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It was far from the high-scoring affair we saw in Iowa City last season, but it was a similar result nonetheless. Northwestern (4-3, 2-2 Big Ten) used a tremendous defensive effort to take down Iowa (4-3, 2-2 Big Ten) for a much-needed 17-10 win in overtime. Neither team gave a significantly black and gold-clad crowd at Ryan Field much to cheer for throughout the first thirty minutes on Saturday. That trend did not align with the rest of the afternoon. After Clayton Thorson’s quarterback sneak gave Northwestern the first score of the overtime period, the defense came up with the biggest play of the 2017 season, turning Iowa over on downs via a crucial fourth down drop. It was quite a different end to what was a listless first half of football. The second quarter was capped by a seven-yard touchdown pass from Iowa quarterback Nathan Stanley to Noah Fant for the first points of the game. The two teams combined for seven punts and two turnovers on downs in the first half. Ballyhooed running backs Akrum Wadley and Justin Jackson averaged less than four yards per carry. Clayton Thorson threw for just 79 first half yards, and while his counterpart Stanley fared better, more than one-third of his first half numbers came on this throw to Matt Vandeberg. Matt Vandeberg beats Alonzo Mayo for a 61-yard gain. Iowa's in business right now. pic.twitter.com/i4twZ0A7MJ — Caleb Friedman (@calebfriedman) October 21, 2017 Call the lack of explosive offense Big Ten football if you want. I’ll call it boring. Pat Fitzgerald likes to describe his team’s playing style with a phrase coined by Woody Hayes. “Three yards and a cloud of dust.” On Saturday, Northwestern effectively lived up to the legendary coach’s saying. Not even the 1962 throwback helmets — from a team that averaged 32 points per game — could ignite the Wildcats’ fledgling offense which failed to score in the first half. The absence of Butkus Award finalist Josey Jewell and starting safety Brandon Snyder could not mitigate Northwestern’s offensive shortcomings. Sacks, penalties, a porous offensive line and the inconsistency that has riddled this offense reared its ugly heads once again. Then, like it often does, defense turned to offense. Northwestern forced punts on the Hawkeyes’ first three drives of the second half, and Thorson created Northwestern’s longest play of the day on his own with a 21-yard run on third down. Redshirt freshman Jeremy Larkin capped that drive with a six-yard touchdown scamper, finding the corner of the end zone to tie the game with 7:19 remaining in the third quarter. Two drives later, Northwestern took a 10-7 fourth quarter lead on Charlie Kuhbander’s 30-yard field goal. Freshman JR Pace intercepted Stanley as Iowa searched for an immediate response, but the Wildcats couldn’t get points despite a short field. Sparked by a few big gains from Wadley, the Hawkeyes marched back down the field. A false start on a fourth and inches deep in Northwestern territory forced Kirk Ferentz to bring out kicker Miguel Recinos, who nailed a 48-yard field goal to knot the game at 10. Fitzgerald opted to play for overtime for the first time since South Bend in 2014, taking the ball out of his three-year starting quarterback’s hands by running the ball three consecutive times with 1:30 on the clock. Fitzgerald’s decision looked awfully good after Jackson masterfully turned a short reception into a 24-yard gain on third and nine, and Thorson punched it in himself to give Northwestern a 17-10 lead in overtime. It looked even better when Iowa’s overtime possession ended with a turnover on downs, sealing a huge conference win for Northwestern. The Wildcats still have plenty of problems - the offense has yet to put together a full game and Thorson was sacked multiple times on third down. But for now, Northwestern is above .500 for the first time since Week One and just earned its most impressive win of the season. Michigan State is up next.

Post navigation An Active Weather Day There is a good chance of severe thunderstorms along the I-35 corridor in Kansas and Missouri starting late this afternoon and continuing tonight. click to enlarge graphics Breaking it down, this is the risk area for tornadoes through 7am Monday. The highest risk of tornadoes is from northeast Missouri to near Chicago this evening and into the overnight hours. College of DuPage graphic based on NWS tornado probabilites. There is a strong risk of hail 2 inches in diameter or larger from the Kansas Flint Hills into northern Missouri, including the Kansas City Metro area. A good day to put your car in the garage if strong thunderstorms approach. The large hail is most likely late this afternoon and evening. NWS hail probabilities. Behind the dry line (not shown), strong southwest winds will drive up the wild fire danger to critical levels. One thought on “An Active Weather Day” As always, Mike, the best weather in the country is under the MDT risk area which seems to always been around my sons house! We have been trying to move back there for quite a few years….. maybe us in North Texas might see a raindrop. I already asked the NWS to do a rain dance, but think they gave up, too! Debbie

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What I Think About When I Think About Art Oakland is Art Last week a story in the New York Times said Oakland is “coming into its own as a cultural destination.” Art is a big part of that. Although my studio is in the comparative artistic backwater of Berkeley, I heart Oakland and its art. Tomorrow I’m installing my sample piece at the Berkeley Art Center to entice folks to come visit the studio during East Bay Open Studios in June. Making the piece gave me a bunch more ideas, probably more than I can execute before June, but I’m not complaining. I don’t have a picture of the work in progress, so here’s some graffiti I saw in Chelsea. The writing isn’t quite ragged enough for graffiti, is it? I think it’s an art piece.

Can you delete that thought on Facebook? Even if you delete your post -- or stop typing before you post it -- Facebook still tracks all that text. The code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed -- even if you decide not to publish it. It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.Associated Press Jennifer Golbeck, Slate This rash is getting wor It's at this point that you reconsider your status update. A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting ? (or the "post" button) Good question. We spend a lot of time thinking about what to post on Facebook. Should you argue that political point your high school friend made? Do your friends really want to see yet another photo of your cat (or baby)? Most of us have, at one time or another, started writing something and then, probably wisely, changed our minds. Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed -- even if you decide not to publish it. It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private. Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper written by two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them. The study examined aborted status updates, posts on other people's timelines, and comments on others' posts. To collect the text you type, Facebook sends code to your browser. That code automatically analyzes what you type into any text box and reports metadata back to Facebook. Storing text as you type isn't uncommon on other websites. For example, if you use Gmail, your draft messages are automatically saved as you type them. Even if you close the browser without saving, you can usually find a (nearly) complete copy of the email you were typing in your Drafts folder. Facebook is using essentially the same technology here. The difference is that Google is saving your messages to help you. Facebook users don't expect their unposted thoughts to be collected, nor do they benefit from it. It is not clear to the average reader how this data collection is covered by Facebook's privacy policy. In Facebook's Data Use Policy, under a section called "Information we receive and how it is used," it's made clear that the company collects information you choose to share or when you "view or otherwise interact with things." But nothing suggests that it collects content you explicitly don't share. Typing and deleting text in a box could be considered a type of interaction, but I suspect very few of us would expect that data to be saved. When I reached out to Facebook, a representative told me that the company believes this self-censorship is a type of interaction covered by the policy. In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn't collecting the text of self-censored posts. But it's certainly technologically possible, and it's clear that Facebook is interested in the content of your self-censored posts. Das and Kramer's article closes with the following: "we have arrived at a better understanding of how and where self-censorship manifests on social media; next, we will need to better understand what and why." This implies that Facebook wants to know what you are typing in order to understand it. The same code Facebook uses to check for self-censorship can tell the company what you typed, so the technology exists to collect that data it wants right now. • Jennifer Golbeck is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor at the University of Maryland. Guidelines: Keep it civil and on topic; no profanity, vulgarity, slurs or personal attacks. People who harass others or joke about tragedies will be blocked. If a comment violates these standards or our terms of service, click the X in the upper right corner of the comment box. To find our more, read our FAQ.

With just over four months to go before the federal election, Australians have switched off, with more than a third having little or no interest in September's election. A national survey by Melbourne University also found most Australians believe the quality of leadership and the tone of debate is worse than usual. And 70 per cent lack confidence in the federal government, including almost half of Labor voters. The results are part of a survey of 1000 voters undertaken by the university's Centre for Advancing Journalism. It reveals a deeper disengagement with politics than usual and presents a challenge for political parties vying for public attention. The centre's senior research fellow, Dr Denis Muller, said the survey found that Australians were ''pretty appalled'' at the standard of politics. Voter engagement is flagging. ''We're disgusted with the way they [politicians] talk to each other and we think there's a lack of political leadership, so we'll just switch off and vote when the day comes,'' he said. The survey, undertaken in March and April, found: ■ 57 per cent of voters say the quality of political debate is ''noticeably worse'' than the past, with little difference between Labor and Liberal voters.

A simple biplanar method of measuring femoral anteversion and neck-shaft angle. A simple biplanar roentgenographic technique for measurement of femoral anteversion and neck-shaft angle is described in which no special equipment is required. An anteroposterior roentgenogram of the pelvis and the femoral neck is made with the hip in neutral rotation. The true lateral roentgenogram is made with the patient's limb in a lateral position with the hip and knee flexed and with the entire lateral aspect of the leg in contact with the top of the table. Projected cervicofemoral angulations are measured on the roentgenograms. The method is described to determine the true angles by dynamically illustrating the projected angles. Graphs have been prepared with which one can readily determine the anteversion and neck-shaft angles once the projected cervicofemoral angulations have been measured.

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A Soldiers Story-What happened...What drives me! First and for most I want to dedicate this blog to Catherine Helshoj, VP of Laguna Tools, whom I call Mum. She has been one of my greats supports since my started receiving help for my injury. She has always been in my corner, believing in me and rooting for me. She is my adopted mother and friend! I seriously could not have come this far without her. Second I want to thank ever LumberJock for allowing me to write this. I know this is not a wood related topic and I promise it will be my only posting of such but I want you to know the man behind the wood. I thank you all for your kindness and support. You have welcomed me with open arms and have encouraged me greatly. For that reason it is time I share this small piece of me with you! Oct 9th 2004- Taken from the my journal- Hell from Behind! Where am I? My ears! There has to be something sticking through my ears! My head hurts. Why am I lying on my weapon? We are in an ambush. The smell of sulfur is everywhere. The night is alive with the lights of hundreds of man-made fireflies. RPGs come from out of the darkness. I am screaming, telling my driver to move as I engage the enemy. The 50 cal. behind me sounds so close, and yet echos so far away. My head hurts, my ears hurt. Stay alert. Stay alive. Reload, Reload. O God, the car. Its a car bomb and it is coming straight at my stryker! Coming to T-bone the side, get under our cage armor and then unleash it deadly surge of horror. O, the world spins. My head hurts so bad! I tip the barrel up to meet the threat. So close I can see the drivers face, so scared yet with eyes filled with resolution and hatred. His beat up white and orange junker is so close…to close…I must stop this threat..my ears hurt! As I squeeze off the first rounds I see the passenger, a Iraqi male… adjust and engage….O sh@t…there are women in the back seat, “You must engage” I tell my self My head hurts!...And now the world stops….............................. Its as if time and space have no meaning or bearing. Sitting between the two women in the back seat, I see small frightened eyes. Its my son! I ease up on the trigger and do not shoot. Wait it cannot be my son. The car is still rolling towards us. We are still not clear. I must not have gotten the driver. I do not want to re-engage! There is a boy in there! A little boy! I fight to save my men. As the RPGs rained down and the 50 cal spat out its answers, my heart breaks. I cannot seam to tear my eyes away from those terrified little eyes. Finally the car comes to a slow roll about 8 feet away. O God, I killed a child! Journal Entry Excerpt Complete- It all happen so fast! Yet as you have heard before there is slow time and quick time. I have never shared this part publicly before. You can read the before and after story at I share this with you all now because I want you to know what drives me! Yes, the physical aliments, the headaches, the vertigo, the lose of vision, memory and nerve damage all are frustrating but it is not what keeps me up at night. What I see in my nightmares or flashbacks. I take these demons of mine with me and try and transform them into something beautiful! To you other veterans out there. Granted this is not uncommon. Keep the faith. There is hope!!!! I have found some good help in the VA but honest I have found the most help, oddly enough, in the community and activity of woodworking!:). Thank you again LJ for your patience and understanding! It has taken me 8 years to heal enough to share this. I did not even tell my brothers-in-arms I was so ashamed of what I had done! Because of your acceptance you have helped me move that much closer toward healing! THANK YOU! -- "With a little bit of faith, and some imagination, you can build anything!" Nate 49 comments so far Nate,I am proud of you., to call you a buddy.This takes currage, it takes a lot to get to where you have after what you have lived.I can’t even imagine your nightmares, but that you share them makes me full of hope and strength, thank you.You are a true fighter, but also I feel love and a strong belive in life and beauty.May your life be beautiful and the sun on your face,Mads Nate, So Sorry, Honest “My Friend” and I mean that from the …...... well U know what I mean were guys we are not suppose to talk like that. I want to say Thankyou for sharring that with us I know how hard it is to open up and share ones innermost feelings and not knowing how other people are going to perceive you. Counciling helps but its not the same as finding someone or a group you can call and consider a friend or friends like we have here. Now I’m lost for words a head injury does that, at least to me it does. That is why I can’ t write long stories (blogs) like other people on here do, I can’t hold my consentration long enough to put words down I am and constantly wondering how it’s going to sound to someone else. It has taken me an hour just to write this much. I am going to end it here, I want you to know you have a friend , anytime you want to talk About Anything call me I’m going to send you my phone number. Nate, I’m so sorry and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, my friend. You share my fathers name. Your the first man I have met to do that:). Thank you for your kindness. How awesome is that, that you have a sawmill! I love running my dads woodmizer LT28, though its a 30 year old junker now. What do you have:). Thank you so much for your offer! You are very, very kind. If I am every there, I will stop by…but just to say thank you and to check out your mill…I love sawmills! Very Respectfully and Gratefully, Nate -- "With a little bit of faith, and some imagination, you can build anything!" Nate Here’s a link to a blog post I made about my Timberking 1220 sawmil. It’s a small manual mill, but it cuts a 34” X 20’ log if I can get it loaded on the log deck. The biggest log, I’ve loaded and sawed was a red oak log 38” (big end) & 34” (small end) 20’ in length. I had to chainsaw the sides to get the mill to clear the sides. A red oak log this size weighs over 8000 lbs! You can’t even turn it over manually. Now that is awesome! I really do love sawmills. I want to get my own someday! I only get to use my dad from time to time. That is a huge log. Truly awesome! Thank you for sharing! I was able to cut a Black Oak kind of like it. It is so much fun to unlock the beauty hiding within the tree. It is allot of work though and I can only do it on my really good days. You must be in really good shape:). Your Friend, Nate -- "With a little bit of faith, and some imagination, you can build anything!" Nate Wow Nate thats quite the story. I honestly cant imagine having to make those kind of decisions in the blink of an eye. You, my friend, are an american hero. Im sure that you have felt lonely at times trying to suppress what you have seen and heard in war. Please dont ever feel like you cannot share your thoughts, vent, or simply speak your mind around here … we’re one big dopey family. I cant thank you enough. First, I am not a hero. The guys that have gone and come home three and for times and continue to serve they are heros. The wives, parents, husbands and children that silently suffer the long nights and painful silences, they are heros. The men and women who laid down their lives for the freedom of those who did ask for it, want it or care for it, they are heros. Me, I am just on of the cogs that makes the machine go…or I used to be…now I am an artist…or trying to be:). Thank you for your kind words, you have a compassionate heart! Very Gratefully, Nate -- "With a little bit of faith, and some imagination, you can build anything!" Nate

[Control of hypoxia using apneic oxygenation with extrapulmonary membrane elimination of CO2]. The peculiarities and conditions of optimal gas exchange for arresting hypoxia during prolonged (3 hours) apnoea or bradypnoea were experimentally studied in 34 dogs, using the method of apnoea oxygenation and extrapulmonary membrane removal of CO2 on "Sever" membrane gas-exchanger. It was shown that successful arrest of severe ventilation disorders of respiration by this method depends on precise registration and skillful use of the factors influencing oxygenation and CO2 removal in membrane gas-exchanger connected with peripheral arteriovenous or venovenous shunts.

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A man in his 40s who arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Monday after spending two months in Liberia was found to have a fever, and officials decided to check him for Ebola, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said. The result of the blood test at a Tokyo research facility will be known early Tuesday, the officials said. The man, reportedly a 45-year-old journalist whose name was not released, was transported to the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Shinjuku Ward. The blood test was conducted at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo. According to NHK, the man was in Liberia from August to Oct. 18. He arrived at Haneda via Belgium and Britain, NHK reported. He was running a fever of 37.8 degrees when he was at Haneda, but he did not report any other health problems. NHK quoted a health ministry source as saying they had no information that he was ever in contact with any Ebola patients in Liberia. The ministry has been asking all entrants at 30 airports around Japan if they have been in any of the West African countries, such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, that have been hit by the recent Ebola outbreak. In a separate move, Cabinet ministers plan to meet Tuesday morning to discuss possible Ebola-related measures.

Asymptotic front behavior in an A + B → 2A reaction under subdiffusion. We discuss the front propagation in the A + B → 2A reaction under subdiffusion, which is described by continuous-time random walks with a heavy-tailed power-law waiting-time probability density function. Using a crossover argument, we discuss the two scaling regimes of the front propagation: an intermediate asymptotic regime given by the front solution of the corresponding continuous equation, and the final asymptotics, which is fluctuation dominated and therefore lays out of reach of the continuous scheme. We moreover show that the continuous reaction subdiffusion equation indeed possesses a front solution that decelerates and becomes narrow in the course of time. This continuous description breaks down for larger times when the front gets atomically sharp. We show that the velocity of such fronts decays in time faster than in the continuous regime.

Q: why the compiler printing the value is 0? How to implement this logic in coding? Input : cout << (4 % ((10^9)+1) ); Output : 0 Compiler : g++ 4.8.4 I don't know why the compiler printing the value is 0. What i have to do now for expected output? What is the correct code to print the output? A: ^ is a bitwise exclusive OR operation, not exponentation. 10 ^ 9 is 3. So 4 % ((10 ^ 9) + 1) = 4 % (3 + 1) = 4 % 4 = 0. The compiler is correct. Did you mean std::pow(10L, 9L), taking care not to overflow an integral type? Then the answer would be 4 (although you would have to cast the return of std::pow to an appropriate integral type for the % operator). A: Thank you for explaining this logic. I have understood this logic with your help and here is the solution for this logic that i got solved. cout << (4 % ((10^9)+1) ); ==> cout <<fmod(5, (pow(10,9)+1)); My mistake is used ^ instead of pow() and % instead of fmod(). ^ operator is bitwise xor in C++. (Just now realised afer your comments. Thanks for the info guys). % operator is for integers. So, i have used fmod() function. Because my calculation need more than integer type.

Today was never going to be easy for Joe Denly. In the field for two (intermittent) days, watching Steve Smith pile up run after idiosyncratic run, and was asked to go out and face a Tricky Little Session just before the close. Australia’s attack was fresh, and confident from a day of success and some late evening slogging. It was never going to be easy. What’s more, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood are a fearsome opening pair, and the fact they weren’t deemed automatic selections for Australia’s best XI this summer shows the depth of the tourists fast bowling stocks right now. This evening, Starc was slightly wayward, but rapid and above 140kph, whilst Hazlewood was typically controlled and accurate, in the channel outside off with 52% of his deliveries. Backing them up, Pat Cummins as first change, arguably Australia’s most impressive all-round bowler. Denly looked, as many batsmen do, vulnerable at the start of his innings. He was flashing outside off at balls which weren’t there to drive, forcing himself to play in a bubble under his eyes, but still not making clean contacts. Errors like this happen early on, while you’re getting set. The issue was the extent of this vulnerability, with Denly displaying a level of insecurity at the crease which has been essentially unmatched throughout this series. This evening, he played a false shot to 50% of his first 20 balls. Only one knock this series from an Englishman has seen a higher percentage at the start of an innings; Denly, in the first innings at Headingley. Twice, against quality bowling, he has looked unable to cope. The challenge was stiff. Yet Denly wasn’t up to the challenge, deflecting a Cummins short ball to Matthew Wade at short leg, where the former gloveman took an excellent catch. There was joy and celebration over the brilliance of Wade, but there was sense that Denly was going to last much longer had the chance been spilled. It was an innings plagued with inevitability, and not in the way that Smith’s was. Unfortunately for England, this sort of risk isn’t new. Denly’s record in terms of control has been an ongoing issue across this series; only Jason Roy has played a higher proportion of false shots for England than Denly this summer, and the Surrey man has been opening the batting throughout, facing the new ball. Denly has not exactly been coming in after 60 overs with the ball old and soft, but he’s still been afforded the luxury of a slight buffer from those opening assaults. To be batting in the middle order, and to be missing or edging the ball almost twice an over, is simply not sustainable at this level. What’s more, Denly is not an opening batsman. His white ball focus may not be quite so ostentatious as Roy’s, but it’s similar in the way it affects perception of the player’s overall career. He hasn’t opened in red ball cricket for the last four years, his notable and considerable success coming both down the order, and in the shorter forms of the game. Across his career, he averages 33.44 when opening the batting. There is little evidence that he has the ability to step up. His batting average in Test cricket, 22.76, is very low. Too low, for a man whose primary role is to score runs. Of the 70 men to play for England as often as Denly has since 2000, only two specialist batsmen average less – Graeme Hick and Adam Lyth. To compound this, we can see that his poor performances can’t be explained away by excellent bowling, given that the Expected Average of the balls that Denly has faced is 25.9. Good bowling, but he’s under-performing compared to what we’d expect. His most successful innings in Test cricket – the rearguard with Joe Root at Leeds, which laid the platform for one of the great chases – came at four. In a way, it’s a compliment from the selectors that they saw such potential in that knock that they backed Denly to succeed further up the order. In some respects it was admirable trust in a player that they clearly like. Yet in other respects, it is the latest decision that betrays the slightly muddled thinking which has been a consistent theme in England’s recent selection. Perhaps there is a reluctance – an understandable one – to trust domestic form as being indicative of international potential, and England are keen to focus on character and temperament, and are thus keen to keep Denly in the set-up. Given the weather forecast, the Ashes may well still be alive as the series returns to London next week. If it does, England could well be required to swallow a significant amount of pride, and bid farewell to a man who is clearly well liked and respected within the set-up, but who increasingly looks like a player no longer deserving of his place in it.

