Q:

Keras unreasonnably slower than TensorFlow

I'm trying to implement the neural network of this TensorFlow example, but using Keras.
You'll find the code for both implementations at the bottom of the post.
My problem is that the code takes around 1m30 with TensorFlow, and 18 minutes with Keras !
My question is :

Did I make a rookie mistake in translating TensorFlow code to Keras code ?
Or is Keras incredibly slow ? If so, can it be fixed ?

Tensorflow code :
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets('MNIST_data', one_hot=True)

import tensorflow as tf

def weight_variable(shape):
  initial = tf.truncated_normal(shape, stddev=0.1)
  return tf.Variable(initial)

def bias_variable(shape):
  initial = tf.constant(0.1, shape=shape)
  return tf.Variable(initial)

def conv2d(x, W):
  return tf.nn.conv2d(x, W, strides=[1, 1, 1, 1], padding='SAME')

def max_pool_2x2(x):
  return tf.nn.max_pool(x, ksize=[1, 2, 2, 1],
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present IIG, and 117 (27.5%) investigators felt that revision of titration schedule should be improved in the present IIG.

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Schryver further has published a linear relation between the breaking strength B and the density.

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at the right of the bone 1, respectively. As is noted elsewhere herein, experiments by the present inventor have shown that a substantial change in the elastic properties of the bone 1 affects the transmission speed of sound therethrough. Accordingly, the present inventor determines the speed of sound through the bone and relates that speed and changes therein to the strength of the bone.

Toward this end, the apparatus 101 includes a launching transducer 3 (also called "first transducer means" herein) having a launching surface 5 and a receiving transducer 4 (also called "second transducer means" herein) having a receiving surface 6. The transducers 3 and 4 are mechanically interconnected by a graduated vernier represented by the broken line marked 7 in FIG. 1 and shown also in FIG.the site 16 where the receiving transducer 4 has been positioned, results in measuring a second echo time t2 and a determination of the path-length c in FIG. 3: ##EQU3## The outgoing acoustic pulse and the reflected or echo acoustic pulse in FIG. 3 are indicated by the arrows within the circle marked 10. It should be further noted at this juncture that the transducer 3A can be like the transducers 3 and 4 which can send and receive and the device 8 can be made to interpret both.

The path length a through the bone in FIG. 3 is the measured distance l less b+c. The propagation time tb through the bone is the total transmission time t defined above less (t1 +t2)/2. Hence, the speed of sound


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$$
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$$
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Like to start a new thread which will give some interesting tidbits on events in the entertainment industry, that some might find informative. CLOSE TO YOU was a giant hit song by the CARPENTERS in 1970. However it was not a new song, This BURT BACHARACH song was used in the 1963 film TWILIGHT OF HONOR with RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN.

Like to start a new thread which will give some interesting tidbits on events in the entertainment industry, that some might find informative. CLOSE TO YOU was a giant hit song by the CARPENTERS in 1970. However it was not a new song, This BURT BACHARACH song was used in the 1963 film TWILIGHT OF HONOR with RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN.

The song was not used in the movie Dan. Was in thecontinue the same character was NORMAN BATES- PSYCHO-60- PSYCHO 11-82- 22 YEARS.

One of the common traits for people who make films over the years is if you got a big hit how quick can you make a sequel of it. One of the longest periods of a smash hit that didn't continue the same character was NORMAN BATES- PSYCHO-60- PSYCHO 11-82- 22 YEARS.

My impression is that 22 years between 'Psycho' and 'Psycho 11' is quite acceptable. I must seek out the 9 films in that series I missed...

Long wacky titles were really popular in the mid to late 60's. There were a whole slew of them in that period. One of the longest titles in film history was OH DAD POOR DAD MAMA HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET


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To investigate the relations between serum soluble HLA class I antigens (sHLA-I) and the period of acute rejection and infection in renal transplant recipients. We measured the serum levels of sHLA-I in 36 renal transplant recipients with ELISA dynamically. The serum sHAL-I levels were higher in uremia patients than in normal controls [(2.94 +/- 0.34) microg/L vs. (0.76 +/- 0.33) microg/L, P < 0.05]. After renal transplantation, the serum sHLA-I levels decreased significantly in stable patients [(0.63 +/- 0.33) microg/L], but increased significantly 3 days before acute rejection and 5 or 7 days after infection. The serum sHLA-I levels can be used as a parameter for monitoring acute rejection and infection in renal transplantation.*imageData = contact.thumbData;//contact.imageData;
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because the stupid jerk doctor did too good a job of sewing it up. So we moved him to her house because she has pastures where he can run around and be outside. Now he’s much happier. Much more relaxed. A little too relaxed, apparently, because now it’s Me: neck scar. Burglar: New Best Buddy.

So, I’m talking to 911, and there’s a police car right up the street. He was there within 90 seconds, before I’d even finished giving all the information. My wife runs out and flags the officer down and he comes in to the house where he sees me, standing in the middle of the room on the phone, and the burglar sitting in a chair putting on shoes. My wife shouts, “Arrest him!”

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You and your wife should be commended for playing it so cool! God, I would have run away screaming. I agree, nothing can get a criminal shaking in his boots more then the “teacher voice”. Very odd how relaxed this guy was…what kind of drugs was he on? I laughed at the cop’s question, “Which one?” Good for you that your wife didn’t decide right then to be funny.

Wow! I wouldn’t think there could be a best-case scenario when it comes to burglars, but it sounds like you hit


Calif. recommends expansion of hazardous dump

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are recommending allowing a major expansion of the largest hazardous waste dump in the Western United States, even though some residents blame the dump for birth defects and have opposed the expansion, officials said on Tuesday.

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control said it has issued a draft expansion permit that would allow the landfill near Kettleman City — a farmworker community in the state's Central Valley midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles — to expand by 5 million cubic yards.

The landfill, which is operated by Chemical Waste Management, currently houses 10 million cubic yards of hazardous waste.

Environmental organizations and residents have opposed the expansion of the 1,600-acre landfill for years. The landfill has been finedsince the exposed regions of the conductive layers 1310 from the openings 1303a, which are used for electrical connection with the other external device such as a semiconductor device, are formed only on the front side of the semiconductor chip 1301.


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[Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) ([source code](https://github.com/vuejs/vue))
is a [JavaScript](/javascript.html) web application framework for building
rich apps that run in web browsers.

Vue.js is an implementation of the JavaScript frameworks concept. Learn how these pieces fit together in the web development chapter or view the table of contents for all topics.

### Vue.js-related projects
* [flask-vue-spa](https://github.com/oleg-agapov/flask-vue-spa) is an example
  project with a [Flask](/flask.html) API on the backend and Vue on the front.

* [django-vue-template](https://github.com/ariera/django-vue-template) contains
  example code for a [Django](/django.html) backend. There is also another
  project named
  [django-vue-template](https://github.com/gtalarico/django-vue-template) by
  a different developer so take a peek at that1 is a very grassroots event with very humble beginnings. Their idea is to communicate their passion for the street children of Rwanda, enjoy the place they live with those closest to them, and to accomplish those things with as few words as possible. Let action speak the loudest.


