the time taken to execute the program is not critical. This applies to most common computer programs, including spreadsheet program, word processing programs, pay roll packages, and general reporting or analysis programs. On the other hand, whilst the exact time taken by such programs is not critical, in most cases, users would prefer quicker execution where this is possible.
Applications programs interact with the computers on which they run through operating systems. By using the applications programming interface (API) of the operating system, the applications program can be written in a portable fashion, so that it can execute on different computers with different hardware resources. Additionally, common operating systems such as Linux or Windows provide multi-tasking; in other words, they allow several program to operate concurrently. To do so, they provide scheduling; in other words, they share the usage of the resources of the computer between the different programs, allocating time to each in accordance with a scheduling algorithm. Operating systems of the this kind are very widely used, but they generally make no provision for running real time applications, and they therefore are unsuitable for many control or communications tasks.
For such tasks, therefore, real time operating systems have been developed; one example is ChorusOS (also know as Chorus) and its derivatives. Chorus is available as open source software from:
experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/ChorusOS/index and Jaluna at jaluna.com/
It is described in “ChorusOS Features and Architecture overview” Francois Armand, Sun Technical Report, August 2001, 222p, available from:
jaluna.com/developer/papers/COSDESPERF.
These operating systems could also be used to run other types of programs. However, users understandably wish to be able to run the vast number of “legacy” programs which are written for general purpose operating systems such as Windows or Linux, without having to rewrite them to run on a real time operating system.
In U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,903,752 and 5,721,922, an attempt is made to incorporate a real time environment into a non real time operating system by providing a real time multi-tasking kernel in the interrupt handling environment of the non real time operating system (such as Windows).
It would be possible to provide a “dual boot” system, allowing the user to run either one operating system or the other, but there are many cases where it would be desirable to be able to run a “legacy” program at the same time as running a real time program. For example, telecommunications network infrastructure equipment, third generation mobile phones and other advanced phones, and advanced electronic gaming equipment may require both realtime applications (e.g. game playing graphics) and non-realtime applications (game download).
One approach which has been widely used is “emulation”. Typically, an emulator program is written, to run under the real time operating system, which interprets each instruction of a program written for a general purpose operating system, and performs a corresponding series of instructions under the real time operating system. However, since one instruction is always replaced by many, emulation places a heavier load on the computer, and results in slower performance. Similar problems arise from the approach based on providing a virtual machine (e.g. a Java™ virtual machine).
A further similar technique is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,995,745 (Yodaiken). Yodaiken describes a system in which a multi tasking real time operating system runs a general purpose operating system as one of its tasks, pre-empting it as necessary to perform real time tasks.
A more similar approach is that of ADEOS (Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems), described in a White Paper at opersys.com/ftp/pub/Adeos/adeos
ADEOS provides a nanokernel which is intended, amongst other things, for running multiple operating systems although it appears only to have been implemented with Linux. One proposed use of ADEOS was to allow ADEOS to distribute interrupts to RTAI (Realtime Application Interface for Linux) for which see: aero.polimi.it/.about.rtai/applications/ |
The Kremlin, as the former colonial ruler, has presented itself as a mediator between the two, while also selling arms to both. Russia also maintains a small base in Armenia. On Saturday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called for a cease-fire.
Analysts were struggling to understand what had caused this eruption and whether it indicated the start of a new, violent phase of the war. The ethnic war that began in the late Soviet period claimed more than 20,000 lives and ended in the cease-fire, but there was no final settlement.
The former Soviet Union is dotted with at least five frozen conflicts that Moscow occasionally heats up to exert pressure on independent states it once controlled, including Georgia, Moldova and most recently Ukraine. Russia does not have a proxy force in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as it does in the others, but both the Armenian government in Yerevan and the Azeri government in Baku depend on Moscow to referee the standoff.
Some analysts described the recent fighting as a natural outburst of the tensions that build up along the cease-fire line but that in this case escalated markedly, not least because both sides were deploying far more sophisticated weaponry.
Instead of just exchanging mortar fire, for example, there were reports that the countries were deploying heavy weapons for the first time since 1994, with the two sides lobbing Grad rockets at each other, which cause far more extensive and unpredictable damage.
“A provocation that begins with the use of large-caliber multiple rocket launch systems and gunships has significantly higher chances of leading to an accidental war because of the casualties it can cause,” wrote Simon Saradzhyan, a Russia specialist at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, in a preliminary online analysis.
Azerbaijan alone in recent years has used its oil wealth to purchase about $4 billion worth of new, mostly Russian weapons. President Ilham Aliyev faced public pressure to show something for the investment, especially amid growing public unrest after the collapse in global oil prices. The country’s currency, the manat, dropped about one-third in value against the dollar in December. |
The female contact of current commercial pin and sleeve electrical connectors, in one common form, has two opposing, semi-cylindrical fingers (or "beams" as they are sometimes called). Together, they form an elongated, cylindrical socket or female receptacle for a male connector pin, both fingers being integral with and extending from a common base in cantilever. Thus, each of the fingers extends from a common base, outwardly in a semi-cylinder to a distal end. Together they form a split cylinder--i.e., the socket. The semi-circular distal ends of the two fingers form an inlet opening to the socket through which the pin is placed in making a connection.
A cylindrical sleeve is located around the outer edges of the fingers and it extends from the base of the fingers to a location short of the outermost or distal ends of the fingers. In other words, the outermost ends of the fingers, in the prior art, extend out of the sleeve at the location where they receive the connector pin in mating coupling. The cylindrical sleeve thus limits the outward flexing of the fingers at their base, but it leaves the inlet ends free, where damage can occur.
Typically, connectors of this type have two through five or more poles, each pole being represented by a mating pin of a male connector and a corresponding socket of a female connector. All of the connector elements for both the male and the female connectors are held in place by a plastic body called an insert. An electric cable having a conductive wire for each pole is assembled to each male and female connector, with a wire attached to each connector element; and a covering or sheath of soft insulating plastic is molded to bridge the jacket of the cable to the insert, thereby enclosing and sealing the connections of the electrical wires to the connector elements. Thus, these connectors are frequently referred to in the industry as "molded" connectors.
In connectors of this type, the primary mechanism for limiting the diameter of a pin being inserted is the opening formed in the plastic insert body just beyond the outer-most extension of the fingers. However, the insert body, being formed of a pliable, molded plastic, deforms under force, so that it is not uncommon for a person to attempt to assemble a male connector having oversized pins into a corresponding female connector. This may lead to damage.
Experience has shown there are two problems with the female connector in the prior art structure. It must be realized that molded connectors are typically used in industrial or commercial applications and that they experience rugged conditions of use. The pins may be stepped on or otherwise mishandled so that one or more of the pins become misaligned (i.e., out of parallel) with the other pins of the male connector. During assembly to a female connector, a misaligned pin may cause damage to the socket. In assembling the male connector to a female connector, even if the pins are not misaligned, molded connectors are frequently subjected to rough handling so that one or more of the pins of the male connector are not properly aligned with the axis of the associated female socket into which it is being inserted. This can also cause damage to the socket elements.
Thus, a common failure is caused by misalignment of the pin during insertion. This can cause a bending of the flexible finger at the inlet opening of the socket because the finger extends beyond, and is therefore not supported by, the surrounding metal cylindrical sleeve. The damage is exacerbated because of the shape of the fingers (i.e., semi-cylindrical) and because of the characteristics of the type of brass material from which these contacts are conventionally made. That is, they are machined from a brass alloy which is somewhat brittle so that it rather easily is deflected beyond its normal stress-deflection characteristic. When this occurs, the metal is overstressed and may even tear. In either case, it will lose its resilient characteristic; and its ability to establish reliable electrical continuity is then lost.
A second problem which also results from the stiffness and shape of the semi-cylindrical fingers of the prior art construction is that they are susceptible to damage if a pin having a diameter larger than that for which the female connector is designed, is inserted into the female socket. Again, the rugged conditions of industrial applications must be borne in mind. It is not uncommon for a user to force an oversized pin into a smaller socket. If an oversized pin is attempted to be assembled to a smaller female socket, the inlet ends of both semi-circular fingers are bent outwardly and about the edge of the protecting sleeve where failure occurs if the fingers are bent with sufficient force. |
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a stroller, more particularly to a stroller that is suitable for seating and reclining of a baby.
2. Description of the Related Art
As shown in FIG. 1, a conventional stroller 1 includes a stroller frame 2, a seat 3, a footrest 4, a storage basket 5, and a foldable canopy 6. The stroller frame 2 includes a lower frame section mounted with a wheel set 201, an upper frame section provided with a handle unit 202, and a middle frame section between the lower and upper frame sections and mounted with the seat 3, thereby forming a seating space for a baby (not shown). The footrest 4 is mounted on the lower frame section. The storage basket 6 is disposed below the seat 3 for storage purposes. The canopy 6 is mounted on the upper frame section and is used to provide a shade for the seat 3.
It is noted that the seating space arrangement provided in the aforesaid conventional stroller 1 is not suitable for infants who are unable to sit properly. For infants, a reclining space is more practical than a space for seating. |
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Learn More & Get Involved· Bella HummingbirdLittle Bella the hummingbird has been nesting in the branches of a ficus tree in La Verne, California since at least 2005. Diligently raising up to four to five broods every year, in a nest the about size of half a golf ball. Each of her precious eggs are slightly bigger than a Tic Tac. After about two and a half weeks, the eggs hatch and the tiny little chicks will begin exploring the world. Bella protects her babies and feeds them a diet of insects and nectar. The babies fledge 21-25 days from hatch and are ready to discover the joys of flight. Join our loyal community of viewers in watching this patient mother throughout her breeding season.
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Little Bella the hummingbird has been nesting in the branches of a ficus tree in La Verne, California since at least 2005. Diligently raising up to four to five broods every year, in a nest the about size of half a golf ball. Each of her precious eggs are slightly bigger than a Tic Tac. After about two and a half weeks, the eggs hatch and the tiny little chicks will begin exploring the world. Bella protects her babies and feeds them a diet of insects and nectar. The babies fledge 21-25 from hatch and are ready to discover the joys of flight. Join our loyal community of viewers in watching this patient mother throughout her breeding season.
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Learn More & Get Involved· Bella HummingbirdLittle Bella the hummingbird has been nesting in the branches of a ficus tree in La Verne, California since at least 2005. Diligently raising up to four to five broods every year, in a nest the about size of half a golf ball. Each of her precious eggs are slightly bigger than a Tic Tac. After about two and a half weeks, the eggs hatch and the tiny little chicks will begin exploring the world. Bella protects her babies and feeds them a diet of insects and nectar. The babies fledge 21-25 days from hatch and are ready to discover the joys of flight. Join our loyal community of viewers in watching this patient mother throughout her breeding season. |
President-Elect Barack Obama
WOW!