JK, SK, Gr.1 and 2 Tutoring Specialized teachers who are trained to teach children at the primary level work with two students at a time (in each hour) and focus on enhancing their reading skills while also working on their writing skills, spellings, grammar and Math as well. Starting with phonics, they move on to sight words and then onto reading small sentences, eventually small paragraphs and ultimately a full story to a complete story book! The picture books, text books, worksheets and programs available with each Learna centre assist these teachers in performing this and also in giving homework to the children to do extra practice. Students are encouraged to complete home tasks on their own without help from anyone at home so that in the next session, the teacher can assess the progress and then move on. Unique and dynamic in nature, the JK, SK and Grade 1 & 2 program is geared toward the level of the individual child. By assessing the level of the child the teacher is able to compile an individualized program specifically for each student. Our program offers the child the opportunity to delve into the world of language and early reading. Our students are challenged by Alphabet activities, phonics drills and activities involving reasoning and critical thinking.. The child is exposed to Math concepts which include, but are certainly not limited to, number sense, patterning, graphing, addition and multiplication.

Q: WP7: Questions regarding Touch Gestures I am using the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (http://silverlight.codeplex.com/). What I would like to do is check for a flick on a text block. On a flick up I want to increment a value and on a flick down I want to decrement the same value. A: <TextBlock Text="0"> <toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener> <toolkit:GestureListener Flick="GestureListener_Flick" /> </toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener> </TextBlock> private void GestureListener_Flick(object sender, FlickGestureEventArgs e) { //use e.Direction to determine which way }

Tremendous strides in the understanding of DNA structures responsible for expression of antibody molecules have been made through use of DNA cloning and sequencing techniques. In this research, we extended the recombinant DNA approach to the study of human immunoglobulin genes in normal and leukemic cells. We are characterizing the heavy chain genes for human IgM and IgD by isolating and sequencing genomic and cDNA clones of this region and have found that the human delta gene has three constant region domains and an extended hinge, while the mouse delta gene has only two constant region domains and a hinge. We studied the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region (VH) genes in patients with familial chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We cloned the expressed partially sequenced VH genes from two brothers with familial CLL and showed that they express extremely similar or identical VH genes. This supports the concept that some aspect of the antigen receptor, such as a particular idiotype or affinity for a particular antigen or T-cell factor, is involved in development of this cancer. (AB)

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Mayhem Maniacs Discord: https://discord.gg/n3r3qt Tundra explains his role with the mayhem: 1:30 Explains the Transition of CC: 4:45 Why he left CC: 23:24 Florida Mayhem's Coaching and Management: 40:45 Internal Conflicts: 58:22 Misfits as an org and the Future of Mayhem: 1:11:17 Tundra's Last words: 1:26:02

Q: Is it possible to Chromecast a Google+ video from Android? I'm trying to Chromecast a video uploaded to Google+, using my Android phone (Sony Xperia Z). I thought this would be pretty straightforward, as video is already on the net, and it seems the Chromecast has a pretty simple way to just be forwarded an URL and playing it. However, no Chromecast symbol appears when clicking the video in the Google+ app. Anyone knows if this functionality exists or not in the Google+ app? A: This functionality magically appeared in the google plus app on android last week, so now problem is solved. The Chromecast icon now appears when on the net with a chromecast device.

Jon Voight has accused Sky News of propagating “left-wing media spin” in an interview on the channel on Wednesday. Speaking from the Republican National Convention in Florida, the actor made the bizarre claim after presenter Anna Jones asked a question about Mitt Romney’s image. The accusation that Sky News engages in left-wing media spin will amuse many Brits, given its Murdoch-owned sister channel to Fox News is regarded by many in the UK as leaning openly to the right. "I think the main media frankly in this country and probably around the world has not really covered him [Romney] as thoroughly as possible," he said. Asked by Jones whether he thought Romney's stiff image was making it hard for Republican activists to get excited about his candidacy, Voight responded: "Lets cut right into that, thats exactly what I expect the left wing media to express." Sky News, which is partially owned by Murdoch's News Corporation, has to abide by the impartiality rules that govern broadcasting in the United Kingdom. "There is no lack of enthusiasm here and if you saw the speeches here," Voight insisted. "if you saw Ann Romney's speech… if you saw Chris Christie's speech, you'll see that everyone is extremely excited here and very much behind this man. Voight added: "It's this spin, it's very hard, he is such a good fellow, he is an honourable guy, he is very intelligent." "They have made this image of him that is totally other than he is because they can't really address him, they can't find any way to bring him down." Voight said the Democratic Party led by president Obama was a "propaganda party" that had "invented a new Romney". "You have just reflected some of the information that has been given out," he said of Jones' line of questioning. "I think that the last three and a half years has been a really rough three and a half years, we have been weakened in every way. "It's not hard to find someone who is better than the present president, but Mitt Romney is gifted in the things we need and the world needs." Voight, who has played a series of political characters including President Roosevelt, also told Sky News that Hollywood was dominated by an intolerent "left wing". "We have a left wing that is very strong, very strident, they recommend themselves as mild mannered and tolerant, but they are not," he said "Once people get to know Mitt Romney in a proper fashion they will be very enthusiastic," he predicted. He also praised Romney's running mate Paul Ryan as an "extraordinary guy" who could deal with the "serious problems" facing the US and the world. Despite his criticisms of the broadcast media, Voight took time to flirt with his female Sky News interviewer in London. "I wish I could see your face, I know you're an attractive young woman and I'd like to see you," he said. After Jones said she was not as young as he thought, he added: "For me you're young, you're a chicken." Voight also hit out at the media during an interview with Channel 4 News on Wednesday, telling Matt Frei: "Listen to me, I'm going to get angry." Before catching himself and adding: "You got to take care of this Brit, he's an ally." The Deliverance star is well known for his outspoken political views on the Democrats. In July, Voight accused the “false prophet” president of bringing “chaos and socialism” to the US on Bill O’Reilly’s show, while on Tuesday he accused the administration of outright “media control”. Yesterday Voight told Reveal Politics at the convention that he thought Obama was a Marxist. "Well, his father was a Marxist — of course he was influenced by it,” he said when asked. “His mother, who led him towards his father’s Marxism – yes. His mentor was a fellow by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, he was a communist. And, of course, his alliances from that time on." And he told the Daily Caller website that the American media had been "taken over" by the Obama administration. “It’s not less than what has happened in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez, really, because you can’t get the information through," he said. "I’m giving you this because I want to get the press my opinion. You can put it in any way you want to. But, it’s become pure propaganda and we should be appalled.”

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Theme Search form 3 Years of Modi: Dalit Suffering has Increased Date: May 23, 2017 Author: P.G. Ambedkar The Modi government has completed three years at the Centre. The BJP came to power with the slogan of ‘Sab ka sath Sab ka vikas’ but in practice, the governance of the country has become ‘Poonjipati ka Sath Vanchiton ka Vinash’ (Support the capitalists, destroy the deprived). Modi went around saying that he was from the ‘pichhda varg’ (backward class) and played with identity politics. But all this was done just to get votes. All his promises have only been election jumlas (bluffs). The marginalised communities - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes along with the minorities - have been on the receiving end in these three years. They have been given lesser priority than the ‘cow’. But none of the misdeeds of the present regime are part of the discussions in the media. False Promises The best way to expose the misrule of BJP is to look at their Election Manifesto for 2014 general Elections and then compare it to actual implementation. “BJP is committed to eliminate manual scavenging” This promise is far from reality. In fact, in the 2017-18 Budget presented this year, Modi government reduced allocation for the rehabilitation of manuals scavengers to half - from 10 crore to 5crore. According to the 2011 Census, there are nearly 26,07,612 dry latrines, which require 2,00,000 workers for this inhuman work. If we take into consideration the number of people who are engaged in cleaning the sewers and railway tracks, it would be an even bigger number. If we were to calculate Rs. 40,000 that is given as cash incentive per person for the rehabilitation of the people engaged as manual scavengers Rs. 800 crore would be required. Only 7,573 people were rehabilitated till 15 February 2016. That leaves a whopping 1,92,427 more people still to be rehabilitated. There is no data on how many dry-latrines have been even discarded or dismantled to claim as part of Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ programme. “We [BJP] will accord highest priority to ensuring their security, especially the prevention of atrocities against SCs & STs.” The Hindutva forces have been emboldened since BJP came to power. The above quoted claim made during the election campaign is far from reality. As one of the victims of Saharanpur violence said, “We are Hindus for the elections and after that we become untouchables.” Dalits have been facing severe atrocities under their rule. The recent attack on the Dalits in Shabbirpur, Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh is a reminder that whenever Dalits seek to uphold their human dignity they would be attacked to reinforce the caste codes in the society. The incident in the village was like any other attack, the upper castes’ pride was hurt as the Dalits wanted to install a bust of Dr B. R. Ambedkar in the Sant Ravidas temple compound and this was not acceptable to the dominant castes. On May 5th, 2017, when the Thakurs were congregating to unveil Maharana Pratap’s statue in the neighbouring village, a rumour spread that the Dalits have misbehaved with the procession that passed through Shabbirpur. After the rumour spread, people went with swords, attacked Dalits and set fire to their homes. This pattern is often repeated in most of the cases of atrocities against Dalits. Another horrendous incident that evoked widespread protest was the attack by the gaurakshaks on four Dalit youths in Una while they were involved in their traditionally forced work of disposing dead animals. The youth were publicly flogged using the police baton. It shows that the police have a tacit support for gaurakshaks. Every year the Ministry of Home Affairs brings out the ‘Crime Scenario in the Country’ in its annual report. It is interesting to note that although there is an increase in media reports of atrocities against Dalits, there is a clear decline in the cases registered under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The cases registered in 2013 against this Act were 13,975 and have decreased to 6,005, a massive decrease of 133%, in 2015. The data shows that there is an increase in most other crime cases, including other crimes against dalits. In all probability, police have been instructed to curtail registering cases under the POA in order to bring about an artificial dip in the data. Otherwise, how is it that all crimes are increasing steadily over the years, yet atrocities against Dalits have suddenly started decreasing from 2014? No Jobs for Dalits Dalits are a community with no access to property. Employment in the government sector had been a major contributor for their progress. With the governments of the day adopting the neo-liberal economic agenda which increases privatisation, the numbers of government jobs have been decreasing. The BJP government which has been making a noise about empowering Dalits, has no concrete policy for recruiting to fulfil the backlog in jobs. The last special drive to fulfil the backlog posts for the SC/STs was carried out in the year 2008. BJPs Denial of Budget allocations to the Dalits The government had provisions called the Special Component Plan (SCP) for proportional allocations in the budget for the SC/ST population. These allocations were monitored by the Planning Commission. This year’s (2017) budget has been a bane for the Dalits with the planned economy being scrapped. According to the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), the budgetary allocations for the SC-ST as a proportion to their populations, should have been Rupees 91,386 crore and 47,276 crore respectively. But the current allocations are only 55% for the Dalits – Rs 52,393 crore and 66.5% for the Adivasis – Rs 31,920 crore. Even these figures are not exclusively for SC-ST population. They include allocations that are for other sectors as well. The SC/ST MPs had written to the PM stating that “The increase is notional as the funds for SC/STs have been diverted to administrative heads such as salaries, pensions and the like rather than properly-targeted schemes for empowerment of the SC-STs.” The provisions that directly benefit Dalits are scholarships. The MPs pointed out that an outstanding amount of Rs 11,267.61 crore of scholarships was pending from the previous years. Education has been the vehicle for social mobility for the SCs. This deliberate delay is a way to make the Dalit students drop out from schools and colleges. Alternative to BJPs jumlas- The Real Empowerment of the Dalits On the other hand, CPI(M) led governments in Kerala and Tripura have retained the planned budget. Dr. Thomas Isaac said in his budget speech, “Rs. 26.00 billion for SCP (Special Component Plan) and Rs. 7.51 billion for TSP (Tribal Sub Plan) are earmarked. 9.81% of total outlay is being earmarked for SC population, who comprise 9.10% of total population. 2.83% is earmarked for STs who form 1.45% of the population. Rs. 1.88 billion for Scheduled Castes and Rs. 3.66 billion for Scheduled Tribe has been allocated in excess of the proportionate normative share. This allocation is higher than that of any other State in India.” The message of alterative development taking place in the Left ruled states are an answer to the hollow ‘ache din’ of the BJP.

Q: does vaadin 12 charts support zooming from java and declarative html? I found https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/chart.zoomType which implies that zooming is possible, but I couldn't figure out either the java code to enable zooming or the html code (in the declarative template html files) to enable zooming. Is zooming automatically/easily supported in Vaadin 12 charts just like it is with highcharts? (In highcharts, it's a simple option to enable...) (Similarly, highcharts supports panning, and probably a bunch of other nice "sexy"/"useful" features -- how do we get those in Vaadin?) A: You can set pinchType via Java API Configuration conf = chart.getConfiguration(); conf.getChart().setZoomType(Dimension.XY); You can see it action in the scatter and polygon java demo por instance I don't think there is declarative API for setting zoomType specifically, but you can use the additionalOptions property of the component to set the zoomType This area range demo shows how to set zoomType via additional options

Don't wait 30 years - sign up for our daily football email newsletter today! Sign up Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email Negredo, 28, has grown unhappy with his lack of starts at the Etihad under Manuel Pellegrini and is eager to leave Manchester in search of regular first-team football. The Spanish international, who joined the Citizens last summer from Europa League winners made 39 appearances for the Sky Blues last season, but the majority of those appearances were as a subsitute. Negredo scored 26 goals for the Citizens last season, but despite his impressive goal tally he often played second fiddle to Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko. Spanish newspaper AS claims that the former Sevilla striker has told Manchester City club officials that he wants to leave the club this summer. According to reports in Spain, La Liga champions Atletico Madrid are keen to sign the Spanish hitman despite his high wage demands as they are eager to replace the out-going Diego Costa, who is on the verge of joining City's Premier League rivals Chelsea. But AS claim that the striker has told Atletico that he is willing to take a substantial pay-cut to secure a move to the Vincente Calderon this summer. The Champions League final runner-ups are prepared to offer the Premier League champions £18m for the Spain striker.

Excitation and inhibition of marginal layer and interstitial interneurons in cat nucleus caudalis by mechanical stimuli. In cats anesthetized with urethane, the caudal medulla was stabilized in preparation for intracellular recording from interstitial neurons in the descending tract of the trigeminal nerve and from neurons in lamina I of nucleus caudalis. Glass micropipets (10-50 M ohms) were advanced from the surface to a maximum depth of 350 micrometer. When DC potential shifts occurred, it was found that mechanical stimuli to the face generated bursts of positive-going spikes, followed in some cases by inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs). Subdermal electrical stimulation of the face in each receptive field almost always enabled the same neuron to be driven electrically. Recordings were classified as from primary afferent fibers or from interneurons. Primary fibers had a purely positive spike, with a latency varying by no more than 0.05 msec, and could follow stimulation at 500 Hz. The mean latency for the fibers was 1.87 +/- 0.06 msec (n=75), and their absolute refractory period was 0.42 +/- 0.02 msec (n=36). Recordings were classed as from interneurons if there was an IPSP or the latency was at least 4 msec, with a variation of latency of at lest 0.5 msec. Responses thought to be monosynaptically driven had a mean latency of 2.09 +/0 0.07 msec (n=32) and could follow pairs of stimuli at a mean minimum interval of 0.70 +/- 0.06 msec (n=20). Responses thought to be polysynaptically driven had a mean latency of 7.9 +/- 1.08 msec (n=49) and a mean interstimulus interval of 2.96 +/- 0.84 (n=20). Most responses were generated by brushing the face (n=87), some by pressure on the face (n=25), and a few by pinching the skin of the face (n=6). Interneuron responses were most commonly recorded in the first 200 micrometer of the descending tract, and this position was confirmed by the injection of pontamine sky blue and the examination of frozen sections. The recordings were thought to be from dendrites of marginal and interstitial cells or the somas of interstitial cells. The IPSPs which followed spike potentials could only follow stimuli at 10 Hz or less. The failure appeared to be at a primary afferent synapse upon an inhibitory interneuron. Collision tests between mechanically evoked and electrically evoked responses showed long-lasting inhibition of the response to electrical stimulation after collision. Presynaptic inhibition exerted on the primary afferent excitation was suggested as the explanation.

Town of Wallkill Police responded to a report of a vehicle theft at Buckingham Mews on the last day of February. During the investigation, the pizza delivery driver told police two men had stolen his car while he was making a delivery. Additional officers stopped two suspects, one of whom allegedly attempted to flee on foot. Police said the driver identified the two as the thieves, and they were arrested. The vehicle was recovered on Regency Court. Guzman has been charged with grand larceny and unauthorized use of a vehicle. Goodlett-Rodriguez is charged with grand larceny, unauthorized use of a vehicle, obstructing governmental administration and criminal possession of marijuana. Both defendants were arraigned in the Town of Wallkill Court and released with a new court date of March 21.

[Surgical removal of renal cell carcinoma after partial splenic embolization in a patient with liver cirrhosis: a case report]. Partial splenic embolization is used to treat patients with liver cirrhosis accompanied by hypersplenism for improving thrombocytopenia and leukopenia. We report a case in which partial splenic embolization was used before nephrectomy because both renal cell carcinoma and liver cirrhosis were present. A 75-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of abdominal distension. Computed tomography revealed a 5.5 cm left renal tumor. Liver cirrhosis, ascitis, splenomegaly was observed. Blood tests revealed pancytopenia; platelet count was 2.9 x 10(4)/mm3. The patient was treated by partial splenic embolization in an attempt to ensure a safe nephrectomy. After the embolization, her platelet count increased immediately to 19.2 x 10(4)/mm3, and left nephrectomy was performed successfully.

Field effect transistors (FETs) are the basic building block of today's integrated circuit. Such transistors can be formed in conventional bulk substrates (such as silicon) or in semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrates. State of the art metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors are fabricated by depositing a gate stack material over a gate dielectric and a substrate. Generally, the MOS transistor fabrication process implements lithography and etching processes to define the conductive, e.g., poly-Si, gate structures. The gate structure and substrate are thermally oxidized, and, after this, source/drain extensions are formed by implantation. Sometimes the implant is performed using a spacer to create a specific distance between the gate and the implanted junction. In some instances, such as in the manufacture of an n-FET device, the source/drain extensions for the n-FET device are implanted with a thinner spacer than the p-FET device. A thicker spacer is typically formed after the source/drain extensions have been implanted. The deep source/drain implants are then performed with the thick spacer present. High temperature anneals are performed to activate the junctions after which the source/drain and top portion of the gate are generally silicided. Silicide formation typically requires that a refractory metal be deposited on a Si-containing substrate followed by a process to produce the silicide material. The silicide process forms low resistivity contacts to the deep source/drain regions and the gate conductor. High integration density can reduce manufacturing costs. In order to be able to make integrated circuits (ICs), such as memory, logic, and other devices, of higher integration density than currently feasible, one has to find a way to further downscale the dimensions of field effect transistors (FETs), such as metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors. The downscaling of transistor dimensions allows for improved performance as well as compactness, but such downscaling has some device and yield degrading effects. Generation improvements for high performance MOSFETs are obtained by decreasing the line width (i.e., channel length), reducing the gate oxide thickness, and decreasing the source/drain extension resistance. Smaller transistor line width results in less distance between the source and the drain. This results in faster switching speeds for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits. Unfortunately, reducing the channel length of a transistor also increases short channel effects, as well as “edge effects” that are relatively unimportant in long channel transistors. One example of a short channel effect includes, among other aspects, an increased drain-to-source leakage current when the transistor is supposed to be in the “off” or non-conductive state, due to an enlarged drain-to-body and source-to-body junction depletion region relative to the shorter channel length. In addition, one of the edge effects that may also adversely influence transistor performance is the gate-to-source/drain capacitance. A part of this parasitic fringe capacitance can be effectively increased via transistor gain factor, and is known as Miller capacitance. In CMOS applications, the Miller capacitance is an amplification of a gate-to-drain capacitance. It is known in the semiconductor industry that a halo implantation can be used to control short channel effects. Although halo implantation can help to control short channel effects, the presence of the same in the inversion layer degrades the mobility of the carriers within the inversion layer and oftentimes reduces the device performance. The aforementioned problems with halo implantation are increased with shorter gate lengths since a higher concentration of halo profile is typically needed. In view of the above, there is a need for providing a new and improved MOSFET structure that exhibits high performance and improved short channel effects.