"supply input" such as Head set, lumbar support, etc.
Column K contains the "total cost".
IF (M16 = Foot Rest, "$20.48","-")

However Column M could also contain Foot Rest, and Head set so that's what's tripping me up. I would like to think that it would contain an extended ELSEIF statement on the above IF statement but I'm unsure how that would work.

A:

I don't have enough rep to leave a comment, but:
As mentioned, a VLOOKUP as Gareth suggested is your best bet - you would have to build a table of items and prices, and use
VLOOKUP(value to lookup(Foot rest in this case),

table to look in (you will usually want to make this static ($A$1:$B$2),

 column to RETURN value from (2 in this case),

and match type (typically you use false/0  $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
                        if(strpos(finfo_file($finfo, $_FILES['productimage']['tmp_name']),"image")===0)
                        {

                            // prepare the image for insertion
                            $imgData =addslashes (file_get_contents($_FILES['productimage']['tmp_name']));


use soap package, termed a "soaparette," which is shaped like a cigarette and comprises a rod shell of cigarette paper wrapper containing detergent within); U.S. Pat. No. 5,055,215 (non-water soluble unit-dose dry-cleaning product); U.S. Pat. No. 4,532,063 (dissolvable bleach sheet); U.S. Pat. No. 4,938,888 (detergent sheet with alkyl polyglycoside composition); and U.S. Pat. No. 5,030,375 (powder coated laundry detergent sheet). Compressed laundry detergent pellets are also well known in the laundry detergent art. See U.S. Pat. No. 3,081,267 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,231,505 (process for making compressed detergent tablets), U.S. Pat. No. 3,172,859 (detergent briquette), U.S. Pat. No. 3,231,505 (compressed detergent and bleach tablets), U.S. Pat. No. 4,715,979 (spray-dried detergent granules compacted to form detergent pellets); U.S. Pat. No. 5,658,874 (pellets of compacted detergent granules and specific surfactants);these trucks?

Recalling the Story

After you have finished reading, ask the children the recall questions below. Continue to ask these questions when you reread the book, until he or she knows the answers.

Reading the Story Again and Again

Give open-ended prompts on each page. For example, ask: What do you see in this picture? Do less reading of the words to the story each time you read, leaving more and more of the "reading" or retelling to children.

Give prompts about objects or activities in the pictures. For example, ask: What is the woman reading? (She's reading the plans for a new house.) Use your finger to point to what you are asking about. Evaluate the children's response. Expand it by giving more information. Ask the child to repeat the answer.


clear the land of rocks and trees.)

What happens to the dirt and rocks that are dug out of the hole? (Dump trucks carry it away.)

What is used to make the basement walls and floor of a house? (A concrete mixer makes concrete which is then poured into the hole.)

How do trucks help people build a road? (Trucks clear away rocks and make the ground smooth. Then trucks put down asphalt and make it smooth.)

Why did the workers tear down the garage in the book? (They wanted to build a skyscraper in its place.)

How do trucks help people build a skyscraper? (Trucks dig a new foundation. They drive posts into the ground to hold up the sides of the building. They lift materials workers need, including steel beams, wood,to the center sill. The first pair of laterally extending beams and the second pair of laterally extending beams are mounted below the deck and are longitudinally spaced a distance corresponding to a 40 foot container pedestal separation distance. The first and second pairs of beams are capable of supporting a fully laden 40 foot ISO shipping container.
In a further feature of that aspect of the invention, the laterally extending beams are mounted to support the deck. In another feature, at least a portion of the deck over each of the pairs of laterally extending beams is removable to permit a container support pedestal to be mounted to each of the beams. In yet another feature, each of the laterally extending beams has a first portion proximate to


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typedef std::list <RedisConnection *>::iterator RedisConnectionIter;

class xRedisClusterClient
{
  public:
    xRedisClusterClient();
    ~xRedisClusterClient();

private:
    struct NodeInfo
    {
        std::string strinfo;
        std::string id;         // The node ID, a 40 characters random string generated when a node is created and never changed again (unless CLUSTER RESET HARD is used)
        std::string ip;         // The node IP
        uint16_t port;          //root cap does not per se affect growth inhibition controlled by auxin and cytokinin. Furthermore, our semi-quantitative RT-PCR results support earlier findings that the maize root cap is a site of high gene expression activity with respect to sensing and responding to hormones such as ethylene. From these data, we propose a novel function of the root cap which is the establishment of competence to respond to ethylene in the distal zones of the root.


Below is an approximation of this video’s audio content. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video.

Orthorexia Nervosa is described as a “fixation on the virtue of food or unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. Orthorexia has been [styled] as a type of ‘self-righteous eating’ [or as] ‘clean eating'” by “sufferers” of the disorder. Wait, let’s take a step back here. First of all, though this “phenomenon…has been described in the scientific literature, it is not formally recognized as an official psychiatric diagnosis.” Furthermore, orthorexia doesn’t even have “an accepted definition,” nor “validated diagnostic criteria.” And, if you can’t validly diagnose it, or even define it, what good is it? Okay, well, first off: where did thisD = 3: & \quad  2 R_s  &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{a_s}} \left( \frac{\delta_s}{\xi} + \xi\right),
 \\
  &  & \xi^3 & = \sqrt{36 a_s b_s^2 - \delta_s^3} - 6  \sqrt{a_s} b_s,
  \\ \label{eqRnD4}
 & D = 4: & \quad  2 R_s^2 &= \frac{1}{a_s} \left(\delta_s + \sqrt{\delta_s^2 - 4 a_s b_s}\right).\end{aligned}$$ The radii corresponding to $D = 2, 6, 8$ can be found in Eqs - of \[appD268\]. This concludes the analytical setup of the PB construction.

#### Derrick’s theorem for piecewise actions.

A well known result due to Derrick [@Derrick:1964ww] is the relation between the integrated kinetic and potential parts in  and .

We will use this theorem to find the PB solution and to test the goodness of the approximation, so let us recall its essential point. For the action


to remain minimal upon rescaling the argument of the solution to $\varphi(\rho/\lambda)$, the following identity has to hold $$\begin{aligned}
 \label{eqSDerrickCont}
  S_D^{(\lambda)} &= \lambda^{D-2} \mathcal T + \lambda^D \mathcal V,
  \frac{d S_{D}^{(\lambda)}}{d \lambda} \biggr|_{\lambda = 1} = 0  \Rightarrow \\
  &(D-2) \mathcal T + D \mathcal V = 0.\end{aligned}$$

For piecewise actions, such as the PB under consideration, the above identity is modified because  becomes a sum of finite integration intervals. While rescaling $\rho \to \rho/\lambda$ has no effect on integration limits in the continuous limit, rescaling the finite intervals $R_s \to R_s/\lambda $ in  introduces a manifest $\lambda$ dependence. As a result, $$\begin{aligned}
 \label{eqSDerrickPiece}
  S_{D, PB}^{(\lambda)} &= \sum_s \left( \lambda^{D-2} \mathcal T^{(\lambda)}_s +
   \lambda^D \mathcal V^{(\lambda)}_s \right),\\
   \mathcal T^{(\lambda)}_s &\proptofollow the work of Dunne [@Dunne:2005rt], where the fluctuation operator $\mathcal O$, i.e. the second variation of the action, is decomposed in a multipole expansion due to the $O(4)$ symmetry $$\begin{aligned}
  \mathcal O_l &= - \frac{d^2}{d \rho^2} - \frac{3}{\rho}\frac{d}{d \rho}  + \frac{l(l+1)}{\rho^2}+ V''(\rho) + 1,
  \\
  V''(\rho) &= - 3 \varphi(\rho) + \frac{3 \alpha}{2} \varphi^2(\rho),\end{aligned}$$ where $V''(\rho)$ is the rewritten form of  with the removed asymptotic value of 1, such that for the fluctuations around the true vacuum $ V''(\tilde \varphi_1) = 0$.