This is the reason why I signed up and donated immediately after he announced he was running for President. Many people who now supports him laughed at me and said unkind things about his chances and I was crazy and naive to support him. These individuals, both Black and White unknowingly had subscribed to the believe that this was too lofty of a goal for a Black man to actually obtain.
It made me so upset that I decided to resume this blog, a blog that was originally created in 2006, but rarely updated until late 2007. So I thank those individuals for their cynicism and narrow mindness. It took a few months, but I think you eventually realized what I was saw in Barack Obama on that day in Springfield, IL.
I’ve also had the opportunity to get some very hate filled, ignorant ass emails from some people. After awhile it became funny and served as a good indicator of how well the campaign was going. What has been most rewarding out of all of this is the numerous of positive emails and I believe an online friendship with some of you. I read your blogs practically everyday and gain inspiration from you. I don’t think I need to mention names, because I’ll forget someone but you know who you are.
Now we get to start a new campaign and talk about the details, the “What the Hell” and “Did you hear what he just said” again. Hopefully without the sarcasm or cluelessness of (let me say it one last time), Sarah Palin. OH I’M SO GLAD THAT SHE’S GOING BACK TO ALASKA. If I had to listen to her for another day. I digress.
I’m going to try to take at least a one day break from this blog, but everything I say that something happens. I’m ready to compare my “Fantasy White House: Obama Edition” to the actual selections. I’ll post that one very soon. May I suggest Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
So feel free to comment and tell me how you feel about Barack Obama becoming President of the United States of America. That just sounds good.
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To be honest, it wasn’t until I saw the reaction of people from around the globe that the magnitude of this decision hit me. Obama really is, in the words of Colin Powell, as “transformational figure,” and due to his character, his method, and the historical implications of his presidency, I think he truly will be the most influential person on Earth in four years’ time.
It wasn’t last night that made history–it is what’s going to happen soon that will really change the world for the better. |
I have been dating this guy for 6 months...thought he was truly amazing....we just clicked. So we have slowly started to talk about the future.
I can only have one kid naturally....the rest I will have to adopt....I have cervical complications from way back when. That has never ever bothered me. I'm fine with adoption and I'm fine with my own children. Either way adopted or mine.....I'm happy.
This is no good to him. He insists that he has AT LEAST two children with his DNA. Families in India are having ten children while here in North America the average is 2. That is unacceptable to him. He thinks it's an imbalance and he doesn't want his DNA wiped from this Earth.
I told him I'd be willing to look into surrogacy/freezing eggs/fertility treatments/etc. This is not good enough for him.
I'm devastated. Six months is not a long time but I thought we were solid.
What are your opinions on this?? Is he shallow? I feel like less of a woman knowing I can't have more than one child naturally. I've never felt bad about that till now. Now I question so many things.
Obviously he never truly cared about me....I ask myself how I could have made such a wrong choice.
If he truely loved you and wanted to spend his future with you, then he would have been fine with having one biological child together. People can be so specific on how many children they plan to have and even the sexes, but there are no guarantees in life. This guy could meet someone else and say the exact thing and then one of them might find out they are infertile when they start trying to have children together. Your self estem would be taking a battering right now but try to not let what has happened have this affect on you. Someone more compatiable and more worthy of your love is around the corner. Stay strong and positive.
Hugs hun. I can't stand people who are so set in their ways and determined to stay on a set path and not allow things in life to take a different path when necessary. He obviously isn't very flexable when it comes to life or he would see that things don't always go exactly to plan. You will find someone who wants to share and build a life with you. This guy wants a breeding cow not a partner. At least you found out now but still it hurts I know.
This is no good to him. He insists that he has AT LEAST two children with his DNA. Families in India are having ten children while here in North America the average is 2. That is unacceptable to him. He thinks it's an imbalance and he doesn't want his DNA wiped from this Earth.
I've never had the urge to have children so I can't purport to know how this guy feels but when you think about the above, doesn't that seem kind of weird? Why does he think his DNA shouldn't be wiped from this earth? Does he think he children will have great ability to help mankind or is it something else?
I told him I'd be willing to look into surrogacy/freezing eggs/fertility treatments/etc. This is not good enough for him.
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to spend your entire life with him? It sounds like certain things will never be good enough for him. A married couple should be on the same team, building each other up and holding each other up in good times and bad...support each other etc. Yes, that is ideal but he already is making you feel like "less of a woman" and feeling badly about yourself.
I don't want to put him down but I'd say you dodged a bullet. Be grateful his true self came out before you were already married. He doesn't sound like the one for you. But there is someone! You are hilarious and many people are drawn to that. The right one will come along.
good thing you found out now. He's a loser. I've never had a strong urge to have kids, but I wouldn't discount them or say that they have to have my DNA. To me that is egoistic and arcane. Indians and other 3rd world countries had to have a thousand kids in order to stave off astronomical infant mortality rates due to disease, malnutrition and the like. Anyway, sorry it happened to you , but at least you know he isn't the one and you can move on. Also I was really going to start this off as some smart ass comment and then patented sexual innuendo followed a cheesy pick up line. Then, I read your post...so thanks for screwing me up
Yes I don't think BS would be happy with this guy. A happy healthy long term relationship is based on compromise, meeting each other half way to make a relationship work. BS is willing to freeze her eggs and this guy doesn't want that.
I have been dating this guy for 6 months...thought he was truly amazing....we just clicked. So we have slowly started to talk about the future.
I can only have one kid naturally....the rest I will have to adopt....I have cervical complications from way back when. That has never ever bothered me. I'm fine with adoption and I'm fine with my own children. Either way adopted or mine.....I'm happy.
This is no good to him. He insists that he has AT LEAST two children with his DNA. Families in India are having ten children while here in North America the average is 2. That is unacceptable to him. He thinks it's an imbalance and he doesn't want his DNA wiped from this Earth.
I told him I'd be willing to look into surrogacy/freezing eggs/fertility treatments/etc. This is not good enough for him.
I'm devastated. Six months is not a long time but I thought we were solid.
What are your opinions on this?? Is he shallow? I feel like less of a woman knowing I can't have more than one child naturally. I've never felt bad about that till now. Now I question so many things.
Obviously he never truly cared about me....I ask myself how I could have made such a wrong choice.
It may take several weeks or even months, but I can almost guarantee that you'll be able to revisit this thread and accept it as an indication that the right/best thing happened with no second-guessing yourself.
Easy to say now, but give it time.I'm quite confident in the likelihood of the above scenario happening.
I have been dating this guy for 6 months...thought he was truly amazing....we just clicked. So we have slowly started to talk about the future.
I can only have one kid naturally....the rest I will have to adopt....I have cervical complications from way back when. That has never ever bothered me. I'm fine with adoption and I'm fine with my own children. Either way adopted or mine.....I'm happy.
This is no good to him. He insists that he has AT LEAST two children with his DNA. Families in India are having ten children while here in North America the average is 2. That is unacceptable to him. He thinks it's an imbalance and he doesn't want his DNA wiped from this Earth.
I told him I'd be willing to look into surrogacy/freezing eggs/fertility treatments/etc. This is not good enough for him.
I'm devastated. Six months is not a long time but I thought we were solid.
What are your opinions on this?? Is he shallow? I feel like less of a woman knowing I can't have more than one child naturally. I've never felt bad about that till now. Now I question so many things.
Obviously he never truly cared about me....I ask myself how I could have made such a wrong choice.
Yet he's willing to toss you to the side just because you have a slight egg issue.
It's a shame... He should love YOU before he decides to have children... If he does love you, then THAT is what matters... YOU... Not whether or not he can spread his love frosting all over the planet.
Basically, he is saying that any woman who can catch jizz is fine... No respect for you what so ever.
Hope you find someone truly ready for all that you are willing to give him... including a ton of shit. |
Q:
Trouble changing port in Confluent 2.0.0 Kafka 0.9
Seeing some strange behavior with Confluent 2.0.0 Kafka 0.9, wondering if anyone has any ideas. I had started up a broker with the PLAINTEXT listener, on 9092. worked great. I am trying to change it to listen to a different port. I tried 9095. When it starts up I see this in the log:
[2016-01-14 18:11:43,511] INFO Awaiting socket connections on 0.0.0.0:9095. (kafka.network.Acceptor)
But then later, I see this
[2016-01-14 18:11:43,906] INFO Registered broker 0 at path /brokers/ids/0 with addresses: PLAINTEXT -> EndPoint(ec2-54-164-3-183.compute-1.amazonaws.com,9092,PLAINTEXT) (kafka.utils.ZkUtils)
This is concerning, why is it still registering on 9092???
At this point, if I try to produce on 9095 I get tons of these until I kill it:
[2016-01-14 18:14:42,614] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 0 : {plaintext=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
[2016-01-14 18:14:42,745] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 1 : {plaintext=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
[2016-01-14 18:14:42,850] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2 : {plaintext=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
...
And if I try to produce on 9092 it fails after 1 minute with this:
[2016-01-14 18:30:11,845] ERROR Error when sending message to topic plaintext with key: null, value: 10 bytes with error: Failed to update metadata after 60000 ms. (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.ErrorLoggingCallback)
I think this may have something to do with my host names not being set up properly... but I'm not sure how to do that... FYI this is an EC2 instance. hostname is ip-10-0-0-22. /etc/hosts has
127.0.0.1 localhost
The public DNS is ec2-54-164-3-183.compute-1.amazonaws.com. And in my server.properties I have
advertised.host.name=ec2-54-164-3-183.compute-1.amazonaws.com
(This last I found I had to set to be able to connect to the broker from outside of amazon).
So... any suggestions from any Kafka experts?
A:
Turns out I needed to use advertised.listeners. I bet Alexander Zolotko's suggestion to use advertised.port would have worked too, although I didn't try tat.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. – A 17-year-old girl who didn't even know she was pregnant gave birth to a baby boy in a Michigan hospital and quickly found herself in the middle of an adoption battle.
The Local 4 Defenders took a look at the intense custody battle for baby Maverick, who was born in the middle of the night to a scared teenager.
Within hours, the boy's mother had signed paperwork to relinquish her rights, and an adoption agency was ready to find Maverick new parents.
But days later, the 17-year-old girl changed her mind and wanted her son back.
Safe Surrender was created as a way for pregnant women to legally abandon their babies in safe locations. The organization saves unwanted newborns from being abandoned in dangerous environments.
But an Illinois family said Safe Surrender might be used as a way to take advantage of vulnerable mothers.
Maverick didn't have an ideal welcome to the world. He was delivered early, at 29 weeks, by a mother who had no idea she was pregnant. The baby weighed just 2 pounds and was delivered by doctors who rushed him to an incubator in the intensive care unit.
Maverick's mother didn't even get to hold her baby.
"I noticed a little bit of weight gain, but not enough to where I would've thought that I was pregnant," Alex Robinson said.