Q: How to track packets in Yahoo messenger! I am trying to understand the header/protocol format of yahoo messenger. I see limited documentation for yahoo messenger when I googled. So I wondered if there is any tool to help me out to trace the packets? It would be nice. Or is there any good documentation on yahoo messenger protocol which would also help me? Refer me to any tools or documents that can help me. A: Have a look at Wireshark.

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In general, inverters for driving brushless motors have six switches. After a defect, each switch may in principle have two different characteristics: switched off, that is say blocked in the open switch position, or switched on, that is to say blocked in the closed switch position. A switched-on defective switch is also referred to in the art as a short. Particularly in safety-relevant applications, it is then important to determine very quickly what type of defect is present, in order to continue to operate the electric motor in an emergency mode, or to switch it off immediately. Frequently, current sensors are used by means of which the current in the individual motor phases or the total current can be measured. Although current sensors make it possible to distinguish between switched-on defective switches and switched-off defective switches, and thus to determine the type of defect, the costs for the current sensors must, however, be taken into account. Alternatively, the electric motor can always be switched off when a switch defect occurs. No emergency mode is then possible. DE 11 2004 002 642 T5, which is incorporated by reference, discloses a plausibility check for an electrical three-phase system. In order to identify defects reliably, the phase currents are measured. In order to avoid confusion between the phase currents, a current vector is also observed. Comparatively expensive current sensors are therefore required to carry out the abovementioned method.

// Boost.Range library // // Copyright Thorsten Ottosen 2003-2004. Use, modification and // distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version // 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // // For more information, see http://www.boost.org/libs/range/ // #ifndef BOOST_RANGE_RBEGIN_HPP #define BOOST_RANGE_RBEGIN_HPP #if defined(_MSC_VER) # pragma once #endif #include <boost/range/end.hpp> #include <boost/range/reverse_iterator.hpp> namespace boost { #ifdef BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING template< class C > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<C>::type rbegin( C& c ) { return BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<C>::type( boost::end( c ) ); } #else template< class C > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<C>::type rbegin( C& c ) { typedef BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<C>::type iter_type; return iter_type( boost::end( c ) ); } template< class C > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<const C>::type rbegin( const C& c ) { typedef BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<const C>::type iter_type; return iter_type( boost::end( c ) ); } #endif // BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING template< class T > inline BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME range_reverse_iterator<const T>::type const_rbegin( const T& r ) { return boost::rbegin( r ); } } // namespace 'boost' #endif

Q: How do I cache an IQueryable object? I've got this method that returns a Linq-to-SQL query for all the rows in a 'UserStatus' table: public IQueryable<BLL.Entity.UserStatus> GetAll() { var query = from e in _SelectDataContext.UserStatus select new BLL.Entity.UserStatus { UserStatusId = e.UserStatusId, Enum = e.Enum, Name = e.Name }; return query; } It's just a look-up table that will hardly ever change so I'd like to cache the results. I can convert it to a List<> and cache that, but I'd prefer to return an IQueryable object as other methods in the class depend on that. Can anyone help? Thanks. A: could query.ToList().AsQueryable() be a solution for you? not the best one sure. A: You can't really do this--the Querable is more a pointer than the data. If you are caching, you are caching data, so you need to have the data loaded. Yapiskan has the right idea--cache the resulting ToList() and bring it back to AsQueryable(). Do note that the cached list won't have a DataContext so your query options will be limited to data loaded in the list.

» Pak pacer Mohammad Asif likely to remain in Dubai detention for four days Pak pacer Mohammad Asif likely to remain in Dubai detention for four days Published: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 18:10 [IST] Subscribe to Oneindia News Lahore, June 5 : Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is likely to remain in detention in Dubai for another three to four days, a Pakistan board official has said, quashing widespread speculation that he had been released or had charges against him dropped. Asif has been detained at Dubai International Airport since Sunday after an allegedly contraband substance was found in his wallet. Since then, the PCB has appointed legal counsel for him and sent a senior board official to Dubai to handle the case. Discussions took place between Asif's lawyer and prosecutors yesterday, though with no immediate resolution. A PCB official told Cricinfo that results from a urine test authorities carried out on Asif are still awaited, as are the results of a test on the substance itself. The fact that it has taken them so long to get results is in itself a concern, the official said. Further complicating the matter is the fact that there has been a death in the UAE's royal family, which generally means that the various states will observe a period of mourning now over the next few days and that public offices may remain closed. Several TV channels and newspapers reported today that charges against Asif had been dropped. The Dawn newspaper reported the Pakistani ambassador to the UAE as saying that and that Asif was due to head back to Pakistan on the first available flight. "These are incorrect as far as we know," a PCB official told Cricinfo. "The charges haven't even been laid against him so far. As far as we know of the process, the airport prosecutor lays the charges down and passes on to the public prosecutor who will then decide whether or not this should go to trial. That process, we have been told, can take three to four days. But we are concerned that they have not come back still with results of the urine test, which they carried out on Sunday and the tests on the substance." Nadeem Akram, the PCB official handling the case in Dubai, told Cricinfo that a meeting is due to take place between Asif's lawyer and the chief prosecutor at 12 p.m. local time in Dubai tomorrow. He also confirmed that they had not yet received any test results.

Q: Does every line of a program have its own address? I'm learning function pointers in C. I learned that a function pointer stores the address of the starting point of a function. Consider the following program: #include <stdio.h> void display(); int main() { void (*ptr)(); ptr = &display; (*ptr)(); return 0; } void display() { printf("hello"); } If the address of void display() gets stored in ptr, then what will be the address of #include <stdio.h> and so on? A: A function pointer is typically implemented as the address of the code for the function's entry point, but as far as the language is concerned it's just an opaque value that can be used to call the function (and compared for [in]equality to other function pointers of the same type). It could be an index into a program-wide or system-wide table, and/or it could contain extra information. The language does not provide a way to query the address of a statement; as far as the C standard is concerned, that concept doesn't even exist. If you want to look at the generated machine code, you could reasonably talk about the address of the code generated for a given statement. For example, your statement ptr = &display; might correspond to a MOV instruction, and that instruction probably has a (machine-level) address, though the standard language gives you no way to use that information. A goto statement jumps to a specified statement, and it's probably implemented with an instruction that refers to the machine address of the first instruction for that statement, but the standard's description of goto doesn't talk about it at that level of detail; it only describes the semantics. Some compilers, including gcc, have an extension (documented here) that lets you take the address of a label. But that applies only to labelled statements. In particular, the directive #include <stdio.h> is processed by an early phase of the compiler, often implemented as a separate preprocessor. It introduces a number of declarations that can be referred to by the following code. There is typically no generated code that corresponds to the #include directive, so it's meaningless to talk about its "address". And as PSkocik points out in a comment, code generation is not necessarily linear; there might not be any code associated with a given statement if the compiler is able to reorder it for better speed. (If you use the gcc extension to take the address of a label, then the compiler might inhibit optimization if necessary to ensure that that address is meaningful.) As far as standard C is concerned, even if you could take the address of a given statement, the language doesn't have any constructs that would let you do anything with it; the standard goto statement, for example, only takes a literal label name.

.053 + -20.253. Let x = 20 + m. Let j = x - -0.2. Which is the closest to 0.1? (a) j (b) -5 (c) -0.09 a Let p = -0.03 - 0.17. Let g be 8/(-18)*(-11)/((-99)/(-81)). Which is the closest to 0? (a) 1/15 (b) g (c) p (d) 3/2 a Let o = 3787 + -3702. Which is the closest to 0.3? (a) o (b) 0.5 (c) -2 b Let n = -4.97 - -5. Let w = -3.97 - n. Let d = 2/453 - 155/906. What is the nearest to 1 in w, d, 2? 2 Suppose 0 = 7*q - 28 - 7. Let p = 32/57 - -2/19. Let b be ((-16)/20)/(2/(-5)). What is the nearest to p in b, q, -4? b Let u = 9213/5 - 1841. Which is the closest to -3? (a) u (b) -1 (c) 0.3 (d) 0 b Let x = 5298.5 + -5298. Let r(f) = 10*f. Let l be r(2). Let s be (-3)/(-12) + 3/l. Which is the nearest to s? (a) -3 (b) -0.01 (c) x c Let y = -85/4 - -21. Suppose -9*z = -4*z + 4*u - 11, -z + 4*u = 17. Let h be (6/15)/(51*z/(-45)). Which is the closest to y? (a) -4/7 (b) 3 (c) h a Let p = 6.08 + -0.08. Suppose 78 = 8*i - 21*i. Let m be 8/i*(-1)/(-2). Which is the nearest to -0.1? (a) m (b) 5 (c) p a Let w(q) = -14*q**2 + 2*q - 4. Let r be w(2). Let k be (-2)/4*(r/24 + 3). Let z(c) = c + 9. Let x be z(-10). What is the closest to x in k, 3, 0? k Let k = -13.7 - -14. Let o = 7773 + -7780. Which is the nearest to 3? (a) 2/3 (b) o (c) k a Let s be (-12)/336 + (0 - (-2)/7). What is the closest to s in 0.2, -1, 9.1, 2? 0.2 Let r = 285.05295 + 0.04705. Let f = -285 + r. Let v(i) = -3*i**3 + i. Let c be v(1). What is the closest to c in 1, 3, f? f Let j = 68.02 - 63.02. What is the nearest to 0.1 in 0.083, -3, j, -1? 0.083 Let q = -24.629 - -30.629. Which is the nearest to 1? (a) 5/3 (b) -3.44 (c) -5 (d) q a Let v = -1833.6 - -1832.9. What is the nearest to -2/11 in -1, v, 0.3, 22? 0.3 Let f = -3220 - -3220. What is the nearest to -1 in 2/3, f, 0.195? f Let m = -0.094309 - -0.394309. Suppose -j - 2 = -0. Which is the nearest to j? (a) 4 (b) m (c) 2/7 c Let j = -1 + 0.7. Let o = j - -0.5. Let h = 883.1 + -882.1. Which is the nearest to o? (a) -1 (b) 0.4 (c) h b Let n be 459/(-2754)*(4 - 1) + 1/6. What is the closest to -11/5 in -0.1, -4/5, 0.2, n? -4/5 Let m = -4.478 + -0.022. Let w = m - -5. Let h(x) = -2*x**2 - 14*x + 12. Let t be h(-8). What is the nearest to -2 in w, t, 5? t Let g = 61.97 - 53.97. Suppose 0 = t + 2, 0 = -x + 4*t + 2 + 2. Let v = x + 8. What is the nearest to g in 5, v, 0? 5 Let p(w) = 42*w + 124. Let r = -1140 - -1137. Let m be p(r). Let q = 0.28 - -0.02. Which is the closest to 2? (a) -4 (b) q (c) m b Let v be (14/(-4))/(5327/4566). Let b = -2 + 1.5. What is the closest to -3 in 3, v, b? v Let p be (30/(-105))/(-1 - 8/(-14)). Let z = -578 - -575. Which is the nearest to z? (a) -0.1 (b) p (c) 3/4 a Let c = -0.518 + 0.018. Let o = 3107.3 + -3107. What is the nearest to 1 in 3, -39, o, c? o Let o be (((-9)/(-108) + 0)*-3)/(-1). What is the closest to -32 in o, 2, 0.2, 0.3? 0.2 Let g = -1.8 - -1.3. Let r = 954.5 - 952.5. What is the closest to 1 in r, -12, g? r Let t(p) = 50*p - 300. Let q be t(6). Let i be (484/(-165) + 3)*3. Which is the closest to 0? (a) i (b) 45 (c) q c Let s = 1738.8 - 1738.6. What is the nearest to s in 2, 3/34, -1/2? 3/34 Let h = -308 + 320. Let w = -16 - -21. Suppose w*n = -4*i + 25, -i + 0*i = -5*n. Which is the closest to 1/2? (a) h (b) 3 (c) n c Let i be -7*-8*(-1)/(-28). Suppose -3*f - 5*d = -d + 9, 0 = 3*f + 3*d + 9. Let w be 84/208 + (-1)/4. Which is the nearest to 0.05? (a) f (b) w (c) i b Let i = 1.4 + -1.9. Let z = -24.19 + 24.79. Which is the closest to -1/3? (a) z (b) 0 (c) i c Let c = 7.01938 + -0.01938. What is the nearest to 0.06 in 0.2, c, 0.3, 2/5? 0.2 Let n = 13486 + -13482. What is the closest to 1/2 in n, 3, 0.18, 0.05? 0.18 Let i = 383316 + -2683209/7. Let o = -25 + 151/6. Let u = 1/3 + o. Which is the nearest to i? (a) -2 (b) 0 (c) u c Let z = -46964/5 - -9391. What is the nearest to 1.4 in -2/3, z, 2? 2 Suppose 12 - 3 = -3*k. Let t = 763 + -742. Suppose 4*i = p - 5, 4*i - 3*p + t - 22 = 0. Which is the nearest to -9? (a) i (b) k (c) 0 b Let r(p) = -p**2 + 6*p - 1. Let t be r(5). Let y = 0.56 - 0.06. Which is the closest to 4/3? (a) t (b) y (c) 1/8 b Let p = 16302.4 + -16302. Which is the nearest to -2? (a) -11 (b) p (c) -2 (d) -2/3 c Let w be (-2)/(-4) - (-5)/(-2). Suppose 2*c = -i, -163*i + 162*i = 3*c - 2. Let n be -2 - -1 - (1 + 1). What is the nearest to w in -2, c, n? -2 Let b be (29/(-58))/(102/(-2037)*2). Let d = -39/8 + b. Suppose 4*o + 0 = -3*w + 1, -5*o + 3*w - 19 = 0. What is the closest to o in 5, 1, d? d Let j = 14867.3 - 14867. What is the closest to 0.1 in 19/21, j, 0.1, -1? 0.1 Suppose -80*c + 29*c = 6*c - 1197. What is the nearest to c in -2, -2/13, 1? 1 Let d = -2.9 - -3. Let l = -0.377 + -1.023. Let w = 7.4 + l. Which is the closest to 1? (a) w (b) d (c) -1/3 b Suppose -4*q + 4 = -2*l - 2*q, 3*l + q + 10 = 0. Let d = 33 - 67/2. Let v = 3.496 - 3.096. Which is the nearest to d? (a) l (b) v (c) -0.5 c Suppose 0 = -5*x - 5, -v - 3*v + 325 = -x. Let f = 82 - v. Let i = 136/7 + -19. Which is the closest to f? (a) -0.3 (b) i (c) 1 c Suppose -2 = 4*y + 18. Let s be 2 - (-4 + 2 + 6)/(-1). Let u(g) = 2*g**2 - 17*g + 24. Let l be u(s). Which is the closest to 2/7? (a) l (b) y (c) 0.5 c Let w = 7.606 - 2.606. Which is the nearest to 0? (a) 0.176 (b) 2 (c) 2/7 (d) w a Let g be (2/3)/(5/(-3)). Let z = -1977497/7 - -282499. Which is the closest to g? (a) z (b) -4 (c) -2 a Let f = 125024 - 250047/2. Let d = -9 - -1. Which is the closest to 0.1? (a) -3 (b) d (c) f c Let h = 12597 - 12597. What is the nearest to -7 in 6, h, -4, -0.4? -4 Let i = -2778.8 - -2779. Which is the closest to i? (a) -2 (b) -1 (c) 0.4 (d) -2/15 c Let n = 1312 - 11806/9. Which is the nearest to 1/3? (a) -16 (b) -1/3 (c) -2/5 (d) n d Let k = -4704 + 4704. Which is the nearest to k? (a) -1/59 (b) -4 (c) 0.07 a Let x = 0.3 - 0.1. Let r = -7.8 + -121.2. Let a = r + 149. What is the closest to x in -4, a, -1/2? -1/2 Let u = -146 - -146.71. Let d = -0.78 + u. Which is the closest to d? (a) -4 (b) 0.2 (c) -2/5 b Let s = -0.41841 + 0.44841. What is the nearest to 2/5 in 9, -0.4, s, 0.5? 0.5 Let x be -2 + 2*1/4. Let v = -102.85 - -105. Let k = -2.65 + v. What is the nearest to 0 in x, k, -4? k Suppose 5*k - 5 = 10. Suppose -k*t - 315 = 4*t. Let f = 48 + t. Which is the nearest to -2? (a) 4/3 (b) f (c) 0 c Let i = 658 + -658.19. Which is the nearest to 1? (a) 3/2 (b) -5 (c) i a Suppose q = -5*p + 31, 35 + 59 = 4*q + 5*p. Suppose -8*x = 5 - q. What is the closest to 2 in x, -6, -0.2? x Let u = 2332.8 + -2333. Let h = 0.3 + 2.4. Let r = h - 3. What is the nearest to u in 4, r, 2? r Let y(g) = -7*g**2 - 57*g - 8. Let s be y(-11). Let v be s/(-504) + (-2)/7. Which is the nearest to -1/4? (a) -9/8 (b) v (c) 2 b Let h be (-3072)/(-510) + (-11 - -5). Let n = 6.6 + -6.5. What is the nearest to h in n, -5, -2/3? n Let u = -41.8 - -42. Let t = -48 + 47.5. Let n = 34.1 + -34. What is the closest to n in u, -1, t? u Let k = 4372.7 + -4372. Which is the closest to 2? (a) k (b) 52 (c) 4/3 c Let y be ((-7)/4)/(45/(-30)) - 1. Let a = -25 + 12. Let o = 13.2 + a. What is the closest to o in 5/7, 3/7, y? y Let y = 244 - 389. Let f = y + 150. Suppose 3*o + 2 = 5*m - 4, -o = -5*m + 2. Which is the nearest to 0.1? (a) 3 (b) f (c) o c Let n = -1.5 - -1. Let w = -131 - -279. Let q = 173 - w. What is the closest to q in -5, -2/5, n? -2/5 Let q = 0.1142 + 0.3858. Which is the closest to 2/9? (a) -1/6 (b) -74 (c) q (d) -0.6 c Let r = 777 - 642. Let p = r + -141. What is the closest to 0.1 in 0.2, p, -1? 0.2 Let g = 40 + -45.5. Let l = -5 - g. Let n = -79.6 + 80. What is the nearest to 1 in n, -2/5, l? l Let p = -2.8285 - -3.3285. Let i = 8 + -8.1. Which is the closest to 0.1? (a) p (b) i (c) -0.4 b Let v = -46594 - -46597. Let z = 264 - 409. What is the closest to -0.1 in z, v, 0.3? 0.3 Let x = -1.645 + 1.745. Suppose 2*y - 4 + 6 = 0. Let i be y/(7/(35/6)). What is the nearest to x in i, 0.5, 0.03? 0.03 Let f be (-180)/(-7155)*((-2)/4)/(4/12). What is the nearest to 2/7 in -0.02, 4/3, f, 0.3? 0.3 Let f = -42 - -42.2. Let w = -0.109 + -1.591. Let y = w + -3.3. Which is the closest to f? (a) y (b) -0.3 (c) 2 b Let s = 21.99 + -3.99.