Instead of computing all the eigenfunctions $\psi_l(\rho)$ of $\mathcal O_l$ and summing the corresponding eigenvalues, it is convenient to use the Gel’fand-Yaglom theorem [@Gelfand:1959nq] that relates the ratio of determinants to the value of the ratio of eigenfunctions evaluated at infinite Euclidean time $$\begin{aligned}


integral $\mathcal I$ for an arbitrary $\delta d V$ and computing the unknown parameters of $\xi$ is involved and basically equivalent to the numerical integration of . However, a systematic expansion of the potential and linearization simplify this approach considerably.

#### Perturbation.

On a given segment, the potential can be expanded in Taylor series around $\tilde \varphi_s$ $$\label{eqVTaylor}
  \tilde V_s -  \tilde V_N + \partial \tilde V_s \left(\varphi_s - \tilde \varphi_s \right) +
  \frac{\partial^2 \tilde V_s}{2} \left(\varphi_s - \tilde \varphi_s \right)^2 + \ldots,$$ where the constants $\partial V_s, \partial^2 V_s, \ldots$ are determined by matching the values and (higher) derivatives of $V$. When $N$ increases, the segmentation becomes arbitrarily dense and thus the terms beyond the linear one in  become progressively negligible.

To illustrate this point, we expand $V$$\mathcal O(\tilde \zeta)$ that includes the second derivative of the potential. This is needed to properly describe curved paths in field space.

[*Matching.*]{} To fix the remaining parameters of the $\zeta$ solution in , the field has to match onto the deformed path. We choose to match to $\tilde \zeta$ at the fixed radii $R_s$, computed from the initial longitudinal polygonal ansatz. This can be done for all the $R_s$, except for the initial $R_{i0}$ and final ones $R_{i N-1}$, which are free parameters for each field direction $i$.

The field values of the ansatz $\bar \varphi_{i s}$ are continuous from one section to another, while the derivatives may not be. The matching of derivatives at $R_s$ then gives the recursion relation for $b_{is}$ $$\begin{aligned}
 \label{eqRecRelBeta}
\begin{split}
  b_{i s} = b_{i


gives $$\begin{aligned}
  a_2 \left( R_2^D - R_1^D \right) + a_1 \left(R_1^D - R_0^D \right) =0,
  \\
  R_1^2 + \frac{2}{D - 2} R_1^{2 - D} R_0^D - \frac{D}{D - 2} R_0^2 = \frac{\tilde \varphi_2 - \tilde \varphi_1}{a_1},
  \\
  \frac{4}{D - 2} \left(a_2 \left( R_2^2 - R_1^2 \right) + a_1 \left( R_1^2 - R_0^2 \right) \right) =  \tilde \varphi_3 - \tilde \varphi_1.\end{aligned}$$ This system can be reduced to a single non-linear equation that can be solved numerically for any $D$. However, $D = 4$ is special, here a simple closed form solution can be obtained. The above equations can be rewritten as $$\begin{aligned}
 \label{eqMatchCondb}
  \left( R_1^2 - R_0^2 \right)^2 &= R_1^2 \left( \frac{\tilde \varphi_2 - \tilde \varphi_1}{a_1} \right) = R_1^2 \Delta_2^2,
  \\
choice of the exit point, i.e. $\tilde \varphi_1$ must be deep enough for the field, starting from $\varphi_0$, to roll down to the false minimum.

[^2]: This is true in general when $N$ is sufficiently large. The reverse transition from a) to b) is also possible when $N$ is small enough and a particular segmentation is chosen. This happens for $\varepsilon = 0.07$ in $D = 4$ shown on the right panel of FIG. \[fig:Rs\].

[^3]: We were unable to recover the value of the action by using CosmoTransitions out-of-the-box. Instead, we extrapolated the field bounce solution to manually compute the action shown on FIG. \[figBiQuart\]. Still, this procedure failed for lower values of $\varepsilon_{\varphi^4}$ closer to the thin wall regime. Moreover, computing the bounce using AnyBubble was not possible


It is being talked about all over the world; an editorial in the Economist of 19 October 2013 entitled "How Science Goes Wrong" reports a dramatic decline in the quality of scientific publications. Research has changed the world, now it needs to change itself, the subheading reads.

The detailed report is based on facts which are difficult to disprove; an example being a Harvard biologist, John Bohannon, who sent an invented article full of nonsense on how to combat cancer using lichens to 304 scientific journals. Of this number, 157 accepted it for publication. While these publications were second tier, the problem affects them all, even those of greater importance.

"Publish or perish" is the rule and not just from today. However, today, researchers are forced to publish more andand reasoning a luxury. And in part, it is caused by the fact that the principal scientific journals, acquired by the large publishing groups, today have to produce a profit. If their articles are taken up by the newspapers and television, their reputation increases, and with it so does the revenue from advertising. Therefore, in many cases, the submitted articles initially pass through the hands of publicity experts, normally young people with almost no knowledge of science, but who return good articles to the senders if they think that they will not attract the attention of the media. In this way, publication in the most important scientific journals has increasingly become something of a lottery; you place your bet, hoping to draw the lucky number.

Gabriele Romagnoli wrote in


interactions with actual South Africans and Zimbabweans.

Note: I found two great write-ups of Langa Township tours. One wonders if these tours like us to see how they live.) The other is from an up-close-and-personal walking tour, the kind I wish I'd taken. I found two great write-ups of Langa Township tours. One wonders if these tours treat the poor like zoo animals , but notes township residents don't seem to mind. (This is what our guides told us, too — the residentsus to see how they live.) The other is from an up-close-and-personal walking tour, the kind I wish I'd taken.

Guilt is Not Productive

Because this trip was arranged through a tour company, there were a couple of obligatory shopping stops: one at a jewelry company and one atinter-quark potential rises linearly at intermediate scales [@Greensite:2006sm; @Liptak:2008gx].