Robinson is a high school senior from Illinois. For a last blast of summer fun, she and her friends traveled to West Michigan for a day at the beach. In a matter of minutes, she went from the beach to the back of an ambulance.
"I was just, like, 'Oh my God,' and they were, like, 'What?' and I look down and there was just a huge puddle of blood," Robinson said. "Then I felt my whole body tense up, and I just couldn't move."
She found out her pain and bleeding were due to the fact that she was about to deliver a baby.
"They did an ultrasound and a woman told me, she was, like, 'You're going into labor,'" Robinson said. "I was, like, 'No I'm not. There's no way.' And she was, like, 'Yeah, you are. There's a baby in there.' And I was, like, 'No, there's not.'"
The 17-year-old said she couldn't believe it.
"I was at the beach yesterday in a bikini," Robinson said. "I'm not pregnant. I'm telling you guys, I'm not pregnant."
But it was true.
"I was, like, 'I can't be having a baby. Are you kidding me?'" Robinson said. "I didn't have to push very much at all, and then he was born."
Maverick was born, and Robinson was in a panic.
"I was, like, 'I can't tell my friends. I can't tell my mom. I can't go home with a baby,'" Robinson said.
She didn't want anybody to know. She said she just wanted to go back in time.
"I didn't care about anything more than what homecoming dress I was going to get, and what prom dress I was going to get," Robinson said.
A counselor at the hospital told her if she gave the baby up for adoption, nobody would have to know.
"They were, like, 'Well, you have options,'" Robinson said.
Robinson's mother was five hours away in Illinois. She said she got a call from a nurse who never told her her daughter had given birth.
"She's a 17-year-old girl," Leah McDonald, Robinson's mother, said. "They exploited her. You know, they took advantage of her because they wanted her baby."
Robinson was exhausted and scared. She agreed to talk to someone from an adoption agency, and just a few hours after delivering Maverick, a representative of Bethany Christian Adoption Services was on-site with papers for her to fill out.
"I just wanted somebody to help me," Robinson said. "I didn't know what to think."
"She's a kid," McDonald said. "She's in shock. She didn't even know she was pregnant."
In addition to adoption forms. Robinson was given a Safe Surrender form to sign, which revokes all her rights to Maverick after a 28-day waiting period.
"There was no reason why they would've thought I was mentally OK to make that decision," Robinson said.
Just 12 hours after Maverick was born, Robinson was sent out the door with a cab voucher.
"This needs to stop, because they just sent her out the back door, down the stairs, cab, gone," McDonald said. "She could've hemorrhaged. She could've died. This needs to stop."
When Robinson got back to Illinois, her mother found out about the baby.
"Then, I told her everything, and then she picked me up from work, and we were in the car, and she was, like, 'If you want your baby, like, you can have your baby,'" Robinson said. "'I'm not going to judge you for it.'"
McDonald wasn't mad. She was supportive, seeing that Robinson had changed her mind and wanted Maverick.
They called the adoption agency, making it clear they wanted to keep Maverick. When they showed up at the hospital where Maverick was still in the intensive care unit, they were turned away by officials who said Robinson had signed away her rights.
"She's the mom," McDonald said. "She should be doing skin-to-skin contact with the baby. You know, mom's scent, sound."
They scrambled for a lawyer. The first one failed to properly file paperwork, and they found themselves in court. Bethany Christian Adoption Services wanted to go forward with the adoption process, and Maverick's father filed paperwork saying he wanted custody.
"I'm all for adopting kids and giving them new homes, but not in a way like this," Lucas Zbinden said. "Not at all."
The judge ordered a two-week delay to find out what was going on. The hearing was to be held Aug. 31, but that would have been 29 days after Maverick's birth, so the 28-day Safe Surrender rule would have expired.
The hearing was moved up, and the judge ruled in favor of the birth mother and father.
"I broke down bawling because I was just so excited," Robinson said. "Up until he said I had custody of my son, I was, like, super scared and on the edge of my seat the entire time."
The representative from Bethany Christian Adoption Services in Muskegon wouldn't comment on camera. The corporate office in Grand Rapids didn't return Local 4's calls, and neither did representatives of Muskegon's Hackley Hospital, where Maverick was born.
Maverick's family feels fortunate to have him, but they're worried the system is stacked against vulnerable mothers. They hope sharing Maverick's story will educate others and encourage lawmakers to do more for the rights of birth mothers.
"You've got to think twice before you adopt a baby and do some research on an adoption agency that you're going through," Robinson said. "See how they get their babies."
Local 4 will follow Maverick's progress and keep viewers updated.
You can visit the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services FAQ here.
Click here to visit the website for Adoption & Birth Mothers.
Below is the state of Michigan's educator toolkit for people who work with adolescents and young adults: |
import React, { ReactElement } from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-testing-library';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import Theme from 'common/lib/components/Theme';
import configureStore from '../pages/Editor/store/configureStore';
import { IState } from '../pages/Editor/store/reducer';
export const renderWithTheme = node => {
return render(<Theme host={'EXCEL'}>{node}</Theme>);
};
// re-export everything
export * from 'react-testing-library';
export const renderWithRedux = (
ui: ReactElement<any>,
{ initialState }: { initialState: Partial<IState> },
) => {
const store = configureStore({ initialState });
return { ...renderWithTheme(<Provider store={store}>{ui}</Provider>), store };
};
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You have clicked on them many times: “I agree to the Terms and Conditions of this web site.” But you never read them. But by agreeing, you empower the surveillance state by giving the government data through corporations that it cannot get directly from you. This shocking film should dramatically change the way you use the internet.
Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena for public expression is turned into a private profit zone. Why have we let a handful of powerful corporations write the news? We’re left in no doubt – media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is fundamental.
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).
This is a visually stunning film about urban planning. Yep! Hear from architects and planners as they look at what makes cities awful and what makes cities wonderful. They believe that if we research what makes cities great, we can plan thoughtfully for the inevitable growth of the world’s cities WITH A FOCUS ON PEOPLE. |
Promising Pedagogy: Advancing the Educational Experience of Queer Students Through Transformative Leadership.
The school experience for queer youth is often quite different from that of their heterosexual and gender-conforming peers; yet it is often the c ase that little attention is given to the disparate and inequitable educational and social conditions under which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth must learn. In fact, the entirety of pedagogical structures in many schools creates milieus where queer youth, those who have loved ones who are queer, and those who are merely perceived to be queer are systematically marginalized and deprived of their right to a safe, supportive, and equitable educational experience. Transformative leadership theory (TLT) inspires educational leaders to create inclusive and excellent schools for all youth. Neither a prescriptive model nor a process-oriented theory, TLT offers eight tenets that operate in concert to form an authentic way of being informing and guiding leaders' decisions and actions toward the goal of individual, organizational, and societal change. |
Executive | Petrol-White
Executive | Petrol-White
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The Crosley Executive is slightly bigger than the Crosley Cruiser and therefore perfect for home use. Lined with tweed, suede and leather-like materials. The case design with built-in speakers is as portable as the Cruiser. Connect the Executive to your computer via USB in order to enjoy all your classics digitally. |
Monday, October 27, 2008
Transparency Jensen-style
When it comes to discussing little Pete Jensen and his developmentally delayed family of Sydney Anglicans there’s no secret about the fact that I’d rather shift the conversation to more uplifting topics like bestiality or tropical skin disease. Yet sometimes there’s no alternative for Bible-believing Christians other than to face their objectionable cousins from the south square-on.
After all, not even a creative genius like little Martyn Minns can come up with all of ++Akinola’s ramblings, so it’s important that those of us in the rest of the Communion keep an eye on who else is writing the great wise man of GAFCON's cue-cards. Otherwise there’s no telling how many folk might start believing the future of North American Christianity really does lay with Nigeria – and where’s little Bobby Duncan’s dream going to be if that idea catches on?
And mark my words, while the world has gone into an uproar over Sydney’s latest delusion of orthodoxy, little Pete has managed to slip something smelly underneat everyone’s doormat. The final paragraph of this piece from the Church Times makes public what the world’s favourite nepotist would rather have kept private; that the Sydney synod has “made provision of appropriate financial support to enable Archbishop Jensen to adequately discharge his responsibilities as Honorary Secretary to the GAFCON Primates’ Council.”
In other words, and as I’ve said before, admin and communication costs for the glorious world-wide schism are now funded by the faithful putting their pennies in Sydney offertory plates. Which means it’s a safe bet that much as his bold fellow Gafconeers detest little Pete’s Eucharistic doctrine of the Real Absence, none of them are going to give more than the mildest of squeaks in protest at this particular tear in the Communion’s fabled fabric.
What’s more, you’ve got to admire the grip he’s got on his flock: how many other organisations give their beloved leader permission to spend whatever it takes to “adequately discharge his responsibilities” with no further accountability? We’re talking Kim Jong-il, Robert Mugabe, and just possibly David Virtue, but that’s about it. Sure, it can’t take much in real terms to buy off some the flakier nations on the world’s least stable continent, but just think how much enough pâté de foie gras to stop Layman Schofield whinging must cost. Nor bother trying to kid yourself about that being just a one-off expenditure either.
No, if there’s one thing to be said for the Anglo-Catholic members of GAFCON it’s this: that they’re all certainly men who stand by their principles. And when it comes to the Sacraments it’s wonderful to see them put them being put second to the greatest principle of all – money talks loudest
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Otherwise there’s no telling how many folk might start believing the future of North American Christianity really does lay with Nigeria – and where’s little Bobby Duncan’s dream going to be if that idea catches on?
Fr. Christian, As a follower of ++Akinola I think I would object to this intimation!
Comrade Christian, English not so very good, but cannot help but wonder if theological thought of Australikan Peter Jensen (we can call this "Jensenism") is very closely related to theological thought of Cornelius Jansen (known as "Jansenism")? Amerikan boyfriend write article on his blog (in his very awful French, click on my name to read) about poignant problem of torture, the nature of the Holy Eucharist, and boyfriend's own understanding of "real absence" of Christ. Seems like real absence of Peter Jensenism is very different from Marko's idea about real absence.
Of course Father you will be glad to know that I am donating to this program. By placing my small offering in the church plate, a proportion of it goes to pay the parish dues to the diocese and thus a yet smaller proportion goes to fund GAFCON. Perhaps Father might instruct me as to how I can put something like miniature bomb into one coin which is only activated when it finds itself in a cash box labelled GAFCON. Just to give the treasurer or perhaps Petie himself a little excitement in his dreary life answering FOCA correspondence.
I once used the Parish photocopier to take images of my firm, athletic buttocks and I put an extra $10.00 in the collection plate and said 25 Hail Mary's, feeling guilty for using company equipment for my personal Christmas cards. I can't imagine stealing Parish funds to bankroll my agenda for world domination. It takes a very specific personality type that strokes a crucifix with one hand and his genitals with the other, impassioned by the sound of jingling change. It is not only he who should be ashamed but those who allow him to continue without justice.