Q: Not able to find elements in side a iframe using xpath I am trying to print all anchor tags inside a iframe on a website https://www.toolsqa.com/iframe-practice-page/ but webdriver is returning 0 elements i have moved control from the main window to the iframe using swithcTo method but its not helpful driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@id='IF2']"))); @Test public void iFrmesCount(String browserName) throws InterruptedException { if (browserName.equalsIgnoreCase("chrome")) { System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "drivers//chromedriver.exe"); driver = new ChromeDriver();} driver.get("https://www.toolsqa.com/iframe-practice-page/ "); driver.manage().window().maximize(); Thread.sleep(2000); driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@id='IF2']"))); System.out.println("Span's inside iframe" + driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//span")).size()); System.out.println("Div's inside iframe" + driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//div")).size()); } A: Try this driver.get("https://www.toolsqa.com/iframe-practice-page/"); driver.manage().window().maximize(); driver.switchTo().frame("IF2"); List<WebElement> list = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a")); for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) { System.out.println(list.get(i).getText()); }

Q: Add decimal point to the last character I'm writing something that pulls some data from the internet; the thing is that one of the keys from the object that I get has weight and height and well, they're not formatted; they're like a whole integer; now, for example; if I get a weight key with a value of 1000 that means that it is 100.0kg; not just 1000, same with the height but sometimes I can get something like 10 on height which is 0.99m or 1m; 100 is 10.0m and so on, so, my question is; what can I do here to format these values properly adding a .0 to the final if the value doesn't have it and if it does have it just add the decimal point before the last character? I tried doing some ifs but they were hard coded and I looking very bad, plus it didn't work. Output that I'm getting Example: Weight: 1000 Height: 20 Weight: 69 Height: 7 Weight: 432 Height: 12 Expected output: Weight: 100.0 Height: 2,0 Weight: 6.9 Height: 0.7 Weight: 43.2 Height: 1.2 A: You could divide by 10 and use Number#toFixed for formatting a number. The toFixed() method formats a number using fixed-point notation. var values = [1000, 20, 69, 7, 432, 12]; values = values.map(function (v) { return (v / 10).toFixed(1); }); console.log(values);

Q: How can I calculate percentile in java without using any other library I am trying to calculate 95th Percentile from the data sets which I have populated in my below ConcurrentHashMap. I am interested in finding out how many calls came back in 95th percentile of time My Map will look like this and it will always be sorted in ascending order on the keys- In which key - means number of milliseconds value - means number of calls that took that much milliseconds Below is my Map data- Milliseconds Number 0 1702 1 15036 2 14262 3 13190 4 9137 5 5635 6 3742 7 2628 8 1899 9 1298 10 963 11 727 12 503 13 415 14 311 15 235 16 204 17 140 18 109 19 83 20 72 For example, from the above data sets, it means 1702 calls came back in 0 milliseconds 15036 calls came back in 1 milliseconds Now I can calculate the 95th percentile by plugging the above data sets in the Excel sheet. But I was thinking to calculate the percentile in Java code. I know the algorithm will look something like this- Sum all values from the map, calculate 95% of the sum, iterate the map keys in ascending order keeping a running total of values, and when sum equals or exceeds the previously calculated 95% of the total sum, the key should be the 95th percentile I guess. Below is the map which will have above data sets. Map<Long, Long> histogram = new ConcurrentHashMap<Long, Long> I am not sure whether I am algorithm is also correct or not. I am just trying to find out how many calls came back in 95th percentile of time. Below is the code I have got so far basis on my above algorithm. private static void logPercentileInfo() { double total = 0; for (Map.Entry<Long, Long> entry : CassandraTimer.histogram.entrySet()) { long value = entry.getKey() * entry.getValue(); total += value; } double sum = 0.95*total; double totalSum = 0; for (Map.Entry<Long, Long> entry : CassandraTimer.histogram.entrySet()) { totalSum += entry.getValue(); if(totalSum >= sum) { System.out.println(entry.getKey());//this is the 95th percentile I guess } } } Let me know if I got everything correct in calculating the 95th percentile from my above data sets. If there is any improvement as well, please let me know. Updated Code:- Below is my updated code which solves the problem for ascending order of keys /** * A simple method to log 95th percentile information */ private static void logPercentileInfo() { double total = 0; for (Map.Entry<Long, Long> entry : CassandraTimer.histogram.entrySet()) { long value = entry.getKey() * entry.getValue(); total += value; } double sum = 0.95*total; double totalSum = 0; SortedSet<Long> keys = new TreeSet<Long>(CassandraTimer.histogram.keySet()); for (long key : keys) { totalSum += CassandraTimer.histogram.get(key); if(totalSum >= sum) { //this is the 95th percentile I guess System.out.println(key); } } } Can anyone take a look and let me know whether I am calculating the percentile correctly or not? A: From my comment on your question: Since you are using a hash map your keys aren't going to be stored in sorted order. I.e., if you print out entry.getKey() in your loop you are going to see that the keys are not in order. So that is your main problem. A TeeMap or ConcurrentSkipListMap will keep its keys in order changing Map<Long, Long> histogram = new ConcurrentHashMap<Long, Long> to Map<Long, Long> histogram = new ConcurrentSkipListMap<Long, Long>() will give you a map that'll return your keys in sorted order. Another issue in your code is when you calculate the total sum you do: total += entry.getKey() * entry.getValue(); // total += key*value and when you calculate the sum the second time around you are doing: totalSum += CassandraTimer.histogram.get(key); // totalSum += value I think you want to count up the total number of observations and then multiply that by 0.95. That'll give you the number of observations below the 95th percentile. L = .95 * total_observations Then iterate over your map, summing up the number of observations. Once the total number of observations exceeds L then the corresponding key is the value at the 95th percentile. private static void logPercentileInfo() { double total = 0; for (Map.Entry<Long, Long> entry : CassandraTimer.histogram.entrySet()) { long value = entry.getValue(); total += value; } double sum = 0.95*total; double totalSum = 0; SortedSet<Long> keys = new TreeSet<Long>(CassandraTimer.histogram.keySet()); for (long key : keys) { totalSum += CassandraTimer.histogram.get(key); if(totalSum >= sum) { System.out.println(key); break; } } }

UNESCO launches campaign against plastic bags – Jordan Times AMMAN — The UNESCO Amman Office on Sunday launched a campaign in partnership with several supermarkets to combat the excessive use of plastic bags in the Kingdom. The aim of the campaign is to reduce the use of plastic bags by major supermarkets in Jordan and to empower consumers to say “Balash Kees” and embark on the path of less dependence on plastic bags, according to a UNESCO statement. “The production, uncontrolled distribution and littering of plastic bags is a severe environmental problem in Jordan, and unless habits and behaviour are changed its negative impact on the environment and socio-economic factors will worsen,” UNESCO said. Plastic bags are made of polythelene, derived from petrol and take 1,000 years to decompose — this means that for the production of plastic bags a scarce natural resource is being diverted from our current needs to produce a non-biodegradable material that is essentially an environmental, economic and health hazard, the statement added. In Jordan more than three billion bags are used each year, according to estimates of the Ministry of Environment, which means that each person uses 1.6 bags per day and 584 bags a year. In addition to the environmental impact of the current usage patterns of plastic bags there are several significant repercussions, such as the visual pollution across the country, where swathes of land and nature are covered in plastic, UNESCO said. According to official estimates more than 30 million bags a year are littered across the country. Littering of plastic bags also affects tourism negatively, the statement said, citing a survey conducted for the environment ministry which indicated that 30 per cent of tourists complain that tourist sites in Jordan are not very clean. This has an adverse impact on a sector that contributed 12.4 per cent to the gross domestic product in 2010 and is a major pillar of the economy, UNESCO noted. Littering of plastic bags also affects agricultural productivity and reduces the quality of livestock by contaminating important nutrients naturally occurring in the soil with dangerous toxins released by plastic. Every year 2.5 per cent of Jordan’s 2.5 million sheep suffer weight loss or mortality due to blockage of the digestive system as result of eating plastic bags, according to the statement. In the absence of fees on plastic bags, which have proven to be the most successful measure to reduce the use of plastic in many countries, the campaign seeks to encourage consumers to use fewer plastic bags when shopping by putting more things in each bag, using reusable bags, or simply saying “balash kees” if a bag is not essential.

In light of the many literary adaptations currently appearing on HBO, the network has teamed up with the New York Public Library on a national campaign to celebrate summer reading. The campaign (which uses the undeniably dorky #ReadingIsLit hashtag, presumably in reference to HBO's Farenheit 451 adaptation...?) has already kicked off, and you can check out the details here.

Q: How to fix this error in drupal? Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'base.type' in 'field list' Please someone could help me I am new in drupal and I am making a classified drupal site, everything was ok but I Installed the media module and when I was uninstalling this module my site shows me this error and I dont know how to solve it, I cant see anything in my site now This site is in my local server WAMPSERVER the error is this PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'base.type' in 'field list': SELECT base.fid AS fid, base.uid AS uid, base.filename AS filename, base.uri AS uri, base.filemime AS filemime, base.filesize AS filesize, base.status AS status, base.timestamp AS timestamp, base.type AS type FROM {file_managed} base WHERE (base.fid IN (:db_condition_placeholder_0, :db_condition_placeholder_1, :db_condition_placeholder_2, :db_condition_placeholder_3, :db_condition_placeholder_4, :db_condition_placeholder_5, :db_condition_placeholder_6, :db_condition_placeholder_7, :db_condition_placeholder_8, :db_condition_placeholder_9, :db_condition_placeholder_10, :db_condition_placeholder_11, :db_condition_placeholder_12, :db_condition_placeholder_13, :db_condition_placeholder_14, :db_condition_placeholder_15, :db_condition_placeholder_16, :db_condition_placeholder_17, :db_condition_placeholder_18, :db_condition_placeholder_19, :db_condition_placeholder_20, :db_condition_placeholder_21, :db_condition_placeholder_22, :db_condition_placeholder_23, :db_condition_placeholder_24, :db_condition_placeholder_25, :db_condition_placeholder_26, :db_condition_placeholder_27, :db_condition_placeholder_28, :db_condition_placeholder_29, :db_condition_placeholder_30, :db_condition_placeholder_31, :db_condition_placeholder_32, :db_condition_placeholder_33, :db_condition_placeholder_34, :db_condition_placeholder_35, :db_condition_placeholder_36, :db_condition_placeholder_37, :db_condition_placeholder_38, :db_condition_placeholder_39, :db_condition_placeholder_40, :db_condition_placeholder_41, :db_condition_placeholder_42, :db_condition_placeholder_43, :db_condition_placeholder_44, :db_condition_placeholder_45, :db_condition_placeholder_46, :db_condition_placeholder_47, :db_condition_placeholder_48, :db_condition_placeholder_49, :db_condition_placeholder_50, :db_condition_placeholder_51, :db_condition_placeholder_52, :db_condition_placeholder_53, :db_condition_placeholder_54, :db_condition_placeholder_55)) ; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 1 [:db_condition_placeholder_1] => 2 [:db_condition_placeholder_2] => 3 [:db_condition_placeholder_3] => 4 [:db_condition_placeholder_4] => 5 [:db_condition_placeholder_5] => 6 [:db_condition_placeholder_6] => 7 [:db_condition_placeholder_7] => 8 [:db_condition_placeholder_8] => 9 [:db_condition_placeholder_9] => 10 [:db_condition_placeholder_10] => 12 [:db_condition_placeholder_11] => 13 [:db_condition_placeholder_12] => 14 [:db_condition_placeholder_13] => 15 [:db_condition_placeholder_14] => 16 [:db_condition_placeholder_15] => 17 [:db_condition_placeholder_16] => 18 [:db_condition_placeholder_17] => 19 [:db_condition_placeholder_18] => 20 [:db_condition_placeholder_19] => 21 [:db_condition_placeholder_20] => 22 [:db_condition_placeholder_21] => 23 [:db_condition_placeholder_22] => 24 [:db_condition_placeholder_23] => 25 [:db_condition_placeholder_24] => 26 [:db_condition_placeholder_25] => 27 [:db_condition_placeholder_26] => 28 [:db_condition_placeholder_27] => 29 [:db_condition_placeholder_28] => 30 [:db_condition_placeholder_29] => 31 [:db_condition_placeholder_30] => 33 [:db_condition_placeholder_31] => 34 [:db_condition_placeholder_32] => 35 [:db_condition_placeholder_33] => 36 [:db_condition_placeholder_34] => 37 [:db_condition_placeholder_35] => 38 [:db_condition_placeholder_36] => 39 [:db_condition_placeholder_37] => 40 [:db_condition_placeholder_38] => 41 [:db_condition_placeholder_39] => 42 [:db_condition_placeholder_40] => 43 [:db_condition_placeholder_41] => 44 [:db_condition_placeholder_42] => 45 [:db_condition_placeholder_43] => 46 [:db_condition_placeholder_44] => 47 [:db_condition_placeholder_45] => 48 [:db_condition_placeholder_46] => 49 [:db_condition_placeholder_47] => 50 [:db_condition_placeholder_48] => 51 [:db_condition_placeholder_49] => 52 [:db_condition_placeholder_50] => 53 [:db_condition_placeholder_51] => 54 [:db_condition_placeholder_52] => 55 [:db_condition_placeholder_53] => 56 [:db_condition_placeholder_54] => 57 [:db_condition_placeholder_55] => 58 ) in DrupalDefaultEntityController->load() (line 196 of C:\wamp\www\ukmarketplace\includes\entity.inc). Please someone could help me, thanks A: You need to run the update function. It looks like you have updated code but you haven't updated the database. http://www.yoursite.com/update.php

Q: Cast Wrapper-Class to original class I use Wrapper-Class using pimpl so I can use Objective-C methods while using C++. Now in my ViewWrapper.hpp I have this: class ViewWrapper { public: void addSubview(ViewWrapper *view); //method exists in original View.h (Objective-C) ViewWrapper (void); ~ViewWrapper (void); private: struct Impl; Impl* impl; }; In my ViewWrapper.mm: //ViewWrapper.mm #import "ViewWrapper.hpp" #import "View.h" // original Objective-C header struct ViewWrapper::Impl { View* obj; }; ViewWrapper::ViewWrapper() : impl(new Impl) { impl->obj = [[View alloc] init]; } void ViewWrapper::addSubview(ViewWrapper *view) { [impl->obj addSubview:(View *) view]; // <- here is the error } Now in my main.cpp I use it like this: // main.cpp ViewWrapper *wrapper1 = new ViewWrapper(); ViewWrapper *wrapper2 = new ViewWrapper(); wrapper1->addSubview(wrapper2); Now when I try to compile it, I get the error message "Thread 1:EXC_BAD_ACCESS(code=2, address=0x105)" in my ViewWrapper.mm I guess my problem is that this is not the correct way of casting ViewWrapper to View. Any other method works just fine (e.g. const char* to NSString and so on..) Can anyone help me? If you need more info, I'll try to add it as good as I can. A: I solved it myself. If anyone faces the same problem, I changed my addSubview-method like that: [impl->obj addSubview:(UIView *) view->impl->obj];

Seemok F.C. Seemok Football Club (Thai สโมสรฟุตบอลสีหมอก), is a Thai semi professional football new club based in Suphanburi. The club was formed in 2015 and entered the Regional League Division 2 and allocated into the North-East Division from Derby match province project. This team is a reserve team of Suphanburi F.C. Season By Season record Honours Regional League Central & Western Region Division Players Current squad References http://www.kondivision2.com/content.php?id=6202 External links https://www.facebook.com/SeemokFC Category:Association football clubs established in 2010 Category:Football clubs in Thailand Category:Ubon Ratchathani Province Category:2010 establishments in Thailand

Optimal process configuration for anaerobic digestion with ozonation. Economical source minimization of excess sludge production is an attractive option to deal with the problem of sludge disposal under strict disposal standards. In this paper long-term operational results for two different process configurations that combine oxidative ozone treatment with anaerobic sludge digestion are described. In the first configuration ozone pretreatment was combined with chemostat anaerobic digestion while in the second configuration ozone pre/post-treatments were combined with an anaerobic digester operated without solid removal. From the results of chemostat experiments, the ozone pretreatment solubilized around 19% and 37% of the solids at 0.015 and 0.05 gO3/gTS ozone dose respectively. The ozone pretreatment resulted in improved TVS reduction efficiencies and the degradation efficiencies were observed to depend on the applied ozone dose and system SRT. The TVS degradation efficiency for pre-ozonated sludge at an ozone dose of 0.05 gO3/gTS was 59% as compared to 31% for the control reactor fed with un-ozonated sludge. Test results with the second configuration indicated that overall TVS removal efficiencies for a process scheme with post-ozonation could be improved up to 85% with a minimum ozone dose of 0.045 gO3/gTVS-fed. However, since no solids (except that for sampling) were withdrawn in this configuration, the accumulated total solids in the reactors increased to 28 g/l to 30 g/l at pseudosteady state. The average specific methane recoveries were observed to be 0.36 lCH4/gTVS fed which were slightly lower than theoretically expected. Based on the experimental results, important points in the choice of process configuration are discussed.

// // WMZDialog+Select.m // WMZDialog // // Created by wmz on 2019/6/20. // Copyright © 2019年 wmz. All rights reserved. // #import "WMZDialog+Select.h" @implementation WMZDialog (Select) - (UIView*)selectAction{ [self.mainView addSubview:self.titleLabel]; self.titleLabel.frame = CGRectMake(self.wMainOffsetX, self.wTitle.length?self.wMainOffsetY:0, self.wWidth-self.wMainOffsetX*2, [WMZDialogTool sizeForTextView:CGSizeMake(self.wWidth-self.wMainOffsetX*2, CGFLOAT_MAX) text:self.titleLabel.text font:self.titleLabel.font.pointSize].height); [self.mainView addSubview:self.textLabel]; self.textLabel.frame = CGRectMake(self.wMainOffsetX,CGRectGetMaxY(self.titleLabel.frame)+ (self.wMessage.length?self.wMainOffsetY:0), self.wWidth-self.wMainOffsetX*2, [WMZDialogTool sizeForTextView:CGSizeMake(self.wWidth-self.wMainOffsetX*2, CGFLOAT_MAX) text:self.textLabel.text font:self.textLabel.font.pointSize].height); self.tableView.frame = CGRectMake(0, CGRectGetMaxY(self.textLabel.frame)+ (self.wMessage.length||self.wTitle.length?self.wMainOffsetY:0), self.wWidth, self.wCellHeight*([self.wData count]>self.wListScrollCount?self.wListScrollCount:[self.wData count])); [self.mainView addSubview:self.tableView]; if (self.wMultipleSelection) { UIView *view = [self addBottomView:CGRectGetMaxY(self.tableView.frame)]; [self reSetMainViewFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.wWidth,CGRectGetMaxY(view.frame))]; [self.OKBtn removeTarget:nil action:NULL forControlEvents:UIControlEventAllEvents]; [self.OKBtn addTarget:self action:@selector(mySelectAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; }else{ [self reSetMainViewFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.wWidth,CGRectGetMaxY(self.tableView.frame))]; } return self.mainView; } - (void)mySelectAction:(UIButton*)btn{ DialogWeakSelf(self) [self closeView:^{ if (weakObject.wEventOKFinish) { weakObject.wEventOKFinish(weakObject.selectArr, weakObject.pathArr); } }]; } @end

[9.13] Virtual Reality An information-rich environment created by computer technology that combines visual, auditory, and tactile interaction to create the illusion of realistic objects and sensory experiences for the user. To create the realistic effects, virtual reality employs devices like head mounted display goggles, data gloves, and a full data suit for users to wear.

Er komt een nationaal administratief centrum voor transmigratie in het centrum 127 bis in Steenokkerzeel, waar iedereen naartoe zal gebracht worden die via ons land op doortocht is naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Dat maken minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Jan Jambon (N-VA) en staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie Theo Francken (N-VA) maandag bekend. De maatregel is onderdeel van een heel pakket 'maatregelen tegen transmigratie'. Het is de bedoeling dat alle personen die via België op doortocht zijn naar het VK zullen overgebracht worden naar het nieuwe centrum, dat dus geïntegreerd wordt in het huidige gesloten centrum 127 bis. ‘In een eerste fase zal het gaan om groepen migranten die bij grotere acties worden aangetroffen. Maar het is de bedoeling dat op korte termijn alle migranten die - waar dan ook in het land - door lokale of federale politie worden opgepakt hiernaartoe worden gebracht’, klinkt het op het kabinet-Jambon. Ontlasten In het centrum zal de federale politie dossiers administratief afhandelen. Ze kunnen er vingerafdrukken afnemen of opzoekingen in databanken uitvoeren. Maar de betrokken personen zullen er ook opgesloten kunnen worden in afwachting van een beslissing van de Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken. 'Dit zal de lokale politiezones substantieel ontlasten', klinkt het. De federale politie zet extra politievoertuigen in, het leger zorgt dagelijks zelfs voor een bus. De maatregel maakt deel uit van een heel pakket maatregelen dat Jambon en Francken maandag voorstellen. Zo wordt op korte termijn ook voorzien in de verdubbeling van de capaciteit in gesloten centra, specifiek voor personen die illegaal op doortocht zijn, van 70 naar 160 plaatsen. Op de middellange termijn is het de bedoeling dat Francken bijkomende capaciteit creëert via een plan waar hij nog mee naar de regering zal trekken. Vanuit die gesloten centra wordt de terugkeer georganiseerd naar het thuisland of naar het eerste land van binnenkomst in Europa. Daarnaast komen er intensievere politiecontroles op de reisroutes van de zogenoemde transitmigranten.

Q: I want to add open graph image on blog page in Magento 2 I need to add an image in open graph image meta tag in head section on a blog page. Can somebody how I can achieve this. protected function _prepareLayout() { $post = $this->getPost(); $this->_addBreadcrumbs($post); $this->pageConfig->addBodyClass('blog-post-' . $post->getIdentifier()); $this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set($post->getTitle()); $this->pageConfig->setKeywords($post->getMetaKeywords()); $this->pageConfig->setDescription($post->getMetaDescription()); ?><head><meta property="og:image" content="https://turner-sports.co.uk/pub/media/blog/punch_bag_blog_featured_image_1.png" /></head><?php return parent::_prepareLayout(); } A: Your extension already have og:image tag option. Goto below file location: app/code/Magefan/Blog/view/frontend/templates/post/view/opengraph.phtml Check the below condition: <?php if ($image = $block->getImage()) { ?> <meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $block->escapeHtml($image); ?>" /> <?php } ?> If you have image then only this tag will render. Check it and add your image then it will show. UPDATED ANSWER: Update your module to latest version. You can find out the latest version: https://github.com/magefan/module-blog Also you need to install https://github.com/magefan/module-community which is dependent module of blog extension.