Effective theories and the strong coupling expansion {#sect:strongCoupling}
====================================================

Based on a conjecture relating finite temperature $SU(N)$ gluodynamics in $d\!+\!1$ dimensions at the critical point with a $\mathbb{Z}_N$ spin model in $d$ dimensions [@Svetitsky:1982gs; @Yaffe:1982qf], there have been extended studies to compare correlation functions of both systems for $SU(2)$ [@Dittmann:2003qt; @Heinzl:2005xv; @Velytsky:2008bh] and $SU(3)$ gluodynamics [@Wozar:2007tz; @Wozar:2008nv], either by using Schwinger-Dyson equations or demon methods [@Creutz:1983ra; @Hasenbusch:1994ne]. The strong coupling expansion for the distribution of the inhomogeneous Polyakov loops was taken as ansatz for the (exponentiated) effective Polyakov-loop action. This way effective models for $SU(3)$ gluodynamics have been derived in [@Wozar:2007tz]. Here we sketch how one arrives at the analogous results for $G_2$ and obtain the effective continuous spin model in leading


order.

Starting with the lattice Wilson action $${S_{\text{W}}}= \beta \sum_{\square} \left( 1-  \frac{1}{N_\text{C}} {\operatorname{Re}}\operatorname{tr}U_{\square} \right),\quad \beta = \frac{6}{a^4g^2}$$ a *strong coupling expansion* (for small $\beta$) is performed to arrive at an effective theory for the local Polyakov loops. To do that one inserts a group valued delta function into the path integral, $$\begin{aligned}
Z &= \int {\mathcal{D}}U \exp(-{S_{\text{W}}}[U])\\
&= \int {\mathcal{D}}P \int {\mathcal{D}}U\, \delta\left(P_{{{\bm{x}}}},\prod_{\tau=1}^{{N_\text{t}}}
U_{\tau,{{{\bm{x}}}}}\right) \exp(-{S_{\text{W}}}[U])
\\ &\equiv \int {\mathcal{D}}{\mathcal{P}}\, \exp(-{S_{\text{eff}}}[{\mathcal{P}}]).
\end{aligned}$$ Here ${\mathcal{D}}P$ denotes the product of reduced Haar measures on the sites of the *spatial lattice*. We do not need the full Haar measure of $G_2$ since the effective action ${S_{\text{eff}}}$ only depends on the gauge invariant content of the local Polyakov loop.

In compact form the strong coupling expansion is then given by $$\begin{aligned}
  {S_{\text{eff}}}[{\mathcal{P}}] &= \sum_r \sum_{{\mathcal{R}}_1 \dotsc {\mathcal{R}}_r} \sum_{\ell_1 \dotsc \ell_r}
  c_{{\mathcal{R}}_1 \dotsc {\mathcal{R}}_r}^{\ell_1 \dotsc  \ell_r}(\beta)  \prod_{i=1}^r
  S_{{\mathcal{R}}_i, \ell_i} \\&= \sum_i \lambda_i S_i
\end{aligned}$$ with the basic building blocks $$S_{{\mathcal{R}}, \ell} \equiv \sum \limits_{{{{\bm{x}}}},{{{\bm{y}}}}}\chi_{\mathcal{R}}({\mathcal{P}}_{{{\bm{x}}}}) \chi_{\mathcal{R}}^* ({\mathcal{P}}_{{{{\bm{y}}}}}) + {\mathrm{c.c.}},  \quad {\left \vert {{{\bm{x}}}}-{{{\bm{y}}}}\right \vert}=\ell.$$ Here $r$ counts the number of link operators contributing at each order. The coefficients $c_{{\mathcal{R}}_1 \dotsc {\mathcal{R}}_r}^{\ell_1
\dotsc \ell_r}$ couple the operators $S_{{\mathcal{R}}_i,\ell_i}$ sitting at sites ${{{\bm{x}}}}_i$ and ${{{\bm{y}}}}_i$ separated by distance $\ell_i$ in representation ${\mathcal{R}}_i$. The effective action hence describes a *network of link operators* that are collected into (possibly disconnected) ‘polymers’ contributing with ‘weight’ $c_{{\mathcal{R}}_1 \dotsc
{\mathcal{R}}_r}^{\ell_1 \dotsc \ell_r}$. The resulting ‘operators’ (Polyakov loop monomials) are *dimensionless* and there is *no natural* ordering scheme at hand. Our chosen truncation is based on the strong coupling expansion in powers


archaeological site of Sebastiya, and lastly dinner at a Nablus restaurant renowned for its Musakhan – roasted chicken on taboon bread, garnished with fried onions and pine nuts.

These kinds of networks that connect Palestinian businesses and international tourists are small for now. But in terms of developing the Palestinian tourism sector, they could play an important role in benefitting local communities, as well as opening the eyes of international tourists who pass through.them both.

Read more: Irish Titanic passenger Mary Burns died while tending to the needs of others

Mary was a domestic and she hoped to get work in the big houses in New York, possibly as a nanny caring for the children of the gentry. With the French boys pressed tearfully to her skirts and bosom, she may have thought it was a little early to begin her calling, but that she needed the practice. When the children were landed safely aboard the Carpathia, a determined effort was made to discover who they were. But the shocked tots were incapable of telling. Eventually, passengers who had known the father on board – he was now floating dead in the Atlantic with a loaded revolver in his pocket – identified them


Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support following liver transplantation-A case series.
Postoperative severe cardiopulmonary failure carries a high rate of mortality. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be used as a salvage therapy when conventional therapies fail. We retrospectively reviewed our experience with ECMO support in the early postoperative period after liver transplant between September 2011 and May 2016. Out of 537 liver transplants performed at our institution, seven patients required ECMO support with a median age of 52 and a median MELD score of 28. Veno-venous ECMO was used in four patients with severe respiratory failure while the rest required veno-arterial ECMO for circulatory failure. The median time from transplant to cannulation was 3 days with a median duration of ECMO support of 7 days. All patients except one were successfullyButler In Suits helps busy millennials outsource home management, and its founder is only 24 years old

Its solution claims be 20 per cent cheaper than the cost of a traditional domestic helper

Poon Da Qian, the 24-year old founder of Butler In Suits (3rd from left)

Singapore millennials are a lucky lot. The advent of on-demand services has made the mundane and everyday tasks much simpler to manage. For example, I can’t remember the last time I actually hailed a cab along the road.

It may seem like entrepreneurs have left no stone unturned in their bid to tether age-old laborious chores to an app. To book a cab or coach, use Grab; for groceries, there’s honestbee; spring cleaning too much work? Helping can assist; for food delivery, use UberEATS.

But for


Q:

BigDecimal Incorrect Round

I have this result of division:
4893.305785123966785163027491292661448576748

I want to round to 4893.30, but it always returns 4893.31. but when the second decimal will be 6 or more i want to round up.
new BigDecimal("4893.305785123966785163027491292661448576748").setScale(2,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_DOWN)); to 4893.31 //BAD

new BigDecimal("4893.305").setScale(2,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_DOWN)); to 4893.30 //OK

new BigDecimal("4893.3055").setScale(2,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_DOWN)); to 4893.31 //BAD

How does the round work? I want to take in consideration only the value of the second decimal. Any ideas?

A:

"How does the round work? I want to take in consideration only the value of the second decimal."