... takes a very specific personality type that strokes a crucifix with one hand and his genitals with the other
Two Cents: you have such a charmingly graphic way with words, but I believe in little Pete's case crucifixes only serve to render him impotent with sectarian protestant rage. His much loved Annotated Evangelical Study Bible (words of St.Paul in gold lettering), on the other hand, reduces his knees to jelly every time.
BTW, you wouldn't happen to have a spare copy of that xerox I could have for research purposes, would you? |
Business relocation – bigger warehouse for floor boards
15/09/2011 by Steven Chen ·
When a family gets growing, like a newborn baby coming, people usually need to get a new house with more rooms. A business is the same. Thanks to the clients’ support during the past few years, our business has been developing to a new stage. The old place is nice, but felt smaller and smaller. More room is needed. We moved to a new place with double size of storage.
It took the last whole mother. We moved everything, tons of stocks, to the new warehouse. At the same time we have to operate the business as usual, check emails, make phone calls, schedule staff, and check inventories… we squeezed as much time as possible to do the major task of the month – moving. We hired a truck, a forklift, and I asked another two guys who usually just do the job on site to be back in warehouse and help us. So the truck and two forklifts can work together. Upload, shipping, download; upload, shipping download… one by one, very efficient.
Here are two pictures of the new warehouse. Just warehouse. The office and showroom are still in a big mess, of course. |
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Q:
Joomla Email virus
Hello everyone I have Joomla system under DA management.
For awhile now I'm receiving into my DA message system alerts that PHP is sending too much emails.
This is the message I'm receiving from Direct Admin:
> The X account has just finished sending 50 emails.
There could be a spammer, the account could be compromised, or just sending more emails than usual.
After some processing of the /etc/virtual/usage/X.bytes file, it was found that the highest sender was nellie_osborne@x.com, at 15 emails.
The most common path that the messages were sent from is /home/x/domains/X.com/public_html/images/stories/virtuemart, at 51 emails (102%).
The path value may only be of use if it's pointing to that of a User's home directory.
If the path is a system path, it likely means the email was sent through smtp rather than using a script.
The top sending script was /home/X/domains/x.com/public_html/images/stories/virtuemart/proxy98.php(1958) : eval()'d code:775, at 30 emails, (60%).
This warning was generated because the 50 email threshold was hit.
Now, it seems like there's multiple PHP's implemented around the system that send out those emails, in this case its proxy98.php and in other cases it was other files that I deleted but it kept sending emails.
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A:
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National Bird Debate kicks off Canada-wide conversation
Experts weighed in on Canada's national bird in debate at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Host George Kourounis grills the expert panel at the Great Canadian National Bird Debate on Sept. 19. Left to right: George Elliott Clarke, Mark Graham, David Bird, Alex MacDonald and Steven Price. (Photo: Tamam Ahmed Jama)
Is the cry of the loon a hauntingly beautiful lament or the stuff of children's nightmares? Is the Canada goose a messy, ill-tempered brute or a unifying symbol that is also surprisingly delicious?
These were just some of the (only semi-serious) questions up for discussion at the Great Canadian National Bird Debate, a Can Geo Talks event hosted by the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa Sept. 19. The debate, conducted by a panel of five experts and hosted by George Kourounis, was the second phase of Canadian Geographic’s National Bird Project. With the help of Bird Studies Canada, National Conservation Partner on the undertaking, Can Geo aims to designate an official national bird for Canada by 2017. Nearly 50,000 Canadians voted in the initial poll, with 13,000 submitting English and French comments, essays and even poems. The top five birds (as voted by Canadians) were on trial at the debate, which was held in the sold-out Barrick Salon at the museum, with Canadians in other cities, provinces and territories watching live online.
Defending the candidates were George Elliott Clarke, Canada's Poet Laureate (chickadee), Mark S. Graham, Vice-President of Research and Collections for the Canadian Museum of Nature (Canada goose), David Bird, Professor Emeritus of Wildlife Biology at McGill University (gray jay), Alex MacDonald, Senior Conservation Manager, Nature Canada (snowy owl) and Steven Price, President of Bird Studies Canada (common loon). Shirley Ida Williams, Professor Emeritus of Indigenous Studies at Trent University, originally slated for the panel, was unable to attend.
Each panellist was prepared to champion their chosen bird and disparage all others, and the debate raged on through four timed rounds with a mix of academic, insightful, emotional and hilariously irreverent arguments for and against all birds involved.
“Birds are every bit as important to our environment and to our national identity as the beaver, a large, primarily nocturnal, semi-aquatic rodent once at the centre of a flourishing top-hat industry,” said John Geiger, CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. “The RCGS and its magazine Canadian Geographic had their ‘feathers ruffled’ over the fact that on the eve of Canada’s 150th birthday, the country still does not have a national bird. So we’re here this evening to further explore that idea, and more to the point, to determine what bird best represents this great country.”
Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, provided opening remarks and was active on Twitter throughout the debate, egging on supporters of various birds.
Catherine McKenna delivers opening remarks at the Great Canadian National Bird Debate on Sept. 19. (Photo: Tamam Ahmed Jama)
The debate stirred up a much broader discussion on social media, as #CanadaBird quickly became the top trending hashtag in the country — and was still going strong the following day. These tweets capture the flavour of the night:
In spite of the lighthearted banter, however, McKenna, the panellists, the RCGS and its partners all echoed a central message: all birds are important, and no matter what species receives the honour, Canada needs a national bird.
“It’s clear we love our birds,” said McKenna. “They are an integral part of our culture, and they play a critical role in our ecosystems. They eat insects, disperse seeds, pollinate plants, and they are also a critical indicator of a healthy environment.”
She went on to stress that cooperation — from the local to the international level — is essential to the continued monitoring, research and conservation of Canada’s birds, and that the government is committed to continuing its partnerships with communities, provinces and indigenous peoples, and funding programs such as the Habitat Stewardship Program to benefit species at risk and habitats.
May be time to bring the Great Canadian National Bird Debate to the House of Commons! No fowl play#CanadaBird
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s official recommendation for Canada’s national bird will be announced at its College of Fellows Annual Dinner on Nov. 16, and a feature story about Canada’s national bird will appear in the December 2016 issue of Canadian Geographic. Get it on newsstands Nov. 21, or subscribe today. |
using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Data;
namespace NHibernate.SqlTypes
{
/// <summary>
/// SqlTypeFactory provides Singleton access to the SqlTypes.
/// </summary>
[Serializable]
public static class SqlTypeFactory
{
// key = typeof(sqlType).Name : ie - BinarySqlType(l), BooleanSqlType, DecimalSqlType(p,s)
// value = SqlType
private static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<string, SqlType> SqlTypes =
new ConcurrentDictionary<string, SqlType>(4 * Environment.ProcessorCount, 128);
public static readonly SqlType Guid = new SqlType(DbType.Guid);
public static readonly SqlType Boolean = new SqlType(DbType.Boolean);
public static readonly SqlType Byte = new SqlType(DbType.Byte);
public static readonly SqlType Currency = new SqlType(DbType.Currency);
public static readonly SqlType Date = new SqlType(DbType.Date);
public static readonly SqlType DateTime = new DateTimeSqlType();
public static readonly SqlType DateTime2 = new DateTime2SqlType();
public static readonly SqlType DateTimeOffSet = new DateTimeOffsetSqlType();
public static readonly SqlType Decimal = new SqlType(DbType.Decimal);
public static readonly SqlType Double = new SqlType(DbType.Double);
public static readonly SqlType Int16 = new SqlType(DbType.Int16);
public static readonly SqlType Int32 = new SqlType(DbType.Int32);
public static readonly SqlType Int64 = new SqlType(DbType.Int64);
public static readonly SqlType SByte = new SqlType(DbType.SByte);
public static readonly SqlType Single = new SqlType(DbType.Single);
public static readonly SqlType Time = new TimeSqlType();
public static readonly SqlType UInt16 = new SqlType(DbType.UInt16);
public static readonly SqlType UInt32 = new SqlType(DbType.UInt32);
public static readonly SqlType UInt64 = new SqlType(DbType.UInt64);
public static readonly SqlType[] NoTypes = Array.Empty<SqlType>();
private delegate T TypeWithLenOrScaleCreateDelegate<out T, in TDim>(TDim lengthOrScale); // Func<int, T>
private static T GetTypeWithLenOrScale<T, TDim>(TDim lengthOrScale, TypeWithLenOrScaleCreateDelegate<T, TDim> createDelegate) where T : SqlType
{
var key = GetKeyForLengthOrScaleBased(typeof(T).Name, lengthOrScale);
var result = SqlTypes.GetOrAdd(key, k => createDelegate(lengthOrScale));
return (T) result;
}
private static SqlType GetTypeWithPrecision(DbType dbType, byte precision, byte scale)
{
string key = GetKeyForPrecisionScaleBased(dbType.ToString(), precision, scale);
SqlType result = SqlTypes.GetOrAdd(key, k => new SqlType(dbType, precision, scale));
return result;
}
public static AnsiStringSqlType GetAnsiString(int length)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(length, l => new AnsiStringSqlType(l));
}
public static BinarySqlType GetBinary(int length)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(length, l => new BinarySqlType(l));
}
public static BinaryBlobSqlType GetBinaryBlob(int length)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(length, l => new BinaryBlobSqlType(l));
}
public static StringSqlType GetString(int length)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(length, l => new StringSqlType(l));
}
public static StringClobSqlType GetStringClob(int length)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(length, l => new StringClobSqlType(l));
}
public static DateTimeSqlType GetDateTime(byte fractionalSecondsPrecision)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(fractionalSecondsPrecision, l => new DateTimeSqlType(l));
}
public static DateTime2SqlType GetDateTime2(byte fractionalSecondsPrecision)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(fractionalSecondsPrecision, l => new DateTime2SqlType(l));
}
public static DateTimeOffsetSqlType GetDateTimeOffset(byte fractionalSecondsPrecision)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(fractionalSecondsPrecision, l => new DateTimeOffsetSqlType(l));
}
public static TimeSqlType GetTime(byte fractionalSecondsPrecision)
{
return GetTypeWithLenOrScale(fractionalSecondsPrecision, l => new TimeSqlType(l));
}
public static SqlType GetSqlType(DbType dbType, byte precision, byte scale)
{
return GetTypeWithPrecision(dbType, precision, scale);
}
private static string GetKeyForLengthOrScaleBased<T>(string name, T lengthOrScale)
{
return name + "(" + lengthOrScale + ")";
}
private static string GetKeyForPrecisionScaleBased(string name, byte precision, byte scale)
{
return name + "(" + precision + ", " + scale + ")";
}
}
}
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Shenandoah GC in JDK 13, Part I: Load Reference Barriers
May 15, 2019
In this miniseries, I’d like to introduce a couple of new developments of the Shenandoah GC that are upcoming in JDK 13. Perhaps the most significant, even though not directly user-visible, change is the switch of Shenandoah’s barrier model to load reference barriers. It resolves one major point of criticism against Shenandoah, that is their expensive primitive read-barriers.