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Demonstration of hepatitis B e antigen in hepatitis B core particles obtained from the nucleus of hepatocytes infected with hepatitis B virus. Liver tissue infected with hepatitis B virus was homogenized and nuclei were separated by centrifugation. Hepatitis B core particles were obtained from the nucleus by the digestion with pronase followed by ultracentrifugation in a sucrose density gradient. Hepatitis B core particles were then treated with sodium dodecyl sulphate and 2 mercaptoethanol and tested for hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) by the haemagglutination method. The antigenicity of HBeAg was clearly demonstrated in hepatitis B core particles so treated, although untreated core particles did not reveal any detectable HBeAg activity. The localization of HBeAg in hepatitis B core particles was further supported by the results of a fluorescent antibody technique. When a frozen section of the liver infected with hepatitis B virus was stained with the specific rabbit antibody against HBeAg labelled with fluorescent isothiocyanate, only nuclei of hepatocytes were stained, in a similar distribution to hepatitis B core antigen visualized by fluorescent antibody against hepatitis B core antigen in a nearby section.

Tech Giants Google, Twitter and Facebook are currently purging conservative content from their platforms — Google is hiding conservative stories from their search results — Tech giants are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media. In February of 2018 Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on their social media platform. The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%. In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement. TRENDING: OUTRAGEOUS! Ohio State University President Sends Ignorant Text Message to Students Following Breonna Taylor Decision -- And a Crazy-Ass Video! Top conservative Facebook pages with daily traffic in the millions have seen 75% to 95% drop in traffic since the 2016 election. Young Cons, Western Journalism, SarahPalin.com, Chicks on the Right, Independent Journal Review, Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Infowars (banned completely), Breitbart, Pamela Geller, Laura Loomer (banned), 100% Fed Up, The Drudge Report and several others have seen dramatic loss in traffic and influence. Facebook uses Soros-funded Poynter as to fact-check on their platform — The same group that recently listed EVERY prominent conservative publisher last week as fake news. Facebook has been shutting down traffic to conservative websites since the 2016 election. In March 2017 Columbia Journalism Review published a study of the 2016 election that found conservatives had abandoned the liberal mainstream media in 2016 and went online and to social media to get their news. Harvard University published a similar study months later. This slide shows the online influence map on Facebook before the 2016 election. (Columbia Journalism Review) After this study was published Facebook went to work and started censoring conservative content through a series of algorithm changes. By Summer 2018 this is what the Facebook influence map looks like today. Facebook was on a mission to delete traffic to conservative websites. Most prominent conservative publishers from the November 2016 election have been hit hard or eliminated. So does President Trump or his campaign manager Brad Parscale know that Facebook wiped out his top supporters from the platform? Do they care?

// This file is taken in its entirety from the Cargo project: // https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/76ce4df/src/cargo/util/read2.rs // The Cargo project is licensed under the MIT license: // // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any // person obtaining a copy of this software and associated // documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the // Software without restriction, including without // limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, // publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of // the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software // is furnished to do so, subject to the following // conditions: // // The above copyright notice and this permission notice // shall be included in all copies or substantial portions // of the Software. pub use self::imp::read2; #[cfg(unix)] mod imp { use std::io; use std::io::prelude::*; use std::mem; use std::os::unix::prelude::*; use std::process::{ChildStderr, ChildStdout}; pub fn read2( mut out_pipe: ChildStdout, mut err_pipe: ChildStderr, data: &mut dyn FnMut(bool, &mut Vec<u8>, bool), ) -> io::Result<()> { unsafe { libc::fcntl(out_pipe.as_raw_fd(), libc::F_SETFL, libc::O_NONBLOCK); libc::fcntl(err_pipe.as_raw_fd(), libc::F_SETFL, libc::O_NONBLOCK); } let mut out_done = false; let mut err_done = false; let mut out = Vec::new(); let mut err = Vec::new(); let mut fds: [libc::pollfd; 2] = unsafe { mem::zeroed() }; fds[0].fd = out_pipe.as_raw_fd(); fds[0].events = libc::POLLIN; fds[1].fd = err_pipe.as_raw_fd(); fds[1].events = libc::POLLIN; let mut nfds = 2; let mut errfd = 1; while nfds > 0 { // wait for either pipe to become readable using `select` let r = unsafe { libc::poll(fds.as_mut_ptr(), nfds, -1) }; if r == -1 { let err = io::Error::last_os_error(); if err.kind() == io::ErrorKind::Interrupted { continue; } return Err(err); } // Read as much as we can from each pipe, ignoring EWOULDBLOCK or // EAGAIN. If we hit EOF, then this will happen because the underlying // reader will return Ok(0), in which case we'll see `Ok` ourselves. In // this case we flip the other fd back into blocking mode and read // whatever's leftover on that file descriptor. let handle = |res: io::Result<_>| match res { Ok(_) => Ok(true), Err(e) => { if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock { Ok(false) } else { Err(e) } } }; if !err_done && fds[errfd].revents != 0 && handle(err_pipe.read_to_end(&mut err))? { err_done = true; nfds -= 1; } data(false, &mut err, err_done); if !out_done && fds[0].revents != 0 && handle(out_pipe.read_to_end(&mut out))? { out_done = true; fds[0].fd = err_pipe.as_raw_fd(); errfd = 0; nfds -= 1; } data(true, &mut out, out_done); } Ok(()) } } #[cfg(windows)] mod imp { use std::io; use std::os::windows::prelude::*; use std::process::{ChildStderr, ChildStdout}; use std::slice; use miow::iocp::{CompletionPort, CompletionStatus}; use miow::pipe::NamedPipe; use miow::Overlapped; use winapi::shared::winerror::ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE; struct Pipe<'a> { dst: &'a mut Vec<u8>, overlapped: Overlapped, pipe: NamedPipe, done: bool, } pub fn read2( out_pipe: ChildStdout, err_pipe: ChildStderr, data: &mut dyn FnMut(bool, &mut Vec<u8>, bool), ) -> io::Result<()> { let mut out = Vec::new(); let mut err = Vec::new(); let port = CompletionPort::new(1)?; port.add_handle(0, &out_pipe)?; port.add_handle(1, &err_pipe)?; unsafe { let mut out_pipe = Pipe::new(out_pipe, &mut out); let mut err_pipe = Pipe::new(err_pipe, &mut err); out_pipe.read()?; err_pipe.read()?; let mut status = [CompletionStatus::zero(), CompletionStatus::zero()]; while !out_pipe.done || !err_pipe.done { for status in port.get_many(&mut status, None)? { if status.token() == 0 { out_pipe.complete(status); data(true, out_pipe.dst, out_pipe.done); out_pipe.read()?; } else { err_pipe.complete(status); data(false, err_pipe.dst, err_pipe.done); err_pipe.read()?; } } } Ok(()) } } impl<'a> Pipe<'a> { unsafe fn new<P: IntoRawHandle>(p: P, dst: &'a mut Vec<u8>) -> Pipe<'a> { Pipe { dst, pipe: NamedPipe::from_raw_handle(p.into_raw_handle()), overlapped: Overlapped::zero(), done: false, } } unsafe fn read(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> { let dst = slice_to_end(self.dst); match self.pipe.read_overlapped(dst, self.overlapped.raw()) { Ok(_) => Ok(()), Err(e) => { if e.raw_os_error() == Some(ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE as i32) { self.done = true; Ok(()) } else { Err(e) } } } } unsafe fn complete(&mut self, status: &CompletionStatus) { let prev = self.dst.len(); self.dst.set_len(prev + status.bytes_transferred() as usize); if status.bytes_transferred() == 0 { self.done = true; } } } unsafe fn slice_to_end(v: &mut Vec<u8>) -> &mut [u8] { if v.capacity() == 0 { v.reserve(16); } if v.capacity() == v.len() { v.reserve(1); } slice::from_raw_parts_mut(v.as_mut_ptr().add(v.len()), v.capacity() - v.len()) } }

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I have not heard that one before, but there is also a different song by Mike O'Connor titled 'Carrying Nelson Home' about which there are plenty of threads in the forum under various titles - Carrying/Bringing Nelson Home, Sing Me A Shanty. "Thank you for your interest in Nelson's Shantymen. I am pleased to hear that your colleague choose to sing the song Taking Nelson Home, it's a great song and always go down well with us . The origins of the song, i sorry but cannot really help you with. I have tried to research it but no luck. We picked it out of a Sea shanty book and thought it would be a great number for us as we are Nelson's Shantymen base here at Burnham Thorpe which was the birth place of Lord Horatio Nelson. Our CD Singing for Victory has just been put onto iTunes for download or if you would like the CD it's self you could send me a cheque Made payable to Nelson's Shantymen, with your address and I could send you a copy. Price is £8.00 + £1.00 p&p" Courtesy of Wikipedia Following his death at Trafalgar. Nelson's body was placed in a cask of brandy mixed with camphor and myrrh, which was then lashed to the Victory's mainmast and placed under guard. Victory was towed to Gibraltar after the battle, and on arrival the body was transferred to a lead-lined coffin filled with spirits of wine. Collingwood's dispatches about the battle were carried to England aboard HMS Pickle, and when the news arrived in London, a messenger was sent to Merton Place to bring the news of Nelson's death to Emma Hamilton. She later recalled, They brought me word, Mr Whitby from the Admiralty. "Show him in directly", I said. He came in, and with a pale countenance and faint voice, said, "We have gained a great Victory." – "Never mind your Victory", I said. "My letters – give me my letters" – Captain Whitby was unable to speak – tears in his eyes and a deathly paleness over his face made me comprehend him. I believe I gave a scream and fell back, and for ten hours I could neither speak nor shed a tear. King George III, on receiving the news, is alleged to have said, in tears, "We have lost more than we have gained." The Times reported We do not know whether we should mourn or rejoice. The country has gained the most splendid and decisive Victory that has ever graced the naval annals of England; but it has been dearly purchased. The first tribute to Nelson was fittingly offered at sea by sailors of Vice-Admiral Dmitry Senyavin's passing Russian squadron, which saluted on learning of the death. Nelson's body was unloaded from the Victory at the Nore. It was conveyed up-river in Commander Grey's yacht Chatham to Greenwich and placed in a lead coffin, and that in another wooden one, made from the mast of L'Orient which had been salvaged after the Battle of the Nile. He lay in state in the Painted Hall at Greenwich for three days, before being taken up river aboard a barge, accompanied by Lord Hood, chief mourner Sir Peter Parker, and the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales at first announced his intention to attend the funeral as chief mourner, but later attended in a private capacity with his brothers when his father George III reminded him that it was against protocol for the Heir to the Throne to attend the funerals of anyone except members of the Royal Family. The coffin was taken into the Admiralty for the night, attended by Nelson's chaplain, Alexander Scott. The next day, 9 January, a funeral procession consisting of 32 admirals, over a hundred captains, and an escort of 10,000 soldiers took the coffin from the Admiralty to St Paul's Cathedral. After a four-hour service he was interred within a sarcophagus originally carved for Cardinal Wolsey. The sailors charged with folding the flag draping Nelson's coffin and placing it in the grave instead tore it into fragments, with each taking a piece as a memento. The term "Nelson's Blood" refers to rum. As it was affectionately known as by Royal Navy sailors. From the notion that he was preserved not in a brandy barrel but in a rum barrel for the journey home. The following is a transcription from the video so may not be 100% accurate TAKING NELSON HOME Ian Palmer He came on board in a brandy cask, we're taking Nelson home Sailors bending to their tasks, we're taking Nelson home Daily roughians homeward bound, take him to his burial ground Taking Nelson home, we're taking Nelson home We stowed him down in the hold below, we're taking Nelson home We're outward bound and we'll roll and go, we're taking Nelson home Daily roughians homeward bound, take him to his burial ground Taking Nelson home, we're taking Nelson home North by west we sailed away, we're taking Nelson home Nelson's blood is the drink I crave, we're taking Nelson home Daily roughians homeward bound, take him to his burial ground Taking Nelson home, we're taking Nelson home I was a little too impetuous to get the song posted. Of course "daily roughians" don't scan. Anyways, I now understand it to be "Weary roughians" And if Joe Clone could just amend the lyrics above-- that would keep it nice 'n' tidy. Ta. There is in fact no such word in Chambers, or any other dictionary I have consulted, as 'roughian'; the word 'ruffian', meaning a lout or trouble-maker, does not seem to derive fron 'rough' [tho it might have formed a sort of folk-etymological connection thru similarity of sound], and its derivation is unknown according to Chambers. I think that Keith's suggestion above of "Billy Ruffian", as indicating a member of the crew of the Bellerephon, known humorously among the fleet as the Billy Ruffian, is a good one. I accept that my vocabulary was caught short for a second time, Michael! and thank you and Keith for pointing the error of my ways. It's good to get things correct, that's why we put ourselves up here -- we have many learned members to keep us on our toes. bradfordian ( must do better, reflect and check the detail--- no short cuts, eh?)

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Q: How to explain last part of Two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test Sorry for the dumb question. I am trying to understand the last part of Two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test.. The part is: $$ \sqrt{\frac{n + n'}{nn'}} $$ I am thinking that $n$ and $n'$ are the two observations arrays and, since I think that the result has to be a scalar value, $nn'$ could be the dot product while I am unable to understand what is $n + n'$.. Thanks A: These are the two sample sizes. So they are both scalars and the expression you have only involves simple arithmetic and the square root function.

Kaleidoscope brings people together to improve health and care We find new ways to overcome old barriers. We enable constructive conversations on difficult topics, using inspiring events to encourage clarity of purpose and rigorous problem-solving. Our approach to collaboration is systematic, evidence-based and cost-effective.​ Ok, let's go back a bit. Why do you even exist?​ ​Oh, right, sorry. We exist because we want the population of the UK to enjoy the best health possible. As such, everything we do links back to the many ways individuals’ health, including the role of health care and social care, can be improved. That’s quite a big field.​ ​Yup. And we’re not saying we’re masters of it all (we’re not superheroes - even if we wouldn’t mind having a cape or two). Our particular niche is about the many different ways people can be brought together to improve health and care. Why does bringing people together matter?​ Well, we can always achieve more together than apart. But also because it’s not something we do particularly well in health and care. In fact, the whole history of health is one of division – building colleges, professions and institutions as walled gardens open to some but not all. Our focus as Kaleidoscope is all about how you can trample on such boundaries and in turn improve health and care for populations and patients. (Look, managed to write that whole para without writing ‘silo’ once.) Impressive cliche avoidance. So you’re a charity right? Or part of the NHS?​ ​Er, no to both. We’re a social enterprise, or more accurately a Community Interest Company, regulated by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies. This means we’re here for our mission (you remember: bringing people together to improve health and care) not for the money. We’re not a charity because we want the freedom to operate as a radically different type of organisation. We’re not part of the NHS, partly for the same reason, partly that our work spans health and care, not just healthcare. And what's 'radically different'? Do you all wear shorts and sit on beanbags?​ No, but nice stereotyping of any organisation that tries to be a bit different. Part of our rationale for being is that we think the basic template of energy-sapping, mind-numbing, gut-wrenchingly boring traditional organisations is fundamentally broken and in need of a serious revamp. Yeah yeah yeah, but what do you actually do? ​Look, if you’re going to be that dismissive of Fred LaLoux, I’m not sure if we can be friends. Ok, I’ll read up on him in a bit. ​Thanks. There’s a great video here if you have a spare 40mins. Starts with a nice story about teeth. Now can we talk about what you do?​ Of course! We group our work into three buckets. Key thing to remember is we’re a social enterprise run along business lines – ie. we need to sell stuff in order to keep afloat. We have no endowment, no government handouts, no shady offshore backers; we have to make our way in the world. So you’re for hire? ​Yes. For work related to our mission (and perhaps the odd children’s party if you ask really nicely). Get in touch if you would like to explore working with us. Your three buckets then?​ First is work to build connections and peer-to-peer learning across health and care. This includes running learning networks on behalf of others, as well as organising innovative events. Some of these are funded by others, some are run by us because we think they’re a good idea (such as our Melting Pot Lunches). Second is how we work in partnership with others to support their policy, strategy and delivery. For example, past and present work includes with the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, Public Health England, and Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Third is developing our own content and projects. This is where we get to have a bit of fun, looking to explore various ways we can meet our mission in new ways. This includes our Unexpected Conversations project in partnership with the Guardian, and Writing the Future, the world’s largest health science fiction short story prize. Thanks. Helpful. That second one is just consultancy right?​ You cynic you. Yes and no. We undertake work others might well see as consultancy – and if we’re doing that translation, our work particularly would be seen as strategy consultancy (what should you do?), delivery consultancy (how should you do it?), and engagement consultancy (who should we talk to and how?). However, we’re reluctant to call ourselves a consultancy because we want to work in a very different way to traditional consultancies – and we’re thinking if you want a traditional consultancy, there are plenty of them for you to choose from. Instead, we want to work in partnership with our clients to deliver projects where our agendas align. I think I get it. Talk a bit more about partnerships again.​ ​I know, it’s a bit tricky to articulate. I’ll step back a bit. Health and care is a values driven industry. People tend to work in healthcare, social care or public health because of their values as much as the cold hard cash. At Kaleidoscope, we have a range of skills to offer to potential clients, but we don’t want to leave our own values at the door. As a values driven organisation ourselves, we care about a lot of the same things as, for example, NHS organisations. Rather than a traditional purchaser/provider model where you contract us to do A, B and C, we’d much rather work in partnership to co-design how best to meet your goals. Is your work actually any good though?​ ​Oof. Getting a bit direct! We think so, but here’s the nice Robin Miller of the University of Birmingham talking about the work we did with them: “The Health Services Management Centre approached Kaleidoscope to collaborate in providing support for the development of Sustainability & Transformation Plans (STPs). The focus of the work was learning from large scale change initiatives in health and care, and from international exemplars of best practice in population level change. Throughout Kaleidoscope were professional, informed, thoughtful and communicative, and the insights that we were able to provide were of considerable value to the STP processes. I look forward to working with Kaleidoscope again soon.” So, if I’m interested in working with you, what's the best thing to do?​ ​First, that’s great (and well done for making it to the end), and it would be great to have a chat. Drop us a line via our contact form and we’ll give you a ring or have a coffee to discuss further. Equally, if you’ve just put out a tender you think we might be interested in, do let us know about it

Q: How to write the EL3 registers of ARM Currently I'm trying to write several system control registers with EL3 privilege for my AArch64 development board. I put my code in the trusted firmware boot loader (BL31). Here is my code that I put in the bl31_main of arm-trusted-firmware-source-code: asm("MRS %x[result], SCR_EL3" : [result] "=r" (scr) ); asm("MSR SCR_EL3, %x[value]" : : [value] "r" (scr) ); I can read the values of these registers correctly so I assume my code running with EL3 privilege. However, for several registers I tested, every time after I write new values to them, their values don't even change. I cannot come up with what might cause this problem. Any suggestion is welcomed! Thank you in advanced. Simon A: If you really insist here is a compromise...OUTSIDE of any functions, NOT within a function but in a C file. asm(".globl read_SCR_EL3; read_SCR_EL3: mrs x0,SCR_EL3; ret\n"); ... unsigned int read_SCR_EL3 ( void ); ... value=read_SCR_EL3(); which is just another way of doing real assembly. If you want to do inline, AFTER you have real assembly working then figure out how to get that inline like you were trying to do. Figure out what/if you were doing wrong (which I would have hoped someone here would or will help) (I will add an assembly tag even though this is C/compiler language stuff). do it inside a simple function that wraps the inline asm and say returns the value from the read. DISASSEMBLE (vs -S output) the binary, find that function and inspect what the compiler produced and if it would/should work or not...Optimized it should somewhat exactly resemble the simple mrs x0,registername/ret code, maybe do something like add one to the value before returning but after reading to see that it is using/manipulating the right register...