It sounds like you want to truncate instead of round.
Instead of using ROUND_HALF_DOWN:

Rounding mode to round towards "nearest neighbor"...

...instead, try using ROUND_DOWN:

Rounding mode to round towards zero. Never increments the digit prior to a discarded fraction (i.e., truncates)...

e.g.
    BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal("4893.305785123966785163027491292661448576748");
  Machines such as, for example, skid steer loaders may be used for a variety of tasks such as heavy construction and mining. These machines may include a structural frame where certain drive system components such as, for example, an assembly that includes hydraulic pumpmotors, may be mounted within the structural frame. The drive system components typically have substantially constant dimensions, while the structural frame typically has varying dimensions.
One shortcoming of mounting such drive components to the structural frames involves the varying dimensions of the frames. For example, the dimensions extending across skid steer loader frames typically vary from skid steer loader to skid steer loader, based on variations during manufacturing. The dimensions of the skid steer drive components typically remain substantially constant. As a result, the drive components


indicated in patients with asymptomatic PAD (recommendation III A).[@b1-dic-2020-5-5] On the other hand, long-term single antiplatelet therapy is also recommended in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (recommendation I A), and dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel for at least 1 month after carotid artery stenting (recommendation I B).[@b1-dic-2020-5-5]

Despite these indications, patients with PAD treated with current evidence-based recommended care have an unacceptably high residual CV risk.[@b29-dic-2020-5-5],[@b30-dic-2020-5-5] This is not surprising as the current only antiplatelet-based antithrombotic approach is insufficient to effectively reduce not only MACE but also MALE in PAD patients.[@b31-dic-2020-5-5],[@b32-dic-2020-5-5] In addition, the 2017 European guidelines recognize that the results of the COMPASS trial were not included at the time of publication but should be updated after a critical analysis.[@b1-dic-2020-5-5]

Thus, the evidence supporting the use ofinclusion criteria of the COMPASS trial, indicating that the results of this study can be extended to this population.[@b65-dic-2020-5-5]--[@b67-dic-2020-5-5] As a result, all these data strongly suggest that the rivaroxaban plus aspirin approach should be considered as the first choice for the treatment of patients with PAD to achieve the double target of MACE and MALE. In fact, current guidelines recommend the use of the combination of aspirin plus rivaroxaban, 2.5 mg, twice daily in different clinical settings. Thus, the 2019 ESC Guidelines of chronic coronary syndromes recommend the use of the rivaroxaban plus aspirin approach in those patients at high or moderate risk of ischemic events, but without a high bleeding risk (recommendation IIb).[@b68-dic-2020-5-5] However, despite the COMPASS trial showing a trend toward a reduction of mortality


approximately 300 g at the start of the study, were used. Rats were housed 3 per cage. All cages had wood chip bedding. The animal facility was under an inverted 12:12 h light-dark cycle (lights on at 8:00 p.m.), constant temperature of 22 ± 2°C, and relative humidity of approximately 60%. Standard rat chow and tap water were always available in the homecage, except as noted below. Rats were extensively habituated to handling and intragastric infusion (by means of a stainless steel gavage).

Extract Preparation
-------------------

Preparation procedure of *P. vulgaris* dry extract (Beanblock^®^) has been described in detail elsewhere ([@B10]). Briefly, *P. vulgaris* dry extract was prepared by means of aqueous extraction and alcoholic precipitation from the common kidney bean. Bean extract was obtained by extraction with citrate buffer and(see [@B22]; [@B5]; [@B18]).

Acute treatment with *P. vulgaris* dry extract resulted in a remarkable reduction in number of lever-responses during the reinstatement session, suggesting that this treatment effectively attenuated the development of reinstatement of seeking behavior for the chocolate-flavored beverage. Even the lowest dose tested (100 mg/kg) was highly effective, producing a reduction in lever-responding (40% in comparison to vehicle condition) that did not differ largely from reduction produced by the highest dose tested (500 mg/kg); the comparable magnitude of the reducing effect of the two tested doses is suggestive of a saturable mechanism underlying the action of the *P. vulgaris* dry extract. These data contribute a further element to the behavioral characterization of the anorectic profile of this *P. vulgaris* dry extract: besides reducing regular food intake


and body weight, intake and reinforcing properties of highly palatable nourishments ([@B8]; [@B10]; [@B19]; [@B16]), this extract also reduces relapse-like behavior for a highly palatable, hedonic food.

Reduction in lever-responding during the reinstatement session was likely not due to any unspecific, sedative effect or possible malaise induced by *P. vulgaris* dry extract. A previous study ([@B10]) demonstrated indeed that doses up to 500 mg/kg of this *P. vulgaris* dry extract failed to affect, even minimally, spontaneous locomotor activity in Wistar rats exposed to an open-field arena (a parameter highly sensitive to alterations in the state of well-being of rats).

Extracts from *P. vulgaris* are thought to exert their anorectic effects *via* two different mechanisms (both mediated by the active ingredients, lectins): (1) inhibition of the pancreatic enzyme, α-amylase, resulting in(‘History of the Britons’). When he reached Ecgfrith he paused to add this note: ‘He is the one who made war against his kinsman who was the Pictish king called Bridei, and he fell there with all the strength of his army, and the Picts with their king emerged as victors, and the Saxon thugs never again ventured forth to take tribute from the Picts.’

Such sentiments appear to conform to the ‘Celt versus Saxon’ view of seventh-century warfare. However, before we run too far with the idea of an inter-ethnic dimension to these military campaigns, we might take note of an old Northumbrian tradition on the fate of Ecgfrith’s body. According to a chronicle written at Durham in the 1100s, the dead English king was not left on


do get to see the light cone of the zodiacal lights too, but for them the best time is morning twilight – about an hour before sunrise – above the eastern horizon.”

daniel

mexico

March 31, 2011, 10:05 pm

hermoso paisaje felicidades a fotograf@

Prima

Indonesia

March 31, 2011, 7:34 pm

I like the pictures. So beautiful…^^

AROB

March 31, 2011, 12:25 am

NICE

Andrew Kuter

Rochester, NY

March 30, 2011, 11:38 am

Awesome article.
Leaving Sunday 4/3/11 for eastern Carribean cruise. hope i can get some good images of mars and the light cone. keep you posted.

Andrew Kuter

Rochester, NY

March 30, 2011, 11:37 am

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How many digits give the best odds for a combination lock?

I've got a combination lock with ten buttons (digits 0..9) and each button can be either depressed or not, like the one below. I'm guessing that this question is related.
This lock is configurable:

For each button, I can choose whether it should be depressed or not.
This means I can choose not only the combination but also the length of the combination! Anything from zero to ten depressed buttons can be valid.
Obviously, a digit can only appear once in the code.
(If you try 1231 then you'll notice that the final digit is already depressed).
Finally, the sequence is irrelevant: 123 = 321 = 231...

Question: How long is the combination that has the lowest odds of being found?

A:

Assuming the


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medical assistance and then spoke with Deputy Burns, who recounted that Edwards was fighting
them and kicked Deputy Patty in the groin. Burns told Boyd that he “pulled [Edwards] back”
and “dropped him.” Boyd then spoke with Patty, who said Burns “slammed” Edwards. Boyd
returned to Burns and asked whether he “slammed” Edwards, and Burns clarified that “it was
more of a slam.”