Shenandoah (as well as other collectors) employ barriers in order to ensure heap consistency. More specifically, Shenandoah GC employs barriers to ensure what we call ‘to-space-invariant’. What it means is this: when Shenandoah is collecting, it is copying objects from so-called ‘from-space’ to ‘to-space’, and it does so while Java threads are running (concurrently). This means that there may be two copies of any object floating around in the JVM. In order to maintain heap consistency, we need to ensure either of:
writes happen into to-space copy + reads can happen from both copies, subject to memory model constraints = weak to-space invariant
writes and reads always happen into/from the to-space copy = strong to-space invariant
And the way we ensure that is by employing the corresponding type of barriers whenever reads and writes happen. Consider this pseudocode:
void example(Foo foo) { Bar b1 = foo.bar; // Read while (..) { Baz baz = b1.baz; // Read b1.x = makeSomeValue(baz); // Write }
Employing the Shenandoah barriers, it would look like this (what the JVM+GC would do under the hood):
void example(Foo foo) { Bar b1 = readBarrier(foo).bar; // Read while (..) { Baz baz = readBarrier(b1).baz; // Read X value = makeSomeValue(baz); writeBarrier(b1).x = readBarrier(value); // Write }
I.e. whereever we read from an object, we first resolve the object via a read-barrier, and wherever we write to an object, we possibly copy the object to to-space. I won’t go into the details of this here, let’s just say that both operations are somewhat costly. Notice also that we need a read-barrier on the value of the write here to ensure we only ever write to-space-references into fields while heap references get updated (another nuisance of Shenandoah’s old barrier model).
Seeing that those barriers are a costly affair, we worked quite hard to optimize them. A very important optimization is to hoist barriers out of loops. We see that b1 is defined outside the loop, but only used inside the loop. We can just as well do the barriers outside the loop, once, instead of many times inside the loop:
void example(Foo foo) { Bar b1 = readBarrier(foo).bar; // Read Bar b1' = readBarrier(b1); Bar b1'' = writeBarrier(b1); while (..) { Baz baz = b1'.baz; // Read X value = makeSomeValue(baz); b1''.x = readBarrier(value); // Write }
And because write-barriers are stronger than read-barriers, we can fold the two up:
void example(Foo foo) { Bar b1 = readBarrier(foo).bar; // Read Bar b1' = writeBarrier(b1); while (..) { Baz baz = b1'.baz; // Read X value = makeSomeValue(baz); b1'.x = readBarrier(value); // Write }
This is all nice and works fairly well, but it is also troublesome: the optimization passes for this are very complex. The fact that both from-space and two-space-copies of any objects can float around the JVM at any time is a major source of headaches and complexity. For example, we need extra barriers for comparing objects in case we compare an object to a different copy of itself. Read-barriers and write-barriers need to be inserted for *any* read or write, including primitive reads or writes. And those are very frequent, especially reads.
So why not short-cut this, and strongly ensure to-space-invariance right when an object is loaded from memory? That is where load-reference-barriers come in. They work mostly like our previous write-barriers, but are not employed at use-sites (when reading from or storing to the object), but instead much earlier when objects are loaded (at their definition-site):
void example(Foo foo) { Bar b1' = loadReferenceBarrier(foo.bar); while (..) { Baz baz = loadReferenceBarrier(b1'.baz); // Read X value = makeSomeValue(baz); b1'.x = value; // Write }
You can see that the code is basically the same as before – after our optimizations- , except that we didn’t need to optimize anything yet. Also, the read-barrier for the store-value is gone, because we now know (because of the strong to-space-invariant) that whatever makeSomeValue() did, it must already have employed the load-reference-barrier if needed. The new load-reference-barrier is almost 100% the same as our previous write-barrier.
The advantages of this barrier model are many (for us GC developers):
Strong invariant means it’s a lot easier to reason about the state of GC and objects
Much simpler barrier interface. Infact, a lot of stuff that we added to GC barrier interfaces after JDK11 will now become unused: no need for barriers on primitives, no need for object equality barriers, etc.
Optimization is much easier (see above). Barriers are naturally placed at the least-hot locations: their def-sites, instead of their most-hot locations: their use-sites, and then attempted to optimize them away from there (and not always successfully).
No more need for object equals barriers
No more need for ‘resolve’ barriers (a somewhat exotic kind of barriers used mostly in intrinsics and places that do read-like or write-like operations)
All barriers are now conditional, which opens up opportunities for further optimization later on
We can re-enable a bunch of optimizations like fast JNI getters that needed to be disabled before because they did not play well with possible from-space references
For users, this is mostly invisible, and the bottom line is that this improves overall Shenandoah’s performance. It also opens the way for follow-up improvements like elimination of the forwarding pointer, which I’ll get to in a follow-up article.
Load reference barriers have been integrated into JDK 13 development repository in April 2019. We will start backporting it to Shenandoah’s JDK 11 and JDK 8 backports soon. If you don’t want to wait, you can already have it: check out The Shenandoah GC Wiki. |
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Against eager and competitive, but ultimately limited opponents, the hosts claimed three points thanks to two first-half goals from Kevin Gameiro. Making his first start of the season, the former Lorient man finished well after being released by Javier Pastore and then stretched to turn home an inviting cross from Maxwell.
Efficiency was the watchword for Carlo Ancelotti’s side in this encounter. Sochaux, on the other hand, were busy and hungry. They took the game to their opponents in the early stages of the match, but they lacked the quality to unhinge the home defence.
PSG, on the other hand, were more measured and had greater quality about them. This was emphasised when Pastore’s wonderful defensive-splitting pass picked out Gameiro, who slotted through the legs of the exposed Simon Pouplin.
Despite this blow, Sochaux continued in their energised state. Cedric Bakambu was particularly lively, fashioning some space for himself to get a rare shot at Salvatore Sirigu’s goal. Although the Italian saved, the rebound went loose and he was fortunate to see the resultant cross drop to a defender after he fumbled.
Comfortable but by no means inspired, PSG added to their tally with a swift move 10 minutes prior to the interval. After retaining possession for a prolonged period, Pastore and Zlatan Ibrahimovic quickly raised the tempo, with the ball fed out to Maxwell on the left. The Brazilian’s cross for Gameiro was perfect, with the striker sliding to give Ancelotti’s men a cushion that it rarely looked like they would need.
The second half was played at a stroll by the home side. Neither goalkeeper would be particularly heavily worked, with Sochaux boasting a good share of the ball. Though Ryad Boudebouz’s influence increased for the visiting side, he was not able to show enough imagination to worry Thiago Silva and Alex, who dominated in the heart of the home defence, while les Lionceaux were reluctant to push too many men forward and get exposed on the counter.
For their part, PSG cruised through the latter stages, making a number of changes as they began to switch their focus towards Tuesday’s meeting with Porto in the Champions League.
In Portugal, Ancelotti’s men will have to be a great deal more focussed and serious, yet they manoeuvred through this fixture in a thoroughly professional manner to increase the heat on Ligue 1 leaders Olympique de Marseille ahead of their fixture against Valenciennes on Sunday. |
Q:
Find total number of Unit Test in different DLLs
I have a Project where we have different kinds of unit tests in different DLLs. I want to know total number of unit tests in whole solution as well as the Test Category, Owner name, etc. using some VB/C# code.
Actually, I need to prepare report daily, where I need to show how many unit test are written by whom and under which category
I do not want to open Visual Studio to know this.
This is an example signature for one of the unit tests:
<TestMethod()> <Owner("OwnerName"), TestCategory("Category22")>
Public Sub TestName()
............
............
End Sub
A:
Since the test methods are documented using .Net Framework attributes, you can use reflection to obtain the information you need. In VB.net, you can do it as follows.
'Imports System.Reflection
'Imports TestLibrary <- wherever the attributes are defined
Dim assy As Assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(filename)
Dim owner As OwnerAttribute
Dim category As TestCategoryAttribute
For Each t As Type In assy.GetTypes()
For Each mi As MethodInfo In t.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.Instance)
If Not mi.GetCustomAttributes(GetType(TestMethodAttribute)).Count() = 0 Then
owner = mi.GetCustomAttribute(Of OwnerAttribute)()
category = mi.GetCustomAttribute(Of TestCategoryAttribute)()
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print("{0} : Owner='{1}' Category='{2}'",
mi.Name, owner.OwnerName, category.CategoryName)
End If
Next
Next
You do have to add the test framework DLL as a reference to the project. filename is the full path to the compiled assembly (EXE, DLL, etc). I didn't include error checking for space reasons.
If your test method isn't public, or it's static you can get it by changing the binding flags to BindingFlags.NonPublic or BindingFlags.Static respectively. (More information is available in the documentation.)
Note that this method also works in C#
Assembly assy = Assembly.LoadFrom(filename);
OwnerAttribute owner = null;
TestCategoryAttribute category = null;
foreach(Type t in assy.GetTypes())
{
foreach (MethodInfo mi in t.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance))
{
if (mi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(TestMethodAttribute)).Count() != 0)
{
owner = mi.GetCustomAttribute<OwnerAttribute>();
category = mi.GetCustomAttribute<TestCategoryAttribute>();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print("{0} : Owner='{1}' Category='{2}'",
mi.Name, owner.OwnerName, category.CategoryName);
}
}
}
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Yoga Found to Affect Inflammation
Many massage therapists practice yoga; and, as both are holistic health-care practices dating back many thousands of years, massage and yoga are complementary aspects of a health-care regimen.
New research shows yoga reduces cytokine levels known to promote inflammation.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that women who routinely practiced yoga had lower amounts of the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) in their blood.
The women also showed smaller increases in IL-6 after stressful experiences than did women who were the same age and weight but who were not yoga practitioners.
IL-6 is an important part of the body’s inflammatory response and has been implicated in heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, arthritis and a host of other age-related debilitating diseases. Reducing inflammation may provide substantial short- and long-term health benefits, the researchers suggest.
Ron Glaser, a co-author and a professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics, said that the study has some fairly clear implications for health.
“We know that inflammation plays a major role in many diseases. Yoga appears to be a simple and enjoyable way to add an intervention that might reduce risks for developing heart disease, diabetes and other age-related diseases” he said.
“This is an easy thing people can do to help reduce their risks of illness.”
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday described President Trump as "the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.," invoking the Ku Klux Klan title while speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event.
"These are challenging times in the United States of America - we have a hater in the White House, a birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.," Jeffries said at the National Action Network's annual celebration of the late civil rights leader.
"One of the things that we've learned is that while Jim Crow may be dead, he still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well," he added.
Jeffries, who is the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, has often been a vocal and fierce critic of the president and has previously decried Trump's comments on race. Jeffries has said Trump fans the "flames of racial hatred," and has called the president a "racial arsonist."