Nekter for millionbedrageri Etterlyst: – Trenger ikke renvaske meg MILLIONGLIS: Dette bildet ville den etterlyste Umar Farooq Zahoor at VG skulle bruke. Til venstre er en Rolls-Royce Ghost, den andre bilen er en Bentley Continental. Begge bilene koster flere millioner kroner i Norge. Foto: Privat Umar Farooq Zahoor er etterlyst av norsk politi over hele verden: Lever i luksus i Dubai Umar Farooq Zahoor (40) lever i luksus i Dubai og påstår at han ikke er etterlyst av norsk politi. – Det er feil, opplyser politiet. 21. september 2016 Artikkelen er over fire år gammel Visepolitimester Gro Smogeli i Oslo politidistrikt er krystallklar på hvilken rettslig status den pakistanske 40-åringen har. Zahoor er oppvokst og har bodd flere år i Norge. – Umar Farooq Zahoor er av norske myndigheter etterlyst nasjonalt, i Schengen og via Interpol. Han er etterlyst over hele verden, sier Smogeli. Zahoor er etterlyst for grovt bedrageri etter den såkalte Nordea-svindelen sommeren 2010, da kontoen til en styrtrik enke ble tappet for over 60 millioner kroner. Pengene endte opp i Dubai. Norsk forretningskvinne: – Tok ut penger hver dag i tre uker I desember avslørte VG at Zahoor hadde en sentral rolle da Dubai-selskapet Ameri Group inngikk en avtale med Ghanas regjering – verdt 4,4 milliarder kroner. Ghana utbetaler 81 millioner kroner hver måned som følge av denne avtalen, og det skal landet gjøre i fem år. Fakta **I slutten av juli i 2010 ble Nordea-kontoen til den styrtrike enken, Randi Nilsen, tappet for 62 millioner kroner og overført til banker i Dubai. Millionene er sporløst borte. **Umar Farooq Zahoor (40) er utpekt til å ha mottatt utbyttet og er etterlyst for grovt bedrageri i virksomheten til en organisert kriminell gruppe. **Boren hans, Usman (39), ble dømt for å ha organisert bedrageriet i Norge sammen med fire andre personer. Samtlige har sonet sine dommer. **VG avslørte i desember at Umar Farooq Zahoor var sentral da Ghana inngikk en avtale med et mystisk selskap i Dubai verdt cirka 4,4 milliarder kroner. Vis mer Nå vil regjeringen i det afrikanske landet inngå en ny avtale med det mystiske selskapet, ifølge lekkede dokumenter. – Jeg er ren VG har de siste ukene hatt kontakt med Zahoor per telefon og e-post for å få kommentarer fra ham. 40-åringen sier han ikke har noe med Ameri Group å gjøre i dag. – Jeg sa opp min stilling i selskapet for et år siden. Det var fordi jeg ville gjøre mine egne ting, hvor jeg så større muligheter. Det siste året har jeg sluttført avtaler på til sammen fire milliarder dollar, sier Zahoor. 40-åringen har sendt et intervju han gjorde med det afrikanske tidsskriftet Africawatch, som kommer ut som abonnementsblad i Ghana. I intervjuet uttaler 40-åringen at han ikke er etterlyst av norsk politi. – Jeg er ren. Alle beskyldningene som VG kommer med er falske, forteller Zahoor til Africawatch. Les også: Umar Farooq Zahoor kontrollerer gigantutbyttet, ifølge Oslo tingrett Sendte bilde med luksusbiler 40-åringen hevder også at han aldri er straffedømt i Norge, noe som er feil. I 2003 ble han i Oslo tingrett dømt til ett års fengsel for underslag. Videre i intervjuet beskriver 40-åringen hvordan livet er i Dubai: – Jeg lever i mitt hus med min familie. Som en familiemann kan jeg ikke gjøre noen kriminelle handlinger. Hvis jeg var en rømling, ville ikke myndighetene i UAE (De forente arabiske emirater) tillatt meg å bo her og drive forretninger, som involverer millioner av amerikanske dollar. INTERVJUET: I februar/mars-utgaven av Africawatch hevdet Umar Farooq Zahoor at han ikke var etterlyst av norsk politi. Foto: Faksimile: Africawatch I en e-post til VG har Zahoor sendt det som skal være et ferskt bilde av ham utenfor boligen i Dubai. Det skjedde etter flere runder med gjennomgang av sitater han hadde gitt. På bildet står den etterlyste mannen mellom to luksusbiler. Zahoor skriver: «Her er et nytt bilde hvis dere ønsker å oppdatere de gamle som dere vanligvis trykker.» Den ene bilen er en Rolls-Royce Ghost, med en pris på over fire millioner kroner i Norge. Den andre er en Bentley Continental til godt over to millioner kroner. Har ikke utleveringsavtale Visepolitimesteren forteller at den etterlyste mannen kan leve slik siden han ikke er norsk statsborger. – Han har pakistansk pass og Norge har ikke noen utleveringsavtale med De forente arabiske emirater. Derfor er det mulig for ham å leve som en fri mann i Dubai, sier Smogeli. BEKREFTER: Visepolitimester Gro Smogeli i Oslo politidistrikt understreker at Umar Farooq Zahoor fortsatt er etterlyst over hele verden. Foto: Fredrik Solstad VG – Hva kan Norge gjøre for å få ham pågrepet? – Utover at han er etterlyst, ønsker jeg ikke å kommentere polititaktiske etterforskningsskritt. – Er det slik systemet skal fungere? – Politiet har brukt de kanaler som er tilgjengelige og anvendelige i en slik situasjon. Utover det, anser jeg spørsmålet å være av mer politisk karakter enn politifaglig, sier visepolitimesteren. – Hva er grunnen til at Umar Farooq Zahoor reiser fritt i verden, selv om han er etterlyst over hele verden av norsk politi? – Det er grunn til å tro at han ikke benytter sitt eget pass, dersom det da er riktig at han reiser verden rundt, sier Smogeli. – Trenger ikke renvaske meg Zahoor hevder han er helt uskyldig og ser ikke for seg å komme til Norge med det første. – Det kan være jeg kommer til Norge på ferie en gang, hvis jeg føler for det. Jeg trenger ikke renvaske meg, for jeg har ikke gjort noe galt, sier 40-åringen til VG. Videre sier Zahoor at han gjentatte ganger har sagt seg villig til å stille til avhør ved Norges ambassade i Dubai. Men han hevder norsk politi til nå ikke har ønsket dette. – Vil de rydde opp eller vil de ikke? Jeg vil ikke sløse bort mer tid enn jeg må på dette. Jeg stiller meg forresten uforstående til anklagene. Jeg bodde i Dubai på tidspunktet dette skjedde (Nordea-svindelen), og hadde ikke noe med Norge å gjøre. Jeg har ikke vært i Norge siden 2005, sier Zahoor. – Hva tror du grunnen er til at politiet mistenker deg? – Jeg tror politiet og VG har samarbeidet om anklagene mot meg og er ute etter meg. Rett og slett sjalusi og rasisme, svarer 40-åringen. KRITISK: Visedirektør Benjamin Bokaye i den ghanesiske tenketanken ACEP. Foto: Privat – Ingen summer offentliggjort I sommer ble utkastet av en ny avtale mellom Ameri Group og Ghanas regjering lekket til tenketanken Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP). I utkastet kommer det frem at Ameri Group skal bygge et kraftverk. Visedirektør Benjamin Bokaye i ACEP mener det ikke er tilfelle. – De skal ikke bygge et kraftverk, infrastrukturen er allerede installert. Ameri skal bare bytte ut fire gassturbiner. I tillegg skal de ansatte ved det eksisterende kraftverket jobbe gratis for dem, sier Boakye til VG. Ingen vet hva selskapet vil tjene på den nye avtalen. – Ingen summer er blitt offentliggjort, opplyser Boakye. Ghana har de siste årene vært inne i en lammende energikrise. Boakye mener ghanesere må engasjere seg for å få stanset planene. – Ghana har brukt 250 millioner amerikanske dollar på å bygge kraftverket og nå skal vi bare gi det fra oss. VG har gjort flere forsøk på å få en kommentar fra myndighetene i Ghana, men uten resultat. Til lokale medier har viseminister i Energidepartementet, John Jinapor, uttalt at myndighetene ikke er interessert i å ødsle bort statlige verdier. Viseministeren har samtidig vist til at det finnes «strategiske partnere» som står klare til å jobbe med myndighetene for å løse landets energikrise Ameri Group har ikke besvart VGs henvendelser. Publisert: 21.09.16 kl. 19:01 Les også Mer om Ghana-saken Krim Ghana Dubai

Q: libGDX Java (Desktop): SelectBox throwing exception I have an issue creating a select box for my application. I couldn't find a solution anywhere else. My code: public class OptionsMenu implements Screen{ private Stage stage = new Stage(); private Skin skin = new Skin(Gdx.files.internal("jsonurlhere"), new TextureAtlas(Gdx.files.internal("atlasurlhere"))); private String[] viewmodes = new String[] {"Fullscreen", "Windowed"}; private SelectBox<String> viewmode; @Override public void show() { viewmode = new SelectBox<String>(skin); viewmode.setItems(viewmodes); viewmode.setSelected("Fullscreen"); stage.addActor(viewmode); } @Override public void render(float delta) { Gdx.gl.glClearColor(100, 100, 100, 1); Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); stage.act(); stage.draw(); } } NOTE: This is not the complete code, just the relevant parts to the selectbox. My error: Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox.layout(SelectBox.java:193) at com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Widget.validate(Widget.java:88) at com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox.getPrefWidth(SelectBox.java:290) at com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox.<init>(SelectBox.java:80) at com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox.<init>(SelectBox.java:71) at com.lockedprogramming.pacificblitz.screens.OptionsMenu.show(OptionsMenu.java:49) at com.badlogic.gdx.Game.setScreen(Game.java:61) at com.lockedprogramming.pacificblitz.PacificBlitz.create(PacificBlitz.java:18) at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:143) at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:120) Eclipse shows no errors before runtime, and if I comment out the following lines the program throws no exception: //viewmode = new SelectBox<String>(skin); //viewmode.setItems(viewmodes); //viewmode.setSelected("Fullscreen"); //stage.addActor(viewmode); EDIT: My .json code: { com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox$SelectBoxStyle: { default: { font: menufontblack, background: menubuttondefault, listStyle: { font: menufontblack, selection: menubuttonhover }, }, }, } A: There is no ScrollStyle defined in your SelectBoxStyle definition of the skin json file. I am pretty sure that is the problem in your case. I could reproduce the problem in one of my libgdx projects by removing the ScrollStyle declaration. Try the following and just set the default ScrollStyle for your SelectBox: com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.SelectBox$SelectBoxStyle: { default: { font: menufontblack, background: menubuttondefault, scrollStyle: default, listStyle: { font: menufontblack, selection: menubuttonhover }, }, } You can also see the example uiskin json file here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/master/tests/gdx-tests-android/assets/data/uiskin.json Update: you'll also need to define a scrollstyle in the json then. something like: com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.ScrollPane$ScrollPaneStyle: { default: { vScroll: default-scroll, hScrollKnob: default-round-large, background: default-rect, hScroll: default-scroll, vScrollKnob: default-round-large } }, The best is you check the uiskin example at github to see how those textures look like https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Skin#overview

Raging flood waters broke through temporary barriers and swamped the Lake Nanuet recreation area this morning. Clarkstown workers and Nanuet volunteer firefighters this afternoon were using pumps to help remove some water in the recreation area. Clarkstown Town Board members and other officials inspected the recreation area during a tour of the town this afternoon to check damage from the hurricane. Along on the tour was state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens.

http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/1026/lid/4676 Over the next couple weeks we will be looking at several Polish firearms, and the first one is today: the G29/40. When German forces overran the arms factory in Radom, Poland, they captured in nearly completely intact. One of the guns being produced there had been the wz. 29; a Polish version of the K98k Mauser. The guns were so similar that the German occupation administration put the Steyr company in control of the plant and restarted production to use the parts that were already on hand. The resulting rifles were designated G29/40 (29 from the Polish designation and 40 form the year German production began). They were in every way the equal of German K98k rifles, but still officially 2nd tier rifles because of their foreign origin. As a result, they were issued to branches of the German military which did not typically have high priority for new small arms, like the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. There are several versions with different markings, which we will discuss in the video... http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons

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Q: How to export contenthash value for each output in Webpack 4? I have a fairly simple Webpack 4 configuration that generates several JS files with their own contenthashes. An example for JS: entry: { build: './public/js/main.dev.js', vueApp: './public/js/vueApp/main.js' }, output: { path: path.resolve(__dirname, './public/build'), publicPath: '/', filename: '[name].[contenthash].js' }, Now, in order to use server-side rendering, I need to somehow export the current contenthash values from webpack after they are generated. Is there a clean way to achieve this? I have already tried generating a HTML file using html-webpack-plugin, but parsing additional HTML on each render doesn't seem like the most optimized solution. A: Okay, so the closest thing I found to an answer is Webpack manifest plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-manifest-plugin It basically generates a manifest JSON file linking together the files with their hashed names, so it can be parsed on the server side before delivering the content.

Sprint training effects on muscle myoglobin, enzymes, fiber types, and blood lactate. The purpose of this study was to determine if changes in intra-muscular myoglobin concentration accompany histochemical and enzymatic adaptations to supra-maximal exercise training. Subjects were assigned to either a training group (N = 11), who trained 2 to 3 times weekly for 6 wk, or a control group (N = 6). Training progressed from two 15-s and two 30-s "all-out" sprints on a cycle ergometer during week 1 to six 15-s and six 30-s bouts per session during week 6. The Wingate test was performed before and after the 6 wk, but performance variables were not changed in either group. In the training group, peak lactate after the Wingate test was significantly higher after training. No significant changes in enzyme activities, myoglobin concentration, or fiber-type frequency were observed in the control group. In contrast, in the training group, the percent fast twitch oxidative fibers increased, myoglobin decreased, and both citrate synthase and phosphofructokinase activities increased (P less than 0.05). The results suggest that muscle myoglobin concentration is not increased by 6 wk of supra-maximal exercise training and that such training induces cellular adaptations without accompanying performance changes. Alternatively, the Wingate test is not a sensitive test of adaptations to the training.

All You Need to Know about Content Marketing for Apps Laura Kloot (Guest Author)Jun 21, 2018 As every app developer knows, it’s an overcrowded marketplace. And that’s an understatement. By 2018, there were over 2 million apps available in the App Store. App owners are competing ferociously for market share. And what that really means is that they are competing for audience mind share. If you own an app, then you are going to be spending a lot of resources trying to capture potential users’ time and attention. This is exactly where content marketing comes into play. According to research from the Content Marketing Institute, content marketing costs 62% less than outbound marketing, and brings in 3X more leads. When done well, content marketing works. That’s why 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing as part of their overall strategy. So let’s get down to business with an all-you-need guide to content marketing your app. 1. Define your audience & goalsAny content strategy must be based on two key parameters: target audience and business goals. Without these, your content is blowing in the wind, without purpose or endpoint. The best way to get started is with brainstorming. Then, work from there to refine your answers. Here are some questions to kick off the process: Who is the user base for your app? Where are they located? What age groups? What are their other interests? How will they use your app? Why would they use your app? What’s your target download rate in the first three months? What retention rate are you aiming for? The answers to these questions are the foundation of your content marketing plan. They will also help you to measure the performance of your content marketing further down the road. Here’s an example of targeted content done well. Fitbit is a company that produces wearable technology devices to help people record their exercise, diet and sleep habits. It’s designed for people who are interested in healthy living, fitness training and personal motivation. A quick look at the Fitbit blog shows just how aligned their content is with their target audience. The blog covers everything from yoga positions, to men’s health screening, healthy recipes and Fitbit app hacks. When your audience is well defined at the outset, it will give you focused direction for your content. 2. App store optimization (ASO)Imagine your app sitting patiently on the virtual shelf of the app store… along with 2 million others. Fact: you need to make you app stand out. ASO is all about optimizing your app’s visibility in the app store, in terms of ranking, impressions, shares, ratings, reviews and downloads. And content marketing plays a key role. Much the same way that SEO drives engagement with your website, ASO drives installs of your app. Content is key to this process. Although the use of content is very restricted within the app store itself (basically your title and app description…), you can and should leverage content from your other online assets, such as your website, blog or landing pages, to build awareness of your app, and drive traffic to your app store download page. 3. Create great contentOnce you’ve got a content marketing plan in place, the next thing you need is the content itself. ‘Content’ is a fairly broad term, covering just about everything from blog posts, to social media posts, to landing pages, ebooks, white papers, case studies, customer testimonials, newsletters, emails, and video. According to data from the Content Marketing Institute, the top types of content used by B2C marketers are social media content and blogs. Chances are these are strong players in the content marketing plan for your app, but don’t limit yourself to just these. Feel free to get creative and try out different tactics. In the meantime, here are a few tips to help you create rock-solid performing content: Longer form content performs better. A study of 1 million online articles showed that longer content of over 1000 words consistently got more likes and shares on social media than short form content. But it’s not just a matter of churning out the word count. Long form content that performs well does so because it is valuable, relevant and offers good insights for the reader. When creating content to market your app, make sure it relates in a concrete, usable way to the purpose of your app, so the user can flow naturally from consuming your content to clicking on the CTA. Consistency is key. Blogging is not a once-in-a-while hobby. In order to succeed, blogging must be consistent and regular. This is not an easy feat. It means staying on top of the latest trends and hot topics in your app’s industry, and and providing high quality, authoritative content that people want to share. Interactive content performs really well because it involves and entertains the user in a way that static text never could. There’s a reason why more than 80% of content marketers surveyed said that interactive content was better at grabbing readers’ attention. A similar number said that interactive content was reusable and encouraged repeat visits. So it’s not just great for boosting app downloads. It’s also a worthwhile tactic for keeping your users engaged with your app after the download. So consider using quizzes, games, surveys, infographics and calculators to engage your target audience. 4. Distribute your contentNow that you’ve got the content, you need to get it out there to the target audience. When it comes to content marketing your app, there are three key channels you should be using: 1) Social media: Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, are a top choice for customer interaction with brands. 95% of adults online follow a brand on social media. And with 2.56 billion social media users on mobile worldwide, social media is a top priority for content distribution. Social media is a great platform for boosting organic and paid reach. You can do this by posting and promoting your content across your social media accounts. Be sure to include powerful calls to action, whether it be downloading your app or clicking through to a landing page. 2) Content discovery: Content discovery is a very effective way to distribute content, with higher page views and lower bounce rates than search or social platforms. This is due to the intent of the user. When a customer is searching on Google, they’re hyper focused on the specific product or item they are searching for. When browsing their social news feed, the customer is checking out what’s going on in their network. They’re not necessarily looking for anything in particular. However, when the customer is in ‘discovery mode’, they’re primed to discover content that is relevant, entertaining or helpful to their needs and interests. Content discovery platforms support interest targeting that lets you target the right piece of content to the right user at the right time, which makes it more likely that they will engage with your content and download your app. 3) Native advertising: This year, it finally happened – native ads surpassed display in terms of advertising spend. Internet users are twice as likely to click on sponsored content than display ads. There’s no doubt: native advertising is now a must in any content marketing strategy. You can use native advertising platforms to promote your app with high performing content targeted according to specific audiences and channels. 5. Measuring performance Remember way back at the start when you defined your content marketing goals? This is where they really count. After running a content marketing campaign for a set period of time, you can now analyze the metrics and compare them to your KPIs. Then, you can optimize the content by making small or large adjustments, and achieve even better results. There are a host of sophisticated tools that you can use to get deep insights into the performance of your app marketing campaigns. For example, Mobile Attribution enables you to record and measure every app install and attribute it to the marketing campaign that generated the conversion. This is vital data that will help you optimize your campaigns. To sum up, although content marketing is complex business, it is also a logical, measurable process that you can take step by step. It’s about knowing your target audience, creating focused content, developing the right mix of distribution channels, and analyzing the metrics to see what works and what doesn’t. Then, you optimize, and start again. Content marketing for apps is a feat of trial and error. With the help of advanced tools and a commitment to following a methodical, fine-tuned approach, you can level the playing field and give your app the best chance of success. About the Author Laura Kloot is a seasoned content and marketing writer at Outbrain, the leading native advertising platform. She has over 10 years’ experience writing for multinational companies operating all over the world.

Q: Difference between Math.min() and if condition What way is the best to get minimum number and which improved the performance or both are same as performance wise? One way to get the min distance between two number : double minDistance = Double.MAX_VALUE; double distance = coordinate1.distnaceTo(coordinate2); if(distnace < minDistance ) { minDistance = distance; } Another way to get the min distance between two number : double minDistance = Double.MAX_VALUE; double minDistance = Math.min(coordinate1.distnaceTo(coordinate2), minDistance); A: If you are dealing with positive numbers, not equal to NaN, -0.0 or 0.0, then there shouldn't be much difference. The following from the Math.min source code in Java 8 highlights the following differences: If either value is NaN, then the result is NaN. Unlike the numerical comparison operators, this method considers negative zero to be strictly smaller than positive zero. If one argument is positive zero and the other is negative zero, the result is negative zero. So Math.min may be slightly less efficient since it checks for NaN and -0.0 vs 0.0, but it is arguably more readable - you need to consider firstly whether the special cases are applicable or not, and then readability vs (ever so slight) performance difference after that. Personally I would use Math.min, but that's my own opinion.