        When Detective Douglas Davis arrived on the scene, he spoke with Sergeant Boyd and
Travis Hickman, and assisted with taking measurements1. Chen Hao: is a Chinese actress and model. Chen Hao was first noticed in China award winning movie “Postman in the Mountains” (那山那人那狗) in 1998. Her young talent was vastly recognized and was giving chances to act in a few other movies and tv dramas. Chen Hao is beautiful and lovely celebrity.

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or contracted gradually with time, wherein the surface generating unit (a) generates, when the portion needs to be enlarged, the surfaces where the second shape is defined such that: an angle formed between a part of the surface with the second shape to which graphics which represent objects included in the portion are perspective-projected and a line of sight directed to the part of the surface in the perspective projection is smaller than any angles formed between other parts of the surface and lines of sight directed to the other parts of the surface in the perspective projection, and (b) generates, when the portion needs to be contracted, the surfaces where the second shape is defined such that: an angle formed between a part of the surface withattention to on the map.
(21) The above object can also be achieved by a computer-readable program for realizing a map display method on a computer, including: a surface generating step for generating surfaces which are obtained in a process of gradually deforming a surface from a first shape to a second shape, the generated surfaces including (a) intermediate surfaces that each have an intermediate shape between the first shape and the second shape and (b) a surface that has the second shape; a mapping step for (a) transforming first coordinate information to second coordinate information on each of the generated surfaces, the first coordinate information showing positions of objects in a map, and (b) texture-mapping graphics that represent the objects onto each of the generated surfaces with reference


std::map<base::ObjectSubType, std::vector<float>> TemplateMap;

struct ObjectTemplateManagerInitOptions {
  std::string root_dir;
  std::string conf_file;
  int gpu_id = 0;
  bool use_cyber_work_root = false;
};

class ObjectTemplateManager {
 public:
  bool Init(const ObjectTemplateManagerInitOptions &options);
  // for general visual obj typed as vehicle
  float VehObjHwlBySearchTemplates(float *hwl, int *index = nullptr,
                                   bool *is_flip = nullptr);
  const int NrDimPerTmplt() {
    ACHECK(inited_);
    return nr_dim_per_tmplt_;
  }
  const std::vector<float> &VehHwl() {
    ACHECK(inited_);
    return veh_hwl_;
  }
  const std::map<TemplateIndex, int> &LookUpTableMinVolumeIndex() {
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  an element exhibiting high magnetic permeability to shield the electron beam within the CRT's main focus lens from the magnetic deflection field of yoke 18.
The electron gun's main focus lens is therefore typically comprised of the G.sub.3 and G.sub.4 electrodes and has a focal point 26 located on axis A--A' intermediate these two charged electrodes. The main focus lens formed of electrodes G.sub.3 and G.sub.4 also has an equivalent lens size, which is relatively small in diameter for the typical electron gun 11 shown in FIG. 1 because of the relatively small diameter of these focus electrodes. The small equivalent lens diameter increases spherical aberration of the electron beam. After the electron beam is focused by the main focus lens, it then passes through a deflection region formed


package de.metas.printing.esb.api;

/*
 * #%L
 * de.metas.printing.esb.api
 * %%
 * Copyright (C) 2015 metas GmbH
 * %%
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the
 * License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
 * License along with this program.  Ifnot, see
 * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
 * #L%
 */

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

public class PrintPackage
{
	public static final String FORMAT_PDF = "application/pdf";

	private String transactionId;

	private String printPackageId;

	/**
	 * Number of pages that the next print package will have
	 */
	private int pageCount;

	/**
	 * Data format (e.g. PDF)
	 */
	private String format;

	private List<PrintPackageInfo> printPackageInfos = null;

	private String printJobInstructionsID;

	private int copies;

	/**
	 * @return the transactionId
	 */
	public String getTransactionId()
	{
		return transactionId;
	}

	/**
	 * @param transactionId the transactionId to set
	 */
	public void setTransactionId(String transactionId)
	{
		this.transactionId = transactionId;
	}

	public String getPrintPackageId()
	{
		return printPackageId;
	}

	public void setPrintPackageId(String printPackageId)
	{
		this.printPackageId = printPackageId;
	}

	public int getPageCount()
	{
		return pageCount;
	}

	public void setPageCount(int pageCount)
	{
		this.pageCount = pageCount;
	}

	public String getFormat()
	{
		return format;
	}

	public void setFormat(String format)
	{
		this.format = format;
	}

	public List<PrintPackageInfo> getPrintPackageInfos()
	{
		if (printPackageInfos == null)
		{
			return Collections.emptyList();
		}
		return printPackageInfos;
	}

	public void setPrintPackageInfos(List<PrintPackageInfo> printPackageInfos)
	{
		this.printPackageInfos = printPackageInfos;
	}

	public String getPrintJobInstructionsID()
	{
		return printJobInstructionsID;
	}

	public void setPrintJobInstructionsID(String printJobInstructionsID)
	{
		this.printJobInstructionsID = printJobInstructionsID;
	}

	public int getCopies()
	{
		return copies;
	}

	public void setCopies(final int copies)
	{
		this.copies = copies;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString()
	{
		return String.format("PrintPackage


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end goal when you consider the eventual competition.

Ohio State wants to win a national championship, as this program always does, and in certain ways is perfectly equipped to do so. Even without a healthy Nick Bosa, the All-America end out indefinitely with an injury, the defensive line ranks among the best in college football. A maligned receiver corps has turned into an asset. There is speed and athleticism to burn at the offensive skill positions and in the defensive backfield. In Haskins, the Buckeyes have chanced upon another game-changing talent at the position.

That this program has such grand goals means that it doesn’t compare itself to Penn State — as Franklin said, the Nittany Lions aren’t yet in that class. Ohio State compares itself to Alabama. At present,treatment of wool and animal fibers, and in various textile and cosmetic applications.
The use of zirconium compounds as cross-linking agents is also known. An example of such use was given by Kucera in U.K. patent application GB No. 2 108 122 A. Kucera disclosed reacting a zirconium alkoxide with a dialkanol or trialkanol monoamine. Kucera suggested using the resulting compounds as cross-linking agents in hydraulic fracturing of subterranean formations. The production of oil and gas can be stimulated by the hydraulic fracturing technique, in which a fluid composition is introduced into an oil or gas well at a flow rate and pressure which create and/or extend a fracture into the oil- or gas-containing formation. The fluid composition usually carries a proppant (e.g., sand, bauxite, etc.) which is forced


BART’s extensions to Warm Springs and Antioch, widen State Route 4, build San Francisco’s central subway, increase ferry service and subsidize buses. The first regional measure, approved in 1988, built the northbound Benicia-Martinez and westbound Carquinez bridges, replaced the Interstate 880 and State Route 92 interchange, rehabbed the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and helped pay for the Dublin/Pleasanton and Pittsburg/Bay Point BART extensions, among other projects.