The president has reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations as "shithole countries," said "both sides" were to blame for violence at a white nationalist rally in 2017, and for many years pushed the false conspiracy theory that former President Obama was not born in the U.S.
Some progressive lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), have labeled Trump a racist, citing those comments and his immigration policies.
Throughout his time in the Oval Office, Trump has emphasized economic improvements he says his policies are responsible for bringing to African-Americans and other minority groups and has touted his support among those groups in polls.
Trump on Tuesday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day by visiting the memorial to the civil rights leader in Washington, D.C. The stop lasted a couple minutes in frigid D.C. temperatures, according to the White House pool. |
Mineral resource imports were valued at $12,123m in 1999-2000, an increase of $3,157m (35%) on 1998-1999. The main contributors to the rise in imports in 1999-2000 were: crude oil, up $2,545m (67%) to $6,339m; and refinery petroleum products, up $508m (59%) to $1,376m. Smaller increases were also recorded for diamonds, gold, iron ore and steel.
In 1999-2000 Australian imports of crude oil and other refinery feedstock decreased by 9% to 27,014 ML and imports of petroleum products increased by 14%. Major petroleum products recording significant increases were fuel oil by 34% to 798 ML, automotive gasoline by 20% to 1,065 ML and aviation turbine fuel by 22% to 171 ML, while diesel fuel decreased by 3% to 1,400 ML.
The major sources for Australian imports of crude oil and other refinery feedstocks were Viet Nam (6,034 ML), Saudi Arabia (541 ML), Indonesia (301 ML), and Papua New Guines (292 ML). The major sources of automotive gasoline imports were Singapore (93 ML) and Saudi Arabia (18 ML). The majority of diesel fuel imports originated in Singapore (85 ML). |
All releases of iF.SVNAdmin
Release Notes: The repository browser works on all Windows and Unix platforms now. The basic authentication module supports all types of hashes that Apache provides for the "passwd" file format (SHA1, CRYPT, and MD5).
Release Notes: The table filter no longer hides the table footer buttons (it searches over the whole row now). All user, group, repository, and access path tables have a filter now.
The Repository-Add link is no longer shown if the RepositoryEditProviderType is off. The “selectAll()” function of tables only selects the visible rows. A Chinese translation has been added. The repository browser supports all Unicode characters and shows the latest author and revision.
Release Notes: This release introduces ACL permission management by pre-defined roles. It also comes with the new Project-Manager feature that lets you define Administrators for the different Access-Paths. Basic users are now able to change their own password. There is a new design for the application. |
MADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Scott Walker's plan for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena has "zero chance" of passing the Wisconsin Legislature in its current form, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told county officials at a meeting Wednesday.
The plan's odds improve dramatically -- up to 80 percent -- if the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County join the state in helping to pay for the arena, Vos said at a meeting of the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Walker, a likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, last week said he would call for the state to issue or contract $220 million in appropriation bonds to help pay for the project. Walker officially released his plan Tuesday in the state budget, which now goes to the Republican-controlled Legislature for consideration.
Walker's proposal would pay off the bonds by 2046 through projected growth in income taxes paid by NBA players.
Some lawmakers, including Vos and other Republicans, have balked at the idea of having the state contribute to the arena without money from local governments. Republican Sen. Tom Tiffany, a member of the Legislature's budget committee, said Wednesday he wants to see the state commitment for the Bucks less than half of what Walker proposed -- closer to $100 million.
Still other conservatives have objected to diverting income taxes away from the state to pay off the bonds.
"Funding for sports arenas should not be the responsibility of the state and the hard-working taxpayers of Wisconsin," said David Fladebow, director of Americans for Prosperity's Wisconsin chapter, when Walker released his plan.
New owners bought the team last April and have promised to contribute $150 million toward building the arena. Former owner and ex-U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl has promised $100 million of his own money to help replace the BMO Harris Bradley Center, which was built in 1988.
The new arena is estimated to cost between $400 million and $500 million.
Walker said last week that he doesn't oppose requiring the city and county to contribute toward the project, and he anticipated that that would be a part of whatever the Legislature ultimately passes.
The Bucks could leave Milwaukee in 2017 if there is no new arena. |
"On an otherwise ordinary Sunday in late January, a 32-year-old web editor for a chain of local radio stations in Central Texas ran across a news item that he found interesting. Ten minutes later, he had written and published what would become Facebook’s most-shared story of 2019 so far."
"Facebook has responded with countless tweaks over the years designed to promote “high-quality content,” discourage clickbait and like-bait, fact-check bogus stories, and punish pages that peddle misinformation. In 2018, Facebook announced a set of major algorithm changes designed to prioritize news from “trusted” and “local” sources, and to boost content shared by users’ friends and family over content published by professional Facebook pages. It said users would see less news in their feeds overall, but what they did see would be more reliable, and that it would focus on facilitating “meaningful interactions” among users."
"In practice, the levers that Facebook’s engineers pull tend to be blunter instruments than you might think. Facebook’s mechanism for determining “trusted sources,” for instance, turned out to be a two-question survey. It assumes news is “local” to you if it’s being shared by a publication that has an audience tightly clustered in your area—regardless of whether the story’s topic is actually local. It defines “meaningful interactions” partly based on the number of comments on a post."
These stories are always fascinating to me, even in the real world with humans to pick talent and great stories. How does a story like Harry Potter become so big from such an unlikely source after so much rejection?
Anyone who produces videos for YouTube, any teen who posts to Instagram, knows that some things get inexplicably picked up and some don't. Did the content unlock the power of the algorithm or did the algorithm make the content? Did the musician wow the agent or did the music label make the musician?
At a little conference in 2006, Jeff Bezos told me as we walked on the grass: "It takes mysterious planetary alignment."
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1. Please provide a brief overview of the project.
Goal: The design intent is to create a memorable and flexible place for this growing, arts-based non-profit that embodies their mission, engages the site's unique existing structures, utilizes the best sustainable practices possible within a constrained budget, and provides a public landscape to an underserved neighborhood of Providence.
Location: Providence RI. The Steel Yard is located in Olneyville, a blighted neighborhood of Providence characterized by abandoned and contaminated industrial lots like the project site, surface parking, and dilapidated housing stock along the Woonasquatucket River. While improving the site's functionality, a primary goal was to retain the ecological and visual character of 'urban wild' in keeping with the context and the site's abandoned-state beginnings.
Approximate Size: 3.5 Acres
Former Use: Steel fabrication for construction projects. Three industrial buildings exist on the site: One Sims Avenue, a twostory brick building, originally the office and fabrication facility (artist workspaces and a cafe); 27 Sims, a two-story brick office building (Steel Yard administrative and commercial rental spaces); and the Long Building, a repeatedly expanded corrugated metal and brick fabrication building (workshop space). Five sets of overhead gantry cranes, all of which are working and were incorporated into the project, allow steel to be moved anywhere on site, and give the site its unique character. The buildings and cranes were designated historic landmarks by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, whose approval of the new landscape was also required.
Actual End Use: Required exterior spaces include a primary central space (fashioned as a multi-colored paved 'carpet') that allows for individual and group work, staging of large events with audiences of up to several hundred, car rallies, farmer's markets, etc., and whose character defines a sense of place. This is surrounded by secondary work spaces such as interior/exterior spill-out shop spaces, an outdoor foundry, a 'hang-out' space for movie nights and relaxation, and a future visiting artist's studio (each ~1000-2000 sf). Tertiary service spaces include storage for raw materials and finished art pieces, a paved space serving incubator businesses and artists in shipping container studios, and 20 parking spaces.
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Three Bridges Park WINNER
After decades of decline, public and private sectors have made substantial progress in redeveloping Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley. Since 1999, 39 companies have moved to the Valley, more than 5,000 jobs have been created, and the Hank Aaron State Trail now runs the length of the Valley. The site of the former Milwaukee Road Shops, which once employed hundreds of people…
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Bornstein & Pearl Food Production Center WINNER
Goal of the project:
The Bornstein & Pearl Food Production Center is a gut rehab of a former meat packing facility, home to the Pearl Meat Packing Co., Inc. In 2006, the Pearl Meats factory relocated its operations, and the 36,000 SF industrial building sat vacant in the heart of a residential Boston neighborhood for four years. In 2010, Dorchester…
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Elven Sted WINNER
Goal: The initial focus of the Elven Sted project was on creating a state of the art housing development that was sustainable, affordable and accessible to households that include family members with disabilities.
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Woonsocket Middle School WINNER
The project was conducted primarily as a "Voluntary Clean-up" by the City of Woonsocket, as the City was classified as a bona fide prospective purchaser of many of the individual parcels assembled to facilitate the project. |
One way to think about the store is as a cache of all of the records
that have been loaded by your application. If a route or a controller in
your app asks for a record, the store can return it immediately if it is
in the cache. Otherwise, the store must ask the adapter to load it,
which usually means a trip over the network to retrieve it from the
server.
Instead of waiting for the app to request a record, however, you can
push records into the store's cache ahead of time.
This is useful if you have a good sense of what records the user
will need next. When they click on a link, instead of waiting for a
network request to finish, Ember.js can render the new template
immediately. It feels instantaneous.
Another use case for pushing in records is if your application has a
streaming connection to a backend. If a record is created or modified,
you want to update the UI immediately.
### Pushing Records
To push a record into the store, call the store's [`push()`](https://api.emberjs.com/ember-data/3.14/classes/Store/methods/push?anchor=push) method.
For example, imagine we want to preload some data into the store when
the application boots for the first time.
We can use the `route:application` to do so. The `route:application` is
the top-most route in the route hierarchy, and its `model` hook gets
called once when the app starts up.
```javascript {data-filename=app/models/album.js}
import DS from 'ember-data';
export default DS.Model.extend({
title: DS.attr(),
artist: DS.attr(),
songCount: DS.attr()
});
```
```javascript {data-filename=app/routes/application.js}
import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
export default Route.extend({
model() {
this.store.push({
data: [{
id: 1,
type: 'album',
attributes: {
title: 'Fewer Moving Parts',
artist: 'David Bazan',
songCount: 10
},
relationships: {}
}, {
id: 2,
type: 'album',
attributes: {
title: 'Calgary b/w I Can\'t Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time',
artist: 'Bon Iver',
songCount: 2
},
relationships: {}
}]
});
}
});
```
The store's `push()` method is a low level API which accepts a JSON
API document with a few important differences from the JSON:API
document that the JSONAPISerializer accepts. The type name in the JSON
API document must match the type name of the model exactly (In the
example above the type is `album` because the model is defined in
`app/models/album.js`). Attributes and relationship names must match
the casing of the properties defined on the Model class.
If you would like the data to be normalized by the model's default
serializer before pushing it into the store, you can use the
[`store.pushPayload()`](https://api.emberjs.com/ember-data/3.14/classes/Store/methods/pushPayload?anchor=pushPayload) method.