Daniel L. Anderson Daniel L. Anderson (born September 20, 1968) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Anderson graduated from Hampton High School and attended Penn State University for two years and Robert Morris College for one. He then obtained his real-estate broker's license and worked for Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and managed property for Ray Anderson and Sons. He was first elected to represent the 31st legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1990. After the 1992 legislative redistricting, that district was merged with the 30th legislative district, which was represented by long-time incumbent Republican Rick Cessar. After Cessar defeated Anderson in the Republican primary, Anderson sought to run in the general election as an independent, but was blocked by the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, based on a state law preventing independent candidacies by individuals who held another party's registration at the time of the primary. In 1994, he again ran for the 30th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following the retirement of incumbent Rick Cessar. He lost the Republican primary to 28-year-old Jeff Habay. In 2000, Anderson and a former Habay staffer initiated campaign audit proceedings that would eventually lead to a Habay being convicted in 2005 on ethics law violations. In May 2004, during that trial Habay filed a false police report claiming that Anderson had mailed him anthrax. He is the Township Manager for Indiana Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania References Category:Living people Category:Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Category:Pennsylvania Republicans Category:People from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Category:Robert Morris University alumni Category:Pennsylvania State University alumni Category:1968 births

// Copyright 2015-2019 the openage authors. See copying.md for legal info. #include "main_args_link.h" #include <QtQml> #include "../error/error.h" #include "engine_info.h" #include "guisys/link/qml_engine_with_singleton_items_info.h" #include "guisys/link/qtsdl_checked_static_cast.h" namespace openage::gui { namespace { // register "MainArgs" in the qml engine to be used globally. const int registration = qmlRegisterSingletonType<MainArgsLink>("yay.sfttech.openage", 1, 0, "MainArgs", &MainArgsLink::provider); } MainArgsLink::MainArgsLink(QObject *parent, const util::Path &asset_dir) : QObject{parent}, asset_dir{asset_dir} { Q_UNUSED(registration); } QObject* MainArgsLink::provider(QQmlEngine *engine, QJSEngine*) { auto *engine_with_singleton_items_info = qtsdl::checked_static_cast<qtsdl::QmlEngineWithSingletonItemsInfo*>(engine); auto info = static_cast<EngineQMLInfo*>(engine_with_singleton_items_info->get_singleton_items_info()); ENSURE(info, "globals were lost or not passed to the gui subsystem"); // owned by the QML engine return new MainArgsLink{nullptr, info->asset_dir}; } } // namespace openage::gui

Champaign Burglary from a motor vehicle was reported on the 900 block of S. Second Street around 9:30 p.m. Sunday. According to the report, the victim’s vehicle was entered and a bag containing a laptop was taken. All items have been recovered and returned to the owner. Battery was reported near the intersection of State and Green around 1 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, two male offenders attempted to force the victim into their vehicle. Three arrests were made on charges of possession of cannabis on the 00 block of E. Armory Ave. around 3 a.m. Saturday. According to the report, officers responded to a loud music call, and upon making contact with the resident, illegal drugs were within plain view inside the apartment. Notices to appear in court were issued. University An arrest was made at Memorial Stadium, 1402 S. First St. around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. According to the report, the 41-year-old offender trespassed on state-supported land and resisted a police officer. The offender disobeyed stadium rules and refused to leave when ordered to do so by a police officer and attempted to pull away from an officer as she was escorted from the stadium. A state of Illinois notice to appear in court for criminal damage to property was issued on the 1300 block of S. Neil Street, around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. According to the report, on Nov. 6, the offender had broken an apartment window and damaged a vehicle at the Ashton Woods apartment complex on the 2300 block of S. First Street, and the estimated cost to repair the damage to the vehicle is $2,900. An arrest was made near Fourth and Daniel Streets around 2:30 a.m. Friday. According to the report, the 21-year-old offender was arrested on charges of battery, and police initially were called by Student Patrol officers who witnessed a fight at University parking garage C-10, 812 S. Fifth St. and identified the offender as the aggressor. Urbana Crisis intervention due to mental illness was reported on the 1500 block of Florida Avenue around 10 a.m. Sunday. According to the report, the victim was yelling, hitting the walls, moaning and, at times, yelling for help in her apartment. She was taken to Presence Hospital for an involuntary admission due to self care. An attempt of residential burglary was reported on the 500 block of Fairlawn Drive around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. According to the report, an unknown offender entered the victim’s bedroom through an unlocked window, rummaged through the victim’s belongings and didn’t take any property. The offender left the room when confronted by the victim’s dog. An arrest was made near the intersection of Lynn and Main Streets around 8 p.m. Sunday. According to the report, the 26-year-old male victim and the arrestee have children in common, and the arrestee battered the male victim. The arrestee also caused more than $300 worth of damage to the 26-year-old female victim’s vehicle.

/* * Copyright 2012 ZXing authors * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ #define ZXErrorDomain @"ZXErrorDomain" enum { /** * Thrown when a barcode was successfully detected and decoded, but * was not returned because its checksum feature failed. */ ZXChecksumError = 1000, /** * Thrown when a barcode was successfully detected, but some aspect of * the content did not conform to the barcode's format rules. This could have * been due to a mis-detection. */ ZXFormatError = 1001, /** * Thrown when a barcode was not found in the image. It might have been * partially detected but could not be confirmed. */ ZXNotFoundError = 1002, /** * Thrown when an exception occurs during Reed-Solomon decoding, such as when * there are too many errors to correct. */ ZXReedSolomonError = 1003, /** * This general error is thrown when something goes wrong during decoding of a barcode. * This includes, but is not limited to, failing checksums / error correction algorithms, being * unable to locate finder timing patterns, and so on. */ ZXReaderError = 1004, /** * Covers the range of error which may occur when encoding a barcode using the Writer framework. */ ZXWriterError = 1005 }; // Helper methods for error instances NSError *ChecksumErrorInstance(void); NSError *FormatErrorInstance(void); NSError *NotFoundErrorInstance(void);

Evaluation of two commercial systems for identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci to species level. Bloodstream (224) and urine (nine) isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) were evaluated using MicroScan Pos ID and Rapid Pos ID panels. A modification of the conventional method of Kloos and Schleifer served as the reference method. The isolates were selected to include a broad range of CNS species, including 44 S. epidermidis, 50 S. hominis, 39 S. warneri, 33 S. capitis, 21 S. haemolyticus, 12 S. simulans, 11 S. saprophyticus, six S. cohnii, five S. lugdunensis, three S. xylosus, four S. auricularis, two S. schleiferi, two S. intermedius, and one S. sciuri. The Pos ID panel had an overall rate of agreement (correct plus probably correct) with the reference method of 79%, including 95% for S. epidermidis, 95% for S. haemolyticus, 64% for S. hominis, 67% for S. simulans, 79% for S. warneri, and 100% for S. saprophyticus. The Rapid Pos ID panel had an overall rate of agreement (correct plus probably correct) of 76%, including 91% for S. epidermidis, 90% for S. haemolyticus, 64% for S. hominis, 58% for S. simulans, 77% for S. warneri, and 100% for S. saprophyticus. Both systems are acceptable for the identification of the clinically significant species S. haemolyticus, S. saprophyticus, and S. epidermidis, but are less reliable for the infrequently isolated species of CNS.

Major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in the polygynous primate: the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana). The highly polymorphic genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) not only play a major role in immunity resistance, but also seem to provide hints for mate choice in some animal populations. In the present study we investigated MHC-related mate choice in a small natural population (group size 40-55 individuals) of a polygynous primate, the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana). We found that there was no evidence either for MHC-disassortative mating, or for females to mate with males based on MHC heterozygosity or specific alleles. Nevertheless, of the 11 alleles identified, we found that the frequencies of 2 alleles, Rhro-DRB2 (P < 0.01) and Rhro-DRB5 (P < 0.05) were higher in offspring than in their parents. These findings suggest that MHC-DRB in this population of R. roxellana is unlikely to be associated with mating preferences. Limited female opportunities for mate choice are likely due, in part, to the harem breeding structure present in R. roxellana, and the relatively small number of resident adult males in our study band (N = 4-6). In addition, we suggest that differences in the frequency of particular alleles across generations may be linked to parasite resistance in a fluctuating environment; however, confirmation of this finding requires further study.

Car trouble: Parker can't park without parts What does a guy have to do to keep his downtown office going? Apparently, make sure its engine runs. Office? Engine? Huh? It all makes sense if you're Anson Parker, subject of a story in last week's Hook and founder of Treebay, a new organization that takes donations of people's stuff, sells it on Ebay, and uses a portion of the proceeds to promote energy alternatives in Charlottesville. His office: an aging purple and yellow cab parked in the Design Center parking lot on Second and Garrett streets. But although his business goals may be admirable, some neighboring businesses have objected to his methods– which include storing his work-related belongings in the cab and pedaling an adjacent stationary bike to power his laptop and cell phone. Now the city has given him an ultimatum: Get the cab running or watch it be towed. In fact, the city has already towed the cab once– on Thursday, July 8 because it lacked license plates. But after Parker made a last minute dash to the DMV, the city returned his cab to its spot and covered the towing expense. Parker thought the issue was settled, particularly since he and his cab have the blessing of Alana Woerpel, owner of Alana's fabric store and the parking lot. But the city's chief building inspector, Jerry Tomlin, says there was one important fact he didn't know when Parker's office was returned. "We didn't know it didn't run," he says of the cab, "or we wouldn't have sent it back." Tomlin says keeping an inoperable vehicle anywhere in the city– even on private property– is a violation of city code, section 5-150. The ordinance, which makes such a violation a class-one misdemeanor with a possible $2,500 fine, is designed to keep the city free of auto-eyesores, says Tomlin. "A lot of cities have cars jacked up in the street," he says, so since 1978 Charlottesville's ordinance has required that such cars be stored in a garage or other covered shelter. Fortunately for violators, the city generally does not press charges. Instead, Tomlin says, the city impounds the vehicle and charges the owner storage fees until necessary repairs are scheduled to be performed. Parker's hoping to avoid having his office impounded again. The city notified him by letter that he had until July 23 to get his cab streetworthy– a challenge, since he allowed the former owner to "chop shop" the engine, picking out parts he needed for his other cars. "I didn't think I was going to need those parts," says Parker. Now, like his last minute DMV dash, Parker is scrambling to find the missing pieces. "My whole purpose is to get that thing to turn on," he says. Some of his neighbors may not be rooting for him. A receptionist at Moxie declined comment when asked about their colorful, pedaling neighbor, and several other area store owners did not return calls. But Pamela Peterson, owner of Sammy Snacks, a dog food biz across Garrett Street, offered a clue about why Parker's neighbors are upset. "We work so hard to keep a nice looking space, to be attractive to customers," she explains. "A big rock in the middle of [the cab's] hood doesn't give quite the right message." That said, Peterson calls Parker "a very, very nice person," and says his "goals are commendable." But to her, it's all in the execution. "I don't know that he's taking the right approach," she says. *Epilogue: At presstime, Parker called to report he'd discovered a loophole in the law. If he covers the cab with a tarp, he says, the cab will be legal. The city's Jerry Tomlin says the cab must be "fully screened." That means if even an inch of tire is peeking out, the cab can still be towed. Parker also reports relations with his neighbors have improved. Anson Parker must get his cab/office running, or the city will impound it.PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO

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Glossopetalon spinescens Glossopetalon spinescens is a species of flowering shrub in the family Crossosomataceae known by the common names spiny greasebush, spiny greasewood and Nevada greasewood. It is native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in mountainous habitats, often on limestone substrates. Description This shrub forms a dense, erect clump of many thin, branching, thorny stems approaching in maximum height. The green oval leaves are less than two centimeters long. Small white-petalled flowers appear in the leaf axils. The fruit is a single or double follicle a few millimeters wide. Two varieties are recognized: var. spinescens from southeastern Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua and Coahuila is early deciduous, the leaves either lacking stipules or with stipules less than 0.1 mm long var. aridum M.E. Jones, from northwestern and central Arizona to California and Washington State, with leaves evergreen and with stipules up to 0.9 mm long. References External links Jepson Manual Treatment: Glossopetalon spinescens Glossopetalon spinescens - Photo gallery Category:Crossosomataceae Category:Flora of the Western United States Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico Category:Flora of Northeastern Mexico Category:Flora of the Great Basin Category:Flora of the California desert regions Category:Flora of the Rocky Mountains Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Category:Flora of California Category:Flora of Texas

Crankset/BB Recommendations? For my new Independent Fabrication Deluxe, I've purchased SRAM X.0 triger shifters and rear derailleur, an SRAM 990 cassette and PC-99 hollow-pin chain. This is going to be a Shimano-free bike, so I'm looking for crankset/BB recommendations. I don't know a lot about the different cranksets out there, so I thought I'd ask this forum. If this were your bike, what non-Shimano crankset would you put on it (Race Face, FSA, Ritchey, etc.)? I'm an XC rider so I'm looking for an XC/All Mountain crankset. Any recommendations for specific brand/models, or insight would be appreciated! Here's one Originally Posted by castafly For my new Independent Fabrication Deluxe, I've purchased SRAM X.0 triger shifters and rear derailleur, an SRAM 990 cassette and PC-99 hollow-pin chain. This is going to be a Shimano-free bike, so I'm looking for crankset/BB recommendations. I don't know a lot about the different cranksets out there, so I thought I'd ask this forum. If this were your bike, what non-Shimano crankset would you put on it (Race Face, FSA, Ritchey, etc.)? I'm an XC rider so I'm looking for an XC/All Mountain crankset. Any recommendations for specific brand/models, or insight would be appreciated!

Existentiell Existentiell and existential are key terms in Martin Heidegger's early philosophy. Existentiell refers to the aspects of the world which are identifiable as particular delimited questions or issues, whereas existential refers to Being as such, which permeates all things, so to speak, and can not be delimited in such a way as to be susceptible to factual knowledge. In general it can be said that "existentiell" refers to a "what", a materially describable reality, whereas "existential" refers to structures inherent in any possible world. In other words, the term "existentiell" refers to an ontic determination, whereas "existential" refers to an ontological determination. Etymology Heidegger did not coin the term "existentiell". The common German word "existenziell" is usually translated into English as "existential". However, in Heidegger's works, he coined the German word "existenzial", giving it a meaning distinct from the common German word "existenziell". In English translations of Heidegger, then, the German "existenziell" is transliterated as "existentiell" in English, and the German word "existenzial" is transliterated as "existential", each word having its own technical meaning specific to Heidegger. Definition An existentiell understanding is an ontic understanding or characterization of existence, whereas an existential understanding is an ontological one. Nevertheless, the two terms are related in that an ontic determination is inherently ontological. . In Heidegger's terminology, the being-there of the world (Dasein) cannot be essentially defined "by ascribing to it a 'what' that specifies its material content” . The ontological or existential thus have priority over the ontic and the existentiell. In fact, the essence of Dasein directly evokes the question of Being, and likewise "what is primarily interrogated in the question of the meaning of being is that being which has the character of Da-sein.”. This means that, for any particular being or area of study, "the ontological analysis of this being always requires a previous glimpse of existentiality.” Nevertheless, Dasein can relate to it in an ontic-existentiell or in an ontological-existential manner. The second relation regards the “theoretical transparency of the ontological structure of existence ... [and] aims at the analysis of what constitutes existence”. Its understanding is rather existential. It is important to note that “Because these explications are defined in terms of existentiality, we shall call the characteristics of being of Da-sein existentials. They are to be sharply delimited from the determinations of being of those beings unlike Da-sein which we call categories.”. The above understanding is limited to Dasein alone due to its qualitative distinction from other beings. It cannot be used to describe an ontic understanding of beings in the world nor it addresses the facts about things in the context of the world. They are limited to Dasein and Dasein alone. It should be kept in mind that “Existentials and categories are the two fundamental possibilities of the characteristics of being. The being which corresponds to them requires different ways of primary interrogation. Beings are a who (existence) or else a what (objective presence in the broadest sense).” Relation Being and Time notes that "the roots of the existential analysis, for their part, are ultimately existentiell -they are ontic". This means that an existential analysis derives its directives from an existentiell and it is itself grounded in an existentiell character of Dasein. See also Existentialism Ontology Phenomenology Heideggerian terminology Notes References Martin, Heidegger (1927). Being and Time. Category:Existentialist concepts Category:Ontology

Association of three common single nucleotide polymorphisms of SLC7A7 with the development of glioma in a Chinese population. Gliomas are brain tumors that can be seriously damaging to human health. The SLC7 family is involved in amino acid or peptide transportation. The relationship between SLC7A7 polymorphisms and the development of glioma has been reported previously by a few studies. Therefore, we performed a hospital based case-control study to investigate the association of three common SNPs (rs12888930, rs12436190, and rs2065134) of SLC7A7 with the development of glioma in a Chinese population. From January 2014 to December 2015, 122 patients with glioma and 252 individuals (controls) were recruited from the department of neurosurgery of Tangshan People's Hospital affiliated to North China University of Science and Technology. SLC7A7 rs12888930, rs12436190, and rs2065134 genotyping was performed by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that a significantly higher risk of glioma was harbored by the GG and AG + GG genotypes than by the AA genotype; OR (95%CI) was 2.24 (1.18-4.22) and 1.59 (1.01-2.60), respectively. However, no significant relationship was observed between SLC7A7 rs12888930 and rs2065134 and the risk of glioma. In conclusion, this study reports a significant association between SLC7A7 rs12436190 and the risk of glioma in a Chinese population.

838 F.2d 462 Peoples (Michael)v.Fulcomer (Thomas), Attorney General State of Pennsylvania,District Attorney of Philadelphia County NO. 87-1247 United States Court of Appeals,Third Circuit. DEC 30, 1987 1 Appeal From: E.D.Pa. 2 REVERSED AND REMANDED.

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Happiness and Defense Styles in Psychiatrists. The aim of this study was to measure happiness in a sample of Brazilian psychiatrists and correlate it with the defense styles used by them and sociodemographic data. This study was observational, cross-sectional, and analytical. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires by Brazilian psychiatrists who participated in the XXXII Brazilian Congress of Psychiatry, 2014. In this sample of psychiatrists, happiness levels were high (scoring 5.69 of a total of 7), and mature defense styles prevailed, especially humor and anticipation. In a multivariate analysis, having children, good sleep quality, increased sexual interest, and use of defense styles such as humor, anticipation, and idealization all showed a positive relationship with happiness; on the other hand, using defense style such as acting out or annulment demonstrated a negative relationship with happiness. Despite the well-known professional burden that they bear, Brazilian psychiatrists surveyed presented, in general, high levels of subjective well-being and happiness.

Vitamin D and vitamin D analogues for preventing fractures in post-menopausal women and older men. Vitamin D and related compounds have been used to prevent osteoporotic fractures in older people. This is the third update of a Cochrane review first published in 1996. To determine the effects of vitamin D or related compounds, with or without calcium, for preventing fractures in post-menopausal women and older men. We searched the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group Specialised Register (to December 2012), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (2012, Issue 12), MEDLINE (1966 to November Week 3 2012), EMBASE (1980 to 2012 Week 50), CINAHL (1982 to December 2012), BIOSIS (1985 to 3 January 2013), Current Controlled Trials (December 2012) and reference lists of articles. Randomised or quasi-randomised trials that compared vitamin D or related compounds, alone or with calcium, against placebo, no intervention or calcium alone, and that reported fracture outcomes in older people. The primary outcome was hip fracture. Two authors independently assessed trial risk of selection bias and aspects of methodological quality, and extracted data. Data were pooled, where possible, using the fixed-effect model, or the random-effects model when heterogeneity between studies appeared substantial. We included 53 trials with a total of 91,791 participants. Thirty-one trials, with sample sizes ranging from 70 to 36,282 participants, examined vitamin D (including 25-hydroxy vitamin D) with or without calcium in the prevention of fractures in community, nursing home or hospital inpatient populations. Twelve of these 31 trials had participants with a mean or median age of 80 years or over.Another group of 22 smaller trials examined calcitriol or alfacalcidol (1-alphahydroxyvitamin D3), mostly with participants who had established osteoporosis. These trials were carried out in the setting of institutional referral clinics or hospitals.In the assessment of risk of bias for random sequence generation, 21 trials (40%) were deemed to be at low risk, 28 trials (53%) at unclear risk and four trials at high risk (8%). For allocation concealment, 22 trials were at low risk (42%), 29 trials were at unclear risk (55%) and two trials were at high risk (4%).There is high quality evidence that vitamin D alone, in the formats and doses tested, is unlikely to be effective in preventing hip fracture (11 trials, 27,693 participants; risk ratio (RR) 1.12, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 0.98 to 1.29) or any new fracture (15 trials, 28,271 participants; RR 1.03, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.11).There is high quality evidence that vitamin D plus calcium results in a small reduction in hip fracture risk (nine trials, 49,853 participants; RR 0.84, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.74 to 0.96; P value 0.01). In low-risk populations (residents in the community: with an estimated eight hip fractures per 1000 per year), this equates to one fewer hip fracture per 1000 older adults per year (95% CI 0 to 2). In high risk populations (residents in institutions: with an estimated 54 hip fractures per 1000 per year), this equates to nine fewer hip fractures per 1000 older adults per year (95% CI 2 to 14). There is high quality evidence that vitamin D plus calcium is associated with a statistically significant reduction in incidence of new non-vertebral fractures. However, there is only moderate quality evidence of an absence of a statistically significant preventive effect on clinical vertebral fractures. There is high quality evidence that vitamin D plus calcium reduces the risk of any type of fracture (10 trials, 49,976 participants; RR 0.95, 95% CI 0.90 to 0.99).In terms of the results for adverse effects: mortality was not adversely affected by either vitamin D or vitamin D plus calcium supplementation (29 trials, 71,032 participants, RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.93 to 1.01). Hypercalcaemia, which was usually mild (2.6 to 2.8 mmol/L), was more common in people receiving vitamin D or an analogue, with or without calcium (21 trials, 17,124 participants, RR 2.28, 95% CI 1.57 to 3.31), especially for calcitriol (four trials, 988 participants, RR 4.41, 95% CI 2.14 to 9.09), than in people receiving placebo or control. There was also a small increased risk of gastrointestinal symptoms (15 trials, 47,761 participants, RR 1.04, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.08), especially for calcium plus vitamin D (four trials, 40,524 participants, RR 1.05, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.09), and a significant increase in renal disease (11 trials, 46,548 participants, RR 1.16, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.33). Other systematic reviews have found an increased association of myocardial infarction with supplemental calcium; and evidence of increased myocardial infarction and stroke, but decreased cancer, with supplemental calcium plus vitamin D, without an overall effect on mortality. Vitamin D alone is unlikely to prevent fractures in the doses and formulations tested so far in older people. Supplements of vitamin D and calcium may prevent hip or any type of fracture. There was a small but significant increase in gastrointestinal symptoms and renal disease associated with vitamin D and calcium. This review found that there was no increased risk of death from taking calcium and vitamin D.