“Just imagine a Bay Area where voters hadn’t approved those toll (increases) in the past,” he said. “You wouldn’t have Warm Springs, you wouldn’t have a ferry program at all, you wouldn’t have a widened San Mateo Bridge or I-880/SR 92 interchange. Just imagine what that would be like.”

If voters approve Regional Measure 3, the first $1 increase would take effect Jan. 1, 2019,Q:

MVC Selecting data with linq and passing to model

I am currently learning ASP.NET MVC and along with LINQ
I have followed a few tutorials and have a good concept of MVC. I have run into a problem though. I am trying to select a specific row from my table and sent it to the view but I am  getting an error.
The code for the select is:
                Movie Mov = new Movie();

        Mov =  from movies in _db.Movies
                    where movies.Title == "Ghostbusters"


Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!play three more years, preferably with the Spurs . "We'll see, I said already I want to keep playing". However, the feeling must be mutual, as he averaged a career-low 7.7 points and 1.7 rebounds in 19.5 minutes per g...

The Prime Minister's Office on Friday said that no summons have been received with regards to a Supreme Court (SC) order seeking Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's presence in court with regards to the case pertaining to fake degrees issued to airlines pilots.

Al-Imam donated his services after Hussein's original lawyer withdrew from the case. Her family made a contract with the groom's family, and the marriage was settled. In May, Noura alleged Hammad's cousins held her down as he raped her, according to BuzzFeed News . The Imam also


(n = 12), MAXQ (n = 6), or AR584 (n = 5) pasture treatments (3 ha) between 84 and 98 d (Yr 1) or 108 to 124 d (Yr 2). Segments (2 to 3 cm) of vein were surgically biopsied, sliced into 2- to 3-mm cross-sections, and suspended in a myograph chamber containing 5 mL of oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit buffer (95% O2/5% CO2; pH = 7.4; 37°C). Veins were exposed to increasing concentrations of 5HT, ergovaline, and ergovaline + 1 × 10(-5) M ketanserin or + 1 × 10(-6) M SB-269970 in Yr 1. In Yr 2, ergotamine and ergocornine were evaluated in presence or absence of 1 × 10(-5) M ketanserin. Contractile response data were normalized to a reference addition of 1 × 10(-4) M norepinephrine. In YrThis invention relates to elastomeric block polymers of conjugated dienes which contain alcohol units in the diene blocks. The invention also relates to a process for making such polymers from epoxidized diene block polymers.
Conventional A-B-A block copolymers are known to be useful in coatings, sealants, adhesives and modified asphalts but their usefulness in such products is not as great as it could be if these polymers did not suffer from deficiencies in certain physical properties. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 3,792,005 disclosed that coatings can be made using block polymers of A-B-A type where A is a monovinyl aromatic polymer block, usually polystyrene (S), and B is a rubber polymer block, usually hydrogenated polybutadiene (EB) or hydrogenated polyisoprene (EP). These polymers could be specially useful in elastomeric coatings


discrimination. I just wanted to make sure that in doing a good thing, we don’t have an unintended bad consequence and weaken civil rights,” Holmes said.

DeBoer wasn’t available to speak to News 8 in person on Thursday, but she sent the following statement regarding the issue:

“Every person needs to be protected under the law. Every person has freedom guaranteed by our constitution. My freedom stops where yours begins. Every one of us has the potential to misuse our freedom to make choices that hurt or take advantage of another person. When that happens, we need the law’s protection. When protections are misused to take advantage of or supersede another’s freedom, we need the law’s protection as well. Therefore, protection needs to be equal, protecting everyone’s freedom of choice.left to the security/administrators, as they may not be comfortable with you simply creating your own CA.  At the very least you may have to ask them to create one for you.  Or they will tell you to buy one.
If you go for a buy-certificate approach, then assuming you buy it from one of the major providers, that certificate authority will already be trusted and you won't have to include a CA installation step as part of your desktop app installer/instructions.
Major SSL providers are Verisign, GlobalSign, etc.
StartSSL provide a free certificate.


and robustness required for quantitative bioanalysis.
For lowest flow LC/MS, nanospray ionization (nanoESI) has become the technique of choice (M. S. Wilm and M. Mann, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 136-167, 1994; and M. Mann and M. S. Wilm, U.S. Pat. No. 5,504,329). NanoESI utilizes extremely low liquid flows of 10 to 1000 nanoliters per minute only and a very narrow spray tip outlet placed very close to the entrance of the mass spectrometer, which results in the formation of very small spray droplets with diameters in the range of 200 nanometers only. These tiny droplets can, in the overwhelming number of cases, completely evaporate inside the entrance capillary of the mass spectrometer without the assistance of additional gas flows. Although the ion signal provided by nanoESI inbe asked to justify to a court of law and to the Health Professions Council of South Africa any voluntary reporting of such an event to a third party. However, when a drunk person is about to drive out of the hospital property this is a legitimate concern to society as a whole and this could be reported to the authorities, as represented by the local police, in the hope that the drunk would be stopped and a potential crash averted.

An Australian ambulance paramedic\'s perspective
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In Shakespeare\'s *Julius Caesar*, the quote, \'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings\' has often been interpreted to mean that fate is not what drives men to their decisions and actions, but rather it


warn third parties requires that the police become involved so that they can conduct a proper investigation. In either case, the temporal pressure of the situation requires immediate identification of potential victims.

The patient\'s blood alcohol level is irrelevant in this decision. If the patient were impaired and confused because of hypoglycemia, then the case would not appear to be an ethical problem. Certainly, ordering the alcohol level after the patient has been determined to be clinically impaired does little more than compound the ethical problems. Was the ethanol level obtained to provide information for the police? Does it alter the course of medical treatment? Was the patient also screened for other common agents of intoxication?

In this case there is an immediate need for action, but with the explosiongymnasts
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violence victims and incur approximately one third of domestic violence related injuries…there is an overwhelming, irrefutable body of research indicating that children are adversely affected by witnessing interparental violence regardless of the perpetrator's gender. Boys and girls who have seen their mother physically assault their father are just as likely as those who witnessed their father assault their mother to perpetrate dating violence as adolescents and assault their intimate partners in adulthood. Research also finds that parents who assault one another are also likely to also assault their children, and this correlation holds equally for mothers and fathers. By ignoring the problem of female-on-male violence, Cohn's bill inhibits our common efforts to effectively combat domestic violence in our communities."

Cohn introduced AB 2051 to address the problem of domesticsmall-scale-and-scope end of that spectrum, not so much for ideological reasons but because government programs tend to be incompetent, wasteful, and destructive, and worse, are frequently seized as tools for social engineering by people who enjoy controlling others’ behavior.

Oh, and while we’re at it – do you agree that contraception ought to be available free of charge to anybody who doesn’t have the means to obtain it themselves, even if you disagree that it ought to be the government who provide it? If not, why not?