```javascript {data-filename=app/serializers/album.js}
import DS from 'ember-data';
export default DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
normalize(typeHash, hash) {
hash['songCount'] = hash['song_count']
delete hash['song_count']
return this._super(typeHash, hash);
}
});
```
```javascript {data-filename=app/routes/application.js}
import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
export default Route.extend({
model() {
this.store.pushPayload({
albums: [
{
id: 1,
title: 'Fever Moving Parts',
artist: 'David Bazan',
song_count: 10
},
{
id: 2,
title: 'Calgary b/w I Can\'t Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time',
artist: 'Bon Iver',
song_count: 2
}
]
});
}
});
```
The `push()` method is also important when working with complex
endpoints. You may find your application has an endpoint that performs
some business logic then creates several records. This likely does not
map cleanly to Ember Data's existing `save()` API which is structured
around persisting a single record. Instead you should make your own
custom network request and push the resulting model data into the store
so it can be accessed by other parts of your application.
```javascript {data-filename=app/routes/confirm-payment.js}
import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
import fetch from 'fetch';
export default Route.extend({
actions: {
confirm(data) {
fetch('process-payment', {
method: 'POST',
body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(digitalInventory => {
this.store.push(digitalInventory);
this.transitionTo('thank-you');
});
}
}
});
```
Properties that are defined on the model but are omitted in the
normalized JSON:API document object will not be updated. Properties
that are included in the normalized JSON:API document object but not
defined on the Model will be ignored.
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Comprehensive targeted and non-targeted lipidomics analyses in failing and non-failing heart.
Myocardial infarction (MI) and subsequent progressive heart failure pathology is the major cause of death worldwide; however, the mechanism of this pathology remains unclear. The present work aimed at testing the hypothesis whether the inflammatory response is superimposed with the formation of bioactive lipid resolving molecules at the site of the injured myocardium in acute heart failure pathology post-MI. In this view, we used a robust permanent coronary ligation model to induce MI, leading to decreased contractility index with marked wall thinning and necrosis of the infarcted left ventricle. Then, we applied mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) in positive and negative ionization modes to characterize the spatial distribution of left ventricle lipids in the infarcted myocardium post-MI. After micro-extraction, liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry was used to confirm the structures of the imaged lipids. Statistical tools such as principal component analysis were used to establish a comprehensive visualization of lipid profile changes in MI and no-MI hearts. Resolving bioactive molecules such as resolvin (Rv) D1, RvD5, RvE3, 17-HDHA, LXA4, and 18-HEPE were detected in negative ion mode MSI, whereas phosphatidyl cholines (PC) and oxidized derivatives thereof were detected in positive ion mode. MSI-based analysis demonstrated a significant increase in resolvin bioactive lipids with comprehensive lipid remodeling at the site of infarction. These results clearly indicate that infarcted myocardium is the primary location of inflammation-resolution pathomechanics which is critical for resolution of inflammation and heart failure pathophysiology. Graphical abstract Applied scheme to determine comprehensive lipidomics in failing and non-failing heart. |
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Erica Evans
I'm a chemistry major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and have been a member of Anime Anonymous *the anime club on campus* for three years. My favorite anime are Cowboy Bebop, Kare Kano, and Excel Saga. |
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Q:
XDocument.Root : Possible System.NullReferenceException
It looks like R# is detecting a possible null reference in the following code:
var importedDoc = XDocument.Parse(importedXml);
var importedElements = importedDoc.Root.Elements().ToList();
When accessing importedDoc.Root property. The awkward thing is that now I want to unit-test my method but I'm not able to pass importedXml so that the resulting XDocument.Root throws NullReferenceException. I have added null-checking code to throw exception if that is the case and I want to cover that branch:
if (importedDoc.Root == null)
throw new NullReferenceException("There is no root element");
Can anyone provide a way to make this happen or, if not, at least explain how does R# come up with this code warning? Is the Root property not marked [NotNull] because there might be a different way to construct XDocument in which Root actually is null? If so, is not this a bug in System.Xml.Linq?
A:
resharper doesn't know about any type of runtime checks XDocument.Parse may or may not do to ensure there is a root level element. It just sees XDocument.Parse as the invocation of a function that may return null and suggests you should test for a null condition where you actually use a member of the returned object.
since importedDoc.Root realistically can't be null since XDocument.Parse will throw when doing the parse in that case, you can either turn off the resharper warning with a comment
// ReSharper disable once PossibleNullReferenceException
var importedElements = importedDoc.Root.Elements().ToList();
or you could just add the null checks yourself and re-raise the exception if you want like this to make resharper happy:
var importedDoc = XDocument.Parse(importedXml);
var importedElements = importedDoc?.Root?.Elements().ToList() ?? new List<XElement>();
if (importedElements.Count == 0) throw new InvalidOperationException("No root");
or you could totally ignore the whole thing knowing that this particular warning isn't completely valid in this scenario.
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249 So.2d 228 (1971)
Wilma C. BANKS and Albert Banks, Sr.
v.
JEFFERSON BOTTLING COMPANY.
No. 4385.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
June 7, 1971.
Levy, Smith & Pailet, Adolph J. Levy, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel & Johnson, James P. Conner and Christopher E. Lawler, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.
Before SAMUEL, REDMANN and GULOTTA, JJ.
SAMUEL, Judge.
Wilma and Albert Banks filed this suit against Jefferson Bottling Company for $1,000 to compensate Mrs. Banks for the aggravation of a pre-existing colostomy and her husband for medical expenses allegedly incurred as a result of the plaintiff-wife ingesting a roach in a soft drink bottled by the defendant. Defendant filed a general denial. The suit was dismissed after trial and plaintiffs have appealed.
Testimony offered by plaintiffs is to the effect that sometime during the morning of October 16, 1967 their daughter purchased a Big Giant Cola from a neighborhood cleaning establishment. When the daughter returned with the unopened bottle Mrs. Banks removed the cap and started drinking the contents. Suddenly she felt something stick in her throat. She became ill and began vomiting. When her retching had subsided, she noticed a roach in the regurgitated material. Her brother, who was present, found a second roach and a small black object in the contents remaining in the bottle. Later that day she and her husband returned to the cleaning establishment to show the proprietor what was left of the beverage and to recount the incident.
Nathanial Reed, the proprietor, who was called as a witness for the plaintiffs, verified the fact they returned with the soft *229 drink and that Mrs. Banks appeared to be "gagging". But he refuted the claim there was a second roach and another foreign object in the remaining contents. He examined it by holding it up to the light and pouring out some of the remaining cola on paper. The bottle and contents were not introduced in evidence and the record fails to explain what disposition was made thereof after plaintiffs delivered it to their attorney.
This probably is the most damaging inconsistency contained in the evidence offered by plaintiffs which, together with many others, casts doubt on the accuracy of Mrs. Banks' testimony that she had swallowed a roach in the cola. Some of those inconsistencies are: The pleadings indicate Mrs. Banks purchased the Big Giant Cola while the testimony is that her daughter did. The daughter claims the incident occurred in the afternoon while her mother testified it happened before noon. Plaintiffs themselves explained Albert Banks returned home from work early that day because rain prevented work by the construction crew in which he was employed. The daughter was positive it did not rain that day.
As to the alleged aggravation of the pre-existing colostomy, Mrs. Banks attributes bleeding from the rectum and the colostomy to ingestion of the roach.
For plaintiffs to establish a prima facie case against the bottler they must prove: (1) the beverage was purchased in its original container; (2) the bottle apparently was in good condition when it was purchased and when it was opened; (3) it contained a foreign substance; and (4) the contents were consumed and injuries resulted therefrom. See LeBlanc v. Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Ltd., 221 La. 919, 60 So.2d 873; Givens v. Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Company, La.App., 182 So.2d 532.
After hearing the evidence, the trial court apparently concluded plaintiffs failed to meet this burden by a preponderance of credible evidence. As our review of the record fails to disclose manifest error in this factual finding, we will not disturb the conclusions of the lower court. See United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Fiffie, La.App., 211 So.2d 690.
For the reasons assigned, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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Wake up! It’s time for a new adventure, readers; Bobby’s going to Japan! Woop woop! Hurrah! Huzzah! Yatta! (That’s Japanese for “I did it!” – check me out). It’s been a long while since I’ve written on these humble pages and I’d love to say that a lot has happened since then, but it hasn’t really, and that’s part of the reason I’m writing this in the first place. Since 2007 and my return from my legendary journey around the earth I have drank a lot of beer, eaten in a lot of restaurants and visited Germany, Amsterdam and The North (it’s grim up there). I have a 9-to-5 job in IT, I buy my groceries in Sainsbury’s, I read the paper, sip Cappuccinos in cafes and eat pizza in posh pubs. Basically I’m a good little citizen doing exactly what every other good little citizen does.
My best mate William and I can never go out for a drink without a deep chat about our careers and where they’re going. We both met at university where we were doing the same degree in Computer Network Management; a fascinating concoction of the study of sine waves, frequency modulation, tort law, artificial intelligence and maths, amongst other things. Suffice to say they failed to teach us the basics of IT support (where most people in this industry start on the career ladder); that is to say, “switch it off, and switch it back on again”. This is a cliché for a reason my friends; because it works. Take heed and you will be able to hang out with your IT department like you are one of them. After they have cracked a few jokes at your expense and shown themselves as technically superior they will happily converse with you about cars, graphics cards, politics and Blackberries because you are one of the fabled few who decided to take The IT Crowd seriously, rather than dismiss it as a crap comedy.
One of the many discussions William and I, and I’m sure many other people doing their 9-to-5s like good little citizens have had is the one about your Passion. You know; the belief that everyone has a purpose in life; that your purpose should be as much a part of you and your everyday life as the skin you’re in. I’m not talking about divine right, fate or anything remotely religious here; rather that there are probably a number of different careers that are perfect for you that you wouldn’t mind working on day and night, or that – shock, horror – you might actually look forward to doing every day of your life.
My career in IT stems back to my days as a socially repressed teenager living in a small town in England. I found people confusing and uninteresting, especially when compared to the logical, simple world that computers live in. If your computer is slow, stick more RAM in it, if the hard disk thrashes all the time even after you’ve upgraded the RAM, get a new hard disk (bet you never thought you were going to get inside information reading this blog did you, you lucky things?). People are infinitely more complex and, for an 18 year-old boy who goes to college, gets home and then plays Counter Strike until 4am before getting up for college again, they’re terrifying.