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Q: Why are "continue" statements bad in JavaScript? In the book Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, this is all the author has to say about the continue Statement: The continue statement jumps to the top of the loop. I have never seen a piece of code that was not improved by refactoring it to remove the continue statement. This really confuses me. I know Crockford has some very opinionated views on JavaScript, but this just sounds entirely wrong to me. First of all, continue does more than just jump to the top of a loop. By default, it also progresses to the next iteration. So isn't Crockford's statement just completely false information? More importantly, I do not entirely understand why continue would even be considered to be bad. This post provides what seems to be the general assumption: Why is continue inside a loop a bad idea? Although I understand how continue may make code difficult to read in certain instances, I think it is just as likely that it can make code more readable. For instance: var someArray=['blah',5,'stuff',7]; for(var i=0;i<someArray.length;i++){ if(typeof someArray[i]==='number'){ for(var j=0;j<someArray[i];j++){ console.log(j); } } } This could be refactored into: var someArray=['blah',5,'stuff',7]; for(var i=0;i<someArray.length;i++){ if(typeof someArray[i]!=='number'){ continue; } for(var j=0;j<someArray[i];j++){ console.log(j); } } continue isn't particularly beneficial in this specific example, but it does demonstrate the fact that it reduces the nesting depth. In more complex code, this could potentially increase readability. Crockford provides no explanation as to why continue should not be used, so is there some deeper significance behind this opinion that I am missing? A: The statement is ridiculous. continue can be abused, but it often helps readability. Typical use: for (somecondition) { if (!firsttest) continue; some_provisional_work_that_is_almost_always_needed(); if (!further_tests()) continue; do_expensive_operation(); } The goal is to avoid 'lasagna' code, where you have deeply nested conditionals. Edited to add: Yes, this is ultimately subjective. Here's my metric for deciding. Edited one last time: This example is too simple, of course, and you can always replace nested conditionals with function calls. But then you may have to pass data into the nested functions by reference, which can create refactoring problems at least as bad as the ones you're trying to avoid. A: I am personally on the other side than the majority here. The problem is usually not with the shown continue patterns, but with more deeply nested ones, where possible code paths may become hard to see. But even your example with one continue does not show improvement in my opinion that is justifiable. From my experience a few continue statements are a nightmare to refactor later (even for static languages better suited for automated refactoring like Java, especially when someone later puts there break too). Thus, I would add a comment to the quote you gave: Refactoring to remove continue statement inreases your further ability to refactor. And inner loops are really good candidated for e.g. extract function. Such refactoring is done when the inner loop becomes complex and then continue may make it painful. These are my honest opinions after working professionally on JavaScript projects in a team, there rules that Douglas Crockford talks about really show their merits. A: Douglas Crockford may feel this way because he doesn't believe in assignment within a conditional. In fact, his program JSlint doesn't even let you do it, even though Javascript does. He would never write: Example 1 while (rec = getrec()) { if (condition1(rec)) continue; doSomething(rec); } but, I'm guessing he would write something like: Example 2 rec = getrec(); while (rec) { if (!condition(rec)) doSomething(rec); rec = getrec(); } Both of these work, but if you accidentally mix these styles you get an infinite loop: Example 3 rec = getrec(); while (rec) { if (condition1(rec)) continue; rec = getrec(); } This could be part of why he doesn't like continues.

Q: Error in gridview I have written my code under button as follows string actkey = string.Empty; foreach (GridViewRow row in GridView1.Rows) { //Label lbInvoice = (Label)row.FindControl("lblInvoice"); string strInvoice = GridView1.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Values["lblInvoice"].ToString(); objinvoice.Invoice = strInvoice; RadioButton rdn = (RadioButton)row.FindControl("rdnRenew"); if (rdn.Checked) { actkey = oCustomerDetails.CreateRandom(20); objinvoice.activationcode = actkey; objinvoice.editInvoice(actkey, strInvoice); } } But i am getting an error at this string strInvoice = GridView1.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Values["lblInvoice"].ToString(); Is there anything wrong in what i have written I declared my item template as follows <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="lblInvoice" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("invoceNo") %>'></asp:Label> </ItemTemplate> A: This is the working one string strInvoice = GridView1.DataKeys[row.RowIndex].Values["invoceNo"].ToString(); and also for grid we have to assign Datakey values...

The effect of the gonadotropin, human chorionic gonadotropin (HGG) will be studied in the in vivo in situ vascularly perfused testis of the dog. The cytological appearance of the Sertoli cells, the sustentacular cells of the seminiferous epithelium, will be observed by light miroscopy and by electron microscopy of thin sections and freeze-fracture replicas. A correlation of cytological alterations of the Sertoli cells with their functional role in spermatogenesis will be based on the appearance of normal tissue as compared to HGG stimulated tissue. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES: Connell, C.J. (1976). A scanning electron microscope study of the interstitial tissue of the canine testis. Submitted. Connell, C.J., and Connell, G.M. (1976). The interstitial tissue. In "The Testis" (A.D. Johnson and W.R.Gomes, eds.), Vol. IV. Submitted.

The invention relates generally to a fixed supporting structure of a crystal ball transmission, comprising a crystal ball, a base, a soft rubber sealed-spigot, a fixed seat and a driven motor, a magnet set, disturbing vane and a fixed disc of decoration and so on installed on above rubber sealed-spigot and fixed seat; characterized in that the rubber sealed-spigot is designed to have a circular sealed-spigot body and a disk-shaped elastic buffer body for sealing the crystal ball opening, wherein, the buffer body further comprises an upper section planar disc edge, a middle section inclined disc edge and a lower section planar disc bottom; and by means of pushing upward the cup-shaped supporting body of the fixed seat and stopping at the buffer body so as to form selected point supporting; when heat expansion and cold contraction are happened due to temperature difference of liquid within the crystal ball, the middle section inclined disc edge of the buffer body will stretch elastically and automatically to absorb the change of volume, by using the upward supporting force of the cup-shaped supporting body under the buffer body to ensure the horizontal position of the fixed disc of decoration unchanged, so as to further ensure the decoration could not incline for buffer body deformation due to the change of liquid volume and to maintain flowing out-in passage of suspended substance being smooth. A crystal ball is put on the table or cabinet of home or office as a decoration. Since the ball is filled with liquid, the magnifying effect of convex lens is formed, making the various models in the crystal ball, such as trees, houses, castles, figures and so on be glittering and translucent particularly. If shining slice is put into the crystal ball additionally, the shining slice will create a hypothetical scenery as snow failing down by falling from up-side to low-side slowly while the crystal ball is put back after being shaken up and down. By this way, the crystal ball appears very elegant dynamic scenery. The above hypothetical snow-falling-down scenery created by shaking the crystal ball manually will tend to rest as suspended substance precipitating gradually. In order to make the hypothetical snow-falling-down scenery being continuous without interruption, U.S. Pat. No. 4,961,276 has disclosed that by using the power of battery to rotate a motor, a magnet installed on the output shaft of the motor will bring another opposite magnet and rotating vane to rotate under the effect of magnetic flux, so as to achieve the goal of disturbing liquid continuously. In addition, U.S. Pat. No. 4,641,445 has disclosed that by using the power of battery to rotate a motor, the rotating vane directly installed on the free end of the output shaft of the motor rotates, so as to achieve the goal of disturbing suspended substance continuously for creating the hypothetical snow-falling-down scenery. See FIG. 1, an appearance perspective view of U.S. Pat. No. 4,967,276. The motor and the first magnet are installed in the tube-shaped shell under the top plane of the sealed-spigot; the second magnet and the rotating vane are installed above the top plane of the sealed-spigot. When the volume of liquid filled in the crystal ball creates expansion or contraction due to temperature difference (such as 20xc2x0 C.-40xc2x0 C.) of the room, the top plane of the sealed-spigot will bend downward as heat-expansion and cold-contraction of the liquid, and the decoration installed on the top plane of the sealed-spigot appears irregular inclination as the bending of the top plane. It has a serious effect on the total beauty. Also, the rotating vane in the figure lies out of the top plane of the sealed-spigot; therefore, the decoration could not be put in the central position of the crystal ball. It is no doubt that the design of the rotating vane will be limited. In addition, the rotating vane exposed outside is not propitious to the total beauty. See FIG. 2. The skilled in art would install a fixed disc B of decoration above the rotating vane A to cover the rotating vane A exposed outside and in the meantime to overcome the defect that is the decoration could not be put into the central position. However, in order to avoid the rotating vane A from the effect of the fixed disc B of decoration and to enable the suspended substance to flow smoothly after being disturbed, a certain distance Y must be kept between the fixed disc of decoration and the rotating vane. Thus, the distance between the fixed disc B of decoration and the top plane D of the sealed-spigot is increased, and the rotating vane A could not be covered certainly. Similarly, it is a pity from the beauty point of view. In order to solve this problem, the diameter of the fixed disc B of decoration is usually increased as big as possible to match the top plane D of the sealed-spigot. The bigger fixed disc B of decoration covers the rotating vane. Also see FIG. 3. When the volume of liquid expands due to temperature increasing, the top plane D of the sealed-spigot will bend downward. It will cause the fixed disc B of decoration to descend. Then, the out-in passage E between the top plane D of the sealed-spigot and the fixed disc B of decoration reduces, which is for suspended substance getting across after being disturbed. It seriously affects the smoothness of passage for suspended substance. In view of that, the applicant with accumulating experience about designing and manufacturing dynamic landscape decoration for many years seeks the way to solve above problems. Through designing and developing real object, the invention, a fixed supporting structure of a crystal ball transmission, has been completed. The main object of the invention is to provide a fixed supporting structure of a crystal ball transmission characterized in that the rubber sealed-spigot is designed to have a circular sealed-spigot body for sealing the opening of the crystal ball and a disc-shaped elastic buffer body, wherein, the buffer body further comprises an upper section planar disc edge, a middle section inclined disc edge and a lower section planar disc bottom; and by means of pushing upward a cup-shaped supporting body and stopping at the buffer body so as to form selected point supporting; when heat expansion and cold contraction are happened due to temperature difference of liquid within the crystal ball, the middle section inclined disc edge will stretch elastically and automatically to absorb the change of volume, by using the upward supporting force of the cup-shaped supporting body under the buffer body to ensure the horizontal position of the fixed disc of decoration unchanged, so as to further ensure the decoration would not incline for buffer body deformation due to the change of liquid volume. Another object of the invention is to provide a fixed supporting structure of crystal ball transmission characterized in that the deformation of rubber sealed-spigot created by heat expansion and cold contraction due to temperature difference is absorbed completely by means of the maximum area provided by the middle section inclined disc edge of the buffer body. The further object of the invention is to provide a fixed supporting structure of crystal ball transmission characterized in that by means of pushing upward a cup-shaped supporting body and stopping at the buffer body so as to form supporting effect. When heat expansion and cold contraction due to temperature difference causes the deformation of rubber sealed-spigot, the horizontal position of the fixed disc of decoration can be kept unchanged, so as to ensure the decoration not to incline, and after suspended substance disturbed to maintain the flowing out-in passage being smooth.

An application which exhibits an immediate need for the improved maneuverability provided by this invention is an interceptor missile. Enemy offensive missiles pose an escalated challenge for interceptor missiles. .[.Modem.]. .Iadd.Modern .Iaddend.threat configurations are designed to realize reduced radar signatures, make use of expanded countermeasures, travel at extremely high velocities over unpredictable or difficult to predict trajectories, and employ large magnitude lateral evasive maneuvers. In order to accomplish body-to-body impact, the interceptor missile must achieve large transverse acceleration levels in a very short period of time to move the vehicle perpendicular to its flight path to ensure collision. As shown in FIG. 1, a missile system can be described as an elongated body 100 that travels through a fluid medium. The missile 100 has a forward section and an aft section divided by a point of center of gravity 105. Forward of the center of gravity 105 is a forward control device such as thrusters 110. The aft section has an aft control device such as fins 115. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the field that other alternative control devices are possible. For instance, the forward control device could be implemented as canards rather than a thrusters. Similarly, the aft control device could be implemented via thrust-vector controls techniques. FIG. 1 shows the vehicle configuration, sign convention, and notation used in this discussion for a body fixed coordinate system allowing motion in the x-z plane. Table 1 describes the notation introduced in FIG. 1. TABLE 1 Notation Symbol Description x longitudinal body fixed (righ-hand) Cartesian coordinate y transverse body fixed (right-hand) Cartesian coordinate z Universe body fixed (right-hand) Cartesian coordinate N.sub.z transverse acceleration load factor along body axis z q missile pitch rate about body axis y U.sub.0 longitudinal velocity along body axis x w transverse velocity along body axis z .delta..sub..beta.a aft fin deflection angle .delta..sub.thr magnitude of applied thrust force A missile moves in a transverse direction in response to an applied control force according to the laws of physics. Below the altitude of approximately 20 kilometers, a missile's primary source of transverse acceleration is the aerodynamic force resulting from the missile body being at an angle with its velocity vector (angle of attack). Flight control devices (e.g., forward thrusters 110 and/or aft fins 115) obtain this angle of attack by applying to rotate the missile's front end in the direction of the intended maneuver. A functional block diagram of a conventional missile control system is shown in FIG. 2. Block 200 represents the physical vehicle (i.e., the missile) and incorporates all vehicle subsystems including, for example, control actuation, propulsion and inertial measurement systems as well as aerodynamic configuration. The vehicle's measured dynamic response is shown as feedback signal 205. This signal encodes, for example, a measurement of the missile's 100 rotational and translational rates and accelerations. The missile guidance logic shown in block 210 provides a commanded dynamic response signal 215 which encodes a desired maneuver along a kinematic trajectory. The difference between the desired and measured responses produce the error signal 220 in a conventional feedback architecture. The autopilot controller 225 uses the error signal to generate a control signal 230. This control signal encodes commands to actuate the vehicle's control devices. For example, the control signal 230 could be degrees of deflection of a fin or canard, or degrees of deflection of a rocket motor nozzle, or percentage of maximum thrust of an attitude control motor, etc. 2.1 Forward Control Device Systems One type of conventional missile control system employs a forward control device only. An example of this type of missile system is the FLAGE missile designed by LTV Aerospace Corporation (now Loral Vought Systems, the assignee of this application). The FLAGE missile employs active control of forward thrusters to achieve maneuverability. In the FLAGE missile, aft fins are fastened in a fixed canted position to provide stabilization and rolling characteristics. A conventional control scheme employing a forward control device (e.g., thrusters) only is shown in FIG. 3. In response to a command signal 300 (corresponding to command signal 215) from the guidance system 210 for a desired step increase in lateral acceleration in the positive z-direction, the missile's autopilot controller 225 generates a time varying thruster command signal 305 (corresponding to control signal 230) to effect the maneuver. Actuation of the lateral control thrusters produce the measured acceleration response 310 in the positive z-direction normal to the vehicle's body. It is conventional to illustrate the acceleration by normalizing with the missile's weight producing a load factor N.sub.z having the units of g-force. At time t.sub.o guidance system output (215 and 300) commands a step increase in positive z-axis acceleration. Referring to signals 305 and 310, between times t.sub.o and t.sub.1 the autopilot controller 225 commands the forward thrusters to deliver a force 305 in the positive z-direction to rotate the missile's nose in the positive z-direction 310 (also known as a negative pitching moment). Between times t.sub.1 and t.sub.2, the autopilot controller commands the thrusters to deliver a negative force 305 to slow the missile's downward rotation. After time t.sub.2, the autopilot controller commands a positive force 305 to hold a steady rate and acceleration in the positive z-direction 310. (Note, one skilled in the art will realize that this description also applies to accelerations in other directions.) It is important to note that forward control mechanisms achieve missile rotation by applying a force in the direction of the maneuver, that is, ALL missile acceleration 310 is in the direction of the maneuver. 2.2 Aft Control Device Systems Another conventional missile control technique employs an aft control device only. Examples include the Patriot missile system (Raytheon), VT-1 missile system (Loral Vought Systems) and the ATACMS missile system (Loral Vought Systems). In these systems, active control of the aft flight control surfaces (fins or thrusters) are employed to achieve maneuverability. A conventional control scheme employing an aft control device (fins) only is shown in FIG. 4. In response to a command signal 300 (corresponding to command signal 215) from the guidance control system 210 for a step increase in acceleration in the positive z-direction, the missile's autopilot controller 225 generates a fin control signal 400 (corresponding to the control signal 230) to effect the maneuver. Signal trace 405 represents the missile's measured transverse acceleration response N.sub.z from the missile's inertial measurement system (corresponding to the feedback signal 205), where N.sub.z is described above with respect to FIG. 3. At time t.sub.o guidance system output (215 and 300) commands a step increase in positive z-axis acceleration. Between times t.sub.o and t.sub.1 the autopilot controller 225 sends a command signal 400 (corresponding to control signal 230) to actuate the missile's aft fins to deflect in a direction opposite the desired maneuver (sign convention denotes this as a positive deflection, refer to FIG. 1), producing an aerodynamic force on the fin surfaces in the negative z-direction. This force on the fins momentarily accelerates the missile's body in a direction opposite the commanded maneuver, thus introducing an inherent delay in the maneuver. Rotation of the missile's aft end causes the missile nose to pitch downward and the missile body to eventually accelerate in the positive z-direction. Between times t.sub.1 and t.sub.2, the autopilot controller 225 commands the aft fins to deflect in the same rotational direction as the maneuver, producing a fin force in the direction of the maneuver and causing the missile rotation to slow. After time t.sub.2, the autopilot controller commands a fin deflection in a direction opposite the maneuver, producing an opposing force and a rotation in the direction of the maneuver to maintain a steady rate and transverse acceleration in the positive z-direction. (Note, one skilled in the art will realize that this description also applies to accelerations in other directions.) It is important to note that aft control mechanisms achieve missile accelerations by applying a force, initially, in the direction OPPOSITE the maneuver, see .[.410.]. .Iadd.400.Iaddend., which causes an inherent delay in the missile's response to the commanded maneuver, see 405. 2.3 Dual-Control Device Systems The amount of control authority available to the missile is, in general, bounded by the length and diameter dimensions of the missile's airframe 100. Putting two control devices--dual-control strategy--on a single missile increases the amount of control moment which can be applied to the vehicle and, therefore, enlarges the missile's potential for increased maneuverability. While some conventional missile control systems, such as the PAC-3 (Loral Vought Systems), employ both forward and aft control devices, they do not employ them in a cooperative manner for planar maneuvers. That is, the forward control device may be used to control the vehicle's pitch maneuver, while the aft control device may be used simultaneously to control the vehicle's roll motion. A functional block diagram of an autopilot control system employing the dual-control concept is shown in FIG. 5. Block 200 represents the physical vehicle, including all vehicle subsystems such as control actuation, propulsion and inertial measurement systems. Output from the inertial measurement system (encoding, for instance, measured system roll, pitch and yaw rates and transverse accelerations) is shown as feedback signal 205. Measured vehicle response 205 is compared with a commanded dynamic response signal 215 from the guidance control system 210 to create an error signal 220 in a conventional feedback architecture. The dual-control autopilot controller 500 uses the error signal 220 to generate a forward control signal 505 and an aft control signal 510. It is the missile control signals 505 and 510 that control the missile's forward and aft control devices such as thrusters 110 fins 115. 2.4 An Intuitive Approach to Improving Missile Maneuverability Dual-control of competitive devices has not heretofore been used in a cooperative manner because it is a challenging control problem. The difficulty in implementing a dual-control strategy lies in being able to allocate how much of the desired maneuver should be the responsibility of each control mechanism. That is, how much should the forward control device be actuated and how much should the aft control device be actuated to effect the commanded dynamic response. Since the maneuverability of the missile is obtained via application of moments by the fore and aft control devices, intuition suggests that the fastest response using a dual-control strategy should be obtained by having the two control devices apply the largest controllable moment couple. In other words, an intuitive approach to improving a missile's dynamic capability is to simply use the individual forward and aft control strategies--the same command shapes as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4--but appropriately scaled. A control mechanism employing this approach is shown in FIG. 6. In response to a command signal 300 from the guidance control system 210 for a step increase in acceleration in the positive z-direction, the missile's autopilot controller 500 generates a thruster control signal (505 and 600) and a fin control signal (510 and 605) to effect the maneuver. Element 610 represents the missile's measured transverse acceleration response N.sub.z (corresponding to feedback signal 205) to the commanded maneuver, where N.sub.z is described above with respect to FIG. 3. It is important to note that using this intuitive control strategy, the vehicle's acceleration in the commanded directions is delayed with respect to a isolated forward control strategy (compare 310 and 610). As previously noted, this delay is caused by the applied fin force being in a direction opposite that of the desired motion. It is recognized in the field that use of aft control devices introduce an inherent delay in missile response. Thus, the intuitive approach to improving a missile's dynamic capability using a dual-control strategy suggests that the command signals to fore and aft control devices be scaled in such a manner as to provide the desired acceleration.

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