I don’t care one way or the other on the distinct topic of whether contraception is available free of charge to any kind of person. I strongly disagree that the government should provide it for “free,” but if some private organization wants to


Q:

Rails 3 - cache web service call

In my application, in the homepage action, I call a specific web service that returns JSON.
parsed = JSON.parse(open("http://myservice").read)
@history = parsed['DATA']

This data will not change more than once per 60 seconds and does not change on a per-visitor basis, so i would like to, ideally, cache the @history variable itself (since the parsing will not result in a new result) and auto invalidate it if it is more than a minute old.
I'm unsure of the best way to do this. The default Rails caching methods all seem to be more oriented towards content that needs to be manually expired. I'm sure there is a quick and easy method to do this, I just don't know what it is!

A:

You can use the built in3,908,877, to Kosisky, it was proposed to provide a circular tray having circumferentially spaced openings, marked with the names of individual users. Cups, also bearing the names of individual users, are associated with the openings. Such an arrangement permits the identification of cups and drinks, but in order for the disclosed technique to work, the cups must be returned to the tray. It has a further disadvantage of a need for prior identification of all individual users. Still another disadvantage is that the number of users it can accommodate is limited to the number of openings in the tray.
A drinking cup apparatus in U.S. Pat. No. 5,191,979, to Nemeroff, overcame many of the limitations of the Kosisky patent. There, it was proposed to provide a stack of cups,


August 31, 2007

The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out.

In the soldier's hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen's meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. "Moran on Iraq policy," read one section, going on to cite some the congressman's most incendiary statements, such as, "This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history."

The Post also describes a bio of Rep Ellensaid.

It's all par for the course for this administration, how they've politicized every branch of the government and every agency, eroding democratic institutions in American while they pretended to build them in Iraq. In fact, from the start the White House tried to stock the Green Zone and the US occupation authority with GOP operatives. But I thought that had changed a little. This latest incident, though, should trigger a number of forced retirements and resignations.

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, expressed surprise that Sen. Larry Craig has been forced to relinquish his committee assignments in light of this week's revelations that he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with an attempted sexual encounter with an undercover officer in a Minneapolis


Now or whatever).

Obviously the new design was nothing but a ploy to get 2pj to blogroll their Early Returns blog. The P-G knew that if they went from having me simply click on "Elections" on the upper right corner of their old home page which led to a big link for Early Returns and instead made me hover over something called "Multimedia" then maneuver to "Blogs" then scroll way down to a link to Early Returns that I'd be forced to just blogroll ER.

Seriously, P-G, wouldn't it make sense to cross-promote your blogs under major categories to which they logically belong? Like a link to Early Returns under "Politics"? Perhaps this is just an oversight . . . or maybe you really want to keep all your blogsbad appearance. Both UPMC and the Penguins have had high-profile dealings with the city this year.

The state ethics code is little help:

Pennsylvania's ethics code also applies to all municipal officials, but it is worded rather generally and the state commission has had no case with the same issues as the mayor's golf outing to establish any precedent, said John Contino, the commission's executive director.

"The rule on direct gifts is no public official may accept a gift if it's intended to influence decision-making," he said.

Unless you want to assume that even though UPMC and the Penguins shelled out more money than many Pittsburghers make in a year for young Luke to play a couple of days of golf and that they had absolutely positively hand-on-the-bible cross-my-heart-hope-to-die no intention of


influencing any decisions our well-dressed mayor will be making about the millions of dollars of business those two corporations have before the city, then all is well.

August 26, 2007

Take a look at today's column by Jack Kelly. It's only partially surprising that he trots out, at one point, the old war horse blaming of 9/11 on Bill Clinton at least in part. I say partially because that argument's been a standard of the wingnut right from about 9/12. Need some evidence? Here's Bill Press, then at CNN, writing in mid-October, 2oo1:

The attacks of September 11 were only a few hours old when conservative Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, R-California, blamed Clinton, not the terrorists: “We had Bill Clinton, backing off, letting the Taliban go, over and over again.”

Talk-show host Rushtheir base budget, even after it had been reduced by diversions of funds to other programs.

But to Jack Kelly, there were severe budget cuts during the Clinton Administration that lead to the CIA's failures to stop 9/11. Couldn't help himself, I guess.

Then there's this about Michael Scheuer:

Counter-terror efforts also were crippled by President Clinton's insistence that Osama bin Laden be arrested rather than assassinated, Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit, has said. The IG report acknowledges this was a problem, but "concludes the Agency's covert action against bin Laden lay not in the language and interpretations of its authorities, but in the limitations of its covert action capabilities."

But what troubles me most is Tenet's handling of the opportunities that CIA officers gave the Clinton administration


to capture or kill bin Laden between May 1998 and May 1999. Each time we had intelligence about bin Laden's whereabouts, Tenet was briefed by senior CIA officers at Langley and by operatives in the field. He would nod and assure his anxious subordinates that he would stress to Clinton and his national security team that the chances of capturing bin Laden were solid and that the intelligence was not going to get better. Later, he would insist that he had kept up his end of the bargain, but that the NSC had decided not to strike.

Since 2001, however, several key Clinton counterterrorism insiders (including NSC staffers Richard A. Clarke, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon) have reported that Tenet consistently denigrated the targeting data on bin Laden, causingthing of value I received was knowing I played a small part in seeing the work of the foundation will continue," the mayor told the board. "This was not a gift to me. I received nothing from UPMC."

It's true that no one gave Luke Ravenstahl a check for $9,000, but his two-day golf treat reminds us of the boy whose grandparents take him to Kennywood Park for the day. They pay the little shiner's $19 admission, only to hear the boy say later, "My grandparents gave me nothing of value. All I received was knowing I played a small part in the continued vitality of a cherished local institution."

And they hit the "Luke is immature" button one more time:

While the mayor may not have violated the city ethics


the Department of Homeland Security has God Squads "Clergy Response Teams" to keep us in line keep us comforted.

Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. "In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation," assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, "because the government's established by the Lord,dailykos rant - something about how the dailykos is the KKK of the left.

But the big mistake he made (and I am sorry to say Congressman Altmire followed suit) was in calling it "General Patraeus' report" when we've actually known since the middle of last week, that the report will actually be written by the White House. Hidden at the tail end of an article from the LA Times (7th paragraph from the end, no less) we find this:

Despite Bush's repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

In fact a majority of the American people, according to a poll


Jones said he wants to be swift, yet “thorough” in finding the "right guy."

He's looking for stability at that position. Jones isn’t looking for another one-and-done as was the case with Igor Kokoskov and have to find a sixth coach in six seasons.

Williams looks like the guy they want, but the Lakers want him, too. It's time to see who is going to make that first offer and how the other team counters.

The gamesmanship has begun.

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2019 NBA playoffstop of the range.  Her weight upon the opened oven door caused the range to topple over upon her and her sister.  The action against the manufacturer and the distributor of the range alleged that the range's capacity to tip over when weights equal to that of the child were placed on the oven door constituted a defect in design for which defendants were liable on theories of negligence and strict liability.  Obviously, an oven door is not intended to serve as a steppingstool for children.  Yet in its opinion remanding the case for trial on both theories, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island rejected defendants' contention that the child's use of the oven door constituted an 'abnormal' or 'unintended' use as to which