Fortunately I went to university, which I liken to a great big washing machine for humans. You jump into it a spotty, clueless teenager who thinks he knows everything and drinks himself blind at karaoke nights in a sweaty pub every Saturday night (no? just me?). It then chucks you around a bit, washes you, pulls off your Argos neck-chain, and spits you out with a better haircut, better clothes and a piece of paper that says that you’re marginally more intelligent; except you don’t feel that way because your world has just expanded by a massive amount and your knowledge of it only marginally. You now need to learn as much as you possibly can about everything so you go travelling, which makes you wiser about the world but again, expands your world by an even more massive amount and you come back feeling like you’ve actually got thicker. I’m not sure if anyone has ever documented this phenomenon before but if not, I dub it The Bobby Effect. You heard it here first.
Err… Where was I? Oh yes! Passion. I needed to find mine… The main problem with my job is that I’m making no impact on anyone; I’m not changing anything or doing anything particularly worthwhile. You could make the argument that I’m a cog in the proverbial machine; that my job is essential to keep my sports company and its computers running smoothly, and that helps to get more people involved in sport, possibly changing lives in the process. However this is nonsense because:
I believe it’s a justification that people use when they’re unhappy in their work and unwilling/don’t know how to do anything about it and… They don’t feel they need to replace me.
…and so I’m going to Japan to teach English, driven by a desire for a massive personal challenge and a desire to make a difference. If I can teach a Japanese student to speak a language that will empower him/her to travel and communicate through a vast array of other countries and cultures, then I’ve directly made a difference in someone else’s life rather than vicariously through resetting their Windows password. |
DAYS: May Sweeps
I hope that the stories play to the characters strengths and relationships. I miss soaps being able to do scenes with a lot of people really well. I thinks Days has gotten better at that as of late. I did love the scene with all the Bradys at the pub the other day. I feel like Kayla is chained to that bar though; has she even seen Horton town square yet?
So Sami and EJ are in her apartment, undressed basically. He ends up on the phone with Billie who is at the ISA and Sami ends up blindfolded and in the safehouse. Bo & Hope goes from ISA to safehouse as well. And Stefano is not mentioned in any of this so he is clearly behind it. |
Computed Tomography Scanning for Early Detection of Lung Cancer.
Parallel and often unrelated developments in health care and technology have all been necessary to bring about early detection of lung cancer and the opportunity to decrease mortality from lung cancer through early detection of the disease by computed tomography. Lung cancer screening programs provide education for patients and clinicians, support smoking cessation as primary prevention for lung cancer, and facilitate health care for tobacco-associated diseases, including cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases. Guidelines for lung cancer screening will need to continue to evolve as additional risk factors and screening tests are developed. Data collection from lung cancer screening programs is vital to the further development of fiscally responsible guidelines to increase detection of lung cancer, which may include small groups with elevated risk for reasons other than tobacco exposure. |
“It is a nation in this contest that we are now engaged in with Vladimir Putin, who has committed to extending the reach and influence of the Russian government … to the point where he attempted a coup to overthrow the freely elected government of Montenegro,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on the Senate floor Monday. “If we turn down Montenegro, it will not remain the democracy that it is today.”
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Authorities in Montenegro claim that pro-Russian factions attempted to stage a coup last October during parliamentary elections. Russia has denied any involvement.
The Kremlin also is strongly opposed to any more expansion of NATO. Three Balkan countries that were once in Russia’s Cold War sphere of influence are in the process of joining. Georgia, a former Soviet republic, has also expressed interest in joining.
All current NATO member states must ratify Montenegro’s bid in order for it to accede to the treaty — or become a member.
The road to ratifying Montenegro’s bid in the U.S. Senate has not been entirely smooth. During the last Congress, the term clock ran out before the Senate got a chance to vote on Montenegro — leading many to wonder whether Republicans were dragging their feet because Trump had struck a conciliatory tone on Russia.
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The president spoke highly of Putin on the campaign trail, and the intelligence community determined that Russia had attempted to interfere in the 2016 election with the intention of promoting Trump’s candidacy. Two congressional committees, as well as the FBI, are currently investigating possible ties or collusion between the Kremlin and members of Trump’s campaign and transition teams.
But the administration urged the Senate to approve Montenegro’s effort to join NATO. In a letter, first reported by Reuters, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrote to Senate leaders earlier this month that ratifying Montenegro’s membership is “strongly in the interests of the United States.”
In fact, the opposition to Montenegro’s bid came from just two senators — Kentucky Republican Rand Paul and Utah Republican Mike Lee. Paul argued that supporting it is a waste of U.S. taxpayer money.
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Accusing his fellow senators of simply using the issue as an excuse for “a punching session about Russia,” Paul said Monday that “admitting Montenegro to NATO will do nothing to advance our national security and will do everything to simply add another small country to the welfare wagon of NATO.”
Paul’s tone was reminiscent of Trump’s disparagement of NATO during his presidential campaign, when he told the New York Times that member states “aren’t paying their bills” — suggesting that the U.S. commitment to fulfill its treaty obligations to other members of the alliance might be leveraged by whether those countries had settled their accounts.
As president, he appears to have altered his stance, pledging earlier this year that the United States will “strongly support NATO,” as reported by CNN — though he continued to stress that other NATO members have to contribute more toward collective defense.
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NATO members agreed in 2014 to a 10-year timetable to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. Most do not at the moment.
Montenegro’s contribution, as a country with a GDP of about $4 billion and a standing army of about 2,000 soldiers, would likely not contribute much, even if it meets the 2 percent target. |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said he expected US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East to be “historic” ahead of a trip to Washington.
“An opportunity such as this comes once in history and cannot be missed... I am full of hope that we are on the verge of a historic moment in the annals of our state,” Netanyahu, who has been invited to meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the plan, said in a statement.
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Understanding Fusion
UNDERSTANDING FUSION
Figuring Out Nuclear Fusion.… Contrasted against nuclear fission, the type of nuclear reaction currently in use in our nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion has presented unique challenges that has resisted decades of global efforts and investments into unlocking its secrets. The intense heat and pressure needed to make hydrogen atoms fuse together represents a huge technical problem of nuclear fusion, compared to the simple splitting of heavy atoms (uranium or plutonium) in nuclear fission.
Nuclei of lighter atoms collide and fuse together to produce nuclei of heavier atoms and release vast amounts of energy in the process —this is the essence of fusion, and also the energy of this process that powers our Sun. Can we harness this process to meet Earth’s energy demands?
Fusion is the process that produces the amazing quantities of energy that pour out of stars, such as our sun. It occurs when light atoms such as hydrogen become so hot that they fuse, into new elements, such as helium, in the process releasing large amounts of energy.
The ingredients for this amazing process are abundant on earth, and no greenhouse gases or long-lived nuclear waste are created by fusion. Once harnessed,…Learn more>> euro-fusion.org
ccfe.ac.uk- Nuclear fusion is one of the most promising options for generating large amounts of carbon-free energy in the future… To get energy from fusion, gas from a combination of types of hydrogen – deuterium and tritium – is heated to very high temperatures (100 million degrees Celsius). One way to achieve these conditions is a method called ‘magnetic confinement’ – controlling the hot gas (known as a plasma) with strong magnets. The most promising device for this is the ‘tokamak’, a Russian word for a ring-shaped magnetic chamber…Learn more>>ccfe.ac.uk
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New, environmentally sustainable forms of electricity will be required to meet the aspirations of a growing world population.
By 2050, an expected rise in global population from six billion to nine billion and better living standards could lead to a two to threefold increase in energy consumption.
No single technology will fulfil this demand. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and a mix of power sources will be needed to meet the challenges of energy security, sustainable development and environmental protection. Future energy supply options may comprise fossil fuels, nuclear fission, fusion, and renewables.
euro-fusion.org- Our current energy landscape is heavily dependent on the fast-depleting fossil fuels, with 80% of the global energy consumption being based on fossil fuels, and changing this dependence is critical for two main reasons. First, to meet the growing energy demand, which is set to increase by 37% by 2040 according to the IEA 2014 Executive Summary, and second, to cut down on the greenhouse gas emissions.
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It seems confusing that energy can be generated by both fusion (the coalescence of two nuclei) and fission (splitting the nucleus), as they appear to be quite opposite processes. The explanation lies in the size of the nuclei… Learn more>>euro-fusion.org
FUSION TECHNOLOGYAt the core of the fusion device is a ring-shaped metal vessel. The inner wall of the vessel is lined with removable heat-resistant tiles, and has numerous openings for heating devices and measuring systems. Equally spaced around the device are electromagnets that provide strong magnetic fields to keep the hot plasma away from the reactor walls.…Learn more>>euro-fusion.org
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Acumen Fund Uses Entrepreneurial Strategies to Fight Global Poverty
Using entrepreneurial strategies, the international non-profit Acumen Fund aims to fight global poverty. While Acumen’s concerns are traditional as far as international development goes, including water, housing, health and energy, the way that it goes about it is not the norm.
Traditional charities often focus on short-term needs and aid, for instance in times of natural disasters, famines and/or war. This sort of immediate relief creates a dependence and doesn’t allow local communities to play an active role in solving the problem of poverty in the long-term sense. On the other side of the spectrum is a market-based strategy to alleviating poverty, but this has its faults too. Low-income areas are either unattractive to businesses, or completely invisible. So, how does Acumen Fund do it "Dignity, not dependence. Choice, not charity. We combine business an philanthropy to break the cycle of poverty," says Acumen Fund on their website.
Therefore, Acumen Fund takes a bit of both the charity vein and the marketplace vein in order to reinvent the way we look at development. By supporting entrepreneurs that offer crucial services like water, agricultural inputs, health, energy and housing, the Acumen Fund ensures that those who need these services the most can get them at affordable prices.
Acumen Fund’s approach is something called "Patient Capital," which the non-profit describes as "a third way that seeks to bridge the gap between efficiency and scale of market-based approaches and the social impact of pure philanthropy." It’s now clear that the market has failed to provide for certain areas of the world. The emergence of this third space allows business models to bring necessary but affordable products and services. Acumen Fund’s "patient capital" investments aren’t focused on high returns, but giving the ability of enterprises to improve the lives of the poor worldwide.
A business doesn’t have to solely focus on financial return. What social business shows us is that social returns are increasingly possible—and increasingly necessary—in order to bring about social change on a global level. Acumen Fund invests in businesses to serve low-income people all around the world. |
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This is it. I'm sitting in my residencia now on the final night of my time here in Tenerife. I cannot believe I've been here for five weeks and that I won't be going to the hospital on Monday...it feels like I've started a new life here and now I'm throwing away something I got so used to! Either way, I'm excited for what the rest of my summer, year and life hold, so though I'm sad to leave, I'm also happy to go.
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In la planta, we saw mostly women who had either recently completed labor, were experiencing premature contractions or who had super high hypertension/large ...
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... As I said, the sun was out and the sky was super blue, so the water was this pleasant blue/turquoise color, and the waves were so big some of them went over my head. There were these giant rocks to walk and climb on off to the side of the beach, and we found all kinds of crabs and little sea animals hanging out on them in the sun. We also swam out to this huge rock structure about 100 meters away from the shore. It was cool to sit out in the sun on the rocks, and while ... |